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
2023-2024 AB 530 2023 – Assembly Bill 530 (Boerner, Tasha), Vehicles: electric bicycles (2-Year)Boerner Horvath.Tasha Short-lived Climate Pollutants 2-year
2023-2024 AB 573 2023 – Assembly Bill 573 (Garcia, Eduardo), Organic waste: meeting recovered organic waste product procurement targets (Dead)Garcia.Eduardo Short-lived Climate Pollutants Dead
2023-2024 AB 625 2023 – Assembly Bill 625 (Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia), Forest biomass: management: emissions: energy (Dead)Aguiar-Curry.Cecilia Energy, Forestry and Wildfire Prevention, Natural and Working Lands, Short-lived Climate Pollutants Dead
2023-2024 AB 780 2023 – Assembly Bill 780 (Alvarado-Gil), Department of Food and Agriculture: oversight: commercial feed, feed additives, and drugs (Chaptered)Alvarado-Gil Short-lived Climate Pollutants, Natural and Working Lands Chaptered
2023-2024 AB 1159 2023 – Assembly Bill 1159 (Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia), California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: natural and working lands: market-based compliance mechanisms (Chaptered)Aguiar-Curry.Cecilia Climate Change, Short-lived Climate Pollutants, Natural and Working Lands Chaptered
2023-2024 AB 1534 2023 – Assembly Bill 1534 (Irwin, Jacqui), Methane emissions: municipal solid waste landfills: remote sensing data (Dead)Irwin.Jacqui Climate Change, Short-lived Climate Pollutants Dead
2023-2024 AB 1705 2023 – Assembly Bill 1705 (McKinnor, Tina), Solid waste facilities: state policy goals (2-Year)McKinnor.Tina Toxics and Hazardous Waste, Energy, Short-lived Climate Pollutants 2-year
2023-2024 SB 613 2023 – Senate Bill 613 (Seyarto, Kelly), Organic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions: low-population waiver (Chaptered)Seyarto.Kelly Short-lived Climate Pollutants Chaptered
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

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