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Here are some links for you to be informed on:

Please read both bills carefully. AB1493 is on the Gov Grayout's desk, and AB 1058 is in the Senate committee pending reviews, corrections. These should both be consider an economical downfall for California.

AB1058 was killed. The Senate passed amendments and the bill went to the assembly on concurrance and died. Then, on a Saturday night with no hearings or warning, the Assembly stripped AB1493 with AB1058 language, making some feel-good amendments saying that the CARB wouldn't raise taxes or ban weapons. However, as Senator Haynes said in an email yesterday:

However, the bill allows CARB to set standards, and design a plan to meet those standards. The suggested taxes to help the State meet those standards would have to be passed by the Legislature, a post-reapportionment Legislature that may have the 2/3 support they need to pass such a tax.
Furthermore, they would never have been able to ban any particular type of vehicle, but they are given the unlimited power to mandate design features, engine size and other requirements that will guarantee fewer choices of vehicles for Californians. They may not ban any class of vehicles outright, but their requirements will force manufacturers to limit availability of certain types of vehicles here in California that cannot meet the mandates. This effectively creates an indirect ban. It also stands to reason that meeting these requirements would cause the cost of automobiles to increase. Lastly, when you have mandated standards to meet, you simply call a tax a 'fee' and you don't even need a 2/3rds vote to pass the bill. This bill opens the floodgate to onerous regulations which will cost the general public a great deal of money, deprive them of the vehicles they want to drive, and give bureaucrats even more power over our daily lives. All this for a bill, which even under the best case scenario, would have virtually no effect on global warming (if such a concept even actually exists).

Anyway, just FYI.