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SB 755: California Contractor Climate Transparency Act.
What SB 755 does, verified February 3, 2026
This bill aims to improve transparency in the construction industry by requiring large and significant contractors to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risk. The state agency will be responsible for developing and enforcing regulations to achieve this goal. The disclosure requirements will vary between large and significant contractors, with the large contractors required to report on scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, as well as climate-related financial risk, and significant contractors only required to report on scope 1 and 2 emissions. The regulations will be enforced starting one year after their adoption.
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| Feb. 02, 2026 | Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. |
| May. 23, 2025 | May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. |
| May. 20, 2025 | Set for hearing May 23. |
| May. 19, 2025 | May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file. |
| May. 09, 2025 | Set for hearing May 19. |
Latest bill textAmended version, May 5, 2025 · 733 words
| Amended IN Senate May 05, 2025 |
| Amended IN Senate April 01, 2025 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 755
| Introduced by Senator Blakespear (Coauthors: Senators Stern and Wiener) |
February 21, 2025 |
An act to add Section 38534 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 755, as amended, Blakespear. California Contractor Climate Transparency Act.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Existing law, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, requires, on or before July 1, 2025, the state board to develop and adopt regulations to require a reporting entity to, among other things, annually disclose all of the reporting entity’s scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions, as defined. Existing law also requires, on or before January 1, 2026, and biennially thereafter, a covered entity to prepare a climate-related financial risk report disclosing the entity’s climate-related financial risk and measures adopted to reduce and adapt to climate-related financial risk.
This bill would enact the California Contractor Climate Transparency Act, which would require the state board, beginning January 1, 2027, one year after the effective date of regulations adopted pursuant to the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, as specified, to require a large contractor and a significant contractor, as defined, to report annually specified information, including, for large contractors, an annual disclosure of scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, scope 3 emissions, and climate-related financial risk, as specified, and for significant contractors, an annual disclosure of scope 1 emissions and scope 2 emissions, as specified.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 38534 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:38534.
(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Contractor Climate Transparency Act.(b) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Climate-related financial risk” means material risk of harm to immediate and long-term financial outcomes due to physical and transition risks, including, but not limited to, risks to corporate operations, provision of goods and services, supply chains, employee health and safety, capital and financial investments, institutional investments, financial standing of loan recipients and borrowers, shareholder value, consumer demand, and financial markets and economic health.
(2) “Large contractor” means any company doing business within the state as a vendor, contractor, or procurer that received more than twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in state contract obligations in the prior state fiscal year.
(3) “Reporting entity” means a large contractor or a significant contractor. Applicability shall be determined based on the reporting entity’s state contract obligations in the prior state fiscal year.
(4) “Scope 1 emissions” means all direct greenhouse gas emissions that stem from sources that a reporting entity owns or directly controls, regardless of location, including, but not limited to, fuel combustion activities.
(5) “Scope 2 emissions” means indirect greenhouse gas emissions from consumed electricity, steam, heating, or cooling purchased or acquired by a reporting entity, regardless of location.
(6) “Scope 3 emissions” means indirect upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions, other than scope 2 emissions, from sources that the reporting entity does not own or directly control and may include, but are not limited to, purchased goods and services, business travel, employee commutes, and processing and use of sold products.
(7) “Significant contractor” means any company doing business within the state as a vendor, contractor, or procurer that received between five million dollars ($5,000,000) and twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in state contract obligations in the prior state fiscal year.
(c) Beginning January 1, 2027, one year after the effective date of regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 38532, the state board shall require a large contractor and a significant contractor to report the following information annually:
(1) For large contractors, annual disclosure of scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, scope 3 emissions, and climate-related financial risk, in alignment with Sections 38532 and 38533 and associated implementing regulations to ensure consistency in greenhouse gas emissions reporting.
(2) For significant contractors, annual disclosure of scope 1 emissions and scope 2 emissions, in alignment with Section 38532 and associated implementing regulations to ensure consistency in greenhouse gas emissions reporting.
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