California Air Resources Board

Summary

Would have, during a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor that is based on an emergency resulting in a loss of electrical service to any part of the State, provided that the regulations adopted under statutory direction prohibiting engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines, and any other regulations adopted by CARB governing the emissions of portable or emergency backup generators, shall not apply to the sale or purchase of portable or emergency backup generators. The bill would have allowed a tax credit for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2031, equal to the amount incurred by a person or small business, during the taxable year for the purchase of a backup generator, as specified. Remains at the Assembly Desk.

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Would have required each local air district to make publicly available on its website a map of permitted facilities containing specified information regarding all active permits required for equipment or processes that may release or control air pollutants and that require or required the use of one or more emission reduction credits. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have amended the Administrative Procedure Act to require the economic assessment for non-major regulations to include the extent it will affect cost of living on residents of the State, and to require the standardized regulatory impact analysis for major regulations to address the cost of living impacts on residents of the State. The bill also would have required an agency to notify the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) when the agency determines it needs to contract for outside services to perform such analyses and would have required OAL to select the contractor and oversee its work. The bill would have required OAL to adopt a standardized cost of living methodology for use by all agencies. The bill would have required OAL during rulemaking review to conduct an independent analysis into the adequacy of an agency’s economic analyses, among other things. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required CARB, on a quarterly basis, to submit a report to the Legislature providing data and describing the impact of its regulations on the prices of transportation fuels, including but not limited to, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have exempted collector motor vehicles from smog checks if they were manufactured prior to the 1981 model year, had been assigned a historical vehicle identification plate, and were insured as a collector motor vehicle. The bill, beginning January 1, 2028, would have expanded the exemption by one model year, every year, for 5 years. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required CARB to create the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee to review appeals for denied requests for exemptions from CARB's Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation. This bill would have also expanded existing ACF emergency vehicle exemptions to vehicles reasonably anticipated to respond to emergency situations or vehicles supporting those efforts. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required the Department of General Services (DGS) to require a light-duty vehicle supplier for State vehicle fleets to certify that the raw materials utilized for the manufacturing of the supplied vehicles were not mined by child labor. This bill would have also required the vehicle supplier to certify to DGS the locations and hourly wage of the workers that mined the raw materials. This bill also would have required DGS to post on its website the specified information provided by the vehicle supplier. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have specified that any schoolbus that is replaced pursuant to the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Initiative Project (HVIP) was to be excluded from the scrapping requirement for a frontier Local Educational Agency or small school district. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required, on or before July 1, 2027, the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LUCI) to consult with regional, local, State, and federal agencies to develop a technical advisory on thresholds of significance for greenhouse gas and noise pollution effects on the environment to assist local agencies. The technical advisory would have provided suggested thresholds of significance for all areas of the State, as specified, and would have provided that lead agencies may elect to adopt the suggested thresholds of significance. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required CARB to expand its incident air monitoring program to provide support for a regional network of air quality incident response centers operated by air districts, including at least one located in the South Coast Air Quality Management District. This bill would have required CARB and each district that operates an air quality incident response to coordinate to provide emergency air monitoring response for disasters or other crises impacting air quality and public health in the State. Funding provided to CARB could have been used for planning and maintaining centers, air quality collection and modeling, research studies, training and preparedness, and staff resources, including a State Air Quality Health Officer. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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