republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-1280.md

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Bill	Energy.	(1) The Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act establishes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) in the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, governed by a board of directors. The act, among other things, authorizes the I-Bank to make loans, issue bonds, and provide financial assistance for various types of projects that qualify as economic development or public development facilities. The Climate Catalyst Revolving Fund Act of 2020 authorizes the I-bank, under the Climate Catalyst Revolving Fund Program, to provide financial assistance to any eligible sponsor or participating party in connection with the financing or refinancing of a climate catalyst project, either directly to the sponsor or participating party or to a lending or financial institution, as provided. The act requires the I-Bank to adopt climate catalyst financing plans for specified categories of climate catalyst projects, as specified, after meeting and conferring with the appropriate consulting agencies for those specified categories of climate catalyst projects.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1280	California AB 1280 (20252026)	bill	Energy	enacted	Garcia	8	30	10	2025-02-21	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/68b49c88-7687-40f2-8988-a9efc0938731	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1280	2e10ef4bf7d4c860b644d452c31c89c68e52e4a1c5f84beeea4fea8848129341	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1280 (20252026) — Energy.

(1) The Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act establishes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) in the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, governed by a board of directors. The act, among other things, authorizes the I-Bank to make loans, issue bonds, and provide financial assistance for various types of projects that qualify as economic development or public development facilities. The Climate Catalyst Revolving Fund Act of 2020 authorizes the I-bank, under the Climate Catalyst Revolving Fund Program, to provide financial assistance to any eligible sponsor or participating party in connection with the financing or refinancing of a climate catalyst project, either directly to the sponsor or participating party or to a lending or financial institution, as provided. The act requires the I-Bank to adopt climate catalyst financing plans for specified categories of climate catalyst projects, as specified, after meeting and conferring with the appropriate consulting agencies for those specified categories of climate catalyst projects.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/17/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1280 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1280 Garcia Assembly Third Reading — 72–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1280 Garcia et al. By Becker — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1280 Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Garcia — primary (person)
• Zbur — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-13 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1953.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 2061.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and E., U & C. referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U & C. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2704.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 3240.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 395, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68b49c88-7687-40f2-8988-a9efc0938731. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).