Bill Dodd
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 3
Author
Existing law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Existing law assigns the commission various duties, including applying for and accepting grants, contributions, and appropriations, and awarding grants consistent with the goals and objectives of a program or activity the commission is authorized to implement or administer. This bill, the Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022, would require the commission to develop and implement a grant program to award grants through a noncompetitive process for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience objectives and state clean energy and air quality goals. The bill would require a plan to, among other things, identify critical facilities, facilities where the construction of microgrids or other distributed energy sources could meet local resilience needs, and potential funding sources for implementing projects in the plan, include a process for the expedited permit review of distributed energy resources by the local government, and demonstrate consistency with the city, county, or city and county general plan and other local government planning documents, as specified. As a condition of receiving grant funding, the bill would require a local government to submit its plan to the commission within 6 months of adopting the plan. The bill would require grant funds to be encumbered within 2 years, and liquidated within 4 years, of the date of an award. The bill would require the commission to maintain a publicly available and searchable database of all local governments receiving a grant, annually submit a program summary to the Legislature, and post the summary on its internet website. The bill also would require the commission to develop and maintain on its internet website a publicly available community energy resilience planning toolkit, a directory of prequalified consultants, and a resilience valuation index, as defined, to assist local governments in community energy resilience planning. The bill would require the commission to periodically update the index.
August 11 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 29).
June 22 hearing postponed by committee.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3928.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3770.) (May 19).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Set for hearing May 19.
April 4 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing April 4.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 3094.) (March 14).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Set for hearing March 14.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB833 | HTML |
| 01/04/22 - Introduced | |
| 03/07/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 03/21/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/30/22 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/11/22- Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications | |
| 03/31/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/21/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/28/22- Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy | |
| 08/01/22- Assembly Appropriations |
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