Zero net energy project budget requests.

The California Constitution requires the Governor to submit a budget for the ensuing fiscal year to the Legislature within the first 10 days of each regular session. Existing law requires that budget to contain a complete plan and itemized statement of all proposed expenditures of the state provided by existing law or recommended by the Governor, and of all estimated revenues, as specified. Existing law requires the budget to be prepared in a specified manner. Existing law requires every state agency and court, for which an appropriation has been made, to submit to the Department of Finance for approval a complete and detailed budget, as specified, at the time and in the form as may be prescribed by the department, setting forth all proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for the ensuing fiscal year. Existing law requires the department to submit to the committee in each house of the Legislature that considers appropriations and to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee copies of the specified budget material submitted to the department by state agencies. Existing Executive Order B-18-12 directs state agencies to take various steps to achieve certain environmental and climate change goals, including to increase the number of state-owned buildings that are zero net energy. This bill would require each state entity, as defined, that makes a budget request for the construction or retrofit of a state-owned building, or campus of buildings, to make that building or campus zero net energy, including a project to meet the state's goals for zero net energy buildings in Executive Order B-18-12, to include a cost–benefit analysis that includes certain information with the request when presenting its budget to the department. The bill would require the department to submit copies of the cost–benefit analysis to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, the Assembly Committee on Budget, and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee with each zero net energy budget request.