Asm. Al Muratsuchi

This measure would designate the portion of State Route 14 from the Avenue 0-8 bridge at Postmile R62.151 to the Avenue M overcrossing at Postmile R64.678, in the County of Los Angeles, as the CHP Officer Andy Ornelas Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs, which shall include the star of the California Highway Patrol, showing these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate the portion of Interstate 5 between Roth Road, at postmile R19.584, and French Camp Road, at postmile R22.508, in the City of Stockton as the Master Sergeant Richard Pittman Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources to cover that cost, to erect those signs.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. Existing law requires the state board to provide guidance on credits generated pursuant to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations adopted pursuant to the act from the methane reduction protocols described in the comprehensive strategy for short-lived climate pollutants. This bill would prohibit the state board from including avoided methane emissions in the calculation of carbon intensity for purposes of the state board's evaluation or reevaluation of a fuel pathway, as provided. The bill would define "avoided methane emissions" to mean any captured methane from livestock manure management. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations authorize a fuel pathway that uses biomethane from dairy cattle or swine manure digestion to be certified with a carbon intensity that reflects the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions achieved by the voluntary capture of methane, subject to meeting specified requirements. The regulations also require the carbon intensities that reflect avoided methane emissions from dairy and swine manure projects to meet certain requirements in order to be eligible for credit generation. This bill would provide that the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations described above are null and void as applied to fuels derived from livestock manure.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law establishes a state policy that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 90% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2035, 95% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2040, 100% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2045, and 100% of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2035, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , and the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with all California balancing authorities, as defined, as part of a public process, to issue, on or before January 1, 2021, and at least every 4 years thereafter, a joint report to the Legislature containing certain information, including, among other information, the barriers to, and benefits of, achieving the state policy, as specified. This bill would additionally require the PUC, the Energy Commission, and the state board, in each joint report issued on or after January 1, 2026, to additionally include an evaluation identifying the geographic locations for development of certain renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources, a review of certain decarbonization needs from the building, heavy industry, and transportation sectors, and a statewide transmission plan, as specified.

This measure would proclaim March 23, 2024, as California Women in STEM Day.

This measure would proclaim the week of March 17, 2024, to March 23, 2024, inclusive as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2024, as California Down Syndrome Day, and would encourage all Californians to support and participate in related activities.

This measure would designate March 25, 2024, as Greek Independence Day.