20250AB__243298AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-03-23 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Ellis (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Davies, Gallagher, Hadwick, Hoover, Lackey, Macedo, Tangipa, Patterson, and Wallis) LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ellis COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Alanis COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Davies COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Gallagher <caml:Contribution>COAUTHOR</caml:Contribution><caml:House>ASSEMBLY</caml:House><caml:Name>Macedo</caml:Name></caml:Legislator>"?> COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Hadwick COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Hoover COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Lackey COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Macedo COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Tangipa COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Patterson COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Wallis

An act to add

Section 39601.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution. air pollution State Air Resources Board: regulations: analysis of financial impact on drivers. Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution and as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases.

Existing law requires the state board to adopt standards, rules, and regulations necessary for the proper execution of the powers and duties granted to, and imposed upon, the state board. This bill would require the state board, when it revises, adopts, or establishes any policy, standard, rule, or regulation that would have a direct financial impact on drivers in the state, to consider the financial burden on drivers, and to prepare a thorough analysis and evaluation of the financial impact of the proposed action on drivers to ensure full transparency.

MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 39601.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code , to read: 39601.3. When the state board revises, adopts, or establishes any policy, standard, rule, or regulation pursuant to

Section that would have a direct financial impact on drivers in the state, it shall consider the financial burden on drivers and shall prepare a thorough analysis and evaluation of the financial impact, including, but not limited to, any increase to the retail price of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel, of the proposed action on drivers to ensure full transparency.