Establishes voluntary vessel speed reduction and sustainable shipping program.

Establishes the Ocean Protection Council. Requires the council, on or before May 1, 2025, in coordination with various entities, including the State Air Resources Board, to implement a statewide voluntary vessel speed reduction and sustainable shipping program for the California coast in order to reduce air pollution, the risk of fatal vessel strikes on whales, and harmful underwater acoustic impacts. Requires the program to expand a certain existing program and build upon other existing vessel speed reduction programs and would authorize the program to include specified components, including, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, financial incentives to program participants vessel. Requires the council, on or before December 31, 2026, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the implementation of the program.

Amendment 1 establishes that program components shall not be in conflict with federal law and regulation.

Dead.

02/13/2023 Introduced.
03/02/2023 Referred too Assembly Committees on Water, Parks and Wildlife, and Natural Resources.
03/16/2023 Passed Committee with amendments. Read second time in Assembly and amended. Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife.
03/20/2023 Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife.
03/28/2023 Pass as amended from Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife, and re-referred to Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.
03/29/2023 Read second time and amended in Assembly.
03/30/2023 Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.
04/18/2023 Passed from Assembly Committee on Natural Resources as amended. Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations.
04/19/2023 Read second time in Assembly and amended.
04/20/2023 Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations.
05/18/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Appropriations as amended.
05/18/2023 Read second time in Assembly and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
05/22/2023 Read second time in Assembly. Ordered to third reading.
05/30/2023 Read third time. Passed House. Ordered to the Senate.
05/31/2023 Read first time in Senate. To Senate Committee on Rules for assignment.
06/07/2023 Referred to Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water.
07/12/2023 Passed Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water as amended.
07/13/2023 Read second time in Senate and amended. Re-referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations.
08/14/2023 Referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations suspense file.
09/01/2023 Held under submission in Senate Committee on Appropriations.
09/14/2023 Died upon adjournment.