California Air Resources Board

Summary

Extends the repeal date of January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2030, regarding an alternative set of teleconferencing provisions for State bodies under the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act. The bill similarly extends the repeal date regarding an alternative set of teleconferencing provisions for multimember State advisory bodies under the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act.

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Requires, subject to available funding, air monitoring initiated in a community under the Community Air Protection Program to continue at least five years, requires CARB to update and formally approve the “monitoring plan” by July 1, 2026, and requires CARB, in consultation with air districts, to report on progress on the implementation of community air monitoring, as specified, by March 1, 2027, and annually thereafter to appropriate subcommittees of the budget committee of each house of the Legislature. The bill also states the existence of the Bureau of Environmental Justice within California’s Department of Justice.

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Makes various changes related to the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) requirement, in consultation with the council of governments (COG), to determine the existing and projected housing need in each region and makes changes to how the transportation and job projections in a region′s sustainable communities strategy must be incorporated into each COG′s final regional housing needs allocation plan.

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Provides that the allowable expenditure categories for revenues from a tax imposed by the Sacramento Transportation Authority (STA) include the construction, modernization, and improvement of infrastructure, as defined, that supports infill or transit-oriented development in areas nominated by local governments, and included in regionally adopted plans that advance state greenhouse gas emissions reduction objectives, as specified. The bill also authorizes STA to impose a transactions and use tax under the act in a geographic area that comprises less than the total area of the County of Sacramento, subject to the approval of voters within that area and other specified requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. 

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Exempts an agricultural crop preparation service (ACPS) from the Department of Recycling and Resource Recovery’s (CalRecycle) regulations for the Edible Food Rescue Program for Commercial Edible Food Generators (CCR Tit.14, Div. 7, Chap. 12, Art. 10) promulgated under the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy if the ACPS demonstrates to CalRecycle, in a form and manner developed by CalRecycle, that it has not disposed of organic waste in a landfill on or after January 1, 2016.

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Declares it is the established policy of the State that all dwelling units be able to attain and maintain a safe maximum indoor temperature and directs specified State agencies, including CARB, to consider this policy when carrying out its activities. The bill provides that it does not expand any obligation of the State to provide a safe maximum indoor temperature or require the expenditure of additional resources to develop infrastructure beyond the obligations that exist under current program requirements.

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Requires the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to oversee a sustainable agriculture program to provide research, technical assistance, and incentive grants to promote agricultural practices that support climate resilience for farms and ranches and the well-being of ecosystems, air quality, and biodiversity. The bill also renames the Scientific Advisory Panel on Environmental Farming to the Scientific Advisory Panel on Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture (Panel) for the purpose of providing advice to the CDFA Secretary on the implementation of research, incentive, and technical assistance grant programs for sustainable agriculture. This bill also expands the Panel from nine members to eleven members to add members of the public that represent scientific expertise in sustainable agriculture and members of state agencies that represent expertise in programs and policies related to agriculture.

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Urgency bill enacting various policies related to electrical corporations, including authorizing public financing and ownership of electric transmission infrastructure; addressing wildfire mitigation spending and financing; liability of wildfire property claims; permitting of clean energy projects; transparency of electrical corporations’ return on equity; enforcement of timeliness of energization projects; prohibitions on large electrical corporations from including in their equity rate base an additional $6 billion of wildfire mitigation capital expenditures.

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Extends the current January 1, 2026, sunset date for the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority’s sales and use tax exclusion program to January 1, 2028, adds fusion energy as an eligible alternative source, and modifies the stated purpose of the program to promote high-quality jobs and ensure that California communities and workers benefit from projects receiving financial assistance under the program.

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Requires the  Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) to develop strategies to reduce barriers and increase support for stewardship of conserved lands and collaborate with stakeholders, California Native American tribes, and relevant state agencies to prepare a section on stewardship as part of the 2027 annual report on progress made toward achieving the 30x30 goal, which the bill requires to include, among other things, recommendations to increase and improve stewardship of 30x30 lands, including innovative ways to reduce barriers and increase federal, state, and local support for stewardship, as specified. The bill would require the update to be posted on the agency’s internet website. 

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