{ "as_of": "2026-10-23", "definition": "Senate bills on which Scott Wiener is the primary author of the final version.", "source": "California Legislature pubinfo database, downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov", "bills": [ { "id": "201720180SB35", "slug": "2017-18/SB35", "number": "SB 35", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2016-12-05", "last_action_date": "2017-09-29", "subject": "Planning and zoning: affordable housing: streamlined approval process.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and Zoning: affordable housing: streamline.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 65400 and 65582.1 of, and to add and repeal Section 65913.4 of, the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "(1)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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a planning agency, after a legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, to provide an annual report to the legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development on the status of the general plan and progress in meeting the community’s share of regional housing needs. Existing law requires the housing element portion of the annual report to be prepared through the use of forms and definitions adopted by the department pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.\n This bill would require the housing element portion of the annual report to be prepared through the use of standards, forms, and definitions adopted by the department. The bill would eliminate the requirement that the forms and definitions be adopted by the department pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act and would instead authorize the department to review, adopt, amend, and repeal the standards, forms, or definitions, as provided. The bill would also require the planning agency to include in its annual report specified information regarding units of net new housing, including rental housing and for-sale housing that have been issued a completed entitlement, building permit, or certificate of occupancy. The bill would also require the Department of Housing and Community Development to post an annual report submitted pursuant to the requirement described above on its Internet Web site, as provided.\n (2)Existing law requires an attached housing development to be a permitted use, not subject to a conditional use permit, on any parcel zoned for multifamily housing if at least certain percentages of the units are available at affordable housing costs to very low income, lower income, and moderate-income households for at least 30 years and if the project meets specified conditions relating to location and being subject to a discretionary decision other than a conditional use permit. Existing law provides for various incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing.\n This bill would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development, which satisfies specified planning objective standards, that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit. The bill would require a local government to notify the development proponent in writing if the local government determines that the development conflicts with any of those objective standards by a specified time; otherwise, the development is deemed to comply with those standards. The bill would limit the authority of a local government to impose parking standards or requirements on a streamlined development approved pursuant to these provisions, as provided. The bill would provide that if a local government approves a project pursuant to that process, that approval will not expire if that project includes investment in housing affordability, and would otherwise provide that the approval of a project expire automatically after 3 years, unless that project qualifies for a one-time, one-year extension of that approval. The bill would provide that approval pursuant to its provisions would remain valid for three years and remain valid thereafter so long as vertical construction of the development has begun and is in progress, and would authorize a discretionary one-year extension, as provided. The bill would prohibit a local government from adopting any requirement that applies to a project solely or partially on the basis that the project receives ministerial or streamlined approval pursuant to these provisions. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2026.\n (3)The bill would make findings that ensuring access to affordable housing is a matter of statewide concern and declare that its provisions would apply to all cities and counties, including a charter city, a charter county, or a charter city and county.\n (4)By imposing new duties upon local agencies with respect to the streamlined approval process and reporting requirement described above, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n (5)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65400 of the Government Code proposed by AB 879 to be operative only if this bill and AB 879 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65582.1 of the Government Code proposed by AB 73 to be operative only if this bill and AB 73 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "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. Existing law provides for various incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine existing and projected needs for housing for each region and, in consultation with each council of governments, adopt a final regional housing plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county that meets specified requirements.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to streamline, incentivize, and remove local barriers to housing creation, as specified.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-09-29" }, "version_count": 13, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 366, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Atkins" ], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Vidak", "Bocanegra", "Caballero", "Gloria", "Grayson", "Santiago", "Arambula", "Bonta", "Gipson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2016-12-05", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2016-12-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5." }, { "date": "2017-01-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-02-23", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on T. & H. and GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-02-24", "action": "Set for hearing February 28." }, { "date": "2017-02-28", "action": "February 28 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-03-01", "action": "Set for hearing March 7." }, { "date": "2017-03-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 3. Page 327.) (March 7). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-04-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2017-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 884.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-11", "action": "May 15 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2017-05-22", "action": "May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-23", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1176.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 1396.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-15", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2017-06-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2017-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2017-07-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2017-07-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-07-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-08-24", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2017-08-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-09-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-09-14", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 and 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3417.)" }, { "date": "2017-09-14", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2017-09-14", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-14", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 27. Page 3420.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-09-15", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-15", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2958.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-22", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 366, Statutes of 2017." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35" }, "headline": "Streamlines approval of certain multifamily housing projects", "one_liner": "Creates a streamlined approval process for qualifying multifamily housing projects and expands local housing progress reports.", "summary": "Lets developers seek streamlined approval, without a conditional use permit, for multifamily housing that meets objective planning standards. Local governments must flag conflicts with those standards in writing by a deadline. Limits parking requirements for these projects. Requires cities and counties to report more data on new housing. The streamlining process ends January 1, 2026.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB35.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB219", "slug": "2017-18/SB219", "number": "SB 219", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-01", "last_action_date": "2017-10-04", "subject": "Long-term care facilities: rights of residents.", "introduced_subject": "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Resident’s Bill of Rights.", "title": "An act to add Section 1569.318 to, to add Chapter 2.45 (commencing with Section 1439.50) to Division 2 of, and to add and repeal Section 1338.4 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities.", "digest": "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973, imposes various requirements on long-term health care facilities, as defined, and prescribes the civil penalties assessed for a violation of those requirements.\n Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services. Under existing law, a person who violates the act, or who willfully or repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under the act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law also provides for civil penalties for a violation of the act.\n Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it unlawful to discriminate against any person in any housing accommodation on the basis of, among others, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.\n This bill would enact the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents’ Bill of Rights. Among other things, the bill would make it unlawful, except as specified, for any long-term care facility to take specified actions wholly or partially on the basis of a person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status, including, among others, willfully and repeatedly failing to use a resident’s preferred name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns, or denying admission to a long-term care facility, transferring or refusing to transfer a resident within a facility or to another facility, or discharging or evicting a resident from a facility. The bill would also provide certain protections to all residents of long-term care facilities during, among other things, physical examinations or treatments, relating to bodily privacy. The bill would define long-term care facility for purposes of these provisions to include skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and residential care facilities for the elderly. The bill would also, among other things, require each facility to post a specified notice regarding discrimination alongside its current nondiscrimination policy in all places and on all materials where the nondiscrimination policy is posted. The bill would require a violation of these provisions to be treated as a violation under the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, or specified provisions providing for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, which may include the imposition of civil penalties. By expanding the definition of existing crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973, imposes various requirements on long-term health care facilities, as defined, and prescribes the civil penalties assessed for a violation of those requirements.\n Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services. Under existing law, a person who violates the act, or who willfully or repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under the act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it unlawful to discriminate against any person in any housing accommodation on the basis of, among others, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.\n This bill would make it unlawful, except as specified, for any long-term care facility to take specified actions wholly or partially on the basis of a person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status, including, among others, refusing to use a resident’s preferred name or pronoun and denying admission to a long-term care facility, transferring or refusing to transfer a resident within a facility or to another facility, or evicting or involuntarily discharging a resident from a facility. The bill would define long-term care facility for purposes of these provisions to include skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and residential care facilities for the elderly. The bill would also, among other things, require each facility to post a specified notice regarding discrimination alongside its current nondiscrimination policy in all places and on all materials where the nondiscrimination policy is posted. The bill would require a violation of these provisions to be treated as a violation under the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, or specified provisions providing for the licensure and regulation of health facilities. By expanding the definition of existing crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-10-04" }, "version_count": 12, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 483, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Chiu" ], "coauthors": [ "Cervantes", "Gloria", "Kalra" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-01", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-02", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4." }, { "date": "2017-02-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2017-02-28", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2017-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2017-03-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-03-30", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2017-04-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-04-19", "action": "April 18 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-04-20", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 851.) (April 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-05", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1179.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 1315.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-15", "action": "Referred to Coms. on AGING & L.T.C. and JUD." }, { "date": "2017-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20)." }, { "date": "2017-06-22", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-07-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-07-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 11)." }, { "date": "2017-07-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-08", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2017-09-08", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-12", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 19. Page 3203.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-13", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 2838.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-19", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-10-04", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-10-04", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 483, Statutes of 2017." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB219", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB219", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB219", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB219", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB219" }, "headline": "Creates LGBT rights for long-term care residents", "one_liner": "Bans long-term care facilities from discriminating against residents based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or HIV status.", "summary": "Creates the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents' Bill of Rights. Nursing and elder care facilities may not deny admission, transfer, or evict someone based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or HIV status. Facilities may not willfully and repeatedly ignore a resident's preferred name or pronouns. Facilities must post a nondiscrimination notice.", "issues": [ "lgbtq" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB219.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB239", "slug": "2017-18/SB239", "number": "SB 239", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-06", "last_action_date": "2017-10-06", "subject": "Infectious and communicable diseases: HIV and AIDS: criminal penalties.", "introduced_subject": "Infectious and communicable diseases: HIV and AIDS: criminal penalties.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1603.3 and 1644.5 of, to repeal Sections 1621.5, 120291, and 120292 of, and to repeal and add Section 120290 of, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 1001, 1001.1, and 1202.1 of, to add Sections 1170.21 and 1170.22 to, to repeal Sections 647f, 1001.10, 1001.11, and 1463.23 of, and to repeal and add Section 1202.6 of, the Penal Code, relating to infectious and communicable diseases.", "digest": "(1)Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 3, 5, or 8 years in the state prison to expose another person to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by engaging in unprotected sexual activity when the infected person knows at the time of the unprotected sex that he or she is infected with HIV, has not disclosed his or her HIV-positive status, and acts with the specific intent to infect the other person with HIV. Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 2, 4, or 6 years for any person to donate blood, tissue, or, under specified circumstances, semen or breast milk, if the person knows that he or she has acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), or that he or she has tested reactive to HIV. Existing law provides that a person who is afflicted with a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease who willfully exposes himself or herself to another person, or any person who willfully exposes another person afflicted with the disease to someone else, is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n This bill would repeal those provisions. The bill would instead make the intentional transmission of an infectious or communicable disease, as defined, a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 6 months if certain circumstances apply, including that the defendant knows he or she or a 3rd party is afflicted with the disease, that the defendant acts with the specific intent to transmit or cause an afflicted 3rd party to transmit the disease to another person, that the defendant or the afflicted 3rd party engages in conduct that poses a substantial risk of transmission, as defined, that the defendant or the afflicted 3rd party transmits the disease to the other person, and if the exposure occurs through interaction with the defendant and not a 3rd party, that the person exposed to the disease during voluntary interaction with the defendant did not know that the defendant was afflicted with the disease. The bill would also make it a misdemeanor to attempt to intentionally transmit an infectious and communicable disease, as specified, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days. This bill would make willful exposure to an infectious or communicable disease, as defined, a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 6 months, and would prohibit a health officer, or a health officer’s designee, from issuing a maximum of 2 instructions to a defendant that would result in a violation of this provision. The bill would impose various requirements upon the court in order to prevent the public disclosure of the identifying characteristics, as defined, of the complaining witness and the defendant. By creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Under existing law, if a defendant has been previously convicted of prostitution or of another specified sexual offense, and in connection with the conviction a blood test was administered, as specified, with positive test results for AIDS, of which the defendant was informed, the previous conviction and positive blood test results are to be charged in any subsequent accusatory pleading charging a violation of prostitution. Existing law makes the defendant guilty of a felony if the previous conviction and informed test results are found to be true by the trier of fact or are admitted by the defendant.\n This bill would delete that provision. The bill would also vacate any conviction, dismiss any charge, and legally deem that an arrest under the deleted provision never occurred. The bill would also authorize a person serving a sentence as a result of a violation of the deleted provision to petition for a recall or dismissal of sentence before the trial court that entered the judgment of conviction in his or her case. The bill would require a court to vacate the conviction and resentence the person to any remaining counts while giving credit for any time already served.\n (3)Existing law requires the court to order a defendant convicted for a violation of soliciting or engaging in prostitution for the first time to complete instruction in the causes and consequences of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and to submit to testing for AIDS. Existing law requires such a defendant, as a condition of either probation or participating in a drug diversion program, to participate in an AIDS education program, as specified.\n This bill would repeal those provisions.\n (4)The bill would also make other conforming changes.\n (5)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 3, 5, or 8 years in the state prison to expose another person to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by engaging in unprotected sexual activity when the infected person knows at the time of the unprotected sex that he or she is infected with HIV, has not disclosed his or her HIV-positive status, and acts with the specific intent to infect the other person with HIV. Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 2, 4, or 6 years for any person to donate blood, body organs or other tissue, or, under specified circumstances, semen or breast milk, if the person knows that he or she has acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), or that he or she has tested reactive to HIV. Existing law provides that a person who is afflicted with a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease who willfully exposes himself or herself to another person, or any person who willfully exposes another person afflicted with the disease to someone else, is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n This bill would repeal those provisions. The bill would instead make the intentional transmission of an infectious or communicable disease, as defined, a misdemeanor, if certain circumstances apply, including that the defendant knows he or she is afflicted with the disease, that the defendant acts with the specific intent to transmit the disease to another person, that the defendant engages in conduct that poses a substantial risk of transmission, as defined, and that the defendant transmits the disease to the other person. The bill would impose various requirements upon the court in order to prevent the public disclosure of the identifying characteristics, as defined, of the complainant and the defendant. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Under existing law, if a defendant has been previously convicted of prostitution or of another specified sexual offense, and in connection with the conviction a blood test was administered, as specified, with positive test results for AIDS, of which the defendant was informed, the previous conviction and positive blood test results are to be charged in any subsequent accusatory pleading charging a violation of prostitution. Existing law makes defendant guilty of a felony if the previous conviction and informed test results are found to be true by the trier of fact or are admitted by the defendant.\n This bill would delete that provision. The bill would also vacate any conviction, dismiss any charge, and legally deem that an arrest under the deleted provision never occurred. The bill would require any court or agency having custody or control of records pertaining to the arrest, charge, or conviction of a person for a violation of the deleted provision to destroy, as specified, those records by June 30, 2018. By imposing this duty on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also authorize a person serving a sentence as a result of a violation of the deleted provision to petition for a recall or dismissal of sentence before the trial court that entered the judgment of conviction in his or her case. The bill would require a court to vacate the conviction and resentence the person to any remaining counts while giving credit for any time already served.\n (3)Existing law requires the court to order a defendant convicted for a violation of soliciting or engaging in prostitution for the first time to complete instruction in the causes and consequences of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and to submit to testing for AIDS. Existing law requires such a defendant, as a condition of either probation or participating in a drug diversion program, to participate in an AIDS education program, as specified.\n This bill would repeal those provisions.\n (4)The bill would also make other conforming changes.\n (5)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-10-06" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 537, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Gloria" ], "coauthors": [ "Atkins", "Mitchell", "Skinner", "Chiu", "Eggman", "Gipson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9." }, { "date": "2017-02-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2017-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2017-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 514.) (March 28)." }, { "date": "2017-04-04", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2017-04-24", "action": "April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 1339.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-12", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2017-06-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2017-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2017-07-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 5.) (August 23)." }, { "date": "2017-08-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-07", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 19. Page 3035.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-09-08", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 2691.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-15", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-10-06", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-10-06", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 537, Statutes of 2017." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB239", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB239", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB239", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB239", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB239" }, "headline": "Changes HIV exposure crimes to misdemeanors", "one_liner": "Replaces HIV-specific felonies with misdemeanors for intentionally transmitting any infectious or communicable disease.", "summary": "Repeals felony laws for exposing others to HIV and for donating blood while HIV-positive. Makes intentionally transmitting an infectious or communicable disease a misdemeanor with up to 6 months in county jail. Ends the felony for prostitution after a positive AIDS blood test and vacates past convictions under it. Repeals required AIDS testing and education after prostitution convictions.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB239.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB278", "slug": "2017-18/SB278", "number": "SB 278", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-09", "last_action_date": "2017-09-30", "subject": "CalFresh: overissuance.", "introduced_subject": "CalFresh: overissuance.", "title": "An act to amend Section 18927 of, and to add Section 18927.5 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalFresh.", "digest": "Existing law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), administered in California as CalFresh, under which each county distributes nutrition assistance benefits provided by the federal government to eligible households. Existing law requires each county human services agency to carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this program, subject to the supervision of the State Department of Social Services and to rules and regulations adopted by the department. Existing law requires current and future CalFresh benefits to be reduced, as specified, to recover an overissuance caused by administrative error if required by federal law, or if the overissuance exceeds $125 or the minimum cost-effective threshold for collecting overissuances that the department is authorized to establish, whichever is greater.\n This bill would require the department, by January 1, 2019, to finalize an analysis and determine whether it has adequate information to set a minimum statewide cost-effective threshold for collecting overissuances that are greater than $125, and, if it has adequate information, to include that greater threshold in the state’s claims management plan that is submitted for approval to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). The bill would require the department to establish a minimum statewide cost-effective threshold if the claims management plan includes that threshold and the USDA FNS approves the plan. The bill would require the department to submit a report to the Legislature detailing the results of the analysis, as specified, if the department determines that it does not have adequate information to set the minimum statewide cost-effective threshold described above.\n Existing federal law requires, if the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States determines that there has been negligence or fraud on part of a state in the certification of applicant households, the state to deposit into the Treasury of the United States, a sum equal to the face value of any benefits issued as a result of the negligence or fraud. Existing federal law authorizes the secretary, if he or she determines that a state overissued benefits to a substantial number of households in a fiscal year as a result of a major systemic error by the state, to prohibit the state from collecting these overissuances and requires the secretary to establish a claim against the state equal to the value of the overissuance caused by the systemic error.\n This bill would require a county human services agency to notify the department when a mass overissuance, as defined, has been identified, and to include in the notification information about whether the mass overissuance was caused by specified events. The bill would require the department to report mass overissuances to the USDA FNS, in accordance with federal law and guidance. By increasing the duties of local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), administered in California as CalFresh, under which each county distributes nutrition assistance benefits provided by the federal government to eligible households. Existing law requires each county human services agency to carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this program, subject to the supervision of the State Department of Social Services and to rules and regulations adopted by the department. Existing law requires current and future CalFresh benefits to be reduced, as specified, to recover an overissuance caused by administrative error if required by federal law, or if the overissuance exceeds $125 or the minimum cost-effective threshold for collecting overissuances that the department is authorized to establish, whichever is greater.\n This bill would instead require the department establish the minimum cost-effective threshold.\n Existing federal law requires, if the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States determines that there has been negligence or fraud on part of a state in the certification of applicant households, the state to deposit into the Treasury of the United States, a sum equal to the face value of any benefits issued as a result of the negligence or fraud. Existing federal law authorizes the secretary, if he or she determines that a state overissued benefits to a substantial number of households in a fiscal year as a result of a major systemic error by the state, to prohibit the state from collecting these overissuances and requires the secretary to establish a claim against the state equal to the value of the overissuance caused by the systemic error.\n This bill would require a county human services agency to notify the State Department of Social Services when a mass overissuance, as defined, has been identified prior to sending out notices of action to recipients, and would require the department to determine whether the state or county may be required to pay the mass overissuance pursuant to the above-mentioned federal law. The bill would require the department, if it makes that determination, to notify the regional office of the United States Department of Agriculture of the mass overissuance and the cause of the overissuance, and would require the State Department of Social Services to facilitate payment if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the mass overissuance shall be paid by the state or county. By increasing the duties of local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-09-30" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 388, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12." }, { "date": "2017-02-23", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2017-02-28", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2017-03-21", "action": "March 28 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-03-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2017-04-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 849.) (April 25)." }, { "date": "2017-04-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1181.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1317.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2017-07-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2017-07-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11)." }, { "date": "2017-07-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23)." }, { "date": "2017-08-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-08-31", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2017-08-31", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 2968.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-06", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2017-09-07", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2583.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-12", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 388, Statutes of 2017." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB278", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB278", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB278", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB278", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB278" }, "headline": "Requires study of CalFresh overpayment collection threshold", "one_liner": "Requires the state to study a higher threshold for collecting CalFresh overpayments and to track mass overpayments.", "summary": "Requires the State Department of Social Services to study, by January 1, 2019, whether to set a statewide threshold above $125 for collecting CalFresh benefits paid in error. If federal officials approve, the department must set it. Counties must notify the department about mass overissuances, and the department must report them to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB278.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB282", "slug": "2017-18/SB282", "number": "SB 282", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-09", "last_action_date": "2017-09-28", "subject": "CalFresh and CalWORKs.", "introduced_subject": "CalFresh.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 11322.64 and 18926.5 of, and to add Sections 11320.16 and 18919 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.", "digest": "(1)Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, formerly the Food Stamp Program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing state law authorizes a county to deliver CalFresh benefits through the use of an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system. Existing federal law authorizes eligible counties to participate in the Restaurant Meals Program (RMP), which allows eligible recipients to purchase meals at qualified restaurants.\n This bill, the Reducing Hunger Among Vulnerable Californians Act of 2017, would require the State Department of Social Services to issue an annual all-county letter providing guidance that lists which counties or regions are eligible to participate in the Restaurant Meals Program and the instructions for how a county may choose to participate in RMP or appeal a noneligible determination by the department. The bill would also require the department to design the EBT system to, automatically and upon issuance of an EBT card, allow all CalFresh recipients who are eligible for RMP to utilize their benefits in all restaurants that have been approved to participate in RMP.\n (2)Existing federal law limits a participant who is an able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) to 3 months of CalFresh benefits in a 3-year period unless that participant has met specified work participation requirements. Existing law directs the State Department of Social Services to annually seek a federal waiver of this limitation, and provides that an eligible county is included in this waiver unless the county declines to participate in the waiver request.\n Existing law authorizes counties to participate in the CalFresh Employment and Training program (CalFresh E&T), established by federal law, and requires participating counties to demonstrate in its CalFresh E&T plan how it is effectively using CalFresh E&T funds for each of the specified components that the county offers, including work experience or training and job search.\n This bill would include subsidized employment as a CalFresh E&T component that a county may offer, and would, to the extent permitted by federal law, require the State Department of Social Services to seek a federal waiver that would allow 50% federal reimbursement for eligible CalFresh E&T activities to be used to provide a wage subsidy for ABAWD participants in counties that do not participate in the waiver of the ABAWD time limit.\n (3)Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services to needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program, state, and county funds. Existing law generally requires a recipient of CalWORKs benefits to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for aid. Existing law requires that necessary supportive services be available to participants in welfare-to-work activities, including child care. Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature that the annual Budget Act appropriate state and federal funds in a single allocation to counties for the support of administrative activities undertaken by the counties to provide benefit payments to recipients of aid under the CalWORKs program and to provide required work activities and support services.\n This bill would authorize a county to provide employment services to a noncustodial parent from its single allocation funds.\n (4)Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to develop an allocation methodology to distribute additional funding for expanded subsidized employment programs for CalWORKs recipients, or recipients who have exceeded the 48-month time limit, and authorizes the allocated funds to be utilized to cover all expenditures related to the operational costs of the program.\n This bill would authorize a county to use existing funds provided under these provisions to provide employment services for noncustodial parents of children receiving benefits under the CalWORKs program.\n (5)Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program.\n This bill would instead provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the bill. \n (6)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 18926.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 563 to be operative only if this bill and AB 563 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, formerly the Food Stamp Program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing state law authorizes a county to deliver CalFresh benefits through the use of an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system. Existing federal law authorizes eligible counties to participate in the Restaurant Meals Program (RMP), which allows eligible recipients to purchase meals at qualified restaurants.\n This bill, the Reducing Hunger Among Vulnerable Californians Act of 2017, would require the State Department of Social Services to issue an annual all-county letter providing guidance that lists which counties or regions are eligible to participate in the Restaurant Meals Program and the instructions for how a county may choose to participate in RMP or appeal a noneligible determination by the department. The bill would also require the department to design the EBT system to, automatically and upon issuance of an EBT card, allow an eligible recipient of RMP to use his or her EBT card to purchase prepared meals at all participating restaurants. \n Existing federal law limits a participant who is an able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) to 3 months of CalFresh benefits in a 3-year period unless that participant has met specified work participation requirements. Existing law directs the State Department of Social Services to annually seek a federal waiver of this limitation, and provides that an eligible county is included in this waiver unless the county declines to participate in the waiver request.\n Existing law authorizes counties to participate in the CalFresh Employment and Training program (CalFresh E&T), established by federal law, and requires participating counties to demonstrate in its CalFresh E&T plan how it is effectively using CalFresh E&T funds for each of the specified components that the county offers, including work experience or training and job search.\n This bill would include subsidized employment as a CalFresh E&T component that a county may offer, and would, to the extent permitted by federal law, require the State Department of Social Services to seek a federal waiver that would allow 50% federal reimbursement for eligible CalFresh E&T activities to be used to provide a wage subsidy for ABAWD participants in counties that do not participate in the waiver of the ABAWD time limit. The bill would also require the department to include a provision in the request to allow participants in the subsidized employment program to remain eligible for CalFresh benefits for up to 6 months following the date their first subsidized paycheck was issued.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-09-28" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 355, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12." }, { "date": "2017-02-23", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2017-03-01", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2017-03-15", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2017-03-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "April 17 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1181.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1318.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2017-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23)." }, { "date": "2017-08-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-08", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2017-09-08", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-11", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3162.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-09-11", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-12", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2017-09-14", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2905.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-20", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 355, Statutes of 2017." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB282", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB282", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB282", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB282", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB282" }, "headline": "Expands CalFresh restaurant meals and job programs", "one_liner": "Expands CalFresh restaurant meal access, adds subsidized jobs to CalFresh job training, and aids noncustodial parents’ employment services.", "summary": "Requires the state to tell counties yearly whether they can join the CalFresh Restaurant Meals Program, and lets eligible recipients use benefits at approved restaurants automatically. Adds subsidized employment to CalFresh job training options. Lets counties use CalWORKs funds for employment services for noncustodial parents.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB282.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB384", "slug": "2017-18/SB384", "number": "SB 384", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-14", "last_action_date": "2017-10-06", "subject": "Sex offenders: registration: criminal offender record information systems.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 9002 and 13125 of, and to amend, repeal, and add Sections 290, 290.006, 290.008, 290.45, 290.46, 290.5, and 4852.03 of, the Penal Code, relating to sex offenders.", "digest": "Existing law requires persons convicted of specified sex offenses and certain acts of human trafficking for purposes of committing various sex offenses or extortion, as specified, or attempts to commit those offenses, to register with local law enforcement agencies while residing in the state or while attending school or working in the state. Willful failure to register, as required, is a misdemeanor, or a felony, depending on the underlying offense.\n Existing law requires the Department of Justice to make available to the public information concerning registered sex offenders on an Internet Web site, as specified. Existing law requires that information to include, among other things, whether the offender was subsequently incarcerated for another felony. Existing law also authorizes a person to file an application for exclusion from the Internet Web site and establishes the requirements for exclusion.\n This bill would, commencing January 1, 2021, instead establish 3 tiers of registration based on specified criteria, for periods of at least 10 years, at least 20 years, and life, respectively, for a conviction of specified sex offenses, and 5 years and 10 years for tiers one and two, respectively, for an adjudication as a ward of the juvenile court for specified sex offenses, as specified. The bill would allow the Department of Justice to place a person in a tier-to-be-determined category for a maximum period of 24 months if his or her appropriate tier designation cannot be immediately ascertained. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2021, establish procedures for termination from the sex offender registry for a registered sex offender who is a tier one or tier two offender and who completes his or her mandated minimum registration period under specified conditions. The bill would require the offender to file a petition at the expiration of his or her minimum registration period and would authorize the district attorney to request a hearing on the petition if the petitioner has not fulfilled the requirement of successful tier completion, as specified. The bill would establish procedures for a person required to register as a tier three offender based solely on his or her risk level to petition the court for termination from the registry after 20 years from release of custody, if certain criteria are met. The bill would also, commencing January 1, 2022, revise the criteria for exclusion from the Internet Web site.\n Existing law requires all basic information stored in state or local criminal offender record information systems to be recorded in the form of specified data elements, including the disposition of the offense.\n This bill would require that information to include sentence enhancement data elements.\n Existing law establishes the Sex Offender Management Board within the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the board to address issues, concerns, and problems related to the community management of adult sex offenders.\n This bill would instead require the board to address any issues, concerns, and problems related to the community management of all sex offenders.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 290 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 484 to be operative as specified.", "introduced_digest": "The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides for moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill would allow an on-sale licensee to apply to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to authorize, with or without conditions on the on-sale license, the selling, giving, delivering, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., upon completion of specified requirements by the local jurisdiction in which the licensee is located and upon payment a fee to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, as provided. This bill would require the applicant to notify specified persons of the application for additional hours and would provide a procedure for protest and hearing regarding the application.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-10-06" }, "version_count": 11, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 541, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Anderson" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Mitchell", "Skinner" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-14", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-15", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17." }, { "date": "2017-02-23", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2017-03-14", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2017-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2017-03-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "April 17 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1183.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 1351.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2017-06-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2017-07-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 4.) (July 5)." }, { "date": "2017-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-06", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-07", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-07", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2." }, { "date": "2017-09-07", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2017-09-07", "action": "Joint Rule 62(a) suspended." }, { "date": "2017-09-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2017-09-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 11)." }, { "date": "2017-09-12", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-15", "action": "Assembly Rule 112 suspended. (Ayes 45. Noes 29. Page 3487.)" }, { "date": "2017-09-15", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 8. Page 3488.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-09-15", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-16", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 5. Page 3015.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-22", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-10-06", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-10-06", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Tier one and two registrants who complete their period may petition to leave the registry. Also revises rules for exclusion from the public website.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with extending alcohol sales hours to 4 a.m.; it was rewritten to cover sex offender registration.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB384.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB458", "slug": "2017-18/SB458", "number": "SB 458", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-16", "last_action_date": "2017-10-10", "subject": "Beverage container recycling: pilot projects.", "introduced_subject": "Beverage container recycling: San Francisco Mobile Recycling Program.", "title": "An act to add Sections 14515.8 and 14571.9 to the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires that every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state have a minimum refund value. A beverage distributor is required to pay a redemption payment to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to a dealer, and the department is required to deposit those amounts in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. The money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the department to, among other things, pay handling fees to certified recycling centers. The act requires processors to pay refund values, administrative costs, and processing payments to certified recycling centers, dropoff or collection programs, and curbside programs. \n The act requires the department to annually designate convenience zones, as defined, statewide and requires at least one certified recycling center or location within every convenience zone that accepts all types of empty beverage containers and pays the refund value, if any, at one location, and that is open for business 30 hours per week.\n This bill would, until January 1, 2020, authorize up to 5 limited-term recycling pilot projects, subject to department approval, that are designed to improve redemption opportunities in unserved convenience zones. The bill would subject the pilot projects to certain requirements, including, among others, that the pilot project is served by a pilot project recycler meeting certain requirements. The bill would require dealers within the jurisdiction of a pilot project to post certain information relating to pilot project locations, as specified, and a department-established toll-free number for information relating to beverage container recycling opportunities. The bill would authorize the department to issue a probationary certificate of operation to a pilot project recycler, to be valid for no more than 3 years, and would make that pilot project recycler eligible to apply for handling fees from the department and to receive refund values, administrative costs, and processing payments from processors. By authorizing the use of moneys in a continuously appropriated fund for a new purpose, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require dealers in a convenience zone served by a pilot project to comply with general act requirements if a pilot project ceases to operate or if the pilot project’s certification is revoked.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires a distributor to pay a redemption payment for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state. The act requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to annually designate convenience zones, as defined, statewide and requires at least one certified recycling center or location within every convenience zone that accepts all types of empty beverage containers and pays the refund value, if any, at one location, and that is open for business 30 hours per week. The act authorizes the department to certify one operator that meets specified qualifications to establish the Pacific Beach Mobile Recycling Program, incorporating all convenience zones in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego County, as defined. Existing law specifies requirements for the recycling center operator and the dealers within the program area.\n This bill would authorize the department to certify one operator to establish the San Francisco Mobile Recycling Program that incorporates all convenience zones in the City and County of San Francisco and would impose similar program requirements.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-10-10" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 648, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19." }, { "date": "2017-03-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Set for hearing March 29." }, { "date": "2017-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2017-03-29", "action": "March 29 hearing: Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-06-08", "action": "Set for hearing June 21." }, { "date": "2017-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1663.) (June 21)." }, { "date": "2017-06-22", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-07-03", "action": "Set for hearing July 10." }, { "date": "2017-07-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1942.) (July 10)." }, { "date": "2017-07-11", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-07-13", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2021.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-07-13", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-07-20", "action": "Referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "Joint Rule 62(a) suspended." }, { "date": "2017-08-30", "action": "August 30 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-09-01", "action": "Joint Rule 62(a) suspended." }, { "date": "2017-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-06", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-08", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2017-09-08", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-13", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3270.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-09-14", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-14", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2927.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-21", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-10-10", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-10-10", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 648, Statutes of 2017." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB458", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB458", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB458", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB458", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB458" }, "headline": "Allows recycling pilot projects in unserved areas", "one_liner": "Allows up to five pilot projects to improve beverage container redemption in unserved convenience zones.", "summary": "Until January 1, 2020, allows up to 5 pilot projects, approved by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to improve beverage container redemption in unserved convenience zones. Pilot recyclers can get a probationary certificate and apply for handling fees. Stores in pilot areas must post pilot locations and a toll-free recycling information number. Takes effect immediately.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB458.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB622", "slug": "2017-18/SB622", "number": "SB 622", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2017-09-30", "subject": "Local Agency Public Construction Act: Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.", "introduced_subject": "Local Agency Public Construction Act: Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.", "title": "An act to add Section 20919 to, and to repeal and add Section 20914 of, the Public Contract Code, relating to local agency contracts.", "digest": "The Local Agency Public Construction Act requires a bridge and highway district to advertise for contracts in specified publications for all vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work whenever the estimated expenditure exceeds $20,000 and for all other construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work and for all insurance purchased by the district if the estimated expenditure exceeds $5,000. The act authorizes a bridge and highway district to contract without advertising or competitive bidding in case of emergency. The act requires a bridge and highway district to comply with specified emergency contracting procedures if the notice for bids to let a contract will not be given.\n This bill would instead require a bridge and highway district to advertise for contracts for all vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work if the estimated expenditure exceeds $1,000,000, and for all other construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work, and all similar work, if the estimated expenditure exceeds $5,000, in at least one newspaper and one trade paper of general circulation, as specified. The bill would also authorize the district, at its discretion, to use informal bidding for a contract for construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work, and all similar work, with an estimated expenditure that does not exceed $50,000, and for a contract for vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work that does not exceed $1,000,000, if it enacts an ordinance that governs the selection of contractors, as specified.\n Existing law requires the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District to award all contracts in excess of $20,000 for the hiring or purchase of equipment, supplies, or materials to the lowest responsible bidder, except that, if the required expenditure exceeds $100,000, the contract may be let, in the district’s discretion, to the responsible bidder who submitted a proposal that provides the best value, as specified.\n The bill would also authorize the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District to contract without competitive bidding with suppliers of goods and services by participating in contracts let by one or more specified public entities and any other entity that expends public funds.", "introduced_digest": "The Local Agency Public Construction Act requires a bridge and highway district to advertise for contracts for all vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work whenever the estimated expenditure exceeds $20,000 and for all other construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work and for all insurance purchased by the district if the estimated expenditure exceeds $5,000. The act authorizes a bridge and highway district to contract without advertising or competitive bidding in case of emergency. The act would require a bridge and highway district to comply with specified emergency contracting procedures if the notice for bids to let a contract will not be given. \n This bill would repeal those requirements and authorization and, instead, require a bridge and highway district to publicize contracts for the construction of facilities and public works whenever the estimated expenditure exceeds $100,000. The bill would require a bridge and highway district to publish the notice requesting bids on the district’s Internet Web site at least 10 days before bids are due. The bill would also authorize the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District to contract without competitive bidding with suppliers of goods and services by participating in contracts let by one or more specified public entities and any other entity that expends public funds.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-09-30" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 396, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Public Contract Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Dodd", "McGuire", "Levine", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2017-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2017-04-18", "action": "April 18 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2017-05-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 1021.) (May 9)." }, { "date": "2017-05-11", "action": "Published May 11 at 9 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2017-05-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1148.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-05-23", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and TRANS." }, { "date": "2017-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2017-07-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 10)." }, { "date": "2017-07-12", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-08-31", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2017-08-31", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2956.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-06", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2017-09-07", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2584.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-12", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 396, Statutes of 2017." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622" }, "headline": "Changes contracting rules for bridge and highway districts", "one_liner": "Raises advertising thresholds for bridge district vessel work and lets the Golden Gate Bridge district join other agencies' contracts.", "summary": "Requires bridge and highway districts to advertise vessel repair contracts over $1,000,000 and other construction work over $5,000. Allows informal bidding for construction up to $50,000 and vessel work up to $1,000,000 if the district adopts an ordinance. Lets the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District buy through other public entities' contracts without bidding.", "issues": [ "transportation", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB622.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB658", "slug": "2017-18/SB658", "number": "SB 658", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2017-09-27", "subject": "Jury selection.", "introduced_subject": "Jury selection: questionnaire.", "title": "An act to amend Section 222.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to civil actions.", "digest": "The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act, among other things, requires a trial judge to examine the prospective jurors in civil jury trials. The act gives the counsel for each party, after this initial examination, the right to examine any of the prospective jurors, as specified, in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise both peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. The act prohibits a court from arbitrarily or unreasonably refusing to submit a reasonable written questionnaire to the jury if requested by counsel and states that the parties should be provided reasonable time to evaluate the responses to the questionnaire, if utilized, before oral questioning commences. The act states that the trial judge should consider, among other criteria, any unique or complex elements in the case when exercising his or her discretion as to the form and subject matter of voir dire questions.\n This bill would require that the parties be provided reasonable time to evaluate the responses to a questionnaire, if utilized, before oral questioning commences. The bill would authorize the parties to submit questions to the trial judge before he or she conducts voir dire and authorize the judge to include these questions if he or she deems them proper. The bill would modify the scope of questioning allowed by the parties, require a trial judge to consider specific factors in conducting voir dire, and prohibit the judge from establishing an inflexible time limit policy for voir dire. The bill would also require a judge in civil trials to, at the earliest practical time, provide the parties with both the alphabetical list and the list of prospective jurors in the order in which they will be called.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires a trial judge to examine the prospective jurors in civil jury trials. Existing law gives the counsel for each party, after this initial examination, the right to examine any of the prospective jurors, as specified, in order to enable counsel to intelligently exercise both peremptory challenges and challenges for cause. Existing law prohibits a court from arbitrarily or unreasonably refusing to submit a reasonable written questionnaire to the jury if requested by counsel. Existing law suggests that the parties be provided reasonable time to evaluate the responses to the questionnaire, if utilized, before oral questioning commences.\n This bill would require the parties to be provided reasonable time to evaluate the responses to a questionnaire, if utilized, before oral questioning commences.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2017-09-27" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 337, Statutes of 2017", "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Kalra" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-29", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "April 25 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2017-04-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 2." }, { "date": "2017-04-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-05-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 946.) (May 2)." }, { "date": "2017-05-09", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-09", "action": "Published May 9 at 9 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1070.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-05-16", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-06-05", "action": "June 13 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2017-08-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 18)." }, { "date": "2017-08-22", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2017-08-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2847.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2017-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2017-09-01", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2480.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2017-09-11", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2017-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Judges must consider specific factors and may not set inflexible time limits. Judges must give parties the juror lists as early as practical.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB658.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB700", "slug": "2017-18/SB700", "number": "SB 700", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-09-27", "subject": "Self-generation incentive program.", "introduced_subject": "Energy storage.", "title": "An act to amend Section 379.6 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.", "digest": "Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for each load-serving entity, as defined, to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems to be achieved by December 31, 2015, and December 31, 2020. If determined to be appropriate, the commission is required to adopt the procurement targets, by October 1, 2013, and to reevaluate the determinations not less than once every 3 years. Existing law excludes an electrical corporation that has 60,000 or fewer customer accounts within California from these requirements.\n In response to a requirement to adopt initiatives on or before March 7, 2001, to reduce demand for electricity and reduce load during peak demand periods, including differential incentives for renewable or super clean distributed generation resources, the PUC adopted decisions establishing a self-generation incentive program. Existing law authorizes the PUC to authorize the annual collection of not more than double the amount authorized for the self-generation incentive program in the 2008 calendar year, through December 31, 2019. Existing law requires the PUC to require electrical corporations to administer the program for distributed energy resources established pursuant to the above-described law until January 1, 2021, and to separately administer solar technologies pursuant to the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the PUC to provide repayment of all unallocated funds collected for the self-generation incentive program on January 1, 2021, to reduce ratepayer costs. Existing law requires the PUC, on or before July 1, 2015, to update the factor for avoided emissions of greenhouse gases, as provided, to determine eligibility for participation in the program.\n This bill would extend the collection for the self-generation incentive program to December 31, 2024, and the administration of the program to January 1, 2026. The bill would require the commission to adopt requirements for energy storage systems to ensure that eligible energy storage systems reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. The bill would specify that generation technologies using nonrenewable fuels are not eligible for incentives under the program on and after January 1, 2020.\n Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.\n Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the requirements of this bill would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for each load-serving entity, as defined, to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems to be achieved by December 31, 2015, and December 31, 2020. If determined to be appropriate, the commission is required to adopt the procurement targets, by October 1, 2013, and to reevaluate the determinations not less than once every 3 years. Existing law excludes an electrical corporation that has 60,000 or fewer customer accounts within California from these requirements. Pursuant to these requirements, the commission adopted Decision 13-10-040 (October 17, 2013), Decision Adopting Energy Storage Procurement Framework and Design Program.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to foster growth of the energy storage market.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-27" }, "version_count": 12, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 839, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-29", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2017-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2017-04-06", "action": "April 18 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-04-07", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 806.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2017-05-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1189.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 9 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 1314.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-15", "action": "Referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2017-06-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2017-07-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2017-07-12", "action": "July 12 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-06-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (June 20)." }, { "date": "2018-06-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 6768.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 6023.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-06", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Requires the commission to set rules so eligible energy storage systems reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Makes generation technologies using nonrenewable fuels ineligible for incentives starting January 1, 2020.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB700.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB726", "slug": "2017-18/SB726", "number": "SB 726", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-09-29", "subject": "CalWORKs: benefits overpayment.", "introduced_subject": "Personal income tax: definitions.", "title": "An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 11004 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalWORKs.", "digest": "Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds received through the TANF program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families.\n Existing law authorizes current and future grants payable to an assistance unit to be reduced due to prior overpayments. Existing law prohibits a county from attempting to recover payments when the outstanding overpayments are less than $35, if the individual is no longer receiving aid under the CalWORKs program.\n This bill would instead set the limit of the outstanding overpayments at $250, or a higher threshold established by the State Department of Social Services, if the department determines that a higher threshold is more cost effective. The bill would prohibit the department from establishing a lower threshold. The bill would require a county to expunge an overpayment if the county determines that the overpayment has been caused by a major systemic error or negligence. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions.\n Existing law requires, if an overpayment has been made to an assistance unit that is no longer receiving public social services, that the recovery be made by an appropriate action under state law against the income or resources of the individual responsible for the overpayment or against the family.\n This bill would instead provide that, if an overpayment has been made to an assistance unit that is no longer receiving public social services, recovery shall be made by appropriate action under state law and, except in cases involving an investigation into suspected fraud, deem an overpayment uncollectible and expunge that overpayment if the individual responsible for the overpayment has not received aid under CalWORKs for 36 consecutive months or longer.\n Existing law prohibits the commencement of a civil or criminal action against a person based on alleged unlawful application for or receipt of public social services if the case record of the person has been destroyed after the required retention period.\n This bill would also prohibit the commencement of the action if the case record or any consumer credit report used in the case has not been made available or has been destroyed, as specified.\n This bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to implement these provisions through an all-county letter or similar instruction until emergency regulations are adopted, and would require the department to adopt emergency regulations on or before January 1, 2021, and to adopt final regulations thereafter.\n This bill would make its provisions operative on July 1, 2019.\n By increasing the duties of county agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program.\n This bill would instead provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the bill.", "introduced_digest": "The Personal Income Tax Law imposes a tax on the entire taxable income of a resident taxpayer, provides for a specified treatment of the income of nonresidents, and provides, among other things, that specified definitions govern the construction of that law.\n This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-29" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 930, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-29", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-04-07", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2017-04-20", "action": "April 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2018-01-04", "action": "Set for hearing January 10." }, { "date": "2018-01-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4020.) (January 10)." }, { "date": "2018-01-11", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-01-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4067.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-01-23", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-04-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2018-04-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2018-06-12", "action": "June 12 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-06-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26)." }, { "date": "2018-06-28", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 64. Noes 11. Page 6765.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 6028.) Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 6069.)" }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 3. Page 6136.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-11", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 930, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB726", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB726", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB726", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB726", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB726" }, "headline": "Limits collection of CalWORKs overpayments", "one_liner": "Stops counties from collecting small CalWORKs overpayments from former recipients and erases some older or error-caused overpayments.", "summary": "Bars counties from collecting CalWORKs overpayments under $250, up from $35, from people no longer on aid. Counties must erase overpayments caused by major systemic error or negligence. Except in suspected fraud cases, overpayments are erased once the person has been off aid for 36 months in a row. Takes effect July 1, 2019.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with personal income tax definitions; it was rewritten to cover CalWORKs overpayments.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB726.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB765", "slug": "2017-18/SB765", "number": "SB 765", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-09-27", "subject": "Planning and zoning: housing.", "introduced_subject": "Superintendent of Public Instruction: powers and duties.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 8698.4 and 65913.4 of the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "(1)Existing law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. Existing law requires the objective planning standards to include, among others, a requirement that the development certify to the locality that a skilled and trained workforce will be used to complete the development, if the development meets certain standards and depending on when the application is approved, including that the development consists of a specified number of units that are not 100% subsidized affordable housing and is located in a jurisdiction that meets specified requirements.\n This bill would modify those provisions by requiring a skilled and trained workforce to be used if the application for the development consists of a specified number of units with a residential component that is not 100% subsidized affordable housing.\n (2)Existing law requires the objective planning standards to include, among others, a requirement that a development be subject to a minimum percentage of below market rate housing on the basis that, among other things, the locality failed to submit its latest production report by the applicable time period, or that the report submitted reflected that there were fewer units of housing affordable to households making below 80% of the area median income that were issued building permits than were required for the regional housing needs assessment cycle for that reporting period, and that the project meets specified requirements.\n This bill would instead require that the development be subject to the above-described minimum percentage of below market rate housing by reason of the locality’s latest production report reflecting that there were fewer units of housing issued building permits that were affordable to either very low income or low-income households by income category than were required for the regional housing needs assessment cycle for that reporting period.\n (3)Existing law requires the objective planning standards to include, among others, a requirement that the development proponent has already recorded land use restrictions with specified durations if the development contains units that are subsidized, as specified.\n This bill would instead require the development proponent to commit to record, prior to issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower income housing units that are required pursuant to the minimum percentage of below market rate housing remain available at affordable housing costs or rent to persons and families of lower income for specified durations.\n (4)Existing law requires the objective planning standards include, among others, a requirement that the development not involve a subdivision of a parcel that is, or would otherwise be, subject to the Subdivision Map Act or any other applicable law authorizing the subdivision of land unless the development has received or will receive financing or funding by means of a low-income housing tax credit and is subject to specified requirements relating to prevailing wages, or the development is subject to the requirement that prevailing wages be paid and a skilled and trained workforce be used, as specified.\n This bill would instead require that the development not involve a subdivision of a parcel that is, or would otherwise be, subject to the Subdivision Map Act or any other applicable law authorizing the subdivision of land unless the development is consistent with all objective subdivision standards in the local subdivision ordinance and the development either has received or will receive financing or funding by means of a low-income housing tax credit and is subject to specified requirements relating to prevailing wages, or is subject to the requirement that prevailing wages be paid and a skilled and trained workforce be used, as specified.\n Existing law additionally authorizes the city, county, or city and county to conduct any design review or public oversight of the development and requires that design review or public oversight to be completed within specified periods of time.\n This bill would provide that if the development is subject to the Subdivision Map Act but the development has received or will receive financing or funding by means of a low-income housing tax credit and is subject to specified requirements relating to prevailing wages, or the development is subject to the requirement that prevailing wages be paid and a skilled and trained workforce be used, the application for the subdivision pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act and would require the application for the subdivision to be considered within the specified time periods.\n (5)Existing law requires the objective planning standards to include, among others, a requirement that the development, excluding any additional density or any other concessions, incentives, or waivers of development standards granted pursuant to the Density Bonus Law, is consistent with objective zoning standards and objective design review standards in effect at the time that the development is submitted to the local government.\n This bill would also require the development to be consistent with objective subdivision standards. The bill would declare that these provisions are declaratory of existing law.\n (6)Existing law provides that the California Environmental Quality Act does not apply to an action taken by a state agency or local government to provide financial assistance to a development that was approved for streamlined approval pursuant to these provisions to be used for housing for persons and families of very low, low, or moderate income.\n This bill would additionally provide that the California Environmental Quality Act does not apply to an action taken by a state agency or local government to lease, convey, or encumber land owned by the local government or to facilitate the lease, conveyance, or encumbrance of land owned by the local government to a development that was approved for streamlined approval pursuant to these provisions to be used for housing for persons and families of very low, low, or moderate income.\n (7)Existing law prohibits a local government, whether or not it has adopted an ordinance governing parking requirements in multifamily developments, from imposing parking standards for a streamlined development that was approved pursuant to these provisions, as specified.\n This bill would specify that a local government is prohibited from imposing automobile parking standards for a streamlined development that was approved pursuant to these provisions, as specified.\n (8)Existing law, until January 1, 2021, upon a declaration of a shelter crisis by the City of Berkeley, Emeryville, Los Angeles, Oakland, or San Diego, the County of Santa Clara, or the City and County of San Francisco, authorizes emergency housing to include homeless shelters in the City of Berkeley, Emeryville, Los Angeles, Oakland, or San Diego, the County of Santa Clara, or the City and County of San Francisco, respectively. Existing law, in lieu of compliance with local building approval procedures or state housing, health, habitability, planning and zoning, or safety standards, procedures, and laws, authorizes those jurisdictions to adopt by ordinance reasonable local standards for homeless shelters, as specified.\n This bill would provide that the California Environmental Quality Act does not apply to actions taken by a state agency or local government to lease, convey, or encumber land owned by a city, county, or city and county, or to facilitate the lease, conveyance, or encumbrance of land owned by a city, county, or city and county, for, or to provide financial assistance to, a homeless shelter constructed or allowed pursuant to these provisions.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to perform certain duties, including, among others, the duty of superintending the schools of this state.\n This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-27" }, "version_count": 12, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 840, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-04-05", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on ED. and APPR." }, { "date": "2017-04-07", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2017-05-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 849.) (April 26)." }, { "date": "2017-05-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-05", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1190.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 1. Page 1340.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Motion to reconsider made by Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1341.)" }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 1342.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-15", "action": "Referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2017-07-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2017-07-12", "action": "July 12 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-06-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2018-06-14", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2018-06-18", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2018-06-18", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2018-06-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2018-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27)." }, { "date": "2018-07-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 8)." }, { "date": "2018-08-09", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2." }, { "date": "2018-08-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2018-08-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 28)." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on T. & H. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 6145.) Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 2. Page 6200.)" }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 6177.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-12", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 840, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB765", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB765", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB765", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB765", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB765" }, "headline": "Changes rules for streamlined housing approvals", "one_liner": "Revises the standards multifamily housing projects must meet to use the state's streamlined, ministerial approval process.", "summary": "Changes when streamlined housing projects must use a skilled and trained workforce and include below-market-rate units. Developers must commit to record affordability limits before the first building permit. Projects must meet objective local subdivision standards. Exempts some land deals and subdivision approvals for these projects, and for certain homeless shelters, from California's environmental review law (CEQA).", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with the duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; it was rewritten to cover streamlined housing approvals.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB765.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB785", "slug": "2017-18/SB785", "number": "SB 785", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-05-17", "subject": "Evidence: immigration status.", "introduced_subject": "Consumer protection: firearms and ammunition.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Sections 351.3 and 351.4 of the Evidence Code, relating to evidence, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Existing law provides that all relevant evidence is admissible in an action before the court, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declaring, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also provides that, in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death, evidence of a person’s immigration status is not admissible and discovery of a person’s immigration status is not permitted.\n In civil actions other than those specified above, this bill would prohibit the disclosure of a person’s immigration status in open court by a party unless that party requests an in camera hearing and the presiding judge determines that the evidence is admissible. This bill would apply this prohibition to criminal actions. The provisions of the bill would be repealed on January 1, 2022.\n The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-in-Evidence, which requires a 2/3 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified.\n Because this bill may exclude from a criminal action information about a person’s immigration status that would otherwise be admissible, it requires a 2/3 vote of the Legislature.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (act), prohibits certain enumerated unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result, or which results in, the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer. The act provides for relief through actions for damages, injunctive relief, and restitution, among other remedies.\n This bill would state that the act applies to firearms and ammunition, and provide that a violation of the act regarding firearms or ammunition is actionable under the act.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-05-17" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 12, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Evidence Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Gonzalez Fletcher" ], "coauthors": [ "Chiu" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-05-08", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-05-08", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2017-05-10", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2017-05-11", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2017-05-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1093.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2017-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-06-29", "action": "Set for hearing July 18." }, { "date": "2017-07-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-08-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 2114.) (July 18)." }, { "date": "2017-08-22", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 2260.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-08-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-09-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2018-03-06", "action": "March 6 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-03-12", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-03-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-04-02", "action": "April 3 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2018-04-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 17)." }, { "date": "2018-04-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-04-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 4940.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-05-10", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 5006.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-05-15", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-05-17", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-05-17", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB785", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB785", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB785", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB785", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB785" }, "headline": "Limits disclosure of immigration status in court", "one_liner": "Bars parties from revealing a person's immigration status in open court unless a judge first allows it privately.", "summary": "In criminal cases and civil cases other than personal injury or wrongful death, a party may not reveal a person's immigration status in open court. The party must first ask for a private (in camera) hearing. The judge then decides if the evidence is allowed. These rules end on January 1, 2022. The bill takes effect immediately.", "issues": [ "civil_rights", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with consumer protection law for firearms and ammunition; it was rewritten to cover immigration status in court.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB785.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB822", "slug": "2017-18/SB822", "number": "SB 822", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-03", "last_action_date": "2018-09-30", "subject": "Communications: broadband Internet access service.", "introduced_subject": "Broadband Internet access service.", "title": "An act to add Title 15 (commencing with Section 3100) to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, relating to communications.", "digest": "Existing law imposes certain obligations in the context of particular transactions, and provides mechanisms to enforce those obligations.\n This bill would enact the California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018. This act would prohibit fixed and mobile Internet service providers, as defined, that provide broadband Internet access service, as defined, from engaging in specified actions concerning the treatment of Internet traffic. The act would prohibit, among other things, blocking lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, impairing or degrading lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device, and specified practices relating to zero-rating, as defined. It would also prohibit fixed and mobile Internet service providers from offering or providing services other than broadband Internet access service that are delivered over the same last-mile connection as the broadband Internet access service, if those services have the purpose or effect of evading the above-described prohibitions or negatively affect the performance of broadband Internet access service.", "introduced_digest": "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Pursuant to its existing authority, the commission supervises administration of the state’s telecommunications universal service programs. The Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 establishes a procedure for the issuance of state franchises for the provision of video service, defined to include cable service and open-video systems, administered by the commission. \n The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to effectuate net neutrality in California utilizing the state’s regulatory powers and to prevent Internet service providers from engaging in practices inconsistent with net neutrality, including through 4 described means.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-30" }, "version_count": 11, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 976, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "De León" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Allen", "Dodd", "Hill", "McGuire", "Monning", "Skinner", "Santiago", "Bloom", "Bonta", "Chiu", "Friedman", "Kalra", "Mullin" ], "coauthors": [ "Leyva", "Cervantes", "Limón", "McCarty", "Nazarian", "Mark Stone", "Ting", "Wood" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3." }, { "date": "2018-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-21", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and JUD." }, { "date": "2018-03-23", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2018-04-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 3. Page 4717.) (April 17)." }, { "date": "2018-04-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4813.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2018-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4297.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 4386.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-07", "action": "Referred to Coms. on C. & C. and P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2018-06-11", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on C. & C." }, { "date": "2018-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 20)." }, { "date": "2018-06-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-07", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-09", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2018-08-09", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "Joint Rule 61(b)(13,14,15,16) suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 6302.)" }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on C. & C." }, { "date": "2018-08-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (August 22)." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 18. Page 6983.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 6132.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-11", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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They may not slow lawful traffic based on content, app, service, or device. Some zero-rating practices are banned. Other services on the same connection may not evade these rules or slow broadband.", "issues": [ "tech", "consumer" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB822.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB828", "slug": "2017-18/SB828", "number": "SB 828", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-03", "last_action_date": "2018-09-30", "subject": "Land use: housing element.", "introduced_subject": "Land use: housing element.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 65584, 65584.01, and 65584.04 of the Government Code, relating to land use.", "digest": "(1)The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires a planning agency to submit a draft of the housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development for review, as specified.\n Existing law requires the department, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region in accordance with specified requirements. Existing law requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for a city and county that does not have a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county in accordance with certain requirements and procedures, including that a specified type of ordinance or policy that limits the number of residential building permits issued by a city or county may not be used as a justification for a determination or reduction in a jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need.\n This bill would prohibit the prior underproduction of housing in a city or county from the previous cycle and stable population numbers in a city or county from the previous cycle from being used as a justification for a determination or a reduction in the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need.\n (2)Existing law requires, at least 26 months prior to the scheduled revision of the housing element and developing the existing and projected housing need for a region, the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodology to be used by the department to determine the region’s housing needs. Existing law requires the council of governments to provide data assumptions from the council’s projections, including, if available, specified data factors for the region, including, data relating to the percentage of renter’s households that are overcrowded and vacancy rates for healthy housing market functioning and regional mobility. Existing law requires the department, after consulting with the council of governments, to determine, in writing, the data assumptions for each of the data factors provided, as well as the methodology the department will use.\n This bill would additionally require the council of governments to provide data on the overcrowding rate for a comparable housing market, and would define the vacancy rate for a healthy rental housing market for those purposes to be no less than 5%. The bill would also require the council of governments to include data on the percentage of households that are cost burdened, the rate of housing cost for a healthy housing market, and data on the projected household income growth. This bill would provide that statutory changes enacted after the date the department issued a final determination do not provide a basis for a revision of the final determination.\n This bill would require the methodology approved by the department to grant allowances to adjust for data factors relating to overcrowding, vacancy rates, and households that are cost burdened, as described above, based on the region’s total projected households, which includes existing households as well as future projected households.\n (3)Existing law requires the 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 subregion, as applicable, that is consistent with specified objectives. Existing law, to the extent that sufficient data is available as provided, requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to include specified factors to develop the methodology that allocates regional housing needs including, among other factors, the opportunities and constraints regarding development of addition housing in each member jurisdiction, such as lands preserved or protected from urban development under existing federal or state programs, or both, designed to protect open space, farmland, environmental habitats, and natural resources on a long-term basis.\n This bill would revise this factor to also include lands zoned or designated for agricultural protection or preservation that are subject to a local ballot measure that was approved by the voters of that jurisdiction that prohibits or restricts their conversion to nonagricultural uses.\n (4)By expanding the duties of local governments relating to the housing element program and the final regional housing need plan, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (5)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65584 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1771 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1771 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65584.01 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1771 and AB 2238 to be operative only if this bill and either or both AB 1771 and AB 2238 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65584.04 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1771 and AB 2238 to be operative only if this bill and either or both AB 1771 and AB 2238 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n (6)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city or county and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law also requires the general plan to include a housing element and requires a planning agency to submit a draft of the housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development for review, as specified.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would, among other things, require the department to take certain actions relating to unmet housing needs, including completing a comprehensive assessment on unmet need for each region and including the results of the assessment in regional allocations for the next housing element cycle.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-30" }, "version_count": 11, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 974, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3." }, { "date": "2018-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-21", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2018-04-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 4821.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2018-04-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4297.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 10. Page 4422.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-11", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2018-06-18", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2018-06-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2018-06-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2018-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 27)." }, { "date": "2018-07-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 23. Page 6540.)" }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Read third time and amended. (Ayes 46. Noes 23. Page 6562.)" }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 21. Page 6767.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 6025.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-10", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 974, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB828", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB828", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB828", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB828", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB828" }, "headline": "Changes how regional housing needs are set", "one_liner": "Changes the data and rules used to set and share out each region's housing need among cities and counties.", "summary": "Cities and counties cannot use past underbuilding or a stable population to justify a smaller share of regional housing need. Regional planners must use more data, including overcrowding, housing cost burden, and income growth. A healthy rental vacancy rate is set at no less than 5%. Farmland protected by local voter measures counts as a limit on development.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB828.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB918", "slug": "2017-18/SB918", "number": "SB 918", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-22", "last_action_date": "2018-09-27", "subject": "Homeless Youth Act of 2018.", "introduced_subject": "Homeless Youth Act of 2018.", "title": "An act to amend Section 8257 of, and to add Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8259) to Division 8 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homeless youth.", "digest": "Existing law establishes various programs, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, homeless youth emergency service pilot projects, and Housing First and the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, to provide assistance to homeless persons. Existing law establishes the council to oversee the implementation of the Housing First guidelines and regulations, and, among other things, identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California.\n This bill would require the council to assume additional responsibilities, including setting specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among youth in the state and defining outcome measures and gathering data related to those goals. The bill would also require the council, in order to coordinate a spectrum of funding, policy, and practice efforts related to young people experiencing homelessness, to coordinate with certain stakeholders and, to the extent that funding is made available, provide technical assistance and program development support.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes various programs, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, homeless youth emergency service pilot projects, and Housing First and the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, to provide assistance to homeless persons.\n This bill would establish the Office of Homeless Youth in the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would set forth the duties of the office, including, but not limited to, setting specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among youth in the state. The bill would require the office to identify funding, policy, and practice gaps across state systems that serve, or hold the potential to serve, young people experiencing homelessness, develop specific recommendations and timelines for addressing these gaps, and report to the Legislature, as specified. The bill would require the office to oversee and administer specified grant programs for young people experiencing homelessness and their families, which would be funded by funds provided to the State Department of Health Care Services from the Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention, and Treatment Account. The bill would make an appropriation to the office from the General Fund in the amount of the difference between funding received from the State Department of Social Services for purposes of the grant program and $60,000,000. The bill would specify that the grant funds would be used to supplement existing levels of service and not to supplant any existing funding. \n This bill would impose criteria and requirements for agencies eligible for grant funding to operate a homeless youth program or shelter program, and would require preference to be given to agencies with certain characteristics, including those that propose to provide services in geographic areas where no similar services are provided and there is a demonstrated need for those services. The bill would require a grant proposal to identify how it intends to ensure that participating youth receive services, including, but not limited to, drug abuse education and prevention services, mental and physical health care, and aftercare and follow-up services. The bill would require a grantee to submit annual progress reports to the office and agree to meet quality improvement goals, accept technical assistance, and submit to annual site monitoring visits by the office, as specified. \n Existing law establishes the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to oversee the implementation of the Housing First guidelines and regulations and, among other things, identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. Existing law requires the Governor to appoint up to 15 members to the council, as specified. \n This bill would require the council membership to also include a representative of the Office of Homeless Youth.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-27" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 841, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Rubio" ], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Beall", "Glazer", "Hill", "Leyva", "Portantino", "Wilk", "Chiu", "Cooley", "Gonzalez Fletcher", "Lackey", "Maienschein", "Mayes", "McCarty", "Reyes", "Rodriguez", "Steinorth", "Mark Stone", "Thurmond" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-22", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-23", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-02-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2018-03-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 4624.) (April 10)." }, { "date": "2018-04-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-04-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2018-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 4821.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-04-27", "action": "Set for hearing May 7." }, { "date": "2018-05-07", "action": "May 7 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 4299.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4399.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-07", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6981.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6114.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-11", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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It must work with certain stakeholders. If funding is available, it must give technical help and program support.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB918.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB923", "slug": "2017-18/SB923", "number": "SB 923", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-23", "last_action_date": "2018-09-30", "subject": "Criminal investigations: eyewitness identification.", "introduced_subject": "Criminal investigations: eyewitness identification.", "title": "An act to add Section 859.7 to the Penal Code, relating to criminal procedure.", "digest": "Existing law generally regulates the collection and admissibility of evidence for purposes of criminal prosecutions.\n This bill would, commencing January 1, 2020, require all law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial entities to adopt regulations for conducting photo lineups and live lineups with eyewitnesses, as those terms would be defined by the bill, to ensure reliable and accurate suspect identifications. The bill would require the regulations to comply with specified requirements, including that prior to conducting the identification procedure, and as close in time to the incident as possible, the eyewitness provide the description of the perpetrator of the offense. By imposing a higher level of service on local law enforcement and prosecutorial entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also include a statement of legislative findings and declarations.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law generally regulates the collection and admissibility of evidence for purposes of criminal prosecutions.\n This bill would require all law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial entities to adopt regulations for conducting photo lineups and live lineups with eyewitnesses, as those terms would be defined by the bill, to ensure reliable and accurate suspect identifications. The bill would require the regulations to comply with specified requirements, including that prior to conducting the identification procedure, and as close in time to the incident as possible, the eyewitness provide the description of the perpetrator of the offense. By imposing a higher level of service on local law enforcement and prosecutorial entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also include a statement of legislative findings and declarations.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-30" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 977, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Levine" ], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-23", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4627.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2018-04-23", "action": "April 23 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 4299.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 4400.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-04", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-06-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "June 27 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 8. Page 6188.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-12", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 977, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB923", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB923", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB923", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB923", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB923" }, "headline": "Requires standard rules for eyewitness lineups", "one_liner": "Requires police and prosecutors to adopt rules for photo and live lineups with eyewitnesses starting in 2020.", "summary": "Starting in 2020, all law enforcement agencies and prosecutors must adopt rules for photo lineups and live lineups. The rules must aim for reliable and accurate suspect identifications. They must meet set requirements. For example, the eyewitness must describe the perpetrator before the lineup, as soon after the incident as possible.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB923.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB966", "slug": "2017-18/SB966", "number": "SB 966", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-31", "last_action_date": "2018-09-28", "subject": "Onsite treated nonpotable water systems.", "introduced_subject": "Onsite treated nonpotable water systems.", "title": "An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 13558) to Chapter 7 of Division 7 of the Water Code, relating to water quality.", "digest": "Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health. \n This bill would, on or before December 1, 2022, require the state board, in consultation with the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development, to adopt regulations for risk-based water quality standards for the onsite treatment and reuse of nonpotable water, as provided. The bill would authorize the state board to contract with public or private entities regarding the content of the standards. The bill would require a local jurisdiction, as defined, that elects to establish a program for onsite treated nonpotable water systems to, among other things, adopt, through ordinance, a local program that includes the risk-based water quality standards established by the state board. The bill would, on or before December 1, 2023, require the department, in consultation with the state board, to develop and propose for adoption any necessary corresponding building standards to support the risk-based water quality standards established by the state board. The bill would prohibit an onsite treated nonpotable water system from being installed except under a program established by a local jurisdiction in compliance with the bill’s provisions.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health. \n This bill would, on or before December 1, 2022, require the state board, in consultation with the California Building Standards Commission, to adopt regulations for risk-based water quality standards for the onsite treatment and reuse of nonpotable water, as provided. The bill would authorize the state board to contract with public or private entities regarding the content of the standards and would exempt those contracts from, among other provisions, review and approval of the Department of General Services. The bill would require a local jurisdiction, as defined, that elects to establish a program for onsite treated nonpotable water systems to, among other things, adopt, through ordinance, a local program that includes the risk-based water quality standards established by the state board. The bill would prohibit an onsite treated nonpotable water system from being installed except under a program established by a local jurisdiction in compliance with the bill’s provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-28" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 890, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Water Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Glazer", "Cristina Garcia", "Lackey", "Rubio" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-31", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3." }, { "date": "2018-02-08", "action": "Referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2018-03-20", "action": "Set for hearing April 4." }, { "date": "2018-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2018-04-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 4)." }, { "date": "2018-04-10", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2018-04-23", "action": "April 23 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4300.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4451.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-11", "action": "Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M." }, { "date": "2018-06-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6776.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6058.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-10", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 890, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB966", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB966", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB966", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB966", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB966" }, "headline": "Creates standards for onsite water reuse systems", "one_liner": "Requires state water standards for systems that treat and reuse nonpotable water on site.", "summary": "The State Water Resources Control Board must adopt risk-based water quality standards for onsite treatment and reuse of nonpotable water by December 2022. The housing department must propose matching building standards by December 2023. Local governments that set up programs for these systems must adopt the state standards by ordinance. Systems may be installed only under such programs.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB966.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB1004", "slug": "2017-18/SB1004", "number": "SB 1004", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-02-06", "last_action_date": "2018-09-27", "subject": "Mental Health Services Act: prevention and early intervention.", "introduced_subject": "Mental Health Services Act: prevention and early diagnosis.", "title": "An act to add a heading to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 5840) of, and to add Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5840.5) to, Part 3.6 of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.", "digest": "Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), an initiative measure enacted by the voters by Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs by imposing a tax of 1% on annual incomes above $1,000,000. The MHSA establishes the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission to oversee various parts of the act, as specified. Under the MHSA, funds are distributed to counties to be expended pursuant to a local plan for specified purposes, including, but not limited to, prevention and early intervention. Existing law specifies that prevention and early intervention services include outreach, access, and linkage to medically necessary care, reduction in stigma, and reduction in discrimination. The MHSA permits amendment by the Legislature by a 2/3 vote of each house if the amendment is consistent with, and furthers the intent of, the MHSA.\n This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2020, to establish priorities for the use of prevention and early intervention funds and to develop a statewide strategy for monitoring implementation of prevention and early intervention services, including enhancing public understanding of prevention and early intervention and creating metrics for assessing the effectiveness of how prevention and early intervention funds are used and the outcomes that are achieved. The bill would require the commission to establish a strategy for technical assistance, support, and evaluation to support the successful implementation of the objectives, metrics, data collection, and reporting strategy. The bill would amend the Mental Health Services Act by requiring the portion of the funds in the county plan relating to prevention and early intervention to focus on the priorities established by the commission. The bill would authorize a county to include other priorities, as determined through the stakeholder process, either in place of, or in addition to, the established priorities. If the county chooses to include other programs, the bill would require the plan to include a description of why those programs are included and metrics by which the effectiveness of those programs are to be measured. The bill would authorize counties to act jointly to meet specified requirements. The bill would require the commission to review the plans and approve them if they meet specified requirements. This bill would declare that its provisions further the intent of the MHSA.\n By requiring counties to include additional information in their local plans, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), an initiative measure enacted by the voters by Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs by imposing a tax of 1% on annual incomes above $1,000,000. The MHSA establishes the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission to oversee various parts of the act, as specified. Under the MHSA, funds are distributed to counties to be expended pursuant to a local plan for specified purposes, including, but not limited to, prevention and early diagnosis. Existing law specifies that prevention and early diagnosis services include outreach, access and linkage to medically necessary care, reduction in stigma, and reduction in discrimination. The MHSA permits amendment by the Legislature by a 2/3 vote of each house if the amendment is consistent with, and furthers the intent of, the MHSA.\n This bill would amend the Mental Health Services Act by requiring counties to expend Mental Health Services Act prevention and early intervention funds on early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention, college mental health outreach, engagement, and service delivery, and childhood trauma prevention and early intervention, as specified. This bill would declare that its provisions further the intent of the MHSA.\n By requiring counties to provide specified services, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-27" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 843, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Moorlach" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Mullin" ], "coauthors": [ "Portantino", "Arambula", "Chiu", "Eggman", "Kiley", "Maienschein", "Mayes", "Waldron" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-02-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-02-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9." }, { "date": "2018-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-03-21", "action": "Set for hearing April 11." }, { "date": "2018-03-22", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-04-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 4655.) (April 11)." }, { "date": "2018-04-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-09", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4301.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4403.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-07", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-06-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-06-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6806.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6152.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-12", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 843, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1004", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1004", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1004", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1004", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1004" }, "headline": "Sets statewide priorities for mental health prevention", "one_liner": "Requires a state commission to set priorities for county mental health prevention and early intervention funds.", "summary": "The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission must set priorities for prevention and early intervention funds by 2020. It must create metrics to track results. County plans must focus these funds on those priorities. Counties may add other priorities but must explain them and measure their effectiveness. The commission must review and approve county plans.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB1004.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB1021", "slug": "2017-18/SB1021", "number": "SB 1021", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-02-07", "last_action_date": "2018-09-26", "subject": "Prescription drugs.", "introduced_subject": "Prescription drugs.", "title": "An act to amend and repeal Section 1342.71 of, and to add and repeal Sections 1342.72 and 1342.73 of, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend and repeal Section 10123.193 of, and to add and repeal Sections 10123.1931 and 10123.1932 of, the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n Existing law prohibits the formulary or formularies for outpatient prescription drugs maintained by a health care service plan or health insurer from discouraging the enrollment of individuals with health conditions and from reducing the generosity of the benefit for enrollees or insureds with a particular condition. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, provides that the copayment, coinsurance, or any other form of cost sharing for a covered outpatient prescription drug for an individual prescription shall not exceed $250 for a supply of up to 30 days, except as specified. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, requires a nongrandfathered individual or small group plan contract or policy to use specified definitions for each tier of a drug formulary.\n This bill would extend those provisions until January 1, 2024. The bill would, until January 1, 2024, prohibit a drug formulary maintained by a health care service plan or health insurer from containing more than 4 tiers, as specified. The bill would require a prescription drug benefit to provide that an enrollee or an insured is not required to pay more than the retail price for a prescription drug if a pharmacy’s retail price is less than the applicable copayment or coinsurance amount, and the payment rendered by an enrollee or insured would constitute the applicable cost sharing, as specified.\n Existing law requires a plan contract or policy to cover a single-tablet prescription drug regimen for combination antiretroviral drug treatments that are medically necessary for the treatment of AIDS/HIV, as specified.\n This bill would, until January 1, 2023, extend that coverage requirement to combination antiretroviral drug treatments that are medically necessary for the prevention of AIDS/HIV, as specified. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n Existing law prohibits the formulary or formularies for outpatient prescription drugs maintained by a health care service plan or health insurer from discouraging the enrollment of individuals with health conditions and from reducing the generosity of the benefit for enrollees or insureds with a particular condition. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, provides that the copayment, coinsurance, or any other form of cost sharing for a covered outpatient prescription drug for an individual prescription shall not exceed $250 for a supply of up to 30 days, except as specified. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, requires a nongrandfathered individual or small group plan contract or policy to use specified definitions for each tier of a drug formulary.\n This bill would extend those provisions indefinitely. The bill would prohibit a drug formulary maintained by a health care service plan or health insurer from containing more than 4 tiers, and would permit a biologic with a therapeutic equivalent to be placed on a tier other than tier 4, as specified. The bill would require a prescription drug benefit to provide that an enrollee or an insured is not required to pay more than the retail price for a prescription drug if a pharmacy’s retail price is less than the applicable copayment or coinsurance amount.\n Existing law requires a plan contract or policy to cover a single-tablet prescription drug regimen for combination antiretroviral drug treatments that are medically necessary for the treatment of AIDS/HIV, as specified.\n This bill would extend that coverage requirement to combination antiretroviral drug treatments that are medically necessary for the prevention of AIDS/HIV, as specified. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-26" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 787, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Atkins" ], "coauthors": [ "Gabriel" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-02-07", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-02-08", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10." }, { "date": "2018-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-03-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2018-04-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 4851.) (April 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2018-05-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4240.) (May 22)." }, { "date": "2018-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 4341.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-04", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-06-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-06-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6592.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-28", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 5860.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-05", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-26", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-26", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 787, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1021", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1021", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1021", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1021", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1021" }, "headline": "Extends limits on prescription drug costs", "one_liner": "Extends caps on prescription drug copays and adds new limits for people with health plans or insurance.", "summary": "Extends a $250 cap on cost sharing for a 30-day prescription supply until 2024. Plan and insurer drug lists may have no more than 4 tiers. Patients pay no more than a pharmacy's retail price if it is below the copay. Plans must also cover single-tablet combination drugs that are medically necessary to prevent HIV until 2023.", "issues": [ "health", "lgbtq" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB1021.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB1045", "slug": "2017-18/SB1045", "number": "SB 1045", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-02-08", "last_action_date": "2018-09-27", "subject": "Conservatorship: serious mental illness and substance use disorders.", "introduced_subject": "Conservatorship: chronic homelessness: mental health.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Article 7 (commencing with Section 5555) of Chapter 6.2 of, and to add and repeal Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 5450) of, Part 1 of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to conservatorship.", "digest": "(1)Existing law establishes a procedure for the appointment of a conservator for a person who is determined to be gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or an impairment by chronic alcoholism, as specified, pursuant to a petition to the superior court by an officer conducting an investigation and concurring with a recommendation of conservatorship. Existing law also establishes a procedure for the appointment of other types of conservatorship or a guardianship as ordered by the probate court.\n Existing law, the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura’s Law, until January 1, 2022, grants each county the authority to offer certain assisted outpatient treatment services for a person who meets specified criteria, including, among others, that the person is suffering from a mental illness, that the person has a history of lack of compliance with treatment for the person’s mental illness, and that the person is in need of assisted outpatient treatment, as specified. Laura’s Law authorizes designated persons to request the county behavioral health director to file a petition in the superior court for an order for assisted outpatient treatment.\n This bill would establish a procedure, for the County of Los Angeles, the County of San Diego, and the City and County of San Francisco, if the board of supervisors of the respective county or city and county authorizes the application of these provisions subject to specified requirements, for the appointment of a conservator for a person who is incapable of caring for the person’s own health and well-being due to a serious mental illness and substance use disorder, as specified, for the purpose of providing the least restrictive and most clinically appropriate alternative needed for the protection of the person. The bill would prohibit a conservatorship from being established under these provisions if a conservatorship or guardianship exists under the above-described provisions.\n This bill would make the establishment of a conservatorship pursuant to these provisions subject to, among other things, a finding by the court that the behavioral health director of the county or the city and county has previously attempted by petition to obtain a court order authorizing assisted outpatient treatment pursuant to Laura’s Law for the person for whom conservatorship is sought, that the petition was denied or the assisted outpatient treatment was insufficient to treat the person’s mental illness, and that assisted outpatient treatment would be insufficient to treat the person in the instant matter in lieu of a conservatorship.\n This bill would require a conservatorship initiated under these provisions to automatically terminate one year after the appointment of the conservator by the superior court, or shorter if ordered by the court, except as specified.\n This bill would authorize the Judicial Council to adopt rules, forms, and standards necessary to implement these provisions.\n (2)This bill would require the County of Los Angeles, the County of San Diego, and the City and County of San Francisco, subject to the county’s or city and county’s election to apply these provisions, to establish a working group, comprised of representatives of local agencies and disability rights advocacy groups, among others, to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the implementation of the conservatorship provisions described above in addressing the needs of persons with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. The bill would require each working group to prepare and submit a preliminary report to the Legislature on its findings and recommendations no later than January 1, 2021, and a final report no later than January 1, 2023.\n (3)This bill would repeal, on January 1, 2024, all of the provisions relating to the new conservatorship procedure and the working group, as described above in paragraphs (1) and (2).\n (4)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles, the County of San Diego, and the City and County of San Francisco.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law provides a procedure for the appointment of a conservator for a person who is determined to be gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or an impairment by chronic alcoholism. Existing law defines “gravely disabled” as, among other things, a condition in which a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is unable to provide for his or her basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter. Existing law requires an officer, including a county public guardian or a county mental health program, to conduct a conservatorship investigation and render a written report to the court of his or her investigation.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would expand conservatorships to better meet the needs of the most vulnerable individuals who suffer from chronic homelessness accompanied by severe mental illness, drug addiction, repeated commitments, or exceptionally frequent use of emergency medical services. The bill would further state that the new legislation would maintain the many checks and balances necessary to protect individuals with mental illness, as specified, while facilitating their path to permanent housing and necessary supportive services.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-27" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 845, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Stern" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Bradford", "Chen" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-02-08", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-02-09", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 11." }, { "date": "2018-02-22", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-21", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-03-29", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2018-04-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-04-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 4722.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4818.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2018-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4302.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4406.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-06-14", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2018-06-21", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2018-07-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6795.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6052.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-10", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 845, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1045", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1045", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1045", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1045", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1045" }, "headline": "Creates new conservatorship process in three counties", "one_liner": "Lets Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco opt into conservatorship for serious mental illness and substance use disorders.", "summary": "Creates a conservatorship for people unable to care for themselves due to serious mental illness and substance use disorder. It applies in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco if they opt in. A court must find that Laura's Law outpatient treatment was sought and denied or not enough. Conservatorships end within one year. Working groups must report results.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB1045.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB1442", "slug": "2017-18/SB1442", "number": "SB 1442", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-02-16", "last_action_date": "2018-09-19", "subject": "Community pharmacies: staffing.", "introduced_subject": "Pharmacies: staffing.", "title": "An act to add Section 4113.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.", "digest": "Under the Pharmacy Law, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy and the conduct of a pharmacy in this state. The Pharmacy Law refers to various types of pharmacies, including community pharmacies, as specified. A knowing violation of that law is a crime.\n This bill would prohibit a community pharmacy from requiring a pharmacist to engage in the practice of pharmacy at any time the pharmacy is open to the public, unless either another employee of the pharmacy or, if the pharmacy is located within another establishment, an employee of the establishment within which the pharmacy is located is made available to assist the pharmacist at all times. The bill would exempt certain pharmacies from its provisions, and would specify that violation of its provisions does not constitute a crime.", "introduced_digest": "Under the Pharmacy Law, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy and the conduct of a pharmacy in this state. A knowing violation of that law is a crime.\n This bill would prohibit a pharmacy from requiring a pharmacist to engage in the practice of pharmacy unless the pharmacist is assisted at all times by either another employee of the pharmacy or, if the pharmacy is located within another establishment, an employee of the establishment within which the pharmacy is located. By imposing a new requirement on pharmacies, the knowing violation of which would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2018-09-19" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 569, Statutes of 2018", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Stone" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Galgiani" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-02-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-02-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22." }, { "date": "2018-03-08", "action": "Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2018-04-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2018-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 4697.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-04-24", "action": "Set for hearing April 30." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2018-05-01", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-03", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-05-03", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-07", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-10", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 4. Page 5007.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-10", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-05-17", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. & P." }, { "date": "2018-06-11", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P." }, { "date": "2018-06-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (June 19)." }, { "date": "2018-06-21", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6169.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-12", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-19", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-19", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 569, Statutes of 2018." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1442", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1442", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1442", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1442", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1442" }, "headline": "Requires staff help for community pharmacists", "one_liner": "Bars community pharmacies from making a pharmacist work alone while the pharmacy is open to the public.", "summary": "A community pharmacy cannot require a pharmacist to work while open to the public unless another employee is available to help at all times. If the pharmacy is inside another store, a store employee may fill that role. Certain pharmacies are exempt. Breaking this rule is not a crime.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB1442.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB30", "slug": "2019-20/SB30", "number": "SB 30", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-12-03", "last_action_date": "2019-07-30", "subject": "Domestic partnership.", "introduced_subject": "Domestic partnership: persons under 62 years of age.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 297, 297.1, 298, 298.5, 298.6, 298.7, and 299.2 of, and to repeal Section 299.3 of, the Family Code, relating to domestic partnership.", "digest": "Existing law defines domestic partnership as two adults who have chosen to share one another’s lives in an intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring. Existing law specifies requirements for entering into a domestic partnership, including that the domestic partners be either of the same sex or of the opposite sex and over 62 years of age.\n This bill would remove the requirement that persons be of the same sex or of the opposite sex and over 62 years of age in order to enter into a domestic partnership.\n Existing law imposes a $23 charge on persons filing domestic partner registrations to fund the development and support of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender curriculum for training workshops on domestic violence and for the support of a grant program to promote healthy nonviolent relationships in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Existing law exempts from this charge persons of opposite sexes filing a domestic partnership registration when one or both of the persons meet the eligibility criteria for federal old-age insurance benefits.\n This bill would expand the exemption from paying the charge to all persons filing a domestic partner registration when one or both of the domestic partners is 62 years of age or older.\n Existing law requires the Secretary of State to prepare forms entitled “Declaration of Domestic Partnership” and “Notice of Termination of Domestic Partnership” and to distribute those forms to each county clerk and make them available to the public at the office of the Secretary of State and each county clerk.\n This bill would delete the requirement that the forms be available at the office of each county clerk and, instead, require that the Secretary of State make the forms available at the office of the Secretary of State or on the Secretary of State’s internet website. The bill would require the instructions to the “Declaration of Domestic Partnership” form and the internet website to include an explanation that registered domestic partners have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and are subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law as are granted to and imposed upon spouses and an explanation of how to terminate a registered domestic partnership.\n This bill would also make various technical and conforming changes.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law defines domestic partnership as two adults who have chosen to share one another’s lives in an intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring. Existing law specifies requirements for entering into a domestic partnership, including that the domestic partners be either of the same sex or of the opposite sex and over 62 years of age.\n This bill would remove the requirement that persons be of the same sex or of the opposite sex and over 62 years of age in order to enter into a domestic partnership.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2019-07-30" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 135, Statutes of 2019", "laws_affected": [ "Family Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Quirk" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-12-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-12-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2019-03-08", "action": "Set for hearing March 26." }, { "date": "2019-03-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2019-03-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 438.) (March 26)." }, { "date": "2019-03-28", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2019-04-22", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2019-04-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-04-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 817.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-04-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-05-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2019-05-22", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2019-06-04", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 4)." }, { "date": "2019-06-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-06-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-06-19", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2019-06-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 19)." }, { "date": "2019-06-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 0. Page 2489.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-07-05", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 1954.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-07-19", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2019-07-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-07-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 135, Statutes of 2019." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB30", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB30", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB30", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB30", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB30" }, "headline": "Removes sex and age limits on domestic partnerships", "one_liner": "Removes the rule that domestic partners be the same sex or, if opposite sex, over 62.", "summary": "Removes the requirement that domestic partners be of the same sex or be over 62. Waives the $23 registration charge for all couples when one partner is 62 or older. The Secretary of State must offer forms at its office or website and explain partners' rights and how to end a partnership.", "issues": [ "lgbtq" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB30.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB34", "slug": "2019-20/SB34", "number": "SB 34", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-12-03", "last_action_date": "2019-10-12", "subject": "Cannabis: donations.", "introduced_subject": "Cannabis: donations.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 26001, 26153, 26161, and 26162.5 of, and to add Section 26071 to, the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Sections 34010, 34011, and 34012 of, and to add and repeal Sections 6414 and 34012.1 of, the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to cannabis.", "digest": "(1)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.\n Existing administrative law prohibits a retailer licensee from providing free cannabis goods to any person or allowing individuals who are not employed by the retailer to provide free cannabis goods to any person on the licensed premises. Existing administrative law provides an exception to this prohibition for specified medicinal retailer and microbusiness licensees to provide access to medicinal cannabis patients who have difficulty accessing medicinal cannabis goods, as specified.\n This bill, the Dennis Peron and Brownie Mary Act, would similarly authorize, on and after a specified date, licensees that are authorized to make retail sales to provide free cannabis or cannabis products to a medicinal cannabis patient or the patient’s primary caregiver if specified requirements are met, including that the cannabis or cannabis products otherwise meet specified requirements of MAUCRSA. The bill would authorize those licensees to contract with an individual or organization to coordinate the provision of free medicinal cannabis and medicinal cannabis products on the retailer’s premises.\n (2)Existing law deems information contained in a physician’s recommendation to use cannabis for medical purposes to be “medical information” within the meaning of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, and prohibits a licensee from disclosing this information except, among other exceptions, as necessary for the state or any city, county, or city and county to perform certain official duties. Existing law, the Medical Marijuana Program (MMP), requires counties to administer an identification card program for qualified patients that possess or cultivate cannabis for personal medical purposes. Existing law deems identification cards issued to those qualified patients to be “medical information” within the meaning of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, and likewise prohibits a licensee from disclosing these identification cards, subject to the same exceptions.\n This bill would additionally except from these prohibitions against disclosure the disclosure of the medical information described above as necessary for the state or any city, county, or city and county to perform official duties pursuant to the Sales and Use Tax Law and pursuant to provisions relating to cannabis taxes.\n (3)Existing sales and use tax laws impose use taxes on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, presumes tangible personal property purchased outside the state that is stored, used, or consumed in this state is purchased for use in this state, and provides various exemptions from those taxes.\n This bill, on and after a specified operative date, and until 5 years after that operative date, would exempt from the use tax the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products that are donated, for no consideration, under specified circumstances. The bill would require the exemption to apply only if the cannabis retailer certifies in writing, as specified, that the medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product will be used as specified. The bill would make a licensee that uses the donated medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product in some other manner, or for some other purpose, liable for the payment of use tax and subject to having their license suspended.\n The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws.\n Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions.\n This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill.\n (4)AUMA imposes an excise tax on the purchase of cannabis and cannabis products, as defined, at the rate of 15% of the average market price of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer.\n The bill would require that these provisions not be construed to impose an excise tax upon medicinal cannabis, or medicinal cannabis products, donated for no consideration to a medicinal cannabis patient, as specified.\n (5)AUMA imposes a cultivation tax on all harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market upon all cultivators. Existing law defines entering the commercial market to mean cannabis or cannabis products, except for immature cannabis plants and seeds, that complete and comply with specified quality assurance review and testing. \n This bill, on and after a specified operative date, and until 5 years after that operative date, would prohibit the cultivation tax from being imposed on medicinal cannabis designated for donation by a cultivator in the track and trace system. The bill would require a licensee that certifies in writing that the medicinal cannabis or a medicinal cannabis product will be donated to a medicinal cannabis patient and sells or uses the medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product in some manner or for some purpose other than donation be liable for the cultivation tax. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify that the certification in writing relieves the cultivator that donates the medicinal cannabis from liability for the cultivation tax and the distributor from liability for collecting the cultivation only if the certification is taken in good faith. The bill would prohibit a distributor from collecting or remitting the cultivation tax for medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation by the cultivator. The bill would require a cultivator to keep records of any medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation. The bill would require that the cannabis tax provisions not be construed to impose a cultivation tax upon medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation by a cultivator.\n (6)The bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office, in order to enable the Legislature to determine whether the use tax exemption and the cultivation tax exemption provided by the bill are meeting, failing to meet, or exceeding a specified goal and objective, to collect certain data regarding the tax exemptions from specified entities, and to submit a report containing the data to the Legislature and the Governor annually each year that the tax exemptions are in effect.\n (7)This bill would provide that the provisions of the act are severable.\n (8)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 26001 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 185 to be operative only if this bill and SB 185 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n (9)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n (10)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, an initiative measure, authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act with a 2/3 vote of the membership of both houses of the Legislature, except as provided.\n This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.", "introduced_digest": "(1)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.\n Existing administrative law prohibits a retailer licensee from providing free cannabis goods to any person or allowing individuals who are not employed by the retailer to provide free cannabis goods to any person on the licensed premises. Existing administrative law provides an exception to this prohibition for specified medicinal retailer and microbusiness licensees to provide access to medicinal cannabis patients who have difficulty accessing medicinal cannabis goods, as specified.\n This bill would similarly authorize those specified licensees to provide free cannabis or cannabis products to a medicinal cannabis patient if specified requirements are met, including that the cannabis or cannabis products otherwise meet specified requirements of MAUCRSA. The bill would authorize those specified licensees to contract with an individual or organization to coordinate the provision of free medicinal cannabis and medicinal cannabis products on the retailer’s premises.\n (2)Existing sales and use tax laws impose use taxes on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, presumes tangible personal property purchased outside the state that is stored, used, or consumed in this state is purchased for use in this state, and excludes from use taxes, specified tangible personal property purchased and used for specified purposes.\n This bill, on or after January 1, 2020, and until January 1, 2025, would exempt from the use tax the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products that are donated, for no consideration, under specified circumstances. The bill would require the exemption to apply only if the donee certifies in writing, as specified, that the medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product will be used as specified. The bill would make a licensee that uses the donated medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product in some other manner, or for some other purpose, liable for the payment of use tax and would make the measure of tax the licensee’s purchase price for similar product.\n The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws.\n Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions.\n This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill.\n (3)AUMA imposes an excise tax on the purchase of cannabis and cannabis products, as defined, at the rate of 15% of the average market price of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer.\n The bill would require that these provisions not be construed to impose an excise tax upon medicinal cannabis, or medicinal cannabis products, donated for no consideration to a medicinal cannabis patient, as specified.\n (4)AUMA imposes a cultivation tax on all harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market upon all cultivators. Existing law defines entering the commercial market to mean cannabis or cannabis products, except for immature cannabis plants and seeds, that complete and comply with specified quality assurance review and testing. \n This bill would prohibit the cultivation tax from being imposed on medicinal cannabis designated for donation. The bill would make a licensee that certifies in writing that medicinal cannabis or a medicinal cannabis product will be donated to a medicinal cannabis patient and sells or uses the medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product in some manner, or for some purpose other than donation, liable for the cultivation tax. The bill would specify that the certification in writing relieves the cultivator that donates the medicinal cannabis from liability for the cultivation tax and the distributor from liability for collecting the cultivation only if the certification is taken in good faith. The bill would prohibit a distributor or a manufacturer from collecting or remitting the cultivation tax for medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation. The bill would require a cultivator to keep records of any medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation. The bill would require that the cannabis tax provisions not be construed to impose a cultivation tax upon medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation.\n (5)This bill would provide that the provisions of the act are severable.\n (6)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, an initiative measure, authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act with a 2/3 vote of the membership of both houses of the Legislature, except as provided.\n This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. \n (7)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2019-10-12" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 837, Statutes of 2019", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Revenue and Taxation Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Bonta", "Wood" ], "coauthors": [ "Skinner", "Stone", "Cooley", "Mathis" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-12-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-12-03", "action": "(Corrected December 7)." }, { "date": "2018-12-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2019-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing March 20." }, { "date": "2019-03-12", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2019-03-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & E.D. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 384.) (March 20)." }, { "date": "2019-03-21", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2019-03-26", "action": "Set for hearing April 1." }, { "date": "2019-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 511.) (April 1)." }, { "date": "2019-04-04", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2019-04-22", "action": "April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1087.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1167.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-05-30", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2019-06-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "July 1 hearing: Heard for testimony only." }, { "date": "2019-07-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2019-07-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-14", "action": "August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3326.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2845.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-09-18", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2019-10-12", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-10-12", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 837, Statutes of 2019." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB34", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB34", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB34", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB34", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB34" }, "headline": "Allows free medicinal cannabis for patients", "one_liner": "Lets licensed cannabis retailers give free medicinal cannabis to patients and caregivers, and exempts those donations from some taxes.", "summary": "Named the Dennis Peron and Brownie Mary Act. Lets licensed cannabis retailers give free medicinal cannabis to patients or their primary caregivers if rules are met. For five years, donated medicinal cannabis is exempt from use and cultivation taxes. Licensees who use donated cannabis another way owe the tax and may have their license suspended.", "issues": [ "nightlife", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB34.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB40", "slug": "2019-20/SB40", "number": "SB 40", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-12-03", "last_action_date": "2019-10-02", "subject": "Conservatorship: serious mental illness and substance use disorders.", "introduced_subject": "Conservatorship: serious mental illness and substance use disorders.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 5451, 5452, 5453, 5456, 5462, 5463, and 5555 of, and to add Section 5465.5 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Existing law establishes a procedure, until January 1, 2024, for the County of Los Angeles, the County of San Diego, and the City and County of San Francisco, if the board of supervisors authorizes the appointment of a conservator for a person who is incapable of caring for the person’s own health and well-being due to a serious mental illness and substance use disorder, as evidenced by frequent detention for evaluation and treatment, which is 8 or more detentions for evaluation and treatment in the preceding 12 months. Existing law automatically terminates a conservatorship initiated pursuant to these provisions one year after the appointment of the conservator unless the court specifies a shorter period. Existing law authorizes the person for whom conservatorship is sought to demand a court or jury trial on the issue of whether the person meets the criteria for the appointment of a conservator pursuant to these provisions. Existing law authorizes the Judicial Council to adopt rules, forms, and standards necessary to implement these provisions.\n This bill would additionally authorize the court to establish a temporary conservatorship for a period of 28 days or less if the court is satisfied that the person is presently incapable of caring for the person’s own health and well-being due to a serious mental illness and substance use disorder, as those terms are defined by the bill, the person has been detained 8 times for evaluation and treatment in a 12-month period pursuant to existing law authorizing the detention of mentally disordered persons who are a danger to self or others or gravely disabled, without reference to evidence of frequent detention for evaluation and treatment, the temporary conservatorship is necessary, and the county health director, or their designee, has met specified requirements relating to those previous detentions. The bill would also change the definition of “frequent detention for evaluation and treatment” for purposes of these conservatorship provisions to mean 8 or more detentions in a 12-month period.\n The bill would require that a petition seeking to establish the above-described conservatorship be filed with the court no later than 28 days following the 8th detention in a 12-month period, and would provide that the petition may be filed only in conjunction with a petition to establish a temporary conservatorship. The bill would require a supplement to the petition, which includes a detailed description of the comprehensive clinical evaluation of the person conducted during the temporary conservatorship, to be filed within 14 days after the initial petition. The bill would require a court making the determination of whether a person meets the criteria for appointment of a conservator to make that determination by clear and convincing evidence based on comprehensive clinical evaluations conducted under temporary conservatorship. This bill would require that the person for whom the conservatorship is sought have the right to demand a court or jury trial to determine whether the person meets the criteria for appointment of a conservator beyond a reasonable doubt.\n The bill would provide that the conservatorship would automatically terminate 6 months, rather than one year, after the appointment of the conservator by the superior court, or a shorter period if ordered by the court. The bill would require the conservator to file a report with the court every 60 days regarding the conservatee’s progress and engagement with treatment and, if the court is not satisfied that the conservatorship continues to be justified, the bill would require the court to terminate the conservatorship.\n Existing law makes the establishment of a conservatorship pursuant to these provisions subject to, among other things, a finding by the court that the behavioral health director of the county or the city and county has previously attempted by petition to obtain a court order authorizing assisted outpatient treatment pursuant to the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura’s Law, for the person for whom conservatorship is sought, that the petition was denied or the assisted outpatient treatment was insufficient to treat the person’s mental illness, and that assisted outpatient treatment would be insufficient to treat the person in the instant matter in lieu of a conservatorship.\n This bill would instead make the establishment of the above-described conservatorship subject to a finding by the court that the health director, or the director’s designee, has fulfilled specified requirements and (1) has previously attempted to obtain the above-described court order and that the petition was denied or the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that assisted outpatient treatment was insufficient to treat the person’s mental illness, or (2) recommends, and the court finds by clear and convincing evidence, that the person, as a matter of law, does not meet the criteria described for assisted outpatient treatment or determines that assisted outpatient treatment would be insufficient to treat the person in lieu of a conservatorship, as specified. The bill would authorize assisted outpatient treatment to be ordered at that hearing if the behavioral health director, or the director’s designee, fails to demonstrate that assisted outpatient treatment would be insufficient to treat the person, and the person qualifies for that treatment.\n Existing law requires the County of Los Angeles, the County of San Diego, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a working group to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the implementation of the above-mentioned provisions in addressing the needs of persons with serious mental illness and substance use disorders in the county or the city and county, and requires the evaluation to include an assessment of the number and status of persons who have been conserved under those provisions, among other things.\n This bill would additionally require the evaluation to include, among other things, the service planning and delivery process for those conserved persons, an analysis of demographic data of those conserved persons, and the number of those conserved persons who successfully complete substance use disorder treatment programs.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes a procedure for the appointment of a conservator for a person who is incapable of caring for the person’s own health and well-being due to a serious mental illness and substance use disorder, as specified, for the purpose of providing the least restrictive and most clinically appropriate alternative needed for the protection of the person. Existing law authorizes that conservatorship procedure only for the County of Los Angeles, the County of San Diego, and the City and County of San Francisco, if the board of supervisors of the respective county or city and county authorizes the application of these provisions subject to specified findings and requirements, including that certain county departments develop a plan to implement these provisions, as specified, and present the plan and available resources for the implementation before the county board of supervisors.\n This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2019-10-02" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 467, Statutes of 2019", "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Stern" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Jones", "Moorlach" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-12-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-12-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-13", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-03-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2019-04-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2019-04-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 652.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2019-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 802.) (April 23)." }, { "date": "2019-04-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2019-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1088.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1168.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2019-06-13", "action": "June 18 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2019-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2019-07-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-14", "action": "August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-05", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3043.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-09-05", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2603.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-09-17", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2019-10-02", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-10-02", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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These conservatorships end after 6 months instead of one year, and conservators must report to the court every 60 days. Takes effect immediately.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB40.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB132", "slug": "2019-20/SB132", "number": "SB 132", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-14", "last_action_date": "2020-09-26", "subject": "Corrections.", "introduced_subject": "Corrections.", "title": "An act to add Sections 2605 and 2606 to the Penal Code, relating to corrections.", "digest": "Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law authorizes a person sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison or a county jail for a felony to be, during the period of confinement, deprived of those rights, and only those rights, as is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.\n This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to, during initial intake and classification, and in a private setting, ask each individual entering into the custody of the department to specify the individual’s gender identity whether the individual identifies as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex, and their gender pronoun and honorific. The bill would prohibit the department from disciplining a person for refusing to answer or not disclosing complete information in response to these questions. The bill would authorize a person under the jurisdiction of the department to update this information. The bill would prohibit staff, contractors, and volunteers of the department from failing to consistently use the gender pronoun and honorific an individual has specified in verbal and written communications with or regarding that individual that involve the use of a pronoun or honorific.\n The bill would require the department, for a person who is transgender, nonbinary, or intersex to only conduct a search of that person according to the search policy for their gender identity or according to the gender designation of the facility where they are housed, based on the individual’s search preference. The bill would additionally require the department to house the person in a correctional facility designated for men or women based on the individual’s preference, except as specified.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law authorizes a person sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison or a county jail for a felony to be, during the period of confinement, deprived of those rights, and only those rights, as is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure that transgender people in custody have equal rights and protections and to help protect the human dignity and safety of all people in custody.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2020-09-26" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 182, Statutes of 2020", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Galgiani", "Mark Stone" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-14", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-01-15", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 14." }, { "date": "2019-01-24", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-27", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-03-29", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2019-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 802.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-30", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2019-05-06", "action": "May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1090.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 1262.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-03", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-07-10", "action": "July 10 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-12", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Calderon." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Mark Stone." }, { "date": "2020-06-26", "action": "From inactive file." }, { "date": "2020-06-26", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-24", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2020-08-24", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 15. Page 5305.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2020-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2020-09-10", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2020-09-26", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2020-09-26", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 182, Statutes of 2020." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB132", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB132", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB132", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB132", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB132" }, "headline": "Sets rules for transgender people in state prisons", "one_liner": "Requires state prisons to use people's stated pronouns and follow housing and search preferences of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people.", "summary": "The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation must privately ask people entering custody about their gender identity, pronoun and honorific, and may not discipline anyone who declines to answer. Staff must use the pronoun and honorific a person specifies. Transgender, nonbinary and intersex people are searched and housed in a men's or women's facility based on their preference, with exceptions.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB132.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB136", "slug": "2019-20/SB136", "number": "SB 136", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-15", "last_action_date": "2019-10-08", "subject": "Sentencing.", "introduced_subject": "Sentencing.", "title": "An act to amend Section 667.5 of the Penal Code, relating to sentencing.", "digest": "Existing law imposes an additional 3-year sentence for each prior separate prison term served by a defendant where the prior and current offense was a violent felony, as defined. For other felonies, existing law imposes an additional one-year term for each prior separate prison term or county jail felony term, except under specified circumstances.\n This bill would instead impose that additional one-year term served for each prior separate prison term served for a conviction of a sexually violent offense, as defined.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law imposes an additional 3-year sentence for each prior separate prison term served by a defendant where the prior and current offense was a violent felony, as defined. For other Felonies, existing law imposes an additional one-year term for each prior separate prison term or county jail felony term, except under specified circumstances.\n This bill would delete the provision that requires an additional one-year term. The bill would make additional technical, nonsubstantive changes.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2019-10-08" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 590, Statutes of 2019", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Kalra" ], "coauthors": [ "Bradford", "Mitchell", "Carrillo", "Quirk", "Weber", "Kamlager-Dove", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-15", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 15." }, { "date": "2019-01-24", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-02-28", "action": "Set for hearing March 26." }, { "date": "2019-03-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 440.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2019-04-22", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2019-04-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 1337.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-06", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-06-26", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2019-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-14", "action": "August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-12", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 41. Noes 37. Page 3505.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-09-13", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 16. Page 2948.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-09-20", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2019-10-08", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-10-08", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 590, Statutes of 2019." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB136" }, "headline": "Narrows extra prison time for prior prison terms", "one_liner": "Limits the one-year sentence add-on for each prior prison term to prior terms for sexually violent offenses.", "summary": "Changes a one-year sentence add-on for people convicted of a felony. Instead of applying to each prior prison or county jail felony term, the extra year applies only to prior prison terms served for a sexually violent offense.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB136.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB142", "slug": "2019-20/SB142", "number": "SB 142", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-18", "last_action_date": "2019-10-10", "subject": "Employees: lactation accommodation.", "introduced_subject": "Employees: lactation accommodation.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1030, 1031, and 1033 of, and to add Section 1034 to, the Labor Code, relating to employment.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits an employer, who is required by law to give an employee a rest period during a workday, from requiring the employee to work during the rest period. Existing law requires an employer to pay the employee one additional hour of pay, at the employee’s regular rate of compensation, for each rest period not provided. Existing law requires employers to provide a reasonable amount of break time to employees desiring to express milk for the employee’s infant child. Existing law also requires an employer to make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room, or other location, other than a bathroom, in close proximity to the employee’s work area, for the employee to express milk in private. Existing law exempts an employer from the break time requirement if the employer’s operations would be seriously disrupted by providing that time to employees desiring to express milk. Existing law subjects employers who violate these provisions to a civil penalty of $100 per violation and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue citations for those violations. \n This bill would instead require an employer to provide a lactation room or location that includes prescribed features and would require an employer, among other things, to provide access to a sink and refrigerator in close proximity to the employee’s workspace, as specified. The bill would deem denial of reasonable break time or adequate space to express milk a failure to provide a rest period in accordance with state law. The bill would prohibit an employer from discharging, or in any other manner discriminating or retaliating against, an employee for exercising or attempting to exercise rights under these provisions and would establish remedies that include filing a complaint with the Labor Commissioner. The bill would authorize employers with fewer than 50 employees to seek an exemption from the requirements of these provisions if the employer demonstrates that the requirement posed an undue hardship by causing the employer significant difficulty or expense, as specified. The bill would require an employer who obtains an exemption to make a reasonable effort to provide a place for an employee to express milk in private, as specified.\n The bill would require an employer to develop and implement a policy regarding lactation accommodation and make it available to employees, as specified.", "introduced_digest": "(1)The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. The commission is required to adopt specific building standards, including standards for graywater systems and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the California Building Standards Code in its entirety once every 3 years.\n This bill would require the commission to adopt prescribed mandatory building standards for the installation of lactation space for employees in nonresidential buildings newly constructed or remodeled for workplace occupancy, as specified, when there is a tenant improvement project to the building and certain criteria are met.\n (2)Existing law requires employers to provide a reasonable amount of break time to employees desiring to express milk for the employee’s infant child. Existing law also requires an employer to make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room, or other location, other than a bathroom, in close proximity to the employee’s work area, for the employee to express milk in private. Existing law exempts an employer from the break time requirement if the employer’s operations would be seriously disrupted by providing that time to employees desiring to express milk. Existing law subjects employers who violate these provisions to a civil penalty of $100 per violation and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue citations for those violations. \n This bill would instead require an employer to provide a lactation room or location that includes prescribed features and would require an employer, among other things, to provide access to a sink and refrigerator in close proximity to the employee’s workspace, as specified. The bill would deem denial of reasonable break time or adequate space to express milk a failure to provide a rest period in accordance with state law. The bill would prohibit an employer from discharging, or in any other manner discriminating or retaliating against, an employee for exercising or attempting to exercise rights under these provisions, would establish remedies that include filing a complaint with the labor commissioner. The bill would, as an alternative to filing a complaint with the labor commissioner, authorize an employee to bring a private right of action against an employer for violations of these provisions and authorize the court to award attorney’s fees to a prevailing plaintiff. The bill would authorize specified employers to seek an exemption from any of the requirements of these provisions if the employer demonstrates that the requirement posed an undue hardship based on specified criteria. \n (3)Existing law prohibits an employer, who is required by law to give an employee a rest period during a workday, from requiring the employee to work during the rest period. Existing law requires an employer to pay the employee one additional hour of pay, at the employee’s regular rate of compensation, for each rest period not provided.\n This bill would require an employer to provide a lactation room or location that includes prescribed features and would require an employer, among other things, to provide access to a sink and refrigerator in close proximity to the employee’s workspace, as specified. The bill would require an employer to develop and implement a policy regarding lactation accommodation and make it available to employees, as specified. The bill would also require an employer to maintain records of requests for lactation accommodation for 3 years and to give the Labor Commission access to those records.\n The bill would require the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to create a model lactation accommodation request form and to make it available for download from its internet website by employees and employers. The bill would authorize the division to establish a model lactation accommodation policy and lactation accommodation best practices to provide guidance to employers.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2019-10-10" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 720, Statutes of 2019", "laws_affected": [ "Labor Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Gonzalez" ], "coauthors": [ "Durazo", "Jackson", "Leyva", "Carrillo", "Chiu", "Cristina Garcia", "Jones-Sawyer", "Kalra", "Limón", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-01-22", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 21." }, { "date": "2019-01-31", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R., JUD., and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2019-03-14", "action": "Set for hearing March 27." }, { "date": "2019-03-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 466.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2019-03-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2019-04-10", "action": "April 9 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 652.)" }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Senate Rule 21.5(k)(2) suspended." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Joint Rule 62(a) suspended." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "April 11 hearing: Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 749.)" }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 749.) (April 11)." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2019-04-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2019-04-22", "action": "April 22 set for first hearing. Reconsideration of favorable vote granted." }, { "date": "2019-04-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 774.) (April 22)." }, { "date": "2019-04-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2019-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1090.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 1182.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-05-30", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and B. & P." }, { "date": "2019-06-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E." }, { "date": "2019-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P." }, { "date": "2019-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2019-07-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-14", "action": "August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 13. Page 3329.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 2847.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-09-18", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2019-10-10", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-10-10", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 720, Statutes of 2019." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB142", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB142", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB142", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB142", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB142" }, "headline": "Expands lactation accommodation requirements for employers", "one_liner": "Requires employers to provide lactation rooms with set features, plus nearby sink and refrigerator access, for employees expressing milk.", "summary": "Employers must provide a lactation room or location with required features and nearby access to a sink and refrigerator. Denying break time or space counts as a missed rest period. Employers may not retaliate and must adopt a lactation policy. Employers with fewer than 50 employees can seek an exemption for undue hardship.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB142.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB145", "slug": "2019-20/SB145", "number": "SB 145", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-18", "last_action_date": "2020-09-11", "subject": "Sex offenders: registration.", "introduced_subject": "Sex offenders: relief from registration.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 290 and 290.006 of the Penal Code, relating to sex offenders.", "digest": "Existing law, the Sex Offender Registration Act, requires a person convicted of one of certain crimes, as specified, to register with law enforcement as a sex offender while residing in California or while attending school or working in California, as specified. A willful failure to register, as required by the act, is a misdemeanor or felony, depending on the underlying offense.\n This bill would exempt from mandatory registration under the act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person to register.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Sex Offender Registration Act, amended by Proposition 35, as approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, requires a person convicted of one of certain crimes, as specified, to register with law enforcement as a sex offender while residing in California or while attending school or working in California, as specified. A willful failure to register, as required by the act, is a misdemeanor or felony, depending on the underlying offense.\n This bill would authorize a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors to seek discretionary relief from the duty to register if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2020-09-11" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 79, Statutes of 2020", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-01-22", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 21." }, { "date": "2019-01-31", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-03-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-03-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2019-03-13", "action": "April 2 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2019-03-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2019-04-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 623.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-30", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2019-05-06", "action": "May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1090.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 3. Page 1326.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-06", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-07-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 9)." }, { "date": "2019-07-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-14", "action": "August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "August 30 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 6.) (August 20)." }, { "date": "2020-08-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 41. Noes 25. Page 5460.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2020-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2020-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 23. Noes 10.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2020-09-08", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2020-09-11", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2020-09-11", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 79, Statutes of 2020." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145" }, "headline": "Ends mandatory registration in some close-in-age cases", "one_liner": "Ends mandatory sex offender registration for certain offenses with minors when the person is no more than 10 years older.", "summary": "Removes mandatory sex offender registration for a person convicted of certain offenses involving a minor if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor. This applies only when that offense is the only one requiring the person to register.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB145.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB159", "slug": "2019-20/SB159", "number": "SB 159", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-23", "last_action_date": "2019-10-07", "subject": "HIV: preexposure and postexposure prophylaxis.", "introduced_subject": "HIV: pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis.", "title": "An act to amend Section 4052 of, and to add Sections 4052.02 and 4052.03 to, the Business and Professions Code, to add Section 1342.74 to the Health and Safety Code, to add Section 10123.1933 to the Insurance Code, and to amend Section 14132.968 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to HIV prevention.", "digest": "Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy and makes a violation of these requirements a crime. Existing law generally authorizes a pharmacist to dispense or furnish drugs only pursuant to a valid prescription, except as provided, such as furnishing emergency contraceptives, hormonal contraceptives, and naloxone hydrochloride, pursuant to standardized procedures.\n This bill would authorize a pharmacist to furnish preexposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis in specified amounts and would require a pharmacist to furnish those drugs if certain conditions are met, including that the pharmacist determines the patient meets the clinical criteria for preexposure prophylaxis or postexposure prophylaxis consistent with federal guidelines. The bill would require a pharmacist, before furnishing preexposure prophylaxis or postexposure prophylaxis, to complete a training program approved by the board. Because a violation of these requirements would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services pursuant to a schedule of benefits, including pharmacist services, which are subject to approval by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.\n This bill would expand the Medi-Cal schedule of benefits to include preexposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis as pharmacist services, as specified.\n Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing 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. For combination antiretroviral drug treatments medically necessary for the prevention of AIDS/HIV, existing law prohibits plans and insurers, until January 1, 2023, from having utilization management policies or procedures that rely on a multitablet drug regimen instead of a single-tablet drug regimen, except as specified.\n This bill would additionally prohibit plans and insurers from subjecting antiretroviral drugs, including preexposure prophylaxis or postexposure prophylaxis, to prior authorization or step therapy, except that if the United States Food and Drug Administration has approved one or more therapeutic equivalents of a drug, device, or product for the prevention of AIDS/HIV, the bill would instead require the plan or insurer to cover at least one of the therapeutically equivalent versions without prior authorization or step therapy. The bill would also prohibit plans and insurers from prohibiting, or allowing a pharmacy benefit manager to prohibit, a pharmacy provider from providing preexposure prophylaxis or postexposure prophylaxis, except as specified. The bill would prohibit plans and insurers from covering preexposure prophylaxis that has been furnished by a pharmacist in excess of specified amounts. 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law generally supports HIV/AIDS prevention and the awareness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) medication.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce barriers to HIV biomedical prevention by removing insurance preauthorization requirements and authorizing pharmacists to furnish pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) without a prescription in an effort to lower the rates of HIV transmission.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2019-10-07" }, "version_count": 12, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 532, Statutes of 2019", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code", "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Gipson", "Gloria" ], "coauthors": [ "Glazer", "Stone", "Chiu", "Gonzalez" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-23", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-01-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23." }, { "date": "2019-01-31", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-02-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-07", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2019-03-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2019-04-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 598.) (April 8)." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2019-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2019-04-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 848.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2019-04-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2019-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 1091.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 1196.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2019-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 25)." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2019-07-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 9)." }, { "date": "2019-08-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-21", "action": "August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-05", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2019-09-05", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3330.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2847.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-09-18", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2019-10-07", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-10-07", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 532, Statutes of 2019." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB159", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB159", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB159", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB159", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB159" }, "headline": "Lets pharmacists furnish HIV prevention drugs", "one_liner": "Allows trained pharmacists to furnish HIV prevention drugs and bars health plans from requiring prior authorization for them.", "summary": "Pharmacists who complete approved training may furnish preexposure and postexposure prophylaxis, drugs that prevent HIV, in limited amounts. Medi-Cal must cover these as pharmacist services. Health plans and insurers may not require prior authorization or step therapy for these drugs, but when equivalent versions exist, they must cover at least one without those limits.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB159.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB233", "slug": "2019-20/SB233", "number": "SB 233", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-02-07", "last_action_date": "2019-07-30", "subject": "Immunity from arrest.", "introduced_subject": "Immunity from arrest.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1162 of, and to repeal and add Section 782.1 of, the Evidence Code, and to add Section 647.3 to the Penal Code, relating to crime.", "digest": "Existing law criminalizes various aspects of sex work, including soliciting anyone to engage in, or engaging in, lewd or dissolute conduct in a public place, loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, or maintaining a public nuisance. Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act (CUCSA), also criminalizes various offenses relating to the possession, transportation, and sale of specified controlled substances.\n This bill would prohibit the arrest of a person for a misdemeanor violation of the CUCSA or specified sex work crimes, if that person is reporting that they are a victim of, or a witness to, specified crimes. The bill would also state that possession of condoms in any amount does not provide a basis for probable cause for arrest for specified sex work crimes.\n Existing law specifies a procedure by which condoms may be introduced as evidence in a prosecution for various crimes, including soliciting or engaging in lewd or dissolute conduct in a public place, soliciting or engaging in acts of prostitution, loitering in or about a toilet open to the public for the purpose of engaging in or soliciting a lewd, lascivious, or unlawful act, or loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution.\n This bill, instead, would prohibit introducing the possession of a condom as evidence in the prosecution of a violation of soliciting or engaging in lewd or dissolute conduct in a public place, soliciting or engaging in acts of prostitution, loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, or for maintaining a public nuisance, if the offense is related to an act of prostitution.\n This bill would make other conforming changes.\n The California Constitution includes the Right to Truth-In-Evidence, which requires a 2/3 vote of the Legislature to pass a bill that would exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified.\n Because this bill would exclude from a criminal action evidence about a person’s liability for an act of prostitution that is otherwise admissible, it requires a 2/3 vote of the Legislature.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law criminalizes various aspects of sex work, including soliciting anyone to engage in, or engaging in, lewd or dissolute conduct in a public place, loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, or maintaining a public nuisance. Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act (CUCSA), also criminalizes various offenses relating to the possession, transportation, and sale of specified controlled substances.\n This bill would prohibit the arrest of a person for a misdemeanor violation of the CUCSA or other specified sex work crimes, if that person is reporting a crime of sexual assault, human trafficking, stalking, robbery, assault, kidnapping, threats, blackmail, extortion, burglary, or another violent crime. The bill would also state that possession of condoms in any amount, in and of itself, is not probable cause for arrest for specified sex work crimes.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2019-07-30" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 141, Statutes of 2019", "laws_affected": [ "Evidence Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Quirk" ], "coauthors": [ "Carrillo", "Friedman", "Kamlager-Dove", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-02-07", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-08", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10." }, { "date": "2019-02-21", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2019-03-11", "action": "April 2 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2019-03-11", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-03-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 623.) (April 9)." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-04-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-04-23", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2019-04-23", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-04-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-02", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 922.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-06-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 11)." }, { "date": "2019-06-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-06-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 2493.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-07-08", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 1990.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-07-19", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2019-07-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-07-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 141, Statutes of 2019." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233" }, "headline": "Bars certain arrests of crime victims and witnesses", "one_liner": "Bars arresting people for certain sex work or drug misdemeanors when they report being a crime victim or witness.", "summary": "Prohibits arresting a person for a misdemeanor drug offense or certain sex work crimes when they report being a victim of, or witness to, specified crimes. Possessing condoms is not probable cause for arrest for these sex work crimes. Condom possession may not be used as evidence in certain prostitution-related prosecutions.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB233.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB271", "slug": "2019-20/SB271", "number": "SB 271", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-02-13", "last_action_date": "2019-09-05", "subject": "Employment: motion picture production workers.", "introduced_subject": "Employment: Green Collar Jobs Council.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 602 and 603 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to employment, and making an appropriation therefor.", "digest": "Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Unemployment compensation benefits are paid from the Unemployment Fund, which is continuously appropriated for this purpose.\n Existing law defines “employment,” for purposes of determining eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits, to mean service, including service in interstate commerce, performed by an employee for wages under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied. Existing law provides that employment includes an individual’s entire service, performed within, or both within and without this state, if the service is either (1) localized in the state, or (2) not localized in the state, some of the service is performed in the state and one of 2 requirements are met, including that the base of operations or place from which such service is directed or controlled is not in any state in which some part of the service is performed but the individual’s residence is in this state. \n The bill would provide, for purposes of determining employment of a motion picture production worker when the service is not localized in the state but some of the service is performed in the state, that the worker’s entire service qualifies as employment if their residence is in the state.\n Existing law provides that as individual’s service is localized in a state for purposes of unemployment compensation benefits as described above, if the service is either performed entirely within the state or performed within and outside the state and the service outside the state is incidental to the service performed within the state. Existing law further provides that service is incidental for these purposes if it is temporary or transitory in nature, or only consists of isolated transactions.\n The bill would provide that service performed by a motion picture production worker outside the state will be considered temporary or transitory for the purposes described above if the worker is a resident of the state, is hired and dispatched from the state, and intends to return to the state to seek reemployment at the conclusion of the assignment outside the state.\n The bill would also provide legislative findings and declarations in support of these provisions.\n Because this bill would expand the number of persons who are eligible for benefits from the Unemployment Fund, which is a continuously appropriated fund, it would make an appropriation.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the California Workforce Investment Board, which was renamed the California Workforce Development Board on January 1, 2016, and requires the board to establish a special committee known as the Green Collar Jobs Council (GCJC), comprised of specified members. Existing law requires the board to report annually to the Legislature on the status of GCJC activities, grants awarded, and its development and implementation of a green workforce strategic initiative.\n This bill instead would require that the annual report be made to the Assembly, the Senate, and the Governor’s office.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2019-09-05" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 246, Statutes of 2019", "laws_affected": [ "Unemployment Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Durazo", "Leyva", "Mitchell", "Pan", "Stern", "Bonta", "Calderon", "Friedman", "Kalra", "Nazarian", "Santiago", "Gipson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2019-02-21", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-04-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R." }, { "date": "2019-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2019-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 801.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2019-05-06", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2019-05-07", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-09", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1009.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-09", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-05-24", "action": "Referred to Com. on INS." }, { "date": "2019-06-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS." }, { "date": "2019-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-07-10", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2019-07-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 10)." }, { "date": "2019-07-11", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2019-08-15", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2728.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-08-15", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-08-19", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2019-08-22", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2243.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-08-27", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2019-09-05", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-09-05", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 246, Statutes of 2019." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB271", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB271", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB271", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB271", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB271" }, "headline": "Expands jobless benefits for motion picture workers", "one_liner": "Lets California-based motion picture production workers count work done out of state toward unemployment benefits.", "summary": "Treats all service by a motion picture production worker who lives in California as employment for unemployment benefits, even if some work is done out of state. Out-of-state work counts as temporary if the worker is hired and dispatched from California and plans to return to seek work here.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with the Green Collar Jobs Council's annual report; it was rewritten to cover unemployment benefits for motion picture production workers.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB271.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB288", "slug": "2019-20/SB288", "number": "SB 288", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-02-13", "last_action_date": "2020-09-28", "subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.", "introduced_subject": "Electricity: self-generation and storage.", "title": "An act to amend Section 21080.20 of, and to add and repeal Section 21080.25 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.", "digest": "(1)The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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. \n CEQA includes exemptions from its environmental review requirements for numerous categories of projects, including, among others, projects for the institution or increase of passenger or commuter services on rail or highway rights-of-way already in use and projects for the institution or increase of passenger or commuter service on high-occupancy vehicle lanes already in use, as specified. \n This bill would further exempt from the requirements of CEQA certain projects, including projects for the institution or increase of new bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail services on public rail or highway rights-of-way, as specified, whether or not the right-of-way is in use for public mass transit, as specified, and projects for the designation and conversion of general purpose lanes, high-occupancy toll lanes, high-occupancy vehicle lanes, or highway shoulders, as specified. The bill would additionally exempt transit prioritization projects, projects that improve customer information and wayfinding for transit riders, bicyclists, or pedestrians, projects by a public transit agency to construct or maintain infrastructure to charge or refuel zero-emission transit buses, projects carried out by a city or county to reduce minimum parking requirements, and projects for pedestrian and bicycle facilities. The bill would, except as provided, require those exempt projects to meet additional specified criteria, including that a public agency is carrying out the project and is the lead agency for the project. The bill would, except as provided, require the lead agency to certify that those projects will be carried out by a skilled and trained workforce, except as provided. For those exempted projects exceeding $100,000,000 in 2020 United States dollars, the bill, except as provided, would require the lead agency to complete and consider the results of a project business case and a racial equity analysis, as prescribed, would require the lead agency, before exempting a project from CEQA, to hold at least 3 noticed public meetings in the project area to hear and respond to public comments, would require the lead agency, in at least one of those public meetings, to review the project business case and the racial equity analysis, and would require the lead agency to conduct at least 2 noticed public meetings annually during project construction for the public to provide comments. If the lead agency determines to carry out a project exempt under the above provisions, the bill would require the lead agency to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located. The bill would repeal the above-described exemptions on January 1, 2023.\n (2)CEQA, until January 1, 2021, exempts from its requirements bicycle transportation plans for an urbanized area for restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles under certain conditions, including the requirement that the lead agency, before determining that a project is exempt, prepare an assessment of any traffic and safety impacts of the project and include measures in the bicycle transportation plan to mitigate potential vehicular traffic impacts and bicycle and pedestrian safety impacts.\n This bill would extend the above exemption until January 1, 2030. The bill also would, among other things, remove the above requirement related to traffic and safety impacts and measures.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities, among others, to develop, and make available to eligible customer-generators, standard contracts or tariffs for net energy metering if the total generation capacity used by eligible customer-generators exceeds 5% of those utilities’ aggregate customer peak demand. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to develop a standard contract or tariff which may include net energy metering, for eligible customer-generators with a renewable electrical generation facility that are customers of a large electrical corporation, as defined, to be offered to eligible customer-generators beginning January 1, 2017, or prior to that date if ordered to do so by the PUC because the customer-generator has reached the 5% limit.\n This bill would, by January 1, 2021, require the PUC and the governing board of each local publicly owned electric utility to, among other things, create one or more tariffs that offer fair compensation for customer-sited energy storage systems that export electricity to the electrical grid and to consider one or more tariffs for customer-sited energy storage and renewable energy systems to support grid reliability and community resiliency in the event of emergencies or grid outages. The bill would require the PUC to collaborate with the Independent System Operator to modify existing tariffs to remove barriers to the participation of customer-sited energy resources in programs intended to provide energy, capacity, and ancillary services for the bulk power system. The bill would require the PUC and the governing board of each local publicly owned electric utility to ensure that customers with onsite renewable energy or energy storage systems can take certain related actions and are not subject to discriminatory fees or charges. By imposing addition duties on local publicly owned electric utilities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would require the PUC and State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to establish for the electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities, respectively, a streamlined and standardized process for reviewing by those utilities’ interconnection requests for customers seeking to install solar energy and energy storage devices on the customer side of the meter to minimize uncertainty and the time and cost of the review, as specified.\n This bill would require the PUC and the Energy Commission, by June 1, 2020, and June 1 of each year thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature on information regarding the interconnection of renewable energy and energy storage systems by the electrical corporations and the local publicly owned electric utilities, respectively, for purposes of evaluating the performance of those utilities in reviewing interconnection requests.\n Under existing law, a violation or any rule, order, decision, or direction of the commission is a crime.\n Because a violation of an order by the commission implementing the above requirements would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2020-09-28" }, "version_count": 13, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 200, Statutes of 2020", "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Friedman", "Mathis" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2019-02-21", "action": "Referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2019-03-21", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2019-03-25", "action": "April 2 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2019-03-26", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2019-03-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2019-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 650.) (April 10)." }, { "date": "2019-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2019-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1095.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1246.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-06", "action": "Referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2019-06-18", "action": "June 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2019-06-18", "action": "July 10 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2019-06-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2019-06-20", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2019-06-24", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E. & R. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on E. & R." }, { "date": "2019-07-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3)." }, { "date": "2019-07-09", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-07-10", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-08-19", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2019-08-19", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-08-19", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on E. & R. and APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R." }, { "date": "2020-06-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R." }, { "date": "2020-06-15", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "July 29 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (August 6)." }, { "date": "2020-08-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 2.) (August 20)." }, { "date": "2020-08-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 3. Page 5288.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2020-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 5.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2020-09-10", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2020-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2020-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 200, Statutes of 2020." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288" }, "headline": "Exempts transit and bike projects from environmental review", "one_liner": "Exempts certain public transit, lane conversion, bike and pedestrian projects from California's environmental review law (CEQA) until 2023.", "summary": "Until 2023, exempts from CEQA bus, bus rapid transit and light rail service, lane conversions, transit priority projects, zero-emission bus fueling, bike and pedestrian facilities, and parking-minimum cuts. Public agencies must lead them using a skilled and trained workforce. Projects over $100 million need a business case, racial equity analysis and public meetings. Extends a bike plan exemption to 2030.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with customer-sited solar and energy storage systems; it was rewritten to cover environmental review exemptions for transportation projects.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB288.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB592", "slug": "2019-20/SB592", "number": "SB 592", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-02-22", "last_action_date": "2020-09-28", "subject": "Jury service.", "introduced_subject": "Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: due date.", "title": "An act to amend Section 197 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and to amend Section 19542 of, and to add Sections 19548.4 and 19585 to, the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to juries.", "digest": "(1)The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act requires all persons be selected for jury service at random and from sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court. The act specifies that the list of registered voters and list of licensed drivers and identification cardholders who are resident within the area served by the court are appropriate source lists for the selection of jurors, and further specifies that these 2 source lists, when substantially purged of duplicate names, are considered inclusive of a representative cross section of the population.\n This bill would deem the list of resident state tax filers as an appropriate source list for selection of jurors, and beginning on January 1, 2022, would deem the list of resident state tax filers, when substantially purged of duplicate names, to be considered inclusive of a representative cross section of the population, along with the two source lists described above.\n This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to annually furnish the jury commissioner of each county with a list of resident state tax filers for their county in consultation with the Judicial Council. The bill would also require the Franchise Tax Board to revise the California resident income tax return to include a space for the taxpayer’s address of their principal residence and their county of principal residence.\n (2)Existing law generally makes it a misdemeanor for specified persons, including, among others, officers or employees of the state or its political subdivisions, to disclose information set forth or disclosed in returns, reports, or documents required to be filed under the franchise and income tax laws.\n This bill would expressly state that this misdemeanor is applicable to jury commissioners who disclose that information.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The department is responsible for administering various housing and home loan programs throughout the state. Existing law requires the department, on or before December 31 of each year, to submit an annual report containing specified information to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department.\n This bill would move the date that the annual report for the previous fiscal year must be submitted to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature out to June 30 of the next calendar year.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2020-09-28" }, "version_count": 13, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 230, Statutes of 2020", "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure", "Revenue and Taxation Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Mitchell", "Skinner", "Bonta", "Gipson", "Kalra", "Kamlager" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-02-22", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-25", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27." }, { "date": "2019-02-25", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2019-03-07", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-04-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2019-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2019-04-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 599.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2019-04-29", "action": "April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1104.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2019-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1278.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-13", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2019-06-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2019-06-27", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2019-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2019-07-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2019-07-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 10)." }, { "date": "2019-08-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-21", "action": "August 21 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2019-08-26", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 28)." }, { "date": "2019-08-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2." }, { "date": "2019-09-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2019-09-11", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2020-06-29", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2020-07-09", "action": "July 22 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "July 30 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-07-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2020-08-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-08-18", "action": "August 18 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 20)." }, { "date": "2020-08-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-25", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 12. Page 5310.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2020-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 5.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2020-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2020-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2020-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 230, Statutes of 2020." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB592", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB592", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB592", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB592", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB592" }, "headline": "Adds state tax filers to jury lists", "one_liner": "Uses lists of California resident tax filers, along with voter and driver lists, to call people for jury duty.", "summary": "Makes the list of resident state tax filers a source for picking jurors, alongside voter and driver lists. The Franchise Tax Board must send each county's jury commissioner a yearly list and add residence address and county lines to state tax returns. Jury commissioners who disclose the tax information commit a misdemeanor.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with the due date of a state housing department report; it was rewritten to cover jury selection.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB592.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB855", "slug": "2019-20/SB855", "number": "SB 855", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-01-14", "last_action_date": "2020-09-25", "subject": "Health coverage: mental health or substance use disorders.", "introduced_subject": "Health coverage: mental health or substance abuse disorders.", "title": "An act to add Sections 1367.045 and 1374.721 to, and to repeal and add Section 1374.72 of, the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 10144.52 to, and to repeal and add Section 10144.5 of, the Insurance Code, relating to health coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n Existing law, known as the California Mental Health Parity Act, requires every health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2000, that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of severe mental illnesses of a person of any age, and of serious emotional disturbances of a child under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions, as specified. Existing law requires those benefits to include, among other things, outpatient services, inpatient hospital services, partial hospital services, and prescription drugs, if the plan contract or policy includes coverage for prescription drugs.\n This bill would revise and recast those provisions, and would instead require a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, as defined, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan or disability insurer from limiting benefits or coverage for mental health and substance use disorders to short-term or acute treatment. The bill would revise the covered benefits to include basic health care services, as defined, intermediate services, and prescription drugs.\n This bill would require a health care service plan or disability insurer that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to base medical necessity determinations and the utilization review criteria the plan or insurer, and any entity acting on the plan’s or insurer’s behalf, applies to determine the medical necessity of health care services and benefits for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, on current generally accepted standards of mental health and substance use disorder care. The bill would require the health care service plan or insurer to apply specified clinical criteria and guidelines in conducting utilization review of the covered health care services and benefits and would prohibit the plan or insurer from applying different, additional, or conflicting criteria than the criteria and guidelines in the specified sources. The bill would authorize the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care or the Insurance Commissioner, as applicable, to assess administrative or civil penalties, as specified, for violation of the requirements relating to utilization review. The bill would make any provision in a health care service plan issued, delivered, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, that reserves discretionary authority to the plan, or an agent of the plan, to determine eligibility for benefits or coverage, interprets the terms of the contract, or provides standards of interpretation or review that are inconsistent with California law, void and unenforceable, as specified. The bill would declare that its provisions are severable.\n Because a willful violation of these requirements with respect to health care service plans would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n Existing law, known as the California Mental Health Parity Act, requires every health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2000, that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of severe mental illnesses of a person of any age, and of serious emotional disturbances of a child under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions, as specified. Existing law requires those benefits to include, among other things, outpatient services, inpatient hospital services, partial hospital services, and prescription drugs, if the plan contract or policy includes coverage for prescription drugs.\n This bill would revise and recast those provisions, and would instead require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, as defined, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan or health insurer from limiting benefits or coverage for chronic or pervasive mental health and substance use disorders to short-term or acute treatment.\n This bill would authorize certain individuals or entities to pursue a civil action against a health care service plan or health insurer for a violation of the above-described provisions either independently or through a class action lawsuit, and would authorize the imposition of penalties in a civil action under these provisions, including attorney’s fees. The bill would declare that its provisions are severable.\n Because a willful violation of these requirements with respect to health care service plans would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2020-09-25" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 151, Statutes of 2020", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Beall", "Aguiar-Curry", "Chiu" ], "coauthors": [ "Galgiani", "Glazer", "Hill", "Hurtado", "Arambula", "Bauer-Kahan", "Gabriel", "Maienschein", "Waldron", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-01-14", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-01-15", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 14." }, { "date": "2020-01-22", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD." }, { "date": "2020-05-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-05-11", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2020-05-12", "action": "Referral to Com. on JUD. rescinded due to the shortened 2020 Legislative Calendar." }, { "date": "2020-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 3533.) (May 13)." }, { "date": "2020-05-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-05-26", "action": "Set for hearing June 1." }, { "date": "2020-06-02", "action": "Hearing rescheduled due to Capitol closure." }, { "date": "2020-06-03", "action": "Set for hearing June 9." }, { "date": "2020-06-09", "action": "June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-06-11", "action": "Set for hearing June 18." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3766.) (June 18)." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2020-06-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-06-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 5. Page 3862.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2020-06-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2020-06-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-08-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 4)." }, { "date": "2020-08-06", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-08-07", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2020-08-18", "action": "August 18 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 20)." }, { "date": "2020-08-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-25", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 1. Page 5221.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2020-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Motion to reconsider made by Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.)" }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 7.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2020-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2020-09-25", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2020-09-25", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 151, Statutes of 2020." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855" }, "headline": "Requires health plans to cover mental health treatment", "one_liner": "Health plans and insurers must cover medically necessary mental health and substance use disorder treatment like other conditions.", "summary": "Starting in 2021, health plans and insurers must cover medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders on the same terms as other medical conditions. They cannot limit coverage to short-term or acute care. Coverage decisions must follow generally accepted standards of care and specified clinical criteria. State regulators may impose penalties for violating these review rules.", "issues": [ "health", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB855.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB932", "slug": "2019-20/SB932", "number": "SB 932", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-05", "last_action_date": "2020-09-26", "subject": "Communicable diseases: data collection.", "introduced_subject": "HIV counselors.", "title": "An act to add Section 120255 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to communicable diseases, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "(1)Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and to specify the requirements for a health officer, as defined, to report each listed disease and condition. Existing law requires a health officer to report the listed diseases and conditions and to take other specified measures to prevent the spread of disease. A violation of these requirements imposed on a health officer is a crime.\n This bill would require any electronic tool used by a health officer, as defined, for the purpose of reporting cases of communicable diseases to the department, as specified, to include the capacity to collect and report data relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require a health care provider, as defined, that knows of or is in attendance on a case or suspected case of specified communicable diseases to report to the health officer for the jurisdiction in which the patient resides the patient’s sexual orientation and gender identity, if known. Because a violation of these requirements by a health care provider or a health officer would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated-local program.\n (2)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n (3)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses, registers, and regulates clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel. Existing law authorizes an HIV counselor who receives specified training and works in specified counseling and testing sites to perform HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), or combined HIV/HCV tests, including performing skin punctures for purposes of withdrawing blood for purposes of these tests, as specified. Under existing law, an HIV counselor must receive training directly from the Office of AIDS or work directly with HIV counseling staff that have been trained by the Office of AIDS or its agents. \n This bill would authorize an HIV counselor to also perform a rapid STI test, or any combination HIV/HCV/STI test, as specified. The bill would also allow HIV counselors to receive HIV counseling training through a training course that has been certified by the Office of AIDS.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2020-09-26" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 183, Statutes of 2020", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Atkins", "Galgiani", "Cervantes", "Chiu", "Eggman", "Gloria", "Low" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-05", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7." }, { "date": "2020-02-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing March 25." }, { "date": "2020-03-17", "action": "March 25 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-05-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-05-11", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2020-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3533.) (May 13)." }, { "date": "2020-05-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-05-26", "action": "Set for hearing June 1." }, { "date": "2020-05-28", "action": "June 1 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-06-03", "action": "Set for hearing June 9." }, { "date": "2020-06-09", "action": "June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-06-11", "action": "Set for hearing June 18." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3767.) (June 18)." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2020-06-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-06-25", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2020-06-25", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3842.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2020-06-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2020-06-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-08-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 4)." }, { "date": "2020-08-06", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-08-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 18)." }, { "date": "2020-08-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5283.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2020-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2020-09-08", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2020-09-26", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2020-09-26", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 183, Statutes of 2020." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB932", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB932", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB932", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB932", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB932" }, "headline": "Requires sexual orientation data in disease reports", "one_liner": "Requires disease-reporting tools to collect, and health care providers to report, patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity, if known.", "summary": "Electronic tools that local health officers use to report communicable disease cases to the state must be able to collect sexual orientation and gender identity data. Health care providers who report certain communicable diseases must include the patient's sexual orientation and gender identity, if known. Takes effect immediately as an urgency law.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with HIV counselors performing rapid STI tests; it was rewritten to cover sexual orientation data in disease reporting.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB932.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB10", "slug": "2021-22/SB10", "number": "SB 10", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-12-07", "last_action_date": "2021-09-16", "subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: density.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: density.", "title": "An act to add Section 65913.5 to the Government Code, relating to land use.", "digest": "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. Existing law requires an attached housing development to be a permitted use, not subject to a conditional use permit, on any parcel zoned for multifamily housing if at least certain percentages of the units are available at affordable housing costs to very low income, lower income, and moderate-income households for at least 30 years and if the project meets specified conditions relating to location and being subject to a discretionary decision other than a conditional use permit. Existing law provides for various incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing.\n This bill would, notwithstanding any local restrictions on adopting zoning ordinances, authorize a local government to adopt an ordinance to zone any parcel for up to 10 units of residential density per parcel, at a height specified in the ordinance, if the parcel is located in a transit-rich area or an urban infill site, as those terms are defined. The bill would prohibit a local government from adopting an ordinance pursuant to these provisions on or after January 1, 2029. The bill would specify that an ordinance adopted under these provisions, and any resolution to amend the jurisdiction’s General Plan, ordinance, or other local regulation adopted to be consistent with that ordinance, is not a project for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act. The bill would prohibit an ordinance adopted under these provisions from superceding a local restriction enacted or approved by a local initiative that designates publicly owned land as open-space land or for park or recreational purposes.\n The bill would impose specified requirements on a zoning ordinance adopted under these provisions, including a requirement that the zoning ordinance clearly demarcate the areas that are subject to the ordinance and that the legislative body make a finding that the ordinance is consistent with the city or county’s obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. The bill would require an ordinance to be adopted by a 2/3 vote of the members of the legislative body if the ordinance supersedes any zoning restriction established by local initiative.\n The bill would prohibit an ordinance adopted under these provisions from reducing the density of any parcel subject to the ordinance and would prohibit a legislative body from subsequently reducing the density of any parcel subject to the ordinance. The bill would prohibit a residential or mixed-use residential project consisting of 10 or more units that is located on a parcel zoned pursuant to these provisions from being approved ministerially or by right or from being exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act, except as specified.\n This bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.", "introduced_digest": "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. Existing law requires an attached housing development to be a permitted use, not subject to a conditional use permit, on any parcel zoned for multifamily housing if at least certain percentages of the units are available at affordable housing costs to very low income, lower income, and moderate-income households for at least 30 years and if the project meets specified conditions relating to location and being subject to a discretionary decision other than a conditional use permit. Existing law provides for various incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing.\n This bill would, notwithstanding any local restrictions on adopting zoning ordinances, authorize a local government to pass an ordinance to zone any parcel for up to 10 units of residential density per parcel, at a height specified in the ordinance, if the parcel is located in a transit-rich area, a jobs-rich area, or an urban infill site, as those terms are defined. In this regard, the bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the Office of Planning and Research, to determine jobs-rich areas and publish a map of those areas every 5 years, commencing January 1, 2022, based on specified criteria. The bill would specify that an ordinance adopted under these provisions is not a project for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act. The bill would prohibit a residential or mixed-use residential project consisting of 10 or more units that is located on a parcel rezoned pursuant to these provisions from being approved ministerially or by right.\n This bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2021-09-16" }, "version_count": 11, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 163, Statutes of 2021", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Atkins", "Caballero", "Skinner", "Robert Rivas" ], "coauthors": [ "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-12-07", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-12-08", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HOUSING, GOV. & F., and EQ." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referral to Com. on E.Q. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus." }, { "date": "2021-02-24", "action": "Set for hearing March 18." }, { "date": "2021-02-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2021-03-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 552.) (March 18)." }, { "date": "2021-03-22", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2021-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2021-04-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2021-04-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 895.) (April 22)." }, { "date": "2021-04-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-30", "action": "Set for hearing May 10." }, { "date": "2021-05-10", "action": "May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 1178.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-26", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2021-05-26", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 7. Page 1393.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-10", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2021-06-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2021-06-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 22)." }, { "date": "2021-06-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2021-07-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 30)." }, { "date": "2021-07-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-07-06", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-08-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 44. Noes 12. Page 2475.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 6. Page 2210.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-03", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2021-09-16", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2021-09-16", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 163, Statutes of 2021." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10" }, "headline": "Allows 10-unit zoning near transit and infill", "one_liner": "Lets cities and counties rezone parcels near transit or in infill areas for up to 10 homes each.", "summary": "Lets a city or county pass an ordinance allowing up to 10 homes per parcel in transit-rich areas or urban infill sites until 2029. These ordinances are exempt from California's environmental review law (CEQA). They cannot override voter-protected parkland or open space. Once rezoned, density cannot be reduced later. Applies to charter cities.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB10.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB73", "slug": "2021-22/SB73", "number": "SB 73", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-12-10", "last_action_date": "2021-10-05", "subject": "Probation: eligibility: crimes relating to controlled substances.", "introduced_subject": "Probation: eligibility: crimes relating to controlled substances.", "title": "An act to amend Section 11370 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 29820 of, to repeal Section 1203.073 of, and to repeal and add Section 1203.07 of, the Penal Code, relating to probation.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits granting probation or suspending a sentence for persons convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, including possessing or agreeing to sell or transport opiates or opium derivatives, possessing or transporting cannabis, planting or cultivating peyote, and various crimes relating to forging or altering prescriptions, among other crimes, if the person has previously been convicted of any one of specified felony offenses relating to controlled substances. Existing law also prohibits granting probation or suspending a sentence for persons convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, including possessing for sale or selling 14.25 grams or more of a substance containing heroin and possessing for sale 14.25 grams or more of any salt or solution of phencyclidine or its analogs, among other crimes.\n This bill would delete various crimes relating to controlled substances, including, but not limited to, the crimes described above, from those prohibitions against granting probation or a suspended sentence. The bill would authorize the remaining prohibitions on probation to be waived by a court in the interests of justice. By making additional persons eligible for probation, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law prohibits granting probation or suspending a sentence for persons convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, including possessing or agreeing to sell or transport opiates or opium derivatives, possessing or transporting cannabis, planting or cultivating peyote, and various crimes relating to forging or altering prescriptions, among other crimes, if the person has previously been convicted of any one of specified felony offenses relating to controlled substances. Existing law also prohibits granting probation or suspending a sentence for persons convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, including possessing for sale or selling 14.25 grams or more of a substance containing heroin and possessing for sale 14.25 grams or more of any salt or solution of phencyclidine or its analogs, among other crimes.\n This bill would delete various crimes relating to controlled substances, including, but not limited to, the crimes described above, from those prohibitions against granting probation or a suspended sentence. The bill would authorize the remaining prohibitions on probation to be waived by a court in the interests of justice. By making additional persons eligible for probation, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2021-10-05" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 537, Statutes of 2021", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Wicks", "Chiu" ], "coauthors": [ "Bradford", "Kamlager", "Skinner", "Carrillo", "Kalra", "Quirk" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-12-10", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-12-11", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 10." }, { "date": "2021-01-11", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Set for hearing March 9." }, { "date": "2021-03-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 423.) (March 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-03-12", "action": "Set for hearing March 22." }, { "date": "2021-03-22", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2021-03-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-04-12", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 10. Page 748.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-04-12", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-05-13", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-06-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-06-16", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2021-06-30", "action": "June 30 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26)." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-08-31", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-09", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 42. Noes 26. Page 3062.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-09-10", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-09-10", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 2621.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-17", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2021-10-05", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2021-10-05", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 537, Statutes of 2021." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB73", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB73", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB73", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB73", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB73" }, "headline": "Allows probation for more drug crime convictions", "one_liner": "Removes many drug offenses from the list of crimes for which judges cannot grant probation.", "summary": "Deletes various controlled substance crimes from the list of offenses that bar probation or a suspended sentence. Judges may waive the remaining probation bans in the interests of justice. This makes more people convicted of drug crimes eligible for probation.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB73.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB107", "slug": "2021-22/SB107", "number": "SB 107", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-05", "last_action_date": "2022-09-29", "subject": "Gender-affirming health care.", "introduced_subject": "CalFresh.", "title": "An act to add Section 56.109 to the Civil Code, to amend Sections 2029.300 and 2029.350 of the Code of Civil Procedure, to amend Sections 3421, 3424, 3427, and 3428 of, and to add Section 3453.5 to, the Family Code, and to amend Section 1326 of, and to add Section 819 to, the Penal Code, relating to health care.", "digest": "(1)The United States Constitution generally requires a state to give full faith and credit to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. Existing law authorizes, upon the demand made by another state, the extradition of a person charged with committing an act in this state that results in a crime in the demanding state, as specified. Existing law sets forth procedures by which a person may enforce a judgment for the payment of money and child custody orders issued by the court of a state other than California. Existing law authorizes a California court or attorney to issue a subpoena if a foreign subpoena has been sought in this state. Existing law generally prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient, enrollee, or subscriber without first obtaining an authorization, unless a specified exception applies, including that the disclosure is in response to a subpoena.\n This bill would prohibit a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from releasing medical information related to a person or entity allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to a criminal or civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state’s law that authorizes a person to bring a civil or criminal action against a person or entity that allows a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. The bill additionally would prohibit law enforcement agencies from knowingly making or participating in the arrest or extradition of an individual pursuant to an out-of-state arrest warrant based on another state’s law against providing, receiving, or allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in this state, as specified.\n (2)Existing law, known as the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, provides the state exclusive jurisdictional basis for making an initial child custody determination, and permits a California court to assume temporary emergency jurisdiction in specified circumstances. Existing law permits a court to decline to exercise its jurisdiction if it determines that it is an inconvenient forum and a court in another state is a more appropriate forum.\n Existing law permits a California court to decline to exercise its jurisdiction if the petitioner has wrongfully taken the child from another state or engaged in similar reprehensible conduct, except as specified. Existing law prohibits a court from considering the taking or retention of a child from a person who has legal custody of the child if there is evidence that the taking or retention was a result of domestic violence.\n The bill would prohibit the enforcement of an order based on another state’s law authorizing a child to be removed from their parent or guardian based on that parent or guardian allowing their child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. The bill would prohibit a court from finding that it is an inconvenient forum where the law or policy of another state that may take jurisdiction limits the ability of a parent to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care, as defined, and the provision of such care is at issue in the case before the court. The bill would authorize a court to take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care. The bill would additionally prohibit a court from considering the taking or retention of a child from a person who has legal custody of the child, if the taking or retention was for obtaining gender-affirming health care or mental health care. The bill would declare its provisions to be severable.\n (3)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 2029.300 and 2029.350 of the Code of Civil Procedure proposed by AB 2091 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2091 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health and appropriate stakeholders, to develop and submit to the Legislature a community outreach and education campaign to help families learn about, and apply for, CalFresh.\n This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in order to increase client access and retention within CalFresh, to participate in the Elderly Simplified Application Project, a demonstration project operated by the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2023, to develop a CalFresh user-centered application for seniors 60 years of age or older and for people with disabilities who are eligible to be enrolled in the Elderly Simplified Application Project. \n Existing law requires each county welfare department, to the extent permitted by federal law, to exempt a household from complying with face-to-face interview requirements for the purpose of determining eligibility at initial application and recertification.\n This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, give an individual the option to apply, report, and recertify for CalFresh in person, by mail, online, or by telephone, and permit an individual to complete the interview requirement and client signature by telephone. The bill would authorize counties to implement any method of telephonic or electronic signature that is supported by county business practice and technology. The bill would require the department, with the input of stakeholders, to develop and execute a plan of support for counties that have not already implemented a telephone-based application and renewal process and to provide technical assistance and resources. The bill would require the application process to satisfy specified criteria, including simple, user-friendly language and instructions. The bill would require certain counties to comply with these provisions beginning on or before January 1, 2023, and require the remaining counties to comply with the provisions beginning on or before January 1, 2024. By imposing new duties on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-29" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 810, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code", "Code of Civil Procedure", "Family Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Atkins", "Wilson" ], "coauthors": [ "Eggman", "Laird", "Bauer-Kahan", "Mia Bonta", "Cervantes", "Haney", "Kalra", "Lee", "Low", "Ward" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-05", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 5." }, { "date": "2021-01-11", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2021-02-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2021-02-23", "action": "Set for hearing March 9." }, { "date": "2021-03-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 422.) (March 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-03-12", "action": "Set for hearing March 22." }, { "date": "2021-03-22", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2021-03-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-01", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From inactive file on motion of Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-06", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 2723.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-01-06", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-04-28", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-04-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-08", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2022-06-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 3)." }, { "date": "2022-08-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-08", "action": "Read third time and amended. (Ayes 52. Noes 18. Page 5780.)" }, { "date": "2022-08-08", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended. (Ayes 56. Noes 17. Page 6000.)" }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-29", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5201.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-08-29", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Set for hearing August 30." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 5347.)" }, { "date": "2022-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5371.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 810, Statutes of 2022." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107" }, "headline": "Protects gender-affirming care from out-of-state actions", "one_liner": "Blocks California courts, providers, and police from helping enforce other states' laws against children's gender-affirming care.", "summary": "Bans health providers and plans from releasing medical records in cases based on another state's laws against allowing children gender-affirming care. Bans California police from arresting or extraditing people under such out-of-state warrants. Courts may not enforce out-of-state orders removing a child because a parent allowed this care. Courts may take temporary jurisdiction when a child cannot get this care.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with CalFresh applications; it was rewritten to cover gender-affirming health care protections.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB107.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB221", "slug": "2021-22/SB221", "number": "SB 221", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-13", "last_action_date": "2021-10-08", "subject": "Health care coverage: timely access to care.", "introduced_subject": "Health care coverage: timely access to care.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1367.03 and 1367.031 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10133.53 of, and to add Section 10133.54 to, the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires each department to develop and adopt regulations to ensure that enrollees and insureds have access to needed health care services in a timely manner. Under existing law, a Medi-Cal managed care plan is required to comply with timely access standards developed by the department.\n Existing regulations require a health care service plan or an insurer to ensure that their contracted provider networks have adequate capacity and availability of licensed health care providers to offer enrollees and insureds appointments that meet specified timeframes. Existing regulations require a health care service plan or an insurer to ensure that for an enrollee requesting a nonurgent appointment with a nonphysician mental health care provider, or an insured requesting a nonurgent appointment with a nonphysician mental health care or substance use disorder provider, appointments are offered within 10 business days of the request for an appointment. Existing regulations also authorize appointments for preventive care services and periodic followup care, including periodic office visits to monitor and treat mental health or substance use disorder conditions, as specified, to be scheduled in advance consistent with professionally recognized standards of practice as determined by the treating licensed health care provider acting within the provider’s scope of practice. These regulations of the Department of Managed Health Care are limited in application to mental health care providers, while those regulations of the Department of Insurance are applicable to both mental health care and substance use disorder providers.\n This bill would codify the regulations adopted by the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to provide timely access standards for health care service plans and insurers for nonemergency health care services. The bill would require both a health care service plan and a health insurer, including a Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan, to ensure that appointments with nonphysician mental health and substance use disorder providers are subject to the timely access requirements, as specified. The bill would additionally require, commencing July 1, 2022, a health care service plan and a health insurer, including a Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan, to ensure that an enrollee or insured that is undergoing a course of treatment for an ongoing mental health or substance use disorder condition is able to get a followup appointment with a nonphysician mental health care or substance use disorder provider within 10 business days of the prior appointment. The bill would require that a referral to a specialist by another provider meet the timely access standards. If a health care service plan is operating in a service area that has a shortage of providers and the plan is not able to meet the geographic and timely access standards for providing mental health or substance use disorder services with an in-network provider, the bill would require the plan, including a Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan, to arrange coverage outside the plan’s contracted network. By imposing new requirements on health care service plans, the willful violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires each department to develop and adopt regulations to ensure that enrollees and insureds have access to needed health care services in a timely manner.\n Existing regulations require a health care service plan or an insurer to ensure that their contracted provider networks have adequate capacity and availability of licensed health care providers to offer enrollees and insureds appointments that meet specified timeframes. Existing regulations require a health care service plan or an insurer to ensure that for an enrollee requesting a nonurgent appointment with a nonphysician mental health care provider, or an insured requesting a nonurgent appointment with a nonphysician mental health care or substance use disorder provider, appointments are offered within 10 business days of the request for an appointment. Existing regulations also authorize appointments for preventive care services and periodic followup care, including periodic office visits to monitor and treat mental health or substance use disorder conditions, as specified, to be scheduled in advance consistent with professionally recognized standards of practice as determined by the treating licensed health care provider acting within the provider’s scope of practice. These regulations of the Department of Managed Care are limited in application to mental health care providers, while those regulations of the Department of Insurance are applicable to both mental health care and substance use disorder providers.\n This bill would codify the regulations adopted by the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to provide timely access standards for health care service plans and insurers for nonemergency health care services. The bill would require both a health care service plan and a health insurer to ensure that appointments with nonphysician mental health and substance use disorder providers are subject to the timely access requirements. The bill would additionally require a health care service plan or a health insurer to ensure that an enrollee or insured that is undergoing a course of treatment for an ongoing mental health or substance use disorder condition is able to get a followup appointment with a nonphysician mental health care or substance use disorder provider within 10 business days of the prior appointment. By imposing new requirements on health care service plans, the willful violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2021-10-08" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 724, Statutes of 2021", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Leyva", "Kamlager", "Newman", "Arambula", "Waldron" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 13." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-03-03", "action": "Set for hearing March 17." }, { "date": "2021-03-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-03-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 532.) (March 17)." }, { "date": "2021-03-22", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing May 3." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1183.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 1318.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-10", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-06-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-07-07", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-08-19", "action": "August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26)." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-01", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2021-09-01", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-03", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2021-09-03", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-08", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2884.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-09-08", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-09-09", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 2546.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-15", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2021-10-08", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2021-10-08", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 724, Statutes of 2021." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221" }, "headline": "Sets wait time rules for mental health care", "one_liner": "Health plans and insurers must offer timely appointments, including follow-up mental health visits within 10 business days.", "summary": "Writes state timely access rules for health plans and insurers into law. Starting July 2022, plans must offer patients in ongoing mental health or substance use treatment a follow-up visit with a nonphysician provider within 10 business days. This includes Medi-Cal managed care plans. Specialist referrals must also comply. Where providers are scarce, plans must arrange out-of-network mental health care.", "issues": [ "health", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB221.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB225", "slug": "2021-22/SB225", "number": "SB 225", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-14", "last_action_date": "2022-09-27", "subject": "Health care coverage: timely access to care.", "introduced_subject": "Medical procedures: individuals born with variations in their physical sex characteristics.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1367.03 and 1367.031 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10133.54 of the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer that provides or arranges for the provision of hospital or physician services to comply with specified timely access to care requirements, including ensuring that its network has adequate capacity and availability of licensed health care providers to offer enrollees and insureds appointments that meet specified timeframes. Existing law authorizes the department director to take enforcement action against health care plans that fail to comply with these provisions, including assessing administrative penalties.\n This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer to incorporate timely access to care standards into its quality assurance systems and incorporate specified processes. The bill would authorize the Department of Managed Health Care to develop methodologies to demonstrate appointment wait time compliance and averages. The bill would authorize the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to take compliance or disciplinary action, review and adopt standards concerning the availability of health care to ensure enrollees and insureds have timely access to care, and make recommendations to the Legislature if the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance finds that health care service plans or health insurers and providers have difficulty meeting the standards the departments develop. The bill would require the director to consider, as an aggravating factor when assessing administrative penalties, if harm to an enrollee has occurred as a result of plan noncompliance. The bill would clarify that the timely access to care provisions do not alter requirements or standards for Medi-Cal managed care plans, except as specified. The bill would also make technical and conforming changes. By imposing new requirements on health care service plans, the willful violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Under existing law, the Medical Practice Act, certain procedures or treatments constitute unprofessional conduct, including, among others, the prescribing, dispensing, administering, or furnishing of liquid silicone for the purpose of injecting it into a human breast or mammary. Any violation of the law relating to enforcement of the Medical Practice Act is a misdemeanor, as specified.\n This bill would prohibit a physician and surgeon from performing certain sex organ modification procedures on an individual born with variations in their physical sex characteristics who is under 6 years of age unless the procedure is a surgery required to address an immediate risk of physical harm, as specified. The bill would make any violation of these provisions subject to disciplinary action by the board, but not criminal prosecution.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-27" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 601, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-14", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-15", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 14." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD." }, { "date": "2021-03-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2021-03-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 5." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "April 5 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2021-12-28", "action": "Set for hearing January 10." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2022-01-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 2738.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-01-10", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2022-01-10", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-11", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-18", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 2776.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-01-18", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-06-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2022-06-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-24", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5112.) Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-08-29", "action": "Set for hearing August 29." }, { "date": "2022-08-29", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 5248.)" }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5311.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-09-06", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 601, Statutes of 2022." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225" }, "headline": "Changes enforcement of health care wait time rules", "one_liner": "Health plans and insurers must build appointment wait time standards into their quality assurance systems.", "summary": "Requires health plans and insurers to include timely access standards in their quality assurance systems. Lets state regulators measure wait times, take disciplinary action, update standards, and make recommendations to the Legislature. Regulators must weigh harm to a patient when setting penalties. Medi-Cal managed care rules are mostly unchanged.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with medical procedures on children born with variations in sex characteristics; it was rewritten to cover health care appointment wait times.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB225.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB314", "slug": "2021-22/SB314", "number": "SB 314", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-04", "last_action_date": "2021-10-08", "subject": "Alcoholic beverages.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic beverages.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 23399 and 25607 of, and to add and repeal Section 25750.5 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "(1)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. Existing law generally provides that a violation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act is a misdemeanor.\n Existing law authorizes the issuance of a caterer’s permit, upon application to the department, to a licensee under an on-sale general license, an on-sale beer and wine license, a club license, or a veterans’ club license, that authorizes the holder of the permit to sell alcoholic beverages at specified locations and events, including, among others, conventions, sporting events, and trade exhibits. Under existing law, licensees are required to first obtain consent from the department for sales of alcoholic beverages at each event in the form of a catering or event authorization. The department, pursuant to its powers and in furtherance of emergency declarations and orders of the Governor under the California Emergency Services Act regarding the spread of the COVID-19 virus, has prescribed temporary relief measures to suspend certain legal restrictions relating to, among other things, the expansion of a licensed footprint, sales of alcoholic beverages to-go, and delivery privileges.\n This bill would prohibit the issuance of a catering authorization for use at any one premises for more than 36 events in one calendar year, except as specified.\n This bill would authorize the department, for a period of 365 days following the end of the state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor on March 4, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to permit licensees to exercise license privileges in an expanded license area authorized pursuant to a COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorization approved in accordance with the Fourth Notice of Regulatory Relief issued by the department, as specified. The bill would also authorize the department to extend the period of time during which the COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorization is valid beyond 365 days if the licensee has filed a pending application with the department for the permanent expansion of their premises before the 365-day time period expires. The bill would make these provisions effective only until July 1, 2024, and repeal them as of that date. \n (2)Existing law, with exceptions, prohibits a licensee from having, upon the licensed premises, any alcoholic beverages other than the alcoholic beverage that the licensee is authorized to sell at the premises under their license, and makes a violation of this prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor.\n This bill would, as an exception to that prohibition, authorize a licensed manufacturer to share a common licensed area with multiple licensed retailers, subject to specified provisions, including, but not limited to, that (A)a licensee sharing the common licensed area with a licensed manufacturer is prohibited from selling or serving any alcoholic beverages that are manufactured, produced, bottled, processed, imported, rectified, distributed, represented, or sold by the manufacturer, as provided, (B)the licensed manufacturer may, in connection with the operation of the shared common area only, advertise or promote the common licensed area, provided that each retailer pays its pro rata share of the costs of such advertising or promotion, as specified, (C)no thing of value may be given or furnished by the manufacturer to the retailers, except as specified, (D)the manufacturer may have on the area of its licensed premises that encompass the shared common licensed area alcoholic beverages that would not otherwise be permitted on the manufacturer’s licensed premises, as provided, (E) all licensees sharing the common licensed area are required to hold the same license type retailers, (F) all licensees holding licenses within the shared common licensed area are jointly responsible for compliance with all laws that may subject their license to discipline, and (G)the manufacturer maintains records necessary to establish its compliance, as specified.\n (3)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "(1)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. Existing law generally provides that a violation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act is a misdemeanor.\n Existing law authorizes the issuance of a caterer’s permit, upon application to the department, to a licensee under an on-sale general license, an on-sale beer and wine license, a club license, or a veterans’ club license, that authorizes the holder of the permit to sell alcoholic beverages at specified locations and events, including, among others, conventions, sporting events, and trade exhibits. \n This bill would require the department to expedite the review of an application for a caterer’s permit.\n This bill would authorize the department to issue a COVID-19 permanent caterer’s authorization to a licensee under an on-sale general license. The authorization would authorize the on-site consumption of the alcoholic beverages for which the licensee has on-sale privileges on property that is adjacent to the licensed premises, as specified. The bill would require the department to expedite the review of an application for an authorization, as specified. By broadening the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a licensee under an on-sale license issued for public premises, as defined, to permit a person under the age of 21 years to enter and remain in the licensed premises without lawful business therein.\n This bill would permit a licensee under an on-sale license issued for public premises to permit a person under the age of 21 years to enter and remain in the licensed premises provided that alcoholic beverages are not sold, served, or consumed on the premises during the time that a person under the age of 21 years is present.\n (3)Existing law provides for various annual fees for the issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses, depending upon the type of license issued. Existing law additionally authorizes specified alcoholic beverage licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee, under certain conditions, if the on-sale retail licensee is the owner, manager, agent of the owner, assignee of the owner’s advertising rights, or major tenant of specified facilities.\n This bill would authorize the department to issue a music venue license that would allow the licensee to sell beer, wine, and distilled spirits at retail for consumption on the premises in a music entertainment facility, as defined. The bill would impose an original fee and an annual renewal fee for the license, which would be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would provide for the purchases of advertising time and space with revised parameters, including that the parties submit a declaration to the department relating to the agreement to purchase advertising time and space.\n (4)Existing law requires the department to hold a hearing on a protest, accusation, or petition for a license in the county in which the premises or license is located, except as provided, and to be conducted in accordance with specified administrative procedures.\n This bill would require the department to a hearing described above within 6 months after the filing of a protest, accusation, or petition for a license.\n (5)Existing law permits specified licensees, or their authorized agents, to provide, free of charge, entertainment, food, and distilled spirits, wine, or nonalcoholic beverages to consumers at an invitation-only event, subject to various conditions, including a limitation on the number of events the authorized person may conduct in a year, as provided.\n This bill would delete the above-described condition.\n (6)Existing law, with exceptions, prohibits a licensee from having upon the licensed premises any alcoholic beverages other than the alcoholic beverage that the licensee is authorized to sell at the premises under their license, and makes a violation of this prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor.\n This bill would, as an exception to that prohibition, authorize 2 or more on-sale general licensees whose licensed premises are immediately adjacent to each other, as specified, to share a common licensed area in which consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted under various circumstances\n This bill would provide that a licensee that shares a licensed premises with another licensee but does not operate at the same time as the other licensee is responsible for compliance with the act and for any violation that occurs on the premises only during the time when that licensee operates under its license.\n (7)Under existing law, any person possessing an open container of an alcoholic beverage in any city, county, or city and county-owned public place, as specified, or any regional park or recreation and park district, is guilty of an infraction if the city or county has enacted an ordinance that prohibits the possession of those containers or the consumption of alcoholic beverages in those areas, except as specified.\n The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any city or county to adopt ordinances regulating zoning within its jurisdiction, as specified.\n This bill would authorize a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, to allow in commercial zones the consumption of alcoholic beverages, including the possession of an open container of an alcoholic beverage.\n (8)This bill would make various conforming changes.\n (9)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n (10)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2021-10-08" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 656, Statutes of 2021", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Gabriel", "Quirk", "Villapudua" ], "coauthors": [ "Borgeas", "Melendez", "Nielsen", "Aguiar-Curry", "Carrillo", "Chiu", "Eduardo Garcia", "Gray", "Mayes", "Ting", "Bigelow", "Lackey", "Mathis", "Quirk-Silva", "Smith" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-04", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-05", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7." }, { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-04-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2021-04-15", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2021-04-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 856.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1187.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2021-06-01", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1343.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-10", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2021-07-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2021-07-13", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2021-07-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-08-19", "action": "August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 26)." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-08-31", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2714.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-09-03", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2375.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m." }, { "date": "2021-10-08", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2021-10-08", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Lets a licensed manufacturer share a common licensed area with several retailers, under conditions. Takes effect immediately.", "issues": [ "nightlife" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB314.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB339", "slug": "2021-22/SB339", "number": "SB 339", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-08", "last_action_date": "2021-09-24", "subject": "Vehicles: road usage charge pilot program.", "introduced_subject": "Vehicles: road usage charge pilot program.", "title": "An act to amend Section 3093 of, and to add Section 3092.5 to, the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.", "digest": "Existing law requires the Chair of the California Transportation Commission to create a Road Usage Charge (RUC) Technical Advisory Committee in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation. Under existing law, the purpose of the technical advisory committee is to guide the development and evaluation of a pilot program to assess the potential for mileage-based revenue collection as an alternative to the gas tax system. Existing law requires the technical advisory committee to study RUC alternatives to the gas tax, gather public comment on issues and concerns related to the pilot program, and make recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation on the design of a pilot program, as specified. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2023.\n This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2027. The bill would require the Transportation Agency, in consultation with the California Transportation Commission, to implement a pilot program to identify and evaluate issues related to the collection of revenue for a road charge program, as specified. The bill would require the RUC Technical Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Transportation Agency on the design of the pilot program, including the group of vehicles to participate. The bill would require that if a group of vehicles other than state-owned vehicles is selected, that participation in the program be voluntary. The bill would require the Transportation Agency to consult with appropriate state agencies to implement the pilot program and to design a process for collecting road charge revenue from vehicles. The bill would require that participants in the program be charged a mileage-based fee, as specified, and receive a credit or a refund for fuel taxes or electric vehicle fees, as specified. The bill would require that the pilot program not affect funding levels for a program or purpose supported by state fuel tax and electric vehicle fee revenues. The bill would require the Transportation Agency to submit reports to the Legislature, as specified.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the Chair of the California Transportation Commission to create a Road Usage Charge (RUC) Technical Advisory Committee in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation. Under existing law, the purpose of the technical advisory committee is to guide the development and evaluation of a pilot program to assess the potential for mileage-based revenue collection as an alternative to the gas tax system. Existing law requires the technical advisory committee to study RUC alternatives to the gas tax, gather public comment on issues and concerns related to the pilot program, and make recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation on the design of a pilot program, as specified. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2023.\n This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2027. The bill would require the Transportation Agency, in consultation with the California Transportation Commission, to implement a pilot program to identify and evaluate issues related to the collection of revenue for a road charge program, as specified. The bill would require the RUC Technical Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Transportation Agency on the design of the pilot program, including the group of vehicles to participate. The bill would require that if a group of vehicles other than state-owned vehicles is selected, that participation in the program be voluntary. The bill would require the Transportation Agency to convene a state agency work group, as specified, to implement the pilot program and to design a process for collecting road charge revenue from vehicles. The bill would require the pilot program to be net revenue neutral, as specified. The bill would require that participants in the program be charged a mileage-based fee and receive a credit or a refund for gasoline taxes or electric vehicle fees, as specified. The bill would require that the pilot program not affect funding levels for a program or purpose supported by state gasoline tax and electric vehicle fee revenues. The bill would require the Transportation Agency to submit a report to the Legislature, as specified.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2021-09-24" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 308, Statutes of 2021", "laws_affected": [ "Vehicle Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Newman", "Wieckowski", "Chiu", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-08", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-09", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 11." }, { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-03-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 13." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2021-04-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4. Page 779.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing May 3." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1188.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 1336.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-10", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2021-06-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2021-06-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-07-14", "action": "July 14 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26)." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-08-31", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 19. Page 2615.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-09-01", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2353.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m." }, { "date": "2021-09-24", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2021-09-24", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Participation is voluntary unless state-owned vehicles are chosen. The agency must report to the Legislature.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB339.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB357", "slug": "2021-22/SB357", "number": "SB 357", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-09", "last_action_date": "2022-07-01", "subject": "Crimes: loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board: appeals.", "title": "An act to amend Section 782.1 of the Evidence Code, to amend Sections 647.3, 653.23, and 1203.47 of, to add Section 653.29 to, and to repeal Sections 653.20 and 653.22 of, the Penal Code, to amend Section 99171 of the Public Utilities Code, and to amend Sections 18259 and 18259.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to crimes.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits soliciting or engaging in an act of prostitution, as specified. Existing law also prohibits loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, or directing, supervising, recruiting, or aiding a person who is loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, or collecting or receiving all or part of the proceeds of an act of prostitution. Under existing law, a violation of any of these provisions is a misdemeanor.\n This bill would repeal those provisions related to loitering with the intent to commit prostitution and would make other conforming changes. This bill would also authorize a person convicted of a violation of loitering with the intent to commit prostitution to petition the court for the dismissal and sealing of their case, and resentencing, if applicable.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 99171 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by AB 1337 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1337 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law prescribes a process pursuant to which an alcoholic beverage licensee may appeal to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board a final determination of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control imposing a penalty assessment or affecting a license. In this regard, the board is required to enter its order within 60 days after the filing of an appeal. \n This bill would extend the time within which the Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board is required to file its order to 90 days.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-07-01" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 86, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Evidence Code", "Penal Code", "Public Utilities Code", "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Kalra" ], "coauthors": [ "Kamlager", "Carrillo", "Lee", "Quirk", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12." }, { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-03-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2021-03-18", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-03-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 13." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-04-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 778.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing May 3." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1189.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 1330.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-10", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-07-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-08-19", "action": "August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26)." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-08-31", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-01", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2021-09-01", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-10", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 41. Noes 29. Page 3109.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-09-10", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-09-10", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 2624.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-10", "action": "Withdrawn from engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-10", "action": "Ordered held at the Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-20", "action": "Ordered to enrgrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-06-24", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m." }, { "date": "2022-07-01", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-07-01", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 86, Statutes of 2022." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB357", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB357", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB357", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB357", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB357" }, "headline": "Repeals the crime of loitering for prostitution", "one_liner": "Removes the crime of loitering with intent to commit prostitution and lets past convictions be dismissed and sealed.", "summary": "Repeals the law against loitering in a public place with intent to commit prostitution. People convicted under that law may ask a court to dismiss and seal their case and to be resentenced if applicable. Laws against soliciting or engaging in prostitution are not repealed.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with alcohol license appeals; it was rewritten to cover repealing the crime of loitering for prostitution.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB357.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB379", "slug": "2021-22/SB379", "number": "SB 379", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-10", "last_action_date": "2022-09-16", "subject": "Residential solar energy systems: permitting.", "introduced_subject": "University of California: contracts: health facilities.", "title": "An act to add Section 65850.52 to the Government Code, relating to land use.", "digest": "Existing law requires a city or county to approve administratively applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Existing law requires every city, county, or city and county to develop a streamlined permitting process for the installation of small residential rooftop solar energy systems, as that term is defined. Existing law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Existing law creates the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes its duties, which include administering programs for the installation of solar energy systems.\n This bill would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time or allows the city, county, or city and county to issue permits in real time for a residential solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and a residential energy storage system, as defined, paired with a residential solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating.\n This bill would prescribe a compliance schedule for satisfying these requirements, which would exempt a city with a population of fewer than 5,000 and a county with a population of fewer than 150,000, including each city within that county. The bill would require a city with a population of 50,000 or fewer that is not otherwise exempt to satisfy these requirements by September 30, 2024, while cities, counties, and cities and counties with populations greater than 50,000 that are not otherwise exempt would be required to satisfy the requirements by September 30, 2023. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to report to the Energy Commission when it is in compliance with specified requirements, in addition to other information. The bill would require cities, counties, and cities and counties to self-certify their compliance with the bill’s provisions when applying for specified funds from the Energy Commission, as specified.\n This bill would require the Energy Commission to set guidelines, adopted through a specified public process, for cities, counties, and cities and counties to report to the commission on the number of permits issued for residential solar energy systems and residential energy storage systems paired with residential solar energy systems and the relevant characteristics of those systems. The bill would make related findings and declarations.\n The Administrative Procedure Act generally governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law.\n This bill would exempt the guidelines from the Administrative Procedures Act.\n This bill would expressly apply to charter cities.\n By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.", "introduced_digest": "Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that the University of California constitutes a public trust and require the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California (regents), a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes, including such competitive bidding procedures as may be applicable to the university by statute for the letting of construction contracts, sales of real property, and purchasing of materials, goods, and services.\n Existing law governs competitive bidding by the University of California and also establishes specific restrictions on University of California contracts relating to work performed by workers outside of the United States.\n This bill would prohibit the University of California, on and after January 1, 2022, from entering into any contract with any health facility contractor or subcontractor in which a health care practitioner employed by the University of California or a trainee of the University of California providing care in the health facility would be limited in the practitioner’s or trainee’s ability to provide patients with medical information or medical services due to policy-based restrictions on care in the health facility. The bill would require any contract between the University of California and a health facility pursuant to which a University of California-employed health care practitioner or trainee of the University of California provides care in the health facility to include a provision restating the substance of that prohibition. The bill would require any contract between the University of California and a health facility pursuant to which a University of California-employed health care practitioner or trainee of the University of California provides care in the health facility to provide that, in the event the health facility contractor or subcontractor violates the prohibition, the contract shall be terminated for noncompliance, and the contractor or subcontractor shall forfeit penalties to the University of California, as appropriate, in an amount equal to the amount paid by the university for the percentage of work that was performed. The bill would define terms for these purposes.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-16" }, "version_count": 11, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 356, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Muratsuchi" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-10", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-11", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13." }, { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-03-01", "action": "Set for hearing March 17." }, { "date": "2021-03-07", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2021-03-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 668.) (March 17). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-03-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 7." }, { "date": "2021-03-22", "action": "April 7 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2021-04-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2021-04-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 876.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-30", "action": "Set for hearing May 10." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-05-10", "action": "May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "May 20 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2021-12-28", "action": "Set for hearing January 6 in GOV. & F. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2022-01-05", "action": "Set for hearing January 10 in E., U. & C. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2022-01-06", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U. & C. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 2727.) (January 6). Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2022-01-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 2739.) (January 10)." }, { "date": "2022-01-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-01-14", "action": "Set for hearing January 18." }, { "date": "2022-01-18", "action": "January 18 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-01-19", "action": "Set for hearing January 20." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2794.) (January 20)." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 1. Page 2804.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-01-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and U. & E." }, { "date": "2022-05-31", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2022-06-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 15)." }, { "date": "2022-06-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 64. Noes 7. Page 5942.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-23", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 5022.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-16", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-16", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Very small cities and counties are exempt. Local governments must report compliance to the Energy Commission.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with University of California health facility contracts; it was rewritten to cover home solar permitting.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB379.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB467", "slug": "2021-22/SB467", "number": "SB 467", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-16", "last_action_date": "2022-09-30", "subject": "Expert witnesses: writ of habeas corpus.", "introduced_subject": "Oil and gas: hydraulic fracturing, acid well stimulation treatments, steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming: prohibition: job relocation.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1473 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal procedure.", "digest": "Existing law allows a person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of their liberty to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of their imprisonment or restraint. Existing law allows a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on the basis of false evidence that is substantially material or probative to the issue of guilt or punishment that was introduced at trial. Existing law defines false evidence for these purposes as including the opinions of experts that have been repudiated by the expert or that have been undermined by later scientific research or technological advances.\n This bill would additionally allow a person to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus if a significant dispute has emerged or further developed in the petitioner’s favor regarding expert medical, scientific, or forensic testimony that was introduced at trial and contributed to the conviction, such that it would have more likely than not changed the outcome at trial, as specified. The bill would also expand the definition of false evidence to include the opinions of experts that are undermined by the state of scientific knowledge.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1473 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 256 to be operative only if this bill and AB 256 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law authorizes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation to regulate the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment to apply to the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or a district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments. Under existing law, a person who fails to comply with this and other requirements relating to the regulation of oil or gas operations is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n This bill would revise the definition of “well stimulation treatment” to include steam flooding and water flooding. The bill would prohibit the issuance or renewal of a permit to conduct hydraulic fracturing, acid well stimulation treatment, steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming for the extraction of oil and gas beginning January 1, 2022, and would prohibit new or repeated hydraulic fracturing, acid well stimulation treatments, steam flooding, water flooding, or cyclic steaming, except as conducted pursuant to a permit lawfully issued before that date. The bill would prohibit all hydraulic fracturing, acid well stimulation treatments, steam flooding, water flooding, cyclic steaming, or other well stimulation treatments beginning January 1, 2027. Because a violation of the prohibition on conducting hydraulic fracturing, acid well stimulation treatments, steam flooding, water flooding, cyclic steaming, or other well stimulation treatments, except pursuant to a permit issued before January 1, 2022, would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. This bill would, until January 1, 2027, authorize a local government to prohibit well stimulation treatments within its jurisdiction. The bill would also make conforming changes.\n This bill would require the division to develop and administer a program to identify workers in downstream, midstream, and upstream oil and gas operations who have lost their jobs and to provide incentives to oil and gas well remediation companies to hire those identified workers.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-30" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 982, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Kamlager" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-25", "action": "Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q." }, { "date": "2021-03-22", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2021-03-24", "action": "Set for hearing April 13." }, { "date": "2021-04-13", "action": "April 13 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 4. Noes 3. Page 777.) Reconsideration granted." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-01-04", "action": "Set for hearing January 11." }, { "date": "2022-01-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2747.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-01-13", "action": "Set for hearing January 18." }, { "date": "2022-01-18", "action": "January 18 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-01-19", "action": "Set for hearing January 20." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2795.) (January 20)." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 3. Page 2822.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-01-26", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-05-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-06-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-06-22", "action": "June 22 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5314.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-09-06", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Also counts expert opinions undermined by the state of scientific knowledge as false evidence.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with oil and gas drilling methods; it was rewritten to cover habeas corpus petitions based on expert testimony.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB467.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB478", "slug": "2021-22/SB478", "number": "SB 478", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-17", "last_action_date": "2021-09-28", "subject": "Planning and Zoning Law: housing development projects.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and Zoning Law: housing development projects.", "title": "An act to add Section 4747 to the Civil Code, and to amend Section 65585 of, and to add Section 65913.11 to, the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "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. The law also requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify the city, county, or city and county, and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General, that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the department finds that the housing element or an amendment to that element, or any specified action or failure to act, does not substantially comply with the law as it pertains to housing elements or that any local government has taken an action in violation of certain housing laws.\n Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the management and operation of common interest developments. Existing law makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a planned development, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use that meets specified standards.\n This bill would prohibit a local agency, as defined, from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 1.0 on a housing development project that consists of 3 to 7 units, or less than 1.25 on a housing development project that consists of 8 to 10 units. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing a lot coverage requirement that would physically preclude a housing development project from achieving the floor area ratios described above. The bill would prohibit a local agency from denying a housing development project located on an existing legal parcel solely on the basis that the lot area of the proposed lot does not meet the local agency’s requirements for minimum lot size. The bill would only apply to housing development projects that meet specified requirements, including, among other things, that the project be located in a multifamily residential zone or a mixed-use zone, as specified. The bill would additionally require the department to identify violations by a local government of these provisions, as described above. This bill would add the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 to the specified provisions of law for which the department is required to give notice of a violation.\n This bill would make void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a planned development, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts a housing development project from using the floor area ratio standards authorized under the provisions described above. The bill would provide that it does not apply to provisions that impose reasonable restrictions, as defined, that do not make the implementation of a project subject to the above-described provisions infeasible.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65585 of the Government Code proposed by AB 215 to be operative only if this bill and AB 215 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "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. The law also requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify the city, county, or city and county, and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General, that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the department finds that the housing element or an amendment to that element, or any specified action or failure to act, does not substantially comply with the law as it pertains to housing elements or that any local government has taken an action in violation of certain housing laws.\n This bill would prohibit a local agency, as defined, from imposing specified standards, including a minimum lot size that exceeds an unspecified number of square feet on parcels zoned for at least 2, but not more than 4, units or a minimum lot size that exceeds an unspecified number of square feet on parcels zoned for at least 5, but not more than 10, units. The bill would additionally require the department to identify violations by a local government of these provisions, as described above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2021-09-28" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 363, Statutes of 2021", "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code", "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Carrillo" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-25", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2021-03-24", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2021-04-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 728.) (April 8)." }, { "date": "2021-04-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2021-04-15", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2021-04-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 987.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 10." }, { "date": "2021-05-10", "action": "May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 1193.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 5. Page 1258.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-05-26", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2021-06-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 22)." }, { "date": "2021-06-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2021-07-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 30)." }, { "date": "2021-07-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-08-19", "action": "August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 26)." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-08-31", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-08", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 14. Page 2916.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-09-08", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-09-09", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 2557.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-17", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2021-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2021-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 363, Statutes of 2021." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB478", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB478", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB478", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB478", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB478" }, "headline": "Limits local size rules for small housing projects", "one_liner": "Bars local agencies from setting floor area limits below set minimums for 3- to 10-unit housing projects.", "summary": "Bars local agencies from setting floor area ratio limits below 1.0 for 3–7 unit projects or 1.25 for 8–10 unit projects in multifamily or mixed-use zones. Bars denying these projects only because a lot is below minimum size. Voids deed restrictions and planned development rules that block these standards. 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Existing law provides for various annual fees for the issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses, depending upon the type of license issued.\n This bill would authorize the department to issue a music venue license, as defined, that would allow the licensee to sell beer, wine, and distilled spirits at retail for consumption on the premises in a music entertainment facility, as defined. The bill would limit a music venue licensee’s authorization to sell, serve, and permit consumption of alcoholic beverages to the time period from 2 hours before a live performance until one hour after the live performance, subject to existing law that makes selling, giving, delivering, or purchasing an alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day a misdemeanor. The bill would authorize an on-sale general bona fide public eating place licensee or an on-sale general public premises licensee as of the effective date of this bill to exchange that license for a music venue license, as provided. The bill would impose an original fee, an exchange fee, and an annual renewal fee for the license, which would be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would authorize an on-sale licensee to permit a person under 21 years of age into the music entertainment facility, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to promulgate regulations to implement these provisions.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 23320 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 2971 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2971 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the Chair of the California Transportation Commission to create a Road Usage Charge (RUC) Technical Advisory Committee in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation. Under existing law, the purpose of the technical advisory committee is to guide the development and evaluation of a pilot program to assess the potential for mileage-based revenue collection as an alternative to the gas tax system. Existing law requires the technical advisory committee to study RUC alternatives to the gas tax, gather public comment on issues and concerns related to the pilot program, and make recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation on the design of a pilot program, as specified. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2023.\n This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2024.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-22" }, "version_count": 12, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 468, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-19", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-03-03", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2021-03-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2021-03-09", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2021-03-09", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2021-03-18", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2021-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2021-04-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2021-04-15", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2021-04-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 857.) (April 20)." }, { "date": "2021-04-21", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-23", "action": "Set for hearing May 3." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 1204.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From inactive file." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-10", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 2734.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-01-10", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2022-06-22", "action": "June 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2022-08-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29)." }, { "date": "2022-08-01", "action": "(Received at desk July 5 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(c))." }, { "date": "2022-08-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5346.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-09-06", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-22", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-22", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Sales are allowed from 2 hours before to 1 hour after a live show, but not between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. Some current license holders may exchange their licenses. Licensees may admit people under 21, as provided.", "issues": [ "nightlife" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with a road usage charge advisory committee; it was rewritten to cover music venue liquor licenses.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB793.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB836", "slug": "2021-22/SB836", "number": "SB 836", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-01-06", "last_action_date": "2022-08-22", "subject": "Evidence: immigration status.", "introduced_subject": "Evidence: immigration status.", "title": "An act to add Sections 351.3 and 351.4 to the Evidence Code, relating to evidence, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Existing law provides that all relevant evidence is admissible in an action before the court, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declaring, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also provides that, in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death, evidence of a person’s immigration status is not admissible and discovery of a person’s immigration status is not permitted.\n Prior law, which was repealed on January 1, 2022, prohibited, in civil actions other than those specified above, the disclosure of a person’s immigration status in open court by a party unless that party requested an in camera hearing and the presiding judge determined that the evidence was admissible. Prior law, which was repealed on January 1, 2022, applied that prohibition to criminal actions.\n This bill would reenact those repealed provisions.\n The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-in-Evidence, which requires a 2 /3 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified.\n Because this bill may exclude from a criminal action information about a person’s immigration status that would otherwise be admissible, it requires a 2 /3 vote of the Legislature.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law provides that all relevant evidence is admissible in an action before the court, including evidence relevant to the credibility of a witness or hearsay declaring, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also provides that, in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death, evidence of a person’s immigration status is not admissible and discovery of a person’s immigration status is not permitted.\n Prior law, which was repealed on January 1, 2022, prohibited, in civil actions other than those specified above, the disclosure of a person’s immigration status in open court by a party unless that party requested an in camera hearing and the presiding judge determined that the evidence was admissible. Prior law, which was repealed on January 1, 2022, applied that prohibition to criminal actions.\n This bill would reenact those repealed provisions.\n The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-in-Evidence, which requires a 2 /3 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified.\n Because this bill may exclude from a criminal action information about a person’s immigration status that would otherwise be admissible, it requires a 2 /3 vote of the Legislature.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-08-22" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 168, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Evidence Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Rubio", "Haney", "Kalra" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-01-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-01-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 6." }, { "date": "2022-01-19", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2022-02-18", "action": "Set for hearing March 8." }, { "date": "2022-02-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-03-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3049.) (March 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-03-10", "action": "Set for hearing March 29." }, { "date": "2022-03-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3254.) (March 29)." }, { "date": "2022-03-31", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-02", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 0. Page 3579.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-01", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2022-06-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8)." }, { "date": "2022-06-08", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2022-06-09", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-04", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5750.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-04", "action": "In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-12", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 168, Statutes of 2022." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB836", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB836", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB836", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB836", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB836" }, "headline": "Restores limits on immigration status evidence in court", "one_liner": "Bars revealing a person's immigration status in open court unless a judge first rules it admissible in private.", "summary": "Reenacts rules repealed on January 1, 2022. In criminal cases and in civil cases other than personal injury or wrongful death, a party may not reveal a person's immigration status in open court unless the party asks for a private hearing and the judge rules the evidence admissible. Takes effect immediately as an urgency law.", "issues": [ "civil_rights", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB836.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB858", "slug": "2021-22/SB858", "number": "SB 858", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-01-19", "last_action_date": "2022-09-30", "subject": "Health care service plans: discipline: civil penalties.", "introduced_subject": "Health care service plans: discipline: civil penalties.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1374.9, 1374.34, 1386, 1387, 1389.8, 1390, 1393.5, and 1393.6 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care service plans.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care to take disciplinary measures, including the imposition of civil penalties, against a licensee when the director determines that the licensee has committed an act or omission constituting grounds for disciplinary action, as specified. Under existing law, a person who violates the act, or a rule or order adopted or issued under the act, is generally liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per violation. Existing law also includes various provisions that assess specific civil and administrative penalties for certain violations. Fines and penalties under the act are deposited into the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund, and used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for designated purposes.\n This bill would increase the base amount of the civil penalty from $2,500 per violation to not more than $25,000 per violation, and would authorize a lower, proportionate penalty for specialized dental and vision health care service plans. Under the bill, the civil penalty base amount would be adjusted annually commencing January 1, 2028, and every 5 years thereafter, as specified. The bill would double the minimum and maximum amounts of the civil and administrative penalties described above, and, commencing January 1, 2028, and every 5 years thereafter, adjust these civil and administrative penalties, as specified. The bill would authorize the director to impose a corrective action plan to require future compliance with the act, under certain circumstances. If a health care service plan fails to comply with the corrective action plan in a timely manner, the bill would require the department to monitor the health care service plan through medical surveys, financial examinations, or other means necessary to ensure timely compliance, and would specify that failure to timely comply with a corrective action plan is grounds for disciplinary action.\n The bill would require the director, when assessing administrative and civil penalties against a health care service plan, to determine the appropriate amount of the penalty for each violation, based upon consideration of specified factors, such as the nature, scope, and gravity of the violation, whether the violation is an isolated incident, and the amount of the penalty necessary to deter similar violations in the future.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care to take disciplinary measures, including the imposition of civil penalties, against a licensee when the director determines that the licensee has committed an act or omission constituting grounds for disciplinary action, as specified. Under existing law, a person who violates the act, or a rule or order adopted or issued under the act, is generally liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per violation. Existing law also includes various provisions that assess specific civil and administrative penalties for certain violations. Fines and penalties under the act are deposited into the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund, and used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for designated purposes.\n This bill would increase the maximum base amount of the civil penalty from $2,500 per violation to $25,000 per violation, which would be adjusted annually commencing January 1, 2024, as specified. The bill would multiply the amounts of other specified civil and administrative penalties by 4, commencing January 1, 2023, and would also annually adjust those penalties, commencing January 1, 2024. The bill would authorize the director to impose a corrective action plan to require future compliance with the act, under certain circumstances. If a health care service plan fails to comply with the corrective action plan in a timely manner, the bill would require the department to monitor the health care service plan through medical surveys, financial examinations, or other means necessary to ensure timely compliance.\n The bill would require the director, when assessing administrative penalties against a health care service plan, to determine the appropriate amount of the penalty for each violation, based upon consideration of specified factors, such as the nature, scope, and gravity of the violation, whether the violation is an isolated incident, and the amount of the penalty necessary to deter similar violations in the future. The bill would require the director to provide a written explanation of the amount of the penalty, including the factors the director relied upon in assessing that amount.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-30" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 985, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-01-19", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 19." }, { "date": "2022-01-26", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)" }, { "date": "2022-03-29", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2022-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 26 in JUD. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2022-04-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 3461.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 3512.) (April 26)." }, { "date": "2022-04-28", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-05-06", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2022-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-17", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3772.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 3879.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-06-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2022-06-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time and amended. (Ayes 53. Noes 18. Page 5932.)" }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 18. Page 6024.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5135.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-09-06", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Lets the Department of Managed Health Care require corrective action plans and sets factors for deciding penalty amounts.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB858.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB879", "slug": "2021-22/SB879", "number": "SB 879", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-01-26", "last_action_date": "2022-09-26", "subject": "Toxicological testing on dogs and cats.", "introduced_subject": "Toxicological testing on dogs and cats.", "title": "An act to add Section 1834.9.3 to the Civil Code, relating to animal testing.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits manufacturers and contract testing facilities from using traditional animal test methods within the state for which an appropriate alternative test method has been scientifically validated and recommended by the Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods and adopted, as specified. Existing law exempts certain animal tests from these provisions, including animal tests performed for the purpose of medical research. Existing law provides that the exclusive remedy for a violation of these provisions is a civil action for injunctive relief brought by, among others, the Attorney General and makes a violation of these provisions punishable by a specified civil penalty.\n This bill would, in addition, prohibit a contract testing facility from conducting a canine or feline toxicological experiment, defined as any test or study of any duration that seeks to determine the effect of the application or exposure of any amount of a chemical substance on a dog or cat, unless the experiment is conducted for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the Attorney General, the district attorney of the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred, or the city attorney in certain instances to bring a civil action for a violation of these provisions, punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each day that each dog or cat is used in a canine or feline toxicological experiment.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law prohibits manufacturers and contract testing facilities from using traditional animal test methods within the state for which an appropriate alternative test method has been scientifically validated and recommended by the Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods and adopted, as specified. Existing law exempts certain animal tests from these provisions, including animal tests performed for the purpose of medical research. Existing law provides that the exclusive remedy for a violation of these provisions is a civil action for injunctive relief brought by, among others, the Attorney General and makes a violation of these provisions punishable by a specified civil penalty.\n This bill would, in addition, prohibit a contract testing facility from conducting a canine or feline toxicological experiment, defined as any test or study of any duration that seeks to determine the effect of the application or exposure of any amount of a chemical substance on a dog or cat, unless the experiment is conducted for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the Attorney General, the district attorney of the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred, or the city attorney in certain instances to bring a civil action for a violation of these provisions, punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each day that each dog or cat is used in a canine or feline toxicological experiment.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-26" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 551, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-01-26", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-01-27", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26." }, { "date": "2022-02-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)" }, { "date": "2022-03-10", "action": "Set for hearing March 29." }, { "date": "2022-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-03-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3254.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2022-04-13", "action": "April 18 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-25", "action": "April 25 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-13", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3773.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2022-05-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3983.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-27", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5933.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-26", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-26", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-26", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Penalties can reach $5,000 per day for each dog or cat used.", "issues": [ "consumer" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB879.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB886", "slug": "2021-22/SB886", "number": "SB 886", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-01-27", "last_action_date": "2022-09-28", "subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public universities: university housing development projects.", "introduced_subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: environmental impact reports: public review period.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Section 21080.58 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.", "digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.\n This bill would, until January 1, 2030, exempt from CEQA a university housing development project, as defined, carried out by a public university, as defined, on real property owned by the public university if the project meets certain requirements, including that each building within the project is certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum or better by the United States Green Building Council, that the project’s construction impacts are fully mitigated, and that the project is not located, in whole or in part, on certain types of sites, including a site that is within a special flood hazard area subject to inundation by a 1% annual chance flood or within a regulatory floodway as determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as provided. The bill, with respect to a site that is within a special flood hazard area subject to inundation by a 1% annual chance flood or within a regulatory floodway, would prohibit a local government from denying an application on the basis that a public university did not comply with any additional permit requirement, standard, or action adopted by that local government applicable to the site if the public university is able to satisfy all applicable federal qualifying criteria in order to demonstrate that the site meets these criteria and is otherwise eligible to be exempt from CEQA pursuant to the above requirements. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would provide that a university housing development project is not exempt from CEQA if, among other things, the project would require the demolition of specified housing or a historic structure that is listed on a national, state, or local historic register. The bill would require the public university to hold at least one noticed public hearing to hear and respond to public comments before determining that the university housing development project is exempt under the bill’s provisions. The bill would require the lead agency, before the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for each building within a project, to obtain the LEED certification of the building, and to make a determination that all construction impacts of the project have been fully mitigated and issue a notice of that determination. The bill would require the lead agency to file the LEED certification and the notice with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located. The bill would require the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk to make the certification and notice available to the public. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on a local agency, including the county clerk, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA requires that the public review period for a draft environmental impact report prepared for a proposed project involving the expansion or enlargement of a publicly owned airport requiring the acquisition of any tide and submerged lands or other lands subject to the public trust for commerce, navigation, or fisheries, or any interest therein, be not less than 120 days.\n This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision relating to the public review period for those draft environmental impact reports.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-28" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 663, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Archuleta", "Becker", "Hueso", "Medina", "Mullin", "Robert Rivas" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-01-27", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-01-28", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 27." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-02-22", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-02", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2022-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2022-03-31", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2022-04-13", "action": "April 25 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 27." }, { "date": "2022-04-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3540.) (April 27)." }, { "date": "2022-05-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-05-06", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2022-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-17", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3773.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 3881.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-27", "action": "Referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2022-06-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 13)." }, { "date": "2022-06-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 2. Page 6009.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-24", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 5081.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Projects that demolish certain housing or structures on a historical register do not qualify. The university must hold a public hearing first.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB886.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB922", "slug": "2021-22/SB922", "number": "SB 922", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-03", "last_action_date": "2022-09-30", "subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.", "introduced_subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 21080.20 and 21080.25 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.", "digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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. \n CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements bicycle transportation plans for an urbanized area for restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles under certain conditions.\n This bill would delete the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area. The bill would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan. The bill would define “active transportation plan” and “pedestrian plan.” The bill would specify that individual projects that are a part of an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan remain subject to the requirements of CEQA unless those projects are exempt by another provision of law.\n CEQA exempts from its requirements certain projects that are, among other things, located in an urbanized area, including transit prioritization projects, as defined, and projects for pedestrian and bicycle facilities or for the institution or increase of new bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail services on public or highway rights-of-way. For those exempted projects exceeding $100,000,000 in 2020 United States dollars, CEQA, except as provided, requires the lead agency to, among other things, complete and consider the results of a project business case and a racial equity analysis, as specified, and requires the lead agency, before exempting a project from CEQA, to hold at least 3 noticed public meetings in the project area, as provided. CEQA requires the lead agency, before granting an exemption for projects under the above provisions, to certify that those projects will be carried out by a skilled and trained workforce, except as provided. Existing law repeals the above-described exemption on January 1, 2023.\n This bill would extend the exemption to January 1, 2030. The bill would revise and recast the exemption to, among other things, repeal the requirement that the exempted projects are located in an urbanized area, extend the exemption by revising the definition of transit prioritization projects, and require projects for the institution or increase of bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service, as provided, to be located on a site that is wholly within the boundaries of an urbanized area or urban cluster, as designated by the United States Census Bureau. The bill would revise the requirements for the project business case and racial equity analysis and noticed public meetings to apply to exempted projects exceeding $100,000,000 and would additionally require the lead agency to complete an analysis of residential displacement and suggest antidisplacement strategies, designs, or actions for those projects for which at least 50% of the project or projects’ stops and stations are located in an area at risk of residential displacement and will have a maximum of 15-minute peak headways. The bill would require the lead agency to define or identify areas at risk of residential displacement. For projects that provide for the construction or maintenance of certain hydrogen refueling infrastructure or facilities or that exceed $50,000,000, the bill would require the lead agency to hold certain noticed meetings, as provided. The bill would require the lead agency to take an action at a public meeting of its governing board to certify that the project will be completed by a skilled and trained workforce following the granting of the exemption and would provide that the certification requirement is not required under specified circumstances.\n This bill would specify that the revision made by this bill to the exemption for projects for the institution or increase of bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service may apply to projects for which a notice of exemption is filed before January 1, 2023. The bill would, for projects exempted by the above-described provisions for which a notice of exemption was filed before January 1, 2023, authorize the lead agency to either certify that the project will be completed by a skilled and trained workforce after the granting of the exemption or exempt those projects from the certification requirement if the lead agency demonstrates compliance with certain conditions.", "introduced_digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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. \n CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements bicycle transportation plans for an urbanized area for restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles under certain conditions.\n This bill would extend the above exemption indefinitely. The bill would also repeal the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area and would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan, or for a feasibility and planning study for active transportation, bicycle facilities, or pedestrian facilities.\n CEQA exempts from its requirements certain projects located in an urbanized area, including transit prioritization projects, as defined, and projects for pedestrian and bicycle facilities or for the institution or increase of new bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail services on public or highway rights-of-way. For those exempted projects exceeding $100,000,000 in 2020 United States dollars, CEQA, except as provided, requires the lead agency to complete and consider the results of a project business case and a racial equity analysis, as specified, and would require the lead agency, before exempting a project from CEQA, to hold at least 3 noticed public meetings in the project area, as provided. CEQA requires the lead agency, before granting an exemption for projects under the above provisions, to certify that those projects will be carried out by a skilled and trained workforce, except as provided. If the lead agency determines to carry out a project exempt under the above provisions, CEQA requires the lead agency to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located. Existing law repeals the above-described exemption on January 1, 2023.\n This bill would extend the exemption indefinitely. The bill would revise and recast the exemption to, among other things, repeal the requirement that the exempted projects are located in an urbanized area, extend the exemption by revising the definition of transit prioritization projects, and require projects for the institution or increase of new bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service to be located on a site that is wholly within the boundaries of an urbanized area or urban cluster, as designated by the United States Census Bureau. The bill would revise the requirements for the project business case and racial equity analysis and noticed public meetings to apply to exempted projects exceeding $100,000,000 and would additionally require the lead agency to complete an analysis of residential displacement and suggest anti-displacement strategies, designs, or actions for those projects for which at least 50% of the project or projects’ stops and stations are located in an area at risk of residential displacement and will have a maximum of 15-minute peak headways. The bill would provide that the lead agency may make the skilled and trained workforce certification concurrent with the granting of the exemption and would provide that the certification requirement is not required under specified circumstances.\n The bill would specify that the revision made by this measure to the exemption for projects for the institution or increase of new bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service may apply to projects for which a notice of exemption is filed before January 1, 2023. The bill would, for projects exempted by the above-described provisions for which a notice of exemption was filed before January 1, 2023, authorize the lead agency to either certify that the project will be completed by a skilled and trained workforce after the granting of the exemption or exempt those projects from the certification requirement if the lead agency demonstrates compliance with certain conditions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-30" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 987, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Friedman", "Mathis" ], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Boerner Horvath", "Chen" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 6." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2022-03-08", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2022-03-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2022-03-31", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3238.) (March 28)." }, { "date": "2022-04-04", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2022-04-19", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-11", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-05-11", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-12", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-16", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 1. Page 3703.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-16", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-27", "action": "Referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2022-06-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 29)." }, { "date": "2022-06-30", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-04", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-04", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-08", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 2. Page 5778.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-08", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 3. Page 4829.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-23", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 987, Statutes of 2022." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922" }, "headline": "Extends environmental review exemptions for transit projects", "one_liner": "Extends to 2030 an environmental review exemption for transit, bike, and pedestrian projects, and widens a plan exemption.", "summary": "Extends to 2030 an exemption from California's environmental review law (CEQA) for transit, bus, bike, and pedestrian projects, and changes the urbanized-area requirement. Adds active transportation and pedestrian plans to the bike plan exemption. Projects over $100 million need a business case, racial equity analysis, and, in some cases, a displacement analysis.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB922.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB923", "slug": "2021-22/SB923", "number": "SB 923", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-03", "last_action_date": "2022-09-29", "subject": "Gender-affirming care.", "introduced_subject": "Gender-affirming care.", "title": "An act to amend Section 2190.1 of the Business and Professions Code, to add Sections 1367.043 and 1367.28 to, and to add Division 119.5 (commencing with Section 150950) to, the Health and Safety Code, to add Sections 10133.13 and 10133.14 to the Insurance Code, and to add Section 14197.09 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to gender-affirming care.", "digest": "(1)Existing law establishes the Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund, administered by the Office of Health Equity within the State Department of Public Health, for the purpose of grant funding focused on coordinating trans-inclusive health care for individuals who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, or intersex.\n Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through various health care delivery systems, including managed care. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.\n Existing law establishes the California Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE program) to provide community-based, long-term care services for older individuals under the Medi-Cal State Plan. Under existing law, certain entities that exclusively serve PACE participants are exempt from licensure by the State Department of Public Health and are subject to oversight and regulation as PACE organizations by the State Department of Health Care Services.\n Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n This bill would require a Medi-Cal managed care plan, a PACE organization, a health care service plan, or a health insurer, and delegated entities, as specified, to require its staff to complete evidence-based cultural competency training for the purpose of providing trans-inclusive health care, as defined, for individuals who identify as transgender, gender diverse, or intersex (TGI). The bill would specify the required components of the training and would make use of any training curricula subject to approval by the respective departments. The bill would require an individual to complete a refresher course if a complaint has been filed, and a decision has been made in favor of the complainant, against that individual for not providing trans-inclusive health care, or on a more frequent basis if deemed necessary.\n The bill would require the respective departments to develop and implement procedures, and would authorize them to impose sanctions, to ensure compliance with the above-described provisions. The bill would also require the departments to track and monitor complaints received by the departments related to trans-inclusive health care and to publicly report this data, as specified.\n Because a violation of these new requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would require the respective departments to implement these provisions without taking any regulatory action, and would require them to adopt regulations by July 1, 2027 providing semiannual status reports to the Legislature until regulations are adopted.\n (2)Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Under the act, a physician and surgeon is required to demonstrate satisfaction of continuing education requirements, including cultural and linguistic competency in the practice of medicine, as specified.\n This bill would expand cultural competency training to include, as appropriate, information and evidence-based cultural competency training pertinent to the treatment of, and provision of care to, individuals who identify as queer, questioning, asexual, or gender diverse, and the processes specific to those seeking gender-affirming care services. The bill would provide specific components, including health inequities within the TGI community, that would be suitable for evidence-based cultural competency training pursuant to these provisions. \n (3)Existing law requires a health care service plan and specified health insurers to publish and maintain a provider directory or directories and to make them publicly available on the plan’s or insurer’s internet website. Existing law requires a full-service health care service plan and an insurer to include the area of specialty and other certain information in the provider directory or directories.\n This bill would require a full service health care service plan, an insurer, and a Medi-Cal managed care plan, no later than March 1, 2025, to include information, within or accessible from the plan’s or insurer’s provider directory, that identifies which of a plan’s or insurer’s in-network providers have affirmed that they offer and have provided gender-affirming services, as specified. Because a violation of these new requirements would be a crime under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (4)Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, which includes the State Department of Public Health, among other state departments charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services. \n This bill would require, no later than March 1, 2023, the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group that includes representatives from various departments, TGI-serving organizations, residents who identify as TGI, and health care providers to develop a quality standard for patient experience in order to measure cultural competency related to the TGI community and recommend training curriculum to provide trans-inclusive health care, as specified. \n (5)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law establishes the Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund, administered by the Office of Health Equity within the State Department of Public Health, for the purpose of grant funding focused on coordinating trans-inclusive health care for individuals who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, or intersex (TGI).\n Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through various health care delivery systems, including managed care. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.\n Existing law establishes the California Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE program) to provide community-based, long-term care services for older individuals under the Medi-Cal State Plan. Under existing law, certain entities that exclusively serve PACE participants are exempt from licensure by the State Department of Public Health and are subject to oversight and regulation as PACE organizations by the State Department of Health Care Services.\n Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n This bill would require a Medi-Cal managed care plan, a PACE organization, a health care service plan, or a health insurer, as specified, to require its staff and contracted providers to complete evidence-based cultural humility training for the purpose of providing trans-inclusive health care, as defined, for individuals who identify as TGI. The will would specify the required components of the training and would make use of any training curricula subject to approval by the respective departments. The bill would require an individual to complete a refresher course if a complaint has been filed against that individual for not providing trans-inclusive health care, or on a more frequent basis if deemed necessary.\n The bill would require the respective departments to develop and implement procedures, and would authorize them to impose sanctions, to ensure compliance with the above-described provisions. The bill would also require the plan, organization, or insurer to annually and publicly report certain information relating to compliance, monitoring, and any related complaints or grievances.\n Because a violation of these new requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would require the respective departments to implement these provisions without taking any regulatory action, and would require them to adopt regulations by July 1, 2024, providing semiannual status reports to the Legislature until regulations are adopted.\n (2)Existing law requires a health care service plan to publish and maintain a provider directory or directories and to make them publicly available on the plan’s internet website. Existing law requires a full-service health care service plan and a specialized mental health plan to include the area of specialty and other certain information in the provider directory or directories.\n This bill would require those plans, by July 31, 2023, to also include a list of in-network providers who offer and have provided gender-affirming services, as specified. The bill would require the public internet website of those plans to allow provider searches based on that specialty. Because a violation of these new requirements would be a crime under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (3)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-29" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 822, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code", "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Cristina Garcia" ], "coauthors": [ "Cervantes", "Lee", "Low" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 6." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-03-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-03-16", "action": "Set for hearing March 30." }, { "date": "2022-03-28", "action": "March 30 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-03-30", "action": "Set for hearing April 6." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 3348.) (April 6)." }, { "date": "2022-04-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-05-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-05-06", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2022-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-17", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3775.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 3835.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-27", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-05-31", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-06-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 21)." }, { "date": "2022-06-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time and amended. (Ayes 55. Noes 13. Page 5935.)" }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 11. Page 6030.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5136.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-09-06", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 822, Statutes of 2022." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB923", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB923", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB923", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB923", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB923" }, "headline": "Requires trans-inclusive care training for health plan staff", "one_liner": "Health plans and insurers must train staff in trans-inclusive care and list providers offering gender-affirming services.", "summary": "Requires Medi-Cal managed care plans, PACE organizations, health plans, and insurers to train staff in trans-inclusive care for transgender, gender diverse, or intersex (TGI) people. Plans must identify in-network providers offering gender-affirming services by March 1, 2025. Expands doctors' cultural competency training and creates a state working group on care standards.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB923.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB1106", "slug": "2021-22/SB1106", "number": "SB 1106", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-16", "last_action_date": "2022-09-29", "subject": "Criminal resentencing: restitution.", "introduced_subject": "Criminal resentencing: restitution.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 17, 1203.4, 1203.4a, 1203.4b, 1203.41, 1203.42, and 1203.45 of, to add Section 1210.6 to, and to repeal Section 11177.2 of, the Penal Code, relating to resentencing.", "digest": "Existing law requires a court to order a defendant who is convicted of a crime in this state to pay full restitution to the victim and a separate restitution fine, as specified.\n Existing law, in specified cases, including when the defendant has successfully completed probation or successfully participated in the California Conservation Camp program, requires a court to dismiss the accusation, as described, thus releasing the person of any penalties and disabilities of conviction, except as otherwise provided. Existing law authorizes the court, in its discretion and in the interest of justice, in specified cases to provide that relief to a defendant who does not meet the stated requirements.\n This bill would prohibit a petition for relief, whether statutorily authorized or in the court’s discretion, from being denied due to an unfulfilled order of restitution or restitution fine.\n Existing law prohibits a parolee or inmate from being released on parole to reside in another receiving state if the parolee or inmate is subject to an unsatisfied order for restitution to a victim or a restitution fine with the sending state, except as specified.\n This bill would remove that prohibition.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires a court to order a defendant who is convicted of a crime in this state to pay full restitution to the victim and a separate restitution fine, including to a public agency for the costs of emergency response. Existing law requires a public agency to notify the probation department if a defendant fails to make restitution payment when due, requires the probation department to notify the court, and authorizes the court, after a hearing, to modify the existing order in the interest of justice.\n This bill would remove the requirement that the public agency report a defendant’s failure to make restitution payment when due.\n Existing law, in specified cases, including when the defendant has successfully completed probation or successfully participated in the California Conservation Camp program, requires a court to dismiss the accusation, as described, thus releasing the person of any penalties and disabilities of conviction, except as otherwise provided. Existing law authorizes the court, in its discretion and in the interest of justice, in specified cases to provide that relief to a defendant who does not meet the stated requirements.\n This bill would prohibit a petition for relief, whether statutorily authorized or in the court’s discretion, from being denied due to an unfulfilled order of restitution or restitution fine.\n Existing law prohibits a parolee or inmate from being released on parole to reside in another receiving state if the parolee or inmate is subject to an unsatisfied order for restitution to a victim or a restitution fine with the sending state, except as specified.\n This bill would remove that prohibition.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-29" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 734, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Becker" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-16", "action": "Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement." }, { "date": "2022-02-17", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2022-02-23", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-03-08", "action": "Set for hearing March 22." }, { "date": "2022-03-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-03-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3183.) (March 22)." }, { "date": "2022-03-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 3404.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-05-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-06-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 1)." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-08", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 22. Page 5776.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-08", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 4830.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-23", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 734, Statutes of 2022." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1106", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1106", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1106", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1106", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1106" }, "headline": "Stops unpaid restitution from blocking record relief", "one_liner": "Courts may not deny relief such as conviction dismissal because a person still owes restitution or restitution fines.", "summary": "Bars courts from denying a petition to dismiss a conviction, whether allowed by law or at the court's discretion, because of unpaid restitution or a restitution fine. Also removes a rule that blocked parolees or inmates with unpaid restitution from being released on parole to live in another state.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB1106.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB1186", "slug": "2021-22/SB1186", "number": "SB 1186", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-17", "last_action_date": "2022-09-18", "subject": "Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act.", "introduced_subject": "Cannabis: local jurisdictions.", "title": "An act to amend Section 26200 of, and to add Chapter 26 (commencing with Section 26320) to Division 10 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to cannabis.", "digest": "Existing law, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, an initiative measure enacted by Proposition 215 at the November 6, 1996, statewide general election, declares that its purpose is, among other things, to ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes, as specified, and exempts from state criminal liability certain patients and their primary caregivers who possess or cultivate marijuana for the personal medical purposes of the patient. Existing law, known as the Medical Marijuana Program, establishes a voluntary registration program for qualified medicinal cannabis patients and their primary caregivers through a statewide identification card system maintained by the State Department of Public Health and sets forth guidelines for the possession of medicinal cannabis.\n The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult-Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, established a comprehensive system to legalize, control, and regulate the cultivation, processing, manufacture, distribution, testing, and sale of nonmedical marijuana. AUMA reserved to a local jurisdiction specified powers regarding commercial adult-use cannabis activity, including adopting and enforcing local ordinances regulating commercial adult-use cannabis activity. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, including the retail sale of medicinal cannabis.\n This bill would enact the Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act, which, on and after January 1, 2024, would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting or enforcing any regulation that prohibits the retail sale by delivery within the local jurisdiction of medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers by medicinal cannabis businesses, as defined, or that has the effect of prohibiting the retail sale by delivery within the local jurisdiction of medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers in a timely and readily accessible manner and in types and quantities that are sufficient to meet demand from medicinal cannabis patients within the local jurisdiction, as specified. The bill, on and after January 1, 2024, would provide that the act may be enforced by an action for writ of mandate brought by a medicinal cannabis patient or their primary caregiver, a medicinal cannabis business, the Attorney General, or any other party otherwise authorized by law.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 26200 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 2210 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2210 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on local jurisdictions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, including delivery of cannabis. Existing law gives the Department of Cannabis Control the power, duty, purpose, responsibility, and jurisdiction to regulate commercial cannabis activity in the state, and does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction. Existing law reserves to a local jurisdiction, defined as a city, city and county, or county, specified powers regarding commercial cannabis activity, including adopting and enforcing local ordinances regulating commercial cannabis activity or prohibiting that activity.\n This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-18" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 395, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Kalra" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-17", "action": "Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement." }, { "date": "2022-02-18", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2022-03-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-23", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D., GOV. & F., and E.Q." }, { "date": "2022-03-24", "action": "Referral to Com. on E.Q. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus." }, { "date": "2022-03-25", "action": "Set for hearing April 4." }, { "date": "2022-03-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2022-04-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 8. Noes 4. Page 3308.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2022-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2022-04-13", "action": "April 21 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2022-04-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3460.) (April 20)." }, { "date": "2022-04-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "May 9 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2022-05-16", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2022-05-17", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 9. Page 3832.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-22", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 9. Page 5335.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-18", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-18", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Local rules also may not block timely access in amounts that meet patient demand. Patients, caregivers, businesses, or the Attorney General may sue to enforce it.", "issues": [ "nightlife", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB1186.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB1228", "slug": "2021-22/SB1228", "number": "SB 1228", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-17", "last_action_date": "2022-09-30", "subject": "Criminal procedure: DNA samples.", "introduced_subject": "Permits to operate employee housing.", "title": "An act to amend Section 680 of, and to add Section 679.12 to, the Penal Code, relating to criminal procedure.", "digest": "Existing law requires any adult person who is arrested or charged with any felony offense to provide buccal swab samples, right thumbprints, a full palm print impression of each hand, and any blood specimens or other biological samples required for law enforcement identification analysis. Existing law requires that a DNA specimen and sample be destroyed and that a searchable database profile be expunged from that databank program if the person from whom the specimen or sample was collected has no past or present offense or pending charge that qualifies that person for inclusion in the database and if that person submits an application, as specified, and gives the court discretion to grant or deny the application.\n This bill would create procedures for reference samples of DNA from a victim to a crime or alleged crime, and to reference samples of DNA from any individual that were voluntarily provided for the purpose of exclusion, as defined. The bill would require those procedures to include, among other things, requiring that law enforcement agencies use these samples only for purposes directly related to the incident being investigated, prohibiting law enforcement agencies from comparing these samples with samples that do not relate to the incident being investigated, and prohibiting law enforcement agencies from including these samples in databases that allow the samples to be compared to or matched with profiles derived from DNA evidence obtained from crime scenes. The bill would specify that these provisions do not prevent crime laboratories from collecting, retaining, and using specified DNA profiles for comparison purposes in multiple cases. By imposing additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 680 of the Penal Code proposed by SB 916 to be operative only if this bill and SB 916 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Employee Housing Act, requires a person operating employee housing, as defined, to obtain a permit to operate that housing from the agency that enforces the act, which can either be the Department of Housing and Community Development or a city, county, or city and county that assumes responsibility for enforcing the act.\n This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision requiring a person to obtain a permit to operate employee housing.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2022-09-30" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 994, Statutes of 2022", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Ting" ], "coauthors": [ "Jones-Sawyer" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-17", "action": "Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement." }, { "date": "2022-02-18", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2022-03-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-17", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-03-24", "action": "Set for hearing April 19." }, { "date": "2022-04-13", "action": "April 19 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3519.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-13", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3789.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3840.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-27", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-06-08", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2022-06-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-06-22", "action": "June 22 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-24", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5311.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 994, Statutes of 2022." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1228", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1228", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1228", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1228", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1228" }, "headline": "Limits police use of victim DNA samples", "one_liner": "Law enforcement may use DNA samples from victims and volunteers only for the case being investigated.", "summary": "Requires procedures for DNA samples taken from crime victims or given voluntarily to rule someone out. Law enforcement may use them only for the incident under investigation, may not compare them to unrelated samples, and may not put them in databases matched against crime scene DNA. Crime labs may still keep certain profiles for multi-case comparisons.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with permits for employee housing; it was rewritten to cover DNA samples from crime victims.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB1228.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB4", "slug": "2023-24/SB4", "number": "SB 4", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-12-05", "last_action_date": "2023-10-11", "subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Section 65913.16 of the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "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. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. \n Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, establishes the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee within the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires the committee to allocate state low-income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law that establishes a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits.\n This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, and 5% of the units may be for staff of the independent institution of higher education or the religious institution that owns the land, provided that the units affordable to lower income households are offered at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified.\n This bill would specify that a housing development project that is eligible for approval as a use by right under the bill is also eligible for a density bonus, incentives, or concessions, or waivers or reductions of development and parking standards, except as specified. The bill would require a development subject to these provisions to provide off-street parking of up to one space per unit, unless a state law or local ordinance provides for a lower standard of parking, in which case the law or ordinance applies. The bill would prohibit a local government from imposing any parking requirement on a development subject to these provisions if the development is located within one-half mile walking distance of public transit, either a high-quality transit corridor or a major transit stop, as those terms are defined, or it is within one block of a car share vehicle.\n This bill would require a local government that determines a proposed development is in conflict with any objective planning standards, as specified, to provide the developer with written documentation explaining those conflicts under a specified timeframe. The bill would provide that the development shall be deemed to satisfy the required objective planning standards if the local government fails to provide the requisite documentation explaining any conflicts. The bill would authorize a local government to conduct a design review, as described, only if the design review focuses on compliance with the requisite criteria of a streamlined, ministerial review process. The bill would prohibit a local government from using a design review, as specified, from inhibiting, chilling, or precluding a streamlined, ministerial approval. The bill would require a local government to issue a subsequent permit for developments approved under the provisions of this act.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the ministerial approval of projects.\n This bill, by requiring approval of certain development projects as a use by right, would expand the exemption for ministerial approval of projects under CEQA.\n The bill would repeal its provisions as of January 1, 2036.\n By adding to the duties of local planning officials with respect to approving certain development projects, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "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. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. \n Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, establishes the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee within the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires the committee to allocate state low-income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law that establishes a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits.\n This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, provided that all of the units are provided at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified.\n This bill would specify that a housing development project that is eligible for approval as a use by right under the bill is also eligible for a density bonus or other incentives or concessions, except as specified. The bill would require a development subject to these provisions to provide off-street parking of up to one space per unit, unless a local ordinance provides for a lower standard of parking, in which case the ordinance applies. The bill would prohibit a local government from imposing any parking requirement on a development subject to these provisions if the development is located within one-half mile walking distance of a high-quality transit corridor or major transit stop, as those terms are defined, and within one block of a car share vehicle.\n This bill would require a local government that determines a proposed development is in conflict with any objective planning standards, as specified, to provide the developer with written documentation explaining those conflicts under a specified timeframe. The bill would require a local government to approve a development if the local government fails to provide the requisite documentation explaining any conflicts. The bill would authorize a local government to conduct a design review, as described, only if the design review focuses on compliance with the requisite criteria of a streamlined, ministerial review process. The bill would prohibit a local government from using a design review, as specified, from inhibiting, chilling, or precluding a streamlined, ministerial approval. The bill would require a local government to issue a subsequent permit for developments approved under the provisions of this act.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the ministerial approval of projects.\n This bill, by requiring approval of certain development projects as a use by right, would expand the exemption for ministerial approval of projects under CEQA.\n By adding to the duties of local planning officials with respect to approving certain development projects, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-11" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 771, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Berman", "McKinnor", "Wicks" ], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Cortese", "Eggman", "Gonzalez", "Menjivar", "Skinner", "Alvarez", "Wendy Carrillo", "Friedman", "Gabriel", "Kalra", "Quirk-Silva", "Ward" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-12-05", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-12-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5." }, { "date": "2023-02-01", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-02-22", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2023-03-14", "action": "Set for hearing March 21." }, { "date": "2023-03-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 452.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-03-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2023-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 937.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-05", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2023-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 1156.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 1356.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-08", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2023-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2023-06-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2023-07-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 10)." }, { "date": "2023-08-14", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 3008.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 2596.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-15", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-11", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-11", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Units must be affordable to lower income households, with up to 20% for moderate-income households and 5% for staff. Limits parking requirements near transit. Approvals are exempt from California's environmental review law (CEQA). The rules end in 2036.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB4.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB76", "slug": "2023-24/SB76", "number": "SB 76", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-11", "last_action_date": "2023-10-10", "subject": "Alcoholic beverages: music venue license: entertainment zones: consumption.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic beverages: music venue license: entertainment zones: consumption.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 23357, 23358, 23396, and 23552 of, to add Section 23039.5 to, and to add Article 5 (commencing with Section 25690) to Chapter 16 of Division 9 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.", "digest": "(1)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. Existing law provides for various annual fees for the issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses, depending upon the type of license issued. Existing law authorizes the department to issue a music venue license, as defined, that allows the licensee to sell beer, wine, and distilled spirits at retail for consumption on the premises in a music entertainment facility, as defined. Existing law makes selling, giving, delivering, or purchasing an alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day a misdemeanor. Existing law further limits a music venue licensee’s authorization to sell, serve, and permit consumption of alcoholic beverages to the time period from 2 hours before a live performance until one hour after the live performance. Existing law authorizes the department to make any examination of the books and records of any licensee and makes any person who fails to preserve the books for inspection guilty of a misdemeanor.\n This bill would authorize a licensee under a music venue license to apply to the department for a duplicate license or licenses, as prescribed. The bill would also authorize a music venue licensee to sell, serve, and permit consumption of alcoholic beverages during private events or private functions not open to the general public within any hours of operation permitted by its license, regardless of whether any live performance occurs. The bill would exempt the licensee from having to meet certain requirements generally imposed on a music entertainment facility in connection with and during a private event or private function if specified conditions are met. The bill would require the licensee to keep records demonstrating compliance with these provisions for the preceding 3 calendar years and to provide these records to the department upon request. The bill would make a licensee’s failure to keep the required records or provide them to the department grounds for disciplinary action punishable as a misdemeanor and would, therefore, expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Under existing law, any person possessing an open container of an alcoholic beverage in any city, county, or city and county-owned public place, as specified, or any regional park or recreation and park district, is guilty of an infraction if the city or county has enacted an ordinance that prohibits the possession of those containers or the consumption of alcoholic beverages in those areas, except as specified.\n Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes the legislative body of any city or county to adopt ordinances regulating zoning within its jurisdiction, as specified.\n Existing law authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer, a licensed winegrower, and any on-sale licensee to sell certain alcoholic beverages for consumption on or off the premises, as specified.\n This bill, additionally, would authorize a licensed beer manufacturer, a licensed winegrower, and any on-sale licensee to permit consumers to leave the premises with open containers of alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises within an entertainment zone, subject to certain conditions. The bill would define “entertainment zone” for purposes of the Alcoholic Beverage Control 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. The bill would require the City and County of San Francisco, if it establishes an entertainment zone, to provide specified information relating to the entertainment zone to the department and establish 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.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for City and County of San Francisco.\n (3)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 23357 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 788 to be operative only if this bill and SB 788 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 23358 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1704 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1704 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n (4)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "(1)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. Existing law provides for various annual fees for the issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses, depending upon the type of license issued. Existing law authorizes the department to issue a music venue license, as defined, that would allow the licensee to sell beer, wine, and distilled spirits at retail for consumption on the premises in a music entertainment facility, as defined.\n This bill would authorize a licensee under a music venue license to apply to the department for a caterer’s permit that would authorize the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for consumption at events only upon the licensed music entertainment facility premises. The bill would also authorize a music venue license to apply to the department for an event permit, as specified. The bill would impose a fee for a caterer’s permit for a licensee under a music venue license and for an event permit for a licensee under a music venue license, which would be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, and would make other conforming changes.\n (2)Under existing law, any person possessing an open container of an alcoholic beverage in any city, county, or city and county-owned public place, as specified, or any regional park or recreation and park district, is guilty of an infraction if the city or county has enacted an ordinance that prohibits the possession of those containers or the consumption of alcoholic beverages in those areas, except as specified.\n Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes the legislative body of any city or county to adopt ordinances regulating zoning within its jurisdiction, as specified.\n Existing law authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer, a licensed winegrower, and any on-sale licensee to sell certain alcoholic beverages for consumption on or off the premises, as specified.\n This bill, additionally, would authorize a licensed beer manufacturer, a licensed winegrower, and any on-sale licensee to permit consumers to leave the premises with open containers of alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises within an entertainment zone, subject to certain conditions. The bill would define “entertainment zone” for purposes of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act as a zone created by a city, county, or city and county ordinance on or after January 1, 2024, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way in that zone. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county that establishes an entertainment zone to provide specified information relating to the entertainment zone to the department and establish 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.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-10" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 700, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Ashby", "Friedman", "Haney" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-11", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-12", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11." }, { "date": "2023-01-18", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2023-03-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 11." }, { "date": "2023-04-05", "action": "April 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2023-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 872.) (April 25)." }, { "date": "2023-04-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1160.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-23", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2023-05-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1296.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-08", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2023-06-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2023-07-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 12)." }, { "date": "2023-08-14", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3395.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-14", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2801.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-21", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-10", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-10", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 700, Statutes of 2023." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB76", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB76", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB76", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB76", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB76" }, "headline": "Allows open-container entertainment zones in San Francisco", "one_liner": "Lets San Francisco create entertainment zones where people may carry open alcoholic drinks outside, and expands music venue licenses.", "summary": "Allows San Francisco to create entertainment zones where licensed bars, breweries, and wineries may let customers leave with open alcoholic drinks during permitted special events. The city must have a way to identify drinkers 21 or older. Music venue licensees may get duplicate licenses and serve alcohol at private events without a live performance, keeping three years of records.", "issues": [ "nightlife", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB76.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB97", "slug": "2023-24/SB97", "number": "SB 97", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-18", "last_action_date": "2023-10-07", "subject": "Criminal procedure: writ of habeas corpus.", "introduced_subject": "Criminal procedure: writ of habeas corpus.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1473 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal procedure.", "digest": "Existing law allows a person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of their liberty to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of their imprisonment or restraint.\n Existing law allows a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on several bases, including on the basis of the discovery of new evidence discovered after trial that could not have been discovered prior to trial by the exercise of due diligence.\n This bill would allow for prosecution of a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on the additional bases of the discovery of new evidence that has not been previously presented and heard at trial and has been discovered after trial.\n The bill would allow a petitioner who is incarcerated in state prison to not appear at an evidentiary hearing if there is a waiver of the right to appear on record, or to appear through the use of remote technology unless counsel indicates that the defendant’s presence is needed.\n The bill would require a presumption in favor of granting relief in a habeas petition if the district attorney or the Attorney General concede or stipulate to a factual or legal basis for the relief.\n The bill would allow, if after granting postconviction relief the prosecuting agency retries the petitioner, the petitioner’s postconviction counsel to be appointed as counsel to represent the petitioner on the retrial, if certain requirements are met.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law allows a person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of their liberty to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of their imprisonment or restraint.\n This bill would allow the district attorney or the Attorney General to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person to rectify a wrongful conviction or sentence. The bill would require the prosecuting agency to give written notice to that person, their last counsel of record, the public defender, and the local innocence organization, if the writ is based on facts showing the person may not have committed the offense. \n Existing law allows a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on several bases, including on the basis of the discovery of new evidence discovered after trial.\n This bill would allow for prosecution of a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on the additional bases of the discovery of new evidence discovered after a plea or a reasonable possibility that the factfinder would have reached a different outcome absent a combination of errors in the case.\n The bill would require the court to hold an evidentiary hearing before denying a habeas relief on the grounds that the evidence lacks credibility.\n The bill would allow a petitioner to not appear at an evidentiary hearing if there is a waiver of the right to appear on record, or appear through the use of remote technology unless counsel indicates that the defendant’s presence is needed.\n The bill would require a presumption in favor of granting relief in a habeas petition if the district attorney or the Attorney General concede or stipulate to a factual or legal basis for the relief.\n The bill would require, if after granting postconviction relief the prosecuting agency retries the petitioner, the petitioner’s postconviction counsel to be appointed as counsel to represent the petitioner on the retrial.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-07" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 381, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-19", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18." }, { "date": "2023-01-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2023-03-02", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2023-03-15", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2023-03-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 578.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2023-04-10", "action": "April 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1160.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1277.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2023-06-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2023-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-06", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2023-09-06", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3396.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-14", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2802.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-21", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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7100-495, 7350-401, and 8570-102-3228 of Section 2.00 of, by amending Sections 4.05, 12.00, 13.40, 35.50, 39.00, 99.00, and 99.50 of, and by adding Section 15.80 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.", "digest": "The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.\n This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.", "introduced_digest": "This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2023.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-06-29" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 35, Statutes of 2024", 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Existing law requires the state board to ensure that the regulations require a reporting entity, starting in 2027 and annually thereafter, to publicly disclose its scope 3 emissions no later than 180 days after its scope 1 emissions and scope 2 emissions are publicly disclosed to the emissions reporting organization. Existing law requires the reporting entities to pay an annual fee upon filing the disclosure. Existing law also requires the state board to contract with an emissions reporting organization to develop a reporting program to receive and make certain required disclosures publicly available, and sets forth other duties of the emissions reporting organization and the state board.\n This bill would delay the requirement that the state board adopt regulations until July 1, 2025, and would require that the regulations adopted by the state board require, among other things, a reporting entity to make the annual disclosure to either the emissions reporting organization or the state board, and that the reporting entity publicly disclose its scope 3 emissions on a schedule specified by the state board, rather than no later than 180 days after its scope 1 emissions and scope 2 emissions are publicly disclosed. The bill would authorize reports to be consolidated at the parent company level and would delete the requirement that the annual fee be paid upon filing the disclosure. The bill would authorize, rather than require, the state board to contract with an emissions reporting organization to develop a reporting program to receive and make certain required disclosures publicly available. The bill would make other related changes to the duties of the emissions reporting organization and the state board, as provided. \n Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2026, and biennially thereafter, a covered entity, as defined to mean a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other business entity with total annual revenues in excess of $500,000,000, as specified, to prepare a climate-related financial risk report disclosing the entity’s climate-related financial risk and measures adopted to reduce and adapt to climate-related financial risk. Existing law requires the state board to contract with a climate reporting organization, as defined, to prepare a biennial public report on the climate-related financial risk disclosures and requires the climate reporting organization to be contracted to take other actions, including biennially preparing a public report that includes a review of the disclosure of climate-related financial risk contained in a subset of publicly available climate-related financial risk reports and monitoring federal regulatory actions, as specified. Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, a covered entity to pay a fee upon filing its disclosure to the state board for the administration and implementation of these requirements. \n This bill would authorize, rather than require, the state board to contract with a climate reporting organization to carry out the above-described actions that the state board deems appropriate. The bill would also delete the requirement that the entity’s fee be paid upon filing its disclosure.", "introduced_digest": "This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2023.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-27" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 766, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Stern" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-19", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18." }, { "date": "2023-01-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. & F.R." }, { "date": "2023-03-16", "action": "Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. 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Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-23", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-23", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-23", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2." }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "Joint Rule 62(a) suspended." }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2024-08-30", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 7045.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 4. Page 5787.) 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Fees are no longer due upon filing. The board may, rather than must, hire outside organizations to run emissions and climate-related financial risk reporting.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with intent language for the 2023 state budget; it was rewritten to cover corporate climate disclosure rules.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB219.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB253", "slug": "2023-24/SB253", "number": "SB 253", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-30", "last_action_date": "2023-10-07", "subject": "Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.", "introduced_subject": "Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.", "title": "An act to add Section 38532 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases, and making an appropriation therefor.", "digest": "The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of statewide greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor and enforce compliance with the act. The act requires the state board to make available, and update at least annually, on its internet website the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants for each facility that reports to the state board, as provided.\n This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2025, to develop and adopt regulations requiring specified partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities with total annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000 and that do business in California, defined as “reporting entities,” to publicly disclose to the emissions reporting organization, as defined, and obtain an assurance engagement on, starting in 2026 on a date to be determined by the state board, and annually thereafter, their scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions, as defined, and, starting in 2027 and annually thereafter, their scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, as defined, from the reporting entity’s prior fiscal year, as provided. The bill would require the state board to review during 2029, and update as necessary on or before January 1, 2030, these deadlines to evaluate trends in scope 3 emissions reporting and to consider changes to the deadlines, as provided. The bill would require a reporting entity to obtain an assurance engagement, performed by an independent third-party assurance provider, of the entity’s public disclosure as provided. The bill would require the state board, in developing these regulations, to consult with the Attorney General, other government stakeholders, investors, stakeholders representing consumer and environmental justice interests, and reporting entities that have demonstrated leadership in full-scope greenhouse gas emissions accounting and public disclosure and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The bill would also require the state board to ensure that the assurance process minimizes the need for reporting entities to engage multiple assurance providers and ensures sufficient assurance provider capacity, as well as timely reporting implementation, as required. The bill would further require the state board to contract with an emissions reporting organization to develop a reporting program to receive and make publicly available the required disclosures. The bill would authorize the state board, starting in 2033 and every 5 years thereafter, to assess the global greenhouse gas accounting and reporting standards and to adopt an alternative standard if it determines that using the alternative standard would more effectively further the goals of the bill.\n This bill would require the state board, on or before July 1, 2027, to contract with the University of California, the California State University, a national laboratory, or another equivalent academic institution to prepare a report on the public disclosures made by reporting entities to the emissions reporting organization. The bill would require, in preparing the report, consideration to be given to, at a minimum, greenhouse gas emissions from reporting entities in the context of state greenhouse gas emissions reduction and climate goals. The bill would require the state board to provide the report to the emissions reporting organization to post on a digital platform that would be required to be created by the emissions reporting organization, and publicly accessible, to house the state board’s report and the reporting entities’ public disclosures. The bill would require the emissions reporting organization to provide the state board’s report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature.\n This bill would require a reporting entity, upon filing its disclosure, to pay to the state board an annual fee set by the state board, as provided. The bill would create the Climate Accountability and Emissions Disclosure Fund, require the proceeds of the fees to be deposited in the fund, and continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund to the state board for purposes of the bill. By creating a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would create an appropriation. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations that authorize it to seek administrative penalties for violations of these provisions, as specified.", "introduced_digest": "The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of statewide greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor and enforce compliance with the act. The act requires the state board to make available, and update at least annually, on its internet website the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants for each facility that reports to the state board, as provided.\n This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2025, to develop and adopt regulations requiring United States partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities with total annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000 and that do business in California, defined as “reporting entities,” to publicly disclose to the emissions registry, as defined, and verify, starting in 2026 on a date to be determined by the state board, and annually thereafter, their greenhouse gas emissions, categorized as scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, as defined, from the prior calendar year, as provided. The bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2030, to review, and update as necessary, these deadlines to evaluate trends in scope 3 emissions reporting and to consider changes to the deadlines, as provided. The bill would require reporting entities to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions in a manner that is easily understandable and accessible to residents of the state. The bill would require reporting entities to ensure that their public disclosures have been independently verified by the emissions registry or a third-party auditor, approved by the state board, with expertise in greenhouse gas emissions accounting. The bill would require the state board, in developing these regulations, to consult with the Attorney General, other government stakeholders, investors, stakeholders representing consumer and environmental justice interests, and reporting entities that have demonstrated leadership in full-scope greenhouse gas emissions accounting and public disclosure and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The bill would also require the state board to establish auditor qualifications and a process for approval of auditors that ensures sufficient auditor capacity, as well as timely reporting implementation, as required. The bill would further require the state board to contract with an emissions registry to develop a reporting and registry program to receive and make publicly available the required disclosures.\n This bill would require the state board, on or before July 1, 2027, to contract with the University of California, the California State University, a national laboratory, or another equivalent academic institution to prepare a report on the public disclosures made by reporting entities to the emissions registry. The bill would require, in preparing the report, consideration to be given to, at a minimum, greenhouse emissions from reporting entities in the context of state greenhouse gas emissions reduction and climate goals. The bill would require the state board to provide the report to the emissions registry to post on a digital platform that would be required to be created by the emissions registry, and publicly accessible, to house the state board’s report and the reporting entities’ public disclosures. The bill would require the emissions registry to provide the state board’s report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature.\n This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action against a reporting entity, in the name of the people of the State of California, seeking civil penalties for violations of these provisions.\n This bill would make implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-07" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 382, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Gonzalez", "Stern" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Kalra", "Muratsuchi" ], "coauthors": [ "Min", "Skinner", "Boerner", "Bryan", "Friedman", "Haney", "Lee", "Ting", "Ward", "Zbur" ], "veto": { "date": "2023-10-16", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am signing Senate Bill 253 which would require, among other things, the California Air resources Board (CARB), by January 1, 2025, to develop and adopt regulations requiring businesses with total annual revenues over $1 billion and operating in California to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions to an emissions reporting organization.\n\nThis important policy, once again, demonstrates California's continued leadership with bold responses to the climate crisis, turning information transparency into climate action. However, the implementation deadlines in this bill are likely infeasible, and the reporting protocol specified could result in inconsistent reporting across businesses subject to the measure. I am directing my Administration to work with the bill's author and the Legislature next year to address these issues.\n\nAdditionally, I am concerned about the overall financial impact of this bill on businesses, so I am instructing CARB to closely monitor the cost impact as it implements this new bill and to make recommendations to streamline the program. I look forward to working with the Legislature on these modifications to ensure we achieve this bill's goals of \"full transparency and consistency\". \n\nSincerely,\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-30", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-31", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2." }, { "date": "2023-02-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD." }, { "date": "2023-02-10", "action": "Set for hearing March 15." }, { "date": "2023-03-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 353.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2023-04-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2023-04-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 798.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing May 1." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1162.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 9. Page 1360.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-15", "action": "Referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2023-06-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2023-07-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 10)." }, { "date": "2023-07-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-16", "action": "August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Assembly Rule 69 suspended." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 49. Noes 20. Page 3210.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-12", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 2614.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-18", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 382, Statutes of 2023." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB253", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB253", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB253", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB253", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB253" }, "headline": "Requires large companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions", "one_liner": "Businesses with over $1 billion in yearly revenue doing business in California must publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions.", "summary": "The State Air Resources Board must adopt rules requiring businesses with over $1 billion in annual revenue to publicly report scope 1 and 2 emissions starting in 2026 and scope 3 emissions starting in 2027. Disclosures need independent third-party assurance. Companies pay an annual fee into a new fund, and the board may seek penalties for violations.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB253.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB273", "slug": "2023-24/SB273", "number": "SB 273", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-31", "last_action_date": "2023-10-07", "subject": "Tidelands and submerged lands: City and County of San Francisco: Piers 30-32: mixed-use development.", "introduced_subject": "Tidelands and submerged lands: City and County of San Francisco: Piers 30-32.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 12, and 14 of Chapter 489 of the Statutes of 2001, relating to tidelands and submerged lands.", "digest": "The State Lands Commission has jurisdiction over tidelands and submerged lands of the state. Existing law, the Burton Act, grants to the City and County of San Francisco the right, title, and interest of the State of California in and to certain tidelands and submerged lands in trust for certain purposes. Existing law establishes the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission and requires any person or governmental agency wishing to place fill, to extract materials, or to make any substantial change in use of any water, land, or structure, within the area of the commission’s jurisdiction to secure a permit from the commission.\n Existing law authorizes the State Lands Commission to approve a mixed-use development on the San Francisco waterfront at Piers 30-32, which would include a multipurpose venue for events and public assembly, if the State Lands Commission finds, at a properly noticed public meeting, that specified conditions are met.\n This bill would revise those provisions to instead authorize the State Lands Commission to approve, as consistent with the public trust, as defined, a mixed-use development on the San Francisco waterfront at Piers 30-32, that includes general office use, if the State Lands Commission finds, at a properly noticed public meeting, that specified conditions are met, including, among others, that the mixed-use development is designed to attract the statewide public to the waterfront, increase public enjoyment of the San Francisco Bay, encourage public trust activities, and enhance public use of trust assets and resources on the waterfront.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute because of the unique circumstances applicable only to Piers 30-32 in the City and County of San Francisco.", "introduced_digest": "The State Lands Commission has jurisdiction over tidelands and submerged lands of the state. Existing law, the Burton Act, grants to the City and County of San Francisco the right, title, and interest of the State of California in and to certain tidelands and submerged lands in trust for certain purposes. Existing law establishes the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission and requires any person or governmental agency wishing to place fill, to extract materials, or to make any substantial change in use of any water, land, or structure, within the area of the commission’s jurisdiction to secure a permit from the commission.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would authorize a mixed-use project located on Piers 30-32 in the City and County of San Francisco consisting of elements including, but not limited to, adjacent residential housing, general office, visitor-serving retail, a deep-water berthing facility, an aquatic center with a floating swimming pool and bay access, the removal of bay fill, a seismically enhanced sea wall, and a sea level flood line of defense to protect the harbor and city beyond the year 2100.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-07" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 385, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Haney", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-31", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-01", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3." }, { "date": "2023-02-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2023-03-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2023-03-22", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2023-03-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2023-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2023-04-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 899.) (April 25)." }, { "date": "2023-04-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-02", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2023-05-09", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-15", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1078.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-15", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-05-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2023-06-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2023-06-13", "action": "June 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-16", "action": "August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3002.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2598.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-15", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 385, Statutes of 2023." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB273", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB273", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB273", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB273", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB273" }, "headline": "Allows office use at San Francisco's Piers 30-32", "one_liner": "Lets the State Lands Commission approve a mixed-use project with general offices at San Francisco's Piers 30-32.", "summary": "Allows the State Lands Commission to approve a mixed-use development at Piers 30-32 on the San Francisco waterfront that includes general office use. The commission must find, at a public meeting, that set conditions are met, including drawing the statewide public to the waterfront and increasing public enjoyment of San Francisco Bay.", "issues": [ "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB273.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB312", "slug": "2023-24/SB312", "number": "SB 312", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-06", "last_action_date": "2024-09-19", "subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: university housing development projects: exemption.", "introduced_subject": "State highways: true warm mix asphalt.", "title": "An act to amend Section 21080.58 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.", "digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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.\n Existing law, until January 1, 2030, exempts from CEQA a university housing development project carried out by a public university on real property owned by the public university if the project meets certain requirements, including that each building within the project is certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum or better by the United States Green Building Council. Existing law requires the lead agency, if the university housing development project is exempt from CEQA under the above provision, to file the LEED certificate for buildings within the project and a notice determining that the construction impacts of the project have been fully mitigated with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located. Existing law requires a university housing development project carried out by the University of California, in order to be exempt from CEQA under this law, to be consistent with the most recent long-range development plan EIR certified on or after January 1, 2018, as provided.\n This bill would extend the application of the university housing development project exemption until January 1, 2032. The bill would instead require a university housing development project carried out by the University of California, in order to be exempt from CEQA under the above-described exemption to be located on a campus site identified for housing in the most recent long-range development plan EIR or an EIR prepared for any subsequent amendment to that plan relating to housing, as specified. The bill would repeal the requirement to file the LEED certificate with the county clerk of the county in which the project is located.\n Existing law requires a public university or a relevant public agency with authority to issue a certificate of occupancy for a building within an exempt university housing development project to not issue the certificate of occupancy for the building unless the lead agency receives certification of LEED Platinum or better from the United States Green Building Council for the building and the lead agency determines that the construction impacts of the project have been fully mitigated.\n This bill would instead require a public university to obtain LEED Platinum certification for each building within a university housing development project no later than 18 months from the issuance of the building’s certificate of occupancy or an equivalent certification, or its initial usage, and would authorize a public university to obtain 2 extensions for this LEED certification compliance requirement in 6-month increments, as provided. The bill would prohibit a public university that has exempted an approved university housing development project pursuant to the above-described exemption from applying that exemption to a subsequent university housing development project until the public university has obtained LEED Platinum certification for each building within the prior exempted university housing development project, except as specified. The bill would also make other related changes.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to construct, improve, and maintain state highways. Existing law authorizes the department to provide for the payment of extra compensation to a contractor on a road project, as a bonus for completion prior to the specified time.\n Until January 1, 2029, this bill would require the department to also provide for the payment of extra compensation, as specified, to a contractor on a road project, as a bonus for using true warm mix asphalt, as defined by this bill. The bill would require the department to submit specified reports to the Legislature on certain findings related to true warm mix asphalt.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-19" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 284, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Allen" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9." }, { "date": "2023-02-15", "action": "Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and E.Q." }, { "date": "2023-03-07", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2023-03-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2023-03-21", "action": "March 28 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2023-03-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 11." }, { "date": "2023-04-11", "action": "April 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "Senate rules suspended." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2023-09-14", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2023-09-14", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2024-01-05", "action": "Set for hearing January 10." }, { "date": "2024-01-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2970.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-01-11", "action": "Set for hearing January 16." }, { "date": "2024-01-11", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-01-16", "action": "January 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-01-17", "action": "Set for hearing January 18." }, { "date": "2024-01-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3011.) (January 18)." }, { "date": "2024-01-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 3035.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-05-13", "action": "Referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2024-05-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2024-06-10", "action": "June 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 1)." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 6528.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5683.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-19", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-19", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 284, Statutes of 2024." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB312", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB312", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB312", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB312", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB312" }, "headline": "Extends environmental review exemption for university housing", "one_liner": "Extends to 2032 the exemption from California's environmental review law for qualifying public university housing projects.", "summary": "Extends the exemption from California's environmental review law (CEQA) for qualifying public university housing to January 1, 2032. University of California projects must be on campus sites identified for housing in the long-range plan. Each building needs LEED Platinum certification within 18 months of occupancy, with two possible 6-month extensions. Until then, the university cannot reuse the exemption.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with contractor bonuses for warm mix asphalt on roads; it was rewritten to cover a university housing environmental review exemption.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB312.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB339", "slug": "2023-24/SB339", "number": "SB 339", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-07", "last_action_date": "2024-02-06", "subject": "HIV preexposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis.", "introduced_subject": "HIV preexposure prophylaxis.", "title": "An act to amend Section 4052.02 of the Business and Professions Code, to amend Section 1342.74 of the Health and Safety Code, to amend Section 10123.1933 of the Insurance Code, and to amend Section 14132.968 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to prescription drugs, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to furnish at least a 30-day supply of HIV preexposure prophylaxis, and up to a 60-day supply of those drugs if certain conditions are met. Existing law also authorizes a pharmacist to furnish postexposure prophylaxis to a patient if certain conditions are met.\n This bill would authorize a pharmacist to furnish up to a 90-day course of preexposure prophylaxis, or preexposure prophylaxis beyond a 90-day course, if specified conditions are met. The bill would require the California State Board of Pharmacy to adopt emergency regulations to implement these provisions by October 31, 2024.\n Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan or health insurer from covering preexposure prophylaxis that has been furnished by a pharmacist in excess of a 60-day supply once every 2 years, except as specified.\n Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services pursuant to a schedule of benefits. The existing schedule of benefits includes coverage for preexposure prophylaxis as pharmacist services, limited to no more than a 60-day supply furnished by a pharmacist once every 2 years, and includes coverage for postexposure prophylaxis, subject to approval by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.\n This bill would require a health care service plan and health insurer to cover preexposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis furnished by a pharmacist, including the pharmacist’s services and related testing ordered by the pharmacist, and to pay or reimburse for the service performed by a pharmacist at an in-network pharmacy or a pharmacist at an out-of-network pharmacy if the health care service plan or health insurer has an out-of-network pharmacy benefit, except as specified. The bill would include preexposure prophylaxis furnished by a pharmacist as pharmacist services on the Medi-Cal schedule of benefits. 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to furnish at least a 30-day supply of HIV preexposure prophylaxis, and up to a 60-day supply of those drugs if certain conditions are met.\n This bill would authorize a pharmacist to furnish up to a 90-day course of preexposure prophylaxis, or preexposure prophylaxis beyond a 90-day course, if specified conditions are met. The bill would require the California State Board of Pharmacy to adopt emergency regulations to implement these provisions by July 1, 2024.\n Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan or health insurer from covering preexposure prophylaxis that has been furnished by a pharmacist in excess of a 60-day supply once every 2 years.\n Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services pursuant to a schedule of benefits. The existing schedule of benefits includes coverage for preexposure prophylaxis as pharmacist services, limited to no more than a 60-day supply furnished by a pharmacist once every 2 years, subject to approval by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.\n This bill would require a health care service plan and health insurer to cover preexposure prophylaxis furnished by a pharmacist, including costs for the pharmacist’s services and related testing. The bill would include preexposure prophylaxis furnished by a pharmacist as pharmacist services on the Medi-Cal schedule of benefits. 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-02-06" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 1, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code", "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Gipson" ], "coauthors": [ "Ashby", "Gonzalez", "Laird", "Newman", "Haney", "Low" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-07", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-08", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10." }, { "date": "2023-02-15", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E. D. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2023-03-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D." }, { "date": "2023-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 636.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2023-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 940.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1166.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1218.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-23", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-05-26", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P." }, { "date": "2023-06-16", "action": "June 20 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2023-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 27)." }, { "date": "2023-06-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P." }, { "date": "2023-07-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-16", "action": "August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Low." }, { "date": "2024-01-03", "action": "Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Wood." }, { "date": "2024-01-04", "action": "From inactive file." }, { "date": "2024-01-04", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-01-08", "action": "Read third time and amended. (Ayes 59. Noes 0. Page 3806.)" }, { "date": "2024-01-08", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-01-18", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3885.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-01-18", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-01-22", "action": "Urgency clause adopted." }, { "date": "2024-01-22", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3018.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-01-29", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m." }, { "date": "2024-02-06", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-02-06", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1, Statutes of 2024." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB339", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB339", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB339", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB339", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB339" }, "headline": "Lets pharmacists furnish more HIV prevention drugs", "one_liner": "Lets pharmacists furnish up to 90 days of HIV prevention drugs and requires health plans and insurers to cover it.", "summary": "Pharmacists may furnish up to a 90-day course of HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), or more if conditions are met. Health plans and insurers must cover PrEP and postexposure prophylaxis furnished by pharmacists, including related tests and services. Medi-Cal would list pharmacist-furnished PrEP as a covered service. The Board of Pharmacy must adopt emergency rules by October 31, 2024.", "issues": [ "health", "lgbtq" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB339.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB365", "slug": "2023-24/SB365", "number": "SB 365", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-08", "last_action_date": "2023-10-10", "subject": "Civil procedure: arbitration.", "introduced_subject": "Civil procedure: arbitration.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1294 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to civil procedure.", "digest": "Existing law authorizes a party to appeal, among other things, an order dismissing or denying a petition to compel arbitration. Existing law generally stays proceedings in the trial court on the judgment or order appealed from when the appeal is perfected, subject to specified exceptions.\n This bill would provide that, notwithstanding the general rule described above, trial court proceedings would not be automatically stayed during the pendency of an appeal of an order dismissing or denying a petition to compel arbitration.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law authorizes a party to appeal, among other things, an order dismissing or denying a petition to compel arbitration. Existing law generally stays proceedings in the trial court on the judgment or order appealed from when the appeal is perfected, subject to specified exceptions.\n This bill would additionally prohibit a trial court from staying proceedings during the pendency of an appeal of an order dismissing or denying a petition to compel arbitration.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-10" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 710, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Haney" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-08", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-09", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 11." }, { "date": "2023-02-15", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR." }, { "date": "2023-03-21", "action": "Set for hearing April 11." }, { "date": "2023-04-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 686.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2023-04-24", "action": "April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1167.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 1265.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2023-06-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-06-28", "action": "June 28 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-07-12", "action": "July 12 set for second hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 22. Page 3012.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-10", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-10", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 710, Statutes of 2023." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB365", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB365", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB365", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB365", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB365" }, "headline": "Lets lawsuits continue during arbitration order appeals", "one_liner": "Trial court cases are no longer automatically paused while a denial of a petition to compel arbitration is appealed.", "summary": "When a court refuses to send a case to arbitration, a party can appeal that order. Under this bill, the trial court case is not automatically put on hold while that appeal is pending.", "issues": [ "consumer" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB365.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB407", "slug": "2023-24/SB407", "number": "SB 407", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-09", "last_action_date": "2023-09-23", "subject": "Foster care: resource families.", "introduced_subject": "Foster care: placement.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 16519.5 and 16519.61 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care.", "digest": "(1)Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law provides for the implementation of the resource family approval process and defines a resource family as an individual or family who has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and permanency assessment criteria, as specified, necessary for providing care for a child placed by a public or private child placement agency by court order, or voluntarily placed by a parent or legal guardian. Under existing law, the resource family permanency standards include a family evaluation, including, but not limited to, interviews of an applicant, as specified, and a risk assessment. \n This bill would require a resource family to demonstrate an ability and willingness to meet the needs of a child, regardless of the child’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, as specified. To the extent this bill would create new duties for counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Existing law requires counties to ensure resource family applicants and resource families have the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to support children in foster care by completing caregiver training. Existing law requires that training to include a curriculum that supports the role of a resource family in parenting vulnerable children and should be ongoing in order to provide resource families with information on trauma-informed practices and requirements and other topics within the foster care system.\n This bill would require counties to ensure that the caregiver training described above supports children of all races, ethnic group identifications, ancestries, national origins, colors, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, mental or physical disabilities, or HIV statuses in foster care. To the extent this bill would create new duties for counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (3)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings, and governs the provision of child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families, and restoring to their families children who have been removed.\n Existing law provides that it is the policy of the state that all minors and nonminors in foster care have specified rights, including, among others, the right to receive medical, dental, vision, and mental health services and the right to be informed of these rights in an age and developmentally appropriate manner and to receive a copy of these rights, at specified intervals.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure that LGBTQ foster youth in California are placed in homes that are affirming of LGBTQ identities.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-09-23" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 226, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Lee", "Low" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12." }, { "date": "2023-02-22", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2023-03-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2023-03-29", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2023-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2023-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 25 in JUD. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2023-04-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 748.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2023-04-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 893.) (April 25)." }, { "date": "2023-04-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-02", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1169.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 1254.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2023-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-16", "action": "August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Assembly Rule 69 suspended." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 14. Page 3429.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-14", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 2842.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-21", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-09-23", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-09-23", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 226, Statutes of 2023." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407" }, "headline": "Requires foster families to meet LGBTQ children's needs", "one_liner": "Resource families must show they can meet a foster child's needs regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.", "summary": "Resource families must show they are able and willing to meet a child's needs regardless of the child's sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Counties must ensure caregiver training supports foster children of all races, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, disabilities and HIV statuses, among other groups.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net", "lgbtq" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB407.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB423", "slug": "2023-24/SB423", "number": "SB 423", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-13", "last_action_date": "2023-10-11", "subject": "Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments.", "introduced_subject": "Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments.", "title": "An act to amend Section 65913.4 of the Government Code, relating to land use.", "digest": "Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units required, as specified, remain available at affordable housing costs, as defined, or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate income for no less than specified periods of time. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.\n This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development in compliance with the above-described requirements on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would extend the operation of the streamlined, ministerial approval process to January 1, 2036. The bill would provide that the streamlined, ministerial approval process does not apply to applications for developments proposed on qualified sites, defined as a site that is located within an equine or equestrian district and meets certain other requirements, that are submitted on or after January 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2025.\n This bill would modify the above-described objective planning standards, including by revising the standard that prohibits a multifamily housing development from being subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development is located in a coastal zone to apply only if the development that is located in the coastal zone meets any one of specified conditions. The bill would require a development that is located in a coastal zone that satisfies the specified conditions to obtain a coastal development permit. The bill would require a public agency with coastal development permitting authority to approve a coastal development permit if it determines that the development is consistent with all objective standards of the local government’s certified local coastal program, as specified. The bill would provide that the changes made by this act would apply in a coastal zone on or after January 1, 2025.\n This bill would modify the objective planning standard that prohibits a development subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process from being located in a high fire severity zone by deleting the prohibition for a development to be located within a high or very high fire hazard severity zone as indicated on maps adopted by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and would instead prohibit a development from being located with the state responsibility area, as defined, unless the site has adopted specified standards. The bill would also remove an exception for sites excluded from specified hazard zones by a local agency, as specified.\n This bill would also provide an alternative definition for “affordable rent” for a development that dedicates 100% of units, exclusive of a manager’s unit or units, to lower income households. The bill would, among other modifications, delete the objective planning standards requiring development proponents to pay at least the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and utilize a skilled and trained workforce and would instead require a development proponent to certify to the local government that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require the Labor Commissioner to enforce the obligation to pay prevailing wages. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify that the requirements to pay prevailing wages, use a workforce participating in an apprenticeship, or provide health care expenditures do not apply to a project that consists of 10 or fewer units and is not otherwise a public work.\n Existing law requires a local government to approve a development if the local government determines the development is consistent with the objective planning standards. Existing law requires, if the local government determines a submitted development is in conflict with any of the objective planning standards, the local government to provide the development proponent written documentation of the standards the development conflicts with and an explanation for the conflict within certain timelines depending on the size of the development. Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes specified written findings.\n This bill would instead require approval if a local government’s planning director or equivalent position determines the development is consistent with the objective planning standards. The bill would make conforming changes. The bill would require all departments of the local government that are required to issue an approval of the development prior to the granting of an entitlement to also comply with the above-described streamlined approval requirements within specified time periods. The bill would prohibit a local government from requiring, prior to approving a development that meets the requirements of the above-described streamlining provisions, compliance with any standards necessary to receive a postentitlement permit or studies, information, or other materials that do not pertain directly to determining whether the development is consistent with the objective planning standards applicable to the development.\n The bill would, for purposes of these provisions, establish that the total number of units in a development includes (1) all projects developed on a site, regardless of when those developments occur, and (2) all projects developed on sites adjacent to a site developed pursuant to these provisions if, after January 1, 2023, the adjacent site had been subdivided from the site developed pursuant to these provisions.\n Existing law requires, before submitting an application for a development subject to the above-described streamlined, ministerial approval process, the development proponent to submit to the local government a notice of its intent to submit an application, as described.\n For developments proposed in a census tract that is designated either as a moderate resource area, low resource area, or an area of high segregation and poverty, as described, this bill would require local governments to provide, within 45 days of receiving a notice of intent and before the development proponent submits an application for the proposed development that is subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process, for a public meeting, as described, to provide an opportunity for the public and the local government to comment on the development. The bill would require this public meeting to be held by the jurisdiction’s planning commission if the development proposal is located within a city with a population greater than 250,000 or an unincorporated area of a county with a population of greater than 250,000.\n Existing law authorizes the local government’s planning commission or any equivalent board or commission responsible for review and approval of development projects, or as otherwise specified, to conduct any design review or public oversight of the development.\n This bill would remove the above-described authorization to conduct public oversight of the development and would only authorize design review to be conducted by the local government’s planning commission or any equivalent board or commission responsible for design review.\n By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units required, as specified, remain available at affordable housing costs, as defined, or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate-income for no less than specified periods of time. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.\n This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would delete the January 1, 2026, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely.\n This bill would modify the above-described objective planning standards, including by deleting the standard that prohibits a multifamily housing development from being subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development is located in a coastal zone, and by providing an alternative definition for “affordable housing costs” for a development that dedicates 100% of units, exclusive of a manager’s unit or units, to lower income households. The bill would, among other modifications, delete the objective planning standards requiring development proponents to pay at least the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and utilize a skilled and trained workforce and would instead require a development proponent to certify to the local government that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require the Labor Commissioner to enforce the obligation to pay prevailing wages. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify that the requirements to pay prevailing wages, use a workforce participating in an apprenticeship, or provide health care expenditures do not apply to a project that consists of 10 or fewer units and is not otherwise a public work.\n This bill would define “objective planning standards” to exclude specified standards, including local building codes, fire codes, other codes requiring detailed technical specifications, and standards that are not reasonably ascertainable by the local government within specified time limits, as described.\n Existing law requires a local government to approve a development if the local government determines the development is consistent with the objective planning standards. Existing law requires, if the local government determines a submitted development is in conflict with any of the objective planning standards, the local government to provide the development proponent written documentation of the standards the development conflicts with and an explanation for the conflict within certain timelines depending on the size of the development. Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes specified written findings.\n This bill would instead require approval if a local government’s planning director or any equivalent local government staff, including all relevant planning and permitting departments, determines the development is consistent with the objective planning standards. The bill would make conforming changes. The bill would prohibit a local government from requiring a development proponent to provide consultant studies, as described, or other studies or materials that are unnecessary to ascertain consistency with the objective planning standards.\n The bill would, for purposes of these provisions, establish that the total number of units in a development includes (1) all projects developed on a site, regardless of when those developments occur, and (2) all projects developed on sites adjacent to a site developed pursuant to these provisions if, after January 1, 2023, the adjacent site had been subdivided from the site developed pursuant to these provisions.\n Existing law authorizes the local government’s planning commission or any equivalent board or commission responsible for review and approval of development projects, or as otherwise specified, to conduct any design review or public oversight of the development.\n This bill would remove the above-described authorization to conduct public oversight of the development and would only authorize design review to be conducted by the local government’s planning commission or any equivalent board or commission responsible for design review.\n By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-11" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 778, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Wicks" ], "coauthors": [ "Hurtado", "Grayson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2023-02-22", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-03-14", "action": "Set for hearing March 21." }, { "date": "2023-03-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 452.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-03-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2023-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 938.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-05", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2023-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1170.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 5. Page 1401.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-08", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2023-06-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2023-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2023-06-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2023-07-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 10)." }, { "date": "2023-08-14", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 8. Page 3063.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 7. Page 2605.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-15", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-11", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-11", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 778, Statutes of 2023." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423" }, "headline": "Extends streamlined approval for multifamily housing", "one_liner": "Extends fast-track housing approvals to 2036 and changes rules on coastal zones, fire zones and labor standards.", "summary": "Extends the streamlined, ministerial approval process for qualifying multifamily housing to 2036 and lets the Department of General Services run it on state land. Some coastal zone and fire-area sites become eligible. Developers must certify prevailing wages are paid. Local governments may not require studies unrelated to objective standards before approval, and some areas must hold a public meeting first.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB423.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB532", "slug": "2023-24/SB532", "number": "SB 532", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-14", "last_action_date": "2024-09-28", "subject": "Parking payment zones.", "introduced_subject": "Ballot measures: local taxes.", "title": "An act to amend Section 22508 of, and to add and repeal Section 22508.2 of, the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.", "digest": "Existing law allows a local authority to establish parking meter zones and fix the rate of fees for those zones by ordinance. Existing law prohibits a local authority from requiring payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device, as specified.\n This bill would instead authorize, until January 1, 2033, in the City and County of San Francisco, City of Long Beach, and City of Santa Monica, a local authority to require payment of parking fees by a mobile device, if it meets certain requirements, such as adopting an accessible and equitable parking cash payment plan that does not utilize parking meters or payment centers in parking payment zones to provide reasonably accessible alternative means for payment of parking fees using cash. The bill would also authorize the local authority in the City and County of San Francisco, City of Long Beach, and City of Santa Monica to operate the above-described parking zones for 5 years following the date of creation, in each of the respective entities, of the first mobile device parking payment zone, or until January 1, 2033, whichever is sooner. The bill would specify that a civil fine for parking in a zone that requires payment by mobile device and lacks a parking meter is 1/2 of the civil fine for failing to pay for metered parking. The bill would require a local authority to consult with specified stakeholders in the development of the plan and would require a local authority that adopts a plan and implements a mobile device parking payment zone to provide to its governing body and the Legislature a specified evaluation of the impact of all mobile device parking payment zones implemented by the local authority on equity, accessibility, and costs.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires that the ballots used when voting upon a measure proposed by a local governing body or submitted to the voters as an initiative or referendum measure, including a measure authorizing the issuance of bonds or the incurrence of debt, have printed on them a true and impartial statement describing the purpose of the measure. If the proposed measure imposes a tax or raises the rate of a tax, existing law requires the ballot to include in the statement of the measure the amount of money to be raised annually and the rate and duration of the tax to be levied.\n This bill would exempt from this requirement a measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds. The bill would instead permit for these types of measures the statement of the measure to include the words “See voter guide for measure information statement.”\n Existing law requires local governments, when submitting for voter approval a bond measure that will be secured by an ad valorem tax, to provide the voters with a statement that includes estimates of the tax rates required to fund the measure.\n This bill would additionally require for a measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds, that voters be provided with a statement that includes specified information relating to the tax that will be imposed or increased as a result of the measure.\n By imposing new duties on local elections officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-28" }, "version_count": 14, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 858, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Vehicle Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-14", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-15", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17." }, { "date": "2023-02-22", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and E. & C.A." }, { "date": "2023-03-14", "action": "Set for hearing March 29." }, { "date": "2023-03-21", "action": "March 29 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-03-23", "action": "Set for hearing April 12." }, { "date": "2023-03-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-04-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 683.) (April 12)." }, { "date": "2023-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2023-04-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A." }, { "date": "2023-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 792.) (April 18)." }, { "date": "2023-04-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1174.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 1393.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-22", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2023-06-22", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2023-06-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2023-07-06", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2024-06-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-06-13", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on TRANS. and P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2024-06-17", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2024-06-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-06-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2024-08-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-06", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 6. Page 6506.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5416.) Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "Set for hearing August 28." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 5622.)" }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 5. Page 5631.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 858, Statutes of 2024." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532" }, "headline": "Allows phone-only parking payment in three cities", "one_liner": "Lets San Francisco, Long Beach and Santa Monica require parking payment by mobile device in some zones until 2033.", "summary": "For up to 5 years, ending by 2033, San Francisco, Long Beach and Santa Monica may create zones where parking must be paid by mobile device. Each city must first adopt a cash payment plan and consult stakeholders. Fines in these zones are lower than for metered parking. Cities must report on equity, accessibility and costs to the Legislature.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with how local tax and bond measures are described on ballots; it was rewritten to cover mobile device parking payment.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB532.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB593", "slug": "2023-24/SB593", "number": "SB 593", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-15", "last_action_date": "2023-10-11", "subject": "Redevelopment: successor agency debt: City and County of San Francisco.", "introduced_subject": "Redevelopment: successor agency debt: City and County of San Francisco.", "title": "An act to amend Section 34177.7 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to, among other things, wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and make payments due for enforceable obligations. Existing law, among other powers granted to successor agencies generally, additionally vests the successor agency to the former Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco with the authority, rights, and powers of that former redevelopment agency solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness, subject to the approval of the oversight board of the successor agency, to finance the construction of affordable housing and infrastructure required by specified development agreements. Under existing law, these bonds and indebtedness are considered indebtedness incurred by the dissolved redevelopment agency secured by moneys deposited in the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund established for that agency.\n This bill would expand this authority to include bonds issued and other indebtedness incurred to finance the development, construction, repair, renovation, or reconstruction of affordable housing units that are or remain affordable to, and occupied by, persons and families of low-, moderate-, extremely low, and very low income households for at least 55 years for rental units and 45 years for owner-occupied units, subject to specified conditions and authorizations. The bill would specify the security requirements for the bonds issued or other indebtedness incurred to finance the development, construction, repair, renovation, or reconstruction of affordable housing units.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 34177.7 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 143 and SB 143 to be operative only if this bill and either of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to, among other things, wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and make payments due for enforceable obligations. Existing law, among other powers granted to successor agencies generally, additionally vests the successor agency to the former Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco with the authority, rights, and powers of that former redevelopment agency solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness, subject to the approval of the oversight board of the successor agency, to finance the construction of affordable housing and infrastructure required by specified development agreements. Under existing law, these bonds and indebtedness are considered indebtedness incurred by the dissolved redevelopment agency secured by moneys deposited in the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund established for that agency.\n This bill would expand this authority to include bonds issued and other indebtedness incurred to finance the replacement of certain demolished affordable housing units, subject to specified conditions, including that the assisted units remain affordable to, and occupied by, persons and families of low- and moderate-income and extremely low and very low income households for at least 55 years for rental units and 45 years for owner-occupied units.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-11" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 782, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Haney" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-15", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-16", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18." }, { "date": "2023-02-22", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F., HOUSING, and APPR." }, { "date": "2023-03-14", "action": "Set for hearing March 29." }, { "date": "2023-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-03-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 573.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2023-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing May 2." }, { "date": "2023-05-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 981.) (May 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-03", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2023-05-03", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-11", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 1052.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-11", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2023-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2023-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2023-06-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-07-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Assembly Rule 69 suspended." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 13. Page 3138.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "(Corrected September 12)." }, { "date": "2023-09-12", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2678.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-20", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-11", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-11", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 782, Statutes of 2023." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB593", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB593", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB593", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB593", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB593" }, "headline": "Expands San Francisco redevelopment bonds for affordable housing", "one_liner": "Lets the successor to San Francisco's former redevelopment agency issue bonds to build, repair or rebuild long-term affordable housing.", "summary": "Expands the power of San Francisco's successor agency to its former redevelopment agency to issue bonds or take on debt to build, repair, renovate or rebuild affordable housing. Units must stay affordable to lower- and moderate-income households for at least 55 years for rentals and 45 years for owned homes. The bill sets security rules for this debt.", "issues": [ "housing", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB593.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB770", "slug": "2023-24/SB770", "number": "SB 770", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-17", "last_action_date": "2023-10-07", "subject": "Health care: unified health care financing.", "introduced_subject": "State boards and commissions.", "title": "An act to add Part 4 (commencing with Section 1000) to Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care.", "digest": "Prior state law established the Healthy California for All Commission for the purpose of developing a plan towards the goal of achieving a health care delivery system in California that provides coverage and access through a unified health care financing system for all Californians, including, among other options, a single-payer financing system.\n This bill would direct the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to research, develop, and pursue discussions of a waiver framework in consultation with the federal government with the objective of a health care system that incorporates specified features and objectives, including, among others, a comprehensive package of medical, behavioral health, pharmaceutical, dental, and vision benefits, and the absence of cost sharing for essential services and treatments. The bill would further require the secretary to engage specified stakeholders to provide input on topics related to discussions with the federal government and key design issues, as specified. The bill would require the secretary, no later than January 1, 2025, to provide an interim report to specified committees of the Legislature and propose statutory language to the chairs of those committees authorizing the development and submission of applications to the federal government for waivers necessary to implement a unified health care financing system. The bill would require the secretary, no later than June 1, 2025, to complete drafting the waiver framework, make the draft available to the public on the agency’s internet website, and hold a 45-day public comment period thereafter. The bill would require the secretary, no later than November 1, 2025, to provide the Legislature and the Governor with a report that communicates the finalized waiver framework, as specified, and sets forth the specific elements to be included in a formal waiver application to establish a unified health care financing system, as specified. The bill would also include findings and declarations of the Legislature related to the implementation of a unified health care financing system.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law states that it is the policy of the State of California that the composition of state boards and commissions shall be broadly reflective of the general public including ethnic minorities and women.\n This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2023-10-07" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 412, Statutes of 2023", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "McGuire" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Menjivar", "Min", "Smallwood-Cuevas", "Connolly", "Santiago", "Schiavo", "Zbur" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20." }, { "date": "2023-03-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2023-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2023-03-29", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 19." }, { "date": "2023-04-11", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-04-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 832.) (April 19)." }, { "date": "2023-04-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-04-25", "action": "Set for hearing May 1." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1183.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 1350.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-08", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-07-12", "action": "July 12 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-08", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2023-09-08", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 18. Page 3388.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-14", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2797.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-21", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2023." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770" }, "headline": "Directs state to plan unified health care waiver", "one_liner": "Requires the state health secretary to develop a federal waiver framework for a unified health care financing system.", "summary": "The Secretary of California Health and Human Services must work with the federal government on a waiver framework for a unified health care financing system. Goals include broad medical, behavioral, drug, dental and vision benefits with no cost sharing for essential care. The secretary must consult stakeholders, take public comment and report to the Legislature by November 1, 2025.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with diversity on state boards and commissions; it was rewritten to cover planning for a unified health care financing system.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB770.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB905", "slug": "2023-24/SB905", "number": "SB 905", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-04", "last_action_date": "2024-08-16", "subject": "Crimes: theft from a vehicle.", "introduced_subject": "Unlawful entry of a vehicle.", "title": "An act to add Sections 465 and 496.5 to the Penal Code, relating to crimes.", "digest": "Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Existing law makes the burglary of a vehicle punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.\n This bill would make forcibly entering a vehicle, as defined, with the intent to commit a theft or a felony 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.\n Existing law prohibits the taking of the personal property of another, as specified, prohibits removing any part of a vehicle without the consent of the owner, and prohibits the possession or receipt of stolen property, as specified. A violation of these prohibitions is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony.\n This bill would make it a crime for a person to unlawfully possess property that was acquired through one or more acts of theft from a vehicle, unlawful entry of a vehicle, burglary of a locked vehicle, or vehicle tampering, if the property is not possessed for personal use and the person has the intent to sell or exchange the property, or the intent to act with another person to sell or exchange the property, and the value of the possessed property exceeds $950. The bill would, for the purpose of determining the value, allow the aggregation of the value of other illegally obtained property possessed by the person within the past 2 years. The bill would make this crime punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Existing law makes the burglary of a vehicle punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.\n This bill 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-08-16" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 170, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Cervantes", "Friedman", "Villapudua" ], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Atkins", "Blakespear", "Caballero", "Cortese", "Dodd", "Glazer", "McGuire", "Min", "Newman", "Roth", "Rubio", "Stern", "Umberg", "Addis", "Alanis", "Arambula", "Berman", "Grayson", "Papan", "Pellerin", "Petrie-Norris", "Blanca Rubio", "Ting", "Wilson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-04", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-05", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2024-03-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2024-03-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2024-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3449.) (April 2)." }, { "date": "2024-04-04", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2024-05-06", "action": "May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3963.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4137.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-23", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-05-28", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2024-06-11", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2024-06-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-06-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (June 19)." }, { "date": "2024-06-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-06-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-07-01", "action": "Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 15. Page 6106.)" }, { "date": "2024-07-01", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-07-01", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2024-08-08", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 64. Noes 2. Page 6243.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-08", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-12", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5037.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m." }, { "date": "2024-08-16", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-08-16", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Stolen property held within the past 2 years can be added together to reach that amount.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB905.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB937", "slug": "2023-24/SB937", "number": "SB 937", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-17", "last_action_date": "2024-09-19", "subject": "Development projects: fees and charges.", "introduced_subject": "Development projects: permits and other entitlements: fees and charges.", "title": "An act to amend Section 66007 of the Government Code, relating to land use.", "digest": "The Mitigation Fee Act regulates fees for development projects, fees for specific purposes, including water and sewer connection fees, and fees for solar energy systems, among others. The act, among other things, requires local agencies to comply with various conditions when imposing fees, extractions, or charges as a condition of approval of a proposed development or development project.\n The act prohibits a local agency that imposes fees or charges on a residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date of the final inspection or the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except for utility service fees, which the local agency is authorized to collect at the time an application for utility service is received. The act exempts specified units in a residential development proposed by a nonprofit housing developer if the housing development meets certain conditions.\n This bill would limit the utility service fees exception described above to utility service fees related to connections, and cap those fees at the costs incurred by the utility provider resulting from the connection activities. The bill would extend the above-described exemption for those units in a residential development that meets those conditions to any housing developer.\n The act authorizes a local agency to require the payment sooner than the date of the final inspection or the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, if specified conditions are met, including if the fees or charges are to reimburse the local agency for expenditures previously made.\n This bill would, for designated residential development projects, as defined, prohibit a local agency from requiring payment of fees or charges on the residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities until the date the first certificate of occupancy or first temporary certificate of occupancy is issued, as specified. The bill would authorize the local agency to require the payment of those fees or charges at an earlier time if certain conditions are met, except as specified. For specified units, the bill would authorize a developer to guarantee payment of certain fees or charges by posting a performance bond or a letter of credit from a federally insured, recognized depository institution. If the developer does not post a performance bond or a letter of credit, the bill would authorize the city, county, or city and county to collect certain fees or charges in accordance with a specified procedure.\n If any fee or charge described above is not fully paid prior to issuance of a building permit, the act authorizes the local agency issuing the building permit to require the property owner to execute a contract to pay the fee or charge as a condition of issuance of the building permit, as specified.\n This bill would authorize the governing body of a local agency to authorize an officer or employee of the local agency to approve and execute contracts described above, and would require the local agency to post a model form of contract on its internet website, if it maintains an internet website, before requiring execution of a contract under the provisions described above.", "introduced_digest": "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. Existing law, 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. Existing 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. Existing 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.\n 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. By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to housing entitlements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The Mitigation Fee Act regulates fees for development projects, fees for specific purposes, including water and sewer connection fees, and fees for solar energy systems, among others. The act, among other things, requires local agencies, as defined, to comply with various conditions when imposing fees, extractions, or charges as a condition of approval of a proposed development or development project. The act defines fee to mean a monetary exaction other than a tax or special assessment that is charged by a local agency to the applicant in connection with approval of a development project for the purpose of defraying all or a portion of the cost of public facilities related to the development project. The act exempts certain fees from this definition, including a fee paid or land dedicated for park or recreational purposes as a condition to the approval of a tentative map or parcel map, as specified.\n This bill would remove that exception. The bill would specify that water districts and sanitation districts are included in the definition of a local agency for purposes of the act.\n The act prohibits a local agency that imposes fees or charges on a residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date of the final inspection or the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first. The act authorizes a local agency to require the payment sooner if specified conditions are met, including if the fees or charges are to reimburse the local agency for expenditures previously made. The act exempts units reserved for occupancy by lower income households included in a residential development proposed by a nonprofit housing developer, as specified, from the authorization to require an earlier payment, but authorizes a city or county to require for those exempt units the posting of a performance bond or a letter of credit from a federally insured, recognized depository institution to guarantee payment of any fees or charges. The act, if a fee or charge is not fully paid prior to issuance of a building permit for construction, authorizes the local agency to require the property owner to execute a contract to pay the fee or charge, as specified.\n This bill would instead prohibit a local agency from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, and would prohibit the local agency from charging interest or other fees on any amount deferred. The bill would remove the authorization for a local agency to require the payment sooner if the fees or charges are to reimburse the local agency for expenditures previously made. The bill would revise the exemption from earlier payment for units reserved for occupancy by lower income households by a nonprofit housing developer to be those by an affordable housing developer, as specified, and would repeal the authorization for a city or county to require the posting of a performance bond or a letter of credit for those exempt units. The bill would repeal the authorization of the local agency to require the property owner to execute a contract to pay the fee or charge, and would instead authorize the local agency to withhold the certificate of occupancy until the fees and charges are paid.\n Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing fees for water connections or sewer connections, or capacity charges, that exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service, and specifies that those fees or charges are not subject to the specified provisions of the act applicable to development projects, including requiring local agencies to comply with certain requirements when imposing fees, extractions, or charges as a condition of approval of a proposed development or development project.\n This bill would provide that those fees or charges are subject to specified provisions of the act. By requiring local agencies to comply with specified requirements when imposing fees, extractions, or charges as a condition of approval of a proposed development or development project, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-19" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 290, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Grayson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17." }, { "date": "2024-02-21", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2024-03-15", "action": "Set for hearing April 3." }, { "date": "2024-04-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2024-04-04", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3469.) (April 3)." }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2024-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 16." }, { "date": "2024-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3633.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2024-04-29", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2024-04-30", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4015.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2024-06-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 12)." }, { "date": "2024-06-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2024-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 26)." }, { "date": "2024-06-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 7)." }, { "date": "2024-08-08", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 1. Page 6653.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 5587.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-04", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-19", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-19", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 290, Statutes of 2024." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB937", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB937", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB937", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB937", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB937" }, "headline": "Delays when housing developers pay impact fees", "one_liner": "Local agencies generally cannot collect certain development fees on designated housing until the first certificate of occupancy.", "summary": "For designated residential projects, local agencies cannot require public improvement fees until the first certificate of occupancy is issued, with some exceptions. Utility fees collected early are limited to connection costs. An exemption once for nonprofit builders now covers any housing developer meeting the conditions. Developers may guarantee payment with a performance bond or letter of credit.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB937.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB951", "slug": "2023-24/SB951", "number": "SB 951", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-18", "last_action_date": "2024-09-27", "subject": "California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal zone: coastal development.", "introduced_subject": "California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal zone: City and County of San Francisco.", "title": "An act to amend Section 30603 of the Public Resources Code, relating to coastal resources.", "digest": "The California Coastal Act of 1976 prescribes procedures for the approval and certification of a local coastal program by the California Coastal Commission, and provides for the delegation of development review authority to a local government, as defined, with a certified local coastal program. Under the act, an action taken by a local government after certification of its local coastal program on a coastal development permit application may be appealed to the commission only on specified grounds and only for certain types of developments, including any development approved by a coastal county that is not designated as the principal permitted use under the zoning ordinance or zoning district map, as specified.\n This bill would exempt a local government that is both a city and county from the above provision relating to the appeal of developments approved by a coastal county.\n The act requires a local government taking an action on a coastal development permit to send notification of its final action to the commission by certified mail, as provided.\n This bill would also allow notification to the commission by electronic mail, as provided.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for certain areas of the state that are both a city and county.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing 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. Existing law requires the housing element to identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, among other things. Existing 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. Existing 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.\n This bill would additionally apply specified rezoning standards for any necessary local coastal program updates for jurisdictions located within the coastal zone. By imposing new duties on local governments with regard to the administration of housing elements, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires each local government lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone, defined to mean that land and water area of the state, specified on specific maps, as provided, to prepare a local coastal program for that portion of the coastal zone within its jurisdiction.\n This bill would require the inland boundary of the coastal zone in the City and County of San Francisco to be amended to conform with the inland boundary on a specified map, as provided.\n The act prescribes procedures for the approval and certification of a local coastal program by the California Coastal Commission, and provides for the delegation of development review authority to a local government, as defined, with a certified local coastal program. Under the act, an action taken by a local government after certification of its local coastal program on a coastal development permit application may be appealed to the commission only on specified grounds and only for certain types of developments, including a development approved by a coastal county that is not designated as the principal permitted use under the zoning ordinance or zoning district map, as specified.\n This bill would instead authorize an appeal for a development approved by a coastal county that is not designated as a permitted use under the zoning ordinance or zoning district map, as specified.\n The act requires a local government taking an action on a coastal development permit to send notification of its final action to the commission by certified mail, as provided.\n This bill would also allow notification to the commission by email, as provided.\n (3)The bill would include findings that changes proposed by Section 1 of this act addresses a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n (4)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.\n (5)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-27" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 775, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-19", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18." }, { "date": "2024-02-29", "action": "Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2024-03-01", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2024-03-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2024-04-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2024-04-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3532.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2024-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 16." }, { "date": "2024-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3633.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2024-04-29", "action": "April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3965.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4088.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2024-06-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2024-06-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17)." }, { "date": "2024-06-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2024-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26)." }, { "date": "2024-06-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6523.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5684.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 775, Statutes of 2024." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB951", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB951", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB951", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB951", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB951" }, "headline": "Changes coastal permit appeals for city-county governments", "one_liner": "Removes one appeal route to the Coastal Commission for projects approved by a combined city and county.", "summary": "A local government that is both a city and a county is exempt from a rule letting the Coastal Commission hear appeals of certain coastal projects approved by a coastal county. Local governments may also notify the commission of final permit decisions by email, not only by certified mail.", "issues": [ "climate_energy", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB951.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB957", "slug": "2023-24/SB957", "number": "SB 957", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-22", "last_action_date": "2024-09-28", "subject": "Data collection: sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex status.", "introduced_subject": "Data collection: sexual orientation and gender identity.", "title": "An act to amend Section 8310.8 of the Government Code, and to amend Section 120440 of, and to add Division 122 (commencing with Section 152000) to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to data collection.", "digest": "(1)Existing law, 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.\n This bill would replace the term “intersexuality” with the term “variations in sex characteristics/intersex status” and would make conforming changes to related provisions.\n Existing 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.\n 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. To the extent that the bill would create new duties for local officials in facilitating the department’s data collection, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would specify that the provisions above do not require (1) the State Department of Public Health to collect demographic data from an individual under 18 years of age, as specified, or (2) health care providers or other third parties to collect, disclose, or report information that is not voluntarily provided self-identification information pertaining to sexual orientation, gender identity, and variations in sex characteristics/intersex status (SOGISC).\n Existing law requires the above-described state entities to report to the Legislature the data collected and the method used to collect the data, and to make the data available to the public, except for personally identifiable information. Existing law deems that personally identifiable information confidential and prohibits its disclosure. Existing law sets forth different deadlines, depending on the specified state entity, for complying with those requirements.\n This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, for purposes of the data collected by the department on SOGISC, to comply with the above-described requirements as early as possible but no later than March 28, 2029.\n (2)Existing law authorizes local health officers and the State Department of Public Health to operate immunization information systems. Existing law requires health care providers and other certain agencies, including schools and county human services agencies, to disclose specified immunization and other information about the patient or client to local health departments and the State Department of Public Health. Existing law authorizes local health departments and the State Department of Public Health to disclose most of that same information, as specified, to each other and to other entities. Existing law authorizes a patient or a patient’s parent or guardian to refuse to permit recordsharing, as specified.\n Under existing law, the information that is subject to disclosure under those provisions includes, among other things, certain data on immunizations received, the patient’s or client’s date of birth, race and ethnicity, and gender.\n This bill would add the adult patient’s or client’s SOGISC and sex assigned at birth to the list of information subject to disclosure. Under the bill, a health care provider would only be required to disclose SOGISC information that is voluntarily provided by the patient or client. The bill would prohibit a health care provider from disclosing that information as it relates to any patient or client who is under 18 years of age. The bill would make conforming changes to the above-described provisions on data sharing. By expanding the duties of local officials with regard to disclosing demographic information to certain entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (3)The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to prepare an annual report concerning SOGISC data collected by the department. The bill would require the department to annually post and make available the report on the department’s internet website and to annually submit the report to the Legislature, excluding any personally identifiable information.\n The bill would require the annual report to include, among other certain information, the department’s efforts to collect, analyze, and report SOGISC data and, until fully implemented, the progress that the department has made in implementing recommendations set forth in a related 2023 report by the California State Auditor’s Office.\n (4)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n (5)Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law, 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.\n Existing 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.\n 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. To the extent that the bill would create new duties for local officials in facilitating the department’s data collection, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Existing law requires the above-described state entities to report to the Legislature the data collected and the method used to collect the data, and to make the data available to the public, except for personally identifiable information. Existing law deems that personally identifiable information confidential and prohibits it disclosure. Existing law sets forth different deadlines, depending on the specified state entity, for complying with those requirements.\n This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, for purposes of the data collected by the department on sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersexuality, to comply with the above-described requirements by July 1, 2026.\n (2)Existing law authorizes local health officers and the State Department of Public Health to operate immunization information systems. Existing law requires health care providers and other certain agencies, including schools and county human services agencies, to disclose specified immunization and other information about the patient or client to local health departments and the State Department of Public Health. Existing law authorizes local health departments and the State Department of Public Health to disclose most of that same information, as specified, to each other and to other entities. Existing law authorizes a patient or a patient’s parent or guardian to refuse to permit recordsharing, as specified.\n Under existing law, the information that is subject to disclosure under those provisions includes, among other things, certain data on immunizations received, the patient’s or client’s date of birth, race and ethnicity, and gender.\n This bill would add the patient’s or client’s sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of information subject to disclosure. The bill would make conforming changes to the above-described provisions on data sharing. By expanding the duties of local officials with regard to disclosing demographic information to certain entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (3)The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to prepare an annual report concerning sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collected by the department. The bill would require the department to annually post and make available the report on the department’s internet website, and to annually submit the report to the Legislature, excluding any personally identifiable information.\n The bill would require the annual report to include, among other certain information, the department’s efforts to collect, analyze, and report SOGI data, and, until fully implemented, the progress that the department has made in implementing recommendations set forth in a related 2023 report by the California State Auditor’s Office.\n (4)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n (5)Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-28" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 868, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Haney" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-22", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-23", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD." }, { "date": "2024-03-01", "action": "Set for hearing March 20." }, { "date": "2024-03-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3379.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-03-26", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2024-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3446.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 15." }, { "date": "2024-04-15", "action": "April 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3965.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 4061.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2024-06-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (June 18)." }, { "date": "2024-06-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2024-06-24", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 6716.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5637.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Immunization data shared with health departments may include this data for adults who provide it, but not minors. The department must also publish annual reports.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB957.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB960", "slug": "2023-24/SB960", "number": "SB 960", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-23", "last_action_date": "2024-09-27", "subject": "Transportation: planning: complete streets facilities: transit priority facilities.", "introduced_subject": "Transportation: planning: transit priority projects: multimodal.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 14526.4 and 14526.6 of, and to add Section 14526.8 to, the Government Code, and to amend Sections 164.6 and 671.5 of, and to add Section 149.20 to, the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.", "digest": "(1)Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to improve and maintain the state’s highways, and establishes various programs to fund the development, construction, and repair of local roads, bridges, and other critical transportation infrastructure in the state, including the state highway operation and protection program (SHOPP). Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the California Transportation Commission, to prepare a robust asset management plan to guide selection of projects for the SHOPP. Existing law requires the commission, in connection with the plan, to adopt targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives. Existing law requires the department to develop, in consultation with the commission, a plain language performance report to increase transparency and accountability of the SHOPP. \n This bill would require the targets and performance measures adopted by the commission to include targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives for complete streets assets that reflect the existence and conditions of bicycle, pedestrian, and transit priority facilities on the state highway system. The bill would require the department’s plain language performance report to include a description of complete streets facilities, including pedestrian, bicycle, and transit priority facilities on each project, as specified. The bill would require the department to commit to specific 4-year targets to incorporate complete streets facilities, including pedestrian and bicycle facilities, into projects funded by the SHOPP, as specified.\n (2)Existing law creates transit districts in designated areas throughout the state and authorizes the use of various vehicles for the purpose of public and private transit. Existing law authorizes transit buses and other transit vehicles to operate on state highways. \n This bill would require the Director of Transportation to adopt a transit policy to guide the implementation of transit priority facilities and transit stops on the state highway system, as specified. The bill would require the department to adopt, on or before July 1, 2027, guidance that defines transit performance measures and identifies the department’s responsibilities in supporting transit vehicles on the state highway system, as specified.\n (3)Existing law requires the department to prepare a State Highway System Management Plan (SHSMP), which includes a 10-year state highway system rehabilitation plan for the rehabilitation or reconstruction by the SHOPP of all state highways and bridges, as provided. Existing law requires the SHSMP to include specific quantifiable accomplishments, goals, objectives, costs, and performance measures consistent with the asset management plan described above. Existing law requires the SHSMP to be updated every 2 years.\n This bill would expressly require the SHSMP to also include specific quantifiable accomplishments, goals, objectives, costs, and performance measures for complete streets facilities and transit priority facilities, as specified.\n (4)Existing law authorizes the department to issue encroachment permits and requires the department to either approve or deny an application from an applicant for an encroachment permit within 60 days of receiving a completed application, as provided.\n This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, to develop and adopt a project intake, evaluation, and encroachment permit review process for complete streets facilities that are sponsored by a local jurisdiction or a transit agency. The bill would require the department to produce a report regarding project applications submitted through this process, as specified. The bill would require the department to designate an encroachment permit manager in each district to ensure that applications for complete streets facilities are reviewed in accordance with the process, as specified.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to improve and maintain the state’s highways, and establishes various programs to fund the development, construction, and repair of local roads, bridges, and other critical transportation infrastructure in the state.\n This bill would require all transportation projects funded or overseen by the department to provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets facilities unless an exemption is documented and approved, as specified.\n (2)Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the California Transportation Commission, to prepare a robust asset management plan to guide selection of projects for the state highway operation and protection program (SHOPP). Existing law requires the commission, in connection with the plan, to adopt targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives. Existing law requires the department to develop, in consultation with the commission, a plain language performance report to increase transparency and accountability of the SHOPP. \n This bill would require the asset management plan to prioritize the implementation of comfortable, convenient, and connected facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users on all projects in the program, where applicable. The bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to adopt targets and performance measures and instead require the commission to adopt 4-year and 10-year objective targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives, including for complete streets assets that reflect the existence and conditions of bicycle, pedestrian, and transit facilities on the state highway system. The bill would require the department’s plain language performance report to include a description of pedestrian, bicycle, and transit facilities on each project, as specified. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the commission, to update the asset management plan and use it to guide the selection of transit priority projects for the SHOPP, as specified. \n (3)Existing law creates transit districts in designated areas throughout the state and authorizes the use of various vehicles for the purpose of public and private transit. Existing law authorizes transit buses and other transit vehicles to operate on state highways. \n This bill would define “transit priority project” as a roadway design, operations, and enforcement action, treatment, or project that helps transit buses and other transit vehicles avoid traffic congestion, reduce signal delays, and move more predictably and reliably, as specified. The bill would require the Director of Transportation to adopt a policy on transit priority projects for state and local highways. The bill would require the department to take certain actions to streamline the approval of transit priority projects, as specified. The bill would require the department to approve, deny, or make a determination on an application for a transit priority project or an encroachment permit for a transit priority project within specified time periods. The bill would prohibit the department from denying or delaying by more than 60 days the implementation of a transit priority project to do a detailed traffic analysis, as specified.\n The bill would require the department to establish 4-year and 10-year targets for the fast and reliable movement of transit vehicles on state highways. The bill would require the targets to be designed to measure progress on specified objectives and to encourage a minimum 20% improvement for each objective for each 4-year cycle. The bill would require the department to incorporate the targets into the State Highway System Management Plan and to account for local plans in identifying transit priority projects, as specified. \n The bill would require the department to establish a process to streamline the approval of pedestrian facilities, traffic calming improvements, bicycle facilities, and transit priority projects at locations where a local highway is above, below, or otherwise intersects with, a conventional state highway, as specified.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-27" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 630, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Streets and Highways Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Friedman" ], "coauthors": [ "Blakespear", "Menjivar", "Haney", "Lee" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-23", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-02-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2024-04-01", "action": "April 9 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2024-04-02", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2024-04-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 4. Page 3732.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2024-05-06", "action": "May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3965.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 4145.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-23", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (July 1)." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 6548.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5630.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-27", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-27", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 630, Statutes of 2024." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB960", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB960", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB960", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB960", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB960" }, "headline": "Sets complete streets targets for state highway projects", "one_liner": "The Department of Transportation must set targets for bike, pedestrian and transit facilities in state highway repair projects.", "summary": "The Department of Transportation must set 4-year targets to add bike, pedestrian and transit facilities to state highway repair projects. It must adopt a transit policy and, by July 2027, guidance on transit performance. By 2027, it must create a permit review process for local and transit agency street projects, with a permit manager in each district.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB960.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB969", "slug": "2023-24/SB969", "number": "SB 969", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-25", "last_action_date": "2024-09-28", "subject": "Alcoholic beverages: entertainment zones: consumption.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic beverages: entertainment zones: consumption.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 23039.5, 23357, 23358, 23396, and 25690 of, and to add Sections 25691 and 25692 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.", "digest": "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. Existing 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. Existing 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.\n 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. Before enacting an ordinance to establish or modify an entertainment zone, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to notify local law enforcement and request feedback about specific information, including, among others, the entertainment zone’s proposed boundaries and days and hours of operation. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county that establishes an entertainment zone, or its designated subordinate officer or body, to review the operation of the entertainment zone every 2 years following the adoption of the entertainment zone, as specified, and to make any reports produced during the review available to the department upon request. \n Existing law authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer, a licensed winegrower, and any on-sale licensee to permit consumers to leave the premises with open containers of alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises within an entertainment zone, subject to certain conditions. Existing law specifies that a licensed beer manufacturer, a licensed winegrower, and any on-sale licensee whose privileges are restricted due to operating conditions or other statutory restrictions may be prohibited from exercising entertainment zone privileges that are contrary to their operating conditions. For this purpose, existing law requires any restrictions on the exercise of off-sale privileges to apply to the removal of alcoholic beverages from the licensed premises for consumption in the entertainment zone.\n This bill would, instead, prohibit any restrictions on the exercise of off-sale privileges from applying to the removal of open alcoholic beverages from the licensed premises for consumption in the entertainment zone.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 23358 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 2177 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2177 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "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. Existing 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. Existing 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.\n 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. Before enacting an ordinance to establish an entertainment zone, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to notify local law enforcement and request feedback about specific information, including, among others, the entertainment zone’s proposed boundaries and days and hours of operation. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county that establishes an entertainment zone, or its designated subordinate officer or body, to review the operation of the entertainment zone every 2 years following the adoption of the entertainment zone, as specified, and to make any reports produced during the review available to the department upon request. \n Existing law authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer, a licensed winegrower, and any on-sale licensee to permit consumers to leave the premises with open containers of alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises within an entertainment zone, subject to certain conditions. Existing law specifies that a licensed beer manufacturer, a licensed winegrower, and any on-sale licensee whose privileges are restricted due to operating conditions or other statutory restrictions may be prohibited from exercising entertainment zone privileges that are contrary to their operating conditions. For this purpose, existing law requires any restrictions on the exercise of off-sale privileges to apply to the removal of alcoholic beverages from the licensed premises for consumption in the entertainment zone.\n This bill would, instead, prohibit any restrictions on the exercise of off-sale privileges from applying to the removal of open alcoholic beverages from the licensed premises for consumption in the entertainment zone.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-28" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 869, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Haney", "Lee", "Pellerin" ], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-26", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2024-02-28", "action": "Set for hearing March 12." }, { "date": "2024-03-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 3282.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-03-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "action": "April 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3966.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2024-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4178.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2024-06-20", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2024-06-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 6549.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-27", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5510.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-03", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 869, Statutes of 2024." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB969", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB969", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB969", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB969", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB969" }, "headline": "Lets any city or county create entertainment zones", "one_liner": "Any city or county could create entertainment zones where people may drink alcohol on public streets and sidewalks.", "summary": "Allows any city or county, not just San Francisco, to create entertainment zones where alcohol may be consumed on streets and sidewalks. Before creating or changing a zone, the local government must ask local police for feedback. It must review each zone every 2 years. Off-sale limits on licensees would not apply to open drinks taken into the zone.", "issues": [ "nightlife" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB969.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB988", "slug": "2023-24/SB988", "number": "SB 988", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-30", "last_action_date": "2024-09-28", "subject": "Freelance Worker Protection Act.", "introduced_subject": "Freelance Worker Protection Act.", "title": "An act to add Part 5 (commencing with Section 18100) to Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to independent contractors.", "digest": "Existing law generally regulates employment and, with certain exceptions, requires a 3-part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test, to determine if workers are employees or independent contractors for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission.\n This bill 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 a bona fide 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 party 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 the contract for no less than 4 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 or a public prosecutor to bring a civil action to enforce these provisions, as specified.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law generally regulates employment and, with certain exceptions, requires a 3-part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test, to determine if workers are employees or independent contractors for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission. Existing law authorizes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the head of which is the Labor Commissioner, to enforce the Labor Code and all labor laws of the state the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in any other officer, board, or commission.\n This bill 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.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-28" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 870, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-30", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-31", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD." }, { "date": "2024-03-26", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2024-04-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R." }, { "date": "2024-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 16 in JUD. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2024-04-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3562.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3634.) (April 16)." }, { "date": "2024-04-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-23", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2024-04-29", "action": "April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3967.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 4023.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-05-28", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD." }, { "date": "2024-06-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-06-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 6550.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 5560.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-04", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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They cannot retaliate against freelancers who use these rights. Freelancers or public prosecutors may sue to enforce the rules.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB988.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB1037", "slug": "2023-24/SB1037", "number": "SB 1037", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-02-06", "last_action_date": "2024-09-19", "subject": "Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and zoning: general plan.", "title": "An act to add Section 65009.1 to the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "Existing law, 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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. The Planning and Zoning Law requires HCD to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes HCD to notify the office of the Attorney General, that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the local government has taken action in violation of specified provisions of law. The Planning and Zoning Law also requires, among other things, that an application for a housing development be subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to bring its general plan into substantial compliance with provisions regulating general plans and specifies timelines under which the city or county is required to bring its zoning ordinance into consistency if the court finds in favor of a plaintiff in an action challenging the validity of a general plan, or any mandatory element thereof, as specified. \n This bill, in any action brought by the Attorney General or HCD to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions, as specified, or to enforce any state law that requires a city, county, or local agency to ministerially approve any planning or permitting application related to a housing development project, as specified, would subject the city, county, or local agency to specified remedies, including a civil penalty of, at minimum, $10,000 per month, and not exceeding $50,000 per month, for each violation, as specified. The bill would require that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when the local agency’s acts or omissions, as described, are arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair. The bill would require a court to modify certain of its prior orders, including an order directing a city or county to substantially comply with provisions regulating general plans and to bring its zoning ordinance into consistency, to impose, among other things, the maximum penalty specified in these provisions, as provided. The bill would require these civil penalties, as specified, to be deposited into the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund for the sole purpose of supporting the development of affordable housing located in the affected jurisdiction, except as provided, and would require that expenditure of any penalty moneys deposited into the fund under these provisions be subject to appropriation by the Legislature. In the event a city, county, or local agency fails to pay civil penalties imposed by the court, the bill would authorize the court to require the Controller to intercept any available state and local funds and direct those funds to the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund to correct the jurisdiction’s failure to pay, as specified.\n The bill would make a related statement of legislative findings and declarations.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, 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.\n Existing law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to certain specified entities by April 1 of each year that includes specified information.\n This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2024-09-19" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 293, Statutes of 2024", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-02-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-02-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-03-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-04-03", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD." }, { "date": "2024-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 16." }, { "date": "2024-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 23 in JUD. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2024-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 3633.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3725.) (April 23)." }, { "date": "2024-04-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2024-05-13", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2024-05-14", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 9. Page 4083.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD." }, { "date": "2024-06-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-06-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-06-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-23", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-23", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 46. Noes 16. Page 7109.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 23. Noes 9. Page 5799.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-12", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-19", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-19", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Fines apply only when actions are arbitrary, unlawful, unsupported or procedurally unfair. Money funds affordable housing there. The Controller could intercept funds to cover unpaid fines.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB1037.html" }, { "id": "202520261SB1", "slug": "2025-26/SB1-x1", "number": "SB 1", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26, special session 1", "special_session": true, "introduced_date": "2024-12-02", "last_action_date": "2025-02-07", "subject": "Budget Act of 2024.", "introduced_subject": "Budget Act of 2024.", "title": "An act to amend the Budget Act of 2024 (Chs. 22, 35, and 994, Stats. 2024), by amending Sections 5.25 and 39.10 of that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.", "digest": "The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.\n This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by making changes to existing appropriations, as provided.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.", "introduced_digest": "The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.\n This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by making changes to existing appropriations, as provided.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-02-07" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Budget Act of 2024" ], "joint_authors": [ "Gabriel" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-12-02", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-12-03", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2025-01-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. & F.R." }, { "date": "2025-01-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R." }, { "date": "2025-01-14", "action": "Set for hearing January 14." }, { "date": "2025-01-14", "action": "January 14 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2025-01-16", "action": "Set for hearing January 22." }, { "date": "2025-01-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 30.) (January 22)." }, { "date": "2025-01-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-01-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 36.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-01-23", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-01-27", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-01-27", "action": "(Ayes 59. Noes 15. Page 62.)" }, { "date": "2025-01-28", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-02-03", "action": "Amendments by Assembly Member DeMaio tabled on motion by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry. (Ayes 56. Noes 17. Page 77.)" }, { "date": "2025-02-03", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 78.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-02-03", "action": "In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-02-04", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2025-02-07", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-02-07", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB1", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB1", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB1", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB1", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB1" }, "headline": "Amends the 2024 state budget", "one_liner": "Changes existing spending in the 2024 Budget Act and takes effect immediately.", "summary": "Amends the Budget Act of 2024, which funds state government for the 2024-25 fiscal year. The bill makes changes to existing appropriations. It takes effect immediately as a budget bill.", "issues": [ "budget" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB1-x1.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB40", "slug": "2025-26/SB40", "number": "SB 40", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-12-03", "last_action_date": "2025-10-13", "subject": "Health care coverage: insulin.", "introduced_subject": "Health care coverage: insulin.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1367.51 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10176.61 of the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act’s requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, that covers prescription benefits to include coverage for insulin if it is determined to be medically necessary.\n This bill would prohibit a large group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, or an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy on or after January 1, 2027, from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other cost sharing of more than $35 for a 30-day supply of an insulin prescription drug, except as specified. On and after January 1, 2026, the bill would prohibit a health care service plan or health insurer from imposing step therapy as a prerequisite to authorizing coverage of insulin, and, for a large group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy, would require at least one insulin for a given drug type in all forms and concentrations to be on the prescription drug formulary. The bill would limit the $35 cap for an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to only Tier 1 and Tier 2 insulin if the drug formulary is grouped into tiers, except as provided. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act’s requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, that covers prescription benefits to include coverage for insulin if it is determined to be medically necessary.\n This bill would generally prohibit a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, from imposing a copayment of more than $35 for a 30-day supply of an insulin prescription drug or imposing a deductible, coinsurance, or any other cost sharing on an insulin prescription drug, except as specified. On and after January 1, 2026, the bill would prohibit a health care service plan or disability insurer from imposing step therapy protocols as a prerequisite to authorizing coverage of insulin. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-13" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 737, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Wahab" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Rubio", "Weber Pierson" ], "coauthors": [ "Arambula", "Bains" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-12-03", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-12-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3." }, { "date": "2025-01-06", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2025-01-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-03-25", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2025-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 635.) (April 2)." }, { "date": "2025-04-07", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2025-04-21", "action": "April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1189.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1280.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-06-18", "action": "June 24 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2025-06-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 15)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20)." }, { "date": "2025-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2865.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2709.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-16", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 737, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB40", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB40", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB40", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB40", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB40" }, "headline": "Caps insulin cost sharing at $35 per month", "one_liner": "Health plans and insurers cannot charge patients more than $35 for a 30-day supply of insulin.", "summary": "Bars health plans and insurers from charging more than $35 in copays, coinsurance or deductibles for a 30-day insulin supply. The cap starts in 2026 for large group plans and 2027 for individual and small group plans, where it may cover only Tier 1 and Tier 2 insulin. Plans cannot require patients to try other drugs first before covering insulin.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB40.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB41", "slug": "2025-26/SB41", "number": "SB 41", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-12-03", "last_action_date": "2025-10-11", "subject": "Pharmacy benefits.", "introduced_subject": "Pharmacy benefits.", "title": "An act to amend Section 4441 of the Business and Professions Code, to amend Sections 1385.001, 1385.0011, 1385.0021, 1385.0022, and 1385.0023 of, and to add Sections 1367.2075, 1385.0026, 1385.0027, 1385.0028, 1385.0029, 1385.0031, 1385.0032, 1385.0033, and 1385.0034 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10125.2 of, and to add Section 10123.2045 to, the Insurance Code, relating to pharmacy benefits.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a pharmacy benefit manager engaging in business with a health care service plan or health insurer to secure a license from the Department of Managed Health Care on or after January 1, 2027, or the date on which the department has established the licensure process, whichever is later.\n This bill would prohibit a pharmacy benefit manager from, among other things, requiring use of only an affiliated pharmacy, as specified, and from imposing requirements, conditions, or exclusions that discriminate against a nonaffiliated pharmacy in connection with dispensing drugs. The bill would limit a pharmacy benefit manager’s income to that derived from a pharmacy benefit management fee for pharmacy benefit management services provided, and would require a pharmacy benefit manager to use a passthrough pricing model. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to recover specified civil penalties and receive equitable relief for violations of the pharmacy benefit manager licensing provisions. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require a contract between a health insurer and a pharmacy benefit manager issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2027, or the date on which the Department of Managed Health Care has established the pharmacy benefit manager licensure process, whichever is later, to require the pharmacy benefit manager to be licensed and in good standing with the Department of Managed Health Care.\n Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that provides coverage for outpatient prescription drugs to cover medically necessary prescription drugs and subjects those policies to certain limitations on cost sharing and the placement of drugs on formularies. Existing law limits the maximum amount an enrollee or insured may be required to pay at the point of sale for a covered prescription drug to the lesser of the applicable cost-sharing amount or the retail price, and requires that payment apply to the applicable deductible.\n This bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, that provides prescription drug coverage from calculating an enrollee’s or insured’s cost sharing at an amount that exceeds the actual rate paid by the plan or insurer for the prescription drug, except as specified, and would require the contract or policy to include specified cost-sharing provisions. The bill would prohibit a contract between a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service plan or health insurer that is executed, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, from authorizing spread pricing. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would declare that it does not narrow, abrogate, or otherwise alter the authority of the Attorney General to maintain or restore competitive, fair, and honest markets and prosecute violations of law, and would declare that the provisions of this bill are severable.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law 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. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n This bill would additionally require a pharmacy benefit manager to apply for and obtain a license from the Department of Insurance to operate as a pharmacy benefit manager no later than January 1, 2027. The bill would establish application qualifications and requirements, and would require initial license and renewal fees to be collected into the newly created Pharmacy Benefit Manager Account in the Insurance Fund to be available to the department for use, upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified, for costs related to licensing and regulating pharmacy benefit managers. The bill would impose specified duties on pharmacy benefit managers and requirements for pharmacy benefit manager services and pharmacy benefit manager contracts, including requiring a pharmacy benefit manager to file specified reports with the department, the contents of which are not to be disclosed to the public. The bill would require the department, at specified intervals, to submit reports to the Legislature based on the reports submitted by pharmacy benefit managers, and would require the department to post the reports on the department’s internet website.\n This bill would make a violation of these provisions subject to specified civil penalties. The bill would create the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Fines and Penalties Account in the General Fund, into which fines and administrative penalties would be deposited.\n Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that provides coverage for outpatient prescription drugs to cover medically necessary prescription drugs and subjects those policies to certain limitations on cost sharing and the placement of drugs on formularies. Existing law limits the maximum amount an enrollee or insured may be required to pay at the point of sale for a covered prescription drug to the lesser of the applicable cost-sharing amount or the retail price, and requires that payment apply to the applicable deductible. Existing law requires a plan or insurer that reports rate information to report specified prescription drug information to the relevant department no later than October 1 of each year.\n This bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, that provides prescription drug coverage from calculating an enrollee’s or insured’s cost sharing at an amount that exceeds the actual rate paid for the prescription drug, and would require the contract or policy to include specified cost-sharing provisions. The bill would prohibit a contract between a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service plan or health insurer that is executed, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, from authorizing spread pricing. The bill would require a plan or insurer to include additional information in its annual prescription drug data reporting, including the aggregate amount of rebates received by the pharmacy benefit manager for each drug. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would declare that it does not narrow, abrogate, or otherwise alter the authority of the Attorney General to maintain or restore competitive, fair, and honest markets and prosecute violations of law, and would declare that the provisions of this bill are severable.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-11" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 605, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Wahab" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Weber Pierson", "Bonta", "Hadwick", "Schiavo" ], "coauthors": [ "Pellerin" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-12-03", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-12-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3." }, { "date": "2025-01-06", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2025-01-29", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD." }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-04-02", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2025-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 867.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 938.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-02", "action": "Set for hearing May 12." }, { "date": "2025-05-12", "action": "May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1189.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1276.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD." }, { "date": "2025-06-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-07-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-07-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 15)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-04", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-09-04", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 2. Page 3081.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2819.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-17", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-11", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-11", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 605, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB41", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB41", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB41", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB41", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB41" }, "headline": "Sets new rules for pharmacy benefit managers", "one_liner": "Limits how pharmacy benefit managers earn money and treat pharmacies, and limits patient cost sharing for prescription drugs.", "summary": "Bars pharmacy benefit managers from requiring use of only affiliated pharmacies or discriminating against other pharmacies. They may earn income only from a management fee and must pass drug prices through. Bans spread pricing in their contracts. Patients' cost sharing cannot exceed what the plan actually pays for a drug. The Attorney General may seek penalties.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB41.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB53", "slug": "2025-26/SB53", "number": "SB 53", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-01-07", "last_action_date": "2025-09-29", "subject": "Artificial intelligence models: large developers.", "introduced_subject": "Artificial intelligence: frontier models.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 25.1 (commencing with Section 22757.10) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to add Section 11546.8 to the Government Code, and to add Chapter 5.1 (commencing with Section 1107) to Part 3 of Division 2 of the Labor Code, relating to artificial intelligence.", "digest": "(1)Existing law generally regulates artificial intelligence, including by requiring, on or before January 1, 2026, and before each time thereafter, that a generative artificial intelligence system or service, or a substantial modification to a generative artificial intelligence system or service, released on or after January 1, 2022, is made publicly available to Californians for use, the developer of the system or service to post on the developer’s internet website documentation regarding the data used by the developer to train the generative artificial intelligence system or service, as prescribed.\n This bill would enact the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA) that would, among other things related to ensuring the safety of a foundation model, as defined, developed by a frontier developer, require a large frontier developer to write, implement, and clearly and conspicuously publish on its internet website a frontier AI framework that applies to the large frontier developer’s frontier models and describes how the large frontier developer approaches, among other things, incorporating national standards, international standards, and industry-consensus best practices into its frontier AI framework. The TFAIA would also require a large frontier developer to transmit to the Office of Emergency Services a summary of any assessment of catastrophic risk, as defined, resulting from internal use of its frontier models, as specified. The TFAIA would require the Office of Emergency Services to establish a mechanism to be used by a frontier developer or a member of the public to report, as prescribed, a critical safety incident, as defined, and would also require the Office of Emergency Services to establish a mechanism to be used by a large frontier developer to confidentially submit summaries of any assessments of the potential for catastrophic risk resulting from internal use of its frontier models, as prescribed.\n The TFAIA would exempt from the California Public Records Act a report of a critical safety incident submitted to the Office of Emergency Services, a report of assessments of catastrophic risk from internet use, and a covered employee report made pursuant to the whistleblower protections described below.\n The TFAIA would impose a civil penalty for noncompliance with the TFAIA to be enforced by the Attorney General, as prescribed.\n (2)Existing law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency. Existing law requires the department to conduct, in coordination with other 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.\n This bill would establish within the Government Operations Agency a consortium required to develop a framework for the creation of a public cloud computing cluster to be known as “CalCompute” that advances the development and deployment of artificial intelligence that is safe, ethical, equitable, and sustainable by, among other things, fostering research and innovation that benefits the public, as prescribed. The bill would require the Government Operations Agency to, on or before January 1, 2027, submit a report from the consortium to the Legislature with that framework and would dissolve the consortium upon submission of that report. The bill would make those provisions operative only upon an appropriation in a budget act, or other measure, for its purposes.\n (3)Existing law prohibits employers and their agents from making, adopting, or enforcing a rule, regulation, or policy preventing an employee from disclosing information to certain entities or from providing information to, or testifying before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing, or inquiry if the employee has reasonable cause to believe that the information discloses a violation of a law, as specified, and prohibits retaliation against an employee for, among other things, exercising these rights.\n This bill would, among other things related to protecting whistleblowers working with foundation models, prohibit a frontier developer from making, adopting, enforcing, or entering into a rule, regulation, policy, or contract that prevents a covered employee, as defined, from disclosing, or retaliates against a covered employee for disclosing, information to the Attorney General, a federal authority, a person with authority over the covered employee, or another covered employee who has authority to investigate, discover, or correct the reported issue, if the covered employee has reasonable cause to believe that the information discloses that the frontier developer’s activities pose a specific and substantial danger to the public health or safety resulting from a catastrophic risk or that the frontier developer has violated the TFAIA.\n This bill would require a large frontier developer to provide a certain internal process through which a covered employee may anonymously disclose information to the large frontier developer if the covered employee believes in good faith that the information indicates that the large frontier developer’s activities present a specific and substantial danger to the public health or safety resulting from a catastrophic risk or that the large frontier developer violated the TFAIA. The bill would specify provisions particular to the enforcement of those whistleblower protections and would authorize attorney’s fees to a plaintiff who brings a successful action for a violation.\n This bill would preempt any rule, regulation, code, ordinance, or other law adopted by a city, county, city and county, municipality, or local agency on or after January 1, 2025, specifically related to the regulation of frontier developers with respect to their management of catastrophic risk.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the Department of Technology to conduct, in coordination with other 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.\n Existing law defines “automated decision system” as a computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence (AI) that issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, that is used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons. Existing law defines “artificial intelligence” as an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.\n Existing law, the Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act, among other things, requires the Department of Technology, under the guidance of the Government Operations Agency, the Office of Data and Innovation, and the Department of Human Resources, to update the report to the Governor, as required by Executive Order No. N-12-23, as prescribed, and requires the Office of Emergency Services to perform, as appropriate, a risk analysis of potential threats posed by the use of generative AI to California’s critical infrastructure, including those that could lead to mass casualty events.\n This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish safeguards for the development of AI frontier models and that would build state capacity for the use of AI, that may include, but is not limited to, the findings of the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models established by the Governor.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-09-29" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Government Code", "Labor Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Rubio" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-01-07", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-01-08", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 7." }, { "date": "2025-01-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-02-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-03-12", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD." }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "Set for hearing March 25." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 530.) (March 25)." }, { "date": "2025-03-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-01", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 705.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2025-04-21", "action": "April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1189.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1281.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD." }, { "date": "2025-06-12", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2025-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2025-07-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 16)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-08", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Joint Rule 62(a) suspended." }, { "date": "2025-09-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (September 11)." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 7. Page 3432.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3039.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-23", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Protects employees who report dangers. Plans a public computing cluster called CalCompute. The Attorney General enforces civil penalties.", "issues": [ "tech" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB53.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB59", "slug": "2025-26/SB59", "number": "SB 59", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-01-08", "last_action_date": "2025-10-13", "subject": "Change of name or gender and sex identifier.", "introduced_subject": "Change of gender and sex identifier.", "title": "An act to repeal and add Section 103437 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to vital records, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Existing law authorizes a person to file a petition with the superior court seeking a judgment recognizing their change of gender to female, male, or nonbinary, including a person who is under 18 years of age. Existing law authorizes a person to file a single petition to simultaneously change the petitioner’s name and recognize the change to the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier, as specified. Existing law requires that either of those petitions, if filed by a person under 18 years of age, and any papers associated with the proceeding, be kept confidential by the court. Existing law requires the court to limit access to these records to specified individuals, including, among others, the minor, the minor’s parents, and their attorney.\n This bill would expand the above-described confidentiality protections to other petitioners regardless of age. The bill would also expand these protections to court records associated with a proceeding under separate provisions of existing law for a change of name to conform a petitioner’s name to their gender identity. The bill would require the court to limit access to the court records in these proceedings to certain individuals, as specified.\n The bill would apply these confidentiality provisions in the case of (1) a petition filed on or after July 1, 2026; (2) a petition filed before July 1, 2026, if the petitioner files a request to keep the records confidential, as specified; or (3) records that were previously made confidential by statute or otherwise. The bill would prohibit a person or private entity, other than the petitioner, from publicly posting one of the above-described confidential records on the internet or otherwise.\n The bill would make a violation of these confidentiality requirements an injury and, commencing 6 months after the effective date of this bill, would authorize a person or entity to institute proceedings for injunctive relief, declaratory relief, or a writ of mandate to enforce them. The bill would require a court to award reasonable attorney’s fees and costs to a plaintiff who prevails on a cause of action against a private party pursuant to this authority.\n\n The bill would also authorize a petitioner who has been harmed by a disclosure or continuing disclosure of records, as specified, to, commencing 6 months after the effective date of this bill, bring a civil action against a person or private entity that caused the harm. The bill would require a person or private entity found liable to pay actual damages or statutory damages, punitive damages, and reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, as specified.\n The bill would, on or before July 1, 2026, require the Judicial Council, as necessary, to develop forms and rules to implement the bill’s provisions.\n Under the bill, nothing in these provisions would preclude a court from granting a motion to seal all court records of a person’s change of name or gender and sex identifier, or both, pursuant to a specified California Rule of Court.\n The bill would state that whether a transgender person’s gender identity conforms with their assigned sex at birth is intimate personal information entitled to protection under the right to privacy, and that a transgender person has a privacy interest in concealing their transgender identity.\n The bill would make legislative findings and declarations in support of its provisions.\n The bill would declare that its provisions are severable.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law authorizes a person to file a petition with the superior court seeking a judgment recognizing their change of gender to female, male, or nonbinary, including a person who is under 18 years of age. Existing law authorizes a person to file a single petition to simultaneously change the petitioner’s name and recognize the change to the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier, as specified. Existing law requires a petition for a change of gender and sex identifier or a petition for a change of gender, sex identifier, and name filed by a person under 18 years of age, and any papers associated with the proceeding, to be kept confidential by the court. Existing law requires the court to limit access to these records to specified individuals, including, among others, the minor, the minor’s parents, and their attorneys.\n This bill would expand that confidentiality provision to apply to all filed petitions for a change of gender and sex identifier or filed petitions for a change of gender, sex identifier, and name, and any papers associated with the proceeding, regardless of the age of the person who filed the petition. The bill would require the court to limit access to court records in those proceedings, as specified. This bill would make this provision retroactive and require the Judicial Council to ensure that all courts have implemented a method to ensure the court maintains the confidentiality of those petitions and associated papers that were filed prior to the effective date of this act. The bill would require the court to immediately take steps to make a record confidential if an interested party or the court discovers that a court record in the proceeding is not being kept confidential. The bill would prohibit those records from being posted publicly, on the internet or otherwise, by anyone other than the petitioner.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-13" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 738, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Cabaldon", "Cervantes", "Laird", "Padilla", "Pérez", "Mark González", "Jackson", "Lee", "Solache", "Ward", "Zbur" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-01-08", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-01-09", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8." }, { "date": "2025-01-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 833.) (April 22)." }, { "date": "2025-04-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 5." }, { "date": "2025-05-05", "action": "May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1190.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-02", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1372.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-06-03", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-06-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 17)." }, { "date": "2025-06-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 3410.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3036.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-23", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 738, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59" }, "headline": "Keeps gender and name change court records confidential", "one_liner": "Court records of gender and name changes would be confidential for petitioners of any age, not just minors.", "summary": "Makes court records of gender changes, and name changes to match gender identity, confidential for petitioners of any age. Bans others from publicly posting these records. People harmed by a disclosure may sue for damages and attorney's fees. States that whether a transgender person's gender identity matches their birth-assigned sex is protected under the right to privacy.", "issues": [ "lgbtq" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB59.html" }, { "id": "202520261SB2", "slug": "2025-26/SB2-x1", "number": "SB 2", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26, special session 1", "special_session": true, "introduced_date": "2025-01-08", "last_action_date": "2025-02-07", "subject": "Budget Act of 2024.", "introduced_subject": "Department of Justice: federal litigation expenses.", "title": "An act to amend the Budget Act of 2024 (Chs. 22, 35, and 994, Stats. 2024), by amending Section 99.50 of, and by adding Section 5.26 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.", "digest": "The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.\n This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by making changes to existing appropriations, as provided.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the Department of Justice, under the direction and control of the Attorney General, and makes the department responsible for investigation and enforcement of various laws.\n This bill would appropriate $500,000 to the department to pay the department for federal litigation expenses. The bill would require the department to report certain information regarding funds used pursuant to this bill and other law and to maintain an internet website, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-02-07" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 4, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Budget Act of 2024" ], "joint_authors": [ "Gabriel" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": { "date": "2025-02-07", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am signing Senate Bill X1 2, which will bolster funding for legal services programs that are vital to safeguarding the civil rights of California's most vulnerable residents, including people with disabilities, youth who are homeless, victims of human trafficking and wage theft, people facing unlawful evictions, immigrants and more. \n\nNone of the funding in this bill is intended to be used for immigration-related legal services for noncitizens convicted of serious or violent felonies. To the extent further clarification is necessary, I encourage the Legislature to pass subsequent legislation providing that this funding is to be allocated consistent with the restrictions set forth in paragraph 3 of subdivision (b) of Section 13303 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. \n\nSincerely,\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2025-01-08", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-01-09", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2025-01-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. & F.R." }, { "date": "2025-01-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R." }, { "date": "2025-01-13", "action": "Set for hearing January 14." }, { "date": "2025-01-14", "action": "January 14 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2025-01-16", "action": "Set for hearing January 22." }, { "date": "2025-01-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 31.) (January 22)." }, { "date": "2025-01-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-01-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 37.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-01-23", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-01-27", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-01-27", "action": "(Ayes 59. Noes 15. Page 62.)" }, { "date": "2025-01-28", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-02-03", "action": "Amendments by Assembly Member Castillo tabled on motion by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 80.)" }, { "date": "2025-02-03", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 81.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-02-03", "action": "In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-02-04", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2025-02-07", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-02-07", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 4, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB2", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB2", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB2", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB2", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520261SB2" }, "headline": "Amends the 2024 state budget", "one_liner": "Changes existing spending in the 2024 Budget Act and takes effect immediately.", "summary": "Amends the Budget Act of 2024, which funds state government for the 2024-25 fiscal year. The bill makes changes to existing appropriations. It takes effect immediately as a budget bill.", "issues": [ "budget" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with Department of Justice federal litigation funding; it was rewritten to cover changes to the 2024 state budget.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB2-x1.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB63", "slug": "2025-26/SB63", "number": "SB 63", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-01-09", "last_action_date": "2025-10-13", "subject": "San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: public transit funding.", "introduced_subject": "San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: transportation funding.", "title": "An act to add Title 7.85 (commencing with Section 67700) to, and to add and repeal Section 66513.5 of, the Government Code, and to amend Section 131102 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation.", "digest": "(1)Existing 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. Existing law creates various transit districts located in the San Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services.\n This bill would establish the Public Transit Revenue Measure District with jurisdiction extending throughout the boundaries of the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara and the City and County of San Francisco and would require the district to be governed by the same board that governs the commission, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize a retail transactions and use tax applicable to the entire district to be imposed by the board of the district or by a qualified voter initiative for a duration of 14 years, and in an amount of 0.5% in each of the above-described counties located within the district and 1% in the City and County of San Francisco, subject to voter approval at the November 3, 2026, statewide general election. After payments are made for various administrative expenses, the bill would require the district to transfer specified portions of the proceeds of the tax to the commission for allocation to certain programs and other purposes and for allocation to the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, commonly known as Caltrain, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and other specified transit agencies, for transit operations expenses, and would require the district to transfer specified portions of the proceeds of the tax directly to other specified local transportation agencies, including the San Mateo County Transit District and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, for public transit expenses, as prescribed.\n By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to elections procedures for this bill on behalf of the district, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Existing law requires the commission to develop regional transit service objectives, develop performance measures of efficiency and effectiveness, specify uniform data requirements to assess public transit service benefits and costs, and formulate procedures for establishing regional transportation priorities in the allocation of funds for transportation purposes.\n This bill would require the commission to contract with, and manage, a third-party consultant to conduct a financial efficiency review of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, Caltrain, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, as specified. The bill would require the review to be completed in 2 phases, with the analysis for the 2nd phase only required if the tax measure is approved by the voters of the Public Transit Revenue Measure District. The bill would require the consultant to transmit the analysis for each phase to an oversight committee, which the bill would create with a prescribed membership, for review and adoption. The bill would require a transit operator subject to the financial efficiency review to take specified actions in response to the analysis for the first phase and, subject to review of the oversight committee, to adopt an implementation plan that describes the cost-saving measures identified in the analysis for the 2nd phase that the operator plans to implement, as specified. The bill would require a transit operator subject to the financial efficiency review to verify its compliance with the requirements of the review as a condition of receiving funds from the tax measure approved by the voters of the district.\n The bill would require each transit operator to which the commission allocates funds to comply with a maintenance of effort requirement as a condition of receiving those funds, as provided.\n This bill would require the commission, if the tax measure is approved by the voters of the district and other conditions are satisfied, to establish an ad hoc adjudication committee for a transit operator subject to the above-described financial efficiency review to assess and adjudicate petitions submitted by a participating county transportation entity, as defined, or a county board of supervisors with regard to the performance of the transit operator within the geographic jurisdiction of the entity submitting the petition, as provided. As part of this process, the bill would require an ad hoc adjudication committee, among other things, to determine whether to direct the commission to withhold funding from the tax measure allocated to the transit operator if the committee agrees with a claim regarding the performance of the transit operator, as specified.\n This bill would require the commission to submit a report to the Legislature on or before March 31, 2026, on its forecast of the impacts to ridership on the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, Caltrain, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency from planned transportation projects and strategies included in its adopted regional transportation plan.\n By adding to the duties of the commission, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (3)The Bay Area County Traffic and Transportation Funding Act authorizes the formation of county transportation authorities in each of the 9 bay area counties, and provides for the imposition of a retail transaction and use tax in each of those counties of either 1/2 of 1% or 1%, subject to voter approval, with revenues to be used for various transportation purposes.\n This bill would instead provide that a retail transaction and use tax imposed under those provisions in the County of San Mateo or the City and County of San Francisco may be imposed in 1/8 of 1% increments up to 1%.\n (4)This bill would declare that its provisions are severable.\n (5)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing 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. Existing law creates various transit districts located in the San Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation authorizing a revenue measure to invest in transportation in the San Francisco Bay area.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-13" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 740, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Arreguín" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Richardson", "Bonta", "Haney", "Stefani" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-01-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-01-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9." }, { "date": "2025-01-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-04-02", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 23 in REV. & TAX. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 11. Noes 3. Page 842.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2025-04-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 872.) (April 23)." }, { "date": "2025-04-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-02", "action": "Set for hearing May 12." }, { "date": "2025-05-12", "action": "May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 1190.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-02", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1398.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-06-03", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2025-07-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (July 7)." }, { "date": "2025-07-09", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2025-07-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-04", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-09-04", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-04", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2." }, { "date": "2025-09-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (September 8)." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 46. Noes 20. Page 3429.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3039.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-23", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 740, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63" }, "headline": "Allows a Bay Area sales tax for transit", "one_liner": "Creates a district that could ask voters in five Bay Area counties to approve a 14-year sales tax for transit.", "summary": "Creates a district covering Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties. It could seek voter approval in November 2026 for a 14-year sales tax: 0.5%, or 1% in San Francisco. Money would fund BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain and other transit. Requires a financial efficiency review of BART, Muni, AC Transit and Caltrain.", "issues": [ "transportation", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB63.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB71", "slug": "2025-26/SB71", "number": "SB 71", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-01-14", "last_action_date": "2025-10-13", "subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.", "introduced_subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 21080.20 and 21080.25 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.", "digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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. \n CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, or bicycle transportation plans for the restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and the related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles. \n This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely. The bill would also exempt a transit comprehensive operational analysis, as defined, a transit route readjustment, or other transit agency route addition, elimination, or modification, from the requirements of CEQA. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a plan qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements certain transportation-related projects, such as pedestrian and bicycle facilities, transit prioritization projects, public projects located on a site that is wholly within the boundaries of an urbanized area or urban cluster, as provided, for the institution or increase of bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service, including the construction or rehabilitation of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities, and public projects for the construction or maintenance of infrastructure of facilities to charge, refuel, or maintain zero-emission public transit buses, trains, or ferries, as provided. CEQA requires, except as provided, those exempted projects to be carried out by a local agency and meet certain requirements, including certain labor requirements. \n This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption until January 1, 2040. The bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a public project for the protection and improvement of bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service, including the protection, operation, and maintenance, public projects for the protection, improvement, institution, or increase of microtransit, paratransit, shuttle, and ferry, and for the protection, maintenance, construction, operation, or rehabilitation of stops that will be exclusively used by zero-emission, near-zero-emission, low oxide of nitrogen engine, compressed natural gas fuel, fuel cell, or hybrid powertrain vehicles, rail or cable cars, rolling stock, or vessels. The bill would, until January 1, 2032, exempt from the requirements of CEQA a public project for the protection, improvement, institution, or increase of microtransit, paratransit, shuttle, bus, ferry, bus rapid transit, or light rail service, including the protection, maintenance, construction, operation, or rehabilitation of stops, stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities, if used primarily by near-zero-emission, low oxide of nitrogen engine, compressed natural gas fuel, or hybrid powertrain vehicles, except as provided. The bill would exclude from this exemption certain public projects for the construction or rehabilitation of a ferry terminal, as provided, and, except as provided, public projects for transit services operated by a transportation network company, as defined. 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.\n CEQA exempts from its requirements a project that consists exclusively of a combination of any of the components of specified transportation-related projects.\n This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption until January 1, 2040. The bill would, until January 1, 2040, exempt from the requirements of CEQA a project that combines any of those specified transportation-related projects and a housing development project that is either subject to a nondiscretionary approval or is exempt from CEQA, as provided. 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.\n Existing law exempts from the requirements of CEQA public projects for the institution or increase of passenger rail service, other than light rail service that is eligible for a specified exemption, including the construction or rehabilitation of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities, which will be exclusively used by zero-emission trains.\n This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption until January 1, 2040. The bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA public projects for the improvement of passenger rail service, other than light rail service eligible for a specified exemption, including the maintenance of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities, which will be exclusively used by zero-emission trains, public projects for the maintenance, construction, or rehabilitation of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities which will be exclusively used by zero-emission certified Tier 4 or cleaner rolling stock or locomotives, as provided. The bill would exclude from this exemption public projects located in certain air basins for the maintenance, construction, or rehabilitation of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities that will be used by certified Tier 4 or cleaner rolling stock or locomotives that are not zero-emission rolling stock or locomotives. 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.\n Existing law requires certain CEQA-exempt projects exceeding specified dollar amounts to meet certain criteria, as provided. \n This bill would instead require certain CEQA-exempt projects that are, based on the project engineer’s cost estimate, anticipated to exceed a specified dollar amount, to meet certain criteria, as provided. The bill would require the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, beginning January 1, 2026, and every two years thereafter, to adjust these amounts to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index, as provided, and publish the updated amounts on its internet website. The bill would authorize the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to implement, interpret, or make specific that provision without taking any regulatory action.\n This bill would declare that its provisions are severable.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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. \n CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, or bicycle transportation plans for the restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and the related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles. \n This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely. The bill would also exempt a transit comprehensive operational analysis, as defined, a transit route readjustment, or other transit agency route addition, elimination, or modification, from the requirements of CEQA. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a plan qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements certain transportation-related projects, such as pedestrian and bicycles facilities, transit prioritization projects, public projects for the institution or increase of bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service, including the construction or rehabilitation of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities, and public projects for the construction or maintenance of infrastructure of facilities to charge, refuel, or maintain zero-emission public transit buses, trains, or ferries, as provided. CEQA requires, except as provided, those exempted projects to be carried out by a local agency and meet certain requirements, including certain labor requirements. \n This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely. The bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a public project for the improvement of bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service, including the maintenance, public projects for the improvement, institution, or increase of shuttles and ferries, and for the maintenance, construction, or rehabilitation of stops which will be exclusively used by zero-emission, near-zero-emission, low oxide of nitrogen engine, compressed natural gas fuel, fuel cell, or hybrid powertrain buses, shuttles, ferries, or light rail vehicles, as provided. The bill would exempt a project carried out by a public transit agency conducted in compliance with specified regulations of the State Air Resources Board relating to commercial harbor craft and in-use locomotives. 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.\n Existing law requires a CEQA exempt project exceeding specified dollar amounts to meet certain criteria, as provided. \n This bill would instead require a CEQA exempt project that is, based on the project engineer’s cost estimate, anticipated to exceed a specified dollar amount, to meet certain criteria, as provided. The bill would require the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, beginning January 1, 2026, and every two years thereafter, to adjust these amounts to reflect changes in the California Consumer Price Index, and publish the updated amounts on its internet website. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-13" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 742, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Arreguín", "Chen", "Lee", "Ward" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-01-14", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-01-15", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 14." }, { "date": "2025-01-29", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and TRANS." }, { "date": "2025-03-07", "action": "Set for hearing March 19." }, { "date": "2025-03-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2025-03-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 421.) (March 19)." }, { "date": "2025-03-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2025-03-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 710.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2025-04-16", "action": "April 21 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2025-04-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 28." }, { "date": "2025-04-28", "action": "April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1190.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-29", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-05-29", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-02", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-03", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1451.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-06-04", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2025-06-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2025-07-03", "action": "July 7 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "(Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)" }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 14)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3082.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2820.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-17", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Extends exemptions for bus, light rail, zero-emission rail and other transit projects to 2040, and adds projects combining transit with housing. Updates cost limits each 2 years for inflation.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB71.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB79", "slug": "2025-26/SB79", "number": "SB 79", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-01-15", "last_action_date": "2025-10-10", "subject": "Housing development: transit-oriented development.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: transit-oriented development.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 4.1.5 (commencing with Section 65912.155) to Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, relating to land use.", "digest": "(1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element consist of an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs and a statement of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing, as specified. Existing law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to the meeting of these needs, including an inventory of land suitable for residential development, as provided. Existing law, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified, and requires the appropriate council of local governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each locality in the region. Existing law requires the inventory of land to be used to identify sites throughout the community that can be developed for housing within the planning period and that are sufficient to provide for the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need. Existing law requires each local government to revise its housing element in accordance with a specified schedule.\n Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, among other things, requires a local agency that proposes to disapprove a housing development project, as defined, or to impose a condition that the project be developed at a lower density to base its decision on written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence that specified conditions exist if that project complies with applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision standards and criteria in effect at the time that the application was deemed complete. The act authorizes the applicant, a person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the housing development project or emergency shelter, or a housing organization to bring an action to enforce the act’s provisions, as provided, and provides for penalties if the court finds that the local agency is in violation of specified provisions of the act.\n This bill would require that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development (TOD) stop, as defined, be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the development complies with applicable requirements, as specified. Among these requirements, the bill would require a project to include at least 5 dwelling units and establish requirements concerning height limits, density, and residential floor area ratio in accordance with a development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops, as provided. The bill would require that, for the purposes of the Housing Accountability Act, a proposed development consistent with the applicable standards of these provisions as well as applicable local objective general plan and zoning standards be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with prescribed requirements, as specified. The bill would provide that a local government that denies a project meeting the requirements of these provisions located in a high-resource area, as defined, would be presumed in violation of the Housing Accountability Act, as specified, and immediately liable for penalties, beginning on January 1, 2027, as provided. These provisions would not apply to a local agency until July 1, 2026, except as specified, or within unincorporated areas of counties until the 7th regional housing needs allocation cycle. The bill would specify that a development proposed pursuant to these provisions is eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval pursuant to specified law, except that the bill would exempt a project under these provisions from specified requirements, and would specify that the project is required to comply with certain affordability requirements, under that law.\n This bill would require a proposed development to comply with specified demolition and antidisplacement standards; to not be located on sites where the development would require demolition of housing, or that was previously used for housing, that is subject to rent or price controls; to include housing for lower income households, as specified; be consistent with specified height, noise, safety, and fire standards; and meet specified labor standards, as provided. The bill would also authorize a transit agency’s board of directors to adopt agency TOD zoning standards for district-owned real property located in a TOD zone, which establish minimum zoning requirements for an agency TOD project, as specified.\n Prior to one year following the adoption of the 7th revision of the housing element, this bill would not apply the provisions relating to a housing development project to specified sites for which a local government has adopted an ordinance indicating the site’s exclusion, as specified, including a site that is covered by a local TOD alternative plan, as defined, adopted by a local government. For the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the bill would authorize a local government to include a local TOD alternative plan in its housing element or adopt an alternative plan by ordinance, as specified. The bill would exempt a jurisdiction that has adopted a compliant local TOD alternative plan from the provisions relating to a housing development, as specified.\n This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to oversee compliance with the bill’s provisions and would require the department to promulgate standards on how to allow for capacity pursuant to these provisions to be counted in the inventory of land included within a county’s or city’s housing element, as specified. The bill would authorize each metropolitan planning organization to create a map of designated TOD stops and zones within its region by tier in accordance with these standards, which would have a rebuttable presumption of validity. The bill would authorize a local government to enact an ordinance to make its zoning code consistent with these provisions, as provided. The bill would require the local government to submit a draft of this ordinance to the department for review, at least 14 days prior to adoption of the ordinance. The bill would require the local government to submit a copy of this ordinance to the department within 60 days of enactment and would require the department to review the ordinance for compliance, as specified. If at any time the department finds an ordinance is out of compliance, and the local government does not take specified steps to address compliance, the bill would require the department to notify the local government in writing and authorize the department to notify the Attorney General, as provided.\n This bill would define various terms for its purposes and make related findings and declarations.\n This bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n By increasing the duties of local officials, and by expanding the crime of perjury by requiring the certification of certain information related to labor standards, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)This bill would provide that its provisions are severable.\n (3)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, or city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Under existing law, a part of the housing element is an assessment of housing needs, which includes the locality’s share of the regional housing need. Under existing law, the appropriate council of local governments, or for cities without a council of governments, the Department of Housing and Community Development, adopts a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each locality in the region. Existing law requires the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District to adopt by ordinance transit-oriented development (TOD) zoning standards for each station that establish minimum zoning requirements for height, density, parking, and floor area ratio that apply to an eligible TOD project, as provided, and authorizes developers of certain eligible TOD projects to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided.\n This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would make housing more affordable for California families, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance public transit systems by, among other things, requiring the upzoning of land near rail stations and rapid bus lines to encourage transit-oriented development. The bill would make related findings and declarations.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-10" }, "version_count": 16, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 512, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Wicks" ], "coauthors": [ "Haney", "Lee" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-01-15", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-01-16", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 15." }, { "date": "2025-01-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-03-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-03-12", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2025-04-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 30 in L. GOV. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 831.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 3. Page 967.) (April 30). 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Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-03", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 13. Page 1474.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-06-04", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-16", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D., L. GOV., and NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2025-06-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2025-06-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2025-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2025-07-07", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-07-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "(Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)" }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 16)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 6.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "Read second time. 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and amending Section 39.10 of, that act, and to amend the Budget Act of 2025 (Chapters 4 and 5 of the Statutes of 2025) by amending Items 0509-001-0001, 0509-101-0001, 0511-001-0001, 0530-001-0001, 0540-001-0001, 0540-103-0001, 0540-491, 0690-101-0001, 0690-102-0001, 0690-104-0001, 0977-490, 2240-107-0001, 2240-491, 2660-101-0001, 3340-001-0001, 3340-001-0318, 3340-001-3228, 3355-490, 3540-001-0001, 3540-001-3228, 3540-490, 3540-495, 3790-002-0001, 3790-101-0001, 3860-490, 3900-001-3237, 3900-002-3237, 4140-001-0143, 4140-491, 4260-001-0001, 4260-001-0890, 4260-001-3213, 4260-001-3362, 4260-101-0001, 4260-101-3451, 4265-001-0001, 4265-001-8141, 4265-111-0001, 4265-111-8141, 4265-490, 4440-011-0001, 4800-101-3381, 5180-001-0001, 5180-001-0890, 5180-101-0001, 5180-141-0001, 5180-141-0890, 5180-151-0001, 5180-151-0890, 5180-491, 5225-017-0001, 6100-001-0001, 6100-101-8141, 6100-110-0001, 6100-119-0890, 6100-125-0890, 6100-134-0890, 6100-136-0890, 6100-137-0890, 6100-156-0890, 6100-161-0890, 6100-194-0001, 6100-195-0890, 6100-196-0001, 6100-197-0890, 6100-220-0001, 6100-488, 6120-011-0001, 6120-011-0890, 6360-001-0407, 6440-001-0001, 6610-001-0001, 6870-301-6095, 6980-101-8099, 7760-101-0001, 8570-001-0001, 8570-101-0001, and 8940-001-0001 of, adding Items 0521-101-3228, 0540-001-6093, 0540-002-6093, 0540-101-6093, 0540-102-6093, 0650-001-6093, 0650-101-6093, 0690-008-6093, 0690-108-6093, 0977-491, 1111-001-0001, 1700-101-0001, 2240-493, 2660-301-0001, 2740-004-0044, 3125-002-6093, 3125-102-6093, 3340-001-6093, 3340-101-6093, 3360-001-3228, 3360-002-6093, 3360-003-6093, 3360-101-0001, 3360-101-3228, 3360-102-0001, 3360-102-6093, 3360-103-6093, 3480-001-6093, 3480-002-6093, 3480-003-6093, 3480-004-6093, 3480-101-0001, 3480-101-6093, 3480-102-6093, 3480-103-6093, 3480-104-6093, 3540-001-6093, 3540-003-6093, 3540-004-6093, 3540-006-6093, 3540-007-6093, 3540-008-6093, 3540-009-6093, 3540-101-6093, 3540-102-6093, 3540-103-6093, 3540-104-6093, 3540-105-6093, 3540-107-6093, 3540-108-6093, 3600-001-6093, 3600-002-6093, 3600-003-6093, 3600-004-6093, 3600-005-6093, 3600-102-0001, 3600-102-6093, 3640-001-6093, 3640-002-6093, 3640-101-6093, 3640-102-6093, 3640-103-6093, 3640-104-6093, 3640-105-6093, 3640-106-6093, 3640-107-6093, 3720-101-0001, 3760-001-6093, 3760-101-0001, 3760-101-6093, 3760-102-6093, 3790-001-6093, 3790-002-6093, 3790-003-6093, 3790-101-6093, 3790-102-6093, 3810-001-6093, 3810-003-6093, 3810-004-6093, 3810-005-6093, 3810-101-6093, 3810-103-6093, 3810-104-6093, 3810-105-6093, 3815-001-6093, 3825-001-6093, 3825-003-6093, 3825-101-6093, 3825-103-6093, 3830-001-6093, 3830-101-6093, 3835-001-6093, 3835-101-6093, 3845-002-6093, 3845-102-6093, 3850-001-6093, 3850-101-6093, 3855-001-6093, 3855-101-6093, 3855-103-6093, 3860-001-6093, 3860-002-6093, 3860-003-6093, 3860-004-6093, 3860-101-6093, 3860-102-0001, 3860-102-6093, 3860-103-6093, 3860-104-6093, 3860-105-6093, 3860-106-6093, 3860-301-6093, 3860-302-6093, 3875-001-6093, 3875-101-6093, 3900-101-3228, 3940-001-6093, 3940-002-6093, 3940-003-6093, 3940-004-6093, 3940-005-6093, 3940-006-6093, 3940-101-6093, 3940-102-6093, 3940-103-6093, 3940-104-6093, 3940-106-6093, 3960-101-0890, 4260-001-0143, 4700-001-6093, 5227-493, 6100-001-6093, 6100-001-8141, 6100-101-0001, 6100-101-6093, 6120-211-0890, 6120-495, 6870-119-0001, 7600-001-3418, 8120-490, 8570-001-6093, 8570-101-3228, and 8570-101-6093 to, and repealing Item 6120-212-0001 of, Section 2.00 of, amending Sections 3.61, 4.12, 39.00, 39.10, and 99.50 of, and adding Sections 91.00 and 92.00 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.", "digest": "The Budget Acts of 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2021–22, 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26 fiscal years, respectively.\n This bill would amend those budget acts by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.", "introduced_digest": "This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2025.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-09-17" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 104, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Budget Act of 2021", "Budget Act of 2023", "Budget Act of 2024", "the Budget Act of 2024", "Budget Act of 2025" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-01-23", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-01-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23." }, { "date": "2025-02-05", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. & F. R." }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 384.)" }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-03-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-03-20", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 432.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-03-20", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-03-24", "action": "Referred to Com. on BUDGET." }, { "date": "2025-09-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET." }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 3164.)" }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-11", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 11. Page 3336.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 2950.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-15", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-09-17", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-09-17", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 104, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB105", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB105", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB105", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB105", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB105" }, "headline": "Amends four state budget acts", "one_liner": "Changes spending items in the 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025 state budget acts.", "summary": "Amends the Budget Acts of 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025 by changing, adding, and removing spending items and making other changes. It takes effect immediately as a budget bill.", "issues": [ "budget" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB105.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB222", "slug": "2025-26/SB222", "number": "SB 222", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-01-27", "last_action_date": "2026-09-28", "subject": "Residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC systems.", "introduced_subject": "Climate disasters: civil actions.", "title": "An act to add Section 4737 to the Civil Code, and to add Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 51297.50) to Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "(1)Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and prescribes the authorities, duties, and responsibilities of the commission pertaining to energy matters. Existing law requires the commission, on or before January 1, 2019, in consultation with the Contractors State License Board, local building officials, and other stakeholders, to approve a plan that promotes compliance with specified regulations relating to building energy efficiency standards in the installation of central air-conditioning and heat pumps, as specified. Existing law authorizes the commission to adopt regulations to increase compliance with permitting and inspection requirements for central air-conditioning and heat pumps, and associated sales and installations, consistent with the above-described plan.\n This bill would establish various requirements and authorizations for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system, as defined, by, among other things, requiring a city, county, or city and county, beginning July 1, 2027, to adopt and offer asynchronous inspections for installations that do not require a licensed contractor and building inspector to be simultaneously present during the inspection. The bill would additionally require a city, county, or city and county, except as specified, to post specific information online, and on or before July 1, 2028, to implement an online automated permitting process for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system that issues permits in real time to a licensed contractor that meets certain criteria. The bill would require the criteria to include, among others, that the licensed contractor certify under penalty of perjury that they have performed a load calculation to properly size the new equipment, as specified. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. By imposing these various new duties on the described local entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county, except as specified, to require up to one nondiscretionary permit per installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system in which the local entity administratively approves an application to install the residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system.\n The bill would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to apply only certain planning or zoning or workforce labor standards on the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system that are in addition to any state-level requirements. The bill would prohibit a local entity described above from requiring a permit or inspection for plug-in ready window air-conditioner or window heat pump HVAC systems, provided that certain requirements are met, including that the appliance has a voltage rating of 120 volts or less and the appliance is a self-contained unit. The bill would limit the amount a city, county, or city and county may charge as a permit fee for a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system, as specified.\n The bill would require a local entity described above that applies to receive any funding from the commission to self-certify to the commission its compliance with any applicable portions of the bill’s provisions.\n The above provisions would not apply to new residential construction.\n The bill would include findings and declarations related to these provisions.\n (2)Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments. Among other things, the act makes a provision of the governing document or architectural or landscaping guidelines or policies void and unenforceable if, among other things, the provision prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of prohibiting, the use of low water-using plants as a group or as a replacement of existing turf.\n This bill would additionally make any provision of the governing documents, architectural guidelines, or policies void and unenforceable if the provision prevents the replacement of a fuel-gas-burning appliance with an electric appliance. The bill would also make any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any, among other specified agreements, deed, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system, void and unenforceable. The bill would prohibit an association, among other things, from prohibiting or restricting a member from installing, upgrading, replacing, or using a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system in the member’s separate interest, except as specified.\n (3)The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n (4)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, with regard to certain mandates, no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law gives a person the right of protection from bodily harm and the right to possess and use property. If a person suffers bodily harm or a loss of their property because of the unlawful act or omission of another, existing law authorizes them to recover compensation from the person at fault, which is known as damages.\n This bill would authorize a person to bring a civil action, if specified criteria are met, including damages of $10,000 or more, against a party responsible for a climate disaster or extreme weather or other events attributable to climate change due to the responsible party’s misleading and deceptive practices or the provision of misinformation or disinformation about the connection between its fossil fuel products and climate change and extreme weather or other events attributable to climate change. The bill would make responsible parties jointly, severally, and strictly liable to a plaintiff for the climate disaster or extreme weather or other events attributable to climate change. The bill would set forth venue requirements and prohibited defenses for that action, and would require the court to award a prevailing plaintiff the full extent of noneconomic, compensatory, and punitive damages allowable, as specified. The bill would provide that the connection of a climate disaster, extreme weather or other events attributable to climate change, or harms resulting from long-term changes to the climate system to alleged injuries are an injury in fact for all residents of the state harmed by the event and would give those persons standing to bring a civil action pursuant to the above-described provisions. The bill would also make a person who seeks declaratory or injunctive relief to prevent enforcement of the above-described provisions or any other related law, as specified, jointly and severally liable to pay the attorney’s fees and costs of the prevailing party, as specified.\n (2)Existing law generally regulates the business of insurance in the state. The California FAIR Plan Association is a joint reinsurance association in which all insurers licensed to write basic property insurance participate in administering a program for the equitable apportionment of basic property insurance for persons who are unable to obtain that coverage through normal channels. Under existing law, a member insurer participates in the writings, expenses, and profits and losses of the association in proportion to its written premiums, as specified. Existing law authorizes the association, with the Insurance Commissioner’s approval, to assess member insurers in amounts sufficient to operate the association.\n This bill would authorize an insurer to seek damages against a responsible party for a climate disaster, pursuant to the above-described provisions. Within 90 calendar days of its operative date, the bill would require the commissioner to establish an independent advisory body of industry experts to conduct cost-benefit analyses of the effect of a climate disaster, or extreme weather or other events attributable to climate change, on the association. The bill would require the association to exercise its right of subrogation against a responsible party for a climate disaster or extreme weather or other events attributable to climate change, if the association pays claims and the independent advisory body determines the benefits of subrogation outweigh the costs. The bill would authorize the association to assess member insurers in amounts if the claims paid after a climate disaster or extreme weather or other events attributable to climate change exhaust the association’s claims-paying capacity, but would provide for adjusting an assessment amount if the insurer does or does not exercise its right of subrogation against a responsible party.\n (3)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-28" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 738, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code", "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Becker", "Stern" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-01-27", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-01-28", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 27." }, { "date": "2025-02-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and INS." }, { "date": "2025-03-25", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2025-03-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "April 8 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 705.) Reconsideration granted." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "Set for hearing January 6 in HOUSING pending receipt." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-01-07", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3183.) (January 6). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-01-08", "action": "Set for hearing January 14." }, { "date": "2026-01-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3224.) (January 14)." }, { "date": "2026-01-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-01-15", "action": "Set for hearing January 20." }, { "date": "2026-01-20", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2026-01-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-01-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3279.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-01-26", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-05-18", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-06-09", "action": "June 10 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2026-06-15", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2026-06-17", "action": "June 17 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "action": "August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (August 13)." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 8. Page 6385.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 5.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 738, Statutes of 2026." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB222", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB222", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB222", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB222", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB222" }, "headline": "Sets permit rules for home heat pump installations", "one_liner": "Requires cities and counties to offer real-time online permits and inspections without contractor and inspector present together.", "summary": "Starting in 2027, cities and counties must offer inspections where the contractor and inspector need not be present at the same time. By July 2028, they must issue permits online in real time to qualifying licensed contractors. Permit fees are capped, and homeowners association rules that block heat pumps are void. New construction is excluded.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with lawsuits over climate disasters; it was rewritten to cover permits for home heat pump installations.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB222.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB276", "slug": "2025-26/SB276", "number": "SB 276", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-04", "last_action_date": "2025-10-06", "subject": "City and County of San Francisco: merchandising sales.", "introduced_subject": "City and County of San Francisco: merchandising sales.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Section 53076.5 of the Government Code, relating to local government, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Under existing law, knowingly buying or receiving stolen property or property that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, as specified, is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony if the value of the property exceeds $950.\n Existing law prohibits a local authority from regulating sidewalk vendors, except in accordance with certain provisions, including that a local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, adopt requirements regulating the time, place, and manner of sidewalk vending if the requirements are directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns.\n This bill, until January 1, 2031, would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to adopt an ordinance requiring a permit for the sale of specified merchandise on public property, if the ordinance includes specified written findings supported by substantial evidence, including, among other things, that there has been a significant pattern of merchandise being the subject of retail theft and then appearing for sale on public property within the City and County of San Francisco. The bill would require an ordinance adopted by the City and County of San Francisco to, among other things, identify a local permitting agency that is responsible for administering a permit system. The bill would authorize the ordinance to provide specified punishments for selling merchandise without a permit, including that 2nd and 3rd violations within 18 months of the first violation would be punishable as infractions, and that subsequent violations after 3 prior violations, that occur within 18 months of the first violation, would be punishable as infractions or misdemeanors by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed 6 months, or by both that imprisonment and a fine.\n This bill would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to charge a fee for the cost of issuing a permit, not to exceed the reasonable regulatory costs of implementing the bill, as provided. The bill would authorize the permitting agency to accept specified forms of identification in lieu of a social security number, if the permitting agency otherwise requires a social security number for the issuance of a permit or business license, but would require the number collected from the alternative identification to be confidential, except as provided. The bill would prohibit the permitting agency from inquiring into or collecting certain information, including, information about an individual’s immigration or citizenship status or criminal history.\n This bill would require, if an ordinance is adopted, the permitting agency to submit a report to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco and the Legislature by January 1 of each year that includes specified information, including, among other things, the list or lists of merchandise that the City and County of San Francisco determined was a common target of retail theft. The bill would require the City and County of San Francisco, at least 60 days prior to the enactment of an ordinance, to hold one or more workshops to inform the development of the ordinance, and would require the City and County of San Francisco to administer a public information campaign for at least 30 calendar days prior to the enactment of the ordinance, including public announcements in major media outlets and press releases.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Under existing law, knowingly buying or receiving stolen property or property that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, as specified, is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony if the value of the property exceeds $950.\n Existing law prohibits a local authority from regulating sidewalk vendors, except in accordance with certain provisions, including that a local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, adopt requirements regulating the time, place, and manner of sidewalk vending if the requirements are directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns.\n This bill, until January 1, 2034, would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the sale of specified merchandise on public property without a permit, if the ordinance includes specified written findings, including, among other things, that there has been a significant pattern of merchandise being the subject of retail theft and then appearing for sale on public property within the City and County of San Francisco. The bill would require an ordinance adopted by the City and County of San Francisco to, among other things, identify a local permitting agency that is responsible for administering a permit system. The bill would authorize the ordinance to provide that selling merchandise without a permit is punishable as an infraction, and that subsequent violations after 2 prior convictions is an infraction or a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months.\n This bill would require, if an ordinance is adopted, the City and County of San Francisco to submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2033, that includes specified information, including, among other things, the list or lists of merchandise that the City and County of San Francisco determined was a common target of retail theft. The bill would require the City and County of San Francisco to administer a public information campaign for at least 30 calendar days prior to the enactment of the ordinance, including public announcements in major media outlets and press releases.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-06" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 406, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Haney", "Stefani" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-04", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-05", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7." }, { "date": "2025-02-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV., PUB. S., and APPR." }, { "date": "2025-03-04", "action": "Set for hearing March 19." }, { "date": "2025-03-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-03-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 422.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 840.) (April 22)." }, { "date": "2025-04-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 5." }, { "date": "2025-05-05", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2025-05-06", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-06", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-05-06", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-07", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1240.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-08-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-08-28", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 2. Page 2770.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-04", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2510.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-06", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-06", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 406, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB276", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB276", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB276", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB276", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB276" }, "headline": "Lets San Francisco require permits for public-property sales", "one_liner": "Lets San Francisco require permits to sell merchandise commonly targeted by retail theft on public property, until 2031.", "summary": "Until 2031, San Francisco may require a permit to sell listed merchandise on public property if it finds a pattern of stolen goods being sold there. Repeat sales without a permit can be infractions or misdemeanors. The permit agency cannot ask about immigration status or criminal history and must report yearly.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB276.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB378", "slug": "2025-26/SB378", "number": "SB 378", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-13", "last_action_date": "2025-10-06", "subject": "Online marketplaces: illicit cannabis: reporting and liability.", "introduced_subject": "Online marketplaces: illicit cannabis: reporting and liability.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 31.3 (commencing with Section 22943) and Chapter 31.4 (commencing with Section 22944) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, and to add Section 1714.47 to the Civil Code, relating to cannabis.", "digest": "(1)Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA and any applicable local ordinances to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license, if conducted as prescribed. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, and requires the Department of Cannabis Control to administer its provisions.\n Existing law, until January 1, 2028, requires a social media platform to create and post a policy statement regarding the use of the social media platform to illegally distribute controlled substances, including a link to the social media platform’s reporting mechanism for illegal or harmful content or behavior on the social media platform, if one exists, and a general description of its policies and procedures for responding to law enforcement inquiries.\n This bill, beginning on July 1, 2026, would require an online cannabis marketplace, as defined, to address in its terms of service whether it permits Californians to view the advertisements and business information of unlicensed sellers of cannabis or cannabis products on its marketplace and whether the marketplace verifies the licenses of sellers of cannabis or cannabis products whose advertisements and business information are viewable on its marketplace, as specified. The bill would require an online cannabis marketplace that does not verify those licenses to display a clear and conspicuous graphic that warns the consumer that the marketplace may be displaying, storing, or hosting unlicensed sellers of cannabis or cannabis products.\n This bill would require an online cannabis marketplace to establish a clear and conspicuous mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual to report to the online cannabis marketplace the display, storing, or hosting on the marketplace of advertisements from, or business information about, an unlicensed seller of cannabis or cannabis products. The bill would require the mechanism to provide the individual who submits a report with written confirmation of receipt of the report, periodic updates, and final written determination, as specified.\n This bill would impose certain penalties and relief depending on the violation of these provisions, as specified.\n (2)The Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law regulates the packaging, labeling, and advertising of food, beverages, and cosmetics and authorizes the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations for the enforcement of that law, as specified. That law imposes various requirements specific to the manufacture and sale of industrial hemp products that are food or beverages, including a requirement for a certificate of analysis from an independent testing laboratory that confirms that the THC concentration does not exceed a specified amount. Existing emergency regulations require that industrial hemp food, food additives, beverages, and dietary supplements intended for human consumption have no detectable THC per serving.\n This bill, beginning July 1, 2026, would require an online hemp marketplace, as defined, to establish a clear and conspicuous mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual to report to the online hemp marketplace an advertisement for an intoxicating hemp product on the marketplace, as specified. The bill would define “intoxicating hemp product” to include an inhalable hemp product, as further defined, with a detectable THC concentration. The bill would require the mechanism to provide the individual who submits a report with written confirmation of receipt of the report, periodic updates, and final written determination, as specified. The bill would impose specified penalties and relief for violations of these provisions.\n (3)Existing law imposes strict liability upon persons who place a defective product on the market, including retailers engaged in the business of distributing goods to the public, for injuries caused by the product. Existing law also provides that each person is responsible for an injury occasioned to another by that person’s want of ordinary care or skill, commonly known as negligence, in the management of their property or person, unless the injured person has, willfully or by want of ordinary care, brought the injury upon themselves.\n This bill, beginning July 1, 2026, would prohibit an online marketplace from engaging in unlawful paid online advertising related to unlicensed sellers of cannabis or cannabis products or intoxicating hemp products, as specified. The bill would impose joint and several liability on an online marketplace that violates that prohibition, and is a substantial factor in an unlawful transaction between a consumer and an unlicensed seller of cannabis or a cannabis product, or between a consumer and a seller of an intoxicating hemp product, for damages caused to the consumer by the cannabis, cannabis product, or intoxicating hemp product, unless specified conditions are met. The bill would increase the amount that a prevailing plaintiff may recover depending on what the online marketplace had actual knowledge at the time of the unlawful transaction and whether the harm was suffered by a child, as described. The bill would provide various affirmative defenses to an action brought under these provisions, and would authorize an online marketplace to seek indemnification against an advertiser of cannabis, cannabis products, or intoxicating hemp products that misrepresented to the online marketplace that they were licensed or registered to sell that product, as specified.\n (4)This bill would state that its provisions are severable.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA and any applicable local ordinances to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license, if conducted as prescribed. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, and requires the Department of Cannabis Control to administer its provisions.\n Existing law, until January 1, 2028, requires a social media platform to create and post a policy statement regarding the use of the social media platform to illegally distribute controlled substances, including a link to the social media platform’s reporting mechanism for illegal or harmful content or behavior on the social media platform, if one exists, and a general description of its policies and procedures for responding to law enforcement inquiries.\n This bill would require an online cannabis marketplace, as defined, to address in its terms of service whether it permits Californians to view the advertisements and business information of unlicensed sellers of cannabis or cannabis products on its marketplace and whether the marketplace verifies the licenses of sellers of cannabis or cannabis products whose advertisements and business information are viewable on its marketplace, as specified. The bill would require an online cannabis marketplace that does not verify those licenses to display a graphic that warns the consumer about various risks associated with cannabis from unlicensed sellers before the consumer can view or engage with the marketplace.\n This bill would require an online cannabis marketplace to establish a prominent mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual to report to the online cannabis marketplace the display, storing, or hosting on the marketplace of advertisements from, or business information about, an unlicensed seller of cannabis or cannabis products. The bill would require the mechanism to provide the individual who submits a report with written confirmation of receipt of the report, periodic updates, and final written determination, as specified.\n This bill would impose certain penalties and relief, and would authorize various parties to bring civil enforcement actions, depending on the violation of these provisions, as specified.\n (2)The Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law regulates the packaging, labeling, and advertising of food, beverages, and cosmetics and authorizes the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations for the enforcement of that law, as specified. That law imposes various requirements specific to the manufacture and sale of industrial hemp products that are food or beverages, including a requirement for a certificate of analysis from an independent testing laboratory that confirms that the THC concentration does not exceed a specified amount. Existing emergency regulations require that industrial hemp food, food additives, beverages, and dietary supplements intended for human consumption have no detectable THC per serving.\n This bill would require an online hemp marketplace, as defined, to establish a prominent mechanism within its internet-based service that allows an individual to report to the online hemp marketplace an advertisement for an intoxicating hemp product on the marketplace, as specified. The bill would require the mechanism to provide the individual who submits a report with written confirmation of receipt of the report, periodic updates, and final written determination, as specified. The bill would authorize certain parties to bring a civil action, including, among others, a licensed seller of cannabis or cannabis products and the Attorney General. The bill would impose specified penalties and relief for violations of these provisions.\n (3)Existing law imposes strict liability upon persons who place a defective product on the market, including retailers engaged in the business of distributing goods to the public, for injuries caused by the product.\n The bill would impose strict liability on an online marketplace that facilitated the connection between a consumer and an unlicensed seller of cannabis or a cannabis product for damages caused to the consumer by the cannabis or cannabis product, as provided. The bill would also impose strict liability on an online marketplace that facilitated the connection between a consumer and a seller of an intoxicating hemp product for damages caused to the consumer by the intoxicating hemp product, as provided. The bill would increase the amount that a prevailing plaintiff may recover depending on what the online market knew or should have known at the time it facilitated the connection and whether the harm was suffered by a child, as described.\n (4)This bill would state that its provisions are severable.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-06" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 411, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2025-02-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-21", "action": "April 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2025-04-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2025-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 940.) (April 29)." }, { "date": "2025-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-06", "action": "Set for hearing May 12." }, { "date": "2025-05-12", "action": "May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1198.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-29", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-05-29", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-02", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-03", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1451.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-06-04", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B. & P., P. & C.P., and JUD." }, { "date": "2025-07-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2025-07-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-07-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3416.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 3061.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-23", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-06", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-06", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 411, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB378", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB378", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB378", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB378", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB378" }, "headline": "Makes online marketplaces liable for illegal cannabis ads", "one_liner": "Requires online cannabis and hemp marketplaces to let users report unlicensed cannabis sellers or intoxicating hemp ads, and creates liability.", "summary": "Starting July 2026, online cannabis marketplaces must say whether they verify seller licenses, warn users if they don't, and let users report unlicensed sellers. Hemp marketplaces must let users report intoxicating hemp ads. Online marketplaces that run unlawful paid ads for unlicensed cannabis or intoxicating hemp sellers can be liable for consumer harm from resulting sales.", "issues": [ "nightlife", "consumer", "tech" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB378.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB395", "slug": "2025-26/SB395", "number": "SB 395", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-14", "last_action_date": "2025-10-06", "subject": "Alcoholic beverages: additional licenses: hospitality zone.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic beverages: additional licenses: retail district.", "title": "An act to add Section 23826.22 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.", "digest": "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. Existing law limits the amount of on-sale general licenses that may be issued by the department based on the population of the county in which the licensed premises are located. \n This bill would provide an exception to the limitation described above by authorizing the issuance of up to 20 additional new original on-sale general licenses, as specified, for bona fide public eating places located within a designated hospitality zone in the City and County of San Francisco, as defined. In order to authorize the issuance of additional licenses as described above, the bill would require an ordinance adopted by the local governing body of the City and County of San Francisco to designate or modify a hospitality zone to include specified information and findings. The bill would authorize the local governing body, in an ordinance designating or modifying a hospitality zone, to further limit, among other things, the maximum number of additional licenses to be issued within its hospitality zone. The bill would require the local governing body to submit the ordinance to the department upon the adoption of an ordinance to modify or repeal a hospitality zone. The bill would require any ordinance to establish, modify, or repeal a hospitality zone to be effective commencing the following July 1. The bill would require the department to follow specified procedures concerning the issuance of these licenses, and would authorize the department to designate these licenses as on-sale general for special use. The bill would prohibit licenses issued under its provisions from being, among other things, transferred from one county to another. If one of those licenses is canceled or revoked, the bill would authorize the department to issue an additional license. The bill would prohibit the department from issuing any license under these provisions after July 1, 2033.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. Existing law limits the amount of on-sale general licenses that may be issued by the department based on the population of the county in which the licensed premises are located. \n This bill would provide an exception to the limitation described above by authorizing the issuance of up to 20 additional new original on-sale general licenses, as specified, for bona fide public eating places located within a designated retail district in the City and County of San Francisco, as defined. In order to authorize the issuance of additional licenses as described above, the bill would require an ordinance adopted by the local governing body of the City and County of San Francisco to designate or modify a retail district to include specified information and findings. The bill would authorize the local governing body, in an ordinance designating or modifying a retail district, to further limit, among other things, the maximum number of additional licenses to be issued within its retail district. The bill would require the local governing body to submit the ordinance to the department upon the adoption of an ordinance to modify or repeal a retail district. The bill would require any ordinance to establish, modify, or repeal a retail district to be effective commencing the following July 1. The bill would require the department to follow specified procedures concerning the issuance of these licenses, and would authorize the department to designate these licenses as on-sale general for special use. The bill would prohibit licenses issued under its provisions from being, among other things, transferred from one county to another. If one of those licenses is canceled or revoked, the bill would authorize the department to issue an additional license. \n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-06" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 412, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Gipson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-14", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17." }, { "date": "2025-02-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2025-03-27", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2025-03-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 703.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2025-04-21", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2025-04-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1238.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2025-06-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2025-06-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2025-07-10", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2025-07-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20)." }, { "date": "2025-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-08-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 7277.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2408.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-06", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-06", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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The licenses can't move to another county, and no new ones may be issued after July 1, 2033.", "issues": [ "nightlife", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB395.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB497", "slug": "2025-26/SB497", "number": "SB 497", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-19", "last_action_date": "2025-10-13", "subject": "Legally protected health care activity.", "introduced_subject": "Legally protected health care activity.", "title": "An act to amend Section 56.109 of the Civil Code, to amend Sections 2029.300 and 2029.350 of the Code of Civil Procedure, to amend Section 11165 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 1326 of the Penal Code, relating to health care, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "(1)The United States Constitution generally requires a state to give full faith and credit to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. Existing law generally authorizes a California court or attorney to issue a subpoena if a foreign subpoena has been sought in this state but prohibits the issuance of a subpoena based on another state’s law that interferes with a person’s right to allow a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. Existing law generally prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient, enrollee, or subscriber without first obtaining an authorization unless an exception applies, including that the disclosure is in response to a subpoena. Existing law prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from releasing medical information related to a person or entity allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to a civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state’s law that authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a person or entity that allows a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.\n This bill would additionally prohibit a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from releasing medical information related to a person seeking or obtaining gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to a criminal or civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state’s law that interferes with an individual’s right to seek or obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. The bill would also prohibit a provider of health care, health care service plan, contractor, or employer from cooperating with or providing medical information to an individual, agency, or department from another state or, to the extent permitted by federal law, to a federal law enforcement agency that would identify an individual and that is related to an individual seeking or obtaining gender-affirming health care, as specified. The bill would prohibit these entities from releasing medical information related to sensitive services, as defined, in response to a foreign subpoena that is based on a violation of another state’s laws authorizing a criminal action against a person or entity for provision or receipt of legally protected health care activity, as defined. The bill would also generally prohibit the issuance of a subpoena based on a violation of another state’s law that interferes with a person’s right to seek or obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care, as specified.\n (2)Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) for the electronic monitoring of the prescribing and dispensing of certain controlled substances by a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense those controlled substances. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into an agreement with an entity operating an interstate data sharing hub, or an agency operating a prescription drug monitoring program in another state, for purposes of interstate data sharing of prescription drug monitoring program information. Existing law limits the entities to which data may be provided from CURES, as well as the type of data that may be released and the uses to which it may be put.\n This bill would prohibit a state or local agency or employee, appointee, officer, contractor, or official or any other person acting on behalf of a public agency from knowingly providing any CURES data or knowingly expending any resources in furtherance of any interstate investigation or proceeding seeking to impose civil, criminal, or disciplinary liability based upon another state’s law for the provision or receipt of legally protected health care activity, as defined. The bill would prohibit the department from sharing data with an out-of-state law enforcement agency without a warrant, subpoena, or court order and would prohibit an out-of-state user from providing any data in furtherance of an investigation or proceeding to impose liability based on another state’s law for the provision or receipt of legally protected health care activity.\n This bill would make it a misdemeanor for a person to access the CURES database when not authorized by law and would make it a misdemeanor for a person who is authorized to access the database to knowingly furnish information from the CURES database to a person who is not authorized by law to receive that information. By creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (3)This bill would provide that its provisions are severable.\n (4)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 11165 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 82 to be operative only if this bill and AB 82 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n (5)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n (6)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "The United States Constitution generally requires a state to give full faith and credit to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. Existing law generally authorizes a California court or attorney to issue a subpoena if a foreign subpoena has been sought in this state, but prohibits the issuance of a subpoena based on another state’s law that interferes with a person’s right to allow a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. Existing law generally prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient, enrollee, or subscriber without first obtaining an authorization, unless an exception applies, including that the disclosure is in response to a subpoena. Existing law prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from releasing medical information related to a person or entity allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to a civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state’s law that authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a person or entity that allows a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.\n This bill would additionally prohibit a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from releasing medical information related to a person seeking or obtaining gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to a criminal or civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state’s law that interferes with an individual’s right to seek or obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. The bill would also prohibit a provider of health care, health care service plan, contractor, or employer from cooperating with or providing medical information to an individual, agency, or department from another state or, to the extent permitted by federal law, to a federal law enforcement agency that would identify an individual and that is related to an individual seeking or obtaining gender-affirming health care, as specified. The bill would prohibit these entities from releasing medical information related to sensitive services, as defined, in response to a foreign subpoena that is based on a violation of another state’s laws authorizing a criminal action against a person or entity for provision or receipt of legally protected health care activity, as defined. The bill would also generally prohibit the issuance of a subpoena based on a violation of another state’s law that interferes with a person’s right to seek or obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care, as specified. \n Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain the Controlled Substances Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) for the electronic monitoring of the prescribing and dispensing of certain controlled substances by a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense those controlled substances. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into an agreement with an entity operating an interstate data sharing hub, or an agency operating a prescription drug monitoring program in another state, for purposes of interstate data sharing of prescription drug monitoring program information. Existing law limits the entities to which data may be provided from CURES, as well as the type of data that may be released and the uses to which it may be put.\n This bill would prohibit a state or local agency or employee, appointee, officer, contractor, or official or any other person acting on behalf of a public agency from providing any CURES data or expend any resources in furtherance of any interstate investigation or proceeding seeking to impose civil, criminal, or disciplinary liability upon the provision or receipt of legally protected health care activity, as defined. The bill would prohibit out-of-state law enforcement from having access to CURES data through the interstate data sharing hub and would require a warrant, subpoena, or court order for a law enforcement agency to obtain information from CURES as part of a criminal investigation. \n This bill would make it a misdemeanor for a person to access the CURES database when not authorized by law, and would make it a misdemeanor for a person who is authorized to access the database to knowingly furnish information from the CURES database to a person who is not authorized by law to receive that information. By creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-10-13" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 764, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code", "Code of Civil Procedure", "Health and Safety Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Arreguín", "Cabaldon", "Cervantes", "Gonzalez", "Laird", "Padilla", "Haney", "Lee", "Stefani", "Ward" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-19", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22." }, { "date": "2025-02-26", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-03-20", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2025-03-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 706.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2025-04-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 945.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-02", "action": "Set for hearing May 12." }, { "date": "2025-05-12", "action": "May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1202.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-02", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1399.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-06-03", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-06-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29)." }, { "date": "2025-09-02", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 3075.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2804.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-22", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 764, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB497", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB497", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB497", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB497", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB497" }, "headline": "Limits sharing of gender-affirming and protected care data", "one_liner": "Bars sharing medical and prescription data for out-of-state actions against gender-affirming or other legally protected health care.", "summary": "Health providers, plans, contractors, and employers may not share medical information with other states, or federal law enforcement where allowed, that would identify people seeking gender-affirming care. Subpoenas based on other states' laws against that care generally may not issue. Agencies may not share prescription database (CURES) data for out-of-state cases over protected care. Unauthorized CURES access is a misdemeanor.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB497.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB607", "slug": "2025-26/SB607", "number": "SB 607", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-20", "last_action_date": "2026-09-30", "subject": "Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District: contributions and loans.", "introduced_subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: categorical exemptions: infill projects.", "title": "An act to amend Section 27556 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District from issuing general obligation or revenue bonds, or any other form of long-term indebtedness, except to finance an interim system of buses and ferries or to finance capital improvements or modifications relating to seismic safety of the Golden Gate Bridge.\n This bill would authorize the district to accept contributions and loans from this state and the United States for the purpose of financing capital improvements or modifications related to seismic safety on the Golden Gate Bridge, as specified.", "introduced_digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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.\n CEQA requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to prepare and develop proposed guidelines for the implementation of CEQA by public agencies and requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to certify and adopt those proposed guidelines. CEQA requires those adopted guidelines to include a list of classes of projects that have been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment and exempts those classes of projects from CEQA, commonly known as categorical exemptions. \n This bill would require a lead agency to limit the scope of an environmental impact report to the condition of a categorical exemption that the lead agency determines, after a preliminary review of the project, disqualifies the project from eligibility under the categorical exemption, if the lead agency determines that the project meets all other conditions of the categorical exemption except for the one condition that disqualifies it, as specified. The bill would require that a lead agency’s determination to adopt a negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration be upheld if there is a fair argument that substantial evidence supports the determination. The bill would provide that these provisions do not apply to a project to construct or that is related to a distribution center or oil and gas infrastructure. The bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA, except as provided, a rezoning that is consistent with an approved housing element. Because the bill would require a lead agency to determine the applicability of this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would require the office, on or before July 1, 2026, to map the eligible urban infill sites within every incorporated city in the state, as provided. The bill would require the office, on or before July 1, 2026, to prepare, develop, and transmit to the agency for certification and adoption refinements to the infill development project categorical exemption, as provided. The bill would provide that specified regulations related to the significant effect exception to the use of a categorical exemption do not apply to an infill project that meets all conditions of the infill development project categorical exemption. The bill would require, if an infill project is not eligible for the infill development project categorical exemption, only the reasons for the ineligibility be subject to CEQA review. The bill would provide that these provisions do not apply to a project to construct or that is related to a distribution center or oil and gas infrastructure.\n CEQA requires an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul certain acts or decisions of a public agency to be commenced according to specified processes, including that at the time that the action or proceeding is filed, the plaintiff or petitioner shall file a request that the respondent public agency prepare the record of proceedings relating to the subject of the action or proceeding, and requires the record of proceedings to include specified items and materials, including, among other things, all internal agency communications, including staff notes and memoranda related to the project or to compliance with CEQA, but excluding communications that are of a logistical nature, as specified.\n This bill would also exclude communications of persons tangential to or far removed from project decisionmaking from the materials to be included in the record of proceedings, except as provided.\n This bill would require, except as provided, if an action or proceeding alleging that a lead agency improperly applied to a project a statutory or categorical exemption is successful, the subsequent environmental review for the project be limited to the facts the action or proceeding relied upon that disqualified the project from the statutory or categorical exemption.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-30" }, "version_count": 11, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 972, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Streets and Highways Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "McGuire", "Connolly", "Haney", "Stefani" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-20", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2025-03-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-03-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2025-03-20", "action": "April 2 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2025-03-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2025-04-02", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2025-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 30 in L. GOV. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 867.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 968.) (April 30)." }, { "date": "2025-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-09", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2025-05-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-19", "action": "May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-20", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 1206.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "(Corrected May 28)." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2999.)" }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "From inactive file." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2026-01-07", "action": "Set for hearing January 14." }, { "date": "2026-01-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3224.) (January 14)." }, { "date": "2026-01-15", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2026-01-20", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3249.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-01-20", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-06-08", "action": "Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-06-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2026-06-23", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2026-06-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1)." }, { "date": "2026-07-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-03", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 6086.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-10", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2026-08-10", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5328.) Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2026-08-11", "action": "Set for hearing August 11." }, { "date": "2026-08-11", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 5337.)" }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5486.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-08-21", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 972, Statutes of 2026." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB607", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB607", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB607", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB607", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB607" }, "headline": "Allows Golden Gate Bridge seismic loans and contributions", "one_liner": "Lets the Golden Gate Bridge district accept state and federal loans and contributions for seismic safety improvements.", "summary": "Allows the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District to accept contributions and loans from California and the United States. The money would pay for capital improvements related to the bridge's seismic safety.", "issues": [ "transportation", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with environmental review (CEQA) exemptions for infill projects; it was rewritten to cover Golden Gate Bridge seismic funding.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB607.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB627", "slug": "2025-26/SB627", "number": "SB 627", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-20", "last_action_date": "2025-09-20", "subject": "Law enforcement: masks.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 17.45 (commencing with Section 7289) to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, and to add Section 185.5 to the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement.", "digest": "Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to wear a mask, false whiskers, or any personal disguise, as specified, with the purpose of evading or escaping discovery, recognition, or identification while committing a public offense, or for concealment, flight, evasion, or escape from arrest or conviction for any public offense.\n This bill would make it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear a facial covering in the performance of their duties, except as specified. The bill would define law enforcement officer as anyone designated by California law as a peace officer who is employed by a city, county, or other local agency, and any officer or agent of a federal law enforcement agency or law enforcement agency of another state, or any person acting on behalf of a federal law enforcement agency or agency of another state. The bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable as an infraction or a misdemeanor, as specified. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would require any law enforcement agency operating in California to, by July 1, 2026, maintain and publicly post a written policy limiting the use of facial coverings, as specified. The bill would exempt personnel of any agency from the crime of wearing a facial covering if an agency maintains a policy pursuant to this section no later than July 1, 2026. The bill would deem a policy consistent with these provisions for the purposes of that exception unless a member of the public, an oversight body, or a local governing authority challenges it. The bill would also impose a specified civil penalty against certain officers for tortious conduct, including, but not limited to, false imprisonment or false arrest of an individual while wearing a facial covering. The bill would, if the agency does not address deficiencies within 90 days, authorize the complaining party to proceed to a court of competent jurisdiction for a judicial determination of the exemption, as specified. The bill would define a law enforcement agency for these purposes as any entity of a city, county, or other local agency, that employs anyone designated by California law as a peace officer, any federal law enforcement agency, or any law enforcement agency of another state.\n By imposing additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would declare its provisions to be severable.\n This bill would make related findings and declarations.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Permit Streamlining Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. Specifically, existing law establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application, as specified. Existing law requires a local agency, if a postentitlement phase permit is determined to be incomplete, denied, or noncompliant, to provide a process for the applicant to appeal that decision in writing to the governing body of the agency or, if there is no governing body, to the director of the agency, as provided by that agency.\n This bill would delete the provision for the applicant to appeal a decision to the director of the local agency, as described above, and, instead, would require a local agency to provide a process for the applicant to appeal that decision in writing to the governing body of the agency only.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2025-09-20" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 125, Statutes of 2025", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Arreguín", "Pérez", "Wahab" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Bryan" ], "coauthors": [ "Ashby", "Becker", "Caballero", "Gonzalez", "McNerney", "Menjivar", "Padilla", "Smallwood-Cuevas", "Stern", "Weber Pierson", "Bonta", "Carrillo", "Connolly", "Elhawary", "Garcia", "Gipson", "Mark González", "Haney", "Jackson", "Kalra", "Lee", "McKinnor", "Ortega", "Quirk-Silva", "Rogers", "Schultz", "Sharp-Collins", "Solache", "Wilson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-20", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2025-03-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2025-03-24", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2025-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 637.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2025-04-24", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2025-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 936.) (April 29)." }, { "date": "2025-05-01", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2025-05-08", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1050.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-05-08", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-05-29", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2025-06-11", "action": "June 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2025-06-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-06-19", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2025-06-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-07-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 15)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (August 20)." }, { "date": "2025-08-21", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-08-25", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2025-09-05", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 45. Noes 23. Page 3120.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2025-09-09", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2025-09-10", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 2759.) Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2025-09-11", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 2939.)" }, { "date": "2025-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2908.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-11", "action": "Motion to reconsider made by Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2025-09-11", "action": "Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2935.)" }, { "date": "2025-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 2936.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2025-09-17", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2025-09-20", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2025-09-20", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 125, Statutes of 2025." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB627", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB627", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB627", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB627", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB627" }, "headline": "Bans face coverings for law enforcement officers", "one_liner": "Makes it a crime for local, federal, and out-of-state officers in California to wear face coverings on duty, with exceptions.", "summary": "Local, federal, and out-of-state officers who wear face coverings on duty can face an infraction or misdemeanor, with exceptions. Agencies must post a policy limiting face coverings by July 1, 2026; staff of agencies with a policy are exempt. Officers who commit acts like false arrest while masked face civil penalties.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice", "civil_rights" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with appeals of housing permit decisions; it was rewritten to cover face coverings worn by law enforcement officers.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB627.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB677", "slug": "2025-26/SB677", "number": "SB 677", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-21", "last_action_date": "2026-09-30", "subject": "Housing financing: joint powers agreements: bond approvals: subdivisions: tentative and final maps: appeals.", "introduced_subject": "Housing development: streamlined approvals.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 6519, 66452.5, 66458, 66462, and 66474.7 of, and to add Sections 6505.7, 6505.9, and 66452.8 to, the Government Code, and to amend Section 52011.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law, for the purposes of that act, defines the term “public agency” to include various federal, state, local, and tribal entities. Existing law requires approval by the Department of General Services of certain joint powers agreements that include the state as a member, as provided. Existing law authorizes a joint powers authority to issue revenue bonds to pay the costs and expenses of acquiring, constructing, or conducting a program for, among other things, low-income housing projects owned or operated by a city, county, city and county, or housing authority.\n Existing law provides that the Treasurer and the Secretary of State are designated as elected representatives for federal tax purposes of a joint powers agency created to approve or certify the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of the joint powers agency to the extent approval is required by federal tax law.\n This bill would provide that the geographic jurisdiction of a joint powers authority is the area encompassed by the combined geographical boundaries of all of its member public agencies. The bill would declare that these provisions are declaratory of existing law.\n This bill would additionally authorize the Treasurer to execute an agreement including the state as a member of a joint powers authority without obtaining approval from the Department of General Services only for the Treasurer to provide specified approvals for bonds issued by the joint powers authority to finance specified residential rental projects for which a city, county, or city and county that is a member of the joint powers authority has failed to provide specified approval required by federal tax law, as defined and provided. The bill would provide that its provisions do not expand, limit, or otherwise affect the authority of, among others, the state, or any officer or agency of the state, to enter into a joint exercise of powers agreement or cause the state to become a member of a joint powers authority, as specified.\n Existing law additionally authorizes, subject to specified limitations, any city or county to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, refinancing, or development of multifamily rental housing and for the provision of capital improvements in connection with, and determined necessary to, that multifamily rental housing.\n This bill would specify that, for the purposes of the above-described provisions, “city” or “county” is deemed to include the state when the state is a member of a joint powers authority pursuant to the bill’s provisions only to provide the state with the power to issue bonds and provide approval, consent, or other action required to finance specified residential rental projects, as provided.\n Existing law provides that the State of California will not change the composition of a joint powers authority that has issued bonds, unless the change is authorized by a majority vote of applicable legislative bodies, as provided. Existing law defines “change in composition” to include, among others, the addition of a public agency, as defined, to a joint powers authority.\n This bill would, notwithstanding the above-described definition, provide that the state becoming a member of an existing joint powers authority shall not, in and of itself, constitute a “change in composition.”\n The bill would make additional nonsubstantive and conforming changes.\n Existing law, the Subdivision Map Act, provides for the approval of tentative and final parcel maps by various local officials, as specified. The act authorizes an appeal of the local official’s decision to the local legislative body, as provided.\n This bill would create an exception from the above-described authority as it applies to appeals by an interested person for maps that meet specified criteria, as provided. The bill would exempt from these provisions an appeal filed by an applicant, subdivider, tenant, advisory agency, or public agency or official, as specified.\n This bill would make the provisions of the act severable.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements.\n This bill would require ministerial approval for proposed housing developments containing no more than 2 residential units on any lot hosting a single-family home or zoned for 4 or fewer residential units, notwithstanding any covenant, condition, or restriction imposed by a common interest development association.\n Existing law prohibits ministerial approval for proposed housing developments that would require the demolition or alteration of housing that, among other things, has been occupied by a tenant in the last three years.\n This bill would provide an exception to that prohibition for housing located in a county subject to a state of emergency declaration, as specified. The bill would also provide an exemption to the prohibition if a structure on the development site that includes at least one housing unit was involuntarily damaged or destroyed by an earthquake, other catastrophic event, or the public enemy.\n Existing law authorizes a local agency to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards on the proposed housing development, except as specified, including that (1) the imposed standards may not have the effect of physically precluding a unit from being at least 800 square feet in floor area, (2) a local agency’s authority to impose, among other things, setbacks, is restricted, and (3) the local agency is prohibited from imposing standards that do not apply uniformly to development within the underlying zone.\n This bill would revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, as to the exceptions specified above, raise the minimum size of a unit to 1,750 net habitable square feet, revise a local agency’s authority to impose setbacks, and, in addition to objective standards, prohibit a local agency from imposing permitting requirements that do not apply uniformly to development within the underlying zone, except as specified. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing a low-income deed restriction or covenant that restricts rents, as specified. The bill would prohibit local agencies from using or imposing any standards other than those provided by its provisions.\n Existing law authorizes a local agency to adopt an ordinance to implement these provisions.\n This bill would require a local agency that has adopted an ordinance to submit a copy of that ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development within 60 days after adoption, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to review the ordinance and submit written findings to the local agency as to whether the ordinance is in compliance with these provisions. Should the department conclude an ordinance is not in compliance, the bill would establish a process for the department to notify the local agency and the local agency to amend the ordinance or adopt the ordinance without changes, as provided. The bill would require the local agency to include the ordinance with the annual housing element report.\n The bill would prohibit a local agency from denying a proposed housing development due to the presence of preexisting issues under specified conditions, including that the issues do not present a threat to public health and safety.\n The bill would also require a local agency to provide applicants with a single application for a housing development that falls under these provisions and also involves an urban lot split to review both applications concurrently.\n This bill would prohibit the imposition of an impact fee, as defined, upon a proposed housing development that is less than 1,750 square feet and require any impact fees imposed on proposed developments of 1,750 square feet or greater to be charged proportionately.\n (2)The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. These standards include that, among other things, the development is subject to a requirement mandating a minimum percentage of below market rate housing because the locality’s latest production report reflects there were fewer units of affordable housing issued building permits than required for the regional housing needs assessment cycle for that period and the project seeking approval dedicates 50 percent of the units to affordable housing, as specified. The standards include that the development is not located on a site that meets specified environmental criteria. The standards also include that the development is not located on a site that would require the demolition of specified types housing, including, among others, a historic structure that was placed on a national, state, or local historic register. \n The bill would revise the first planning standard so that it would be met if a development meets the above-described criteria and dedicates 20 percent of the units to affordable housing, as specified. The bill would revise the second planning standard so that it would be met if a development is not located within a site that meets specified criteria. The bill would revise the third planning standard to instead include a development is not located on a site that would require the demolition of a property individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places or the California Register of Historical Resources historic or of a contributing structure located within a historic district included on the National Register of Historic Places or the California Register of Historical Resources. The bill would also exempt a proposed housing development from restrictions on demolition if a structure on the development site that includes at least one housing unit was involuntarily damaged or destroyed by an earthquake, other catastrophic event, or the public enemy.\n Existing law provides that a development is consistent with the objective planning standards in these provisions if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the development is consistent and prohibits a local government from determining a development is in conflict on a specified basis, as provided.\n This bill would require the local government to bear the burden of proof in any evaluation of a development related to compliance with objective planning standards related to specified environmental criteria, as provided. The bill would require a local government to demonstrate, with a preponderance of the evidence, that the development does not comply with the applicable environmental criteria established under state or federal law, as provided.\n Existing law defines a “reporting period” as either the first or last half of the regional housing needs assessment cycle.\n This bill would require the reporting period to instead include each quarter of the regional housing needs assessment cycle.\n (3)The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification of those maps. Existing law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split that meets certain requirements, including that one parcel is not smaller than 40% of the lot area of the original parcel and the owner of the parcel being subdivided has not previously subdivided an adjacent parcel using an urban lot split, as provided.\n This bill would remove the requirement that one parcel of a split lot be no smaller than 40% of the lot area of the original parcel and would exempt both newly created lots from following certain additional requirements, as specified. The bill would also remove the prohibition against owners who have previously subdivided an adjacent parcel using an urban lot split.\n Existing law prohibits ministerial approval for a proposed urban lot split that would require the demolition or alteration of housing that, among other things, has been occupied by a tenant in the last three years.\n The bill would exempt a lot split from restrictions on demolition if a structure on the development site that includes at least one housing unit was involuntarily damaged or destroyed by an earthquake, other catastrophic event, or the public enemy.\n Existing law authorizes a local agency, except as provided, to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards related to the design or improvements of a parcel subject to an urban lot split, including that the imposed standards may not have the effect of physically precluding a unit being constructed on either of the resulting parcels from being at least 800 square feet. Existing law allows a local agency to require specified conditions when considering an application for a parcel map for an urban lot split, including access requirements.\n This bill would revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, prohibit a local agency from imposing standards that would have the effect of physically precluding an urban lot split from occurring or a unit being constructed on either of the resulting parcels from being at least 1,750 net habitable square feet. The bill would also revise and recast the restrictions on a local agency’s authority to impose a setback, as provided. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing a driveway requirement width requirement, as provided.\n This bill would specify that a local agency’s access requirement may not physically preclude the lot split from occurring if another access method would facilitate the lot split.\n The bill would require a local agency to provide applicants with a single application for an urban lot split that falls under these provisions and also includes a proposed housing development that falls under the provisions discussed above to review both applications concurrently.\n Under existing law, a local agency must require an applicant for an urban lot split to sign an affidavit stating that the applicant intends to occupy one of the housing units as their principal residence, as specified.\n This bill would remove the requirement that an applicant sign an affidavit stating that the applicant intends to occupy one of the housing units as their principal residence and prohibit a local agency from using or imposing any additional standards, except as specified.\n Existing law authorizes a local agency to adopt an ordinance to implement these provisions.\n This bill would require a local agency that has adopted an ordinance to submit a copy of that ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development within 60 days after adoption, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to review the ordinance and submit written findings to the local agency as to whether the ordinance is in compliance with these provisions. Should the department conclude an ordinance is not in compliance, the bill would establish a process for the department to notify the local agency and the local agency to amend the ordinance or adopt the ordinance without changes, as provided.\n The bill would require a local agency to ministerially review a condominium map that would subdivide a specified housing development, as provided. The bill would prohibit the imposition of an impact fee upon an urban lot split, as specified.\n (4)Existing law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in areas zoned for residential use and requires ministerial approval of ADUs, as specified.\n Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the management and operation of common interest developments. Existing law makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a planned development, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use that meets the above-described requirements established for those units, except as provided.\n This bill would, additionally, apply the above-described provisions to housing developments and urban lot splits receiving ministerial approval, as specified.\n (5)Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, establishes the California Coastal Commission and prescribes the powers and responsibilities of the commission with regard to the regulation of development along the California coast. The act prohibits a local coastal program from being required to include housing policies and programs.\n This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to achieve the goal of increasing the supply of housing in the coastal zone while also protecting coastal resources and public coastal access, as provided. On or by July 1, 2026, the bill would require any local government in the coastal zone that has not done so to submit an amendment to its local coastal program that harmonizes the act with the provisions of this bill concerning ministerial approval of proposed housing developments and urban lot splits, as provided. The bill would specify criteria that would allow a local government‘s amendment to be processed as de minimis, as specified.\n Existing law specifies that proposed housing developments and urban lot splits considered ministerially under the provisions of this bill may be required to obtain a coastal development permit, but a local agency is not required to hold public hearings for coastal development permit applications, as provided.\n This bill would instead specify that these provisions do not relieve a proposed housing development’s or urban lot split’s requirement to obtain a coastal development permit if the proposed activity would take place in the coastal zone, as provided.\n (6)The bill would define key terms and make nonsubstantive and conforming changes.\n (7)By increasing the duties of local agencies with respect to land use regulations, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (8)The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n (9)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-30" }, "version_count": 11, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 974, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Caloza" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-21", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24." }, { "date": "2025-02-24", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2025-03-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2025-04-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 30 in L. GOV. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "April 22 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 4. Noes 3. Page 832.) Reconsideration granted." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "Set for hearing January 6." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2026-01-07", "action": "Set for hearing January 14 in L. GOV. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2026-01-07", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 3184.) (January 6)." }, { "date": "2026-01-08", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-01-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3224.) (January 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-01-15", "action": "Set for hearing January 20." }, { "date": "2026-01-20", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2026-01-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-01-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 10. Page 3285.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-01-26", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-06-08", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-06-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-07-07", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1)." }, { "date": "2026-07-07", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 5)." }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 6516.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-26", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2026-08-26", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.)" }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-09-08", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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A joint powers authority's area covers all its members' territory. Appeals of certain subdivision map decisions by interested persons are limited.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with streamlined approval of duplexes, lot splits and multifamily housing; it was rewritten to cover housing bond approvals and map appeals.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB677.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB747", "slug": "2025-26/SB747", "number": "SB 747", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-21", "last_action_date": "2026-09-29", "subject": "Civil rights: deprivation of federal constitutional rights, privileges, and immunities.", "introduced_subject": "Vending machines.", "title": "An act to add Section 53.8 to the Civil Code, relating to civil rights, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Under existing law, the Tom Bane Civil Rights Act (act), if a person or persons, whether or not acting under color of law, interferes or attempts to interfere, by threats, intimidation, or coercion, with the exercise or enjoyment by any individual or individuals of rights secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of the rights secured by the Constitution or laws of this state, the Attorney General, or any district attorney or city attorney, is authorized to bring a civil action for injunctive and other appropriate equitable relief in the name of the people of the State of California, in order to protect the exercise or enjoyment of the right or rights secured.\n Under that act, an individual may also institute and prosecute in their own name and on their own behalf a civil action for damages, as described, for any resulting interference or attempt at interference of the individual’s exercise or enjoyment of rights secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States or this state. The act authorizes the court to award the petitioner or plaintiff reasonable attorney’s fees in addition to any damages, injunction, or other equitable relief awarded in these civil actions (attorney’s fees authorization).\n Existing federal law provides that every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any state, territory, or the District of Columbia, subjects or causes to be subjected any United States citizen or other person within the jurisdiction to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, is liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except as provided.\n This bill would also provide that every natural person, as defined, who, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, as defined, subjects or causes to be subjected any citizen of this state or any person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the United States Constitution, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except as specified. The bill would apply the aforementioned attorney’s fees authorization, except as specified, to any action brought under these provisions. The bill would authorize a court, in its discretion, to also award costs, except as specified, to the prevailing plaintiff in any action brought under these provisions.\n This bill would authorize a defendant in an action brought under these provisions to assert and receive the benefit of a defense of absolute or qualified immunity only to the same extent as a person sued under certain federal provisions under like circumstances, as specified, and would specify that nothing in these provisions is to be construed to waive or abrogate any defense of sovereign immunity otherwise available to a party, as specified. The bill would prohibit any civil action brought under these provisions from being commenced later than 2 years after the date that the cause of action accrues. The bill would make its provisions severable. The bill would specify that these provisions apply retroactively to March 1, 2025, as provided.\n This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature in enacting these provisions.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires a person who owns a vending machine to affix to the machine their name and address, as specified. If the person owns more than one vending machine located at the same place, existing law instead authorizes the person to post a clearly readable sign containing their name and address in a conspicuous location near the machines.\n This bill would authorize a person to post their telephone number, email address, or both, on the machine or in a conspicuous location, as may be appropriate.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-29" }, "version_count": 11, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 752, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Wahab" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Mark González", "Lee" ], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Blakespear", "Caballero", "Cervantes", "Cortese", "Durazo", "Gonzalez", "McGuire", "McNerney", "Padilla", "Pérez", "Reyes", "Rubio", "Weber Pierson", "Ahrens", "Ávila Farías", "Boerner", "Bryan", "Connolly", "Elhawary", "Garcia", "Haney", "Hart", "Jackson", "Kalra", "Ortega", "Pellerin", "Quirk-Silva", "Celeste Rodriguez", "Rogers", "Solache", "Stefani", "Zbur" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-21", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24." }, { "date": "2025-02-24", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2025-03-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-03-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-04-02", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 870.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2025-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 943.) (April 29)." }, { "date": "2025-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-09", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2025-05-19", "action": "May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-20", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1211.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2999.)" }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "From inactive file." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-09-13", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR." }, { "date": "2026-01-06", "action": "Set for hearing January 13." }, { "date": "2026-01-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 3214.) (January 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-01-15", "action": "Set for hearing January 20." }, { "date": "2026-01-20", "action": "January 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-01-21", "action": "Set for hearing January 22." }, { "date": "2026-01-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3270.) (January 22)." }, { "date": "2026-01-22", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-01-26", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-01-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 3301.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-01-27", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-05-04", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-05-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-06-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (June 9)." }, { "date": "2026-06-10", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "action": "June 24 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 13)." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 19. Page 6479.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "action": "Urgency clause adopted." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Courts may award attorney's fees and costs. The bill applies back to March 1, 2025.", "issues": [ "civil_rights" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with contact information on vending machines; it was rewritten to cover lawsuits over constitutional rights violations.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB747.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB868", "slug": "2025-26/SB868", "number": "SB 868", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-01-05", "last_action_date": "2026-09-30", "subject": "Electricity: portable solar generation devices.", "introduced_subject": "Electricity: portable solar generation devices.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 8530) to Division 4.1 of, and to repeal Section 8531 of, the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.", "digest": "Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards.\n This bill would, until January 1, 2030, exempt a portable solar generation device, as defined, from all interconnection requirements imposed by state law, the commission, electrical corporation rules, or local publicly owned electric utility rules, as specified. The bill would, until January 1, 2030, prohibit an electrical corporation or a local publicly owned electric utility from requiring a customer using a portable solar generation device to take specified actions, including, among other things, paying any fee or charge related to the device or the electricity the device feeds into a building’s electrical system. The bill would, until January 1, 2030, authorize an electrical corporation or a local publicly owned electric utility to require a customer using a portable solar generation device to notify the electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility, using a simple online registration form, of the address, make, model, and size of the portable solar generation device, as provided. Beginning January 1, 2030, the bill would prohibit the sale of a portable photovoltaic energy generation device that is designed to be connected to and disconnected from a building’s electrical system through a receptacle and does not meet the definition of a portable solar generation device, as specified.\n Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.\n Because a violation of a commission action implementing the bill’s requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Additionally, by imposing new duties on local publicly owned electric utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards.\n This bill would exempt a portable solar generation device, as defined, from all interconnection requirements imposed by state law, the commission, electrical corporation rules, or local publicly owned electric utility rules, as specified. The bill would prohibit an electrical corporation or a local publicly owned electric utility from requiring a customer using a portable solar generation device to take specified actions, including, among other things, paying any fee or charge related to the device or the electricity the device feeds into a building’s electrical system. The bill would provide that an electrical corporation or a local publicly owned electric utility is not liable for any damage or injury caused by a portable solar generation device.\n Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.\n Because a violation of a commission action implementing the bill’s requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Additionally, by imposing new duties on local publicly owned electric utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-30" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 985, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Schultz" ], "coauthors": [ "Arreguín", "Becker", "McNerney", "Boerner", "Connolly", "Davies", "Irwin", "Kalra", "Petrie-Norris", "Schiavo", "Ward" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-01-05", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-01-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 5." }, { "date": "2026-02-11", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E., U & C. and JUD." }, { "date": "2026-03-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C." }, { "date": "2026-03-09", "action": "Set for hearing March 17." }, { "date": "2026-03-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 3588.) (March 17)." }, { "date": "2026-03-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-03-24", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2026-03-24", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-03-27", "action": "Set for hearing April 13." }, { "date": "2026-04-07", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-04-09", "action": "April 13 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2026-04-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2026-04-20", "action": "April 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-05-08", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4255.) (May 14)." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-19", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 4340.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-05-20", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-05-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2026-06-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 10)." }, { "date": "2026-06-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-06-29", "action": "July 1 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "action": "August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 13)." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6499.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-26", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 4.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 985, Statutes of 2026." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB868", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB868", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB868", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB868", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB868" }, "headline": "Exempts plug-in solar devices from interconnection rules", "one_liner": "Lets customers use portable plug-in solar devices without utility interconnection rules or fees until 2030.", "summary": "Until 2030, portable solar generation devices are exempt from interconnection requirements, and utilities may not charge fees for them. Utilities may ask customers to register a device through a simple online form. Starting in 2030, sales of plug-in solar devices that don't meet the bill's definition are banned.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB868.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB895", "slug": "2025-26/SB895", "number": "SB 895", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-01-15", "last_action_date": "2026-09-30", "subject": "California Science and Health Research Bond Act.", "introduced_subject": "California Science and Health Research Bond Act.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 11899) to Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, by providing the funds necessary therefor through an election for the issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California and for the handling and disposition of those funds, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "(1)Existing law establishes various grant and loan programs for research, including, among others, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program, and the Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Program.\n This bill would establish the California Foundation for Science and Health Research within the Government Operations Agency. The bill would require the Secretary of Government Operations to oversee the process of appointing the director of the foundation, and would authorize the Secretary of Government Operations to delegate the task of hiring and determining the salaries, bonuses, and benefits of additional personnel to the director, as specified. The bill would require the director and personnel of the foundation to be responsible for implementing the strategic objectives of the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council, as described below, administering grants, loans, and contracts awarded by the council, and all other duties as deemed necessary for the operation of the foundation.\n This bill would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research and Innovation Acceleration Fund and require the moneys in the fund to be used by the foundation to award grants and make loans to, and enter into contracts with, public or private research companies, universities, academic medical centers, institutes, and organizations for scientific research and development and for certain economic sectors, as specified, in specific areas of research, including, but not limited to, biomedical, behavioral health, and climate research. The bill would also create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research and Innovation Acceleration Benefit Fund, to consist solely of private donations. The bill would make the moneys in the benefit fund available for the same purposes as the California Foundation for Science and Health Research and Innovation Acceleration Fund.\n This bill would require that, prior to the first grant from the foundation and no later than one year from the date the bill takes effect, the council develop various provisions and requirements to facilitate the foundation’s goals of affordability and equitable access. The foundation shall impose various requirements on the grantees, loan recipients, and contractors, as specified, including, among other things, developing strategies to promote equitable access to the subject invention in various specified communities and making the data resulting from the bond-funded research available to the broader scientific community, except in cases involving national security interests. The council shall also establish standards requiring that all grants, awards, and contracts be subject to intellectual property agreements that balance the opportunity for the State of California to benefit from the inventions, technologies, patents, royalties, and licenses that result from research funded by certain public and private grants, as specified.\n This bill would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council, as specified, which shall be vested with full power, authority, and jurisdiction over the foundation. The bill would require the council to, among other things, develop the strategic objectives and priorities of the foundation and provide the opportunity for public comment on the foundation’s priorities, as specified, determine the research projects that will be funded by the California Foundation for Science and Health Research and Innovation Acceleration Fund, develop objectives and opportunities that offer support to early career researchers, and adopt certain regulations and standards, as specified. The bill would also require the council to consider how the foundation’s research priorities relate to or support various economic and industry considerations, as specified. The bill would provide that a majority of the members of the council constitutes a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of any power of the council, except as otherwise provided. The bill would authorize the council to establish one or more scientific peer review panels consisting of experts in specified fields of research for the purposes of reviewing and prioritizing proposals on the basis of the scientific merit of the proposal, the potential benefit to the health and well-being of the population, natural resources, and environment of the state, and the demonstrated background, training, and expertise of the researchers and investigators to conduct the proposed work.\n This bill would require all research and development funded by the California Foundation for Science and Health Research and Innovation Acceleration Fund to be conducted under established standards of open scientific exchange, peer review, and public oversight. The bill would require the funds and contracts to be awarded on the basis of the research priorities established for the foundation by the council and the scientific merit of the proposed research, as determined by an open, competitive, scientific peer review process that ensures objectivity, consistency, and high quality.\n This bill would enact the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $7,500,000,000, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, to finance grants and loans to fund research and operate and maintain facilities for research.\n The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the March 7, 2028, statewide primary election.\n (2)Existing law establishes prohibitions and penalties with respect to ethical obligations and conflicts of interest for public officials, including a prohibition on engaging in activities that are incompatible with their official duties and a prohibition on being financially interested in a contract made by them in their official capacity or the board of which they are a part.\n This bill would authorize a council member to participate in a decision to approve or award a grant, loan, or contract for the purpose of research into a disease in which the member or their immediate family member has a personal interest, as specified. The bill would provide that service with specified educational institutions and organizations is not incompatible with a council member’s duties. The bill would provide that the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract, as specified, does not apply if the council member recuses themself from a decision to award or approve a grant, loan, or contract that would otherwise be subject to the prohibition. The bill would provide that council members are subject to certain disclosure requirements relating to personal investments and potential conflicts of interest, as specified.\n (3)Existing law, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, requires that all meetings of a state body be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body, with specified exceptions for authorized closed sessions.\n This bill would require the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act to apply to all meetings of the council and scientific peer review panels, except as specified for when the council or scientific peer review panels meet to consider or discuss specified matters in closed sessions, including matters involving information relating to patients or medical or scientific research subjects, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.\n (4)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes various grant and loan programs for research, including, among others, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program, and the Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Program.\n This bill would establish the California Foundation for Science and Health Research within the Government Operations Agency. The bill would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, and require the moneys in the fund to be used by the foundation to award grants and make loans to public or private research companies, universities, institutes, and organizations for scientific research and development, in specific areas of research, including, but not limited to, biomedical, behavioral, and climate research.\n This bill would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council, as specified. The bill would require the council to, among other things, develop the strategic objectives and priorities of the foundation and determine the research projects that will be funded by the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Fund, as specified. The bill would require a majority vote by the appointed members for the council for the approval of funding for any research project or proposal presented for funding. The bill would authorize the council to establish one or more scientific peer review panels consisting of experts in specified fields of research for the purposes of reviewing and prioritizing proposals on the basis of the track record of the investigators, scientific merit of the proposal, and potential benefit to the health and well-being of the population, natural resources, and environment of the state.\n This bill would require all research and development funded by the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Fund to be conducted under established standards of open scientific exchange, peer review, and public oversight. The bill would require the funds to be awarded on the basis of the research priorities established for the foundation by the council and the scientific merit of the proposed research, as determined by an open, competitive, scientific peer review process that ensures objectivity, consistency, and high quality.\n This bill would enact the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $23,000,000,000, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, to finance grants and loans to fund research and construct, operate, and maintain facilities for research.\n The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the next statewide general election.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-30" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 1040, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Pérez", "Wahab" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Gipson", "Irwin", "Muratsuchi", "Patel", "Solache" ], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Becker", "Blakespear", "Caballero", "Cervantes", "Cortese", "Durazo", "McNerney", "Padilla", "Reyes", "Richardson", "Rubio", "Stern", "Umberg", "Weber Pierson", "Addis", "Ahrens", "Ávila Farías", "Bennett", "Calderon", "Caloza", "Carrillo", "Connolly", "Ellis", "Fong", "Garcia", "Mark González", "Haney", "Harabedian", "Hoover", "Ortega", "Petrie-Norris", "Celeste Rodriguez", "Blanca Rubio", "Schiavo", "Schultz", "Stefani", "Wallis", "Ward", "Zbur", "Aguiar-Curry", "Arambula", "Bonta", "Sharp-Collins" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-01-15", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-01-16", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 15." }, { "date": "2026-02-11", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2026-03-11", "action": "Set for hearing March 25." }, { "date": "2026-03-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2026-03-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3689.) (March 25)." }, { "date": "2026-04-06", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2026-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 14." }, { "date": "2026-04-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3869.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-04-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 27." }, { "date": "2026-04-27", "action": "April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-05-08", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4256.) (May 14)." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 4496.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-05-27", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-06-04", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2026-06-10", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2026-06-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "action": "June 24 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (August 13)." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "action": "Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 1. Page 6727.)" }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 6. Page 7010.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "action": "Urgency clause adopted." }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-09-10", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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A council sets priorities and picks projects through peer review. A $7.5 billion bond goes to voters on March 7, 2028. Council meetings are generally open to the public.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB895.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB908", "slug": "2025-26/SB908", "number": "SB 908", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-01-22", "last_action_date": "2026-09-29", "subject": "Residential windows: retrofitting: residential window replacement projects: California Building Code compliance.", "introduced_subject": "Housing development: transit-oriented development.", "title": "An act to add Section 4754 to the Civil Code, and to add Section 65850.73 to the Government Code, relating to windows.", "digest": "(1)Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the management and operation of common interest developments. Existing law places various limits and prohibitions on the governing documents, as defined, relative to an owner’s separate interest within those developments.\n This bill would declare void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a common interest development, or provision of a governing document that effectively prohibits or restricts the owner of a separate interest from completing a residential window replacement project or impose any requirements on California Energy Code-compliant windows, as specified. The bill’s provisions would not apply to certain provisions that impose reasonable installation restrictions on a residential window replacement project that do not significantly increase the cost of a residential window replacement project or significantly decrease the energy efficiency of a residential window replacement project, except as specified.\n This bill would prohibit an association from subjecting a residential window replacement project to design review or any other form of approval if the association’s governing documents do not place reasonable restrictions on a residential window replacement project.\n This bill, for specified residential window replacement projects that propose the replacement of windows, would require an association to impose certain conditions on the project, including a requirement that the owner obtain approval from the association. The bill would require an association to approve a project if the owner agrees to certain requirements in writing, including that the owner comply with the association’s governing documents, engage a licensed contractor for the installation, obtain any required local or state permits required for the project, and pay for the costs associated with the installation.\n (2)The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes.\n This bill would require a city, county, or city and county to administratively approve an application for a residential window replacement project. The bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from requiring discretionary review or a hearing for a residential window replacement project. The bill would also prohibit a city, county, or city and county from denying an application for a residential window replacement project and a local government that is both a city and county from imposing any conditions on certain windows proposed in a housing development project, except as specified. The bill would limit the application of these provisions under certain circumstances, including if a residential building is individually designated on the California Register of Historical Resources prior to the date the application for a residential window replacement project is submitted.\n By adding to the duties of local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (3)The bill would make its provisions severable.\n (4)The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n (5)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.\n (6)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law generally regulates the development of transit-oriented housing developments near transit-oriented development stops. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to oversee compliance with those provisions, authorizes a local government to enact an ordinance to make its zoning code consistent with those provisions, as specified, and requires each metropolitan planning organization to create a map of transit-oriented development stops and zones within its region by tier, as specified. \n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would make technical and clarifying changes to those laws governing transit-oriented development, and to add a select set of San Francisco Bay area ferry terminals to the scope of those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-29" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 787, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code", "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Wahab" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-01-22", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-01-23", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22." }, { "date": "2026-02-11", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-03-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-04-08", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2026-04-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 15." }, { "date": "2026-04-15", "action": "Set for hearing April 21 in HOUSING pending receipt." }, { "date": "2026-04-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3903.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2026-04-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 3975.) (April 21)." }, { "date": "2026-04-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 11." }, { "date": "2026-05-11", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2026-05-12", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-19", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 4338.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-05-20", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-06-01", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-06-15", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 5)." }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6520.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-26", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 1.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. 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Homeowner association rules that block such projects are void, though reasonable installation limits are allowed. Associations must approve projects when owners agree in writing to use a licensed contractor, get permits and pay costs. Some buildings on the state historical register are excluded.", "issues": [ "housing", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with transit-oriented housing development; it was rewritten to cover residential window replacement approvals.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB908.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB934", "slug": "2025-26/SB934", "number": "SB 934", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-01-29", "last_action_date": "2026-09-26", "subject": "Sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts.", "introduced_subject": "Sexual orientation change efforts: remedies.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 865, 865.1, and 865.2 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts.", "digest": "Existing law defines “sexual orientation change efforts” as practices by mental health providers that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation, as specified. Existing law prohibits a mental health provider, as defined, from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age, and provides that such efforts attempted by a mental health provider are considered unprofessional conduct and must subject the mental health provider to discipline by that provider’s licensing entity.\n This bill would define “sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts” as any practices of a licensed mental health provider that seek, during the provision of mental health services, to direct a patient toward a predetermined sexual orientation or gender identity, as specified, and would apply the prohibitions described above to such efforts. The bill would exclude specified practices, including age-appropriate interventions to address unlawful conduct or unsafe practices that do not seek to direct the patient toward a particular sexual orientation or gender identity, from this definition.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law prohibits a mental health provider, as defined, from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts, as defined, with a patient under 18 years of age. Existing law provides that any sexual orientation change efforts attempted on a patient under 18 years of age by a mental health provider shall be considered unprofessional conduct and shall subject the provider to discipline by the provider’s licensing entity.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide individuals who have been harmed by sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts by licensed mental health providers to have adequate time to seek civil remedies.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-26" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 469, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Lee" ], "coauthors": [ "Cabaldon", "Cervantes", "Durazo", "Gonzalez", "Laird", "Menjivar", "Padilla", "Pérez", "Smallwood-Cuevas", "Wahab", "Bauer-Kahan", "Bonta", "Elhawary", "Mark González", "Haney", "Jackson", "Solache", "Ward", "Wilson", "Zbur", "Lowenthal" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-01-29", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-01-30", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1." }, { "date": "2026-02-11", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-03-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-03-25", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR." }, { "date": "2026-04-02", "action": "Set for hearing April 7." }, { "date": "2026-04-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2. Page 3757.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-04-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2026-04-20", "action": "April 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-05-08", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4257.) (May 14)." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-19", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 4356.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-05-20", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-05-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-06-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-06-09", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2026-06-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "action": "August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 13)." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-19", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 6267.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-19", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 9.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-26", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-26", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 469, Statutes of 2026." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB934", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB934", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB934", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB934", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB934" }, "headline": "Bans gender identity change efforts for minors", "one_liner": "Bars licensed mental health providers from trying to steer patients under 18 toward a predetermined sexual orientation or gender identity.", "summary": "Defines \"sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts\" as a licensed mental health provider's attempts to steer a patient toward a predetermined sexual orientation or gender identity. Applies the existing ban for patients under 18 to these efforts. Providers who break it face discipline. Some practices, such as age-appropriate steps to address unsafe conduct, are excluded.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB934.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB1004", "slug": "2025-26/SB1004", "number": "SB 1004", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-02-09", "last_action_date": "2026-09-29", "subject": "Law enforcement: masks.", "introduced_subject": "Law enforcement: masks.", "title": "An act to amend Section 7289 of the Government Code, and to amend Section 185.5 of the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement.", "digest": "Existing law makes it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear a facial covering in the performance of their duties, except as specified. Existing law defines law enforcement officer for these purposes as anyone designated by California law as a peace officer who is employed by a city, county, or other local agency, and any officer or agent of a federal law enforcement agency, agency or law enforcement agency of another state, or any person acting on behalf of a federal law enforcement agency.\n This bill would add peace officers employed by a state agency to the definition of law enforcement officers, thereby making those law enforcement officers subject to those criminal penalties. The bill would specify that facial coverings does not include certain items, including, among other things, sunglasses. The bill would, for all of the items excluded from the definition of facial coverings, limit that exclusion if the items are combined or otherwise used in a manner intended to conceal or obscure an officer’s identity. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Existing law prohibits any person who is found to have committed an assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, abuse of process, or malicious prosecution, while wearing a facial covering in a knowing and willful violation of these provisions, from asserting any privilege or immunity for their tortious conduct against a claim of civil liability, and makes that person liable for the greater of actual damages or statutory damages of not less than $10,000, whichever is greater.\n This bill would instead make a person who is found liable for false imprisonment or false arrest liable for those damages if the trier of fact finds that the person knowingly and willfully concealed their identity through the use of a facial covering at the time of the conduct giving rise to liability.\n Existing law requires a law enforcement agency operating in California to, by July 1, 2026, maintain and publicly post a written policy limiting the use of facial coverings, as specified. Existing law defines a law enforcement agency for these purposes as any entity of a city, county, or other local agency, that employs anyone designated by California law as a peace officer, any federal law enforcement agency, or any law enforcement agency of another state.\n This bill would add to the definition of law enforcement agency, a state entity that employs a peace officer and would change the date any law enforcement agency has to comply with that requirement to January 1, 2027. The bill would also require those policies to exempt certain surveillance operations related to enforcement of the Fish and Game Code, or similar federal law.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law makes it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear a facial covering in the performance of their duties, except as specified. Existing law defines law enforcement officer for these purposes as anyone designated by California law as a peace officer who is employed by a city, county, or other local agency, and any officer or agent of a federal law enforcement agency, agency or law enforcement agency of another state, or any person acting on behalf of a federal law enforcement agency.\n This bill would add peace officers employed by a state agency to the definition of law enforcement officers, thereby making those law enforcement officers subject to those criminal penalties. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Existing law requires a law enforcement agency operating in California to, by July 1, 2026, maintain and publicly post a written policy limiting the use of facial coverings, as specified. Existing law defines a law enforcement agency for these purposes as any entity of a city, county, or other local agency, that employs anyone designated by California law as a peace officer, any federal law enforcement agency, or any law enforcement agency of another state.\n This bill would add to the definition of law enforcement agency, a state entity that employs a peace officer and would change the date any law enforcement agency has to comply with that requirement to January 1, 2027.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Chaptered", "date": "2026-09-29" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "law", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "signed", "chapter": "Chapter 757, Statutes of 2026", "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Arreguín", "Pérez", "Wahab" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Bryan", "Carrillo", "Garcia", "Schultz" ], "coauthors": [ "Gonzalez", "McNerney", "Menjivar", "Smallwood-Cuevas", "Weber Pierson", "Connolly", "Elhawary", "Mark González", "Kalra", "Lee", "Ortega", "Quirk-Silva", "Sharp-Collins", "Solache" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-02-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-02-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12." }, { "date": "2026-02-18", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2026-03-27", "action": "Set for hearing April 14." }, { "date": "2026-04-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3871.) (April 14)." }, { "date": "2026-04-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing April 27." }, { "date": "2026-04-27", "action": "April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-05-08", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4260.) (May 14)." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-19", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 4358.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-05-20", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-05-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2026-06-11", "action": "June 9 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 23)." }, { "date": "2026-06-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "action": "August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 13)." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 44. Noes 22. Page 6611.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 11.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "action": "Approved by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "action": "Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 757, Statutes of 2026." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1004", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1004", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1004", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1004", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1004" }, "headline": "Extends police mask ban to state officers", "one_liner": "Applies California's ban on officers wearing face coverings to state-employed peace officers and clarifies what counts.", "summary": "Adds state-employed peace officers to the law making it a crime for officers to wear face coverings on duty. Items like sunglasses are not face coverings unless used to hide identity. Changes when a masked person found liable for false arrest or imprisonment owes added damages. Adds state agencies to the mask-policy rule, due January 1, 2027.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB1004.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB221", "slug": "2017-18/SB221", "number": "SB 221", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-02", "last_action_date": "2018-09-28", "subject": "Agricultural District 1-A: firearm and ammunition sales at the Cow Palace.", "introduced_subject": "Health care coverage: lipodystrophy syndrome.", "title": "An act to add Section 4132 to the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to agricultural districts.", "digest": "Existing law generally regulates the transfer of firearms and divides the state into agricultural districts. District 1-A is the County of San Mateo and the City and County of San Francisco. A violation of the statutes governing agricultural districts is generally a misdemeanor.\n This bill would, on and after January 1, 2020, prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition at the Cow Palace located in District 1-A, as specified, and would thereby make a violation of that prohibition a misdemeanor. The bill would exclude from its provisions a gun buy-back event held by a law enforcement agency.\n By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies to provide coverage for specified benefits.\n This bill would require health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 2018, to include coverage for medical or drug treatments to correct or repair disturbances of body composition caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) associated lipodystrophy syndrome, including, but not limited to, reconstructive surgery, such as suction assisted lipectomy, other restorative procedures and dermal injections or fillers for reversal of facial lipoatrophy syndrome, as provided. Because a willful violation of the bill’s provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law provides for coverage of certain medical services, including, but not limited to, physician, hospital or clinic outpatient, surgical center, optometric, chiropractic, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, and audiology under the Medi-Cal program.\n This bill would require the Medi-Cal program to cover medical or drug treatments to correct or repair disturbances of body composition caused by HIV associated lipodystrophy syndrome, including, but not limited to, reconstructive surgery, such as suction assisted lipectomy, other restorative procedures and dermal injections or fillers for reversal of facial lipoatrophy syndrome, as provided.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2018-09-04" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Food and Agricultural Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Ting" ], "coauthors": [ "Hill", "Chiu", "Berman", "Mullin" ], "veto": { "date": "2018-09-28", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 221 without my signature.\n\nThis bill would prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition at the District Agricultural Association 1A, commonly known as the Cow Palace.\n\nThis bill has been vetoed twice over the last ten years, once by myself, and once by Governor Schwarzenegger.\n\nThe decision on what kind of shows occur at the Cow Palace rests with the local board of directors which, incidentally, represents a broad cross section of the community. They are in the best position to make these decisions.\n\nSincerely,\n\n\n\nEdmund G. Brown Jr." }, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-02", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-03", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5." }, { "date": "2017-02-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2017-03-31", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2017-04-20", "action": "April 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2017-12-21", "action": "Set for hearing January 10." }, { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-01-04", "action": "Set for hearing January 9." }, { "date": "2018-01-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4006.) (January 9)." }, { "date": "2018-01-10", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2018-01-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4115.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-01-30", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-04-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-05-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-06-12", "action": "June 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2018-06-19", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2018-06-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 8)." }, { "date": "2018-08-09", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 44. Noes 31. Page 6583.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-28", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2018-08-28", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5880.) Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 6013.)" }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 6020.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-06", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-28", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-28", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB221", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB221", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB221", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB221", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB221" }, "headline": "Bans gun and ammunition sales at Cow Palace", "one_liner": "Makes selling firearms or ammunition at the Cow Palace a misdemeanor starting in 2020, except law enforcement buy-backs.", "summary": "Starting January 1, 2020, bans the sale of firearms and ammunition at the Cow Palace, in the agricultural district covering San Mateo County and San Francisco. A violation is a misdemeanor. Gun buy-back events held by a law enforcement agency are exempt.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with health coverage for HIV-related lipodystrophy treatment; it was rewritten to cover gun sales at the Cow Palace.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB221.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB829", "slug": "2017-18/SB829", "number": "SB 829", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-03", "last_action_date": "2018-09-30", "subject": "Cannabis: donations.", "introduced_subject": "Employee housing: farmworker housing.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 26001 and 26153 of, and to add Section 26071 to, the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Sections 34010, 34011, and 34012 of, to add Section 34012.1 to, and to add and repeal Section 6414 of, the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to cannabis, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "(1)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.\n Existing administrative law prohibits a retailer licensee from providing free cannabis goods to any person or allowing individuals who are not employed by the retailer to provide free cannabis goods to any person on the licensed premises. Existing administrative law provides an exception to this prohibition for specified medicinal retailer and microbusiness licensees to provide access to medicinal cannabis patients who have difficulty accessing medicinal cannabis goods, as specified.\n This bill would similarly authorize those specified licensees to provide free cannabis or cannabis products to a medical cannabis patient if specified requirements are met, including that the cannabis or cannabis products otherwise meet specified requirements of MAUCRSA. The bill would authorize those specified licensees to contract with an individual or organization to coordinate the provision of free medicinal cannabis and medicinal cannabis products on the retailer’s premises.\n (2)Existing sales and use tax laws impose use taxes on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, presumes tangible personal property purchased outside the state that is stored, used, or consumed in this state is purchased for use in this state, and excludes from use taxes, specified tangible personal property purchased and used for specified purposes.\n This bill, on or after January 1, 2019, and until January 1, 2024, would exempt from the use tax the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products that are donated, for no consideration, under specified circumstances. The bill would require the exemption to apply only if the donee certifies in writing, as specified, that the medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product will be used as specified. The bill would make a licensee that uses the donated medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product in some other manner, or for some other purpose, liable for the payment of use tax and would make the measure of tax the licensee’s purchase price for similar product.\n The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws.\n Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions.\n This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill.\n (3)AUMA imposes an excise tax on the purchase of cannabis and cannabis products, as defined, at the rate of 15% of the average market price of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer.\n The bill would require that these provisions not be construed to impose an excise tax upon medicinal cannabis, or medicinal cannabis products, donated for no consideration to a medicinal cannabis patient, as specified.\n (4)AUMA imposes a cultivation tax on all harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market upon all cultivators. Existing law defines entering the commercial market to mean cannabis or cannabis products, except for immature cannabis plants and seeds, that complete and comply with specified quality assurance review and testing. \n This bill would prohibit the cultivation tax from being imposed on medicinal cannabis designated for donation. The bill would make a licensee that certifies in writing that medicinal cannabis or a medicinal cannabis product will be donated to a medicinal cannabis patient and sells or uses the medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product in some manner, or for some purpose other than donation, liable for the cultivation tax. The bill would specify that the certification in writing relieves the cultivator that donates the medicinal cannabis from liability for the cultivation tax and the distributor from liability for collecting the cultivation only if the certification is taken in good faith. The bill would prohibit a distributor or a manufacturer from collecting or remitting the cultivation tax for medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation. The bill would require a cultivator to keep records of any medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation. The bill would require that the cannabis tax provisions not be construed to impose a cultivation tax upon medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products designated for donation.\n (5)This bill would provide that the provisions of the act are severable.\n (6)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 26001 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 2980 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2980 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n (7)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, an initiative measure, authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act with a 2/3 vote of the membership of both houses of the Legislature, except as provided.\n This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. \n (8)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Employee Housing Act, requires a person operating employee housing, as defined, to obtain a permit to operate that housing from the agency that enforces the act, which can either be the Department of Housing and Community Development or a city, county, or city and county that assumes responsibility for enforcing the act.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would expand the Employee Housing Act to (1) further incentivize the creation of farmworker housing in agricultural communities, (2) authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to partner private agricultural operators with independent nonprofits that will manage and operate residences, and (3) preserve and protect the civil rights of tenants living in employee housing.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2018-09-06" }, "version_count": 10, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Revenue and Taxation Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Wood" ], "coauthors": [ "Skinner", "Stone", "Wilk", "Bonta", "Cooley" ], "veto": { "date": "2018-09-30", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 829 without my signature.\n\nThis bill authorizes retailers to offer free cannabis or cannabis goods to medicinal patients who have a physician's recommendation.\n\nThis bill contains provisions that conflict with the strict standards contained in the voter approved Control, Regulate, and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. Providing free cannabis to a person with only a doctor's recommendation undermines these rules and the intent of the voters. For this reason, I cannot sign this bill. \n\nSincerely, \n\n\n\nEdmund G. Brown Jr." }, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3." }, { "date": "2018-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-21", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on T. & H. and JUD." }, { "date": "2018-04-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2018-04-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 4723.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2018-04-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-04-25", "action": "April 24 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2018-04-26", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2018-04-26", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-05-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2018-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2018-05-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4994.) (May 9)." }, { "date": "2018-05-10", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2018-05-17", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5089.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-17", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-06-07", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Coms. on B. & P. and REV. & TAX. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P." }, { "date": "2018-06-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P." }, { "date": "2018-06-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2018-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 25)." }, { "date": "2018-07-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 3. Page 6769.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 6028.) Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 6069.)" }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Urgency clause adopted." }, { "date": "2018-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 6130.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-11", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB829", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB829", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB829", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB829", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB829" }, "headline": "Allows tax-free donations of medical cannabis", "one_liner": "Lets certain cannabis businesses give free medical cannabis to patients without paying certain cannabis taxes.", "summary": "Certain licensed medical cannabis retailers and microbusinesses may give free cannabis to medical cannabis patients if rules are met. Donated medical cannabis is exempt from use tax until 2024, and from the cannabis excise and cultivation taxes. Businesses that sell or otherwise use cannabis marked for donation owe the tax. The bill takes effect immediately.", "issues": [ "nightlife", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with farmworker housing under the Employee Housing Act; it was rewritten to cover donations of medical cannabis.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB829.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB905", "slug": "2017-18/SB905", "number": "SB 905", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-17", "last_action_date": "2018-09-28", "subject": "Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.", "title": "An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 25631 of, and to add and repeal Section 25634 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.", "digest": "The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides for moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill, beginning January 1, 2021, and before January 2, 2026, would require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to conduct a pilot program that would authorize the department to issue an additional hours license to an on-sale licensee located in a qualified city which would authorize, with or without conditions, the selling, giving, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., upon completion of specified requirements by the qualified city in which the licensee is located. The bill would impose specified fees related to the license to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would require the applicant to notify specified persons of the application for an additional hours license and would provide a procedure for protest and hearing regarding the application. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol and each qualified city that has elected to participate in the program to submit reports to the Legislature and specified committees regarding the regional impact of the additional hours licenses, as specified. The bill would provide that any person under 21 years of age who enters and remains in the licensed public premises during the additional serving hours without lawful business therein is guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided. The pilot program would apply to Cathedral City, Coachella, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Palm Springs, Sacramento, San Francisco, and West Hollywood.\n This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the qualified cities.", "introduced_digest": "The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides for moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill, beginning January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2025, would require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to conduct a pilot program that would authorize the department to issue an additional hours license to an on-sale licensee located in a qualified city which would authorize, with or without conditions, the selling, giving, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., upon completion of specified requirements by the qualified city in which the licensee is located. The bill would impose specified fees related to the license to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would require the applicant to notify specified persons of the application for an additional hours license and would provide a procedure for protest and hearing regarding the application. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol and the qualified city to submit reports to the Legislature regarding the regional impact of the additional service hours areas. The bill would provide that any person under 21 years of age who enters and remains in the licensed public premises during the additional serving hours without lawful business therein is guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided.\n This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the qualified cities.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2018-09-05" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Santiago" ], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Lara", "Carrillo", "Jones-Sawyer", "Obernolte", "Rendon" ], "veto": { "date": "2018-09-28", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 905 without my signature.\n\nThis bill would authorize nine California cities to extend the hours businesses can serve alcohol from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.\n\nWithout question, these two extra hours will result in more drinking. The businesses and cities in support of this bill see that as a good source of revenue. The California Highway Patrol, however, strongly believes that this increased drinking will lead to more drunk driving. \n\nCalifornia's laws regulating late night drinking have been on the books since 1913. I believe we have enough mischief from midnight to 2 without adding two more hours of mayhem. \n\nSincerely, \n\n\n\nEdmund G. Brown Jr." }, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17." }, { "date": "2018-01-24", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2018-03-05", "action": "Set for hearing March 13." }, { "date": "2018-03-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 4366.) (March 13)." }, { "date": "2018-03-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 16." }, { "date": "2018-04-16", "action": "April 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4299.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 4398.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-07", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2018-06-20", "action": "June 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2018-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2018-07-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-23", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 22. Page 6773.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-30", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 6051.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-10", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-28", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-28", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB905", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB905", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB905", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB905", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB905" }, "headline": "Allows later bar hours in pilot cities", "one_liner": "Creates a pilot letting bars and restaurants in nine cities sell alcohol until 4 a.m. with a special license.", "summary": "Creates a pilot program from 2021 to 2026. On-sale alcohol licensees in nine listed cities, including San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, could get an extra hours license to sell drinks from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. Cities must opt in first. Applications can be protested. People under 21 may not stay in these venues during the extra hours.", "issues": [ "nightlife" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB905.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB937", "slug": "2017-18/SB937", "number": "SB 937", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-25", "last_action_date": "2018-09-30", "subject": "Lactation accommodation.", "introduced_subject": "Lactation accommodation.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1030, 1031, and 1033 of, and to add Sections 1034 and 1035 to, the Labor Code, relating to employment.", "digest": "Existing law requires employers to provide a reasonable amount of break time to employees desiring to express milk for the employee’s infant child. Existing law also requires an employer to make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room, or other location, other than a toilet stall, in close proximity to the employees’ work area, for the employee to express milk in private. Existing law exempts an employer from the break time requirement if the employer’s operations would be seriously disrupted by providing that time to employees desiring to express milk. Existing law subjects employers who violate these provisions to a civil penalty of $100 per violation and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue citations for those violations.\n Existing law prohibits an employer, who is required by law to give an employee a rest period during a workday, from requiring the employee to work during the rest period. Existing law requires an employer to pay the employee one additional hour of pay, at the employee’s regular rate of compensation, for each rest period not provided.\n This bill would require an employer to provide a lactation room or location that includes prescribed features and would require an employer, among other things, to provide access to a sink and refrigerator in close proximity to the employee’s workspace, as specified. The bill would require an employer to develop and implement a policy regarding lactation accommodation and make it available to employees, as specified. The bill would also require an employer to maintain records of requests for lactation accommodation for 3 years and to give the Labor Commission access to those records. The bill would provide that specified employers could seek an exemption from any of the requirements of these provisions if the employer could show that the requirement posed an undue hardship based on specified criteria.\n The bill would deem denial of reasonable break time or adequate space to express milk a failure to provide a rest period in accordance with state law. The bill would prohibit an employer from discharging, or in any other manner discriminating or retaliating against, an employee for exercising or attempting to exercise rights under these provisions and would establish specific additional remedies.\n The bill would require the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to create a model lactation accommodation request form and to make it available for download from its Internet Web site by employees and employers. The bill would authorize the division to establish a model lactation accommodation policy and lactation accommodation best practices to provide guidance to employers.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires employers to provide a reasonable amount of break time to employees desiring to express milk for the employee’s infant child. Existing law also requires an employer to make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room, or other location, other than a toilet stall, in close proximity to the employees’ work area, for the employee to express milk in private. Existing law exempts an employer from the break time requirement if the employer’s operations would be seriously disrupted by providing that time to employees desiring to express milk. Existing law subjects employers who violate these provisions to a civil penalty of $100 per violation and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue citations for those violations.\n This bill would require a lactation room or location to include prescribed features and would require an employer to provide access to a sink and refrigerator in close proximity to the employee’s work space. The bill would establish a procedure for an employer with fewer than 5 employees to apply to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement for an undue hardship exemption from the lactation room or location requirement. The bill would require an employer to develop and implement a policy regarding lactation accommodation and make it available to employees, as specified. The bill would require an employer to respond to an employee’s request for lactation accommodation within 5 days and provide a written response to the employee if an employer cannot provide break time or a location that complies with the policy. The bill would also require an employer to maintain records of requests for lactation accommodation for 3 years and to give the Labor Commission access to those records.\n The bill would prohibit an employer from discharging or retaliating against an employee for exercising or attempting to exercise rights under these provisions, would establish specific additional remedies, would authorize an employee to bring a civil action to obtain applicable remedies, and would increase the civil penalty to $500 for violations.\n The bill would require the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to create a model lactation accommodation policy and a model lactation accommodation request form, and make those models available for download from its Internet Web site by employees and employers. The bill would require the division to establish lactation accommodation best practices to provide guidance to employers.\n The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. The commission is required to adopt specific building standards, including standards for graywater systems and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the California Building Standards Code in its entirety once every 3 years.\n This bill would require the commission to adopt prescribed mandatory building standards for the installation of lactation space for employees in nonresidential buildings newly constructed or remodeled for workplace occupancy, as specified.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2018-09-04" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Labor Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Leyva" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Cristina Garcia", "Gonzalez Fletcher", "Limón" ], "coauthors": [ "Chiu", "Gabriel" ], "veto": { "date": "2018-09-30", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 937 without my signature.\n\nThis bill requires employers to provide a space that meets specified standards for employees with a desire to express breast milk in private. \n\nI have signed AB 1976 which furthers the state's ongoing efforts to support working mothers and their families. Therefore, this bill is not necessary. \n\nSincerely, \n\n\n\nEdmund G. Brown Jr." }, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-25", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-26", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25." }, { "date": "2018-02-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R., JUD., and T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-03-16", "action": "Set for hearing April 11." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 4626.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2018-04-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4721.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 4821.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2018-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4299.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 6. Page 4401.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-07", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and B. & P." }, { "date": "2018-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P." }, { "date": "2018-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2018-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2018-08-24", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 6714.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2018-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2018-08-29", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 5956.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2018-09-06", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2018-09-30", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB937", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB937", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB937", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB937", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB937" }, "headline": "Expands workplace lactation accommodation requirements", "one_liner": "Requires employers to provide set lactation spaces, a lactation policy, and protection from retaliation for employees who express milk.", "summary": "Employers must provide a lactation room with set features, plus nearby access to a sink and refrigerator. They must adopt a lactation policy and keep request records for 3 years. Denying break time or space counts as a missed rest period. Retaliation is banned. Some employers may seek an exemption for undue hardship.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB937.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB127", "slug": "2019-20/SB127", "number": "SB 127", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-10", "last_action_date": "2020-01-13", "subject": "Transportation funding: active transportation: complete streets.", "introduced_subject": "Transportation funding: active transportation: complete streets.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 14526.4 and 14526.6 of, and to add Section 14526.8 to, the Government Code, and to amend Section 167 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.", "digest": "(1)Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control over the highways of the state and is responsible for preparing the 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. \n Existing law also creates the California Transportation Commission, with specified powers and duties relative to the programming of transportation capital improvement projects and the allocation of state transportation funds for state transportation improvement projects. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the commission, to prepare an asset management plan to guide selection of projects for the State Highway Operation and Protection Program consistent with any applicable state and federal requirements. Existing law requires the commission, in connection with the asset management plan, to adopt targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives.\n This bill would require the asset management plan to prioritize the implementation of safe and connected facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users on all State Highway Operation and Protection Program projects, as specified. The bill would require the department to include complete streets elements in the asset management plan, as specified.\n The bill would require the commission, in connection with the asset management plan, to adopt performance measures that include conditions of bicycle and pedestrian facilities, accessibility and safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users on the state highway system. The bill would require that the plain language performance report developed by the department, in consultation with the commission, include a description of pedestrian and bicycle facilities on each project, including the number, extent, and type of elements.\n The bill would require the department, commencing with the 2022 State Highway Operation and Protection Program, when undertaking a specified capital improvement project on a state highway or on a local street crossing a state highway that is funded through the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, to include new pedestrian and bicycle facilities, or improve existing facilities, as part of the project, consistent with specified requirements. For each project development team that the department establishes for a project, the bill would require the department to include specified representatives on the team.\n (2)Existing law requires funds in the State Highway Account to be programmed, budgeted, and expended to maximize the use of federal funds and to be based on a specified sequence of priorities, including, among others, safety improvements where physical changes, other than adding additional lanes, would reduce fatalities and the number and severity of injuries.\n This bill would require those safety improvements to prioritize reducing fatalities and severe injuries, including fatalities and injuries of pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users on the state highway system.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law establishes the Active Transportation Program in the Department of Transportation for the purpose of encouraging increased use of active modes of transportation, such as biking and walking, and declares the intent of the Legislature that the program achieve specific goals, including, among other things, increasing the proportion of trips accomplished by biking and walking and the safety and mobility for nonmotorized users.\n This bill would establish a Division of Active Transportation within the department and require that an undersecretary of the Transportation Agency be assigned to give attention to active transportation program matters to guide progress toward meeting the department’s active transportation program goals and objectives. The bill would require the California Transportation Commission to give high priority to increasing safety for pedestrians and bicyclists and to the implementation of bicycle and pedestrian facilities.\n (2)Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control over the highways of the state and is responsible for preparing the 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. \n Existing law also creates the California Transportation Commission, with specified powers and duties relative to the programming of transportation capital improvement projects and the allocation of state transportation funds for state transportation improvement projects. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the commission, to prepare an asset management plan to guide selection of projects for the State Highway Operation and Protection Program consistent with any applicable state and federal requirements. Existing law requires the commission, in connection with the asset management plan, to adopt targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives.\n This bill would require the asset management plan to prescribe a process for community input and complete streets implementation to prioritize safety and accessibility for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users on all State Highway Operation and Protection Program projects, as specified. The bill would require that projects starting in 2020 meet specified requirements set forth as part of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program.\n The bill would require the commission, in connection with the asset management plan, to adopt performance measures that include conditions of bicycle and pedestrian facilities, accessibility and safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users, and vehicle miles traveled on the state highway system. The bill would require that the State Highway Operation and Protection Program projects include capital improvements relative to accessibility for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users. The bill would require that each project include in its budget the cost of pedestrian and bicycle facilities. The bill would require that the plain language performance report developed by the department, in consultation with the commission, include a description of pedestrian and bicycle facilities on each project, including the number, extent, and cost of the elements relative to the overall project.\n The bill would require the department, by January 1, 2021, when undertaking any capital improvement project on a state highway or a local street crossing a state highway that is funded through the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, to include new pedestrian and bicycle facilities, or improve existing facilities, as part of the project, consistent with specified requirements. The bill would require the department to establish a project development team for each project, as specified. The bill would require, until January 1, 2021, or by which time the department can demonstrate that it has met these requirements, the department to use 3% of State Highway Operation and Protection Program funds from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account for bicycle and pedestrian facilities.\n This bill would also require that funds in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund be programmed, budgeted, as specified, and expended to maximize the use of federal funds for accessibility improvements for all users of the transportation system, as specified, and that safety improvements prioritize reducing fatalities and severe injuries for vulnerable road users, and not increase vehicle miles traveled.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2019-09-13" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Streets and Highways Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Bloom", "Boerner Horvath", "Chiu", "Friedman", "Eduardo Garcia", "Gonzalez" ], "veto": { "date": "2019-10-12", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 127 without my signature.\n\nThis bill creates a process to require the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to add complete streets elements to certain projects on state highways.\n\nI fully support improving facilities to increase walking, biking and accessing public transit. However, this bill creates a prescriptive and costly approach to achieve these objectives. \n\nBy implementing my Executive Order N-19-19, Caltrans is increasing and accelerating its investments in active transportation where appropriate and feasible. I am committed to holding the department accountable to deliver more alternatives to driving while continuing to maintain our state's highways and bridges. The new leadership we are putting in place at Caltrans will be key in implementing this vision and approach.\n\nSincerely,\n\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-10", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-01-11", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10." }, { "date": "2019-01-24", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2019-04-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2019-04-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3. Page 804.) (April 23)." }, { "date": "2019-04-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2019-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1089.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 1245.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-06", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2019-07-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-21", "action": "August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 3329.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-09-11", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 12. Page 2846.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-09-18", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2019-10-12", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-10-12", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." }, { "date": "2020-01-13", "action": "Stricken from file." }, { "date": "2020-01-13", "action": "Veto sustained." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB127", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB127", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB127", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB127", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB127" }, "headline": "Requires bike and pedestrian upgrades in highway projects", "one_liner": "Requires the state Department of Transportation to add or improve pedestrian and bicycle facilities in certain state highway projects.", "summary": "Starting with the 2022 State Highway Operation and Protection Program, certain state highway projects must include new or improved pedestrian and bicycle facilities. The highway asset management plan must prioritize safe facilities for people walking, biking and using transit. Safety spending must prioritize reducing deaths and severe injuries, including among pedestrians and bicyclists.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB127.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB268", "slug": "2019-20/SB268", "number": "SB 268", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-02-12", "last_action_date": "2020-01-13", "subject": "Ballot measures: local taxes.", "introduced_subject": "CalWORKs eligibility: asset limits.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 9401, 9403, 9405, and 13119 of, to amend the heading of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9400) of Division 9 of, to add Section 9406 to, and to repeal and add Section 9400 of, the Elections Code, relating to elections.", "digest": "Existing law requires that the ballots used when voting upon a measure proposed by a local governing body or submitted to the voters as an initiative or referendum measure, including a measure authorizing the issuance of bonds or the incurrence of debt, have printed on them a true and impartial statement describing the purpose of the measure. If the proposed measure imposes a tax or raises the rate of a tax, existing law requires the ballot to include in the statement of the measure the amount of money to be raised annually and the rate and duration of the tax to be levied.\n This bill would exempt from this requirement a measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds. The bill would instead permit for these types of measures the statement of the measure to include the words “See voter guide for tax rate information.”\n Existing law requires local governments, when submitting for voter approval a bond measure that will be secured by an ad valorem tax, to provide the voters with a statement that includes estimates of the tax rates required to fund the measure.\n This bill would additionally require for a measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds, that voters be provided with a statement that includes specified information relating to the tax that will be imposed or increased as a result of the measure.\n By imposing new duties on local elections officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states, with California’s version of this program being known as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Under the CalWORKs program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals who meet specified eligibility criteria, including limitations on income and assets generally applicable to public assistance programs. Existing law continuously appropriates money from the General Fund to pay for a share of aid grant costs under the CalWORKs program.\n This bill would repeal those limitations on assets with regard to eligibility for CalWORKs, thereby eliminating the consideration of an individual’s or family’s assets as a condition of eligibility for CalWORKs. The bill would also make conforming changes. By increasing the duties of counties administering the CalWORKs program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would declare that no appropriation would be made for purposes of the bill pursuant to the provision continuously appropriating funds for the CalWORKs program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2019-09-17" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Elections Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Mark Stone" ], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Beall" ], "veto": { "date": "2019-10-13", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 268 without my signature.\n\nThis bill makes modifications to ballot label requirements and notification requirements to voters for a local measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds.\n\nI am concerned that this bill as crafted will reduce transparency for local tax and bond measures. \n\nSincerely,\n\n\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2019-02-12", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-13", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15." }, { "date": "2019-02-21", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2019-03-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2019-04-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 621.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2019-04-22", "action": "April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1094.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 1184.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-03", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2019-06-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2019-06-17", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2019-06-18", "action": "June 18 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2019-06-20", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E. & R. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on E. & R." }, { "date": "2019-06-26", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R." }, { "date": "2019-07-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 3)." }, { "date": "2019-07-10", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-21", "action": "August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-09", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 45. Noes 25. Page 3208.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2019-09-09", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d)." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2733.) Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A." }, { "date": "2019-09-10", "action": "Set for hearing September 12." }, { "date": "2019-09-12", "action": "From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 2908.)" }, { "date": "2019-09-13", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 2919.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2019-09-20", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2019-10-13", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2019-10-13", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." }, { "date": "2020-01-13", "action": "Stricken from file." }, { "date": "2020-01-13", "action": "Veto sustained." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB268", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB268", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB268", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB268", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB268" }, "headline": "Changes ballot wording for local tax measures", "one_liner": "Lets some local tax and bond measures refer voters to the voter guide for tax rate details.", "summary": "Local measures that impose or raise a tax with more than one rate, or that authorize bonds, no longer must list the amount raised, rate and duration on the ballot. Instead, the ballot may say \"See voter guide for tax rate information.\" Voters must receive a separate statement with details about the tax.", "issues": [ "civil_rights" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with CalWORKs asset limits; it was rewritten to cover local tax ballot measures.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB268.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB57", "slug": "2021-22/SB57", "number": "SB 57", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-12-07", "last_action_date": "2022-08-22", "subject": "Controlled substances: overdose prevention program.", "introduced_subject": "Controlled substances: overdose prevention program.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Section 11376.6 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.", "digest": "Existing law makes it a crime to possess specified controlled substances or paraphernalia. Existing law makes it a crime to use or be under the influence of specified controlled substances. Existing law additionally makes it a crime to visit or be in any room where specified controlled substances are being unlawfully used with knowledge that the activity is occurring, or to open or maintain a place for the purpose of giving away or using specified controlled substances. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to rent, lease, or make available for use any building or room for the purpose of storing or distributing any controlled substance. Existing law authorizes forfeiture of property used for specified crimes involving controlled substances. Existing law regulates specified medical practitioners under the Medical Practice Act and requires the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to enforce those provisions.\n This bill would, until January 1, 2028, authorize the City and County of San Francisco, the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and the City of Oakland to approve entities to operate overdose prevention programs for persons that satisfy specified requirements, including, among other things, providing a hygienic space supervised by trained staff where people who use drugs can consume preobtained drugs, providing sterile consumption supplies, providing access or referrals to substance use disorder treatment, and that program staff be authorized and trained to provide emergency administration of an opioid antagonist, as defined by existing law. The bill would require the City and County of San Francisco, the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and the City of Oakland, prior to authorizing an overdose prevention program in its jurisdiction, to provide local law enforcement officials, local public health officials, and the public with an opportunity to comment in a public meeting. The bill would require an entity operating a program to provide an annual report to the city or the city and county, as specified. The bill would require all local jurisdictions that choose to participate in the overdose prevention program to confer and choose a single independent entity, as specified, to conduct a peer-reviewed study, funded by the participating jurisdictions, of the statewide efficacy of the overdose prevention programs and the community impacts of the programs, to be submitted to the Legislature and the Governor’s office on or before January 15, 2027. The bill would exempt a person from, among other things, civil liability, professional discipline, or existing criminal sanctions, solely for good faith actions, conduct, or omissions in compliance with an overdose prevention program authorized by the city or the city and county. The bill would clarify that the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California is authorized to take disciplinary action against a licensee related to the operation of an overdose prevention program that violates the Medical Practice Act.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco, the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and the City of Oakland.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law makes it a crime to possess specified controlled substances or paraphernalia. Existing law makes it a crime to use or be under the influence of specified controlled substances. Existing law additionally makes it a crime to visit or be in any room where specified controlled substances are being unlawfully used with knowledge that the activity is occurring, or to open or maintain a place for the purpose of giving away or using specified controlled substances. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to rent, lease, or make available for use any building or room for the purpose of storing or distributing any controlled substance. Existing law authorizes forfeiture of property used for specified crimes involving controlled substances.\n This bill would, until January 1, 2027, authorize the City and County of San Francisco, the County of Los Angeles, and the City of Oakland to approve entities to operate overdose prevention programs for persons that satisfy specified requirements, including, among other things, providing a hygienic space supervised by trained staff where people who use drugs can consume preobtained drugs, providing sterile consumption supplies, and providing access or referrals to substance use disorder treatment. The bill would require the City and County of San Francisco, the County of Los Angeles, and the City of Oakland, prior to authorizing an overdose prevention program in its jurisdiction, to provide local law enforcement officials, local public health officials, and the public with an opportunity to comment in a public meeting. The bill would require an entity operating a program to provide an annual report to the city or the city and county, as specified. The bill would exempt a person from, among other things, civil liability, professional discipline, or existing criminal sanctions, solely for actions, conduct, or omissions in compliance with an overdose prevention program authorized by the city or the city and county.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco, the County of Los Angeles, and the City of Oakland.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2022-08-05" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Kamlager", "Friedman" ], "coauthors": [ "Eggman", "Skinner", "Mia Bonta", "Carrillo", "Haney", "Ting", "Wicks" ], "veto": { "date": "2022-08-22", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\nI am returning Senate Bill 57 without my signature.\nThis bill authorizes certain jurisdictions to approve any number of \"overdose prevention programs,\" often referred to as safe injection or consumption sites, where individuals may use illegal controlled substances at supervised facilities. \nI have long supported the cutting edge of harm reduction strategies. However, I am acutely concerned about the operations of safe injection sites without strong, engaged local leadership and well-documented, vetted, and thoughtful operational and sustainability plans.  \nThe unlimited number of safe injection sites that this bill would authorize - facilities which could exist well into the later part of this decade - could induce a world of unintended consequences. It is possible that these sites would help improve the safety and health of our urban areas, but if done without a strong plan, they could work against this purpose. These unintended consequences in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland cannot be taken lightly. Worsening drug consumption challenges in these areas is not a risk we can take.\nWe should strive to ensure our innovative efforts are well planned, even when they start as pilots, to help mitigate the potential for unintended impacts. Therefore, I am instructing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to convene city and county officials to discuss minimum standards and best practices for safe and sustainable overdose prevention programs. I remain open to this discussion when those local officials come back to the Legislature with recommendations for a truly limited pilot program - with comprehensive plans for siting, operations, community partnerships, and fiscal sustainability that demonstrate how these programs will be run safely and effectively. \nSincerely, \n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2020-12-07", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-12-08", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH, PUB. S., and JUD." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referral to Com. on JUD. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus." }, { "date": "2021-02-18", "action": "Set for hearing March 10." }, { "date": "2021-03-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-03-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 3. Page 456.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-03-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 6." }, { "date": "2021-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-04-06", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 689.) (April 6)." }, { "date": "2021-04-07", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-04-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 881.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-04-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-05-28", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-07-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-01-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (January 11)." }, { "date": "2022-01-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-06-01", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2022-06-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 1)." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-06-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 42. Noes 29. Page 5674.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-06-30", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-01", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 4622.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-10", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB57", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB57", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB57", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB57", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB57" }, "headline": "Allows overdose prevention programs in four localities", "one_liner": "Lets San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles city and county approve supervised sites for using preobtained drugs until 2028.", "summary": "Until 2028, San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles city and county may approve overdose prevention programs. These offer supervised drug use, sterile supplies, treatment referrals, and overdose-reversal medicine. Each must first hold a public meeting. Programs report yearly, and a study is due by 2027. People acting in good faith under a program are shielded from criminal and civil penalties.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB57.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB110", "slug": "2021-22/SB110", "number": "SB 110", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-06", "last_action_date": "2022-01-27", "subject": "Substance use disorder services: contingency management services.", "introduced_subject": "Substance use disorder services: contingency management services.", "title": "An act to amend Section 14021.6 of, and to add Section 14021.38 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal.", "digest": "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including substance use disorder services that are delivered through the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system, subject to utilization controls. For purposes of the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program, existing law prescribes the maximum allowable rates for services, including individual and group rates for extensive counseling for outpatient drug-free treatment. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.\n This bill would expand substance use disorder services to include contingency management services as an optional benefit under the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system, as specified, subject to utilization controls. The bill would require counties that administer the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system to submit a plan to the department that demonstrates readiness to implement contingency management services that are provided to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries through electronic or in-person means and to consult with stakeholders for purposes of developing that plan. The bill would require the department to review and approve the plan. The bill would require the department to issue guidance on the use of contingency management services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries who access substance use disorder services under the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system. The bill would provide that contingency management services are not a rebate, refund, commission preference, patronage dividend, discount, or any other gratuitous consideration. The bill would authorize the department to establish limits on the number and value of incentives available to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who receive contingency management services, and to implement these provisions by various means, including provider bulletin, without taking regulatory action. The bill would condition the implementation of these provisions to the extent permitted by federal law, the availability of federal financial participation, and the department securing federal approval. The bill would require the department to determine maximum allowable rates for contingency management services, as specified.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including substance use disorder services that are delivered through the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.\n To the extent funds are made available in the annual Budget Act, this bill would expand substance use disorder services to include contingency management services, as specified, subject to utilization controls. The bill would require the department to issue guidance and training to providers on their use of contingency management services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries who access substance use disorder services under any Medi-Cal delivery system, including the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system. The bill would provide that contingency management services are not a rebate, refund, commission preference, patronage dividend, discount, or any other gratuitous consideration. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions by various means, including provider bulletin, without taking regulatory action, and would condition the implementation of these provisions to the extent permitted by federal law, the availability of federal financial participation, and the department securing federal approval.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2021-09-07" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Chiu" ], "coauthors": [ "Davies", "Friedman" ], "veto": { "date": "2021-10-08", "message": "To Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 110 without my signature.\n\nThis bill would require Medi-Cal substance use disorder services to include contingency management services as an optional benefit under the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system, subject to utilization controls.\n\nGiven the promise of contingency management as a treatment for stimulant use disorders, the 2021-22 Budget includes funding to support a pilot contingency management Medi-Cal benefit from January 2022 through March 2024. The Department of Health Care Services has sought federal approval for this pilot project and will work expeditiously to implement it once it is authorized.\n\nThe outcomes and lessons learned from the pilot project should be evaluated before permanently extending the Medi-Cal benefit. As such, this bill is premature, and I am returning it without my signature.\n\n\nSincerely,\n\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-06", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 6." }, { "date": "2021-01-11", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Set for hearing March 10." }, { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "March 10 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2021-03-15", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-04-07", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2021-04-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 876.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-30", "action": "Set for hearing May 10." }, { "date": "2021-05-06", "action": "May 10 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2021-05-07", "action": "Set for hearing May 17." }, { "date": "2021-05-17", "action": "May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1183.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2021-06-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1342.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-17", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-07-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-07-06", "action": "July 6 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2021-07-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-08-19", "action": "August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 26)." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-08-31", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2699.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-09-03", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2384.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m." }, { "date": "2021-10-08", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2021-10-08", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." }, { "date": "2022-01-27", "action": "Stricken from file." }, { "date": "2022-01-27", "action": "Veto sustained." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110" }, "headline": "Adds contingency management to Medi-Cal drug treatment", "one_liner": "Lets counties offer Medi-Cal patients incentive-based contingency management services as part of substance use disorder treatment.", "summary": "Adds contingency management services as an optional benefit in the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system. Counties must submit a readiness plan for state approval. The Department of Health Care Services must issue guidance, may limit the number and value of incentives, and must set payment rates. Depends on federal approval and funding.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB110.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB477", "slug": "2021-22/SB477", "number": "SB 477", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-17", "last_action_date": "2022-01-27", "subject": "General plan: annual report.", "introduced_subject": "General plan: annual report.", "title": "An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 65400 of the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "Existing law, 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. That law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide, by April 1 of each year, an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the number of applications submitted, the location and total number of developments approved, the number of building permits issued, and the number of units constructed pursuant to a specific streamlined, ministerial approval process.\n This bill would, commencing January 1, 2024, require a planning agency to include in that annual report specified information on costs, standards, and applications for proposed housing development projects and specified information on housing development projects within the jurisdiction.\n Existing law requires an applicant for a housing development project, as defined, to be deemed to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing all of specified information about the proposed project to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the project is being sought and upon payment of the permit processing fee.\n This bill would, commencing January 1, 2024, require a planning agency to include in the annual report described above the number of times in which a preliminary application for a housing development project expired pursuant to specified procedures.\n Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development in the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units, or for the donation of land within the development, if the developer agrees to, among other things, construct a specified percentage of units for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents, including lower income students.\n This bill would require the planning agency to include in the annual report described above the number of units in a student housing development for lower income students for which the developer was granted a density bonus.\n By adding to the duties of local planning officials with respect to preparing and submitting the above-described annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, 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. That law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide, by April 1 of each year, an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the number of applications submitted, the location and total number of developments approved, the number of building permits issued, and the number of units constructed pursuant to a specific streamlined, ministerial approval process.\n This bill would, commencing January 1, 2023, require a planning agency to include in that annual report specified information on costs, standards, and applications for proposed housing development projects and specified information on housing development projects within the jurisdiction. The bill, commencing January 1, 2023, would authorize the department to assess the accuracy of the information submitted as part of the annual report and, if it determines that any report submitted to it by a planning agency contains inaccurate information, require that the planning agency correct that inaccuracy.\n By adding to the duties of local planning officials with respect to preparing and submitting the above-described annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2021-09-07" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Caballero", "Wicks" ], "veto": { "date": "2021-10-05", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 477 without my signature.\n\nThis bill would require a city or county planning agency to include specified information for proposed housing development projects within its jurisdiction in its annual report.\n\nI strongly agree that in order to solve California's housing crisis, we must require more accountability at every level of government. That's why I signed AB 1483 (Chapter 662, Statutes of 2019) to require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a data strategy as part of the statewide housing plan - implementation is currently underway and the Department will produce its recommendations in January, on-time.\n\nAs HCD continues its work to implement AB 1483, I am directing the Department to consider including data on the effectiveness of various housing laws, as this bill contemplates. Building this analysis into the existing data process is the more appropriate approach to this issue, as opposed to creating a new requirement while the Department is mid-stream on implementing the thoughtful provisions of AB 1483.\n\nAs the Department completes this important work, further statutory changes may be necessary to implement any recommendations. I look forward to working with the Legislature next year to enact potential improvements identified by the Department.\n\n\nSincerely,\n\n\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2021-03-02", "action": "Set for hearing March 18." }, { "date": "2021-03-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 553.) (March 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-03-23", "action": "Set for hearing April 5." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1193.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1283.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2021-06-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 22)." }, { "date": "2021-06-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2021-07-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-08-19", "action": "August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 26)." }, { "date": "2021-08-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-08-31", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 2717.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2021-09-02", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2021-09-03", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2377.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2021-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m." }, { "date": "2021-10-05", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2021-10-05", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." }, { "date": "2022-01-27", "action": "Stricken from file." }, { "date": "2022-01-27", "action": "Veto sustained." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB477", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB477", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB477", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB477", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB477" }, "headline": "Requires more data in local housing reports", "one_liner": "Cities and counties must report more details on housing costs, standards, and applications to the state.", "summary": "Starting in 2024, city and county planning agencies must add details on costs, standards, and applications for housing projects to their annual report to the state. Reports must also include expired preliminary applications and density bonus units in lower income student housing.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB477.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB834", "slug": "2021-22/SB834", "number": "SB 834", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-01-05", "last_action_date": "2022-09-22", "subject": "Tax-exempt status: insurrection.", "introduced_subject": "Tax-exempt status: insurrection.", "title": "An act to add Section 23703.6 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation.", "digest": "The Corporation Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, provides an exemption from the taxes imposed by those laws for specified organizations. Existing law provides that tax-exempt status, under certain circumstances, may be suspended or revoked.\n Existing federal law defines various crimes against the established republican form of government, including treason, insurrection, and seditious conspiracy, as provided.\n This bill would authorize the Attorney General to make a finding that a tax-exempt organization has actively engaged in, or incited the active engagement in, acts or conspiracies defined as criminal under specified federal law, and likely to produce imminent violation of that federal law. The bill would require the Attorney General to notify the Franchise Tax Board of such a finding, and would state the existing authority of the Franchise Tax Board to revoke the tax-exempt status of the organization found to be in violation.", "introduced_digest": "The Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, provides an exemption from the taxes imposed by those laws for specified organizations.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would grant authority to the Franchise Tax Board to suspend or deny tax-exempt status for organizations that promote, engage in, commit to, support, or aid insurrection against the United States, any effort to overturn democratic election results, or obstruct the peaceful transfer of power.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2022-08-25" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Revenue and Taxation Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Mullin" ], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Hertzberg", "Kamlager", "Min", "Newman", "Portantino", "Stern", "Umberg", "Berman", "Cristina Garcia", "Ting", "Wicks", "Haney", "Stone" ], "veto": { "date": "2022-09-22", "message": "To the Members of the California State Assembly:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 834 without my signature.\n\nThis bill allows the Franchise Tax Board to revoke the tax-exempt status of a nonprofit, charitable organization if the California Attorney General determines the organization has engaged in treason, insurrection, conspiracy, government overthrow, or mutiny by members of the military. \n\nWithout question, extremist groups that participate in anti-government acts such as those that took place during the insurrection on January 6, 2021 should be renounced and investigated for their participation. However, these are issues that should be evaluated through the judicial system with due process and a right to a hearing.\n\nFor these reasons, I am returning SB 834 without my signature.\n\n\nSincerely,\n\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2022-01-05", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-01-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 5." }, { "date": "2022-01-19", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-17", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2022-04-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2022-04-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 26 in PUB. S. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2022-04-13", "action": "April 21 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2022-04-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3459.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3518.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2022-05-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-13", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3770.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 0. Page 3833.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-27", "action": "Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-06-14", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2022-06-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 28)." }, { "date": "2022-06-30", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 2. Page 6006.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-23", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 5009.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-22", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-22", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB834", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB834", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB834", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB834", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB834" }, "headline": "Allows reporting tax-exempt groups that engage in insurrection", "one_liner": "Lets the Attorney General find that a tax-exempt group engaged in insurrection or similar federal crimes and notify tax officials.", "summary": "Allows the Attorney General to find that a tax-exempt organization engaged in, or incited, acts such as treason, insurrection, or seditious conspiracy under federal law. The Attorney General must notify the Franchise Tax Board of the finding. The bill restates the board's existing power to revoke that organization's tax-exempt status.", "issues": [ "civil_rights", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB834.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB964", "slug": "2021-22/SB964", "number": "SB 964", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-09", "last_action_date": "2022-09-27", "subject": "Behavioral health.", "introduced_subject": "Behavioral health.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127815) of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to behavioral health.", "digest": "Existing law establishes various health professions development programs, within the Department of Health Care Access and Information, for the promotion of education and training of health professionals to address workforce shortage and distribution needs. \n The bill would require the department to commission consultants to prepare a report for the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2024, that provides a landscape analysis of the current behavioral health workforce and the state’s behavioral health workforce needs, and to make recommendations on how to address the state’s behavioral health workforce shortage.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law establishes the Board of Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Consumer Affairs for the purpose of licensing and regulating marriage and family therapists, licensed educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors.\n This bill would require the board, on or before January 1, 2024, to conduct an analysis and provide recommendations to the Legislature regarding specified topics relating to behavioral health professionals, including the scope of practice laws for behavioral health workers, license requirements and clinical training requirements for behavioral health professionals, and requirements for renewing the license of a behavioral health professional who has an expired license. \n (2)Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets forth the missions and functions of the 3 segments comprising the state’s public postsecondary education system. These segments are the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the regents act, by resolution, to make the provisions applicable.\n This bill would amend the act to require the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and, if made applicable by the regents by appropriate resolution, the University of California, to develop 2 accelerated programs of study related to degrees in social work. The bill would require one program to offer a concurrent bachelor’s and master’s of social work program that will allow students to combine their last one or 2 years of undergraduate study in social work with their graduate study in social work in order to complete both programs at an accelerated rate. The bill would require the second program to offer an accelerated academic program in which students with experience as peer support specialists, community health workers, or psychiatric technicians could receive their associate’s degree, as well as a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work. The bill would require both programs to require a student to take a course on working with the severely mentally ill, with a focus on working in the public behavioral health system.\n (3)Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information and authorizes the department, among other things, to award competitive grants to entities and individuals it deems qualified to expand the supply of behavioral health counselors, coaches, peer supports, and other allied health care providers serving children and youth.\n This bill would establish the Behavioral Health Workforce Preservation and Restoration Fund as a fund in the state treasury, to be administered by the department, for the purpose of stabilizing the current licensed clinical behavioral health workforce. The bill would authorize moneys from the fund to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to provide hiring or performance-based bonuses, salary augmentation, overtime pay, or hazard pay to licensed professionals working in the behavioral health sector. The bill would also require the department to establish a stipend program, in addition to and separate from the fund, for students pursuing a master’s degree in social work with a specialized focus on public behavioral health. Under the bill, a student would be eligible for a stipend of $18,500 per year for up to 2 calendar years if specified conditions are met.\n This bill would require the department to develop an online jobs board on which licensed public, private, and nonprofit behavioral health providers and facilities in the state may post job openings for behavioral health workers. The bill would also require the department to request the University of California to enter into a contract with the department to prepare a report for the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2024, that provides a landscape analysis of the current behavioral health workforce and the state’s behavioral health workforce needs, and makes recommendations on how to address the state’s behavioral health workforce shortage.\n (4)Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program and provides for various services, including behavioral and mental health services that are rendered by Medi-Cal enrolled providers.\n Existing law requires the department, on or before July 1, 2022, to establish statewide requirements for counties to use in developing certification programs for the certification of peer support specialists, as specified. Existing law authorizes a county, or an agency that represents a county, to develop a peer support specialist certification program and certification fee schedule, both of which are subject to department approval.\n This bill would repeal those provisions authorizing a county to develop a peer support specialist certification program and instead would require the department, on or before, July 1, 2023, to provide for a statewide certification for peer support specialists. The bill would require the department to amend the Medicaid state plan to include a certified peer support specialist as a provider type for purposes of the Medi-Cal program and to include peer support specialist services as a distinct service type under the Medi-Cal program. The bill would require Medi-Cal reimbursement for peer support specialist services to be implemented only if, and to the extent that, federal financial participation is available and the department obtains all necessary federal approvals.\n (5)Existing law, to the extent permitted by federal law, requires Medi-Cal payments to be made to designated public hospitals and their affiliated government entities in recognition of the Medi-Cal managed care share of graduate medical education costs. Under existing law, the payments consist of specified components, including direct graduate medical education payments made in recognition and support of the direct costs incurred in the operation of graduate medical education programs, including, among other things, allocated overhead costs incurred for interns and residents in medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, podiatry, nursing, and allied health and paramedical programs.\n This bill would also authorize those payments for allocated overhead costs incurred for interns and residents in behavioral health programs.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2022-08-24" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Caballero", "Stern" ], "coauthors": [ "Dodd", "Rubio", "Bauer-Kahan", "Gipson", "Gray", "Lackey", "Levine", "Waldron" ], "veto": { "date": "2022-09-27", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate: \n\nI am returning Senate Bill 964 without my signature.\n\nThis bill would require the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) to commission a report that examines the current landscape of the state's behavioral health workforce, and to convene a stakeholder group to participate in developing and drafting the report for submission to the Legislature by January 1, 2024.\n\nI commend the author for their work to ensure that all Californian's behavioral health needs are met. One major component to meeting this need is through an adequate and well-trained workforce, which is why I worked with the Legislature to include in the 2022 Budget Act, $248 million over 5 years to increase the number of licensed behavioral health professionals, including more than $100 million to increase the number of social workers. This bill duplicates existing efforts in assessing workforce needs and analyzing trends through HCAI's Workforce Education and Training Council and its Workforce Research Data Center. Furthermore, this bill would require approximately $1.5 million to implement, which was not accounted for in the budget. \n\nWith our state facing lower-than-expected revenues over the first few months of this fiscal year, it is important to remain disciplined when it comes to spending, particularly spending that is ongoing. We must prioritize existing obligations and priorities, including education, health care, public safety and safety-net programs. \n\nThe Legislature sent measures with potential costs of well over $20 billion in one-time spending commitments and more than $10 billion in ongoing commitments not accounted for in the state budget. Bills with significant fiscal impact, such as this measure, should be considered and accounted for as part of the annual budget process. \n\nFor these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.\n\nSincerely, \n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-09", "action": "Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement." }, { "date": "2022-02-10", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2022-02-16", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and ED." }, { "date": "2022-03-16", "action": "Set for hearing March 30." }, { "date": "2022-03-31", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3273.) (March 30)." }, { "date": "2022-04-04", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2022-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2022-04-06", "action": "April 20 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-04-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 27." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2022-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3539.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-13", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3777.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3883.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-27", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HIGHER ED." }, { "date": "2022-06-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-06-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED." }, { "date": "2022-06-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 21)." }, { "date": "2022-06-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2022-08-10", "action": "August 10 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "Joint Rule 62(a) suspended." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5948.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4936.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-26", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-27", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-27", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB964", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB964", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB964", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB964", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB964" }, "headline": "Requires study of behavioral health workforce needs", "one_liner": "Requires the state to commission a report on behavioral health workforce shortages and how to address them.", "summary": "Requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to hire consultants to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2024. The report must analyze the current behavioral health workforce and the state's needs, and recommend ways to address the workforce shortage.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB964.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB1144", "slug": "2021-22/SB1144", "number": "SB 1144", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-16", "last_action_date": "2022-09-29", "subject": "Water efficiency and quality assessment reports: state buildings and public school buildings.", "introduced_subject": "Safe drinking water: public buildings.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 20 (commencing with Section 14700) to Division 7 of the Water Code, relating to water.", "digest": "Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. In this regard, existing law prohibits a person from using any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of any public water system or any plumbing in a facility providing water for human consumption, except as provided.\n This bill would require, no later than January 1, 2027, except as provided, an operating agency, as defined, to complete a water efficiency and quality assessment report, as specified, for each covered building. The bill would define a “covered building” to mean a building owned and occupied, or leased, maintained, and occupied, by a state agency, or a public school building, including a charter school building, as described. If the report identifies noncompliant plumbing fixtures and noncompliant appliances, the bill would require the operating agency to replace those fixtures and appliances that fail to meet water efficiency standards, as specified, at the earliest practical time, subject to dedicated funding for this purpose. The bill would also require various mitigation and remediation actions with respect to lead-contaminated potable water systems, lead pipes, and non-lead-free pipes, as determined in the report, dependent on funding expressly earmarked for those actions.\n This bill would further require, no later than one year after the completion of the water efficiency and quality assessment report, an operating agency to implement a Legionella management program for any covered building that is over 10 stories in height and utilizes a cooling tower system, to retain a copy of the Legionella management program with sampling details and sampling results for at least 3 years, and to notify the local health department, as specified, and the public regarding a Legionella culture sampling analysis under a specified circumstance. These requirements would not apply to a school building if the cooling tower system was installed on or after January 1, 2013. The bill would also authorize the state board to periodically monitor operating agencies to ensure that a Legionella management program is in place and designed and administered in compliance with the requirements of the bill. The bill would also require, on or before January 1, 2024, the state board to adopt regulations necessary to implement the water efficiency and quality program for public schools and state buildings pursuant to the provisions of the bill. The bill would prohibit funds appropriated or made available for purposes of complying with the requirements of the bill from counting toward satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. By imposing new duties on public schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. In this regard, existing law prohibits a person from using any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of any public water system or any plumbing in a facility providing water for human consumption, except as provided. \n This bill would declare that the replacement of lead pipe and inefficient plumbing fixtures in schools and public buildings is a state priority and would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would require the State Water Resources Control Board or the Natural Resources Agency to prepare a water management plan to, among other things, ensure safe water quality for public buildings.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2022-08-26" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Water Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": { "date": "2022-09-29", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate: \n\nI am returning Senate Bill 1144 without my signature.\n\nThis bill requires public schools and state buildings to complete a water efficiency and quality assessment report on their facilities and create a Legionella Management Program for every building over ten stories high with a cooling tower system. Operating agencies would be required to take various remediation and mitigation actions based on the results. \n\nImproving the quality of drinking water in our state's buildings and schools is a priority we share. California's Safe Drinking Water Act tasks the State Water Board with ensuring that public water systems provide uncontaminated, quality, potable water to consumers. The Board regulates water systems; however, oversight of internal plumbing at the individual building level is not a function of the Board. Developing new expertise to adequately implement this bill and develop regulations would require significant new staff and resources.\n\nThe scope of this bill is broad, including not just public schools, charter schools, and state buildings, but also buildings leased, maintained, and occupied by a state agency. Implementing this policy would result in substantial, ongoing General Fund and Prop 98 costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars not accounted for in the budget.\n\nWith our state facing lower-than-expected revenues over the first few months of this fiscal year, it is important to remain disciplined when it comes to spending, particularly spending that is ongoing. We must prioritize existing obligations and priorities, and this bill could force state agencies and public schools to choose between its implementation and other critical needs.\n\nThe Legislature sent measures with potential costs of well over $20 billion in one-time spending commitments and more than $10 billion in ongoing commitments not accounted for in the state budget. Bills with significant fiscal impact, such as this measure, should be considered and accounted for as part of the annual budget process. \n\nFor these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.\n\n\nSincerely, \n\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-16", "action": "Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement." }, { "date": "2022-02-17", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2022-02-23", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-17", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on G.O., ED., and E.Q." }, { "date": "2022-03-18", "action": "Referral to Com. on E.Q. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus." }, { "date": "2022-03-29", "action": "Set for hearing April 5." }, { "date": "2022-04-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 3324.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2022-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 27." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2022-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3539.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-13", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3785.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 3887.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and ED." }, { "date": "2022-06-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M." }, { "date": "2022-06-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2022-06-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2022-08-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29)." }, { "date": "2022-08-01", "action": "(Received at desk July 1 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14))." }, { "date": "2022-08-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 6029.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2022-08-22", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2022-08-24", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5083.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2022-08-30", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2022-09-29", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2022-09-29", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1144", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1144", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1144", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1144", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1144" }, "headline": "Requires water assessments for state and school buildings", "one_liner": "State agencies and public schools must assess water efficiency and quality, including lead, in their buildings.", "summary": "By January 1, 2027, requires operating agencies to assess water efficiency and quality in state buildings and public schools. Inefficient fixtures and appliances must be replaced and lead problems fixed, subject to dedicated funding. Covered buildings over 10 stories with cooling towers need a Legionella management program. The state water board must adopt rules by 2024.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB1144.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB58", "slug": "2023-24/SB58", "number": "SB 58", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-12-16", "last_action_date": "2024-01-25", "subject": "Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.", "introduced_subject": "Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 11054, 11350, 11364, 11364.7, 11365, 11377, 11379, 11382, and 11550 of, to add Sections 11350.1 and 11377.1 to, to add and repeal Section 11214 of, and to repeal Section 11999 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.", "digest": "(1)Existing law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion.\n This bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and mescaline, for personal use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substances on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age.\n The bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations on the establishment of a framework governing the therapeutic use, including facilitated or supported use, of those substances. The bill would require that workgroup to send a report to the Legislature containing those recommendations on or before January 1, 2025.\n (2)Existing law prohibits the cultivation, transfer, or transportation, as specified, of any spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms or other materials that contain psilocybin or psilocyn.\n This bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, make lawful the cultivation or transportation of specified quantities of spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms or other materials that contain psilocybin or psilocyn for personal use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older.\n (3)Existing law prohibits the possession of drug paraphernalia, as defined.\n This bill would exempt from this prohibition, paraphernalia related, as specified, to these specific substances. The bill would also exempt from the prohibition items used for the testing and analysis of controlled substances.\n (4)Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the messages and information provided by various state drug and alcohol programs promote no unlawful use of any drugs or alcohol.\n This bill would repeal those provisions.\n (5)By eliminating and changing the elements of existing crimes and creating new offenses, and by requiring new duties of local prosecutors, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n (6)This bill would state that its provisions are severable.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion.\n This bill would make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline, for personal use or facilitated or supported use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substance on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age.\n (2)Existing law prohibits the cultivation, transfer, or transportation, as specified, of any spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms or other material which contain psilocybin or psilocyn.\n This bill would repeal those provisions.\n (3)Existing law prohibits the possession of drug paraphernalia, as defined.\n This bill would exempt from this prohibition, paraphernalia related, as specified, to these specific substances. The bill would also exempt from the prohibition items used for the testing and analysis of controlled substances.\n (4)Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the messages and information provided by various state drug and alcohol programs promote no unlawful use of any drugs or alcohol.\n This bill would repeal those provisions.\n (5)By eliminating and changing the elements of existing crimes and creating new offenses, and by requiring new duties of local prosecutors, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n (6)This bill would state that its provisions are severable.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2023-09-11" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Kalra" ], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Bradford", "Newman", "Skinner", "Smallwood-Cuevas", "Bryan", "Haney", "Jackson", "Lee", "Low", "Lowenthal", "Rendon", "Wicks", "Wilson" ], "veto": { "date": "2023-10-07", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n \nI am returning Senate Bill 58 without my signature.\n \nThis bill would, beginning on January 1, 2025, decriminalize the possession, preparation, obtaining, or transportation of specified quantities of mescaline, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), psilocybin, and psilocyn, for personal use by persons 21 years of age or older. This bill would also decriminalize the therapeutic use of the substances following the Legislature's adoption of a framework governing therapeutic use.\n \nBoth peer-reviewed science and powerful personal anecdotes lead me to support new opportunities to address mental health through psychedelic medicines like those addressed in this bill. Psychedelics have proven to relieve people suffering from certain conditions such as depression, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and other addictive personality traits. This is an exciting frontier and California will be on the front-end of leading it. \n \nCalifornia should immediately begin work to set up regulated treatment guidelines - replete with dosing information, therapeutic guidelines, rules to prevent against exploitation during guided treatments, and medical clearance of no underlying psychoses. Unfortunately, this bill would decriminalize possession prior to these guidelines going into place, and I cannot sign it.\n \nI urge the legislature to send me legislation next year that includes therapeutic guidelines. I am, additionally, committed to working with the legislature and sponsors of this bill to craft legislation that would authorize permissible uses and consider a framework for potential broader decriminalization in the future, once the impacts, dosing, best practice, and safety guardrails are thoroughly contemplated and put in place. \n\nSincerely, \n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2022-12-16", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-12-19", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 16." }, { "date": "2023-01-04", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2023-01-18", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2023-03-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2023-03-01", "action": "Set for hearing March 21." }, { "date": "2023-03-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 426.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-04-25", "action": "Set for hearing May 1." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2023-05-02", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 16. Page 1270.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-01", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-06-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2023-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 27)." }, { "date": "2023-06-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-07-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (July 11)." }, { "date": "2023-07-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-16", "action": "August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (September 1)." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-05", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-06", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 43. Noes 15. Page 2973.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-06", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-07", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 14. Page 2486.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "Stricken from file." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "Veto sustained." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58" }, "headline": "Legalizes possession of certain psychedelics for adults", "one_liner": "Allows adults 21 and older to possess set amounts of psilocybin, psilocyn, DMT, and mescaline for personal use.", "summary": "Starting in 2025, adults 21 and older may possess, prepare, and transport set amounts of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and mescaline, and grow psilocybin mushroom spores or mycelium, for personal use. Sets penalties for possession at schools or involving people under 21. Exempts related paraphernalia and drug-testing items from the paraphernalia ban. Requires a state workgroup to study therapeutic use.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB58.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB85", "slug": "2023-24/SB85", "number": "SB 85", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-13", "last_action_date": "2024-09-28", "subject": "Immigration: case management and social services.", "introduced_subject": "Immigration: case management and social services.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 13275, 13276, 13277, and 13282 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to immigration.", "digest": "The federal Reception and Placement Program (RPP) under the United States Department of State is established to serve refugees during their first 3 months after arrival in the United States, through contracts with local resettlement agencies to provide various services using federal funds.\n Existing state law requires the State Department of Social Services, after setting aside the necessary state administrative funds, to allocate federal funds appropriated for refugee social services programs to each eligible county or service provider, as defined, based on the number of refugees receiving aid, or who reside, in the eligible county. If an eligible county or service provider that receives funds declines all or part of those funds, or returns unexpended funds, existing law authorizes the department to exercise its discretion to reallocate the declined or returned funds among eligible counties and service providers. Existing law conditions the applicability of the requirements under these provisions on the availability of federal funds.\n This bill would make those requirements also applicable if state funds are available subject to an appropriation. Under the bill, if a refugee recipient of refugee social services under RPP completes 90 days of those services and exhausts the federal funds allocated for that recipient, the recipient would be eligible for a 90-day extension of those services using state funds within the first 12 months of arrival in the United States. The bill would require that services covered pursuant to these provisions include (1) English language and employment training and (2) case management services, as specified. The bill would authorize a qualified nonprofit organization, an eligible county, or any office or affiliate of the agencies authorized under RPP to provide these services. The bill would also make conforming changes to related provisions.", "introduced_digest": "(1)The federal Reception and Placement Program (RPP) under the United States Department of State is established to serve refugees during their first 3 months after arrival in the United States, through contracts with local resettlement agencies to provide various services using federal funds.\n Existing state law requires the State Department of Social Services, after setting aside the necessary state administrative funds, to allocate federal funds appropriated for refugee social services programs to each eligible county or qualified nonprofit organization (QNO), as defined, based on the number of refugees receiving aid, or who reside, in the eligible county. If an eligible county or QNO that receives funds declines all or part of those funds, or returns unexpended funds, existing law authorizes the department to exercise its discretion to reallocate the declined or returned funds among eligible counties and QNOs. Existing law conditions the applicability of the requirements under these provisions on the availability of federal funds.\n This bill would make those requirements also applicable if state funds are available subject to an appropriation. Under the bill, if a refugee recipient of refugee social services under RPP completes 90 days of those services and exhausts the federal funds allocated for that recipient, the recipient would be eligible for a 90-day extension of those services using state funds within the first 12 months of arrival to the United States.\n If a recipient completes that 90-day extension and seeks additional services, the bill would require the designated case manager to conduct an assessment of the recipient’s needs and to determine, as specified, whether to grant the recipient an additional extension of those services, at a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days, for a combined total of no more than 360 days of those services. The bill would also make conforming changes to related provisions.\n (2)Existing law, subject to an appropriation, establishes the Enhanced Services for Asylees and Vulnerable Noncitizens to provide resettlement services for persons residing in the state and who are granted asylum, as specified, or who are eligible for the above-described refugee social services. Existing law requires the program to provide culturally appropriate and responsive case management services for asylees and vulnerable noncitizens for up to 90 days within the first year following the grant of asylum or after having been deemed eligible for refugee social services.\n This bill would extend the provision of those case management services for up to 180 days. If a recipient completes 180 days of services and seeks an extension, the bill would require the designated case manager to conduct an assessment of the recipient’s needs and to determine, as specified, whether to grant the recipient the extension, as described above for the refugee social services, for a total of no more than 360 days of those services.\n (3)For both sets of the above-described services, the bill would expand the scope of the service, as specified, and would authorize their provision by a QNO, an office or affiliate of the agencies authorized under RPP, or, in the case of refugee social services, by an eligible county.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2024-08-29" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Durazo", "Gonzalez", "Umberg", "Wahab", "Berman", "Calderon", "Friedman", "Jackson", "Lowenthal", "Pellerin", "Zbur" ], "veto": { "date": "2024-09-28", "message": "To the members of the California State Senate:\nI am returning Senate Bill 85 without my signature.\nThis bill allows the Department of Social Services (DSS) to allocate state funds for refugee social services programs, and extends the duration of services available for refugees, after they have exhausted their federally funded services, by an additional 90 days. \nI appreciate the intent of this bill and thank the Legislature for its commitment to assist refugees with resettlement in this state. California is one of the most welcoming states in the nation and works in partnership to support an array of services to help refugees resettle in California. This includes legal services, management of federal funds, technical assistance with local partners, programs for young refugees, expedited professional licensing, and more. The state also supports people seeking humanitarian protections through an immigration process different from federally managed refugee resettlement.\nHowever, providing extended case management services to refugees beyond the three months of services provided by the federal government would create significant, ongoing cost pressures on the state General Fund.\nIn partnership with the Legislature this year, my Administration has enacted a balanced budget that avoids deep program cuts to vital services and protected investments in education, health care, climate, public safety, housing, and social service programs that millions of Californians rely on. It is important to remain disciplined when considering bills with significant fiscal implications that are not included in the budget, such as this measure. \nFor this reason, I cannot sign this bill.\nSincerely,\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-17", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 13." }, { "date": "2023-01-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUMANS S." }, { "date": "2023-02-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2023-03-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2023-04-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2023-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 876.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "May 18 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2024-01-12", "action": "Set for hearing January 18." }, { "date": "2024-01-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3011.) (January 18)." }, { "date": "2024-01-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 3035.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-04-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2024-06-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 11)." }, { "date": "2024-06-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 6541.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-27", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 5504.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-03", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB85", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB85", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB85", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB85", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB85" }, "headline": "Extends refugee services using state funds", "one_liner": "Refugees who use up 90 days of federal resettlement services may get 90 more days funded by the state.", "summary": "Refugees who complete 90 days of services under the federal Reception and Placement Program (RPP) and exhaust federal funds may get a 90-day extension paid with state funds, within 12 months of arrival. Services include English language and job training and case management. Nonprofits, counties, and RPP agencies may provide them.", "issues": [ "civil_rights", "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB85.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB90", "slug": "2023-24/SB90", "number": "SB 90", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-17", "last_action_date": "2024-01-25", "subject": "Health care coverage: insulin affordability.", "introduced_subject": "Health care coverage: insulin affordability.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1367.51 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10176.61 of the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act’s requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, that covers prescription benefits to include coverage for insulin if it is determined to be medically necessary.\n This bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or a disability insurance policy, as specified, issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, or a contract or policy offered in the individual or small group market on or after January 1, 2025, from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense of more than $35 for a 30-day supply of an insulin prescription drug, and would prohibit a high deductible health plan from imposing a deductible, coinsurance, or other cost sharing on an insulin prescription drug, as specified. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act’s requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, that covers prescription benefits to include coverage for insulin if it is determined to be medically necessary.\n This bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or a disability insurance policy, as specified, issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, from imposing a deductible on an insulin prescription drug or imposing a copayment of more than $35 for a 30-day supply of an insulin prescription drug, except as specified for a high deductible health plan. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2023-09-14" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Rubio", "Aguiar-Curry", "Waldron", "Weber" ], "veto": { "date": "2023-10-07", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate: \n\nI am returning Senate Bill 90 without my signature. \n\nThis bill would prohibit health plans from imposing a copayment of more than $35 for a 30-day supply of an insulin prescription drug.\n\nBringing down the costs of prescription drugs, and particularly insulin, has long been a priority of mine. People should not be forced to go into debt to get lifesaving medicines. In March, I announced the state's partnership with Civica to create our own line of CalRx biosimilar insulins that will cost no more than $30 per 10mL vial or $55 for five 3mL cartridges. This is a fraction of the current price for most insulins, and CalRx biosimilar insulins will be available to insured and uninsured patients nationwide. With CalRx, we are getting at the underlying cost, which is the true sustainable solution to high-cost pharmaceuticals. With copay caps however, the long-term costs are still passed down to consumers through higher premiums from health plans. As a state, we have led the nation in our efforts and investments to address the true underlying costs of insulin prescription affordability.\n\nFor these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.\n\nSincerely, \n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17." }, { "date": "2023-01-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 12." }, { "date": "2023-04-10", "action": "April 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 19." }, { "date": "2023-04-17", "action": "April 19 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-04-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2023-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 940.) (April 26)." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-02", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1160.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1216.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-23", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-05-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 16)." }, { "date": "2023-08-17", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-06", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2023-09-06", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3139.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2023-09-11", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2023-09-12", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2670.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2023-09-18", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2023-10-07", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "Stricken from file." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "Veto sustained." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB90", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB90", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB90", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB90", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB90" }, "headline": "Caps insulin costs at $35 per 30-day supply", "one_liner": "Health plans and insurers cannot charge more than $35 out of pocket for a 30-day insulin supply.", "summary": "Health plans and disability insurance policies cannot charge a copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket cost above $35 for a 30-day supply of insulin. High deductible health plans cannot apply any deductible or cost sharing to insulin. Applies to plans issued or renewed starting in 2024, and individual and small group plans starting in 2025.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB90.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB961", "slug": "2023-24/SB961", "number": "SB 961", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-23", "last_action_date": "2024-09-28", "subject": "Vehicles: safety equipment.", "introduced_subject": "Vehicles: safety equipment.", "title": "An act to add Article 19 (commencing with Section 28170) to Chapter 5 of Division 12 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than the speed limit. Existing law also prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed that endangers the safety of persons or property.\n This bill would require, commencing with the 2030 model year, every passenger vehicle, motortruck, and bus manufactured, sold as new, or leased as new in the state to be equipped with a passive intelligent speed assistance system, as specified, that would utilize a brief, one-time, visual and audio signal to alert the driver each time the speed of the vehicle is more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. The bill would exempt emergency vehicles, certain motortrucks, motorcycles, motorized bicycles, mopeds, and certain passenger vehicles from this requirement. The bill would require the system to be capable of being fully disabled, by the manufacturer or a franchisee, for emergency vehicles. The bill would require the system, if the system receives conflicting speed limits for the same area, to apply the higher speed limit.\n A violation of the above requirements would be punishable as a crime.\n By creating a new criminal offense, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Under existing law, 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. Existing 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.\n This bill would require certain trucks and trailers to also be equipped with side guards, as specified. The bill would also require the department to adopt rules and regulations requiring driver inspections of side guards and requiring the department to inspect side guards that have been involved in collisions.\n Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than the speed limit.\n This bill would require certain vehicles, commencing with the 2027 model year, to be equipped with an intelligent speed limiter, as specified, that would limit the speed of the vehicle to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. The bill would exempt emergency vehicles from this requirement and would authorize the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol to authorize the disabling of the system on other vehicles based on specified criteria.\n A violation of either of these prohibitions would be punishable as a crime.\n By creating a new criminal offense, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2024-09-05" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Vehicle Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Stern" ], "veto": { "date": "2024-09-28", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\nI am returning Senate Bill 961 without my signature.\nThis bill would require, beginning with the 2030 model year, that every new passenger vehicle, motor truck, and bus sold or leased in California be equipped with a passive intelligent speed assistance system to alert drivers when they exceed the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour.\nWhile I appreciate the intent to improve traffic safety, this bill presents several challenges. Federal law, as implemented by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), already regulates vehicle safety standards, and adding California-specific requirements would create a patchwork of regulations that undermines this longstanding federal framework. NHTSA is also actively evaluating intelligent speed assistance systems, and imposing state-level mandates at this time risks disrupting these ongoing federal assessments. \nFor these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.\n\nSincerely,\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-23", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-02-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2024-04-03", "action": "April 9 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2024-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2024-04-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 4. Page 3732.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2024-04-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-05-02", "action": "May 6 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2024-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2024-05-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-05-13", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2024-05-14", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 4061.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2024-06-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (June 17)." }, { "date": "2024-06-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2024-06-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (August 7)." }, { "date": "2024-08-08", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 17. Page 7104.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-31", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 5798.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-11", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB961", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB961", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB961", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB961", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB961" }, "headline": "Requires speed warning systems in new vehicles", "one_liner": "New cars, trucks and buses sold from model year 2030 must alert drivers going over 10 mph above the limit.", "summary": "Starting with 2030 models, new passenger vehicles, trucks and buses sold or leased in California must have a speed assistance system. It gives a brief sound and visual alert when the driver goes more than 10 mph over the speed limit. Emergency vehicles, motorcycles and some other vehicles are exempt. Violations are a crime.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB961.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB966", "slug": "2023-24/SB966", "number": "SB 966", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-24", "last_action_date": "2024-09-28", "subject": "Pharmacy benefits.", "introduced_subject": "Pharmacy benefits.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1367.243 of, and to add Sections 1367.2075 and 1367.2431 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10123.205 of, to add Sections 10123.2045 and 10123.2051 to, and to add Division 6 (commencing with Section 17000) to, the Insurance Code, relating to pharmacy benefits.", "digest": "Existing law, 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. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n This bill would additionally require a pharmacy benefit manager, as defined, to apply for a license from the Department of Insurance to operate as a pharmacy benefit manager no later than January 1, 2027. The bill would establish application qualifications and requirements, and would require initial license and renewal fees to be collected into the newly created Pharmacy Benefit Manager Account in the Insurance Fund, to be available to the department for use, upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified, for costs related to licensing and regulating pharmacy benefit managers.\n This bill would require a pharmacy benefit manager to file with the department at specified annual intervals 2 reports, one of which discloses product benefits specific to the purchaser, and the other of which includes information about categories of drugs and the pharmacy benefit manager’s contracts and revenues. The bill would specify that the contents of the reports are not to be disclosed to the public. The bill would require the department, at specified annual intervals, to prepare 2 reports based on the reports submitted by pharmacy benefit managers, and would require the department to post its reports on the department’s internet website.\n This bill would impose specified duties on pharmacy benefit managers and requirements for pharmacy benefit manager services and pharmacy benefit manager contracts. The bill would require a pharmacy benefit manager to disclose to the Department of Insurance all types of fees it receives and how the fees are calculated.\n The bill would make a violation of the above-specified provisions subject to specified civil penalties. The bill would establish various filing and service requirements when a proceeding is brought for a violation of specified requirements by a pharmacy benefit manager. The bill would create the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Fines and Penalties Account in the General Fund, into which fines and administrative penalties would be deposited.\n Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that provides coverage for outpatient prescription drugs to cover medically necessary prescription drugs and subjects those policies to certain limitations on cost sharing and the placement of drugs on formularies. Existing law limits the maximum amount an enrollee or insured may be required to pay at the point of sale for a covered prescription drug to the lesser of the applicable cost-sharing amount or the retail price, and requires that payment apply to the applicable deductible. Existing law requires a plan or insurer that reports rate information to report specified prescription drug information to the relevant department no later than October 1 of each year.\n This bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, that provides prescription drug coverage from calculating an enrollee’s or insured’s cost sharing at an amount that exceeds the actual rate paid for the prescription drug, and would require a health care service plan contract to include specified cost-sharing provisions. The bill would require a plan or insurer to include additional information in its annual prescription drug data reporting, including the aggregate amount of rebates received by the pharmacy benefit manager for each drug. By expanding the scope of a crime under the Knox-Keene Act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would declare that it would not narrow, abrogate, or otherwise alter the authority of the Attorney General to maintain or restore competitive, fair, and honest markets and prosecute state and federal antitrust and unfair competition violations, among other violations, and would declare that the provisions of this bill are severable.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes the California State Board of Pharmacy in the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate the practice of pharmacy. Existing law, 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. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.\n Existing 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.\n This bill would delete the latter provision relating to the construction and jurisdiction over those provisions by the department and the board. \n 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.\n This bill would require a pharmacy benefit manager, on or before April 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, to file with the board a report containing specified information. The bill would specify that the contents of the report shall not be disclosed to the public. The bill would require the board, on or before August 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature based on the reports submitted by licensees, and would require the board to post the report on the board’s internet website.\n This bill would impose specified duties on pharmacy benefit managers and requirements for pharmacy benefit manager services and pharmacy benefit manager contracts, including prohibiting a pharmacy benefit manager from deriving income from pharmacy benefit management services, except as specified. The bill would make a violation of the above specified provisions subject to specified civil penalties. \n Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that provides coverage for outpatient prescription drugs to cover medically necessary prescription drugs and subjects those policies to certain limitations on cost sharing and the placement of drugs on formularies. Existing law limits the maximum amount an enrollee or insured may be required to pay at the point of sale for a covered prescription drug to the lesser of the applicable cost-sharing amount or the retail price, and requires that payment apply to the applicable deductible.\n This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, that provides prescription drug coverage to calculate an enrollee or insured’s cost sharing amount, including deductible and coinsurance, based exclusively on its negotiated rate for the prescription drug. The bill, for a preexisting contract between a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service plan or health insurer authorizing spread pricing, would prohibit an amendment or renewal of the contract from authorizing spread pricing. The bill would prohibit a contract between a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service plan or health insurer that is executed on or after January 1, 2025, from authorizing spread pricing. By expanding the scope of a crime under the Knox-Keene Act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would declare that it shall not narrow, abrogate, or otherwise alter the authority of the Attorney General to maintain or restore competitive markets and prosecute state and federal antitrust and unfair competition violations, and would declare that the provisions of this bill are severable.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2024-09-03" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Wahab" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Mathis" ], "coauthors": [ "Min", "Portantino", "Pacheco", "Waldron", "Weber", "Wood" ], "veto": { "date": "2024-09-28", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate: \n\nI am returning Senate Bill 966 without my signature. \n\nThis bill would require the California Department of Insurance (CDI) to establish a licensing and oversight structure for Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and require PBMs and health plans to report additional data on prescription drugs. \n\nThe costs of many prescription drugs - brand name and generic - are too high, and these prices continue to trend upwards. Together with the Legislature, we have taken action to address this problem. We created CalRx to bring in-demand pharmaceutical products to the market with low, transparent pricing, starting with biosimilar insulin and naloxone. We also worked together in 2022 to establish the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) to collect, analyze, and publicly report data on total health care expenditures with the goal to achieve California health care that is accessible, affordable, equitable, high-quality, and universal.? \n\nWithout a doubt, the public and the Legislature need a clearer understanding of how much PBM practices are driving up prescription drug costs. I commend the author for working to further tackle this issue through regulating PBM participation in the pharmacy delivery system. Currently, PBMs manage all aspects of prescription drug services for California's commercial health care market. I believe that PBMs must be held accountable to ensure that prescription drugs remain accessible throughout pharmacies across California and available at the lowest price possible. However, I am not convinced that SB 966's expansive licensing scheme will achieve such results. \n\nMy Administration is committed to increasing access and lowering the costs of prescription drugs. As such, I am directing the California Health and Human Services Agency to propose a legislative approach to gather much needed data on PBMs next year, which can be considered in conjunction with data from our entire health care delivery system. There is some existing transparency regarding prescription drug prices provided through the reporting required by SB 17 (Hernandez, Chapter 603, Statutes of 2017) and the establishment of the Healthcare Payments Database. However, we need more granular information to fully understand the cost drivers in the prescription drug market and the role that PMBs play in pricing. Specifically, California should collect comprehensive information from the pharmacy delivery system about the total cost of care for providing individual prescription drug products, including but not limited to wholesale acquisition costs, fees, payments, discounts, and rebates paid to and received by PBMs.\n\nThese next steps, together with the CalRx program and the Office of Health Care Affordability's work, will offer a multi-pronged approach to improving affordability of prescription drugs in California.\n\nFor these reasons, I cannot sign this bill. \n\nSincerely, \n\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-24", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-25", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E. D. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2024-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 15." }, { "date": "2024-04-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3605.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2024-04-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2024-04-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2024-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3755.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2024-04-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2024-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3965.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4023.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD." }, { "date": "2024-06-12", "action": "June 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2024-06-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2024-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 6716.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 5637.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-28", "action": "In Senate. 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Violations bring civil penalties. Health plans and insurers cannot charge patients cost sharing above the actual rate paid for a drug.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB966.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB1047", "slug": "2023-24/SB1047", "number": "SB 1047", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-02-07", "last_action_date": "2024-09-29", "subject": "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act.", "introduced_subject": "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Act.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 22.6 (commencing with Section 22602) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, and to add Sections 11547.6 and 11547.6.1 to the Government Code, relating to artificial intelligence.", "digest": "Existing 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, existing 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.\n This bill would enact the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act to, among other things, require that a developer, before beginning to initially train a covered model, as defined, comply with various requirements, including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown, as defined, and implement a written and separate safety and security protocol, as specified. The bill would require a developer to retain an unredacted copy of the safety and security protocol for as long as the covered model is made available for commercial, public, or foreseeably public use plus 5 years, including records and dates of any updates or revisions and would require a developer to grant to the Attorney General access to the unredacted safety and security protocol. The bill would prohibit a developer from using a covered model or covered model derivative for a purpose not exclusively related to the training or reasonable evaluation of the covered model or compliance with state or federal law or making a covered model or a covered model derivative available for commercial or public, or foreseeably public, use, if there is an unreasonable risk that the covered model or covered model derivative will cause or materially enable a critical harm, as defined. The bill would require a developer, beginning January 1, 2026, to annually retain a third-party auditor to perform an independent audit of compliance with those provisions, as prescribed. The bill would require the auditor to produce an audit report, as prescribed, and would require a developer to retain an unredacted copy of the audit report for as long as the covered model is made available for commercial, public, or foreseeably public use plus 5 years. The bill would require a developer to grant to the Attorney General access to the unredacted auditor’s report upon request. The bill would exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act the safety and security protocol and the auditor’s report described above.\n This bill would require a developer of a covered model to submit to the Attorney General a statement of compliance with these provisions, as specified. The bill would also require a developer of a covered model to report each artificial intelligence safety incident affecting the covered model or any covered model derivative controlled by the developer to the Attorney General, as prescribed.\n This bill would require a person that operates a computing cluster, as defined, to implement written policies and procedures to do certain things when a customer utilizes compute resources that would be sufficient to train a covered model, including assess whether a prospective customer intends to utilize the computing cluster to train a covered model.\n This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action, as provided. The bill would also provide for whistleblower protections, including by prohibiting a developer of a covered model or a contractor or subcontractor of the developer from preventing an employee from disclosing information, or retaliating against an employee for disclosing information, to the Attorney General or Labor Commissioner if the employee has reasonable cause to believe the information indicates the developer is out of compliance with certain requirements or that the covered model poses an unreasonable risk of critical harm.\n This bill would create the Board of Frontier Models within the Government Operations Agency, independent of the Department of Technology, and provide for the board’s membership. The bill would require the Government Operations Agency to, on or before January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, issue regulations to, among other things, update the definition of a “covered model,” as provided, and would require the regulations to be approved by the board before taking effect.\n This bill would establish in the Government Operations Agency a consortium required to develop a framework for the creation of a public cloud computing cluster to be known as “CalCompute” that advances the development and deployment of artificial intelligence that is safe, ethical, equitable, and sustainable by, among other things, fostering research and innovation that benefits the public, as prescribed. The bill would, on or before January 1, 2026, require the Government Operations Agency to submit a report from the consortium to the Legislature with that framework. The bill would make those provisions operative only upon an appropriation in a budget act for its purposes.\n Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "introduced_digest": "Existing 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, existing 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.\n Existing law creates the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency and requires the department to, among other things, identify, assess, and prioritize high-risk, critical information technology services and systems across state government for modernization, stabilization, or remediation.\n This bill would enact the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Act to, among other things, require a developer of a covered model, as defined, to determine whether it can make a positive safety determination with respect to a covered model before initiating training of that covered model, as specified. The bill would define “positive safety determination” to mean a determination with respect to a covered model, that is not a derivative model, that a developer can reasonably exclude the possibility that the covered model has a hazardous capability, as defined, or may come close to possessing a hazardous capability when accounting for a reasonable margin for safety and the possibility of posttraining modifications.\n This bill would require that a developer, before initiating training of a nonderivative covered model, comply with various requirements, including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown of the covered model until that covered model is the subject of a positive safety determination.\n This bill would require a developer of a nonderivative covered model that is not the subject of a positive safety determination to submit to the Frontier Model Division, which the bill would create within the Department of Technology, an annual certification of compliance with these provisions signed by the chief technology officer, or a more senior corporate officer, in a format and on a date as prescribed by the Frontier Model Division. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require a developer to report each artificial intelligence safety incident affecting a covered model to the Frontier Model Division in a manner prescribed by the Frontier Model Division.\n This bill would require a person that operates a computing cluster, as defined, to implement appropriate written policies and procedures to do certain things when a customer utilizes compute resources that would be sufficient to train a covered model, including assess whether a prospective customer intends to utilize the computing cluster to deploy a covered model. The bill would punish a violation of these provisions with a civil penalty, as prescribed, to be recovered by the Attorney General.\n This bill would also create the Frontier Model Division within the Department of Technology and would require the division to, among other things, review annual certification reports from developers received pursuant to these provisions and publicly release summarized findings based on those reports. The bill would authorize the division to assess related fees and would require deposit of the fees into the Frontier Model Division Programs Fund, which the bill would create. The bill would make moneys in the fund available for the purpose of these provisions only upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill would also require the Department of Technology to commission consultants, as prescribed, to create a public cloud computing cluster, to be known as CalCompute, with the primary focus of conducting research into the safe and secure deployment of large-scale artificial intelligence models and fostering equitable innovation that includes, among other things, a fully owned and hosted cloud platform.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2024-09-03" }, "version_count": 12, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Roth", "Rubio", "Stern" ], "veto": { "date": "2024-09-29", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 1047 without my signature.\n\nThis bill would require developers of large artificial intelligence (AI) models, and those providing the computing power to train such models, to put certain safeguards and policies in place to prevent catastrophic harm. The bill would also establish the Board of Frontier Models - a state entity - to oversee the development of these models.\n\nCalifornia is home to 32 of the world's 50 leading AI companies, pioneers in one of the most significant technological advances in modern history. We lead in this space because of our research and education institutions, our diverse and motivated workforce, and our free-spirited cultivation of intellectual freedom. As stewards and innovators of the future, I take seriously the responsibility to regulate this industry.\n\nThis year, the Legislature sent me several thoughtful proposals to regulate AI companies in response to current, rapidly evolving risks - including threats to our democratic process, the spread of misinformation and deepfakes, risks to online privacy, threats to critical infrastructure, and disruptions in the workforce. These bills, and actions by my Administration, are guided by principles of accountability, fairness, and transparency of AI systems and deployment of AI technology in California.\n\nSB 1047 magnified the conversation about threats that could emerge from the deployment of AI. Key to the debate is whether the threshold for regulation should be based on the cost and number of computations needed to develop an AI model, or whether we should evaluate the system's actual risks regardless of these factors. This global discussion is occurring as the capabilities of AI continue to scale at an impressive pace. At the same time, the strategies and solutions for addressing the risk of catastrophic harm are rapidly evolving.\n\nBy focusing only on the most expensive and large-scale models, SB 1047 establishes a regulatory framework that could give the public a false sense of security about controlling this fast-moving technology. Smaller, specialized models may emerge as equally or even more dangerous than the models targeted by SB 1047 - at the potential expense of curtailing the very innovation that fuels advancement in favor of the public good.\n\nAdaptability is critical as we race to regulate a technology still in its infancy. This will require a delicate balance. While well-intentioned, SB 1047 does not take into account whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decision-making or the use of sensitive data. Instead, the bill applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions - so long as a large system deploys it. I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology. \n\nLet me be clear - I agree with the author - we cannot afford to wait for a major catastrophe to occur before taking action to protect the public. California will not abandon its responsibility. Safety protocols must be adopted. Proactive guardrails should be implemented, and severe consequences for bad actors must be clear and enforceable. I do not agree, however, that to keep the public safe, we must settle for a solution that is not informed by an empirical trajectory analysis of AI systems and capabilities. Ultimately, any framework for effectively regulating AI needs to keep pace with the technology itself.\n\nTo those who say there's no problem here to solve, or that California does not have a role in regulating potential national security implications of this technology, I disagree. A California-only approach may well be warranted - especially absent federal action by Congress - but it must be based on empirical evidence and science. The U.S. AI Safety Institute, under the National Institute of Science and Technology, is developing guidance on national security risks, informed by evidence-based approaches, to guard against demonstrable risks to public safety. Under an Executive Order I issued in September 2023, agencies within my Administration are performing risk analyses of the potential threats and vulnerabilities to California's critical infrastructure using AI. These are just a few examples of the many endeavors underway, led by experts, to inform policymakers on AI risk management practices that are rooted in science and fact. And endeavors like these have led to the introduction of over a dozen bills regulating specific, known risks posed by AI, that I have signed in the last 30 days.\n\nI am committed to working with the Legislature, federal partners, technology experts, ethicists, and academia, to find the appropriate path forward, including legislation and regulation. Given the stakes - protecting against actual threats without unnecessarily thwarting the promise of this technology to advance the public good - we must get this right.\n\nFor these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.\nSincerely,\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2024-02-07", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-02-08", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and G.O." }, { "date": "2024-03-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2024-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-04-04", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3447.) (April 2)." }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2024-04-16", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2024-04-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2024-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3721.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2024-04-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-05-06", "action": "May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3969.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 4091.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD." }, { "date": "2024-06-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P." }, { "date": "2024-06-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18)." }, { "date": "2024-06-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 15)." }, { "date": "2024-08-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-08-22", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 48. Noes 16. Page 6719.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2024-08-28", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2024-08-29", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5639.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2024-09-09", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m." }, { "date": "2024-09-29", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2024-09-29", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047" }, "headline": "Sets safety rules for frontier AI model developers", "one_liner": "Developers of covered frontier AI models must adopt safety plans, get yearly audits and report safety incidents to the state.", "summary": "Before training a covered AI model, developers must be able to fully shut it down and must adopt a written safety and security plan. Starting in 2026, they need yearly independent audits. They must report safety incidents to the Attorney General. Protects employees who report problems. Creates a state board and plans a public computing cluster called CalCompute.", "issues": [ "tech" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB1047.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB944", "slug": "2025-26/SB944", "number": "SB 944", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-02-02", "last_action_date": "2026-09-30", "subject": "Medi-Cal: acupuncture.", "introduced_subject": "Medi-Cal: acupuncture.", "title": "An act to amend Section 14132 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal.", "digest": "Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is in part governed by, and funded pursuant to, federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law sets forth a schedule of benefits covered under the Medi-Cal program, including acupuncture, but only to the extent that federal matching funds are provided for acupuncture.\n Under this bill, acupuncture would instead be a covered Medi-Cal benefit subject to utilization controls and the availability of federal financial participation. The bill would, if federal financial participation is not available for coverage of acupuncture services, make acupuncture a covered benefit subject to an appropriation and utilization controls.\n This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 14132 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 1949 and AB 350 to be operative only if this bill and either or both AB 1949 and AB 350 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is in part governed by, and funded pursuant to, federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law sets forth a schedule of benefits covered under the Medi-Cal program, including acupuncture, but only to the extent federal matching funds are provided for acupuncture.\n This bill would remove the limitation requiring federal matching funds for acupuncture to be a covered benefit, thereby making acupuncture a covered benefit under Medi-Cal.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Enrolled", "date": "2026-08-31" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "vetoed", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "vetoed", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Fong", "Haney", "Ahrens", "Bonta", "Caloza", "Harabedian", "Johnson", "Nguyen", "Patel", "Sharp-Collins", "Stefani" ], "veto": { "date": "2026-09-30", "message": "To the Members of the California State Senate:\n\n\nI am returning Senate Bill 944 without my signature.\n \nThis bill would remove the limitation that requires federal matching funds for the coverage of acupuncture services within Medi-Cal, making acupuncture a covered Medi-Cal benefit regardless of the availability of federal funds.\n \nI appreciate the author's intent to ensure vulnerable populations continue to have access to acupuncture as a treatment option in the Medi-Cal program. However, should federal financial participation become unavailable for acupuncture services in the future, this bill would require the Department of Health Care Services to cover these services with state-only funds. This could create additional cost pressures on the State General Fund of approximately $10 million to $20 million annually.\n \nIn partnership with the Legislature this year, my administration has enacted a balanced budget that recognizes the challenging fiscal landscape our state faces while maintaining our commitment to working families and our most vulnerable communities. With significant fiscal pressures and the federal government's hostile economic policies, it is vital that we remain disciplined when considering bills with significant fiscal implications that are not included in the budget, such as this measure.\n \nFor these reasons, I cannot sign this bill.\n \nSincerely,\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGavin Newsom" }, "history": [ { "date": "2026-02-02", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-02-03", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5." }, { "date": "2026-02-11", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2026-03-11", "action": "Set for hearing March 25." }, { "date": "2026-03-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3689.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-03-27", "action": "Set for hearing April 13." }, { "date": "2026-04-13", "action": "April 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-05-08", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4258.) (May 14)." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-19", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4343.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-05-20", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-05-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2026-06-10", "action": "Coauthors revised." }, { "date": "2026-06-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "action": "June 24 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 13)." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 6494.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "action": "Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling." }, { "date": "2026-09-04", "action": "Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "Vetoed by the Governor." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "action": "In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB944", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB944", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB944", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB944", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB944" }, "headline": "Changes Medi-Cal coverage rules for acupuncture", "one_liner": "Makes acupuncture a covered Medi-Cal benefit, subject to an appropriation if federal funding is unavailable.", "summary": "Makes acupuncture a covered Medi-Cal benefit, subject to utilization controls and federal funding. If federal funds are not available, acupuncture is a covered benefit subject to an appropriation and utilization controls. Under current law, acupuncture is covered only when federal matching funds are provided.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB944.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB71", "slug": "2017-18/SB71", "number": "SB 71", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-01-09", "last_action_date": "2018-08-16", "subject": "Solid waste: disposal.", "introduced_subject": "Electricity: solar energy systems.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 41953 and 41956 of, to amend and renumber Sections 40059.2 and 40059.3 of, and to amend, renumber, add, and repeal Section 40059.1 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.", "digest": "The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. The act authorizes each county, city, district, or other local governmental agency to determine whether aspects of solid waste handling services are to be provided by franchise, contract, license, permit, or other authorization.\n This bill would require a court to award to a prevailing party reasonable attorney’s fees, expert witness fees, and other costs incurred in a civil action brought to enforce a franchise, contract, license, permit, or other authorization for solid waste handling services in an amount the court deems appropriate, but would prohibit the court from awarding those fees and costs under specified circumstances. The bill would require a plaintiff, in order for a court to award to a prevailing party those costs and fees, to first notify and request approval to proceed from the relevant local agency. The bill would require the local agency to post all notices and approval requests it receives on the local agency’s Internet Web site, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require a person seeking costs and fees in accordance with that provision to notify the department, and would require the department to report to the Legislature the total number and dispositions of actions filed in accordance with that provision for the previous calendar year. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2022.\n The act prohibits a person, other than an authorized recycling agent, from removing specified materials that have been segregated from solid waste materials and placed at a designated recycling collection location for residential curbside collection programs authorized by a city, county, or local agency for the purposes of collection and recycling or at a designated recycling collection location by any commercial or industrial entity. Existing law authorizes a court, in a civil action by a recycling agent against a person alleged to have violated these laws, to either allow treble damages or award a civil penalty, as specified, against the unauthorized person removing the recyclable material, and to allow treble damages or award a higher civil penalty, as specified, against a person for a second violation and subsequent violations.\n This bill would expand this civil enforcement to apply to knowing and willful participation in the unauthorized removal of the segregated recyclable material, would explicitly authorize a local governmental agency to bring an enforcement action, and would require a court to award to the prevailing party reasonable attorney’s fees, expert witness fees, and costs incurred in the course of the litigation, except as specified.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing statutes and decisions of the Public Utilities Commission govern the California Solar Initiative, a program that provides ratepayer-funded incentives for eligible solar energy systems. \n The Solar Water Heating and Efficiency Act of 2007, until August 1, 2018, requires the Public Utilities Commission, if it determines that a solar water heating program is cost effective for ratepayers and in the public interest, to implement a program to promote the installation of 200,000 solar water heating systems in homes, businesses, and buildings or facilities of eligible customer classes receiving natural gas service throughout the state by 2017.\n This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would require the installation of solar photovoltaic systems or solar water heating systems in solar zones provided for pursuant to specified regulations.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2018-08-06" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-01-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-01-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9." }, { "date": "2017-01-19", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-08", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on E., U. & C., T. & H., and APPR." }, { "date": "2017-03-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 4." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. (Ayes 8. Noes 3. Page 621.) (April 4)." }, { "date": "2017-04-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2017-05-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3. Page 1021.) (May 9)." }, { "date": "2017-05-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2017-05-22", "action": "May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-23", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1177.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 1313.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-12", "action": "Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2017-07-05", "action": "July 5 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-02-26", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2018-04-05", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2018-04-18", "action": "From committee: Be re-referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2018-06-11", "action": "June 11 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-06-18", "action": "June 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2018-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 25)." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-07-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3)." }, { "date": "2018-08-06", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-07", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-08-07", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5." }, { "date": "2018-08-15", "action": "August 15 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "Joint Rule 62(a) suspended." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "August 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB71", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB71", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB71", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB71", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB71" }, "headline": "Changes enforcement rules for waste and recycling services", "one_liner": "Awards attorney's fees in some solid waste service lawsuits and expands penalties for taking recyclables from collection sites.", "summary": "In certain lawsuits enforcing local solid waste service agreements, courts must award attorney's fees and costs to the winning side if the plaintiff first asked the local agency for approval. Agencies must post these requests online. Expands civil penalties to people who knowingly help remove recyclables and lets local agencies sue. The service agreement fee rules end in 2022.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with solar energy systems in solar zones; it was rewritten to cover solid waste and recycling enforcement.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB71.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB148", "slug": "2017-18/SB148", "number": "SB 148", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-01-17", "last_action_date": "2018-02-01", "subject": "State Board of Equalization: counties: cannabis-related business: cash payments.", "introduced_subject": "State Board of Equalization: counties: state agencies: collection of cash payments: cannabis-related businesses.", "title": "An act to add Section 15630 to the Government Code, and to amend Sections 6479.3 and 34015 of, to add Sections 7204.5 and 7270.10 to, to add Part 13.5 (commencing with Section 31001) to Division 2 of, and to repeal the heading of Part 13.5 (commencing with Section 31020) of Division 2 of, the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to cannabis, and making an appropriation therefor.", "digest": "(1)Existing law, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, an initiative measure enacted by the approval of Proposition 215 at the November 5, 1996, statewide general election, exempts from specified criminal penalties the possession or cultivation of medical marijuana by patients and primary caregivers. The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA) an initiative measure enacted by the approval of Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial adult marijuana activities by various state agencies. The Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA) provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial medical cannabis activity by various state entities.\n This bill would enact the Cannabis State Payment Collection Law and would authorize the State Board of Equalization or a county to collect cash payments from cannabis-related businesses for a state agency that administers fees, fines, penalties, taxes, or other charges payable by a cannabis-related business, if that state agency has entered into an agreement with the board or county. This bill would require a county to collect only if both the board of supervisors of the county and the county tax collector or county treasurer-tax collector approves of entering into an agreement with a state agency to make those collections. The bill would similarly authorize the board to enter into an agreement with a county to collect cash payments from cannabis-related businesses for fees, fines, penalties, taxes, or other charges that are payable to the county. The bill would require the agreement to include specified provisions, including that the board or county transmit the collected moneys to the Treasurer to be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the funds or accounts in which the fees, fines, penalties, taxes, or other charges are otherwise required by law to be deposited, as specified.\n For the collection by the board or a county of regulatory fees on the behalf of a state agency, or by the board of regulatory fees on behalf of a county, pursuant to an agreement, this bill would continuously appropriate to the board or county an amount equal to the amount necessary for its costs of collection, not to exceed 10% of the amounts collected, from the funds or accounts in which those regulatory fees are to be deposited. For the collection by the board or a county of fines, penalties, taxes, or other charges on behalf of a state agency, or by the board on behalf of a county, pursuant to an agreement, the bill would require the board or county to be reimbursed for its costs of collection from the funds or accounts in which those fines, penalties, taxes, or other charges are to be deposited, not to exceed 10% of the amounts collected, upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill would also allow a state agency that enters into an agreement with the board or a county, or a county that enters into an agreement with the board, to impose a cash collection fee in an amount reasonably necessary to recover the collection costs to be incurred by the board or county in dealing with cash payments, not to exceed 10% of any amounts collected. The bill would require the cash collection fee to be determined by the state agency that entered into the agreement, or by the county that entered into the agreement, as applicable, and would require any cash collection fees to be deposited into the funds or accounts in which the fees, fines, penalties, or other charges to be collected are deposited.\n (2)The Sales and Use Tax Law, which is administered by the State Board of Equalization, requires any person whose estimated tax liability averages $10,000 or more per month to remit amounts due by electronic funds transfer, but provides an exception to that requirement that authorizes, before January 1, 2022, a person issued a seller’s permit for a place of business that is a dispensary, as defined in MCRSA, to remit amounts due for retail sales at the dispensary by a means other than electronic funds transfer.\n Cities, counties, and specified local governmental agencies are authorized to impose sales and use taxes in modified conformity to state sales and use taxes, which are administered and collected by the board on behalf of those agencies pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law.\n AUMA, commencing January 1, 2018, imposes an excise tax on the purchase of marijuana and marijuana products, as defined, and a separate cultivation tax on marijuana that enters the commercial market. AUMA provides for the administration of both taxes by the board and requires persons required to be licensed involved in the cultivation and retail sale of marijuana or marijuana products to file a return with the board by a specified date.\n This bill would authorize a cannabis-related business, as defined, to remit any amount due under any of the provisions described above to the board by means other than electronic funds transfer, including by the use of cash.\n The bill, by January 1, 2019, would require the board to accept cash as a form of remittance from a cannabis-related business for any fee, tax, fine, penalty, interest, or any other charge that the business owes under the laws described above, including the Cannabis State Payment Collection Law, and that business would be authorized by those laws to remit to the board in cash, in at least 50% of the offices managed by the board in each equalization district of the state. The bill, by January 1, 2020, would further require the board to accept cash as a form of remittance for those payments in at least 75% of the branch or district offices managed by the board in each equalization district of the state.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, an initiative measure enacted by the approval of Proposition 215 at the November 5, 1996, statewide general election, exempts from specified criminal penalties the possession or cultivation of medical marijuana by patients and primary caregivers. The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016, an initiative measure enacted by the approval of Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial adult marijuana activities by various state agencies. The Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial medical cannabis activity by various state entities. \n This bill would enact the Cannabis State Payment Collection Law and would authorize the State Board of Equalization or a county to collect cash payments from cannabis-related businesses for a state agency that administers any fee, fine, penalty, or other charge payable by a cannabis-related business, if that state agency has entered into an agreement with the board or county. This bill would require a county to collect only if both the board of supervisors of the county and the county tax collector or county treasurer-tax collector approves of entering into an agreement with a state agency to make those collections. The bill would require the agreement to include specified provisions, including that the board or county transmit the collected moneys to the Treasurer to be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the funds or accounts in which the fees, fines, penalties, taxes, or other charges are otherwise required by law to be deposited, as specified.\n For the collection by the board or a county of regulatory fees on the behalf of a state agency pursuant to an agreement, this bill would continuously appropriate to the board or county an amount equal to the amount necessary for its costs of collection, not to exceed 10% of the amounts collected, from the funds or accounts in which those regulatory fees are to be deposited. For the collection by the board or a county of fees, fines, penalties, taxes, or other charges on behalf of a state agency pursuant to an agreement, the bill would require the board or county to be reimbursed for its costs of collection from the funds or accounts in which those fees, fines, penalties, taxes, or other charges are to be deposited, not to exceed 10% of the amounts collected, upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill would also allow a state agency that enters into an agreement with the board or a county to impose a cash collection fee in an amount reasonably necessary to recover the collection costs to be incurred by the board or county in dealing with cash payments, not to exceed 10% of any amounts collected. The bill would require the cash collection fee to be determined by the state agency, and would require any cash collection fees to be deposited into the funds or accounts in which the fees, fine, penalty, or other charge to be collected is deposited.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2017-04-05" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Revenue and Taxation Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Atkins" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-01-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-01-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17." }, { "date": "2017-01-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-03-08", "action": "Set for hearing March 29." }, { "date": "2017-03-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-04-04", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 537.) (March 29)." }, { "date": "2017-04-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-04-07", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "April 17 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2017-04-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2017-04-24", "action": "April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB148", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB148", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB148", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB148", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB148" }, "headline": "Lets cannabis businesses pay state charges in cash", "one_liner": "Lets cannabis-related businesses pay taxes, fees and fines in cash through the State Board of Equalization or counties.", "summary": "Creates the Cannabis State Payment Collection Law. The State Board of Equalization or a county may collect cash from cannabis-related businesses for state agencies, and the board may collect for counties. Collectors may recover collection costs up to 10%. The board must accept cash at 50% or more of its offices in each district by 2019, and 75% by 2020.", "issues": [ "nightlife" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB148.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB421", "slug": "2017-18/SB421", "number": "SB 421", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-15", "last_action_date": "2017-09-01", "subject": "Sex offenders: registration: criminal offender record information systems.", "introduced_subject": "In-custody defendants.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 9002 and 13125 of, and to amend, repeal, and add Sections 290, 290.006, 290.008, 290.45, 290.46, 290.5, and 4852.03 of, the Penal Code, relating to sex offenders.", "digest": "Existing law requires persons convicted of specified sex offenses and certain acts of human trafficking for purposes of committing various sex offenses or extortion, as specified, or attempts to commit those offenses, to register with local law enforcement agencies while residing in the state or while attending school or working in the state. Willful failure to register, as required, is a misdemeanor, or a felony, depending on the underlying offense.\n Existing law requires the Department of Justice to make available to the public information concerning registered sex offenders on an Internet Web site, as specified. Existing law requires that information to include, among other things, whether the offender was subsequently incarcerated for another felony. Existing law also authorizes a person to file an application for exclusion from the Internet Web site and establishes the requirements for exclusion.\n This bill would, commencing January 1, 2021, instead establish 3 tiers of registration based on specified criteria, for periods of at least 10 years, at least 20 years, and life, respectively, for a conviction of specified sex offenses, and 5 years and 10 years for tiers one and two, respectively, for an adjudication as a ward of the juvenile court for specified sex offenses, as specified. The bill would allow the Department of Justice to place a person in a tier-to-be-determined category for a maximum period of 24 months if his or her appropriate tier designation cannot be immediately ascertained. The bill would establish procedures for termination from the sex offender registry for a registered sex offender who is a tier one or tier two offender and who completes his or her mandated minimum registration period under specified conditions. The bill would require the offender to file a petition at the expiration of his or her minimum registration period and would authorize the district attorney to request a hearing on the petition if the petitioner has not fulfilled the requirement of successful tier completion, as specified. The bill would establish procedures for a person required to register as a tier three offender based solely on his or her risk level to petition the court for termination from the registry after 20 years from release of custody, if certain criteria are met. The bill would also revise the criteria for exclusion from the Internet Web site.\n Existing law requires all basic information stored in state or local criminal offender record information systems to be recorded in the form of specified data elements, including the disposition of the offense.\n This bill would require that information to include sentence enhancement data elements.\n Existing law establishes the Sex Offender Management Board within the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the board to address issues, concerns, and problems related to the community management of adult sex offenders.\n This bill would instead require the board to address any issues, concerns, and problems related to the community management of all sex offenders.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law defines an in-custody informant to mean a person, other than a codefendant, percipient witness, accomplice, or coconspirator whose testimony is based upon statements made by the defendant while both the defendant and the informant are held within a correctional institution. Existing law requires a court to give a specified jury instruction, upon the request of a party, regarding the testimony of an in-custody informant. Existing law also requires the prosecution to file with the court a written statement setting out any and all consideration, as defined, promised to, or received by, the in-custody informant when the prosecution calls an in-custody informant as a witness in any criminal trial.\n This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2017-08-21" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Anderson" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Mitchell", "Skinner" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-15", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-16", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18." }, { "date": "2017-02-23", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-04-05", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and T. & H." }, { "date": "2017-04-07", "action": "Set for hearing April 19." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "April 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2017-04-18", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2017-04-18", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 25 in PUB. S. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2017-04-19", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2017-04-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 855.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1184.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2017-05-26", "action": "Published May 26 at 10 a.m." }, { "date": "2017-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 1325.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2017-06-01", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2017-06-15", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2017-07-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 11)." }, { "date": "2017-07-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-09-01", "action": "September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB421", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB421", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB421", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB421", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB421" }, "headline": "Creates tiered sex offender registration system", "one_liner": "Sorts registered sex offenders into three tiers with minimum registration periods of 10 years, 20 years, or life.", "summary": "Starting in 2021, places people convicted of specified sex offenses in three registration tiers: at least 10 years, at least 20 years, or life. Juvenile tiers are 5 and 10 years. Tier one and two registrants who complete their period may petition to leave the registry. Also revises rules for exclusion from the public website.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally made technical changes to rules on in-custody informant testimony; it was rewritten to cover sex offender registration.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB421.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB576", "slug": "2017-18/SB576", "number": "SB 576", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-02-01", "subject": "Jury commissioners: juror data collections and maintenance.", "introduced_subject": "Jury commissioners: juror data collections and maintenance.", "title": "An act to amend Section 207 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to jury commissioners.", "digest": "The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act requires one jury commissioner to be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, a majority of the judges of the superior court in each county. Existing law requires the jury commissioner to maintain records regarding the selection, qualification, and assignment of prospective jurors, and records that provide a clear audit trail regarding a juror’s attendance, jury fees, and mileage.\n This bill would require a jury commissioner to develop a form for the purpose of determining if the pool of prospective jurors who appear for jury service accurately represents a cross section of the population of the area served by the court. This bill would require the jury commissioner to use the form solely to collect specified demographic information, and would prohibit using the form to collect personal identifying information or disclosing the form to any person, organization, or agency. The bill would require the jury commissioner to biannually produce a report that aggregates the data collected from the forms, and would require each county court to make these reports public.", "introduced_digest": "The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act requires one jury commissioner to be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, a majority of the judges of the superior court in each county. Existing law requires the jury commissioner to maintain records regarding selection, qualification, and assignment of prospective jurors, and records that provide a clear audit trail regarding a juror’s attendance, jury fees, and mileage.\n This bill would require a jury commissioner to collect and maintain certain demographic data for all prospective jurors who appear for jury service pursuant to a jury summons. The bill would also require a jury commissioner to collect and maintain the names of prospective jurors who fail to appear after being sent a jury summons and the action, if any, taken by the jury commissioner in response to a prospective juror’s failure to appear. The bill would require a litigant, upon request and in support of a motion to quash the venire on in discovery for such a motion, to be provided a copy of a list of all prospective jurors, including the identifying information of all prospective jurors who have previously served as trial jurors.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2017-04-20" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-03-21", "action": "Set for hearing April 4." }, { "date": "2017-03-24", "action": "April 4 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2017-03-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2017-04-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2017-04-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 747.) (April 18)." }, { "date": "2017-04-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2017-05-03", "action": "May 8 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB576", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB576", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB576", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB576", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB576" }, "headline": "Requires jury commissioners to track juror demographics", "one_liner": "Requires jury commissioners to collect anonymous demographic data from prospective jurors to check whether jury pools reflect the community.", "summary": "Requires each jury commissioner to create a form to check whether prospective jurors reflect a cross section of the local population. The form may collect only specified demographic information, not personal identifying information, and may not be shared. Commissioners must report the combined data twice a year, and courts must make the reports public.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB576.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB689", "slug": "2017-18/SB689", "number": "SB 689", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-02-01", "subject": "Crimes: sporting events.", "introduced_subject": "Crimes: sporting events.", "title": "An act to amend Section 243.83 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.", "digest": "Existing law makes it an infraction to throw an object on or across the court or field of play with the intent to interfere with play or distract a player or to enter upon the court or field of play without permission from an authorized person any time after the authorized participants of play have entered the court or field to begin the sporting event and until the participants of play have completed the playing time of the sporting event.\n This bill would make the above crime an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed 10 days, by a fine not exceeding $2,500, or by both that fine and imprisonment. The bill would make a 2nd or subsequent violation within 5 years of a prior violation of that prohibition a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 60 days, by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law makes it an infraction to throw an object on or across the court or field of play with the intent to interfere with play or distract a player or to enter upon the court or field of play without permission from an authorized person any time after the authorized participants of play have entered the court or field to begin the sporting event and until the participants of play have completed the playing time of the sporting event.\n This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2017-05-02" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Nguyen", "Bonta", "Chiu", "Daly", "Gomez", "Maienschein" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-03-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2017-04-05", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2017-04-07", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 856.) (April 25)." }, { "date": "2017-05-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2017-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2017-05-22", "action": "May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-23", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB689", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB689", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB689", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB689", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB689" }, "headline": "Increases penalties for disrupting sporting events", "one_liner": "Raises penalties for throwing objects onto, or entering, a court or field of play during sporting events.", "summary": "Makes throwing objects onto a court or field to interfere with play, or entering it without permission during a game, an infraction (fine up to $1,000) or a misdemeanor (up to 10 days in jail, a $2,500 fine, or both). Repeat violations within 5 years bring up to 60 days in jail, a $5,000 fine, or both.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB689.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB709", "slug": "2017-18/SB709", "number": "SB 709", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-02-01", "subject": "Oil spill response and contingency planning.", "introduced_subject": "Oil spill response and contingency planning.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 8574.8, 8670.2, 8670.3, 8670.29, 8670.30, and 8670.37.53 of, and to add Section 8670.11.5 to, the Government Code, relating to oil spills.", "digest": "The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to oil spill response, including emergency drills and preparedness, and oil spill containment and cleanup, and to represent the state in any coordinated response efforts with the federal government. Existing law requires the Governor to establish a California oil spill contingency plan that provides for an integrated and effective state procedure to combat the results of major oil spills within the state and that specifies state agencies to implement the plan. Existing law requires the administrator to submit to the Governor and the Legislature an amended California oil spill contingency plan that addresses marine oil spills, by January 1, 1993, and to submit revised plans every 3 years thereafter. Beginning January 1, 2017, and every 3 years thereafter, the administrator is required to submit an amended California oil spill contingency plan that addresses both marine and inland oil spills. Existing law requires the administrator to adopt and implement regulations governing the adequacy of oil spill contingency plans to be prepared and implemented and requires the regulations to provide for the best achievable protection of coastal and marine waters. Existing law requires an owner or operator of a facility, small marine fueling facility, or mobile transfer unit, or an owner or operator of a tank vessel, nontank vessel, or vessel carrying oil as secondary cargo, while operating in the waters of the state or where a spill could impact waters of the state, to have an oil spill contingency plan that complies with the rules, regulations, and policies established by the administrator, that meets specified minimum requirements, and that has been submitted to, and approved by, the administrator.\n This bill would define “nonfloating oil” for purposes of the act. The bill would require the administrator, by January 1, 2020, to conduct and complete an independent scientific study on the best achievable protection of state waters from spills of nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oils, including criteria for oil spill contingency plans and oil spill response organizations (OSROs) responsible for remediating those spills. The bill would require that the scientific study evaluate the hazards and risks and potential hazards and risks that nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oils pose to natural resources and public, occupational, and environmental health and safety. The bill would require the administrator to post the results and recommendations of the completed scientific study on an Internet Web site maintained by the administrator. The bill would require the administrator, by January 1, 2019, to identify those oils transported into or through the state that place waters of the state at risk from an oil spill that are composed in whole or in part of nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil and, through a public process, to establish criteria to identify specific characteristics of nonfloating and potentially nonfloating oil. The bill would require the administrator to periodically update and publicly release this list as the sources and types of nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil change. The bill would, if nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil is present, require that the oil spill contingency plan that is filed with and approved by the administrator identifies one OSRO capable of oil spill response activities related to that nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil. The bill would additionally require the oil spill contingency plan to describe spill location-specific procedures, techniques, and demonstrated technologies effective for responding to a spill of the nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil. The bill would require that the 3-year update to the California oil spill contingency plan that addresses marine and inland oil spills that is to be revised and submitted to the Governor and the Legislature by January 1, 2020, and every 3 years thereafter, include consideration of nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oils.\n Existing law authorizes an OSRO to apply to the administrator for a rating of that OSRO’s response capabilities. Upon receiving a completed application for rating, the administrator is required to review the application and rate the OSRO based on the OSRO’s satisfactory compliance with criteria established by the administrator, including specified elements.\n This bill would require that those elements include the type of oil, including nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil, the OSRO is capable of recovering and containing. The bill would require any OSRO seeking a nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil response capability rating to explain, in detail, the tools, technologies, and techniques it will deploy, including how these tools, technologies, and techniques will overcome identified challenges in remediating spills of nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oils, in order to meet the criteria developed for remediating a nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil spill necessary to protect state waters.\n The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act prohibits a person from operating a marine facility, as defined, unless the owner or operator of the marine facility has obtained a certificate of financial responsibility. To receive a certificate of financial responsibility from the administrator for oil spill response, the act requires the owner or operator of a marine facility to make a specified showing of financial resources to the satisfaction of the administrator. The act authorizes the administrator to issue a certificate of financial responsibility on a lesser showing of financial resources for a period of not longer than 3 years if the administrator makes specified findings.\n This bill would require that the administrator, when determining whether to issue a certificate of financial responsibility on a lesser showing of financial resources, to consider the particular risks posed by the type of oil proposed to be carried and to differentiate the risk based upon whether the oil is floating oil or nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oil.", "introduced_digest": "The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to oil spill response, including emergency drills and preparedness, and oil spill containment and cleanup, and to represent the state in any coordinated response efforts with the federal government. Existing law requires the administrator to adopt and implement regulations governing the adequacy of oil spill contingency plans to be prepared and implemented and requires the regulations to provide for the best achievable protection of coastal and marine waters. Existing law requires an owner or operator of a facility, small marine fueling facility, or mobile transfer unit, or an owner or operator of a tank vessel, nontank vessel, or vessel carrying oil as secondary cargo, while operating in the waters of the state or where a spill could impact waters of the state, to have an oil spill contingency plan that complies with the rules, regulations, and policies established by the administrator, that meets specified minimum requirements, and that has been submitted to, and approved by, the administrator.\n This bill would, if nonfloating oil, such as tar sand, is present, require that the oil spill contingency plan that is filed with and approved by the administrator identifies one oil spill response organization (OSRO) capable of oil spill response activities related to that nonfloating oil. The bill would additionally require the oil spill contingency plan to describe procedures, techniques, and demonstrated technologies effective for responding to a spill of the nonfloating oil.\n Existing law authorizes an OSRO to apply to the administrator for a rating of that OSRO’s response capabilities. Upon receiving a completed application for rating, the administrator is required to review the application and rate the OSRO based on the OSRO’s satisfactory compliance with criteria established by the administrator, including specified elements.\n This bill would require that those elements include the type of oil, including nonfloating oils, such as tar sands, the OSRO is capable of recovering and containing. The bill would require that certain regulations adopted by the administrator be consistent with the 2016 United States Coast Guard OSRO classification program.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2017-04-26" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Beall", "Hill", "McGuire", "Skinner", "Stern" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and EQ." }, { "date": "2017-03-10", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2017-03-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2017-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 19 in EQ. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2017-04-06", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (March 28)." }, { "date": "2017-04-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2017-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 785.) (April 19)." }, { "date": "2017-04-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2017-05-03", "action": "May 8 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-11", "action": "May 15 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2017-05-22", "action": "May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-23", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB709", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB709", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB709", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB709", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB709" }, "headline": "Requires planning for spills of nonfloating oil", "one_liner": "Requires state oil spill officials and spill contingency plans to address oils that do not float on water.", "summary": "Requires the state oil spill administrator to study, by 2020, how to protect state waters from spills of nonfloating oils and post the results. By 2019, the administrator must identify such oils moving through the state. Spill contingency plans must name a response organization able to handle these oils. Reviews for reduced financial responsibility showings must consider oil type.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB709.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB740", "slug": "2017-18/SB740", "number": "SB 740", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-02-01", "subject": "Onsite treated water.", "introduced_subject": "Onsite treated water.", "title": "An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 13558) to Chapter 7 of Division 7 of the Water Code, relating to water quality.", "digest": "Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health.\n This bill would, on or before December 1, 2018, require the state board, in consultation with other state agencies, to adopt regulations, consistent with federal and state law in effect on January 1, 2018, to provide comprehensive risk-based standards for local jurisdictions permitting programs for onsite recycling of water in multifamily residential, commercial, and mixed-use buildings for nonpotable use. The bill would require the regulations to address specified issues and practices relating to the management, monitoring, and treatment of recycled water for nonpotable use. The bill would require that a local jurisdiction comply with those regulations if the local jurisdiction allows the onsite recycling of water and subsequent uses of that recycled water.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health.\n This bill would require the state board, in consultation with other state agencies, to adopt regulations, as specified, for a comprehensive risk-based framework to assist local jurisdictions in developing a program for the oversight and management of onsite treatment of water for nonpotable use. The bill would require the regulations to be flexible to adapt to new water sources, end uses, and advances in approaches and methodologies to estimate the risk of onsite water treatment to public health.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2017-04-26" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Water Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2017-03-15", "action": "Set for hearing April 5." }, { "date": "2017-03-23", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2017-04-05", "action": "April 5 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 19." }, { "date": "2017-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 785.) (April 19)." }, { "date": "2017-04-26", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2017-05-03", "action": "May 8 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2017-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2017-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB740", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB740", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB740", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB740", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB740" }, "headline": "Requires statewide standards for onsite water recycling", "one_liner": "Requires the state water board to set standards for reusing water onsite in multifamily, commercial and mixed-use buildings.", "summary": "Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt regulations by December 1, 2018, setting risk-based standards for local programs that allow onsite water recycling in multifamily, commercial, and mixed-use buildings. The recycled water is for nonpotable (non-drinking) uses. Local jurisdictions that allow onsite recycling must follow the regulations.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB740.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB760", "slug": "2017-18/SB760", "number": "SB 760", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-06-25", "subject": "State highways: permits: improvements.", "introduced_subject": "Transportation funding: active transportation: complete streets.", "title": "An act to amend Section 670.1 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to state highways.", "digest": "Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue a permit to the owner or developer of property adjacent to or near a state highway, including the associated right-of-way, to construct, alter, repair, or improve any portion of the highway for the purpose of improving local traffic access, as provided. Existing law specifies that the permit may be issued only if the work within the highway right-of-way is to be performed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the department.\n If the improvement would not affect the operation of the state highway and the associated work would be performed in accordance with local agency plans and specifications, this bill would prohibit the department from denying an application for a permit solely because the associated work is not to be performed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the department.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law establishes the Active Transportation Program in the Department of Transportation for the purpose of encouraging increased use of active modes of transportation, such as biking and walking, and declares the intent of the Legislature that the program achieve specific goals, including, among other things, increasing the proportion of trips accomplished by biking and walking and the safety and mobility for nonmotorized users.\n This bill would establish a Division of Active Transportation within the department and require that an undersecretary of the Transportation Agency be assigned to give attention to active transportation program matters to guide progress toward meeting the department’s active transportation program goals and objectives. The bill would require the California Transportation Commission to give high priority to increasing safety for pedestrians and bicyclists and to the implementation of bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2018, the department to update the Highway Design Manual to incorporate the “complete streets” design concept, including, but not limited to, a specified guidance for selection of bicycle facilities.\n (2)Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control over the highways of the state and is responsible for preparing the 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. \n Existing law also creates the California Transportation Commission, with specified powers and duties relative to the programming of transportation capital improvement projects and the allocation of state transportation funds for state transportation improvement projects. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the commission, to prepare an asset management plan to guide selection of projects for the State Highway Operation and Protection Program consistent with any applicable state and federal requirements. Existing law requires the commission, in connection with the asset management plan, to adopt targets and performance measures reflecting state transportation goals and objectives.\n This bill would require the asset management plan to prescribe a process for community input and complete streets implementation to prioritize safety and accessibility for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users on all State Highway Operation and Protection Program projects, as specified.\n The bill would require the commission, in connection with the asset management plan, to adopt performance measures that include conditions of bicycle and pedestrian facilities, accessibility and safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users, and vehicle miles traveled on the state highway system. The bill would require that the State Highway Operation and Protection Program projects include capital improvements relative to accessibility for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users. The bill would require that each project include in its budget the cost of pedestrian and bicycle facilities. The bill would require that the plain language performance report developed by the department, in consultation with the commission, include a description of pedestrian and bicycle facilities on each project, including the number, extent, and cost of the elements relative to the overall project.\n The bill would require the department, by January 1, 2020, when undertaking any capital improvement project on a state highway or a local street crossing a state highway that is funded through the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, to include new pedestrian and bicycle facilities, or improve existing facilities, as part of the project, consistent with specified requirements. The bill would require the department to establish a project development team for each project, as specified. The bill would require, until January 1, 2020, or by which time the department can demonstrate that it has met these requirements, the department to use 3% of State Highway Operation and Protection Program funds from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account, if that account is created pursuant to legislation, for bicycle and pedestrian facilities.\n This bill would also require that funds in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund be programmed, budgeted, as specified, and expended to maximize the use of federal funds for accessibility improvements for all users of the transportation system, as specified, and that safety improvements prioritize reducing fatalities and severe injuries for vulnerable road users, and not increase vehicle miles traveled.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2018-06-04" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Streets and Highways Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Chiu", "Kalra" ], "coauthors": [ "Bloom", "Friedman" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2017-12-21", "action": "Set for hearing January 9." }, { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-01-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3. Page 4007.) (January 9)." }, { "date": "2018-01-10", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-01-12", "action": "Set for hearing January 16." }, { "date": "2018-01-16", "action": "January 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-01-17", "action": "Set for hearing January 18." }, { "date": "2018-01-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4056.) (January 18)." }, { "date": "2018-01-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-01-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 4105.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-01-30", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-04-19", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2018-06-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2018-06-11", "action": "June 11 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-06-25", "action": "June 25 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB760", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB760", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB760", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB760", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB760" }, "headline": "Limits denials of state highway access permits", "one_liner": "Bars Caltrans from denying certain local access permits near state highways only because work follows local agency plans.", "summary": "The Department of Transportation (Caltrans) may issue permits letting nearby property owners or developers improve a state highway for local traffic access. Caltrans may not deny a permit only because the work follows local agency plans instead of department-approved plans, if the work would not affect highway operations.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with bike and pedestrian facilities on state highways; it was rewritten to cover state highway permits for local access work.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB760.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB780", "slug": "2017-18/SB780", "number": "SB 780", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2017-02-17", "last_action_date": "2018-02-01", "subject": "Water Conservation in Landscaping Act.", "introduced_subject": "Water Conservation in Landscaping Act.", "title": "An act to amend Section 65592 of, and to add Sections 65593.5, 65595.1, 65595.2, 65595.3, and 65595.4 to, the Government Code, relating to water conservation.", "digest": "Previously existing law required the Department of Water Resources to develop a model local water efficient landscape ordinance by January 1, 1992, and the Water Conservation in Landscaping Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires the department to update the model ordinance, as provided. The act provides that, if a local agency did not adopt a water efficient landscape ordinance or specified findings that an ordinance is not necessary by January 1, 1993, that model ordinance applies within the jurisdiction of the local agency, except in the case of a chartered city.\n This bill would require the Department of Water Resources, by January 1, 2019, to establish guidelines for designing, installing, and rehabilitating landscapes of any size consistent with the watershed approach to landscaping, as provided. The bill would require, within 6 months of adoption of the guidelines, the Department of Water Resources and any other state agency with a grant or loan program that provides funding for water-conserving or water-efficient landscapes, (1) for programs funded by general obligation bonds, to revise funding guidelines to provide a preference for projects that comply with the adopted guidelines; (2) for programs funded by sources other than general obligation bonds, to revise funding guidelines to require projects to comply with the adopted guidelines; and (3) for programs funded by any source, to give, to the extent feasible, additional funding preference for a project that implements the watershed approach to landscaping whose project application includes the use of services of specified entities. The bill would also require the Department of Water Resources to promote the watershed approach to landscaping by providing education and training for homeowners, contractors, certified community conservation corps, and other landscape professionals who plan, develop, or implement landscaping projects.\n This bill would authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to promote the application of compost in urban areas of the state to assist with projects that follow the watershed approach to landscaping and, in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, to develop and implement pilot projects that support the understanding and deployment of compost to meet specified goals. The bill would also require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in coordination with the State Air Resources Board, to develop a greenhouse gas emissions reduction factor for new climate appropriate landscapes, as provided.", "introduced_digest": "Previously existing law required the Department of Water Resources to develop a model local water efficient landscape ordinance by January 1, 1992, and the Water Conservation in Landscaping Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires the department to update the model ordinance, as provided. The act provides that, if a local agency did not adopt a water efficient landscape ordinance or specified findings that an ordinance is not necessary by January 1, 1993, that model ordinance applies within the jurisdiction of the local agency, except in the case of a chartered city. The act makes various findings and declarations of legislative intent.\n This bill would require state and local agencies to adhere to specified principles of the watershed approach in landscaping. The bill would require the Department of Water Resources to develop watershed approach-focused landscaping policies and incentives, including an enhanced model water efficient landscape ordinance, as provided. The bill would also require the Department of Water Resources to promote watershed approach-focused education and training for homeowners, contractors, certified community conservation corps, and other landscape professionals who plan, develop, or implement projects complying with the enhanced model ordinance. The bill would require the Natural Resources Agency to incorporate the enhanced model water efficient landscape ordinance standards into its incentive programs and guidelines, as provided, and would require that a local agency that provides landscape incentive programs provide as part of those programs a preference for projects that conform to the enhanced model water efficient landscape ordinance. By increasing the duties of local government officials with respect to landscaping, this bill would impost a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to promote the application of compost in urban areas of the state to assist with projects supplemented in accordance with the enhanced model water efficient landscape ordinance and, in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, to develop and implement pilot projects that support the understanding and deployment of compost to meet specified goals. The bill would also require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in coordination with the State Air Resources Board, to develop a greenhouse gas emissions reduction factor for new climate appropriate landscapes, as provided.\n This bill would make additional findings related to the Water Conservation in Landscaping Act.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2017-04-04" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2017-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2017-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2017-03-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and EQ." }, { "date": "2017-03-10", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2017-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 513.) (March 28)." }, { "date": "2017-04-04", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2017-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 19." }, { "date": "2017-04-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 785.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2017-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing May 1." }, { "date": "2017-05-01", "action": "May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2017-05-19", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2017-05-25", "action": "May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB780", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB780", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB780", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB780", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB780" }, "headline": "Creates state guidelines for watershed-approach landscaping", "one_liner": "Requires state water officials to set landscaping guidelines and ties state landscape grants and loans to them.", "summary": "The Department of Water Resources must set guidelines for landscapes that follow a watershed approach and offer training on them. State grant and loan programs for water-efficient landscapes must favor or require projects that meet the guidelines. The state recycling department may promote compost use. The Energy Commission must set a greenhouse gas reduction factor for new climate-appropriate landscapes.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB780.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB827", "slug": "2017-18/SB827", "number": "SB 827", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-03", "last_action_date": "2018-04-19", "subject": "Planning and zoning: transit-rich housing bonus.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and zoning: transit-rich housing bonus.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 4.35 (commencing with Section 65918.5) to Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, relating to land use.", "digest": "The Planning and Zoning Law requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of a local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents. \n This bill would require a local government to, if requested, grant a development proponent of a transit-rich housing project a transit-rich housing bonus if that development at the time of submittal meets specified planning standards, including complying with demolition permit requirements, complying with any local inclusionary housing ordinance or, if the local government has not adopted an inclusionary housing ordinance, agreeing to provide a specified percentage of awarded units as onsite affordable housing, preparing a relocation benefits and assistance plan, complying with any locally adopted objective zoning standards, complying with any locally adopted minimum unit mix requirements, and if the development includes specified types of parcels, agreeing to replace those units and to offer units at one of 2 specified affordable rates. The bill would define a transit-rich housing project as a residential development project the parcels of which are all within a 1/2 mile radius of a major transit stop or a 1/4 mile radius of a stop on a high-quality bus corridor. The bill would exempt an eligible applicant who receives a transit-rich housing bonus from various requirements, including maximum controls on residential density, maximum controls on floor area ratio that are lower than a specified amount, minimum automobile parking requirements except as provided, maximum height limitations that are less than a specified amount unless those increases would have a specific, adverse impact upon public health and safety, and zoning or design controls that have the effect of limiting additions onto existing structures or lots that comply with those maximum floor area ratios and height limitations. The bill would require an eligible applicant, which this bill would define to mean a development proponent who receives a transit-rich housing bonus, to provide each resident of the development with a recurring monthly transit pass with the applicable transit agency that provides service to the major transit stop or high quality transit corridor that qualified the applicant for the bonus at no cost to the residents. The bill would require an eligible applicant to provide benefits to eligible displaced persons who are displaced by the development, including requiring the applicant to offer a right to remain guarantee to those tenants, and to make payments to eligible displaced persons for moving and related expenses as well as for relocation benefits. The bill would also require an eligible applicant to submit a relocation benefit and assistance plan for approval to the applicable local government to that effect, and to provide specified information and assistance to eligible displaced persons.\n This bill would provide that the provisions described above become operative on January 1, 2021, in order to provide an opportunity for local governments to conduct studies and to adopt or update any ordinances as necessary. The bill would authorize a local government, no later than July 1, 2020, to apply to the Department of Housing and Community Development for a one-time one-year extension in order to delay the operation of those provisions with respect to parcels located within the jurisdictional boundaries of that local government until January 1, 2022. The bill would require the department to review any application submitted, and to grant it if the department makes specified findings. The bill would require the department to post on its Internet Web site the final decision of any application that the department granted to delay the operation of these provisions.\n This bill, commencing January 1, 2019, would provide that if a local government adopts any ordinance on or after January 1, 2018, that eliminates zoning designations or decreases residential zoning capacity within an existing zoning district, then any development proponent who submits an application for a transit-rich housing bonus on or after the operative date of these provisions as described above, will be deemed to be consistent with the requirements of these provisions if that development complies with zoning designations that were authorized on January 1, 2018.\n The bill would declare that its provisions address a matter of statewide concern and apply equally to all cities and counties in this state, including a charter city.\n By adding to the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "The Planning and Zoning Law requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of a local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents. \n This bill would authorize a transit-rich housing project to receive a transit-rich housing bonus. The bill would define a transit-rich housing project as a residential development project the parcels of which are all within a 1/2 mile radius of a major transit stop or a 1/4 mile radius of a high-quality transit corridor, as those terms are further defined. The bill would exempt a project awarded a housing opportunity bonus from various requirements, including maximum controls on residential density or floor area ratio, minimum automobile parking requirements, design standards that restrict the applicant’s ability to construct the maximum number of units consistent with any applicable building code, and maximum height limitations, as provided.\n The bill would declare that its provisions address a matter of statewide concern and apply equally to all cities and counties in this state, including a charter city.\n By adding to the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2018-04-09" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Failed a committee vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Skinner", "Ting" ], "coauthors": [ "Hueso" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3." }, { "date": "2018-01-16", "action": "Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2018-03-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-04-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2018-04-18", "action": "April 17 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 4. Noes 6. Page 4723.) Reconsideration granted." }, { "date": "2018-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 25 in GOV. & F. pending receipt." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827" }, "headline": "Eases zoning limits for housing near transit", "one_liner": "Requires local governments to grant a transit-rich housing bonus to qualifying projects near major transit stops or high-quality bus corridors.", "summary": "Housing projects near major transit stops or high-quality bus corridors can get a transit-rich housing bonus. The bonus lifts local limits on density, some height and floor area limits, and minimum parking. Developers must meet affordability rules, give residents free transit passes, and help displaced tenants. Local governments may apply to delay the rules by one year.", "issues": [ "housing", "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB827.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB900", "slug": "2017-18/SB900", "number": "SB 900", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-16", "last_action_date": "2018-06-26", "subject": "Electronic benefits transfer system: CalFresh supplemental benefits.", "introduced_subject": "Electronic benefits transfer system: CalFresh supplemental benefits.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Section 10072.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.", "digest": "Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law, administered by the State Department of Social Services, provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits, including CalFresh benefits.\n This bill would establish the California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project, which requires the department, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture and stakeholders with experience operating CalFresh nutrition incentive programs, to include within the EBT system a supplemental benefits mechanism that allows an authorized retailer, as defined, to deliver and redeem supplemental benefits, as specified. The bill would define supplemental benefits to mean additional funds delivered to a CalFresh recipient’s EBT card upon purchase of California-grown fresh fruits and vegetables using CalFresh benefits, and to be redeemed only for purchases allowed under the CalFresh program at an authorized retailer.\n The bill would create in the State Treasury the California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Grant Fund, as specified. The bill would, upon the deposit of sufficient moneys into the fund, as determined by the department, and upon the appropriation of moneys from the fund by the Legislature for this purpose, also require the department to provide a minimum of 3 grants to nonprofit organizations or government agencies for pilot projects to implement and test the supplemental benefits mechanism in existing retail settings, and to develop and adopt guidelines for awarding the grants, that includes selection criteria requiring that grant applicants demonstrate, among other things, previous experience and effectiveness in administering CalFresh nutrition incentive programs, or similar supplemental benefits programs. The bill would require the department to evaluate the pilot projects and make recommendations to further refine and expand the supplemental benefits mechanism, and to submit a report to the Legislature with the outcomes of that evaluation on or before January 1, 2021. The bill would require the department to seek any necessary federal approvals to establish this pilot project, and would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2024.", "introduced_digest": "Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law, administered by the State Department of Social Services, provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits, including CalFresh benefits.\n This bill would require the department, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture and stakeholders with experience operating CalFresh nutrition incentive programs, to include within the EBT system a supplemental benefits mechanism that allows a retailer authorized to accept CalFresh benefits to deliver and redeem supplemental benefits, as specified. The bill would define supplemental benefits to mean additional funds delivered to a CalFresh recipient’s EBT card upon purchase of California-grown fruits and vegetables using CalFresh benefits, and to be redeemed only for purchases allowed under the CalFresh program at an authorized retailer.\n The bill would also require the department to provide a minimum of 3 grants to nonprofit organizations or government agencies for pilot projects to implement and test the supplemental benefits mechanism in existing retail settings, and to develop and adopt guidelines for awarding the grants, that includes selection criteria requiring that grant applicants demonstrate, among other things, previous experience and effectiveness in administering CalFresh nutrition incentive programs, or similar supplemental benefits programs. The bill would provide that the provision of supplemental benefits under the supplemental benefits mechanism may be funded by any combination of public or private funds, and shall be contingent upon the appropriation of funds by the Legislature for that purpose. The bill would require the department to evaluate the pilot projects and make recommendations to further refine and expand the supplemental benefits mechanism, and to submit a report to the Legislature with the outcomes of that evaluation on or before January 1, 2020.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2018-05-25" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Arambula" ], "coauthors": [ "Glazer", "Pan", "Mayes", "Steinorth" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-17", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16." }, { "date": "2018-01-24", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and AGRI." }, { "date": "2018-02-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2018-03-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4624.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI." }, { "date": "2018-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2018-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 4696.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-04-20", "action": "Set for hearing April 30." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "April 30 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4298.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4398.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and AGRI." }, { "date": "2018-06-26", "action": "June 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB900", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB900", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB900", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB900", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB900" }, "headline": "Creates CalFresh fruit and vegetable pilot project", "one_liner": "Creates a pilot giving CalFresh recipients extra EBT funds when they buy California-grown fresh fruits and vegetables.", "summary": "Creates the California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project. The EBT system must let authorized retailers add extra funds to CalFresh recipients' cards when they buy California-grown fresh produce. If money is available, the state must give at least 3 grants for pilot projects in stores. The state must report results to the Legislature. The program ends in 2024.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB900.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB916", "slug": "2017-18/SB916", "number": "SB 916", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-01-22", "last_action_date": "2018-05-25", "subject": "Unlawful entry of a vehicle.", "introduced_subject": "Burglary of a vehicle.", "title": "An act to add Section 465 to the Penal Code, relating to crime.", "digest": "Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Burglary of a vehicle is punishable as a misdemeanor. \n This bill would make forcibly entering a vehicle 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Burglary of a vehicle is punishable as a misdemeanor. \n This bill would include in the definition of burglary entering a vehicle by forced entry with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2018-04-02" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Arambula" ], "coauthors": [ "Stone", "Cervantes", "Chiu", "Rodriguez", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-01-22", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-01-23", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22." }, { "date": "2018-02-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing March 20." }, { "date": "2018-03-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2018-03-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4417.) (March 20)." }, { "date": "2018-04-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 16." }, { "date": "2018-04-16", "action": "April 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB916", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB916", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB916", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB916", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB916" }, "headline": "Creates a crime for forcibly entering vehicles", "one_liner": "Makes forcibly breaking into a vehicle to steal from it a new crime with possible jail time.", "summary": "Creates a new crime of forcibly entering a vehicle with the intent to steal from it. The crime is punishable by up to one year in county jail, or by 16 months, 2 years, or 3 years in county jail.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB916.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB990", "slug": "2017-18/SB990", "number": "SB 990", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-02-05", "last_action_date": "2018-08-16", "subject": "Inmates.", "introduced_subject": "Crimes: branded containers.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1279.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and to add Sections 2067 and 4033 to the Penal Code, relating to inmates.", "digest": "Existing law establishes the right of a person under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or sentenced to county jail to petition the court to obtain a name or gender change. Existing law requires the department or county jail to use the new name of a person who obtains a name change in all documentation of the person, and to list the prior name only as an alias. \n This bill would additionally require that in all verbal communications to or regarding a person under the jurisdiction of the department or imprisoned within a county jail, department staff, facility staff, and contractors use the new name of a person who has obtained a name change.\n Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to consider certain factors in their inmate classification and housing assignment procedures to prevent sexual violence and promote inmate safety.\n This bill would require that during the initial intake and classification process, the department afford each individual entering into custody an opportunity to specify the person’s gender identity, preferred first name, gender pronoun, and honorific, as defined, and would require that a person in the custody of the department who is placed for more than 5 days in a setting other than general population housing because the person is deemed to be at high risk for sexual victimization or other forms of assault or harassment, or because of an investigation not resulting from the person’s own alleged violation of criminal laws or institutional rules, have equal access to programs and work opportunities, as provided, to the fullest extent possible, to individuals housed in general population, as specified. The bill would require the department to annually report to the Legislature, the Assembly Committee on Budget, and the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review on its progress towards providing equal access to programs and work opportunities, as specified. The bill would require that staff and contractors of the department consistently use the gender pronoun and honorific an individual has specified in all verbal and written communications with or regarding that individual.\n Existing law requires inmate housing in jails to use a classification procedure that is based upon objective criteria, including consideration of criminal sophistication, seriousness of crime charged, presence or absence of assaultive behavior, age, and other criteria that will provide for the safety of the prisoners and staff. \n This bill would require that during the initial intake and classification process, the jail staff afford each individual entering into custody an opportunity to specify the person’s gender identity, preferred first name, gender pronoun, and honorific, as defined, and would require that a person in the custody of a county jail who is placed for more than 5 days in a setting other than general population housing because the person is deemed to be at high risk for sexual victimization or other forms of assault or harassment, or because of an investigation not resulting from the person’s own alleged violation of criminal laws or institutional rules, have equal access to programs and work opportunities as provided to individuals housed in general population, as specified. The bill would require that staff and contractors of the jail consistently use the gender pronoun and honorific an individual has specified in all verbal and written communications with or regarding that individual. By imposing additional duties on local law enforcement entities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law makes it a felony for an unauthorized person to possess or use, or to obliterate or destroy, the brand registration upon containers, cabinets, or other dairy equipment, that have a value in excess of $950, when the containers, cabinets, or other dairy equipment are marked with a registered brand, as specified. \n This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2018-05-25" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Galgiani", "Chiu" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-02-05", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-02-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8." }, { "date": "2018-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-21", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2018-03-22", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4627.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2018-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4814.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4301.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-30", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4402.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-07", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2018-06-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2018-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "August 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB990", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB990", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB990", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB990", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB990" }, "headline": "Requires prisons and jails to use stated pronouns", "one_liner": "Requires prison and jail staff to use people's stated pronouns, honorifics, and legally changed names, and expands program access.", "summary": "People entering state prison or county jail may state their gender identity, preferred first name, pronoun, and honorific. Staff must use their stated pronoun and honorific, and legally changed names when speaking. People held outside general population over 5 days for safety or certain investigations must get equal access to programs and work. The prison system must report yearly.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with registered brands on dairy equipment; it was rewritten to cover gender identity and names in prisons and jails.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB990.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB1399", "slug": "2017-18/SB1399", "number": "SB 1399", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-02-16", "last_action_date": "2018-05-25", "subject": "Renewable energy: shared renewable energy tariffs.", "introduced_subject": "Renewable energy: shared renewable energy tariffs.", "title": "An act to add Section 2827.2 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to renewable energy.", "digest": "Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop a standard contract or tariff, which may include net energy metering, for an eligible customer-generator with a renewable electrical generation facility that is a customer of a large electrical corporation, as defined.\n The Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program requires a participating utility, as defined, to file with the commission an application requesting approval of a tariff to implement a program enabling ratepayers to participate directly in offsite electrical generation facilities that use eligible renewable energy resources, consistent with certain legislative findings and statements of intent. Existing law requires the commission, by July 1, 2014, to issue a decision concerning the participating utility’s application, determining whether to approve or disapprove the application, with or without modifications, pursuant to a specified methodology.\n This bill would require the commission to require each large electrical corporation to establish a tariff or tariffs that provide for bill credits for electricity generated by eligible renewable generating facilities and exported to the electrical grid to be credited to electrical accounts of nonresidential customers of the corporations. The bill would require the commission to ensure that the credits reflect the full value of the electricity from the eligible renewable generating facilities and the credits are established using the same methodology that is used to determine credits under the standard contract or tariff for eligible customer-generators.\n Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. \n By requiring the commission to require large electrical corporations to establish the above-described tariff, a violation of which would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop a standard contract or tariff, which may include net energy metering, for an eligible customer-generator with a renewable electrical generation facility that is a customer of a large electrical corporation, as defined.\n The Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program requires a participating utility, as defined, to file with the commission an application requesting approval of a tariff to implement a program enabling ratepayers to participate directly in offsite electrical generation facilities that use eligible renewable energy resources, consistent with certain legislative findings and statements of intent. Existing law requires the commission, by July 1, 2014, to issue a decision concerning the participating utility’s application, determining whether to approve or disapprove the application, with or without modifications, pursuant to a specified methodology.\n This bill would require the commission to require each large electrical corporation to establish a tariff or tariffs that provide for bill credits for electricity generated by eligible renewable generating facilities and exported to the electrical grid to be credited to electrical accounts of nonresidential customers of the corporations. The bill would require the commission to ensure that the credit reflects the full value of the electricity from the eligible renewable generating facilities and the credit is established using the same methodology that as used to determined credits under the standard contract or tariff for eligible customer-generators.\n Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. \n By requiring the commission to require large electrical corporations to establish the above-described tariff, a violation of which would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2018-05-01" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-02-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-02-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22." }, { "date": "2018-03-08", "action": "Referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2018-03-23", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2018-04-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2018-04-11", "action": "April 17 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 25." }, { "date": "2018-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 4851.) (April 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2018-05-15", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2018-05-22", "action": "May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-23", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1399", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1399", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1399", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1399", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1399" }, "headline": "Requires utility bill credits for exported renewable power", "one_liner": "Requires large utilities to credit nonresidential customers' electric bills for renewable power sent to the grid.", "summary": "The Public Utilities Commission must require large electric utilities to create tariffs that give bill credits for renewable electricity sent to the grid. The credits go to the accounts of nonresidential customers. Credits must reflect the full value of the electricity. They must be set the same way as credits for customers who generate their own power.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB1399.html" }, { "id": "201720180SB1464", "slug": "2017-18/SB1464", "number": "SB 1464", "session": "2017-18", "session_label": "2017-18", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-02-16", "last_action_date": "2018-08-16", "subject": "Medi-Cal: benefits: enrollees with special dental care needs.", "introduced_subject": "Oral health: elder and dependent adults.", "title": "An act to add Section 14132.235 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to health care.", "digest": "Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law provides for a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program, including certain dental services that are referred to as Denti-Cal, and dental managed care plans.\n This bill would require the department, for Denti-Cal and dental managed care plan beneficiaries with special dental care needs, to provide a payment adjustment to providers in the Denti-Cal program and for dental managed care plans, as specified. The bill would not limit the provision or scope of Denti-Cal services covered under existing law. The bill would require the department to seek any necessary approvals from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the bill. The bill would require the department to implement its provisions only in a manner that is consistent with federal Medicaid law and regulations, and only to the extent that the necessary approvals are obtained and federal financial participation is not jeopardized. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific its provisions, and any applicable federal waivers and state plan amendments, by means of all-county letters, plan letters, plan or provider bulletins, or similar instructions, without taking regulatory action, and would require the department to subsequently adopt regulations, as specified, by July 1, 2022. The bill would require the department, commencing January 1, 2020, to provide the Legislature with semiannual status reports to the Legislature until regulations have been adopted.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law provides for a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program, including certain dental services that are referred to as Denti-Cal.\n Existing law expresses the declaration of the Legislature that this state shall foster and promote community services for the economic, social, and personal well-being of its citizens in order to protect elder and dependent adults.\n This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would improve access to oral health for all elder and dependent adults.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2018-06-19" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Mitchell", "Nguyen", "Nielsen", "Pan" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-02-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-02-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22." }, { "date": "2018-03-08", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-03-22", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2018-04-04", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2018-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 4747.) (April 18)." }, { "date": "2018-04-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2018-05-22", "action": "May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-05-23", "action": "Set for hearing May 25." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4311.) (May 25)." }, { "date": "2018-05-25", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2018-05-29", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4457.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2018-05-31", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2018-06-11", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-06-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2018-06-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2018-08-08", "action": "August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2018-08-16", "action": "August 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1464", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1464", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1464", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1464", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1464" }, "headline": "Adjusts Medi-Cal dental pay for special-needs patients", "one_liner": "Requires the state to give Medi-Cal dental providers a payment adjustment for patients with special dental care needs.", "summary": "Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to give a payment adjustment to Denti-Cal providers and dental managed care plans serving Medi-Cal patients with special dental care needs. It does not limit covered Denti-Cal services. The department must seek federal approval and report to the Legislature twice a year until it adopts regulations.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2017-18/SB1464.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB23", "slug": "2019-20/SB23", "number": "SB 23", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-12-03", "last_action_date": "2019-08-30", "subject": "Unlawful entry of a vehicle.", "introduced_subject": "Unlawful entry of a vehicle.", "title": "An act to add Section 465 to the Penal Code, relating to crime.", "digest": "Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Existing law makes the burglary of a vehicle punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.\n This bill 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Existing law make the burglary of a vehicle punishable as a misdemeanor. \n This bill would make entering a vehicle 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2019-07-02" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Arambula", "Cervantes" ], "coauthors": [ "Chang", "Chen", "Chiu", "Cunningham", "Lackey", "Rodriguez", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-12-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-12-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-02-28", "action": "Set for hearing March 26." }, { "date": "2019-03-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-03-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 439.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-03-29", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2019-04-08", "action": "April 8 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1087.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 1195.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-05-30", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-07-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25)." }, { "date": "2019-07-02", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-14", "action": "August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "August 30 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB23", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB23", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB23", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB23", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB23" }, "headline": "Creates a crime for forcibly entering vehicles", "one_liner": "Makes forcibly entering a vehicle with the intent to steal from it a separate crime.", "summary": "Creates a new crime of forcibly entering a vehicle with the intent to steal something inside. It is punishable by up to one year in county jail, or by 16 months, 2 years, or 3 years in county jail.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB23.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB48", "slug": "2019-20/SB48", "number": "SB 48", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-12-03", "last_action_date": "2020-02-03", "subject": "Low Barrier Navigation Center developments.", "introduced_subject": "Homelessness: right to shelter.", "title": "An act to amend Section 65583 of, and to add and repeal Article 12 (commencing with Section 65660) of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of, the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "(1)The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, and to make adequate provision for the existing and projected needs of all economic segments of a community.\n This bill would revise the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with the identification of zones where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted used with a conditional use or other discretionary permit. The bill would generally require that emergency shelters be in areas that allow residential use, including mixed-use areas, but would permit designation in nonresidential zones if a zoning designation is not possible where residential use is a permitted use and if a local government can demonstrate that the zone is connected to specified amenities and services. The bill would remove the authorization granted to local government to require off-street parking, as specified, in connection with standards applied to emergency shelters. The bill would require that zones where emergency shelters are allowed include sites that meet at least one of certain prescribed standards.\n (2)The Planning and Zoning Law requires that supportive housing be a use by right, as defined, in zones where multifamily and mixed uses are permitted, including nonresidential zones permitting multifamily uses, if the proposed housing development meets specified requirements.\n This bill would require that a Low Barrier Navigation Center development be a use by right, as defined, in areas zoned for mixed uses if it meets specified requirements. The bill would define “Low Barrier Navigation Center” as housing or shelter in which a resident who is homeless or at risk of homelessness may live temporarily while waiting to move into permanent housing. The bill would authorize these developments to include recuperative or respite care, navigation centers, transitional housing, and emergency shelters. The bill would define the term “use by right” in this context to mean that the local government’s review of the Low Barrier Navigation Center development may not impose certain requirements, such as a conditional use permit or other discretionary review or approval. The bill would require that a Low Barrier Navigation Center development meet state and local health and safety requirements and state and local building codes and, among other things, that it allow for the presence of partners, as specified, pets, and the storage of possessions. The bill also would require that a Low Barrier Navigation Center development provide privacy, accommodations for people with disabilities, and services to connect people to permanent housing, among other things. The bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from imposing parking requirements on an interim shelter intervention development. \n The bill would prescribe requirements for notifying a developer that its application for a Low Barrier Navigation Center development is complete and for the local jurisdiction to complete its review of the application. The bill would declare that Low Barrier Navigation Center developments are essential tools for alleviating the homelessness crisis in this state and are a matter of statewide concern and thus applicable to charter cities.\n The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2027.\n (3)By increasing the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes various entities and programs to provide assistance to homeless persons, including, among others, the Homeless Emergency Aid Program, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program, homeless youth emergency service pilot projects, and the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council. \n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that creates a right to shelter for unhoused residents throughout the state, which would be required to include the navigation center model. The bill would state the purposes of this legislation, including ensuring that every person living on California’s streets has the ability to promptly secure shelter that is safe and supportive. The bill would specify certain elements that this right to shelter would include. The bill would specify that the right to shelter is not intended to be in lieu of prioritizing permanent housing for people who lack housing.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2019-05-06" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-12-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-12-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-13", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING, GOV. & F., and EQ." }, { "date": "2019-03-15", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2019-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2019-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 551.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2019-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 713.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2019-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2019-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 843.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2019-04-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2019-05-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2020-02-03", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB48", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB48", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB48", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB48", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB48" }, "headline": "Allows Low Barrier Navigation Centers by right", "one_liner": "Makes qualifying Low Barrier Navigation Centers, temporary housing for homeless people, a use by right in mixed-use zones.", "summary": "Low Barrier Navigation Centers are temporary housing or shelter for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Cities and counties must allow qualifying centers in mixed-use zones without a conditional use permit or other discretionary review. Centers must allow partners, pets and possessions, and connect people to permanent housing. Also changes where emergency shelters must be allowed.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB48.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB50", "slug": "2019-20/SB50", "number": "SB 50", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-12-03", "last_action_date": "2020-01-30", "subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval: incentives.", "introduced_subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: equitable communities incentive.", "title": "An act to amend Section 65589.5 of, to add Sections 65913.5 and 65913.6 to, and to add Chapter 4.35 (commencing with Section 65918.50) to Division 1 of Title 7 of, the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "(1)Existing law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that satisfies specified planning objective standards to be subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit.\n This bill would authorize a development proponent of a neighborhood multifamily project located on an eligible parcel to submit an application for a streamlined, ministerial approval process that is not subject to a conditional use permit. The bill would define a “neighborhood multifamily project” to mean a project to construct a multifamily structure on vacant land, or to convert an existing structure that does not require substantial exterior alteration into a multifamily structure, consisting of up to 4 residential dwelling units and that meets local height, setback, and lot coverage zoning requirements as they existed on July 1, 2019. The bill would also define “eligible parcel” to mean a parcel that meets specified requirements, including requirements relating to the location of the parcel and restricting the demolition of certain housing development that may already exist on the site.\n This bill would require a local agency to notify the development proponent in writing if the local agency determines that the development conflicts with any of the requirements provided for streamlined ministerial approval within 60 days of the submission of the development to the local agency. If the local agency does not notify the development proponent within this time period, the development would be deemed to comply with those requirements. The bill would limit the authority of a local agency to impose parking standards or requirements on a streamlined development approved pursuant to these provisions, as provided. The bill would provide that the approval of a project under these provisions expires automatically after 3 years, unless that project qualifies for a one-time, one-year extension of that approval. The bill would provide that approval pursuant to its provisions would remain valid for 3 years and remain valid thereafter, so long as vertical construction of the development has begun and is in progress, and would authorize a discretionary one-year extension, as provided. The bill would prohibit a local agency from adopting any requirement that applies to a project solely or partially on the basis that the project receives ministerial or streamlined approval pursuant to these provisions.\n This bill would allow a local agency to exempt a project from the streamlined ministerial approval process described above by finding that the project will cause a specific adverse impact to public health and safety, and there is no feasible method to satisfactorily mitigate or avoid the adverse impact. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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 does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects.\n This bill would establish a streamlined ministerial approval process for neighborhood multifamily projects, thereby exempting these projects from the CEQA approval process. \n (2)Existing law, known as the density bonus law, requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of a local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents. \n This bill, on or after January 1, 2023, would require a specified city, county, or city and county to grant upon request an equitable communities incentive when a development proponent seeks and agrees to construct a residential development, as defined, that satisfies specified criteria, including, among other things, that the residential development is either a job-rich housing project or a transit-rich housing project, as those terms are defined; the site does not contain, or has not contained, housing occupied by tenants or accommodations withdrawn from rent or lease in accordance with specified law within specified time periods; and the residential development complies with specified additional requirements under existing law. The bill would impose additional requirements on a residential development located within a county with a population equal to or less than 600,000. The bill would require that a residential development within a county with a population greater than 600,000 that is eligible for an equitable communities incentive receive, upon request, waivers from maximum controls on density; minimum automobile parking requirements greater than 0.5 parking spots per unit; and specified additional waivers if the residential development is located within a 1/2-mile or 1/4-mile radius of a major transit stop, as defined. For a residential development within a county with a population equal to or less than 600,000, the bill would instead require that the incentive provide waivers from maximum controls on density, subject to certain limitations; maximum height limitations less than or equal to one story, or 15 feet, above the highest allowable height for mixed use or residential use; certain requirements governing the size of the parcel and the area that the building may occupy; and minimum automobile parking requirements, as provided. The bill would require a local government to grant an equitable communities incentive unless it makes a specified finding regarding the effects of the incentive on any real property or historic district that is listed on a federal or state register of historical resources. The bill would authorize a local government to modify or expand the terms of an equitable communities incentive, provided that the equitable communities incentive is consistent with these provisions.\n The bill would delay implementation of these provisions in potentially sensitive communities, as defined, until July 1, 2023. The bill would further delay implementation of these provisions in sensitive communities, determined as provided, until January 1, 2026, unless the city or county in which the area is located votes to make these provisions applicable after a specified petition and public hearing process. On and after January 1, 2026, the bill would apply these provisions to a sensitive community unless the city or county adopts a community plan for the area that meets certain requirements.\n The bill would also exempt from these provisions a local government that has a local flexibility plan that has been reviewed and certified by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as specified. The bill, on or before July 1, 2021, would require the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Development, to develop and publish on its internet website rules, regulations, or guidelines for the submission and approval of a local flexibility plan, as specified. The bill, on or after July 1, 2021, would authorize a local government to submit a local flexibility plan for review and approval by the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to those rules, regulations, or guidelines.\n The bill would include findings that the changes proposed by these provisions address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project that complies with applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision standards and criteria in effect at the time the application for the project is deemed complete unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. That law provides that the receipt of a density bonus is not a valid basis on which to find a proposed housing development is inconsistent, not in compliance, or not in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision of that act.\n This bill would additionally provide that the receipt of an equitable communities incentive is not a valid basis on which to find a proposed housing development is inconsistent, not in compliance, or not in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision of that act. \n (3)By adding to the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (4)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of a local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents. \n This bill would require a city, county, or city and county to grant upon request an equitable communities incentive when a development proponent seeks and agrees to construct a residential development, as defined, that satisfies specified criteria, including, among other things, that the residential development is either a job-rich housing project or a transit-rich housing project, as those terms are defined; the site does not contain, or has not contained, housing occupied by tenants or accommodations withdrawn from rent or lease in accordance with specified law within specified time periods; and the residential development complies with specified additional requirements under existing law. The bill would require that a residential development eligible for an equitable communities incentive receive waivers from maximum controls on density and automobile parking requirements greater than 0.5 parking spots per unit, up to 3 additional incentives or concessions under the Density Bonus Law, and specified additional waivers if the residential development is located within a 1/2-mile or 1/4-mile radius of a major transit stop, as defined. The bill would authorize a local government to modify or expand the terms of an equitable communities incentive, provided that the equitable communities incentive is consistent with these provisions.\n The bill would include findings that the changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. The bill would also declare the intent of the Legislature to delay implementation of this bill in sensitive communities, as defined, until July 1, 2020, as provided.\n By adding to the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-01-06" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Failed a floor vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Caballero", "Hueso", "McGuire", "Moorlach", "Roth", "Skinner", "Chu", "Diep", "Fong", "Kalra", "Kiley", "Low", "McCarty", "Quirk-Silva", "Robert Rivas", "Ting", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-12-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-12-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3." }, { "date": "2019-01-24", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2019-03-11", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2019-03-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2019-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 551.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2019-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2019-04-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 845.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2019-05-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2019-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2019-06-04", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-01-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-01-17", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2020-01-17", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-01-27", "action": "Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 3146.)" }, { "date": "2020-01-27", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2020-01-28", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-01-29", "action": "Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3170.)" }, { "date": "2020-01-29", "action": "Motion to reconsider made by Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2020-01-29", "action": "Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 18. Noes 15. Page 3169.)" }, { "date": "2020-01-30", "action": "Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 18. Noes 15. Page 3176.)" } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50" }, "headline": "Eases zoning limits for housing near transit, jobs", "one_liner": "Allows denser housing near major transit and in job-rich areas, and fast-tracks buildings of up to four units.", "summary": "Creates a streamlined approval, exempt from California's environmental review law (CEQA), for projects of up to four homes on eligible parcels. Starting 2023, cities must grant an \"equitable communities incentive\" to job-rich or transit-rich housing on sites without recent tenants, waiving some density, height and parking limits. Sensitive communities get delays; cities with approved local flexibility plans are exempt.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB50.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB58", "slug": "2019-20/SB58", "number": "SB 58", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2018-12-17", "last_action_date": "2019-09-14", "subject": "Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.", "title": "An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 25631 of, and to add and repeal Section 25634 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.", "digest": "The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides for moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill, beginning January 1, 2022, and before January 2, 2027, would require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to conduct a pilot program that would authorize the department to issue an additional hours license to an on-sale licensee located in a qualified city that would authorize, with or without conditions, the selling, giving, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., upon completion of specified requirements by the qualified city in which the licensee is located. The bill would impose specified fees related to the license to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would require the applicant to notify specified persons of the application for an additional hours license and would provide a procedure for protest and hearing regarding the application. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol and each qualified city that has elected to participate in the program to submit reports to the Legislature and specified committees regarding the regional impact of the additional hours licenses, as specified. The bill would provide that any person under 21 years of age who enters and remains in the licensed public premises during the additional serving hour without lawful business therein is guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided. The pilot program would apply to Cathedral City, Coachella, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Palm Springs, Sacramento, San Francisco, and West Hollywood.\n This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the qualified cities.", "introduced_digest": "The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides for moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill, beginning January 1, 2022, and before January 2, 2027, would require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to conduct a pilot program that would authorize the department to issue an additional hours license to an on-sale licensee located in a qualified city which would authorize, with or without conditions, the selling, giving, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., upon completion of specified requirements by the qualified city in which the licensee is located. The bill would impose specified fees related to the license to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would require the applicant to notify specified persons of the application for an additional hours license and would provide a procedure for protest and hearing regarding the application. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol and each qualified city that has elected to participate in the program to submit reports to the Legislature and specified committees regarding the regional impact of the additional hours licenses, as specified. The bill would provide that any person under 21 years of age who enters and remains in the licensed public premises during the additional serving hours without lawful business therein is guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided. The pilot program would apply to Cathedral City, Coachella, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Palm Springs, Sacramento, San Francisco, and West Hollywood.\n This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the qualified cities.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2019-09-06" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Failed a floor vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Santiago" ], "coauthors": [ "Carrillo", "Jones-Sawyer", "Mayes", "Obernolte" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2018-12-17", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2018-12-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 17." }, { "date": "2019-01-07", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2019-02-20", "action": "Set for hearing March 12." }, { "date": "2019-03-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2019-03-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4. Page 332.) (March 12)." }, { "date": "2019-03-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2019-04-22", "action": "April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1088.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 6. Page 1181.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-10", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2019-07-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-07-11", "action": "(Received at desk July 10 pursuant to JR 61(a)(10))." }, { "date": "2019-08-14", "action": "August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (August 30)." }, { "date": "2019-09-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-09-14", "action": "Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 29. Noes 35. Page 3615.)" }, { "date": "2019-09-14", "action": "Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Santiago." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB58", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB58", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB58", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB58", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB58" }, "headline": "Allows 3 a.m. alcohol sales in pilot cities", "one_liner": "Creates a pilot letting on-sale licensees in ten listed cities get licenses to serve alcohol until 3 a.m.", "summary": "From 2022 through 2026, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control may issue licenses for alcohol sales between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. in listed cities that opt in, including San Francisco and Oakland. The bill sets a protest and hearing process for applications. People under 21 who stay during the extra hour without lawful business commit a misdemeanor.", "issues": [ "nightlife" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB58.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB69", "slug": "2019-20/SB69", "number": "SB 69", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-09", "last_action_date": "2019-08-30", "subject": "Ocean Resiliency Act of 2019.", "introduced_subject": "Ocean resources management: state policy.", "title": "An act to amend Section 6922 of, to add Sections 1618 and 6921.5 to, and to add and repeal Section 1127 of, the Fish and Game Code, to add Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 39950) to Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 10001, 10004, and 10005 of, and to add Sections 4557, 4563, 5814.5, and 5818.3 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to public resources.", "digest": "(1)Existing law requires the Fish and Game Commission to establish fish hatcheries for the purposes of stocking the waters of California with fish, and requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to maintain and operate those hatcheries.\n This bill would require the department to develop and implement a plan, in collaboration with specified scientists, experts, and representatives, as part of its fish hatchery operations for the improvement of the survival of hatchery-produced salmon, and the increased contribution of the hatchery program to commercial and recreational salmon fisheries. The bill would make the requirement to develop and implement the plan operative upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature for this purpose. The bill would require the department to complete the development of the plan no later than 2 years after the operative date of the requirement to develop and implement the plan. The bill would require the department to submit to the Legislature a report no later than one year after that operative date that summarizes the progress in developing the plan and another report no later than 3 years after that operative date summarizing the progress made in implementing the plan. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2028, and would repeal them on January 1, 2029.\n (2)The Salmon, Steelhead Trout, and Anadromous Fisheries Program Act requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife, with the advice of the Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout and the Commercial Salmon Trollers Advisory Committee, to prepare and maintain a detailed and comprehensive program composed of specified elements for the protection and increase of salmon, steelhead trout, and anadromous fisheries. The act requires the department to consult with every public agency whose policies or decisions may affect the goals of the program. The act declares it the policy of the state and the department to encourage specified nonprofit salmon release and return operations operated by, or on behalf of, licensed commercial salmon fishermen for the purpose of enhancing California’s salmon populations and increasing the salmon harvest by commercial and recreational fishermen. The act requires the department, to the extent that funds and personnel are available, to cooperate with fishing organizations in the siting and establishment of those operations to ensure the protection of natural spawning stocks of native salmon.\n This bill would require the department, in coordination with the above-described advisory committees, to develop, as an element of the program, a policy by January 1, 2022, for the use of releases, including in-river and ocean net pen releases, of salmon produced in state-managed and comanaged hatcheries during periods of drought or in other circumstances that result in significantly abnormal levels of mortality during onsite releases. The bill would require this policy to consider the effects of releases on the natural production of salmon. The bill would also require the department, no later than January 1, 2022, in consultation with those advisory committees, to develop and implement at least one additional ocean-based offsite hatchery salmon release operation.\n This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2021, the department, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency, to develop and post on its internet website a plan for sediment reduction and fishery restoration within the Elk River watershed in the County of Humboldt and for one additional hydrologic area affected by historic forest practices with endangered anadromous salmonids, as specified. The bill would require the department, when awarding grants as part of the Fisheries Restoration Grant Program, to prioritize projects in accordance with that plan.\n (3)Existing law requires the Director of Fish and Wildlife to identify and list those streams and watercourses in the state, meeting designated conditions, for which minimum flow levels need to be established in order to assure the continued viability of stream-related fish and wildlife resources. Existing law requires the director to prepare proposed streamflow requirements for each identified stream or watercourse and, upon completion of the proposed streamflow requirements for any individual stream or watercourse, to transmit these proposed requirements to the State Water Resources Control Board. Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to initiate studies to develop those requirements for those streams or watercourses in each fiscal year for which funds are appropriated and to complete studies on each stream or watercourse within 3 years. Existing law declares legislative intent that the department develop a program that will initiate studies on at least 10 streams or watercourses in each fiscal year. Existing law requires the department to impose and collect a filing fee of $850 from a user of water for certain types of permit applications filed with the state board to defray the cost of identifying streams and providing those studies. Existing law requires the state board to forward these fees to the department every 6 months.\n This bill would name the list of streams and watercourses identified by the director for these purposes as the California Endangered Rivers List. The bill would require the department to develop a program that will initiate studies on at least 3 streams or watercourses in each fiscal year. The bill would require the department to return the filing fees collected in a fiscal year to the state board for deposit in the Water Rights Fund if the department fails to initiate studies on at least 3 streams or watercourses in that fiscal year.\n (4)Existing law establishes the State Air Resources Board and vests the state board with regulatory jurisdiction over air quality issues. Existing law generally designates air pollution control and air quality management districts (air districts) with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources.\n This bill would require the state board, in coordination with affected air districts along the coast and in consultation with the federal Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the United States Navy, to develop and implement a voluntary vessel speed reduction incentive program for the Santa Barbara Channel and San Francisco Bay area regions to reduce air pollution, the risk of fatal vessel strikes on whales, and harmful underwater acoustic impacts. The bill would require the state board to implement the program by May 1, 2021, and would require the state board to submit a report to the Legislature by December 31, 2022, regarding the implementation of the program. By adding to the duties of air districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (5)Existing law requires the Natural Resources Agency to update all of the state’s existing wetlands inventory resources in order to prepare a study to accomplish specified goals, and to report the study to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2003.\n This bill would require the agency to inventory the state’s existing coastal wetlands resources and prepare a new study that meets these goals, and to submit the study to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2023. The bill would require the study to be updated, at a minimum, once every 5 years after January 1, 2023.\n (6)Under existing law, the Budget Act of 2018, $6,000,000 was appropriated to the State Coastal Conservancy for support or local assistance to implement a beneficial reuse pilot program for dredged sediment in the Redwood City Harbor. Under existing law, this money is available for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2020, and for liquidation until June 30, 2023.\n This bill would require the conservancy to submit a report, as provided, to the Legislature on that pilot program on or before December 31, 2022, and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the conservancy to develop, in partnership with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, a beneficial reuse program to place and reuse dredged sediment for coastal wetland restoration projects.\n (7)The Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to, and approved by, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt district forest practice rules and regulations, as provided, to ensure the continuous growing and harvesting of commercial forest tree species and to protect the soil, air, fish, wildlife, and water resources. The forest practice rules establish requirements specific to watersheds with listed anadromous salmonids for each forest district.\n Under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of waste that could affect the quality of the waters of the state. \n This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2022, the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, in consultation with specified state and federal agencies, to evaluate the above-referenced forest practice rules establishing requirements specific to watersheds with listed anadromous salmonids in order to support salmonid populations at all life history stages and to control pollutant inputs known to negatively impact salmonids. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2024, the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to update those specified forest practice rules based on that evaluation, and would require any amendments to the rules to provide additional protections to listed anadromous salmonids.\n This bill would require timber harvesting plans filed on or after January 1, 2020, for lands containing or adjacent to watercourses bearing listed anadromous salmonids included on a specified list of water quality limited segments impaired by sediment to include an erosion control plan that is consistent with specified law. The bill would prohibit timber harvesting activity from being undertaken under a timber harvesting plan that requires an erosion control plan on ground with an extreme erosion hazard rating unless the timber harvesting plan has been reviewed by the California Geological Survey.\n (8)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the California Ocean Resources Management Act of 1990, declares that it is the policy of the State of California to take specified actions related to the preservation, protection, development, and enhancement of the state’s ocean resources and ensure coordinated management of ocean resources with appropriate federal, state, and local agencies.\n This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in these provisions.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2019-07-11" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Fish and Game Code", "Health and Safety Code", "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Stern", "Boerner Horvath", "Levine" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-01-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9." }, { "date": "2019-01-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-03-13", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and EQ." }, { "date": "2019-03-15", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2019-04-01", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 622.) (April 9)." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2019-04-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2019-04-25", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 843.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2019-04-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2019-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 1089.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-23", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 1285.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-06-06", "action": "Referred to Coms. on W., P., & W. and NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2019-06-13", "action": "June 18 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2019-06-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W." }, { "date": "2019-07-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2019-07-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2019-07-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 8)." }, { "date": "2019-07-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-21", "action": "August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "August 30 hearing postponed by committee." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB69", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB69", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB69", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB69", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB69" }, "headline": "Creates salmon, river and coastal protection programs", "one_liner": "Requires state agencies to improve salmon hatcheries, study rivers and coastal wetlands, and offer incentives for ships to slow down.", "summary": "Named the Ocean Resiliency Act of 2019. Requires plans to improve hatchery salmon survival and restore the Elk River watershed. Creates a voluntary ship speed reduction program in the Santa Barbara Channel and San Francisco Bay area aimed at reducing air pollution and the risk of whale strikes. Requires a coastal wetlands study and updated logging rules to protect salmon.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB69.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB166", "slug": "2019-20/SB166", "number": "SB 166", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-28", "last_action_date": "2019-08-30", "subject": "Process water treatment systems: breweries.", "introduced_subject": "Process water treatment systems: breweries and wineries: water quality criteria.", "title": "An act to add Article 9 (commencing with Section 13559) to Chapter 7 of Division 7 of the Water Code, relating to water quality.", "digest": "Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health. Existing law requires, on or before December 1, 2022, the state board, in consultation with specified state agencies, to adopt regulations for risk-based water quality standards for the onsite treatment and reuse of nonpotable water, as provided. Existing law requires that a local jurisdiction establish a program for onsite treated nonpotable water systems before any such systems are installed. \n This bill would require the state board, on or before December 1, 2025, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, Food and Drug Branch, to adopt regulations for microbiological, chemical, and physical water quality and treatment requirements for voluntary onsite treatment and reuse of process water in breweries, as specified. The bill would require an entity that implements a process water treatment system in a brewery to submit a report containing specified information to the state board and the food and drug branch, as provided, and to terminate the operation of, and modify to render inoperable, process water treatment systems in a brewery at the direction of the food and drug branch after having reasonable opportunity to come into compliance with applicable regulations, as warranted. The bill would require the food and drug branch to consult with the state board before requiring termination of a process water treatment system. The bill would require a process water treatment system in a brewery to comply with the regulations within 2 years of the effective date of the regulations with possible extensions, as specified. The bill would allow the state board to contract with private and public entities for advice regarding the content of the regulations. The bill would require, before beginning onsite process water reuse, a brewery engaging in onsite reuse using a process water treatment system to consult with the water and wastewater service providers in its service area that would potentially be impacted by operation of the system. The bill would authorize breweries to install and operate onsite process water treatment systems even if a local jurisdiction has not established a program for onsite treated nonpotable water systems.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water where the use involves the protection of public health. Existing law requires, on or before December 1, 2022, the state board, in consultation with specified state agencies, to adopt regulations for risk-based water quality standards for the onsite treatment and reuse of nonpotable water, as provided. \n This bill would require the state board, on or before December 1, 2025, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health – Food and Drug Branch, to adopt regulations for microbiological, chemical, and physical water quality and treatment requirements for the onsite treatment and reuse of process water in breweries and wineries. The bill would require a process water treatment system in a brewery or winery to comply with the regulations within 2 years of the effective date of the regulations. The bill would require an entity that implements a process water treatment system in a brewery or winery to submit a report containing specified information to the department, as provided, and to terminate the operation of, and modify to render inoperable, any process water treatment system in a brewery and winery at the direction of the state board.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2019-07-05" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Water Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Glazer", "Stone", "Voepel", "Cristina Garcia" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-28", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-01-29", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 28." }, { "date": "2019-02-06", "action": "Referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2019-02-12", "action": "Set for hearing March 20." }, { "date": "2019-03-08", "action": "March 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2019-03-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 3." }, { "date": "2019-03-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ." }, { "date": "2019-04-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 549.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2019-05-06", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 968.) (May 6)." }, { "date": "2019-05-07", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-09", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1001.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-09", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-05-24", "action": "Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M." }, { "date": "2019-06-04", "action": "June 4 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2019-06-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M." }, { "date": "2019-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2019-07-05", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-21", "action": "August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "August 30 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB166", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB166", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB166", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB166", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB166" }, "headline": "Sets rules for breweries to reuse process water", "one_liner": "Requires state water quality rules for breweries that choose to treat and reuse process water on site.", "summary": "By December 1, 2025, the State Water Resources Control Board must adopt water quality and treatment rules for breweries that voluntarily treat and reuse process water on site. Breweries must report to the state and consult local water and wastewater providers first. Breweries may use these systems even if their local area has no onsite water program.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB166.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB201", "slug": "2019-20/SB201", "number": "SB 201", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-01-31", "last_action_date": "2020-02-03", "subject": "Medical procedures: treatment or intervention: sex characteristics of a minor.", "introduced_subject": "Medical procedures: treatment or intervention: sex characteristics of a minor.", "title": "An act to add Section 2295 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to sex characteristics.", "digest": "Under existing law, the Medical Practice Act, it is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to fail to comply with prescribed informed consent requirements relating to various medical procedures, including sterilization procedures, the removal of sperm or ova from a patient under specified circumstances, and the treatment of breast cancer. Any violation of the law relating to enforcement of the Medical Practice Act is a misdemeanor, as specified.\n This bill would prohibit a treatment or intervention on the sex characteristics of a person born with variations in their physical sex characteristics who is under 6 years of age unless the treatment or intervention is medically necessary. The bill, on or before December 1, 2021, would require the Medical Board of California, in consultation with specified persons and entities, to adopt regulations to determine which treatments and interventions on the sex characteristics of a person born with variations in their physical sex characteristics who is under 6 years of age are medically necessary, as specified. Any violation of these provisions would be subject to disciplinary action by the board, but not criminal prosecution.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Under existing law, the Medical Practice Act, it is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to fail to comply with prescribed informed consent requirements relating to various medical procedures, including sterilization procedures, the removal of sperm or ova from a patient under specified circumstances, and the treatment of breast cancer. Any violation of the law relating to enforcement of the Medical Practice Act is a misdemeanor, as specified.\n This bill would prohibit a physician and surgeon from performing any treatment or intervention on the sex characteristics of an intersex minor if the treatment or intervention may be deferred until the intersex minor can provide informed consent, as described. The bill would, among other things, require a physician and surgeon to provide a written and oral disclosure prior to performing the treatment or intervention and to obtain the informed consent of the intersex minor to the treatment or intervention, as specified. The bill would authorize a physician and surgeon to perform the medical procedure without the minor’s consent if it is medically necessary and the physician and surgeon provides the written and oral disclosure to the parent or guardian and obtains their informed consent, as specified. The bill would authorize the Medical Board of California to develop and adopt medical guidelines to implement these requirements. Any violation of these provisions would be subject to disciplinary action by the board, but not criminal prosecution.\n (2)Under existing law, a minor may consent to specified medical procedures without the consent of a parent or guardian.\n This bill would authorize an intersex minor to provide informed consent to treatment or intervention on their sex characteristics, as specified.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-01-06" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Failed a committee vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Beall", "Galgiani", "Carrillo", "Chiu", "Gloria", "McCarty", "Quirk", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-01-31", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-01", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3." }, { "date": "2019-02-13", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD." }, { "date": "2019-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2019-03-27", "action": "Set for hearing April 1." }, { "date": "2019-04-01", "action": "April 1 set for first hearing.Testimony taken." }, { "date": "2020-01-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2020-01-07", "action": "Set for hearing January 13." }, { "date": "2020-01-07", "action": "Set for hearing January 14 in JUD. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2020-01-13", "action": "January 13 set for second hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 4. Page 3078.) Reconsideration granted." }, { "date": "2020-02-03", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB201", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB201", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB201", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB201", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB201" }, "headline": "Limits sex characteristic treatments on children under 6", "one_liner": "Bans treatments on the sex characteristics of children under 6 born with variations in those traits, unless medically necessary.", "summary": "Prohibits treatments or interventions on the sex characteristics of a child under 6 born with variations in physical sex characteristics, unless medically necessary. By December 1, 2021, the Medical Board of California must adopt rules on which treatments are medically necessary. Violations can lead to board discipline but not criminal charges.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB201.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB281", "slug": "2019-20/SB281", "number": "SB 281", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-02-13", "last_action_date": "2020-07-30", "subject": "Housing development: permits and other entitlements: extension.", "introduced_subject": "Cow Palace Joint Powers Authority.", "title": "An act to add Section 65914.5 to the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "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. Existing law, 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.\n 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, and was in effect on, March 4, 2020, and that will expire before December 31, 2021, 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. The bill would also provide that if the state or a local agency extends, on or after March 4, 2020, but before the effective date of the bill, the otherwise applicable time for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement for not less than 18 months and pursuant to the same conditions provided by this bill, that housing entitlement shall not be extended an additional 18 months pursuant to this bill. \n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to housing entitlements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law authorizes the agreement to set forth the manner by which the joint powers authority will be governed. \n Existing law divides the state into district agricultural associations for the purposes of, among other things, holding fairs and expositions exhibiting all of the industries and industrial enterprises, resources, and products of every kind or nature of the state with a view toward improving, exploiting, encouraging, and stimulating those industries. Existing law provides that the 1-A District Agricultural Association governs the agricultural district that encompasses the County of San Mateo and the City and County of San Francisco.\n This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2020, the City and County of San Francisco, the City of Daly City, and the County of San Mateo to enter into a joint powers agreement to form the Cow Palace Joint Powers Authority for the purposes of managing, developing, or disposing of the real property known as the Cow Palace. This bill would transfer the real property known as the Cow Palace from the 1-A District Agricultural Association to the Cow Palace Joint Powers Authority, and would provide that the Cow Palace Joint Powers Authority is the successor in interest to any contact entered into by the 1-A District Agricultural Association on or before December 31, 2019. This bill would make findings and declarations that this transfer constitutes a public purpose. This bill would authorize the Cow Palace Joint Powers Authority to, among other things, enter into contracts or agreements for the development of the property for affordable and market-rate mixed-use housing and establish minimum local zoning standards, including but not limited to, standards for height, density, parking, and floor area ratio, that apply to a project on the property that are different from those adopted by any other affected local jurisdiction. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would establish a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Existing law generally regulates the transfer of firearms. A violation of the statutes governing agricultural districts is generally a misdemeanor.\n Existing law provides that it is an offense to bring or possess, among other things, a firearm within any state or local public building. Among other exceptions, existing law provides an exception for guns brought to a gun show conducted pursuant to specified provisions of law, including the Gun Show Enforcement and Security Act of 2000. A violation of this provision is a felony.\n Existing law, the Gun Show Enforcement and Security Act of 2000, generally regulates gun shows and requires all firearms transfers at a gun show or event to be in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor or infraction, as specified.\n This bill would prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition on any property owned, occupied, operated, or controlled by the 1-A District Agricultural Association, or by another state agency, for district or association purposes, and, on and after January 1, 2020, on the real property known as the Cow Palace, as specified. The bill would exclude from its provisions a gun buy-back event held by a law enforcement agency. A violation of this prohibition could be a felony, misdemeanor, or infraction pursuant to the provisions described above.\n (3)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco, the City of Daly City, and the County of San Mateo.\n By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (4)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2020-07-30" }, "version_count": 9, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Rubio", "Grayson" ], "coauthors": [ "Dodd", "Hertzberg", "Skinner", "Frazier", "Gabriel", "Quirk", "Quirk-Silva", "Cooper", "Nazarian" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2019-02-21", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F., G.O., and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing March 20." }, { "date": "2019-03-14", "action": "March 20 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2019-03-19", "action": "Set for hearing March 27." }, { "date": "2019-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2019-03-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 465.) (March 27)." }, { "date": "2019-03-28", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2019-03-29", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 4. Page 619.) (April 9)." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2019-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 23 in PUB. S. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2019-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 802.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2019-04-30", "action": "May 6 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2020-01-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-01-06", "action": "(Corrected January 6)." }, { "date": "2020-01-14", "action": "Set for hearing January 21." }, { "date": "2020-01-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3120.) (January 21)." }, { "date": "2020-01-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-01-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 3151.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2020-01-27", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "Referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2020-07-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2020-07-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB281", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB281", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB281", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB281", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB281" }, "headline": "Extends housing permits by 18 months", "one_liner": "Gives housing entitlements issued before March 4, 2020, and expiring before December 31, 2021, an extra 18 months.", "summary": "Housing entitlements issued and in effect before March 4, 2020, that would expire before December 31, 2021, get 18 more months. The extension pauses while an entitlement faces a legal challenge. Entitlements that an agency already extended by at least 18 months on the same terms get no second extension. Applies to charter cities too.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with the Cow Palace property and gun sales there; it was rewritten to cover extending housing permits.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB281.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB285", "slug": "2019-20/SB285", "number": "SB 285", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-02-13", "last_action_date": "2019-08-30", "subject": "Public social services.", "introduced_subject": "Public social services.", "title": "An act to amend Section 10823.1 of, and to add Sections 18900.3 and 18900.4 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.", "digest": "Existing law requires the Office of Systems Integration to implement a statewide automated welfare system for specified public assistance programs. Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature that representatives from the State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Health Care Services, the Office of Systems Integration, the Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System (SAWS) consortia, and counties meet with advocates, clients, and other stakeholders at least quarterly to review the development status of the California Statewide Automated Welfare System (CalSAWS) project and to engage with stakeholders to discuss current and planned functionality changes, among other topics.\n This bill would additionally require those entities to discuss and recommend how the public-facing elements of CalSAWS may allow users to initiate applications for other health and human services benefits serving low-income Californians, including, but not limited to, the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and other programs that are in substantial use, as specified, in order to minimize the burdens of the overall enrollment processes for eligible individuals and households to receive health and human services benefits.\n Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health and appropriate stakeholders, to develop and submit to the Legislature a community outreach and education campaign to help families learn about, and apply for, CalFresh.\n This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to oversee a state and local accountability partnership to increase CalFresh participation and retention, to foster continuous quality improvement in the administration of the CalFresh program, and establish specified statewide goals for CalFresh participation and improvement. The bill would require the department to take specified actions to support counties in increasing and retaining CalFresh participants so that counties can achieve the statewide participation goals, including, among others, maintaining a dynamic and publicly available CalFresh data dashboard. The bill would require county human services agencies to work with the department to increase CalFresh participation and retention rates and identify the most effective actions to increase access to, and participation in, CalFresh. The bill would encourage counties to implement cost-effective actions that can be implemented within existing resources or at the expense of the county, but would prohibit counties from being required to implement specific improvements that require additional funds unless the state provides the county with those additional funds. By imposing new requirements on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Existing law requires each county welfare department, to the extent permitted by federal law, to exempt a household from complying with face-to-face interview requirements for the purpose of determining eligibility at initial application and recertification.\n This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, give an individual the option to apply, report, and recertify for CalFresh in person, by mail, online, or by telephone, and permit an individual to complete the interview requirement and client signature by telephone. The bill would authorize counties to implement any method of telephonic or electronic signature that is supported by county business practice and technology. The bill would require the department, with the input of stakeholders, to develop and execute a plan of support for counties that have not already implemented a telephone-based application and renewal process and to provide technical assistance or resources. The bill would require the application process to satisfy specified criteria, including simple, user-friendly language and instructions. The bill would require certain counties to comply with these provisions beginning on or before January 1, 2022, and require the remaining counties to comply with the provisions beginning on or before January 1, 2023. By imposing new duties on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health and appropriate stakeholders, to develop and submit to the Legislature a community outreach and education campaign to help families learn about, and apply for, CalFresh.\n This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to ensure counties are providing the desired access to CalFresh and meeting specified participation performance outcomes. The bill would require the department to take specified actions to support counties in meeting the participation performance outcomes, including, among others, utilizing specified data to support continuous improvement. The bill would require counties that are not meeting those participation performance outcomes to enter a process of continuous improvement that includes developing a plan to meet the participation performance outcomes. By imposing new requirements on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n Existing law requires each county welfare department, to the extent permitted by federal law, to exempt a household from complying with face-to-face interview requirements for the purpose of determining eligibility at initial application and recertification.\n This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, give an individual the option to apply and recertify for CalFresh in person, by mail, online, or by telephone, permit an individual to complete the interview requirement by telephone or face-to-face, and require the application to process to satisfy specified criteria, including simple, user-friendly language and instructions. By imposing new duties on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would also require the department, to the extent permitted under federal law, to design and implement a universal application to be used to apply for benefits under CalFresh and other specified social services programs.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2019-07-08" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Dodd", "Mathis", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2019-02-21", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2019-04-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2019-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2019-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 775.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2019-05-06", "action": "May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1095.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2019-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2019-05-21", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1200.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2019-05-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2019-05-30", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2019-06-18", "action": "June 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2019-06-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2019-07-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2)." }, { "date": "2019-07-08", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2019-08-21", "action": "August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2019-08-30", "action": "August 30 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB285", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB285", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB285", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB285", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB285" }, "headline": "Changes CalFresh enrollment and sets participation goals", "one_liner": "Lets people apply for CalFresh by phone, mail, online or in person, and sets statewide participation goals.", "summary": "The State Department of Social Services must work with counties to raise CalFresh participation and retention, set statewide goals, and keep a public data dashboard. People may apply, report and recertify by phone, mail, online or in person. State agencies and counties must discuss letting users of the statewide welfare system (CalSAWS) apply for other benefits, like WIC.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB285.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB378", "slug": "2019-20/SB378", "number": "SB 378", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2019-02-20", "last_action_date": "2020-07-27", "subject": "Probation: eligibility: crimes relating to controlled substances.", "introduced_subject": "State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology: licensee information.", "title": "An act to amend Section 11370 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 29820 of, to repeal Section 1203.073 of, and to repeal and add Section 1203.07 of, the Penal Code, relating to probation.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits granting probation or suspending a sentence for persons convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, including possessing or agreeing to sell or transport opiates or opium derivatives, possessing or transporting cannabis, planting or cultivating peyote, and various crimes relating to forging or altering prescriptions, among other crimes, if the person has previously been convicted of any one of specified felony offenses relating to controlled substances. Existing law also prohibits granting probation or suspending a sentence for persons convicted of specified crimes relating to controlled substances, including possessing for sale or selling 14.25 grams or more of a substance containing heroin and possessing for sale 14.25 grams or more of any salt or solution of phencyclidine or its analogs, among other crimes.\n This bill would delete various crimes relating to controlled substances, including, but not limited to, the crimes described above, from those prohibitions against granting probation or a suspended sentence. The bill would authorize the remaining prohibitions on probation to be waived by a court in the interests of justice. By making additional persons eligible for probation, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Barbering and Cosmetology Act, establishes the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology for the licensure and regulation of barbers and cosmetologists. Existing law requires the board to carry out a list of duties, including keeping a registration record of each licensee containing the name, address, license number, date issued, and any facts that the applicant may have stated in the application for examination for licensure. Existing law requires specified licensees to, within 30 days after a change of address, notify the board of the new address, and, upon receipt of the notification, the board is required to make the necessary changes in the register. \n This bill would revise this provision to require the board, upon receipt of a licensee’s change of address, to make the necessary changes in any board records and, where applicable, in the licensee’s public profile maintained on the board’s internet website.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2020-07-27" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2019-02-20", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2019-02-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23." }, { "date": "2019-02-28", "action": "Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2019-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2019-03-26", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2019-03-26", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2019-09-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-01-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-01-06", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2020-01-08", "action": "Set for hearing January 15." }, { "date": "2020-01-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 3099.) (January 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-01-16", "action": "Set for hearing January 21." }, { "date": "2020-01-21", "action": "January 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-01-21", "action": "Set for hearing January 23." }, { "date": "2020-01-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-01-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3141.) (January 23)." }, { "date": "2020-01-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-01-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 2. Page 3153.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2020-01-27", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "Referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378" }, "headline": "Expands probation eligibility for some drug crimes", "one_liner": "Removes several drug crimes from the list of offenses for which judges cannot grant probation.", "summary": "Removes various controlled substance crimes, including some heroin possession-for-sale offenses, from the list of crimes that bar probation or a suspended sentence. Judges may waive the remaining probation bans in the interests of justice.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with barbering and cosmetology licensee records; it was rewritten to cover probation for drug crimes.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB378.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB804", "slug": "2019-20/SB804", "number": "SB 804", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-01-08", "last_action_date": "2020-05-12", "subject": "Public capital facilities: electric utilities: rate reduction bonds.", "introduced_subject": "Public capital facilities: electric utilities: rate reduction bonds.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 6585 and 6588.7 of the Government Code, relating to local government finance.", "digest": "Existing law, the Marks-Roos Local Bond Pooling Act of 1985, authorizes joint powers authorities, among other powers, to issue bonds and loan the proceeds to local agencies to finance specified types of projects and programs. \n The act authorizes certain joint powers authorities, upon application by a local agency that owns and operates a publicly owned utility, defined to mean certain utilities furnishing water or wastewater service to not less than 25,000 retail customers, to issue rate reduction bonds to finance utility projects, as defined, subject to certain requirements. Under the act, these rate reduction bonds are secured by a pledge of utility project property, and the joint powers authority issuing the bonds may impose on, and collect from, customers of the publicly owned utility a utility project charge to finance the bonds, as provided. The act requires the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, among other things, to review each issuance of rate reduction bonds issued under these provisions.\n This bill would expand the definition of a publicly owned utility for these purposes to include certain utilities furnishing generation, transmission, or distribution electrical service to retail customers, and would authorize an authority to issue rate reduction bonds to finance or refinance utility projects for the provision of generation, transmission, or distribution electrical service. The bill would include in the allowable costs of a public capital improvement, a utility project, or portion of the improvement or utility project financed with rate reduction bonds all or any part of the cost of financing or refinancing specified charges imposed upon the customers of the electrical corporation from which all or part of the improvement or utility project was acquired.\n The act prohibits a local agency from applying to an authority for financing or refinancing of a utility project pursuant to these provisions unless the legislative body of the local agency has determined, among other things, that the rates of the publicly owned utility plus the utility project charge resulting from the financing or refinancing of the utility project with rate reduction bonds are expected to be lower than the rates of the publicly owned utility if the utility project was financed or refinanced with bonds payable from revenues of the publicly owned utility. The act authorizes a local agency with a publicly owned utility having 500,000 or more retail customers, in lieu of making that determination, to alternatively determine that the use of rate reduction bonds to finance or refinance utility projects provides substantial benefits to the publicly owned utility.\n This bill would additionally authorize a local agency that has a population of 800,000 or more with a publicly owned utility that provides, or that will provide upon the acquisition of the utility project, electrical service anywhere within the service area of the local agency, to make that alternative substantial benefit determination.\n The bill would also make clarifying changes to the act.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Marks-Roos Local Bond Pooling Act of 1985, authorizes joint powers authorities, among other powers, to issue bonds and loan the proceeds to local agencies to finance specified types of projects and programs. \n The act authorizes certain joint powers authorities, upon application by a local agency that owns and operates a publicly owned utility, defined to mean certain utilities furnishing water or wastewater service to not less than 25,000 retail customers, to issue rate reduction bonds to finance utility projects, as defined, subject to certain requirements. Under the act, these rate reduction bonds are secured by a pledge of utility project property, and the joint powers authority issuing the bonds may impose on, and collect from, customers of the publicly owned utility a utility project charge to finance the bonds, as provided. The act requires the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, among other things, to review each issuance of rate reduction bonds issued under these provisions.\n This bill would expand the definition of a publicly owned utility for these purposes to include certain utilities furnishing generation, transmission, or distribution electrical service to retail customers and would authorize an authority to issue rate reduction bonds to finance or refinance utility projects for the provision of generation, transmission, or distribution electrical service. The bill would include in the allowable costs of a public capital improvement, a utility project, or portion of the improvement or utility project financed with rate reduction bonds all or any part of the cost of financing or refinancing specified charges imposed upon the customers of the electrical corporation from which all or part of the improvement or utility project was acquired.\n The act prohibits a local agency from applying to an authority for financing or refinancing of a utility project pursuant to these provisions unless the legislative body of the local agency has determined, among other things, that the rates of the publicly owned utility plus the utility project charge resulting from the financing or refinancing of the utility project with rate reduction bonds are expected to be lower than the rates of the publicly owned utility if the utility project was financed or refinanced with bonds payable from revenues of the publicly owned utility. The act authorizes a local agency with a public utility having 500,000 or more retail customers, in lieu of making that determination, to instead determine that the use of rate reduction bonds to finance or refinance utility projects provides substantial benefits to the public utility.\n This bill would additionally authorize a local agency that has a population of 800,000 or more with a public utility that provides, or that will provide upon the acquisition of the utility project, electrical service anywhere within the service area of the local agency, to make that alternative substantial benefit determination.\n The bill would also make clarifying changes to the act.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-03-16" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Chiu", "Nazarian", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-01-08", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-01-09", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8." }, { "date": "2020-01-15", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2020-03-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2020-05-12", "action": "Referral to Com. on E., U. & C. rescinded due to the shortened 2020 Legislative Calendar." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB804", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB804", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB804", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB804", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB804" }, "headline": "Allows rate reduction bonds for public electric utilities", "one_liner": "Lets local agencies use rate reduction bonds to finance or refinance publicly owned electric utility projects.", "summary": "Expands a bond program for publicly owned water and wastewater utilities to cover utilities providing electric generation, transmission or distribution. Joint powers authorities may issue rate reduction bonds, repaid by a charge on utility customers, for these projects. Local agencies with 800,000 or more people and a public electric utility may qualify by finding the bonds provide substantial benefits.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB804.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB859", "slug": "2019-20/SB859", "number": "SB 859", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-01-16", "last_action_date": "2020-03-17", "subject": "Master plan for HIV, HCV, and STDs.", "introduced_subject": "Master Plan for HIV, HCV, and STDs.", "title": "An act to add Part 3.5 (commencing with Section 120760) to Division 105 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.", "digest": "Existing law provides for programs relating to treatment of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Under existing law, the Office of AIDS, in the State Department of Public Health, is the lead agency within the state responsible for coordinating state programs, services, and activities relating to HIV, AIDS, and AIDS-related conditions.\n Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop and review plans and participate in a program for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Existing law authorizes the department to establish, maintain, and subsidize clinics, dispensaries, and prophylactic stations for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of venereal disease, and authorizes the department to provide medical, advisory, financial, or other assistance to those clinics, dispensaries, and stations, as may be approved by the department.\n This bill would require the Secretary of California Health and Human Services and the Chief of the Office of Aids to develop and implement a statewide master plan on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), for the purpose of improving the health of people living with, and vulnerable to, those conditions, reducing new transmissions, and ending these epidemics. The bill would require the secretary and chief to create a stakeholder advisory committee and a cabinet-level workgroup to advise them in developing and implementing the master plan. The bill would require the master plan to be developed to accomplish key goals to end the HIV, HCV, and STD epidemics in California, including, but not limited to, increasing access to comprehensive HIV, HCV, and STD prevention services, and addressing social determinants of health that impact people living with, and vulnerable to, those conditions. The bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, in coordination with the Office of AIDS, to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by October 1, 2021, and submit updates annually thereafter, until October 1, 2031, regarding the master plan.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law provides for programs relating to treatment of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Under existing law, the Office of AIDS, in the State Department of Public Health, is the lead agency within the state responsible for coordinating state programs, services, and activities relating to HIV, AIDS, and AIDS-related conditions.\n Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop and review plans and participate in a program for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Existing law authorizes the department to establish, maintain, and subsidize clinics, dispensaries, and prophylactic stations for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of venereal disease, and authorizes the department to provide medical, advisory, financial, or other assistance to those clinics, dispensaries, and stations, as may be approved by the department.\n This bill would require the Secretary of California Health and Human Services and the Chief of the Office of Aids to develop and implement a master plan on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), for the purpose of improving the health of people living with, and vulnerable to, those conditions, reducing new transmissions, and ending these epidemics. The bill would require the secretary and chief to create a Master Plan on HIV, HCV, and STDs Stakeholder Advisory Committee and work with that advisory committee and relevant state agencies to identify recommended programs, policies, strategies, and funding necessary to implement the master plan. The bill would also require the Master Plan on HIV, HCV, and STDs Stakeholder Advisory Committee to solicit input and gather information to assist with the development and implementation of the master plan. The bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, in coordination with the Office of AIDS, to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by October 1, 2021, and submit updates annually thereafter, until October 1, 2030, regarding the master plan.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-03-12" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Chiu", "Gloria" ], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Galgiani", "Hurtado", "Arambula", "Bonta", "Eggman", "Waldron", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-01-16", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-01-17", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16." }, { "date": "2020-01-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-03-03", "action": "Set for hearing March 25." }, { "date": "2020-03-12", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2020-03-17", "action": "March 25 hearing postponed by committee." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB859", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB859", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB859", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB859", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB859" }, "headline": "Requires state plan on HIV, hepatitis C, STDs", "one_liner": "Requires state health leaders to develop a master plan to reduce and end HIV, hepatitis C and STD epidemics.", "summary": "The Secretary of California Health and Human Services and the Chief of the Office of AIDS must develop and carry out a statewide master plan on HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV) and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). They must form a stakeholder advisory committee and a cabinet-level workgroup. A report is due by October 1, 2021, with annual updates through 2031.", "issues": [ "lgbtq", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB859.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB882", "slug": "2019-20/SB882", "number": "SB 882", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-01-23", "last_action_date": "2020-06-18", "subject": "CalFresh.", "introduced_subject": "CalFresh.", "title": "An act to add Sections 18900.3 and 18900.4 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalFresh.", "digest": "Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health and appropriate stakeholders, to develop and submit to the Legislature a community outreach and education campaign to help families learn about, and apply for, CalFresh.\n This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in order to increase client access and retention within CalFresh, to participate in the Elderly Simplified Application Project, a demonstration project operated by the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. As part of this participation, the bill would require the department to develop a CalFresh user-centered application for seniors that minimizes the burdens of the overall enrollment process and to waive the semiannual reporting requirements under CalFresh for households enrolled under the Elderly Simplified Application Project. \n Existing law requires each county welfare department, to the extent permitted by federal law, to exempt a household from complying with face-to-face interview requirements for the purpose of determining eligibility at initial application and recertification.\n This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, give an individual the option to apply, report, and recertify for CalFresh in person, by mail, online, or by telephone, and permit an individual to complete the interview requirement and client signature by telephone. The bill would authorize counties to implement any method of telephonic or electronic signature that is supported by county business practice and technology. The bill would require the department, with the input of stakeholders, to develop and execute a plan of support for counties that have not already implemented a telephone-based application and renewal process and to provide technical assistance and resources. The bill would require the application process to satisfy specified criteria, including simple, user-friendly language and instructions. The bill would require certain counties to comply with these provisions beginning on or before January 1, 2022, and require the remaining counties to comply with the provisions beginning on or before January 1, 2023. By imposing new duties on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health and appropriate stakeholders, to develop and submit to the Legislature a community outreach and education campaign to help families learn about, and apply for, CalFresh.\n This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in order to increase client access and retention within CalFresh, to participate in the Elderly Simplified Application Project, a demonstration project operated by the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. As part of this participation, the bill would require the department to develop a CalFresh user-centered application for seniors that minimizes the burdens of the overall enrollment process and to waive the semiannual reporting requirements under CalFresh for households enrolled under the Elderly Simplified Application Project. \n Existing law requires each county welfare department, to the extent permitted by federal law, to exempt a household from complying with face-to-face interview requirements for the purpose of determining eligibility at initial application and recertification.\n This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, give an individual the option to apply, report, and recertify for CalFresh in person, by mail, online, or by telephone, and permit an individual to complete the interview requirement and client signature by telephone. The bill would authorize counties to implement any method of telephonic or electronic signature that is supported by county business practice and technology. The bill would require the department, with the input of stakeholders, to develop and execute a plan of support for counties that have not already implemented a telephone-based application and renewal process and to provide technical assistance and resources. The bill would require the application process to satisfy specified criteria, including simple, user-friendly language and instructions. The bill would require certain counties to comply with these provisions beginning on or before January 1, 2022, and require the remaining counties to comply with the provisions beginning on or before January 1, 2023. By imposing new duties on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-05-13" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Chiu", "Mathis" ], "coauthors": [ "Dodd", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-01-23", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-01-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23." }, { "date": "2020-02-06", "action": "Referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2020-03-04", "action": "Set for hearing March 23." }, { "date": "2020-03-23", "action": "March 23 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-05-08", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2020-05-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2020-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3559.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-06-03", "action": "Set for hearing June 9." }, { "date": "2020-06-09", "action": "June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-06-11", "action": "Set for hearing June 18." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "June 18 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB882", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB882", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB882", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB882", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB882" }, "headline": "Simplifies CalFresh applications, including for seniors", "one_liner": "Creates a simpler CalFresh application for seniors and lets people apply and recertify by phone, mail or online.", "summary": "The State Department of Social Services must join a federal demonstration project, the Elderly Simplified Application Project, and create an easier CalFresh application for seniors. Enrolled senior households skip semiannual reports. People may apply, report and recertify in person, by mail, online or by phone, including phone interviews and signatures. Counties must comply by 2022 or 2023.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB882.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB888", "slug": "2019-20/SB888", "number": "SB 888", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-01-23", "last_action_date": "2020-03-11", "subject": "Substance use disorder services: contingency management services.", "introduced_subject": "Birth certificates.", "title": "An act to add Section 14021.38 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal.", "digest": "Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including substance use disorder services that are delivered through the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.\n This bill would, to the extent funds are made available in the annual Budget Act, expand substance use disorder services to include contingency management services, subject to utilization controls. The bill would require the department to issue guidance and training to providers on their use of contingency management services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries who access substance use disorder services under any Medi-Cal delivery system, including the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program and the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system. The bill would provide that contingency management services are not a rebate, refund, commission preference, patronage dividend, discount, or any other gratuitous consideration. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions by various means, including provider bulletin, without taking regulatory action, and would condition the implementation of these provisions to the extent permitted by federal law, the availability of federal financial participation, and the department securing federal approval.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the State Registrar to issue a new birth certificate reflecting a change of gender to female, male, or nonbinary without a court order for any person born in this state who submits directly to the State Registrar an application to change the gender on the birth certificate and an affidavit attesting under penalty of perjury that the request for a change of gender is to conform the person’s legal gender to the person’s gender identity and is not made for any fraudulent purpose.\n This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-02-25" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Welfare and Institutions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-01-23", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-01-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23." }, { "date": "2020-02-06", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-02-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-03-11", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB888", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB888", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB888", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB888", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB888" }, "headline": "Adds contingency management to Medi-Cal drug treatment", "one_liner": "Adds contingency management to Medi-Cal substance use disorder services if the state budget funds it.", "summary": "If funded in the state budget and federally approved, Medi-Cal substance use disorder services would include contingency management, subject to utilization controls. The State Department of Health Care Services must give providers guidance and training on these services. The bill states that contingency management services are not a rebate, discount or other gratuitous payment.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs", "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with a technical change to birth certificate gender law; it was rewritten to cover Medi-Cal drug treatment.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB888.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB899", "slug": "2019-20/SB899", "number": "SB 899", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-01-30", "last_action_date": "2020-08-18", "subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.", "introduced_subject": "Density bonuses.", "title": "An act to add Section 65913.5 to the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "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. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. \n This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an independent institution of higher education or religious institution that partners with a qualified developer on any land owned in fee simple by the applicant on or before January 1, 2020, if the development satisfies specified criteria. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, provided that all the units are provided at affordable rent or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified.\n This bill would specify that a housing development project that is eligible for approval as a use by right under the bill is also eligible for a density bonus or other incentives or concessions, except as specified. The bill would require a development subject to these provisions to provide off-street parking of up to one space per unit, unless a local ordinance provides for a lower standard of parking, in which case the ordinance applies. The bill would prohibit a local government from imposing any parking requirement on a development subject to these provisions if the development is located within one-half mile walking distance of a high-quality transit corridor or major transit stop, as those terms are defined, and within one block of a car share vehicle.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the ministerial approval of projects. \n This bill, by requiring approval of certain development projects as a use by right, would expand the exemption for ministerial approval of projects under CEQA. \n By adding to the duties of local planning officials with respect to approving certain development projects, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the jurisdictional boundaries of that city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units, or for the donation of land within the development, if the developer agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents and meets other requirements.\n This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that law.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2020-08-03" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Caballero" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-01-30", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-01-31", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1." }, { "date": "2020-02-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-03-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-03-16", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING, EQ., and GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2020-05-12", "action": "Referral to Coms. on EQ., and GOV. & F. rescinded due to the shortened 2020 Legislative Calendar." }, { "date": "2020-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 26." }, { "date": "2020-05-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3595.) (May 26)." }, { "date": "2020-05-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-06-03", "action": "Set for hearing June 9." }, { "date": "2020-06-09", "action": "June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-06-11", "action": "Set for hearing June 18." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3766.) (June 18)." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2020-06-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-06-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3862.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2020-06-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2020-06-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2020-07-28", "action": "July 28 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-07-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 29)." }, { "date": "2020-08-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-08-18", "action": "August 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB899", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB899", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB899", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB899", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB899" }, "headline": "Allows housing on college and religious land", "one_liner": "Requires approval by right of affordable housing on land owned by independent colleges and religious institutions.", "summary": "Affordable housing on land owned by independent colleges or religious institutions, with a qualified developer, must be approved by right, without CEQA review. All units must be affordable to lower income households, though 20% may be moderate-income. Projects may get density bonuses. Parking is capped at one space per unit, with none required near major transit and car share.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB899.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB902", "slug": "2019-20/SB902", "number": "SB 902", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-01-30", "last_action_date": "2020-08-20", "subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: density.", "introduced_subject": "General plan.", "title": "An act to add Section 65913.3 to the Government Code, relating to land use.", "digest": "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. Existing law requires an attached housing development to be a permitted use, not subject to a conditional use permit, on any parcel zoned for multifamily housing if at least certain percentages of the units are available at affordable housing costs to very low income, lower income, and moderate-income households for at least 30 years and if the project meets specified conditions relating to location and being subject to a discretionary decision other than a conditional use permit. Existing law provides for various incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. \n This bill would authorize a local government to pass an ordinance, notwithstanding any local restrictions on adopting zoning ordinances, to zone any parcel for up to 10 units of residential density per parcel, at a height specified by the local government in the ordinance, if the parcel is located in a transit-rich area, a jobs-rich area, or an urban infill site, as those terms are defined. In this regard, the bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the Office of Planning and Research, to determine jobs-rich areas and publish a map of those areas every 5 years, commencing January 1, 2022, based on specified criteria. The bill would specify that an ordinance adopted under these provisions is not a project for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act.\n This bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, 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. That law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development. The law requires that the annual report include, among other specified information, the number of housing development applications received and the number of units approved and disapproved in the prior year.\n This bill would additionally require the planning agency include in the annual report whether the city or county is a party to a court action related to a violation of state housing law, and the disposition of that action. By requiring a planning agency to include additional information in its annual report, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-05-21" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Atkins" ], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-01-30", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-01-31", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1." }, { "date": "2020-02-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2020-03-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2020-03-12", "action": "Set for hearing March 31." }, { "date": "2020-03-18", "action": "March 31 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 26." }, { "date": "2020-05-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2020-05-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3595.) (May 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-06-03", "action": "Set for hearing June 9." }, { "date": "2020-06-09", "action": "June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-06-11", "action": "Set for hearing June 18." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 3766.) (June 18)." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-06-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 3797.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2020-06-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2020-06-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2020-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-08-18", "action": "August 18 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-08-20", "action": "August 20 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB902", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB902", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB902", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB902", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB902" }, "headline": "Allows zoning up to 10 units per parcel", "one_liner": "Lets local governments zone parcels in transit-rich areas, jobs-rich areas or urban infill sites for up to 10 units.", "summary": "Local governments may pass an ordinance, despite local limits on zoning ordinances, allowing up to 10 housing units per parcel in transit-rich areas, jobs-rich areas or urban infill sites. The local government sets the height. These ordinances are not projects under California's environmental review law (CEQA). The state housing department must map jobs-rich areas every 5 years.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with city and county reports on housing lawsuits; it was rewritten to cover zoning for more homes per parcel.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB902.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB917", "slug": "2019-20/SB917", "number": "SB 917", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-03", "last_action_date": "2020-05-12", "subject": "California Consumer Energy and Conservation Financing Authority: eminent domain: Northern California Local Energy Utility District: Northern California Energy Utility Services.", "introduced_subject": "California Consumer Energy and Conservation Financing Authority: eminent domain: Northern California Energy Utility District: Northern California Energy Utility Services.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1240.650, 1245.210, 1245.250, and 1268.610 of the Code of Civil Procedure, to amend Sections 13332.12, 15853, and 15855 of the Government Code, to amend Section 830.34 of the Penal Code, and to amend Sections 224.3, 3280, 3292, 3300, 3301, 3302, 3310, 3320, 3325, 3341, 3350, 3356, 3365, 3370, and 3380.1 of, to amend the heading of Division 1.5 (commencing with Section 3300) of, to amend the heading of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 3310) of Division 1.5 of, to add Sections 366.4, 761.8, 3341.3, and 3348 to, to add Division 5.5 (commencing with Section 10500) to, to repeal Section 3352 of, to repeal Article 8 (commencing with Section 3369) of Chapter 3 of, to repeal and add Section 3347 of, and to repeal and add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 3384) of Division 1.5 of, the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.", "digest": "Existing law creates the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, with prescribed powers and responsibilities, including the issuance of revenue bonds, for the purposes of augmenting electrical generating facilities and to ensure a sufficient and reliable supply of electricity, financing incentives for investment in cost-effective energy-efficient appliances and energy demand reduction, achieving a specified energy capacity reserve level, providing financing for the retrofit of inefficient electrical powerplants, renewable energy and conservation, and, where appropriate, developing strategies for the authority to facilitate a dependable supply of natural gas at reasonable prices to the public. Existing law prohibits the authority from approving any new program, enterprise, or project on or after January 1, 2007, unless authority to approve such an activity is granted by statute enacted on or before January 1, 2007.\n This bill would rename the authority the California Consumer Energy and Conservation Financing Authority and would repeal the prohibition upon the authority approving any new program, enterprise, or project, on or after January 1, 2007. The bill would authorize the authority to acquire, by eminent domain, the assets or ownership of an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or public utility that is both an electrical and gas corporation, including any franchise rights, if that corporation has been convicted of one or more felony criminal violations of laws enacted to protect the public safety within 10 years of the date the eminent domain action is commenced. The bill would authorize a local publicly owned energy utility, as defined, or community choice aggregator to elect to join in the eminent domain action brought by the authority and acquire that portion of the electrical or gas system necessary to provide service within its borders if the local publicly owned energy utility or community choice aggregator contributes its proportionate share of the compensation paid for the assets or ownership of the public utility. The bill would establish the Northern California Local Energy Utility District, with powers and duties similar to a municipal utility district, to provide electrical and gas service. The bill would require the Governor to appoint the initial governing board of the district, and would require subsequent members of the governing board to be selected by counties within the boundaries of the district, as provided. The bill would authorize the authority to transfer any public utility acquired by eminent domain to the district or to a local publicly owned energy utility or community choice aggregator that participates in the eminent domain action. By providing for misdemeanor liability for violations of the duties of the general manager or directors of the district, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. By requiring county boards of supervisors to select the members of the governing board of the district, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Until the transfer of the utility is completed, the authority would be required to perform all management duties for the utility and operate the utility in trust. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the acquisition by eminent domain and transfer of those assets or ownership interest acquired be completed within 5 years of initiation of the eminent domain action. The bill would repeal the existing $5,000,000,000 upper limit upon the authority’s ability to issue bonds. The bill would require that any bonds issued by the authority solely to acquire the assets or ownership interest of a public utility acquired by eminent domain so recite and be secured by a dedicated rate component in the rates of the public utility acquired. The bill would require that any transfer to the district include provisions preserving a dedicated rate component as security for any bonds issued by the authority to acquire the assets or ownership interest acquired.\n The bill would require the authority to take the steps necessary to ensure the earliest possible incorporation of Northern California Energy Utility Services pursuant to the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law. The bill would require that Northern California Energy Utility Services be governed by a 7-member governing board representing nonoverlapping districts of roughly equal population within the service territory of any public utility the assets or ownership of which is acquired by the authority through eminent domain. The bill would provide for the appointment of those board members. The bill would require that the authority assign all nonmanagement employment contracts of employees of a utility the assets or ownership of which has been transferred to the authority to Northern California Energy Utility Services and those employees would become employees of Northern California Energy Utility Services upon that assignment, with identical salaries and benefits as they had when they were still employed by the public utility. Until transfer of the utility to the district is completed, the bill would require the authority to transfer sufficient moneys, collected by the authority out of the rates of the utility, to Northern California Energy Utility Services to pay the salaries and benefits of all employees and independent contractors of the corporation and any other debts lawfully incurred by Northern California Energy Utility Services.\n Existing law provides mechanisms for electrical corporations to recover costs and expenses arising from covered wildfires, as defined, and establishes the Wildfire Fund to pay eligible claims arising from a covered wildfire. Existing law specifies the funding sources for the fund, which include, among other sources, contributions from electrical corporations and revenues generated from a specified charge imposed on the ratepayers of an electrical corporation.\n This bill would authorize the Northern California Local Energy Utility District to participate in the fund if it acquires assets or ownership interests of an electrical corporation from the authority, in which case the Wildfire Fund provisions applicable to electrical corporations apply to the district.\n Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law provides that the commission has no authority to establish rates or regulate the borrowing of money, the issuance of evidences of indebtedness, or the sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other disposal or encumbrance of the property of any electrical cooperative, but that electrical cooperatives are otherwise subject to the regulatory authority of the commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. Under existing law, local publicly owned electric utilities, including a municipal utility district operating an electrical utility, are under the direction of their governing boards.\n This bill would provide that following completion of the acquisition of a public utility by the authority through eminent domain and the authority assuming its duties as trustee of the utility, the commission would have no authority to establish or fix the rates and charges of the utility, to regulate the borrowing of money, the issuance of evidence of indebtedness, or to regulate the sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other disposal or encumbrance of property of the utility, but otherwise would have that authority granted to the commission relative to the safe and reliable performance of utility services by an electrical or gas corporation, until the utility operations are fully transferred to the district. Following completion of the acquisition of a public utility by the authority through eminent domain and upon Northern California Energy Utility Services becoming functional, the bill would provide that the commission would have no authority over the rates and charges paid to Northern California Energy Utility Services by the authority, by the district, or by a local publicly owned energy utility and the commission would have no authority as to the sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other disposal or encumbrance of property for its employees, but otherwise would have that authority granted to the commission relative to the safe and reliable performance of utility services by an electrical or gas corporation.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law creates the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, with prescribed powers and responsibilities, including the issuance of revenue bonds, for the purposes of augmenting electrical generating facilities and to ensure a sufficient and reliable supply of electricity, financing incentives for investment in cost-effective energy-efficient appliances and energy demand reduction, achieving a specified energy capacity reserve level, providing financing for the retrofit of inefficient electrical powerplants, renewable energy and conservation, and, where appropriate, developing strategies for the authority to facilitate a dependable supply of natural gas at reasonable prices to the public. Existing law prohibits the authority from approving any new program, enterprise, or project on or after January 1, 2007, unless authority to approve such an activity is granted by statute enacted on or before January 1, 2007.\n This bill would rename the authority the California Consumer Energy and Conservation Financing Authority and would repeal the prohibition upon the authority approving any new program, enterprise, or project, on or after January 1, 2007. The bill would authorize the authority to acquire, by eminent domain, the assets or ownership of an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or public utility that is both an electrical and gas corporation, including any franchise rights, if that corporation has been convicted of one or more felony criminal violations of laws enacted to protect the public safety within 10 years of the date the eminent domain action is commenced. The bill would authorize a local publicly owned energy utility, as defined, to elect to join in the eminent domain action brought by the authority and acquire that portion of the electrical or gas system necessary to provide service within its borders if the local publicly owned energy utility contributes its proportionate share of the compensation paid for the assets or ownership of the public utility. The bill would establish the Northern California Energy Utility District, with a governing board elected by district and with powers and duties similar to a municipal utility district, to provide electrical and gas service, and authorizes the authority to transfer any public utility acquired by eminent domain to the district or to a local publicly owned energy utility that participates in the eminent domain action. By providing for misdemeanor liability for violations of the duties of the general manager or directors of the district, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. By increasing the duties of local elections officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Until the transfer of the utility is completed, the authority would be required to perform all management duties for the utility and operate the utility in trust. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the acquisition by eminent domain and transfer of those assets or ownership interest acquired be completed within 5 years of initiation of the eminent domain action. The bill would repeal the existing $5,000,000,000 upper limit upon the authority’s ability to issue bonds and replace that limit with an unspecified amount. The bill would require that any bonds issued by the authority solely to acquire the assets or ownership interest of a public utility acquired by eminent domain so recite and be secured by a dedicated rate component in the rates of the public utility acquired. The bill would require that any transfer to the district include provisions preserving a dedicated rate component as security for any bonds issued by the authority to acquire the assets or ownership interest acquired.\n The bill would require the authority to take the steps necessary to ensure the earliest possible incorporation of Northern California Energy Utility Services pursuant to the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law. The bill would require that Northern California Energy Utility Services be governed by a 7-member governing board representing nonoverlapping districts of roughly equal population within the service territory of any public utility the assets or ownership of which is acquired by the authority through eminent domain. The bill would provide for the appointment of those board members. The bill would require that the authority assign all nonmanagement employment contracts of employees of a utility the assets or ownership of which has been transferred to the authority to Northern California Energy Utility Services and those employees would become employees of Northern California Energy Utility Services upon that assignment. Until transfer of the utility to the district is completed, the bill would require the authority to transfer sufficient moneys, collected by the authority out of the rates of the utility, to Northern California Energy Utility Services to pay the salaries and benefits of all employees and independent contractors of the corporation and any other debts lawfully incurred by Northern California Energy Utility Services.\n Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law provides that the commission has no authority to establish rates or regulate the borrowing of money, the issuance of evidences of indebtedness, or the sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other disposal or encumbrance of the property of any electrical cooperative, but that electrical cooperatives are otherwise subject to the regulatory authority of the commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. Under existing law, local publicly owned electric utilities, including a municipal utility district operating an electrical utility, are under the direction of their governing boards.\n This bill would provide that following completion of the acquisition of a public utility by the authority through eminent domain and the authority assuming its duties as trustee of the utility, the commission would have no authority to establish or fix the rates and charges of the utility, to regulate the borrowing of money, the issuance of evidence of indebtedness, or to regulate the sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other disposal or encumbrance of property of the utility, but otherwise would have that authority granted to the commission relative to the safe and reliable performance of utility services by an electrical or gas corporation, until the utility operations are fully transferred to the district. Following completion of the acquisition of a public utility by the authority through eminent domain and upon Northern California Energy Utility Services becoming functional, the bill would provide that the commission would have no authority over the rates and charges paid to Northern California Energy Utility Services by the authority, by the district, or by a local publicly owned energy utility and the commission would have no authority as to the sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other disposal or encumbrance of property for its employees, but otherwise would have that authority granted to the commission relative to the safe and reliable performance of utility services by an electrical or gas corporation.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-04-03" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure", "Government Code", "Penal Code", "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-03", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-04", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5." }, { "date": "2020-02-12", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C., GOV. & F., and JUD." }, { "date": "2020-04-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2020-05-12", "action": "Referral to Coms. on GOV. & F., and JUD. rescinded due to the shortened 2020 Legislative Calendar." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB917", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB917", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB917", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB917", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB917" }, "headline": "Allows eminent domain takeover of felony-convicted utilities", "one_liner": "Lets a state authority acquire a utility with safety felony convictions by eminent domain for a new public district.", "summary": "Renames the state's energy financing authority and lets it acquire, by eminent domain, a gas or electric utility convicted of public safety felonies within 10 years. The utility could be transferred to a new Northern California Local Energy Utility District or local utilities. A nonprofit would employ nonmanagement utility workers at the same pay. Ends its $5 billion bond limit.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB917.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB938", "slug": "2019-20/SB938", "number": "SB 938", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-06", "last_action_date": "2020-05-12", "subject": "Trial testimony: expert witnesses: writ of habeas corpus.", "introduced_subject": "Trial testimony: expert witnesses: writ of habeas corpus.", "title": "An act to amend Section 802 of the Evidence Code, and to amend Section 1473 of the Penal Code, relating to trial testimony.", "digest": "(1)Existing law allows a person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of their liberty to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of their imprisonment or restraint. Existing law allows a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on the basis of false evidence that is substantially material or probative to the issue of guilt or punishment that was introduced at trial. Existing law defines false evidence for these purposes as including the opinions of experts that have been repudiated by the expert or that have been undermined by later scientific research or technological advances.\n This bill would expand the definition of false evidence to include the opinions of experts that are undermined by scientific research that existed at the time of the expert’s testimony and opinions for which a reasonable dispute has emerged within the expert’s relevant scientific community as to the validity of the methods or theories upon which the expert based their opinion.\n (2)Existing law limits the testimony of a witness who is testifying as an expert to matter that is of a type that reasonably may be relied upon by an expert in forming an opinion upon the subject to which the expert’s testimony relates. Existing law allows a witness testifying in the form of an opinion to state on direct examination the reasons for their opinion and the matter upon which it is based.\n This bill would specify that an expert opinion based on circular reasoning is not based on matter that is of a type that reasonably may be relied upon by an expert in forming an opinion upon a subject. The bill would define circular reasoning as referring to any portion of an expert’s opinion that is solely based upon the premise that the expert seeks to conclude, including any portion of the opinion or testimony that is based upon studies, literature, data, or other materials on which the expert relies that accepts the same unproven premise that the studies, literature, data, or other materials on which the expert relies seeks to conclude.", "introduced_digest": null, "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Introduced", "date": "2020-02-06" }, "version_count": 1, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Evidence Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8." }, { "date": "2020-02-20", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD." }, { "date": "2020-03-11", "action": "Set for hearing March 31." }, { "date": "2020-03-18", "action": "March 31 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-05-12", "action": "Referral to Com. on JUD. rescinded due to the shortened 2020 Legislative Calendar." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB938", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB938", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB938", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB938", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB938" }, "headline": "Broadens challenges to convictions based on expert testimony", "one_liner": "Broadens grounds to challenge convictions based on disputed expert testimony and limits expert opinions using circular reasoning.", "summary": "Expands what counts as false evidence in a habeas corpus petition, a way to challenge imprisonment. It now includes expert opinions undermined by research that existed at trial, and opinions whose methods are reasonably disputed in the expert's scientific field. Expert opinions based on circular reasoning, meaning they assume what they try to prove, rely on improper material.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB938.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB939", "slug": "2019-20/SB939", "number": "SB 939", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-06", "last_action_date": "2020-06-18", "subject": "Emergencies: COVID-19: commercial tenancies: evictions.", "introduced_subject": "Mariculture.", "title": "An act to add Section 1951.9 to, and to add and repeal Section 1951.10 of, the Civil Code, relating to evictions, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.", "digest": "Existing law permits the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency during conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property, including epidemics. Existing law provides that the proclamation takes effect immediately, affords specified powers to the Governor, and terminates upon further proclamation by the Governor. Existing law prohibits the eviction of residential tenants during the pendency of a state of emergency, except as specified.\n This bill would prohibit a commercial landlord, as defined, from serving a specified notice of eviction on a commercial tenant, as defined, until 90 days after the state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor on March 4, 2020, is lifted and if specified criteria apply, including that the commercial tenant served a written notice on the landlord affirming, under the penalty of perjury, that the commercial tenant is an eligible COVID-19 impacted commercial tenant. By creating a new crime with regard to the notice being signed under the penalty of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would define an “eligible COVID-19 impacted commercial tenant” for the purposes of these provisions as a commercial tenant, operating primarily in California, that occupies commercial real property pursuant to a lease and that meets certain financially related criteria. The bill would provide that specified notices of eviction served on commercial tenants are void under specified circumstances, including that the commercial tenant was an eligible COVID-19 impacted commercial tenant at the time the notice of eviction was served. The bill, among other things, would also provide a means for stopping an eviction in process, prohibit nonpayment of rent during the state of emergency from being grounds for an unlawful detainer action, as provided, limit when late fees can be imposed on a commercial tenancy, and require the landlord to provide written notice of the protections afforded by these provisions. The bill would prohibit the landlord from willfully harassing, intimidating, threatening, or retaliating against a commercial tenant with the intent to terminate the occupancy, and would subject the landlord to various damages if found by a court to have engaged in that behavior. The bill would also make a willful violation of these provisions an unlawful business practice and an act of unfair competition, subject to specified remedies and penalties.\n This bill would authorize an eligible COVID-19 impacted commercial tenant, defined for the purposes of these provisions as a small business that operates primarily in California and is an eating or drinking establishment, place of entertainment, or performance venue that occupies commercial real property pursuant to a lease and that meets specified financially related criteria, to engage in good faith negotiations with its landlord in order to modify any rent or economic requirements. The bill would authorize an eligible COVID-19 impacted commercial tenant (eligible tenant) to serve written notice on the landlord, affirming under the penalty of perjury, that the commercial tenant is an eligible tenant and stating what lease modifications the commercial tenant is seeking. By creating a new crime with regard to the notice being signed under the penalty of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also provide that if the eligible tenant and the landlord do not reach a mutually satisfactory agreement within a certain timeframe, the eligible tenant is authorized to terminate the lease, as provided. The bill would exclude publicly traded companies and affiliated companies from these provisions. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on December 31, 2021, or 2 months after the declared state of emergency ends, whichever is later.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law provides for the regulation and development of aquaculture. Existing law makes legislative findings and declarations that it is in the interest of the people of the state that the practice of aquaculture be encouraged in order to augment food supplies, expand employment, promote economic activity, increase native fish stocks, enhance commercial and recreational fishing, and protect and better use the land and water resources of the state.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mariculture.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-05-29" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Lena Gonzalez" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Bonta", "Chiu", "Ting" ], "coauthors": [ "Kalra" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8." }, { "date": "2020-02-20", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-03-12", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2020-05-11", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2020-05-13", "action": "Set for hearing May 22." }, { "date": "2020-05-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2020-05-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3583.) (May 22)." }, { "date": "2020-05-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-06-03", "action": "Set for hearing June 9." }, { "date": "2020-06-09", "action": "June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-06-11", "action": "Set for hearing June 18." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "June 18 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB939", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB939", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB939", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB939", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB939" }, "headline": "Limits evictions of commercial tenants during COVID-19", "one_liner": "Delays evictions of eligible COVID-19 impacted commercial tenants and lets some small businesses renegotiate or end leases.", "summary": "Commercial landlords cannot serve eviction notices on eligible COVID-19 impacted commercial tenants until 90 days after the March 4, 2020, emergency ends. Rent unpaid during the emergency cannot be grounds for eviction, and late fees are limited. Eligible eating or drinking establishments, entertainment and performance venues may negotiate lease changes and end leases if talks fail.", "issues": [ "consumer", "nightlife" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally stated intent to legislate on mariculture; it was rewritten to cover commercial evictions during COVID-19.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB939.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB953", "slug": "2019-20/SB953", "number": "SB 953", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-10", "last_action_date": "2020-03-16", "subject": "Customer-sited renewable energy or energy storage systems: discriminatory fees or charges.", "introduced_subject": "Customer-sited renewable energy or energy storage systems: discriminatory fees or charges.", "title": "An act to add Section 2829.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.", "digest": "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature. \n This bill would require the commission, or the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility, as applicable, to ensure that customers within its jurisdiction who have customer-sited renewable energy or energy storage systems are not subject to discriminatory fees or charges levied as a result of installing or using those customer-sited renewable energy or energy storage systems, as specified.\n Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.\n Because this bill would require action by the commission to enforce its requirements and a violation of that commission action implementing its requirements would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Because the bill imposes requirements on the boards of local publicly owned electric utilities, which are entities of local government, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.", "introduced_digest": null, "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Introduced", "date": "2020-02-10" }, "version_count": 1, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Nielsen" ], "coauthors": [ "Gallagher", "Mark Stone", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-10", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-11", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12." }, { "date": "2020-02-20", "action": "Referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2020-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing March 17." }, { "date": "2020-03-16", "action": "March 17 hearing postponed by committee." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB953", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB953", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB953", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB953", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB953" }, "headline": "Bans discriminatory fees on customer renewable energy systems", "one_liner": "Utility regulators must ensure customers with on-site renewable energy or storage systems are not charged discriminatory fees for them.", "summary": "The Public Utilities Commission and the boards of local publicly owned electric utilities must ensure that customers with customer-sited renewable energy or energy storage systems do not face discriminatory fees or charges for installing or using those systems.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB953.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB1001", "slug": "2019-20/SB1001", "number": "SB 1001", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-13", "last_action_date": "2020-05-12", "subject": "Jury service.", "introduced_subject": "Jury service.", "title": "An act to amend Section 197 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to juries.", "digest": "The Trial Jury Selection and Management Act (act) requires all persons be selected for jury service at random and from sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court. The act specifies that the list of registered voters and list of licensed drivers and identification cardholders who are resident within the area served by the court are appropriate source lists for the selection of jurors, and further specifies that these 2 source lists, when substantially purged of duplicate names, are considered inclusive of a representative cross section of the population.\n This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) to semiannually furnish the jury commissioner of each county with a list of state tax filers, as defined, and include the list of state tax filers as source list for the purposes of jury selection. The bill would prohibit a jury commissioner, or an employee of the jury commissioner, from disclosing the information furnished by the FTB pursuant to this requirement.", "introduced_digest": null, "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Introduced", "date": "2020-02-13" }, "version_count": 1, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Skinner" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15." }, { "date": "2020-02-27", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD." }, { "date": "2020-05-12", "action": "Referral to Com. on JUD. rescinded due to the shortened 2020 Legislative Calendar." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1001", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1001", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1001", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1001", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1001" }, "headline": "Adds state tax filer list to jury selection", "one_liner": "Requires the Franchise Tax Board to give counties lists of state tax filers to use for picking jurors.", "summary": "Makes the list of state tax filers a source for selecting jurors. The Franchise Tax Board (FTB) must send each county's jury commissioner this list twice a year. Jury commissioners and their employees may not disclose the information the FTB provides.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB1001.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB1093", "slug": "2019-20/SB1093", "number": "SB 1093", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-19", "last_action_date": "2020-03-25", "subject": "Mariculture: master permitting program: designation of suitable state waters.", "introduced_subject": "Vehicles: eyeglasses: prohibited obstructions.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 828, 829, and 830 of, and to add Sections 831, 831.5, 832, 833, 834, and 835 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to aquaculture.", "digest": "Existing law provides for the regulation and development of aquaculture and requires the owner of each aquaculture facility to register with the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Existing law authorizes the department, among other powers, to assess annual registration fees on owners of aquaculture facilities and to prohibit an aquaculture operation or the culturing of any species at any location where it would be detrimental to adjacent native wildlife. Existing law authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to lease state water bottoms or the water column to any person for aquaculture, as prescribed, and requires the department to notify the State Lands Commission of all applications for water bottom leases and of all leases for aquaculture executed, renewed, or assigned. Under existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, the California Coastal Commission is responsible for the implementation of the act and for state coastal zone planning and management.\n This bill would require the department to, by January 1, 2022, create, as prescribed, a master permitting program with 3 permit types, as specified, for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration projects. The bill would require the master permitting program to include and incorporate all necessary information and materials required by the State Lands Commission and the Fish and Game Commission to apply for, prepare, review, and finalize a water bottom lease or ground lease of state lands required by a proposed mariculture project. The bill would require the department to approve, deny, or return for revision a master permit application within 4 months and similarly require that the State Lands Commission or the Fish and Game Commission, or both, if applicable, approve or deny a water bottom lease or ground lease within 4 months, as prescribed. The bill would provide an administrative appeal process for applicants to contest the denial of a water bottom lease or ground lease.\n The bill would require the department, in consultation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, if feasible, to develop best management practices for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration projects, as prescribed, and incorporate these practices into the master permitting program.\n The bill would require the department to incorporate all duties and responsibilities over shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration currently possessed and implemented by the California Coastal Commission into the master permitting program, and, commencing January 1, 2022, would provide the department with all jurisdiction, duties, and responsibilities over shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration projects, and eliminate the California Coastal Commission’s authority and jurisdiction to approve, deny, or otherwise affect those projects.\n The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2023, the department, in consultation with several specified entities, to produce a comprehensive, publicly available map of state waters indicating the suitability of particular areas and sites for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration.\n The bill would require, commencing January 1, 2023, and each year for 5 years thereafter, the department, in consultation with several specified entities, to annually designate, as prescribed, at least 5 square miles of state waters as suitable for shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration projects.\n The bill would require the department to ensure the inclusion of socially disadvantaged mariculturalists in the development, adoption, implementation, and enforcement of laws, regulations, and policies and programs relating to shellfish, seaweed, and other low-trophic mariculture production and restoration.\n The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations and adopt definitions to implement its provisions.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle while wearing eyeglasses having a temple width of 1/2 inch or more if the temple extends below the horizontal center of the lens so as to interfere with lateral vision. A violation of this prohibition is an infraction, subject to specified penalties.\n This bill would repeal that prohibition. The bill would also make other conforming changes.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-03-25" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Umberg" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-19", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21." }, { "date": "2020-02-27", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2020-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1093", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1093", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1093", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1093", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1093" }, "headline": "Creates a master permit program for mariculture", "one_liner": "Creates a Fish and Wildlife master permit program for shellfish and seaweed mariculture and ends Coastal Commission authority over it.", "summary": "By 2022, the Department of Fish and Wildlife must create a master permit program for shellfish, seaweed and similar mariculture projects and decide applications within 4 months. State lease decisions are also due within 4 months. The department takes over the Coastal Commission's authority over these projects. It must map suitable waters and designate at least 5 square miles yearly.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with repealing a ban on driving with wide-temple eyeglasses; it was rewritten to cover mariculture permits.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB1093.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB1138", "slug": "2019-20/SB1138", "number": "SB 1138", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-19", "last_action_date": "2020-09-01", "subject": "Housing element: emergency shelters: rezoning of sites.", "introduced_subject": "Housing element: emergency shelters: rezoning of sites.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 65583 and 65588 of the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "(1)The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, and to make adequate provision for the existing and projected needs of all economic segments of a community. Existing law also requires that the housing element include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels.\n This bill would revise the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with identifying zones or zoning designations that allow residential use, including mixed use, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. If an emergency shelter zoning designation where residential use is a permitted use is unfeasible, the bill would permit a local government to designate zones for emergency shelters in a nonresidential zone if the local government demonstrates that the zone is connected to amenities and services, as specified, that serve homeless people. The bill would delete language regarding emergency shelter standards structured in relation to residential and commercial developments and instead require that emergency shelters only be subject to specified written, objective standards. If a local government has adopted written, objective standards pursuant to these provisions, the bill would require the local government to include an analysis of these standards in the above-described analysis of constraints included in the housing element. The bill would require that zones where emergency shelters are allowed include sites that meet at least one of certain prescribed standards. The bill would also require that the number of people experiencing homelessness that can be accommodated on each identified site under these provisions be demonstrated by calculating a minimum of 200 square feet per person.\n (2)The Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If the inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, as provided, existing law requires that the local government rezone sites within specified time periods. If the local government fails to adopt a housing element within 120 days of the applicable statutory deadline, existing law requires that the local government (A) complete this rezoning no later than 3 years and 120 days from the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element and (B) revise its housing element every 4 years until the local government has adopted at least 2 consecutive revisions by the statutory deadline.\n This bill, for the 6th and each subsequent revision of the housing element, would instead require that a local government that fails to adopt a housing element that the Department of Housing and Community Development has found to be in substantial compliance with state law within 120 days of the statutory deadline to complete this rezoning no later than one year from the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element. The bill would also specify that the above-described requirement for the local government to revise its housing element every 4 years applies until the due date for the 6th revision of the housing element and that adoption of a 6th revision housing element that is found to be in substantial compliance satisfies any obligation to adopt a 4-year housing element. The bill would make conforming changes by deleting provisions made obsolete by this bill.\n (3)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65583 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1561 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1561 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.\n (4)By increasing the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "(1)The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, and to make adequate provision for the existing and projected needs of all economic segments of a community. \n This bill would revise the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with identifying zones or zoning designations that allow residential use, including mixed use, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. If an emergency shelter zoning designation where residential use is a permitted use is unfeasible, the bill would permit a local government to designate zones for emergency shelters in a nonresidential zone if the local government demonstrates that the zone is connected to amenities and services, as specified, that serve homeless people. The bill would delete language regarding emergency shelter standards structured in relation to residential and commercial developments and instead require that emergency shelters only be subject to specified written, objective standards. If a local government applies written, objective standards pursuant to these provisions, the bill would require the local government to attach and analyze the standards in its housing element. The bill would require that zones where emergency shelters are allowed include sites that meet at least one of certain prescribed standards. The bill would also require that the number of people experiencing homelessness that can be accommodated on each identified site under these provisions be demonstrated by calculating a minimum of 200 square feet per person.\n (2)The Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If the inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, as provided, existing law requires that the local government rezone sites within specified time periods. If the local government fails to adopt a housing element within 120 days of the applicable statutory deadline, existing law requires that the local government complete this rezoning no later than 3 years and 120 days from the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element.\n This bill, for the 6th and each subsequent revision of the housing element, would instead require that a local government that fails to adopt a housing element that the Department of Housing and Community Development has found to be in substantial compliance with state law within 120 days of the statutory deadline to complete the this rezoning no later than one year from the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element.\n (3)By increasing the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2020-08-27" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_both", "outcome_detail": "Moved to the inactive file", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-19", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21." }, { "date": "2020-02-27", "action": "Referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2020-03-12", "action": "Set for hearing March 31." }, { "date": "2020-03-18", "action": "March 31 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-03-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2020-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 26." }, { "date": "2020-05-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 3595.) (May 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-06-03", "action": "Set for hearing June 9." }, { "date": "2020-06-09", "action": "June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-06-11", "action": "Set for hearing June 18." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3769.) (June 18)." }, { "date": "2020-06-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-06-22", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 3799.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2020-06-22", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2020-06-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2020-07-27", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2020-07-28", "action": "July 28 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2020-07-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2020-08-11", "action": "August 11 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2020-08-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (August 20)." }, { "date": "2020-08-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-25", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-25", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2020-08-25", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-27", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2020-08-27", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2020-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 14. Page 5418.) Ordered to the Senate." }, { "date": "2020-08-31", "action": "In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending." }, { "date": "2020-09-01", "action": "Ordered to inactive file." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1138", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1138", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1138", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1138", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1138" }, "headline": "Changes housing element rules for emergency shelters", "one_liner": "Changes where cities and counties must allow emergency shelters and speeds rezoning for late housing elements.", "summary": "Cities and counties must identify zones, usually ones allowing homes, where emergency shelters are allowed without discretionary permits and face only written, objective standards. Site capacity is counted at 200 square feet per person. Starting with the 6th housing element cycle, local governments without a compliant housing element within 120 days of the deadline must finish rezoning within one year.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB1138.html" }, { "id": "201920200SB1143", "slug": "2019-20/SB1143", "number": "SB 1143", "session": "2019-20", "session_label": "2019-20", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2020-02-19", "last_action_date": "2020-03-25", "subject": "Automated license plate recognition systems: use of data.", "introduced_subject": "Operation of bicycles: safe and complete stop.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1798.90.51, 1798.90.52, and 1798.90.53 of, and to add Section 1798.90.56 to, the Civil Code, relating to personal information.", "digest": "Existing law authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol to retain license plate data captured by license plate reader technology, also referred to as an automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system, for not more than 60 days unless the data is being used as evidence or for the investigation of felonies. Existing law authorizes the department to share that data with law enforcement agencies for specified purposes and requires both an ALPR operator and an ALPR end-user, as those terms are defined, to implement a usage and privacy policy regarding that ALPR information, as specified. Existing law requires that the usage and privacy policy implemented by an ALPR operator or an ALPR end-user include the length of time ALPR information will be retained and the process the ALPR operator and ALPR end-user will utilize to determine if and when to destroy retained ALPR information. \n This bill would prohibit those usage and privacy policies from including a length of time longer than 2 weeks that ALPR information will be retained and would require those usage and privacy policies to include the process utilized to determine if and when to destroy ALPR information retained for 2 weeks or less.\n Existing law requires an ALPR operator to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices. Under existing law, the reasonable security procedures and practices must include operational, administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect ALPR information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.\n This bill would additionally require those procedures and practices to include an annual audit to review ALPR end-user searches during the previous year and the destruction of all ALPR information retained for longer than 2 weeks.\n Existing law requires an ALPR operator that accesses or provides access to ALPR information to maintain a record of that access and require that ALPR information only be used for the authorized purposes described in the usage and privacy policy.\n This bill would additionally require an ALPR operator that accesses or provides access to ALPR information to conduct an annual audit to review ALPR end-user searches during the previous year and to confirm that all ALPR information retained for longer than 2 weeks has been routinely destroyed.\n This bill would require the Department of Justice, on or before July 1, 2021, to draft and make available on its internet website a policy template and would permit local law enforcement agencies to use the template as a model for their ALPR policies. The bill would also require the Department of Justice to develop and issue guidance to help local law enforcement agencies identify and evaluate the types of data they are currently storing in their ALPR database systems.", "introduced_digest": "The Vehicle Code regulates the safe operation of bicycles on highways and roadways. Existing law prohibits a person from operating a bicycle on a roadway unless it is equipped with a brake that will enable the operator to make one braked wheel skid, as described, and from operating on the highway a bicycle equipped with handlebars raised in a specified manner or a bicycle that is of a size that prevents the operator from safely stopping the bicycle, as specified. A violation of the Vehicle Code provisions regulating the operation of a bicycle is an infraction.\n This bill would delete those prohibitions and would instead prohibit a person from operating a bicycle on a roadway unless it is equipped with a brake that will enable the operator to make a safe and complete stop. By revising the definition of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2020-03-25" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2020-02-19", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2020-02-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21." }, { "date": "2020-02-27", "action": "Referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2020-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1143", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1143", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1143", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1143", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1143" }, "headline": "Limits how long license plate data is kept", "one_liner": "License plate reader operators and users must keep data no longer than two weeks, and operators must audit searches yearly.", "summary": "Sets a two-week limit on how long automated license plate recognition (ALPR) data can be kept under usage and privacy policies. ALPR operators must audit end-user searches every year and confirm older data is destroyed. The Department of Justice must post a model policy template and give local police guidance on the data they store.", "issues": [ "tech", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with bicycle brake requirements; it was rewritten to cover license plate reader data limits.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2019-20/SB1143.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB210", "slug": "2021-22/SB210", "number": "SB 210", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-12", "last_action_date": "2022-02-01", "subject": "Automated license plate recognition systems: use of data.", "introduced_subject": "Automated license plate recognition systems: use of data.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1798.90.51, 1798.90.52, and 1798.90.53 of, and to add Sections 1798.90.56 and 1798.90.57 to, the Civil Code, relating to personal information.", "digest": "Existing law authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol to retain license plate data captured by license plate reader technology, also referred to as an automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system, for not more than 60 days unless the data is being used as evidence or for the investigation of felonies. Existing law authorizes the department to share that data with law enforcement agencies for specified purposes and requires both an ALPR operator and an ALPR end-user, as those terms are defined, to implement a usage and privacy policy regarding that ALPR information, as specified. Existing law requires that the usage and privacy policy implemented by an ALPR operator or an ALPR end-user include the length of time ALPR information will be retained and the process the ALPR operator and ALPR end-user will utilize to determine if and when to destroy retained ALPR information. \n This bill would include in those usage and privacy policies a requirement that, if the ALPR operator or ALPR end-user is a public agency and not an airport authority, ALPR data that does not match a hot list be destroyed within 24 hours.\n Existing law requires an ALPR operator and an ALPR end-user to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices. Under existing law, the reasonable security procedures and practices must include operational, administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect ALPR information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.\n This bill would additionally require those procedures and practices to include an annual audit to review ALPR end-user searches during the previous year and, where the ALPR operator or ALPR end-user is a public agency and not an airport authority, the destruction of all ALPR information that does not match information on a hot list within 24 hours. The bill would also prohibit an ALPR operator or an ALPR end-user that is a public agency and not an airport authority from accessing an ALPR system that retains ALPR information for more than 24 hours that does not match a hot list.\n Existing law requires an ALPR operator that accesses or provides access to ALPR information to maintain a record of that access and require that ALPR information only be used for the authorized purposes described in the usage and privacy policy.\n This bill would extend the requirement to keep a record of access to ALPR information to an ALPR end-user. The bill would additionally require an ALPR operator or an ALPR end-user that accesses or provides access to ALPR information to conduct an annual audit to review ALPR end-user searches during the previous year and to confirm that, if the ALPR operator or ALPR end-user is a public agency and not an airport authority, all ALPR information that does not match a hot list is routinely destroyed in 24 hours or less. The bill would require these annual audits be made available to the public in writing, and, if the ALPR operator or ALPR end-user has an internet website, would require the annual audits be posted conspicuously on that internet website.\n This bill would require the Department of Justice, on or before July 1, 2022, to draft and make available on its internet website a policy template and would permit local law enforcement agencies to use the template as a model for their ALPR policies. The bill would also require the Department of Justice to develop and issue guidance to help local law enforcement agencies identify and evaluate the types of data they are currently storing in their ALPR database systems.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol to retain license plate data captured by license plate reader technology, also referred to as an automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system, for not more than 60 days unless the data is being used as evidence or for the investigation of felonies. Existing law authorizes the department to share that data with law enforcement agencies for specified purposes and requires both an ALPR operator and an ALPR end user, as those terms are defined, to implement a usage and privacy policy regarding that ALPR information, as specified. Existing law requires that the usage and privacy policy implemented by an ALPR operator or an ALPR end user include the length of time ALPR information will be retained and the process the ALPR operator and ALPR end user will utilize to determine if and when to destroy retained ALPR information. \n This bill would include in those usage and privacy policies a requirement that ALPR data that does not match a hot list be destroyed within 24 hours.\n Existing law requires an ALPR operator to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices. Under existing law, the reasonable security procedures and practices must include operational, administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect ALPR information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.\n This bill would additionally require those procedures and practices to include an annual audit to review ALPR end-user searches during the previous year and the destruction of all ALPR information that does not match information on a hot list within 24 hours.\n Existing law requires an ALPR operator that accesses or provides access to ALPR information to maintain a record of that access and require that ALPR information only be used for the authorized purposes described in the usage and privacy policy.\n This bill would additionally require an ALPR operator that accesses or provides access to ALPR information to conduct an annual audit to review ALPR end-user searches during the previous year and to confirm that all ALPR information that does not match a hot list is routinely destroyed in 24 hours or less. \n This bill would require the Department of Justice, on or before July 1, 2022, to draft and make available on its internet website a policy template and would permit local law enforcement agencies to use the template as a model for their ALPR policies. The bill would also require the Department of Justice to develop and issue guidance to help local law enforcement agencies identify and evaluate the types of data they are currently storing in their ALPR database systems.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2021-03-15" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Wieckowski", "Chiu", "Stone", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-12", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-13", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 12." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-03-04", "action": "Set for hearing March 16." }, { "date": "2021-03-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-03-09", "action": "March 16 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2021-03-11", "action": "Set for hearing March 23." }, { "date": "2021-03-15", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-03-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 590.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-03-25", "action": "Set for hearing April 5." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "May 20 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2022-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB210", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB210", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB210", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB210", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB210" }, "headline": "Requires public agencies to delete unmatched plate data", "one_liner": "Public agencies, except airport authorities, must destroy license plate reader data not matching a hot list within 24 hours.", "summary": "Requires public agencies, except airport authorities, to destroy automated license plate recognition (ALPR) data within 24 hours if it does not match a hot list. Agencies cannot use ALPR systems that keep such data longer. Operators and end-users must keep access records and do yearly audits, made public. The Department of Justice must post a model policy and give guidance.", "issues": [ "tech", "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB210.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB234", "slug": "2021-22/SB234", "number": "SB 234", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-19", "last_action_date": "2022-08-11", "subject": "Transition Aged Youth Housing Program.", "introduced_subject": "Transition Aged Youth Housing Program.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 50230) to Part 1 of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, formerly known as the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, and requires the council to set and measure progress toward goals to prevent and end homelessness among youth in California by setting specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among youth in the state and defining outcome measures and gathering data related to the goals.\n This bill would establish the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program for the purpose of creating housing for transition aged youth under 26 years of age, who have been removed from their homes, are experiencing homelessness unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian, or are under the jurisdiction of a court, as specified, and would require the council to develop, implement, and administer the program.\n This bill would require the council to award grants, in the form of forgivable deferred loans, to local government agencies and nonprofit corporations to defray costs of eligible activities. The bill would define “eligible activities” to include the funding of capital development programs for the development of emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing for transition aged youth, and capital development loans for the conversion of emergency shelters or transitional housing to permanent supportive housing for transition aged youth.\n This bill would require the council to develop a program criteria for evaluating applications and require the council to award grants to applicants that best meet the criteria. The bill would require the council to give preference to applications from organizations that have experience providing direct services to transition aged youth, and organizations working in partnership with those that provide direct services to transition aged youth. The bill would require the council to maintain and make available on its internet website specified information, including the number of applications received, the number of applications denied, the name of each recipient of program funds, and the number of new and converted units created for transition aged youth through the program.\n This bill would create the Transition Aged Youth Housing Fund within the State Treasury and would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, provide that the moneys in the fund be made available to the council for purposes of the program.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council and requires the council to set and measure progress toward goals to prevent and end homelessness among youth in California by setting specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among youth in the state and defining outcome measures and gathering data related to the goals.\n This bill would establish the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program for the purpose of creating housing for transition aged youth under 26 years of age, who have been removed from their homes, are experiencing homelessness unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian, or are under the jurisdiction of a court, as specified, and would require the council to develop, implement, and administer the program.\n This bill would require the council to award grants, in the form of forgivable deferred loans, to local government agencies and nonprofit corporations to defray costs of eligible activities. The bill would define “eligible activities” to include the funding of capital development programs for the development of emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing for transition aged youth, and capital development loans for the conversion of emergency shelters or transitional housing to permanent supportive housing for transition aged youth.\n This bill would require the council to develop a program criteria for evaluating applications and require the council to award grants to applicants that best meet the criteria. The bill would require the council to maintain and make available on its internet website specified information, including the number of applications received, the number of applications denied, the name of each recipient of program funds, and the number of new and converted units created for transition aged youth through the program.\n This bill would create the Transition Aged Youth Housing Fund within the State Treasury and would continuously appropriate all moneys in the fund to the council for purposes of the program. The bill would appropriate $100,000,000 to the council for deposit into the fund for the purpose of implementing and administering the program.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2022-05-19" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-19", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 19." }, { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2021-02-23", "action": "Set for hearing March 9." }, { "date": "2021-03-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S." }, { "date": "2021-03-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 422.) (March 9). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2021-03-26", "action": "Set for hearing April 29." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "April 29 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2021-04-06", "action": "Set for hearing April 15." }, { "date": "2021-04-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 814.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing May 3." }, { "date": "2021-04-26", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1184.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-03", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From inactive file on motion of Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-04", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-06", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 2723.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-01-06", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HUM. S." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2022-06-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "August 11 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB234", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB234", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB234", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB234", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB234" }, "headline": "Creates a housing program for transition aged youth", "one_liner": "Creates state grants to build shelter and supportive housing for homeless or system-involved young people under 26.", "summary": "Creates the Transition Aged Youth Housing Program, run by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness. It gives forgivable loans to local governments and nonprofits to build emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing for youth under 26. Preference goes to groups that serve these youth. Funding depends on legislative appropriation to a new state fund.", "issues": [ "housing", "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB234.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB243", "slug": "2021-22/SB243", "number": "SB 243", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-21", "last_action_date": "2022-02-01", "subject": "Trial testimony: expert witnesses: writ of habeas corpus.", "introduced_subject": "Trial testimony: expert witnesses: writ of habeas corpus.", "title": "An act to add Section 806 to the Evidence Code, and to amend Section 1473 of the Penal Code, relating to trial testimony.", "digest": "(1)Existing law allows a person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of their liberty to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of their imprisonment or restraint. Existing law allows a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on the basis of false evidence that is substantially material or probative to the issue of guilt or punishment that was introduced at trial. Existing law defines false evidence for these purposes as including the opinions of experts that have been repudiated by the expert or that have been undermined by later scientific research or technological advances.\n This bill would expand the definition of false evidence to include the opinions of experts that are undermined by scientific research that existed at the time of the expert’s testimony and opinions for which a reasonable dispute has emerged within the expert’s relevant scientific community as to the validity of the methods or theories upon which the expert based their opinion.\n (2)   Existing law limits the testimony of a witness who is testifying as an expert to matter that is of a type that reasonably may be relied upon by an expert in forming an opinion upon the subject to which the expert’s testimony relates. Existing law allows a witness testifying in the form of an opinion to state on direct examination the reasons for their opinion and the matter upon which it is based. \n This bill would require a court in any criminal proceeding, when considering whether expert testimony is based on matter that is of a type that reasonably may be relied upon by an expert in forming an opinion, to determine whether the expert’s opinion and any supporting literature, studies, research, or other bases on which the expert relies in forming their opinion are based on a reliable foundation, properly tested methodology, and sound logic, as specified. The bill would specify that an opinion or any supporting literature, studies, research, or other bases that lack a reliable foundation, properly tested methodology, and sound logic are not matter that may reasonably be relied upon. The bill would specify that if a portion of the expert’s testimony extends beyond the underlying support, the court may allow the portions of the testimony that do not extend beyond the underlying support if they are otherwise admissible.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law allows a person who is unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of their liberty to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of their imprisonment or restraint. Existing law allows a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on the basis of false evidence that is substantially material or probative to the issue of guilt or punishment that was introduced at trial. Existing law defines false evidence for these purposes as including the opinions of experts that have been repudiated by the expert or that have been undermined by later scientific research or technological advances.\n This bill would expand the definition of false evidence to include the opinions of experts that are undermined by scientific research that existed at the time of the expert’s testimony and opinions for which a reasonable dispute has emerged within the expert’s relevant scientific community as to the validity of the methods or theories upon which the expert based their opinion.\n (2)   Existing law limits the testimony of a witness who is testifying as an expert to matter that is of a type that reasonably may be relied upon by an expert in forming an opinion upon the subject to which the expert’s testimony relates. Existing law allows a witness testifying in the form of an opinion to state on direct examination the reasons for their opinion and the matter upon which it is based. \n This bill would require a court in any criminal proceeding, when considering whether expert testimony is based on matter that is of a type that reasonably may be relied upon by an expert in forming an opinion, to determine whether the expert’s opinion and any underlying materials are based on a reliable foundation, proper methodology, and sound logic. The bill would specify that an opinion or any underlying materials that lack a reliable foundation, proper methodology, and sound logic are not matter that may reasonably be relied upon.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2021-03-09" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Evidence Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-21", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-22", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 21." }, { "date": "2021-02-03", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-02-24", "action": "Set for hearing March 16." }, { "date": "2021-03-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-03-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 520.) (March 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-03-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 5." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "May 20 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2022-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB243", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB243", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB243", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB243", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB243" }, "headline": "Changes rules for expert testimony in criminal cases", "one_liner": "Requires judges in criminal cases to screen expert opinions for reliable methods and expands habeas corpus challenges.", "summary": "Requires judges in criminal cases to check that expert opinions rest on a reliable foundation, tested methods, and sound logic. Expands what counts as false evidence in habeas corpus petitions. This includes expert opinions undermined by research that existed at trial, or whose methods face reasonable dispute among scientists.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB243.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB252", "slug": "2021-22/SB252", "number": "SB 252", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-25", "last_action_date": "2021-08-26", "subject": "Toxicological testing on dogs and cats.", "introduced_subject": "Bears: take prohibition.", "title": "An act to add Section 1834.9.3 to the Civil Code, relating to animal testing.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits manufacturers and contract testing facilities from using traditional animal test methods within the state for which an appropriate alternative test method has been scientifically validated and recommended by the Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) and adopted, as specified. Existing law exempts certain animal tests from these provisions, including animal tests performed for the purpose of medical research. Existing law provides that the exclusive remedy for a violation of these provisions is a civil action for injunctive relief brought by, among others, the Attorney General and makes a violation of these provisions punishable by a specified civil penalty.\n This bill would prohibit a testing facility, as defined, from conducting a canine or feline toxicological experiment, as defined, unless the experiment is conducted for specified purposes, including medical research, as described, to comply with federal requirements pertaining to the approval or maintenance of a medical device, or to develop, manufacture, or market certain types of products. The bill would authorize the Attorney General, the district attorney of the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred, or the city attorney in certain instances to bring a civil action for a violation of these provisions, punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each day that each dog or cat is used in a canine or feline toxicological experiment.\n The bill would define various terms for purposes of carrying out these provisions.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law designates bears as a game mammal and makes it unlawful to take any bear with a firearm, trap, or bow and arrow without first procuring a tag authorizing the taking of a bear. Existing law authorizes certain persons who possess a valid hunting license to procure the number of bear tags corresponding to the number of bears that may legally be taken by one person during the current license year upon payment of the applicable fee. Existing law prescribes various conditions with respect to the take of a bear under a bear tag.\n Existing law authorizes any owner or tenant of land or property that is being damaged or destroyed or is in danger of being damaged or destroyed by elk, bear, beaver, wild pig, wild turkeys, or gray squirrels to apply to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for a depredation permit to kill the animals. Existing law requires the department, upon satisfactory evidence of the damage or destruction, actual or immediately threatened, to issue a revocable depredation permit for the taking and disposition of the animals under regulations adopted by the Fish and Game Commission. Existing law requires the permit for taking bears to contain specified facts.\n Under existing law, a mammal occurring naturally in California that is not a game mammal, fully protected mammal, or fur-bearing mammal is a nongame mammal and may not be taken or possessed except as provided in the Fish and Game Code or in accordance with regulations adopted by the commission. Existing law provides that nongame mammals, among other specified species, that are found to be injuring growing crops or other property may be taken at any time or in any manner by specified persons in accordance with the Fish and Game Code and regulations adopted pursuant to that code. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into cooperative agreements with any state or federal agency for the purpose of controlling harmful nongame mammals. Existing law also authorizes the department to enter into cooperative contracts with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for the control of nongame mammals.\n Under existing law, a violation of the Fish and Game Code is a crime.\n This bill would make it unlawful to hunt, trap, or otherwise take a bear of the genus Euarctos or the species Ursus americanus, except under specified circumstances, including under a depredation permit. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to implement these provisions. The bill would remove the designation of game mammal for bears, thereby designating a bear as a nongame mammal, and would eliminate bear tags. The bill would prohibit the take of bears under the above-described authorizations for the take of nongame mammals. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would make various conforming changes and provide that its provisions are severable.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2021-06-21" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Kamlager", "Bloom", "Kalra" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-25", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-26", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25." }, { "date": "2021-02-03", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2021-03-11", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-03-15", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-03-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 6." }, { "date": "2021-04-07", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 686.) (April 6)." }, { "date": "2021-04-08", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 19." }, { "date": "2021-04-20", "action": "April 19 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1185.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 1384.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-10", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-06-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-07-07", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-08-19", "action": "August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "August 26 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB252", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB252", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB252", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB252", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB252" }, "headline": "Bans most toxicity testing on dogs and cats", "one_liner": "Testing facilities may not conduct toxicological experiments on dogs or cats, except for specified purposes like medical research.", "summary": "Prohibits testing facilities from conducting toxicological experiments on dogs or cats. Exceptions include medical research, federal medical device rules, and certain product types. The Attorney General, district attorneys, or some city attorneys may sue violators. Penalties can reach $5,000 per day for each animal used.", "issues": [ "consumer" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with bear hunting; it was rewritten to cover toxicological testing on dogs and cats.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB252.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB260", "slug": "2021-22/SB260", "number": "SB 260", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-26", "last_action_date": "2022-08-31", "subject": "Climate Corporate Accountability Act.", "introduced_subject": "Climate Corporate Accountability Act.", "title": "An act to add Section 38532 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.", "digest": "The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of statewide greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor and enforce compliance with the act. The act requires the state board to make available, and update at least annually, on its internet website the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants for each facility that reports to the state board, as provided.\n This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2024, to develop and adopt regulations requiring United States partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities with total annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000 and that do business in California, defined as “reporting entities,” to publicly disclose to the emissions registry, as defined, and verify, starting in 2025 on a date to be determined by the state board, and annually thereafter, their greenhouse gas emissions, categorized as scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, as defined, from the prior calendar year, as provided. The bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2029, to review, and update as necessary, these deadlines to evaluate trends in scope 3 emissions reporting and to consider changes to the deadlines, as provided. The bill would require reporting entities to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions in a manner that is easily understandable and accessible to residents of the state. The bill would require reporting entities to ensure that their public disclosures have been independently verified by the emissions registry or a third-party auditor, approved by the state board, with expertise in greenhouse gas emissions accounting. The bill would require the state board, in developing these regulations, to consult with the Attorney General, other government stakeholders, stakeholders representing consumer and environmental justice interests, and reporting entities that have demonstrated leadership in full-scope greenhouse gas emissions accounting and public disclosure and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The bill would also require the state board to establish auditor qualifications and a process for approval of auditors that ensures sufficient auditor capacity, as well as timely reporting implementation, as required. The bill would further require the state board to contract with an emissions registry to develop a reporting and registry program to receive and make publicly available the required disclosures.\n This bill would require the state board, on or before July 1, 2026, to contract with the University of California, the California State University, a national laboratory, or another equivalent academic institution to prepare a report on the public disclosures made by reporting entities to the emissions registry. The bill would require, in preparing the report, consideration to be given to, at a minimum, greenhouse emissions from reporting entities in the context of state greenhouse gas emissions reduction and climate goals. The bill would require the state board to provide the report to the emissions registry to post on a digital platform that would be required to be created by the emissions registry, and publicly accessible, to house the state board’s report and the reporting entities’ public disclosures. The bill would require the emissions registry to provide the state board’s report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature.\n This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action against a reporting entity, in the name of the people of the State of California, seeking civil penalties for violations of these provisions.\n This bill would make implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes.", "introduced_digest": "The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of statewide greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor and enforce compliance with the act. The act requires the state board to make available, and update at least annually, on its internet website the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants for each facility that reports to the state board, as provided.\n This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2023, to develop and adopt regulations requiring publicly traded domestic and foreign corporations with annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000 that do business in California, defined as “covered entities,” to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, categorized as scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, as defined, from the prior calendar year. The bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2024, to develop and adopt regulations requiring covered entities to set science-based emissions targets, as defined, based on the covered entity’s emissions that have been reported to the state board. The bill would require covered entities to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and science-based emissions targets in a manner that is easily understandable and accessible to residents of the state, including, but not limited to, by making that information available on a widely available digital platform. The bill would also require covered entities to ensure that their public disclosures have been independently verified by a third-party auditor, approved by the state board, with expertise in greenhouse gas emissions accounting. The bill would require the state board to consult with a panel of experts to determine standards and protocols for the state board to utilize to collect data for all scope 3 emissions from covered entities and to set science-based emissions targets for covered entities.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2022-08-15" }, "version_count": 8, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Failed a floor vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Stern" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Cristina Garcia", "Kalra" ], "coauthors": [ "Min", "Carrillo", "Friedman", "Lee", "Robert Rivas", "Stone", "Ting" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-26", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-27", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26." }, { "date": "2021-02-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on EQ. and JUD." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-03-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 12." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2021-04-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 756.) (April 12)." }, { "date": "2021-04-13", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 27." }, { "date": "2021-04-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2021-04-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 935.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-05-07", "action": "Set for hearing May 17." }, { "date": "2021-05-17", "action": "May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "May 20 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-01-18", "action": "Set for hearing January 20." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 2794.) (January 20)." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-01-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 7. Page 2821.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-01-26", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD." }, { "date": "2022-05-31", "action": "June 6 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2022-06-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 21)." }, { "date": "2022-06-22", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-31", "action": "Read third time. Refused passage." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260" }, "headline": "Requires large companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions", "one_liner": "Companies with over $1 billion in yearly revenue doing business in California must publicly report verified emissions.", "summary": "Requires companies with over $1 billion in annual revenue that do business in California to report scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions each year. Reports must be independently verified and posted publicly. The State Air Resources Board must write the rules. The Attorney General may seek civil penalties for violations. Implementation depends on legislative funding.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB260.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB271", "slug": "2021-22/SB271", "number": "SB 271", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-01-28", "last_action_date": "2022-02-01", "subject": "Juries.", "introduced_subject": "County sheriffs: eligibility requirements.", "title": "An act to amend Section 197 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and to add Section 19548.6 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to juries.", "digest": "(1)Existing state law requires that all persons be selected for state jury service at random and from sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court, and specifies that the list of registered voters and the list of licensed drivers and identification cardholders who are resident within the area served by the court, and the list of resident state tax filers, are appropriate source lists for the selection of jurors. Existing law requires the Franchise Tax Board to annually furnish the jury commissioner of each county with a list of resident state tax filers for their county.\n This bill would additionally require the Franchise Tax Board to furnish that information to each federal district court in California, if requested.\n (2)Existing law generally makes it a misdemeanor for specified persons, including, among others, jury commissioners, to disclose information set forth or disclosed in returns, reports, or documents required to be filed under the franchise and income tax laws.\n This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to enter into a data protection agreement, as defined, with each federal district court seeking a list of resident state tax filers. The bill would make the misdemeanor applicable to employees of a federal district court in California who disclose that information for any purpose other than expanding jury pools. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for an elected county sheriff in each county. Existing statutory law specifies that a person is not eligible to become a candidate for the office of sheriff in a county unless the person has an advanced certificate issued by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training or meets a combination of certain educational degree and full-time, salaried law enforcement experience requirements, as specified. Existing law deems a person holding the office of sheriff on January 1, 1989, to have met those qualifications.\n This bill would repeal those eligibility provisions, and would make other conforming changes.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2022-01-03" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure", "Revenue and Taxation Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-01-28", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-01-29", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 28." }, { "date": "2021-02-10", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-24", "action": "Set for hearing March 16." }, { "date": "2021-03-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 521.) (March 16). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2021-04-28", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2021-05-06", "action": "May 6 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2021-12-28", "action": "Set for hearing January 6." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2022-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-01-04", "action": "Set for hearing January 12 in JUD. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2022-01-06", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 2727.) (January 6). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-01-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 2755.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-01-14", "action": "Set for hearing January 18." }, { "date": "2022-01-18", "action": "January 18 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-01-19", "action": "Set for hearing January 20." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "January 20 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2022-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB271", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB271", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB271", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB271", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB271" }, "headline": "Shares state tax filer lists with federal courts", "one_liner": "The Franchise Tax Board must share state tax filer lists with federal district courts for building jury pools.", "summary": "Requires the Franchise Tax Board to give lists of resident state tax filers to federal district courts in California that ask for them, for jury selection. Each court must sign a data protection agreement. Federal court employees who share the information for other purposes commit a misdemeanor.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with eligibility rules for county sheriffs; it was rewritten to cover jury selection lists.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB271.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB519", "slug": "2021-22/SB519", "number": "SB 519", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-17", "last_action_date": "2022-08-25", "subject": "Controlled substances: study of decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.", "introduced_subject": "Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Section 131065 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.", "digest": "Existing law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion.\n Existing law creates a Research Advisory Panel, as specified, to conduct hearings on, and in other ways study, research projects concerning cannabis or hallucinogenic drugs.\n This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to convene a working group, as specified, to research and make recommendations to the Legislature regarding, among other things, the regulation and use of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).", "introduced_digest": "Existing law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion.\n This bill would make lawful the possession for personal use, as described, and the social sharing, as defined, of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ketamine, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substance on school grounds, or possession by, or sharing with, persons under 21 years of age.\n The bill would also provide for the dismissal and sealing of pending and prior convictions for offenses that would be made lawful by the passage of this bill, as specified. The bill would require the Department of Justice to identify those records and provide them to local jurisdictions to initiate the required proceedings.\n This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to convene a working group, as specified, to research and make recommendations to the Legislature regarding, among other things, the regulation and therapeutic use of these substances, as specified.\n Existing law prohibits the possession of drug paraphernalia, as defined.\n This bill would exempt from this prohibition, paraphernalia related to these specific substances. The bill would also exempt from the prohibition items used for the testing and analysis of controlled substances.\n By eliminating and changing the elements of existing crimes and creating new offenses, and by requiring new duties of local prosecutors, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2022-08-15" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Moved to the inactive file", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Kamlager", "Newman", "Lee", "Low", "Quirk", "Wicks" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-25", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-03-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 6." }, { "date": "2021-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2021-04-06", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 690.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-04-07", "action": "Set for hearing April 14." }, { "date": "2021-04-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 795.) (April 14)." }, { "date": "2021-04-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing May 3." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1195.) (May 20)." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2021-05-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2021-06-01", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 16. Page 1322.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2021-06-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2021-06-10", "action": "Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-06-30", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 29)." }, { "date": "2021-07-01", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2021-07-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (July 13)." }, { "date": "2021-08-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-08-26", "action": "August 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for second hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 5.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-25", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519" }, "headline": "Creates a working group to study psychedelics", "one_liner": "Requires the state public health department to convene a working group on regulating and using certain psychedelics.", "summary": "Requires the State Department of Public Health to convene a working group on psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline, LSD, and MDMA. The group must research these substances and make recommendations to the Legislature, including on how they are regulated and used.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB519.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB617", "slug": "2021-22/SB617", "number": "SB 617", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2021-02-18", "last_action_date": "2022-02-01", "subject": "Residential solar energy systems: permitting.", "introduced_subject": "Residential solar energy systems: permitting.", "title": "An act to add Section 65850.52 to the Government Code, relating to solar energy.", "digest": "Existing law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Existing law requires every city, county, or city and county, to develop a streamlined permitting process for the installation of small residential rooftop solar energy systems, as that term is defined. Existing law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system.\n Existing law grants the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. Decisions of the PUC adopted the California Solar Initiative, which is administered by electrical corporations and subject to the PUC’s supervision. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake certain steps in implementing the California Solar Initiative. A violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.\n This bill would require every city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and instantaneously issues permits for a solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and an energy storage system paired with a solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating, as specified. The bill would require a city or county to amend a certain ordinance to authorize a residential solar energy system and an energy storage system to use the online, automated permitting platform. The bill would prescribe a compliance schedule for satisfying these requirements, which would exempt a county with a population of less than 150,000 and all cities within a county with a population of less than 150,000. The bill would require a city with a population of 50,000 or less that is not otherwise exempt to satisfy these requirements by September 30, 2023, while cities and counties with populations greater than 50,000 that are not otherwise exempt would be required to satisfy the requirements by September 30, 2022. The bill would require a city, county, or a fire department, district, or authority to report to the Energy Commission when it is in compliance with specified requirements, in addition to other information. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would prohibit the provision of specified funding sources to cities and counties not in compliance with certain provisions relating to solar energy systems and fees charged for their installation or if they are not in compliance with provisions of the bill.\n The bill would require the Energy Commission, upon provision of sufficient funding, to provide technical assistance and grant funding to cities and counties in order to support the above-described requirements. The bill would require the commission to develop grant guidelines and other requirements, as specified, by May 1, 2022, and make applications available no later than July 1, 2022. Because this requirement would expand the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Energy Commission to set guidelines for cities and counties to report to the commission on the number of permits issued for solar energy systems and an energy storage system paired with a solar energy system and the relevant characteristics of those systems.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Existing law requires every city, county, or city and county, to develop a streamlined permitting process for the installation of small residential rooftop solar energy systems, as that term is defined. Existing law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system.\n Existing law grants the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. Decisions of the PUC adopted the California Solar Initiative, which is administered by electrical corporations and subject to the PUC’s supervision. Existing law requires the PUC and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to undertake certain steps in implementing the California Solar Initiative. A violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.\n Existing law specifies that the financial components of the California Solar Initiative include, among other programs, programs for the installation of solar energy systems on new construction, which collectively are known as the New Solar Homes Partnership Program. Existing law requires the program, which is administered by the Energy Commission, to be funded by charges in the amount of $400,000,000 collected from customers of the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations. If specified moneys are exhausted, existing law authorizes the PUC to require each of those electrical corporations to continue the program pursuant to guidelines established by the Energy Commission for the program until the $400,000,000 monetary limit is reached. If the PUC requires the continuation of the program, existing law requires any funding made available to be encumbered no later than June 1, 2018, and disbursed no later than December 31, 2021. Existing law makes the provisions of the program inoperative on June 1, 2018.\n This bill would require every city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and instantaneously issues permits for a residential photovoltaic solar energy system and an energy storage system paired with a residential photovoltaic solar energy system, as specified. The bill would require a city or county to amend a certain ordinance to authorize a residential solar energy system and an energy storage system to use the online, automated permitting platform. The bill would prescribe a compliance schedule for satisfying these requirements, which would exempt a city or county with a population of less than 10,000. The bill would require a city or county with a population of 10,001 to 50,000 to satisfy these requirements by September 30, 2023, while cities and counties with populations greater than 50,000 would be required to satisfy the requirements by September 30, 2022. The bill would require a city, county, or fire district to provide the option of remote inspections by real-time or recorded video or photo for a residential photovoltaic solar energy system and battery storage systems paired with a residential photovoltaic solar energy system. The bill would require that the remote inspections be offered at no greater cost, and be available with no greater delay, than in-person inspections. The bill would require a city, county, or a fire district to report to the Energy Commission when it is in compliance with specified requirements, in addition to other information. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would prohibit the provision of specified funding sources to cities and counties not in compliance with certain provisions relating to solar energy systems and fees charged for their installation or if they are not in compliance with provisions of the bill.\n The bill would authorize the Energy Commission to provide technical assistance and grant funding to cities and counties in order to support the above-described requirements. The bill would require the commission to develop grant guidelines and other requirements, as specified, by July 1, 2022. The bill would require the PUC to require the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the Southern California Edison Company, and the San Diego Gas and Electric Company to repurpose $20,000,000 supporting the New Solar Homes Partnership Program, as specified, to providing technical assistance and grant funding, and to pay the administrative costs of the Energy Commission. Because this requirement would expand the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Energy Commission to set guidelines for cities and counties to report to the commission on the number of permits issued for residential photovoltaic solar energy systems and the relevant characteristics of those systems.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2021-05-04" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Chiu" ], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Newman", "Stern", "Robert Rivas" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2021-02-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2021-02-19", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)" }, { "date": "2021-02-22", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)" }, { "date": "2021-03-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2021-03-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2021-03-24", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2021-04-05", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2021-04-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E., U. & C. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 728.) (April 8)." }, { "date": "2021-04-12", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2021-04-16", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2021-04-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2021-05-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2. Page 916.) (April 26)." }, { "date": "2021-05-04", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2021-05-07", "action": "Set for hearing May 17." }, { "date": "2021-05-17", "action": "May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2021-05-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 20." }, { "date": "2021-05-20", "action": "May 20 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2022-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617" }, "headline": "Requires automated online permits for small solar systems", "one_liner": "Requires cities and counties, except in smaller counties, to offer online permits that instantly approve small solar and storage systems.", "summary": "Requires cities and counties to use an online platform that checks code compliance and instantly issues permits for solar systems up to 38.4 kilowatts and paired energy storage systems. Counties under 150,000 people and their cities are exempt. Deadlines are 2022 or 2023, depending on population. The Energy Commission gives grants and technical help when funded.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB617.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB853", "slug": "2021-22/SB853", "number": "SB 853", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-01-19", "last_action_date": "2022-08-11", "subject": "Prescription drug coverage.", "introduced_subject": "Prescription drug coverage.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1367.21 and 1367.22 of, and to add Sections 1367.26 and 1367.28 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10123.195 of, and to add Sections 10123.134 and 10123.190 to, the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of disability insurers, including health insurers, by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally authorizes a health care service plan or health insurer to use utilization review, under which a licensed physician or a licensed health care professional who is competent to evaluate specific clinical issues may approve, modify, delay, or deny requests for health care services based on medical necessity. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan contract that covers prescription drug benefits or a specified health insurance policy from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug on the basis that the drug is prescribed for a use that is different from the use for which it was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration if specified conditions are met. Existing law also prohibits a health care service plan that covers prescription drug benefits from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug that was previously approved for coverage if an enrollee continues to be prescribed that drug, as specified.\n This bill would expand the above-described prohibitions to prohibit limiting or excluding coverage of a drug, dose, or dosage form, and would apply the prohibition to blanket disability insurance policies and certificates. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan or disability insurer that provides coverage for prescription drugs from limiting or declining to cover a drug or dose of a drug as prescribed, or imposing additional cost sharing for covering a drug as prescribed, if specified criteria apply. The bill would provide that a reduction or termination of an ongoing and approved course of treatment before the end of the treatment or the end or amendment of the policy is an adverse benefit determination, and would require a health care service plan or disability insurer to notify an enrollee or insured, or their representative, and the enrollee’s or insured’s provider in writing of the adverse benefit determination no fewer than 7 calendar days before the effective date. The bill would require a plan or insurer that has approved an ongoing course of treatment to provide continuing coverage pending appeal or review. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally authorizes a health care service plan or health insurer to use utilization review, under which a licensed physician or a licensed health care professional who is competent to evaluate specific clinical issues may approve, modify, delay, or deny requests for health care services based on medical necessity. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan contract that covers prescription drug benefits or a specified health insurance policy from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug on the basis that the drug is prescribed for a use that is different from the use for which it was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration if specified conditions are met. Existing law also prohibits a health care service plan that covers prescription drug benefits from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug that was previously approved for coverage if an enrollee continues to be prescribed that drug, as specified.\n This bill would expand the above-described prohibitions to prohibit limiting or excluding coverage of a dose of a drug. The bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2023, that covers prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for a drug or dose of a drug prescribed by a health care provider during utilization review and any appeals. The bill would prohibit a plan or insurer from seeking reimbursement for that coverage if the final utilization review decision is to deny coverage for the prescription drug or dosage.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2022-06-02" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-01-19", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 19." }, { "date": "2022-01-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-03-29", "action": "Set for hearing April 20." }, { "date": "2022-04-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3461.) (April 20)." }, { "date": "2022-04-25", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-13", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3771.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Ordered to special consent calendar." }, { "date": "2022-05-25", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3928.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-26", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2022-06-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "August 11 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB853", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB853", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB853", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB853", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB853" }, "headline": "Limits insurers' ability to cut prescribed drug coverage", "one_liner": "Health plans and insurers may not limit coverage of a drug or dose as prescribed when certain criteria apply.", "summary": "Bars health plans and insurers from limiting coverage of a drug, dose, or dosage form as prescribed, or adding cost sharing, when certain criteria apply. Cutting or ending an approved ongoing treatment counts as an adverse benefit determination and requires written notice at least 7 days ahead. Plans must keep covering approved ongoing treatment during an appeal.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB853.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB866", "slug": "2021-22/SB866", "number": "SB 866", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-01-20", "last_action_date": "2022-08-31", "subject": "Minors: vaccine consent.", "introduced_subject": "Minors: vaccine consent.", "title": "An act to add Section 6931 to the Family Code, relating to minors.", "digest": "Existing law prescribes various circumstances under which a minor may consent to their medical care and treatment without the consent of a parent or guardian. These circumstances include, among others, authorizing a minor 12 years of age or older who may have come into contact with an infectious, contagious, or communicable disease to consent to medical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of the disease, if the disease or condition is one that is required by law or regulation to be reported to the local health officer, or is a related sexually transmitted disease, as may be determined by the State Public Health Officer. \n This bill would additionally authorize a minor 15 years of age or older to consent to vaccines that meet specified federal agency criteria. The bill would authorize a vaccine provider, as defined, to administer a vaccine pursuant to the bill, but would not authorize the vaccine provider to provide any service that is otherwise outside the vaccine provider’s scope of practice.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law prescribes various circumstances under which a minor may consent to their medical care and treatment without the consent of a parent or guardian. These circumstances include, among others, authorizing a minor 12 years of age or older who may have come into contact with an infectious, contagious, or communicable disease to consent to medical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of the disease, if the disease or condition is one that is required by law or regulation to be reported to the local health officer, or is a related sexually transmitted disease, as may be determined by the State Public Health Officer. \n This bill would additionally authorize a minor 12 years of age or older to consent to vaccines that meet specified federal agency criteria. The bill would authorize a vaccine provider, as defined, to administer a vaccine pursuant to the bill, but would not authorize the vaccine provider to provide any service that is otherwise outside the vaccine provider’s scope of practice.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2022-06-16" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Moved to the inactive file", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Family Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Pan" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Wicks" ], "coauthors": [ "Newman", "Aguiar-Curry", "Low", "Ting", "Akilah Weber" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-01-20", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-01-21", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 20." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-23", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-03-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-05-02", "action": "Set for hearing May 5." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3627.) (May 5)." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-12", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 8. Page 3669.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-12", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2022-06-01", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) (June 1)." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-06-16", "action": "Read third time and amended. (Ayes 38. Noes 22. Page 5396.)" }, { "date": "2022-06-16", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-31", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Santiago." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB866", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB866", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB866", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB866", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB866" }, "headline": "Lets minors 15 and up consent to vaccines", "one_liner": "Minors 15 and older may get vaccines that meet federal criteria without a parent's or guardian's consent.", "summary": "Allows minors 15 years of age or older to consent to vaccines that meet specified federal agency criteria, without a parent's or guardian's consent. Vaccine providers may give these vaccines but may not provide services outside their scope of practice.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB866.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB930", "slug": "2021-22/SB930", "number": "SB 930", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-07", "last_action_date": "2022-08-24", "subject": "Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.", "introduced_subject": "Housing Accountability Act.", "title": "An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 25631 of, and to add and repeal Section 25634 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.", "digest": "The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides for moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature.\n This bill, beginning January 1, 2025, and before January 2, 2028, would require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to conduct a pilot program that would authorize the department to issue an additional hours license to an on-sale licensee located in a qualified city that would authorize, with or without conditions, the selling, giving, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on weekends and specified holidays, and between the hours of 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on all other days upon completion of specified requirements by the qualified city in which the licensee is located. The bill would impose specified fees related to the license to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would require the applicant to notify specified persons of the application for an additional hours license and would provide a procedure for protest and hearing regarding the application. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol and each qualified city that has elected to participate in the program to submit reports to the Legislature and specified committees regarding the regional impact of the additional hours licenses, as specified. The bill would provide that any person under 21 years of age who enters and remains in the licensed public premises during the additional serving hour without lawful business therein is guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided. The pilot program would apply to the Cities of Palm Springs and West Hollywood and the City and County of San Francisco.\n This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the qualified cities.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, prohibits, among other things, a local agency from disapproving a housing development project that complies with applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision standards and criteria, or from imposing a condition that it be developed at a lower density, unless the local agency bases its decision on written findings supported by the preponderance of the evidence on the record that specified conditions exist, as provided.\n Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, in part, sets forth procedural requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies, and for review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law.\n This bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to review, adopt, amend, and repeal the standards, forms, or definitions to implement the Housing Accountability Act without compliance with those procedural requirements, as provided.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2022-08-18" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Failed a floor vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Haney" ], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with." }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "(Ayes 31. Noes 6.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-07", "action": "Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)" }, { "date": "2022-02-08", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2022-02-16", "action": "Referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2022-04-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2022-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 27." }, { "date": "2022-04-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3544.) (April 27)." }, { "date": "2022-04-28", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 3644.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2022-06-02", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2022-06-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-08-03", "action": "August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-08-11", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (August 11)." }, { "date": "2022-08-15", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-16", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2022-08-18", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-08-24", "action": "Read third time. Refused passage." }, { "date": "2022-08-24", "action": "Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Haney." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB930", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB930", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB930", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB930", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB930" }, "headline": "Creates pilot for later alcohol sales hours", "one_liner": "Lets some licensed businesses in San Francisco, West Hollywood, and Palm Springs serve alcohol past 2 a.m.", "summary": "Creates a pilot program from 2025 through 2027 in San Francisco, West Hollywood, and Palm Springs. The state may issue additional hours licenses allowing alcohol sales until 4 a.m. on weekends and holidays and 3 a.m. other days, once each city completes required steps. Applications may be protested. The Highway Patrol and cities must report on regional impacts.", "issues": [ "nightlife", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with Housing Accountability Act rules; it was rewritten to cover later alcohol sales hours.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB930.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB980", "slug": "2021-22/SB980", "number": "SB 980", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-10", "last_action_date": "2022-05-19", "subject": "Alcoholic beverage licenses.", "introduced_subject": "Alcoholic beverage licenses.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 23985.5, 24013.2, and 24015 of, to add Section 23795 to, and to repeal Section 24013.1 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverage control.", "digest": "(1)Existing law, 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.\n This bill would prohibit the department from denying the issuance of a retail license solely on the basis that the premises are located within 100 feet of a residence.\n (2)Existing law requires an applicant to mail notification of an application for the issuance of a retail license to every resident and owner of real property within a 500-foot radius of the premises for which the license is to be issued, except as specified.\n This bill would specify that the notice is not required if the local governing body of the jurisdiction in which the license is to be issued has adopted an ordinance waiving the notification requirement.\n (3)Existing law provides that if an application for a license is voluntarily withdrawn as a result of any protest being filed opposing the issuance of the license, the applicant may not refile an application for the same location for one year. Additionally, existing law makes the verified protests valid against any subsequent applications filed for that premises for one year from the date of withdrawal.\n This bill would repeal the one-year bar on refiling an application for the same location. The bill would limit the one-year validity period of verified protests to subsequent applications for a license of the same type that are filed for that premises.\n (4)Existing law, after the department notifies an applicant and all protesting parties of its determination to issue a license, authorizes a protesting party to request the department to conduct a hearing on the issues protested.\n This bill would require the department, after 120 days have elapsed since verification of a protest without holding a hearing, to notify the person who filed the verified protest of their need to reconfirm their request for a hearing in writing, and would deem the protest withdrawn if the person who filed the request for a hearing does not provide the confirmation within 30 days.", "introduced_digest": "(1)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.\n This bill would prohibit the department from denying the issuance of a retail license solely on the basis that the premises are located within 100 feet of a residence, and would prohibit the department from maintaining a presumption that the issuance of a retail license for a premises located within 100 feet of a residence would interfere with the quiet enjoyment of the property.\n (2)Existing law authorizes the department to refuse the issuance of any retail license for premises located within the immediate vicinity of churches and hospitals and within 600 feet of schools, public playgrounds, or nonprofit youth facilities.\n This bill would make those provisions applicable to retail offsale licenses only.\n (3)Existing law requires an applicant to mail notification of an application for the issuance of a retail license to every resident and owner of real property within a 500-foot radius of the premises for which the license is to be issued, except as specified.\n This bill would specify that the notice is not required if the local governing body of the jurisdiction in which the license is to be issued has adopted an ordinance waiving the notification requirement.\n (4)Existing law provides that if an application for a license is voluntary withdrawn as a result of any protest being filed opposing the issuance of the license, the applicant may not refile an application for the same location for one year, and makes the verified protests valid against any subsequent applications filed for that premises for one year from the date of withdrawal.\n This bill would repeal those provisions.\n (5)Existing law, after the department notifies an applicant and all protesting parties of its determination to issue a license, authorizes a protesting party to request the department to conduct a hearing on the issues protested.\n This bill would require the department, after 120 days have elapsed since verification of a protest without holding a hearing, to notify the person who filed the verified protest of their need to reconfirm their request for a hearing in writing, and would deem the protest withdrawn if the person who filed the request for a hearing does not provide the confirmation within 30 days.\n (6)Existing law requires the purchase of beer, wine, or distilled spirits by the holder of an interim operating permit for a retail license or the holder of a temporary permit to be made only upon payment before or at the time of delivery in currency or by check, except as specified. Existing law makes it a violation or otherwise grounds for disciplinary action for any licensee to extend credit to the holder of a temporary permit or to receive payment from the permittee unless the seller had knowledge of the fact that the purchaser was operating under a temporary permit.\n This bill would delete those provisions.\n (7)Existing law requires any hearings held on a protest, accusation, or petition for a license to be held in the county in which the premises or licensee is located, except as specified, and sets forth procedural and other requirements for the hearings.\n This bill would require the department to issue an applicant for a retail license an interim operating permit if the department has not held a hearing within 6 months after the filing of a protest against the applicant, and would authorize the department to adopt conditions that it determines are reasonable pursuant to its investigation of the license application.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2022-04-27" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-10", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-10", "action": "Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement." }, { "date": "2022-02-11", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2022-02-23", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2022-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2022-04-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3510.) (April 26)." }, { "date": "2022-04-27", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 9." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-13", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "May 19 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB980", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB980", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB980", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB980", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB980" }, "headline": "Changes rules for issuing alcohol retail licenses", "one_liner": "Changes notice, protest, and hearing rules for people applying for retail alcohol licenses.", "summary": "Bars denying a retail license only because the site is within 100 feet of a home. Lets local governments waive mailed notice to neighbors. Ends the one-year bar on refiling after an application is withdrawn due to protests. A protest is deemed withdrawn if not reconfirmed within 30 days after 120 days without a hearing.", "issues": [ "nightlife" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB980.html" }, { "id": "202120220SB1336", "slug": "2021-22/SB1336", "number": "SB 1336", "session": "2021-22", "session_label": "2021-22", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2022-02-18", "last_action_date": "2022-06-16", "subject": "Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.", "introduced_subject": "Cannabis excise tax.", "title": "An act to add Section 65913.16 to the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "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. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. \n Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, establishes the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee within the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires the committee to allocate state low-income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law, which establish a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits.\n This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of a qualified developer, who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned in fee simple by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2023, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, provided that all of the units are provided at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified.\n This bill would specify that a housing development project that is eligible for approval as a use by right under the bill is also eligible for a density bonus or other incentives or concessions, except as specified. The bill would require a development subject to these provisions to provide off-street parking of up to one space per unit, unless a local ordinance provides for a lower standard of parking, in which case the ordinance applies. The bill would prohibit a local government from imposing any parking requirement on a development subject to these provisions if the development is located within one-half mile walking distance of a high-quality transit corridor or major transit stop, as those terms are defined, and within one block of a car share vehicle.\n This bill would require a local government that determines a proposed development is in conflict with any objective planning standards, as specified, to provide the developer with written documentation explaining those conflicts under a specified timeframe. The bill would require a local government to approve a development if the local government fails to provide the requisite documentation explaining any conflicts. The bill would authorize a local government to conduct a design review, as described, only if the design review focuses on compliance with the requisite criteria of a streamlined, ministerial review process. The bill would prohibit a local government from using a design review, as specified, from inhibiting, chilling, or precluding a streamlined, ministerial approval. The bill would require a local government to issue a subsequent permit for developments approved under the provisions of this act.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the ministerial approval of projects. \n This bill, by requiring approval of certain development projects as a use by right, would expand the exemption for ministerial approval of projects under CEQA. \n By adding to the duties of local planning officials with respect to approving certain development projects, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. AUMA imposes an excise tax upon purchasers of cannabis or cannabis products sold in this state at the rate of 15% of the average market price of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer. Existing law requires the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to administer and collect this tax. \n This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that excise tax provision.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2022-06-16" }, "version_count": 7, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Wicks" ], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2022-02-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2022-02-18", "action": "Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement." }, { "date": "2022-02-22", "action": "From printer." }, { "date": "2022-03-02", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2022-03-23", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2022-04-20", "action": "Set for hearing May 4." }, { "date": "2022-04-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2022-05-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3609.) (May 4)." }, { "date": "2022-05-09", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2022-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2022-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2022-05-17", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3793.) (May 19)." }, { "date": "2022-05-19", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2022-05-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 3. Page 3972.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2022-05-27", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2022-06-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2022-06-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D." }, { "date": "2022-06-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 15)." }, { "date": "2022-06-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1336", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1336", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1336", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1336", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1336" }, "headline": "Allows affordable housing on religious and college land", "one_liner": "Requires local governments to approve qualifying affordable housing on land owned by independent colleges or religious institutions.", "summary": "Makes qualifying housing a use by right on land owned by independent colleges or religious institutions on or before January 1, 2023. All units must be affordable to lower income households, though 20% may be for moderate-income households. Limits parking requirements, especially near transit. Approval is ministerial, so California's environmental review law (CEQA) does not apply.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with a cannabis excise tax provision; it was rewritten to cover affordable housing on college and religious land.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2021-22/SB1336.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB70", "slug": "2023-24/SB70", "number": "SB 70", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-09", "last_action_date": "2023-09-01", "subject": "Prescription drug coverage.", "introduced_subject": "Prescription drug coverage.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1367.21 and 1367.22 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10123.195 of, and to add Section 10123.190 to, the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally authorizes a health care service plan or health insurer to use utilization review, under which a licensed physician or a licensed health care professional who is competent to evaluate specific clinical issues may approve, modify, delay, or deny requests for health care services based on medical necessity. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan contract that covers prescription drug benefits or a specified health insurance policy from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug on the basis that the drug is prescribed for a use that is different from the use for which it was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration if specified conditions are met. Existing law also prohibits a health care service plan that covers prescription drug benefits from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug that was previously approved for coverage if an enrollee continues to be prescribed that drug, as specified.\n This bill would additionally prohibit limiting or excluding coverage of a drug, dose of a drug, or dosage form of a drug that is prescribed for off-label use if the drug has been previously covered for a chronic condition or cancer, as specified, regardless of whether or not the drug, dose, or dosage form is on the plan’s or insurer’s formulary. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy from requiring additional cost sharing not already imposed for a drug that was previously approved for coverage. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally authorizes a health care service plan or health insurer to use utilization review, under which a licensed physician or a licensed health care professional who is competent to evaluate specific clinical issues may approve, modify, delay, or deny requests for health care services based on medical necessity. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan contract that covers prescription drug benefits or a specified health insurance policy from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug on the basis that the drug is prescribed for a use that is different from the use for which it was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration if specified conditions are met. Existing law also prohibits a health care service plan that covers prescription drug benefits from limiting or excluding coverage for a drug that was previously approved for coverage if an enrollee continues to be prescribed that drug, as specified.\n This bill would expand the above-described prohibitions to prohibit limiting or excluding coverage of a dose of a drug or dosage form, and would apply these prohibitions to a prescription drug that is prescribed for off-label use. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract from requiring additional cost sharing not already imposed for a drug that was previously approved for coverage. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also prohibit a disability insurer that covers prescription drug benefits from limiting or declining coverage for a drug or dose of a drug as prescribed if specified criteria are met.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2023-06-29" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-09", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-10", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9." }, { "date": "2023-01-18", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-03-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-03-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 12." }, { "date": "2023-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 710.) (April 12)." }, { "date": "2023-04-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-04-21", "action": "Set for hearing May 1." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1159.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 1274.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (June 27)." }, { "date": "2023-06-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-16", "action": "August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB70", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB70", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB70", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB70", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB70" }, "headline": "Bars health plans from dropping off-label drug coverage", "one_liner": "Health plans and insurers cannot stop covering off-label drugs previously covered for a chronic condition or cancer.", "summary": "Health plans and insurers cannot limit or exclude coverage of a drug, dose, or dosage form prescribed off-label if it was already covered for a chronic condition or cancer. This applies even if the drug is not on the plan's formulary. Plans cannot add new cost sharing for a drug they previously approved.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB70.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB83", "slug": "2023-24/SB83", "number": "SB 83", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-13", "last_action_date": "2024-02-01", "subject": "Public utilities: electrical distribution grid: energization.", "introduced_subject": "Public utilities: postentitlement phase permit applications: new construction.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 8.3 (commencing with Section 2845) to Part 2 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities.", "digest": "Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish an expedited distribution grid interconnection dispute resolution process with the goal of resolving disputes over interconnection applications within the jurisdiction of the commission in no more than 60 days from the time the dispute is formally brought to the commission.\n This bill would require the commission, on or before September 30, 2024, to establish maximum energization time periods by when an electrical corporation would be required to energize a development project, including the maximum time period for the energization ready phase of a project. The bill would require an electrical corporation to energize a development project with the electrical corporation’s electrical distribution grid within the maximum energization time period established by the commission, after receiving a notification from a development project applicant that the development project is energization ready, as defined. The bill would specify that the maximum energization time period established by the commission does not apply if an issue specific to the development project or the project site arises that would prevent the electrical corporation from safely completing the energization within that time period and would require the electrical corporation to work with the development project applicant to establish an alternative time period. The bill would require each electrical corporation to annually report to the commission the number of applications for energization with the electrical corporation’s distribution grid and the time period in which the electrical corporation energizes the development project with its electrical distribution grid after the electrical corporation was notified that the development project was energization ready. The bill would require an electrical corporation to compensate a development project applicant for failing to meet the maximum energization time period described above or the alternative time period, as specified. The bill would require the commission to arbitrate any dispute related to the claim for compensation.\n Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.\n Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the above-described requirement would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to enforce the rules governing the extension of service by a gas or electrical corporation to new residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial customers. Existing law requires an electrical or gas corporation to permit a new or existing customer who applies for an extension of service from that corporation to install the extension in accordance with commission regulations and any applicable specifications of the corporation.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to require public utility companies to provide comments on postentitlement phase permit applications and connect new construction to the electrical grid within specified timeframes.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2023-05-03" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Wood" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-17", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 13." }, { "date": "2023-01-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2023-03-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2023-03-22", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2023-03-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2023-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 18." }, { "date": "2023-04-18", "action": "April 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-04-19", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2023-05-02", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0. Page 870.) (April 24)." }, { "date": "2023-05-03", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-05", "action": "Set for hearing May 15." }, { "date": "2023-05-15", "action": "May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "May 18 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2024-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB83", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB83", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB83", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB83", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB83" }, "headline": "Sets deadlines for utilities to connect new projects", "one_liner": "Requires electric utilities to connect ready development projects to the grid within state-set time limits or pay compensation.", "summary": "The Public Utilities Commission must set maximum time periods by September 30, 2024, for electrical corporations to energize development projects once they are ready. Utilities must meet those deadlines or an agreed alternative, report yearly on connection times, and compensate applicants when they miss them. The commission arbitrates compensation disputes.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB83.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB106", "slug": "2023-24/SB106", "number": "SB 106", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-18", "last_action_date": "2024-04-15", "subject": "Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.", "introduced_subject": "Budget Act of 2023.", "title": "An act to amend the Budget Act of 2022 (Chapters, 43, 45, and 249 of the Statutes of 2022) by amending Sections 19.56 and 39.10 of that act, and to amend the Budget Act of 2023 (Chapters 12, 38, and 189 of the Statutes of 2023) by amending Items 0530-001-0001, 0650-001-0001, 0650-101-0001, 0690-101-0001, 0820-014-0001, 0840-001-3268, 2720-301-0001, 2740-496, 3360-495, 3480-495, 3540-001-0001, 3600-001-0001, 3640-103-0001, 3860-001-0001, 3860-101-0001, 3900-490, 3900-492, 3900-495, 3960-002-0001, 3970-001-0001, 3970-495, 4260-101-3428, 4260-101-3431, 4260-111-3428, 4265-001-0001, 4265-495, 5180-494, 5180-495, 5225-001-0001, 5225-003-0001, 5225-005-0001, 5225-021-0001, 7100-001-0001, 7100-001-0588, 7350-001-0001, 7350-001-3078, 7350-001-3152, 7760-001-0001, 8120-002-0001, 8120-102-0001, 8570-001-0001, 8570-495, and 8660-495 of Section 2.00 of, adding Items 0511-495, 0521-497, 0650-496, 0690-497, 3540-497, 3640-496, 3790-498, 3825-490, 3900-496, 3930-496, 3960-012-0557, 3970-001-0890, 3970-496, 4170-496, 5180-496, 5225-011-3259, 6120-495, 7100-495, 7350-495, 7502-495, and 8570-496 to Section 2.00 of, repealing Items 2740-301-0001, 7350-002-0001, and 8880-490 of Section 2.00 of, amending Sections 19.56, 19.564, 19.565, 21.00, 39.10, and 99.50 of, and adding Section 4.06 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.", "digest": "The Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years.\n This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.", "introduced_digest": "This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2023.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2024-04-08" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Budget Act of 2022", "Budget Act of 2023" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-19", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18." }, { "date": "2023-01-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. & F.R." }, { "date": "2023-03-16", "action": "Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 357.)" }, { "date": "2023-03-16", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-03-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-03-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 487.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-03-27", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-03-30", "action": "Referred to Com. on BUDGET." }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET." }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "action": "Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 14. Page 4653.)" }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-04-09", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-04-15", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB106", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB106", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB106", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB106", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB106" }, "headline": "Amends the 2022 and 2023 state budgets", "one_liner": "Changes spending items in the Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.", "summary": "Amends the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending, adding, and repealing spending items and making other changes. Takes effect immediately as a budget bill.", "issues": [ "budget" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB106.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB107", "slug": "2023-24/SB107", "number": "SB 107", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-18", "last_action_date": "2024-07-03", "subject": "Budget Act of 2024.", "introduced_subject": "Budget Act of 2023.", "title": "An act making appropriations for the support of the government of the State of California and for several public purposes in accordance with the provisions of Section 12 of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of California, relating to the state budget, to take effect immediately, budget bill.", "digest": "This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.", "introduced_digest": "This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2023.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2024-06-10" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-19", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18." }, { "date": "2023-01-25", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. & F.R." }, { "date": "2023-03-16", "action": "Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 357.)" }, { "date": "2023-03-16", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-03-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-03-27", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 487.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-03-27", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-03-30", "action": "Referred to Com. on BUDGET." }, { "date": "2024-06-10", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-06-10", "action": "Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 14. Page 5789.)" }, { "date": "2024-06-10", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2024-06-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET." }, { "date": "2024-06-11", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET pursuant to Assembly Rule 97." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB107", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB107", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB107", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB107", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB107" }, "headline": "Sets the 2024–25 state budget", "one_liner": "Makes appropriations to fund state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.", "summary": "Makes appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year. 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Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET." }, { "date": "2024-08-26", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 and 96 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 14. 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Existing law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or disability insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days.\n This bill, commencing July 1, 2024, would require a health care service plan or a disability insurer that modifies, delays, or denies a health care service, based in whole or in part on medical necessity, to automatically submit within 24 hours a decision regarding a disputed health care service to the Independent Medical Review System, as well as the information that informed its decision, without requiring an enrollee or insured to submit a grievance, if the decision is to deny, modify, or delay specified services relating to mental health or substance use disorder conditions for an enrollee or insured up to 26 years of age. The bill would require a health care service plan or disability insurer, within 24 hours after submitting its decision to the Independent Medical Review System to provide notice to the appropriate department, the enrollee or insured or their representative, if any, and the enrollee’s or insured’s provider. The bill would require the notice to include notification to the enrollee or insured that they or their representative may cancel the independent medical review at any time before a determination, as specified.\n The bill would apply specified existing provisions relating to mental health and substance use disorders for purposes of its provisions, and would be subject to relevant provisions relating to the Independent Medical Review System that do not otherwise conflict with the express requirements of the bill. With respect to health care service plans, the bill would specify that its provisions do not apply to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts. The bill would authorize the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate regulations subject to the Administrative Procedure Act to implement and enforce the bill, and to issue interim guidance, as specified.\n 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or disability insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days.\n This bill would require a decision regarding a disputed health care service to be automatically submitted to the relevant Independent Medical Review System if the decision is to deny, modify, or delay specified mental health care services for an enrollee or insured 0 to 21 years of age, inclusive. 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2023-06-19" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Gonzalez", "Newman", "Garcia" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-24", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-01-25", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24." }, { "date": "2023-02-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-03-20", "action": "Set for hearing March 29." }, { "date": "2023-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-03-27", "action": "March 29 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-03-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 12." }, { "date": "2023-04-13", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 710.) (April 12)." }, { "date": "2023-04-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-04-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 24." }, { "date": "2023-04-24", "action": "April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1161.) (May 18)." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 1277.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-25", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-01", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-06-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2023-06-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-08-16", "action": "August 16 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2023-08-23", "action": "August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-09-01", "action": "September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB238", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB238", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB238", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB238", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB238" }, "headline": "Requires automatic review of youth mental health denials", "one_liner": "Plans denying mental health or substance use care for enrollees up to age 26 must automatically seek independent review.", "summary": "Starting July 1, 2024, health plans and insurers that deny, modify, or delay certain mental health or substance use disorder services for people up to age 26 must send the decision to the Independent Medical Review System within 24 hours. No grievance is needed. The patient may cancel the review. Medi-Cal managed care plans are excluded.", "issues": [ "health", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB238.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB270", "slug": "2023-24/SB270", "number": "SB 270", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-01-31", "last_action_date": "2024-02-01", "subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: university housing development projects: exemption.", "introduced_subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: housing projects: housing sustainability districts: exemption.", "title": "An act to amend Section 21080.58 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.", "digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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.\n Existing law, until January 1, 2030, exempts from CEQA a university housing development project carried out by a public university on real property owned by the public university if the project meets certain requirements, including that each building within the project is certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum or better by the United States Green Building Council. Existing law requires the lead agency, if the university housing development project is exempt from CEQA under the above provision, to file the LEED certificate for buildings within the project and a notice determining that the construction impacts of the project have been fully mitigated with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located.\n This bill would revise the exemption for a university housing development project to require each building within the project to be certified as LEED gold with a point total of 79 or better. Because the bill would result in additional university housing development projects being exempt from CEQA, thereby increasing the duties of the county clerk, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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.\n CEQA requires a lead agency to prepare an environmental impact report when designating a housing sustainability district to identify and mitigate, to the extent feasible, environmental impacts resulting from the designation.\n CEQA exempts from its requirements a housing project undertaken in a housing sustainability district designated by a local government if specified requirements are met, including that the lead agency has certified an environmental impact report for the district, and the Department of Housing and Community Development has approved the district, within 10 years of the lead agency’s review of the housing project.\n This bill would instead allow the exemption to apply if the lead agency has certified an environmental impact report for the district, and the Department of Housing and Community Development has approved the district, within 12 years of the lead agency’s review of the housing project.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2023-04-18" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-01-31", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-01", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3." }, { "date": "2023-02-09", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2023-02-10", "action": "Set for hearing March 15." }, { "date": "2023-02-28", "action": "March 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-03-07", "action": "Set for hearing March 29." }, { "date": "2023-03-16", "action": "March 29 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author." }, { "date": "2023-04-14", "action": "Set for hearing April 26." }, { "date": "2023-04-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q." }, { "date": "2023-04-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 936.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2023-04-27", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2023-04-27", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-05-01", "action": "Set for hearing May 8." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "May 18 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2024-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB270", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB270", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB270", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB270", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB270" }, "headline": "Changes green building rule for university housing exemption", "one_liner": "Changes the green building standard public university housing must meet to be exempt from environmental review.", "summary": "Changes an exemption from California's environmental review law (CEQA) for housing projects built by public universities on their own land. Each building in an exempt project must be certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold with at least 79 points, instead of LEED platinum or better.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB270.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB284", "slug": "2023-24/SB284", "number": "SB 284", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-01", "last_action_date": "2024-07-01", "subject": "Electricity: energization transparency and efficiency: wholesale distribution service.", "introduced_subject": "Vending machines.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 8.6 (commencing with Section 2849) to Part 2 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.", "digest": "Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations.\n This bill would require each electrical corporation to provide distribution planning data, as defined, to development project applicants, energizing entities, as defined, and public entities in a timely and efficient manner. The bill would require the PUC to require each electrical corporation to develop and make publicly available uniform technical standards and requirements for the energization of electrical load on the distribution system and information about its distribution system interconnection queue necessary for the energization of electrical load. The bill would require each electrical corporation that has filed a wholesale distribution tariff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to offer service under that tariff to the state, an agency, authority, or instrumentality of the state, or a political subdivision to transmit electricity that those public entities consume or sell directly to an ultimate consumer, as provided.\n Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime. \n Because a violation of a PUC action implementing the bill would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires a person who owns a vending machine to affix to the machine their name and address, as specified. If the person owns more than one vending machine located at the same place, existing law instead authorizes the person to post a clearly readable sign containing their name and address in a conspicuous location near the machines. Existing law makes a violation of those provisions a crime.\n This bill would require a person to post their telephone number, email address, or both, on the machine or in a conspicuous location, as may be appropriate. The bill would provide that a violation of these provisions is not a crime.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2024-06-20" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-01", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-02", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4." }, { "date": "2023-02-09", "action": "Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D." }, { "date": "2023-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing March 27." }, { "date": "2023-03-27", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 535.) (March 27)." }, { "date": "2023-03-28", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-04-10", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 1. Page 632.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-04-10", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-06-08", "action": "Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and L. & E." }, { "date": "2023-06-08", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2023-06-12", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on L. & E. and U. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2023-06-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E." }, { "date": "2024-06-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E." }, { "date": "2024-06-13", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2024-06-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2024-07-01", "action": "July 1 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB284", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB284", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB284", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB284", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB284" }, "headline": "Requires utilities to share grid data for energization", "one_liner": "Electric utilities must share distribution planning data and publish uniform standards for connecting new electrical load.", "summary": "Electric utilities must give distribution planning data to project applicants, energizing entities and public entities in a timely way. The Public Utilities Commission must require utilities to publish uniform technical standards for connecting new load and information about their connection queue. Utilities with a federal wholesale distribution tariff must offer that service to state and local public entities.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with contact information on vending machines; it was rewritten to cover electric utility grid data and connection standards.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB284.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB294", "slug": "2023-24/SB294", "number": "SB 294", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-02", "last_action_date": "2024-08-15", "subject": "Health care coverage: independent medical review.", "introduced_subject": "Housing development projects: floor area ratios.", "title": "An act to add Sections 1368.012 and 1374.37 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Sections 10169.4 and 10169.6 to the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or disability insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days.\n This bill, commencing January 1, 2026, would require a health care service plan or a disability insurer that upholds its decision to modify, delay, or deny a health care service in response to a grievance or has a grievance that is otherwise pending or unresolved upon expiration of the relevant timeframe to automatically submit within 24 hours a decision regarding a disputed health care service to the Independent Medical Review System, as well as the information that informed its decision, if the decision is to deny, modify, or delay specified services relating to mental health or substance use disorder conditions for an enrollee or insured up to 26 years of age. The bill would require a health care service plan or disability insurer, within 24 hours after submitting its decision to the Independent Medical Review System to provide notice to the appropriate department, the enrollee or insured or their representative, if any, and the enrollee’s or insured’s provider. The bill would require the notice to include notification to the enrollee or insured that they or their representative may cancel the independent medical review at any time before a determination, as specified.\n This bill, commencing January 1, 2026, would require a health care service plan or disability insurer that provides coverage for mental health or substance use disorders to treat a modification, delay, or denial issued in response to an authorization request for coverage of treatment for a mental health or substance use disorder for an insured up to 26 years of age as if the modification, delay, or denial is also a grievance submitted by the enrollee or insured. The bill would require a plan or insurer to provide a written acknowledgment of a grievance that is automatically generated and would specify the circumstances under which that grievance is required to be submitted automatically to independent medical review.\n The bill would apply specified existing provisions relating to mental health and substance use disorders for purposes of its provisions, and would be subject to relevant provisions relating to the Independent Medical Review System that do not otherwise conflict with the express requirements of the bill. With respect to health care service plans, the bill would specify that its provisions do not apply to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts. The bill would authorize the Director of Managed Health Care and the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate regulations subject to the Administrative Procedure Act to implement and enforce the bill, and to issue interim guidance, as specified.\n 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "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. Existing law prohibits a local agency, as defined, from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 1.0 on a housing development project that consists of 3 to 7 units, or less than 1.25 on a housing development project that consists of 8 to 10 units. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a lot coverage requirement that would physically preclude a housing development project of not more than 10 units from achieving the floor area ratios described above.\n This bill would delete the 10-unit maximum for eligible projects, and would prohibit a local agency from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 2.5 on a housing development project that consists of 11 to 20 units. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 1.25 for every ten housing units, rounded to the nearest ten units, on a housing development project that consists of more than 20 units. By imposing new duties on local governments reviewing these housing development projects, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2024-05-24" }, "version_count": 5, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Rubio", "Garcia", "Pellerin", "Schiavo" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-02", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-03", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5." }, { "date": "2023-02-15", "action": "Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "Senate rules suspended." }, { "date": "2023-09-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F." }, { "date": "2023-09-14", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2023-09-14", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-01-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-01-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2024-01-04", "action": "Set for hearing January 10." }, { "date": "2024-01-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 2970.) (January 10)." }, { "date": "2024-01-11", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-01-12", "action": "Set for hearing January 16." }, { "date": "2024-01-16", "action": "January 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-01-17", "action": "Set for hearing January 18." }, { "date": "2024-01-18", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3011.) (January 18)." }, { "date": "2024-01-22", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-01-29", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 3049.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-01-29", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-04-29", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2024-05-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2024-06-05", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-06-26", "action": "June 26 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2024-07-02", "action": "July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB294", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB294", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB294", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB294", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB294" }, "headline": "Sends youth mental health denials to independent review", "one_liner": "Plans must automatically send some mental health and substance use care denials for people up to 26 to independent review.", "summary": "Starting in 2026, health plans and insurers must treat a denial, delay or change of mental health or substance use treatment for people up to age 26 as a grievance. If upheld or unresolved in time, it goes to independent medical review within 24 hours. Patients may cancel the review. Medi-Cal managed care plans are excluded.", "issues": [ "health", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with building size limits for housing projects; it was rewritten to cover independent review of youth mental health claims.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB294.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB513", "slug": "2023-24/SB513", "number": "SB 513", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-14", "last_action_date": "2024-02-01", "subject": "Incarcerated persons: mental health.", "introduced_subject": "Incarcerated persons: mental health.", "title": "An act to add Section 5068.1 to the Penal Code, relating to prisons.", "digest": "Existing law provides that the supervision, management, and control of the state prisons, and the responsibility for the care, custody, treatment, training, discipline, and employment of persons confined therein are vested in the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the secretary to provide facilities and licensed professional personnel for a psychiatric and diagnostic clinic and any such branches thereof as may be required at one or more of the state prisons or institutions under the jurisdiction of the department.\n This bill would require the department to conduct mental health treatment for state prison inmates in a manner to accomplish various goals, including providing, to the greatest extent possible, regular and consistent mental health therapy to inmates who seek it, and ensuring that an inmate is provided an introductory mental health therapy appointment within 2 weeks of the inmate requesting care. The bill would also make Legislative findings and declarations.", "introduced_digest": null, "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Introduced", "date": "2023-02-14" }, "version_count": 1, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Smallwood-Cuevas", "Jackson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-14", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-15", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17." }, { "date": "2023-02-22", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2023-03-06", "action": "Set for hearing March 28." }, { "date": "2023-03-29", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 579.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2023-04-10", "action": "April 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2023-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 18." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "May 18 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2024-02-01", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB513", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB513", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB513", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB513", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB513" }, "headline": "Requires timely mental health therapy for prisoners", "one_liner": "Prisons must offer regular therapy, as much as possible, to inmates who ask, with a first appointment within two weeks.", "summary": "The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation must provide mental health treatment that meets set goals. These include regular and consistent therapy, as much as possible, for inmates who ask for it. An inmate must get a first therapy appointment within 2 weeks of requesting care.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB513.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB610", "slug": "2023-24/SB610", "number": "SB 610", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2023-02-15", "last_action_date": "2024-08-15", "subject": "Fire prevention: wildfire mitigation area: defensible space: State Fire Marshal.", "introduced_subject": "State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: chair: report to the Legislature.", "title": "An act to amend Section 51182 of, and to amend and repeal Section 51179 of, the Government Code, and to amend Sections 4201 and 4202 of the Public Resources Code, relating to fire prevention.", "digest": "Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones and, by regulation, designate fire hazard severity zones and assign to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in the zone, as provided. Existing law describes state responsibility areas for these purposes as areas of the state in which the financial responsibility of preventing and suppressing fires has been determined by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to be primarily the responsibility of the state.\n This bill would revise and recast these provisions by, among other things, replacing the requirement that the State Fire Marshal classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones with a requirement that the State Fire Marshal, on or before an unspecified date, designate, by regulation, a wildfire mitigation area in the state, excluding federal lands. The bill would require the wildfire mitigation area to be based on fuel loading, slope, fire weather, overall fire hazard severity, and other relevant factors identified by the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection as a major cause of wildfire spread. The bill would require the State Fire Marshal to consider and incorporate, as relevant, any local ordinances that designate fire hazard severity on local lands into the wildfire mitigation area designation and provide maps on its internet website that show the new wildfire mitigation area overlaid with the preexisting state and local fire hazard severity zones.\n Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas of the state that are not state responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on specified criteria. Existing law, applicable to lands that are not state responsibility areas, requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance transmitted to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal. Existing law also requires a local agency to post a notice at the office of the county recorder, county assessor, and county planning agency identifying the location of the map provided by the State Fire Marshal.\n This bill would, upon the adoption by the State Fire Marshal of the wildfire mitigation area regulations, repeal the requirements that a local agency designate fire hazard severity zones and post a notice of the map provided by the State Fire Marshal.\n Existing law, applicable to lands that are not state responsibility areas, requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains an occupied dwelling or occupied structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered land, shrub-covered land, grass-covered land, or land that is covered with flammable material, which area or land is within a very high fire hazard severity zone designated by the local agency, to comply with specified defensible space requirements, including maintaining a defensible space of 100 feet from each side and from the front and rear of the structure, as specified.\n This bill would instead impose the above-described defensible space requirements on a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains an occupied dwelling or occupied structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered land, shrub-covered land, grass-covered land, or land that is covered with flammable material, which area or land is within a very high fire hazard area as identified by the State Fire Marshal and is not a state responsibility area.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission consisting of 5 members and establishes various duties and responsibilities of the commission relating to energy usage in the state. Existing law requires the Governor to designate a chair of the commission and requires the chair to direct the adviser, the executive director, and other staff of the commission in the performance of their duties in conformance with the policies and guidelines established by the commission.\n This bill would require the chair of the commission to appear annually before the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to report on activities of the commission, as specified.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2024-07-08" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2023-02-15", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2023-02-16", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18." }, { "date": "2023-02-22", "action": "Referred to Com. on E., U. & C." }, { "date": "2023-03-13", "action": "Set for hearing March 21." }, { "date": "2023-03-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0. Page 425.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2023-03-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 10." }, { "date": "2023-04-10", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2023-04-11", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1020.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2023-05-08", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2023-05-18", "action": "Referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2023-06-19", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2023-06-22", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96." }, { "date": "2024-06-11", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES." }, { "date": "2024-07-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1)." }, { "date": "2024-07-08", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB610", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB610", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB610", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB610", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB610" }, "headline": "Creates a state wildfire mitigation area", "one_liner": "Requires the State Fire Marshal to designate a wildfire mitigation area in place of fire hazard severity zones.", "summary": "The State Fire Marshal must designate a wildfire mitigation area, excluding federal lands, based on fuel, slope, fire weather and other factors. Online maps must show it over existing fire hazard zones. Local agencies would no longer designate fire hazard severity zones. Defensible space rules apply in very high fire hazard areas the Fire Marshal identifies outside state responsibility areas.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB610.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB912", "slug": "2023-24/SB912", "number": "SB 912", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-08", "last_action_date": "2024-05-16", "subject": "Colorimetric field drug tests.", "introduced_subject": "Colorimetric field drug tests.", "title": "An act to add Section 13677 to the Penal Code, relating to criminal procedure.", "digest": "Existing law prohibits the possession of certain controlled substances. The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-in-Evidence, which requires a 2/3 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified.\n This bill 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, by a prosecutor as evidence against a defendant in an arraignment or preliminary hearing, 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law prohibits the possession of certain controlled substances. The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-in-Evidence, which requires a 2/3 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified.\n This bill 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.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2024-02-29" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-08", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-09", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2024-02-23", "action": "Set for hearing March 12." }, { "date": "2024-02-28", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2024-02-29", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2024-03-12", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3283.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-03-28", "action": "Set for hearing April 8." }, { "date": "2024-04-08", "action": "April 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB912", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB912", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB912", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB912", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB912" }, "headline": "Limits use of unconfirmed field drug tests", "one_liner": "Police, prosecutors and courts cannot rely on color-changing field drug tests unless a crime lab confirms results.", "summary": "Unless a crime lab confirms a drug is present, police cannot use colorimetric field drug tests to justify an arrest. Prosecutors cannot use them to charge or as evidence at early hearings, and courts cannot use them to convict or sentence. People who pleaded guilty may withdraw the plea if a lab finds no drug. Defendants may request lab testing.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice", "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB912.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB925", "slug": "2023-24/SB925", "number": "SB 925", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-01-11", "last_action_date": "2024-08-15", "subject": "City and County of San Francisco: merchandising sales.", "introduced_subject": "San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: transportation improvements.", "title": "An act to amend Section 51037 of the Government Code, and to add and repeal Section 496f of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.", "digest": "Under existing law, knowingly buying or receiving stolen property or property that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, as specified, is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony if the value of the property exceeds $950. Existing law authorizes a local authority to, by ordinance or resolution, adopt requirements regulating the time, place, and manner of sidewalk vending if the requirements are directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns. Existing law prohibits a local authority from regulating sidewalk vendors, except in accordance with certain provisions.\n This bill, until January 1, 2030, would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the sale of specified merchandise on public property without a permit, if the ordinance includes specified written findings, including, among other things, that there has been a significant pattern of merchandise being the subject of retail theft and then appearing for sale on public property within the City and County of San Francisco. The bill would require an ordinance adopted by the City and County of San Francisco to, among other things, identify a local permitting agency that is responsible for administering a permit system. The bill would authorize the ordinance to provide that selling merchandise without a permit is punishable as an infraction, and that subsequent violations after 2 prior convictions is an infraction or a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 6 months. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n This bill would require, if an ordinance is adopted, the City and County of San Francisco to submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2029, that includes specified information, including, among other things, the list or lists of merchandise that the City and County of San Francisco determined was a common target of retail theft. The bill would require the City and County of San Francisco to administer a public information campaign for at least 30 calendar days prior to the enactment of the ordinance, including public announcements in major media outlets and press releases.\n This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing 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. Existing law creates various transit districts located in the San Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services.\n 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 transportation system, as well as other transportation improvements.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2024-06-26" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in committee", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Penal Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Haney" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-01-11", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-01-12", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-04-03", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2024-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2024-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 3721.) (April 23)." }, { "date": "2024-04-24", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar." }, { "date": "2024-05-02", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3829.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-02", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and PUB. S." }, { "date": "2024-06-03", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2024-06-26", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2024-06-26", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S." }, { "date": "2024-07-03", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-08-07", "action": "August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-08-15", "action": "August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB925", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB925", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB925", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB925", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB925" }, "headline": "Lets San Francisco require permits for some sales", "one_liner": "Lets San Francisco require permits to sell commonly stolen merchandise on public property until 2030.", "summary": "Until 2030, San Francisco may pass an ordinance banning sales of certain merchandise on public property without a permit. The city must first find a pattern of stolen goods being resold there. Violations can be infractions, or misdemeanors after 2 prior convictions. The city must run a 30-day public information campaign and report to the Legislature by 2029.", "issues": [ "criminal_justice", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with a Bay Area transportation revenue measure; it was rewritten to cover permits for selling merchandise in San Francisco.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB925.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB1012", "slug": "2023-24/SB1012", "number": "SB 1012", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-02-05", "last_action_date": "2024-05-16", "subject": "The Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act and the Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Act.", "introduced_subject": "The Regulated Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Act and the Regulated Psychedelic Substances Control Act.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 101 and 729 of, to add Chapter 7.1 (commencing with Section 3200) to Division 2 of, and to add Division 11 (commencing with Section 27000) to, the Business and Professions Code, to add Section 1550.6 to the Civil Code, and to amend Sections 11350, 11351, 11352, 11364.7, 11377, 11378, 11379, 11390, and 11391 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.", "digest": "(1)Existing law provides for the regulation of various professions and vocations by boards established under the jurisdiction of the Department of Consumer Affairs in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules, and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Existing law classifies dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), ibogaine, psilocybin, and psilocyn as Schedule I substances, and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their sale, possession, transportation, manufacture, or cultivation.\n (2)This bill would enact the Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act, which would establish the Board of Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators in the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate psychedelic facilitators, as defined. The bill would require the board to be appointed, as specified, by April 1, 2025. The bill would require the board to establish educational, training, and other qualifications and requirements for obtaining a license as a regulated psychedelic facilitator and would establish conditions of licensure. The bill would require the board to establish fees for the reasonable regulatory costs to the board to administer the act. The bill would require the board to begin accepting license applications by April 1, 2026. The bill would make a license subject to renewal every 2 years. The bill would create the Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Fund in the State Treasury, would require all funds received pursuant to the act to be credited to the fund, and would make moneys in the fund available to the board for the act’s purposes upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require the board, consistent with recommendations made by the Regulated Psychedelic Substances Advisory Committee, which would be created by the bill, to adopt regulations, on or before January 1, 2026, governing the safe provision of regulated psychedelic facilitation, including regulations governing the scope of practice for regulated psychedelic facilitators and recordkeeping requirements, provided the recordkeeping does not result in the disclosure of personally identifiable information of participants. The bill would require the board to determine which schools and programs meet the requirements of the act and to adopt regulations governing the requirements and process for approving schools and programs related to the provision of psychedelic facilitation training. The bill would authorize the board to charge a reasonable fee for the inspection or approval of schools or programs. The bill would make a violation of the act a misdemeanor and subject a licenseholder’s license to suspension or revocation. The bill would make a violation of specified acts subject to discipline or denial of a license by the board in accordance with specified procedures. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make specified practices unfair business practices, including a person without a license holding themselves out as a regulated psychedelic facilitator. The bill would authorize a local government to reasonably regulate the time, place, and manner of regulated psychedelic facilitation within its boundaries.\n (3)This bill would enact the Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Act to establish a comprehensive system to control and regulate the production, distribution, transportation, storage, processing, manufacturing, testing, quality control, and sale of regulated psychedelic substances for use in conjunction with psychedelic facilitation, as defined, the provision of psychedelic facilitation, the approval of locations where regulated psychedelic facilitation may take place, and the collection and publication of data on the implementation and outcomes of the act. The bill would define “regulated psychedelic substances” to include dimethyltryptamine; mescaline; 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA); psilocybin; psilocyn; and spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms that contain psilocybin or psilocyn. The bill would establish the Division of Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, to be under the supervision and control of a director appointed by the Governor, in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer and enforce the act. The bill would require the division to take specified actions to carry out its duties under the act, including conducting investigations and employing peace officers. The bill would grant to specified personnel the authority of peace officers while engaged in investigating the laws administered by the division or commencing criminal prosecution arising from investigations, as specified. The bill would require the division, no later than April 1, 2025, to convene a Regulated Psychedelic Substances Expert Oversight Committee, to be appointed by the Governor, to advise the division and the Board of Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators on the development of standards and regulations that include best practices and guidelines that protect public health and safety. The bill would require the oversight committee, commencing on January 1, 2026, to publish an annual public report that includes, among other things, the oversight committee’s recommendations to the division and the board and whether those recommendations were implemented. The bill would require the division to adopt regulations, consistent with the recommendations of the oversight committee, for the administration and enforcement of laws regulating regulated psychedelic substances and services, including regulations that establish categories of licensure and registration. The bill would require the division, no later than April 1, 2026, to begin to accept and process applications for licensure. The bill would authorize the division to collect fees in connection with activities it regulates. The bill would create the Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Fund within the State Treasury, and would allocate the funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the division for the purposes of implementing, administering, and enforcing the act. The bill would also create the Psychedelic Substances Public Education and Harm Reduction Fund, to be available to the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to award grants for public education and harm reduction relating to psychedelic substances. The bill would authorize the division to accept moneys from private sources to supplement state funds, which may be appropriated by the Legislature to the fund. The bill would make a violation of the act a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the division to work with state and local enforcement agencies to implement, administer, and enforce the division’s rules and regulations.\n (4)Existing law provides that a physician and surgeon, psychotherapist, or alcohol and drug abuse counselor who engages in specified sexual conduct with a patient or client or certain former patients or clients is guilty of sexual exploitation and prescribes specified criminal penalties for acts of sexual exploitation.\n This bill would make those provisions applicable to registered psychedelic facilitators. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (5)This bill would declare that it is the public policy of the people of the State of California that contracts related to the operation of licenses under the Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act and the Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Act shall be enforceable.\n (6)This bill would make conforming changes to the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act.\n (7)This bill would state that its provisions are severable.\n (8)This bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n (9)Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.\n (10)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law provides for the regulation of various professions and vocations by boards established under the jurisdiction of the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules, and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Existing law classifies dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), ibogaine, psilocybin, and psilocyn as Schedule I substances, and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their sale, possession, transportation, manufacture, or cultivation.\n (2)This bill would enact the Regulated Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Act, which would establish the Board of Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators in the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate psychedelic-assisted therapy facilitators, as defined. The bill would require the board to be appointed, as specified, by April 1, 2025. The bill would require the board to establish education, training, and other qualifications and requirements for obtaining a license as a regulated psychedelic-assisted therapy facilitator and would establish conditions of licensure. The bill would require the board to establish license fees for the reasonable regulatory costs to the board to administer the act. The bill would require the board to begin accepting license applications by April 1, 2026. The bill would make a license subject to renewal every 2 years. The bill would create the Regulated Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Fund in the State Treasury, would require all funds received pursuant to the act to be credited to the fund, and would make moneys in the fund available to the board for the act’s purposes upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require the board, in consultation with the Regulated Psychedelic Substances Advisory Committee, which would be created by the bill, to adopt regulations, on or before January 1, 2026, governing the safe provision of regulated psychedelic-assisted therapy, including regulations governing the scope of practice for regulated psychedelic-assisted therapy facilitators and recordkeeping requirements, provided the recordkeeping does not result in the disclosure of personally identifiable information of participants. The bill would require the board to determine which schools and programs meet the requirements of the act and to adopt regulations governing the requirements and process for approving schools and programs related to the provision of regulated psychedelic-assisted therapy. The bill would authorize the board to charge a reasonable fee for the inspection or approval of schools or programs. The bill would make a violation of the act a misdemeanor and subject a licenseholder’s license to suspension for 3 years and a $1,000 fine. The bill would make a violation of specified acts subject to discipline by the board in accordance with specified procedures. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make specified practices unfair business practices, including a person without a license holding themselves out as a licensed psychedelic-assisted therapy facilitator. The bill would prohibit a local government from enacting or enforcing an ordinance that conflicts with the act.\n (3)This bill would enact the Regulated Psychedelic Substances Control Act to establish a comprehensive system to control and regulate the cultivation, distribution, transportation, storage, processing, manufacturing, testing, quality control, and sale of regulated psychedelic substances for use in conjunction with regulated psychedelic-assisted therapy. The bill would define “regulated psychedelic substances” to include dimethyltryptamine; mescaline; 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA); psilocybin; psilocyn; and spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms that contain psilocybin or psilocyn. The bill would establish the Division of Regulated Psychedelic Substances Control in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer and enforce the act. The bill would require the division to adopt emergency regulations and to take other actions to carry out its duties under the act, including conducting investigations and employing peace officers. The bill would require the division, no later than April 1, 2025, to convene a Regulated Psychedelic Substances Advisory Committee to advise the division and the Board of Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators on the development of standards and regulations that include best practices and guidelines that protect public health and safety. The bill would require the advisory committee, commencing on January 1, 2026, to publish an annual public report that includes, among other things, the advisory committee’s recommendations to the division and whether those recommendations were implemented. The bill would require the division to adopt regulations for the administration and enforcement of laws regulating regulated psychedelic substances and services, including regulations that, among other things, establish categories of licensure and registration, establish requirements governing the safe provision of regulated psychedelic substances to participants, and that establish requirements governing the licensing and operation of psychedelic therapy centers and approved locations, as defined. The bill would require the division, no later than April 1, 2026, to begin to accept and process applications for licensure. The bill would create the Regulated Psychedelic Substances Control Fund within the State Treasury, and would allocate the funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the division for the purposes of implementing, administering, and enforcing the act. The bill would also create the Regulated Psychedelic Substances Education and Harm Reduction Fund, to be available to the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to award grants for public education and harm reduction relating to psychedelic substances. The bill would authorize the division to accept moneys from private sources to supplement state funds, which may be appropriated by the Legislature to the fund. The bill would make a violation of the act a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of up to $1,000 and forfeiture of a license granted under the act for 3 years. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the division to work with state and local enforcement agencies to implement, administer, and enforce the division’s rules and regulations.\n (4)This bill would declare that it is the public policy of the people of the State of California that contracts related to the operation of licenses under the Regulated Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Act and the Regulated Psychedelic Substances Control Act shall be enforceable.\n (5)This bill would make conforming changes to the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act.\n (6)This bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n (7)This bill would state that its provisions are severable.\n (8)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n (9)Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.\n This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2024-03-20" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code", "Civil Code", "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Lowenthal", "Waldron" ], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Bradford", "Dodd", "Skinner", "Bryan", "Haney", "Jackson", "Kalra", "Lee", "Rendon", "Wilson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-02-05", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-02-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E. D. and PUB S." }, { "date": "2024-03-20", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D." }, { "date": "2024-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 15." }, { "date": "2024-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 23 in PUB S. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2024-04-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. (Ayes 7. Noes 4. Page 3605.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S." }, { "date": "2024-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2. Page 3730.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2024-05-02", "action": "May 6 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2024-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2024-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1012", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1012", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1012", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1012", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1012" }, "headline": "Creates a regulated system for psychedelic-assisted therapy", "one_liner": "Creates state licenses for psychedelic facilitators and a regulated system for supervised use of certain psychedelic substances.", "summary": "Creates a state board to license psychedelic facilitators and a state division to license and regulate the production and sale of certain psychedelics, including psilocybin, MDMA, DMT and mescaline, for supervised use. Expert committees would advise on safety rules. Creates a fund for public education and harm reduction grants. Violations would be misdemeanors.", "issues": [ "mental_health_drugs" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB1012.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB1031", "slug": "2023-24/SB1031", "number": "SB 1031", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-02-06", "last_action_date": "2024-05-24", "subject": "San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: transportation improvements.", "introduced_subject": "Legislative review of state agency action.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 65081 and 66516 of, to add Sections 13978.9 and 65080.7 to, to add the heading of Division 1 (commencing with Section 66500) to Title 7.1 of, and to add Division 2 (commencing with Section 66538) to Title 7.1 of, the Government Code, to add Section 976.9 to the Unemployment Insurance Code, and to add Section 9250.3 to the Vehicle Code, relating to transportation.", "digest": "(1)Existing 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. Existing law creates various transit districts located in the San Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services. \n This bill would authorize the commission to raise and allocate new revenue and incur and issue bonds and other indebtedness, as specified. In this regard, the bill would authorize the commission, until January 1, 2041, to impose a retail transactions and use tax, a regional payroll tax, a parcel tax, and a regional vehicle registration surcharge in all or a subset of the 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay area, except as specified, in accordance with applicable constitutional requirements. The bill would prohibit a tax or surcharge described above from being imposed for a period of time of more than 30 years. The bill would require the parcel tax to be collected by counties and the other 3 taxes to be collected by specified state agencies, and would require the net revenues from those taxes to be remitted to the commission, as prescribed. The bill would require the commission, in consultation with county transportation authorities, to develop an expenditure plan for the expenditure of the revenues expected to be generated by the tax or surcharge, together with other federal, state, and local funds expected to be available for transportation improvements, as specified. The bill would require, before the election on the tax or surcharge, the expenditure plan to be approved by county transportation authorities representing counties meeting certain criteria, as provided. The bill would require the revenue generated pursuant to these provisions to be used for transportation improvements in the San Francisco Bay area, including for various transit purposes, and would require the commission to allocate those revenues in accordance with specified requirements. \n By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to elections procedures for revenue measures on behalf of the commission, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n (2)Existing 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. \n This bill would require the Transportation Agency to select a transportation institute, as defined, to conduct an assessment that analyzes the benefits and disbenefits to riders, and the administrative, financial, legal, contractual, and governance feasibility, of various forms of consolidation and enhanced coordination, as defined, among transit agencies, as defined, that are located in the 9-county San Francisco Bay area. The bill would require that assessment to be completed on or before January 1, 2026, and would require, as part of that assessment, the transportation institute to identify specified information about each transit agency and to consider certain topics relating to consolidation and enhanced coordination. Based on the findings of the assessment, the bill would require the Transportation Agency, on or before January 1, 2027, to develop a report of recommendations that, among other things, identifies opportunities for the consolidation or enhanced coordination, or both, of 2 or more agencies and provides specific recommendations for the consolidation or enhanced coordination of transit agencies and their governing bodies without resulting in the elimination of programs and transportation services, as specified. The bill would establish the Bay Area Transit Consolidation and Coordination Technical Assistance Fund in the State Treasury for the deposit of moneys that can be used for specified purposes, including paying for the cost of conducting the assessment and preparing the report, as specified. The bill would require the assessment and the report to be submitted to the Legislature upon completion. \n (3)Existing law requires the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to adopt rules and regulations to promote the coordination of fares and schedules for all public transit systems within its jurisdiction, as specified.\n This bill would revise and recast this provision by, among other things, providing that the commission is responsible for implementing a seamless transit rider experience across the San Francisco Bay area and requiring those rules and regulations to also promote the coordination of mapping and wayfinding, real-time transit information, and other customer-facing operating policies, as specified. The bill would also declare that it is the intent of the Legislature that the commission implement and sustain specified outcomes in undertaking these responsibilities. The bill would require the commission to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the status of those outcomes and the status of transit ridership in the San Francisco Bay area. By imposing additional duties on the commission, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. \n (4)Under existing law, a transit operator within the jurisdiction of the commission is not eligible to receive funding allocated by the commission pursuant to the State Transit Assistance Program unless it has complied with the above-described rules and regulations adopted by the commission.\n This bill would also make a transit operator ineligible to receive an allocation from the commission of specified revenues generated by the new taxing authority authorized by the bill if the operator is not in compliance with those rules and regulations. \n (5)Existing law requires designated transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires that each regional transportation plan include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region for 2020 and 2035, respectively. Existing law also requires a regional transportation plan to include a financial element that summarizes the cost of plan implementation constrained by a realistic projection of available revenues and that contains recommendations for allocation of funds.\n This bill would require the commission, on or before April 1, 2025, to amend or update its regional transportation plan to include a specified project operated by the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District within the transportation network identified in the sustainable communities strategy and within the financial element. By imposing additional duties on a local agency, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.\n (6)Existing law authorizes the commission and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to jointly adopt a commute benefit ordinance that requires covered employers operating within the common area of the 2 agencies with a specified number of covered employees to offer those employees certain commute benefits, as specified.\n This bill would also authorize one of those commute benefit options to include an employer-provided regional transit pass.\n This bill would authorize the commission, as part of a measure to impose a tax described above, to propose a ballot measure that would require a covered employer that is located in proximity to transit to purchase a regional transit pass for each of its employees and to require a covered employer that is not located in proximity to transit to provide a subsidy to each of its employees corresponding in financial value to the regional transit pass, as specified. If the ballot measure is approved by the voters, the bill would require the commission and the district to update the ordinance accordingly. \n (7)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law requires a state agency, as specified, to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee not less than 60 days prior to the effective date on which the state agency will establish or change a federal aid allocation formula to a local agency. If the chairman of the committee informs committee members of his intention to waive the 60-day notification period, existing law permits the chairman to grant a waiver of that notification period after receipt of the notification. Under existing law, upon the request of the chairman or any member of the committee, the committee must schedule a hearing on the proposed allocation formula to be established or changed.\n This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions to use gender-neutral language.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2024-05-20" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Unemployment Insurance Code", "Vehicle Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Wahab" ], "principal_coauthors": [ "Ting" ], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-02-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-02-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8." }, { "date": "2024-02-14", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-03-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2024-04-03", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2024-04-11", "action": "Set for hearing April 23." }, { "date": "2024-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 24 in REV. & TAX. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2024-04-16", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2024-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 11. Noes 4. Page 3732.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2024-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 3758.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-05-03", "action": "Set for hearing May 13." }, { "date": "2024-05-13", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-05-13", "action": "May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-14", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3968.) (May 16)." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Read third time and amended." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-20", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2024-05-24", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 4207.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2024-05-24", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031" }, "headline": "Allows Bay Area regional taxes for transportation", "one_liner": "Lets the Bay Area's regional transportation commission seek voter-approved taxes for transportation and requires a study of transit agency consolidation.", "summary": "Allows the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to ask Bay Area voters to approve a sales, payroll, parcel or vehicle registration tax for transportation, until 2041. Requires a state-selected institute to study consolidating or better coordinating Bay Area transit agencies. Makes the commission responsible for coordinating fares, maps and real-time information across transit systems.", "issues": [ "transportation", "san_francisco" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with gender-neutral wording in a state funding notice law; it was rewritten to cover Bay Area transit funding and coordination.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2023-24/SB1031.html" }, { "id": "202320240SB1227", "slug": "2023-24/SB1227", "number": "SB 1227", "session": "2023-24", "session_label": "2023-24", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2024-02-15", "last_action_date": "2024-05-16", "subject": "Real property development: San Francisco: downtown revitalization zone: welfare tax exemption and California Environmental Quality Act exemption and streamlining.", "introduced_subject": "Housing: San Francisco: downtown revitalization zone: welfare tax and California Environmental Quality Act exemptions.", "title": "An act to add and repeal Section 21080.59 of, and to add and repeal Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 21189.100) of Division 13 of, the Public Resources Code, and to amend Section 214 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to real property development.", "digest": "(1)The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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. \n This bill would, until January 1, 2032, exempt from the requirements of CEQA development projects, as defined, meeting certain requirements occurring within the downtown revitalization zone, as defined, in the City and County of San Francisco. The bill would require the prime contractor and subcontractors on the development project to provide an affidavit under the penalty of perjury regarding the use of skilled and trained workforce on the development project, as provided. Because the bill would expand the crime of perjury and would increase the duties of the lead agency by requiring it to determine the applicability of the exemption for projects located in the City and County of San Francisco, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021 (Leadership Act) authorizes the Governor, before January 1, 2032, to certify projects that meet specified requirements for streamlining benefits related to CEQA, including the requirement that judicial actions challenging the action of a lead agency for projects certified by the Governor be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 270 days after the filing of the record of proceedings with the court, and a requirement that the applicant agrees to pay the costs of preparing the record of proceedings for the project concurrent with review and consideration of the project, as specified. The Leadership Act provides that if a lead agency fails to approve a project certified by the Governor before January 1, 2033, the certification is no longer valid. The Leadership Act provides that it is repealed on January 1, 2034.\n This bill would authorize the Governor to certify projects located in the downtown revitalization zone in the City and County of San Francisco that are not exempt from CEQA pursuant to the above provisions and that meet certain requirements for streamlining benefits related to CEQA, including the requirement that judicial actions challenging the action of a lead agency for projects certified by the Governor be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 270 days after the filing of the record of proceedings with the court, and a requirement that the applicant agrees to pay the costs of preparing the record of proceedings for the project concurrent with review and consideration of the project, as specified. The bill would specify that the certification of the project is voided if the lead agency, in approving the project, adopts a statement of overriding consideration for environmental impacts identified in the EIR that cannot be avoided or mitigated to less than significant. The bill would provide that if a lead agency fails to approve a project certified by the Governor before January 1, 2031, the certification is no longer valid. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032. By increasing the duties of a lead agency in its implementation of CEQA, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Existing property tax law, in accordance with the California Constitution, provides for a “welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met.\n This bill would provide, for lien dates occurring on or after January 1, 2025, that property is within that welfare exemption and is entitled to a partial exemption equal to the percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving moderate-income households represents of the total number of residential units, if the property is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities, is owned and operated by specified entities, and certain conditions are met. The bill would require, as part of those conditions, the owner of the property to certify, under penalty of perjury, specified information, the property to be located within the downtown revitalization zone of the City and County of San Francisco, as defined, and the owner of the property to claim the exemption within 5 years following the issuance of the first building permit for residential units on the property.\n (3)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.\n (4)By expanding the crime of perjury, imposing additional duties on local tax officials, and increasing the duties of the lead agency by requiring it to determine the applicability of the CEQA exemption for projects located in the City and County of San Francisco, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n (5)Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation.\n This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill.", "introduced_digest": "(1)The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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. \n This bill would, until January 1, 2035, exempt from the requirements of CEQA development projects, as defined, meeting certain requirements occurring within a specified area in the City and County of San Francisco. The bill would require the prime contractor and subcontractors on the development project to provide an affidavit under the penalty of perjury regarding the use of skilled and trained workforce on the development project, as provided. Because the bill would expand the crime of perjury and would increase the duties of the lead agency by requiring it to determine the applicability of the exemption for projects located in the City and County of San Francisco, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n (2)Existing property tax law, in accordance with the California Constitution, provides for a “welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met.\n This bill would provide, for lien dates occurring on or after January 1, 2025, that property is within that welfare exemption and is entitled to a partial exemption equal to the percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving moderate-income households represents of the total number of residential units, if the property is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities, is owned and operated by specified entities, and certain conditions are met. The bill would require, as part of those conditions, the owner of the property to certify, under penalty of perjury, specified information, the property to be located within the downtown revitalization zone of the City and County of San Francisco, as defined, and the owner of the property to claim the exemption within 5 years following the issuance of the first building permit for residential units on the property.\n (3)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.\n (4)By expanding the crime of perjury, imposing additional duties on local tax officials, and increasing the duties of the lead agency by requiring it to determine the applicability of the CEQA exemption for projects located in the City and County of San Francisco, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n (5)Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation.\n This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2024-04-18" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code", "Revenue and Taxation Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2024-02-15", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2024-02-16", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17." }, { "date": "2024-02-29", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2024-03-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 3." }, { "date": "2024-04-02", "action": "April 3 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2024-04-05", "action": "Set for hearing April 17." }, { "date": "2024-04-12", "action": "Set for hearing April 24 in REV. & TAX. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2024-04-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3661.) (April 17)." }, { "date": "2024-04-18", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2024-04-24", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 3759.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2024-04-26", "action": "Set for hearing May 6." }, { "date": "2024-05-06", "action": "May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file." }, { "date": "2024-05-10", "action": "Set for hearing May 16." }, { "date": "2024-05-16", "action": "May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1227", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1227", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1227", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1227", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1227" }, "headline": "Exempts downtown San Francisco projects from environmental review", "one_liner": "Certain development projects in downtown San Francisco would skip California's environmental review law (CEQA) until 2032.", "summary": "Until 2032, exempts qualifying development projects in San Francisco's downtown revitalization zone from California's environmental review law (CEQA). Builders must swear they use a skilled and trained workforce. Lets the Governor certify other downtown projects for streamlined CEQA review. 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8570-491, 8660-495, 8860-001-0001, 8940-001-0001, 9210-110-0001, 9800-001-0001, 9800-001-0494, and 9800-001-0988 of, repealing Items 0509-495, 3900-102-0115, 4140-001-3447, 6120-211-0890, and 7120-101-3078 of, and adding Items 0509-101-0001, 0509-102-0001, 0511-002-0001, 0540-003-6093, 0540-103-0001, 0559-002-0001, 0680-101-0001, 0690-005-0001, 0690-104-0001, 0690-490, 0845-002-0001, 0954-490, 0977-401, 2240-107-0001, 2240-120-0001, 2660-101-0001, 2720-002-0044, 3100-490, 3125-001-6093, 3540-101-0001, 3600-002-0001, 3760-001-6093, 3790-003-0392, 3790-009-6093, 3790-012-0001, 3790-301-0001, 3810-002-6093, 3810-101-0001, 3825-002-6093, 3845-001-6093, 3855-002-6093, 3860-005-6093, 3900-011-3228, 3900-101-0001, 3940-102-0001, 3970-101-0001, 4140-491, 4265-012-0001, 4265-112-0001, 4265-401, 4265-493, 5227-105-0001, 6100-222-0001, 6120-490, 6125-490, 6980-495, 7730-490, 7760-101-0001, 8955-101-3313, and 8955-112-0001 to, Section 2.00 of, amending Sections 4.05, 4.12, 11.25, 12.32, 13.30, 13.40, 35.50, 39.00, 90.00, and 99.50 of, repealing Section 19.80 of, and adding Sections 3.90, 19.56, 19.57, 28.30, 28.31, and 37.00 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.", "digest": "The Budget Act of 2025 would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2025–26 fiscal year.\n This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2025 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes.\n This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.", "introduced_digest": "This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2025.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2025-06-24" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, 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Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-01-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23." }, { "date": "2025-02-05", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. & F. R." }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 384.)" }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-03-18", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-03-20", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 431.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-03-20", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-03-24", "action": "Referred to Com. on BUDGET." }, { "date": "2025-07-14", "action": "Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-07-14", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. 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Page 2529.)" }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET pursuant to Assembly Rule 97." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB104", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB104", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB104", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB104", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB104" }, "headline": "Amends the 2025 state budget", "one_liner": "Changes spending items in the 2025–26 state budget and takes effect immediately.", "summary": "Amends the Budget Act of 2025 by changing, adding, and removing spending items and making other changes. It takes effect immediately as a budget bill.", "issues": [ "budget" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB104.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB282", "slug": "2025-26/SB282", "number": "SB 282", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-05", "last_action_date": "2026-02-02", "subject": "Residential heat pump systems: water heaters and HVAC: installations.", "introduced_subject": "Residential heat pump systems: water heaters and HVAC: installations.", "title": "An act to add Section 4737 to the Civil Code, and to add Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 51297.50) to Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code, relating to housing.", "digest": "(1)Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and prescribes the authorities, duties, and responsibilities of the commission pertaining to energy matters. Existing law requires the commission, on or before January 1, 2019, in consultation with the Contractors State License Board, local building officials, and other stakeholders, to approve a plan that promotes compliance with specified regulations relating to building energy efficiency standards in the installation of central air-conditioning and heat pumps, as specified. Existing law authorizes the commission to adopt regulations to increase compliance with permitting and inspection requirements for central air-conditioning and heat pumps, and associated sales and installations, consistent with the above-described plan.\n\n The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to adopt and offer asynchronous inspections for installations of residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC systems, as defined, that do not require a licensed contractor and building inspector to be simultaneously present during the inspection. The bill would authorize a building inspector to contact the licensed contractor who performed the installation by telephone call or real-time video conferencing during their inspection, and, if the building inspector determines during an asynchronous inspection that there is an issue with an installation of the heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system and that the licensed contractor who performed the installation must be present to perform tests or cure the installation, to require the licensed contractor who performed the installation to schedule an additional inspection in which the building inspector and the licensed contractor who performed the installation are required to be simultaneously present during the additional inspection. The bill would specify that these provisions do not require a local entity described above to discontinue offering inspections for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system that require a building inspector and licensed contractor to be simultaneously present.\n The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county, except as specified, to issue up to one nondiscretionary permit per installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system in which the local entity administratively approves an application to install the residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system.\n The bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to apply only certain additional building, planning or zoning, or workforce labor standards on the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or residential heat pump HVAC system, including additional standards that conform to local laws, including reach codes, designed to encourage the adoption of zero-emission equipment or improvement of building efficiency. The bill would prohibit a local entity described above from requiring a permit or inspection for plug-in ready window air-conditioner or window heat pump HVAC systems, provided that certain requirements are met, including that the appliance has a voltage rating of 120 volts or less and the appliance is a self-contained unit.\n The bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2026, to develop standardized permitting checklists, as prescribed, for local governments to use in the permitting process for installations of residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC systems, as specified, subject to certain requirements, including that the standardized permitting checklists do not exceed 2 pages in length. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county, on or before July 1, 2027, to implement an online automated permitting process that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time within the same day of the application being submitted to a licensed contractor for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or residential heat pump HVAC system. The bill would require a permit to be issued pursuant to the automated permitting process, upon discretion of the administering jurisdiction, if the installation complies with the checklist requirements. The bill would require the local entity to publish and make publicly available, among other things, checklists on their internet website. The bill would require the local entity to allow an applicant to, among other things, submit an automated permit application and associated documentation electronically. The bill would, upon confirmation by the local entity that the application and supporting documents are complete and meet the checklist requirements, require the local entity to approve the application and issue all required permits or authorizations. The bill would, upon receipt of an incomplete application, require the local entity to issue a written correction notice, as specified. The bill would exempt from these requirements a city with a population of fewer than 5,000 persons or a county with a population of fewer than 150,000 persons, as specified.\n The bill would, except as provided, prohibit a city, county, or city and county from charging a permit fee for a residential heat pump water heater and heat pump HVAC system that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, subject to specified requirements, including that the permit fee for a residential heat pump water heater system does not exceed $50. The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a local entity described above to charge a permit fee for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system that exceeds the above-described fee limit, as specified, if the local entity, as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit, and would prohibit a local entity described above from applying additional charges above the advertised fee schedule.\n The bill would include findings and declarations related to these provisions.\n (2)Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments. Among other things, the act makes a provision of the governing documents, as defined, or architectural or landscaping guidelines or policies void and unenforceable if, among other things, the provision prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of prohibiting, the use of low water-using plants as a group or as a replacement of existing turf.\n This bill would additionally make any provision of the governing documents, architectural guidelines, or policies void and unenforceable if the provision prevents the replacement of a fuel-gas-burning appliance with an electric appliance. The bill would also make any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any, among other specified agreements, deed, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system, void and unenforceable.\n (3)The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n (4)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "introduced_digest": "(1)Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and prescribes the authorities, duties, and responsibilities of the commission pertaining to energy matters. Existing law requires the commission, on or before January 1, 2019, in consultation with the Contractors State License Board, local building officials, and other stakeholders, to approve a plan that promotes compliance with specified regulations relating to building energy efficiency standards in the installation of central air conditioning and heat pumps, as specified. Existing law authorizes the commission to adopt regulations to increase compliance with permitting and inspection requirements for central air conditioning and heat pumps, and associated sales and installations, consistent with the above-described plan.\n This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2027, to establish a statewide certification program for licensed contractors of residential heat pump water heaters and heat pump heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to obtain a heat pump installation certification, and would require the commission to create a state training program, as described, on residential heat pump water heaters and heat pump HVAC systems for purposes of the certification program, as specified.\n The bill would authorize a licensed contract to obtain a heat pump installation certification through the above-described program by completing specified tasks, including completion of the state training program described above. The bill would authorize a licensed contractor with a heat pump system installation certification described above to self-certify that the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system meets all relevant code requirements without any requirement that an inspector be present for the installation, and would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county to accept the certification for those purposes, as specified. The bill would require a local entity described above to adopt and offer one or more alternative inspection options that do not require a licensed contractor and an inspector to be simultaneously present during the installation of a heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system, to be available to licensed contractors who do not have a certification described above. The bill, notwithstanding any local law to the contrary, would also authorize a licensed contractor who successfully completes a specified number of heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system in-person inspections of installations that did not require any cures to use an above-described alternative inspection option, and would require the local jurisdiction to accept the alternative inspection option for those purposes, as specified. The bill would require the local entity, if the local entity has an internet website, to publish all requirements for contractors to obtain the above-described certification, or to complete inspections without a certification pursuant to the above-described alternative inspection option.\n The bill would authorize a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, except as specified, to issue up to one nondiscretionary permit per installation of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system in which the local entity administratively approves an application to install the residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system and the application is subject to a limited review.\n The bill would prohibit a local entity described above from applying additional standards on the installation of residential heat pump water heater or residential heat pump HVAC systems as specified, and would require those standards to be null and void, except as specified. The bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, authorize additional standards to be applied that conform to local laws designed to require the adoption of zero-emission equipment, or improvement of building efficiency. The bill would prohibit a local entity from requiring a permit or inspection for any low voltage plug-in appliance, as defined.\n The bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, on or before July 1, 2027, and except as specified, to implement an online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time, or allows the local entity to issue permits in real time, to a licensed contractor for the installation of a residential heat pump water heater or residential heat pump HVAC system. The bill would require a permit to be issued, upon discretion of the administering jurisdiction, if the installation complies with specified checklist requirements. The bill would require a local entity described above to report to the commission when it implements the above-described automated permitting platform. The bill would require an above-described local entity, in developing the above-described automated permitting process, to create the checklist described above of all requirements for a residential heat pump water heater or residential HVAC system to be eligible for the above-described expedited review, and, if the local entity has an internet website, publish and make publicly available, among other things, that checklist on their internet website. The bill would, upon confirmation by the local entity that the application and supporting documents are complete and meets specified requirements, deem the application complete and require the local entity to approve the application and issue all required permits or authorizations. The bill would, upon receipt of an incomplete application, require the local entity to issue a written correction notice, as specified.\n The bill would, except as specified, prohibit a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county from charging a residential permit fee for heat pump water heaters and heat pump HVAC systems that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, subject to specified requirements, including that the residential permit fee for a heat pump water heater system does not exceed $50. The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a local entity described above to charge a residential permit fee for the installation of a heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system that exceeds the above-described fee limit, as specified, if the local entity, as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit, and would prohibit the local entity from applying additional charges above the advertised fee schedule.\n The bill would include findings and declarations related to these provisions.\n (2)Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments. Among other things, the act makes a provision of the governing documents, as defined, or architectural or landscaping guidelines or policies void and unenforceable if, among other things, the provision prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of prohibiting, the use of low water-using plants as a group or as a replacement of existing turf.\n This bill would additionally make any provision of the governing documents, architectural guidelines, or policies void and unenforceable if the provision prevents the replacement of a fuel-gas-burning appliance with an electric appliance. The bill would also make any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any, among other specified agreements, deed, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system, void and unenforceable.\n (3)The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n (4)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2025-04-29" }, "version_count": 4, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code", "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Becker", "Stern" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-05", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-06", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8." }, { "date": "2025-02-14", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E., U & C. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C." }, { "date": "2025-03-24", "action": "Set for hearing April 7." }, { "date": "2025-04-04", "action": "Set for hearing April 23 in L. GOV. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 681.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-21", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-28", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 871.) (April 23)." }, { "date": "2025-04-29", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-02", "action": "Set for hearing May 12." }, { "date": "2025-05-12", "action": "May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2026-02-02", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB282", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB282", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB282", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB282", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB282" }, "headline": "Sets permit rules for home heat pump installations", "one_liner": "Requires cities and counties to offer same-day online permits and inspections without contractor and inspector present together.", "summary": "Cities and counties must offer inspections that don't require the contractor and inspector to be there at the same time. By July 2027, most must issue online permits the same day using state checklists. Water heater permit fees are generally capped at $50. Homeowners association rules blocking heat pumps or gas-to-electric swaps are void.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB282.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB310", "slug": "2025-26/SB310", "number": "SB 310", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-10", "last_action_date": "2026-02-02", "subject": "Failure to pay wages: penalties.", "introduced_subject": "Failure to pay wages: penalties.", "title": "An act to amend Section 210 of the Labor Code, relating to employment.", "digest": "Existing law makes every person who fails to pay the wages of each employee subject to a specified penalty. Existing law makes the initial violation subject to a $100 penalty and each subsequent violation, or any willful or intentional violation, subject to a $200 penalty plus 25% of the amount unlawfully withheld. Existing law requires the penalty to either be recovered by an employee as a statutory penalty or by the Labor Commissioner as a civil penalty, as prescribed.\n This bill also would permit the $200 penalty for each subsequent violation, or any willful or intentional violation, to be recovered through an independent civil action, as specified.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law makes every person who fails to pay the wages of each employee subject to a specified penalty. Existing law requires the penalty to either be recovered by an employee as a statutory penalty or by the Labor Commissioner as a civil penalty, as prescribed. \n This bill also would permit the penalty to be recovered through an independent civil action, as specified.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2026-01-20" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Moved to the inactive file", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Labor Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Wahab", "Haney" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-10", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-11", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13." }, { "date": "2025-02-19", "action": "Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 739.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2. Page 834.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-25", "action": "Set for hearing May 5." }, { "date": "2025-05-05", "action": "May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1195.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Wiener." }, { "date": "2026-01-20", "action": "From inactive file." }, { "date": "2026-01-20", "action": "Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-01-20", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2026-01-21", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-02-02", "action": "Died on file pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB310", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB310", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB310", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB310", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB310" }, "headline": "Allows separate lawsuits over unpaid wage penalties", "one_liner": "Allows the $200 penalty for repeat or willful failure to pay wages to be recovered through a separate lawsuit.", "summary": "Employers that fail to pay wages already face penalties. This bill allows the $200 penalty for repeat or willful violations to also be recovered through an independent civil lawsuit.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB310.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB336", "slug": "2025-26/SB336", "number": "SB 336", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-12", "last_action_date": "2026-02-02", "subject": "Real property tax: welfare exemption: moderate-income housing.", "introduced_subject": "Real property tax: welfare exemption: moderate-income housing.", "title": "An act to amend Section 214 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.", "digest": "Existing property tax law, pursuant to constitutional authorization, provides for a “welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met. That law provides a partial welfare exemption in the case of residential rental property used for lower income households, as specified, calculated as that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units. \n This bill would provide a partial welfare exemption in the case of certain residential rental property used for low- and moderate-income households. The partial exemption would be equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving low- and moderate-income households, as defined, represents of the total number of residential units, as provided. The bill would require an owner to make specified certifications, under penalty of perjury, relating to the use of the property. By expanding the duties of local tax officials, and by expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The bill would declare that its provisions are severable.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation.\n This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill.\n This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.", "introduced_digest": "Existing property tax law, pursuant to constitutional authorization, provides for a “welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met. That law provides a partial welfare exemption in the case of residential rental property used for lower income households, as specified, calculated as that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units. \n This bill would provide a partial welfare exemption in the case of residential rental property used for low- and moderate-income households. The partial exemption would be equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving low- and moderate-income households represents of the total number of residential units, as provided. The bill would require an owner to make specified certifications, under penalty of perjury, relating to the use of the property. By expanding the duties of local tax officials, and by expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. \n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.\n With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.\n Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation.\n This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill.\n This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2025-05-07" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Revenue and Taxation Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Haney", "Stefani" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-12", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-13", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15." }, { "date": "2025-02-19", "action": "Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2025-03-18", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2025-05-07", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX." }, { "date": "2025-05-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1082.) (May 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-05-15", "action": "Set for hearing May 19." }, { "date": "2025-05-19", "action": "May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-20", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2026-02-02", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB336", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB336", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB336", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB336", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB336" }, "headline": "Expands property tax break for moderate-income rentals", "one_liner": "Gives certain rental housing a partial property tax exemption for units serving low- and moderate-income households.", "summary": "Creates a partial property tax exemption for certain rental housing serving low- and moderate-income households. The exemption matches the share of units serving those households. Owners must certify the property's use under penalty of perjury. The state will not repay local governments for lost tax revenue.", "issues": [ "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB336.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB363", "slug": "2025-26/SB363", "number": "SB 363", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-13", "last_action_date": "2026-08-13", "subject": "Health care coverage: independent medical review.", "introduced_subject": "Health care coverage: independent medical review.", "title": "An act to add Sections 1374.37 and 1374.38 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Sections 10169.6 and 10169.7 to the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage.", "digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or health insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days.\n This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer to annually report to the appropriate department the total number of claims processed by the health care service plan or health insurer for the prior year and its number of treatment denials or modifications, separated and disaggregated as specified, commencing on or before June 1, 2026. The bill would require the departments to compare the number of a health care service plan’s or health insurer’s treatment denials and modifications to (1) the number of successful independent medical review overturns of the plan’s or insurer’s treatment denials or modifications and (2) the number of treatment denials or modifications reversed by a plan or insurer after an independent medical review for the denial or modification is requested, filed, or applied for. For a health care service plan or health insurer with 10 or more independent medical reviews in a given year, the bill would make the health care service plan or health insurer liable for an administrative penalty, as specified, if more than 50% of the independent medical reviews filed with a health care service plan or health insurer result in an overturning or reversal of a treatment denial or modification in any one individual category of specified general types of care. The bill would make a health care service plan or health insurer liable for additional administrative penalties for each independent medical review resulting in an additional overturned or reversed denial or modification in excess of that threshold. The bill would require the departments to annually include data, analysis, and conclusions relating to these provisions in specified reports.\n 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.\n Existing law creates the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund in the State Treasury for the deposit of fines and administrative penalties collected pursuant to provisions licensing and regulating health care service plans.\n This bill would create the Managed Care Independent Medical Review Administrative Penalties Subaccount in the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys generated from the administrative penalties described above with respect to health care service plans. The bill would create the Health Insurance Independent Medical Review Administrative Penalties Fund in the State Treasury for the receipt and deposit of moneys generated from the administrative penalties described above with respect to health insurers. The bill would authorize the moneys in the Managed Care Independent Medical Review Administrative Penalties Subaccount and Health Insurance Independent Medical Review Administrative Penalties Fund to be expended, as specified, upon appropriation by the Legislature. \n This bill would declare that its provisions are severable.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or health insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days.\n This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer to annually report its number of treatment denials or modifications, separated by type of care and disaggregated by age, to the appropriate department, commencing on or before June 1, 2026. The bill would require the departments to compare the number of a health care service plan’s or health insurer’s treatment denials and modifications to (1) the number of successful independent medical review overturns of the plan’s or insurer’s treatment denials or modifications and (2) the number of treatment denials or modifications reversed by a plan or insurer after an independent medical review for the denial or modification is requested, filed, or applied for. The bill would make a health care service plan or health insurer liable for an administrative penalty, as specified, if more than half of the independent medical reviews filed with a health care service plan or health insurer result in an overturning or reversal of a treatment denial or modification in any one individual category of the specified types of care. The bill would make a health care service plan or health insurer liable for additional administrative penalties for each independent medical review resulting in an additional overturned or reversed denial or modification in excess of that threshold. The bill would specify that these provisions do not apply to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts.\n 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.\n Existing law requires the Insurance Commissioner to make a report to the Governor and the Legislature, as specified, on the condition of the insurance business and interests in this state, and other matters concerning insurance.\n The bill would require the department to include in the commissioner’s annual report information relating to independent medical review overturns of, and reversals of, treatment denials and modifications with respect to health insurers.\n Existing law establishes the Center for Data Insights and Innovation, and authorizes the center to collect and analyze data on problems and complaints by, and questions from, consumers about health care coverage. Existing law requires that data to include, among others, plan data, appeals, source of coverage, regulator, type of problem or issue or comparable types of problems or issues, and resolution of complaints, including timeliness of resolution. Existing law requires the center to annually report this data to the Legislature. \n This bill would require the center to include in that report data relating to independent medical review overturns of, and reversals of, treatment denials and modifications with respect to health care service plans. The bill would require the Department of Managed Health Care to provide related information requested by the center, as specified.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2025-07-17" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code", "Insurance Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "Cortese", "Weber Pierson", "Schiavo" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-14", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2025-02-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-03-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 2." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "action": "April 2 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2025-04-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 737.) (April 9)." }, { "date": "2025-04-10", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 28." }, { "date": "2025-04-28", "action": "April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1198.) (May 23)." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-27", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 1291.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-05", "action": "Referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-06-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "August 29 hearing postponed by committee." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "action": "August 13 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB363", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB363", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB363", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB363", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB363" }, "headline": "Penalizes insurers whose denials are often overturned", "one_liner": "Requires health plans and insurers to report treatment denials and face penalties when most appealed denials are reversed.", "summary": "Health plans and insurers must report claims and treatment denials each year. If a plan with 10 or more independent medical reviews has more than half of reviewed denials in a care category overturned or reversed, it pays a penalty, plus more for each extra reversal. Penalties go into new state accounts.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB363.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB445", "slug": "2025-26/SB445", "number": "SB 445", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-18", "last_action_date": "2025-08-29", "subject": "High-speed rail: third-party agreements, permits, and approvals: regulations.", "introduced_subject": "Sustainable Transportation Project Permits and Cooperative Agreements.", "title": "An act to add Section 187040 to, and to add and repeal Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 185520) of Division 19.5 of, the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation.", "digest": "The California High-Speed Rail Act creates the High-Speed Rail Authority (authority) to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties, including the power to enter into contracts, relocate highways and utilities, and enter into cooperative or joint development agreements with local governments or private entities, as specified. The act establishes legal procedures for the relocation of publicly and privately owned utility facilities, as defined, when the authority requires any utility to remove any utility facility lawfully maintained in the right-of-way of any high-speed rail property to a location entirely outside the high-speed rail property right-of-way subject to specified conditions. The act authorizes the authority and any utility to enter into a specified agreement or contract to remove or relocate any utility facility that provides for, among other things, the respective amounts of the cost to be borne by each party or that apportions the obligations and costs of each party.\n Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority Office of the Inspector General (office) and authorizes the High-Speed Rail Authority Inspector General (inspector general) to initiate an audit or review regarding oversight related to delivery of the high-speed rail project undertaken by the authority and the selection and oversight of contractors related to that project. Existing law requires the inspector general to submit annual reports to the Legislature and Governor regarding its findings.\n This bill would require the authority, on or before July 1, 2026, to develop and adopt internal rules, as defined, setting forth standards and timelines for the authority to engage utilities to ensure coordination and cooperation in relocating utility infrastructure or otherwise resolving utility conflicts affecting the delivery of the high-speed rail project. The bill would require the authority to ensure that the internal rules, among other things, identify the circumstances under which the authority would be required seek to enter into a cooperative agreement with a utility that, where relevant, identifies who is responsible for specific utility relocations, as specified.\n This bill would require the authority, on or before July 1, 2026, to develop and adopt regulations setting forth requirements governing local agency permits and approvals that are necessary to deliver the high-speed rail project. The bill would require the authority to ensure that the regulations, among other things, identify the circumstances under which the authority would be required to seek to enter into a cooperative agreement with a local agency that, where relevant, identifies who is responsible for specific actions, as specified.\n This bill would require the authority to consult with specified entities in developing the internal rules and regulations and would require the authority to hold at least 2 public hearings regarding the proposed internal rules and regulations.\n This bill would delay the operation of these internal rules and regulations until the office determines that the authority has completed the development and implementation of a process to review third-party agreements in a timely manner as recommended by the office, as specified. The bill would require the office, beginning one year after the operative date of the internal rules and regulations, to conduct a review of the effectiveness of those rules and regulations and to make recommendations for their improvement. The bill would require the office, when it determines that the high-speed rail project is complete, to submit a report to the Legislature informing the Legislature of that fact. The bill would make the requirement to adopt these internal rules and regulations inoperative on the date that the office submits that report to the Legislature.\n This bill would require the authority and specified utilities to identify existing barriers and agree to preferred solutions to those barriers by December 31, 2026, to ensure utility relocations do not result in unnecessary or foreseeable project delays, as specified.\n This bill would declare its provisions to be severable.\n To the extent this bill imposes additional duties on local entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, sets forth various requirements relating to the review of development project permit applications and the issuance of development permits for specified classes of development projects.\n The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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.\n CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements certain transportation-related projects if specified requirements are met. CEQA includes within these exempt transportation-related projects a public project for the institution or increase of bus rapid transit, bus, or light rail service, which will be exclusively used by low-emission or zero-emission vehicles, on existing public rights-of-way or existing highway rights-of-way.\n This bill would require a lead agency to provide a written notice with specified information to a third-party entity, defined by the bill to mean a local agency, electrical corporation, or private telecommunications provider, regarding its need to use, relocate, alter, change, or otherwise improve facilities, publicly owned and managed utilities, public spaces, or other publicly or privately owned facilities under the third-party entity’s jurisdiction or ownership for the implementation of a sustainable transportation project. This bill would define “sustainable transportation project” to mean a project where the lead agency is a state agency, operator, or local agency that proposes the construction or modification of facilities meeting at least one of several specified criteria, including that it is exempt from CEQA pursuant to the above-described provisions. The bill would define “large sustainable transportation project” to mean a sustainable transportation project that, based on the project engineer’s cost estimate at the time the lead agency completes environmental review, costs more than $25,000,000, and meets other specified criteria.\n This bill would require a lead agency to provide a written notice with specified information to a third-party entity regarding its need to use, relocate, alter, change, or otherwise improve facilities, publicly owned and managed utilities, public spaces, or other publicly or privately owned facilities under the third-party entity’s jurisdiction or ownership for the implementation of a sustainable transportation project. Within 30 calendar days of receiving that notice, the bill would require the third-party entity to provide a written response to the lead agency, as provided, and, within 30 calendar days of determining the notice is complete, would require the third-party entity to take certain actions, including providing as-built plans to the lead agency for all third-party entity facilities that will be impacted by the work described in the written notice. The bill would also prohibit a third-party entity from requiring, among other things, as a condition for issuance of certain permits, conformance with or the performance of any conditions, except under certain circumstances.\n This bill would require a lead agency responsible for a large sustainable transportation project to seek to enter into a cooperative agreement with each third-party entity through which the project passes. The bill would also require the lead agency to provide a written notice with specified information to the third-party entity of its intent to enter into a cooperative agreement with the third-party entity. Within 30 calendar days of receiving the notice, the bill would require the third-party entity to provide a written response to the lead agency, as provided, and within 60 calendar days of determining the notice is complete, would require the third-party entity to enter into a cooperative agreement with the lead agency that contains certain provisions, including that it meets applicable federal requirements, standards, or guidelines. The bill would also prohibit a third-party entity from requiring, among other things, as a condition to the issuance of certain permits, conformance with or the performance of any conditions that the third-party entity could have lawfully imposed as a condition to the design or construction of the project after the process described above is completed.\n By imposing additional duties on local entities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Assembly", "date": "2025-07-17" }, "version_count": 6, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Caballero", "Wilson" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-18", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-19", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21." }, { "date": "2025-02-26", "action": "Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-08", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2025-04-10", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 842.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-04-25", "action": "Set for hearing May 5." }, { "date": "2025-05-05", "action": "From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8." }, { "date": "2025-05-06", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 1296.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2025-05-28", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2025-06-30", "action": "Referred to Coms. on TRANS., L. GOV., and U. & E." }, { "date": "2025-06-30", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2025-07-07", "action": "Assembly Rule 56 suspended." }, { "date": "2025-07-09", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS." }, { "date": "2025-07-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV." }, { "date": "2025-07-16", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on U. & E." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)" }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (July 16)." }, { "date": "2025-07-17", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-08-20", "action": "August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-08-29", "action": "August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB445", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB445", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB445", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB445", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB445" }, "headline": "Requires high-speed rail rules on utilities and permits", "one_liner": "Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority to adopt rules for working with utilities and local agencies on permits and relocations.", "summary": "By July 1, 2026, the High-Speed Rail Authority must adopt rules on timelines for moving utility lines and on local permits, after at least two public hearings. The rules take effect once the Inspector General confirms a timely review process for third-party agreements. The authority and utilities must agree on solutions to relocation barriers by the end of 2026.", "issues": [ "transportation" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB445.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB829", "slug": "2025-26/SB829", "number": "SB 829", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2025-02-21", "last_action_date": "2026-02-02", "subject": "California Institute for Scientific Research: CalRx Initiative: vaccines.", "introduced_subject": "Legislature: Joint Sunset Review Committee.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 11899) to Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and to add Section 127698 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to research and development.", "digest": "Existing law establishes various grant and loan programs for research, including, among others, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program, and the Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Program.\n This bill would establish the California Institute for Scientific Research within the Government Operations Agency. The bill would create the California Institute for Scientific Research Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, and require the moneys in the fund to be used by the Government Operations Agency to award grants and make loans to public or private research companies, universities, institutes, and organizations for scientific research and development, in specific areas of research, including, but not limited to, biomedical, behavioral, and climate research. \n This bill would create the California Institute for Scientific Research Council, as specified. The bill would require the council to, among other things, develop the strategic objectives and priorities of the institute and determine the research projects that will be funded by the California Institute for Scientific Research Fund, as specified. The bill would require a majority vote by the appointed members for the council for the approval of funding for any research project or proposal presented for funding. The bill would authorize the council to establish one or more scientific peer review panels consisting of experts in specified fields of research for the purposes of reviewing and prioritizing proposals on the basis of the track record of the investigators, scientific merit of the proposal, and potential benefit to the health and well-being of the population, natural resources, and environment of the state.\n This bill would require all research and development funded by the California Institute for Scientific Research Fund to be conducted under established standards of open scientific exchange, peer review, and public oversight. The bill would require the funds to be awarded on the basis of the research priorities established for the institute by the council and the scientific merit of the proposed research, as determined by an open, competitive, scientific peer review process that ensures objectivity, consistency, and high quality.\n Existing law, the California Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act of 2020, requires the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA) or its departments to enter into partnerships to, among other things, address shortages in the market for generic prescription drugs and increase patient access to affordable drugs. The act also requires CHHSA to enter into partnerships resulting in the production, procurement, or distribution of generic prescription drugs, in accordance with specified conditions and procedures. The state has launched the CalRx Initiative, a program that in part serves to implement the act.\n This bill would require CHHSA, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the above-described act, to enter into partnerships or contracts resulting in the development, production, procurement, or distribution of vaccines, by any entity that is authorized to do so under federal or state law, with the intent that these drugs be made widely available to public and private purchasers, providers, suppliers, and pharmacies. Under the bill, this requirement would be implemented through the CalRx Initiative and subject to an appropriation.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes the Joint Sunset Review Committee, a legislative committee comprised of 10 Members of the Legislature, to identify and eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government agencies and to conduct a comprehensive analysis of an eligible agency, as defined, for which a date for repeal has been established, to determine if the agency is still necessary and cost effective. Existing law requires the committee to meet not later than 30 days after the first day of the regular session to choose a chairperson and to establish the schedule for eligible agency review provided for in the statues governing the eligible agencies.\n This bill would extend that deadline for meeting to 31 days after the first day of the regular session.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2025-04-24" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code", "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [ "Weber Pierson" ], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Becker", "McNerney" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2025-02-21", "action": "Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2025-02-24", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24." }, { "date": "2025-02-24", "action": "Read first time." }, { "date": "2025-03-12", "action": "Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D." }, { "date": "2025-03-27", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2025-03-27", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2025-04-02", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2025-04-03", "action": "Set for hearing April 9." }, { "date": "2025-04-10", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 738.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W." }, { "date": "2025-04-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 22." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 840.) (April 22)." }, { "date": "2025-04-24", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2025-04-29", "action": "Set for hearing May 5." }, { "date": "2025-05-05", "action": "May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2025-05-16", "action": "Set for hearing May 23." }, { "date": "2025-05-23", "action": "May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." }, { "date": "2026-02-02", "action": "Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB829", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB829", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB829", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB829", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB829" }, "headline": "Creates state research institute, requires vaccine partnerships", "one_liner": "Creates a state institute to fund scientific research and requires state vaccine partnerships through the CalRx program.", "summary": "Creates the California Institute for Scientific Research to give grants and loans for research such as biomedical, behavioral, and climate studies, if the Legislature funds it. A council picks projects through peer review. The state health agency must also partner to develop, make, buy, or distribute vaccines through CalRx, subject to funding.", "issues": [ "health" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with the Joint Sunset Review Committee's meeting deadline; it was rewritten to cover scientific research funding and vaccines.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB829.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB875", "slug": "2025-26/SB875", "number": "SB 875", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-01-06", "last_action_date": "2026-04-21", "subject": "Public utilities: eminent domain: just compensation.", "introduced_subject": "Public utilities: Pacific Gas and Electric Company service area: withdrawal.", "title": "An act to amend Sections 1240.650 and 1245.250 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and to amend Sections 851 and 1411 of, and to add Sections 1410.5 and 1425 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities.", "digest": "(1)Existing law, the Eminent Domain Law, authorizes a public entity to exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property for a public use if the use for which the property is sought to be taken is a more necessary public use than the use to which the property is appropriated, as specified. Existing law specifies that if property has been appropriated to public use by any person other than a public entity, the use of the property by a public entity for the same or any other public use is a more necessary use than the current use. Existing law also specifies that if property that has been appropriated to a public use is electrical, gas, or water public utility property, as defined, that the public entity intends to put to the same use, the presumption of a more necessary use is a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof, except as specified.\n This bill would exempt from that rebuttable presumption property that has been appropriated to a public use that is electrical or gas public utility property within the Pacific Gas and Electric Company service area.\n (2)Existing law authorizes a public entity to exercise the power of eminent domain only if it has adopted a resolution of necessity, as specified. Under existing law, a resolution of necessity adopted by the governing body of a public entity conclusively establishes that, among other matters, the public interest and necessity require the project. Existing law specifies that, if a taking is by a local public entity and the property is electrical, gas, or water public utility property, the resolution of necessity creates a rebuttable presumption that those matters are true.\n This bill would provide that, if a taking is by a local public entity within the Pacific Gas and Electric Company service area and the property is electrical or gas public utility property, the resolution of necessity instead conclusively establishes those matters.\n (3)Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law prohibits public utilities, other than certain common carriers, from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of, or encumbering, its assets that are necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public, unless the public utility has secured an order or approval from the commission to do so, as provided. Existing law requires, for any voluntary or involuntary change in ownership of assets from an electrical corporation or gas corporation to ownership by a public entity, the commission to determine, as part of its review under these provisions, whether the transaction is fair and reasonable to affected public utility employees.\n This bill would instead require the commission, in its review of a voluntary or involuntary change in ownership of assets from an electrical or gas corporation to a public entity, to limit its review to determining whether the transaction is fair and reasonable to affected public utility employees. The bill would require the review to occur after a change in ownership agreement is made for a voluntary change in ownership, or after the completion of the condemnation proceeding for an involuntary change in ownership.\n (4)Existing law provides procedures for the acquisition under eminent domain proceedings, or otherwise, of lands, property, and rights of a public utility by a political subdivision, and requires the commission to fix the just compensation to be paid by the political subdivision for the lands, property, and rights, as provided.\n This bill would require the owner of a public utility, within 90 days of a political subdivision submitting an amount for just compensation or a plan for the separation of the public utility’s assets, to also submit an amount for just compensation or provide a response to the separation plan, as provided. The bill would authorize the commission, if it finds that the total just compensation should include costs for the physical separation of the public utility’s assets, to establish a process for the reimbursement of those costs and to determine the reasonableness of those expenses. The bill would require the commission to make and file its findings regarding just compensation with respect to the public utility within 18 months of the date the petition is filed.\n This bill would prohibit a public utility from recovering from ratepayers any litigation costs associated with a political subdivision’s efforts to acquire utility property, as provided.\n (5)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for public entities within the Pacific Gas and Electric Company service area.\n (6)Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.\n Because certain provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing the bill’s requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would authorize cities within the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) service area, including, but not limited to, the City and County of San Francisco, to withdraw and separate from PG&E and either (1) create their own public utility, owned by and accountable to the public and not private shareholders or (2) join an existing municipal utility.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2026-04-06" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Failed a committee vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Code of Civil Procedure", "Public Utilities Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [ "Haney", "Stefani" ], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-01-06", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-01-07", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 6." }, { "date": "2026-02-11", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-02-24", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-03-04", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and E., U & C." }, { "date": "2026-03-18", "action": "Set for hearing April 14." }, { "date": "2026-04-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-04-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U & C. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 3867.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C." }, { "date": "2026-04-16", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2026-04-21", "action": "April 21 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3973.)" } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB875", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB875", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB875", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB875", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB875" }, "headline": "Changes eminent domain rules for PG&E utility property", "one_liner": "Changes eminent domain rules for local public agencies taking electric and gas utility property in PG&E's service area.", "summary": "In the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) area, a local agency's resolution of necessity conclusively settles the need to take electric or gas utility property. The Public Utilities Commission's review is limited to fairness for utility workers, and it must set compensation within 18 months. Utilities cannot charge ratepayers for litigation costs from these acquisitions.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB875.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB982", "slug": "2025-26/SB982", "number": "SB 982", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-02-04", "last_action_date": "2026-04-23", "subject": "Climate disasters: civil actions.", "introduced_subject": "Climate disasters: civil actions.", "title": "An act to add Part 3.5 (commencing with Section 3508.5) to Division 4 of the Civil Code, relating to climate disasters.", "digest": "Existing law gives a person the right of protection from bodily harm and the right to possess and use property. If a person suffers bodily harm or a loss of their property because of the unlawful act or omission of another, existing law authorizes them to recover compensation from the person at fault, which is known as damages. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to bring various civil actions due to damage or loss.\n This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action against specified fossil fuel companies for climate-attributable damage to recover costs and losses suffered by the California FAIR Plan Association, funds borrowed from the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, or costs and losses incurred by insurance policyholders. The bill would make those companies strictly liable without regard to fault for any relief granted. The bill would authorize the court and jury to use market share and alternate liability principles to determine proportionate liability of those companies for the climate-attributable damage, as described.\n This bill would make it an unlawful business practice for the company or affiliated entity to recover from California consumers, through retail or wholesale prices, charges, fees, surcharges, or any other adjustment to the price of gasoline or other motor fuels, for any costs and expenses incurred in connection with such a civil action, as defined.\n This bill would create the Attorney General Climate Disaster Fund into which the monetary relief recovered by the Attorney General would be deposited, and would set forth specified uses for the account upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would make related findings and declarations.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law gives a person the right of protection from bodily harm and the right to possess and use property. If a person suffers bodily harm or a loss of their property because of the unlawful act or omission of another, existing law authorizes them to recover compensation from the person at fault, which is known as damages. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to bring various civil actions due to damage or loss.\n This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action against a party responsible for climate-attributable damage to recover losses suffered by the California FAIR Plan Association, funds borrowed from the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, or costs to insurance policyholders arising from a past climate disaster. The bill would make responsible parties strictly liable for any relief granted. The bill would create the Attorney General Climate Disaster Fund into which the monetary relief recovered by the Attorney General, excluding restitution, would be deposited, and would set forth specified uses for the account upon appropriation by the Legislature.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2026-04-06" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Failed a committee vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Civil Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Allen", "Gonzalez", "McNerney", "Reyes", "Stern", "Weber Pierson", "Addis", "Connolly", "Elhawary", "Garcia", "Hart", "Lee", "Celeste Rodriguez" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-02-04", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-02-05", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7." }, { "date": "2026-02-11", "action": "Referred to Coms. on JUD. and INS." }, { "date": "2026-04-02", "action": "Set for hearing April 14." }, { "date": "2026-04-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-04-15", "action": "April 14 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 3868.) Reconsideration granted." }, { "date": "2026-04-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2026-04-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 22 in INS. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2026-04-21", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3977.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on INS." }, { "date": "2026-04-23", "action": "April 22 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 3. Noes 2. Page 4011.)" } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB982", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB982", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB982", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB982", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB982" }, "headline": "Allows Attorney General to sue fossil fuel companies", "one_liner": "Lets the Attorney General sue certain fossil fuel companies to recover climate-related damage costs, including insurance losses.", "summary": "Allows the Attorney General to sue specified fossil fuel companies for climate-related damage to recover costs of the California FAIR Plan, funds borrowed from a state infrastructure bank, or insurance policyholders. The companies would be strictly liable. They may not pass lawsuit costs on to consumers through fuel prices. Money recovered goes into a new Attorney General Climate Disaster Fund.", "issues": [ "climate_energy", "consumer" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB982.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB1065", "slug": "2025-26/SB1065", "number": "SB 1065", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-02-12", "last_action_date": "2026-04-08", "subject": "Public works: apprenticeship.", "introduced_subject": "Property service workers.", "title": "An act to amend Section 1777.5 of the Labor Code, relating to employment.", "digest": "Existing law requires payment of the general prevailing rate of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works, except as specified, and generally requires a contractor or subcontractor to be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations to be qualified to bid on, to be listed in a bid proposal, or to engage in the performance of any public work contract. Existing law authorizes the department to adopt rules and regulations for this purpose.\n Existing law requires contractors on public works projects to comply with various requirements for employing apprentices. Among other things, existing law requires contractors to pay the prevailing rate of per diem wages for apprentices in the trade to which the apprentice is registered and to employ apprentices only at the work of the craft or trade to which the apprentice is registered, as specified.\n This bill would authorize every apprentice to perform any of the tasks or duties of a journeyperson of the same craft or trade in accordance with the scope of work for the craft or trade established by the Director of Industrial Relations.\n Existing law also requires contractors on public works projects that employ workers in an apprenticeable craft or trade to employ apprentices in a specified ratio. Existing law defines “apprenticeable craft or trade” for this purpose to mean a craft or trade determined as an apprenticeable occupation in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the California Apprenticeship Council.\n This bill would, instead, define “apprenticeable craft or trade” to mean a craft or trade as determined by the Director of Industrial Relations pursuant to existing public works law that is identified as an apprenticeable occupation in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the California Apprenticeship Council.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law establishes within the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement under the direction of the Labor Commissioner and requires the division to enforce provisions relating to employment of property service workers. Existing law requires an employer, as defined, to keep accurate records of certain information regarding its employees for 3 years, and to register with the commissioner annually. Existing law imposes civil penalties on an employee for failure to register with the commissioner. Existing law requires all registration fees and civil fines collected pursuant to these provisions to be deposited in the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund.\n This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2026-03-25" }, "version_count": 2, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Labor Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-02-12", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-02-13", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15." }, { "date": "2026-02-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-04-08", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1065", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1065", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1065", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1065", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1065" }, "headline": "Changes apprentice rules on public works projects", "one_liner": "Lets apprentices on public works projects do any task of a journeyperson in the same craft or trade.", "summary": "Allows apprentices on public works projects to perform any duty of a journeyperson in the same craft, within the scope of work set by the Director of Industrial Relations. Changes the definition of \"apprenticeable craft or trade\" to one set by the Director and recognized by the California Apprenticeship Council.", "issues": [ "workers_safety_net" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with property service worker rules; it was rewritten to cover apprentices on public works projects.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB1065.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB1074", "slug": "2025-26/SB1074", "number": "SB 1074", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-02-13", "last_action_date": "2026-04-20", "subject": "Covered provider: goods and services: self-preferencing conduct.", "introduced_subject": "Advertising: telephonic sellers.", "title": "An act to add Chapter 2.6 (commencing with Section 16850) to Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.", "digest": "Existing law, known as the Cartwright Act, defines a “trust” as a combination of capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons for certain prohibited purposes, including, among others, creating or carrying out restrictions in trade or commerce, preventing competition in specified activities, including sale or purchase of merchandise or commodities, or entering into certain exclusive dealing agreements that substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, a district attorney, a specified city attorney, or a person who is injured in their business or property to bring an action for civil or criminal penalties for a violation of those provisions.\n This bill would prohibit a covered provider, as defined, from preferencing its own products, services, or lines of business over those of another business user, including manipulating the order of search results or rankings to favor the products or services of the covered provider. The bill would prohibit a covered provider from restricting interoperability or data portability, as specified, including restricting a business user or consumer from obtaining a copy of their data in a useful and portable format.\n This bill would declare that its remedies and penalties are cumulative and enforceable in addition to other specified remedies, and would provide an affirmative defense for certain conduct. The bill would exempt from these provisions displays of objective content, including mathematical calculations and standard unit conversions, under certain conditions. The bill would specify that its provisions are enforceable by the same means, penalties, damages, and fees as under the Cartwright Act, thereby expanding the scope of existing crimes. The bill would declare its provisions severable.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law generally regulates telephonic sellers and requires a telephonic seller to register with the Department of Justice not less than 10 days before doing business in the state, as prescribed. Existing law defines “telephonic seller” for these purposes to mean a person who causes certain telephone solicitations or attempted telephone solicitations to occur, including a telephone solicitation or attempted telephone solicitation wherein the telephonic seller initiates contact with a prospective purchaser and represents or implies that the seller is a person other than the person they are.\n This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that definition.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2026-04-06" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Failed a committee vote", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Business and Professions Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-02-17", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2026-02-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-03-18", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-03-25", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and P., D.T., & C.P." }, { "date": "2026-04-02", "action": "Set for hearing April 14." }, { "date": "2026-04-06", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD." }, { "date": "2026-04-10", "action": "Set for hearing April 20 in P., D.T., & C.P. pending receipt." }, { "date": "2026-04-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 3868.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P." }, { "date": "2026-04-20", "action": "April 20 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 3. Noes 3. Page 3957.) Reconsideration granted." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1074", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1074", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1074", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1074", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1074" }, "headline": "Bans covered providers from favoring their own products", "one_liner": "Bars covered providers from favoring their own products over other businesses' and from restricting interoperability or data portability.", "summary": "Prohibits covered providers from favoring their own products or services over those of business users, including by changing search rankings. Bans limits on interoperability and on users getting a portable copy of their data. Objective content like unit conversions is exempt in some cases. Violations are enforced like California's antitrust law (the Cartwright Act).", "issues": [ "tech", "consumer" ], "gut_and_amend_note": "This bill originally dealt with telephonic seller rules; it was rewritten to cover covered providers favoring their own products.", "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB1074.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB1097", "slug": "2025-26/SB1097", "number": "SB 1097", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-02-13", "last_action_date": "2026-05-14", "subject": "California Environmental Quality Act: electrical distribution: exemptions.", "introduced_subject": "Energy: permit streamlining.", "title": "An act to add Section 21080.39 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.", "digest": "The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also 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.\n This bill would exempt from CEQA projects that consist of the inspection, maintenance, repair, restoration, reconditioning, reconductoring with advanced conductors, replacement, or removal of an existing transmission wire or cable used to conduct electricity or other piece of equipment that is directly attached to the wire or cable and that meet certain requirements, including, among other things, that for a project that is not located on a sensitiva site, the project is undertaken entirely within an existing right-of-way. For projects that are located on a sensitive site, as defined, the bill would also require that the project not increase the footprint of the existing transmission line by more than 10%. In addition to those requirements, for projects that are located within a national park, a national monument, a national wilderness area, or a national recreation area, the bill would also require that the existing right-of-way that the project is undertaken within have a certified EIR, negative declaration, or mitigated negative declaration. For any of these above-described projects that are undertaken within a private right-of-way, the bill would require the project applicant to obtain permission from each underlying property owner to access the property for the project and to enter into an agreement to restore the right-of-way to its condition before the commencement of the project. If a lead agency determines that a project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to the above-described provision, the bill would require the lead agency to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the county clerk in each county in which the project is located, as provided. By increasing the duties of a lead agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\n The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.\n This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.", "introduced_digest": "Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with exclusive jurisdiction to certify thermal powerplants, as defined.\n This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to streamline the permitting of energy generation, storage, and transmission projects given the increasing cost of energy and the need to quickly electrify to mitigate the impacts of climate change.", "possible_gut_and_amend": true, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2026-04-23" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Public Resources Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [ "Becker" ], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-02-13", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-02-17", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16." }, { "date": "2026-02-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-04-08", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q. and E., U & C." }, { "date": "2026-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 15." }, { "date": "2026-04-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U & C. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3900.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C." }, { "date": "2026-04-16", "action": "Set for hearing April 21." }, { "date": "2026-04-22", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0. Page 3973.) (April 21)." }, { "date": "2026-04-23", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-05-04", "action": "Set for hearing May 11." }, { "date": "2026-05-11", "action": "May 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-05-12", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1097", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1097", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1097", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1097", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1097" }, "headline": "Exempts some power line work from environmental review", "one_liner": "Exempts repair, upgrade, or replacement of existing electric transmission lines from environmental review if certain conditions are met.", "summary": "Exempts inspection, repair, upgrade, replacement, or removal of existing transmission lines from California's environmental review law (CEQA) if conditions are met. Work generally must stay within the existing right-of-way, and on sensitive sites cannot expand the line's footprint by more than 10%. Work on private land needs owner permission and restoration. Agencies must file a notice of exemption.", "issues": [ "climate_energy" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB1097.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB1123", "slug": "2025-26/SB1123", "number": "SB 1123", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-02-17", "last_action_date": "2026-06-04", "subject": "Administrative Procedure Act: major regulations.", "introduced_subject": "Administrative Procedure Act: major regulations.", "title": "An act to amend Section 11342.548 of the Government Code, relating to state government administration.", "digest": "The Administrative Procedure Act requires a state agency proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation to assess the potential for adverse economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals and avoid the imposition of unnecessary or unreasonable regulations or reporting, recordkeeping, or compliance requirements. The act requires a state agency proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal a major regulation to satisfy additional requirements, including by requiring the state agency to prepare a standardized regulatory impact analysis in the manner prescribed by the Department of Finance, as specified, and requires the analysis to address certain items, including the creation or elimination of jobs within the state and the competitive advantages or disadvantages for businesses currently doing business within the state. The act defines “major regulation” to mean a proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation subject to review by the Office of Administrative Law, as specified, that will have an economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000, as estimated by the agency.\n This bill would require an agency, in estimating the economic impact of adopting, amending, or repealing a regulation, to identify and calculate any offsetting benefits, impacts, or savings that might result directly or indirectly from that adoption, amendment, or repeal and factor those benefits, impacts, or savings into its economic impact estimate.", "introduced_digest": null, "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Introduced", "date": "2026-02-17" }, "version_count": 1, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "passed_senate", "outcome_detail": "Did not advance before a deadline", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Government Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-02-17", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-02-18", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20." }, { "date": "2026-02-26", "action": "Referred to Com. on G.O." }, { "date": "2026-04-13", "action": "Set for hearing April 14." }, { "date": "2026-04-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3. Page 3865.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-04-17", "action": "Set for hearing April 27." }, { "date": "2026-04-27", "action": "April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-05-08", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4265.) (May 14)." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "Read second time. Ordered to third reading." }, { "date": "2026-05-26", "action": "Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 8. Page 4445.) Ordered to the Assembly." }, { "date": "2026-05-26", "action": "In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk." }, { "date": "2026-06-04", "action": "Referred to Coms. on E.D., G., & H.I. and JUD." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1123", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1123", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1123", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1123", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1123" }, "headline": "Changes how agencies estimate regulations' economic impact", "one_liner": "Requires state agencies to count offsetting benefits and savings when estimating the economic impact of regulation changes.", "summary": "When a state agency estimates the economic impact of adopting, changing or repealing a regulation, it must identify and calculate any direct or indirect offsetting benefits, impacts or savings. The agency must then factor those into its economic impact estimate.", "issues": [ "consumer" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB1123.html" }, { "id": "202520260SB1258", "slug": "2025-26/SB1258", "number": "SB 1258", "session": "2025-26", "session_label": "2025-26", "special_session": false, "introduced_date": "2026-02-19", "last_action_date": "2026-05-14", "subject": "Hazardous waste: site remediation: residential suitability guidelines.", "introduced_subject": "Streamlined housing approvals: hazardous waste sites.", "title": "An act to add Section 101481 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to hazardous waste.", "digest": "Existing law authorizes, when a release of waste occurs and remedial action is required, a responsible party, as defined, to request a local officer to supervise the remedial action if the site is not already overseen by the Department of Toxic Substances Control or a regional water quality control board. Existing law authorizes the department or a regional water quality control board to retain or assume oversight authority from a local officer, as specified.\n This bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board, working jointly with the department and in consultation with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, to develop guidelines for developers and for agencies overseeing development-specific site remediations and making determinations of site suitability, as provided. The bill would require the board, in conjunction with the department, to develop thresholds of significance for contaminants from different sources and for different future uses, as provided. The bill would specify that sites with contamination above those thresholds shall be deemed not suitable for residential use.", "introduced_digest": "The Planning and Zoning Law, until January 1, 2036, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. Existing law specifies that a development is consistent with the objective planning standards if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the development is consistent with the objective planning standards. Existing law prohibits a development subject to these provisions from being located on a hazardous waste site unless certain exceptions apply, including the State Department of Public Health, State Water Resources Control Board, Department of Toxic Substances Control, or a local agency has otherwise cleared the site for residential use or residential mixed uses.\n This bill would revise the above-described exception, to instead, authorize a development subject to these provisions to be located on a hazardous waste site if an applicant takes certain actions before the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, including, obtaining a determination by the State Department of Public Health, State Water Resources Control Board, Department of Toxic Substances Control, or a local agency that the site is suitable for residential use or residential mixed uses.\n This bill would additionally authorize a development subject to these provisions to be located on a hazardous waste site if a local officer, as defined, either (1) determines that the site is suitable for residential use or residential mixed uses or (2) as a condition of approval, requires that the site will be made suitable for residential use or residential mixed uses, as specified.", "possible_gut_and_amend": false, "final_version": { "label": "Amended Senate", "date": "2026-04-16" }, "version_count": 3, "outcome": "did_not_pass", "stage": "committee", "outcome_detail": "Held in Appropriations (suspense file)", "chapter": null, "laws_affected": [ "Health and Safety Code" ], "joint_authors": [], "principal_coauthors": [], "coauthors": [], "veto": null, "history": [ { "date": "2026-02-19", "action": "Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print." }, { "date": "2026-02-20", "action": "From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22." }, { "date": "2026-03-04", "action": "Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV." }, { "date": "2026-03-25", "action": "From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2026-03-26", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2026-03-26", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on RLS." }, { "date": "2026-04-08", "action": "Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING." }, { "date": "2026-04-09", "action": "Set for hearing April 15." }, { "date": "2026-04-15", "action": "From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3900.) (April 15)." }, { "date": "2026-04-16", "action": "Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING." }, { "date": "2026-04-20", "action": "Withdrawn from committee." }, { "date": "2026-04-20", "action": "Re-referred to Com. on APPR." }, { "date": "2026-04-24", "action": "Set for hearing May 4." }, { "date": "2026-05-04", "action": "May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file." }, { "date": "2026-05-08", "action": "Set for hearing May 14." }, { "date": "2026-05-14", "action": "May 14 hearing: Held in committee and under submission." } ], "urls": { "status": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1258", "text": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1258", "history": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1258", "votes": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1258", "analysis": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1258" }, "headline": "Requires guidelines for housing on contaminated sites", "one_liner": "Requires state agencies to set guidelines and contamination limits for when cleaned-up sites are suitable for housing.", "summary": "Requires the State Water Resources Control Board and the Department of Toxic Substances Control to create guidelines for cleaning up development sites and deciding if they are suitable. They must set contamination thresholds based on the source and future use. Sites above those thresholds are not suitable for housing.", "issues": [ "climate_energy", "housing" ], "gut_and_amend_note": null, "has_plain_summary": true, "url": "bills/2025-26/SB1258.html" } ] }