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SENATE BILL NO. 1282 Offered January 13, 2021 Prefiled January 11, 2021 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 10.1-1307.04, relating to greenhouse gas emissions inventory. ---------- Patrons-- Morrissey; Delegate: Kory ---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources ----------

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 emissions inventory.

A. The Department shall conduct a comprehensive statewide baseline and projection inventory of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and shall update such inventory every four years. The Board may adopt regulations necessary to collect from all source sectors data needed to conduct, update, and maintain such inventory.

B. The Board shall include the inventory in the report required pursuant to subsection H of § 10.1-1307, beginning with the report issued prior to October 1, 2022, and every four years thereafter. The Department shall publish such inventory on its website, showing changes in GHG emissions relative to an estimated GHG emissions baseline case for calendar year 2010.

2. That any regulation adopted by the State Air Pollution Control Board to initially implement the provisions of the first enactment of this act shall be exempt from the provisions of Chapter 40 (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) of Title 2.2 of the Code of Virginia. Such regulation shall become effective upon filing with the Virginia Register of Regulations and shall become effective no later than January 1, 2022. Thereafter, no amendment to such regulation shall be exempted from the provisions of Chapter 40 (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) of Title 2.2 of the Code of Virginia.