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Climate change: infrastructure and clean energy projects: assessments.



CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION



Assembly Bill
No. 585


Introduced by Assembly Members Robert Rivas and Petrie-Norris
February 09, 2023


An act to amend Section 38510 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.



LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 585, as introduced, Robert Rivas.
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: state board.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Digest Key


Vote:
MAJORITY  
Appropriation:
NO  
Fiscal Committee:
NO  
Local Program:
NO  

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 38510 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

38510.

 The State Air Resources Board is the state agency charged tasked with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.



Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 March 23, 2023



CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION



Assembly Bill
No. 585


Introduced by Assembly Members Robert Rivas and Petrie-Norris
February 09, 2023


An act to amend Section 38510 of add Section 38592.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.



LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 585, as amended, Robert Rivas.
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: state board. literature review and progress report.

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. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake specified actions to advance the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives. Existing law also establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid, as specified.

Existing law requires various state entities responsible for the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals to produce various reports relating to those duties.

Existing law finds and declares that the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology.
This bill would request the CCST, in its discretion, every 2 years, to perform a literature review, including source materials, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the quantities of renewable energy, and the distribution and transmission networks
necessary, to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, as specified. The bill would also require, on an annual basis, the State Clearinghouse at the Office of Planning and Research to provide to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change, with the assistance of the Energy Commission, the PUC, the state board, and the ISO, a progress report regarding the number of permit applications, the number of permitted projects approved, and the number of projects commissioned, for each of the infrastructure categories identified in the CCST report, as provided. The bill would provide that the funding required for these purposes would be provided upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Digest Key


Vote:
MAJORITY  
Appropriation:
NO  
Fiscal Committee:
NOYES  
Local Program:
NO  

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 38592.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

38592.1.

 (a) (1) Every two years, the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) is requested, at its discretion, to perform a literature review, including source materials, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the quantities of renewable energy, and the distribution and transmission networks necessary, to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the most current versions of all of the following reports:

(A) The integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code.
(B) The integrated resource plans filed pursuant
to Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code.
(C) The joint reliability progress report pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.
(D) The report produced by the Independent System Operator pursuant to Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 188 of the 2021–22 Regular Session.
(E) The reports prepared by the state board pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of, and paragraph (6) of subdivision (e) of, Section 43018.9, and paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 44274.
(F) The scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561.
(2) The list of infrastructure projects for purposes of paragraph (1) shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: renewable and
carbon-free energy capacity, substations, transformers, miles of upgraded or hardened distribution and transmission lines, charging stations, renewable hydrogen production and distribution, hydrogen refueling stations, renewable natural gas projects, methane mitigation projects, refinery conversions, the Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program established pursuant to Section 39741.1, the short-lived climate pollutant mitigation strategy, acres of natural and work lands, and any other project types mentioned in the planning documents that may be assessed to determine annual construction needs to achieve the interim and long-term energy, climate change, and air quality goals.
(b) (1) On an annual basis, the State Clearinghouse at the Office of Planning and Research shall provide to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change, with the assistance of the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the state board, and the Independent System Operator, a progress report regarding all of the following:
(A) The number of permit applications in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the CCST report.
(B) The number of permitted projects approved in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the CCST report.
(C) The number of projects commissioned in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the CCST report.
(2) The report described in paragraph (1) shall analyze within the context of the state goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions the annual progress being made toward the infrastructure that will result in emission reductions, including findings about whether
the scale and pace of construction in the previous calendar year align with the infrastructure commissioned.
(3) If the report described in paragraph (1) indicates that the scale and pace of construction in the previous calendar year did not align with the infrastructure commissioned, the report shall indicate whether that failure was due to insufficient permit applications, insufficient permit approvals, delayed construction approvals, or delayed commissioning approvals.
(c) The funding required for the purposes of this section shall be provided upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to Section 38597, to the extent permitted by law.

SECTION 1.Section 38510 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

38510.

The State Air Resources Board is the state agency tasked with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.



Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 May 18, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 March 23, 2023



CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION



Assembly Bill
No. 585


Introduced by Assembly Members Robert Rivas and Petrie-Norris
February 09, 2023


An act to add Section 38592.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases. gases, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.



LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 585, as amended, Robert Rivas.
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: literature review and progress report.

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. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake specified actions to advance the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives. Existing law also establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid, as specified.
Existing law requires various state entities responsible
for the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals to produce various reports relating to those duties.
Existing law finds and declares that the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology.
This bill would request the CCST, in its discretion, every 2 years, to perform a literature review, including source materials, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the quantities of renewable energy, and the distribution and transmission networks necessary, to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, as specified. The bill would also require, on an
annual basis, the State Clearinghouse at the Office of Planning and Research to provide to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change, Change Policies, in consultation with the assistance of the Energy Commission, the PUC, the state board, and the ISO, a progress report regarding the number of permit applications, the number of permitted projects approved, and the number of projects commissioned, for each of the infrastructure categories identified in the CCST report, most recent
literature review, as provided. The bill would provide that the funding required for these purposes would be provided upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key


Vote:
MAJORITY2/3  
Appropriation:
NO  
Fiscal Committee:
YES  
Local Program:
NO  

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 38592.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

38592.1.

 (a) (1) Every two years, the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) is requested, at its discretion, to perform a literature review, including source materials, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the quantities of renewable energy, and the distribution and transmission networks necessary, to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7 of this code, and the
goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 of the Public Utilities Code. In preparing the literature review, the materials CCST reviews shall include, but not be limited to, the most current versions of all of the following reports:

(A) The integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code.
(B) The integrated resource plans filed pursuant to Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code.
(C) The joint reliability progress report pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.
(D) The report produced by the Independent System Operator pursuant to Assembly Concurrent Resolution
No. 188 of the 2021–22 Regular Session.
(E) The reports prepared by the state board pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of, and paragraph (6) of subdivision (e) of, Section 43018.9, and paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 44274.
(F) The scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561.

(G) The progress report prepared pursuant to subdivision (b).

(2) The list of infrastructure projects for purposes of paragraph (1)
the literature review shall assess shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: renewable and
carbon-free energy capacity, substations, transformers, miles of upgraded or hardened distribution and transmission lines, charging stations, renewable hydrogen production and distribution, hydrogen refueling stations, renewable natural gas projects, methane mitigation projects, refinery conversions, the Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program established pursuant to Section 39741.1, the short-lived climate pollutant mitigation strategy, acres of natural and work lands, and any other project types mentioned in the planning documents that may be assessed to determine annual construction needs to achieve the interim and long-term energy, climate change, and air quality goals. following project types:

(A) Deployment of, or upgrades to, utility-scale and distributed renewable and carbon-free energy capacity, substations, transformers, transmission and distribution lines, and renewable hydrogen production and distribution.

(B) Deployment of, or upgrades to, electric vehicle charging stations, hydrogen refueling stations, refinery conversions, sustainable aviation fuels, and other low-carbon and carbon-free transportation fuels projects.

(C) Deployment and retrofitting of buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

(D) Deployment of, or upgrades to, industrial processes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

(E) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants, including, but not limited to, methane, hydrofluorocarbon gases, and anthropogenic black carbon.

(F) Natural carbon sequestration and nature-based climate solutions.

(G) Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration projects.

(H) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of criteria air pollutants.

(I) Any other project types necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 of the Public Utilities Code.

(b) (1) On an annual basis, the State Clearinghouse at the Office of Planning and Research shall provide to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change, with the assistance of
Research, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the state board, and the Independent System Operator, shall provide a progress report to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies regarding all of the following:
(A) The number of permit applications in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the CCST report.
most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).
(B) The number of permitted projects approved in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the CCST report.
most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).
(C) The number of projects commissioned in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the CCST report. most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).
(2) The report described in paragraph (1) shall analyze within the context of the state goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not
limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 of the Public Utilities Code, the annual progress being made toward the deployment of infrastructure that will result in emission reductions, including findings about whether
the scale and pace of construction in the previous calendar year align with the infrastructure commissioned.
(3) If the report described in paragraph (1) indicates that the scale and pace of construction in the previous calendar year did not align with the infrastructure commissioned, the report shall indicate whether that failure was due to insufficient permit applications, insufficient permit approvals, delayed construction approvals, or delayed commissioning approvals. approvals, or other factors.
(c) The funding required for
the purposes of this section shall be provided upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to Section 38597, to the extent permitted by law.

SEC. 2.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to provide policymakers and the people of California with crucial information regarding progress toward meeting the state’s ambitious climate goals as soon as possible, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.



Amended
 IN 
Senate
 June 14, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 May 18, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 March 23, 2023



CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION



Assembly Bill
No. 585


Introduced by Assembly Members Robert Rivas and Petrie-Norris
February 09, 2023


An act to add Section 38592.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.



LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 585, as amended, Robert Rivas.
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: literature review and progress report.

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. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake specified actions to advance the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives. Existing law also establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid, as specified.
Existing law requires various state entities responsible
for the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals to produce various reports relating to those duties.
Existing law finds and declares that the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology.
This bill would request the CCST, in its discretion, every 2 years, to perform a literature review, review as an ongoing series of systematic reviews, including source materials, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality
goals, as specified. The bill would also require, on an annual basis, the Office of Planning and Research to provide to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies, in consultation with the Energy Commission, the PUC, the state board, and the ISO, a progress report regarding the number of permit applications, the number of permitted projects approved, and the number of projects commissioned, for each of the infrastructure categories identified in the most recent literature review, as provided. The bill would provide that the funding required for these purposes would be provided upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key


Vote:
2/3  
Appropriation:
NO  
Fiscal Committee:
YES  
Local Program:
NO  

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonpartisan nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology.
(b) CCST works across institutions, partnering with academic, research, governmental, and other communities to leverage their collective expertise and perspectives in order to increase collaboration among agencies and scientists and to ensure
that California policy is strengthened and informed by scientific knowledge, research, and innovation.

SECTION 1.SEC. 2.

 Section 38592.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

38592.1.

 (a) (1) Every two years, the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) (CCST), in its mission to increase collaboration among agencies and scientists and convene stakeholders across institutions, is requested, at its discretion, to perform a literature review, review as an ongoing series of systematic reviews, including source materials, to assess the infrastructure project types,
scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 of the Public Utilities Code. In preparing the literature review, the materials CCST reviews shall include, but not be limited to, the most current versions of all of the following reports:

(A) The integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code.
(B) The integrated resource plans filed pursuant to Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code.
(C) The joint reliability progress report pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.
(D) The report produced by the Independent System Operator pursuant to Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 188 of the 2021–22 Regular Session.
(E) The reports prepared by the state board pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of, and paragraph (6) of subdivision (e) of, Section 43018.9, and paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 44274.
(F) The scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561.
(G) The progress report prepared pursuant to subdivision (b).
(2) The list of infrastructure
projects
the literature review shall assess shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following project types:
(A) Deployment of, or upgrades to, utility-scale and distributed renewable and carbon-free energy capacity, substations, transformers, transmission and distribution lines, and renewable hydrogen production and distribution.
(B) Deployment of, or upgrades to, electric vehicle charging stations, hydrogen refueling stations, refinery conversions, sustainable aviation fuels, and other low-carbon and carbon-free transportation fuels projects.
(C) Deployment and retrofitting of buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(D) Deployment of, or upgrades to, industrial processes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(E) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants, including, but not limited to, methane, hydrofluorocarbon gases, and anthropogenic black carbon.
(F) Natural carbon sequestration and nature-based climate solutions.
(G) Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration projects.
(H) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of criteria air pollutants.
(I) Any other project types necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited
to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 of the Public Utilities Code.

(3) CCST is requested, at its discretion, to commit to regular updates of the literature review and to rapidly incorporate new research into the literature review using established methods for high-quality evidence synthesis.

(b) (1) On an annual basis, the Office of Planning and
Research, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the state board, and the Independent System Operator, shall provide a progress report to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies regarding all of the following:
(A) The number of permit applications in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).
(B) The number of permitted projects approved in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).
(C) The number of projects commissioned in each of the infrastructure
categories identified in the most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).
(2) The report described in paragraph (1) shall analyze within the context of the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 of the Public Utilities Code, the annual progress being made toward the deployment of infrastructure that will result in emission reductions, including findings about whether the scale and pace of construction in the previous calendar year align with the infrastructure commissioned.
(3) If the report described in
paragraph (1) indicates that the scale and pace of construction in the previous calendar year did not align with the infrastructure commissioned, the report shall indicate whether that failure was due to insufficient permit applications, insufficient permit approvals, delayed construction approvals, delayed commissioning approvals, or other factors.
(c) The funding required for the purposes of this section shall be provided upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to Section 38597, to the extent permitted by law.

SEC. 2.SEC. 3.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to provide policymakers and the people of California with crucial information regarding progress toward meeting the state’s ambitious climate goals as soon as possible, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.


Amended
 IN 
Senate
 September 01, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Senate
 June 14, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 May 18, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 March 23, 2023



CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION



Assembly Bill
No. 585


Introduced by Assembly Members Robert Rivas and Petrie-Norris
February 09, 2023


An act to add Section 12096.3.7 to the Government Code, and to add Section 38592.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.



LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 585, as amended, Robert Rivas.
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: literature review and progress report. Climate change: infrastructure and clean energy projects: assessments.

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. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake specified actions to advance the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives. Existing law also establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid, as specified.
Existing law requires various state entities responsible for the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals to produce various reports relating to those duties.
Existing law finds and declares that the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology.

Existing law creates the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, known as “GO-Biz,” and requires GO-Biz to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law
authorizes GO-Biz to undertake various activities relating to economic development, including the provision of prescribed information.

This bill would request the CCST, in its discretion, every 2 3 years, to perform a literature review as an ongoing series of systematic reviews, including source materials, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, as specified. The bill would also require, on an annual basis, the Office of Planning and Research to provide to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies,
require GO-Biz, in consultation with the Energy Commission, the PUC, and the state board, and the ISO, a progress report regarding the number of permit applications, the number of permitted projects approved, and the number of projects commissioned, for each of the infrastructure categories identified in the most recent literature review, as provided. The bill would provide that the funding required for these purposes would be provided upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified.
board, to prepare an assessment of the barriers, challenges, and impediments limiting the deployment and development of clean energy projects, as specified. The bill would require GO-Biz to submit this assessment to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026. The bill would also require the assessment to be considered and incorporated into the work carried out by the Infrastructure Strike Team convened by the Governor.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key


Vote:
2/3  
Appropriation:
NO  
Fiscal Committee:
YES  
Local Program:
NO  

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonpartisan nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology.

(b)CCST works across institutions, partnering with academic, research, governmental, and other communities to leverage their collective expertise and perspectives in order to increase collaboration among agencies and scientists and to ensure
that California policy is strengthened and informed by scientific knowledge, research, and innovation.

(a) President Joseph R. Biden and the 117th Congress enacted historic laws supporting infrastructure modernization, including by providing roughly $1.2 trillion through 2026 in the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), and $391 billion over 10 years for climate-related investments in the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169).

(b) California has augmented these federal investments with over $52 billion in state funding for infrastructure and will invest more than $180 billion over the
next 10 years, creating over 400,000 jobs.

(c) California has launched an all-of-government approach, working across agencies to deliver projects at the scale and pace necessary to maximize federal investment and deliver the benefits from these investments to all California communities.

(d) Identifying and addressing the barriers that are impeding the development and delivery of clean energy projects needed to achieve the state’s climate goals is a critical endeavor that will enable and accelerate California’s ability to capture the benefits from those clean energy projects that are supported by available federal funding and the state’s recent funding commitments.

SEC. 2.

 Section 12096.3.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:

12096.3.7.

 (a) (1) The office, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the Public Utilities Commission, shall prepare an assessment of the barriers, challenges, and impediments limiting the deployment and development of clean energy projects that support the strategies identified in the scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561 of the Health and Safety Code and that advance the goals established pursuant to Sections 38562.2, 39730.5, and 39730.6 of the Health and Safety Code. The office shall submit the assessment prepared pursuant to this section to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, in compliance with Section 9795.

(2) In
preparing the assessment, the office shall include, but is not limited to including, the following information:
(A) At least three clean energy project types.
(B) Specific challenges impacting the different stages of clean energy project development.
(C) Different methods for developing and deploying clean energy projects.
(D) Recommended approaches, models, or strategies for addressing the identified barriers, challenges, and impediments to clean energy project delivery.
(3) The office shall consider the most current versions of all of the applicable reports and plans listed in subdivision (a) of Section 38592.1 of the Health and Safety Code in the preparation of the assessment.
(b) The assessment prepared pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be considered and incorporated into the work carried out by the Infrastructure Strike Team established by Executive Order No. N-8-23.

SEC. 2.SEC. 3.

 Section 38592.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

38592.1.

 (a) (1)Every two three years, the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), in its mission to increase collaboration among agencies and scientists and convene stakeholders across institutions, is requested, at its discretion, to perform a literature review as an ongoing series of systematic reviews, including source materials,
to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7 and 39730.6 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code. In preparing the literature review,
assessment, the materials CCST reviews shall include, but not be limited to, the most current versions of all of the following reports: reports and plans:

(A)

(1) The integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code.

(B)

(2) The integrated resource plans filed pursuant to Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code.

(C)

(3) The joint reliability progress report issued pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.

(D)

(4) The report produced by the Independent System Operator pursuant to Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 188 of the 2021–22 Regular Session.
on the 20-year transmission outlook.

(E)

(5) The reports prepared by the state board pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of, and paragraph (6) of subdivision (e) of, Section 43018.9, Section 38561.8 and paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 44274.

(F)

(6) The scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561.

(G)The progress report prepared pursuant to subdivision (b).

(7) The report prepared by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission pursuant to Section 25307 of the Public Resources Code.

(2)

(b) The list of infrastructure projects the literature review CCST shall assess shall pursuant to subdivision (a) may include, but are
not be limited to, all of the following project types:

(A)

(1) Deployment of, or upgrades to, utility-scale and distributed renewable and carbon-free energy capacity, substations, transformers, transmission and distribution lines, and biomethane and renewable hydrogen production and distribution.

(B)

(2) Deployment of, or upgrades to, electric vehicle charging stations, hydrogen refueling stations, petroleum
refinery conversions, sustainable aviation fuels, and other low-carbon and carbon-free transportation fuels projects.

(C)

(3) Deployment and retrofitting of buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

(D)

(4) Deployment of, or upgrades to, industrial processes to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.

(E)

(5) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants, including, but not limited to, methane, hydrofluorocarbon gases, and anthropogenic black carbon.

(F)

(6) Natural carbon sequestration and nature-based climate solutions.

(G)

(7) Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration projects.

(H)

(8) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of criteria air pollutants.

(I)

(9) Any other project types necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7
and 39730.6 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.

(3)

(c) CCST is requested, at its discretion, to commit to regular updates of the literature review
assessment and to rapidly incorporate new research into the literature review using established methods for high-quality evidence synthesis. assessment.

(b)(1)On an annual basis, the Office of Planning and
Research, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the state board, and the Independent System Operator, shall provide a progress report to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies regarding all of the following:

(A)The number of permit applications in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).

(B)The number of permitted projects approved in each of the infrastructure categories identified in the most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).

(C)The number of projects commissioned in each of the infrastructure
categories identified in the most recent literature review prepared pursuant to subdivision (a).

(2)The report described in paragraph (1) shall analyze within the context of the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, 39730.6, and 39730.7 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Sections 399.11, 399.15, 399.16, 454.53, and 454.59 of the Public Utilities Code, the annual progress being made toward the deployment of infrastructure that will result in emission reductions, including findings about whether the scale and pace of construction in the previous calendar year align with the infrastructure commissioned.

(3)If the report described in
paragraph (1) indicates that the scale and pace of construction in the previous calendar year did not align with the infrastructure commissioned, the report shall indicate whether that failure was due to insufficient permit applications, insufficient permit approvals, delayed construction approvals, delayed commissioning approvals, or other factors.

(c)The funding required for the purposes of this section shall be provided upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to Section 38597, to the extent permitted by law.

SEC. 3.SEC. 4.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to provide policymakers and the people of California with crucial information regarding progress toward meeting the state’s ambitious climate goals as soon as possible, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.


Enrolled
 September 18, 2023

Passed
 IN 
Senate
 September 13, 2023

Passed
 IN 
Assembly
 September 14, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Senate
 September 01, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Senate
 June 14, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 May 18, 2023

Amended
 IN 
Assembly
 March 23, 2023



CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION



Assembly Bill
No. 585


Introduced by Assembly Members Robert Rivas and Petrie-Norris
February 09, 2023


An act to add Section 12096.3.7 to the Government Code, and to add Section 38592.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.



LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 585, Robert Rivas.
Climate change: infrastructure and clean energy projects: assessments.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board (state board) as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake specified actions to advance the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives.
Existing law requires various state entities responsible for the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals to produce various reports relating to those duties.
Existing law finds and declares that the California Council
on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology.
Existing law creates the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, known as “GO-Biz,” and requires GO-Biz to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law authorizes GO-Biz to undertake various activities relating to economic development, including the provision of prescribed information.
This bill would request the CCST, in its discretion, every 3 years, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, as specified. The
bill would also require GO-Biz, in consultation with the Energy Commission, the PUC, and the state board, to prepare an assessment of the barriers, challenges, and impediments limiting the deployment and development of clean energy projects, as specified. The bill would require GO-Biz to submit this assessment to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026. The bill would also require the assessment to be considered and incorporated into the work carried out by the Infrastructure Strike Team convened by the Governor.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key


Vote:
2/3  
Appropriation:
NO  
Fiscal Committee:
YES  
Local Program:
NO  

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) President Joseph R. Biden and the 117th Congress enacted historic laws supporting infrastructure modernization, including by providing roughly $1.2 trillion through 2026 in the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), and $391 billion over 10 years for climate-related investments in the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169).
(b) California has augmented these federal investments with over $52 billion in state funding for infrastructure and will invest more than $180 billion over the next 10 years, creating over 400,000 jobs.
(c) California has launched an all-of-government approach, working across agencies to deliver projects at the scale and pace necessary to maximize federal investment and deliver the benefits from these investments to all California communities.
(d) Identifying and addressing the barriers that are impeding the development and delivery of clean energy projects needed to achieve the state’s climate goals is a critical endeavor that will enable and accelerate California’s ability to capture the benefits from those clean energy projects that are supported by available federal funding and the state’s recent funding commitments.

SEC. 2.

 Section 12096.3.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:

12096.3.7.

 (a) (1) The office, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the Public Utilities Commission, shall prepare an assessment of the barriers, challenges, and impediments limiting the deployment and development of clean energy projects that support the strategies identified in the scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561 of the Health and Safety Code and that advance the goals established pursuant to Sections 38562.2, 39730.5, and 39730.6 of the Health and Safety Code. The office shall submit the assessment prepared pursuant to this section to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, in compliance with Section 9795.

(2) In
preparing the assessment, the office shall include, but is not limited to including, the following information:
(A) At least three clean energy project types.
(B) Specific challenges impacting the different stages of clean energy project development.
(C) Different methods for developing and deploying clean energy projects.
(D) Recommended approaches, models, or strategies for addressing the identified barriers, challenges, and impediments to clean energy project delivery.
(3) The office shall consider the most current versions of all of the applicable reports and plans listed in subdivision (a) of Section 38592.1 of the Health and Safety Code in the preparation of the assessment.
(b) The assessment prepared pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be considered and incorporated into the work carried out by the Infrastructure Strike Team established by Executive Order No. N-8-23.

SEC. 3.

 Section 38592.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

38592.1.

 (a) Every three years, the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), in its mission to increase collaboration among agencies and scientists and convene stakeholders across institutions, is requested, at its discretion, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, and 39730.6 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code. In preparing the assessment, the materials CCST reviews shall include, but not be limited to, the most current versions of all of the following reports and plans:

(1) The integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code.
(2) The integrated resource plans filed pursuant to Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code.
(3) The joint reliability progress report issued pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.
(4) The report produced by the Independent System Operator on the 20-year transmission outlook.
(5) The reports prepared by the state board pursuant to Section 38561.8 and paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 44274.
(6) The scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561.
(7) The report prepared by the
State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission pursuant to Section 25307 of the Public Resources Code.
(b) The list of infrastructure projects the CCST shall assess pursuant to subdivision (a) may include, but are not limited to, all of the following project types:
(1) Deployment of, or upgrades to, utility-scale and distributed renewable and carbon-free energy capacity, substations, transformers, transmission and distribution lines, and biomethane and renewable hydrogen production and distribution.
(2) Deployment of, or upgrades to, electric vehicle charging stations, hydrogen refueling stations, petroleum refinery conversions, sustainable aviation fuels, and other low-carbon and carbon-free transportation fuels projects.
(3) Deployment
and retrofitting of buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(4) Deployment of, or upgrades to, industrial processes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(5) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants, including, but not limited to, methane, hydrofluorocarbon gases, and anthropogenic black carbon.
(6) Natural carbon sequestration and nature-based climate solutions.
(7) Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration projects.
(8) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of criteria air pollutants.
(9) Any other project types necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air
quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, and 39730.6 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.
(c) CCST is requested, at its discretion, to commit to regular updates of the assessment and to rapidly incorporate new research into the assessment.

SEC. 4.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to provide policymakers and the people of California with crucial information regarding progress toward meeting the state’s ambitious climate goals as soon as possible, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.


Assembly Bill

No. 585


CHAPTER 336


An act to add Section 12096.3.7 to the Government Code, and to add Section 38592.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


[
Approved by

Governor
 October 07, 2023.

Filed with

Secretary of State
 October 07, 2023.
]


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 585, Robert Rivas.
Climate change: infrastructure and clean energy projects: assessments.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board (state board) as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake specified actions to advance the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives.
Existing law requires various state entities responsible for the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals to produce various reports relating to those duties.
Existing law finds and declares that the California Council
on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology.
Existing law creates the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, known as “GO-Biz,” and requires GO-Biz to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law authorizes GO-Biz to undertake various activities relating to economic development, including the provision of prescribed information.
This bill would request the CCST, in its discretion, every 3 years, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, as specified. The
bill would also require GO-Biz, in consultation with the Energy Commission, the PUC, and the state board, to prepare an assessment of the barriers, challenges, and impediments limiting the deployment and development of clean energy projects, as specified. The bill would require GO-Biz to submit this assessment to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026. The bill would also require the assessment to be considered and incorporated into the work carried out by the Infrastructure Strike Team convened by the Governor.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key


Vote:
2/3  
Appropriation:
NO  
Fiscal Committee:
YES  
Local Program:
NO  

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) President Joseph R. Biden and the 117th Congress enacted historic laws supporting infrastructure modernization, including by providing roughly $1.2 trillion through 2026 in the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), and $391 billion over 10 years for climate-related investments in the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169).
(b) California has augmented these federal investments with over $52 billion in state funding for infrastructure and will invest more than $180 billion over the next 10 years, creating over 400,000 jobs.
(c) California has launched an all-of-government approach, working across agencies to deliver projects at the scale and pace necessary to maximize federal investment and deliver the benefits from these investments to all California communities.
(d) Identifying and addressing the barriers that are impeding the development and delivery of clean energy projects needed to achieve the state’s climate goals is a critical endeavor that will enable and accelerate California’s ability to capture the benefits from those clean energy projects that are supported by available federal funding and the state’s recent funding commitments.

SEC. 2.

 Section 12096.3.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:

12096.3.7.

 (a) (1) The office, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the Public Utilities Commission, shall prepare an assessment of the barriers, challenges, and impediments limiting the deployment and development of clean energy projects that support the strategies identified in the scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561 of the Health and Safety Code and that advance the goals established pursuant to Sections 38562.2, 39730.5, and 39730.6 of the Health and Safety Code. The office shall submit the assessment prepared pursuant to this section to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, in compliance with Section 9795.

(2) In
preparing the assessment, the office shall include, but is not limited to including, the following information:
(A) At least three clean energy project types.
(B) Specific challenges impacting the different stages of clean energy project development.
(C) Different methods for developing and deploying clean energy projects.
(D) Recommended approaches, models, or strategies for addressing the identified barriers, challenges, and impediments to clean energy project delivery.
(3) The office shall consider the most current versions of all of the applicable reports and plans listed in subdivision (a) of Section 38592.1 of the Health and Safety Code in the preparation of the assessment.
(b) The assessment prepared pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be considered and incorporated into the work carried out by the Infrastructure Strike Team established by Executive Order No. N-8-23.

SEC. 3.

 Section 38592.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

38592.1.

 (a) Every three years, the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), in its mission to increase collaboration among agencies and scientists and convene stakeholders across institutions, is requested, at its discretion, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, and 39730.6 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code. In preparing the assessment, the materials CCST reviews shall include, but not be limited to, the most current versions of all of the following reports and plans:

(1) The integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code.
(2) The integrated resource plans filed pursuant to Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code.
(3) The joint reliability progress report issued pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.
(4) The report produced by the Independent System Operator on the 20-year transmission outlook.
(5) The reports prepared by the state board pursuant to Section 38561.8 and paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 44274.
(6) The scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561.
(7) The report prepared by the
State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission pursuant to Section 25307 of the Public Resources Code.
(b) The list of infrastructure projects the CCST shall assess pursuant to subdivision (a) may include, but are not limited to, all of the following project types:
(1) Deployment of, or upgrades to, utility-scale and distributed renewable and carbon-free energy capacity, substations, transformers, transmission and distribution lines, and biomethane and renewable hydrogen production and distribution.
(2) Deployment of, or upgrades to, electric vehicle charging stations, hydrogen refueling stations, petroleum refinery conversions, sustainable aviation fuels, and other low-carbon and carbon-free transportation fuels projects.
(3) Deployment
and retrofitting of buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(4) Deployment of, or upgrades to, industrial processes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(5) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants, including, but not limited to, methane, hydrofluorocarbon gases, and anthropogenic black carbon.
(6) Natural carbon sequestration and nature-based climate solutions.
(7) Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration projects.
(8) Projects for the reduction and mitigation of criteria air pollutants.
(9) Any other project types necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air
quality goals, including, but not limited to, the goals established pursuant to Sections 38561.5, 38562.2, 38566, 39730.5, and 39730.6 of this code, and the goals established pursuant to Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.
(c) CCST is requested, at its discretion, to commit to regular updates of the assessment and to rapidly incorporate new research into the assessment.

SEC. 4.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to provide policymakers and the people of California with crucial information regarding progress toward meeting the state’s ambitious climate goals as soon as possible, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.