BILL NUMBER: AB 333INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Grove FEBRUARY 10, 2011 An act to add Section 38598.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 333, as introduced, Grove. California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: unemployment. 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 state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. This bill would require the state board to exempt from an emission reduction requirement adopted pursuant to the act an emissions source located within a county that on January 1, 2012, has an unemployment rate of 7% or greater, until that county's unemployment rate drops below 7% for 6 consecutive months. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 38598.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 38598.5. The state board shall exempt from an emission reduction requirement adopted pursuant to this division an emissions source located within a county that on January 1, 2012, has an unemployment rate of 7 percent or greater, until that county's unemployment rate drops below 7 percent for six consecutive months. The exemption created pursuant to this section shall not return if the unemployment rate rises above 7 percent at a later time.