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CA SB 30

enacted

Diesel-powered on-track equipment: decommissioning: resale and transfer restrictions.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 30 pass?

Yes. CA SB 30 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-13. Latest recorded action (2025-10-13): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 735, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 30 about?

Existing law provides various provisions applicable to all public transit and transit districts and includes specific requirements applicable to public entities that operate commuter rail or rail transit systems. This bill would prohibit a public entity that owns diesel-powered on-track equipment from selling, donating, or otherwise transferring ownership of that equipment for continued use after the public entity decommissions the equipment. The bill would exempt the sale, donation, or transfer of the ownership of that equipment from the prohibition if the equipment is deemed to be in one of specified categories of emissions standards designated by the federal government for locomotives, the equipment produces emissions equivalent to any equipment within any of those federal categories, or the diesel engine is removed from the equipment, as specified.

Who sponsors CA SB 30?

Cortese is the primary sponsor of CA SB 30, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Existing law provides various provisions applicable to all public transit and transit districts and includes specific requirements applicable to public entities that operate commuter rail or rail transit systems. This bill would prohibit a public entity that owns diesel-powered on-track equipment from selling, donating, or otherwise transferring ownership of that equipment for continued use after the public entity decommissions the equipment. The bill would exempt the sale, donation, or transfer of the ownership of that equipment from the prohibition if the equipment is deemed to be in one of specified categories of emissions standards designated by the federal government for locomotives, the equipment produces emissions equivalent to any equipment within any of those federal categories, or the diesel engine is removed from the equipment, as specified.

Introduced
2024-12-02
Latest action
2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 735, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Corteseauthor
  • Arreguíncoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2024-12-02

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2024-12-03

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 2.

  3. 2025-01-29

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

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  4. 2025-02-11

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

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  5. 2025-02-19

    Re-referred to Coms. on TRANS. and E.Q.

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  6. 2025-03-25

    Set for hearing April 8.

  7. 2025-03-26

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  8. 2025-04-09

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 3. Page 710.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

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  9. 2025-04-11

    Set for hearing April 30.

  10. 2025-05-01

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 962.) (April 30).

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  11. 2025-05-05

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  12. 2025-05-09

    Set for hearing May 19.

  13. 2025-05-19

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

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  14. 2025-05-20

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  15. 2025-05-28

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1297.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  16. 2025-05-28

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  17. 2025-06-05

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  18. 2025-06-26

    July 7 hearing postponed by committee.

  19. 2025-07-15

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (July 14).

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  20. 2025-07-16

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  21. 2025-08-20

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 20).

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  22. 2025-08-21

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  23. 2025-09-09

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 3092.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  24. 2025-09-09

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  25. 2025-09-10

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2836.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  26. 2025-09-17

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  27. 2025-10-13

    Approved by the Governor.

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  28. 2025-10-13

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 735, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 12/02/24 - Introduced — 2024-12-02Compare
  • 02/11/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-02-11Compare
  • 03/26/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-26Compare
  • 05/05/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-05Compare
  • 07/16/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-16Compare
  • 09/12/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-12Compare
  • 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
  • SB30Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality]

    2025-04-08 · pass · 11-3

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Cortese: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Strickland: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Seyarto: other

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-30 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (8)
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Valladares: other
    • Dahle: other

  • 3rd Reading

    2025-05-28 · pass · 28-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • McNerney: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Grove: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Niello: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Choi: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Jones: no
    • Reyes: other
    • Wahab: other

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-14 · pass · 10-5

    Member-level votes (16)
    • Ward: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Hoover: no
    • Davies: no
    • Macedo: no
    • Ahrens: no
    • Lackey: no
    • Papan: other

  • Do pass.

    2025-08-20 · pass · 11-4

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Fong: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Ta: no
    • Jeff Gonzalez: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Dixon: no

  • SB 30 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Wilson

    2025-09-09 · pass · 53-22

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Johnson: no
    • Dixon: no
    • Bains: no
    • Jeff Gonzalez: no
    • Lee: no
    • Castillo: no
    • Alanis: no
    • Wallis: no
    • Patterson: no
    • Ta: no
    • Hoover: no
    • Gallagher: no
    • Macedo: no
    • Ellis: no
    • Davies: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Hadwick: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Lackey: no
    • Sanchez: no
    • Chen: no
    • Flora: no
    • Irwin: other
    • Papan: other
    • Petrie-Norris: other
    • Ward: other
    • Soria: other

  • Unfinished Business SB30 Cortese et al. Concurrence

    2025-09-10 · pass · 29-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Umberg: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Choi: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Grove: no
    • Niello: no
    • Jones: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Limón: other

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