California Air Resources Board

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Increases the priority population minimum investment amounts from the California Climate Investments from 25% to 50% for disadvantaged communities and from 5% to 15% for low-income communities. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Updates AB 1757 (C. Garcia, Chapter 341, Statutes of 2022) by removing language that made natural and working lands emissions reduction projects and actions that receive state funding ineligible to generate credits under a market-based compliance mechanism and instead requires CARB to ensure that all greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals used for any market-based compliance mechanism are in addition to any reductions and removals that would otherwise occur.

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Would have suspended the California High-Speed Rail Authority appropriation for 2024–25 and 2025–26 fiscal years and transferred the money to the General Fund, to be available upon appropriation to augment funding for water conveyance, water storage infrastructure, and flood prevention and required a $2.4 billion loan from pre-2023–2024 FY Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund monies to the General Fund for the same purpose, among other things. Was not heard in the Assembly Committee on Transportation.

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Would have required State agencies administering competitive Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant programs that involve housing, urban forestry, urban greening, or planning to provide at least a three-month application period and would have required the California Department of Finance to report on additional elements in the California Climate Investments Annual Report, including information on applications that did not receive funding. This bill also would have allowed applicants from the counties of Imperial and San Diego to include daytime population numbers in grant applications. This bill was similar to AB 943 (E. Garcia, 2022), AB 2812 (E. Garcia, 2019), AB 1945 (E. Garcia, 2018). Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have authorized the California Coastal Commission to require an applicant with a project that impacts coastal wetland, subtidal, intertidal, or marine habitats or ecosystems to build or contribute to a blue carbon demonstration project, as defined, and would have required the California Coastal Commission to consult with CARB and other specified entities in developing a blue carbon demonstration project program. Each blue carbon demonstration project would have to be designed, monitored, and have sufficient data collected to demonstrate the carbon uptake and sequestration achieved and results would have to be presented to the California Coastal Commission in a public hearing. This bill was similar to AB 2593 (Boerner, 2022). Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that provides that the policy of the State is to ensure that companies that contract with the State are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains. Remains atthe Assembly Desk.

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Among other things, establishes interim targets for the State’s 100 percent clean energy goal in 2045 and accelerates the date by which State agencies must achieve 100 percent clean energy use. This bill requires that CARB’s Scoping Plan workshops be held in non-attainment areas and requires the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission, and CARB to create a joint report on electricity reliability.

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Requires CARB, by July 1, 2025, to develop a framework for measuring and then reducing the carbon intensity of the building materials used in the construction of new buildings, including those for residential uses. This bill requires CARB to develop a comprehensive strategy for the State’s building sector to achieve a 40 percent net reduction in greenhouse gases of building materials no later than December 31, 2035. The framework developed by CARB may include a tracking and reporting mechanism to initiate a market-based crediting program. This bill requires CARB to take certain specified actions to facilitate the achievement of these goals.

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Would have created the Environmental Justice Community Resilience Hubs Program (Program) and would have funded the Program by redirecting 5 percent of electrical corporation allocated allowance auction proceeds received under the Cap-and-Trade Program from annual climate credits that are currently provided to residential ratepayers. The Program would have funded building upgrade projects for owners of critical community institutions through competitive grants run by electrical corporations and administered by a third-party administrator. Was not heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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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.