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.

SessionBill NumberBill TitleAuthor CategoryStatus
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 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
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 849 2023 – Senate Bill 849 (Stern, Henry), Air pollution: emissions from ports (2-Year)Stern.Henry Freight Transportation and Ports 2-year

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