California Air Resources Board

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Would have required CARB, if it proposed a regulation to regulate an on-road mobile source, to prepare a lifecycle analysis, as defined, of any technology required by the regulation. The scope of environmental impacts in the lifecycle analysis would have been required to include, but would not have been limited to, the assessment from raw material extraction and processing, through the product’s manufacture, distribution, and use, to the recycling or final disposal of the materials composing it. The assessments would have been required to include, but would not have been limited to, consideration of carbon dioxide emissions. Was not heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have allowed, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, a credit against State taxes for a qualified taxpayer in an amount equal to $800 per ton of criteria air pollutant reduced beyond the baseline amount. The bill would have defined “qualified taxpayer” to mean a major source emitter, as defined, that has emissions levels of criteria air pollutants for the taxable year at least 5 percent below the requirements set by the federal Clean Air Act. The bill also would have defined “baseline amount” with respect to criteria air pollutants to mean the level of criteria air pollutants the taxpayer may emit to meet the requirements of the federal Clean Air Act. Was amended to deal with student loan debt.

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Would have required the Senate to direct its policy committees to incorporate more effective equity considerations in their analyses of future energy and climate legislation and would have resolved the Senate to explore methods to integrate equity more formally into its daily activities. Remains in the Senate Rules Committee.

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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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Would have repealed the prohibition on compensation of the board members of CARB from air districts and specified that those board members are to receive the annual salary provided to other board members of CARB. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required a State agency to include, when awarding a contract for grant administration services, as defined, in the terms of the contract a provision that sets forth standards for resolving actual or perceived conflicts of interest for the contractor. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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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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Would have required State agencies and departments to consider the use of more inclusive practices to advance equity and defined “equity” as addressing the disparities in opportunities and outcomes of underserved populations, and empowering and meeting the unique needs of diverse and underserved populations, to ensure that communities facing the greatest inequities are not left behind, in a fair and just way. Moved to the Senate Inactive File.

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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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