California Air Quality and Climate Legislation

CARB’s Office of Legislative Affairs serves as the principal resource on legislative issues relative to air quality and climate change for the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Governor’s Office. The Office of Legislative Affairs provides technical expertise relating to pending legislation and serves as a resource to the Legislature and legislative staff.

CARB's 2020 California Air Quality and Climate Legislation webpage catalogues the most pertinent legislation that CARB's Office of Legislative Affairs tracked during the previous Legislative session. Beginning with the 2020 session, CARB transitioned to this modernized, web-based platform, which can be accessed below. The annual summaries for the 1998 through 2019 sessions are available at CARB's California Air Quality Legislation Archive.

18 bills found for
SessionBill NumberBill TitleAuthor CategoryStatus
2023-2024 SB 12 2023 – Senate Bill 12 (Stern, Henry), California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions limit (Dead) Stern.Henry Climate Change Dead
2021-2022 SB 46 2022 – Senate Bill 46 (Stern, Henry), American Rescue Plan Funds (Dead)Stern.Henry Administrative Procedures, Climate Change, Environmental Justice Dead
2021-2022 SB 46 2021 – Senate Bill 46 (Stern, Henry), American Rescue Plan Funds (2-year)Stern.Henry Administrative Procedures, Climate Change, Environmental Justice 2-year
2021-2022 SB 63 2021 - Senate Bill 63 (Stern, Henry), Fire Prevention: Vegetation Management: Public Education: Grants: Defensible Space: Fire Hazard Severity Zones (Chaptered)Stern.Henry Climate Change, Forestry and Wildfire Prevention Chaptered
2023-2024 SB 261 2023 – Senate Bill 261 (Stern, Henry), Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial risk (Chaptered) Stern.Henry Climate Change Chaptered
2021-2022 SB 423 2021 - Senate Bill 423 (Stern, Henry), Firm Zero-Carbon Resources (Chaptered)Stern.Henry Energy Chaptered
2021-2022 SB 533 2021 - Senate Bill 533 (Stern, Henry), Wildfire Mitigation Plans: Deenergization Events (Chaptered)Stern.Henry Energy Chaptered
2021-2022 SB 551 2021 - Senate Bill 551 (Stern, Henry), California Zero-Emission Vehicle Authority (Dead)Stern.Henry Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure Dead
2021-2022 SB 582 2022 - Senate Bill 582 (Stern, Henry), Climate Emergency Mitigation, Safe Restoration, and Just Resilience Act of 2021. (Dead) Stern.Henry Climate Change Dead
2021-2022 SB 582 2021 - Senate Bill 582 (Stern, Henry), Climate Emergency Mitigation, Safe Restoration, and Just Resilience Act of 2021 (2-Year)Stern.Henry Climate Change 2-year
2019-2020 SB 633 2020 - Senate Bill 633 (Stern, Henry), California Electric Vehicle Authority (Dead)Stern.Henry Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure Dead
2023-2024 SB 720 2023 – Senate Bill 720 (Stern, Henry), Aviation: airports: report: emissions: GO-Biz (2-Year) Stern.Henry Climate Change 2-year
2023-2024 SB 781 2023 – Senate Bill 781 (Stern, Henry), Methane emissions: natural gas producing low methane emissions (Dead)Stern.Henry Short-lived Climate Pollutants Dead
2023-2024 SB 849 2023 – Senate Bill 849 (Stern, Henry), Air pollution: emissions from ports (2-Year)Stern.Henry Freight Transportation and Ports 2-year
2019-2020 SB 1258 2020 - Senate Bill 1258 (Stern, Henry), California Climate Technology and Infrastructure Financing Act (Dead)Stern.Henry Climate Change Dead
2019-2020 SB 1348 2020 - Senate Bill 1348 (Stern, Henry), Wildfire Prevention (Dead)Stern.Henry Forestry and Wildfire Prevention, Air Quality and Emissions, Climate Change Dead
2019-2020 SB 1362 2020 - Senate Bill 1362 (Stern, Henry), Carbon Neutrality Comprehensive Strategy (Dead)Stern.Henry Climate Change Dead
2021-2022 SB 1486 2022 - Senate Bill 1486 (Stern, Henry Natural Gas: Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility: Reliability. (Dead) Stern.Henry Fuels Dead

If you have any questions concerning CARB-related legislation, contact the Legislative Office at (916) 322-2896.