All Bills in the 2023 California Score
California’s 2023 Environmental Score is a measure of how California did overall on advancing climate and environmental policy through legislation, the state budget, and actions from the Governor and his administration.
To calculate California’s score, we tracked the outcome of 61 total environmental bills that were introduced in 2023, three major pro-environment actions the Governor’s administration took, and three major anti-environmental actions the state took. An extra +10% was added onto the overall score to account for the two major climate bills that passed into law, the Climate Corporate Leadership and Accountability Act (SB 253, authored by Senator Scott Wiener) and the Climate Financial Risk Disclosure Act (SB 261, authored by Senator Henry Stern), which deserve extra recognition due to their worldwide impacts.
The following bills are used to determine the overall California score. The linked bills below are also used to determine legislators’ scores. For just that list, visit this page.
| Bill | Final Result |
|---|---|
| AB 3 (Zbur) California Offshore Wind Energy & Jobs Act | Signed into Law |
| AB 7 (Friedman) Climate & Equity Goals for Transportation Investments | Failed |
| AB 57 (Kalra) California Pocket Forest Initiative | Vetoed |
AB 126 (Reyes & Gonzalez) (Formerly AB 241 & SB 84) Clean Transportation Program Modernization | Signed into Law |
| AB 249 (Holden) School Lead Testing & Mitigation | Vetoed |
| AB 285 (Luz Rivas) Pupil instruction: science requirements: climate change | Signed into Law |
AB 292 (Pellerin) Primary elections: ballots | Signed into Law |
AB 363 (Bauer-Kahan) Pesticides: neonicotinoids for nonagricultural use: reevaluation: control measures | Signed into Law |
| AB 398 (Pellerin) Voting: replacement ballots | Signed into Law |
| AB 418 (Gabriel) Food Product Safety | Signed into Law |
| AB 421 (Bryan) Referendum Reform | Signed into Law |
AB 460 (Bauer-Kahan) State Water Board Emergency Interim Relief | Failed |
| AB 538 (Holden) Multistate regional transmission system organization | Failed |
AB 545 (Pellerin) Elections: access for voters with disabilities | Signed into Law |
| AB 579 (Ting) Schoolbuses: zero-emission vehicles | Signed into Law |
| AB 585 (Robert Rivas) Climate change: infrastructure and clean energy projects: assessments | Signed into Law |
| AB 593 (Haney) Pathway to Clean Energy Buildings | Failed |
AB 626 (Pellerin) Voting: returning vote by mail ballots in person | Signed into Law |
| AB 631 (Hart) Community Safety and Protection Act | Signed into Law |
AB 652 (Lee) Department of Pesticide Regulation Environmental Justice Advisory Committee | Signed into Law |
| AB 664 (Lee) California Safe Drinking Water Act | Signed into Law |
AB 753 (Papan) State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account: annual proceeds transfers | Vetoed |
| AB 764 (Bryan) Local Redistricting | Signed into Law |
| AB 809 (Bennett) Salmonid populations: California Monitoring Program | Signed into Law |
| AB 844 (Gipson) Zero-emission trucks: insurance | Signed into Law |
| AB 970 (Luz Rivas) Insurance: Climate and Sustainability Insurance and Risk Reduction Program | Vetoed |
AB 985 (Arambula) Central Valley Air Pollution Credit Reform | Failed |
| Failed | |
| Signed into Law | |
| AB 1176 (Zbur) Local Electrification Planning | Failed |
| Vetoed | |
AB 1305 (Gabriel) Voluntary carbon market disclosures | Signed into Law |
| AB 1322 (Friedman) Pesticides: second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide: diphacinone | Signed into Law |
| AB 1337 (Wicks) Curtailing Water Usage During Shortages | Failed |
AB 1407 (Addis) Ocean Recovery & Large-Scale Restoration | Failed |
| AB 1628 (McKinnor) Microfiber Filtration | Vetoed |
SB 3 (Dodd) Discontinuation of Residential Water Services | Signed into Law |
| SB 49 (Becker) Renewable energy: Department of Transportation: evaluation | Signed into Law |
SB 52 (Durazo) Redistricting: large charter cities | Vetoed |
SB 69 (Cortese) California Environmental Quality Act: local agencies: filing of notices of determination or exemption | Signed into Law |
| SB 77 (Umberg) Voting: signature verification: notice | Signed into Law |
| SB 233 (Skinner) Bidirectional EVs | Failed |
| SB 244 (Eggman) Right to Repair | Signed into Law |
| SB 252 (Gonzalez, Stern, Wiener) California Fossil Fuel Divestment Act | Failed |
| SB 253 (Wiener, Gonzalez, Stern) Climate Corporate Leadership & Accountability Act | Signed into Law |
SB 261 (Stern, Becker, Gonzalez, Wiener) Climate Financial Risk Disclosure | Signed into Law |
| SB 314 (Ashby) County of Sacramento Redistricting Commission | Signed into Law |
| SB 337 (Min) Codifying 30×30: Land and Coastal Waters Conservation Goal | Signed into Law |
| Signed into Law | |
| SB 390 (Limón) Voluntary carbon offsets: business regulation | Vetoed |
SB 394 (Gonzalez) Master Plan for Healthy, Sustainable, and Climate-Resilient Schools | Vetoed |
| SB 420 (Becker) Electricity: electrical transmission facility projects | Vetoed |
| SB 527 (Min) Neighborhood Decarbonization Program | Failed |
SB 556 (Gonzalez) Health Protection Zones near Oil & Gas Wells | Failed |
| SB 619 (Padilla) State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: certification of facilities: electrical transmission projects | Vetoed |
| SB 674 (Gonzalez) statewide refinery fence line monitoring standards | Failed |
| SB 704 (Min) Coastal resources: California Coastal Act of 1976: industrial developments: oil and gas developments: refineries: petrochemical facilities: offshore wind | Signed into Law |
| SB 709 (Allen) Dairy Biogas Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Regulations | Failed |
| SB 745 (Cortese) The Drought-Resistant Buildings Act | Signed into Law |
| SB 842 (Bradford) Attack on Price Gouging Penalty Law (Envirovoters opposed this bill) | Vetoed (pro-environment) |
| SB X1-2 Price Gouging Penalty | Signed into Law |
* Linked bills above are used to determine legislators’ scores in addition to the overall California score
