CA AB 14
enactedCoastal resources: Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 14 pass?
Yes. CA AB 14 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-10-11): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 606, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 14 about?
Existing law establishes the Ocean Protection Council in state government to, among other things, establish policies to coordinate the collection, evaluation, and sharing of scientific data related to coastal and ocean resources among agencies. Existing law requires the council to develop and implement a voluntary sustainable seafood promotion program for the state, to consist of specified components, including a competitive grant and loan program for eligible entities, including, but not limited to, fishery groups and associations, for the purpose of assisting California fisheries in qualifying for certification to internationally accepted standards for sustainable seafood. This bill would, subject to the availability of funding, require the council to participate, as a stakeholder and in an advisory capacity, in the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program with air pollution control districts and air quality management districts along the coast and other stakeholders to support, in an advisory capacity, coastal air districts in their efforts to implement a statewide voluntary vessel speed reduction and sustainable shipping program for the California coast in order to reduce air pollution, the risk of fatal vessel strikes on whales, and harmful underwater acoustic impacts. The bill would authorize the expansion of the existing Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program to include specified components, including incentives to program participants based on a percentage of distance traveled by a participating vessel at a reduced speed, as provided. The bill would limit application of the program to vessels that are 300 gross tons or greater. The bill would require the participating air pollution control districts and air quality management districts, on or before December 31, 2029, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the implementation of the program.
Who sponsors CA AB 14?
Hart is the primary sponsor of CA AB 14, joined by 7 cosponsors.
Description
Existing law establishes the Ocean Protection Council in state government to, among other things, establish policies to coordinate the collection, evaluation, and sharing of scientific data related to coastal and ocean resources among agencies. Existing law requires the council to develop and implement a voluntary sustainable seafood promotion program for the state, to consist of specified components, including a competitive grant and loan program for eligible entities, including, but not limited to, fishery groups and associations, for the purpose of assisting California fisheries in qualifying for certification to internationally accepted standards for sustainable seafood. This bill would, subject to the availability of funding, require the council to participate, as a stakeholder and in an advisory capacity, in the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program with air pollution control districts and air quality management districts along the coast and other stakeholders to support, in an advisory capacity, coastal air districts in their efforts to implement a statewide voluntary vessel speed reduction and sustainable shipping program for the California coast in order to reduce air pollution, the risk of fatal vessel strikes on whales, and harmful underwater acoustic impacts. The bill would authorize the expansion of the existing Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program to include specified components, including incentives to program participants based on a percentage of distance traveled by a participating vessel at a reduced speed, as provided. The bill would limit application of the program to vessels that are 300 gross tons or greater. The bill would require the participating air pollution control districts and air quality management districts, on or before December 31, 2029, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the implementation of the program.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-13
- Latest action
- 2025-10-11 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 606, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- 2026-07-09T05:10:41.325424Z
Subjects
Sponsors
- Hartauthor
- Bennettauthor
- Connollyauthor
- Addiscoauthor
- Boernercoauthor
- Daviescoauthor
- Pellerincoauthor
- Blakespearcoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2025-10-11
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 606, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
2025-10-11
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-09-22
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-09-10
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3210.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-09
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-09
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2661.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-08-29
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-08-29
Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-3
2025-08-29
Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-08-25
In Senate. Held at Desk.
2025-08-25
Ordered to the Senate.
2025-07-17
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-07-17
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2137.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-07-15
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-07-14
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-06-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-05-23
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-05-14
Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q.
referral-committee
2025-05-01
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-05-01
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1385.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-04-24
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-03-25
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-03-17
Re-referred to Com. on W. P., & W.
referral-committee
2025-03-13
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W. P., & W. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-02-03
Referred to Coms. on W. P., & W. and NAT. RES.
referral-committee
2024-12-03
From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
2024-12-02
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-03-25 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Macedo: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Bains: yes
- Hart: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Papan: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Bennett: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-07 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (14)
- Pellerin: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Hoover: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-04-23 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Pacheco: yes
- Ta: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hart: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
AB 14 Hart Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-05-01 · pass · 76-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Bains: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Solache: yes
- Krell: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Lee: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Ta: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Flora: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Soria: yes
- Patel: yes
- Haney: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ward: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Davies: yes
- Berman: yes
- McKinnor: other
- Papan: other
- Chen: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-10 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Limón: yes
- Stern: yes
- Grove: yes
- Allen: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Laird: yes
- Hurtado: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-02 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (8)
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Menjivar: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd AB14 Hart et al.
2025-07-17 · pass · 35-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Limón: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Laird: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Niello: yes
- Stern: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Choi: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Jones: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Allen: yes
- Grove: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Umberg: other
- Becker: other
- Padilla: other
- Reyes: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
3rd Reading AB14 Hart et al. By Limón
2025-09-09 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Richardson: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Jones: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Stern: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Becker: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Grove: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Limón: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Allen: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Choi: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Blakespear: yes
AB 14 Hart Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-11 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Chen: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Bains: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lee: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ward: yes
- Fong: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Tangipa: other
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