State Air Resources Board: South Coast Air Quality Management District: regulations: prohibition: costs.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide information on what happens if the rules are found to be too costly, how much this law will affect air quality improvements, or whether local agencies might need extra money from the state to follow these new rules.

Limiting Costs of Air Quality Regulations

This law stops certain air quality rules from raising gas prices by more than two cents per gallon or home building costs by over $2,000.

What This Bill Does

• It does not allow the State Air Resources Board to make rules that raise the price of a gallon of gasoline by more than $0.02.
• It also stops the South Coast Air Quality Management District from making rules that increase home building costs by over $2,000 or nonresidential building costs by over $5,000.
• The State Air Resources Board must show how new rules follow these cost limits to lawmakers.
• The South Coast Air Quality Management District also needs to prove their rules meet the cost limits before they can be made.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who buy gasoline and build homes or nonresidential buildings in California.
• State agencies like the State Air Resources Board and local agencies like the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Terms To Know

Greenhouse gases

Gases that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, which can cause global warming.

State-mandated local program

A state requirement that forces local governments to do something or follow a rule.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not say what will happen if the rules are found to be too costly.
• It is unclear how much this law will affect air quality improvements.
• Local agencies might need extra money from the state to follow these new rules.

Official Summary Text

AB 1791, as introduced, Sanchez.
State Air Resources Board: South Coast Air Quality Management District: regulations: prohibition: costs.
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.
This bill would prohibit the state board from adopting any regulation or rule that would add more than $0.02 to the cost of a gallon of gasoline or add $2,000 or more to the cost to build any home. The bill would require the state board to submit data to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature that demonstrates how a proposed regulation is compliant with this prohibition.
Existing law, the Lewis-Presley Air Quality Management Act, establishes the South Coast Air Quality Management District in those portions of the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino
included within the South Coast Air Basin as the local agency with the responsibility for comprehensive air pollution control within the basin.
This bill would prohibit the south coast district from adopting any regulation or rule that would add more than $0.02 to the cost of a gallon of gasoline, add $2,000 or more to the cost to build any home, or add $5,000 or more to the cost to build a nonresidential building. The bill would require the south coast district to submit data to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature that demonstrates how a proposed regulation is compliant with this prohibition. To the extent it would impose additional duties on a local entity, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions
establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

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