SB 1248

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and invests it with various duties and powers. This bill would require the department, until January 1, 2012, to create and administer a pilot program at a facility with a low-risk inmate population for testing one or more stationary electricity generating bicycles to create additional, renewable energy to mitigate the facility's electricity use by powering one or more television monitors for viewing by inmates, as specified. The bill would require the department to report the results of the program to the chairs of the Senate Committee on Public Safety, and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. This bill would require the State Air Resources Board, until January 1, 2012, to update the scoping plan to include the pilot program developed by the department as a greenhouse gas emission reduction measure that assists the state to achieve the goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Existing law establishes the Renewable Energy Resources Program administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and continuously appropriates moneys in the Renewable Resource Trust Fund to foster the development of emerging renewable technologies in distributed generation applications. This bill would, until January 1, 2012, specify that the pilot program developed by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation pursuant to this measure is an eligible electricity generating system and would qualify for funding from the Renewable Resource Trust Fund, thereby making an appropriation. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring electrical corporations to procure a minimum quantity of output from eligible renewable energy resources. This bill would, until January 1, 2012, provide that the pilot program is an eligible renewable energy resource and the electricity generated by the prison under the pilot program may be considered by the electrical corporation supplying electricity to that prison in meeting that electrical corporation's renewables portfolio standard. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.