California Air Resources Board

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Increases the compensation of members of local air district boards, as provided, and allows the boards to further increase compensation at an open regular meeting of the board, as specified.

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Requires CARB to establish the Small Agricultural Truck Fleet Assistance Program, or use an existing program, to provide technical assistance to owner-operators/owners of small agricultural fleets to support transition to cleaner trucks, with priority for near-zero emission or zero emission trucks.

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This bill requires CARB to authorize public agency utilities to purchase replacements for traditional utility-specialized vehicles that are at the end of life, as determined by CARB in consultation with public agency utilities, when needed to maintain reliable service and respond to major foreseeable events, including, but not limited to, severe weather, wildfires, natural disasters, and physical attacks, without regard to the model year of the vehicle being replaced. The bill also states that in determining the daily usage of a medium- or heavy-duty vehicle, a public agency utility may provide comprehensive usage data for a class of vehicles that does not exclusively rely on the lowest mileage reading and does not exclude the highest usage days.

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This bill requires the California Department of Insurance (CDI), on or before January 1 2025, in consultation with CARB to create a strategy, further specified in the bill, to address current and future insurance gaps for new heavy-duty truck technologies. Additionally, the bill requires CDI to collect specified insurance information related to heavy-duty trucks utilizing advanced technologies/alternate fuels.

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This bill requires, commencing January 1, 2035, 100% of all newly purchased or contracted schoolbuses of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to be zero-emission vehicles, where feasible. The bill authorizes local educational agencies, in order to comply with the aforementioned  requirement, to request a one-time extension for a term not to exceed 5 years if a local educational agency determines that the purchase or contracting of a zero-emission schoolbus is not feasible due to both terrain and route constraints, provided that certain conditions are met.

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This bill extends the sunset dates for various motor vehicle fees, which support the following incentive programs: the Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP); the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program (EFMP), the Consumer Assistance Program (CAP); and the Clean Transportation Program (CTP). CARB defers to the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) analysis on the impacts of this bill on the CTP program and defers to the Bureau of Automotive Repairs (BAR) for the impact to the CAP program. CARB’s analysis will focus on AQIP and EFMP.

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Makes several operational and technical changes to last year's AB 2446 (Holden, Chapter 352, Statutes of 2022) that requires CARB to establish a framework and strategy for embodied carbon in building materials to make the program workable. The bill also authorizes, instead of requires, CARB to establish an embodied carbon trading system.

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Authorizes the CEC to set a maximum gross gasoline refining margin, petition a court to enjoin a refiner from exceeding the gross margin, and impose a civil penalty on a refiner for exceeding the gross margin. The bill requires CEC and CARB, by December 31, 2024, to prepare a Transportation Fuel Plan. The plan will be required to include how to ensure that the supply of petroleum and alternative transportation fuels is affordable, reliable, equitable, and adequate to meet the demand for those transportation fuels described in the most current scoping plan approved by the CARB.

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Requires the Department of Transportation to establish the Advance Air Mobility and Aviation Electrification Advisory Panel (Advisor Panel) to assess infrastructure readiness, prepare a three-year workplan, and assess pathways to equity of access for advanced air mobility. The bill requires the Department of Transportation to appoint members of the panel, including representatives from CARB, the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, specified industry sectors, and local governments. The bill requires the Department of Transportation to issue a report by January 1, 2025, to the Legislature on infrastructure feasibility and the three-year workplan. The bill's provisions sunset January 1, 2029.

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This bill requires corporations with total annual revenues over $500 million and operating in California, beginning December 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, to develop a report on its climate-related financial risks and submit them to a climate reporting organization contracted by CARB, unless it already develops a similar report, as specified. The bill requires the climate reporting organization to prepare a public report that reviews the disclosure reports, an analysis of systemic and sector-wide climate-related financial risks, and identification of inadequate reports. The bill requires CARB to set a fee to cover its costs and adopt regulations authorizing it to seek administrative penalties for entities that fail to report, not exceeding $500,000 in a reporting year.

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