California Air Resources Board

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Requires any commercial feed, feed additive, or drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration that is fed to livestock to be under the oversight of the California Department of Agriculture as the primary State regulatory agency, including, but not limited to, products that make environmental and health claims. This provision explicitly does not limit the CARB’s authority in Section 39730.7 of the Health and Safety Code.

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Requires the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to convene relevant State agencies to assess the procurement and implementation of data, modeling, and analytic software tools to support various State goals, and requires the CTC to develop, by July 1, 2025, a proposal to procure and a process to provide access to data, modeling, and analytic software tools, among other provisions. As a condition of receiving a grant of funds or access to data, modeling, and analytic software tools provided by the commission, a State or local agency shall submit a report by August 1, 2027, to the CTC about the use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools for sustainable transportation, safety, active transportation planning, equity, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, or climate change-related program.

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Extends the validity of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments' (SACOG) Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) for approximately two years, to December 31, 2025, for most purposes, except for projects without federal discretionary funding applying for the Solution for Congested Corridors Program and other specified State programs that require consistency with an SCS. Also requires SACOG to include an equity component in its SCS and by July 1, 2026, and biennially thereafter, to report on the regional implementation of its most recently adopted SCS in a publicly available format on its internet website, as specified.

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Provides that any executed contract for the purchase of goods or services by a State or local agency, including the price and terms of payment, is a public record subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act. The bill provides that any provision in a written agreement that purports to exclude a contract, as specified above, from disclosure by agreeing to consider it a confidential or proprietary record of the vendor is void and unenforceable as a matter of law.

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This bill revises, and repeals on January 1, 2026, certain teleconference requirements under the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Bagley-Keene), which requires all meetings of a State body be open and public. The bill, among other things, authorizes a State body to hold an open meeting by teleconference, provided that a majority of the members of the State body are physically present at the same teleconference location. The bill allows additional members of the State body in excess of a majority of the members to attend and participate in the meeting from a remote location, which is not required to be accessible to the public and disclosed in the notice and agenda.

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Requires a State agency to post on its website any report required or requested by law, or identified in the Legislative Analyst Office’s Supplemental Report of the Budget Act, that the State agency submits to a committee of the Legislature or to the Members of either house of the Legislature. The bill requires Legislative Counsel to make publicly available a link to the list of State and local agency reports submitted by State and local agencies to a committee of the Legislature or to the Members of either house of the Legislature generally.

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Requires a State agency to notify the Secretary of State when records are digitized, regardless of whether this is performed by a third-party vendor. The bill requires the Records Management Coordinator of a State agency to notify the Secretary of State if a record is lost or destroyed.

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Requires the owner or operator of a wastewater treatment facility, on or before January 1, 2027, to install, operate, and maintain a fence-line monitoring system that is approved by the appropriate air quality management district. The bill requires that the wastewater treatment-related fence-line monitoring system include equipment capable of measuring pollutants of concern, including hydrogen sulfide, emitted to the atmosphere from wastewater treatment processes.

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Is a general government budget trailer bill to the Budget Act of 2023 that makes changes to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act. The bill authorizes State bodies to hold public meetings, subject to specified notice and accessibility requirements, through teleconferencing and making public meetings accessible telephonically or otherwise electronically to the public, as specified. The bill provides that a State body need not make available any physical location from which members of the public may observe the meeting and offer public comment. These Bagley-Keene provisions sunset on December 31, 2023.

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Authorizes a State agency administering a grant program or contract to provide advance payment to a recipient non-profit that qualifies under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. When allowing advance payment, the State agency must prioritize grant recipients and projects serving disadvantaged, low income, and under-resourced communities or organizations, and ensure the advance payment does not exceed 25 percent, although the State agency may exceed this cap. The bill allows grant recipients to provide moneys from the advance payment to subrecipients. Additionally, the bill requires the grant recipient to meet specified minimum requirements and allows the Department of Finance  to perform an advance payment audit.

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