SB 474 California Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

State Air Resources Board: regulatory authority: revocation.

Summary
Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, and confers the state board various regulatory authorities, including the authority to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions, as specified. This bill would revoke all authority of the state board to adopt, revise, or repeal regulations and would declare that any law granting authority to or requiring the state board to adopt, revise, or repeal regulations, or take an action that requires exercising regulatory authority, instead be read as only authorizing the state board to provide advice and propose measures to the Legislature for statutory enactment. The bill would require the state board to, as necessary, provide advice and propose measures to the Legislature for statutory enactment regarding its duties, as provided. The bill would declare that it does not invalidate or repeal any regulation adopted by the state board before January 1, 2026.
Bill status failed 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 19, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026
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02/19/25 - Introduced SB474 · 1 edit
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No substantive policy changes were made between these two versions. The diff reflects only a reformatting of the same bill text from the official legislative document layout (with line numbers and page headers) into a web-based presentation format (with navigation menus, search tools, and website chrome). The actual bill content - revoking CARB's regulatory authority and replacing it with an advisory role - is identical in both versions.
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The bill text was reformatted from the official printed legislative document format (with line numbers, page headers, and traditional layout) into a web page format that includes navigation menus, search functionality, and website elements. No changes to the substantive language of the bill were made.

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Committee
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Apr 30, 2025
Committee
April 30 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 3. Noes 5. Page 963.) Reconsideration granted.
upper
Feb 26, 2025
Committee
Referred to Com. on E.Q.
upper
Feb 19, 2025
Introduced
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Roger Niello
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