California Air Resources Board

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Enacts the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15.995 billion to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean energy, and workforce development programs. As related to CARB, the bond allocates $125 million to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, who would consult with CARB and California Natural Resources Agency to fund projects that provide long-term capital infrastructure to convert forest and other vegetative waste removed for wildfire mitigation to uses that maximize reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions, provide local air quality benefits, and increase local community resilience against climate change impacts. This bill also allocates $500 million to the California Energy Commission, in coordination with CARB and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, for grants to assist in obtaining, or as a match fund for, federal grants related to regional hubs in the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Was not heard in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. 

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Increases the priority population minimum investment amounts from the California Climate Investments from 25% to 50% for disadvantaged communities and from 5% to 15% for low-income communities. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Commencing January 1, 2024, requires each transportation planning agency, when updating the regional transportation plan, to base the sustainable communities strategy (SCS) on population projections produced by the California Department of Finance and regional population forecasts used in determining applicable city and county regional housing needs, in consultation with each council of governments, and describe how to resolve differences in population projections. This bill also requires the annual Regional Housing Needs Assessment report that a city or county planning agency provides annually to the California Department of Housing and Community Development to include the progress of the city or county towards the recommended alignment of land use regulations with applicable SCS or alternative planning strategy. Was not heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Prohibits a local agency from approving the development or expansion of any qualifying logistics use, as defined, within 1,000 feet of sensitive receptors, as defined, except as provided. Authorizes a local agency to approve the development or expansion of a qualifying logistics under certain conditions, including, among other things, conducting a cumulative analysis of the air quality impacts of the warehouse development project, as specified. The bill also requires a local agency, upon receipt of an application for a warehouse development project, to take certain actions. Reconsideration granted after failing passage in the Assembly Committee for Local Government.

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Authorizes the legislative bodies of local governments to jointly form a Reinvestment in Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Equitable California district (RISE district) in accordance with specified procedures. The bill requires the California Office of Planning and Research to develop standards for the formation of RISE districts no later than November 30, 2025, and provides for the establishment of a governing board of a RISE district with representatives of each participating local government, raising revenue to support RISE, and a revolving loan fund. Was not heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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As introduced, would have required monitoring and analysis of landfill methane by CARB. Amended to prohibit person under 12 years old from riding electric bicycles. 

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Would have suspended the California High-Speed Rail Authority appropriation for 2024–25 and 2025–26 fiscal years and transferred the money to the General Fund, to be available upon appropriation to augment funding for water conveyance, water storage infrastructure, and flood prevention and required a $2.4 billion loan from pre-2023–2024 FY Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund monies to the General Fund for the same purpose, among other things. Was not heard in the Assembly Committee on Transportation.

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Requires State agencies and departments to consider the use of more inclusive practices to advance equity and defines “equity” as addressing the disparities in opportunities and outcomes of underserved populations and empowering and meeting the unique needs of diverse and underserved populations, to ensure that communities facing the greatest inequities are not left behind. Moved to the inactive file in on the Senate Floor.

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Additionally authorizes investments in traffic signal synchronization as a component of a roadway improvement project requiring multiple signals, including, but not limited to, multimodal redevelopment projects, rail trail projects, urban renewal projects, or projects near transit facilities as eligible projects for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This bill also requires projects to continue to be designed and implemented to achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific emissions reduction targets and metrics to evaluate the project’s effect. Was not heard in the Assembly Transportation Committee. 

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Requires the California Transportation Plan to include a financial element, an analysis of how it will achieve certain principles, and funding benefits to disadvantaged communities, as specified, and requires the California Transportation Agency, California Department of Transportation, and California Transportation Commission to incorporate the specified goals related to the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure into program funding guidelines and planning processes. Ordered to the inactive file in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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