CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1966Introduced by Assembly Member MuratsuchiFebruary 10, 2022 An act relating to fossil fuel workers. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1966, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Fossil fuel-dependent workers: California Equitable Just Transition Fund.Existing law creates the Clean Transportation Program, which provides funding for various projects to help obtain the states climate change policies, including funding for workforce training programs to transition dislocated workers affected by the states greenhouse gas emission policies.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1966Introduced by Assembly Member MuratsuchiFebruary 10, 2022 An act relating to fossil fuel workers. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1966, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Fossil fuel-dependent workers: California Equitable Just Transition Fund.Existing law creates the Clean Transportation Program, which provides funding for various projects to help obtain the states climate change policies, including funding for workforce training programs to transition dislocated workers affected by the states greenhouse gas emission policies.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1966
Introduced by Assembly Member MuratsuchiFebruary 10, 2022
Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi
February 10, 2022
An act relating to fossil fuel workers.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1966, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Fossil fuel-dependent workers: California Equitable Just Transition Fund.
Existing law creates the Clean Transportation Program, which provides funding for various projects to help obtain the states climate change policies, including funding for workforce training programs to transition dislocated workers affected by the states greenhouse gas emission policies.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.
Existing law creates the Clean Transportation Program, which provides funding for various projects to help obtain the states climate change policies, including funding for workforce training programs to transition dislocated workers affected by the states greenhouse gas emission policies.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would establish the California Equitable Just Transition Fund to assist fossil fuel-dependent workers with wage replacement, wage insurance, pension guarantees, health care, retraining, peer counseling, and relocation support for fossil fuel workers who face layoffs due to closure of operations.
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