CA AB 154
enactedGreenhouse gases: climate corporate accountability: climate-related financial risk: regulations: California Environmental Quality Act exemption.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Description
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. Existing law, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, requires, on or before July 1, 2025, the State Air Resources Board to develop and adopt regulations to require a reporting entity, defined to mean a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other business entity with total annual revenues in excess of $1 billion, as specified, to annually disclose to the emissions reporting organization, as defined, or the state board all of the reporting entity's scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions, as defined. Existing law requires the state board to adopt regulations that authorize it to seek administrative penalties for nonfiling, late filing, or other failure to meet the requirements of the act, as provided. This bill would exempt those regulations from CEQA. Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2026, and biennially thereafter, a covered entity, defined to mean a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other business entity with total annual revenues in excess of $500,000,000, as specified, to prepare a climate-related financial risk report, as specified, and to make this report available to the public on its own internet website. Existing law requires the state board to adopt regulations that authorize it to seek administrative penalties from a covered entity that fails to make the report publicly available on its internet website or publishes an inadequate or insufficient report. This bill would exempt those regulations from CEQA. (2) This bill would appropriate from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund $1,000 to the State Air Resources Board for purposes of implementing the above-described provisions relating to climate corporate accountability and climate-related financial risk, as provided. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
- Introduced
- 2025-09-08
- Status date
- —
- Latest action
- 2025-10-11 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 609, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill,appropriation
- Last updated
- —
Subjects
Sponsors
- Committee on Budgetauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-01-08
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-01-09
From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
2025-02-03
Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
referral-committee
2025-03-17
Withdrawn from committee.
withdrawal
2025-03-17
Ordered to second reading.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-03-17
(Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 643.)
2025-03-18
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-03-20
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 740.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-03-20
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-04-02
Referred to Com. on B. & F. R.
referral-committee
2025-09-08
Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2568.)
2025-09-08
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-09-10
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (September 10).
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2025-09-11
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-09-12
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 2949.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-12
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-12
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3429.)
2025-09-12
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 3430.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-24
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-10-11
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-10-11
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 609, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
Versions
Documents
Votes
AB 154 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading
2025-03-20 · pass · 53-17
Member-level votes (80)
- Gipson: yes
- Ward: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Lee: yes
- Patel: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Haney: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Solache: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Fong: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Addis: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Bains: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Hart: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Berman: yes
- Soria: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Hadwick: no
- Flora: no
- DeMaio: no
- Macedo: no
- Alanis: no
- Ellis: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Castillo: no
- Sanchez: no
- Ta: no
- Gallagher: no
- Chen: no
- Dixon: no
- Tangipa: no
- Lackey: no
- Davies: no
- Patterson: no
- Calderon: other
- Hoover: other
- Ahrens: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Papan: other
- Wallis: other
- Essayli: other
- Irwin: other
- Alvarez: other
- Krell: other
Do pass
2025-09-10 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (18)
- McNerney: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Allen: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: other
- Niello: other
- Grove: other
- Seyarto: other
- Choi: other
3rd Reading AB154 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Wiener
2025-09-12 · pass · 29-0
Member-level votes (40)
- McGuire: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Allen: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Limón: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Strickland: other
- Seyarto: other
- Dahle: other
- Choi: other
- Niello: other
- Valladares: other
- Jones: other
- Ochoa Bogh: other
- Grove: other
- Gonzalez: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
AB 154 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GABRIEL
2025-09-13 · pass · 71-1
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Dixon: no
- Tangipa: other
- Lackey: other
- Macedo: other
- Gallagher: other
- Castillo: other
- Ellis: other
- Patterson: other
- DeMaio: other
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