AB 2432 (2025) — State Air Resources Board: regulations: analysis of financial impact on drivers.

AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 23, 2026

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

ASSEMBLY BILLNo. 2432

Introduced by Assembly Member Ellis

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Davies, Gallagher, Hadwick, Hoover, Lackey, Macedo, Tangipa, Patterson, and Wallis)

February 20, 2026

An act to add Section 39601.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.

Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal committee: yes Local program: no

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

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.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

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 39601 that would have a direct financial impact on drivers in the state, ~~the state board~~ 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.