BILL NUMBER: AB 1383	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 16, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pavley
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Hancock, Jerome Horton, Levine,
Mullin, Salinas, and Torrico)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to amend Section 25401.6 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1383, as amended, Pavley.  Electricity: distributed emerging
technologies: rebates.
   Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission (Energy Commission) to transfer funds
collected for in-state operation and development of existing and new
and emerging renewable resources technologies into the Renewable
Resource Trust Fund. Existing law requires that 17.5% of the funds
collected to accomplish the funding of in-state operation and
development of existing, new, and emerging renewable resources
technologies be used for a multiyear, consumer-based program to
foster the development of emerging renewable technologies in
distributed generation applications by providing monetary rebates,
buydowns, or equivalent incentives.  Existing law requires the Energy
Commission to establish a separate rebate for eligible distributed
emerging technologies for affordable housing projects, and authorizes
the Energy Commission to adjust the amount of the rebate based on
the capacity of the system, if the commission determines the
occupants should have individual meters, but allows the system to
receive a rebate of the total installed costs.
   This bill would instead  allow the rebate received for the
system to be up to the total cost   authorize the
commission to adjust the amount of the rebate based on the capacity
of the system and the anticipated rebate funding level to stimulate
increased participation from affordable housing projects   .
  
   Existing law authorizes the commission to establish a reasonable
limit on the total amount of funds dedicated for these purposes.
 
   This bill would instead authorize the commission to establish a
reasonable minimum funding level or limit. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 25401.6 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   25401.6.
   (a) In its administration of Section 25744, the commission shall
establish a separate rebate for eligible distributed emerging
technologies for affordable housing projects including, but not
limited to, projects undertaken pursuant to Section 50052.5, 50053,
or 50199.4 of the Health and Safety Code. In establishing the rebate,
where the commission determines that the occupants of the housing
shall have individual meters, the commission may adjust the amount of
the rebate  ,  based on the capacity of the system 
, provided that a system may receive a rebate not exceeding the
total installed costs   and the anticipated rebate
funding level, to stimulate increased participation from affordable
housing projects, provided that the rebate does not exceed the total
installed cost  .  The commission may establish a reasonable
 minimum funding level or  limit on the total amount of
funds dedicated for purposes of this section.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that this section fulfills
the purpose of paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 25744.