California AB 2253 Parked on the Senate Suspense File; August 13 Is the Real Decision

On August 3, 2026 the California Senate Appropriations Committee voted 7-0 to refer AB 2253 to its suspense file. That is not a vote against the bill and it does not mean the bill was suspended. The suspense file is simply where California parks any bill with a fiscal impact. The committee later runs the whole parked list at a single sitting and announces which bills move to the floor and which die, without debate on any of them. That sitting is set for August 13, 2026, and it is the real decision point. What this means for you: no action was required before that date. The description of the bill's substance that originally appeared here has been removed because it was wrong; see the correction below. Source: California Senate Appropriations Committee hearing results (August 3, 2026).

Correction (August 16, 2026): the description of what AB 2253 does was wrong when this entry was published. The credit-based mass balance prohibition had already been struck by the July 2, 2026 Senate amendment, six weeks before we wrote this. The bill cleared suspense 5-2 on August 13 and its current text expressly permits proportional attribution under ISO 22095-2:2026. We had been tracking the bill’s status without re-reading its text after each amendment. See the August 16, 2026 entry and the legislature’s Compare Versions tool.