{"id":1190,"date":"2022-03-26T08:07:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/statutes-california-laws\/?page_id=1190"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:45:43","slug":"sb-359-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/sb-359-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SB 359"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-e878f05c31dff72941bf1e49a00d9ff5 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Currrent as of February 4, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l17kl088-036de7a2dc501719fbb5f855f0359b84\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-l17kl088-036de7a2dc501719fbb5f855f0359b84 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:19px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l17kl088-036de7a2dc501719fbb5f855f0359b84 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1>Senate Bill No. 359<\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Introduced by Senator Caballero<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><br \/>\nFebruary\u00a009,\u00a02021<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">An act to add and repeal Section\u00a075218.3\u00a0of the Public Resources Code, relating to climate change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL&#8217;S DIGEST<\/p>\n<p>SB 359, as amended, Caballero. Climate change: Resilient Merced County Incentive Pilot Program.<\/p>\n<p>The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include\u00a0in its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions\u00a0the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law continuously appropriates 20% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the Strategic Growth Council for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, as provided. Under its authority, the council has established\u00a0the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program as a component of the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program to provide incentives for conservation of agricultural lands.<\/p>\n<p>This bill would, until ____, require the\u00a0council, in consultation with the\u00a0Department of Conservation\u00a0and the state board,\u00a0to develop and implement the Resilient Merced County Incentive Pilot Program\u00a0(pilot program)\u00a0to assist the County of Merced to use\u00a0scenario-planning tools to estimate and account for the countywide greenhouse gas reduction and carbon sequestration potential of different land management, restoration, and conservation activities\u00a0and\u00a0for the council to\u00a0provide financial assistance to private landowners to voluntarily implement\u00a0activities resulting from the use of the scenario-planning<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">.<\/span>\u00a0tools used by the county.\u00a0The bill would require the council to implement the pilot program as a component of\u00a0the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">\u00a0<\/span> Program and consistent with the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program. The bill would require the council, in collaboration with the department and the state board, to estimate and monitor the greenhouse gas reductions, carbon sequestration, and other benefits associated with the County of Merced\u2019s scenario planning and the land management, restoration, and conservation activities implemented pursuant to the pilot program.\u00a0The bill would require the department, by ____, to submit to the Legislature a report on the results of the pilot program and a recommendation as to whether the pilot program should be expanded to other areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p>This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for\u00a0the\u00a0County of Merced.<\/p>\n<p>Vote:\u00a0majority\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Appropriation:\u00a0no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fiscal Committee:\u00a0yes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Local Program:\u00a0no<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SECTION 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Section 75218.3 is added to the Public Resources Code, immediately following Section 75218.1, to read:<\/p>\n<p><strong>75218.3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(a)\u00a0The council, in consultation with the Department of Conservation and the State Air Resources Board, shall develop and implement the Resilient Merced County Incentive Pilot Program to do both of the following:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0Provide financial and technical assistance to the County of Merced for the county to do both of the following:<\/p>\n<p>(A)\u00a0Use scenario-planning tools to estimate and account for the countywide greenhouse gas reduction and carbon sequestration potential of different land management, restoration, and conservation activities.<\/p>\n<p>(B)\u00a0Integrate the activities identified pursuant to subparagraph (A) into the County of Merced\u2019s climate and land use plans.<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0Provide financial assistance to private landowners to voluntarily implement activities resulting from the use of the scenario-planning tools used by the County of Merced pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) and supported by the county to help meet the county\u2019s climate goals.<\/p>\n<p>(b)\u00a0The council shall develop and implement the Pilot Program as a component of the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program, consistent with the requirements of this part.<\/p>\n<p>(c)\u00a0The council, in collaboration with the Department of Conservation and the State Air Resources Board, shall estimate and monitor the greenhouse gas reductions, carbon sequestration, and other benefits associated with the County of Merced\u2019s scenario planning and the land management, restoration, and conservation activities implemented pursuant to the Pilot Program.<\/p>\n<p>(d)\u00a0This section does not require the council to create any new scenario-planning tools for purposes of the Pilot Program.<\/p>\n<p>(e)\u00a0On or before ____, the council shall submit to the Legislature, in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, a report on the results of the Pilot Program and a recommendation as to whether the Pilot Program should be expanded to other areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p>(f)\u00a0For purposes of this section, \u201cPilot Program\u201d means the Merced County Incentive Pilot Program developed and implemented by the council pursuant to subdivision (a).<\/p>\n<p>(g)\u00a0This section shall remain in effect only until ____, and as of that date is repealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEC. 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the need to assist\u00a0the County of Merced, which is developing a climate action plan\u00a0to\u00a0establish and\u00a0accomplish greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals for the county in furtherance of statewide greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>SB 359<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2019,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1190","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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