Cal. Gov. Code § 12100.162
California Civic Media Act
Redline — January 1, 2021 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2021
(a) The office may undertake measures that are necessary or useful to prepare and submit an application to receive funding from the regional clean hydrogen hubs program or to otherwise participate in the regional clean hydrogen hubs program.
(b) Grants made from any funding received from the regional clean hydrogen hubs program shall support projects in California that do both of the following:
(1) Demonstrate and scale the production, processing, delivery, storage, or end-use of clean hydrogen, or any combination of these.
(2) Advance progress toward a goal to produce or use at least 15,000 tons per day of clean hydrogen in California by 2030.
(c) Grants made from any funding received from the regional clean hydrogen hubs program shall prioritize projects that do any of the following:
(1) Help achieve economies of scale and reduce the cost of clean hydrogen production in California from renewable feedstocks or eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources.
(2) Advance state greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
(3) Maximize socioeconomic, workforce, equity, air quality, and health benefits.
(d) The office shall submit a report to the relevant budget and policy committees of the Legislature on or before March 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, regarding the status of an application submitted to receive funding from the regional clean hydrogen hubs program and the status of any partnerships entered into pursuant to this section.
(e) In undertaking the duty described in subdivision (a), the office shall consult with and coordinate clean hydrogen-related efforts with relevant stakeholders, including, but not limited to, federal agencies, state agencies, local governments, transit agencies, ports, and utilities.
(a) (1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the California Civic Media Fund to be administered by the office. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all moneys deposited in the fund, including state General Fund appropriations and private bequeaths, donations, gifts, or grants, are continuously appropriated to the office for purposes of this article. Public moneys shall be accounted for separately from private moneys in the fund.
(2) (A) The office may accept contributions from private sources, including private for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
(B) All contributions provided pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be deposited in the fund.
(b) The office shall direct the expenditure of public moneys in the fund, consistent with the purposes and subject to the restrictions set forth in this article.
(c) The office may solicit recommendations from the advisory board, but shall retain sole discretion and control over the expenditure of public moneys in the fund, consistent with the requirements of this article.
(d) (1) The advisory board shall make recommendations to the office on allocations of funds contributed by a private party. If the private funds are held by a third-party administrator designated by the donor, the office shall provide instructions to the administrator for the expenditure of those funds.
(2) In considering the allocation of moneys from private sources, the advisory board may seek to allocate moneys to publishers on a pro rata basis based on the number of journalists employed by a publisher in the state, with the goal of increasing the total number of journalists employed in the state.
(e) (1) No more than 7.5 percent of the fund may be used for the administration of this article.
(2) Public moneys in the fund shall be expended in furtherance of the purposes of this article.
(3) The office may enter into an agreement with third parties for purposes of administering programs funded, in whole or in part, with public moneys allocated from the fund.
(4) In expending public moneys in the fund, the office shall prioritize allocations to support local and community news organizations.
(5) In any fiscal year, the total expenditure of public money from the California Civic Media Fund shall not exceed the total aggregate expenditure of funds from private sources, whether contributed to the Fund, or contributed to a third-party administrator that holds and disburses those funds pursuant to an agreement with the office.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.