South Coast AQMD will announce the availability of funds for the Assembly Bill (AB) 617 Clean Community School Initiative. Please visit this webpage in February 2026 for additional program updates.

The AB 617 Clean Community School Initiative is an incentive-based program focusing solely on school-related projects located in CNCs and DACs that can provide emission reductions of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Particulate Matter (PM10) and Reactive Organic Gases (ROG) from heavy-duty vehicles and other stationary equipment operating in California as early and as cost-effectively as possible. The AB 617 Clean Community School Initiative will provide financial incentives to equipment owners and operators to replace in-use heavy-duty school buses with zero-emission school buses, charging infrastructure and other equipment technologies and projects that are used and associated with school-related activities, that will achieve emission reductions that are real, surplus, quantifiable and enforceable.