California SB 253 / SB 261, California climate disclosure
Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 38532 and 38533
- What this page is
- California SB 253 / SB 261, California climate disclosure
- Checked against the official source
- 2026-08-15Changed
- Responsible publisher
- ExploreWorld Legal, editorial deskLiability position
Short answer
Does California SB 253 / SB 261 apply to your operation, and which paragraph decides?
California SB 253 / SB 261 rests on Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 38532 and 38533 and is tested here by a deterministic rule tree of 5 rules with a coverage score of 100 percent. The tree reads your facts, names the paragraph that decides the question and returns an outcome carrying citation, content hash and read date 2026-08-15. The outcome is a machine classification, not a compliance decision.
Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 38532 and 38533Checked against the publisher 2026-08-15
A source reference, not legal advice.
- Jurisdiction
- State CA
- Risk dimensions
- financial reporting, operations
- Tier
- Tier 2
- Coverage
- 100 %
- Impact
- 4/5
- Read
- 2026-08-15
Source chain
Every block in the register row has its own address, so an outcome can be cited down to the paragraph. The node carries the reference, the scope, the link to the official text and the outcomes in the tree that rest on the block.
- Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions reporting
Health & Safety Code § 38532(c)
Annual emissions disclosure for entities above the revenue threshold doing business in California.
- Scope 3 emissions reporting
Health & Safety Code § 38532(c)(2)
Value chain emissions, reported after the first Scope 1 and 2 cycle.
- Third-party assurance
Health & Safety Code § 38532(c)(3)
Independent assurance of the reported emissions, at a level that rises over time.
- Climate-related financial risk report
Health & Safety Code § 38533
Public report on climate-related financial risk and the measures taken.
Rule tree
Rules are tested top down. Conditions are statutory elements and each outcome points to the register blocks it rests on.
ca-climate-scope12
The Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions report is absent
prohibited · Requirement applies · sb253-scope12
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 38532(c) requires companies doing business in California with revenue above one billion USD to report Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions annually.
ca-climate-scope3
The Scope 3 report follows the first cycle
risk · Requirement applies conditionally · sb253-scope3
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 38532(c)(2) requires value chain emissions to be reported after the first Scope 1 and Scope 2 cycle, on the schedule the agency sets.
ca-climate-assurance
Independent assurance of the emissions data is absent
risk · Requirement applies · sb253-assurance
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 38532(c)(3) requires independent assurance of the reported emissions, at a level that rises over time.
ca-climate-sb261
The climate-related financial risk report is absent
prohibited · Requirement applies · sb261-risk
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 38533 requires companies doing business in California with revenue above 500 million USD to publish a report on climate-related financial risk and the measures taken.
ca-climate-base
The climate reporting duties apply to the company
risk · Requirement applies · sb253-scope12, sb261-risk
Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 38532 and 38533 apply to companies doing business in California above the thresholds, with reporting from 2026 and later scopes phased in.
Outcome
allowed · Outside the scope
The rule yields no requirement for the facts supplied
No business in California above the thresholds in Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 38532 and 38533 is stated.
fallback · sha256:sha256:8c92d960e9f0c5aed1da316a3
Monitoring
The journal shows what moved in the register row, with the hash before and after. The impact score follows a rule stated in plain words.
How impact is scored: Grund: tillagd eller borttagen uppgift ger 3, ändrad uppgift 2, omläsning utan ändring 0. Tillägg: +1 när ändringen rör status eller tillämpningsdatum. Tillägg: +1 när agenten ligger i klass 1. Siffran begränsas till 0 till 5.
2026-08-15 · 0/5 · lasning
Raden läst mot den officiella publiceringen utan ändring
2026-01-01 · 3/5 · tillampningsdatum, status
Regeln började tillämpas enligt utgivaren
2023-10-07 · 4/5 · antagande, identifierare, status
Regeln antogs enligt Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 38532 and 38533
Supervision
Artifacts and integrity
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The verdict is a machine classification of the outcome, not legal advice and not a compliance decision. Responsibility position · Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 38532 and 38533
Verifiable trust signals
- Six fixed blocks, one source per line
- No sentence written by a language model
- Engine version and read date on every answer
- No customer data, no documents, no advice
- Model card and audit published under the EU AI Act