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Bill	Community emissions reduction programs: toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants.	Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare, and to update at least once every 5 years, a statewide strategy to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants in communities affected by a high cumulative exposure burden. Existing law requires the state board to include in the statewide strategy, among other components, an assessment and identification of communities with high cumulative exposure burdens for toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants, prioritizing disadvantaged communities and sensitive receptor locations based on specified factors. Existing law requires the state board, based on the assessment and identification of communities with high cumulative exposure burdens, to select locations around the state for preparation of community emissions reduction programs. Existing law requires an air district encompassing any location selected by the state board to adopt, within one year of the state board's selection, a community emissions reduction program to achieve emissions reductions for the location selected using cost-effective measures, as specified. Existing law also requires an air district to submit the community emissions reduction program to the state board for review and approval as prescribed, and to prepare an annual report summarizing the results and actions taken to further reduce emissions pursuant to the community emissions reduction program, among other things.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1749	California AB 1749 (20212022)	bill	Community emissions reduction programs: toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants.	enacted	Cristina Garcia	9	26	6	2022-02-01	2022-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/e72e8f0a-0ad4-4409-b229-c62cbf7f3368	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1749	698dff72ca09eed565de325adef2f153acc8a8fe0665ae14dc8cf9da1b320430	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1749 (20212022) — Community emissions reduction programs: toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants.

Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare, and to update at least once every 5 years, a statewide strategy to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants in communities affected by a high cumulative exposure burden. Existing law requires the state board to include in the statewide strategy, among other components, an assessment and identification of communities with high cumulative exposure burdens for toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants, prioritizing disadvantaged communities and sensitive receptor locations based on specified factors. Existing law requires the state board, based on the assessment and identification of communities with high cumulative exposure burdens, to select locations around the state for preparation of community emissions reduction programs. Existing law requires an air district encompassing any location selected by the state board to adopt, within one year of the state board's selection, a community emissions reduction program to achieve emissions reductions for the location selected using cost-effective measures, as specified. Existing law also requires an air district to submit the community emissions reduction program to the state board for review and approval as prescribed, and to prepare an annual report summarizing the results and actions taken to further reduce emissions pursuant to the community emissions reduction program, among other things.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/01/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1749 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1749 Cristina Garcia By Allen — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1749 Cristina Garcia Assembly Third Reading — 48–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 1749 Cristina Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 52–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cristina Garcia — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2022-02-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-02 From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
• 2022-02-10 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2022-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 18.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5222.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 18.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 340, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e72e8f0a-0ad4-4409-b229-c62cbf7f3368. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).