AB 118 - Aiming to Suspend AB 32 Work

Yikes - On Monday the Natural Resources Committee of the Assembly will discuss AB 118, which would suspend the work being done to achieve the goals of AB 32... and *requires* that cities do the same. If you disagree - send letters now!

Members of the Committee

A quote from the bill:

This bill would suspend the act until the state unemployment rate is 5.5% or lower for four consecutive calendar quarters. The bill would require the resuspension of the act whenever the state unemployment rate rises above 5.5% for four consecutive calendar quarters. The bill would prohibit the state board, and specified other state agencies, from proposing, promulgating, or adopting any regulation pursuant to the act during a period of suspension and would require that any such regulation adopted prior to January 1, 2011, be inoperative until the suspension is lifted. The bill would request local agencies to refrain from adopting rules, regulations, and policies that derive authority or responsibility from the act and to revise or repeal those rules, regulations, or policies adopted prior to January 1, 2011, until the suspension is lifted.

Since the state hasn't had 5.5% for four quarters in 30 years, the bill effectively kills AB32.

Full Text of bill