BILL NUMBER: SJR 11	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla
   (Coauthors: Senators Pavley, Rubio, and Steinberg)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bradford, Chesbro, and Huffman)

                        JULY 11, 2011

   Relative to energy efficiency standards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 11, as introduced, Padilla. Energy efficiency standards: light
bulbs.
    This measure would urge the California delegation in the United
States House of Representatives and the United States Senate to vote
against any proposed legislation, including HR 2417, that would
weaken federal energy efficiency standards or constrain California's
long-recognized authority to enact its own standards to promote
energy efficiency.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, California has provided national and international
leadership on energy efficiency standards for decades, resulting in
tens of billions of dollars in utility bill savings for its citizens;
and
   WHEREAS, Effective January 1, 2011, which is a year earlier than
the rest of the nation, California began implementing California
state standards that require light bulbs to be 30 percent more
efficient; and
   WHEREAS, The same standards adopted by California were enacted
nationally by Congress and will go into effect on January 1, 2012;
and
   WHEREAS, It is estimated that California's early implementation of
these standards will avoid the sale of 10.5 million inefficient
bulbs that would cost consumers $36,500,000 in unnecessarily higher
electricity bills; and
   WHEREAS, Some Members of the United States Congress are now trying
to roll back or repeal highly cost-effective efficiency standards on
lighting and other equipment; and
   WHEREAS, House Resolution 2417 (H.R. 2417), introduced in the
112th Congress on July 6, 2011, by Representative Joe Barton
(R-Texas), would repeal sections of the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-140) that adopt the federal
light bulb energy efficiency standard and would expressly invalidate
California's light bulb energy efficiency standard; and
   WHEREAS, H.R. 2417 would strip California of its authority to
implement energy efficiency standards that it has determined will
reduce energy consumption and lower utility bills; now, therefore, be
it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California
strongly urges the California delegation in the United States House
of Representatives and the United States Senate to vote against any
legislation, including H.R. 2417, that would weaken federal energy
efficiency standards or constrain California's long-recognized
authority to enact its own standards to promote energy efficiency and
protect compelling economic and environmental interests of its
citizens; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and the Vice President of the United
States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to each
Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the
United States, and to the author for appropriate distribution.