Amended IN Assembly April 06, 2017 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1433Introduced by Assembly Member WoodFebruary 17, 2017 An act to add Section 16428.96 to the Government Code, relating to greenhouse gases. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1433, as amended, Wood. Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Act.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 as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation.This bill would create the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and would transfer, beginning in the 201718 fiscal year, 20% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the account. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, make available the moneys in the account to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and to reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Act.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Natural and working lands, including forests, farms, rangeland, and wetlands, are significant carbon sinks.(b) Improvements to forest management, agricultural, and ranching practices can substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and increase soil carbon.(b)(c) Our forests and other natural and working lands provide many vital services that benefit all state residents, including capturing, storing, and delivering the majority of the states utilized water, cleaning our air, and providing habitat for our diverse and abundant fish and wildlife, as well as employment for many rural communities. Our forests and other natural areas also offer many beautiful places for recreation and renewal.(c)(d) A warming climate and shifting precipitation regimes are causing additional stress on these natural systems, exacerbating degradation and impacts from past fragmentation and management, and thereby threatening those carbon stores and other values.(d)(e) Promoting resilience and adapting to a changing climate is a state priority and will enhance the stability and amount of those carbon stores, improve the reliability of our water supplies, help ensure habitat for fish and wildlife, and support rural resource economies. However, there is no dedicated source of funding for natural resource adaptation and resilience efforts.SEC. 3. Section 16428.96 is added to the Government Code, to read:16428.96. (a) The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account is hereby created in the fund, and moneys in the account shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. The account may receive moneys upon appropriation by the Legislature from bonds, settlements, or any other revenue sources. (b) Beginning in the 201718 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 20 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund are hereby transferred to the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account.(c) Appropriations from the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account shall be made in the annual Budget Act to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.(d) The Wildlife Conservation Board shall select grants and programs for funding pursuant to this section in collaboration with regional conservancies and other departments, boards, and commissions, where appropriate.(e) Programs and grants funded by this section shall reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, enhance long-term sequestration, and result in enduring benefits.(f) In awarding grants, the Wildlife Conservation Board shall give priority to projects that restore and maintain relatively natural habitats, promote climate adaptation and resilience in natural or working land systems, and provide multiple ecosystem benefits.(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) Natural lands means lands consisting of forests, grasslands, deserts, freshwater and riparian systems, wetlands, coastal and estuarine areas, watersheds, wildlands, wildlife habitat, and other similar open-space land.(2) Working lands means lands used for farming, grazing, or the production of forest products.
Amended IN Assembly April 06, 2017 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1433Introduced by Assembly Member WoodFebruary 17, 2017 An act to add Section 16428.96 to the Government Code, relating to greenhouse gases. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1433, as amended, Wood. Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Act.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 as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation.This bill would create the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and would transfer, beginning in the 201718 fiscal year, 20% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the account. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, make available the moneys in the account to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and to reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
Amended IN Assembly April 06, 2017
Amended IN Assembly April 06, 2017
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 1433
Introduced by Assembly Member WoodFebruary 17, 2017
Introduced by Assembly Member Wood
February 17, 2017
An act to add Section 16428.96 to the Government Code, relating to greenhouse gases.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1433, as amended, Wood. Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Act.
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 as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation.This bill would create the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and would transfer, beginning in the 201718 fiscal year, 20% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the account. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, make available the moneys in the account to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and to reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.
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 as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation.
This bill would create the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and would transfer, beginning in the 201718 fiscal year, 20% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the account. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, make available the moneys in the account to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and to reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Act.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Natural and working lands, including forests, farms, rangeland, and wetlands, are significant carbon sinks.(b) Improvements to forest management, agricultural, and ranching practices can substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and increase soil carbon.(b)(c) Our forests and other natural and working lands provide many vital services that benefit all state residents, including capturing, storing, and delivering the majority of the states utilized water, cleaning our air, and providing habitat for our diverse and abundant fish and wildlife, as well as employment for many rural communities. Our forests and other natural areas also offer many beautiful places for recreation and renewal.(c)(d) A warming climate and shifting precipitation regimes are causing additional stress on these natural systems, exacerbating degradation and impacts from past fragmentation and management, and thereby threatening those carbon stores and other values.(d)(e) Promoting resilience and adapting to a changing climate is a state priority and will enhance the stability and amount of those carbon stores, improve the reliability of our water supplies, help ensure habitat for fish and wildlife, and support rural resource economies. However, there is no dedicated source of funding for natural resource adaptation and resilience efforts.SEC. 3. Section 16428.96 is added to the Government Code, to read:16428.96. (a) The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account is hereby created in the fund, and moneys in the account shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. The account may receive moneys upon appropriation by the Legislature from bonds, settlements, or any other revenue sources. (b) Beginning in the 201718 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 20 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund are hereby transferred to the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account.(c) Appropriations from the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account shall be made in the annual Budget Act to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.(d) The Wildlife Conservation Board shall select grants and programs for funding pursuant to this section in collaboration with regional conservancies and other departments, boards, and commissions, where appropriate.(e) Programs and grants funded by this section shall reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, enhance long-term sequestration, and result in enduring benefits.(f) In awarding grants, the Wildlife Conservation Board shall give priority to projects that restore and maintain relatively natural habitats, promote climate adaptation and resilience in natural or working land systems, and provide multiple ecosystem benefits.(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) Natural lands means lands consisting of forests, grasslands, deserts, freshwater and riparian systems, wetlands, coastal and estuarine areas, watersheds, wildlands, wildlife habitat, and other similar open-space land.(2) Working lands means lands used for farming, grazing, or the production of forest products.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Act.
SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Act.
SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Act.
### SECTION 1.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Natural and working lands, including forests, farms, rangeland, and wetlands, are significant carbon sinks.(b) Improvements to forest management, agricultural, and ranching practices can substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and increase soil carbon.(b)(c) Our forests and other natural and working lands provide many vital services that benefit all state residents, including capturing, storing, and delivering the majority of the states utilized water, cleaning our air, and providing habitat for our diverse and abundant fish and wildlife, as well as employment for many rural communities. Our forests and other natural areas also offer many beautiful places for recreation and renewal.(c)(d) A warming climate and shifting precipitation regimes are causing additional stress on these natural systems, exacerbating degradation and impacts from past fragmentation and management, and thereby threatening those carbon stores and other values.(d)(e) Promoting resilience and adapting to a changing climate is a state priority and will enhance the stability and amount of those carbon stores, improve the reliability of our water supplies, help ensure habitat for fish and wildlife, and support rural resource economies. However, there is no dedicated source of funding for natural resource adaptation and resilience efforts.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Natural and working lands, including forests, farms, rangeland, and wetlands, are significant carbon sinks.(b) Improvements to forest management, agricultural, and ranching practices can substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and increase soil carbon.(b)(c) Our forests and other natural and working lands provide many vital services that benefit all state residents, including capturing, storing, and delivering the majority of the states utilized water, cleaning our air, and providing habitat for our diverse and abundant fish and wildlife, as well as employment for many rural communities. Our forests and other natural areas also offer many beautiful places for recreation and renewal.(c)(d) A warming climate and shifting precipitation regimes are causing additional stress on these natural systems, exacerbating degradation and impacts from past fragmentation and management, and thereby threatening those carbon stores and other values.(d)(e) Promoting resilience and adapting to a changing climate is a state priority and will enhance the stability and amount of those carbon stores, improve the reliability of our water supplies, help ensure habitat for fish and wildlife, and support rural resource economies. However, there is no dedicated source of funding for natural resource adaptation and resilience efforts.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
### SEC. 2.
(a) Natural and working lands, including forests, farms, rangeland, and wetlands, are significant carbon sinks.
(b) Improvements to forest management, agricultural, and ranching practices can substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and increase soil carbon.
(b)
(c) Our forests and other natural and working lands provide many vital services that benefit all state residents, including capturing, storing, and delivering the majority of the states utilized water, cleaning our air, and providing habitat for our diverse and abundant fish and wildlife, as well as employment for many rural communities. Our forests and other natural areas also offer many beautiful places for recreation and renewal.
(c)
(d) A warming climate and shifting precipitation regimes are causing additional stress on these natural systems, exacerbating degradation and impacts from past fragmentation and management, and thereby threatening those carbon stores and other values.
(d)
(e) Promoting resilience and adapting to a changing climate is a state priority and will enhance the stability and amount of those carbon stores, improve the reliability of our water supplies, help ensure habitat for fish and wildlife, and support rural resource economies. However, there is no dedicated source of funding for natural resource adaptation and resilience efforts.
SEC. 3. Section 16428.96 is added to the Government Code, to read:16428.96. (a) The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account is hereby created in the fund, and moneys in the account shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. The account may receive moneys upon appropriation by the Legislature from bonds, settlements, or any other revenue sources. (b) Beginning in the 201718 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 20 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund are hereby transferred to the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account.(c) Appropriations from the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account shall be made in the annual Budget Act to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.(d) The Wildlife Conservation Board shall select grants and programs for funding pursuant to this section in collaboration with regional conservancies and other departments, boards, and commissions, where appropriate.(e) Programs and grants funded by this section shall reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, enhance long-term sequestration, and result in enduring benefits.(f) In awarding grants, the Wildlife Conservation Board shall give priority to projects that restore and maintain relatively natural habitats, promote climate adaptation and resilience in natural or working land systems, and provide multiple ecosystem benefits.(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) Natural lands means lands consisting of forests, grasslands, deserts, freshwater and riparian systems, wetlands, coastal and estuarine areas, watersheds, wildlands, wildlife habitat, and other similar open-space land.(2) Working lands means lands used for farming, grazing, or the production of forest products.
SEC. 3. Section 16428.96 is added to the Government Code, to read:
### SEC. 3.
16428.96. (a) The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account is hereby created in the fund, and moneys in the account shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. The account may receive moneys upon appropriation by the Legislature from bonds, settlements, or any other revenue sources. (b) Beginning in the 201718 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 20 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund are hereby transferred to the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account.(c) Appropriations from the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account shall be made in the annual Budget Act to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.(d) The Wildlife Conservation Board shall select grants and programs for funding pursuant to this section in collaboration with regional conservancies and other departments, boards, and commissions, where appropriate.(e) Programs and grants funded by this section shall reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, enhance long-term sequestration, and result in enduring benefits.(f) In awarding grants, the Wildlife Conservation Board shall give priority to projects that restore and maintain relatively natural habitats, promote climate adaptation and resilience in natural or working land systems, and provide multiple ecosystem benefits.(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) Natural lands means lands consisting of forests, grasslands, deserts, freshwater and riparian systems, wetlands, coastal and estuarine areas, watersheds, wildlands, wildlife habitat, and other similar open-space land.(2) Working lands means lands used for farming, grazing, or the production of forest products.
16428.96. (a) The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account is hereby created in the fund, and moneys in the account shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. The account may receive moneys upon appropriation by the Legislature from bonds, settlements, or any other revenue sources. (b) Beginning in the 201718 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 20 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund are hereby transferred to the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account.(c) Appropriations from the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account shall be made in the annual Budget Act to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.(d) The Wildlife Conservation Board shall select grants and programs for funding pursuant to this section in collaboration with regional conservancies and other departments, boards, and commissions, where appropriate.(e) Programs and grants funded by this section shall reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, enhance long-term sequestration, and result in enduring benefits.(f) In awarding grants, the Wildlife Conservation Board shall give priority to projects that restore and maintain relatively natural habitats, promote climate adaptation and resilience in natural or working land systems, and provide multiple ecosystem benefits.(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) Natural lands means lands consisting of forests, grasslands, deserts, freshwater and riparian systems, wetlands, coastal and estuarine areas, watersheds, wildlands, wildlife habitat, and other similar open-space land.(2) Working lands means lands used for farming, grazing, or the production of forest products.
16428.96. (a) The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account is hereby created in the fund, and moneys in the account shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. The account may receive moneys upon appropriation by the Legislature from bonds, settlements, or any other revenue sources. (b) Beginning in the 201718 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 20 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund are hereby transferred to the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account.(c) Appropriations from the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account shall be made in the annual Budget Act to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.(d) The Wildlife Conservation Board shall select grants and programs for funding pursuant to this section in collaboration with regional conservancies and other departments, boards, and commissions, where appropriate.(e) Programs and grants funded by this section shall reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, enhance long-term sequestration, and result in enduring benefits.(f) In awarding grants, the Wildlife Conservation Board shall give priority to projects that restore and maintain relatively natural habitats, promote climate adaptation and resilience in natural or working land systems, and provide multiple ecosystem benefits.(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) Natural lands means lands consisting of forests, grasslands, deserts, freshwater and riparian systems, wetlands, coastal and estuarine areas, watersheds, wildlands, wildlife habitat, and other similar open-space land.(2) Working lands means lands used for farming, grazing, or the production of forest products.
16428.96. (a) The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account is hereby created in the fund, and moneys in the account shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. The account may receive moneys upon appropriation by the Legislature from bonds, settlements, or any other revenue sources.
(b) Beginning in the 201718 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 20 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund are hereby transferred to the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account.
(c) Appropriations from the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature Account shall be made in the annual Budget Act to the Wildlife Conservation Board for grants and programs that facilitate actions to protect and improve the resilience of natural and working land systems and reduce enhance habitat, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. gases and increasing sequestration.
(d) The Wildlife Conservation Board shall select grants and programs for funding pursuant to this section in collaboration with regional conservancies and other departments, boards, and commissions, where appropriate.
(e) Programs and grants funded by this section shall reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, enhance long-term sequestration, and result in enduring benefits.
(f) In awarding grants, the Wildlife Conservation Board shall give priority to projects that restore and maintain relatively natural habitats, promote climate adaptation and resilience in natural or working land systems, and provide multiple ecosystem benefits.
(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) Natural lands means lands consisting of forests, grasslands, deserts, freshwater and riparian systems, wetlands, coastal and estuarine areas, watersheds, wildlands, wildlife habitat, and other similar open-space land.
(2) Working lands means lands used for farming, grazing, or the production of forest products.