California Air Resources Board

Amends the Budget Act of 2026 to make additional appropriations for CARB, including funding for land use grants and the FARMER program.

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Makes appropriations for the support of State government for the 2026-27 fiscal year.

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Requires CARB and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to condition the inclusion of any vehicle model in an incentive program funded through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) or the Clean Fuel Reward program or the Clean Transportation Program on certain transparency requirements, as specified. CARB and CEC must post the aggregated data on their websites. The bill also requires CARB to annually reevaluate the cap on the purchase of unredeemed vouchers in the Clean Truck and Bus Vouchers program (HVIP). Lastly, it would require CARB, in coordination with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) and the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, to report on alternative financing opportunities that encourage deployment of zero-emission (ZE) medium and heavy-duty vehicles and retrofitting of internal combustion trucks to ZE to decrease costs by January 1, 2028, as specified.

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Requires, beginning July 1, 2028, battery suppliers and remanufacturers to equip new vehicle traction batteries or remanufactured batteries sold in the State with a permanent label or replacement label, respectively, containing specified information, as provided. The bill requires CARB to adopt regulations no later than July 1, 2031, to implement and enforce this bill as well as create a tiered fee schedule to collect fees from the battery suppliers to cover implementation costs.

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Temporarily increases allowable axle weight limits for zero-emission transit buses purchased under certain procurement solicitations.

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This bill requires that, if a solid waste landfill experiences a subsurface elevated temperature event (subsurface temperature exceeds 131°F), the landfill operators must notify and provide, when asked, subsurface gas and waste temperature data to CARB and other relevant agencies. This bill also allows the Secretary for Environmental Protection to create a multiagency coordination group to investigate and recommend ways to resolve a landfill’s subsurface elevated temperature event. If asked by this group, the owner or operator of the landfill experiencing the event must submit and carry out an air monitoring and sampling plan within a specified time limit. Owners or operators of a landfill must also reimburse the coordination group monthly for its reasonable and necessary operating costs. Owners and operators would also pay up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per day if they fail to comply with requests by the group.

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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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