20250AB__158498AMD INTRODUCED 2026-01-13 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-06-09 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Jackson LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Jackson

An act to add

Section to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air resources. air resources State Air Resources Board: Office of Civil Rights. Existing law establishes within the California Environmental Protection Agency the State Air Resources Board. Existing law provides for the establishment of air pollution control districts and air quality management districts.

Existing law generally vests regulatory jurisdiction over stationary sources of air pollution in the air pollution control districts and air quality management districts and regulatory jurisdiction over mobile sources of air pollution in the State Air Resources Board. This bill, contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another act for its purposes, would create the Office of Civil Rights within the state board.

The bill would set forth the responsibilities of the office, including providing training on civil rights obligations to board staff, grantees, contractors, and subrecipients. The bill would require the state board to post on its internet website an annual

summary of information regarding the office, including a

summary of civil rights complaints received by the office and a description of compliance and enforcement efforts by the office relating to civil rights. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section is added to the Health and Safety Code , to read: 39520. (

a) There is hereby established within the state board an Office of Civil Rights. (

b) The responsibilities of the office established pursuant to subdivision (

a) include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

(1) Providing training on civil rights obligations to board staff, grantees, contractors, and subrecipients.

(2) Developing a civil rights evaluation tool to assist recipients in understanding and being able to meet their civil rights requirements.

(3) Ensuring language access and culturally appropriate outreach in all public engagement processes, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (

A) Translation and

interpretation services. (

B) Bilingual or multilingual staffing. (

C) Multilingual public materials. (4)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Coordinating with air pollution control districts and air quality management districts and the California Environmental Protection Agency to align civil rights compliance efforts statewide.</xhtml:p>"?> (

c) The state board shall post on its internet website an annual

summary that includes, but is not limited to, the following information regarding the office created pursuant to subdivision (a):

(1) A

summary of civil rights complaints received by the office.

(2) A description of compliance and enforcement efforts by the office relating to civil rights.

(3) An overview of public outreach and engagement activities carried out by the office. (

d) The implementation of this

section is contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another act for these purposes.