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	AB 19	Ruskin	Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Consumer Product Labeling
Enacts the Carbon Labeling Act of 2009. Requires the State Air Resources Board to develop and implement a program for the voluntary assessment, verification, and standardized labeling of the carbon footprint of consumer products sold in this state.
	AB 45	Blakeslee	Distributed Generation: Small Wind Energy Systems
States the intent of the Legislature to encourage local agencies to support the state's renewable energy procurement requirements by developing and adopting ordinances that facilitate the installation of distributed generation small wind energy systems.
	AB 46	Blakeslee	Energy: Energy Conservation Assistance
Amends the provisions of existing law that provides for the administration of the State Energy Conservation Assistance Account that provides grants and loans to local governments and public institutions for energy use savings. Extends the operation of those provisions. Extends the financial assistance program and the Local Jurisdiction Energy Assistance Account that provides loans to local jurisdictions for energy projects. Authorizes the receipt and deposit of federal recovery funds into the accounts.
	AB 49	Feuer	Water Conservation: Urban Water Use
Relates to water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse of available supplies. Requires the state to achieve a reduction in urban per capita water use by a specified date.
	AB 51	Blakeslee	Public Utilities Commission: Demand Side Management
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislature to enact legislation that would require the Public Utilities Commission to integrate the demand side management programs within its jurisdiction in order to enable offerings of integrated packages that will maximize savings and efficiency of utility program overhead.
	AB 64	Krekorian	Renewable Energy Resources: Generation and Transmission
Recasts the renewables portfolio standard program to require that a retail seller and a local publicly owned electric utility procure specified percentages of its electricity from renewable energy resource. Relates to tariffs filed by electrical corporations for energy purchased from small scale renewable source facilities. Establishes the Renewable Infrastructure Authority and related fund. Provides for renewable energy designation zones and transmission corridor zones.
	AB 150	Smyth	Sales and Uses Taxes: Energy Proficient Products
Exempts from the Sales and Use Tax Law, during a qualified period, energy efficient products that meet or exceed Energy Star efficiency requirements including specified layaway agreements.
	AB 162	Ruskin	Electric Service Providers: Reporting Requirements
Amends existing law that establishes a program under which entities offering electric services in the State disclose accurate, reliable, and simple to understand information on the sources of energy that are used to provide such services. Defines the term "unspecified sources of power" for purposes of the disclosure requirements. Changes reporting requirements from quarterly to annually. Amends other details regarding disclosures and eliminates certain reporting requirements.
	AB 177	Price	Energy: Green Economy Inclusion Act of 2009
Enacts the Green Economy Inclusion Act of 2009. States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure greater equity and inclusion of all Californians in the future of developing and implementing climate change, transportation, land use, and economic stimulus policies to reduce such emissions in the State.
	AB 222	Adams	Energy: Biofuels
Relates to biofuels and environmental quality, electrical system reliability, efficiency of energy using technologies and lower electrical costs. States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to advance biofuels and green power production.
	AB 228	Huffman	Energy: Outdoor Lighting Efficiency
Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to adopt minimum energy efficiency standards for outdoor lighting.
	AB 238	Adams	Renewable Energy Resources
Revises the legislative findings and declarations to declare that new and modified electric transmission facilities, including the employment of smart grid technologies, may be necessary to facilitate the state achieving its energy efficiency goals and renewables portfolio standard targets.
	AB 394	Fuentes	Solar Energy Systems
States the intent of the Legislature to further facilitate the efforts of local publicly owned electric utilities to increase the installation of residential and commercial solar energy systems.
	AB 413	Fuentes	Energy Rates
Relates to the Public Utilities Commission authority to fix rates and charges for every public utility. Prohibits the commission from requiring or permitting an electrical corporation to employ time variant pricing for residential customers. Authorizes the commission to authorize an electrical corporation to offer customers the option of receiving service pursuant to time variant pricing.
	SB 7	Wiggins	Renewable Energy Sources: Net Metering
Relates to the Public Utilities Act, which imposes various duties and responsibilities on the Public Utilities Commission. Relates to a standard contract or tariff for net energy metering. Requires an electric distribution utility or cooperative, at the discretion of an eligible customer generator to take specified action in relation to net surplus electricity produced. Provides that only part or all of the electricity needed by a consumer is eligible for monetary incentives under solar initiative programs.
	SB 14	Simitian	Public Utilities Commission: Renewable Energy Rates
Relates to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) meeting requirements, PUC recordkeeping, dynamic pricing by electrical corporations, a program of low income energy assistance and energy efficiency and weatherization programs, residential customer baseline energy needs and rates. Revises the Renewable Energy Resources Program and requirements under the Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. Relates to citing of transmission resources. Provides funding for development solar energy in a specified area.
	SB 17	Padilla	Electricity: Smart Grid Systems
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine the requirements for a smart grid deployment plan consistent with the policies set forth in federal law. Requires each electrical corporation to develop and submit a smart grid deployment plan to the Commission.
	SB 31	Pavley	Global Warming Solutions Act
Relates to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Requires that revenues collected pursuant to compliance mechanisms adopted by the State Air Resources Board be deposited in the Air Pollution Control Fund. Specifies certain uses of the revenues collected pursuant to the fee and the compliance mechanisms.
	SB 32	Negrete McLeod	Renewable Electric Generation Facilities
Requires an electrical corporation to file with the Public Utilities Commission a standard tariff for the electricity purchased from an electric generation facility that is owned, leased, or rented by a retail customer of the corporation. Requires the facility to have a specified effective capacity. Requires the facility to be strategically located and interconnected to the electric grid. Requires that the tariff provide for a base payment rate utilizing a specified formula.
	SB 42	Corbett	Coastal Resources: Seawater Intake
Prohibits a state agency from authorizing, approving or certifying a new powerplant or industrial facility that uses an open ocean intake, a new open intake, or the expansion of an existing open ocean intake. Prohibits a powerplant from using once through cooling. Requires a powerplant that uses once through cooling to pay a specified fee. Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to pay a specified fee.
	SB 104	Oropeza	Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Greenhouse Gases
Amends the Global Warming Solution Act of 2006 to include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. Includes nitrogen trifluoride, and any other anthropogenic gas one metric ton of which makes the same or greater contribution to global warming as one metric ton of carbon dioxide. Includes a procedure by which any person could petition for a designation. Requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt appropriate regulations.
	SB 128	Padilla	State Climate Change Institute
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to create the Climate Change Institute to identify and support, through a merit based peer reviewed competitive grant process, research and education to be undertaken at academic and research institutions and laboratories throughout the state, and to oversee, coordinate and manage a nonduplicative, targeted research and development program for the purposes of achieving the state's targets for reducing emission of greenhouse gas.
	SB 225	Florez	Emission Reduction Credits
Authorizes an air quality management district and an air pollution control district to create an emission reduction credit from the emission reductions resulting from a project that is funded from both public and private moneys if specified requirements are met.

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