Climate Legislation Update

We recently asked our members to call their state Assembly members and state Senators ahead of an important legislative deadline, to ask them to vote for bills related to fighting the climate crisis, reducing plastic waste, protecting California’s water, and protecting communities from harmful pollution and the impacts of the climate crisis.

Now that the deadline has passed, we are happy to share that we were incredibly successful, with all but one of our supported bills making it out of their initial side of the legislature and moving forward. Here is the list of bills:

California State Assembly Bills:

The following Assembly bills received a majority of support in the Assembly and are now in the Senate, where they will next go through Senate committees:

  • AB 57 (Ash Kalra) California Pocket Forest Initiative

  • AB 1167 (Wendy Carrillo) Oil and Gas: Acquisition, Bonding Requirements

  • AB 1305 (Jesse Gabriel) Voluntary Carbon Offset Disclosures

  • AB 1407 (Dawn Addis) Coastal Resources: Ocean Recovery and Restoration: Large Scale Restoration

  • AB 1423 (Pilar Schiavo) PFAS in Artificial Turf

  • AB-1563 (Steve Bennett) Groundwater Sustainability Agency: Extraction Permits Review

  • AB-1572 (Laura Friedman) Potable Water, Nonfunctional Turf

The following Assembly bill was held back as a 2-year bill, and will not move forward this year:

  • AB 1290 (Luz Rivas) Product Safety: Plastic Packaging: Substances

California State Senate Bills:

All of our supported Senate bills received a majority of support in the Senate and are now in the Assembly, where they will next go through Assembly committees:

  • SB 49 (Josh Becker) Renewable energy: Department of Transportation strategic plan

  • SB 233 (Nancy Skinner) Energy: New Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment: Bidirectional Capability

  • SB 244 (Susan Eggman) Right to Repair Act

  • SB 252 (Lena Gonzalez) Public Retirement Systems: Fossil Fuel Divestment

  • SB 253 (Scott Weiner) Climate Corporate Data: Accountability Act

  • SB 261 (Henry Stern) Greenhouse Gases: Climate Related Financial Risk

  • SB 389 (Ben Allen) Water Diversion Investigation and Prevention of Unlawful Diversion

  • SB 394 (Lena Gonzalez) Climate Resilient Schools

  • SB 499 (Caroline Menjivar) School Extreme Heat Action Plan Act of 2023

  • SB 539 (Henry Stern) Sepulveda Basin: Planning Process: Nature-Based Solutions

  • SB 615 (Ben Allen) Vehicle Traction Batteries

  • SB 665 (Ben Allen) Plastic Waste: Single Use Plastics Alternatives

  • SB 674 (Lena Gonzalez) Air Pollution: Refineries: Community Air Monitoring Systems: Fence-Line Monitoring Systems

  • SB 707 (Josh Newman) Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2023

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