Action Alert: Sign-on to Support Letters for Important Legislation

NOTE: Please send in your responses by 12 noon on Tuesday June 2nd to be included on group support letters.

Sustainable California is collecting support for the following bills that will be on the Senate or Assembly floor for a vote this week.

Please show your support for these bills. If you would like to sign on to one or more of these letters, please send an email to connie@csgcalifornia.com and include your name, organization, electronic signature, and logo. We will collect names in support of each of the bills and submit a group support letter from Sustainable California for each bill.

Assembly Bill 49 - Water Conservation (SUPPORT): AB 49 is coauthored by Assemblymembers Feuer and Huffman. The bill promotes increased water use efficiency by requiring a reduction in per capita urban water use and requiring implementation of efficient water management practices by agricultural water suppliers. The Bill would require a 20% reduction in statewide urban per capita water use by 2020.

Senate Bill 406 - Funding Sustainable Communities Strategies and Blueprints (SUPPORT): SB 406 is authored by Senator DeSaulnier. SB 406 would authorize municipal planning organizations, councils of governments, or county transportation commissions and subregional councils to impose surcharges on motor vehicle registration to be expended to develop and implement sustainable communities strategies, per SB 375, and regional blueprint plans.

Climate/Carbon Trust Bills:

Assembly Bill 231 - Climate Protection Trust Fund (SUPPORT): AB 231 is authored by Assemblymember Huffman. This bill creates a state treasury account for AB 32 generated revenues and establishes parameters for the investment of these funds for the purposes of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mitigating the impacts of climate change, and generally assisting the state in meeting AB 32 Scoping Plan goals.

Assembly Bill 1405 - Community Benefits Fund (SUPPORT – IF AMENDED): AB 1405 is authored by Assemblymember de Leon. This bill would establish the Community Benefits Fund where an unspecified percentage of the funds collected pursuant to AB 32 would be deposited. Funds in the Community Benefits Fund would be used for competitive grants for projects in the most impacted and disadvantaged communities that reduce GHG emissions or help adapt to climate change.

Senate Bill 31 - California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: revenue allocations (SUPPORT – IF AMENDED): SB 31 is authored by Senator Pavley. The bill would require that revenues collected pursuant to AB 32 compliance mechanisms adopted by the state board also be deposited in the Air Pollution Control Fund. The bill specifies certain uses of the revenues collected pursuant to the fee.