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.

34 bills found for
SessionBill NumberBill TitleAuthor CategoryStatus
2021-2022 AB 2965 2022 - AB 2965 (Committee on Natural Resources) California Environmental Quality Act: Administrative and Judicial Procedures (Chaptered)Assembly Natural Resources Committee CEQA, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing, Climate Change Chaptered
2021-2022 AB 2966 2022 - Assembly Bill 2966 (Assembly Natural Resources Committee), Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: Conservation Easements: Forest Lands: California Conservation Corps. (Chaptered)Assembly Natural Resources Committee Climate Change Chaptered
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 84 2023 – Senate Bill 84 (Gonzalez, Lena), Air quality programs: funding (Dead) Gonzalez.Lena Incentives, Air Quality and Emissions Dead
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 338 2021 - Senate Bill 338 (Gonzalez, Lena), Joint and Several Liability of Port Drayage Motor Carrier Customers: Health and Safety Violations: Prior Offenders: Liability Owed to the State (Chaptered)Gonzalez.Lena Enforcement and Penalties Chaptered
2021-2022 SB 342 2022 – Senate Bill 342 (Gonzalez, Lena), South Coast Air Quality Management District: Environmental Justice Board Membership (Dead)Gonzalez.Lena Administrative Procedures, Environmental Justice, Local Air Districts Dead
2021-2022 SB 423 2021 - Senate Bill 423 (Stern, Henry), Firm Zero-Carbon Resources (Chaptered)Stern.Henry Energy Chaptered
2023-2024 SB 507 2023 – Senate Bill 507 (Gonzalez, Lena), Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infrastructure: Assessments (Dead)Gonzalez.Lena Environmental Justice, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure Dead
2023-2024 SB 517 2023 – Senate Bill 517 (Gonzalez, Lena), Economic development: movement of freight (2-Year) Gonzalez.Lena Freight Transportation and Ports 2-year
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
2021-2022 SB 671 2021 - Senate Bill 671 (Gonzalez, Lena), Transportation: Clean Freight Corridor Efficiency Assessment (Chaptered)Gonzalez.Lena Climate Change, Air Quality and Emissions, Freight Transportation and Ports Chaptered
2023-2024 SB 720 2023 – Senate Bill 720 (Stern, Henry), Aviation: airports: report: emissions: GO-Biz (2-Year) Stern.Henry Climate Change 2-year
2021-2022 SB 726 2022 - Senate Bill 726 (Gonzalez, Lena), Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Technologies: Sustainable Transportation (Dead)Gonzalez.Lena Climate Change, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing Dead
2021-2022 SB 726 2021 - Senate Bill 726 (Gonzalez, Lena), Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Technologies: Sustainable Transportation (2-Year)Gonzalez.Lena Climate Change 2-year
2021-2022 SB 751 2021 - Senate Bill 751 (Gonzalez, Lena), Environmental Justice (2-Year)Gonzalez.Lena Environmental Justice 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
2021-2022 SB 1087 2022 - Senate Bill 1087 (Gonzalez, Lena), Vehicles: Catalytic Converters (Chaptered)Gonzalez.Lena Motor Vehicles Chaptered
2021-2022 SB 1104 2022 - Senate Bill 1104 (Gonzalez, Lena), Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development: Office of Freight (Dead) Gonzalez.Lena Air Quality and Emissions, Climate Change, Freight Transportation and Ports Dead
2021-2022 SB 1137 2022 - Senate Bill 1137 (Gonzalez, Lena), Oil And Gas: Operations: Location Restrictions: Notice Of Intention: Health Protection Zone: Sensitive Receptors. (Chaptered) Gonzalez.Lena Fuels Chaptered
2021-2022 SB 1251 2022 - Senate Bill 1251 (Gonzalez, Lena), GO-Biz: Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development Office: Zero-Emission Vehicle Equity Advocate (Chaptered)Gonzalez.Lena Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure, Environmental Justice Chaptered
2019-2020 SB 1258 2020 - Senate Bill 1258 (Stern, Henry), California Climate Technology and Infrastructure Financing Act (Dead)Stern.Henry Climate Change Dead

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