California Air Resources Board

Summary

Requires the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and Workforce Development Board to oversee a stakeholder process to develop recommendations on how best to mitigate employment impacts of automation at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.  The bill also requires these agencies to issue findings and recommendations from the stakeholder process no later than July 1, 2023.  The bill also requires the California Workforce Development Board to present a previously required report on helping industry, workers, and communities transition to changes related to statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. 

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Reiterates that Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO), in the development of a Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS), are allowed to conduct meetings with the public through electronic means if a call-in telephonic option is also provided and the informational meeting is not required to be conducted pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5).  This bill removes the requirement for MPOs to present an urban simulation model of an SCS at a public workshop.  The provisions of the bill sunset on January 1, 2023, at which point statute reverts to current law with minor nonsubstantive changes. 

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Of interest to CARB, extends a sunset date from December 31, 2020 to December 31, 2021, to continue a 20 percent incentive set‑aside for early commercial existing zero and near‑zero‑emission truck technology within CARB’s California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off‑Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program.

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Ensures that existing consumer protections for electrical service provided to master-metered customers are also explicitly provided to sub-metered residents and tenants of mobile home parks, apartment buildings, or similar residential complexes, regardless of whether the electrical generation is provided by an entity other than an electrical corporation.  This bill also explicitly requires that any credit to customers from the revenues from the sale of GHG allowances directly allocated to electrical corporations must also be distributed to sub-metered customers by a master-metered customer.

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Authorizes the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to petition a court to appoint a receiver to assume possession of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s property and to operate its electrical and gas systems if the CPUC determines in a proceeding that the appointment of a receiver is warranted pursuant to the processes or procedures set forth in a specified CPUC investigation.  The bill also authorizes a court to appoint such a receiver and would require the receiver to control and operate Pacific Gas and Electric Company upon such terms and conditions as the court prescribes.

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Expands the statutory definition of biomethane for the gas utility biomethane procurement program under development by the California Public Utilities Commission by adding the use of noncombustion thermal conversion of woody and other waste material, including agricultural and wood waste.

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Requires the California Public Utilities Commission, on or before March 1, 2021, to review and decide whether to approve two specific pending transportation electrification infrastructure applications and to issue a decision reauthorizing and extending programs and investments previously approved.  This bill also creates the School Building Energy Efficiency Stimulus Program that consists of:  (1) the School Reopening Ventilation and Energy Efficiency Verification and Repair Program and (2) the School Building Noncompliant Plumbing Fixture Program to be adopted by the investor-owned utilities and administered by the California Energy Commission.  The bill requires that up to 25 percent of installation crew members of any State‑funded electric vehicle charging infrastructure be certified under the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program.

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Contains the appropriations that support State government for fiscal year 2020-21.  Of interest to CARB, the bill makes re-appropriations for the purposes of extending encumbrance, expenditure, and liquidation dates for certain Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund appropriations.

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Removes the sunset for the Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group and for provisions that require State agencies to take the current and future climate change impacts into account in infrastructure projects.  The bill also clarifies that State agencies must account for the economic damages and financial liabilities associated with the climate change impacts. 

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Makes statutory changes to the fiscal year 2020-21 budget package to implement actions related to transportation.  Of interest to CARB, the budget trailer bill appropriates $1.7 million from the Air Pollution Control Fund to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to develop an interface system for the DMV’s vehicle registration system to communicate with CARB’s compliance database.  The budget trailer bill also requires the State Controller to allocate Low Carbon Transit Operations Program (LCTOP) funding for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 fiscal years to recipient transit agencies based on transit operator ratios.  LCTOP receives a continuous appropriation from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. 

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