04 - April 10, 2025 - Legislative Subcommittee and the Legislative Process
CITY COUNCIL INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM
Date: April 10, 2025
To: Cupertino City Council
From: Pamela Wu, City Manager
Re: Legislative Subcommittee and the Legislative Process
Background
On February 13, staff issued an informational memorandum outlining the legislative
process and the 2025 Legislative Session. This update was the first step of the 2025
legislative process, which aligns with Cupertino’s Legislative Advocacy Policy, established
by Resolution No. 23-026. The memorandum, policy, and resolution, can be viewed here1.
On March 18, Council voted to enact a Council subcommittee to review legislation similar to
how the Legislative Review Committee functioned in prior years. Staff are working with the
City Attorney’s Office to proceed with next steps.
At that March 18 council meeting, Vice Mayor Moore requested an informational
memorandum to provide all reports received from lobbying consultant Joe A. Gonsalves &
Son since 2023. These reports are compiled and attached as Attachment A. The majority of
legislative update “reports” were provided verbally during meetings where the City
lobbyists would brief staff on important bill information. With the help of this information,
staff tracked the bills of interest to determine whether the potential impact would warrant a
City position.
Bills of Interest
Staff are currently tracking a number of bills from the 2025 Legislative Session. Primary bills
of interest are listed on the City’s Legislative webpage 2. A few of these bills that staff is
tracking are highlighted below:
• AB 306 (Rivas) – This bill would limit the ability of cities to modify building
standards for residential units between June 1, 2025 – June 1, 2031, including green
1 https://www.cupertino.gov/files/assets/city/v/1/departments/documents/city-council/council-
informational-memos/2025/02-february-13-2025-step-one-legislative-informational-memo.pdf
2 https://www.cupertino.gov/Your-City/City-Council/Legislative-Activity
building standards, unless the CA Building Standards Commission finds such
changes necessary as emergency standards for health and safety reasons.
• SB 457 (Becker) – This bill proposes that a city’s housing element be considered
compliant immediately upon adoption, rather than awaiting approval from the Dept
of Housing and Community Development (HCD), provided it is later confirmed
compliant by HCD.
• SB 677 (Wiener) – This bill aims to strengthen SB 9 and SB 35 by removing
provisions that have hampered the uptake of the by right duplex and lot-splitting
provisions of SB 9 and increasing the feasibility of projects subject to the by right
provisions of SB 35.
• AB 736 (Wicks) – This is a reintroduction of the Affordable Housing Bond Act of
2026, authorizing the issuance of $10 billion in bonds to fund various affordable
housing programs in California. These include rental housing, homeownership
assistance, supportive housing, and programs for farmworkers and tribes. The bond
act will be voted on in the June 2026 election.
The City’s Legislative webpage will continue to be regularly updated to include all
legislative updates on these and other bills of interest. The webpage also includes all
legislative informational memorandums related to the 3-step process. The third memo on
the 2025 legislative process will be available in October, which will include a recap of this
year’s legislative session.
Council and residents are welcome to submit inquiries on pending legislation to the City
Manager’s Office at CMOteam@cupertino.gov. All inquiries will be forwarded to the City’s
lobbyist, and responses will be provided in a timely manner.
Sustainability Impact
No sustainability impact.
California Environmental Quality Act
Not Applicable.
Fiscal Impact
No fiscal impact.
Prepared by: Astrid Robles, Senior Management Analyst
Reviewed by: Tina Kapoor, Deputy City Manager
Floy Andrews, Interim City Attorney
Approved for Submission by: Pamela Wu, City Manager
Attachments:
A – Reports received from City Lobbyist
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Legislative Update
New Members, Bill Introductions, & the Budget
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The Legislature returned to Sacramento on January 6, 2025, to begin the 2025-26
Legislative Session. The November 2024 election brought 29 brand-new members to
the State Legislature. When coupled with the 37 new legislators elected in 2022, this
means that 66 of 120 (55%) of the members of the Legislature will have 2 years or less
experience.
There are 23 new members of the State Assembly, and the vacancy in the 32 nd
Assembly District was filled on February 25, 2025, as now-Assemblymember Stan Ellis
received over 50% of the vote, preventing a runoff in April. In addition, there are 6
new members of the State Senate, and the vacancy for the 36 th Senate District was
filled on February 25, 2025, as now-Senator Tony Strickland also received over 50% of
the vote. The supermajorities in both houses remain, with the Senate having 29
Democrats and 10 Republicans. In the Assembly, there are 60 Democrats and 19
Republicans.
Bill Introductions
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This year, leadership in both houses reduced the number of bills members could
introduce over a 2-year session. The Assemblymember’s maximum bill counts were
reduced from 50 to 35, while the Senate's were reduced from 40 to 35. The deadline to
introduce new bills was February 21, 2025, and the Legislators between both houses
introduced 2,495 bills. In the Assembly, members introduced 1,584 bills, and the
Senate introduced 911. Comparatively, the Legislature introduced 3,030 total bills last
year, with 1,974 in the Assembly and 1,056 in the Senate. That's a reduction of 535
bills between the 2 houses.
Most of the new bills introduced are considered spot bills, which are placeholder
bills. However, we will see substantive amendments to those over the next few weeks
before they are heard in the policy committee. All new bills must be in print for 30
days before they can be heard in committee, and as the bill introduction deadline was
February 21, 2025, committee hearings will start ramping up around the middle of
March.
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January and February are usually quiet in Sacramento, especially in the first year of a
two-year session. Typically, after the Governor releases his January Budget Proposal,
legislators spend most of the month working with their staff to set their priorities for
the year before the February bill introduction deadline.
Budget Projections
On January 10, 2025, Governor Newsom released his proposed budget. After two years
of significant budget deficits, State revenues are $16.5 billion ahead of projections made
when the Governor and Legislature enacted last year's budget. The Governor’s proposed
budget projects a modest surplus of $380 million; however, the surplus only exists
because of the state's use of $7.1 billion in rainy-day reserves. The Legislative Analyst’s
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Office (LAO) continues to project a roughly $2 billion deficit for FY2025-26. However,
that number is likely to grow as high as $30 billion by 2028-29.
LA Fires Impacting this Year’s Session
Unfortunately, this year's return to session coincided with the tragic wildfires sweeping
through Los Angeles. The Governor and Legislature responded quickly and
appropriated $2.5 billion in relief funding for Los Angeles. After a few hearings in the
Assembly and Senate Budget Committees, the Legislature took up the proposal, passed
it, and Governor Newsom signed it into law. We expect wildfire preparedness and
mitigation to take center stage for much of the year.
The Legislature’s ‘Trump-Proofing’ Efforts
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The Legislature announced its focus this year to address California’s affordability crisis
and protect California’s values from the Trump Administration. During Trump's first
term, California spent at least $41 million on legal actions against the Trump
Administration. In anticipation of history repeating itself, the Governor called for a
special session that included a $50 million allocation: $25 million to the California
Department of Justice for proactive litigation efforts, and $25 million to local initiatives
providing legal aid for immigration defense. Both bills, SB 1X1 (Wiener) and SB 1X2
(Wiener), have passed the Legislature and were signed by the Governor.
More on the Budget
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Typically, the Governor's Proposed Budget serves as a starting point for discussions with
the Legislature. In May, the Governor releases a revised budget with more up-to-date
revenue estimates. While there are usually some changes between the January and May
Budget Proposals, we assume that the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles will
significantly change the Governor's Budget by the time of the May revision. Tax filing
deadlines have already been extended for those impacted by wildfires, and the Governor
and the Legislature will be under immense political pressure to provide relief and
funding to victims of the wildfires and local governments. Doing so could force them to
change the priorities the Governor outlined in his January Budget.
Over the next few months, the Legislature will hold numerous budget hearings that will
identify their priorities and make changes to the Governor’s proposed budget with a final
budget agreement deadline of June 15, 2025.
If you have any questions or would like any additional information, please feel free to
contact our office at 916-441-0597.
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Governor Newsom’s “Top Line”
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2025-26 Budget Presentation
Each year, the Governor would typically present his January Budget upon its release,
which is set for this Friday. This year, he planned to include his State of the State
address in a first-of-its-kind combined presentation. However, as Governor Newsom
will be in D.C. for President Carter’s funeral later this week, he made an unusual move
and provided a “top line” budget presentation during a leg of his unrelated, statewide
‘California Jobs First’ tour. The State of the State address will be postponed to later
this year. This “top line” presentation highlighted the Governor’s balanced spending
plan that seeks to improve government efficiency, increase accountability, and
advance the lives of Californians.
Although the Governor will not be holding his usual detailed presentation, he was
quick to note that the Department of Finance (DOF) still intends to hold a thorough
briefing this Friday. Today’s presentation was light on detail.
We’ve noted some highlights for you all below.
The Big Picture Projections
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Governor Newsom’s January proposal totals $322.2 billion, with $228.9 billion
planned in general fund spending. State revenues are up $16.5 billion. However, the
Governor acknowledged his plan to preserve much of this funding to balance future
year budgets. Further, this plan preserves core programs and transformative
initiatives, such as Transitional Kindergarten and Universal School Meals.
TheLegislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) continues to project a roughly $20 billion deficit
beginning in 2026-27, growing as high as $30 billion by 2028-29. When asked about
future year deficits, the Governor was dismissive, saying that multi-year projections
typically predict deficits.
When asked, the Governor was quick to commit to not raising taxes. However, he
admitted that "if the bottom fell out" of the state budget due to choices made by the
Trump Administration, that could change things.
Future Ballot Initiative?
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The Governor also signaled a desire to place a measure on a future ballot to: 1) double
the amount of money that can be appropriated annually to the state’s reserves and 2)
amend a 1979 measure that currently limits overall state General Fund spending to
ensure that deposits into state reserves don’t count towards that limit.
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Legislative Update
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2024 Session Recap
The 2024 Legislative year displayed the first signs of “normalcy” around the Capitol since
the Covid-19 Pandemic. Legislative offices were open to the public, legislators and their
staff held in-person meetings, and Legislative Committee hearings were held in-person
once again, with committees no longer offering the option for remote testimony.
This year, the Legislature introduced 2,531 bills between the two houses, with 1,729 in the
Assembly and 802 in the Senate. The Legislature went right up until the midnight
deadline on August 31st to finish up a chaotic final week of the legislative session. A total
of 1,206 bills advancing to Governor Newsom’s desk. The Governor had until September
30th to act on legislation, and this year he signed 1,017 bills and vetoed 189 bills.
In addition to the State’s massive budget deficit, the Legislature focused on numerous
policy issues, including housing, homelessness, retail theft, and the environment. Despite
the August 31st sine-die deadline to adjourn session, Governor Newsom called for an
extraordinary session to address the State’s high gas prices.
The following will provide you with some highlights from this past year:
Retail Theft
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Legislators in both houses felt pressure from their constituents to make public safety
reform a top priority this year. Once Proposition 36 qualified for the November ballot, the
Legislature responded by quickly moving a package of 10 crime bills to the Governor, who
signed them in mid-August.
The package of bills aims to crack down on the theft and sale of stolen items, increasing
enforcement and prosecutions, and combines values to meet felony thresholds.
Additionally, the bills target smash-and-grabs, increases penalties for car break-ins and
theft, and eliminates the retail theft sunset provisions.
The Environment
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This year, the Legislature took action to place 2 bond initiatives on the ballot:
1) $10 billion Climate Bond and 2) $10 billion Education Bond. This will make 10
initiatives for the Voters to decide on in the November 2024 election. The vehicle for the
Climate Bond, SB 867 (Allen), was passed by the Legislature on July 3, 2024 and signed
that day by Senate President Pro Tempore McGuire, serving as acting Governor.
The $10 Billion Climate Bond will provide funding for the following the following:
• $3.8 billion for Safe Drinking Water, Drought, Flood, and Water Resilience
• $1.5 billion for Wildfire and Forest Resilience
• $1.2 billion for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Resilience
• $450 million for Extreme Heat Mitigation
• $1.2 billion for Protect Biodiversity and Accelerating Nature-Based Climate Solutions
• $300 million for Climate Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Farms, Ranches, and Working Lands
• $700 million for Park Creation and Outdoor Access
• $850 million for Clean Air
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The Budget
This year, the Legislature closed a projected $47 billion General Fund deficit across the
three-year “budget window” (fiscal years 2022-23 through 2024-25) using a broad array
of budget tools. The “solutions” in the 2024-25 budget package include:
· $16 billion in spending reductions
· $13.6 billion from a combination of additional revenue and borrowing from state special funds
· $6 billion in fund shifts
· $6 billion in withdrawals from the Budget Stabilization Account and the Safety Net Reserve
· $3.1 billion in funding delays and pauses
· $2.1 billion in deferrals
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On June 13th, the Legislature passed its main budget bill, AB 107, a placeholder to meet
the June 15th Constitutional deadline. This bought the Governor and Legislature more
time to work out an agreement and, more importantly, avoid the Legislature having to
forfeit their pay.
On June 22, 2024, Governor Newsom and Legislative leaders announced they had a
budget agreement. The Assembly and Senate approved the budget bills on June 26, 2024
and Governor Newsom signed the bills on June 29, 2024.
In his final act of the year’s regular legislative session, Governor Newsom signed AB 179,
which creates new tools for the state to set aside a portion of anticipated surplus funds in
future fiscal years. This legislation creates a Projected Surplus Temporary Holding
Account, allowing the state to place anticipated surpluses in reserve for future use.
Local Control
With just 3 days left in the Legislative session, Assemblymembers Carrillo and Aguiar-
Curry gut-and-amended AB 98 to set statewide standards for warehouses and local
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circulation plans. Both Assemblymember Juan Carrillo and Assemblymember Eloise
Gómez Reyes represent districts with a large concentration of warehouses in the Inland
Empire.
Our firm worked closely with a broad coalition of opponents, including local government
associations, business and manufacturing groups, and others in opposition to this bill.
Despite our tireless efforts, the Legislature passed, and the Governor signed AB 98.
A significant reason for the Legislature’s passage of AB 98 was a commitment from both
authors that they will be introducing “clean-up” legislation next year, which we will be
prepared for as we expect it to be equally controversial. We will continue to keep you
apprised as this issue progresses through the next session.
Special Session
Tensions between the Governor, Assembly, and Senate were high during the final days of
session. The implosion of the Governor’s last-minute proposal on energy affordability
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added to the typical aggravation caused by the usual jockeying between the three branches
over which bills move and which die. While the Assembly and Senate lost their priority
proposals as the proposal fell apart, the Governor held out hope that the Legislature would
still take up his proposal to regulate petroleum fuels and feedstock inventories in an effort
to lower prices at the pumps.
The Assembly rejected the Governor’s proposal, arguing that they did not have enough
time to consider it properly and that the Governor should instead call a Special Session of
the Legislature. In the final hours of session, Governor Newsom did exactly that and called
for a Special Session on oil pricing. While the Assembly quickly moved to convene the
Special Session, the Senate did not. Senator McGuire announced that the Senate would
not be convening the Special Session until after the Assembly acts on the bill.
On October 1, 2024, the Assembly returned to Sacramento to consider ABX2-1 (Hart) and
ABX2-9 (Petrie-Norris). ABX2-1 (Hart) would authorize the California Energy
Commission (CEC), to increase transportation fuel supply by requiring refiners to
maintain resupply plans to cover production loss during maintenance events and to
maintain minimum levels of inventories. ABX2-9 (Petrie-Norris) would require the CEC,
in consultation with CARB, to report to the Legislature by July 1, 2025, on potential
solutions to increase the supply of gasoline. The bill would also allow CARB to adopt a fee
on ethanol producers to cover their costs associated with the development,
implementation, and enforcement of gasoline blends.
The Assembly passed ABX2-1 (Hart) with a vote of 44-17 and ABX2-9 (Petrie-Norris) with
a vote of 67-0. The Senate will soon convene to take up both bills. We will continue to keep
you apprised as the issue progresses.
Conclusion
As you know, we have the upcoming November General Election where all 80
Assemblymembers and 20 of the 40 Senators will be up for election. Regardless of the
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outcomes at the ballot box, we will have at least 35 new members of the Legislature when
they return next year. That, coupled with the 37 new members in the 2022 freshman class,
totals 72 of the 120 (60%) members of the legislature having served 2 years or less. This
highlights the necessity to continue to educate the new members on your priorities and
issues of importance.
The Legislature will return on December 2, 2024, for the swearing in ceremony for the
new members. On January 3, 2025, the Legislature will officially reconvene for the 2025-
26 legislative session. Please note the deadline to submit language to Legislative Counsel
will be late January 2025, followed by the bill introduction deadline in mid-February.
Should you have any legislative proposals for the upcoming session, please do not hesitate
to contact our office so we can begin strategizing on the issue(s).
As always, please feel free to contact our office with any questions or concerns you may
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Subject: CORRECTED/UPDATED VERSION: Statewide Ballot Measure Updates
Date: Thursday, August 15, 2024 7:26:21 AM
Statewide Ballot Initiative Update
August 2024
On August 5, 2024, the Legislature returned from summer recess and will have until August
31, 2024, to finalize their legislative package before they adjourn for the year. Once they
adjourn the 2024 session, legislators will return to their districts and switch to campaign
mode for the November 5, 2024 election. This November, all 80 Assemblymembers and 20
of the 40 Senators will be up for election. In addition, all statewide offices are up for grabs,
and voters will have 10 ballot propositions to decide on.
The following will provide you with an update on the 2024 Statewide Ballot Measures.
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Overview
California is one of 26 states that gives voters the direct opportunity to make public policy
and spending decisions on behalf of its citizens. In fact, voters must approve amendments
to the State Constitution and the state borrowing through bonds. The November 2024
ballot will have a total of 10 statewide measures to be decided by voters comprising of two
General Obligation Bonds placed on the ballot by the Legislature, three Constitutional
Amendments passed by the Legislature, and five initiatives placed directly on the ballot by
special interest groups who collected enough signatures to do so.
Withdrawn Measures
The number of ballot measures could have been much higher, but the number was
ultimately reduced with the proponents withdrawing five initiatives at the end of June. In
California, proponents of ballot measures can withdraw their proposal if it is withdrawn at
least 131 days before the general election. There are several reasons a proponent will
withdraw a measure, but the most notable is that the cost of a campaign to pass or defeat a
statewide ballot measure can be in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. The high
cost, with no certainty of the result, is a strong incentive for proponents and opponents to
compromise in the legislative process before the deadline to withdraw a measure. This
incentive is the key reason business interests and organized labor came together in June to
reform the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) law, allowing private citizens to bring
lawsuits to enforce labor law violations.
Measures on the Ballot
Proposition 2: Borrow $10 Billion for K-14 School Construction and Modernization
This General Obligation Bond was placed on the ballot through AB 247 (Muratsuchi), which
passed the Legislature and was signed by Senator Mike McGuire, who was acting Governor
then. Prop 2 proposes to provide $8.5 billion for K-12 schools and $1.5 billion for
community colleges for construction and modernization.
Proposition 3: Reaffirm the Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry
The Legislature placed this Constitutional Amendment through ACA 5 (Low). The language
from Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, was passed by voters in 2008 and is
still technically on the books, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it
unconstitutional, and federal law now protects the right to same-sex marriage. If passed,
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Proposition 3 would remove this outdated and irrelevant language and instead recognize
marriage as a "fundamental right" for everyone in the California Constitution.
Proposition 4: Borrow $10 Billion for Water, Drought, Wildfire Prevention and Clean Air
Programs
Prop 4, commonly referred to as the climate resilience bond, was placed on the ballot
through SB 867 (Allen), which passed the Legislature and was signed by acting Governor,
Senator Mike McGuire. It would provide funding for climate resilience projects, including
$3.8 billion for safe drinking water, recycled wastewater, stored groundwater, and flood
control. An additional $1.5 billion would be spent on wildfire protection, while $1.2 billion
would go toward protecting the coast from sea level rise. The remaining funds would go
towards building parks, protecting wildlife and their habitats, combating air pollution,
dealing with extreme heat events, and supporting sustainable farming practices.
Proposition 5: Reduce Voter Approval Requirements for Local Housing and Infrastructure
Bonds
The Legislature placed this constitutional amendment on the ballot through ACA 1 (Aguiar-
Curry) and ACA 10 (Aguiar-Curry). It would make it easier for local governments to borrow
money for affordable housing and other infrastructure projects by lowering the vote
threshold to pass local bond measures from 66.67% to 55%.
Proposition 6: Limit Forced Labor in State Prisons
The Legislature placed this Constitutional Amendment on the ballot through ACA 8
(Wilson). It seeks to end indentured servitude in state prisons, which is considered one of
the last remnants of slavery.
Proposition 32: Raise the State Minimum Wage to $18 an Hour
Proposition 32 would increase the minimum wage to $18 an hour by 2026. However, this
initiative may not prove significant to many people as it was first proposed in 2021 when
the minimum wage was $14 an hour. Since then, unions have secured $25 an hour for
healthcare workers and $20 an hour for fast-food workers, and many major cities already
have local wage ordinances with $18 an hour minimum wage. Given these developments, it
is unclear how the campaigns in support and opposition to this measure will play out.
Proposition 33: Allow Local Governments to Impose Rent Controls
Proposition 33 would give local governments in California much more power to control
rents by allowing for rent price caps on single-family homes. Currently, state law limits rent
increases for tenants in apartments and corporate-owned single-family homes older than
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15 years. State law bans rent control on single-family homes and apartments built after
February 1, 1995. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is the sponsor of this measure. This
group also backed two similar statewide rent control initiatives that failed in 2020 and
2018.
Proposition 34: Require Certain Health Providers to Use Nearly All Revenue from a Federal
Prescription Drug Program on Patient Care
Backed by the California Apartment Association and the Real Estate industry, Proposition
34 would limit how certain healthcare providers spend money from a federal prescription
drug program. It targets the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which, as noted above, has
attempted several rent control initiatives over the years, including Proposition 33. This
measure is designed to restrict the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's ability to continue to
push rent control laws. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been criticized for focusing on
housing instead of its primary mission of helping people with HIV or AIDS.
Proposition 35: Make Permanent a Tax on Managed Health Care Insurance Plans
This initiative would enshrine an existing tax on Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and
restrict California lawmakers from redirecting these funds to other purposes. Prop 35 will
provide essential healthcare providers with new resources, including community health
clinics, hospitals, emergency rooms, primary care, family planning, mental health services,
and specialty care like cancer treatment, cardiology, and OBGYN. It will also invest in
paramedics, first responders, and community health workers. Additionally, Prop 35 will
create ongoing funding within the General Fund to address further healthcare priorities.
Proposition 36: Increase Penalties for Theft and Drug Trafficking
This measure seeks to amend Proposition 47, the 2014 initiative that reduced certain
nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors. Proposition 36 would increase penalties for drug
dealers whose sales of fentanyl and increase penalties for retail theft. The push for these
changes comes in response to heightened public awareness of retail theft and fentanyl
abuse over the past years. Supporters include District Attorneys, major retailers, and law
enforcement groups. Governor Newsom and legislative democrats opposed changing
Proposition 47 and instead attempted to propose an alternative ballot measure known as
the ‘Safer California Plan.’ However, they withdrew that plan in mid-June before the
deadline to remove measures from the ballot.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please do not hesitate to contact
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From: Gonsalves & Son
To: Sasha Spangler
Subject: August Legislative Update | Final Deadline Approaches, Retail Theft Package
Enrolled
Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 11:33:49 AM
Legislative Updates
August 2024
Last Monday, August 5th, the State Legislature reconvened following summer recess. As
we are quickly approaching the “sine die,” August 31st deadline for this legislative session,
both houses still have over 1350 bills remaining. Tomorrow, Thursday, August 15th, the
Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees will dispense of their suspense files. The
Assembly Appropriations Committee will consider 313 Senate Bills, and the Senate
Appropriations Committee will consider 515 Assembly Bills.
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Retail Theft Package
Of particular note is the “Retail Theft Package” of bills passed by both houses, now heading
to Governor Newsom. The Governor and Legislative Leadership initially advocated for this
package as an alternative to Proposition 36, but ultimately agreed to pass these bills
without any poison pill/inoperative language in addition to Proposition 36 being on the
November ballot.
While ten bills are pending Governor Newsom’s signature and an additional bill is awaiting
a final vote from the Legislature, California voters will also have an opportunity to vote on
Proposition 36 in November.
For further information on this ballot initiative and others qualified for this year’s election,
click here.
Enrolled Legislation:
AB1779 (Irwin) Theft: jurisdiction. Enrolled 8.12.2024.
AB1802 (Jones-Sawyer) Crimes: organized theft. Enrolled 8.12.2024.
AB2943 (Zbur) Crimes: shoplifting. Enrolled 8.12.2024.
AB3209 (Berman) Crimes: theft: retail theft restraining orders. Enrolled8.12.2024.
SB905 (Wiener) Crimes: theft from a vehicle. Enrolled 8.12.2024.
SB982 (Wahab) Crimes: organized theft. Enrolled 8.12.2024.
SB1144 (Skinner) Marketplaces: online marketplace. Enrolled 8.12.2024.
SB1242 (Min) Crimes: fires. Enrolled 8.12.2024.
SB1416 (Newman) Sentencing enhancements: sale, exchange, or return of stolen property.
Enrolled 8.12.2024.
Pending Legislation:
AB 1960 (Rivas, R.) Sentencing enhancements: property loss. Ordered to Third Reading
7.1.2024.
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From: Gonsalves & Son
Subject: July Legislative Update | Summer Recess, Prop 47, Budget Deal
Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 2:28:57 PM
Legislative Updates
July 2024
On July 3,2024, the Legislature adjourned for summer recess and will return to Sacramento
on August 5, 2024. Prior to leaving for summer recess, the Legislature took action on
significant issues, such as tackling the massive budget deficit and negotiating the final
bond package for the November 2024 ballot.
Below are further updates on each hot topic impacting the State this year.
Budget Updates
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On June 13, the Legislature passed its main budget bill, Assembly Bill (AB) 107, a
placeholder to meet the June 15th Constitutional deadline for passage. This bill bought the
Governor and Legislature more time to work out an agreement and, more importantly,
prevent the Legislature from forfeiting their per diem.
On June 22,2024, Governor Newsom and Legislative leaders announced an official budget
agreement. The Assembly and Senate approved the budget bills on June 26, 2024, and
Governor Newsom signed them on June 29, 2024.
The $297.9 billion spending plan reduces $16 billion, taps $6 billion in reserves, shifts $6
billion from the GGRF account, delays $3.1 billion, and defers another $2.1 billion in
programs. It also includes a blanket 7.95% reduction in funding for nearly all state
departments and eliminates thousands of vacant positions, collectively expected to save
almost$3.7 billion.
Other significant reductions include $1.1 billion from various affordable housing programs,
$746 million for healthcare workforce development, and $500 million to build student
housing. A scholarship program for middle-class college students will lose $110 million
annually ,about a fifth of what the governor had initially sought to cut.
Legislation proposed within the budget deal would require the state to set aside a portion
of future projected surpluses, preventing the expenditure of surplus funds until the money
is collected. This legislation also proposes a constitutional amendment for voters in 2026
to grow California's main reserve account. The Legislature plans to take this up in August.
In the meantime, the state plans to dip into that rainy day fund, pulling out more than $12
billion over the next two years to address the fiscal shortfall. It will also suspend the net
operating loss for companies with more than $1 million in taxable income and limit
business tax credits to $5 million annually.
Bonds on the November 2024 Ballot
At the beginning of July, the Legislature placed two bond initiatives on the ballot: 1) Climate
Bond and 2) Education Bond. These additions now total ten initiatives for California Voters
to decide on this November.
The $10 Billion Climate Bond will provide funding for the following the following:
• $3.8 billion for Safe Drinking Water, Drought, Flood, and Water Resilience
• $1.5 billion for Wildfire and Forest Resilience
• $1.2 billion for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Resilience
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• $450 million for Extreme Heat Mitigation
• $1.2 billion for Protect Biodiversity and Accelerating Nature-Based Climate
Solutions
• $300 million for Climate Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Farms, Ranches, and
Working Lands
• $700 million for Park Creation and Outdoor Access
• $850 million for Clean Air
The $10 Billion Education Bond will pay for repairs and upgrades at K-12 Schools and
Community Colleges. $8.5 billion will go to K-12 schools, and$1.5 billion will go to
Community Colleges.
Prop 47 Initiative Update
The Governor and Legislative Leadership have received a series of responses to the
California District Attorneys (DA's), California Retailers (Retailers), and law enforcement
qualified “Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act/DA’s” initiative.
Initially, Legislative Leadership decided to amend the bipartisan retail theft package to
include inoperable/poison pill amendments, stating that the package of legislative bills
would not take effect should the voters pass the DA's initiative in November. This
decision was met with bi-partisan resistance and ultimately withdrawn. The poison pill
amendments have also been removed from the bill (for now, as the Legislature can
propose additional amendments to the bill package until August 28).
On June 30,2024, the Governor and Legislative Leaders introduced their counter
initiative, Senate Bill (SB) 1381, with the support of the Retailers and broad opposition
from the DAs and law enforcement. The initial intent was to pass the countermeasure,
placing it on the upcoming November ballot by majority vote as a "special election"
initiative. This strategy was a unique tactic to circumvent the 2/3rds vote requirement
for the Legislature to place an initiative on the ballot outside of an actual "special
election." The competing initiative was heard in the Assembly Public Safety Committee
on July 2, 2024, and was passed on a party-line vote.
Just before the Legislature adjourned for summer recess, the Governor and Legislative
Leaders withdrew their support/efforts to place a competing initiative on the ballot,
halting SB 1381 from continuing through the legislative process.
The package of retail theft bills will continue to move through the Legislature between
now and the final adjournment on August 31. However, the DA's initiative will be the only
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Proposition 47 revision/public safety initiative on the November 5, 2024, statewide
ballot.
Taxpayer Protection & Government Accountability Act
On June 20,2024, the California Supreme Court ruled that the Taxpayer Protection and
Government Accountability Act could not go before voters in November.
The court unanimously ruled that the changes proposed in the Act would "substantially
alter our basic plan of government" and that these changes "cannot be enacted by
initiative," as the procedures for revising our Constitution govern them.
This ruling is excellent news for all local governments and special districts.
SCOTUS Encampment Ruling
On June 28, 2024, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned
the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision upholding a 2020 lower court ruling in Grants
Pass v. Johnson that invalidated a southern Oregon city's anticamping ordinances,
saying it is not "cruel and unusual" punishment for city officials to forbid homeless
people from sleeping on the streets or in parks. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the
majority, concluded that the power to decide how to address homelessness largely
rests with local officials. This much-anticipated decision means local governments may
enforce laws restricting homeless encampments on sidewalks and other public
property.
Governor Newsom hailed the decision: "Today's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court
provides state and local officials the definitive authority to implement and enforce
policies to clear unsafe encampments from our streets. This decision removes the legal
ambiguities that have tied the hands of local officials for years and limited their ability to
deliver on common-sense measures to protect the safety and wellbeing of our
communities."
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Astrid Robles
From:Gonsalves & Son <Gonsalves@gonsalvi.com>
Sent:Wednesday, May 22, 2024 10:35 AM
Subject:Proposition 1 Implementation
Attachments:Prop 1 presentation.pdf; Prop 1 fact sheet.pdf
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sender and know the content is safe.
Please see the following email and attachments we received from the Governor’s office regarding Proposition 1
Implementation.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions and/or advocacy efforts you may have.
Sincerely,
Jason
JASON A. GONSALVES
Joe A. Gonsalves & Son
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From: Molly Wiltshire <molly.wiltshire@gov.ca.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 5:10 PM
To: Jason Gonsalves <Jason@gonsalvi.com>
Cc: Kim McCoy Wade <Kim.McCoyWade@gov.ca.gov>
Subject: RE: Proposition 1 implementation
Hi, Jason.
Thanks for reaching out on Prop 1! We are actively engaging our cities and counties around
implementation so this is great timing. I’m cc’ing my colleague, Kim McCoy Wade, Senior Advisor to
the Governor, who has been spearheading a lot of our implementation work. Please feel free to
utilize us for info on this exciting process!
In terms of where to find all the info, the short answer is our newly launched mentalhealth.ca.gov
website! I’m including some additional information below that you can share with your clients. Also,
we are planning more briefings and I will send those to you as they get scheduled.
Just last week, the Governor announced the state is accelerating - in record time - the first round of
funding, made available by Prop 1! Eligible entities, which include counties and cities, will be able to
apply for funding from the first round of the $6.38B bond this summer. This bond application timeline is
months ahead of the initial schedule. The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has issued
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bond guidance for behavioral health treatment beds and sites, with the request for applications to
be posted this summer. Applications will be due Fall 2024 and awarded in early 2025.
The funding round will total up to $3.3 billion, making 75% of the Bond Behavioral Health
Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) funds for the behavioral health treatment facilities
available to communities as soon as possible.
Up to $1.5 billion open only to counties, cities, and tribal entities. These funds will be
awarded competitively.
Up to $1.8 billion open to counties, cities, and tribal entities, as well as nonprofit and for-
profit organizations. These funds will be awarded competitively, within an allocation set for
each region to ensure geographic equity.
$30 million is the minimum to be competitively awarded to tribal entities, across all Bond
BHCIP funds.
I’ve also attached a copy of the slide deck that was presented at the CSAC Legislative Conference
and a fact sheet on the first round of Prop 1 Bond construction funding. Please feel free to direct any
additional incoming on this from your cities to Kim and me.
Thanks!
Molly
Molly Wiltshire
Director of External Affairs
Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
Molly.Wiltshire@gov.ca.gov
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FACT SHEET on Proposition 1
Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2024
Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program
ROUND 1 (2024): LAUNCH READY
Department of Health Care Services
This guidance is for the first round of Proposition 1 Bond construction funding.
● These funds are for the purpose of building local behavioral health
outpatient treatment slots, beds (residential/inpatient), and/or community
campuses that fill a gap in the local or regional behavioral health
continuum of care.
● The grant program is modeled after the current Behavioral Health
Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP), which provided 5 rounds of
funding in 2021-2023 to cities, counties, tribal entities, and nonprofit and
for-profit organizations.
● This grant funding is referred to as “Bond BHCIP Round 1: Launch Ready.”
The funding round will total up to $3.3 billion, making 75% of the Bond BHCIP
funds for the behavioral health treatment facilities available to communities as
soon as possible.
● Up to $1.5 billion open only to counties, cities, and tribal entities. These
funds will be awarded competitively.
● Up to $1.8 billion open to counties, cities, and tribal entities, as well as
nonprofit and for-profit organizations. These funds will be awarded
competitively, within an allocation set for each region to ensure
geographic equity.
● $30 million is the minimum to be competitively awarded to tribal entities,
across all Bond BHCIP funds.
A Request for Application (RFA) for this round will be posted Summer 2024.
● Applications will be due Fall 2024 and awarded in early 2025.
Key requirements for all applicants include:
● All applications must be based on local behavioral health needs data,
community engagement, and regional collaboration.
● All applicants must be supported by the county behavioral health director
where the project is located.
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● All applicants must make a commitment to serve people with health
insurance through Medi-Cal.
● All applicants must meet match guidelines set according to the applicant
entity type.
State investments in local behavioral health treatment facilities are already
having an impact:
● In 2021, the state launched the Behavioral Health Continuum
Infrastructure Program and awarded grant funding for Rounds 1 through 5
in 2021-2023.
● You can see the BHCIP dashboard for all awards by county, facility type,
and regional funding amount at the BHCIP Data Dashboard. Highlights
include:
○ 130 behavioral health treatment projects in 38 counties have received
state funds for behavioral health facility construction
○ 2,601 inpatient and residential beds funded statewide
○ 281,146 total individuals can be served in outpatient settings statewide
● The first two behavioral health treatment facilities funded by BHCIP
opened in April 2024 in Nevada and Los Angeles Counties and are
offering behavioral health services.
What’s next?
● Other Proposition 1 bond construction funding (up to $2 billion) will be
available to build permanent supportive housing (PSH) for veterans and
others that are homeless or at risk of homelessness and that have mental
health or substance use challenges. Guidance for Proposition 1 Bond PSH
will be made available by late 2024 from the California Department of
Housing and Community Development (HCD), in partnership with the
California Department of Veterans Affairs.
● The second and final round of Proposition 1 Bond funding for behavioral
health treatment sites (up to $1.1 billion), Bond BHCIP Round 2: Unmet
Needs, will be made available in mid-2025 from DHCS and competitively
open to all applicants. All Bond funds will be awarded and put to work in
communities no later than 2026.
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California’s Behavioral Health Transformation
A NEW MINDSET
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Agenda
»Shared Commitment to Deliver Results for
Californians»Build - New Treatment Sites and Supportive
Housing »Plan – Behavioral Health Services Act
Reform» Act – Urgent Action for the Most Ill,
Unsheltered, Vulnerable»Next Steps
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Shared Commitments to Californians
»More Mental Health Care & Substance Use Treatment for All
»Urgent Action
»Accountability for Results
»Partnership - City/County, Public/Private, Local/State
»Nation-Leading Investments – Behavioral Health Services,
Treatment Sites, Workforce
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Build for Transformation
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Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act
$6.38 billion general obligation bond – Treatment Sites and Housing
•Total Funding will be used to construct, acquire, and rehabilitate more than an estimated:
•6,800 treatment beds and 26,700 out-patient treatment slots
•4,350 permanent supportive housing units, with 2,350 of those set-aside for veterans
•$4.4 Billion for grants to public or private entities for BH treatment and residential settings.
•Includes $1.5 billion to be awarded only to counties, cities and tribal entities, with
$30M set aside for tribes.
•$1.065 billion in housing investments for veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness
who have behavioral health challenges.
•$922 million in housing investments for persons experiencing or at risk of homelessness
who have behavioral health challenges.
•Modelled on successful Behavioral Health Community Infrastructure Project (BHCIP)
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Round 1: Crisis Care Mobile Units (CCMUs)
Round 2: Planning Grants
Round 3: Launch Ready
Round 4: Children and Youth
Round 5: Crisis and Behavioral Health Continuum
BH Community Infrastructure Project (BHCIP) Awards – to date
State Map
130 Awarded Projects
DHCS, BHCIP
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BHCIP Round 1
$185 million
Crisis Care Mobile Units (CCMUs)
21,625 requests were received from counties, cities, and
tribal entities for Crisis Care Mobile Unit services in Q3 202381% resulted in a CCMU dispatch
Round 1 BHCIP funding supports 304 new or
enhanced mobile crisis response teams in 48
counties, cities, and tribal entities throughout
California
CCMU teams responded to 17,539 behavioral health
crisis in Q3 2023 alone
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BHCIP Round 2
County and Tribal Planning Grants:
$16 million to fund planning grants for new BH
Community Infrastructure projects to counties and tribal grantees
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39 planning grants have been completed as of January 2024
9 planning grants to be received by June 2025
18 tribes and 32 counties were awarded funds to
prepare and plan for BHCIP Rounds 3 through 5
23 Round 2 Planning Grantees received
awards in latter BHCIP Rounds
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BHCIP Round 3
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Launch Ready:
$518.5 million eligible for counties,
cities, nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, and tribal entities for projects that are launch ready.
Round 3 BHCIP funding supports the creation of 36 new
inpatient/residential facilities which provides 1,292
treatment beds annually, and 45 outpatient facilities which
provides treatment to 130,321 individuals served annually
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BHCIP Round 4
Children and Youth:
$480.5 million eligible for counties, cities, nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, and tribal entities for facilities for children and youth.
Round 4 BHCIP funding supports 29 new inpatient and
residential facilities and 67 outpatient facilities to
provide care for children and youth ages 25 and younger,
including pregnant and postpartum women and their
children, and transition-age youth (TAY), along with their
families
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BHCIP Round 5
Crisis and Behavioral Health Continuum:
$430 million eligible for counties, cities, nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, and tribal entities for projects focused on crisis services.
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Round 5 BHCIP funding supports 29 new residential
facilities with 800 beds annually, as well as 44 outpatient
facilities providing treatment to over 73,848 individuals
served annually
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Total Inpatient &Residential Beds in Rounds 3-5
2,601
13
295
88
1,165
98
30
42
358
88
22
132
149
28
42
64
Acute Psychiatric Hospital
Adolescent Residential SUD Treatment Facility
Adult Residential SUD Treatment Facility
Children’s Crisis Residential Program (CCRP)
Community Residential Treatment/Social Rehabilitation Program
General Acute Care Hospital
Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC)
Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC) with LPS Designation
Peer Respite
Perinatal Residential SUD Facility
Psychiatric Health/Treatment Facility
Recovery Residence/Sober Living Home
Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP)
Social Rehabilitation Facility
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Total Outpatient Individuals Served annually in Rounds 3-5
281,146
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Behavioral Health Services Integrated with Wellness/Prevention Centers
Behavioral Health Urgent Care/Mental Health Urgent Care
Community Mental Health Clinic
Community Wellness/Prevention Center
Crisis Center Stabilization Unit (CSU)
Hospital-Based Outpatient Treatment/Detox
Intensive Outpatient Treatment
Mental Health Outpatient Treatment
Narcotic Treatment Program (NTP)
NTP Medication Unit
Office-Based Opioid Treatment
Outpatient Treatment for SUD
Partial Hospitalization Program
School-Linked Health Center
Sobering Centers
24,585
20,658
22,102
80,556
66,523
600
5,620
4,800
2,464
600
29,645
1,653
1,305
146
24,689
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Tahoe Forest Hospital District
Tahoe Forest Hospital District
Medical Office Building Renovation
Awarded $2.3 million in BHCIP Round 3
This BHCIP funded facility serves 600 individuals
annually for hospital-based outpatient treatment care,
from psychiatric services including diagnostic evaluations,
medication management, and therapy to Medication
Assisted Treatment (MAT) for SUDs
•Service populations include: Adults in the Tahoe Basin
communities including the Town of Truckee and multiple
counties including rural areas
Offering BH Services March 2024
First BHCIP
Funded Facility
to Open
$ 1,019,357,255.00
Nevada County
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DAAC
Residential Facility
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Drug Abuse Alternatives Center Awarded $7.1 million in BHCIP Round 3
»DAAC is a 50 bed Behavioral Health Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Facility that provides comprehensive rehabilitation, health and social services to more than 4,000 individuals and families each year
»Service populations include: Individuals with substance use disorders, individuals with justice involvement, individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness
Offering BH Services April 2024
Sonoma County
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BHInfrastructure Bond Funding:Treatment Sites
•AB 531 / Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act
provides $6.38 billion with up to $4.4 billion for
competitive grants for counties, cities, tribal entities,
non-profit and private sector towards behavioral health
treatment settings.
•Of the $4.4 billion available for treatment sites, $1.5
billion, with $30 million set aside for tribes,will be
awarded through competitive grants ONLY to counties,
cities and tribal entities.
•Competitive grants requirements will be similar to
current BHCIP requirements.
•Additional requirements, due to the provision of
receiving bond funding, will be outlined in the request
for application.
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Public Listening Session by DHCS
DHCS is developing plans for distribution of $4.4 billion in bond funds (BH
Infrastructure Bond Act, BHIBA) for BHCIP competitive grants for treatment sites.
During this public listening session, input can be provided directly to DHCS on BHCIP
bond funding.
Friday, April 19, 2024, from 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Registration is required.
REGISTRATION BUTTON
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Behavioral Health
Infrastructure Bond Act
$6.38 billion
$1.972 billion to HCD
for housing investments
$1.065 billion
$922 million
Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond
Funding – Supportive Housing
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•Modeled after HCD’s existing Homekey Program
•Extremely low income (30% AMI or less).
•Experiencing or at-risk of homelessness + behavioral health challenge
•HCD and CalVet to coordinate on Veterans program
Eligible Use of Funds:
•Acquisition, rehabilitation of motels, hotels, hostels, or other sites and
assets that could be converted to permanent housing.
Eligible Entities:
•Cities, Counties, regional and local public entities
•Development Sponsor (loans only)
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BH Infrastructure Bond Funding –
Supportive Housing
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Homekey Program Highlights to date
•Born out of necessity in time of crisis
•Built for speed and efficiency
•Lower costs than conventional new construction
•Local Government partnerships
•Interim and Interim to Permanent projects occupied within 90 days of acquisition
•Launched in June 2020: three funding rounds to date
•250 projects
•15,319 units
•167,000 households to be assisted over time
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L&M Village
(City of Healdsburg)
•22 studio units
•On and off-site supportive services
•Located within 1 mile of grocery store, pharmacy and transit.
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Labath Landing
(City of Rohnert Park)
•60 modular units on city-owned vacant lot
•25% of units targeted to chronically homeless
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Kearny Mesa
(San Diego Housing Commission)
•Acquisition of former Residence Inn
•142 one and two-bedroom units
•Permanent Housing (55 years)
•Sensory and mobility accessible units
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Lotus Living Tiny Homes
(City of El Centro)
•Partnership between City of El Centro and Imperial Valley College
•26 Permanent Units of Manufactured Housing
•Target Population: Transition Age Youth
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Promesa Commons
(City of Fresno Housing Authority)
•Acquisition and rehabilitation of former Days Inn hotel
•96 units
•Interim to Permanent Housing
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Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Program to date
»Voter Approved Prop 41 June, 2014»$600 Million for the development of new
affordable housing for veterans and their
families»HCD, CalVet and CalHFA collaboration»8 funding rounds completed to affordable
housing developers and supportive service
providers»96 projects awarded / 60 currently
operating and 36 on track to open soon»6389 units total with 3249 specially for
veterans once all 96 projects are operating.
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BH Infrastructure Bond Funding - Supportive Housing for Veterans
•California’s veteran population is roughly 1.5 million 2nd only to Texas.
•2023 US HUD Point In Time Count reports that California accounts for 30
percent of all veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States
(10,589 veterans) and close to half of all unsheltered veterans nationally (48%
or 7,436 veterans).
•Total number of homeless veterans in California has decreased by roughly
7,384 individuals since an reported high of 17,973 in 2009.
•Upwards of 50 percent or more of homeless veterans suffer from mental
health issues and upwards of 70 percent or more are affected by SUD.
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BH Infrastructure Bond Funding - Supportive Housing for Veterans
$1.065 billion worth of housing investments for veterans who are at risk of homelessness, experiencing homelessness, or experiencing chronic homelessness who have behavioral health needs or a substance use disorder.
CalVet and HCD will coordinate to determine methodology and distribution of funds, as well as the supportive service plan standards and other program areas of expertise such as:
•USDVA Disability/Pension Claims and Compensation
•Legal Aid
•Veteran Cultural Competency
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Edwin M. Lee ApartmentsSan Francisco
•VHHP Loan $10 Million Round 3
•118 units
•62 Permanent Supportive
•56 Affordable Rental
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Reform: Modernize with Results
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Bond Funding
Availability Begins
Requests for application
for bond funding will
leverage the BHCIP and
HomeKey models.
DHCS Lead Initial BH Transformation Milestones
Stakeholder
Engagement
Stakeholder Engagement
including public listening
sessions will be utilized
through all milestones to
inform policy creation.
Integrated Plan
Guidance and Policy
Policy and guidance will
be released in phases
beginning with policy
and guidance for
Integrated Plans.
Integrated Plan
New Integrated Plans,
fiscal transparency, and
data reporting
requirements go-live in
July 2026 (for next three-
year cycle)
Starting Spring 2024 Beginning Summer 2024 Beginning Early 2025 Summer 2026
Below outlines high-level timeframes for several milestones that will inform requirements and
resources. Additional updates on timelines and policy will follow throughout the project.
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Engagement with Counties
Engagement with DHCS partners at the California State Association of
Counties and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association is specified
on core issues, throughout the Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC):
Accountability:
•WIC 5963.04 (b): shall establish metrics…to measure and evaluate the
quality and efficacy of the behavioral health services and programs
•WIC 5664 (a): county behavioral health systems shall provide reports and
data to meet the information needs of the state
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Engagement with Counties (cont)
Quality:
•WIC 5840 (c)(1): establish a biennial list of evidence-based practices and
community-defined evidence practices
•WIC 5887: Full Service Partnerships, Assertive Community Treatment and
Forensic Assertive Community Treatment fidelity, Individual Placement and
Support model of Supported Employment, high fidelity wraparound, or other
evidence-based services and treatment models
•WIC 5887 (e)Full-service partnership programs shall have an established
standard of care with levels based on an individual’s acuity and criteria for step -
down into the least intensive level of care
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Engagement with Counties (cont)
Flexibility
•WIC 5892 : Multiple subsections contain language regarding developing an
exemption process and reasonable criteria for requesting an exemption of
statutory funding percentages
Funding
•WIC 5892 (e)(2)(D): new costs to implement this article that exceed existing
county obligations… for inclusion in the Governor’s 2024–25 May Revision
•WIC 5963 (c): costs pertaining to the alignment of Behavioral Health Medi -Cal
programs contract with relevant Managed Care Plan contracts per WIC 14197.71
•WIC 5892.3 (a): Behavioral Health Services Act Revenue Stability Workgroup
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Community Engagement
County Behavioral Health (BH) Advisory Boards
•Consists of 10-15 members, including one member from local governing body.
•Also includes: consumers, or the parents, spouses, siblings, or adult children of consumers, who are receiving or have received behavioral h ealth
services (at least one aged 25 or younger).
•In counties with a population of 100,00 plus, also include a veteran or veteran advocate.
Community Stakeholder Process: Integrated Plan for Behavioral Health Services and Outcomes
•Meaningful stakeholder engagement throughout the process.
•County BH Advisory Board required to conduct a public hearing on the draft Integrated Plan at the close of a 30-day public comment period.
•County BH Advisory Board shall review adopted plan and make recommendations to local MH/SUD/BH Agency.
•Local MH/SUD/BH Agency must provide written explanations to local governing body and DHCS for County BH Advisory Board
recommendations not included in final integrated plan.
BHSOAC
•New perspectives added to BHSOAC, with 27 voting members (up from 16 members):
•Two persons who have or have had a SUD.
•One person who is 25 years of age or younger and has or has had a MH/SUD/or cooccurring disorder.
•Family member of an adult or older adult who has or has had a SUD and family member of a child or youth who has or has had a SUD.
•Current or former county behavioral health director.
•Professional with expertise in housing and homelessness.
•Representative of an aging or disability organization.
•Person with knowledge and experience in community-defined evidence practices and reducing BH disparities.
•Representative of a children and youth organization.
•Veteran or a representative of a veterans organization.
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Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA)
Population, Funding and Services
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Priority Populations for BHSA
»Eligible children and youth who are:
•Chronically homeless or
experiencing homelessness or are at
risk of homelessness.
•In, or at risk of being in, the juvenile
justice system.
•Reentering the community from a
youth correctional facility.
•In the child welfare system.
•At risk of institutionalization.
»Eligible adults and older adults who are:
•Chronically homeless or experiencing
homelessness or are at risk of
homelessness.
•In, or are at risk of being in, the justice
system.
•Reentering the community from prison
or jail.
•At risk of conservatorship.
•At risk of institutionalization.
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Health Equity in BHSA
Support culturally responsive services that improve health and reduce health
disparities for all:
•Reduces the silos for planning and service-delivery and sets clear principles.
•Requires stratified data and strategies for reducing health disparities in the
planning, services, and outcomes.
•Clearly advances community-defined practices as a key strategy of reducing
health disparities and increasing community representation.
•Additional representation on State and Local Oversight Bodies
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County Allocations:
1. BH Housing Interventions
30% for BH Housing Interventions
•For children and families, youth, adults, and older adults living with SMI/SED and/or SUD who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
•Includes rental subsidies, operating subsidies, shared and family housing, capital, and the non-
federal share for certain transitional rent.
•50% is prioritized for housing interventions for the chronically homeless with BH challenges.
•Up to 25% may be used for capital development.
•Allows small county exemption for 2026-29 planning cycle.
•Not limited to Full Service Partnerships partners or persons enrolled in Medi -Cal.
•Provides flexibility for the remaining counties commencing with the 2032-2035 planning cycle on
the 30% requirement based on DHCS criteria for exemptions.
•{Current MHSA: Housing is currently allowable as well as BHBH Housing
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County Allocations:
2. Full Service Partnerships
35% for Full Service Partnership (FSP) Programs
•Includes mental health, supportive services, and substance use disorder treatment services.
•Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
•Community-defined evidence practices (CDEP)
•Assertive Community Treatment /Forensic Assertive Community Treatment, Supported employment, & high fidelity wraparound are required.
•Small county exemptions are subject to DHCS approval.
•Establishes standards of care with levels based on criteria.
•Outpatient behavioral health services, either clinic or field based, necessary for on-going evaluation and stabilization of an enrolled individual.
•On-going engagement services necessary to maintain enrolled individuals in their treatment plan inclusive of clinical and non-clinical services, including services to support maintaining housing.
MHSA: 50% of Community Services and Supports is dedicated to FSP
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County Allocations:
3. Behavioral Health Services and Supports
35% for Behavioral Health Services and Supports (BHSS)
•Includes early intervention, outreach and engagement, workforce education and training, capital facilities, technological needs, and innovative pilots and projects.
•A majority (51%) of this amount must be used for Early Intervention services to assist in the early signs of mental illness or substance misuse.
o A majority (51%) of these Early Intervention services and supports must be for people 25 years and younger.
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County Allocations: BHSS Early Intervention
•Emphasize Reductions on Negative Outcomes:
•Suicide, self harm, overdose
•Incarceration, unemployment, homelessness, prolonged suffering,
•School (including early childhood 0-5 age, inclusive, TK-12, and higher education) suspension, expulsion,
referral to an alternative or community school, or failure to complete,
•Removal of children from homes,
•Mental illness in children and youth from social, emotional, developmental, and behavioral needs in early
childhood. Including outreach to education, including early care and learning and TK-12.
•Reduce disparities.
•Expand community-defined evidence practices and evidence-based practices.
MH and SUD services may be provided to individual children and youth when:
•At high risk for a behavioral health disorder due to trauma, via the ACEs screening tool, involvement in the
child welfare system or juvenile justice system, who are experiencing homelessness, or who are in
populations with identified disparities in behavioral health outcomes.
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County Allocations: Funding Flexibility
•Counties will have the flexibility within the above funding areas to move up to 7% from one category into another, for a maximum of 14% more added into any one category, to allow counties to address their different local needs and priorities – based on data and community input.
•Changes are subject to DHCS approval and can only be made during the 3-year plan cycle. The next cycle is Fiscal Year 2026-2029.
•Innovation will be permitted in all categories.
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State Directed Funding: Prevention
4% of total funding for Population-Based Prevention
•Population-based programming on behavioral health and wellness to increase awareness
about resources and stop behavioral health problems before they start.
•A majority of Prevention programming (51%) must serve people 25 years and younger.
Early childhood population-based prevention programs for 0-5 shall be provided in a
range of settings.
•California Department of Public Health is lead, in consultation with DHCS and BHSOAC.
•Provides for school-based prevention supports and programs. Services shall be provided
on a schoolwide or classroom basis and may be provided by a community-based
organization off campus or on school grounds.
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State Directed Funding: Workforce
3% of total funding for BH Workforce Expansion
•The Department of Health Care Access and Information, in collaboration with CalHHS, will implement a behavioral health workforce initiative to expand a culturally-competent and well-trained behavioral health workforce.
•Assist in drawing down federal funding ($2.4 Billion over 5 years) through the Medi-Cal BH-CONNECT demonstration project.
•A portion of the workforce initiative may focus on providing technical assistance and support to county and contracted providers to maximize the use of peer support specialists.
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State Directed Funding: Innovation
•$20 million annually will be directed to the Behavioral Health Services Act Innovation Partnership Fund, to develop innovations with non-governmental partners.
•The independent State Behavioral Health Services Outcomes & Accountability Commission is the lead for these funds.
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State Directed Funding: Oversight and Monitoring
State Oversight and Administration Reduced from 5% to 3%
•Used to develop statewide outcomes, conduct oversight of county outcomes, train and provide technical assistance, research and evaluate, and administer programs.
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Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA)
Outcomes, Accountability, and Equity
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County Integrated Plan for Behavioral Health Services and Outcomes
•Three-year plans no longer focus on MHSA funds only. Must include:
•All local, state, and federal behavioral health funding (e.g., BHSA, opioid settlement funds,
SAMHSA and PATH grants, realignment funding, federal financial participation) and
behavioral health services, including Medi-Cal.
•A budget of planned expenditures, reserves, and adjustments
•Alignment with statewide and local goals and outcomes measures
•Workforce strategies
•Plans must be developed with consideration of the population needs assessments of each Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan and in collaboration with local health jurisdictions on community health improvement plans.
•Plans must be informed by local stakeholder input, including additional voices on the local behavioral health advisory boards.
•Performance outcomes will be developed by DHCS in consultation with counties and stakeholders.
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County Behavioral Health Outcomes, Accountability, and Transparency Report
•Counties will be required to report annually on expenditures of all local, state, and federal behavioral health funding (e.g., BHSA, SAMHSA grants, realignment funding, federal financial participation), unspent dollars, service utilization data and outcomes with health equity lens, workforce metrics, and other information.
•DHCS is authorized to impose corrective action plans on counties that fail to meet certain requirements.
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County Behavioral Health Outcomes, Accountability, and Transparency Report
•The plans and reports is shall include data through the lens of health equity to identify racial, ethnic, age, gender, and other demographic disparities and inform disparity reduction efforts.
•Other data and information may include the number of people who are eligible adults and older adults, who are incarcerated, experiencing homelessness, inclusive of the availability of housing, the number of eligible children and youth.
•The metrics shall be used to identify demographic and geographic disparities in the quality and efficacy of behavioral health services and programs listed in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 5963.02.
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Funds for Local Planning and Reporting
•An additional 2% and up to 4% for small counties of local BHSA revenue may be used to improve planning, quality, outcomes, data reporting, and subcontractor oversight for all county behavioral health funding, on top of the existing 5% county planning allotment.
•Permits a county to provide supports, such as training and technical assistance, to ensure stakeholders have enough information and data to participate in the development of integrated plans and annual updates.
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Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (BHSOAC)
•The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) will become the BHSOAC
•Established to promote transformational change in behavioral health system through research, evaluation and tracking outcomes, and other strategies to assess and report progress.
•Expands commission membership to include community representation, namely for transition-age youth and for individuals who are aging or disabled, and other critical community perspectives.
•Will receive funding for a new $20 million Innovation Partnership Fund to provide grants to develop innovations with non-government partners.
•DHCS will consult with BHSOAC on:
•Development of biennial list of Early Intervention evidence-based practices
•Building FSP levels of care
•Developing statewide outcome metrics
•Determining statewide BH goals and outcome measures
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State Auditor Report
•The State Auditor shall issue a comprehensive report on the progress and effectiveness of implementation of BHSA by December 31, 2029 and every 3 years thereafter until 2035.
Shall include:
•BHSA policy impact
•Timeliness of guidance and
technical assistance
•Progress toward goals and
outcomes
•Gaps in service and trends in
unmet needs
•Inclusion and impact of SUD
services and personnel
•Effectiveness of reporting
requirements
•DHCS oversight of plans and
reports
•Coordination and collaboration
areas of improvement
•Recommendations of changes
or improvements
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Align Managed Care and BH Contracts
•Authorizes DHCS to align the terms of the county behavioral health plan contracts regarding organization, infrastructure, and administration with Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts.
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Act with Urgency Now – Most Ill, Unsheltered, & Vulnerable
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County Tools to Serve the High-
Risk/High-Need Populations
»Behavioral Health Bridge Housing – immediate, interim housing
»Mobile Crisis (Infrastructure and Service Delivery) and AB 988
»Full Service Partnership (funded through MHSA, Medi-Cal,
Realignment)
»CARE Act
»SB 43 LPS Conservatorship Reform
»Opioid Response
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BH Bridge Housing County Funding
»Opportunity and Focus: For county BH administrators use in the implementation
of bridge housing settings for Californians experiencing homelessness who have
serious behavioral health conditions.
»Fiscal Year 2022-23 Allocation, $907 million:
•Awards were made to 53 of 58 counties. Engagement with the remaining five
counties is ongoing.
»Under this $907 million, our projections suggest:
•3,448 new bridge housing beds created through infrastructure projects.
•Approximately 4,700 bridge housing beds funded annually through rental
assistance programs, shelter/interim housing, and/or auxiliary funding to
assisted living.
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Fresno BH Bridge Housing Program
•DHCS provided $21 million to the county
for the project.
•People who participate in the program
will receive wraparound support that
focuses on whole-person care. They will
be able to stay in the units for 90 to 180
days while working toward long term
housing.
•Sierra Summit has provided bridge
housing for 60 people since January
2024.
•A second location, Phoenix Landing, is
scheduled to open early this year and will
provide housing for 120 people.
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Mobile Crisis Services
2022: Crisis Care Mobile Units (CCMU) through BHCIP:
•390 mobile crisis teams created.
•Grants awarded to 48 BH authorities and 24
tribal entities.
•$163 million+; $150 million from BHCIP
and $55 million from SAMHSA CRRSAA*
January 2024: Medi-Cal Mobile Crisis Services
Benefit:
•31 counties’ Medi-Cal Mobile Crisis Plans have
been approved.
•Goal is all 58 counties by 6/30/2024.
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*Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental
Appropriations Act (CRRSAA)
Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program,
Crisis Care Mobile Crisis Units Program Grant
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•Over the past year California has seen a steady increase in call volume. In August of
2022, California received 31,458 calls, 26,110 of which were answered in-state, yielding an
83% in-state answer rate. California experienced an initial surge in 988 calls at
implementation, a peak of 32,416 calls in September 2022, which lasted about three months,
and then call volume declined to 25,336 in February 2023.
•Call volume has increased 19% between February 2023 and February 2024. Looking
back a year to February 2023, CA received 25,336 calls and answered 22,721 in-state, giving
centers a 90% in-state answer rate. The most recent state data available is from February
2024, where CA received 30,222 calls while achieving a roughly 90% in-state answer rate
with 27,090 calls answered.
•Staffing has increased and strengthened skills. In August 2022, data collected by Didi
Hirsch showed 429 staff members and 648 volunteers. By February 2023, the number of staff
increased to 532, with 555 volunteers. As of February 2024, there were 593 staff and 563
volunteers across the 988 Crisis Centers in California.
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CARE Act Cohort 1 Status Update
•Petition numbers during this early implementation stage are in line with our
expectations for a new model and allow the counties to effectively manage
the resources needed to serve the population.
•This provides the opportunity for counties to identify the necessary
resources to build the comprehensive CARE plans, including identifying
housing solutions that meet client needs.
•Initial petitions fairly representative of local demographics but skewing male
and not capturing many young adults/ younger people
•Planning Funding BHIN for Counties
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Solutions and Ongoing Challenges
Effective Solutions
•Deep system coordination
•Educating the community
•Engagement/ locating people
•Workforce leveraging existing staff and expanding role of peers for outreach and engagement
•Housing leveraging multiple funding sources
•Services – ACT and peers are key
Ongoing Challenges
•Petition and supporting documentation
•Access to PHI
•Deeply complex conditions – co-occurring SUD and physical health conditions
•Acuity
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Observations from Recent Site Visits
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Los AngelesStanislaus
San Diego
Tuolumne
GlennRiverside
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CARE Act Reporting and Assessment
Early implementation report out December of 2024 with complete annual
reports in July of subsequent years. Annual report will include:
•Demographic information
•Outcome measures to assess housing, SUD rates, hospital utilization, law enforcement contacts, and involuntary treatment/conservatorship
•Includes equity assessment
Independent evaluation to be conducted 3 years after implementation
•Analyze and report on CARE Act impact on racial, ethnic, and other demographic disparities
•Preliminary Independent Evaluation Report will be delivered in December 2026, with final report in December 2028.
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CARE Act Next Steps
»Cohort 2 launches – All remaining Counties - by December 1, 2024
»CalHHS, DHCS, and Judicial Council continue to work closely with
counties, the courts, legal representation, and others through the CARE
Act Working Group to support successful implementation.
•This includes efforts to support data and evaluation, communication tools to support local partner engagement, and supporting the provision of provide integrated, holistic care to CARE respondents.
»Ongoing efforts to support understanding of the CARE Act
•Efforts include outreach and training through NAMI, California Medical Association, First Responders, and others
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•Information regarding upcoming trainings
•Resource library
•Timeline with implementation milestones and progress
•FAQ
•Technical assistance request form
•Stakeholder feedback form
•Ability to join the listserv
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CARE Act Resource Center
CARE-Act.org
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Reforms to LPS Conservatorship – SB 43
•Act changes the definition of “gravely disabled”
•‘gravely disabled’ means…[a] condition in which a person, as a result of
a mental health disorder, a severe substance use disorder, or a co-
occurring mental health disorder and severe substance use disorder
•‘gravely disabled’ includes a condition in which a person, as a result of
impairment by chronic alcoholism, is unable to provide for their basic
personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter, personal safety, or
necessary medical care.”
•New reporting requirements to comply with SB 43 begin in May 2024.
•SB 43 must be implemented no later than January 1, 2026.
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LPS Conservatorship Reform Resources
»DHCS:
•BH Information Notice issued March 25th SB 43 BHIN-24-011
•Clarifies allowable sites
•FAQ in development
»Counties that have implemented:
•San Francisco
•San Luis Obispo
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DHCS Opioid Response
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Next Steps
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Next Steps
»Participate in upcoming and future engagement opportunities with DHCS:
•Bond BHCIP Public Listening Session April 19th
•Behavioral Health Stakeholders Advisory Group
•Other stakeholder meetings coming soon on DHCS website»Review what BH infrastructure and BH Bridge Housing has been funded in your county and
map out the remaining gaps »Review HCD Homekey Awards Dashboard»Review total BH funding in County – MHSA, Medi-Cal, 1991 and 2011 Realignment»Review veterans: CalVet can assist with veteran population data requests and with
coordination between veteran stakeholders such as developers, County Veteran Service
Officers, Community Based Organizations and others to provide supportive service
trainings through its California Transition Assistance Program.
•VHHP Website»Assess how to implement Care and LPS Reform as soon as possible
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Astrid Robles
From:Gonsalves & Son <Gonsalves@gonsalvi.com>
Sent:Tuesday, April 9, 2024 12:38 PM
Subject:Bipartisan Legislative Package To Address Retail Crime and Theft
Attachments:AB 1779 (Irwin).pdf; AB 1794 (McCarty).pdf; AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer).pdf; AB 1960
(Soria).pdf; AB 1972 (Alanis).pdf; AB 2943 (Zbur).pdf; AB 3209 (Berman).pdf
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This afternoon, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas announced a legislative package of 7 bills focused on reducing
retail crime and addressing other theft incidents. Attached for your review is a copy of those bills, which include:
AB 1779 (Irwin): returns authority, currently limited to the Attorney General, to district attorneys to
coordinate and prosecute organized retail theft and other theft crimes;
AB 1794 (McCarty): allows theft crimes by same perpetrator to be aggregated between different places and
victims; and streamlines process of reporting shoplifting incidents directly to prosecutors through
statewide CAL Fast Pass program;
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer): makes permanent the crime of organized retail theft and the operation of the CHP
property crimes task force;
AB 1960 (Soria): re-enacts and strengthens previously lapsed statute providing enhanced penalties when
an individual takes or destroys property during the commission of a felony, when property value is
exceptionally high. Provides enhancement beginning at one year or more to a sentence when property loss
is more than $50,000;
AB 1972 (Alanis): expands California Highway Patrol’s property crimes task forces to support identified
counties with increased levels of cargo theft;
AB 2943 (Zbur); Creates a new crime targeting “serial” retail thieves, with a penalty of up to three years
behind bars for possession of stolen property with intent to resell.
AB 3209 (Berman): provides new enforcement tool by authorizing a court to impose a Retail Crime
Restraining Order for a theft offense, vandalism within the store, or battery on employee within store
Additionally, the following will provide you with the press release from Speaker Rivas on this package of bills.
Please review and feel free to contact our office with any questions or concerns.
Thank you,
Paul Gonsalves
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For Immediate Release
April 9, 2024
CONTACT: Cynthia Moreno
Cynthia.Moreno@asm.ca.gov
Speaker Robert Rivas & Assembly Lawmakers Announce Comprehensive, Bipartisan
Legislative Package To Address Retail Crime and Theft
SACRAMENTO, CA— Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and a bipartisan coalition of
Assemblymembers announced today a legislative package of seven bills focused on reducing
retail crime and addressing other theft incidents.
Speaker Rivas was joined by a broad coalition in support of the package, including:
Attorney General Rob Bonta;
Select Committee on Retail Theft Chair, Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur;
Public Safety Committee Chair, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty;
Select Committee on Retail Theft Members and Legislative Package Co-Authors:
Assemblymembers Blanca Pacheco, Cottie Petrie-Norris, and Pilar Schiavo;
Jennifer Barrera, California Chamber of Commerce, President and CEO;
Rachel Michelin, California Retailers Association, President and CEO;
Erik Nasarenko, Ventura County District Attorney;
Jeff Laugero, Stanislaus County District Attorney;
Josh Coyne, Downtown San Diego Partnership;
Jonathan Feldman, California Police Chiefs Association
What Speaker Robert Rivas Says
“Organized retail crime and theft are harming our communities, undermining business owners
and eroding people’s confidence in law and order. That ends today. The Assembly’s bipartisan
legislative package strengthens public safety and protects shoppers and operators. Our
comprehensive and balanced solutions uphold the successful reforms we’ve enacted to
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institute a more just system, and also reflect my colleagues' thoughtful dedication to exploring
every aspect of the issue. I believe a return to the ballot to address retail theft is not necessary,
because the Assembly’s plan delivers real and urgent changes for Californians.”
What Attorney General Rob Bonta Says
“As California’s chief law enforcement officer, I’m proud to support this incredible coalition that
has been hard at work, heads down, sleeves up, to deliver for the people of California,” Attorney
General Rob Bonta said on Tuesday at a press conference introducing the legislation. “This was a
team effort, and I think it is important that we continue to commit to that collaboration.”
7 Bills: A Bipartisan Assembly Package
The Retail Theft Reduction Act or Assembly Bill 2943 (Rivas, Zbur);
Assembly Bill 1794 (McCarty): allows theft crimes by same perpetrator to be aggregated between
different places and victims; and streamlines process of reporting shoplifting incidents directly
to prosecutors through statewide CAL Fast Pass program;
Assembly Bill 1779 (Irwin): returns authority, currently limited to the Attorney General, to district
attorneys to coordinate and prosecute organized retail theft and other theft crimes;
Assembly Bill 1960 (Soria): re-enacts and strengthens previously lapsed statute providing
enhanced penalties when an individual takes or destroys property during the commission of a
felony, when property value is exceptionally high. Provides enhancement beginning at one year or
more to a sentence when property loss is more than $50,000;
Assembly Bill 1972 (Alanis): expands California Highway Patrol’s property crimes task forces to
support identified counties with increased levels of cargo theft;
Assembly Bill 1802 (Jones-Sawyer): makes permanent the crime of organized retail theft and the
operation of the CHP property crimes task force;
Assembly Bill 3209 (Berman): provides new enforcement tool by authorizing a court to impose a
Retail Crime Restraining Order for a theft offense, vandalism within the store, or battery on
employee within store
About The Retail Theft Reduction Act
Assembly Bill 2943, jointly authored by Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur and Speaker Rivas,
creates a new crime targeting “serial” retail thieves, with a penalty of up to three years behind
bars for possession of stolen property with intent to resell. Additionally, it clarifies that similar
thefts from different victims can be aggregated to charge grand theft if certain criteria are met.
The bill also provides new tools to law enforcement to arrest for shoplifting based on a witness’s
sworn statement or video footage of the crime and extends the ability of police to keep repeat
offenders in custody. Additionally, to address the root causes of theft, AB 2943 promotes the use
of diversion and rehabilitative programs like drug court. The bill also extends the ability of
counties to create and use theft diversion programs as alternatives to incarceration. The authors
are continuing to work with stakeholders and anticipate the addition of provisions to protect
businesses and retailers that report crime from retaliation, to prevent stolen goods from being
unlawfully advertised and sold on online marketplaces, and to increase data transparency by
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requiring large retailers to report specified theft data while protecting retailers’ proprietary
information.
Select Committee on Retail Theft Chair, Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood)
“This comprehensive bill package, which includes the California Retail Theft Reduction Act,
demonstrates that the California Assembly has listened and is serious about addressing retail
crime in our communities. When I first took office more than a year ago, retail crime was one of
the concerns raised by my constituents, second only to the housing and homelessness crisis. It
is clear that something has to be done. My colleagues and I have listened to a wide range of
stakeholders to create a legislative package that offers balanced and effective reforms that hold
serial thieves accountable and clarifies the standard that allows aggregation of related incidents
of theft, while expanding access to diversion and rehabilitation programs. I’m grateful for the
Speaker’s leadership on AB 2943 and am grateful to all of the authors, speakers, stakeholders,
and to the members of the Select Committee, for investing in this comprehensive and
meaningful set of proposals.”
Public Safety Committee Chair, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento)
“Retail crime and theft continues to impact the retail industry at unprecedented levels.
Businesses have taken drastic measures to protect their products, affecting consumers’ ability
to buy essential items and the economy. AB 1794 targets repeat offenders of retail crime and
provides additional resources and support to businesses affected by retail crime, keeping
businesses open and neighborhoods safe.”
Bipartisan Assembly Authors
“I have promised my constituents that I would work across the aisle on real solutions wherever
they can be found. California’s retail theft issues did not appear overnight and I believe more
work must continue to be done to combat this issue. However, I believe AB 1972 will help provide
needed additional tools for law enforcement to tackle organized retail theft on cargo carriers
across our state. It’s a positive step and I am pleased it has been included in this package
today.”—Assemblymember Juan Alanis (R-Modesto)
“Californians are eager for real solutions to address retail theft, vandalism and assaults on store
employees. A retail crime restraining order is a commonsense solution that provides a new
enforcement tool against retail crimes. AB 3209 balances keeping California’s stores and
workers safe from crime, while not exacerbating issues of poverty. I look forward to working with
colleagues from both sides of the aisle to pass a comprehensive package of bills to reduce retail
crime and theft in California in a smart, thoughtful way.”—Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-
Menlo Park)
“In 2018, I successfully authored AB 1065, to create the crime of Organized Retail Theft and
establish the California Highway Patrol’s Organized Retail Theft Task Force. To date the Task
Force has conducted 1,225 investigations, made over 1,800 arrests, and recovered almost half a
million items of stolen retail merchandise valued at more than $21 million. This is in addition to
the amazing work occurring in some counties throughout the state including over 300 retail theft
prosecutions in Los Angeles. This is proof that when used, current tools are effective at punishing
and ending retail theft. My new bill, AB 1802, will ensure that district attorneys and law
enforcement will permanently have this tool at their disposal to continue their work ending retail
crime.”—Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles)
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“Across California, shoppers and retailers are frustrated with the impacts of organized retail
theft. The Legislature needs to give law enforcement and our prosecutors the tools they need to
address these sophisticated retail theft rings. These criminals are making it harder for
consumers to find the products they need during these tough times and threaten their safety
when shopping in local businesses. This package of bills does just that, including AB 1779 which
restores the efficiency and effectiveness of cross jurisdictional charging that was key for
prosecutors between 2019-2021. The restoration of this tool to the Attorney General in 2022 was
an important first step, but with more multi-county cases than the Department of Justice can
effectively pursue, we must fully leverage our District Attorneys who have already been funded at
the state level for this important work.”—Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks)
“Crime, especially retail theft, is not only a problem in my community but across our state. This
bill package provides comprehensive, bipartisan, and balanced solutions to address retail crime
in all of our communities. AB 1960 will ensure the punishment matches the crime. We must
address retail crime by holding criminals accountable and impose a stiffer sentence that reflects
the damage and loss of “smash and grab” and other types of retail crime. AB 1960 will do just
that and our communities will be safer as a result.”—Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria (D-
Fresno)
Jennifer Barrera, California Chamber of Commerce president and CEO
“This is a critical issue for our business community,” Barrera said at Tuesday’s press conference.
“Retail theft is affecting the consumer experience, and that hurts our small businesses and
brick-and-mortar stores. We are so pleased to be here to support this important package to
tackle retail crime in a swift and effective manner.”
Rachel Michelin, California Retailers Association president
“I want to thank everyone for their leadership to bring stakeholders together across California,”
Michelin said at Tuesday's press conference. “We’ve done a lot in the state, but this package
gives law enforcement the tools to stop retail theft from expanding. I look forward to our
continued conversations as these bills move through the process.”
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna
“The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is proud to work with, and support the California
State Assembly in addressing Organized Retail Theft. The Assembly's plan seeks to streamline
prosecution across county jurisdictional lines, add sentence enhancements based on excessive
takings, extend the terms of probation in certain circumstances, and will authorize a court to
impose a Retail Crime Restraining Order for a theft offense, vandalism within a store, or battery
on an employee within a store. Additionally, the Assembly package contains a comprehensive
bill targeting those who commit Organized Retail Theft in order to resell the stolen property. The
Assembly's plan will also give law enforcement additional tools to crack down on professional
thieves and stop cycles of crime in a way that does not unwind important criminal justice reform
that the majority of Californians approved. I am proud to support this effort that will not only
protect our large corporate retailers, but will also protect our small private business owners.”
Chief Alexander Gammelgard, President of the California Police Chiefs Association
“Retail theft is one of the most prominent public safety issues facing California, and we are
grateful for the focus Speaker Rivas has placed on this matter – both in words and actions
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through the package of bills being heard today. We look forward to ongoing collaborative efforts
to improve public safety over the coming months and beyond.”
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Astrid Robles
From:Gonsalves & Son <Gonsalves@gonsalvi.com>
Sent:Wednesday, January 31, 2024 4:30 PM
To:Astrid Robles; Tina Kapoor
Subject:All Introduced Legislation - 2024
Attachments:All Introduced Legislation 2024.pdf
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Attached is a list of all bills introduced in 2024.
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ATTACHMENT A
ALL Introduced
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
AB 1772 (Ramos D) Theft.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the
voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, defines and prohibits an act of shoplifting
and prohibits prosecution for an act of shoplifting under any other law. Current law defines shoplifting
as entering a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny while the establishment is open
during regular business hours. This bill would revise the definition of shoplifting to require an intent to
steal retail property or merchandise.
Organization Position
Public Safety 2 INL
AB 1773 (Dixon R) Vehicles: bicycles on boardwalks.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Would additionally authorize a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance
or resolution regarding the operation of bicycles on boardwalks.
Organization Position
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
AB 1774 (Dixon R) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and
an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and requires electric bicycles to comply with specified
equipment and manufacturing requirements. Current law prohibits a person from tampering with or
modifying an electric bicycle so as to change the speed capability of the bicycle, unless they
appropriately replace the label indicating the classification required, as specified. A violation of the
Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would clarify that the exception to this prohibition only applies if the
bicycle continues to meet the definition of an electric bicycle. This bill would prohibit a person from
selling a product or device that can modify the speed capability of an electric bicycle such that it no
longer meets the definition of an electric bicycle.
AB 1775 (Haney D) Cannabis: retail preparation, sale, and consumption of noncannabis food and beverage
products.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and G.O.
Summary: Current law provides that a local jurisdiction may allow for the smoking, vaporizing, and
ingesting of cannabis or cannabis products on the premises of a retailer or microbusiness licensed
under this division if certain conditions are met. Current administrative law specifies that a licensed
retailer or licensed microbusiness authorized for retail sales who operates a consumption area on the
licensed premises in accordance with this provision may also sell prepackaged, noncannabis-infused,
nonalcoholic food and beverages if the applicable local jurisdiction allows. This bill would authorize a
local jurisdiction, if specified conditions are met, to allow for the preparation or sale of noncannabis
food or beverage products, as specified, by a licensed retailer or microbusiness in the area where the
consumption of cannabis is allowed, to allow for the sale of prepackaged, noncannabis-infused,
nonalcoholic food and beverages by a licensed retailer, and to allow, and to sell tickets for, live musical
or other performances on the premises of a licensed retailer or microbusiness in the area where the
consumption of cannabis is allowed. The bill would additionally specify that these provisions do not
authorize a licensed retailer or microbusiness to prepare or sell industrial hemp or products containing
industrial hemp, as provided.
Organization Position
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
AB 1776 (Ta R) Year-round standard time.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
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Summary: Current state law, Proposition 7, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the
November 6, 2018, statewide general election, sets the standard time for California and sets daylight
saving time to begin each March and end each November. Proposition 7 authorizes the Legislature to
amend these provisions by a 2/3 vote to change the dates and times of the daylight saving time
period, consistent with federal law, and authorizes the Legislature to amend these provisions by a 2/3
vote to provide for the application of year-round daylight saving time when authorized by federal law.
This bill would repeal daylight saving time in the state and the provisions regarding the Legislature’s
authority to amend the above-described provisions by a 2/3 vote. The bill would instead require the
state and all political subdivisions of the state to observe year-round standard time.
AB 1777 (Ting D) Autonomous vehicles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding autonomous
vehicles, as specified.
AB 1778 (Connolly D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Under current law, a “class 2 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be
used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle
reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Under current law, a “class 3 electric bicycle” is a bicycle
equipped with a speedometer and a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling,
and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour.
Current law prohibits a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 3 electric bicycle. Existing
law requires a person operating, or riding upon, a class 3 electric bicycle to wear a helmet, as
specified. This bill would additionally prohibit a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 2
electric bicycle. The bill would require a person operating, or riding upon, a class 2 electric bicycle to
wear a helmet, as specified. The bill would clarify that an electric bicycle can only be placed in a certain
class if it ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches a max speed regardless of the mode.
AB 1779 (Irwin D) Theft: jurisdiction.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law sets forth specific rules relating to the jurisdiction for the prosecution of theft
by fraud, organized retail theft, and receiving stolen property, including that the jurisdiction for
prosecution includes the county where an offense involving the theft or receipt of the stolen
merchandise occurred, the county in which the merchandise was recovered, or the county where any
act was done by the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, or aiding or abetting in the
commission of a theft offense or other qualifying offense. Current law jurisdictionally limits prosecution
of each of the above to criminal actions brought by the Attorney General. This bill would no longer limit
the jurisdictional rules for the above crimes to criminal actions brought by the Attorney General.
Organization Position
Public Safety 2 Watch
AB 1780 (Ting D) Postsecondary education: legacy admissions.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address legacy
admissions in order to bring more equity and fairness to college admissions.
AB 1781 (Waldron R) State mandates: claims.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: The California Constitution, whenever the Legislature or a state agency mandates a new
program or higher level of service on any local government, including school districts, requires the
state to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse the local government, unless an exception applies.
Statutory provisions that establish procedures for making that reimbursement include a requirement
that no claim shall be made or paid unless it exceeds $1,000. This bill would change the minimum claim
amount to $800.
AB 1782 (Ta R) Redevelopment: successor agencies: Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund.
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Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Summary: Current law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of
February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to wind down the affairs of
the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, make payments due for
enforceable obligations and to perform duties required by any enforceable obligation. Current law
authorizes the city, county, or city and county that created a former redevelopment agency to elect to
retain the housing assets and functions previously performed by the former redevelopment agency.
Current law requires the housing successor to maintain any funds transferred to it, together with any
funds generated from housing assets in a separate Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund to
be used in accordance with applicable housing-related provisions of the Community Redevelopment
Law, except as specified. Current law requires the housing successor to expend funds received from
the successor agency to meet its enforceable obligations, and for specified administrative and
monitoring costs relating to ensuring the long-term affordability of units subject to affordability
restrictions. Current law authorizes a housing successor, if it has fulfilled specified obligations
regarding the replacement of dwelling units, to expend up to $250,000 per fiscal year for homeless
prevention and rapid rehousing services, including the provision of short-term or medium-term rental
assistance, contributions toward the construction of local or regional homeless shelters, and housing
relocation and stabilization services. This bill would increase the amount that a housing successor may
expend on those homeless prevention and rapid rehousing services to $500,000.
Organization Position
Housing 2 Watch
AB 1783 (Essayli R) Health care: immigration.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to remove all taxpayer funding
for health care for illegal immigrants from the California State Budget.
AB 1784 (Pellerin D) Elections: multiple candidacies.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
Summary: Current law prohibits a person from filing nomination documents for a party nomination and
an independent nomination for the same office, or for more than one office at the same election. This
bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation clarifying that a person is prohibited
from filing nomination documents for more than one office at the same election.
AB 1785 (Pacheco D) California Public Records Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Summary: The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records
available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. The act prohibits a state or
local agency from posting the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official
on the internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual. This bill would define
“home address,” for purposes of the above provision, to include an assessor’s parcel number, which
may be converted to a physical address through reference to other information made available online
by the state or local agency.
AB 1786 (Rodriguez D) Public safety: vehicles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
Summary: Current law authorizes the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles to adopt and
enforce rules and regulations necessary to administer the provisions implemented by the department.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to govern the interaction between
first responders and autonomous vehicles.
AB 1787 (Villapudua D) Crimes: shoplifting.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition
47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft
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of money, labor, or property petty theft punishable as a misdemeanor, whenever the value of the
property taken does not exceed $950. Under current law, if the value of the property taken exceeds
$950, the theft is grand theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Proposition 47 requires
shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny if the
value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor. This bill would
make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
AB 1788 (Quirk-Silva D) Mental health multidisciplinary personnel team.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and P. & C.P.
Summary: Current law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary
personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and
linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county and to allow
provider agencies to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and
supportive services to ensure continuity of care. This bill would authorize counties to also establish
mental health multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited
identification, assessment, and linkage of justice-involved persons diagnosed with a mental illness to
supportive services within that county while incarcerated and upon release from county jail and to
allow provider agencies and members of the personnel team to share confidential information, as
specified, for the purpose of coordinating supportive services to ensure continuity of care. The bill
would require the sharing of information permitted under these provisions to be governed by protocols
developed in each county, as specified, and would require each county to provide a copy of its
protocols to the State Department of Social Services.
AB 1789 (Quirk-Silva D) Department of Housing and Community Development.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Summary: Current law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon
appropriation, to make loans or grants, or both loans and grants, to rehabilitate, capitalize operating
subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department-funded housing projects
that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a
remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk of conversion to market-rate housing.
This bill would also authorize the department to make those loans and grants to rehabilitate, capitalize
operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of housing projects that qualify
as a challenged development. The bill would define “challenged development” for these purposes to
mean a development that meets a specified criteria including that the development is at least 15 years
old, serves households of very low income or extremely low income, and has insufficient access to
private or other public resources to complete substantial rehabilitation, as determined by the
department.
AB 1790 (Connolly D) California State University: sexual harassment: implementing California State
Auditor recommendations.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Summary: The Donahoe Higher Education Act establishes the California State University, under the
administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the 3 segments of public
postsecondary education in the state. A portion of the Donahoe Higher Education Act, known as the
Equity in Higher Education Act, declares, among other things, that sexual harassment of students is a
form of prohibited sex discrimination and requires the California State University, on or before
December 1 of each year, to submit a report to the Legislature on the investigations and outcomes of
sexual harassment reports and formal sexual harassment complaints, as provided. This bill would
require, on or before January 1, 2026, the California State University to implement the
recommendations provided in a specified California State Auditor report, as provided. The bill would
require the California State University to submit an initial report on or before July 1, 2025, and a final
report on or before December 1, 2026, to the Legislature on the status of implementing the California
State Auditor recommendations, including summarized results from specific campus compliance reviews
and identification of any systemic issues the California State University needs to address in its
progress towards taking corrective action, as provided.
AB 1791 (Weber D) Artificial intelligence: technical open standards and content credentials.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
Summary: Current law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated
plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and
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technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. This bill would declare the
intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would require
California-based companies that are in the business of generative artificial intelligence to implement
the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity’s technical open standard and content
credentials into their tools and platforms.
AB 1792 (Rodriguez D) Emergency medical services: personal protective equipment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on E.M.
Summary: Current law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop planning and
implementation guidelines that address designated components for emergency medical services
systems. This bill would require the authority to develop standards, on or before January 1, 2027, for
personal protective equipment for ambulance personnel and to update the standards on or before
January 1, 2032, and every 5 years thereafter.
AB 1793 (Ta R) Student financial aid: Cal Grants: Middle Class Scholarship Program: eligibility:
dependents of members of the armed services stationed outside of California.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and M. & V.A.
Summary: Current law establishes the Middle Class Scholarship Program (MCSP) under the
administration of the commission. Current law makes an undergraduate student eligible for a
scholarship award under the MCSP if the student is enrolled at the University of California or the
California State University, or enrolled in upper division coursework in a community college
baccalaureate program, and meets certain eligibility requirements, including, among others, that the
applicant meets the eligibility requirements for a Cal Grant. This bill would extend Cal Grant and MCSP
eligibility to a student who was not a resident of California at the time of high school graduation or its
equivalent but meets all other applicable eligibility requirements and is a natural or adopted child,
stepchild, or spouse who is a dependent of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States
stationed outside of California on active duty but otherwise maintains their residence in California.
AB 1794 (McCarty D) Crimes.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
Summary: Current law, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by
Proposition 47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election,
makes the theft of money, labor, or property petty theft punishable as a misdemeanor, whenever the
value of the property taken does not exceed $950. Under current law, if the value of the property
taken exceeds $950, the theft is grand theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Proposition 47
requires shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny
if the value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor. This bill
would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to theft.
AB 1795 (Carrillo, Wendy D) Primary elections: dual candidacies.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
Summary: Current law prohibits a person from filing nomination documents for a party nomination and
an independent nomination for the same office, or for more than one office at the same primary
election. This bill would clarify that a candidate is prohibited from filing nomination documents for more
than one office at the same primary election.
AB 1796 (Alanis R) Pupil instruction: course offerings: parental notification.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on ED.
Summary: Current law requires the governing board of a school district to annually notify parents or
guardians of minor pupils of specified rights and responsibilities of the parent or guardian and of
specified school district policies and procedures. Current law requires, as part of the annual
notification, a school district offering any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to provide the parent or guardian
of each minor pupil enrolled in any of those grades in the school district with written notification that
includes, among other things, a brief explanation of college admission requirements and a brief
description of what career technical education is, as provided. This bill would require a school district,
county office of education, or charter school serving pupils in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to
annually inform parents of specified course offerings that may be available at their child’s school, as
provided.
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AB 1797 (Wood D) State crustacean.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Summary: Would establish the Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) as the official state
crustacean. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.
AB 1798 (Papan D) Department of Transportation: contaminated stormwater runoff: salmon and
steelhead trout bearing surface waters.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and E.S. & T.M.
Summary: Would require the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the State Water
Resources Control Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the Department of Fish and
Wildlife, to develop a programmatic environmental review process to prevent 6PPD and 6PPD-quinone
from entering salmon and steelhead trout bearing surface waters of the state. The bill would require
the department’s 6PPD and 6PPD-quinone programmatic environmental review process to include a
pilot project at an unspecified location to study the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of installing
and maintaining bioretention and biofiltration comparatively along department rights-of-way to
eliminate the discharge of 6PPD and 6PPD-quinone into surface waters of the state, as specified.
AB 1799 (Jackson D) Public health: annual state of public health in California.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Summary: Current law requires the State Public Health Officer, on or before February 1 of every other
year, to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature on the state of public health in California.
Current law requires the report to include, among other things, information on health disparities, as
specified, and data on the prevalence of morbidity and mortality related to mental illness and
substance abuse. This bill would require the State Public Health Officer to include the impact of racism,
if any, on the information and data submitted in the written report.
AB 1800 (Jones-Sawyer D) Controlled substances: social media companies.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and P. & C.P.
Summary: Would impose criminal liability and civil penalties on a social media company that operates a
social media platform on which users offer controlled substances for sale. The bill would impose
increased liability if, as a result of a sale of a controlled substance that occurred because of an offer
made on a social media platform, an individual suffered an overdose or died. The bill would additionally
impose daily civil penalties for each day that users offer controlled substances for sale on a social
media platform. By expanding the scope of criminal liability, this bill would create a state-mandated
local program.
AB 1801 (Jackson D) Supportive housing: administrative office space.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Summary: Under current law, supportive housing is a use by right in zones where multifamily and
mixed uses are permitted if the developer satisfies certain requirements. Current law defines
“supportive housing” as housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target
population, and that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing resident in
specified activities. Current law requires a supportive housing development to include nonresidential
floor area used for onsite services in specified amounts. In this regard, current law requires a
supportive housing development with less than 20 units to provide at least 90 square feet for onsite
supportive services. This bill would authorize a supportive housing development that is subject to the
above-described use by right provisions to include administrative office space in its nonresidential floor
area, provided that the total floor area dedicated to administrative office space does not exceed 50%
of the total floor area dedicated to residential units. The bill would define “administrative office space”
as an organizational headquarters or auxiliary office space utilized by a nonprofit organization for the
purpose of providing onsite supportive services at a supportive housing development and other
nonprofit operations.
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer D) Crimes: organized theft.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft,
punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more
persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the
intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive,
purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of
another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of
an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or
finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of
organized retail theft until January 1, 2031.
AB 1803 (Patterson, Jim R) Criminal procedure: restitution.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: The California Constitution entitles the victim of a crime to restitution. Current law requires
the court to order a person who is convicted of a crime to pay restitution to the victim or victims for the
full amount of economic loss. Current law also requires that order to include noneconomic losses,
including, but not limited to, psychological harm, for felony violations of specified crimes relating to child
sexual abuse. This bill would expand those provisions to also include noneconomic losses from felony
violations of the crime of human trafficking, as specified.
AB 1804 (Patterson, Jim R) Crime: fentanyl trafficking.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law authorizes a judge, upon a finding of probable cause as that an individual is
committing, has committed, or is about to commit offenses involving a substance containing fentanyl or
its precursors or analogs that exceeds 10 gallons by liquid volume or 3 pounds of solid substance by
weight, to issue an order authorizing the interception of wire or electronic communications. This bill
would reduce the above-described amounts for an order authorizing interception to 1.67 gallons by
liquid volume and 8 ounces of solid substance by weight of a substance containing fentanyl or its
precursors or analogs.
AB 1805 (Ta R) Academic content standards: history-social science: Mendez v. Westminster School
District of Orange County.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on ED.
Summary: Would require the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
on or before December 31, 2028, to revise a specific academic content standard from the History–
Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, as
adopted by the state board on October 9, 1998, to incorporate the case of Mendez v. Westminster
School District of Orange County. The bill would specify that any revisions to the history-social science
curriculum framework or to the evaluation criteria for the adoption of instructional materials shall occur
only within the timeframes and procedures set forth in the existing schedule for the adoption of
curriculum frameworks and instructional materials.
AB 1806 (Chen R) Department of Parks and Recreation: Orange County Coastkeeper Garden: grant
contract: termination.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Summary: The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal
Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006,
statewide general election, among other things, makes $100,000,000 in bond funds available to the
Department of Parks and Recreation for grants for nature education and research facilities and
equipment to nonprofit organizations and public institutions, including natural history museums,
aquariums, research facilities, and botanical gardens. Pursuant to that act, the department entered
into a grant contract with the Orange County Coastkeeper for the construction and operation of a
botanical garden. This bill would require the department to terminate, upon mutual agreement of the
department and the Orange County Coastkeeper, the grant contract.
AB 1807 (Cervantes D) Elections: voting machines.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/10/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
Summary: Current law prohibits the use of a voting system in an election unless it has been certified
by the Secretary of State and specifies requirements for elections using voting machines. In an election
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using an approved voting system, existing law requires the statement of the result of votes cast at a
voting precinct to contain specified information. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
AB 1808 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Childcare and development services: eligibility.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Summary: Under the Child Care and Development Services Act, upon establishing initial eligibility or
ongoing eligibility for services, a family is considered to meet all eligibility and need requirements for
those services, is required to receive those services before having their eligibility or need recertified,
and shall not be required to report changes to income or other changes, for at least 24 months, except
as specified. Among other exceptions, a family receiving services under a CalWORKs Stage 1, Stage 2,
or Stage 3 program is considered to meet all eligibility and need requirements for those services, is
required to receive those services before having their eligibility or need recertified, and shall not be
required to report changes to income or other changes, for at least 12 months. This bill would delete
that 12-month exception for CalWORKs Stage 1, Stage 2, or Stage 3 programs.
AB 1809 (Rodriguez D) Recall and resentencing.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to recommend that
an incarcerated person’s sentence be recalled if the incarcerated person has a serious and advanced
illness with an end-of-life trajectory or is permanently medically incapacitated with a medical condition
or functional impairment that renders them permanently unable to complete basic activities of daily
living, as specified. Current law exempts an incarcerated person who was convicted of first-degree
murder of a peace officer from seeking recall and resentencing under these provisions. This bill would
additionally prohibit an incarcerated person convicted of first-degree murder of a peace officer from
seeking recall and resentencing under the provision permitting the court to recall and resentence a
defendant convicted of a felony offense.
AB 1810 (Bryan D) Incarcerated persons: menstrual products.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Existing law requires a person who is incarcerated in state prison or confined in a local
detention facility, a state or local juvenile facility, or a Division of Juvenile Justice facility, and who
menstruates or experiences uterine or vaginal bleeding to, upon request, have access to, be allowed
to use, and continue to use materials necessary for personal hygiene with regard to their menstrual
cycle and reproductive system, including, but not limited to, sanitary pads and tampons. This bill would
require the person to have ready access to these menstrual products without having to request them.
AB 1811 (Alvarez D) Jury duty: eligibility.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Summary: Current law makes all persons eligible and qualified to be prospective trial jurors, except
persons who, among other things, are not citizens of the United States. This bill would instead make a
person eligible and qualified to be a prospective juror if they are a lawful permanent resident.
AB 1812 (Gabriel D) Budget Act of 2024.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal
year.
AB 1813 (Alanis R) Senior Tenant Shallow Rental Subsidy Program of 2024: housing grants.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Summary: Would establish the Senior Tenant Shallow Rental Subsidy Program of 2024. The bill would
require the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation by the
legislature, to establish and administer a grant program for cities and counties to provide subsidies for
senior citizens at risk of homelessness. The bill would require that, of the grants awarded pursuant to
the program, 50% of the funds be awarded to localities with at least 250,000 residents, and 50% be
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awarded to localities with less than 250,000 residents. The bill would require funds awarded through
the program be obligated by no later than July 31, 2025. The bill would authorize the department to
reallocate any part of an award that is not so obligated to other grantees participating in the program
that meet specified requirements. The bill would require a grantee to award rental subsidies to
individuals, not to exceed $500 per month for up to 18 months, based on specified requirements. The
bill would establish the Senior Tenant Shallow Rental Subsidy Program of 2024 Fund in the State
Treasury, and would provide moneys in the fund be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
to the department for use in accordance with the program.
Organization Position
Housing 2 Watch
AB 1814 (Ting D) Law enforcement agencies: facial recognition technology.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and P. & C.P.
Summary: Previous law, until January 1, 2023, prohibited the use of real-time facial recognition
technology (FRT) by law enforcement agencies in connection with body-worn cameras. This bill would
prohibit a law enforcement agency or peace officer from using an FRT-generated match as the sole
basis for probable cause in an arrest, search, or warrant.
Organization Position
Public Safety 2 Watch
AB 1815 (Weber D) Discrimination: hairstyles: amateur sports organizations.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Summary: Would prohibit an amateur sports organization, as defined, from discriminating against any
person on the basis of race, inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not
limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, as defined, in the operation, conduct, or
administration of a youth or amateur sports competition, training, camp, or club.
AB 1816 (Schiavo D) Deceptive practices.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
Summary: The Consumers Legal Remedies Act makes unlawful certain unfair methods of competition
and certain unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by a person in a transaction intended to
result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to a consumer, including representing
that the consumer will receive a rebate, discount, or other economic benefit if the earning of the
benefit is contingent on an event to occur subsequent to the consummation of the transaction. This bill
would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
AB 1817 (Alanis R) Public Social Services: youth and young adults.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
Summary: Would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation authorizing the
department to incentivize youth and young adults at risk of becoming homeless to enter into
education, job training, and substance use treatment programs.
AB 1818 (Jackson D) Public postsecondary education: homeless students: parking.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Summary: Would require each campus of the California State University and the California Community
Colleges, and would request the University of California, to allow overnight parking by a student
attending its campus if the student uses the vehicle as housing, the student has a valid parking permit
issued by the campus, and the vehicle is parked in or on a campus-owned and controlled parking lot or
parking structure. The bill would additionally prohibit each campus of the California State University
and the California Community Colleges from citing or otherwise penalizing, and would request each
campus of the University of California to not cite or otherwise penalize, a student attending its campus
for using a vehicle as housing if specified circumstances apply. To the extent the bill would impose new
requirements on community colleges, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1819 (Waldron R) Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: public capital facilities: wildfires.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: Would authorize an enhanced infrastructure financing district that are at least partially in
high or very high fire hazard severity zones designated by the State Fire Marshal, as specified, to
finance heavy equipment to be used for vegetation clearance and firebreaks, fortification of utilities
against wildfires, and equipment used for fire watch, prevention, and fighting.
Organization Position
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
AB 1820 (Schiavo D) Housing development projects: applications: fees and exactions.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Summary: Current law requires a city or county to deem an applicant for a housing development
project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the
proposed project to the city or county from which approval for the project is being sought. Current law
requires a housing development project be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards
adopted and in effect when the preliminary application was submitted. This bill would authorize a
development proponent that submits a preliminary application for a housing development project to
request a preliminary fee and exaction estimate, as defined. The bill would require a local agency to
comply with the request within 10 business days of the submission of the preliminary application,
except as specified.
Organization Position
Housing 2 Watch
AB 1821 (Ramos D) Pupil instruction: course of study: social sciences: treatment of Native Americans.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on ED.
Summary: Current law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and the
adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including,
among others, English, mathematics, social sciences, science, and visual and performing arts, as
specified. Commencing with the 2025–26 school year, this bill, with respect to both of the above-
referenced adopted courses of study for social sciences, would require any instruction on the Spanish
missions in California or the Gold Rush Era to also include instruction regarding the treatment of Native
Americans during those periods.
AB 1822 (Connolly D) Criminal defendant: mental competency to stand trial.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: If a person is incompetent as a result of a mental health disorder and charged with a
misdemeanor or misdemeanors only, current law authorizes a court to conduct a hearing to determine
if the person is eligible for diversion, as specified, or dismiss the charges against the person. If the
person is charged with a felony or alleged to have violated the terms of probation for a felony or
mandatory supervision, the court must instead order the person be delivered to a mental health
treatment facility, as specified, or make a finding that the person is eligible for diversion, as specified.
Current law, the Sex Offender Registration Act, requires a person convicted of certain crimes to
register with law enforcement as a sex offender while residing in California or while attending school
or working in California, as specified. This bill would make the incompetence provisions for a person
who is mentally incompetent and charged with a misdemeanor that requires registration as a sex
offender the same as those for a person who is charged with a felony.
AB 1823 (Cervantes D) Maxims of jurisprudence.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
Summary: Current law prescribes certain maxims of jurisprudence to aid in the just application of the
Civil Code, including, among others, that the law disregards trifles. This bill would make a
nonsubstantive change to that maxim.
AB 1824 (Valencia D) Artificial intelligence: disclosure.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Technology to conduct, in coordination with other
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interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high-risk automated
decision systems that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being
used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation that would create a disclosure requirement for content generated through artificial
intelligence.
AB 1825 (Muratsuchi D) Libraries: book bans.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would prevent public
libraries from banning books for partisan or political reasons or in a manner that is motivated by
animus based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, or socioeconomic status. The bill would
additionally declare the intent of the Legislature to establish procedures for removing books from
public libraries, as specified.
AB 1826 (Holden D) Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2024.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on C. & C.
Summary: Would revise and recast the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 to,
among other things, rename the act as the Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2024, provide that
the act does not authorize the commission to regulate the rates of video services, and authorize the
commission to exercise the authority, jurisdiction, and powers authorized to be exercised by a
franchise authority pursuant to certain federal law, as specified. The bill would require the commission
to hold a public hearing related to each application for renewal of a state franchise, require the
commission to issue a state franchise or a reject each application for a state franchise not more than
90 days after the public hearing, if required, or after the application is deemed complete, as specified,
require a franchise applicant to submit a description of the households that are known to be unserved
in the video service area footprint that the applicant proposes to serve, and extend deadlines related
to the commission’s review of applications for state franchises.
AB 1827 (Papan D) Local government: fees and charges: water: higher-consumptive water parcels.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of
assessments and property-related fees and charges by a local agency, including requiring that the
local agency provide public notice and a majority protest procedure in the case of assessments and
submit property-related fees and charges for approval by property owners subject to the fee or charge
or the electorate residing in the affected area following a public hearing. This bill would provide that
the fees or charges for property-related water service imposed or increased, as specified, may include
the incrementally higher costs of water service due to specified factors, including the higher water
usage demand of parcels. The bill would provide that the costs associated with higher water usage
demands, the maximum potential water use, or a projected peak water usage demand may be
allocated using any method that reasonably assesses the water service provider’s cost of serving
those parcels that are increasing potential water usage demand, maximum potential water use, or
project peak water use demand.
AB 1828 (Waldron R) Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Endangered and Rare Fish, Wildlife,
and Plant Species Conservation and Enhancement Account: Native California Wildlife
Rehabilitation Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund: covered grants.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2025, allows an individual taxpayer to contribute amounts in
excess of the taxpayer’s personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds and accounts,
including, among others, to the Endangered and Rare Fish, Wildlife, and Plant Species Conservation
and Enhancement Account, a continuously appropriated account established in the Fish and Game
Preservation Fund, or until December 1 of a calendar year that the Franchise Tax Board determines the
amount of contributions estimated to be received will not at least equal the minimum contribution
amount of $250,000. This bill would extend the operability of the taxpayer contribution described
above until the sooner of January 1, 2032, or until December 1 of a calendar year that the Franchise
Tax Board determines the amount of contributions estimated to be received will not at least equal the
minimum contribution amount of $250,000, as provided.
AB 1829 (Patterson, Jim R) Electricity: certificate of public convenience and necessity: transmission lines.
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Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on U. & E.
Summary: Current law prohibits any electrical corporation from beginning the construction of, among
other things, a line, plant, or system, or of any extension of a line, plant, or system, without having
first obtained from the Public Utilities Commission a certificate that the present or future public
convenience and necessity require or will require that construction, termed a certificate of public
convenience and necessity. Current law requires the commission to issue a decision on an application
for a certificate of public convenience and necessity within 18 months of the filing of a completed
application under specified circumstances. This bill would require the commission to issue a decision on
an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity within 18 months of the filing of a
completed application for building or upgrading an electrical transmission line that is reasonably
necessary to facilitate the achievement of the above-described state policy under those same
circumstances.
AB 1830 (Arambula D) Corn masa flour: folic acid fortification.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Summary: Would require the State Department of Public Health, by regulation, to require a
manufacturer of corn masa flour to add folic acid at a level not to exceed 0.7 milligrams of folic acid per
pound of corn masa flour and to include a declaration of folic acid on the nutrition label in accordance
with applicable federal law. The bill would make these provisions severable. By creating a new crime,
this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1831 (Berman D) Crimes: child pornography.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/13/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to, among other things, possess any matter, representation of
information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide,
photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc,
data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated
image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film or filmstrip, the production of which
involves the use of a person under 18 years of age, knowing that the matter depicts a person under
18 years of age personally engaging in or simulating sexual conduct. Current law defines person for
these purposes as any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited liability company,
or other legal entity. Current law defines obscene matter as matter taken as a whole, that to the
average person, applying contemporary statewide standards, appeals to the prurient interest, that,
taken as a whole, depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and that, taken as a
whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. This bill would, as it pertains to
obscene matter, define “depicts a person under 18 years of age personally engaging in or simulating
sexual conduct” as including a representation of a real or fictitious person through use of artificially
intelligent software or computer-generated means, who is, or who a reasonable person would regard
as being, a real person under 18 years of age, engaging in or simulating sexual conduct.
AB 1832 (Rubio, Blanca D) Civil Rights Department: Labor Trafficking Task Force.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and PUB. S.
Summary: Would establish within the Civil Rights Department the Labor Trafficking Task Force, as
specified. The bill would require the task force, among other things, to take steps to prevent labor
trafficking, coordinate with the Labor Enforcement Task Force, the Department of Justice, and the
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations to combat labor
trafficking, refer complaints alleging labor trafficking to the department or other agencies, as
appropriate, for potential investigation, civil action, or criminal prosecution, and follow protocols to
ensure survivors of labor trafficking are not victimized by the process of prosecuting traffickers and are
informed of the services available to them. The bill would authorize the task force to coordinate with
other relevant agencies to combat labor trafficking, coordinate with specified entities when
investigating criminal actions related to labor trafficking, and coordinate with state or local agencies to
connect survivors with available services. The bill would require the Division of Occupational Safety and
Health within the Department of Industrial Relations to notify the task force when, upon investigating
businesses under their purview, there is evidence of labor trafficking. The bill would require the
department to include specified information in the annual report described above, including the
activities of the task force, the number of complaints referred to the department, and the status or
outcome of those complaints. The bill would provide that its provisions become operative only upon
appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another measure for the purposes of the
bill’s provisions.
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AB 1833 (Addis D) Mushrooms.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on AGRI.
Summary: Would make it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer for sale, give away, or possess a
mushroom in California, that indicates on the label “California Mushroom,” “California Grown,” or words
of similar import that indicate that California is the source of the mushroom, unless 100% of that
mushroom is grown in California, and would require the Department of Food and Agriculture to assess
a civil penalty against any person violating that prohibition, as specified.
AB 1834 (Garcia D) Public health: Salton Sea region.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 16.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to authorize the public health
agencies of the Counties of Imperial and Riverside to conduct an assessment to identify the specific
communities or neighborhoods of the Salton Sea region that are most likely to be negatively affected
by degrading air quality and increasing heat stress
AB 1835 (Muratsuchi D) Local educational agencies: housing development projects: allowable use:
California Environmental Quality Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive,
long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its
boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law deems a
housing development project located on any real property owned by a local educational agency an
allowable use if the project meets specified criteria, including, among other things, that the
development consists of at least 10 housing units and all of the units are rented by local educational
agency employees, local public employees, and general members of the public pursuant to specified
procedures. This bill would define “allowable use” for purposes of the above-described provisions
regarding housing development projects located on real property owned by a local educational agency
to mean that the local agency’s review of the housing development project may not require a
conditional use permit, planned unit development permit, or other discretionary local government
review or approval that would constitute a “project” for purposes of the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA).
Organization Position
Housing 2 Watch
AB 1836 (Bauer-Kahan D) Intellectual property: use of likeness: digital replica.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 16.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure that all intellectual
property is sufficiently protected from exploitation.
AB 1837 (Papan D) San Francisco Bay area: public transportation.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 16.
Summary: Current law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a local area planning
agency for the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning
and other related responsibilities. Current law creates various transit districts located in the San
Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services. This
bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to encourage coordination
and collaboration among transit agencies in the San Francisco Bay area.
AB 1838 (Jackson D) Wildlife areas: San Jacinto Wildlife Area.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Summary: Would enact the San Jacinto Wildlife Area Preservation Act. The bill would prohibit the
Department of Fish and Wildlife from selling, repurposing, or redeveloping the San Jacinto Wildlife Area
unless it is for the purpose of conservation efforts that enhance the area’s biodiversity and
recreational offerings without significant environmental impacts. The bill would require the department,
on or before January 1, 2031, and every 4 years thereafter, to prepare and update the management
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plan for the San Jacinto Wildlife Area, as provided. The bill would require the department to develop
partnerships with community-based organizations, including environmental organizations, for purposes
of fundraising for, maintaining the habitat of, engaging in conservation projects for, and providing
recreational programs in, the San Jacinto Wildlife Area. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2025, and annually thereafter, to hold a public hearing relating to the San Jacinto
Wildlife Area, as provided.
AB 1839 (Alanis R) Peace officers: education and hiring grants.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and PUB. S.
Summary: Would, subject to an appropriation, establish the Law Enforcement Officer Grant Program
under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to provide grants of up to $6,000 per year to
individuals enrolled in a modern policing degree program at a California community college who commit
to work for 4 years as a peace officer at a law enforcement agency, as specified. The bill would require
grant recipients to agree to repay the grant to the state if certain conditions for the grant are not met,
except as specified.
AB 1840 (Arambula D) California Dream for All Program: first-time homebuyers.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Summary: Current law establishes the California Dream for All Program to provide shared appreciation
loans to qualified first-time homebuyers, as specified. Current law establishes the California Dream for
All Fund, which is continuously appropriated for expenditure pursuant to the program and defraying
the administrative costs for the agency. Current law defines “first-time homebuyer” for these
purposes. This bill would specify that the definition of “first-time homebuyer” includes, but is not limited
to, undocumented persons.
AB 1841 (Weber D) Student safety: opioid overdose reversal medication: student housing facilities.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Summary: Would require the governing board of each community college district and the Trustees of
the California State University to require each university or college-affiliated student-housing facility to
stock federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication obtained through the Naloxone
Distribution Project, as specified, train all residential staff members at each university or college-
affiliated student-housing facility on the administration of the opioid overdose reversal medication, as
provided, and distribute the opioid overdose reversal medication to all university or college-affiliated
Greek-life housing facilities, as specified. By imposing new duties on community college districts, the bill
would constitute a state-mandated local program. The bill would request that the Regents of the
University of California comply with these requirements.
AB 1842 (Reyes D) Health care coverage: Medication-assisted treatment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Summary: Current law authorizes health care service plans and health insurers that cover prescription
drugs to utilize reasonable medical management practices, including prior authorization and step
therapy, consistent with applicable law. This bill would prohibit a medical service plan and a health
insurer from subjecting a naloxone product or another opioid antagonist approved by the United
States Food and Drug Administration, or a buprenorphine product or long-acting injectable naltrexone
for detoxification or maintenance treatment of a substance use disorder, to prior authorization or step
therapy. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime,
this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1843 (Rodriguez D) Emergency Ambulance Employee Safety and Preparedness Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on L. & E.
Summary: Under the Emergency Ambulance Employee Safety and Preparedness Act, an initiative
measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 11 at the November 6, 2018, statewide general
election, every emergency ambulance employee is entitled to employer-paid mental health services
through an employee assistance program (EAP), and requires the EAP coverage to provide up to 10
mental health treatments per issue per calendar year. The act defines “issue” for purposes of those
provisions to mean mental health conditions such as, among other things, stress, depression, or
substance abuse. This bill would instead require the EAP program to provide up to 20 mental health
treatments per issue per calendar year, and would include post-traumatic stress disorder in the
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definition of “issue” for purposes of those provisions.
AB 1844 (Calderon D) California FAIR Plan Association governing committee.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on INS.
Summary: The California FAIR Plan Association is a joint reinsurance association in which all insurers
licensed to write basic property insurance participate to administer a program for the equitable
apportionment of basic property insurance for persons who are unable to obtain that coverage
through normal channels. Existing law establishes a governing committee for the association and
prescribes its membership. This bill would require the Speaker of the Assembly and the Chairperson of
the Senate Committee on Rules to serve as nonvoting, ex officio members of the governing committee,
and would authorize each to name a designee to serve in their place.
AB 1845 (Alanis R) Crimes: Grant program for identifying, apprehending, and prosecuting resale of stolen
property.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2030, create the Identifying, Apprehending, and Prosecuting Resale
of Stolen Property Grant Program to be administered by the Board of State and Community
Corrections. The bill would require the board to award grants, on a competitive basis, to county district
attorneys’ offices and law enforcement agencies, acting jointly to investigate and prosecute receiving
stolen goods crimes and criminal profiteering. The bill would require the board to prepare and submit a
report to the Legislature, as specified, regarding the impact of the grant program. The bill’s provisions
would be operative only to the extent that funding is provided, by express reference, in the annual
Budget Act or another statute.
AB 1846 (Bauer-Kahan D) Judicial officers: training: sexual abuse and assault.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Summary: Would require the Judicial Council to establish, on or before July 1, 2026, judicial training
programs for judges related to best practices related to treatment of sexual abuse and assault victims
in courtroom cases. This bill would require the development of the training programs to include input
by victim advocacy groups. The bill would require, commencing January 1, 2027, that the training
programs be provided to all newly appointed or elected judges and to all judicial officers on an annual
basis.
AB 1847 (Essayli R) Child welfare services: report.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.
Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Social Services to report every 3rd year,
commencing in 1989, to the Legislature on the operation and progress of the child welfare services
program, and include specified child abuse case information. This bill would instead require the
department to make that report annually.
AB 1848 (Davies R) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to solicit or encourage a minor to commit specified crimes
relating to controlled substances, to hire or employ a minor to transport or sell controlled substances,
or to sell or give controlled substances to minors. Current law makes a person who is 18 years of age
or older who violates these provisions with respect to heroin, cocaine, or cocaine base on the grounds
of specified buildings, including, among others, playgrounds and childcare facilities, subject to
punishment with an additional enhancement in the state prison of one year. This bill would make that
enhancement also apply to a violation of those provisions with respect to fentanyl and would expand
the parameters to within 1,000 feet of those specified locations.
AB 1849 (Grayson D) Tanner Consumer Protection Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.
Summary: The Tanner Consumer Protection Act establishes a presumption that a reasonable number
of attempts have been made to conform a new motor vehicle to the applicable express warranties if,
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within 18 months from delivery or 18,000 miles on the odometer, whichever occurs first, one or more
specified conditions occur. Current law defines the term “new motor vehicle” for these purposes as
including, among other things, the chassis, chassis cab, and that portion of a motor home devoted to
its propulsion, except any portion designed, used, or maintained primarily for human habitation. This
bill would expand the definition of “new motor vehicle” for these purposes to include a travel trailer
without motive power that is towed by a motor vehicle, including a fifth-wheel travel trailer.
AB 1850 (Pellerin D) State slug.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Summary: Would establish the banana slug (Ariolimax) as the official state slug.
AB 1851 (Holden D) Drinking water: schoolsites: lead testing pilot program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and ED.
Summary: Would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with a nonprofit technical
assistance organization, for purposes of a pilot program applicable to unspecified school districts, to
sample all potable water system outlets on the campuses of the school district for lead contamination,
except as provided, and to identify and remediate any potable water system outlet emitting water
containing lead levels in excess of 5 parts per billion. The bill would require the nonprofit technical
assistance organization, if sampling results show lead levels in excess of 5 parts per billion for any
potable water system outlet, to take immediate steps to shut down all potable water system outlets
where excess lead levels may exist and to work to ensure that a lead-free source of drinking water is
provided for pupils at each potable water system outlet that has been shut down.
AB 1852 (Pacheco D) Joint powers agencies: Clean Power Alliance of Southern California: meetings.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: Current law makes certain information presented to the joint powers agency in closed
session confidential, and authorizes a member of the legislative body of a local agency member to
disclose certain information obtained in a closed session to legal counsel of that member local agency
for specified purposes or to other members of the legislative body of that local agency in a closed
session, as specified. Current law further authorizes the Clean Power Alliance of Southern California,
or its successor entity, to authorize a designated alternate member of its legislative body who is not a
member of the legislative body of a local agency member to attend its closed sessions and to make
similar disclosures described above, as specified. If the Clean Power Alliance of Southern California, or
its successor entity, exercises this authority, existing law requires it to establish certain policies to
prevent conflicts of interest and to address breaches of confidentiality. Current law repeals these
provisions relating to the Clean Power Alliance of Southern California on January 1, 2025. This bill
would extend that repeal date to January 1, 2030. This bill would make legislative findings and
declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Clean Power Alliance of Southern
California.
AB 1853 (Villapudua D) San Joaquin Regional Transit District: meetings: surplus money investments.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: The San Joaquin Regional Transit District Act authorizes the creation of the San Joaquin
Regional Transit District, and if created, specifies the district’s powers and responsibilities. The act
requires the district to be governed by a board of directors, requires the board to adopt rules for its
proceedings, and authorizes the board to provide, by ordinance or resolution, that each board member
receive $50 for each board meeting attended, not to exceed $100 in a calendar month. This bill instead
would authorize the board to provide, by ordinance or resolution, that each board member receive
$100 for each board meeting and committee meeting attended, not to exceed $500 in a calendar
month.
AB 1854 (Schiavo D) Service member protections.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on M. & V.A.
Summary: Current law authorizes a member of the United States Army Reserve or the National Guard
who is called to active duty, as specified, to defer payments on certain obligations while serving on
active duty. Current law requires the reservist or the reservist’s designee to deliver a written request
for the deferral to the obligor in order to receive a deferral. Current law requires the deferral to apply
only to those payments subsequent to that notice. This bill would authorize the notice to specify a
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different date after which payments will be suspended. The bill would require a request for deferral to
be submitted not later than 180 days following the period of active duty on which the deferral is
based.
AB 1855 (Arambula D) Open meetings: teleconferences: community college student body associations.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HIGHER ED.
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a
legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to
attend and participate. The act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a
local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify
each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each
teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the
teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations
within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except as
specified. This bill would authorize a California Community College student body association to use
similar alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda, and public participation, as
prescribed, if, among other requirements, the board of trustees of the community college district has
adopted an authorizing resolution and 2/3 of an eligible legislative body votes to use the alternate
teleconferencing provisions, as specified.
AB 1856 (Ta R) Disorderly conduct: distribution of intimate images.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Would make it a crime for a person to intentionally distribute a deepfake of an intimate
body part or parts of another identifiable person, or a deepfake of the person depicted engaged in an
act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, or a deepfake of masturbation
by the person depicted or in which the person depicted participates, if the person distributing the
deepfake knows or should know that the person depicted did not consent to the distribution and that
the distribution of the deepfake will cause serious emotional distress, and the person depicted suffers
that distress. The bill would define a deepfake as any audio or visual media in an electronic format,
including, but not limited to, any image, motion picture film, or video recording, that is created or
altered in a manner that it would falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record of
the actual speech or conduct of the individual depicted in the recording. By expanding the scope of a
crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1857 (Jackson D) State Air Resources Board: air quality regulation: valleys.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Summary: Would require the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to improve air quality in
population centers located in valleys and would require each local air district to implement those
regulations with regard to stationary sources located within its jurisdiction. The bill would make those
requirements inoperative on January 1, 2029, and would require the state board, on or before January
1, 2030, to submit a report to the Legislature and specified committees of the Legislature describing
any air quality improvements resulting from those regulations.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
AB 1858 (Ward D) School safety: active shooter drills.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
Summary: Under current law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the
overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating
kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in cooperation with certain local entities. Current law
requires the comprehensive school safety plan to include the development of procedures for
conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents, including procedures related to individuals with
guns on school campuses and at school-related functions. This bill would provide that it is the intent of
the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would standardize active shooter drills in school
settings and direct the State Department of Education to update their guidance on active shooter
drills, accordingly.
AB 1859 (Alanis R) Coroners: duties.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
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Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Summary: Would require a coroner to test the bodily fluid of a deceased person for the presence of
xylazine if the coroner reasonably suspects the person died from an accidental or intentional opioid
overdose or if the person was administered an overdose intervention drug prior to death and was
unresponsive to the drug. The bill would also require the coroner to report a positive result to the
State Department of Public Health and the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program. The bill
would require the department to post the number of positive results on the California Overdose
Surveillance Dashboard located on the department’s internet website. By imposing additional duties
upon local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1860 (Bauer-Kahan D) Personal Income Tax Law: exclusions: student loan debt.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax law, generally
defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded,
including an exclusion for the amount of student loan indebtedness repaid or canceled pursuant to a
specified federal law. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before
January 1, 2029, would exclude qualified discharge of indebtedness income from gross income. The bill
would define “qualified discharge of indebtedness income” for this purpose to mean income that would
otherwise be realized from the discharge of student loan debt, as defined, or medical debt that is
discharged by a qualifying nonprofit organization.
AB 1861 (Addis D) Pest control: Pierce’s disease.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on AGRI.
Summary: Current law establishes the Pierce’s Disease Control Program in the Department of Food
and Agriculture, and the Pierce’s Disease Management Account in the Department of Food and
Agriculture Fund. Current law allows certain money in this account to be expended to combat Pierce’s
disease and its vectors, including the glassy-winged sharpshooter, and for purposes relating to other
designated pests and diseases, as provided. Current law requires the department to submit an annual
report to the Legislature regarding its expenditures, progress, and ongoing priorities in combating
Pierce’s disease and its vectors in California. Current law makes these provisions inoperative on March
1, 2026, and repeals them on January 1, 2027. This bill would extend to March 1, 2031, the date on
which the above provisions become inoperative, and would repeal those provisions on January 1,
2032.
AB 1862 (Fong, Vince R) Engineering, land surveying, and architecture: limited liability partnerships.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Summary: The Professional Engineers Act and the Professional Land Surveyors’ Act, provide for the
licensure and regulation of engineers and land surveyors by the Board for Professional Engineers,
Land Surveyors, and Geologists. The Architects Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of
architects by the California Architects Board. The Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 authorizes the
formation of registered limited liability partnerships and foreign limited liability partnerships, as
specified. Current law authorizes persons licensed to engage in the practice of engineering, land
surveying, or architecture to form registered limited liability partnerships and foreign limited liability
partnerships if specified conditions are met. Current law requires a registered limited liability
partnership or foreign limited liability partnership providing architectural, engineering, or land surveying
services to comply with requirements, as specified, for claims based upon acts, errors, or omissions
arising out of those services. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026. This bill would
delete the January 1, 2026, repeal dates of the provisions described above, thereby indefinitely
extending the authorization for persons licensed to engage in the practice of engineering, land
surveying, or architecture to form limited liability partnerships.
Organization Position
Willdan Watch
AB 1863 (Ramos D) California Emergency Services Act: notification systems.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
Summary: Current law authorizes a law enforcement agency to request the Department of the
California Highway Patrol to activate a “Feather Alert,” as defined, if specified criteria are satisfied with
respect to an endangered indigenous person who has been reported missing under unexplained or
suspicious circumstances. Current law requires the department, if it concurs that specified
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requirements are met, to activate a Feather Alert within the appropriate geographical area requested
by the investigating law enforcement agency and to assist the agency by disseminating specified alert
messages and signs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation
to improve the Feather Alert.
AB 1864 (Connolly D) Pesticides: agricultural use near schoolsites: notification and reporting.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
Summary: Current law authorizes the agricultural commissioner of a county to adopt regulations
applicable in the county that are supplemental to those of the Director of Pesticide Regulation that
govern the conduct of pest control operations and records and reports of those operations. Current
law authorizes the commissioner to adopt regulations on the agricultural use of any pesticide for
agricultural production within 1/4 mile of a school with respect to the timing, notification, and method
of application. Current regulations restrict specified applications of pesticides made for the production
of an agricultural commodity within 1/4 mile of a schoolsite. This bill would require a commissioner to
require a notice of intent to be submitted before a person applies a pesticide within 1/4 mile of a
schoolsite, as specified. The bill would require the Department of Pesticide Regulation to require a
separate site identification number for the portion of an agricultural field that lies within 1/4 mile of a
schoolsite. The bill would also require the department to modify and amend permit applications for
pesticide use, notices of intent, and pesticide use reporting forms and procedures, as they pertain to
the portion of an agricultural field that lies within 1/4 mile of a schoolsite, to include reporting on the
specific method of applying the pesticide and the exact date and time of the start and end of the
period during which the pesticide is to be applied.
AB 1865 (Patterson, Jim R) Personal income taxes: exclusion: deduction: homeownership savings
accounts.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows
various exclusions from gross income, and allows various deductions in computing the income that is
subject to the taxes imposed by that law, including miscellaneous itemized deductions that are
allowed only to the extent that the aggregate amount of those deductions exceeds 2% of adjusted
gross income. This bill, on and after January 1, 2024, would allow a deduction, not to exceed specified
amounts, of the amount a qualified taxpayer, as defined, contributed in any taxable year to a
homeownership savings account and would exclude from gross income any income earned on the
moneys contributed to a homeownership savings account. The bill would provide that a qualified
taxpayer may withdraw amounts from a homeownership savings account to pay for qualified
homeownership savings expenses, defined as expenses paid or incurred in connection with the
purchase of a principal residence in this state.
AB 1866 (Hart D) Oil and gas: idle wells.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Summary: Current law requires the operator of any idle well to either (A) no later than May 1 of each
year, for each idle well that was an idle well at any time in the last calendar year, file with the State Oil
and Gas Supervisor an annual fee according to a specified schedule of fees based on the length of
time a well has been idle, or (B) file a plan with the Supervisor to provide for the management and
elimination of all long-term idle wells. With respect to the latter option, current law requires the plan to
require that operators with 250 or fewer idle wells eliminate at least 4% of their long-term idle wells
each year, operators with 251 to 1,250, inclusive, idle wells eliminate at least 5% of their long-term idle
wells each year, and operators with more than 1,250 idle wells eliminate at least 6% of their long-term
idle wells each year. Current law also establishes the Hazardous and Idle-Deserted Well Abatement
Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for the deposit of all fees received pursuant to these
provisions. This bill would eliminate the schedule of fees for idle wells, including all fees for deposit into
the fund, and would instead require, on or before July 1, 2025, the operator of any idle well, as
defined, to file a plan with the supervisor to provide for the management and elimination of all idle
wells. The bill would require the plan to require the operator to consider specified factors when
prioritizing idle wells for testing or plugging and abandonment. The bill would also require operators to
restore the surface of the wellpad to as near a natural state as practicable if there are no remaining
unplugged wells on the wellpad, or to a condition suitable for alternative use if approved by the
division. The bill would make an operator who fails to comply with the plan subject to an additional civil
penalty equivalent to the average cost to plug a well, multiplied by the number of wells that the
operator failed to plug, as specified.
AB 1867 (Sanchez R) Personal Income Tax Law: deductions: homeowners’ insurance premiums.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws,
generally allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the tax imposed by that
law. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029,
would allow a deduction in computing income for the amount paid or incurred by a taxpayer during the
taxable year as premiums on a homeowners’ insurance policy on the taxpayer’s primary residence, as
defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1868 (Friedman D) Property taxation: assessments: affordable housing.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Summary: Current law requires the county assessor to consider, when valuing real property for
property taxation purposes, the effect of any enforceable restrictions to which the use of the land may
be subjected. Under current law, these restrictions include, among other enumerated items, a
recorded contract with a nonprofit corporation that meets prescribed requirements, including
requirements that the nonprofit corporation has received a welfare exemption for properties intended
to be sold to low-income families who participate in a special no-interest loan program, and that the
contract includes a restriction on the use of the land for at least 30 years to owner-occupied housing
available at affordable housing cost. This bill would, for purposes of valuing property by the county
assessor, establish a rebuttable presumption that, at the time of purchase, the value of real property
subject to a recorded contract that meets the above-described requirements is no greater than the
sum of the value of the first mortgage and any applicable down payment.
Organization Position
Housing 2 Watch
AB 1869 (McKinnor D) Outdoor advertising displays: City of Hawthorne.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Summary: The Outdoor Advertising Act provides for the regulation by the Department of
Transportation of an advertising display, as defined, within view of public highways. The act regulates,
as an “off-premises advertising display,” a display along a highway that generally advertises business
conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at a location other than the property where
the display is located. The act does not apply to “on-premises advertising displays,” which generally
advertise business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at the location where
the display is located and which are separately regulated. This bill would subject digital displays
owned by the City of Hawthorne that would otherwise be regulated as off-premises advertising
displays to treatment as on-premises advertising displays, if certain requirements are met.
AB 1870 (Ortega D) Notice to employees: legal services.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Employers who are subject to the workers’ compensation system are generally required to
keep posted in a conspicuous location frequented by employees and easily read by employees during
the hours of the workday a notice that includes, among other information, to whom injuries should be
reported, the rights of an employee to select and change a treating physician, and certain employee
protections against discrimination. Current law requires the administrative director to make the form
and content of this notice available to self-insured employers and insurers. This bill would require the
notice to include information concerning an injured employee ability to consult licensed attorney to
advise them of their rights under workers’ compensations laws, as specified. The bill would also make
technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
AB 1871 (Alanis R) Adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12: social sciences and career technical
education: personal financial literacy.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer
courses in specified areas of study, including, among others, (1) social sciences, drawing upon the
disciplines of anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology,
designed to fit the maturity of the pupils, and (2) career technical education designed and conducted
for the purpose of preparing youth for gainful employment in the occupations and in the numbers that
are appropriate to the personnel needs of the state and the community served, and relevant to the
career desires and needs of the pupils. Current law requires social science instruction to include,
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among other things, instruction that provides a foundation for understanding the development of the
American economic system, including the role of the entrepreneur and labor. This bill, with respect to
the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, would require the social sciences and career technical
education areas of study to also include instruction on personal financial literacy, as provided.
AB 1872 (Sanchez R) Crimes: extortion.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law defines extortion as the obtaining of property from another, with consent, or
the obtaining of an official act of a public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under
color of official right. Current law further provides that fear sufficient to constitute extortion may be
induced by certain threats, including a threat to accuse the threatened individual, or the individual’s
relative or family, of a crime. This bill would provide that a threat to post, distribute, or create AI-
generated images or videos of another may also induce fear sufficient to constitute extortion.
AB 1873 (Sanchez R) Crimes: sexual exploitation of a child.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Under current law, a person is guilty of sexual exploitation of a child if the person knowingly
develops, duplicates, prints, or exchanges any representation of information, data, or image, including,
but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide, photocopy, videotape, video laser
disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc, data storage media, CD-ROM, or
computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated image that contains or incorporates
in any manner, any film or filmstrip that depicts a person under 18 years of age engaged in an act of
sexual conduct, as defined. Current law makes a violation of this section punishable as a misdemeanor
or a felony, as specified. This bill would additionally make a person guilty of a misdemeanor or a felony
if the person knowingly develops, duplicates, prints, or exchanges any representation of information,
data, or image, generated using artificial intelligence, that depicts a person under the age of 18 years
engaged in an act of sexual conduct, as specified.
AB 1874 (Sanchez R) Crimes: disorderly conduct.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law defines specified behavior as disorderly conduct and prohibits that behavior.
Under current law, disorderly conduct includes, among other things, soliciting prostitution, prowling,
peeping, surreptitious photographing or filming of an identifiable person, and the distribution of certain
images of another person taken under circumstances in which the person understands that the image
shall remain private, the distribution of which causes serious emotional distress. Under current law, a
person who, as a 2nd or subsequent violation, or if the victim is a minor at the time of the offense, of
the prohibition on filming, photographing, or recording an identifiable person who may be in a state of
full or partial undress, as specified, may be sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail for up to one
year or a fine not exceeding $2,000 dollars, or both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would
increase the punishment for a 2nd or subsequent offense of that prohibition, if the victim was a minor
at the time of the offense, to imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years and a fine not
exceeding $10,000.
AB 1875 (McKinnor D) Prisons: canteens.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2028, requires the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to maintain canteens at its facilities, and limits the sale price of items to 35% markup
above the amount paid to the vendor. Commencing January 1, 2028, current law requires the sale
prices in the canteen to be set by the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation so
the canteen will be self-supporting. Current law authorizes the sheriff of each county to establish,
maintain, and operate a store within a jail where inmates may purchase certain goods, articles, and
supplies. This bill, the Culturally Competent Hair Care Act, would, commencing January 1, 2028, require
the department, and local jail and detention facilities if they have a store, to additionally provide
sulfate-free shampoos and conditioners, curl creams, and gel.
AB 1876 (Jackson D) Developmental services: individual program plans and individual family service
plans: remote meetings.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
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Summary: The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of
Developmental Services to contract with regional centers for the provision of community services and
supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Current law, until June 30,
2024, requires a meeting regarding the provision of services and supports by the regional center,
including a meeting to develop or revise a consumer’s individual program plan (IPP), to be held by
remote electronic communications if requested by the consumer or, if appropriate, if requested by the
consumer’s parents, legal guardian, conservator, or authorized representative. The California Early
Intervention Services Act, provides a statewide system of coordinated, comprehensive, family-
centered, multidisciplinary, and interagency programs that are responsible for providing appropriate
early intervention services and supports to all eligible infants and toddlers and their families. Under the
act, direct services for eligible infants and toddlers and their families are provided by regional centers
and local educational agencies. The act requires an eligible infant or toddler receiving services under
the act to have an individualized family service plan (IFSP), as specified. This bill, beginning January 1,
2025, would indefinitely extend the requirements that, if requested, IPP and IFSP meetings be held by
remote electronic communications. By extending a requirement for local educational agencies, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1877 (Jackson D) Juveniles: sealing records.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law requires the juvenile court to order the petition of a minor who is subject to
the jurisdiction of the court dismissed if the minor satisfactorily completes a term of probation or an
informal program of supervision, as specified, and requires the court to seal all records pertaining to
that dismissed petition in the custody of the juvenile court and in the custody of law enforcement
agencies, the probation department, or the Department of Justice in accordance with a specified
procedure. Current law also generally authorizes a person who is the subject of a juvenile court
record, or the county probation officer, to petition the court to seal the person’s records, including
records of arrest, relating to the person’s case in the custody of the juvenile court and the probation
officer and any other agencies, including law enforcement agencies and public officials. This bill would
require a county probation officer, once a person who was the subject of a petition or cited to appear
before a probation officer has reached 18 years of age, to petition the court for sealing of certain
records, except as specified. The bill would require the court to order all records sealed if the court
finds that the person has not been convicted of a felony or of any misdemeanor involving moral
turpitude and that rehabilitation has been attained to satisfaction of the court.
AB 1878 (Garcia D) Housing programs: tribal housing program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law, the G. David Singleton California Indian Assistance Program, requires the
Department of Housing and Community Development to provide comprehensive technical assistance to
tribal housing authorities, housing sponsors, and governmental agencies on reservations, rancherias,
and on public domain to facilitate the planning and orderly development of suitable, decent, safe, and
sanitary housing for American Indians residing in these areas. Upon request of the governing body of
a reservation or rancheria, current law authorizes the department to act on behalf of the tribal housing
authority and perform the functions thereof. This bill would remove the authority for the department to
act on behalf of the tribal housing authority. The bill would also require the department to provide
comprehensive technical assistance to tribes, designated tribal housing entities, and tribal housing
departments on reservations, rancherias, and on public domain, and tribes that want to participate in
tribal housing grant programs on fee simple land. The bill would additionally require the department to
provide comprehensive technical assistance to facilitate the planning and orderly development of
suitable, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for American Indians residing within a tribe’s designated
service area, as defined by the tribe. The bill would require the department to provide outreach,
education, and comprehensive technical assistance to tribes, tribal housing authorities, tribally
designated housing entities, housing departments of a tribe, housing sponsors, and governmental
agencies on reservations, rancherias, and on public domain in the development of tribal housing grant
programs, and before, during, and after the grant application process.
Organization Position
29 PBOMI Watch
AB 1879 (Gipson D) Electronic signatures.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law authorizes, in any written communication with a public entity, the use of a
digital signature, which is defined, in part, as a type of electronic signature, as defined. Under current
law, a digital signature has the same force and effect as the use of a manual signature if it complies
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with specified requirements and the public entity elects to use a digital signature. Current law
requires, at the option of the parties, the use or acceptance of a digital signature. This bill would
require, at the option of the parties, the use or acceptance of an electronic signature, unless
otherwise provided. Under the bill, a digital signature would also have the same force and effect as
the use of a manual signature if it complies with the above-referenced requirements and the public
entity’s use of a digital signature is mandated.
AB 1880 (Alanis R) Minors: artistic employment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law regulates certain contracts for artistic employment between an unemancipated
minor and third parties, including employment as an actor, dancer, musician, comedian, singer,
stuntperson, voice-over artist, or other performer or entertainer, or sports participant. Current law
provides for the establishment of a Coogan Trust Account, as specified, for the purpose of preserving
for the benefit of the minor 15% of the minor’s gross earnings or a greater percentage, if requested by
the minor’s parent or guardian. This bill would specifically include a child influencer in paid online
content on internet websites, social networks, and social media applications in these provisions.
AB 1881 (Davies R) California Coastal Commission: membership.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 establishes the California Coastal Commission and
requires the Governor to appoint specified members of the public to the commission. The act requires
one of the representatives appointed by the Governor to reside in, and work directly with, communities
in the state that are disproportionately burdened by, and vulnerable to, high levels of pollution and
issues of environmental justice, including, but not limited to, communities with diverse racial and ethnic
populations and communities with low-income populations. This bill would instead require that
representative appointed by the Governor to either have the qualification described above or have a
professional background in geology, environmental engineering, or carpentry or building and
construction trades.
AB 1882 (Villapudua D) Vehicles: special license plates.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law defines “disabled veteran” for purposes of the Vehicle Code as, among other
things, a person who, as a result of injury or disease suffered while on active service with the Armed
Forces of the United States, has a disability that has been rated at 100% by the Department of
Veterans Affairs. Current law also defines a “disabled veteran” as a veteran who is unable to move
without the aid of an assistant device. This bill would instead define a disabled veteran as a veteran
who cannot walk without the use of an assistant device. The bill would expand the definition of
“disabled veteran” to include a veteran who cannot walk 200 feet without stopping to rest, a veteran
who is severely limited in the ability to walk because of an arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic
condition, or a veteran who has visual acuity of 20/200 or less, among other conditions, as specified.
AB 1883 (Calderon D) Insurance: home protection companies.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law regulates home protection companies, which issue contracts for the repair or
replacement of a component, system, or appliance of a home. Current law requires a home protection
company to file an annual statement exhibiting its conditions and affairs, as specified, and an annual
statement of financial condition. Current law requires a home protection company to maintain a
reserve for unearned premiums in an amount not less than 40% of the aggregate premiums charged
on its current contracts. Current law requires the Insurance Commissioner to examine the affairs of a
home protection company before licensure and at other times as appears necessary, and prohibits the
commissioner from conducting more than one financial examination of a home protection company in a
5-year period, unless specified requirements are met. Current law authorizes the commissioner to
extend the period between examinations up to 2 additional years if the commissioner determines that
conditions warrant the extension, as specified, including the company’s net worth. This bill would
authorize the commissioner to extend the period between examinations to up to 3 additional years
and allow the commissioner to also consider the availability of examiners as a condition that could
warrant an extension.
AB 1884 (Ward D) Pupil attendance: excused absences: uniformed services deployments.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of
age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be
excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, for purposes of
spending time with a member of the pupil’s immediate family who is an active duty member of the
uniformed services, and has been called to duty for, is on leave from, or has immediately returned from,
deployment to a combat zone or combat support position, as specified. This bill would remove the
requirement that the deployment be to a combat zone or combat support position, thereby expanding
the scope of that excused absence to encompass all deployments.
AB 1885 (Addis D) Student Success Completion Grant program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law requires each participating community college to provide a Student Success
Completion Grant award to a student attending a community college if the student receives a Cal
Grant B or C award, makes satisfactory academic progress, and is a California resident or is exempt
from paying nonresident tuition. Current law awards $1,298 per semester, or the quarterly equivalent,
for eligible students who enroll in 12, 13, or 14 units per semester, or the quarterly equivalent number
of units, awards $4,000 per semester, or the quarterly equivalent, for eligible students who enroll in 15
units per semester, or the quarterly equivalent number of units, and, commencing with the 2023–24
academic year, awards $5,250 per semester, or the quarterly equivalent, to eligible students who are
current or former foster youth who enroll in 12 or more units per semester, or the quarterly equivalent
number of units. This bill would require each participating community college to also award $1,298 per
semester, or the quarterly equivalent, to eligible students who enroll in 9 or more units per semester,
or the quarterly equivalent number of units, who are considered full-time as part of a disabled student
programs and services Academic Accommodation Plan, as described.
AB 1886 (Alvarez D) Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use
development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law,
commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s
preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and
Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies
with the Housing Element Law, as specified. If the department finds that a draft housing element or
amendment does not substantially comply with the Housing Element Law, current law requires the
legislative body of the city or county to either (A) change the draft element or amendment to
substantially comply with the Housing Element Law or (B) adopt the draft housing element or
amendment without changes and make specified findings as to why the draft element or amendment
substantially complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department. Current
law requires a planning agency to promptly submit an adopted housing element or amendment to the
department and requires the department to review the adopted housing element or amendment and
report its findings to the planning agency within 60 days. This bill would require a planning agency that
makes the above-described findings as to why a draft housing element or amendment substantially
complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department to submit those
findings to the department. The bill would require the department to review those finding in its review
of an adopted housing element or amendment. The bill would create a rebuttable presumption of
validity for the department’s findings as to whether the adopted element or amendment substantially
complies with the Housing Element Law.
Organization Position
Housing 2 Watch
AB 1887 (Cervantes D) Foster care: LGBTQ youth.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county
child welfare agencies and other specified entities, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-
centered resource family approval process to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing
foster family homes, certifying foster homes by licensed foster family agencies, approving relatives and
nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive
families. This bill would require the department to convene a workgroup to create a report with
recommendations to prevent housing instability among LGBTQ youth in foster care. The bill would
require the workgroup to submit that report on or before January 1, 2026, as specified.
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AB 1888 (Arambula D) Division of Labor Standards Enforcement: Labor Trafficking Unit.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law establishes within the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor
Standards Enforcement, headed by the Labor Commissioner, for the purposes of enforcing labor laws.
This bill would establish within the division the Labor Trafficking Unit, which would be required to
coordinate with the Criminal Investigation Unit, the Labor Enforcement Task Force, the Department of
Justice, the Employment Development Department, other specified task forces, and the Civil Rights
Department to combat labor trafficking. The bill would require the unit to receive, investigate, and
process complaints alleging labor trafficking and take steps to prevent labor trafficking.
AB 1889 (Friedman D) General plan: wildlife connectivity element.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a
comprehensive general plan that includes various elements, including land use and housing elements,
as specified. This bill would require a general plan to include a wildlife connectivity element, or related
goals, policies, and objectives integrated in other elements, that considers the effect of development
within the jurisdiction on fish, wildlife, and habitat connectivity, as specified. The bill would require the
wildlife connectivity element to, among other things, identify and analyze connectivity areas,
permeability, and natural landscape areas within the jurisdiction, incorporate and analyze specified
guidelines and standards, incorporate and analyze relevant information from specified sources, and
incorporate and analyze relevant best available science. The bill would require a city or county subject
to these provisions to adopt or review the wildlife connectivity element, or related goals, policies, and
objectives integrated in other elements, upon the adoption or next revision of one or more elements
on or after January 1, 2025.
AB 1890 (Patterson, Joe R) Public works: prevailing wage.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Current law defines the term “public works” for the purposes of requirements regarding the
payment of prevailing wages, the regulation of working hours, and the securing of workers’
compensation for public works projects. Current law requires an entity awarding a public works
contract, as specified, to provide notice to the Department of Industrial Relations. Current law requires
civil penalties to be imposed on an entity that fails to provide that required notice and authorizes the
Labor Commissioner to issue a citation for civil penalties to an entity that fails to provide the required
notice. This bill would additionally require the awarding body to provide notice to the department if
there is a change in the identity of a contractor or subcontractor performing the project or, within 30
days, if the total amount of the contract change exceeds $10,000.
AB 1891 (Weber D) Community colleges: allied health programs.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Would authorize a community college allied health program, as defined, if, after using an
approved diagnostic assessment tool, it determines that the number of applicants to the program
exceeds its capacity, to use additional multicriteria screening measures. This bill would authorize a
community college allied health program to use any diagnostic assessment tool that is commonly used
in allied health programs and is approved by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. The
bill would prohibit a community college district from excluding an applicant to an allied health program
on the basis that the applicant is not a resident of that district or has not completed prerequisite
courses in that district, and from implementing policies, procedures, and systems that have the effect
of excluding an applicant or student who is not a resident of that district from the district’s allied health
program.
AB 1892 (Flora R) Interception of electronic communications.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: Until January 1, 2030, current law authorizes a court to issue an order authorizing
interception of wire or electronic communications if the judge finds, among other things, that there is
probable cause to believe an individual is committing, has committed, or is about to commit one of
several specified offenses, including murder or possession or sale of controlled substances. This bill
would additionally authorize a court to issue an order authorizing interception of wire or electronic
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communications if the judge finds that there is probable cause to believe an individual is committing,
has committed, or is about to commit a felony violation of specified statutes relating to the distribution
of obscene matter depicting a person under 18 years of age.
AB 1893 (Wicks D) Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals: required local findings.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from
disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development
project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households unless the local agency makes written
findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified. One set of conditions is that (A) the
jurisdiction has adopted a housing element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element
Law, and (B) the housing development project is inconsistent with both the jurisdiction’s zoning
ordinance and general plan land use designation as specified in any element of the general plan as it
existed on the date the application was deemed complete. This bill would authorize a local agency to
disapprove or conditionally approve a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-
income households if it makes a finding that (A) the local agency has failed to adopt a revised housing
element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, (B) the housing development
project is proposed for a site zoned for residential use or residential mixed-use development, and (C)
the housing development project exceeds specified density requirements, has a density that is less
than the minimum allowed by state or local law, or does not meet objective standards quantifiable,
written development standards, as specified.
AB 1894 (Ta R) Nonvehicular air pollution: civil penalties.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Current law establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with primary
jurisdiction over the regulation of air pollution. Existing law generally designates air pollution control
districts and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air
pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Current law subjects violators of specified air
pollution laws or any rule, regulation, permit, or order of a district or of the state board to specified civil
penalties. This bill would require a district to provide a person with a period of not less than 30 days to
rectify a violation before the person may be subject to those civil penalties.
AB 1895 (Weber D) Public health: maternity ward closures.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-Introduced measure version corrected. From printer. May be heard in committee
February 23.
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address maternity ward
closures.
AB 1896 (Dixon R) Secure youth treatment facilities.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Current law authorizes a court to order a ward who is 14 years of age or older to be
committed to a secure youth treatment facility, operated by the county of commitment, for a period of
confinement if the ward is adjudicated and found to be a ward based on the commitment of a specified
serious offense committed when the juvenile was 14 years or older, that adjudication is the most
recent offense for which the ward has been adjudicated, and the court has made a finding on the
record that a less restrictive, alternative disposition for the ward is unsuitable. Current law requires
the baseline term of confinement to be determined according to offense-based classifications, as
specified. This bill would prohibit a youth, following a youth’s commitment to a secure youth facility,
from being found ineligible for continued commitment to a secure youth treatment facility as a result of
subsequent adjudicated petitions.
AB 1897 (Flora R) Civil actions: prevailing defendant: attorney’s fees.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Would require a court, whenever a defendant prevails in a civil action, to award reasonable
attorney’s fees to a prevailing defendant against the plaintiff upon a finding by the court that the
plaintiff’s prosecution of the action was not in good faith.
AB 1898 (Flora R) Crimes: child pornography: early release credits.
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Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Under current law, a prisoner can reduce their term of imprisonment by earning credit for,
among other things, continuous incarceration, good behavior, and participation in approved
rehabilitative programming. Current law prohibits a prisoner convicted of specified felony offenses from
earning credit if the prisoner previously has been convicted of one of those felony offenses 2 or more
times and has served 2 or more separate prior prison terms. Under existing law, the felonies for which
credits may not be earned include lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14 years of age by use of
force, violence, duress, menace, or fear and continuous sexual abuse of a child, as specified. Under
current law, a person sentenced to a determinate sentence is released after serving the term of their
sentence, minus any credits earned, and is required to serve a period of time after release under
parole supervision. This bill would include specified felonies involving, among other things, the knowing
depiction, production, distribution, advertising, possession, control, and use of material depicting a
person under 18 years of age engaging in or simulating sexual conduct, as defined, in the list of
felonies that the commission of which make a person ineligible for credits against a sentence as
provided above. The bill would also expand the prohibition on lewd and lascivious acts on a child under
14 years of age to include acts that do not require the use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear.
AB 1899 (Cervantes D) Deceptive practices: veterans.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: The Consumers Legal Remedies Act makes unlawful certain unfair methods of competition
and certain unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by a person in a transaction intended to
result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to a consumer, including charging or
receiving an unreasonable fee, as defined, to prepare, aid, or advise a prospective applicant,
applicant, or recipient in the procurement, maintenance, or securing of public social services, as defined
to include, among other things, veterans pension benefits. This bill would make the charging or
receiving of an unreasonable fee to prepare, aid, or advise a prospective applicant, applicant, or
recipient in the procurement, maintenance, or securing of aid or services, or both, to veterans a
misdemeanor. The bill would also make the advertising or promoting of an event, presentation,
seminar, workshop, or other public gathering regarding veterans benefits, as specified, a misdemeanor.
The bill would make these misdemeanors punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not
to exceed one year, a fine not to exceed $1,000, or both that fine and imprisonment.
AB 1900 (Weber D) Consumer Legal Remedies Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: The Consumer Legal Remedies Act makes unlawful specified unfair methods of competition
and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by a person in a transaction intended to result or
that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to a consumer, including inserting an
unconscionable provision in a contract. Current law authorizes a consumer who suffers damage as a
result of the use or employment by a person of a method, act, or practice declared to be unlawful by
that provision to bring an action against that person to recover or obtain certain relief, including actual
damages. This bill would additionally include as an unlawful act requiring a consumer to sign a
nondisclosure agreement or otherwise prohibit a consumer from publishing or making negative
statements about the business as a condition of receiving a refund.
AB 1901 (Chen R) Vehicles: total loss claim: salvage certificate or nonrepairable vehicle certificate.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Would, if an insurance company requests a salvage pool or an occupational licensee to take
possession of a vehicle that is the subject of a total loss claim, and, subsequently, the insurance
company does not take ownership of the vehicle, authorize the insurance company to direct the
salvage pool or occupational licensee to release the vehicle to the registered and legal owner or
lienholder of the vehicle after notice from the insurance company authorizing the release. The bill
would require the salvage pool or occupational licensee to send 2 notices to the registered and legal
owner and any lienholder of the vehicle informing them that they have 30 days from the date of the
first notice and 14 days from the date of the 2nd notice to pick up the vehicle from the salvage pool or
occupational licensee before the vehicle is deemed abandoned. If the registered and legal owner or
any lienholder of the vehicle does not pick up the vehicle in that timeline, the bill would require the
vehicle to be deemed abandoned and would require the vehicle’s certificate of title to be deemed to be
assigned to the salvage pool or occupational licensee of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The
bill would authorize the salvage pool or occupational licensee to request that the DMV issue a salvage
certificate or nonrepairable vehicle certificate for the vehicle, as specified, and would require the DMV
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to issue the certificate upon receipt of a complete application.
AB 1902 (Alanis R) Prescription drug labels: accessibility.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Current law requires the California State Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations that
require a standardized, patient-centered, prescription drug label on all prescription medicine dispensed
to patients in California. Current law prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a prescription except in a
container that meets the requirements of state and federal law and is correctly labeled with prescribed
information. Current law requires a dispenser, upon request, to provide translated directions for use,
as prescribed. Current law authorizes a dispenser to use translations made available by the board
pursuant to specified regulations of the board and provides that a dispenser is not required to provide
translated directions for use beyond the languages that the board has made available or beyond the
directions that the board has made available in translated form. Current law authorizes a dispenser to
provide their own translated directions for use to comply with these provisions and prohibits the
provisions from being construed to prohibit a dispenser from providing translated directions for use in
languages beyond those that the board has made available or beyond the directions that the board
has made available in translated form. This bill would also expressly require a dispenser to provide
translated directions for use in the languages the board has made available. This bill would require a
dispenser to notify each person to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that an accessible
prescription label is available to the person upon request at no additional cost.
AB 1903 (Maienschein D) International commercial arbitration: procedure.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Current law provides a framework for the arbitration and conciliation of international
commercial disputes. Current law requires an arbitration agreement subject to this framework to be in
writing, specifying that an agreement is in writing if it is contained in a document signed by the parties
or in an exchange of letters, telex, telegrams, or other means of telecommunication that provide a
record of the agreement, or in an exchange of statements of claim and defense in which the existence
of an agreement is alleged by one party and not denied by another. This bill would further specify that
an agreement is in writing if it is contained in an exchange of electronic mail or in an electronic
communication if the information contained therein is accessible so as to be usable for subsequent
reference.
AB 1904 (Ward D) Transit buses: yield right-of-way sign.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Current law authorizes a transit bus in the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District and the
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to be equipped with a yield right-of-way sign on the left
rear of the bus if the applicable entity approves a resolution requesting that this section be made
applicable to it. Current law requires the sign to be designed to warn a person operating a motor
vehicle approaching the rear of the bus that the bus is entering traffic and be illuminated by a red
flashing light when the bus is signaling in preparation for entering a traffic lane after having stopped to
receive or discharge passengers. This bill would expand the authorization to equip transit buses, as
described above, to apply to any transit agency if the transit agency approves a resolution that this
authorization be made applicable to it.
AB 1905 (Addis D) California State University: terms of employment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation related to settlements,
removal from a position, retreat opportunities, and return to a tenured faculty position if, following a
completed Title IX investigation, an administrator is found to be in violation of the California State
University Title IX sexual harassment policy.
AB 1906 (Gipson D) Persons with disabilities: terminology.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
Summary: Current law prohibits, and prescribes heightened penalties for, the commission of specified
offenses of abuse committed against an elder or dependent person or dependent adult. Existing law
also mandates reporting of known or suspected cases of elder and dependent adult abuse. Current
law defines the terms “dependent person” and “dependent adult” for purposes of these provisions.
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This bill would change those terms in selected statutes to “person with a disability” and “adult with a
disability” and would state the intent of the Legislature that those terms be changed in the remaining
code sections provisions of law that use them as changes are made to the code those statutes are
amended in the future.
AB 1907 (Pellerin D) California Child and Family Service Review System: Child and Adolescent Needs and
Strengths (CANS) assessment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Current law requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a
workgroup, as prescribed, to establish a work plan by which child and family service reviews shall be
conducted. Current law requires the workgroup to consider, among other things, measurable outcome
indicators, which shall be consistent with specified federal measures and standards. This bill would
require the outcome indicators to include data from the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths
(CANS) assessment tool.
AB 1908 (Schiavo D) Department of Veterans Affairs: internal audits.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Current law requires the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct audits
on the internal controls of the department, as specified. This bill would require the department to, on
or before July 1, 2025, and on or before July 1 each year thereafter, submit a report to the Governor,
the Legislature, the Senate Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs, and the Assembly Committee
on Military and Veterans Affairs. The bill would require the report to include, but not be limited to, a
description of significant problems discovered by the department’s internal auditor and a summary of
investigations and reviews conducted by the department during the previous year.
AB 1909 (Quirk-Silva D) Criminal fines: collection.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Current law generally authorizes fines, including restitution fines, and restitution orders to
be deemed a money judgment that is fully enforceable as if the order were a civil judgment, and
makes any portion of the restitution order that remains unsatisfied after a defendant is no longer on
probation, parole, postrelease community supervision, or mandatory supervision, or after a term in
custody enforceable, as specified. Current law authorizes a local collection program to continue to
enforce restitution orders once a defendant is no longer on probation, postrelease community
supervision, or mandatory supervision or after a term in custody. This bill would make any portion of a
restitution order that remains unsatisfied after a defendant has completed diversion enforceable.
Organization Position
CADTP Watch
AB 1910 (Lackey R) California YouthBuild Program: contracting.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Current law establishes the California YouthBuild Program within the Employment
Development Department for specified purposes, including enabling economically disadvantaged youth
to obtain the education, job skills training, and related skills for them to achieve permanent economic
self-sufficiency. Current law authorizes the director of the department, as provided, to make grants to
eligible applicants for the purpose of carrying out specified programs. Current law authorizes the
director to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization designated by the United States
Department of Labor to provide technical assistance to YouthBuild programs. This bill would instead
make that contracting by director required.
AB 1911 (Reyes D) Residential care facilities: complaints.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Current law authorizes any person to request an investigation of a residential care facility
for the elderly by making a complaint to the department, as specified. Current law requires the
department to make a preliminary review, except as specified, and make an onsite inspection within 10
days of receiving the complaint unless the visit would adversely affect the investigation, as specified.
Existing law requires the department, upon receipt of a complaint, to make a good faith effort to
contact and interview the complainant of the department’s proposed course of action and relevant
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deadline for the department to complete the investigation. Current law requires the department,
within 10 days of completing that investigation, to notify the complainant of the department’s
determination as a result of the investigation. This bill would instead authorize any person to file a
complaint with the department against a residential care facility for the elderly. The bill would require
the department to conduct an onsite investigation within one business day of receipt of the complaint
if the complaint alleges a threat of imminent danger of death or serious harm. The bill would require
the department to inform the complainant within 10 days of receipt of the complaint if the department
determines that the complaint is willfully intended to harass a licensee, is without a reasonable basis,
or that the department will not investigate the complaint for any other reason. The bill would require
the department, prior to conducting an onsite investigation, to send a notification to the complainant
notifying them of, among other things, the opportunity to accompany the investigator on the
investigation of the facility and the relevant deadline for the department to complete the investigation.
The bill would require the department, for complaints received on or after July 1, 2025, to complete an
investigation within 60 days of receipt of a complaint, or within 30 days if the complaint involved a
threat of imminent danger or death or serious harm.
AB 1912 (Pacheco D) Electricity: measures imposing mandated programs and requirements: third-party
review.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Would require, before holding a committee hearing on a measure, as defined, affecting
electrical corporations, that a request be made to the University of California, Berkeley, to prepare a
written analysis of the measure, as specified. The bill would request the University of California,
Berkeley, to develop and implement conflict-of-interest provisions that would prohibit a person from
participating in an analysis in which the person knows or has reasons to know that the person has a
financial interest.
AB 1913 (Addis D) Pupil safety: child abuse prevention: training.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of
Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services, to, among other things, establish
best practices for school personnel to prevent abuse, including sexual abuse, of children on school
grounds, by school personnel, or in school-sponsored programs, as provided, and to develop
appropriate means of instructing school personnel in the detection of child abuse and neglect and the
proper action that school personnel should take in suspected cases of child abuse and neglect,
including, but not limited to, an online training module to be provided by the State Department of
Social Services. This bill would replace the requirement to establish best practices for school personnel
on the prevention of abuse with a requirement to develop and disseminate information to all school
districts, county offices of education, state special schools and diagnostic centers operated by the
State Department of Education, and charter schools, and their school personnel in California, regarding
the prevention of abuse, as provided.
AB 1914 (Grayson D) Community colleges: providers of care for individuals with developmental
disabilities: model curriculum.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the need in the state
for well-trained providers of care for individuals with developmental disabilities. The bill would require
the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges office to develop a model curriculum for a
certification program for providers of care for individuals with developmental disabilities, designed to
be offered at community college campuses where there is sufficient student interest and a properly
qualified faculty to sustain a certification program. The bill would require the chancellor’s office, in
developing the model curriculum, to consult with individuals and organizations with expertise in
providing care to individuals with developmental disabilities and the training of practitioners for that
task.
AB 1915 (Arambula D) Pupil health: drug education: opioid overdose training program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Would require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that
voluntarily determine to make naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist available on
campus to ensure that the naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist is placed in an
appropriate location that is widely known and easily accessible, during school hours and after school
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hours. The bill would require the naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to be located on
campus in at least one of several specified locations.
AB 1916 (Maienschein D) Self-service storage facilities.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: The California Self-Service Storage Facility Act specifies remedies and procedures for self-
service storage facility owners when occupants are delinquent in paying rent or other charges,
including through enforcement of a lien by the sale of the stored property. Current law requires that,
where personal property remains on the premises after a tenancy has terminated and the premises
have been vacated by the tenant, the landlord give written notice to the tenant or any other person
the landlord reasonably believes is the owner of the property, as specified. Current law requires the
property to be sold at public sale by competitive bidding if the property is not released to the former
tenant. Current law makes these provisions generally applicable to self-storage units. This bill would
enact similar provisions specifically applicable to personal property that remains at a self-service
storage facility after the rental agreement has ended. The bill would require the owner of the facility to
give written notice to the former occupant, and would set forth a notice form that would be in
compliance with this notice requirement. The bill would require that the property be sold at public sale
by competitive bidding if the property is not released to the former occupant.
AB 1917 (Muratsuchi D) Local educational agencies: governance training.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Would require all local educational agency officials, as defined to include any member of a
governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter
school, to receive training in K–12 public education governance laws, as defined, at least once every 4
years. The bill would authorize a local educational agency or an association of local educational
agencies to offer these training courses or to arrange for its officials to receive these training courses
from a different entity, as specified. The bill would require local educational agencies to maintain
specified records related to this training.
AB 1918 (Wood D) State building standards: solar-ready requirement: exemption.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Current law requires the California Building Standards Commission to approve and adopt
building standards, to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code, and to publish,
or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety once every 3 years. Current law
authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy
Commission) to prescribe, by regulation, energy efficiency standards, including appliance efficiency
standards. Under this authority, the commission has established building standards for the installation
of photovoltaic systems meeting certain requirements for certain residential and commercial buildings.
This bill would exempt a building that is constructed in the service territory of a public utility district and
that receives all of its electricity pursuant to a preference right adopted and authorized by the United
States Congress, if that electricity is carbon free, from the building standards adopted by the Energy
Commission and the California Building Standards Commission that require new residential and
commercial buildings to be solar ready. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Trinity Public Utilities District.
AB 1919 (Weber D) Pupil rights: restorative justice practices.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Summary: Current law requires suspension to be imposed on a pupil only when other means of
correction fail to bring about proper conduct, and specifies that other means of correction may include,
among other things, participation in a restorative justice program. Current law requires the State
Department of Education to develop evidence-based best practices for restorative justice practice
implementation on a school campus and to make these best practices available on the department’s
internet website on or before June 1, 2024, as specified. This bill would express the intent of the
Legislature to enact subsequent legislation related to restorative justice practices.
AB 1920 (Wallis R) California Travel and Tourism Commission.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law creates a board of commissioners to direct the California Travel and Tourism
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Commission and imposes eligibility requirements on commissioners. Current law requires
commissioners to be professionally active in the tourism industry and have their primary business,
trade, or profession be directly related to the tourism industry. Current law requires a commissioner to
automatically cease to be a commissioner after 90 days if the commissioner ceases to meet those
requirements and does not become eligible again within the 90 days. This bill would extend the period
that the commissioner will serve as a commissioner upon ceasing to meet the eligibility criteria from 90
days to 100 days.
AB 1921 (Papan D) Energy: renewable electrical generation facilities: linear generators.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law defines renewable electrical generation facility as a facility that uses biomass,
solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, fuel cells using renewable fuels, small hydroelectric
generation of 30 megawatts or less, digester gas, municipal solid waste conversion, landfill gas, ocean
wave, ocean thermal, or tidal current, and that meets other specified requirements. Current law
incorporates that definition into various programs, including the California Renewables Portfolio
Standard Program, which requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a renewables portfolio
standard requiring all retail sellers, as defined, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products
from electrical generating facilities that meet the definition of “renewable electrical generation facility,”
and the net energy metering program, for which residential customers, small commercial customers,
and commercial, industrial, or agricultural customers of an electric utility, who use a renewable
electrical generation facility are eligible to participate, as specified. This bill would expand the definition
of “renewable electrical generation facility” to include a facility that uses linear generators, as defined,
using renewable fuels and meets those other specified requirements.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
AB 1922 (Davies R) California Conservation Corps: Green Collar Certification Program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law establishes the California Conservation Corps and requires young adults
participating in the corps program to be generally engaged in projects that, among other things,
directly contribute to the conservation of energy. This bill would instead require young adults
participating in the corps program to be generally engaged in projects that, among other things,
directly contribute to and promote the conservation of clean energy, enhance climate resilience, and
develop sustainable climate infrastructure.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
AB 1923 (Davies R) Green Assistance Program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Would establish the Green Assistance Program within the California Environmental
Protection Agency to, among other things, assist small businesses and small nonprofit organizations in
applying for moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The bill would authorize the Secretary
for Environmental Protection to apply for and accept grants or contributions of funds from any public or
private source for the program.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
BURRTEC Watch
AB 1924 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Sacramento Regional Transit District.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law authorizes the Sacramento Regional Transit District to comprise the Cities of
Citrus Heights, Davis, Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, Sacramento, West Sacramento,
and Woodland, the territory of the County of Sacramento that is the same area as the urban service
area of the county, and other specified portions of the County of Yolo, provided those cities and
counties have agreed to annexation by the district, as specified. This bill would authorize the district to
also comprise the Cities of Galt and Isleton, and the unincorporated portions of the County of
Sacramento where the county has declared a need for the district to operate, provided the cities and
county agree to annexation, as specified.
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Organization Position
Elk Grove Watch
Folsom Watch
Rancho Cordova Watch
Roseville Watch
AB 1925 (Rendon D) Childcare and development programs: eligibility.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: The Child Care and Development Services Act requires that families meet specified
requirements to be eligible for federal and state subsidized childcare and development services,
including that a family is a current aid recipient or is income eligible, among other eligible statuses, and
the family needs childcare services because, among other reasons, the family is homeless. This bill
would extend eligibility for childcare and development programs to families whose child is eligible for
services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and a family who needs the
childcare services because the child is identified as eligible for services under the federal Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act.
AB 1926 (Connolly D) Health care coverage: chronic digestive diseases and inherited metabolic disorders.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Would require a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy that provides
coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses and is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on
and after July 1, 2025, to provide coverage for formulas, as defined, for the treatment of other chronic
digestive diseases and inherited metabolic disorders, as specified. The bill would specify that these
provisions do not apply to Medi-Cal managed care plans to the extent that the services are excluded
from coverage under the contract between the Medi-Cal managed care plan and the State Department
of Health Care Services. Because a violation of the bill’s requirements by a health care service plan
would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1927 (Alanis R) Golden State Teacher Grant Program: career technical education instructors. AB 1927 (Alanis R) Golden State Teacher Grant Program: career technical education instructors.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: The Golden State Teacher Grant Program is the administration of the Student Aid
Commission and awards grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a
preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work for 4 years
at a priority school or a preschool program, as provided. This bill would expand the program to also
award grants to students who commit to work for 4 years as a credentialed career technical education
instructor.
AB 1928 (Sanchez R) Worker classification: employees and independent contractors.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations W. v. Superior Court (2018)
4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an
employee for purposes of claims for wages and benefits arising under wage orders issued by the
Industrial Welfare Commission. Current law requires a 3-part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test,
to determine if workers are employees or independent contractors for those purposes. This bill would
repeal the above-described provisions that codify the ABC test. The bill would declare that its purpose
is to suspend and nullify the California Supreme Court’s decision in Dynamex and provide that this
decision does not apply for purposes of California law.
AB 1929 (McKinnor D) Career technical education: grant program for descendants of slavery.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to create a new
competitive grant program to increase the enrollment of descendants of slavery in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM), including green technology, related career technical education
programs at the high school and college levels.
AB 1930 (Reyes D) Teaching credentials: Child Development Associate Teacher Permit: renewal.
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AB 1930 (Reyes D) Teaching credentials: Child Development Associate Teacher Permit: renewal.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Would, on or before April 30, 2025, require the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, by
rule or regulation, authorize a holder of a Child Development Associate Teacher Permit to renew their
permit without a limitation on the number of renewals if the permitholder completes specified hours of
professional growth activities, as provided.
AB 1931 (Dixon R) Criminal procedure.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law generally regulates criminal procedure, including, among other matters,
arrests, arraignment, and pretrial motions. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to criminal procedure.
AB 1932 (Ward D) California Statewide Housing Plan.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law establishes the California Statewide Housing Plan, developed in cooperation
with the private housing industry, regional and local housing and planning agencies, and other
agencies of the state, to serve as a state housing plan. Current law requires the plan to incorporate
specified segments, including a review of housing assistance policies, goals, and objectives affecting
the homeless. This bill would recast that provision to require the plan to incorporate, in consultation
with the Interagency Council on Homelessness and utilizing data from the Homeless Data Integration
system, a review of housing assistance, policies, goals, and objectives affecting people experiencing
homelessness.
Organization Position
Housing 2 Watch
AB 1933 (Calderon D) Insurance rate approvals.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law, as enacted in the Insurance Rate Reduction and Reform Act of 1988, approved
by the voters as Proposition 103 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, prohibits
specified insurance rates from being approved or remaining in effect if they are excessive, inadequate,
unfairly discriminatory, or otherwise in violation of the act. The act requires an insurer that wishes to
change a rate to file a complete rate application with the Insurance Commissioner and deems the
application approved 60 days after the rate application is received by the commissioner, unless
specified circumstances apply. Current law authorizes the provisions of Proposition 103 to be amended
by a statute that furthers the purposes of the act and is enacted by the Legislature with a 2/3 vote.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
AB 1934 (Grayson D) Digital financial asset businesses.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: The Digital Financial Assets Law prohibits a person from engaging in digital financial asset
business activity, or holding itself out as being able to engage in digital financial asset business
activity, with, or on behalf of, a resident, unless any of certain criteria are met, including that the
person is licensed with the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, as prescribed. Current
law defines “digital financial asset” to mean a digital representation of value that is used as a medium
of exchange, unit of account, or store of value, and that is not legal tender, whether or not
denominated in legal tender, except as specified. Current law also defines “covered person” to mean a
person required to obtain a license under the Digital Financial Assets Law. This bill would require a
licensee to also maintain, if applicable, a report maintained at least monthly that demonstrates
compliance with conditions that authorize the licensee to exchange, transfer, or store a digital financial
asset or engage in digital financial asset administration, as specified. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1935 (Rubio, Blanca D) Gaming: Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
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Summary: Current law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the California
Gambling Control Commission, to annually determine if total revenues estimated for the Indian Gaming
Special Distribution Fund are anticipated to exceed estimated expenditures, transfers, reasonable
reserves, or other adjustments from the fund for the current fiscal year. If so, the commission, upon
approval by the department, is required to apply the excess funds to reduce, eliminate, satisfy, or
partially satisfy, on a proportionate basis, the pro rata share payments required to be made to the
fund by limited gaming tribes. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
to reduce the current balance in the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund pursuant to tribal-state
gaming compacts while maintaining sufficient balances to meet the requirements or stipulations of
those compacts and existing law.
Organization Position
29 PBOMI Watch
AB 1936 (Cervantes D) Certificates of live birth.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: Current law prescribes the duties of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics and local
registrars of births and deaths with respect to the registration of certificates of live birth, fetal death,
or death, and marriage licenses. Current law requires the certificate of live birth to contain specified
information, including the full name and date of birth of the child and each parent, and requires the
State Registrar to instruct all local registrars to collect the specified information with respect to
certificates of live birth. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
AB 1937 (Berman D) State parks: Pedro Point.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law provides for the Department of Transportation to dispose of property that is no
longer needed for highway purposes on terms, standards, and conditions established by the California
Transportation Commission. The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature, by statute, with
respect to surplus state property located in the coastal zone and acquired with certain vehicle- and
fuel-related revenues, to authorize the transfer of that property to the Department of Parks and
Recreation, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Wildlife Conservation Board, or the State Coastal
Conservancy for specified purposes for a consideration at least equal to the property’s purchase price.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would provide
for the sale and transfer of certain excess property in the City of Pacifica, also known as the “Disney
Lot,” for state park purposes and to facilitate access to the California Coastal Trail, and express related
findings and declarations.
AB 1938 (Gallagher R) Special education: inclusive practices and strategies.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law finds and declares that all individuals with exceptional needs have a right to
participate in free appropriate public education and special educational instruction and services for
these persons are needed in order to ensure the right to an appropriate educational opportunity to
meet their unique needs. Current law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that education
programs are provided under an approved local plan for special education, as provided. This bill would
require, for children who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind, inclusive
practices and strategies to improve pupil outcomes to mean placement in settings that provide full
access to language and specialized services, as provided. The bill would require any discussion of deaf,
hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind pupils in the local educational agency setting to
ensure the input and participation of the deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind
communities, as provided.
AB 1939 (Maienschein D) Pupil attendance: county school attendance review boards: pupil member.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law authorizes the establishment of county school attendance review boards, and,
if established, requires county school attendance review boards to be composed of at least a parent
and 12 representatives of specified entities and community groups. This bill would additionally require,
on an established county school attendance review board, a pupil representative who is also a pupil
member of a county board of education or a pupil member of the governing board of a school district.
AB 1940 (Villapudua D) Alcoholic beverages: beer returns.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Would instead allow, with Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control approval, a wholesaler
or manufacturer, or a successor, to accept the return of a seasonal brand of beer from a retail licensee
if the beer is exchanged for a quantity of beer of similar quality of a brand produced or sold by the
same manufacturer, or of another manufacturer if the original manufacturer has ceased doing
business, with a value no greater than the original sales price to the retail licensee of the returned
beer.
AB 1941 (Quirk-Silva D) Local public employee organizations.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law gives public employees the right to refuse to join or participate in the activities
of employee organizations, and provides that employees who are members of a bona fide religion,
body, or sect that has historically held conscientious objections to joining or financially supporting
public employee organizations are not required to join or financially support a public employee
organization as a condition of employment, as specified. Current law authorizes a recognized
employee organization to charge an employee covered by the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act
for the reasonable cost of representation when the employee holds a conscientious objection, as
described above, or declines membership in the organization and requests individual representation in
a discipline, grievance, arbitration, or administrative hearing from the organization. Current law applies
this authorization only to proceedings for which the recognized employee organization does not
exclusively control the process. This bill would additionally authorize a recognized employee
organization to charge an employee covered by the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act
for the reasonable cost of representation when the employee holds a conscientious objection or
declines membership in the organization and requests individual representation in a discipline,
grievance, arbitration, or administrative hearing from the organization. The bill would apply this
authorization only to proceedings for which the recognized employee organization does not exclusively
control the process.
Organization Position
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
AB 1942 (Cervantes D) Postsecondary education: segments.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University,
the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary
educational institutions as the segments of postsecondary education in the state. The missions and
functions of these segments are set forth in the Donahoe Higher Education Act. This bill would make
nonsubstantive changes in a provision that, for purposes of the Donahoe Higher Education Act,
designates the segments of public postsecondary education as the California Community Colleges, the
California State University, and the University of California, as specified, and defines independent
institutions of higher education for these purposes.
AB 1943 (Weber D) Health information.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law requires the Center for Data Insights and Innovation to develop tools and
education related to improvement of consumer access to care, quality of care, and addressing the
disparities in quality of care related to socioeconomic status. Current law also establishes the State
Department of Health Care Services and requires the department, among other things, to administer
the Medi-Cal program. This bill would require the department, in collaboration with the California
Health and Human Services Agency, to collect appropriate data and identify indicators for tracking
telehealth outcomes associated with impacting individual patient outcomes and overall population
health. The bill would require the department to use the data collected to measure health outcomes of
populations, as specified.
AB 1944 (Waldron R) Individualized investigational treatment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Would enact the Right to Try Individualized Investigational Treatments Act, and permit a
manufacturer of an individualized investigational treatment, as defined, to make the product available
to eligible patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illness, as specified. The bill would
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authorize, but not require, a health benefit plan, as defined, to provide coverage for any individualized
investigational treatment made available pursuant to these provisions.
AB 1945 (Muratsuchi D) Education: School employees: fingerprinting.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Justice to disseminate specified information
pertaining to an applicant’s convictions, arrests, sex offender registration status, and sentencing
information whenever the department, as a result of an application, furnishes state or federal criminal
history information for employment, licensing, or certification purposes. This bill would also require the
department to provide this disseminated information to the governing board of a school district.
AB 1946 (Alanis R) Horse racing: out-of-state thoroughbred races: Stephen Foster Stakes.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Under the Horse Racing Law, the total number of thoroughbred races imported by
associations or fairs on a statewide basis under specified provisions are required to not exceed 50 per
day on days when live thoroughbred or fair racing is being conducted in the state, with the exception
of specified races. This bill would exempt from the 50 imported race per day limitation, races imported
that are part of the race card of the Stephen Foster Stakes.
AB 1947 (Rivas, Luz D) California state preschool programs: contracting agencies: staff training days.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all
California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and
developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. The act requires part-day and
full-day California state preschool programs to operate specified minimum numbers of days per year.
The act requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the State Department of
Social Services, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and
assigned reimbursement rates, which vary with the length of the program year and the hours of
service, as specified. The act authorizes an agency contracting with the State Department of Education
to provide California state preschool program services to schedule up to 2 days of staff training, per
contract period, using state reimbursement funding, as provided. This bill would instead authorize up
to 6 days of staff training, per contract period, using state reimbursement funding. The bill would
require a contractor with an enrollment of an unspecified percentage of dual language learner children
that schedules a minimum of 3 days of staff training to ensure that at least one scheduled staff
training day is used to provide staff development that is specific to supporting dual language learner
children, as provided.
AB 1948 (Rendon D) Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange,
Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Ventura to expand the goals of the homeless
adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team to include facilitating the expedited identification,
assessment, and linkage of individuals at risk of homelessness, as defined, to housing and supportive
services, and the expedited prevention of homelessness. This bill would delete the January 1, 2025,
repeal of these provisions, thereby making the provisions operative indefinitely. This bill would make
legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Los
Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Ventura.
Organization Position
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
AB 1949 (Wicks D) California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020: collection of personal information of a
consumer less than 18 years of age.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 (CCPA) requires a consumer, as defined, to
have various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a
business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information
about a consumer to third parties to not sell or share the consumer’s personal information. The act
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prohibits a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer if the business has
actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, or the
consumer’s parent or guardian, as applicable, has affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the
consumer’s personal information. This bill would remove the condition that the business have actual
knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age and would revise the above-described
prohibition to prohibit a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer less
than 18 years of age, unless the consumer, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, as applicable, has
affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information.
AB 1950 (Carrillo, Wendy D) Insurance: restitution.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to bring a superior court action to
enjoin a person who is violating or about to violate the Insurance Code. Current law also authorizes
the commissioner to apply to the clerk of the superior court for a judgment to enforce an order
requiring a person to pay a monetary penalty or reimburse the department for costs incurred by the
department in prosecuting the matter. Current law authorizes the commissioner to order a respondent,
if certain requirements are met, to provide restitution, as defined, for a loss arising from the
respondent’s conduct. With a restitution order, and if facts and equity permit, existing law also
authorizes the commissioner to issue an order of rescission enforceable on any person subject to the
commissioner’s jurisdiction. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
AB 1951 (Fong, Vince R) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: roadside wildfire prevention
projects.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a
mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if
revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that
the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would exempt from
CEQA a project for wildfire prevention within 50 feet of either side of a roadway. Because a lead
agency would be required to determine whether a project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
AQMD Watch
AB 1952 (Dixon R) Foster care: infant supplement.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law establishes a schedule of basic rates to be paid for the care and supervision of
each foster child. Current law also establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program
(Kin-GAP), which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who have a kinship guardianship, and the
Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC), which provides payments to approved relative
caregivers who are caring for children and nonminor dependents who are ineligible for AFDC-FC
payments. Current law requires, when a child is living with a parent who receives AFDC-FC or Kin-GAP
benefits, or ARC payments, that the rate paid to the foster care provider on behalf of the parent
include an additional amount, known as an infant supplement, for the care and supervision of the child.
This bill would increase the infant supplement by $517.24 monthly, to be adjusted as specified for
inflation and subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act. To the extent the bill would impose
new requirements on counties administering the AFDC-FC or Kin-GAP benefits or ARC payments, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1953 (Villapudua D) Vehicles: weight limits.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current state and federal laws set specified limits on the total gross weight imposed on the
highway by a vehicle with any group of 2 or more consecutive axles. Current federal law prohibits the
maximum gross vehicle weight of a vehicle operated by an engine fueled primarily by natural gas or
powered primarily by means of electric battery power from exceeding 82,000 pounds. Current state
law, to the extent expressly authorized by federal law, authorizes a near-zero-emission vehicle or a
zero-emission vehicle, as defined, to exceed the weight limits on the power unit by up to 2,000
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pounds. This bill would clarify that the maximum gross vehicle weight for a near-zero-emission vehicle
or a zero-emission vehicle is 82,000 pounds.
Organization Position
ACCESS Watch
Long Beach
Transit (LBT)
Watch
AB 1954 (Alanis R) State Fire Marshal: firefighters: recruitment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Would require the Office of the State Fire Marshal to create a plan to attract, recruit, and
retain more female firefighters, and would provide the goals for that plan, including closing the gap
between the number of male and female firefighters in the state.
AB 1955 (Ward D) Pupil health: school-based health services and school-based mental health services.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law establishes the State Department of Education in state government, and vests
the department with specified powers and duties relating to the state’s public school system, including
encouraging and assisting school districts to improve and monitor the health of their pupils. Current
law requires the department, as part of that assistance, to provide information and guidance to
schools that request the information and guidance to establish “Health Days” to provide screenings for
common health problems among pupils. This bill would require the department to include county offices
of education and charter schools in the above-described provisions.
AB 1956 (Reyes D) Victim services.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Would require the Office of Emergency Services to allocate funds, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to fill the gap in the federal Victims of Crime Act funding and to prioritize continuity and
stability of crime victim services if the federal grant funding that is awarded to the office is 10% or
more lower than the amount awarded in the prior year. The bill would require the office to regularly
consult, collaborate with, and consider the recommendations regarding allocation of funding from the
Victims of Crime Act Steering Committee.
AB 1957 (Wilson D) Public contracts: best value construction contracting for counties.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law establishes a pilot program to allow the Counties of Alameda, Los Angeles,
Monterey, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Yuba to select a
bidder on the basis of best value, as defined, for construction projects in excess of $1,000,000.
Current law also authorizes these counties to use a best value construction contracting method to
award individual annual contracts, not to exceed $3,000,000, for repair, remodeling, or other repetitive
work to be done according to unit prices, as specified. Current law establishes procedures and criteria
for the selection of a best value contractor and requires that bidders verify specified information under
oath. Current law requires the board of supervisors of a participating county to submit a report that
contains specified information about the projects awarded using the best value procedures described
above to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee before March 1, 2024. Current law repeals the pilot program provisions on January 1, 2025.
This bill would instead authorize any county of the state to utilize this program and would remove the
January 1, 2025, sunset date, thereby extending the operation of those provisions indefinitely.
AB 1958 (Berman D) Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority: board of directors.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law vests the government of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)
in a 12-member board of directors, appointed by the County of Santa Clara and the cities within the
county, as specified. Current law requires, to the extent possible, the county and cities to appoint
individuals to the board of directors who have expertise, experience, or knowledge relative to
transportation issues. This bill would require, to the extent possible, the county and cities to appoint
individuals to the board of directors who have expertise, experience, or knowledge relative to
transportation or project management issues.
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Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
AB 1959 (Grayson D) District attorneys.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: If a district attorney is disqualified to conduct a criminal prosecution within a county, current
law authorizes the Attorney General to employ special counsel to conduct that prosecution. Current
law provides that the resulting attorney’s fee is a legal charge against the state. This bill would make
nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
AB 1960 (Soria D) Sentencing enhancements: property loss.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: State law, repealed as of January 1, 2018, required a court to impose an additional term of
imprisonment, as specified, on a person who takes, damages, or destroys property in the commission
or attempted commission of a felony, as specified. This bill would create sentencing enhancements for
taking, damaging, or destroying property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as
specified. By adding new sentencing enhancements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
Organization Position
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
AB 1961 (Wicks D) Food access: strategic plan.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation requiring the State of
California to develop a strategic master plan to end hunger in California.
AB 1962 (Berman D) Crimes: disorderly conduct.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Under current law, disorderly conduct includes, among other things, the distribution of
certain images of another person taken under circumstances in which the person understands that the
image shall remain private, the distribution of which causes serious emotional distress. This bill would
state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to close loopholes in California’s revenge porn
laws.
AB 1963 (Friedman D) Pesticides: chlorpyrifos reporting.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation to prepare and submit
quarterly reports due 60 days after the end of each quarter to specified Senate and Assembly
committees and the Office of the Surgeon General that provide information, as prescribed, regarding
granular chlorpyrifos use, monitoring, and exposure during the quarter. This bill would require the
department to post the quarterly reports to its internet website.
AB 1964 (Fong, Vince R) State agencies: budgeting.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Would require the Department of Finance, on or before January 1, 2026, to compile a list of
all state agencies and to split the list into 1/5 sections with each section equally distributing state
agencies across the legislative budget subcommittees, as specified. The bill would require the
department, on January 1, 2027, to publish on its internet website the full list of state agencies, as
described above. The bill would require the department, on January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter,
to publish a list of which section of state agencies is required to develop its budget using a zero-based
budgeting method, as defined. The bill, commencing January 1, 2027, would require each state agency,
as specified, to develop its budget based on a zero-based budgeting method for review during the
budget process, as prescribed. In developing its budget based on a zero-based budgeting method,
the bill would require, among other things, representatives from each state agency to work with the
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department to submit a report, as specified, to the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review,
the Assembly Committee on Budget, and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
AB 1965 (Rubio, Blanca D) Public health: Office of Tribal Affairs.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
Summary: Would establish the Office of Tribal Affairs within the State Department of Public Health to
be led by a Tribal Health Liaison to assist in addressing the public health disparities impacting Tribal
communities. The bill would provide that the Tribal Health Liaison be appointed by and serve at the
pleasure of the State Public Health Officer and would require the State Public Health Officer to regularly
consult with and consider input and information provided by the Tribal Health Liaison.
Organization Position
29 PBOMI Watch
AB 1966 (Davies R) Human trafficking: notice: primary ticket sellers.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would require a primary ticket seller, as defined, upon the purchase of a mobile or
electronic ticket for an event at an entertainment facility, as defined, to include a notice with the ticket
purchase confirmation electronically to the buyer that contains information relating to commercial sex
and labor trafficking, including information regarding specified nonprofit organizations that a person
can call for services or support in the elimination of slavery and human trafficking.
AB 1967 (Jackson D) Food Insecurity Officer.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would create, within the Government Operations Agency, a Food Insecurity Officer, to be
appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the Governor. The Food Insecurity Officer would be
required to report to the Secretary, or the Secretary’s designee, of the Government Operations
Agency. The bill would require the Food Insecurity Officer to coordinate and address food insecurity
throughout state government operations and would authorize the Food Insecurity Officer to engage
with state entities for these purposes, as specified.
AB 1968 (Jackson D) CalFresh: enrollment for senior citizens.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would require, on or before _____, the State Department of Social Services to partner with
the Franchise Tax Board to identify qualifying individuals 60 years of age or older and would require the
department to create a system to automatically enroll those individuals into the CalFresh program, as
specified. The bill would require the department to enroll eligible individuals on an annual basis, and
would require the Franchise Tax Board to annually provide the department with the information of
individuals with qualifying incomes.
AB 1969 (Hart D) State Air Resources Board: Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project:
unmanned aerial systems.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law creates the Air Quality Improvement Program, administered by the State Air
Resources Board, for the purpose of funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, air quality
improvement projects relating to zero-emission fuel and vehicle technologies. Current law limits the
program to competitive grants, revolving loans, loan guarantees, loans, and other appropriate funding
measures that further the purposes of the program, including for projects that provide mitigation for
off-road gasoline exhaust and evaporative emissions. As part of the program, the state board
administers the Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project (CORE) to provide vouchers that
offset the cost of zero-emission off-road equipment, including agricultural equipment. This bill would
require the state board to include unmanned aerial systems, commonly known as drones, in the
meaning of agricultural equipment for purposes of CORE, which the bill would define as the program
established by the state board as part of the Air Quality Improvement Program, as provided.
AB 1970 (Jackson D) Mental Health: Black Mental Health Navigator Certification Pilot Program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
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Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would, commencing July 1, 2025, establish, until June 30, 2028, the Black Mental Health
Navigator Certification Pilot Program, to be administered by the State Department of Health Care
Services, to provide comprehensive training in mental health resources and awareness, as specified.
This bill would require the department to collect specific data and submit a report to the Legislature
and the relevant policy committees on or before December 31, 2028. The bill would make those
provisions contingent upon appropriation and would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2030.
AB 1971 (Addis D) Student Online Personal Information Protection Act: test sponsors.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: The Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA) prohibits an operator of
an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application with actual knowledge that
the site, service, or application is used primarily for K–12 school purposes and was designed and
marketed for K–12 school purposes from knowingly engaging in certain activities with respect to the
operator’s site, service, or application, including selling a student’s information, including covered
information, as defined, or using information, including persistent unique identifiers, created or
gathered by the operator’s site, service, or application, to amass a profile about a K–12 student except
in furtherance of K–12 school purposes. The Student Test Taker Privacy Protection Act prohibits a
business providing proctoring services in an educational setting from collecting, retaining, using, or
disclosing personal information, as defined, except to the extent necessary to provide those proctoring
services and in other specified circumstances. This bill would additionally apply SOPIPA to an individual,
partnership, corporation, association, company, firm, institution, society, trust, or joint stock company
that develops, sponsors, or administers standardized tests.
AB 1972 (Alanis R) Organized retail theft: cargo.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law makes a person guilty of organized retail theft if, among other things, the
person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s
premises or online marketplace with the intent to sell, exchange, or return the merchandise for value.
Under current law, these crimes are punishable as either misdemeanors or felonies, as specified. This
bill would expand that crime to include merchandise stolen from a merchant’s cargo.
AB 1973 (Lackey R) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: Bobcat Fire: exclusions.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1,
2029, provide an exclusion from gross income for any qualified taxpayer, as defined, for amounts
received in settlement for costs and losses associated with the 2020 Bobcat Fire in the County of Los
Angeles, as provided.
AB 1974 (Petrie-Norris D) Family conciliation courts: evaluator training.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law establishes the family conciliation court, which may be implemented by the
superior court in each county, to provide means for the reconciliation of spouses and the amicable
settlement of domestic and family controversies. In each county in which a family conciliation court is
established, the superior court may appoint one supervising counselor of conciliation and one
secretary to assist the family conciliation court in disposing of its business and carrying out its
functions. Current law defines an “evaluator” for purposes of family reconciliation court proceedings to
include a supervising or associate counselor, a mediator, a court-connected or private child custody
evaluator, or a court-appointed investigator or evaluator, as described. Current law requires an
evaluator to participate in specified training requirements, including 16 hours of advanced training
within a 12-month period. This bill would require the risks associated with access to firearms and ways
to reduce those risks to be included on the list of issues in a family and psychological assessment in a
domestic violence case for purposes of the advanced training.
AB 1975 (Bonta D) Medi-Cal: medically supportive food and nutrition interventions.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law, subject to implementation of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal
(CalAIM) initiative, authorizes a Medi-Cal managed care plan to elect to cover community supports
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approved by the department as cost effective and medically appropriate in a comprehensive risk
contract that are in lieu of applicable Medi-Cal state plan services. Under existing law, community
supports that the State Department of Health Care Services is authorized to approve include, among
other things, medically supportive food and nutrition services, including medically tailored meals. This
bill would make medically supportive food and nutrition interventions, as defined, a covered benefit
under the Medi-Cal program, through both the fee-for-service and managed care delivery systems,
effective July 1, 2026, subject to federal approval and the issuance of final guidance by the
department. The bill would require those interventions to be covered if determined to be medically
necessary by a health care provider or health care plan, as specified. The bill would require the
provision of interventions for 12 weeks, or longer if deemed medically necessary. The bill would require
a Medi-Cal managed care plan to offer at least 3 of 6 listed interventions, with certain conditions for a
7th intervention.
AB 1976 (Haney D) Occupational safety and health standards: first aid kits: naloxone hydrochloride.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 (OSHA) requires employers to
comply with certain safety and health standards, as specified, and charges the division with
enforcement of the act. Current law requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, before
December 1, 2025, to submit to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board a rulemaking
proposal to consider revising certain standards relating to the prevention of heat illness, protection
from wildfire smoke, and toilet facilities on construction jobsites. Current law also requires the
standards board to review the proposed changes and consider adopting revised standards on or
before December 31, 2025. This bill would require the standards board, before December 1, 2026, to
draft a rulemaking proposal to revise a regulation on first aid materials to require all first aid kits in a
workplace to include nasal spray naloxone hydrochloride. The bill would require the standards board to
adopt revised standards for the standards described above on or before December 31, 2026.
AB 1977 (Ta R) Health care coverage: behavioral diagnoses.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would prohibit a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued,
amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, from requiring an enrollee or insured previously
diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder or autism to be reevaluated or receive a new
behavioral diagnosis to maintain coverage for behavioral health treatment for their condition. Because
a willful violation of this provision by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose
a state-mandated local program.
AB 1978 (Fong, Vince R) Vehicles: speed contests.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would authorize a peace officer to not take a person into custody for violations of aiding or
abetting a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed or for obstructing or placing a barricade
or obstruction upon a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of a motor vehicle
speed contest or exhibition of speed, as specified, if the peace officer causes the removal and seizure
of the vehicle used to commit that offense.
AB 1979 (Ward D) Obligations: deceit.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law makes any person who willfully deceives another with the intent to induce the
other person to alter their position to their injury or risk, liable for any damage that the other person
suffers as a result. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
AB 1980 (Grayson D) State highway operation and protection program: asset management plan.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of the
state highway system and requires the department to prepare a state highway operation and
protection program for the expenditure of transportation funds for major capital improvements that are
necessary to preserve and protect the state highway system. Current law requires the department, in
consultation with the California Transportation Commission, to prepare an asset management plan to
guide selection of projects for the program. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter
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provision.
AB 1981 (Lackey R) 50th District Agricultural Association: board membership.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law provides for a board of directors consisting of 9 members for each district
agricultural association, and provides for the appointment of each director by the Governor. Current
law authorizes the 50th District Agricultural Association, with the consent of the Secretary of Food and
Agriculture, to enter into a joint powers agreement for, among other purposes, the purpose of creating
a joint powers agency to operate, maintain, and improve the facilities and functions of the 50th District
Agricultural Association. This bill would reduce the number of members on the board of the 50th District
Agricultural Association to 3 members, as provided.
AB 1982 (Mathis R) Firearms: purchase: requirements.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law requires a person purchasing a firearm or ammunition to present evidence of
identity, as specified. This bill would allow evidence of identity for these purposes to include a valid
Veteran Health Identification Card issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs, as provided.
AB 1983 (Maienschein D) Income taxes: voluntary contributions: Dog and Cat Euthanasia Prevention
Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would allow an individual to designate on their tax return that a specified amount in excess
of their tax liability be transferred to the Dog and Cat Euthanasia Prevention Voluntary Tax
Contribution Fund, which would be created by this bill. The bill would prohibit a voluntary contribution
designation for the Dog and Cat Euthanasia Prevention Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund from being
added on the tax return until another voluntary contribution designation is removed or a space is
available.
AB 1984 (Weber D) Pupil health: extreme heat.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would require
school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to develop and adopt guidelines to be
followed during extreme heat to prevent heat-related illnesses.
AB 1985 (Patterson, Joe R) Home solicitation contracts.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law provides that a contract is extinguished by its rescission and sets forth
methods for the rescission of a contract, including the rescission of a home solicitation contract.
Current law defines “home solicitation contract” for this purpose. This bill would exclude from the
definition of “home solicitation contract” any contract for services where the buyer is an existing
customer of the seller and the contract allows the buyer to cancel at any time with a pro rata refund of
any services paid for but not received.
AB 1986 (Bryan D) State prisons: banned books.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law grants a person sentenced to imprisonment the right to purchase, receive, and
read any and all newspapers, periodicals, and books, as specified, subject to restrictions reasonably
related to legitimate penological interests. Current law authorizes the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of state prisons,
including determining which materials are a threat to legitimate penological interests. This bill would
require the Inspector General to post the list of materials that have been banned by the department
on the office’s internet website. The bill would authorize the Inspector General to review materials to
determine whether there is a legitimate penological interest for being on the banned materials list,
and, if not, would authorize the Inspector General to require the department to remove that material
from the department’s banned materials list.
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AB 1987 (Bennett D) Local government.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law sets forth provisions for the formation, duties, and other authorizations,
among other things, relating to cities, counties, cities and counties, and other local agencies. This bill
would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to local government.
AB 1988 (Muratsuchi D) Stray animals: availability for adoption or release.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law requires a public or private shelter to release an impounded stray dog or cat to
a nonprofit, as defined, animal rescue or adoption organization if requested by the organization before
the scheduled euthanasia of that animal. Current law authorizes a puppy or kitten under 8 weeks of
age that is reasonably believed to be unowned and is impounded in a public or private shelter to be
made immediately available for release to a nonprofit animal rescue or adoption organization if
requested by the organization, and authorizes a puppy or kitten relinquished to a public or private
shelter by the purported owner, or brought in by any other person with authority to relinquish it, to be
available immediately for adoption. Current law requires that a rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, potbellied
pig, bird, lizard, snake, turtle, or tortoise that is legally allowed as personal property and that is
impounded in a public or private shelter be held with the same opportunities for redemption and
adoption by new owners or nonprofit animal rescue or adoption organizations as provided for dogs
and cats, as specified. This bill would expand the scope of those provisions to apply to nonprofit
organizations, as defined, animal rescue organizations, and adoption organizations, rather than
nonprofit animal rescue organizations and nonprofit adoption organizations.
AB 1989 (Mathis R) Senior legal services.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law requires the California Department of Aging to establish a task force of certain
members to study and make recommendations to the Legislature on the improvement of legal services
delivery to senior citizens in California by exploring specified matters, including ways to ensure
uniformity in the provision of legal services throughout the state and the possible establishment of a
statewide legal hotline for seniors. Current law requires the task force to report and make its
recommendations to the Legislature on or before September 1, 2002. This bill would require the
department to establish a similar task force to assess the implementation of the recommendations
made pursuant to the above-mentioned provisions, make additional recommendations by exploring the
same matters explored by the initial task force, and to report the assessment and make its
recommendations to the Legislature on or before September 1, 2026.
AB 1990 (Carrillo, Wendy D) Criminal procedure: arrests: shoplifting.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law prohibits shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with
intent to commit theft while that establishment is open during regular business hours, where the value
of the property that is taken or intended to be taken does not exceed $950. Existing law requires an
act that falls within this definition to be charged as shoplifting and not as burglary or theft. Under
current law, shoplifting is punishable as a misdemeanor, except when the defendant has prior
convictions, as specified. This bill would authorize a peace officer to make a warrantless arrest for a
misdemeanor shoplifting offense not committed in the officer’s presence if the officer has probable
cause to believe that person has committed shoplifting.
AB 1991 (Bonta D) Health Professions Career Opportunity Program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information and
requires the department to maintain a Health Professions Career Opportunity Program to, among
other things, implement programs at colleges and universities selected by the department and include
in those programs pipeline programs that provide comprehensive academic enrichment, career
development, mentorship, and advising in order to support students from underrepresented regions
and backgrounds to pursue health careers. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to
this provision.
AB 1992 (Boerner D) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: blue carbon demonstration
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projects.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would authorize the California Coastal Commission to authorize blue carbon demonstration
projects, as defined, in order to demonstrate and quantify the carbon sequestration potential of these
projects to help inform the state’s natural and working lands and climate resilience strategies. The bill
would, among other things, authorize the commission to require an applicant with a project that
impacts coastal wetland, subtidal, intertidal, or marine habitats or ecosystems to build or contribute to
a blue carbon demonstration project.
AB 1993 (Kalra D) Residential care facilities for the elderly: maximum number of residents.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: The California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act (act), requires the State
Department of Social Services to license, inspect, and regulate residential care facilities for the elderly,
as defined, and imposes criminal penalties on a person who violates the act or who willfully or
repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under the act. Under current law, whether or not
unrelated persons are living together, a residential care facility for the elderly that serves 6 or fewer
persons is considered a residential use of property, as specified. This bill would increase the maximum
number of residents served for purposes of those provisions from 6 to 10.
AB 1994 (Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs) Veterans: Department of Veterans Affairs.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law requires the Undersecretary of Veterans Affairs be appointed and their salary
established by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs pursuant to law. Current law requires the secretary to
appoint a Deputy Secretary of Women Veterans Affairs. This bill would create, and would require the
secretary to appoint, a Deputy Secretary of Minority and Underrepresented Veterans Affairs.
AB 1995 (Essayli R) Health care facilities: small and rural hospitals.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Under current law, the State Department of Public Health issues licenses for and regulates
health facilities, including small and rural hospitals, as defined. A hospital that meets the definition of a
small and rural hospital may be eligible for special programs, including business assistance, regulatory
relief, and increased Medi-Cal reimbursement. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes
to the definition of small and rural hospital.
AB 1996 (Alanis R) Opioid antagonists: stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks: overdose
training.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Would require each stadium, concert venue, and amusement park to ensure that the
naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist is easily accessible and its location is widely known.
The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop an opioid overdose training
program for these establishments and to notify these establishments of this training program. The bill
would authorize the department to provide the overdose training program onsite.
AB 1997 (McKinnor D) Teachers’ Retirement Law.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law requires employers and employees to make contributions to the State
Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) based on the member’s creditable compensation. Current law
defines terms for the purposes of STRS. Current law defines “annualized pay rate” to mean the salary
or wages, as described, a person could earn during a school term for an assignment if creditable
service were performed for that assignment on a full-time basis. Current law establishes a pay rate
when creditable service is not performed on a full-time basis because a member is performing activities
pursuant to specified law. This bill would redefine “annualized pay rate” to mean the salary, as
described, a person could earn during a school term in a position subject to membership if creditable
service were performed for that position on a full-time basis, to be determined pursuant to a publicly
available pay schedule by a prescribed method. The bill, if no annualized pay rate exists for a position
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subject to membership, would deem all compensation earned in that position “supplemental pay,” as
prescribed.
AB 1998 (Mathis R) California Environmental Quality Act: Department of Fish and Wildlife: review of
environmental documents: revenue and cost tracking and accounting.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a
mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if
revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that
the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA requires the lead
agency to consult with a public agency that is a responsible agency or a trustee agency during the
environmental review process. Current law authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife to impose
and collect filing fees in specified amounts to defray the costs of managing and protecting fish and
wildlife trust resources, including, but not limited to, consulting with other public agencies, reviewing
environmental documents, recommending mitigation measures, developing monitoring requirements
for purposes of CEQA, and other activities protecting those trust resources identified in a review
pursuant to CEQA. This bill would require the department to separately track and account for all
revenues collected under the above filing fee provision and all costs incurred in its role as a
responsible agency or trustee agency under CEQA.
AB 1999 (Irwin D) Electricity: fixed charges.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Under current law, the Public Utilities Commission may authorize fixed charges for any rate
schedule applicable to a residential customer account. Current law requires the commission, no later
than July 1, 2024, to authorize a fixed charge for default residential rates. Current law requires these
fixed charges to be established on an income-graduated basis, with no fewer than 3 income
thresholds, so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline territory would realize a lower average
monthly bill without making any changes in usage. This bill would repeal the provisions described in
the preceding paragraph. The bill would instead permit the commission to authorize fixed charges that,
as of January 1, 2015, do not exceed $5 per residential customer account per month for low-income
customers enrolled in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program and that do not exceed
$10 per residential customer account per month for customers not enrolled in the CARE program. The
bill would authorize these maximum allowable fixed charges to be adjusted by no more than the
annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the prior calendar year, beginning January
1, 2016.
AB 2000 (Mathis R) State Water Project: permit and license conditions.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Under current law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights
program pursuant to which the State Water Resources Control Board grants permits and licenses to
appropriate water. Current law requires the director of the department, in collaboration with the
Secretary of the Interior, to prepare a plan, on or before January 1, 2006, to meet the existing permit
and license conditions for which the department has an obligation, and to submit copies of the plan to
the state board and the California Bay-Delta Authority prior to increasing the existing permitted
diversion rate at the State Water Project’s Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant. This bill would make a
nonsubstantive change to the latter provision.
AB 2001 (Gallagher R) Political Reform Act of 1974.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law defines a “statewide election” and “campaign expenditures” for purposes of
the Political Reform Act of 1974. This bill would repeal the section of the act defining “statewide
election” and would revise the definition of “campaign expenditures.”
AB 2002 (Sanchez R) Vehicles: public safety: Blue Envelope Program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Read first time. To print.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to prescribe and provide suitable
forms of applications, certificates of ownership, registration cards, driver’s licenses, and all other forms
that are deemed necessary. This bill would, by January 1, 2026, require the department, in
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consultation with relevant stakeholders, to develop a Blue Envelope Program. Under the program, the
bill would require the blue envelope to contain specified information for requesters with a condition or
disability, as specified.
ACA 15 (Alanis R) Corrections: parole consideration and credit earning.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Summary: The California Constitution, pursuant to provisions enacted by the initiative Proposition 57
in 2016, requires a person convicted of a nonviolent felony offense and sentenced to state prison to
be eligible for parole consideration after completing the full term for their primary offense and
authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award credits earned for good
behavior and approved rehabilitative or educational achievements. This measure would exclude from
those above-described provisions an inmate serving a sentence for a sex offense, as specified.
ACA 16 (Bryan D) Environmental rights.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Summary: The California Constitution declares various inalienable rights of the people, including the
right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, acquire, possess, and protect property, and pursue and
obtain safety, happiness, and privacy. This measure would amend the California Constitution to declare
that the people have a right to clean air and water and a healthy environment.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
ACR 117 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Nurse Anesthesiologist Week.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer.
Summary: Would designate the week of January 21, 2024, to January 27, 2024, inclusive, as Nurse
Anesthesiologist Week.
ACR 118 (Ta R) Vietnam Human Rights Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would designate May 11, 2024, as Vietnam Human Rights Day in support of efforts to
achieve freedom and human rights for the people of Vietnam. The measure would encourage
Californians to commemorate the day with appropriate activities, including, but not limited to, rallies,
ceremonies, and discussions.
ACR 119 (Gallagher R) Condemning the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer.
Summary: Would condemn and decry the Hamas terrorist organization in the harshest terms for its
premeditated, coordinated, and barbaric attacks on Israel, acts of sexual violence, hostage taking, and
theft of relief supplies intended for the civilian population of Gaza, and demand the release of all
hostages held by Palestinian terrorists. The measure would condemn and denounce in the strongest
possible terms all instances of anti-Semitism occurring in California, the United States, and globally.
ACR 120 (Garcia D) Positive Parenting Awareness Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would declare the month of January 2024 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in
California.
ACR 121 (Gallagher R) National Purple Heart Trail.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Would designate the portions of State Highway Routes 20 and 99 in the City of Yuba City in
the County of Sutter for inclusion in the National Purple Heart Trail. The measure would also request
that the Department of Transportation determine the cost for the installation and maintenance of
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appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
ACR 122 (Weber D) Maternal Health Awareness Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would proclaim January 23, 2024, as Maternal Health Awareness Day.
ACR 123 (McCarty D) Anesthesiologist Week.
Current Text: Amended: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Last Amend: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Coauthors revised. Adopted and to Senate.
Summary: Would designate the week of January 28, 2024, to February 3, 2024, inclusive, as
Anesthesiologist Week.
ACR 124 (Pellerin D) Sergeant Damon Christopher Gutzwiller Memorial Highway.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Would designate the portion of State Route 9 between Lower Glen Arbor Road, at postmile
SCR 8.13, to Western Avenue, at postmile SCR 11.131, in the County of Santa Cruz as the Sergeant
Damon Christopher Gutzwiller Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of
Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, erect those signs.
ACR 125 (Pellerin D) National Human Trafficking Awareness Month
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would recognize the month of January 2024 as National Human Trafficking Awareness
Month.
ACR 126 (Patterson, Joe R) Sergeant Nicole Gee, United States Marine Corps Memorial Highway.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Would designate the portion of State Route 80 in the County of Placer, from the Douglas
Boulevard Overcrossing, 19-0079, to postmile 4.160, as the Sergeant Nicole Gee, United States Marine
Corps Memorial Highway. The measure would also request that the Department of Transportation
determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving
donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs.
ACR 127 (Irwin D) Engineers Week.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would recognize the week of February 18, 2024, to February 24, 2024, as Engineers Week.
ACR 128 (Arambula D) California Latino and Latina Physician Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would designate October 1, 2024, as the first California Latino and Latina Physician Day.
ACR 129 (Villapudua D) Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would recognize, in perpetuity, the month of May as Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Month.
ACR 130 (Rivas, Luz D) Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
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Summary: Would proclaim February 22, 2024, as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
ACR 131 (Muratsuchi D) National School Counseling Week.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS. From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
8. Noes 0.) (January 29).
Summary: Would recognize February 5, 2024, to February 9, 2024, as National School Counseling
Week.
ACR 132 (Santiago D) CalEITC Awareness Week.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From Consent Calendar. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Would proclaim the week of January 26, 2024, through February 2, 2024, as CalEITC
Awareness Week.
ACR 133 (Ramos D) Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would designate the month of May 2024 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous People
Awareness Month in California.
Organization Position
29 PBOMI Watch
ACR 134 (Wood D) National Mentoring Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Coauthors revised. Adopted and to Senate.
Summary: Would declare that the month of January 2024 be recognized as National Mentoring Month,
would thank those who participate in quality mentoring programs, and would call upon residents to
help close the gap between the availability of mentors and the number of children facing challenging
circumstances, as specified.
ACR 135 (Weber D) Human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their
descendants.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced. To print.
Summary: Would acknowledge the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the State of
California who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and the
legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination.
The measure would affirm the State of California’s role in protecting the descendants of enslaved
people as well as their civil, political, and socio-cultural rights.
AJR 11 (Davies R) Public social services: Medicare and social security.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/13/2024-From printer.
Summary: Would oppose cuts and measures to privatize social security and Medicare and call on the
state’s Representatives in Congress to vote against cuts and measures to privatize and to support
legislation to improve and expand these systems to strengthen their protections. The measure would
call on the President of the United States to not cut these programs, to veto any legislation to do so,
and to work with Congress to expand and improve these programs.
AJR 12 (Alvarez D) Tijuana River: cross-border pollution.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer.
Summary: Would, among other things, urge the United States Congress to support President Joseph
R. Biden’s $310,000,000 supplemental funding request for the United States Section of the
International Boundary and Water Commission due to the ongoing impacts to public health, the
environment, and the local economy caused by cross-border pollution in the Tijuana River Valley and
would urge President Joseph R. Biden to declare a national emergency due to those ongoing impacts.
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HR 60 (Hoover R) Relative to school governance.
Current Text: Chaptered: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Coauthors revised. Read. Adopted. (Ayes 68. Noes 0.).
Summary: Would resolve that the Assembly hereby declares the state's appreciation to every school
board and school board member in California and recognizes their dedicated commitment to serving
the needs of pupils in our communities by proclaiming the month of January 2024 as School Board
Recognition Month.
HR 61 (Sanchez R) Relative to Assembly Rule 49.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/9/2024-Introduced.
Summary: Would resolve that Rule 49 of the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2023-24 Session
is amended to read: 49. (a) A Member may introduce not more than 25 bills in the regular session. As
used in this rule, "bill" includes a constitutional amendment, but does not include a concurrent or joint
resolution. (b) This rule may be suspended with respect to a particular bill by approval of the
Committee on Rules.
HR 62 (Quirk-Silva D) Relative to Korean American Day.
Current Text: Chaptered: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS. From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading.
(Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (January 16). Assembly Rule 63 suspended. Coauthors revised. Read. Adopted.
Summary: Would resolve that the Assembly hereby proclaims January 13, 2024, as Korean American
Day.
HR 63 (Villapudua D) Relative to National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Introduced.
Summary: Would resolve that the Assembly hereby designates the month of January 2024 as National
Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The Assembly commends the California Trucking Association and
Truckers Against Trafficking for their outstanding efforts and the significant impact they have made in
training industry professionals and law enforcement officers to combat human trafficking.
HR 64 (Bennett D) Relative to World Wetlands Day.
Current Text: Chaptered: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-Coauthors revised. Read. Adopted. (Ayes 69. Noes 0.).
Summary: Would resolve that the Assembly hereby recognizes February 2, 2024, as World Wetlands
Day.
HR 65 (Wallis R) Relative to Enrolled Agents’ Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that the Legislature of the State of California hereby recognizes February
15, 2024, as Enrolled Agent's Day to commemorate the contributions professional enrolled agents
have made for over 50 years to California taxpayers.
HR 66 (Fong, Vince R) Relative to the Joint Sunset Review Committee.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced.
Summary: Would resolve that the speaker of the Assembly shall make the required appointments to
the Joint Sunset Review Committee.
HR 67 (Low D) Relative to the Lunar New Year.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced.
Summary: Would resolve that the Legislature joins Asian and Pacific Islander communities throughout
the state, nation, and world in celebrating February 10, 2024, as the beginning of the Lunar New Year
and extends best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous Lunar New Year to all Californians.
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SB 892 (Padilla D) Public contracts: artificial intelligence services: safety, privacy, and
nondiscrimination standards.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Would require the Department of Technology to establish safety, privacy, and
nondiscrimination standards relating to artificial intelligence services, as defined. Commencing August
1, 2025, the bill would prohibit a contract for artificial intelligence services, as defined, from being
entered into by the state unless the provider meets those standards. This bill would require the
Department of Technology to report to the Legislature regarding the standards it establishes, as
specified.
SB 893 (Padilla D) California Artificial Intelligence Research Hub.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Would require the Government Operations Agency, the Governor’s Office of Business and
Economic Development, and the Department of Technology to collaborate to establish the California
Artificial Intelligence Research Hub (hub) in the Government Operations Agency. The bill would require
the hub to serve as a centralized entity to facilitate collaboration between government agencies,
academic institutions, and private sector partners to advance artificial intelligence research and
development that seeks to harness the technology’s full potential for public benefit while safeguarding
privacy, advancing security, and addressing risks and potential harms to society, as prescribed.
SB 894 (Min D) Sexual exploitation by a member of the clergy.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Current law provides that a person commits a sexual battery who, among other things,
acts with the intent to cause a harmful or offensive contact with an intimate part, as defined, of
another that directly or indirectly results in a sexually offensive contact with that person. The law
makes a person who commits a sexual battery pursuant to those provisions liable for damages and
equitable relief. Current law establishes the defense of consent in civil actions. This bill would prohibit
the defense that the adult parishioner consented to sexual contact in a civil action involving sexual
contact between a member of the clergy and an adult parishioner.
SB 895 (Roth D) Community colleges: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop a
Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that authorizes select community college districts to
offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The bill would limit the pilot program to 15 community
college districts statewide and would require the chancellor to identify eligible community college
districts based on specified criteria. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to conduct an
evaluation of the pilot program to determine the effectiveness of the program and the need to
continue or expand the program. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2031.
SB 896 (Dodd D) Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Current law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated
plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and
technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of
informing that coordinated plan, current law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things,
the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been
generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful
and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without
their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. This bill,
the Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act, would, among other things, require the Government
Operations Agency, the Department of Technology, and the Office of Data and Innovation to produce a
State of California Benefits and Risk of Generative Artificial Intelligence Report that includes certain
items, including an examination of the most significant, potentially beneficial uses for deployment of
generative artificial intelligence tools by the state, and would require those entities to update the
report, as prescribed.
SB 897 (Newman D) Pupil attendance: interdistrict attendance: school districts of choice.
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Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Current law prohibits school districts of choice from targeting their communications to
individual parents or residential neighborhoods on the basis of a pupil’s or pupils’ actual or perceived
academic skill or other personal characteristics. This bill would expand that prohibition to also prohibit
school districts of choice from targeting their communications to individual parents or residential
neighborhoods on the basis of a pupil’s or pupils' actual or perceived proficiency in English, family
income, or their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity,
religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of a hate
crime, as defined.
SB 898 (Skinner D) Vehicle equipment: windows.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Would, beginning on January 1, 2025, require all vehicles sold in California to be equipped
with a side window, windshield, back window, and sunroof that allow no more than 2% of ultraviolet A
radiation, no more than 2% of ultraviolet B radiation, and no more than 10% of infrared radiation of
the incident solar radiation into the vehicle, as specified. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose
a state-mandated local program.
SB 899 (Skinner D) Protective orders: firearms.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Current law prohibits a person subject to specified protective orders from owning a firearm
or ammunition. Current law requires a person subject to those orders to relinquish any firearms or
ammunition they own. This bill would require the court, when issuing those orders, to provide the
person subject to the order with information on how any firearms or ammunition still in their
possession are to be relinquished, as specified. The bill would require the court to review the file to
determine whether the receipt has been filed and inquire as to whether the person has complied with
the requirement. The bill would require violations of the firearms or ammunition prohibition to be
reported to the prosecuting attorney in the jurisdiction where the order has been issued within 2
business days of the court hearing unless the restrained party provides a receipt showing compliance
at a subsequent hearing or by direct filing with the clerk of the court.
SB 900 (Umberg D) Civil procedure: automation.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Current law authorizes a court to establish and operate, in accordance with the rules and
policy of the Judicial Council, an interactive computer system to enable and assist a pro per litigant to
prepare standardized pro per court documents for use in specified civil actions. This bill would make a
technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
SB 901 (Umberg D) Civil actions: time for commencement: unwritten lease.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Current law prohibits an action for breach of an unwritten lease of real property from being
brought more than 2 years after breach of the lease and abandonment of the property, or more than 2
years after termination of the right of the lessee to possession of the property, whichever is the earlier
time. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
SB 902 (Roth D) Firearms: public safety.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/4/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
Summary: Current law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who has been convicted of
certain misdemeanors may not, within 10 years of the conviction, own, purchase, receive, possess or
have under their custody or control, any firearm and makes a violation of that prohibition a crime.
Current law, with certain exceptions, makes it a crime to maliciously and intentionally maim, mutilate,
torture, wound, or kill a living animal. Current law, with additional exceptions, makes it a crime to,
among other things, overwork, cruelly beat, or overload an animal. This bill would provide that any
person convicted of a misdemeanor violation of the above-described crimes, on or after January 1,
2025, may not, within 10 years of the conviction, access a firearm as described above, and makes a
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violation of that prohibition a crime.
SB 903 (Skinner D) Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
Summary: Current law prohibits the distribution, sale, or offer for sale in the state any food packaging
that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Current law prohibits the sale or
distribution in commerce in the state any new, not previously owned, juvenile product, as defined, that
contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals. This bill would state the intent of the
Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to phase out the sale of products with avoidable
perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
SB 904 (Dodd D) Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
Summary: Current law creates, within the Counties of Sonoma and Marin, the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail
Transit District with specified duties and powers relative to the provision of a passenger and freight rail
system within the territory of the district. Under current law, the district is governed by a 12-member
board of directors appointed by various local governmental entities. Current law authorizes the board
to submit to the voters of the district a measure proposing a retail transactions and use tax ordinance.
This bill would also authorize those special taxes to be imposed by a qualified voter initiative. The bill
would require the board of supervisors of the Counties of Sonoma and Marin to call a special election
on a tax measure proposed by the district’s board of directors or a qualified voter initiative in their
respective counties, as specified.
SB 905 (Wiener D) Unlawful entry of a vehicle.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
Summary: Would make forcibly entering a vehicle, as defined, with the intent to commit a theft therein
a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or
imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By creating a new crime, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 906 (Skinner D) Student Athlete Bill of Rights.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
Summary: Current law establishes a Student Athlete Bill of Rights, which, among other things,
provides for the protection of athletic scholarships for student athletes and requires certain institutions
of higher education to pay the premiums for specified student athletes for insurance for claims
resulting from their participation in those institutions’ athletic programs. Current law defines terms for
purposes of the provisions granting these rights to student athletes. This bill would make
nonsubstantive changes to certain of these definitions.
SB 907 (Newman D) Orange County Board of Education: members.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
Summary: Current law requires that a county board of education consist of 5 or 7 members to be
determined by the county committee on school district organization, except in a city and county.
Existing law specifies that when a county committee on school district organization resolves to reduce
from 7 to 5 or increase from 5 to 7 the number of members of the county board of education, the
resolution shall be presented in a ballot to the electors of the county in a prescribed manner. This bill
would require the Orange County Board of Education to, instead, consist of 7 members.
SB 908 (Cortese D) Public records: legislative records: electronic messages.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/9/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
Summary: Would prohibit an elected or appointed official or employee of a public agency from creating
or sending a public record using a nonofficial electronic messaging system unless the official or
employee sends a copy of the public record to an official electronic messaging system, as specified. By
imposing additional duties on local agencies, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.
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SB 909 (Umberg D) Criminal procedure.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/9/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
Summary: Current law establishes various procedures related to the arrest, search, seizure, trial, and
sentencing of individuals accused of a crime. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation related to these procedures.
SB 910 (Umberg D) Criminal procedure.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/9/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
Summary: Current law prescribes the information required to be included in a warrant of arrest,
including the name of the defendant, the time it is issued, and the city or county where the warrant is
issued. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
SB 911 (Seyarto R) Income taxation: exclusion: military survivor benefits.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/9/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
Summary: Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1,
2030, provide an exclusion from gross income for survivor benefits or payments, not to exceed
$20,000 per taxable year, received on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, under the
federal Survivor Benefit Plan.
SB 912 (Wiener D) Colorimetric field drug tests.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/9/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
Summary: Would require law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial entities to adopt policies for the
arrest and prosecution of drug possession charges to ensure reliable and accurate identifications of
controlled substances and to maintain the integrity of convictions, as specified. Unless a test from a
crime laboratory confirms the presence of a controlled substance in the sample, the bill would prohibit
the use of a colorimetric field drug test, as defined, by law enforcement for a determination of probable
cause for an arrest, by a prosecutor when deciding whether to charge a person, or by a court for a
conviction or sentencing, as specified. By excluding relevant evidence from a criminal proceeding, this
bill would require a 2/3 vote of the Legislature. The bill would, when a colorimetric field drug test is
used for any reason, allow an individual who pleads guilty to a charge of drug possession to withdraw
the plea and move for dismissal of charges in the event of a confirmatory laboratory test that finds
that there was no controlled substance in the sample. The bill would allow a defendant to request a
confirmatory test at any time during the pendency of the case or, subsequent to the entry of the plea,
up to a year after the adjudication of the case. By increasing the duties of local law enforcement, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 913 (Umberg D) Health.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/9/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
Summary: Current law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to establish a program
designed to provide eligible individuals with coupons that may be exchanged for fresh, nutritious foods
at farmers’ markets pursuant to a program established under federal law, the WIC Farmers’ Market
Nutrition Act of 1992. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
SB 914 (Umberg D) Pupil safety: school safety patrol.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/9/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
Summary: Current law authorizes the governing board of a school district to, subject to rules and
regulations adopted by the State Board of Education, establish and maintain a school safety patrol in
any of the schools of the school district for the purpose of assisting school pupils in safely crossing
streets and highways adjacent to or near the school. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to
that provision.
SB 915 (Cortese D) Local government: autonomous vehicles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/10/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9.
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Summary: Would prohibit an autonomous vehicle service, which has received approval to conduct
commercial passenger service or engage in commercial activity using driverless vehicles by the
Department of Motor Vehicles, the Public Utilities Commission, or another state agency, from
commencing operation within a local jurisdiction until authorized by a local ordinance enacted pursuant
to the bill’s provisions. The bill would authorize each city, county, or city and county in which an
autonomous vehicle has received authorization to operate, to protect the public health, safety, and
welfare by adopting an ordinance or resolution in regard to autonomous vehicle services within that
jurisdiction. The bill would require each city, county, or city and county that adopts an ordinance or
resolution to include certain provisions within that ordinance or resolution. These would include a
policy for entry into the business of providing autonomous vehicle services including a permitting
program, the establishment of reasonable vehicle caps and hours of service restrictions, and the
establishment of an interoperability or override system accessible by first responders in case of an
emergency.
Organization Position
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SB 916 (Seyarto R) Public postsecondary education: waiver of tuition and fees: veterans: extended
education courses.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/10/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9.
Summary: The Donahoe Higher Education Act prohibits the campuses of the 3 segments of public
postsecondary education in the state from charging mandatory systemwide tuition or fees to specified
students who apply for a waiver, including a child of any veteran of the United States military who has
a service-connected disability, has been killed in service, or has died of a service-connected disability,
an undergraduate student who is a recipient of a Medal of Honor, or an undergraduate student who is
a child of a recipient of a Medal of Honor and who is no more than 27 years old, if certain requirements
are satisfied. This bill would additionally prohibit the campuses of the 3 segments of public
postsecondary education from charging tuition or fees for specified students who enroll in an extended
education course if certain requirements are satisfied and the extended education course is being
used to meet the requirements of undergraduate degree program. To the extent the bill would add
additional duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would apply to the campuses of the University of California only to the extent that the regents,
by appropriate resolution, make it apply.
SB 917 (Skinner D) Budget Act of 2024.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/10/2024-Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. To print.
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal
year.
SB 918 (Umberg D) Measures submitted to the voters: petitions: filings.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/11/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
Summary: Current law establishes procedures for the filing of a petition relating to a measure to be
submitted to the voters with the elections official and for elections officials and the Secretary of State
to determine the validity and numerical sufficiency of the signatures submitted with the petition. This
bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
SB 919 (Umberg D) Elections.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/11/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
Summary: Current law requires a ballot card manufacturer, finisher, or ballot on demand system
vendor to disclose to the Secretary of State in writing any known flaw or defect in its ballot card
manufacturing or finishing process, manufactured or finished ballot cards, or ballot on demand system
that could adversely affect the future casting or tallying of votes. This bill would make a technical,
nonsubstantive change to that provision.
SB 920 (Seyarto R) California Purple Star School Designation Program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/11/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
Summary: Current law authorizes a governing board of a school district and a county office of
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education to undertake certain activities to properly address the needs of military dependents. This bill
would require the State Department of Education to establish a nonmonetary California Purple Star
School Designation Program to reduce the burden on military-connected pupils and their families and
to publicly recognize and designate public schools that meet certain requirements related to
supporting military-connected pupils and their families’ unique needs, as provided. The bill would
establish an annual application process for the California Purple Star School Designation Program, as
specified, and require schools that earn the award to apply for recertification every 3 years.
SB 921 (Roth D) Animal welfare.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11.
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to inflict unnecessary cruelty or to abuse an animal in any
manner, including, but not limited to, maliciously and intentionally maiming, mutilating, torturing, or
wounding an animal. This bill would additionally make it a crime to otherwise abuse or subject a living
animal to needless suffering. The bill would make it a crime for a person to maliciously and intentionally
mistreat any animal even if the mistreatment does not cause physical injury.
SB 922 (Roth D) Animal cruelty.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11.
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to leave or confine an animal in an unattended motor vehicle
under conditions that endanger the health or well-being of an animal due to heat, cold, lack of
adequate ventilation, lack of food or water, or other circumstances that could reasonably be expected
to cause suffering, disability, or death to the animal. Current law makes a first conviction for the crime
punishable by a fine not exceeding $100, or if the animal suffers great bodily injury, by a fine not
exceeding $500, imprisonment in a county jail, or both. Current law makes a subsequent conviction
punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 dollars, imprisonment in a county jail, or both. This bill would
increase those fines to $500 for a first offense and $2,000 for a subsequent offense or if the animal
suffers great bodily injury.
SB 923 (Archuleta D) Theft.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11.
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the
voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, defines and prohibits an act of shoplifting
and prohibits prosecution for an act of shoplifting under any other law. Current law defines shoplifting
as entering a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny while the establishment is open
during regular business hours. This bill would revise the definition of shoplifting to require an intent to
steal retail property or merchandise.
SB 924 (Bradford D) Tenancy: credit reporting: lower income households.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11.
Summary: Current law requires a landlord of an assisted housing development, as defined, to offer
tenants obligated on the lease of units in the development the option of having their rental payments
reported to at least one consumer reporting agency through a written election of rent reporting, as
specified. Current law authorizes a landlord to charge a tenant that elects to have rent reported the
lesser of $10 per month or the actual cost to the landlord to provide the service, as specified. Current
law requires the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to select an independent evaluator
and requires the evaluator to report annually on the impact of these provisions, as specified. Current
law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2025. This bill would delete the January 1, 2025, repeal
date thereby extending the duration of these provisions indefinitely.
SB 925 (Wiener D) San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: transportation improvements.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11.
Summary: Current law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a local area planning
agency for the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning
and other related responsibilities. Current law creates various transit districts located in the San
Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services. This
bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to authorize the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission to propose a revenue measure to the voters in its jurisdiction
to fund the operation, expansion, and transformation of the San Francisco Bay area’s public
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transportation system, as well as other transportation improvements.
SB 926 (Wahab D) San Francisco Bay area: public transportation.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 12.
Summary: Current law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a local area planning
agency for the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning
and other related responsibilities. Current law creates various transit districts located in the San
Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services.
Current law establishes the Transportation Agency, consisting of various state agencies under the
supervision of an executive officer known as the Secretary of Transportation, who is required to
develop and report to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to
accomplish comprehensive, long-range, and coordinated planning and policy formulation in the matters
of public interest related to the agency. This bill would require the Transportation Agency to develop a
plan to consolidate all transit agencies, as defined, that are located within the geographic jurisdiction
of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
SB 927 (Dahle R) Income taxes: gross income exclusions: state of emergency: natural disaster
settlements.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 12.
Summary: Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, provide an exclusion from
gross income for amounts received in settlement by a taxpayer to replace property damaged or
destroyed by a natural disaster that was declared a state of emergency by both the Governor and the
President of the United States.
SB 928 (Niello R) Crimes: organized theft.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/12/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 12.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft,
punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more
persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the
intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive,
purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of
another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of
an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or
finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of
organized retail theft indefinitely.
SB 929 (Min D) Presidential elections: candidate qualifications.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
Summary: Would require the Secretary of State, before placing the name of a candidate for President
or Vice President on the ballot for the general election, to determine whether the candidate satisfies
the qualifications for the office described in the United States Constitution. The bill would prohibit the
Secretary of State from placing on the ballot the name of any candidate who the Secretary of State
determines is not eligible in accordance with these provisions. The bill would authorize a voter or
candidate to challenge this determination by the Secretary of State in accordance with specified
procedures.
SB 930 (Laird D) Streets and highways: memorial highways.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
Summary: Current law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all
state highways. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that
would promote equity in the naming of memorial highways.
SB 931 (Committee on Governmental Organization) Gambling: work permits: suspension.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
Summary: Current law requires specified employees of a gambling enterprise to apply for and obtain a
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work permit from the California Gambling Control Commission or from a city, county, or city and county.
Current law authorizes the commission to issue an order summarily suspending a person’s work permit
upon a finding that the suspension is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace,
health, safety, or general welfare, and provides for a hearing within 30 calendar days of the date of
service of the suspension. This bill would instead provide for a hearing within 27 calendar days.
Organization Position
29 PBOMI Watch
GAMING Watch
SB 932 (Seyarto R) Vehicles: registration fees and penalties.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
Summary: Current law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to waive the registration
penalties accrued prior to the purchase of a vehicle upon payment for the fees for registration due, if
the transferee or purchaser was not aware that the fees were unpaid. Current law also authorizes the
department to waive the registration fees that became due prior to the purchase of the vehicle if the
transferee or purchaser was not aware that the fees were unpaid and the license plate assigned to
the vehicle displays a validating device issued by the department that contains the year number of the
registration year for which the transferee or purchaser is requesting a waiver of fees. Current law
further provides that these unpaid fees and penalties are the personal debt of the transferor of the
vehicle and may be collected by the department in an appropriate civil action if the department has
waived the fees and penalties. This bill would instead require the department to waive delinquent
registration fees and penalties when a transferee or purchaser of a vehicle applies for a transfer of
registration if the department determines that the fees became due or the penalties accrued prior to
the purchase of the vehicle. The bill would require the department to create a system to collect these
delinquent fees and penalties from the seller or transferor.
SB 933 (Wahab D) Crimes: child pornography.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to, among other things, possess any matter, representation of
information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide,
photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc,
data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated
image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film or filmstrip, the production of which
involves the use of a person under 18 years of age, knowing that the matter depicts a person under
18 years of age personally engaging in or simulating sexual conduct. This bill would, for the purposes
of those provisions, include an image generated through the use of artificial intelligence as a
computer-generated image.
SB 934 (Gonzalez D) Vehicles: width.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
Summary: Current law prohibits the total outside width of a vehicle or its load from exceeding 102
inches, except as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
SB 935 (Becker D) Department of Consumer Affairs.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/17/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
Summary: Current law establishes in state government, in the Business, Consumer Services, and
Housing Agency, a Department of Consumer Affairs. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to
that provision.
SB 936 (Seyarto R) Department of Transportation: state highway projects: use of collision data.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests the department with
full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for
state highway purposes. Current law requires the department to improve and maintain the state
highways. This bill would require the department to use available collision data when considering
projects or improvements on the state highway system.
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SB 937 (Wiener D) Development projects: permits and other entitlements: fees and charges.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a
comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of specified
land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. The
Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a
development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law
extended by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing
entitlement, as defined, that was issued before, and was in effect on, March 4, 2020, and that would
expire before December 31, 2021, except as specified. Current law provides that if the state or a local
agency extended the otherwise applicable time for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a
housing entitlement for not less than 18 months, as specified, that housing entitlement would not be
extended an additional 18 months pursuant to these provisions. This bill would extend by 18 months
the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was
issued before January 1, 2024, and that will expire before December 31, 2025, except as specified. The
bill would toll this 18-month extension during any time that the housing entitlement is the subject of a
legal challenge.
SB 938 (Min D) Electrical and gas corporations: rate recovery: political activities and advertising.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
Summary: Would prohibit, except as provided, an electrical or gas corporation from recording various
expenses associated with political influence activities, as defined, or with advertising, as defined, to
accounts that contain expenses that the electrical or gas corporation recovers from ratepayers. The bill
would require an electrical or gas corporation to provide the Public Utilities Commission with all
information deemed necessary to monitor compliance with that prohibition. The bill also would require
an electrical or gas corporation, for each business unit of the corporation that performs work
associated with political influence activities or advertising, to annually file with the commission a report
containing specified information. The bill would require the commission to make the report publicly
available.
SB 939 (Umberg D) Natural resources.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
Summary: Current law declares that resource conservation is of fundamental importance to the
prosperity and welfare of the people of this state, and provides for the formation and powers of
resource conservation districts. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
subsequent legislation relating to natural resources.
SB 940 (Umberg D) Civil discovery: inspection demands.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
Summary: Current law authorizes a party to a civil action to obtain discovery by inspecting, copying,
testing, or sampling documents, tangible things, land or other property, and electronically stored
information in the possession, custody, or control of any other party to the action, as specified. This bill
would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
SB 941 (Skinner D) State Department of Social Services.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
Summary: Current law establishes the State Department of Social Services in the California Health
and Human Services Agency. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
SB 942 (Becker D) Consumer protection: generative artificial intelligence.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
Summary: Current law imposes certain obligations in the context of particular transactions, and
provides mechanisms to enforce those obligations. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation that would establish a mechanism to allow consumers to easily determine whether
images, audio, video, or text was created by generative artificial intelligence.
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SB 943 (Ochoa Bogh R) Civil service: veterans’ preference.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: The State Civil Service Act requires the Department of Human Resources to administer the
Personnel Classification Plan of the State of California, including allocating every position to the
appropriate class. This bill would require the department, by January 1, 2026, to review the
department Personnel Classification Plan of the State of California and identify which classes are
compatible with creating a waiver for a bachelor’s degree requirement for a veteran, as defined, who
has served at the level of E-6 or higher for more than 2 years. For a class identified by the department,
where a bachelor’s degree is required as a minimum qualification for a civil service examination, the bill
would require the department to, commencing July 1, 2026, waive the bachelor’s degree requirement
for a veteran who has served at the level of E-6 or higher for more than 2 years.
SB 944 (Menjivar D) Juvenile hall.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: Current law provides for the placement of juveniles under the jurisdiction of the juvenile
court into a county juvenile hall. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for any person who is under the
custody of a probation officer or any peace officer in a county juvenile hall, or committed to a county
juvenile ranch, camp, forestry camp, or regional facility to escape or attempt to escape from that place
or during transportation to or from that place. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes
to these provisions.
SB 945 (Alvarado-Gil D) The Wildfire Smoke and Health Outcomes Data Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: Current law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers
and duties pertaining to, among other things, protecting, preserving, and advancing public health.
Current law requires the department, in consultation with specified stakeholders, to develop a plan,
addressing specified issues, with recommendations and guidelines for counties to use in the case of a
significant air quality event caused by wildfires or other sources. This bill, the Wildfire Smoke and
Health Outcomes Data Act, would require the State Department of Public Health, in consultation with
the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, and the
State Air Resources Board to create, operate, and maintain a statewide integrated wildfire smoke and
health data platform that, among other things, would integrate wildfire smoke and health data from
multiple databases. The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop the data
platform in accordance with a to be specified schedule.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
SB 946 (McGuire D) Wildfires: community hardening.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: Current law requires the Community Wildfire Mitigation Assistance Program to, among other
things, provide technical assistance to local jurisdictions with community wildfire preparedness and
prevention services and identify funding opportunities and best practices, including, but not necessarily
limited to, defensible space, structure hardening, fuel reduction around communities, wildland building
code standards, and land use planning. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
subsequent legislation related to community hardening to address risks resulting from wildfires.
SB 947 (Seyarto R) Department of Transportation: state highway projects: agreements with public
entities: project design changes.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: Would require the Department of Transportation, in an agreement with a city, county, or
other public entity for the contribution of funds for the acquisition, construction, or improvement of any
portion of state highway, to include a provision that makes the department responsible for any
additional costs associated with a new project design adopted by the department after the project is
included in the state transportation improvement program or the state highway operation and
protection program, as specified. The bill would also make this provision applicable to agreements in
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effect as of January 1, 2025.
SB 948 (Gonzalez D) Boards of museum trustees: rules, regulations, and bylaws.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: Current law authorizes any unincorporated town or village to establish, equip, and
maintain a public library, and to also establish, equip, and maintain a public museum, as specified.
Current law prescribes the election procedures for the creation of a library district, and, if a majority of
the votes at the election is in favor of a library district, requires the county board of supervisors to
establish the library district and appoint 5 trustees, to be known as a board of library trustees, as
specified. Current law authorizes the board of library trustees to vote to establish a public museum in
the library district and to constitute the board of library trustees as the board of museum trustees for
purposes of managing the museum. Current law requires a board of museum trustees to make and
enforce all rules, regulations, and bylaws necessary for the administration, governance, and protection
of the museum under the board’s management, and of all property belonging to the museum. This bill
would make nonsubstantive changes to that latter provision.
SB 949 (Blakespear D) Superior court: lactation accommodation.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: Would, commencing July 1, 2026, require the superior court to provide any court user with a
reasonable amount of break time during a court proceeding to allow the court user to express breast
milk for the user’s infant child each time the court user has need to express breast milk. The bill would
require the Judicial Council to adopt or amend rules of court or forms to implement this requirement on
or before January 1, 2026.
SB 950 (Skinner D) Criminal procedure: judgment and sentencing.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: Current law requires, if an individual is sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison, the
judgment to direct that the defendant be delivered into the custody of the Director of Corrections at
the state prison or institution designated by the director as the place for the reception of persons
convicted of felonies, except as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to
that provision.
SB 951 (Wiener D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal zone: City and County of San Francisco.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Summary: Current law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction
that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Current law requires the
housing element to identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing,
mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, among other things. Current law requires the housing element
to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to
the meeting of these needs. Current law requires rezoning, including adoption of minimum density and
development standards, as specified, when an inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to
accommodate the need for groups of specified household income levels. This bill would additionally
apply specified rezoning standards for any necessary local coastal program updates for jurisdictions
located within the coastal zone.
SB 952 (Dahle R) Personal income taxes: Fire Safe Home Tax Credits Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22.
Summary: Would allow credits against the tax imposed by the Personal Income Tax Law for each
taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, to a qualified
taxpayer for qualified costs relating to qualified home hardening, as defined, and for qualified costs
relating to qualified vegetation management, as defined, in specified amounts, not to exceed an
aggregate amount of $500,000,000 per taxable year. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws.
SB 953 (Menjivar D) Medi-Cal: menstrual products.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
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Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22.
Summary: Current law establishes a schedule of covered benefits under the Medi-Cal program. This
bill would add menstrual products, as defined, to that schedule of covered benefits. The bill would
require the department to seek any necessary federal approvals to implement this coverage. The bill
would require the department to seek, and would authorize the department to use, any and all
available federal funding, as specified, to implement this coverage.
SB 954 (Menjivar D) Sexual health: contraceptives.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22.
Summary: The California Healthy Youth Act requires school districts, defined to include county boards
of education, county superintendents of schools, the California School for the Deaf, the California
School for the Blind, and charter schools, to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive
comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education,
as specified. This bill would, in order to prevent and reduce unintended pregnancies and sexually
transmitted infections, on or before the start of the 2025–26 school year, require each public school,
including schools operated by a school district or county office of education, charter schools, and state
special schools, to make internal and external condoms available to all pupils in grades 9 to 12,
inclusive, free of charge, as provided. The bill would require these public schools to, at the beginning of
each school year, inform pupils through existing school communication channels that free condoms are
available and where the condoms can be obtained on school grounds. The bill would require a public
school to post at least one notice regarding these requirements, as specified. The bill would require
this notice to include certain information, including, among other information, information about how to
use condoms properly. The bill would require each public school serving any of grades 7 to 12,
inclusive, to allow condoms to be made available during the course of, or in connection with,
educational or public health programs and initiatives, as provided.
SB 955 (Seyarto R) Office of Planning and Research: Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22.
Summary: Current law authorizes a local agency to finance infrastructure projects through various
means, including by establishing an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital
facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to
the district or the surrounding community. This bill would require the Office of Planning and Research,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program to provide
grants to assist local agencies in developing and constructing infrastructure projects. The bill would
require the office to develop guidelines and criteria to implement the program.
SB 956 (Cortese D) School facilities: design-build contracts.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes a school district, with the approval of the
governing board of the school district, to procure design-build contracts for public works projects in
excess of $1,000,000, awarding the contract to either the low bid or the best value, as provided.
Current law requires specified information to be verified under penalty of perjury. This bill would delete
the provision making this authorization inoperative on January 1, 2025, thereby extending it
indefinitely.
SB 957 (Wiener D) Data collection: sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/23/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22.
Summary: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Disparities Reduction Act requires the State
Department of Public Health, among other specified state entities, in the course of collecting
demographic data directly or by contract as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians, to collect
voluntary self-identification information pertaining to sexual orientation, gender identity, and
intersexuality. Current law, as an exception to the provision above, authorizes those state entities,
instead of requiring them, to collect the demographic data under either of the following circumstances:
(a) pursuant to federal programs or surveys, whereby the guidelines for demographic data collection
categories are defined by the federal program or survey; or (b) demographic data are collected by
other entities, including other state agencies, surveys administered by third-party entities and the
state department is not the sole funder, or third-party entities that provide aggregated data to a state
department. This bill, notwithstanding the exception above, would require the State Department of
Public Health to collect the demographic data from third parties, including, but not limited to, local
health jurisdictions, on any forms or electronic data systems, unless prohibited by federal or state law.
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SB 958 (Dodd D) Surplus state property: County of Napa.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
Summary: Current law authorizes the Director of General Services, by January 1, 2026, to sell or
exchange, at fair market value based upon an appraisal approved by the Department of General
Services, all or part of a specified parcel of state property only to the County of Napa or the Napa
County Regional Park and Open Space District upon those terms, conditions, reservations, and
exceptions the director determines are in the best interest of the state, and subject to other
requirements. Current law exempts from this authorization the property known as Camp Coombs. This
bill would delete the exemption for the property known as Camp Coombs, thereby authorizing the
Director of General Services to sell or exchange that property by January 1, 2026.
SB 959 (Menjivar D) Public postsecondary education: sexual orientation and gender identity: campus
contact.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
Summary: The Equity in Higher Education Act requests the Trustees of the California State University,
the Regents of the University of California, and the governing board of each community college district
to designate an employee at each of their respective campuses as a point of contact for the needs of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender faculty, staff, and students. This bill would add queer faculty,
staff, and students to the list of individuals for whom the designated employee would serve as a point
of contact.
SB 960 (Wiener D) Transportation: planning: transit priority projects: multimodal.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
Summary: Would require all transportation projects funded or overseen by the Department of
Transportation to provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets facilities unless an
exemption is documented and approved, as specified.
SB 961 (Wiener D) Vehicles: safety equipment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
Summary: The Department of the California Highway Patrol regulates the safe operation of specified
vehicles, including motortrucks of 3 or more axles that are more than 10,000 pounds, truck tractors,
trailers, semitrailers, and buses. Current federal law regulates required safety equipment on vehicles,
including rear impact guards on certain large trucks to prevent rear underrides in collisions with
passenger vehicles. This bill would require certain trucks and trailers to also be equipped with side
guards, as specified.
SB 962 (Padilla D) San Diego Unified Port District: public employee pension benefits.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
Summary: The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) generally requires a
public retirement system, as defined, to modify its pension plan or plans to comply with the act and,
among other things, requires a public employer that offers a defined benefit pension plan to provide
specified retirement formulas for new members, as defined. PEPRA permits a public employer to adopt
a new defined benefit formula, on or after January 1, 2013, that is not consistent with PEPRA, if that
formula is determined and certified by the chief actuary and the board of that employer’s retirement
system to not have a greater risk or greater cost to the sponsoring employer than the defined benefit
formula required by PEPRA and the plan is approved by the Legislature. This bill would approve a
specified defined benefit formula applicable to employees of the San Diego Unified Port District.
SB 963 (Ashby D) Health facilities: self-identifying human trafficking system.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
Summary: Would require all general acute care hospitals with an emergency department to make a
self-identifying human trafficking system available to patients at the emergency department. The bill
would require the system to meet certain minimum requirements, including, among others, providing
patient confidentiality and facilitating immediate interviews with medical personnel. The bill would also
require the system to, at minimum, collect specified information. By expanding the scope of an existing
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crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 964 (Seyarto R) Property tax: tax-defaulted property sales.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
Summary: Current law governs the sale to certain entities of a property that has been tax defaulted
for 5 years or more, or 3 years or more, as applicable, in an applicable county, including by authorizing
the state, county, any revenue district the taxes of which on the property are collected by county
officers, or a redevelopment agency created pursuant to the California Community Redevelopment
Law, to purchase the property or any part thereof, as prescribed. Current law also authorizes a
nonprofit organization to purchase, with the approval of the board of supervisors of the county in
which it is located, a residential or vacant property that has been tax-defaulted for 5 years or more, or
3 years or more if the property is subject to a nuisance abatement lien, as prescribed. Current law
requires the sales price of a property sold pursuant to the provisions described or referenced above to
include certain amounts, including all defaulted taxes and assessments and all associated penalties
and costs. This bill would prohibit a property or property interest from being offered for sale under the
provisions described above if that property or property interest has not been offered for sale under
the provisions as specified.
SB 965 (Min D) Firearms.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
Summary: Current law, commencing January 1, 2024, requires the Department of Justice to conduct
inspections of specified licensed firearms dealers at least once every 3 years, to ensure compliance
with applicable laws and regulations. Previous law authorized the department to conduct such
inspections. Current law requires the department to maintain specified records regarding these
inspections and to make those records available upon request. Existing law also authorizes the
department to inspect licensed ammunition vendors. This bill would require the department, by no later
than August 15, 2025, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature including, as
specified, information about department staffing for conducting inspections of firearms dealers and
ammunition vendors, detailed information about each such inspection conducted, including violations
and the resolution of those violations, and specified information about the roster of handguns,
including information about handguns added to, removed from, or denied addition to, the roster.
SB 966 (Wiener D) Pharmacy benefits.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
Summary: The Pharmacy Law establishes the California State Board of Pharmacy in the Department of
Consumer Affairs to license and regulate the practice of pharmacy. The Knox-Keene Health Care
Service Plan Act of 1975 (the Knox-Keene Act), a violation of which is a crime, provides for the licensure
and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. The Knox-
Keene Act requires a pharmacy benefit manager under contract with a health care service plan to,
among other things, register with the Department of Managed Health Care. Current law provides for
the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Current law imposes requirements
on audits of pharmacy services provided to beneficiaries of a health benefit plan, as specified, and
prohibits those audit provisions from being construed to suggest or imply that the Department of
Consumer Affairs or the California State Board of Pharmacy has any jurisdiction or authority over those
audit provisions. This bill would delete the latter provision relating to the construction and jurisdiction
over those provisions by the department and the board. This bill would require a pharmacy benefit
manager, as defined by the bill, to apply for and obtain a license from the California State Board of
Pharmacy to operate as a pharmacy benefit manager. The bill would establish application qualifications
and requirements and would establish an unspecified fee for initial licensure and renewal.
SB 967 (Padilla D) University of California: pilot project: dust forecast and warning system: Imperial
County and Coachella Valley.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
Summary: Would request the Regents of the University of California to conduct a pilot project in the
County of Imperial and the Coachella Valley to develop a 3-day wintertime regional dust forecast
capability and a dust storm early warning system for the monsoon season, as specified.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
SB 968 (Seyarto R) Planning and zoning: regional housing needs allocation. SB 968 (Seyarto R) Planning and zoning: regional housing needs allocation.
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Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
Summary: Current law requires each council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to
develop a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to
cities, counties, and cities and counties within the region or within the subregion, as provided. Current
law requires the consideration of several specified factors in developing the methodology. Current law
prohibits certain criteria from being a justification for a determination or reduction in a jurisdiction’s
share of the regional housing need, including prior underproduction of housing in a city or county from
the previous regional housing need allocation, as specified. This bill would permit the council of
governments or delegate subregion, in developing the methodology, to consider prior overproduction
of housing units in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation in a particular
income category and to count it as credit toward the future regional housing need allocation of that
same income category in the next cycle. The bill would provide that the amount eligible to count as
credit toward the next cycle is determined by each jurisdiction’s most recent annual progress report,
as specified.
Organization Position
Housing 2 Watch
SB 969 (Wiener D) Alcoholic beverages: entertainment zones: consumption.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25.
Summary: The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application
for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon alcoholic beverage licenses by
the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Current law defines “entertainment zone” for purposes
of the act as a zone created by ordinance on or after January 1, 2024, in the City and County of San
Francisco, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets,
sidewalks, or public rights-of-way adjacent to and during a special event permitted or licensed by the
department. Current law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to establish an
entertainment zone, subject to certain requirements, including providing specified information relating
to the entertainment zone to the department and establishing a process or procedure by which
persons in possession of alcoholic beverages in the entertainment zone may be readily identifiable as
being 21 years of age or older. This bill would, instead, define “entertainment zone” as a zone created
by a city, county, or city and county ordinance on or after January 1, 2025, that authorizes consumption
of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way. The
bill would additionally authorize any city, county, or city and county to establish an entertainment zone,
subject to the above-described requirements.
SB 970 (Ashby D) Artificial intelligence technology.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25.
Summary: Current law prohibits the false impersonation of another person in either their personal or
official capacity with the intent to steal or defraud, as specified. This bill would define various terms
related to artificial intelligence and synthetic voice, video, and image recordings produced by artificial
intelligence, and would clarify that use of such synthetic recordings, as specified, is deemed to be a
false personation for purposes of these and other criminal provisions.
SB 971 (Portantino D) Community colleges: exemption from nonresident tuition fee: resident of a region
impacted by war or regional conflict.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25.
Summary: Current law authorizes community college districts to admit nonresident students and
requires that nonresident students be charged a nonresident tuition fee unless an exemption applies.
current law includes among these exemptions any nonresident who is both a citizen and resident of a
foreign country if the nonresident has demonstrated a financial need, as specified. This bill would
additionally exempt from the nonresident tuition fee a nonresident, low-income student who: (1) is a
resident of a region impacted by war or other regional conflict, as specified, (2) registers for lower
division courses at a community college, and (3) has indicated that they have sought residency in
California in an effort to find relief from identified conflicts in their nation of origin. The bill would, in any
academic year, prohibit more than 150 full-time equivalent students at a community college from being
exempted from payment of the nonresident tuition fee pursuant to this exemption. The bill would
require the governing boards of the community colleges that choose to use this exemption to adopt
one uniform policy to determine a student’s residence classification, establish procedures for an appeal
and review of the residence classification, and determine whether a student is low income.
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SB 972 (Min D) Methane emissions: organic waste: landfills.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation
with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations that achieve the specified targets for
reducing organic waste in landfills. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
state board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The bill would require the department, the state board, and the California
Environmental Protection Agency to hold at least 2 joint meetings per calendar year to coordinate their
implementation of policies that affect those specified targets for reducing organic waste in landfills and
the department’s regulations adopted to achieve those goals, as specified.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
BURRTEC Watch
SB 973 (Grove R) Williamson Act: cancellation: solar energy projects.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Current law, known as the Williamson Act, authorizes a city or county to contract with a
landowner to limit the use of agricultural land located in an agricultural preserve designated by the city
or county to preserve the land, subject to conditions of the contract, that may include an agreement to
a specified valuation of the land for purposes of property taxation. The act authorizes a landowner to
petition the city council or board of supervisors, as applicable, for cancellation of the contract under
specified circumstances and imposes a cancellation fee equal to 12.5% of the fair market value of the
land without the restriction of the contract. This bill would authorize a board or council to grant a
petition for cancellation where the land subject to the contract is located in a basin under the
jurisdiction of an adjudicated watermaster or the groundwater sustainability agency. The bill would
require the landowner to commit to limiting the amount of water rights to a specific solar energy
project, as defined, that uses less water than the agricultural use. The bill would also require the
board or council to make specified findings, including that the solar energy project use is being
permitted that will use less water than the agricultural use.
Organization Position
ALL CITIES 24 Watch
SB 974 (Grove R) Lithium Extraction Tax: fund distribution.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: The Lithium Extraction Tax Law, imposes a lithium extraction excise tax upon each metric
ton of lithium carbonate equivalent extracted from geothermal fluid, spodumene ore, rock, minerals,
clay, or any other naturally occurring substance in this state, as specified. Current law requires the
California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to administer and collect the tax and requires all
collected revenues, less refunds and reimbursement to the department for administrative expenses, to
be deposited into the Lithium Extraction Excise Tax Fund and disbursed in the manner prescribed.
Existing law requires 80% of the moneys in the Lithium Extraction Excise Tax Fund to be disbursed by
the Controller to all counties in proportion to the amounts collected for lithium extraction within each
county, as specified, and 20% of the moneys to be deposited into the Salton Sea Lithium Fund. This bill
would, instead of depositing 20% of the moneys in the Lithium Extraction Excise Tax Fund into the
Salton Sea Lithium Fund, deposit 20% of the revenues collected in the County of Imperial into the
Salton Sea Lithium Fund.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
SB 975 (Ashby D) Emergency medical services: community paramedicine.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the payment and
reimbursement for mobile integrated health and community paramedicine programs.
SB 976 (Skinner D) Social Media Youth Addiction Law.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
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Summary: The Privacy Rights for California Minors in the Digital World prohibits an operator of an
internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application from specified conduct when
minors are involved, including the marketing or advertising of alcoholic beverages, firearms, or certain
other products or services. Current law sets forth other related protections for minors, including under
the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020. This bill, the
Social Media Youth Addiction Law, would make it unlawful for the operator of an addictive social media
platform, as defined, to provide an addictive feed to a user, unless the operator has reasonably
determined that the user is not a minor or the operator has obtained verifiable parental consent to
provide an addictive feed to the user who is a minor.
SB 977 (Laird D) County of San Luis Obispo Redistricting Commission.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Current law establishes redistricting commissions in certain counties, and charges them
with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for those counties. This bill would state the intent
of the Legislature to establish an independent redistricting commission in the County of San Luis
Obispo.
SB 978 (Seyarto R) State government: budget: state publications: format.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: The California Constitution requires the Governor to submit a budget for the ensuing fiscal
year to the Legislature within the first 10 days of each regular session. Current law requires that
budget to contain a complete plan and itemized statement of all proposed expenditures of the state
provided by existing law or recommended by the Governor, and of all estimated revenues, as specified.
Current law requires the budget to be prepared in a specified manner. This bill would require the
budget to be made available, on or before January 1, 2026, on the Department of Finance internet
website in a machine readable format.
SB 979 (Grove R) Oil and gas: operations: notices of intention: written response for denied notice.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Current law requires the operator of an oil and gas well to file a written notice of intention
to commence drilling with, and prohibits any drilling until approval is given by, the State Oil and Gas
Supervisor or district deputy. Current law also requires an operator of a well to file a notice of intention
with, and to receive approval from, the supervisor or a district deputy for the deepening or redrilling of
wells, the plugging of wells, or the permanent altering of the casing of wells. Under current law, if the
supervisor or district deputy fails to give the operator written response to the notice within 10 working
days from the date of receipt, that failure is considered an approval of the notice, as provided. This bill
would require the supervisor or district deputy to provide a written response to the operator within 10
working days from the date of receipt of the notice of intention that describes the legal basis for any
decision not to approve the notice of intention.
SB 980 (Wahab D) Medi-Cal: dental crowns and implants.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Would provide Medi-Cal coverage, for persons 13 years of age or older, for laboratory-
processed crowns on teeth when a lesser service would not suffice because of extensive coronal
destruction and a crown is medically necessary to restore the tooth back to normal function based on
the criteria specified in the Medi-Cal Dental Manual of Criteria.
SB 981 (Wahab D) Retail theft: arrest authority.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Would state the Legislature’s intent to enact legislation relating to the authority of a law
enforcement officer to arrest a person suspected of retail theft if the officer did not observe the
commission of the crime.
Organization Position
Public Safety Watch
SB 982 (Wahab D) Crimes: organized theft.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft,
punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more
persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the
intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive,
purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of
another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of
an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or
finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of
organized retail theft indefinitely.
Organization Position
Public Safety Watch
SB 983 (Wahab D) Energy: gasoline stations and alternative fuel infrastructure.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, to form the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Taskforce to conduct
a study on retail gasoline fueling stations and alternative fuels infrastructure, as provided. The bill
would require the taskforce, on or before January 1, 2027, to submit to the Legislature a report on the
study with recommendations. Until the completion of the study and the submission of the report to the
Legislature, the bill would prohibit a local government, including a charter city, from banning the
construction or maintenance of retail gasoline fueling stations or alternative fuel infrastructure.
Organization Position
AQMD Watch
SB 984 (Wahab D) Public agencies: project labor agreements.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: Current law authorizes a public entity to use, enter into, or require contractors to enter
into, a project labor agreement, as defined, for a construction project, if the agreement includes
specified taxpayer protection provisions. This bill would authorize a state agency to undertake a major
state construction project only if that project is governed by a project labor agreement and if that
project labor agreement includes community benefit goals, as specified, and would define various
terms for these purposes. The bill would authorize the Governor to waive this requirement if the state
agency has attempted to comply with this requirement and the Governor makes a written
determination that the application of this requirement would be impracticable. The bill would require
the Department of General Services, commencing January 1, 2029, to report to the Legislature about
the use of project labor agreements, the advancement of community benefit goals, and
apprenticeships, as specified. The bill would also make a related statement of legislative findings and
declarations.
SB 985 (Ochoa Bogh R) Check Sellers, Bill Payers and Proraters Law: exemption: nonprofit community
service organizations.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
Summary: The Check Sellers, Bill Payers and Proraters Law (Proraters Law) prohibits, among other
things, a person, without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner of Financial Protection and
Innovation, from acting as a person who, for compensation, engages in whole or in part in the
business of receiving money or evidences thereof for the purpose of distributing the money or
evidences thereof among creditors in payment or partial payment of the obligations of the debtor. The
Proraters Law exempts from the requirements of the law imposed on proraters a nonprofit community
service organization that meets certain criteria, including that the nonprofit community service
organization has as its principal functions consumer credit education, counseling on consumer credit
problems and family budgets, arranging or administering debt management plans, and arranging or
administering debt settlement plans. The Proraters Law also provides as a criteria for exemption that
the nonprofit community service organization receives from a debtor no more than certain amounts to
offset the organization’s actual and necessary expenses for those services, including a one-time sum
not to exceed $50 for education and counseling combined in connection with debt management or
debt settlement services and, for debt management plans, a sum not to exceed 8% of the money
disbursed monthly or $35 per month, whichever is less. The Proraters Law provides as a criteria for
exemption that the nonprofit community service organization maintains at all times a surety bond in
the amount of $25,000 issued by an insurer licensed in this state. This bill would instead provide as a
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criteria for exemption from the Proraters Law that the nonprofit community service organization
receives from a debtor no more than a one-time sum not to exceed $100 for education and counseling
combined in connection with debt management or debt settlement services and, for debt management
plans, a sum not to exceed 15% of the money disbursed monthly or $75 per month, whichever is less.
The bill would also revise and recast the requirement for exemption from the Proraters Law that a
nonprofit community service organization has as one of its principal functions counseling on consumer
credit problems and family budgets to specify that the counseling is via in-person, telephone, and
virtual communication.
SB 986 (Seyarto R) Ballot label: bond measure fiscal impact.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Summary: Current law prescribes the form and content of the ballot label for candidates and
measures on the ballot, and requires the ballot label for statewide measures to include a condensed
version of the title and summary, including the fiscal impact summary. Current law requires local
governments, when submitting a measure for voter approval for the issuance of bonds that will be
secured by an ad valorem tax, to provide voters a statement that includes estimates of the total debt
service and tax rates required to fund the bonds, as specified. This bill would require, for state bond
measures and for local measures to approve the issuance of bonds that will be secured by an ad
valorem tax, the ballot label to include a summary of the measure’s fiscal impact in a specified form.
SB 987 (Menjivar D) Pretrial release: pretrial assessment agencies.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Summary: Would, for a defendant released from custody under a court’s order for pretrial supervision,
prohibit a defendant from being charged a fee for pretrial supervision, maintain information obtained in
pretrial supervision services apart from law enforcement and criminal justice records, and make
confidential information in the course of performing pretrial supervision subject to specified exceptions,
including that the court may order the disclosure of information if the information is material,
exonerating on the issue of guilt, and would not otherwise be available. The bill would authorize the
disclosure of information to specified entities, including to the court to determine bail, release, and
conditions of release, detention, compliance with release conditions, or sentencing, and to a law
enforcement agency upon a reasonable belief that the information is necessary to assist in
apprehending an individual. The bill would prohibit the admissibility of this information on the issue of
guilt in a criminal proceeding except when the crime was committed while on pretrial supervision or a
defendant failed to appear in a criminal proceeding while on pretrial supervision, or if that information
is relevant evidence that is admissible under specified standards in the California Constitution.
SB 988 (Wiener D) Freelance Worker Protection Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Summary: Would impose minimum requirements, commencing January 1, 2025, relating to contracts
between a hiring party and a freelance worker, defined as a person, as specified, that is hired or
retained as an independent contractor by a hiring party to provide professional services in exchange
for an amount equal to or greater than $250, as specified. Specifically, the bill would require a hiring
entity to pay a freelance worker the compensation specified by a contract for professional services on
or before the date specified by the contract or, if the contract does not specify a date, no later than 30
days after completion of the freelance worker’s services. The bill would require a contract between a
hiring party and a freelance worker to be in writing and would require a hiring party to retain a copy of
the contract for no less than 6 years. The bill would prohibit a hiring party from discriminating or taking
adverse action against a freelance worker for taking specified actions relating to the enforcement of
these provisions. The bill would authorize an aggrieved freelance worker, the Labor Commissioner, or a
public prosecutor to bring a civil action to enforce these provisions, as specified.
SB 989 (Ashby D) Domestic violence: restraining orders.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Summary: Current law authorizes a court to issue a restraining order to a person to prevent abuse,
as specified, based on reasonable proof of a past act or acts of abuse. Current law authorizes the
order to be issued solely on the affidavit or testimony of the person requesting the restraining order.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
SB 990 (Padilla D) Office of Emergency Services.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation concerning disaster relief for
LGBTQIA+ individuals.
SCR 94 (Dodd D) Data Privacy Week and Day.
Current Text: Amended: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Last Amend: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS. From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent
calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (January 29).
Summary: Would designate, in perpetuity, the 4th week of January as Data Privacy Week and the last
Sunday of January as Data Privacy Day.
SCR 95 (Bradford D) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would honor the late civil rights pioneer Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and
commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
SCR 96 (Dodd D) Lviv region, Ukraine: sister state relationship.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Held at
Desk.
Summary: Would extend an invitation to the people of the region of Lviv, Ukraine, to join with
California in a sister state relationship.
SCR 97 (Grove R) National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would recognize the month of January 2024 as National Human Trafficking Awareness
Month.
SCR 98 (Umberg D) Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From committee: Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Would proclaim the month of March 2024 as Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month.
SCR 99 (Alvarado-Gil D) California Almond Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From committee: Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Would proclaim February 16, 2024, as California Almond Day.
SCR 100 (Nguyen R) Black April Memorial Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would proclaim the month of April 2024 as Black April Memorial Month.
SCR 101 (Nguyen R) Áo Dài Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would proclaim May 15, 2024, as Áo Dài Day in California.
SCR 102 (Alvarado-Gil D) Dave McCoy Memorial Highway.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would designate a specified portion of United States Highway 395 in the County of Mono
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as the Dave McCoy Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of
Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.
SCR 103 (Nguyen R) Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would proclaim June 19, 2024, as Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day.
SCR 104 (Nguyen R) Older Americans Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would recognize the month of May 2024 as Older Americans Month and would encourage
all Californians to recognize and treat all older adults with compassion and respect, and to participate
in services and activities that contribute to the health, welfare, and happiness of older adults.
SCR 105 (Dodd D) Public health: eating disorders.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would designate the week beginning on February 26, 2024, and the last week of February
hereafter, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
SJR 10 (Dodd D) Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Expansion Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to expand the Berryessa
Snow Mountain National Monument to include the Walker Ridge (Molok Luyuk) Addition and to endorse
the passage of House bill 1396 and Senate bill 683 of the 118th Congress.
SR 51 (Min D) Relative to Korean American Day.
Current Text: Enrolled: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) (Enrolled Text Released on 01/17/24)
Summary: This measure proclaims January 13, 2024, as Korean American Day.
SR 52 (Grove R) Relative to National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/3/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that the Senate recognizes the month of January 2024 as National Human
Trafficking Awareness Month.
SR 53 (Limón D) Relative to school governance.
Current Text: Enrolled: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.)
Summary: Would resolve that the Senate hereby declares the state's appreciation to every school
board and school board member in California and recognizes their dedicated commitment to serving
the needs of pupils in our communities by proclaiming the month of January 2024 as School Board
Recognition Month.
SR 54 (Min D) Relative to the Lunar New Year.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From committee: Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Would resolve that the Legislature joins Asian and Pacific Islander communities throughout
the state, nation, and world in celebrating February 10, 2024, as the beginning of the Lunar New Year
and extends best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous Lunar New Year to all Californians.
SR 55 (Alvarado-Gil D) Relative to Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.
Current Text: Chaptered: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
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Status: 1/25/2024-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 34. Noes 0.)
Summary: Would proclaim January 2024 as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in the State of
California.
SR 56 (Skinner D) Relative to Women’s History Month.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that the Senate of the State of California takes pleasure in joining the
United States Congress and the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls in honoring
the contributions of women, and proclaims the month of March 2024 as Women's History Month.
SR 57 (Niello R) Relative to the Joint Sunset Review Committee.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that the Senate Committee on Rules shall make the required appointments
to the Joint Sunset Review Committee.
SR 58 (Caballero D) Relative to CalEITC Awareness Week.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that the Senate proclaims January 26, 2024, through February 2, 2024, as
California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) Awareness Week.
SR 59 (Newman D) Relative to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and
Children.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that the Legislature commemorates and celebrates the 50th anniversary of
the WIC program, acknowledging its invaluable contributions to the health and well-being of mothers,
infants, and children in our state.
SR 60 (Ochoa Bogh R) Relative to Women in Construction Week.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that the Senate proclaims March 3, 2024, to March 9, 2024, inclusive, as
Women in Construction Week and requests that the Governor issue a proclamation calling on the
people of the great State of California to observe the week with appropriate programs and education
activities.
SR 61 (Min D) Relative to Japanese American concentration camps.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/29/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that the Senate declares February 19, 2024, as a Day of Remembrance in
this state to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the incarceration of Americans of
Japanese ancestry during World War II.
SR 62 (Atkins D) Relative to the election of the President pro Tempore of the Senate.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/30/2024-Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Would resolve that Senator Mike McGuire is hereby elected President pro Tempore of the
Senate.
Total Measures: 386
Total Tracking Forms: 52
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Astrid Robles
From:Gonsalves & Son <Gonsalves@gonsalvi.com>
Sent:Wednesday, January 10, 2024 10:53 AM
Subject:Governor Newsom unveils 2024-25 State Budget
Attachments:FullBudgetSummary (1).pdf
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January 10, 2024
SACRAMENTO –Governor Gavin Newsom today introduced a 2024-25 state budget proposal that maintains
the state’s unprecedented investments in Californians while fortifying the state’s strong fiscal foundation amid
economic and revenue uncertainties ahead.
“Over the last five years, we have worked together to pass budgets that have reflected our priorities—
expanding access to education and health care, combatting crime of all kinds, getting tens of thousands of
people out of encampments and into housing, building the infrastructure for California’s clean future while
creating jobs, and addressing the accelerating threats of global climate change. In that time, we have paid tens
of billions toward the state’s long-term debt, including the “Wall of Debt” and retirement liabilities, and set
aside record reserves to help the state deal with its highly volatile, progressive tax system.
I am proud that California remains the home of innovation and extraordinary entrepreneurship and has so many
high-income earners. We ask them to pay their fair share to a state that has provided so much for so many. But
this tax system inherently creates swings in revenue. As we experienced in the past couple of years, our well-
intentioned laws meant to create big reserves and budget resiliency actually end up limiting how much we can
put away for rainy days—we should improve the rules governing how much we are able to save in the good
times, so we can be even more resilient during the tougher times.
While we have worked together to be responsible fiscal stewards, this year, we must correct for more volatility
than originally anticipated. Because the Internal Revenue Service delayed the tax filing and payment deadline
for the majority of our state, our work last year was based on revenue projections that did not include essential
cash receipts. We knew the risks of being forced to budget with a blindfold on. Now that the receipts are in, we
must bring our books back into balance.
Thankfully, because of our approach over the last several years, we are in a strong position to close this budget
gap. Together, we have emphasized one-time spending in strong budget years, limiting the expansion of
ongoing programs. We shared the recent windfall with millions of Californians, returning more than $18 billion
in tax refunds over the last two years. And importantly, we set aside record budget reserves of almost $38
billion. This budget prioritizes the services and programs that Californians depend on most while making
necessary adjustments to ensure long-term fiscal stability. And I am proud to present a balanced budget without
any broad-based tax increases.
This January budget is based on projections of future revenues. As we learned last year, those projections can
change dramatically based on global and national economic and financial trends. So, as we begin our work
together this year, we must be mindful of the remaining risks. As always, I value the partnership we have
enjoyed these last five years and look forward to continuing our work together to build a better future for
California.”
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With respect,
Gavin Newsom
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ANTHONY, JASON & PAUL GONSALVES
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Astrid Robles
From:Gonsalves & Son <Gonsalves@gonsalvi.com>
Sent:Tuesday, January 10, 2023 12:35 PM
Subject:Governor Newsom unveils 2023-24 State Budget
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2023-24 State Budget Invests in Californians while Safeguarding
State’s Future
Published: Jan 10, 2023
Balanced funding plan maintains investments in key priorities including education, health care, public safety,
climate action, addressing homelessness, housing affordability and more
Watch Governor Newsom’s state budget presentation here
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today introduced a 2023-24 state budget proposal that maintains
the state’s unprecedented investments in Californians while fortifying the state’s strong fiscal foundation amid
economic and revenue uncertainties ahead.
2023-24 State Budget Fact Sheet
“With our state and nation facing economic headwinds, this budget keeps the state on solid economic footing
while continuing to invest in Californians – including transformative funding to deliver on universal preschool,
expand health care access to all and protect our communities,” said Governor Newsom. “In partnership with the
Legislature, we’ll continue to prioritize the issues that matter most to Californians while building a strong fiscal
foundation for the state’s future.”
Despite the slowdown impacting the state’s economic and revenue outlook this year, the state’s commitment to
building reserves and budget resiliency over the last several years enables the 2023-24 state budget proposal to
sustain key investments reflecting the values and priorities of Californians. This includes major funding to
transform our education system, address the homelessness crisis and housing affordability, increase health care
access, tackle the climate crisis, keep Californians safe and expand economic development and growth across
the state.
Through strong fiscal planning, the Governor’s proposed budget will protect core programs and invest in the
state’s future by continuing to:
Advance the highest state education per-pupil funding in history, free school meals for every child and
universal transitional kindergarten
Implement historic investments to address homelessness and expand housing supply
Expand Medi-Cal, cut prescription drug costs and bolster mental and behavioral health services
Fight climate change and protect communities from flooding, drought, wildfires and extreme heat
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Keep Californians safe through expanded efforts to combat fentanyl, organized retail theft and other
crimes
Support economic development and small business across the state
The full budget summary is available at www.ebudget.ca.gov.
ANTHONY, JASON & PAUL GONSALVES
Joe A. Gonsalves & Son
925 L Street, Suite 250, Sacramento, CA 95814
P: (916) 441-0597| F: (916) 441-5061
E: gonsalves@gonsalvi.com
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