California Air Resources Board

Summary

Would have required all State agencies to review and implement the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines, as specified, by July 1, 2023. The bill would have required the Office of Information Security to review the NIST guidelines and create, update, and publish any appropriate standards or procedures in State manuals to apply the guidelines to State agencies by April 1, 2023, and provide assistance, as specified, upon request by a State agency. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required the Office of Planning and Research, by January 1, 2025, to conduct and submit to the Legislature a study on the impacts and implementation of its guidelines relating to transportation impacts. The bill also would have required the Office of Planning and Research, upon appropriation, to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to local jurisdictions for implementing those guidelines. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have included specified energy projects in the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act. Was not heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

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Would have established, until January 1, 2028, the State-Regional Collaborative for Climate, Equity, and Resilience to provide guidance, by January 1, 2024, to CARB for approving new guidelines for sustainable communities strategies (SCS) and would have required CARB to update the guidelines for SCSs to incorporate Collaborative suggestions by December 2025. The Collaborative would have been chaired by CARB and consisted of one representative of the California Transportation Agency, the California Housing Department, and the California Strategic Growth Council, along with 10 public members representing local and State organizations, as specified. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Would have prohibited a city or county from imposing or enforcing minimum parking requirements on housing development projects located within one-half mile of a major transit stop, except as
specified. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have established a program for planning and projects to make California’s transportation more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Was not heard in the Assembly Transportation Committee.

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Would have required the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission to develop and adopt a Connected Network Plan, develop a comprehensive, standardized regional transit mapping and wayfinding system, develop an implementation and maintenance strategy and funding plan, and establish open data standards, as specified. The bill would have required the region’s transit agencies, as defined, to comply with those established regional transit mapping and wayfinding system, implementation and maintenance strategy and funding plan, and open data standards, as provided. Held on Suspense in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have prohibited the land use element from designating land uses that have the potential to significantly degrade local air, water, or soil quality or to adversely impact health outcomes in disadvantaged communities to be located, or to materially expand, within or adjacent to a disadvantaged community or a racially and ethnically concentrated area of poverty. Was not heard in the Senate Committee on Government and Finance.

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Would have retired CARB’s existing SB 375  (Steinberg, Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008) guidelines, limited CARB’s oversight of the SB 375 program, and required CARB to appoint a State-Regional Collaborative that would have set implementable 2030 and 2050 regional greenhouse gas targets by developing a point system tool, which CARB would have been required to use to assess Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCS). This bill also would have authorized metropolitan planning organizations to appeal CARB rejection of an SCS. Was not heard in the Senate Transportation Committee.

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Would have updated the SB 375 (Steinberg, Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008) program and added new requirements for the entities involved in developing Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCS). CARB would have been required to adopt additional greenhouse gas targets for 2045 and 2050 for SCSs and vehicle miles traveled targets for 2035, 2045, 2050, by 2024. CARB would have received additional time to review SCSs and been required to reject them if they were not implementable based on specific evidentiary basis. Metropolitan planning organizations would have been required to work with CARB on technical methodologies, submit draft SCS for CARB review 90 days before adoption, respond to CARB comments on the draft, and submit final SCS for CARB evaluation within 60 days after adoption. Local government would have been required to collect data on housing, jobs, and transit infrastructure and report every two years to metropolitan planning organizations demonstrating how SCS strategies are implemented, including the data described above. Was not heard in the Senate Committee on Transportation.

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