California Air Resources Board

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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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Encourages the State and its agencies to consult on a government-to-government basis with federally recognized, and consult with nonfederally recognized tribes and tribal organizations, in order to allow tribal officials the opportunity to provide meaningful input in the development of policies, processes, programs, and projects that have tribal implications. The bill requires designated State officials to complete by January 1, 2025 specified training that includes training elements on tribal sovereignty, jurisdiction, form, and sacred sites.

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Allows a private, nonprofit corporation that provides services to zero-emission transportation systems or facilities, including, but not limited to, finance, design, construction, operation, or maintenance, to enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency to facilitate the development, construction, and operation of zero-emission transportation systems or facilities that lower GHGs, reduce vehicle congestion and VMT, and improve public transit connections. Requires that a board of directors govern the joint agency formed, board membership determined by the participating public agencies, and prohibits the representation of corporations on the board from exceeding 50 percent. The bill will be repealed on January 1, 2032.

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Prohibits by January 1 of a given year, the sale or distribution of bulk hydrofluorocarbon gases (HFCs) or bulk blends containing HFCs that exceed the specified global warming potential (GWP): shall not exceed 2,200 GWP by 2025; 1,500 GWP by 2030; and 750 GWP by 2033; unless the HFCs are reclaimed or for use in metered dose inhalers, as specified. This bill also prohibits the State from using refrigerants with a GWP greater than 750 that are not reclaimed to service existing equipment owned or operated by the State starting January 1, 2025. This bill also requires CARB to post an assessment on its internet website by 2025 specifying how to transition the State’s economy to ultra-low GWP or no-GWP alternatives no later than 2035. To achieve this transition, the bill requires CARB to initiate a rulemaking requiring low- and ultra-low GWP alternatives in all HFC sectors where it is practicable for entities in the sector to comply. The bill also states penalties for violations, among other provisions.

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Requires the California Transportation Commission to develop a needs assessment of the cost to operate, maintain, and provide for the future growth and resiliency of the State and local transportation system.

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