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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 2
Introduced by Senator Jones
(Coauthors: Senators Alvarado-Gil, Choi, Megan Dahle, Grove, Niello, Ochoa Bogh, Seyarto, and Valladares)
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December 02, 2024 |
An act to add Section 39617.2 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 2, as introduced, Jones.
Low-carbon fuel standard: regulations.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
This bill would void specified amendments to the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations adopted by the state board on November 8, 2024.
This bill would
declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Digest Key
Vote:
2/3
Appropriation:
NO
Fiscal Committee:
YES
Local Program:
NO
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 39617.2 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:39617.2.
Notwithstanding any other law, the final regulation order of the state board to amend the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Article 4 of Subchapter 10 of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations) that amends Sections 95481, 95482, 95483, 95483.1, 95483.2, 95483.3, 95484, 95485, 95486, 95486.1, 95486.2, 95487, 95488, 95488.1, 95488.2, 95488.3, 95488.4, 95488.5, 95488.6, 95488.7, 95488.8, 95488.9, 95488.10, 95489, 95490, 95491, 95491.1, 95495, 95500, 95501, 95502, and 95503 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, as adopted on November 8, 2024, is hereby void.SEC. 2.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:Californians need immediate relief from unnecessarily high gasoline prices that will be driven even higher by recent amendments to the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. California consistently leads the nation with the highest gasoline prices, largely driven by excessive government taxes, fees, and regulations, and it is estimated that these recent amendments to the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations will increase the cost of a gallon of gasoline by sixty-five cents ($0.65) to eighty-five
cents ($0.85). This will worsen the current affordability crisis and decimate our economy.