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Senator Eloise Gómez Reyes Announces Substantive Amendments to SB 1075 to Strengthen Enforcement of Landmark Community Air Protections

Senator Eloise Gómez Reyes Announces Substantive Amendments to SB 1075 to Strengthen Enforcement of Landmark Community Air Protections

Sacramento, CA — Senator Eloise Gómez Reyes (D–Colton) today announced substantive amendments to SB 1075 – The Clean Air Promise Act - to strengthen enforcement of California’s landmark community air protection framework established under AB 617 (Garcia, 2017)—ensuring that commitments to reduce air pollution in the state’s most impacted communities are fully implemented.

SB 1075 builds on years of work to identify and fund projects that address disproportionate pollution burdens in disadvantaged communities by establishing clearer accountability, stronger oversight, and meaningful enforcement mechanisms to ensure local decisions align with community-driven air quality plans.

“Clean air is fundamental to healthy, thriving communities,” said Senator Reyes. “Impacted communities across California have done the work—identifying pollution sources, developing solutions, and advocating for cleaner air. SB 1075 builds on the state’s promise of clean air for all by strengthening enforcement and ensuring those efforts lead to real results.”

The amendments clarify and expand implementation requirements for the state’s Community Air Protection Program by strengthening coordination between state agencies, local governments, and community stakeholders, and by ensuring that local land use decisions support, not undermine, approved emissions reduction strategies.

Key provisions of the amended SB 1075 include:

  • Stronger alignment with community plans: Requires local governments to align land use decisions with approved Community Emissions Reduction Programs (CERPs) and environmental justice elements in general plans, helping prevent new developments that worsen air quality.
  • Enforcement and accountability tools: Authorizes oversight and enforcement, including review by the Attorney General, when local decisions conflict with adopted air quality plans.
  • Expanded community voice: Ensures representation from environmental justice communities in air district governance and maintains active, community-based steering committees until pollution reduction goals are met.
  • Clear standards and reporting: Establishes ongoing reporting requirements, measurable outcomes, and regular updates to statewide strategies to track progress and ensure transparency.
  • Responsible use of funding: Clarifies eligible uses of state funding and authorizes audits and corrective action to ensure investments deliver real emissions reductions. 

The bill also expands the definition of disadvantaged communities to ensure unincorporated areas—often among the most impacted—are fully included in protections and planning efforts. 

Since the passage of AB 617, California has made significant progress in identifying pollution burdens and developing localized strategies to address them. However, gaps in enforcement and implementation have limited the effectiveness of these efforts. 

SB 1075 addresses those gaps by ensuring that community-developed plans are not only adopted—but upheld.

“Cleaner air should not depend on where you live or how hard your community has to fight to be heard,” Senator Reyes added. “This bill is about making sure the promises we’ve made to our most impacted communities lead to real, measurable change.”

SB 1075 is supported by a coalition of environmental justice and public health organizations committed to advancing equitable air quality protections across California. These include:

  • Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (Co-Sponsor)
  • Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (Co-Sponsor)
  • Central California Asthma Collaborative (Co-Sponsor)
  • Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability (Co-Sponsor)
  • Sacramento Environmental Justice Coalition (Co-Sponsor)

SB 1075 was amended on March 25 and will be referred to a policy committee in the coming weeks. To learn more about Reyes, visit https://sd29.senate.ca.gov/.