California Air Resources Board

Summary

Exempts rental and leasing entities from labor requirements imposed on applicable fleet purchasers that participate in CARB’s heavy-duty vehicle incentive programs. The bill also clarifies that lessees must still comply with relevant labor laws in order to participate in the aforementioned incentive programs.

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Requires a court to require a certificate of compliance for a violation of the noise limit requirements mentioned for mufflers or exhaust systems for specified vehicles. The bill requires the court to utilize notification procedures and if a certificate of compliance is not provided to the court within three months of the violation date, the bill requires the court to treat this failure as noncompliance and inform the Department of Motor Vehicles.

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Revises the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, also known as the Clean Transportation Program, to expand the purpose of the program to help reduce criteria air pollutants and air toxics, as well as, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, when developing and deploying innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types.

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Requires the Department of General Services and the Department of Transportation and their contractors to enter into a Labor Peace Agreement and adhere to High Road Jobs Standards, as defined, for contracts for zero-emission transit vehicles or electric vehicle supply equipment valued at $10,000,000 or more.

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Prohibits, beginning January 1, 2025, a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances, as defined.

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Revises the amount of compensation that a member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board may receive for attending a meeting of the board or attending a meeting while on official business of the district to an amount not to exceed $100 per meeting and $200 per day. The bill authorizes a member of the board to receive compensation for active transportation travel to one of these meetings. The bill caps member compensation at $6,000 per year.

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Requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to submit to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board a rulemaking proposal to consider revising the heat illness standard for employees and the wildfire smoke standard for farm workers for mandatory respiratory protective equipment.

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Requires a covered school, and requests the University of California (UC), to ensure that facilities have heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems that meet minimum ventilation rate requirements and to install filtration that achieves levels of 13 or higher for minimum efficiency reporting values. The bill requires the California Building Standards Commission and the Division of the State Architect to propose for adoption mandatory standards for carbon dioxide monitors in classrooms of a covered school and UC.

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Provides various methods by which an employer subject to the parking cash-out (PCO) law can calculate the cost of a parking space, aside from what is identified in a lease. The bill requires CARB, beginning January 1, 2024, to annually adjust specified amounts in the “Market Rate Cost of Parking” definition for inflation. The bill requires an employer to maintain appropriate evidence of its effort, or the parking offer it relied upon, as specified, to establish the market rate cost of parking for at least four years. If an employee receives a parking subsidy, the bill requires an employer to maintain the record of communication with the employee that the employee has been informed of the right to receive the cash equivalent of the parking subsidy.

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Authorizes the City of Needles to establish a pilot project to designate combined-use highways on roads in the city to link existing off-highway vehicle trails and to link off-highway vehicle recreational use areas with necessary service and lodging facilities.

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