republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-942.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Low Carbon Transit Operations Program: free or reduced fare transit program."
description: "Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the State Air Resources Board as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. Existing law continuously appropriates specified portions of the annual proceeds in the fund to various programs, including 5% for the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, which is administered by the Department of Transportation and provides operating and capital assistance for transit agencies to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases and improve mobility. Existing law requires each of those transit agencies to demonstrate that each expenditure of program moneys allocated to the transit agency reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases and does not supplant another source of funds, to use those moneys to provide transit operating or capital assistance, to use at least 50% of those moneys to benefit disadvantaged communities, and to submit specified information to the department before seeking a disbursement of those program moneys, as"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 942"
citation: "California SB 942 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Low Carbon Transit Operations Program: free or reduced fare transit program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Newman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-02-08"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1769d651-ba40-4f74-9cb2-1a997e0abc5b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB942"
source_hash: "c614a2662aecdcba5aef1e073605b228a4ffbad0284f042989b7820c8d2e8b22"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 942 (20212022) — Low Carbon Transit Operations Program: free or reduced fare transit program.

Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the State Air Resources Board as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. Existing law continuously appropriates specified portions of the annual proceeds in the fund to various programs, including 5% for the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, which is administered by the Department of Transportation and provides operating and capital assistance for transit agencies to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases and improve mobility. Existing law requires each of those transit agencies to demonstrate that each expenditure of program moneys allocated to the transit agency reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases and does not supplant another source of funds, to use those moneys to provide transit operating or capital assistance, to use at least 50% of those moneys to benefit disadvantaged communities, and to submit specified information to the department before seeking a disbursement of those program moneys, as

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB942&version=20210SB94299INT)
2. **06/29/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB942&version=20210SB94298AMD)
3. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB942&version=20210SB94296CHP)
4. **SB942** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB942)
5. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB942&version=20210SB94297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 942 Newman Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB942 Newman et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Newman — primary (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-08** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-08** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
- **2022-02-09** From printer.
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Set for hearing March 22.
- **2022-03-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 3184.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** Set for hearing March 28.
- **2022-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3238.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2022-04-18** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 3641.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-19** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-07-29** August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-08-10** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5954.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-23** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5023.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 988, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1769d651-ba40-4f74-9cb2-1a997e0abc5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).