State agency greenhouse gas emission reduction report cards.

Existing law requires specified state agencies to prepare and submit to the Secretary for Environmental Protection specified information for inclusion in an annual greenhouse gas emission reduction report card, including, among other information, a list of measures that the state agency has adopted or implemented, or that are needed, to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, as defined, an estimate of the state agency's greenhouse gas emissions, and an explanation of any increase or decrease compared to its previous year greenhouse gas emissions. This bill would require the estimate of a state agency's greenhouse gas emissions to include, to the extent feasible, an estimate of greenhouse gas emissions related to the state agency's food purchases. The bill would require the State Air Resources Board to create and publish on its internet website a methodology for a state agency to estimate, to the extent feasible, its food-related greenhouse gas emissions, as provided, and would require a state agency to use this methodology to prepare its estimate of those emissions.