AB 1232: Affordable housing: weatherization.

Existing law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to, among other things, administer the Energy Efficiency Low-Income Weatherization Program and expend moneys appropriated by the Legislature for the proposes purposes of the program.

This bill would require the Department of Community Services and Development to coordinate with the California Energy Commission and the State Department of Public Healths Office of Health Equity, by January 1, 2021, to identify best practices from model programs and funding mechanisms, and provide a recommended action plan.

Existing law requires the State Energy Resources and Conservation Commission to, among other things, establish annual targets for statewide energy efficiency savings and demand reduction, including specific strategies for progress towards maximizing savings in disadvantaged communities served by the weatherization program.

This bill would, in addition to the commissions recommendations, require the department to provide an assessment of the program. The bill would make other conforming changes.

Existing law, 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. Existing law requires moneys from the fund to be allocated for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in this state and satisfying other purposes, if applicable and to the extent feasible, and authorizes specified investments if the investment furthers the regulatory purposes of the act and is consistent with law.

This bill would authorize an eligible expenditure of moneys appropriated to the Department of Community Services and Development from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to occur over multiple fiscal years and authorize the department to make multiyear funding commitments over a period of more than one fiscal year.