CaliforniaState Air Resources Board: air pollution regulations: private fleets: exception.
What it does
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution that the state board has found necessary, cost effective, and technologically feasible. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the state board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions from those sources.
More detail
Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles.
Existing federal law, the Clean Air Act, prohibits any state or any political subdivision thereof from adopting or attempting to enforce any standard relating to the control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, except through a waiver, as provided.
This bill would prohibit the state board from enforcing any regulation that directly or indirectly compels compliance by private fleets, as provided, until the state has obtained a required waiver or authorization under the federal Clean Air Act.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Jul 1In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage.Latest
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: fail.Upper
- Jun 22From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q.Major
- Jun 15Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q. and APPR.Minor
- Jun 12Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Jun 12Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Jun 11From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.Major
- Jul 1In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage.Latest
- 2025
- May 28Referred to Com. on E., U & C.Minor
- May 15In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 1436 Ávila Farías Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- May 15Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1570.)Passed Assembly
- May 8Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- May 7From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 3Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.Minor
- Apr 2From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 2In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Mar 25Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.Minor
- Mar 24From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 13Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES.Minor
- Feb 24Read first time.Minor
- Feb 22From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- Feb 21Introduced. To print.Introduced