California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill
SB 1411: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: funding conditions: high-speed rail.
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
SB 1411 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 20, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: funding conditions: high-speed rail. Primary sponsor: Henry Stern (D). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (May 14, 2026): May 14 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
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Official summary
Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.
Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state. Existing law requires moneys collected by the State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale of certain allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and continuously appropriates a portion of the moneys in the fund for various purposes, including a specified portion to the authority for certain purposes. Existing law prohibits the authority from entering into new funding commitments with those moneys for activities outside of the Merced to Bakersfield segment, until June 30, 2030, or when that segment is fully funded, whichever is sooner. Notwithstanding that prohibition, existing law authorizes the authority to enter into new funding commitments outside of the Merced to Bakersfield segment for certain purposes, including for additional activities, not to cumulatively exceed $500,000,000, that maximize the efficiency of delivering the project, as specified.
This bill would revise and recast that authorization to instead authorize the authority to enter into new funding commitments with the above-described moneys outside of the Merced to Bakersfield segment in any amount for activities related to early works, as defined, and for projects developed through public partnership agreements or public-private partnership agreements, subject to the requirements that those funding commitments maximize the efficiency of delivering the project and do not delay the completion of the Merced to Bakersfield segment, as specified. By expanding the purposes for which continuously appropriated moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 4
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Stern | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 27 |
| Benjamin Allen | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 24 |
| Maria Elena Durazo | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 26 |
| Lena Gonzalez | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 33 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- May 14 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
- Set for hearing May 14.
- May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- Set for hearing May 4.
- From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4010.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
- Set for hearing April 22.
- Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
- From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 3874.) (April 14).
- Set for hearing April 14.
- April 7 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Set for hearing April 7.
- Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and E.Q.