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type: "Bill"
title: "Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: extension."
description: "The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined. The act authorizes the state board to revise regulations or adopt additional regulations to further the act. The act authorizes that state board to include in those regulations the use of a market-based compliance mechanism to comply with those regulations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 1207"
citation: "California AB 1207 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Climatechange", "extension", "market-basedcompliancemechanism"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7d7006b-cbce-4f7d-9ced-da6a7e19dc0b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1207"
source_hash: "2eb406a8c6b49d0ea0d8b390899cd6f9be983f3f208c244ce75fbaaa7cd2c22e"
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 AB 1207 (20252026) — Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: extension.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined. The act authorizes the state board to revise regulations or adopt additional regulations to further the act. The act authorizes that state board to include in those regulations the use of a market-based compliance mechanism to comply with those regulations.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1207&version=20250AB120799INT)
2. **03/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1207&version=20250AB120798AMD)
3. **09/10/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1207&version=20250AB120797AMD)
4. **09/19/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1207&version=20250AB120795CHP)
5. **AB1207** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1207)
6. **09/13/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1207&version=20250AB120796ENR)
## Votes
- 2nd Reading AB1207 Irwin et al. By Limón Urgency Clause — **296** (pass) · upper
- AB 1207 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — **602** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **51** (pass) · upper
- AB 1207 IRWIN Concurrence - Urgency Added — **5810** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **110** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **110** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Irwin — primary (person)
- Limón — author (person)
- McGuire — author (person)
- Rivas — author (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`
- **2025-03-17** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** 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`
- **2025-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 2. Page 1727.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-04** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-10** Joint Rules 61 and 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2760.)
- **2025-09-10** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-10** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(C). `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-10** Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (September 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-12** Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2958.)
- **2025-09-12** Senate Rule 29 suspended. (Page 2961.)
- **2025-09-13** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 6. Page 3050.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-13** Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
- **2025-09-13** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3487.)
- **2025-09-13** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 10. Page 3488.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2025-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 117, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7d7006b-cbce-4f7d-9ced-da6a7e19dc0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).