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 AB 91 2025 – Assembly Bill 91 (Harabedian, John), State and Local Agencies: Demographic Data (Chaptered)Harabedian.John Administrative Procedures, Environmental Justice Chaptered
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 AB 766 2025 – Assembly Bill 766 (Sharp-Collins, LaShae), State Agencies and Departments: Strategic Plans: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Vetoed)Sharp-Collins.LaShae Administrative Procedures, Environmental Justice Vetoed
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 SB 77 2025 – Senate Bill 77 (Grove, Shannon), State Vehicle Fleet: Light-Duty Vehicles: Raw Materials: Child Labor (Dead)Grove.Shannon Environmental Justice, Motor Vehicles Dead
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 SB 526 2025 – Senate Bill 526 (Menjivar, Caroline), South Coast Air Quality Management District: Air Quality (2-Year)Menjivar.Caroline Enforcement and Penalties, Environmental Justice, Local Air Districts, Air Quality and Emissions 2-year
2025-2026 SB 318 2025 - SB 318 (Becker, Josh), Air Pollution: Stationary Sources: Best Available Control Technology (Dead)Becker.Josh Air Quality and Emissions, Environmental Justice, Local Air Districts Dead
2025-2026 AB 1243 2025 – Assembly Bill 1243 (Addis, Dawn), Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 (2-Year) Addis.Dawn Climate Change, Environmental Justice 2-year
2025-2026 SB 684 2025 – Senate Bill 684 (Menjivar, Caroline), Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 (2-Year) Menjivar.Caroline Climate Change, Environmental Justice 2-year
2025-2026 AB 1352 2025 - Assembly Bill 1352 (Solache, Jose Luis), Community Air Protection Programs: Financial Support (2-Year)Solache.Jose Environmental Justice, Air Quality and Emissions 2-year
2025-2026 AB 352 2025 - Senate Bill 352 (Reyes, Eloise), Department of Justice: Bureau of Environmental Justice: Community Air Monitoring (Chaptered)Reyes.Eloise Gomez Air Quality and Emissions, Environmental Justice Chaptered
2025-2026 AB 28 2025 - Assembly Bill 28 (Schiavo, Pilar), Solid Waste Landfills: Subsurface Temperatures (2-Year)Schiavo.Pilar Waste Management, Environmental Justice, Short-lived Climate Pollutants, Air Quality and Emissions 2-year
2023-2024 AB 2796 2024 – Assembly Bill 2796 (Alvarez, David), Equitable Access to Zero-Emissions Vehicles Fund (Dead)Alvarez.David Environmental Justice, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure, Motor Vehicles, Incentives Dead
2023-2024 AB 2535 2024 – Assembly Bill 2535 (Bonta, Mia), Trade Corridor Enhancement Program (Dead)Bonta.Mia Freight Transportation and Ports, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure, Environmental Justice Dead
2023-2024 AB 1525 2023 – Assembly Bill 1525 (Bonta, Mia), Transportation projects: priority populations (Dead)Bonta.Mia Environmental Justice, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing 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
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 923 2022 – Assembly Bill 923 (Ramos, James), Government-to-Government Consultation Act: State-Tribal Consultation: Training (Chaptered)Ramos.James Administrative Procedures, Environmental Justice Chaptered
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

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