BILL NUMBER: AB 2593AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 21, 2014 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bradford FEBRUARY 21, 2014 An act to add Section 39717 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2593, as amended, Bradford. Greenhouse gases: diversity reporting. 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 the 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 and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require a business enterprise withagross annualrevenuerevenues exceeding $25,000,000 participating in a program administered by the state board that is funded, in whole or in part, from the fund to report annually to the state board regarding its programs to increase procurement from women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises, if any. 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 39717 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 39717. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Control" means exercising the power to make policy decisions. (2) "Disabled veteran business enterprise" has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (7) of subdivision (b) of Section 999 of the Military and Veterans Code. (3) "Minority business enterprise" means a business enterprise that is at least 51 percent owned by a minority group or, in the case of a publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more minority groups, and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of those individuals. Minority includes African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Pacific Americans. (4) "Operate" means being actively involved in the day-to-day management and not merely officers or directors. (5) "Women business enterprise" means a business enterprise that is at least 51 percent owned by a woman or, in the case of a publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more women, and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of those individuals. (b) (1) A business enterprise with gross annual revenues exceeding twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) participating in a program administered by the state board that is funded, in whole or in part, from the fund shall report annually to the state board regarding its programs to increase procurement from women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprise, if any. (2) The business enterprise shall submit the report pursuant to paragraph (1) in an electronic format, as determined by the state board. (3) The state board shall make the report available to the public on its Internet Web site. (c) This section does not apply to a business enterprise participating in a program administered by a governmental agency that is not the state board.