California Air Resources Board

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Requires the California Transportation Plan to include a financial element, an analysis of how it will achieve certain principles, and funding benefits to disadvantaged communities, as specified, and requires the California Transportation Agency, California Department of Transportation, and California Transportation Commission to incorporate the specified goals related to the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure into program funding guidelines and planning processes. Ordered to the inactive file in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Requires CARB, between January 1, 2024, and September 30, 2026, to establish additional greenhouse gas targets for 2035 and 2045 and updates the Sustainable Communities Strategy review process for CARB and metropolitan planning organizations. This bill also requires each project nomination for the Solutions for Congested Corridors Program to demonstrate how the project would contribute to achieving the state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Was not heard in the Senate Transportation Committee.

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Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Building Standards Commission to consider mandatory bike parking standards in multifamily buildings and to update existing bike parking standards in a manner independent of vehicle parking.

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Would have required Strategic Growth Council to coordinate and convene at least two meetings each calendar year with specified State agencies, including CARB, and regional entities, to coordinate their implementation of sustainable transportation policies including vehicle miles traveled reduction goals, zero-emission vehicle deployment goals, transit goals, and active transportation goals. The bill would have required those State agencies and regional entities, on or before December 31, 2023, and each year thereafter, to collaboratively develop a summary of actions undertaken as part of the meetings and would have required the summary to be publicly available on the Strategic Growth Council’s internet website. Moved to the Assembly Inactive File.

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Would have declared the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to ensure certain rights and benefits for telecommuting employees. Failed to make it off of the Assembly Desk.

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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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Allows a private, nonprofit corporation that provides services to zero-emission transportation systems or facilities, including, but not limited to, finance, design, construction, operation, or maintenance, to enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency to facilitate the development, construction, and operation of zero-emission transportation systems or facilities that lower GHGs, reduce vehicle congestion and VMT, and improve public transit connections. Requires that a board of directors govern the joint agency formed, board membership determined by the participating public agencies, and prohibits the representation of corporations on the board from exceeding 50 percent. The bill will be repealed on January 1, 2032.

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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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Requires the California Transportation Commission to develop a needs assessment of the cost to operate, maintain, and provide for the future growth and resiliency of the State and local transportation system.

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