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2020 SESSION

20103698D
HOUSE BILL NO. 525
Offered January 8, 2020
Prefiled January 5, 2020
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 10.1-1307.04, relating to greenhouse gas inventory.
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Patrons-- Subramanyam, Reid and Carroll Foy
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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 10.1-1307.04 as follows:

§ 10.1-1307.04. Greenhouse gas inventory.

A. The Board shall conduct a statewide inventory of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

B. The Department shall develop methods, consistent with guidelines or recommendations issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for conducting such inventory.

C. The Board shall include such inventory in the annual report required pursuant to subsection H of § 10.1-1307, beginning with the report issued prior to October 1, 2021. The Board shall publish such inventory on the Department's website, showing changes in GHG emissions relative to an estimated GHG emissions baseline case for calendar year 2010.