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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 08/28/25 - Amended Senate
 07/22/25 - Amended Senate
 05/01/25 - Amended Assembly
 04/24/25 - Amended Assembly
 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/19/25 - Introduced

 AB-881 Public resources: transportation of carbon dioxide.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 08/28/2025 09:00 PM

AB881:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
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 Senate
 August 28, 2025

 Amended
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 Senate
 July 22, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 May 01, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 April 24, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 March 28, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 881

Introduced by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris
(Principal coauthor: Senator McNerney)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bennett, Harabedian, McKinnor, Papan, Rogers, Ward, Wilson, and Zbur)

February 19, 2025

An act to amend Sections 51010, 51010.5, and 51018.6 of, and to add Sections 51011.5, 51011.6, 51015.06, and 51018.9 to, the Government Code, to amend Section 116375 of, and to add Section 39741.7 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 71465 of, and to add Section 21087 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to public resources.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 881, as amended, Petrie-Norris.
 Public resources: transportation of carbon dioxide.

The Elder California Pipeline Safety Act of 1981 requires the State Fire Marshal to administer provisions regulating the inspection of intrastate pipelines that transport hazardous liquids. A person who willfully and knowingly violates the act or a regulation issued pursuant to the act is, upon conviction, subject to a fine, imprisonment, or both a fine and imprisonment, as provided. 

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.

This bill would revise the definition of “pipeline,” for purposes of the act, to include intrastate pipelines used for the transportation of carbon dioxide. The bill would require
 the State Fire Marshal, by April
 July 1, 2026, to adopt regulations governing the safe transportation of carbon dioxide in pipelines that, at a minimum, are as protective as certain draft regulations issued by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration on January 10, 2025. The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal to amend those regulations, as provided. The bill would prohibit the approval of a pipeline for use in transporting carbon dioxide if the pipeline is originally constructed to transport any other liquid or gas, and would prohibit the construction of those pipelines using previously used pipe or components. The bill would prohibit an operator from constructing a pipeline transporting carbon dioxide in a location where one or more sensitive receptors, as defined, are located within the emergency planning zone of the pipeline, which is defined as an area within 2 miles of either side of the pipeline, except as provided. The bill would require an operator of a pipeline
 transporting carbon dioxide to submit to the State Fire Marshal and the public agency that is the lead agency for the project that includes the pipeline an emergency planning zone inventory and map, as provided, and would require the State Fire Marshal to review, at least once every 3 years, the inventory and map for completeness and accura