Bill Text: CA SB941 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: scoping plan: industrial sources of emissions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-25 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [SB941 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB941-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
March 18, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 941
| Introduced by Senator Skinner |
January 17, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 10550 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services. add and repeal Section 38561.7 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 941, as amended, Skinner.
State Department of Social Services. California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: scoping plan: industrial sources of emissions.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.
This bill would require the state board, in its next update to the scoping plan, to include certain information and recommendations relating to industrial sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services in the California Health and Human Services Agency.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 38561.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:38561.7.
(a) In the next update to the scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561, the state board shall include the following:(1) A discussion of industrial sources of emissions of greenhouse gases for which there are zero-emission alternatives currently technologically available, the public health and climate benefits associated with these alternatives, and the policy options for deploying these alternatives.
(2) (A) A discussion of industrial sources of emissions of greenhouse gases for which there are no zero-emission alternatives currently technologically available.
(B) For sources
discussed in subparagraph (A), a discussion of any nascent technologies that may be able to eliminate the associated emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants if these technologies are further developed.
(3) An approximation of industrial greenhouse gas emissions that cannot currently be eliminated through existing technology along with a discussion of potential policy options to further reduce these emissions in the future.
(4) Policy recommendations for decarbonizing, to the maximum extent feasible, industrial emissions of greenhouse gases, including consideration of replacement of combustion-based technologies with zero-emission and electrical technologies, among other options, as determined by the state board.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2028, and, as of
January 1, 2029, is repealed.
There is in the California Health and Human Services Agency a State Department of Social Services.
