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AB-1132 • 2026

Department of Transportation: climate change vulnerability assessment: community resilience assessment.

Department of Transportation: climate change vulnerability assessment: community resilience assessment.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Schiavo
Last action
2026-02-02
Official status
From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about updates to existing laws regarding the department's roles.

Department of Transportation: Assessing Climate Risks for Communities

This law requires the Department of Transportation to assess how climate change affects transportation and communities by identifying key resilience indicators and evaluating broader social and economic impacts.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires the Department of Transportation to identify important community resilience factors that measure the effects of climate-related disruptions on transportation by January 1, 2029.
  • Requires the department to include an evaluation of how infrastructure risks affect communities' social and economic well-being in its Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment reports by January 1, 2030.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Department of Transportation
  • Communities affected by transportation disruptions due to climate change

Terms To Know

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
A report that evaluates how extreme weather events and other climate changes might affect the state's transportation system.
Community Resilience Indicators
Measures used to understand how well communities can recover from disruptions caused by climate change.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if the department fails to meet these requirements.
  • It is unclear which specific communities will be directly impacted or involved in this process.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-02 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

  2. 2026-01-31 California Legislative Information

    Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.

  3. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Held under submission.

  4. 2025-05-07 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  5. 2025-04-22 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  6. 2025-04-21 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  7. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.

  8. 2025-03-13 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

  9. 2025-02-21 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  10. 2025-02-20 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1132, as amended, Schiavo.
Department of Transportation: climate change vulnerability assessment: community resilience assessment.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation to, among other things, plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain the state highway system, as provided. Pursuant to that authority, the department developed 12 district-based Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment reports designed to provide the department with a comprehensive database to help in evaluating, mitigating, and adapting to the effects of increasing extreme weather events on the state transportation system.
This bill would require the department, on or before January 1,
2027,
2029,
to identify key community resilience indicators for measuring the impacts of climate-induced
transportation
disruptions.
disruptions, as specified.
The bill would also require the department, on or before January 1,
2028,
2030,
to include in the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment reports an evaluation of the broader social and economic impacts on communities connected to the evaluated infrastructure risks, as specified.

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