SB 10: Climate change: plans: gender impacts.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. August 13, 2026August 13 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
2. June 24, 2026June 24 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
3. June 9, 2026From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
4. May 14, 2026Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
5. May 12, 2026From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
6. June 27, 2025July 14 hearing postponed by committee.
7. June 9, 2025Referred to Com. on TRANS.
8. June 4, 2025In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
9. June 3, 2025Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1472.) Ordered to the Assembly.
10. May 23, 2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
11. May 23, 2025From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1187.) (May 23).
12. May 16, 2025Set for hearing May 23.