California Air Resources Board

Summary

Would have required, on and after January 1, 2025, the CARB member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules to also be a person who represents a small business that employs fewer than 50 full-time employees. Failed passage in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Summary

Provides various methods by which an employer subject to the parking cash-out (PCO) law can calculate the cost of a parking space, aside from what is identified in a lease. The bill requires CARB, beginning January 1, 2024, to annually adjust specified amounts in the “Market Rate Cost of Parking” definition for inflation. The bill requires an employer to maintain appropriate evidence of its effort, or the parking offer it relied upon, as specified, to establish the market rate cost of parking for at least four years. If an employee receives a parking subsidy, the bill requires an employer to maintain the record of communication with the employee that the employee has been informed of the right to receive the cash equivalent of the parking subsidy.

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Summary

Authorizes the City of Needles to establish a pilot project to designate combined-use highways on roads in the city to link existing off-highway vehicle trails and to link off-highway vehicle recreational use areas with necessary service and lodging facilities.

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Summary

Would have exempted portable generators with engine power greater than or equal to 2 horsepower from an existing provision requiring CARB to adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines produced on or after a specified date. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Summary

Would have required, by January 1, 2026, each State agency to review all of its regulations for duplicative, overlapping, inconsistent, or out-of-date regulations; hold a public hearing to accept comment on proposed revisions to identified regulations; adopt, amend, or repeal regulations to reconcile identified issues; and report to the Governor and Legislature on compliance with these requirements. The bill would also have required overseeing agencies to notify their boards, departments, and offices of regulations that are duplicative, overlapping, or inconsistent with those adopted by another department, board, or office within the agency. This bill would have had a sunset date of January 1, 2027. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Summary

Would have required CARB to assess the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District’s air quality progress every three years, instead of every 2 years, and submit these assessments to the Legislature within 3 weeks of completion, instead of within 2 weeks. Was amended to deal with the developmental services system.

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Would have required a civil penalty of up to $30,000 to apply to a violation of public nuisance law involving a discharge containing toxic air contaminants from a Title V source. Additionally, the discharge must result in a significant increase in hospitalizations, residential displacement, shelter in place, evacuation, or destruction of property. The bill would have required this proposed penalty to apply on the initial date of violation, with exceptions for certain penalties with larger penalty caps. If a violation of AB 1897’s public nuisance law continues to occur after the initial day, then the bill would have required the existing fee structure for non-vehicular civil penalties, such as up to $10,000 per day, to apply on those subsequent days. The bill would have required additional civil penalties collected by a local air district for such a penalty, above the costs of prosecution, to be expended to mitigate the effects of air pollution in communities affected by the violation. Was amended to deal with plastic food service ware.

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Summary

Would have required all open meetings of a State body to be held by teleconference and would have allowed closed sessions of a State body to be held by teleconference. The bill would have removed existing requirements that the teleconference location be identified in the meeting notice and agenda and be accessible to the public. The bill would have required, among other things, the meeting notice to specify the means by which a meeting may be accessed by teleconference. Was not heard in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.

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Summary

Would have required an agency to post a notice on the agency’s website when a person or business operating a system on behalf of the agency is required to issue a security breach notification for that system, as specified.

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Governor’s Veto Message

To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 1711 without my signature. This bill requires a public agency to post a notice on its website when a person or business operating a system on behalf of that agency is required to issue a security breach notification for that system.

Current law requires both private businesses and public agencies to immediately notify individuals impacted by a data breach of the systems they operate, allowing appropriate action to mitigate or prevent financial losses due to fraudulent activity. The stated intent of this bill is to provide additional transparency with respect to data breach notifications provided in the event a contractor operating a system on behalf of an agency is breached.

Requiring public agencies to display every instance of a security breach on its website will highlight vulnerable information technology systems shortly after a breach occurs. This could substantially increase the risk of additional attacks on these systems. The author's objective could be more effectively achieved through other means, such as specifying breach notifications to individuals must come from the agency, or requiring notices from a contractor to conspicuously include the agency on behalf of which they are operating.

For these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.

Sincerely,

Gavin Newsom

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Summary

Would have revised AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, by charging CARB with only the responsibility of regulating vehicular sources of greenhouse gas emissions in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill would have charged each local air district with the responsibility of regulating all sources, other than vehicular sources, of greenhouse gas emissions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within its jurisdiction. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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