Keep tabs on climate and energy legislation in California and urge your representatives to take action for a climate-safe future.

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AB 914 (Friedman) Electric distribution grid planning: building and transportation electrification

Status: Held in Committee

Existing law vests the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, it is the policy of the state that each electrical corporation operate its electric distribution grid in its service territory, including owning, controlling, operating, managing, maintaining, planning, engineering, designing, and constructing its own electrical … Read more

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AB 998 (Connolly) Biomass energy facilities reporting

Status: Held in Committee
Cover crop by Shiela Chikulo

Existing law vests the California Energy Commission (CEC) with the exclusive power to certify sites and related facilities for thermal powerplants. Existing law requires an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, or community choice aggregator with a contract to procure electricity generated from biomass that expires or expired on or before December 31, 2028, … Read more

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AB 1349 (Irwin) Transportation electrification grant recipients: data reporting.

Status: Held in Committee
EV charging

Existing law requires the California Energy Commission (CEC), working with the State Air Resources Board (ARB) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), to prepare, and update biennially, a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of EV adoption required for the state to meet its goals of … Read more

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AB 1504 (McCarty) Prohibiting local govt barriers to hydrogen fueling and EV charging

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill

Under existing law, the implementation of consistent statewide standards to achieve the timely and cost-effective installation of electric vehicle charging stations and hydrogen-fueling stations is not a municipal affair, as that term is used in Section 5 of Article XI of the California Constitution, but is instead a matter of statewide concern. Therefore, this bill … Read more

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AB 1525 (Bonta) Transportation finance, equity, vulnerable communities

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill
Woman taking transit

Existing law establishes the Transportation Agency (CalSTA), which consists of the California Highway Patrol (CHP), the California Transportation Commission (CTC), the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), the Department of Transportation (CalTrans), the High-Speed Rail Authority, and the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. CalSTA is under the … Read more

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AB 1529 (Gabriel) Electric vehicle charging stations

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill
gas station by sergio souza on pexels

Existing law requires the California Energy Commission, working with specified state entities, to prepare a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of EV adoption required to meet the goals of putting at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles in service by 2030 and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases … Read more

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AB 1580 (Juan Carrillo) State Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plan

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill
One of the fast charging stations along the way

Existing law, the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 establishes the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI program) to provide funding for each fiscal year until fiscal year 2026 to the states to strategically deploy electric vehicle charging stations and to establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and … Read more

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SB 30 (Umberg) Zero-emission vehicle signage

Status: Held in Committee

Existing law vests the Department of Transportation (CalTrans) with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law requires CalTrans to adopt rules and regulations that allow the placement, near exits on freeways in rural areas, of information signs identifying specific roadside … Read more

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SB 507 (Gonzalez) Electric vehicle charging station infrastructure assessments

Status: Two-Year Bill

Existing law requires the California Energy Commission (CEC), working with the State Air Resources Board (ARB) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), to prepare, and update biennially, a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of EV adoption required for the state to meet its goals of … Read more

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AB 625 (Aguiar-Curry) Forest Biomass Waste Utilization Program.

Status: Held in Committee
Capitol Building in Sacramento

Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire), and requires CalFire to be responsible for, among other things, fire protection and prevention, as provided. Existing law establishes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection in CalFire to represent the state’s interest in the acquisition and management … Read more