California Air Resources Board

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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Makes appropriations for regional Clean Cars 4 All programs and Community Air Protection Programs.

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Makes appropriations for the support of the State government for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

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Makes appropriations for the support of the State government for the 2025-26 fiscal year including Includes an appropriation for $19.8M to regional Clean Cars 4 All programs.

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Establishes a unit within the Legislative Counsel Bureau to provide advice and investigation services related to climate change policies and allocates Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) moneys to specified funds and continuously appropriates certain amount of moneys in the fund for certain purposes. This bill also requires CARB to conduct a study and report to the Legislature evaluating and making recommendations on the use of offsets no later than December 31, 2026 and by January 1, 2029, update all existing compliance offset protocols to reflect the best available science. This bill also requires CARB to evaluate all compliance offset protocols and consider whether updates are necessary by January 1, 2034, and every 5 years thereafter.

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