California Air Resources Board

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Would have established the Smart Climate Agriculture Program to, among other things, provide grants to persons farming on small to midsize farms to transition from raising livestock or growing feed crops to plant-based agriculture. Was not heard in the Assembly Agriculture Committee.

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Establishes the policy of the State to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, but no later than 2045 and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter, and to ensure that by 2045 Statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced at least 85 percent below 1990 levels. The bill requires CARB to ensure that the Scoping Plan identifies and recommends measures to achieve carbon neutrality, and to identify and implement policies and strategies that enable carbon dioxide removal and carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies to complement these emission reductions. 

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Would have required, beginning January 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, a covered corporation to disclose to CARB and the Secretary of State specified information, including risks of climate change. The bill would have required CARB to establish climate-related disclosure guidance, including reporting standards for reporting and disclosing greenhouse gas emissions. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Would have required CARB, when updating the scoping plan and in collaboration with the Natural Resources Agency and other relevant state agencies and departments, to take specified actions by January 1, 2023, including, among others, identifying a 2045 climate goal, with interim milestones, for the state’s natural and working lands, as defined, and identifying practices, policy incentives, market needs, and potential reductions in barriers that would help achieve the 2045 climate goal. The bill would have required CARB, no later than January 1, 2024, to develop standard methods for state agencies to consistently track greenhouse gas emissions reductions, carbon sequestration, and additional benefits from natural and working lands over time. Moved to the Senate Inactive File.

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Would have required CARB to annually produce an assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the transportation of oil in California, as specified, and to include the assessment on CARB's website. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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As related to CARB, would have required the newly formed Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) Office of Freight, in consultation with specified State agencies, to submit to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2024 an assessment of statewide economic growth, competitiveness, prosperity, resiliency, and sustainability for the State’s ports and freight sector, and update the assessment at least once every five years thereafter. In the consultation process, CARB would have met with specified State agencies as necessary to address and discuss ongoing freight and supply chain issues. The bill would have also required the assessment to include, among other things, the analysis of how the economic competitiveness for businesses and the freight sector can be supported under State and federal climate and air pollution policies, and the identification of challenges the California freight sector faces in meeting the State’s emission reduction goals, including the quantification of the costs and recommended strategies. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have added pollutants from the Salton Sea as air toxic and criteria air pollutants from stationary and mobile sources as funding priorities for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. In addition, the bill would have deposited moneys, if appropriated, from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund into the Salton Sea Restoration Fund. Was not heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

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Spot bill related to the Transformative Climate Communities Program, which receives funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Amended to deal with property tax.

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Authorizes transit agencies to continuously use Low Carbon Transit Operation Program (LCTOP) dollars to fund a free or reduced fare transit projects without having to demonstrate specified statutory requirements like greenhouse (GHG) reductions in annual allocation requests. Instead of annual reporting in allocation requests, the bill requires transit agencies, in using LCTOP funds for transit pass programs, to submit (1) an allocation request for funding for transit passes every three years after the initial allocation request to the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) and (2) necessary GHG and priority population (disadvantaged and low-income communities) documentation annually to Caltrans in years where an allocation request is not required.

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Would have eliminated the 25 percent Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund continuous appropriation to the High-Speed Rail Authority on June 30, 2022 and instead annually transfer the amount to the Salton Sea Restoration Fund beginning 2022–23 fiscal year. Was not heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee. 

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