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SB-10 • 2026

Climate change: plans: gender impacts.

Climate change: plans: gender impacts.

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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
Padilla
Last action
2026-06-09
Official status
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on how gender impacts will be assessed or integrated into plans beyond requiring an assessment by a specified date.

Climate Change Plans: Gender Impacts

This bill requires an assessment of how extreme heat affects different genders differently and integrates this information into plans to address climate change.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the Natural Resources Agency to assess gender impacts of extreme heat by July 1, 2028.
  • Integrates findings from the gender impact assessment into updates of the Extreme Heat Action Plan every three years starting in 2026.
  • Publishes the gender impact assessment on official websites and shares it with relevant legislative committees.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation
  • Natural Resources Agency
  • Legislative committees

Terms To Know

Extreme Heat Action Plan
A plan that helps state and local governments deal with very hot weather.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not provide details on how gender impacts of extreme heat will be assessed.
  • The bill's impact on international agreements and federal laws is unclear.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  2. 2026-05-14 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

  3. 2026-05-12 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  4. 2025-06-27 California Legislative Information

    July 14 hearing postponed by committee.

  5. 2025-06-09 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

  6. 2025-06-04 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  7. 2025-06-03 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1472.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  8. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  9. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1187.) (May 23).

  10. 2025-05-16 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing May 23.

  11. 2025-04-21 California Legislative Information

    April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  12. 2025-04-04 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 21.

  13. 2025-04-03 California Legislative Information

    April 7 hearing postponed by committee.

  14. 2025-03-28 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 7.

  15. 2025-03-26 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3. Page 534.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. 2025-03-13 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  17. 2025-03-11 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing March 25.

  18. 2025-02-13 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  19. 2025-01-29 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

  20. 2024-12-03 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 2.

  21. 2024-12-02 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 10, as amended, Padilla.
Otay Mesa East Toll Facility Act: toll revenues.
Climate change: plans: gender impacts.
Existing law requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the Natural Resources Agency, on or before July 1, 2026, and every 3 years thereafter, to update the Extreme Heat Action Plan to promote comprehensive, coordinated, and effective state and local government action on extreme heat.
This bill would require the office and the agency, on or before July 1, 2028, to conduct an assessment of the disparate and differentiated gendered impacts and risks of extreme heat, as provided, for purposes of integration into updates to the Extreme Heat Action Plan. The bill would require the office and the agency to post the gender assessment on their respective internet websites and to provide the assessment to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the
Legislature.
Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to prioritize the most vulnerable communities, ecosystems, and economic sectors in the state’ climate adaptation and resilience strategy set forth in the Safeguarding California Plan and that the Natural Resources Agency consider developing policies to address the impacts of climate change and climate adaptation with a focus on equity and that actions taken to address climate adaptation should be consistent with the plan and specifies that in developing these policies and taking these actions, the agency include the adoption of strategies that seek to address and, at a minimum, avoid worsening social and racial inequities.
This bill would additionally state the intent of the Legislature that those strategies shall seek to address and, at a
minimum, avoid worsening gender inequities.
Existing law requires the office, through the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program, to develop the California Climate Change Assessment to provide an integrated suite of products that report the impacts and risks of climate change, based on the best available science, and identify potential solutions to inform legislative policy. Existing law requires the office to complete the assessment no less frequently than every 5 years. Existing law requires the products in the assessment to include, among other things, reports on issues of statewide significance, including, but not limited to, environmental justice considerations.
This bill would expressly require the reports on issues of statewide significance to include gender impact considerations.
The Otay Mesa East Toll Facility Act authorizes the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) to carry out a construction project for the State Highway Route 11 corridor, including, among other things, highway improvements and international border crossing facilities, to be operated as a toll facility. Existing law authorizes SANDAG to fix and revise from time to time and charge and collect tolls and other charges for entrance to or the use of the corridor, as provided. Existing law authorizes toll revenues to be used for specified costs, including, among other things, payments of a cooperative tolling agreement with the federal government of Mexico.
This bill would,
consistent with applicable federal and state laws, authorize those toll revenues to additionally be used to assist in the maintenance of the South Bay International Boundary and Water Commission sewage treatment facility and the development of additional sanitation infrastructure projects related to the Tijuana River pursuant to an agreement with the federal government. The bill would require the repayment of bond obligations to take priority over other allocations of toll revenues.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the South Bay
International Boundary and Water Commission sewage treatment facility located within the County of San Diego.

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