California 2021 2021-2022 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB874 Introduced / Bill

Filed 02/17/2021

                    CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 874Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-SilvaFebruary 17, 2021 An act relating to the Property Assessed Clean Energy program. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 874, as introduced, Quirk-Silva. PACE program.Existing law, known commonly as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, authorizes a public agency, by making specified findings, to authorize public agency officials and property owners to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property. Existing law also requires the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to establish a PACE Reserve program to assist local jurisdictions in financing, among other things, the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements on residential projects.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.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 enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 874Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-SilvaFebruary 17, 2021 An act relating to the Property Assessed Clean Energy program. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 874, as introduced, Quirk-Silva. PACE program.Existing law, known commonly as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, authorizes a public agency, by making specified findings, to authorize public agency officials and property owners to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property. Existing law also requires the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to establish a PACE Reserve program to assist local jurisdictions in financing, among other things, the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements on residential projects.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO 





 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill 

No. 874

Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-SilvaFebruary 17, 2021

Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-Silva
February 17, 2021

 An act relating to the Property Assessed Clean Energy program. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 874, as introduced, Quirk-Silva. PACE program.

Existing law, known commonly as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, authorizes a public agency, by making specified findings, to authorize public agency officials and property owners to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property. Existing law also requires the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to establish a PACE Reserve program to assist local jurisdictions in financing, among other things, the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements on residential projects.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.

Existing law, known commonly as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, authorizes a public agency, by making specified findings, to authorize public agency officials and property owners to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property. Existing law also requires the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to establish a PACE Reserve program to assist local jurisdictions in financing, among other things, the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements on residential projects.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.

## 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 enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.

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 enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to expanding access to the PACE Reserve program, in response to the recession and housing crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure.

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