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 939 2025 – Assembly Bill 939 (Schultz, Nick), The Safe, Sustainable, Traffic-Reducing Transportation Bond Act of 2026 (2-Year)Schultz.Nick Incentives, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing, Freight Transportation and Ports, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure 2-year
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 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 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 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 1111 2025 – Assembly Bill 1111 (Soria, Esmeralda), Pupil Transportation: Schoolbuses: Zero-Emission Vehicles: Scrapping (Dead)Soria.Esmeralda Incentives, Motor Vehicles, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure Dead
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 272 2025 – Assembly Bill 272 (Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia), Heavy-Duty Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program (2-Year)Aguiar-Curry.Cecilia Incentives, Freight Transportation and Ports, Motor Vehicles 2-year
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 127 2025 – Senate Bill 127 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), Climate Change (Chaptered)Committee on Budget Budget, Incentives, Enforcement and Penalties Chaptered
2025-2026 AB 100 2025 – Assembly Bill 100 (Gabriel, Jesse), Budget Act of 2025 (Chaptered)Gabriel.Jesse Budget, Incentives Chaptered
2025-2026 SB 752 2025 – Senate Bill 752 (Richardson, Laura) Sales and use taxes: exemptions: California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project: Transit Buses (Dead)Richardson.Laura Incentives Dead
2025-2026 SB 69 2025 – Senate Bill 69 (McNerney, Jerry), Artificial Intelligence Program: Attorney General (Dead)McNerney.Jerry Incentives, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure Dead
2025-2026 AB 674 2025 – Assembly Bill 674 (Connolly, Damon), Clean Cars 4 All Program (Dead)Connolly.Damon Incentives, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure, Alternative Mobility Dead
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 1267 2024 – Assembly Bill 1267 (Ting, Phil), Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive Programs: Gasoline Superusers (Dead) Ting.Philip Incentives, Motor Vehicles, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure Dead
2023-2024 AB 2678 2024 - Assembly Bill 2678 (Wallis, Greg), Vehicles: High-occupancy Vehicle Lanes (Chaptered)Wallis.Greg Incentives, Motor Vehicles, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing Chaptered
2023-2024 AB 1267 2023 – Assembly Bill 1267 (Ting, Phil), Zero-emission vehicle incentive programs: gasoline superusers (2-Year) Ting.Philip Incentives, Motor Vehicles, Low and Zero Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure 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 542 2021 - Senate Bill 542 (Limón, Monique), Sales and Use Taxes: Exemption: Medium- or Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Trucks (2-Year)Limón.Monique Incentives 2-year

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