SB 1420 – Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee

Fossil Fuel Hydrogen

This bill would have put a weak and harmful definition of "clean” hydrogen into law that would have included dirty fossil energy and also weakened environmental review for hydrogen projects that meet this definition. This bill was later amended to exclude this harmful definition. Legislators were scored against their votes in support of this bill up until the bill was significantly narrowed down.

Author: Anna Caballero, Bob Archuleta, Bill Dodd, and Josh Newman

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Bill info from the legislature

Issues: Clean Energy and Electrification

Opposed

Signed into Law

Status:

Signed into Law

Assembly:

Yes 60
No 1
Abstain 18

Senate:

Yes 35
Abstain 5

Governor:

Signed

SB 1420 – Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee VotesVote Date: 4/22/24

Member Vote
Josh Becker (D) Yes (anti-environment)
María Elena Durazo (D) Abstain
Lena Gonzalez (D) Abstain
Monique Limón (D) Abstain
Angelique Ashby (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Steven Bradford (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Anna Caballero (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Brian Dahle (R) Yes (anti-environment)
Bill Dodd (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Susan Talamantes Eggman (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Shannon Grove (R) Abstain
Dave Min (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Josh Newman (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Susan Rubio (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Kelly Seyarto (R) Yes (anti-environment)
Nancy Skinner (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Aisha Wahab (D) Yes (anti-environment)
Scott Wilk (R) Yes (anti-environment)