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.

13 bills found for '2025, 2026,'
SessionBill NumberBill TitleAuthor CategoryStatus
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
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 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 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 1666 2026 - Assembly Bill 1666 (Rogers), Forest management: biomass innovation parks: wood products (Vetoed)Rogers Forestry and Wildfire Prevention, Energy, Natural and Working Lands, Climate Change Vetoed
2025-2026 AB 1891 2026 - Assembly Bill 1891 (Connolly, Damon), Forestry: Beneficial Fire Capacity Program (Vetoed)Connolly.Damon Forestry and Wildfire Prevention Vetoed
2025-2026 AB 2513 2026 Assembly Bill 2513 (Petrie-Norris, Cottie), Wildfire: Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program: local assistance grant program: regional landscape grants (Chaptered)Petrie-Norris.Cottie Forestry and Wildfire Prevention Chaptered
2025-2026 SB 899 2026 – SB 899 (Grove, Shannon), Fire prevention: Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force: wildfire smoke (Dead)Grove.Shannon Forestry and Wildfire Prevention, Toxics and Hazardous Waste, Short-lived Climate Pollutants, Natural and Working Lands Dead
2025-2026 SB 973 2026 - SB 973 (Becker, Josh), Wildfire County Coordinator Program (Chaptered)Becker.Josh Forestry and Wildfire Prevention Chaptered
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 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
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

Additional Information

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