California Air Resources Board

Prohibits a public entity that owns diesel-powered locomotives and other on-track equipment from selling, donating, or otherwise transferring that equipment for continued use after it is decommissioned. A public entity is exempt from this prohibition if the public entity authorizes the transaction in a public hearing and either the equipment is Tier 2 or cleaner, produces emissions equivalent to Tier 2 or cleaner equipment, or the diesel engine is removed from the equipment.

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Requires the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) department to complete, by June 30, 2027, their mandated plan with recommendations and guidelines for counties to use in the case of a significant air quality event caused by wildfires or other sources. The bill requires the county-specific plan, which counties are required to develop to address all recommendations and guidelines in the CDPH plan, to incorporate a process to conduct outreach and communicate to the public and with key stakeholders specified information about the plan.

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Requires that a housing development project within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development (TOD) stop, be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the development complies with applicable requirements. Among these requirements, the bill requires a project to include at least 5 dwelling units and establish requirements concerning height limits, density, and residential floor area ratio in accordance with a development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops. The bill provides that a local government that denies a project meeting the requirements of these provisions located in a high-resource area, as defined, would be presumed in violation of the Housing Accountability Act and immediately liable for penalties, beginning on January 1, 2027. These provisions do not apply to a local agency until July 1, 2026, or within unincorporated areas of counties until the 7th regional housing needs allocation cycle. The bill specifies that a development proposed pursuant to these provisions is eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval pursuant to specified law, except that the bill exempts a project under these provisions from specified requirements and specifies that the project is required to comply with certain affordability requirements, under that law.

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Authorizes the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to issue an emergency vehicle permit to any vehicle owned by a county, city, or city and county office of emergency services only while that vehicle is being used by a public employee in responding to any disaster.

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Requires State or local agencies that directly or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to expand the categories to include major Middle Eastern or North African groups in any provided form that offers respondents the option of selecting one or more ethnic or racial designations. The aggregated data can be shared with the public, but not data that would permit identification of individuals.

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Clarifies that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse is required to comply with building standards in effect at the time that the building permit is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. The bill revises the definition of “logistics use” and instead defines “logistics use development” for these purposes to mean a building that is primarily used as a warehouse for the movement or the storage of cargo, goods, or products that are moved to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or product. The bill makes various other technical and conforming changes to the provisions governing logistics use development.

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Expands the Permit Streamlining Act, limits certain Coastal Commission housing appeals, accelerates coastal permitting, and makes permanent key provisions of the Housing Accountability Act and Housing Crisis Act. The bill also freezes new residential building standards through 2031 with exceptions for emergency, fire, and conservation-related updates. Establishes a revolving fund to reinvest equity from stabilized affordable housing into new developments through the Affordable Housing Excess Equity Program, and by establishing a statewide CEQA Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Mitigation Bank to provide an optional compliance tool to allow developers to more effectively fulfill their existing CEQA mitigation obligations by funding location-efficient affordable housing and infrastructure projects.

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Streamlines CEQA review for housing development projects that meet all but one eligibility criteria for specified CEQA exemptions. The bill also exempts from CEQA new agricultural employee housing projects, wildfire risk reduction projects, the State's climate adaptation strategy, day care centers, rural health clinics, food banks, advanced manufacturing facilities, high speed rail and passenger rail stations, certain community water system projects, and makes additional changes to existing CEQA exemptions. It also requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to map the eligible urban infill sites within every urbanized area or urban cluster in the state by July 1, 2027. The bill also excludes staff notes and internal agency communications from the administrative record that a lead agency must compile under CEQA when requested by a CEQA plaintiff or petitioner in an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul certain acts or decisions of a public agency, with specified exceptions.

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Authorizes CARB to impose a fee under the Transport Refrigeration Unit Regulation.

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Appropriates $132 million from the Hino Motors Ltd. Settlement to the Heavy-Duty Vehicle Incentive Program and authorizes CARB to adopt fees to cover reasonable costs for deficiencies of off-road or nonvehicular engines and equipment, aftermarket parts, and emissions control components sold in the State.

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