Legislative Tracker Database - California Climate and Energy Collaborative

Legislative Tracker Database

Below you will find the 2026 legislative tracker that will be used throughout the year to track relevant climate and energy legislation as it moves through the California Legislature. If you are interested in a particular bill, we encourage you to follow the link in the bill number to read the full text.

Visit the Adaptation Tracker for a companion resource by the Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation (ARCCA) and the California Resilience Partnership (CRP) that highlights key legislation related to climate change adaptation and resilience.

Last updated: 5/28/2026

AB 1577

Bauer-Kahan

New Update!

Data centers: reporting.

This bill would require the commission to establish a process for the owner of a data center, as defined, to submit specified information to the , commission, including, among other information, the data center’s location and size, the data center’s power usage effectiveness, as defined, ~~water usage effectiveness, as defined, and total water consumption~~,and the quantity of fuel consumed by onsite generators or other fuel-based energy systems, as specified. The bill would require the owner of a data center to submit the required information in the manner ~~and timeframe~~ specified by the commission. The bill would require the commission, beginning with the 2029 edition of the integrated energy policy report, and in each subsequent edition,to include an assessment of electrical load trends for data centers, as provided. The bill would require the commission to annually publish the information submitted in an anonymized and aggregated format on its internet website.

The bill would require the owner or developer of a data center, upon applying for a discretionary permit, entitlement, or land use authorization required for the construction or operation of the data center, to submit to the applicable local agency, as defined, ~~the information described above~~, specified information, including the expected annual energy and water consumption, as specified, and the expected sound levels attributable to the operation of the data center as provided. By imposing a new duty on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the local agency to use this information for various purposes, including, but not limited to, land use planning, infrastructure planning, energy and water supply assessment, and environmental review. The bill would further authorize a lead local agency to use this information in the preparation of environmental documentation pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.

The bill would prohibit the commission or a local agency from disclosing information submitted to the commission on a monthly basis or to the applicable local agency upon applying for a discretionary permit, entitlement, or land use authorization, as described above, in a manner that would result in the disclosure of ~~personally~~ identifiable information or energy consumption data for a ~~specific utility~~ data center customer, except as provided.

Latest Activity:

05/27/26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 1707

Davies

New Update!

Electricians: certification application, examination, and renewal.

This bill would require the division to permit the application for certification and examination as an electrician to be submitted electronically and would also permit electricians to renew their certifications electronically. The bill would permit an individual who fails the electrician certification examination to reregister for certification and to retake the examination again immediately at the next available appointment with the division.

Latest Activity:

05/28/26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.)

Status: Active

| 40% Third reading

AB 1715

Schiavo

New Update!

Public utilities: reporting.

This bill would require each electrical corporation or gas corporation to report certain information for any taxpayer funding, as defined, greater than or equal to $1,000,000 that the utility has applied for or received, as specified. The bill would require the commission, for each application in which a anelectrical corporation or gas corporation is seeking ratepayer funding, to require the electrical corporation or gas corporation to report all relevant taxpayer funding greater than or equal to $1,000,000 that the electrical corporation or gas corporation is pursuing or has secured, and, if the commission determines that an electrical corporation or gas corporation is not in compliance with that requirement, the bill would authorize the commission to impose a penalty against the electrical corporation or gas corporation, as specified. The bill would require the commission to require each electrical corporation or gas corporation to promptly deliver to ratepayers the financial benefits of taxpayer funding received, as provided.

The bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2028, and annually thereafter, to provide an annual report to the Legislature with a summary of the information on taxpayer funding reported by each electrical corporation or gas corporation, including the number of grants or loans, the source of those grants or loans, the total dollar amount received, the projects funded by the grants or loans, and the total demonstrated ratepayer savings, as specified.

This bill would require the commission, on or before June 1, 2028, to establish and make available on its internet website
a searchable database of public utility advice letters, as provided. The bill would require the commission to require public utilities to provide, in any customer notice of a rate change, a link to the advice letter associated with the rate change, as specified.

Latest Activity:

05/27/26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 1761

Rogers

New Update!

Electricity: calculation methodology: data disclosure.

This bill would require the commission to ensure that all data serving as a basis for any decision or ruling issued by the commission,
or in any proposal or analysis provided by commission staff,for the determination or application of a calculation methodology for any charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity to recover costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs, is made available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates on behalf of customers. The bill would require the commission to require an electrical corporation or other party, in submitting a proposal or analysis for the determination or application of a calculation methodology for any charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity to recover costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs, to make all data serving as a basis for that proposal or analysis available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates on behalf of customers.The bill would require that data to meet specified requirements, including that it is made through a public disclosure, except for market-sensitive data, as provided.

Latest Activity:

05/28/26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 1849

Papan

New Update!

Decarbonized gaseous fuels.

This bill would require, on or before December 31, 2029, the state board to conduct an assessment of the amount of decarbonized gaseous fuels that will be needed to decarbonize hard-to-electrify ~~sectors~~ end uses and maintain reliability in the electricity sector and to post the assessment on its internet website. The bill would require the assessment to include an assessment of the need for decarbonized gaseous fuels in for each hard-to-electrify ~~sector,~~ end use, as defined. The bill would require the state board, in assessing the policies and incentives, to consider, among other things, how to incentivize the increased production and use of decarbonized gas ~~instate~~ in California and how to maximize the benefits of decarbonized gas production and ~~use~~,use in California,as provided.

Latest Activity:

04/23/26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Status: Active

| 30% Second reading

AB 2002

Solache

New Update!

Local government assistance: Regional Early Action Planning Fund.

This bill would establish the Regional Early Action Planning Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of providing councils of governments, regional entities, and jurisdictions with one-time funding, including grants for planning activities, to enable those entities to meet the 7th and subsequent cycles of the regional housing need assessment. The bill would require the department to allocate funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, from the Regional Early Action Planning Fund to each council of governments or regional entity responsible for allocating regional housing need that applies and qualifies for those moneys, as specified. The bill would authorize a council of governments or regional entity to expend funds awarded for certain purposes, including for activities that support the development, improvement, or implementation of the methodology for the 7th and subsequent regional housing needs assessment cycles, and for providing jurisdictions with technical assistance, planning, temporary staffing, or consultant needs associated with updating local planning and zoning documents, as provided. The bill would require a jurisdiction that receives a suballocation of funds to only use that suballocation for housing-related planning activities, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to monitor expenditures and activities of an applicant, as the department deems necessary, to ensure compliance with program requirements.

Latest Activity:

05/21/26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 2031

Petrie-Norris

New Update!

Public utilities: property, franchises, and permits: exemption.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law prohibits public utilities, other than certain common carriers, from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of, or encumbering, its assets that are necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public, unless the public utility has secured an order from the commission to do so for a qualified transaction above $5,000,000 or an approval from the commission through the filing of an advice letter for a qualified transaction at or below $5,000,000. Absent protest or incomplete documentation, existing law requires the commission to approve or deny the advice letter within 120 days of its filing by the applicant public utility.

This bill would reduce the time the commission has to approve or deny the advice letter from 120 days to 90 days.

Latest Activity:

05/21/26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 2111

Papan

Electricity: transmission planning and transmission facilities.

Under AB 2111, as amended by Papan, California’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Energy Commission, and Independent System Operator (ISO) would be required by January 1, 2028, to update their existing memorandum of understanding and workplan to reflect the requirements of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 1920-A, including methods for evaluating resource portfolios under uncertainty. The bill also modifies portfolio planning to emphasize cost-effective integration that maintains ratepayer affordability across future uncertainties and adopts a risk-prudent approach. Additionally, the PUC’s transmission-focused guidance to the ISO must include sufficient infrastructure capacity to facilitate cost-effective procurement, improve resource diversity and competition by increasing interconnection capacity at specific locations, and separately provide risk-prudent guidance requesting approval of specific transmission projects and identifying supplemental or accelerated needs that enhance adaptability, reduce risk, or support competitive resource procurement.

Latest Activity:

04/06/26 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

Status: Active

| 30% Second reading

AB 2124

Pacheco

Electricity and natural gas: legislation imposing mandated programs and requirements: third-party review.

This bill would require the CCST to establish, on or before January 1, 2027, a program to, upon request of the Legislature, analyze legislation that would establish a mandated requirement or program, as defined, or otherwise affect electrical corporation or gas corporation ratepayers, as specified. The bill would require the CCST to develop and implement conflict-of-interest provisions to prohibit a person from participating in an analysis for which the person knows or has reasons to know that the person has a material financial interest. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.

Latest Activity:

03/02/26 Referred to Com. on U. & E.

Status: Active

| 20% Committee hearings

AB 2157

Bryan, Connolly

New Update!

Workforce development: Displaced Oil and Gas Worker Pilot Program: extension and assessment.

This bill would extend the program indefinitely by removing the July 1, 2027, repeal date. The bill would also require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to contract within 120 days with the University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education (labor center) to complete an assessment analyzing the success of the program, as described. The bill would also require the department to work with the labor center to develop a recommended program design for turning the program from a pilot into a permanent program able to support displaced fossil fuel workers during the clean energy transition, as described. The bill would require the assessment to be submitted to the Legislature no later than 18 months after the execution of the contract.

Latest Activity:

05/27/26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 2175

Garcia

Electricity: electrical transmission and distribution systems.

Existing law establishes the policy of the state to modernize the state’s electrical transmission and distribution system to maintain safe, reliable, efficient, and secure electrical service, with infrastructure that can meet future growth in demand and achieve certain objectives, including the deployment and integration of cost-effective advanced electricity storage and peak-shaving technologies, as specified. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with certain entities, to determine the requirements for a smart grid deployment plan consistent with that policy and federal law, as specified.

This bill would repeal from those policy objectives the deployment and integration of cost-effective advanced electricity storage and peak-shaving technologies.

Latest Activity:

03/09/26 Referred to Com. on U. & E.

Status: Active

| 20% Committee hearings

AB 2182

Irwin

Electrical corporations: Industrial Decarbonization and Energy Efficiency Program

This bill would require, on or before August 1, 2027, each large electrical corporation, as defined, to file a Tier 2 advice letter with the commission establishing an Industrial Decarbonization and Energy Efficiency Program with funding allocated from energy efficiency charges collected from eligible facilities, defined as industrial or manufacturing facilities that meet specified requirements, as specified. The bill would require the program to award grants to eligible facilities for eligible projects, including, among others, energy efficiency projects that meet certain requirements. The bill would require each large electrical corporation to administer the program, as provided, and require the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to provide independent review and approval of grants awarded pursuant these provisions.

Latest Activity:

03/09/26 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES.

Status: Active

| 20% Committee hearings

AB 2184

Wilson

Cap-and-Invest Program: nature-based climate solutions: funding.

This bill would annually appropriate the sum of $250,000,000 from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in the annual Budget Act each fiscal year from the 2027–2028 to the 2045–46 fiscal year, inclusive, to achieve nature-based climate solutions on natural, working, and urban lands, including $150,000,000 to be allocated to the Natural Resources Agency to fund nature-based climate solutions, as provided, and $100,000,000to be allocated for nature-based climate solutions at the discretion of the Legislature, as provided. The bill would additionally appropriate, after those amounts are allocated, the sum of $150,000,000 from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in the annual Budget Act each fiscal year from the 2027–2028 to the 2045–46 fiscal year, inclusive, to the Department of Food and Agriculture to fund sustainable agricultural practices and nature-based climate solutions, as provided.

Latest Activity:

04/07/26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Status: Active

| 20% Committee hearings

AB 2313

Berman

New Update!

Gas corporations: gas distribution service line replacements: alternatives.

This bill, the Home Energy Choice Act, would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to require each gas corporation to offer a Gas Distribution Service Line Replacement Alternatives Program, on or before January 1, 2028, to provide gas customers served by a gas distribution service line, planned or forecasted for replacement over the next 5 years, or prioritized for replacement by the commission, with a monetary incentive to deploy gas distribution service line replacement alternatives, as defined, and cease gas service to avoid the gas distribution service line replacement, as specified.

Latest Activity:

05/28/26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 21.)

Status: Active

| 40% Third reading

AB 2338

Ransom

Electrical corporations and gas corporations: rates: inflation-constrained rate case scenario: standard of review.

This bill would require the commission to require every electrical corporation or gas corporation, as part of every general rate case application, to submit an inflation-constrained rate case scenario in which cumulative increases in annual expenditures proposed to be authorized in that proceeding do not exceed the projected federal social security beneficiary cost-of-living adjustment, and to compare that inflation-constrained rate case scenario with the primary rate case plan submitted by the corporation. The bill would authorize the commission to authorize expenditures in excess of the inflation-constrained rate case scenario if it determines that the electrical corporation or gas corporation has provided clear and convincing evidence that a higher level of expenditures is necessary to ensure the safe and reliable operation of its electrical system or gas system. The bill would require the commission to apply heightened scrutiny to a request that is not a general rate case application that is submitted by an electrical corporation or gas corporation that is likely to increase total systemwide expenditures beyond the projected federal social security beneficiary cost-of-living adjustment.

Latest Activity:

03/25/26 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

Status: Active

| 20% Committee hearings

AB 2383

Zbur

New Update!

Electricity: large energy use facilities.

This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2028, in a new or existing proceeding, to provide for a classification of retail electricity consumers that are large energy use facilities, as defined, that is separate and distinct from classifications of service for other commercial or industrial retail electricity consumers and has its own rate schedule. The bill would require any rate schedule adopted by the commission for large energy use facilities to meet specified requirements, and would require the commission, in deciding whether to approve an electrical corporation’s proposed rate schedule, to ensure the rates meet certain requirements, as provided. The bill would specify that, until January 1, 2028, an electrical corporation and a large energy use facility are not required to use the above-described classification of service if the commission has not approved the electrical corporation’s rate schedule for that classification of service.

This bill would require the commission to require an electrical corporation that is providing electricity service to a large energy use facility to enter into a contract with the large energy use facility that covers the provision of transmission, generation, or distribution of electricity service, as applicable, and would require any contract entered into between an electrical corporation and a large energy use facility pursuant to these provisions to meet certain requirements. The bill would require, if an electric service provider or community choice aggregator provides electricity service to a large energy use facility, that the rate schedule meet certain criteria, as specified, and that the electric service provider or community choice aggregator enters into a contract with the large energy use facility, as provided. The bill would specify that these provisions apply to a large energy use facility that receives electricity service from an electrical corporation on or after January 1, 2027.

Latest Activity:

05/28/26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 2408

DeMaio

Energy: billing.

This bill would require the commission to require each electrical corporation and gas corporation to disclose all public purpose program charges to ratepayers, including an itemized list of each public purpose program funded through the ratepayers’ bills, as provided. The bill would require the commission to require each electrical corporation and gas corporation to provide an annual public purpose program statement to ratepayers and require the commission to maintain an internet website displaying certain information about all public purpose programs, as provided.

This bill would require the commission to establish a mechanism to allow ratepayers to opt out of funding public purpose programs that are not expressly required by statute for specified purposes or explicitly designated as nonbypassable by statute, and to ensure that those opt-out elections are voluntary and that ratepayers are authorized to annually modify their opt-out elections, as specified.

This bill would require the commission, if the average price of electricity or natural gas in the state exceeds 10% of the national average price in the preceding quarter, to suspend the collection of all fees charged to ratepayers on electricity or natural gas bills for a period of 6 months. The bill would also require the State Air Resources Board, if the average price of electricity or natural gas in the state exceeds 10% of the national average price in the preceding quarter, to suspend the requirements of the market-based compliance mechanism known as the California Cap-and-Invest Program for a covered entity that is an electrical corporation or gas corporation, and the collection of any moneys under the California Cap-and-Invest Program from those entities, for a period of 6 months.

This bill would require a local publicly owned electric utility or local publicly owned gas utility to adjust its tariff rules to limit the period for adjusting a customer bill, when the utility has undercharged a customer, to 3 months for its residential customers and small business customers and to 3 years for its large business customers, as specified. By imposing new duties on local publicly owned utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Latest Activity:

03/11/26 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

Status: Active

| 30% Second reading

AB 2458

Bennett

New Update!

Energy: appliance standards and cost-effective measures.

Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to prescribe, by regulation, standards for minimum levels of operating efficiency, and authorizes the Energy Commission to prescribe other cost-effective measures, to promote the use of energy- and water-efficient appliances whose use requires a significant amount of energy or water. Existing law prohibits the sale, and the offering for sale, of new appliances unless their manufacturers certify that they comply with the standards in effect at the time the appliances are manufactured. Existing law defines “sold or offered for sale in the state” to mean any sale of or offer to sell an appliance for end use in the state, regardless of the seller’s physical location.

This bill would expand the above-described provisions to also include the rental, importation, distribution, or lease of, or an offer for the rental, importation, distribution, or lease of, those appliances, as provided.

Latest Activity:

05/20/26 Referred to Com. on E., U & C.

Status: Active

| 60% Committee hearings

AB 2463

Petrie-Norris

New Update!

Public Utilities Commission: rates: returns on equity.

This bill would require the commission, in any decision issued on or after January 1, 2028, determining an authorized return on equity, as defined, for an electrical corporation or gas corporation, to include specified information reflecting the commission’s ~~independent~~ analytical basis for making that determination, including, among other things, an identification of each financial model the commission relied upon in determining the authorized return on equity and an analysis of the relationship between the credit quality of the electrical corporation or gas corporation and the authorized return on equity. If, in any cost of capital proceeding, as defined, the commission adopts a methodology for determining the authorized return on equity that differs in any material respect from the methodology disclosed in the most recent prior decision in which the commission determined an authorized return on equity for the same electrical corporation or gas corporation, the bill would require the commission to identify each material departure from the prior methodology and provide a reasoned explanation for each material departure.The bill would also require the commission to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to update its determinations of the cost of capital to conform with the requirements of the bill. The bill would require the proceeding to consider a long-term plan related to these requirements, as specified.

Latest Activity:

05/27/26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 2464

Wicks

New Update!

Energy: firm zero-carbon resources.

This bill would requireEnergy Commission, working with the PUC,to prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2028,
a statewide assessment of the role and necessity of firm zero-carbon resources in meeting the state’s clean energy and reliability objectives, potential technologies and strategies for integrating firm zero-carbonresources into the state’s energy mix, recommendations on procurement, policy, and planning actions to deploy and support firm zero-carbon resources, and consideration of current and projected renewable and firm zero-carbon generation capacity, reliability requirements under varying system conditions, and the cost and emission implications of firm zero-carbon resources.

Latest Activity:

05/28/26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.)

Status: Active

| 40% Third reading

AB 35

Alvarez

New Update!

Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: Administrative Procedure Act: exemption: program guidelines and selection criteria.

This bill, notwithstanding the above, would exempt the adoption of regulations needed to effectuate or implement programs of the act from the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, as provided. The bill would require a state entity that receives funding to administer a competitive grant program established using the Administrative Procedure Act exemption to do certain things, including develop draft project solicitation and evaluation guidelines and to submit those guidelines to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, except as provided. The bill would require the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to post an electronic form of the guidelines submitted by a state entity and the subsequent verifications on the Natural Resources Agency’s internet website. The bill would authorize the use of certain previously developed program guidelines and selection criteria for these purposes, as provided.

Latest Activity:

05/06/26 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

Status: Active

| 60% Committee hearings

SB 222

Wiener

New Update!

Residential heat pump systems: water heaters and HVAC: installations.

The bill would require a city, county, or city and county, beginning July 1, 2027, to adopt and offer asynchronous inspections for installations of residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC systems, as defined, that do not require a licensed contractor and building inspector to be simultaneously present during the inspection. The bill would authorize a building inspector to contact the licensed contractor who performed the installation by telephone call or real-time video conferencing during their inspection, and, if the building inspector determines during an asynchronous inspection that there is an issue with an installation of the heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system and that the licensed contractor who performed the installation must be present to perform tests or cure the installation, to require the licensed contractor who performed the installation to schedule an additional inspection in which the building inspector and the licensed contractor who performed the installation are required to be simultaneously present during the additional inspection. The bill would specify that these provisions do not require a local entity described above to discontinue offering inspections for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system where in a building inspector and licensed contractor who performed the installation are simultaneously present.

The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county, on or before July 1, 2028, and except as specified, to issue up to one nondiscretionary permit per installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system in which the local entity administratively approves an application to install the residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system. The bill would specify that nothing in that provision is to be construed to prevent a local entity described above from issuing separate permits for a panel replacement or demolition work conducted as part of the residential heat pump installation.

The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to apply only certain planning or zoning or workforce labor standards on the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or residential heat pump HVAC system that are in addition to any state-level requirements, including additional standards that conform to local laws, including reach codes, designed to encourage the adoption of zero-emission equipment or improvement of building efficiency. The bill would prohibit a local entity described above from requiring a permit or inspection for plug-in ready window air-conditioner or window heat pump HVAC systems, provided that certain requirements are met, including that the appliance has a voltage rating of 120 volts or less and the appliance is a self-contained unit.

The bill would require a city, county, or city and county, on or before July 1, 2028, to implement an online, instant automated permitting process that issues permits in real time to a licensed contractor for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or residential heat pump HVAC system that meets certain criteria, including that the installation is for a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system that does not require installation of a new electrical panel, or demolition panel or structural work. work, and if the installation is for a residential heat pump HVAC system, that the licensed contractor certifies under penalty of perjury that they have performed a load calculation to properly size the new residential heat pump HVAC equipment per certain provisions and provides the load calculation to the local authority having jurisdiction upon request. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The bill would authorize specify the methods that a local entity described above to may use to comply with the above-described requirement by using, requirement, including, among other things, an automated platform that can issue permits in real time. The bill would require require, for an installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system, the local entity to publish and make publicly available, among other things, any required permitting documentation, on their internet website. The bill would require the local entity to allow an applicant to, among other things, submit a permit application and associated documentation electronically. The bill would require a local entity described above that applies to receive any funding from the commission to self-certify to the commission its compliance with any applicable portions of the bill’s provisions.

The bill would exempt from these provisions a city with a population of fewer than 5,000 persons or a county with a population of fewer than 150,000 persons, as specified.

The bill would, except as provided, prohibit a city, county, or city and county from charging a permit fee for a residential heat pump water heater and heat pump HVAC system that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, subject to specified requirements, including that the permit fee for a residential heat pump water heater system does not exceed $150. The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a local entity described above to charge a permit fee, as specified, for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system that exceeds the above-described fee limit, as specified, if the local entity, as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit, and would prohibit a local entity described above from applying additional charges above the publicly listed fee.The bill would require a local entity described above that applies to receive any funding from the commission to self-certify to the commission its compliance with any applicable portions of the bill’s provisions. By imposing additional duties on local entities described above, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The bill would include findings and declarations related to these provisions.

(2) Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments. Among other things, the act makes a provision of the governing document or architectural or landscaping guidelines or policies void and unenforceable if, among other things, the provision prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of prohibiting, the use of low water-using plants as a group or as a replacement of existing turf.

This bill would additionally make any provision of the governing documents, architectural guidelines, or policies void and unenforceable if the provision prevents the replacement of a fuel-gas-burning appliance with an electric appliance. The bill would also make any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any, among other specified agreements, deed, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system, void and unenforceable.

Latest Activity:

05/18/26 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.

Status: Active

| 50% First reading in the other house

AB 1774

Boerner

Electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation plans: expenditures.

This bill would require the commission,
on or before June 30, 2027, to complete a one-time independent audit of all wildfire mitigation expenditures incurred by each electrical corporation between January 1, 2021, and January 1, 2027, as provided. The bill would require that the audit be conducted by an independent third-party auditor. The bill would require the commission, in the next appropriate proceeding following the audit, to consider the findings of the audit in determining the terms and conditions under which an electrical corporation’s requested cost recovery may be authorized, as provided. The bill would require the commission to establish a schedule for conducting future independent audits of each electrical corporation’s wildfire mitigation expenditures incurred during the preceding 4 calendar years. The bill would require the commission, pursuant to that schedule, to conduct an independent audit of an electrical corporation’s prior wildfire mitigation expenditures before any proceeding in which the electrical corporation seeks to recover, collect, or expend ratepayer funds for wildfire mitigation programs, including, but not limited to, expenditures authorized pursuant to an approved wildfire mitigation plan.

Latest Activity:

05/14/26 In committee: Held under submission.

Status: Held

| 30% Second reading

AB 2389

Irwin

New Update!

Property taxation: active solar energy systems: customer sited: extension.

This bill would extend, for lien dates commencing on or after January 1, 2027, and before January 1, 2031, the above-described exclusion for customer-sited, active solar energy systems with a system size of less than or equal to 2 megawatts and for customer-sited, active solar energy systems that are sited on the property of a public entity customer. The bill would require that, for active solar energy systems sited on the property of a public entity customer, tax savings be utilized to maintain the affordability of, or to reduce the cost of, future lease agreements. The bill would limit the exclusion for active solar energy systems incorporated by the owner-builder to buildings where the initial construction permit for the new building is dated before January 1, 2027. The bill would make conforming changes. By imposing additional duties on local tax officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law requires bills authorizing a new tax expenditure, as defined, to contain, among other things, specific goals that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements.This bill also would include additional information required for bills authorizing a new tax expenditure.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Latest Activity:

05/14/26 In committee: Held under submission.

Status: Held

| 20% Committee hearings

SB 1087

Cabaldon

New Update!

Transportation planning: sustainable communities strategies: transportation funding programs

SB 1087 revises California’s transportation planning process by requiring, starting with RTPs adopted on or after January 1, 2027, that every second regional transportation plan (i.e., every eight years) include a new sustainable communities strategy, with an implementation report required in intervening years; shifts responsibility for reviewing sustainable communities strategies and alternative planning strategies from the State Air Resources Board to the California Transportation Commission, with deemed approval if the Commission misses specified deadlines; updates greenhouse gas emissions targets for the 2035 on-road transportation sector based on fleet efficiency and reduced vehicle miles traveled, eliminates the state board’s authority to revise targets every four years, and requires enhanced public participation; exempts the preparation and adoption of RTPs, SCSs, and APSs from CEQA if enhanced public outreach is conducted; requires that $25,000,000 in Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program local planning grants be allocated based on population share; and aligns the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, Trade Corridor Enhancement Program, and Solutions for Congested Corridors Program with regional transportation plan timing, phasing, and scope, including requiring GHG emission reductions for projects under an alternative planning strategy.

Latest Activity:

05/27/26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Status: Held

| 50% First reading in the other house

SB 887

Padilla

New Update!

California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects: data centers: clean energy powerplant projects.

This bill would prohibit the application of categorical exemption to a project for the development and operation of a data center, as defined. By increasing the duties of a lead agency in relation to the environmental review of a data center project, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

This bill would authorize the Governor to certify a data center project that is certified by the lead agency to meet specified conditions as an environmental leadership development project. The bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to develop uniform statewide standards for those conditions for data centers, require regular compliance reporting by operators of data centers for those conditions, and initiate enforcement proceedings in the event of noncompliance with those conditions, as appropriate. The bill would also authorize the Governor to certify a geothermal powerplant meeting certain criteria as an environmental leadership development project. The bill would require the quantification and mitigation of impacts for emissions of greenhouse gases of a data center project in the same manner as those certain environmental leadership projects.
By increasing the duties of a lead agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Latest Activity:

05/26/26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Status: Held

| 50% First reading in the other house

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