California Air Resources Board

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Amends the Budget Act of 2024 and includes appropriations for CARB from the Air Pollution Control Fund, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and the Certification and Compliance Fund.

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Requires CARB to maintain funding for each local air district participating in the Clean Cars 4 All program by requiring CARB to reallocate funds to local air districts under certain circumstances.

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Makes appropriations for the support of the State government for the 2024-25 fiscal year, including a provision to shift the fund source to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for emerging opportunities.

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Makes appropriations for the support of the State government for the 2024-25 fiscal year.

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Extends the deadline for the period of liquidation for local air districts to disburse Carl Moyer Program funds from 4 years after date of reservation to 6 years after date of disbursement by the State.

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Enacts the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, which would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 if approved by voters, for safe drinking water, drought, flood, and water resilience; wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions; climate-smart, sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands; park creation and outdoor access; and clean air programs.

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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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