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.

Session Sort ascending Bill NumberBill TitleAuthor CategoryStatus
2025-2026 AB 1244 2025 – Assembly Bill 1244 (Wicks, Buffy), California Environmental Quality Act: Transportation Impact Mitigation: Transit-oriented Development Implementation Program (2-Year)Wicks.Buffy CEQA, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing 2-year
2025-2026 SB 79 2025 – Senate Bill 79 (Wiener, Scott), Housing Development: Transit-oriented Development (Chaptered)Wiener.Scott CEQA, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing Chaptered
2025-2026 SB 71 2025 – Senate Bill 71 (Weiner, Scott), California Environmental Quality Act: Exemptions: Transit Projects (Chaptered)Wiener.Scott CEQA, Public Transit, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing Chaptered
2025-2026 SB 131 2025 – Senate Bill 131 (Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), Public Resources (Chaptered)Committee on Budget CEQA, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing, Miscellaneous Chaptered
2025-2026 SB 231 2025 – Senate Bill 231 (Seyarto, Kelly), California Environmental Quality Act: The Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: Technical Advisory (Dead)Seyarto.Kelly CEQA, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing Dead
2025-2026 AB 1226 2025 – Assembly Bill 1226 (Ellis, Stan), Air Quality: Wildland Vegetation Management Burning: Permits: Exemption (2-Year)Ellis.Stan Forestry and Wildfire Prevention, Air Quality and Emissions 2-year
2025-2026 AB 687 2025 – Assembly Bill 687 (Patterson, Joe), Forestry: Timber Operations: Maintenance of Timberlands for Fuels Reduction (2-Year)Patterson.Joe Forestry and Wildfire Prevention, CEQA 2-year
2025-2026 AB 513 2025 – Assembly Bill 513 (Gonzalez, Jeff), California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Scoping Plan (2-Year) Gonzalez.Jeff Climate Change, Forestry and Wildfire Prevention 2-year
2025-2026 ABX1 13 2025 – Assembly Bill X1 13 (Gonzalez, Jeff), California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Scoping Plan (Dead) Gonzalez.Jeff Climate Change, Forestry and Wildfire Prevention Dead
2023-2024 SB 310 2023 – Senate Bill 310 (Dodd, Bill), Prescribed Fire: Cultural Burns (2-Year) Dodd.Bill Air Quality and Emissions, Environmental Justice, Forestry and Wildfire Prevention, Local Air Districts 2-year
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
2021-2022 SB 44 2021 - Senate Bill 44 (Allen, Ben), California Environmental Quality Act: Streamlined Judicial Review: Environmental Leadership Transit Projects (Chaptered)Allen.Ben CEQA, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing Chaptered
2021-2022 SB 1410 2022 - SB 1410 (Caballero, Anna), California Environmental Quality Act: Transportation Impacts (Dead)Caballero.Anna CEQA, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing Dead
2021-2022 AB 2479 2022 - Assembly Bill 2479 (Wood, Jim), Forest Restoration and Protection: Wildfire Prevention (Dead)Wood.Jim Air Quality and Emissions, Climate Change, Forestry and Wildfire Prevention Dead
2019-2020 SB 995 2020 - Senate Bill 995 (Atkins, Toni), Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011: Extension and Housing Projects (Dead)Atkins.Toni Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing, CEQA Dead

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