FLOOR SESSION AGENDA - Regular Session: 2:00 p.m.
Agendas
SENATE BILLS—SECOND READING FILE
ASSEMBLY BILLS—SECOND READING FILE
GOVERNOR’S VETOES
To the Members of the California State Senate:
I am returning Senate Bill 301 without my signature.
This bill would require the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to establish the Zero-Emission Aftermarket Conversion Project (ZACP) to provide an applicant with a financial rebate for converting a gasoline- or diesel-fueled vehicle into a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV).
California is showing the world what's possible - fostering innovation and creating space for an industry to flourish as the sale of ZEVs reach record highs, with over 1.8 million ZEVs now on California's roads. The state continues to invest billions of dollars in ZEV deployment and supporting infrastructure to achieve our ambitious climate and clean air goals.
While I share the author's desire to further accelerate the state's transition to ZEVs, this bill creates a new program at a time when the state faces a $44.9 billion shortfall for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Additionally, there is no funding currently identified or available in the state budget to support this new program.
For these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.
Sincerely,
Gavin Newsom
2024Jun. 14Shall Senate Bill 301 become a law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor? (Must be considered pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5.)
GOVERNOR’S APPOINTMENTS
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SB 382, as it passed the Senate, required, on or after January 1, 2026, a seller of a single-family residential property to deliver a specified disclosure statement to the prospective buyer regarding the electrical systems of the property.
The Assembly amendments add an exception to that requirement, and additionally require a seller of a single-family residential property to disclose, in writing, the existence of any state or local requirements relating to the future replacement of existing gas-powered appliances that are being transferred with the property, as specified.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—37.NOES—0.)2024Jun. 20In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.38S.B.No. 674 —Gonzalez et al.An act relating to air pollution.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 674, as it passed the Senate, required the installation of a refinery-related community air monitoring system and a fence-line monitoring system for each refinery, as defined, on or before January 1, 2026. SB 674 required the owner or operator of a refinery, within 24 hours of a fence-line monitoring system detecting an exceedance of a specified threshold of any measured pollutant, to initiate a root cause analysis and to report the findings of that analysis and the corrective action performed by the refinery within 5 days of the exceedance.
The Assembly amendments instead require the installation of a refinery-related community air monitoring system and a fence-line monitoring system for each covered facility, as defined, on or before January 1, 2028. The Assembly amendments require the appropriate air pollution control district or air quality management district to provide notice to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature regarding the district’s progress toward meeting that deadline. The Assembly amendments require the owner or operator of a covered facility to initiate the root cause analysis and report the findings of the analysis and the corrective action within 14 days of the exceedance of the pollutant threshold.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—31.NOES—6.)2024Jul. 1In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.39S.B.No. 675 —Limón et al.An act relating to fire prevention.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 675, as it passed the Senate, required the Range Management Advisory Committee, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the University of California Cooperative Extension Livestock and Natural Resources Advisors and Specialists, to develop guidance for local or regional prescribed grazing plans. SB 675, as it passed the Senate, required the guidance to include specified things, including best practices for identifying and selecting priority areas for prescribed grazing.
The Assembly amendments additionally require the committee to consult with fire ecologists with expertise in the full range of California’s vegetation communities when developing the guidance. The Assembly amendments require the guidance to include best practices for use of prescribed grazing for reducing wildfire risk in and near fire-threatened communities, as provided. The Assembly amendments also make nonsubstantive changes.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—40.NOES—0.)2024Jul. 1In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.40S.B.No. 1146 —Wilk.An act relating to mortgages.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 1146, as it passed the Senate, made various changes to existing law governing mortgages and foreclosure.
The Assembly amendments add that an exception to the usury limitation set forth in Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution includes a forbearance, extension, or modification of a loan made or arranged by any person licensed as a real estate broker by the State of California and secured by real property, as specified.
Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—37.NOES—0.)2024Jul. 1In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.41S.B.No. 739 —Ashby.An act relating to public contracts, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.Legislative Counsel’s Digest of Assembly AmendmentsSB 739, as it passed the Senate, amended the Charter Schools Act of 1992 to require all charter schools whose term expires on or before January 1, 2024, and June 30, 2027, to have their term extended by one additional year.
The Assembly amendments delete the above provisions and, instead, authorize the City of Elk Grove, with the approval of the city council, to utilize construction manager at-risk construction contracts for a zoo project, subject to certain requirements. The Assembly amendments also make legislative findings as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Elk Grove and declare that the bill’s provisions would take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.
(Final vote in the Senate:AYES—28.NOES—0.)2024Jun. 25In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.Jun. 27Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Jul. 3From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)