SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/29/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The California Emergency Services Act sets forth the duties of the Office of Emergency Services with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities within the state. Existing law establishes the Public Safety Communications Division within the office and prescribes certain duties in regard to statewide public safety communications systems, including providing for coordination of, and comment on, plans, policies, and operational requirements from departments that utilize public safety communications in support of their principal function. This bill would make the above-described duties the exclusive responsibility of the division and prohibit a state public agency from performing those duties, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would require the division to serve as the primary authority for all statewide and interjurisdictional public safety communications, and to provide oversight, management, and ongoing coordination of all statewide public safety communications systems. The bill would require state public agencies to utilize the public safety communications systems established and maintained under these provisions. The bill would prohibit the division or a state public agency from entering into a contract for a technical, maintenance, or system support services without approval by the office. (Based on 04/06/2026 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2383 Zbur, D Electricity:
data centers.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the
Assembly.
(Ayes 28.
Noes 9.). In
Assembly.
Concurrenc
e in Senate
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
Rule 63
suspended.
Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. 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 investigate a single rate, classification, rule, contract, practice, or the entire schedule of rates, classifications, rules, contracts, and practices, of any public utility, and to establish new rates, classifications, rules, contracts, practices, or schedules. This bill would require, as part of a new or existing proceeding, the commission to require each electrical corporation to file a transmission and distribution service tariff and a generation service tariff for participating customers, as defined, that meet certain requirements, as specified. (Based on 08/28/2026 text)
Monitor
AB 2433 Alvarez, D Housing
development:
density bonus.
08/30/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/30/2026
- Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to grant a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, to an applicant for a housing development when the applicant seeks a density bonus for the housing development, as specified, if the applicant agrees to construct, among other things, a specified percentage of units for very low income, lower income, or senior citizen housing, and meets other requirements. This bill would, instead, require a city or county to grant a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, to an applicant for a housing development when the applicant submits an application for a housing development that a city, county, or city and county determines meets specified criteria, including, among others, the housing development includes specified percentage of units for very low income, lower income, or senior citizen housing. (Based on 08/20/2026 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2462 Pellerin, D Unsafe
products:
disposal:
penalties.
02/20/2026 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/15/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The Product Recall Safety and Protection Act provides for the establishment and enforcement of various product safety standards for consumer products, and prohibits a commercial dealer, manufacturer, importer, distributor, wholesaler, or retailer from placing into the stream of commerce a product that is unsafe, knowing that the product is unsafe. For purposes of the act, a manufacturer is any person who makes, and places into the stream of commerce, a product. This bill would instead state that a manufacturer is a person who manufactures a product and who owns or is the licensee of the brand or trademark under which the product is sold, as specified. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)
Support
AB 2465 Ortega, D State
government:
benefits.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/26/2026
- In
Assembly.
Concurrenc
e in Senate
amendment
s pending.
Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
(Ayes 58.
Noes 19.).
08/26/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Existing law generally provides various benefits, including grant programs and tax credits. Existing law, the California Values Act, generally prohibits California law enforcement agencies from using their moneys or personnel for immigration enforcement purposes, except as specified. This bill would prohibit a business entity that is directly invested in, owns, operates, or manages a private detention facility, or that contracts with the federal government for immigration enforcement purposes, as specified, from receiving any state-provided grant or loan, as specified. The bill would also prohibit a disqualified taxpayer, as defined, from receiving any tax credits, except as provided. The bill would define “disqualified taxpayer” to mean a taxpayer that is directly invested in, owns, operates, or manages a private detention facility, or a taxpayer that contracts with a private detention facility or agency engaging in immigration enforcement, as specified. The bill would not apply these provisions to a provider of health care, as defined, that contracts with a private detention facility or agency engaging in immigration enforcement, as specified. The bill would establish the Due Process for All Fund and would require the Controller to transfer each year from the General Fund to the Due Process for All Fund the amount of tax collected that is attributable to business entities being made ineligible for tax credits by this bill. The bill would make moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature for immigration-related services and programs. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2469 Papan, D Data centers:
water use
disclosures.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
(Ayes 61.
Noes 12.).
09/01/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, businesses, residences, and open space, as specified.
This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from approving a discretionary or ministerial permit or other entitlement that would result in the construction, or an expansion that increases the maximum peak water use, of a data center unless specified conditions are satisfied, including, among others, that the applicant provides the city, county, or city and a county prescribed information. The bill would include in this prescribed information a water scarcity plan and a water supply assessment, each as provided. The bill would also include in the specified conditions that the applicant assumes responsibility for the full cost of any required water conveyance, treatment or storage, or distribution infrastructure improvements necessary to serve the project, as determined by the applicable water supplier. The bill would provide that this provision is severable. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
Monitor
AB 2473 Committee
on
Emergency
Management
Wildfire
Forecast and
Threat
Intelligence
Integration
Center:
forecasted
extreme, life-
threatening fire
weather
conditions.
04/07/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/3/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The California Emergency Services Act requires the Office of Emergency Services and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to jointly establish and lead the Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center, which serves as the state’s central organizing hub for, among other things, wildfire forecasting. Existing law authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to proclaim a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. This bill would require the Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center to proactively coordinate with the National Weather Service and the California State Warning Center to share forecasted extreme, life-threatening fire weather conditions to ensure wide distribution of information for all potentially impacted agencies. (Based on 04/07/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2474 Committee
on
Emergency
Management
Office of
Emergency
Services:
public alert
and early
warning
software:
master
contract.
04/08/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
04/23/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location
was
EMERGEN
CY
MANAGEM
ENT on
3/9/2026)
04/23/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies, as specified. The California Emergency Services Act requires each local agency, in order to be eligible for any funding of response-related costs under disaster assistance programs, to use the standardized emergency management system to coordinate multiple-jurisdiction or multiple-agency operations, except that a local agency is eligible for repair, renovation, or any other nonpersonnel costs resulting from an emergency. This bill would require OES, on or before July 1, 2027, in consultation with certain entities, to develop an implementation plan for entering into a statewide master contract for a public alert and early warning software that is capable of supporting interoperable public safety alerting across state, regional, and local governmental entities. The bill would require the implementation plan, among other requirements, to include a draft request for proposal under which the public alert and early warning software, among other things, is interoperable across state, regional, and local governmental entities. The bill would require the office, upon completion of the implementation plan, to send the plan to the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management and the Senate Committee on Emergency Management. (Based on 04/08/2026 text)
Monitor
AB 2475 Committee
on
Emergency
Management
Standardized
emergency
management
system.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/26/2026
- Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
(Ayes 76.
Noes 1.).
08/26/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
he California Emergency Services Act, requires the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies. The act requires the Office of Emergency Services to complete an after-action report within 180 days of a declared disaster, as provided. This bill would instead require the Office of Emergency Services to complete 2 after-action reports, the first within the first 180 days of a declaration of a state of emergency and the second no later than 180 days after a declared state of emergency ends, as provided. The bill would also require the office to annually draft a written update related to the recovery activities of all open states of emergency, as provided. The bill would require the office to send both reports and any annual recovery updates to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Emergency Management, as provided. This bill would additionally require, no later than 120 days after a declaration of a state of emergency by the Governor ends, that each affected city, county, or city and county provide the Office of Emergency Services with information regarding local recovery efforts. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
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171
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2517 Calderon, D Fire safety: fire
hazard
severity zones.
04/08/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/6/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas, commonly known as local responsibility areas, as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas.
Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review and make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones within local responsibility areas. Under existing law, this review is required to coincide with review of state responsibility area lands every 5 years and, when possible, fall within the timeframes for each county’s general plan update. Existing law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving the recommendations from the State Fire Marshal. Existing law authorizes a local agency to, at its discretion, include areas within its jurisdiction not identified as very high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal as very high fire hazard severity zones and areas not identified as moderate and high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal as moderate and high fire hazard severity zones. Under existing law, a local agency is required to transmit a copy of this adopted ordinance to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection within 30 days of adoption. Existing law provides that changes made by a local agency to the recommendations made by the State Fire Marshal are final. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal to, no fewer than 180 days before finalizing the designation of local responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, post specified information relating to those designations on its public internet website, provide at least one workshop on the draft maps for stakeholder participation, host a 30-day public comment period to receive written comments from interested stakeholders, respond to all written comments by local agencies regarding land use and zoning matters that address the accuracy of the data used by the State Fire Marshal for those designations within 30 days of the end of the public comment period, and coordinate with other state agencies to help educate their constituencies, as specified. (Based on 04/08/2026 text)
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172
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2549 Zbur, D Electronic
Waste
Recycling Act
of 2003:
manufacturer
notices.
06/22/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/3/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 (act) requires a retailer selling a covered electronic device, including a covered battery-embedded product, as defined, in this state to collect from a consumer at the time of retail sale a covered electronic waste recycling fee, as specified. The act imposes certain obligations on a manufacturer of a covered electronic device sold in the state. Existing law requires a manufacturer of a covered electronic device that is a covered battery-embedded product, as defined, to provide a specified notice to any retailer that sells that product informing the retailer that the covered battery-embedded product is subject to a recycling fee, as provided.
Existing law requires the notices to identify the covered electronic device by brand and model number. Existing law incorporates the requirements and other provisions of the act by reference as requirements and provisions of the hazardous waste control laws.
The act also expressly authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control to enforce the act, and all regulations adopted pursuant to the act, through the hazardous waste control laws. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would require the manufacturer to send notices regarding the products to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) in accordance with specified timeframes set forth in the bill. The bill would also require the notices to contain the universal product code (UPC), as defined, and make conforming changes.
By changing the definition of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require CalRecycle to develop, on or before March 1, 2027, a standardized form for notices submitted by a manufacturer pursuant to this provision.
The bill would require the form to require each notice to identify the battery-embedded covered product manufactured by that manufacturer by brand, model number, and UPC, and the covered battery-embedded waste recycling fee. (Based on 06/22/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2552 Ávila Farías,
D
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
Transit-
Oriented
Development
Implementatio
n Fund:
contributions.
04/16/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
04/29/2026
- From
committee:
Do pass
and re-refer
to Com. on
APPR.
(Ayes 11.
Noes 0.)
(April 29).
Re-referred
to Com. on
APPR.
04/29/2026 -
Assembly Appro
priations
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. If a lead agency determines that a project will have a significant transportation impact, existing law authorizes the lead agency to mitigate the transportation impact to a less than significant level by helping to fund or otherwise facilitating housing or related infrastructure projects, including by contributing an amount, to be determined pursuant to guidance issued by the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for purposes of the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program. Existing law makes those moneys available to the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of awarding funding for affordable housing or related infrastructure projects under the program in accordance with specified priorities. On or before July 1, 2026, and at least once every 3 years thereafter, existing law requires the office, in consultation with other state agencies, to issue guidance related to the implementation of these provisions, as provided. This bill would authorize a lead agency for a land use project to require an applicant to contribute to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund if certain cost conditions are met and the department and the office have validated the reductions in vehicle miles traveled that are attributable to the project, as specified. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Monitor
AB 2559 Ward, D Solid waste:
construction
debris:
diversion:
deposits.
07/16/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
07/16/2026
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State -
Chapter 97,
Statutes of
2026.
07/16/2026 -
Assembly CHAP
TERED
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, establishes an integrated waste management program and requires the department to adopt rules and regulations, as necessary, to carry out the act. Existing law requires each city, county, and regional agency, if any, to develop a source reduction and recycling element, household hazardous waste element, and nondisposal facility element of an integrated waste management plan. The act requires the source reduction and recycling element to divert from disposal 50% of all solid waste subject to the element through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities, with specified exceptions. This bill would require a city or county that requires a refundable deposit, performance security, or similar financial guarantee as a condition of issuing a construction, demolition, or building permit for the purpose of ensuring compliance with a construction or demolition debris requirement to return the full amount of the deposit if documentation demonstrating compliance with the terms of the deposit is provided, as specified. (Based on 07/16/2026 text)
Support if
Amended
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2563 Pacheco, D Sex
discrimination:
scope.
08/30/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/30/2026
- Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
The United States and California Constitutions guarantee all persons the right to equal protection of the laws. The California Constitution further recognizes the right of all persons to pursue and obtain safety, happiness, and privacy, guarantees an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, and prohibits disqualification of a person from entering or pursuing a business, profession, vocation, or employment because of, among other things, sex. This bill would require, under all state laws, that any provision that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, discrimination on the basis of gender, or similar discrimination be interpreted to prohibit sex discrimination.
The bill would define “sex discrimination” to include, among other things, discrimination based on any of specified actual or perceived characteristics or actions, including based on degree of conformity to sex or gender stereotypes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/21/2026 text) Monitor
AB 2569 Hart, D California
Environmental
Quality Act:
natural
hazards and
adverse
environmental
conditions.
02/20/2026 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/29/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
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. This bill would expand those definitions to include impacts on people, as specified. The bill would additionally require the lead agency to include in the EIR a detailed statement on any significant effects that may result from locating the proposed project near, or attracting people to, existing or reasonably foreseeable natural hazards or adverse environmental conditions. Because the lead agency would be required to undertake this additional consideration, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2577 Connolly, D Safe Drinking
Water and
Toxic
Enforcement
Act of 1986:
settlements:
attorney’s
fees.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/31/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
4 p.m.
08/31/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLED
The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 65 at the November 4, 1986, statewide general election, prohibits a person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing that chemical into water, or into or onto land and passing into any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act authorizes a person, acting in the public interest, to bring an action to enforce the requirements of the act if specified requirements are met. If there is a settlement of an action brought by a person in the public interest the act requires the plaintiff to submit the settlement to the court for approval upon noticed motion, and authorizes the court to approve the settlement only if the court makes specified findings, as provided, including that the award of attorney’s fees is reasonable under state law. This bill would additionally require the court to find that the award of attorney’s fees is appropriate under state law and that the settlement is in the public interest and provides a public benefit. The bill would further require, under a specified circumstance, the court to find that the settlement would require the defendant to reduce the exposure to the listed chemical from the level that existed before the settlement or provide a warning that complies with the act if that warning was not provided previously. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
Monitor
AB 2596 Gipson, D Mobilehome
parks:
federally
approved
housing
programs:
compliance
with state and
local laws.
08/20/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/20/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
4 p.m.
08/20/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLED
Would specify that, in the event that a mobilehome park operator, owner, or management fails to, or elects not to, comply with federal law or other federal requirements imposed in connection with a federally approved housing program, the mobilehome park operator, owner, or management shall ensure ongoing compliance with the Mobilehome Residency Law, the prescribed provisions of the Unruh Civil Rights Act, and all other applicable state and local laws and ordinances. If a mobilehome park operator, owner, or management fails to, or elects not to, conduct the age verification requirement under prescribed federal law, the bill would authorize a local agency to conduct age verification, as provided, and grant the local agency with the right to access and inspect records of the mobilehome park operator, owner, and management to conduct that verification. (Based on 08/17/2026 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2600 Bonta, D Immigration:
access to legal
counsel.
04/09/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/13/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law, subject to available funding, provides legal counsel to immigrant youth in the State of California. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to allocate funding for these purposes, and requires the department to consider whether federal funding has been made available and dispersed to organizations or relevant projects in the state in determining the amount and allocation of contracts awarded.
Existing law requires the department to contract with qualified nonprofit legal services organizations, or public defender offices, that meet certain requirements to provide legal counsel to immigrant youth. This bill would, subject to the availability of funding, similarly provide legal counsel to every covered individual subject to certain immigration proceedings if that individual is not otherwise being provided counsel, as specified. The bill would define a covered individual to include an individual who is not represented by counsel and who satisfies the indigency requirements established by the administrator and one or more of certain specified criteria relating to the connection of them or their immigration case to the State California. The bill would require the department to establish the office of the administrator within the department to oversee implementation of these provisions. The bill would require the provisions to be implemented by the administrator, or their designee, by January 1, 2027, and would specify the duties and authorities of the administrator, or their designee, with regard to implementation, including, among others, the authority to develop and implement a phase-in plan. (Based on 04/09/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2607 Nguyen, D California
Americans
with
Disabilities Act
Small
Business
Capital Access
Loan Program.
03/09/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/15/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law establishes the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program to assist small businesses in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Existing law requires the Capital Programs and Climate Financing Authority to adopt regulations to establish and regulate new loss reserve accounts for qualified loans made by participating lenders to small businesses for eligible products, as specified, including regulations limiting terms of loans and recaptures from loss reserve accounts to 5 years, as specified. Existing law caps qualified loans under the program at $50,000. Existing law establishes the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program Fund, a continuously appropriated fund to be administered by the authority for the purposes of the program. Existing law prescribes the uses for moneys in the fund, including specified program and administrative expenditures, and limits administrative expenditures to 5% of the initial appropriation plus 5% of all moneys recaptured.
Existing law establishes the California Seismic Safety Capital Access Loan Program, which is similar to the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program, to assist residential property owners with and small business owners seismically retrofitting residences and small businesses, as specified. This bill would increase the cap for qualified loans under the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program to $250,000. The bill would, as of the operative date of the bill, require the authority to transfer the moneys from the California Seismic Safety Capital Access Loan Program Fund to the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program Fund.
The bill would provide that moneys in the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program Fund may additionally be used for financial assistance to eligible projects, as specified. The bill would change the limit for administrative expenditures from the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program Fund to 5% of the initial appropriation plus 5% of all interest earned and moneys recaptured. The bill would require the regulations adopted for the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program to increase the 5-year term and recapture limits described above to 15 years. (Based on 03/09/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2619 Papan, D Water
resources:
data centers.
09/01/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/27/2026
- In
Assembly.
Concurrenc
e in Senate
amendment
s pending.
Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
(Ayes 63.
Noes 7.).
08/27/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of an incorporated city and the county board of supervisors to license businesses carried on within their respective jurisdictions and to set license fees, as specified. This bill would require a person who owns or operates a data center, prior to applying to a city or a county for an initial business license, equivalent instrument, or permit, to provide its water supplier, under penalty of perjury, a good faith estimate of the expected water use, the anticipated source of water, and the data center’s projected water use volume for the maximum day, maximum month, and average year. When applying to a city or county for an initial business license, the bill would require a person who owns or operates a data center to report, under penalty of perjury, on the application, a good faith estimate of the expected water use, the anticipated source of water, and the data center’s projected water use volume for the maximum day, maximum month, and average year. When applying to a city or county for a renewal of a business license, equivalent instrument, or permit, the bill would require a person who owns or operates a data center to report, under penalty of perjury, on the application, the data center’s annual water use for the preceding calendar year, including total water and direct water use, as prescribed. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would define terms for purposes of these provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2676 Lackey, R Housing Crisis
Act of 2019.
06/24/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was
HOUSING
on
6/24/2026)
07/01/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The Housing Crisis Act of 2019, with respect to land where housing is an allowable use and except as specified, prohibits a county or city, including the electorate exercising its local initiative or referendum power, in which specified conditions exist, determined as provided by the Department of Housing and Community Development, from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition, as defined, that would have certain effects.
Under existing law, these proscribed policies, standards, or conditions include, among others, (A) changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use within an existing zoning district below what was allowed under the general plan or specific plan land use designation and zoning ordinances of the county or city as in effect on January 1, 2018, and (B) imposing or enforcing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city, except as provided. Existing law states that these prohibitions apply to any zoning ordinance adopted or amended on or after the effective date of these provisions, and that any development policy, standard, or condition on or after that date that does not comply is deemed void. Existing law prohibits a county or city subject to these provisions from enforcing a zoning ordinance imposing a moratorium or other similar restriction on or limitation of housing development until it has submitted the ordinance to, and received approval from, the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires the department to approve a zoning ordinance submitted to it only if the department determines that the zoning ordinance satisfies these requirements. If the department denies approval of the zoning ordinance, as specified, existing law states that the ordinance is deemed void. This bill would expand the prohibition against enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that has the effect of imposing or enforcing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city to also prohibit these policies, standards, or conditions within the sphere of influence of a city, as defined. (Based on 06/24/2026 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2679 Hadwick, R State
highways:
public parking:
traffic control.
07/09/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/3/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests the department with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law establishes the Tahoe Transportation District as a special purpose district managed by representatives from the States of California and Nevada to, among other things, operate a public transportation system in the Lake Tahoe Basin. This bill would authorize the department, within the Tahoe corridor, to contract with a state agency, a local government, or the district relating to safety, access, and parking in the corridor to (1) designate the portions of state highways that constitute the corridor, (2) prevent unsafe parking and pedestrian movement in the corridor, as provided, and (3) enhance public access to the corridor and public recreation sites, by, among other things, developing public parking, establishing and collecting fees for public parking, and developing transit facilities and pedestrian pathways to connect public parking to recreation sites, as specified. This bill would require all moneys collected from a fee for that public parking to be deposited into the Tahoe Safe Recreation Access Fund, which the bill would establish, and would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the department to use those moneys for purposes of improving transportation facilities on state highways in the Tahoe Basin, as specified. (Based on 07/09/2026 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2760 Sharp-
Collins, D
Law
enforcement:
wearable
electroshock
devices.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the
Assembly.
(Ayes 29.
Noes 9.).
Measure
version as
amended
on August
28 corrected.
In
Assembly.
Concurrenc
e in Senate
amendment
s pending.
Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Would, until January 1, 2030, prohibit a law enforcement agency, including a federal law enforcement agency, from using a wearable electroshock device within the State of California. The bill would also prohibit a law enforcement agency from using state funds to purchase a wearable electroshock device. The bill would require a law enforcement agency to update their use of force policies to prohibit the use of a wearable electroshock device. By increasing the duties on local law enforcement, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Division of Law Enforcement within the Department of Justice to conduct a study on the safety and community impacts of wearable electroshock devices and provide recommendations for appropriate standards and safeguards for their use, and would require the department to report to the Legislature on the findings and recommendations of the study on or before January 1, 2029. (Based on 08/28/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
AB 2761 Petrie-
Norris, D
Vehicles:
crash data.
08/27/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/27/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
4 p.m.
08/27/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLED
Under existing law, the Department of the California Highway Patrol is responsible for enforcement of all laws regulating the operation of vehicles and use of the highways, as specified. Existing law gives the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol full responsibility and primary jurisdiction for the administration and enforcement of the laws, and for the investigation of traffic accidents, on all toll highways and state highways constructed as freeways, except as specified. Existing law requires the department to provide to, among others, police departments, coroners, and sheriffs, forms for accident reports that include sufficient detail regarding the cause of the traffic accident, the conditions at the time of the accident, and the persons and vehicles involved in the accident. Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle, except a driver of a common carrier vehicle, to report an accident resulting in injuries or death to a person to the department or the local police department within 24 hours after the accident.
Existing law requires a coroner or medical examiner to report a death of a person that was the result of a traffic accident by the 10th day of the calendar month following the accident. Existing law requires each police department, if they received a report and were responsible for investigating the accident, to forward a copy of the report to the department by the 5th day of the month that follows the month that they received the report. This bill would repeal the requirement that the department provide the above- described forms and would instead require the department, by January 1, 2030, to develop minimum requirements for electronic submission of crash investigation reports, as specified. The bill would require a coroner or medical examiner to submit the above- described report electronically. The bill would also eliminate the requirement that a law enforcement agency forward reports in compliance with the above-described timeline and would instead require the agency to electronically submit the reports to the department, as specified. The bill would make an electronic copy of a crash investigation report available to the requestor at no cost. (Based on 08/24/2026 text) Monitor
ACA 4 Jackson, D Homelessness
and affordable
housing.
05/05/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
01/22/2026
- In
committee:
Set, first
hearing.
Held under
submission.
05/14/2025 -
Assembly APPR
. SUSPENSE
FILE
The California Constitution authorizes the development, construction, or acquisition of developments composed of urban or rural dwellings, apartments, or other living accommodations for persons of low income financed in whole or in part by the federal government or a state public body, or to which the federal government or a state public body extends assistance, if a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which the housing is proposed to be located approves the project by voting in favor thereof, as specified. This measure, the Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act, would create an account in the General Fund into which, beginning in the 2027–28 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter until September 30, 2036, a sum would be transferred from the General Fund equal to or greater than 5% of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year, as specified. The measure would require the moneys in the account to be appropriated by the Legislature to the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and would authorize that agency to expend the moneys to fund prescribed matters related to homelessness and affordable housing, including housing and services to prevent and end homelessness. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
ACA 7 Jackson, D Government
preferences.
08/30/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/30/2026
- Senate
amendment
s concurred
in. To
Engrossing
and
Enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
The California Constitution, pursuant to provisions enacted by the Proposition 209, an initiative measure adopted by the voters at the November 5, 1996, statewide general election, prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting, as specified. This measure, the Closing the Student Opportunity and Achievement Gap Act, would, instead, limit the above prohibition to the operation of public employment, public higher education admissions and enrollment, and public contracting. (Based on 08/13/2026 text)
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ACA 9 Boerner, D Public Utilities
Commission.
05/28/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
06/08/2026
- In
committee:
Set, first
hearing.
Hearing
canceled at
the request
of author.
05/27/2026 -
Senate Energy,
Utilities and
Communications
The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission consisting of 5 members appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate. The constitution authorizes the commission to establish its own procedures, subject to statute and due process, and authorizes a commissioner designated by the commission to hold a hearing or investigation or issue an order, subject to the commission’s approval. The constitution also authorizes the commission to fix the rates of all public utilities subject to its jurisdiction. This measure would increase the membership of the commission to 9 members with the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly each appointing 2 additional members. The measure would repeal the authorization for the commission to establish its own procedures and for a commissioner designated by the commission to hold a hearing or investigation or issue an order. (Based on 05/28/2026 text)
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ACR 71 Kalra, D Little Saigon
Freeway.
02/20/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
02/20/2026
- Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State -
Chapter 4,
Statutes of
2026.
02/20/2026 -
Assembly CHAP
TERED
Would designate the portion of State Route 101 in the County of Santa Clara from Story Road to the junction with State Highway Route 280 and State Highway Route 680 as the Little Saigon Freeway. The measure also would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing that special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)
Support
AJR 11 Ransom, D Building
Resilient
Infrastructure
and
Communities
program:
federal funding
cuts.
06/18/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
06/18/2025
- Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State -
Chapter 84,
Statutes of
2025
06/18/2025 -
Assembly CHAP
TERED
Would urge the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States to immediately restore full funding for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. (Based on 06/18/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 7 McNerney, D Employment:
automated
decision
systems.
10/13/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/13/2025 -
Senate VETOED
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 (ADS) that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. This bill would require an employer to provide a written notice that an ADS, for the purpose of making employment-related decisions, not including hiring, is in use at the workplace to all workers that will foreseeably be directly affected by the ADS, as specified. The bill would require the employer to maintain an updated list of all ADS currently in use. The bill would require an employer to notify, as provided, a job applicant that the employer utilizes an ADS when making hiring decisions, if the employer will use the ADS in making decisions for that position. The bill would prohibit an employer from using an ADS that does certain functions and would limit the purposes and manner in which an ADS may be used to make decisions. The bill would authorize a worker to request, and require an employer to provide, a copy of the most recent 12 months of the worker’s own data primarily used by an ADS to make a discipline, termination, or deactivation decision, as specified. The bill would require an employer that primarily relied on an ADS to make a discipline, termination, or deactivation decision to provide the affected worker with a written notice, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/17/2025 text)
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SB 9 Arreguín, D Accessory
Dwelling Units:
ordinances.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
510,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency to submit an accessory dwelling unit ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development within 60 days after adoption. The law authorizes the department to submit written findings to a local agency as to whether the ordinance complies with the standards. If the department finds that the ordinance does not comply with the standards, the law requires the department to provide a local agency reasonable time, no longer than 30 days, to respond to its findings. If the local agency does not amend its ordinance in response to those findings or does not adopt a resolution with findings explaining the reason the ordinance complies with the standards and addressing the department’s findings, the law requires the department to notify the local agency and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General that the local agency is in violation of state law. This bill would invalidate the ordinance if the local agency fails to submit a copy of the ordinance to the department within 60 days of adoption or fails to respond to the department’s findings that the ordinance does not comply with the standards within 30 days, as described above. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 12 Gonzalez, D State
government:
Immigrant and
Refugee
Affairs
Agency: Office
of Immigrant
and Refugee
Affairs.
04/10/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law designates 8 agencies in state government and requires the secretary of an agency to be generally responsible for the sound fiscal management of each department, office, or other unit within the agency. Current law further requires the secretary of an agency to, among other duties, continually seek to improve the organization structure, the operating policies, and the management information systems of each department, office, or other unit. This bill would establish the Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Agency as an agency within state government, to be headed by a secretary who is appointed by the Governor and subject to Senate confirmation. The bill would specify that the purpose of the agency is to enhance, and reduce obstacles to, immigrant and refugee inclusion into the social, cultural, economic, and civic life of the state. The bill would authorize the secretary to, among other things, assist other state agencies in evaluating their programs for accessibility and effectiveness in providing services to immigrants and refugees and recommending policy and budget mechanisms for meeting immigrant and refugee inclusion. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Monitor
SB 16 Blakespear,
D
Mental health:
involuntary
commitment.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
09/01/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Unanimous
consent
granted to
take up
without
reference to
file.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
30. Noes 1.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
09/01/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act provides for the involuntary detention and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. Existing law authorizes a county behavioral health director to develop procedures for the county’s designation and training of professionals who will be designated to perform the above-described provisions. This bill would instead require a county behavioral health director to establish and implement procedures governing the county’s designation and training of professionals who will be designated to perform the above-described provisions. (Based on 08/28/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 18 Rubio, D Food Desert
Elimination
Grant
Program.
05/08/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
7/16/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law creates the Office of Farm to Fork within the Department of Food and Agriculture, and requires the office, to the extent that resources are available, to work with various entities, as prescribed, to increase the amount of agricultural products available to underserved communities and schools in the state. Existing law requires the office, among other things, to identify distribution barriers that affect limited food access and work to overcome those barriers through various actions and to coordinate with school districts and representatives to increase the nutritional profile of foods provided in schools. This bill would create the Food Desert Elimination Grant Program under the administration of the department for the purpose of expanding access to healthy foods in food deserts, as defined, in the state, and areas at risk of becoming food deserts, by providing grants to grocery store operators, as specified. The bill would create the Food Desert Elimination Fund in the General Fund and would authorize the fund to be expended by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the program. The bill would authorize the department to collect nonstate, federal, and private funds, require those funds to be deposited into the California Equitable Food Access Account within the Food Desert Elimination Fund, and continuously appropriate moneys in the account to the department for purposes of the program. The bill would authorize the department to award grants for specified purposes to grocery store operators seeking to locate grocery stores in food deserts or to existing grocery stores located in food deserts. The bill would authorize the department to adopt guidelines to implement these provisions. The bill would make the implementation of all of its provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would repeal its provisions on December 31, 2030. (Based on 05/08/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 21 Durazo, D Single-room
occupancy
units:
demolition and
replacement:
housing
assistance
programs:
eligibility for
homeless
individuals and
families.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
511,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Housing Crisis Act of 2019 prohibits an affected city or an affected county, as defined, from approving a housing development project that will require the demolition of occupied or vacant protected units, as defined, or that is located on a site where protected units were demolished in the previous 5 years unless specified requirements are met. Among these requirements, current law requires that the project replace all existing protected units and protected units demolished on or after January 1, 2020, and, if the project is a housing development project, as defined, it will include at least as many residential dwelling units as the greatest number of residential dwelling units that existed on the project site within the last 5 years. Current law requires that specified protected units replaced under these provisions be considered in determining whether the housing development project satisfies certain state and local requirements that the project provide a certain percentage of residential rental units affordable to, and occupied by, households with incomes that do not exceed the limits for moderate- income, lower income, very low income, or extremely low income households, as specified. This bill would additionally require that the above-described replaced protected units be considered in determining whether the housing development project satisfies requirements that a certain percentage of residential rental units affordable to, and occupied by, households with incomes that do not exceed the limits for acutely low income households, as specified. This bill, notwithstanding the above-described requirements, in the case of rehabilitation or replacement of an existing single-room occupancy building that meets prescribed criteria, would permit an affected city or an affected county to reduce the number of replacement units required if the project meets specified requirements, including, among others, that the reduction in replacement units is necessary to accommodate the conversion of single-room occupancy units, as provided, and that the converted units will be rental units with affordable rents, as specified. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
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SB 23 Valladares,
R
Property
taxation:
exemption:
disabled
veteran
homeowners.
03/05/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 02/02/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The California Constitution provides that all property is taxable, and requires that it be assessed at the same percentage of fair market value, unless otherwise provided by the California Constitution or federal law. The California Constitution and existing property tax law provide various exemptions from taxation, including, among others, a disabled veterans’ exemption and a veterans’ organization exemption. This bill would exempt from taxation, property owned by, and that constitutes the principal place of residence of, a veteran, the veteran’s spouse, or the veteran and the veteran’s spouse jointly, if the veteran is 100% disabled. The bill would provide an unmarried surviving spouse a property exemption in the same amount that they would have been entitled to if the veteran was alive and if certain conditions are met. The bill would require certain documentation to be provided to the county assessor to receive the exemption and would prohibit any other real property tax exemption from being granted to the claimant if receiving the exemption provided by the provisions of this bill. (Based on 03/05/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 24 McNerney, D Public utilities:
review of
accounts:
electrical and
gas
corporations:
rates: political
influence
activities.
10/11/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/11/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to fix the rates and charges for public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations, and requires those rates and charges to be just and reasonable. Under existing law, a regulated public utility is prohibited from using ratepayer funds for advocacy-related activities that are political or do not otherwise benefit ratepayers. This bill would prohibit, except as provided, each electrical corporation or gas corporation from recording to accounts that contain expenses that the electrical corporation or gas corporation recovers from ratepayers, or otherwise recovering from ratepayers, direct or indirect costs of opposing the municipalization of electrical or gas service, as specified. The bill would require the commission to monitor and investigate compliance and noncompliance with the prohibition. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/17/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 27 Umberg, D Community
Assistance,
Recovery, and
Empowerment
(CARE) Court
Program.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
528,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. Current law authorizes a specified individual to commence the CARE process, known as the original petitioner. Current law authorizes the court to dismiss a case without prejudice when the court finds that a petitioner has not made a prima facie showing that they qualify for the CARE process. Current law requires the court to take prescribed actions if it finds that a prima facie showing has been made, including, but not limited to, setting the matter for an initial appearance on the petition. Current law requires the court, if it determines the parties have entered or are likely to enter into a CARE agreement, to either approve or modify the CARE agreement and continue the matter at a progress hearing in 60 days, or continue the matter for 14 days to allow the parties additional time to enter into an agreement. Current law prohibits a person from being tried or adjudged to punishment while that person is mentally incompetent.
Current law authorizes a court to refer an individual from, among other things, assisted outpatient treatment or conservatorship proceedings, as specified, to CARE Act proceedings. Current law provides that if the individual is referred from assisted outpatient treatment, the county behavioral health director or their designee shall be the petitioner, whereas if the referral is from conservatorship proceedings, the conservator or proposed conservator is the petitioner. This bill would allow the court to make a prima facie determination without conducting a hearing. The bill, in the first hearing to determine competence to stand trial, would authorize the court to consider the petitioner’s eligibility for both diversion and the CARE program. The bill would authorize the court to refer the petitioner to the CARE Act court if the defendant or counsel for the defendant agrees to the referral and the court has reason to believe the petitioner may be eligible for the CARE program. (Based on 10/10/2025 text) Monitor
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189
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 28 Umberg, D Community
Assistance,
Recovery, and
Empowerment
(CARE) court
program.
07/02/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act authorizes specified persons, including a person with whom the respondent resides, family members, and first responders, among others, to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act authorizes a conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled as a result of a mental health disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism. Existing law requires the officer providing the conservatorship investigation, which may include a public guardian or a county mental health program, to investigate all available alternatives to conservatorship and to recommend conservatorship to the court only if no suitable alternatives are available. Existing law requires a conservatorship under these provisions to terminate after one year and specifies procedures if the conservator determines conservatorship is still required. This bill would authorize a conservator to, upon the termination of a conservatorship, request the court refer the conservatee to CARE court, as specified. (Based on 07/02/2026 text) Monitor
SB 30 Cortese, D Diesel-
powered on-
track
equipment:
decommissioni
ng: resale and
transfer
restrictions.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
735,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Would prohibit a public entity that owns diesel-powered on-track equipment from selling, donating, or otherwise transferring ownership of that equipment for continued use after the public entity decommissions the equipment. The bill would exempt the sale, donation, or transfer of the ownership of that equipment from the prohibition if the equipment is deemed to be in one of specified categories of emissions standards designated by the federal government for locomotives, the equipment produces emissions equivalent to any equipment within any of those federal categories, or the diesel engine is removed from the equipment, as specified. (Based on 10/13/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 33 Cortese, D Public
contracts:
claim
resolution.
07/16/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
07/16/2026
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter 99,
Statutes of
2026.
07/16/2026 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law prescribes various requirements regarding the formation, content, and enforcement of state and local public contracts. Current law establishes, until January 1, 2027, for contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2017, a claim resolution process applicable to any claim by a contractor in connection with a public works project against a public entity, as specified. For purposes of these provisions, current law defines “public entity” to include, among others, a city, including a charter city, and county, including a charter county. Current law imposes various requirements on a public entity in relating to the claim resolution process, including, among other things, conducting a reasonable review of the claim and, within 45 days, providing the claimant a written statement identifying the disputed and undisputed portions of the claim. This bill would repeal the above-described January 1, 2027, repeal date, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. By indefinitely extending the duties of local agencies in relation to the above-specified claim resolution process, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 07/16/2026 text) Monitor
SB 38 Umberg, D Second
Chance
Program.
04/09/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 02/02/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to administer a grant program to carry out the purposes of the Second Chance Program. Current law requires the grant program to, among other things, restrict eligibility to proposals that offer mental health services, substance use disorder treatment services, misdemeanor diversion programs, or a combination thereof. Current law also establishes the Second Chance Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, which is administered by the board.
The Treatment-Mandated Felony Act makes it a crime for a person, who has 2 or more prior convictions for a felony or misdemeanor violation of specified controlled substances crimes, to possess a hard drug, as defined, unless it has been prescribed by a doctor, among others. Under current law, a defendant who has been charged with this crime can elect treatment, in lieu of a jail or prison sentence or probation, by pleading guilty or no contest and admitting the alleged prior convictions, waiving time for sentencing and the pronouncement of judgment, and agreeing to participate in, and complete, a detailed treatment program developed by a drug addiction expert and approved by the court. This bill would require the Second Chance grant program to authorize eligibility for proposals that offer mental health or behavioral health services and drug court or collaborative court programs, including the treatment program under the Treatment-Mandated Felony Act. By expanding the purpose of a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/09/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 45 Padilla, D Recycling:
beverage
containers:
tethered
plastic caps.
03/05/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, is established to promote beverage container recycling. The act defines “beverage container” to mean the individual, separate bottle, can, jar, carton, or other receptacle, however denominated, in which a beverage is sold, and that is constructed of metal, glass, or plastic, or other material, or any combination of these materials, but does not include cups or other similar open or loosely sealed receptacles. A violation of the act is a crime. Current law authorizes the department, subject to the availability of funds, to pay a quality incentive payment of up to $180 per ton to qualified recyclers for thermoform plastic containers diverted from curbside recycling programs, as provided. This bill would delete that authorization. The bill would instead require, on and after January 1, 2027, if a beverage is subject to the act and offered for sale in a plastic beverage container with a plastic cap, beverage manufacturers to ensure that the container to have has a cap that is tethered to the container that prevents the separation of the cap from the container when the cap is removed from the container by the consumer. The bill would exempt, until January 1, 2028, any type of beverage container with a recycling rate of better than 70% for calendar years 2022 and 2023, as determined by the department, from compliance with that requirement. (Based on 03/05/2025 text) Support
SB 48 Gonzalez, D Educational
equity:
discrimination
prevention
coordinators.
10/07/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/07/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
429,
Statutes of
2025.
10/07/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law states the policy of the State of California is to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state.
AB 715 of the 2025–26 Regular Session proposes to, among other things, (1) establish the Office of Civil Rights, under the administration of the Government Operations Agency, with the purpose of working directly with local educational agencies to prevent and address discrimination and bias, as specified, and (2) state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to establish coordinators to be employed within the Office of Civil Rights to prevent and address discrimination and bias. This bill would require the Office of Civil Rights to employ a Religious Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Race and Ethnicity Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Gender Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, and an LGBTQ Discrimination Prevention Coordinator. (Based on 10/07/2025 text)
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 52 Pérez, D Housing rental
terms:
algorithmic
devices.
07/17/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Would make it unlawful for any person to sell, license, or otherwise provide to 2 or more persons a rental pricing algorithm, as defined, with the intent or reasonable expectation that it be used by 2 or more persons, as specified, to set rental terms, as defined, for residential premises. The bill would make it unlawful for a person to set or adopt rental terms based on the recommendation of a rental pricing algorithm if the person knows or should know that the rental pricing algorithm processes nonpublic competitor data, as defined, to set rental terms and that the pricing algorithm or the recommendation of the algorithm was used by another person to set or recommend a rental term for residential premises in the same market. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Monitor
SB 57 Padilla, D Electrical
corporations:
data centers:
report.
10/11/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/11/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
647,
Statutes of
2025.
10/11/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable.
This bill would authorize the commission to assess the extent to which electrical corporation costs associated with new loads from data centers result in cost shifts to other electrical corporation customers, as provided. The bill would require the commission to submit an assessment completed pursuant to that authorization to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature and to publicly post a copy of the assessment on the commission’s internet website on or before January 1, 2027. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 58 Padilla, D Air quality:
standard:
hydrogen
sulfide.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
40. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law requires the State Air Resources to inventory sources of air pollution within the air basins of the state, determine the kinds and quantity of air pollutants, and monitor air pollutants in cooperation with districts and other agencies. Existing law requires the state board to adopt standards of ambient air quality for each air basin in consideration of the public health, safety, and welfare, including, but not limited to, health, illness, irritation to the senses, aesthetic value, interference with visibility, and effects on the economy. Existing law authorizes these standards to vary from one air basin to another. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with specified entities, to develop, as provided, a response framework that establishes best practices and guidance for addressing fugitive and natural sources of hydrogen sulfide gas and for community preparation and response to hydrogen sulfide exposure events originating from these sources. The bill would require the state board, in developing the response framework, to conduct at least 3 public workshops, including at least one located in the Tijuana River Valley region, at least one located in the Salton Sea region, and at least one selected in consultation with a community that has experienced significant hydrogen sulfide exposure. The bill would require the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to update the acute and chronic reference exposure levels for hydrogen sulfide and to develop additional health guidance values for hydrogen sulfide, if the need is identified by the state board, in consultation with the office, during development of the response framework. (Based on 08/31/2026 text) Monitor
SB 59 Wiener, D Change of
name or
gender and
sex identifier.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
738,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current 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. Current 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. Current 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. Current 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. 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. 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. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 63 Wiener, D San Francisco
Bay area: local
revenue
measure:
public transit
funding.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
740,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
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. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Support
SB 71 Wiener, D California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemptions:
transit
projects.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
742,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA, 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. 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. (Based on 10/13/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 73 Cervantes, D Elections. 05/27/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
05/27/2026
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter 10,
Statutes of
2026.
05/27/2026 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Existing state and federal law provides for the enforcement of laws related to elections.
This bill would prohibit a peace officer from interfering with the administration of an election, as specified. This bill would authorize certain persons to enforce those prohibitions by filing a civil action, as specified. This bill would also prohibit any individual from permitting an agent of a law enforcement agency, as specified, to access, disrupt, modify, or take possession of rosters, combined rosters, or voter lists unless authorized by a court order or to investigate certain types of voting fraud. The bill would additionally require the Attorney General to provide guidance and information regarding how to respond to requests by law enforcement, as defined, to access areas where ballots are present. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/27/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 74 Seyarto, R Office of Land
Use and
Climate
Innovation:
Infrastructure
Gap-Fund
Program.
04/07/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
7/2/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Current law establishes the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in the Governor’s office for the purpose of serving the Governor and the Governor’s cabinet as staff for long-range planning and research and constituting the comprehensive state planning agency. Current law authorizes a local agency to finance infrastructure projects through various means, including by authorizing a city or county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community. This bill would require the office, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program to provide grants to local agencies for the development and construction of infrastructure projects, as defined, facing unforeseen costs after starting construction. The bill would authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s additional projected cost, as defined, after the project has started construction, subject to specified conditions, including, among other things, that the local agency has allocated existing local tax revenue for at least 45% of the initially budgeted total cost of the infrastructure project. When applying to the program, the bill would require the local agency to demonstrate challenges with completing the project on time and on budget and how the infrastructure project helps meet state and local goals, as specified. (Based on 04/07/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 76 Seyarto, R Vehicles:
registration
fees and
penalties.
10/01/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/01/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Current law imposes renewal fee penalties for late payment of vehicle registration except in limited specified cases. Current law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to waive the registration penalties accrued before the purchase of a vehicle upon payment for the fees for registration due, if the transferee or purchaser was not aware that the fees were unpaid. Current law also authorizes the department to waive the registration fees that became due before the purchase of the vehicle if the transferee or purchaser was not aware that the fees were unpaid and the license plate assigned to the vehicle displays a validating device issued by the department that contains the year number of the registration year for which the transferee or purchaser is requesting a waiver of fees. Current law further provides that these unpaid fees and penalties are the personal debt of the transferor of the vehicle and may be collected by the department in an appropriate civil action if the department has waived the fees and penalties. This bill would instead require the department to waive delinquent registration fees and penalties when a transferee or purchaser of a vehicle applies for a transfer of registration if the department determines that the fees became due or the penalties accrued before the purchase of the vehicle. The bill would require the department to create a system to collect these delinquent fees and penalties from the seller or transferor. (Based on 09/08/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 78 Seyarto, R Department of
Transportation
: report: state
highway
system: safety
enhancements
.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
743,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Would require the Department of Transportation to prepare a report evaluating current efforts and potential opportunities to streamline the processes and procedures for the delivery of safety enhancement projects on the state highway system, as specified. The bill would require the department to submit the report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2027. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Monitor
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SB 79 Wiener, D Housing
development:
transit-oriented
development.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
512,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
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. 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 provide 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 shall 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 81 Arreguín, D Health and
care facilities:
information
sharing.
09/20/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/20/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
123,
Statutes of
2025.
09/20/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, a contractor, or a corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, except as provided. The CMIA prohibits a provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber of a health care service plan without first obtaining authorization from the patient, except if the disclosure is compelled by, among other things, a search warrant lawfully issued to a governmental law enforcement agency or a court order. Current law makes a violation of these provisions that results in economic loss or personal injury to a patient punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would revise the definition of “medical information” to include immigration status, including current and prior immigration status, and place of birth, if that information is known or collected, as specified, and would define “immigration enforcement” to mean any and all efforts to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of any federal civil immigration law, and also includes any and all efforts to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of any federal criminal immigration law that penalizes a person’s presence in, entry or reentry to, or employment in, the United States. The bill would specify that a provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor shall disclose medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber or a health care service plan pursuant to a valid search warrant issued by a judicial officer, including a magistrate, to a governmental law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a state or federal court order issued by a court of this state or a federal court. (Based on 09/20/2025 text)
Support
SB 84 Niello, R Disability
access:
construction-
related
accessibility
claims: notice
of violation
and
opportunity to
correct.
06/18/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was JUD.
on
6/16/2025)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Current law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. Current law imposes minimum statutory damages for construction-related accessibility claims if the violation of a construction-related accessibility standard denied the plaintiff full and equal access to the place of public accommodation on a particular occasion, as specified. Current law imposes various limits on a defendant’s liability for statutory damages under specified sets of conditions, including if the defendant, among other things, corrects the construction-related violations within a specified time. This bill would prohibit a construction-related accessibility claim for statutory damages from being initiated in a legal proceeding against a defendant who employs 50 or fewer individuals, as specified, unless the defendant has been served with a letter specifying each alleged violation, and the alleged violations have not been corrected within 120 days of service of the letter. The bill would provide that a defendant is not liable for statutory damages, plaintiff’s attorney’s fees, or costs for an alleged violation that is corrected within 120 days of service of a letter alleging the violation. (Based on 06/18/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 85 Umberg, D Civil actions:
service of
summons.
10/06/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/06/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
403,
Statutes of
2025.
10/06/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Under current law, if no provision is made in statute for the service of summons, a court may direct a summons to be served in a manner that is reasonably calculated to give actual notice to the party to be served. This bill would also authorize a court to direct a summons to be served in a manner that is reasonably calculated to give actual notice to the party to be served if a plaintiff, exercising reasonable diligence, has been unable to serve the summons using methods prescribed by statute. The bill would authorize a court, upon motion, to direct service of the summons by electronic means, if such service is reasonably calculated to give actual notice. The bill would require a plaintiff seeking to establish reasonable diligence under this section to set forth facts that detail, as specified, the attempts to effect service pursuant to the methods prescribed by statute. (Based on 10/06/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 89 Weber
Pierson, D
Glyphosate:
prohibition on
sale.
02/25/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/15/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law provides that the regulation of pesticides is of statewide concern and that the state occupies the whole field of regulation regarding the registration, sale, transportation, or use of pesticides to the exclusion of all local regulation. This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2028, the sale of a product that contains glyphosate in this state, except to a person or business that holds a valid license or certificate issued by the Department of Pesticide Regulation. The bill would require the department to levy a civil penalty of $100 for each violation of this prohibition. (Based on 02/25/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 92 Blakespear,
D
Housing
development:
density
bonuses.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
484,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified units and meets other requirements. This bill would specify that a concession and incentive shall not result in a proposed project, as prescribed, with a specified commercial floor area ratio. The bill would also specify that certain provisions of the Density Bonus Law do not require a city, county, or city and county to approve, grant a concession or incentive requiring approval of, or waive or reduce development standards otherwise applicable to, transient lodging as part of a housing development, except as specified. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 93 Weber
Pierson, D
Weapons:
robotic
devices.
04/03/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Would prohibit a person from operating a robotic device, as defined, equipped or mounted with a weapon, as defined. The bill would make a violation an infraction punishable by a fine of at least $100 but not more than $2,000. The bill would exclude specified persons, including a government official acting within the scope of their employment and a person acting within the scope of their employment by an organization that is researching, developing, testing, or manufacturing the robotic device for government use, if the person can demonstrate that they are researching, developing, testing, or manufacturing the robotic device for that purpose. By creating a new infraction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 04/03/2025 text)
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SB 98 Pérez, D Elementary,
secondary,
and
postsecondary
education:
immigration
enforcement:
notification.
09/20/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/20/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
124,
Statutes of
2025.
09/20/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Under current law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development, as specified, of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would require, until January 1, 2031, when a comprehensive school safety plan is next reviewed and updated, or by no later than March 1, 2026, those plans to include procedures specifically designed to notify parents and guardians of pupils, teachers, administrators, and school personnel when the school confirms the presence of immigration enforcement, as defined, on the schoolsite. (Based on 09/20/2025 text) Monitor
SB 105 Wiener, D Budget Acts of
2021, 2023,
2024, and
2025.
09/17/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/17/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
104,
Statutes of
2025.
09/17/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
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. This bill would amend those budget acts by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill. (Based on 09/17/2025 text) Monitor
SB 109 Laird, D Budget Act of
2026.
06/12/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
06/12/2026
- From
committee
with
author's
amendment
s. Read
second time
and
amended.
Re-referred
to Com. on
BUDGET.
03/24/2025 -
Assembly Budge
t
Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026–27 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill. (Based on 06/12/2026 text)
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SB 158 Committee
on Budget
and Fiscal
Review
Land use. 10/11/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/11/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
650,
Statutes of
2025.
10/11/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025 (GRP), which became effective on July 5, 2025, reorganized specified state agencies and departments, including establishing the Housing Development and Finance Executive Committee (executive committee) within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for the purpose of centralizing affordable housing finance policymaking across state government. The GRP requires the executive committee to, among other things, work to align state housing funding sources for the creation of a consolidated application for multifamily affordable housing developers and a coordinated review process for the application of funds. The GRP, beginning July 1, 2026, establishes the Housing Development and Finance Committee within the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, which the GRP also establishes, and transfers the executive committee to the Housing Development Finance Committee effective July 1, 2026. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that, in addition to the other duties required of the executive committee created by the GRP to align state housing funding sources, as described above, the executive committee be required to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding improvements the Department of Housing and Community Development may make to optimize loan administration, as specified. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)
Support
SB 222 Wiener, D Residential
heat pump
water heater
or heat pump
HVAC
systems.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development 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. 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. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) Support
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SB 225 McNerney, D School
nutrition:
guardian meal
reimbursement
.
02/27/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires each school district, county superintendent of schools, and charter school to make available a nutritionally adequate breakfast, as defined, and a nutritionally adequate lunch, as defined, free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal, without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, as provided. Current law defines “schoolday” for these purposes to mean any day that pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, are present at a schoolsite for purposes of instruction or educational activities, including, among other things, pupil attendance at summer school, including incoming kindergarten pupils, as provided. This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes and to the extent authorized by federal law, require the State Department of Education to establish a process for state reimbursement, adjusted annually for inflation, for federal summer meal program operators, as defined, for meals served to guardians of eligible pupils receiving a meal pursuant to a summer meal program, as provided. The bill would require the department to develop related guidance, as specified, and, if necessary, to apply for a waiver of federal law to secure federal reimbursement for these meals. The bill would require the department to distribute information about the federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program to guardians whose children are eligible for specified summer food programs. (Based on 02/27/2025 text)
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SB 237 Grayson, D Oil spill
prevention:
gasoline
specifications:
suspension:
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemptions:
County of
Kern:
transportation
fuels
assessment:
coastal
resources.
09/19/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/19/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
118,
Statutes of
2025.
09/19/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
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. Current 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. Current 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. Current law requires these regulations to permit the development, application, and use of an oil spill contingency plan for similar vessels, pipelines, terminals, and facilities within a single company or organization, and across companies and organizations. Current law requires these regulations to ensure, among other things, standards for determining a reasonable worst case oil spill. Under the act, the owner or operator of a facility where a spill could impact waters of the state is required apply for and obtain a certificate of financial responsibility issued by the administrator for the facility or the oil to be handled, stored, or transported by the facility. This bill would require the administrator to publicly post a list of all applications for certificates of financial responsibility submitted by facility owners and operators on the internet website of the Office of Spill Prevention and Response and would require the posting to include specified information about applicants, including reasonable worst case spill volume of the facility to be covered by the certificate and the amount of financial responsibility demonstrated, as provided. (Based on 09/19/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 239 Arreguín, D Crimes:
criminal
threats.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, as specified. Under existing law, this crime is punishable as a misdemeanor or by imprisonment in state prison as a felony.
Existing law, for the purposes of sentencing for a felony violation of these provisions, authorizes the court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully threatened to commit a crime that would result in the death or great bodily injury of a state constitutional officer, a Member of the Legislature, or a judge or court commissioner, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize the court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully threatened to commit a crime that would result in the death or great bodily injury of an elections official of a city, county, city and county, or public district, or an elected local agency official, as specified. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
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SB 243 Padilla, D Companion
chatbots.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
677,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law requires a social media platform to take various steps to prevent cyberbullying of minors on the platform, including by requiring the platform to establish a prominent mechanism within its internet-based service that allows any individual, whether or not that individual has a profile on the internet-based service, to report cyberbullying or any content that violates the existing terms of service related to cyberbullying. Current law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to establish the Office of Suicide Prevention in the department, as prescribed. This bill would, among other things related to making a companion chatbot platform safer for users, if a reasonable person interacting with a companion chatbot would be misled to believe that the person is interacting with a human, require an operator of a companion chatbot platform to issue a clear and conspicuous notification indicating that the companion chatbot is artificially generated and not human. The bill would also require an operator to take certain actions with respect to a user the operator knows is a minor, including disclose to the user that the user is interacting with artificial intelligence. The bill would also require an operator to prevent a companion chatbot on its companion chatbot platform from engaging with users unless the operator maintains a protocol for preventing the production of suicidal ideation, suicide, or self-harm content to the user, as specified, and would require an operator to publish details on that protocol on the operator’s internet website. (Based on 10/13/2025 text) Monitor
SB 248 Rubio, D Firearms:
information to
new owners.
06/24/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Current law requires any sale, loan, or transfer of a firearm to be processed through a licensed firearms dealer. Current law exempts from this requirement certain transfers such as those made by gift, bequest, intestate succession, or operation of law, among others. Current law requires a person who receives a firearm pursuant to these provisions to submit to the Department of Justice a report, as prescribed by the department, describing the firearm and providing personal information. Current law requires, for a firearm purchase when the register is used, 2 copies of the original sheet of the register containing certain information to be mailed to the department, and when the electronic or telephonic transfer of applicant information is used, the record of applicant information be transmitted to the department by electronic or telephonic transfer. Current law requires that fees charged by the department for the processing of these forms be deposited in the Dealers’ Record of Sale Special Account, which is available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to offset certain costs relating to the regulation of firearms, among other things. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2027, require the department to mail to each purchaser of a firearm, within 10 days of the application, or any person who notifies the department pursuant to the above-described reports of a firearm transaction, within 10 days of the notification, a letter that includes certain information relevant to firearm ownership, such as information on how to legally transfer or relinquish a firearm and resources regarding gun violence restraining orders, among others. (Based on 06/24/2025 text)
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SB 252 Valladares,
R
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption:
undergroundin
g powerlines.
02/03/2025 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/15/2026 -
Senate DEAD
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. This bill would exempt from the provisions of CEQA a project to underground powerlines. (Based on 02/03/2025 text)
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SB 254 Becker, D Energy. 09/19/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/19/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
119,
Statutes of
2025.
09/19/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act, establishes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) within GO-Biz, under the direction of an executive director and governed by, and its corporate power exercised by, a board of directors (bank board). Current law, among other things, authorizes the bank to make loans, issue bonds, and provide financial assistance for various types of projects that qualify as economic development or public development facilities, as provided. Current law prohibits the financing of economic development facilities unless the bank determines that the financing or assistance meets specified public interest criteria. The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart, sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor access, and clean air programs.
Current law makes $850,000,000 of that amount available, upon appropriation of the Legislature, for clean energy projects, as provided. This bill would deem the financing of projects related to the clean energy projects funded by the bond act, as described above, to be in the public interest and eligible for financing by the I-Bank or by a special purpose trust established pursuant to the bank act and would, except as specified, require that any such financing be treated as financing of an economic development facility for purposes of the bank act. The bill would authorize the I-Bank to provide any form of financial assistance, including issuing bonds, as provided. (Based on 09/19/2025 text)
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SB 261 Wahab, D Division of
Labor
Standards
Enforcement:
orders,
decisions, and
awards.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
747,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and to provide for a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation, as specified. Current law provides that the judgment creditor, or the commissioner, as assignee of the judgment creditor, is entitled to court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees for enforcing the judgment, as specified. This bill would instead require that the judgment creditor, or the Labor Commissioner or public prosecutor as assignee of the judgment creditor, be awarded the above-described court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees. (Based on 10/13/2025 text) Support
SB 262 Wahab, D Housing
element:
prohousing
designations:
prohousing
local policies.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
513,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
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 includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with those provisions. Current law requires the department to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by the department, as prescribed. Current law requires that jurisdictions that are prohousing and that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions be awarded additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs. Current law defines “prohousing local policies” for these purposes and specifies a nonexhaustive list of examples of those policies, including local financial incentives for housing and adoption of zoning allowing for use by right for residential and mixed-use development.
This bill would include in the definition of “prohousing local policies” policies that keep people housed, and would include additional examples of prohousing local policies under the above-described provisions, as specified. (Based on 10/10/2025 text) Support
SB 266 Cervantes, D Elections:
language
accessibility.
05/06/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Would require the Secretary of State, by December 15, 2029, and by December 15 of every subsequent year that immediately follows a year in which there is a presidential election, to determine the number of residents of voting age in each precinct who are members of a single language minority group and lack sufficient skills in English to vote without assistance and to post on the Secretary of State’s website a list of languages used by single language minority groups that make up 3% or more of the voting-age residents of a particular county or precinct. For an election with a single language minority group that makes up 3% or more of the voting-age residents or if the Secretary of State otherwise finds sufficient reason to provide translated ballots, the bill would require elections officials, beginning January 1, 2030, to, among other things, provide ballots, ballot identification envelopes, and related notices and instructions in the language of an applicable language minority group. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. (Based on 05/06/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 273 Grayson, D Surplus land. 02/04/2025 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 02/02/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law declares that surplus government land should be made available for affordable housing, including near transit stations, and for parks and recreation or open- space purposes. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision. (Based on 02/04/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 274 Cervantes, D Automated
license plate
recognition
systems.
10/01/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/01/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Existing law prohibits a public agency, which includes the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or any agency or political subdivision of the state, a city, a county, or a city and county, including, but not limited to, a law enforcement agency, from selling, sharing, or transferring automated license plate recognition (ALPR) information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law. Existing law defines ALPR information as information or data collected through the use of an ALPR system.
This bill would provide that “public agency” does not include a transportation agency, a public transit operator, or a local department of transportation or public works department, as specified. The bill would, beginning January 1, 2026, require new, updated, expansions of, or addendums of contractual agreements with ALPR vendors, manufacturers, or suppliers to mandate that no default access is provided to any national ALPR database and that an agency’s collected scans are by default not accessible to any other agency, and would impose new requirements on sharing between California state law enforcement agencies. The bill would authorize a law enforcement agency to use ALPR information only for purposes of locating vehicles or persons when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense. The bill would prohibit a public agency from retaining ALPR information for more than 60 days after the date of collection if it does not match information on an authorized hot list, as defined, and as of January 1, 2026, would require a public agency to delete all ALPR information that has been held for more than 60 days and does not match information on an authorized hot list within 14 days. By imposing new requirements on public agencies, which include local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/17/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 277 Weber
Pierson, D
Criminal
procedure:
search of
persons.
03/26/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current provisions of the United States and California Constitutions ensure the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against warrantless seizures and searches. Case law establishes exceptions to this right, including allowing a peace officer to conduct a limited search of a person for firearms or weapons if the peace officer reasonably concludes that the person detained may be armed and presently dangerous to the peace officer or others, or if the person consents to a search. This bill would authorize a peace officer to request consent to search an individual, their property, or their effects only if the officer is investigating a crime and has reasonable suspicion that the individual to be searched has an item in their possession that is evidence of criminal activity. The bill would require the officer to follow a specified procedure in a specified order, including advising the individual that their consent is voluntary, explaining to the individual the scope of the search, and recording the individual’s consent. The bill would prohibit an officer from exceeding the scope of the search explained to the individual and would require the officer to discontinue the search if the individual withdraws their consent. (Based on 03/26/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 281 Pérez, D Pleas:
immigration
advisement.
10/12/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/12/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
666,
Statutes of
2025.
10/12/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law requires the court, prior to the acceptance of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, to advise the defendant that if they are not a citizen, conviction of the crime charged may result in deportation, exclusion from admission to the United States, or denial of naturalization. After January 1, 1978, if the court fails to advise the defendant, as required, and the defendant shows that conviction of the offense to which the defendant pleaded guilty or nolo contendere may have the consequences for the defendant of deportation, exclusion from admission to the United States, or denial of naturalization pursuant to the laws of the United States, the court, on the defendant’s motion, is required to vacate the judgment and permit the defendant to withdraw the plea of guilty or nolo contendere, and enter a plea of not guilty. This bill would require the court to give the above-described advisement verbatim and would clarify the advisement to state that if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States, conviction may result in the specified immigration consequences. (Based on 10/12/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 282 Wiener, D Residential
heat pump
systems: water
heaters and
HVAC:
installations.
04/29/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development 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.
Current 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. 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. (Based on 04/29/2025 text) Monitor
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SB 283 Laird, D Energy
storage
systems.
10/06/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/06/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
407,
Statutes of
2025.
10/06/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Existing law authorizes a person proposing an eligible facility, including an energy storage system that is capable of storing 200 megawatt hours or more of energy, to file with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) an application for certification for the site and related facility, as provided.
Existing law provides that the certification issued by the Energy Commission is in lieu of any permit, certificate, or similar document required by a state, local, or regional agency for the use of the site and related facility. This bill would require that an application submitted to the Energy Commission after January 1, 2026, in accordance with the above-described provisions relating to certification of facilities by the Energy Commission, and an application submitted to a local jurisdiction, as defined, for an energy storage system, include the applicant’s certification that at least 30 days before submitting the application, the applicant met and conferred with the authority that has jurisdiction over fire suppression in the area where the energy storage system is proposed, as provided. The bill would also prohibit the approval of those applications unless the local jurisdiction requires as a condition of approval that after installation is complete, but before commencing operations or use of the batteries, the energy storage system is inspected by the authority that has jurisdiction over fire suppression, and that the applicant bear the cost of the inspection, as specified. The bill would require, as part of the next update to the California Building Standards Code considered after July 1, 2026, the Office of the State Fire Marshal to review and consider proposing provisions that restrict the location of energy storage systems to dedicated-use noncombustible buildings or outdoor installations, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local officers, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/06/2025 text) Monitor
SB 299 Cabaldon, D California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption:
day care
center: zoning.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. Existing law exempts specified projects from CEQA, including a project that consists exclusively of a day care center, as defined, that is not located in a residential area. This bill would exempt from CEQA a project that consists exclusively of a day care center, as defined, that is located in a residential area, except as provided.
By imposing additional duties on a lead agency to determine the applicability of these exemptions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 302 Padilla, D Personal
Income Tax
Law and
Corporation
Tax Law:
exclusions:
environmental
credits.
10/01/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/01/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
215,
Statutes of
2025.
10/01/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income. Current federal law authorizes an applicable entity, as defined, to receive a refund for specified environmental credits against the taxes imposed under federal law and excludes a refund payment made pursuant to that law from gross income. Current federal law also authorizes an eligible taxpayer, as defined, to transfer the value of that refundable credit and exempts from gross income payment received by the transferor as consideration for the transfer. Current federal law prohibits the transferee from deducting the amount paid as consideration for the transfer. This bill, in conformity with federal law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2031, would exclude from gross income a refund payment made for the specified federal environmental credits described above and any payment received by a transferor as consideration for a transfer, as provided. (Based on 10/01/2025 text) Support
SB 310 Wiener, D Failure to pay
wages:
penalties.
01/20/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Died on
file pursuant
to Joint
Rule 56.
02/02/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law makes every person who fails to pay the wages of each employee subject to a specified penalty. Current 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. Current 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. 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. (Based on 01/20/2026 text) Monitor
SB 315 Grayson, D Quimby Act. 03/17/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/15/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The Quimby Act, which is within the Subdivision Map Act, authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to require the dedication of land or to impose fees for park or recreational purposes as a condition to the approval of a tentative map or parcel subdivision map if specified requirements are met. The act provides that the dedication of land, or the payment of fees, or both, shall not exceed the proportionate amount necessary to provide 3 acres of park area per 1,000 persons residing within a subdivision subject to the act, except as specified. This bill would additionally prohibit the proportion of the land to be dedicated, or the amount of any fee to be paid in lieu thereof, or both, from exceeding 25% of the total acreage of the subdivision, if the proposed subdivision is for infill housing. (Based on 03/17/2025 text) Oppose
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 318 Becker, D Air pollution:
stationary
sources: best
available
control
technology.
04/24/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law authorizes air districts to establish a permit system to require, with specified exceptions, that a person obtain a permit before constructing or operating any article, machine, equipment, or contrivance that may cause the issuance of air contaminants.
Existing law prohibits an air district from issuing a permit to a Title V source, as defined, if the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency objects to its issuance, as specified. Current law requires each district with moderate, serious, or severe air pollution to include certain measures in its plan to attain state ambient air quality standards, including the use of best available control technology for any new or modified stationary source, and the use of best available retrofit control technology for all existing stationary sources, under certain circumstances, as prescribed. Under the federal Clean Air Act, a new or modified major stationary source is required to meet various requirements in order to obtain a permit to operate, including a requirement that the source employs best available control technology on its emission-emitting equipment. This bill would establish definitions for the terms “best available control technology” and “best available retrofit control technology” for purposes of the laws governing air pollution and would set forth various requirements for the determination of best available control technology. The bill would require an air district to submit a proposed permit for a Title V source to the executive officer of the state board. The bill would require the executive officer to review the permit and, if the executive officer determines that the permit does not to comply with the federal Clean Air Act or state law governing air pollution, to object to the issuance of that permit. If the executive officer objects to the issuance of a permit, the bill would prohibit the air district from finalizing that permit without revising it to address the objection to the satisfaction of the executive officer. The bill would also authorize any person to petition the executive officer to object to a proposed Title V permit within 30 days of the executive officer’s receipt of the proposed permit, as specified. (Based on 04/24/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 320 Limón, D Firearms:
California Do
Not Sell List.
04/09/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law makes possession of a firearm by certain classes of persons, including a convicted felon, a person convicted of specified misdemeanors, a person that has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial, a person that has been found not guilty of specified crimes by reason of insanity, or a person that has been placed under conservatorship, a crime. Current law additionally makes it a crime to sell or give possession of a firearm to these classes of persons prohibited from owning a firearm.
Current law generally makes a violation of the Penal Code a misdemeanor. Current law requires the Department of Justice, upon submission of firearm purchaser information by a licensed firearm dealer, to examine its records to determine whether a potential firearm purchaser is prohibited by state or federal law from possessing, receiving, owning, or purchasing a firearm. This bill would, by November 1, 2027, require the Department of Justice to develop a process to allow a person who resides in California to voluntarily add their own name to, and subsequently remove their own name from, the California Do Not Sell List, with the purpose of preventing a person who has voluntarily registered on the list from passing a firearms eligibility check to purchase or acquire a firearm from a firearms dealer or through a private-party transaction while they are on the list. The bill would allow a person to add their name to the list by submitting specified information to a sheriff or municipal police department, and would require that sheriff or municipal police department to verify the information and send it to the Department of Justice. (Based on 04/09/2025 text) Monitor
SB 326 Becker, D Wildfire safety:
fire protection
building
standards:
defensible
space
requirements:
The California
Wildfire
Mitigation
Strategic
Planning Act.
10/11/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/11/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Current law establishes the Office of the State Fire Marshal in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and establishes the Deputy Director of Community Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation within the office. Current law makes the deputy director responsible for fire preparedness and mitigation missions of the department, as provided. Current law requires the department to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities in California and specifies eligible activities under the local assistance grant program, as provided. Under current law, funding for this local assistance grant program is contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the deputy director, on or before January 1, 2027, and every 3 years thereafter, in consultation with the state hazard mitigation officer, as defined, to prepare a Wildfire Risk Mitigation Planning Framework sufficient to quantitatively evaluate wildfire risk mitigation actions, as provided. The bill would require the framework to allow for geospatial evaluation and comparison of wildfire risk mitigation actions, as defined, sufficient to direct coordinated mitigation efforts and long-term collaborative mitigation planning. (Based on 09/17/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 327 McNerney, D Public utilities:
review of
accounts:
electrical and
gas
corporations:
rates: political
influence
activities.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
30. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Under existing law, a regulated public utility is prohibited from using ratepayer funds for advocacy-related activities that are political or do not otherwise benefit ratepayers.
Existing law prohibits each electrical corporation or gas corporation from recording to an above-the-line account, or otherwise recovering from ratepayers, direct or indirect costs of specified activities. This bill would include in those activities for which costs may not be recovered from ratepayers any activities related to opposing the municipalization of electrical or gas utility service, as specified. (Based on 08/31/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 329 Blakespear,
D
Alcohol and
drug recovery:
licensed
treatment
facilities and
certified
programs:
investigations.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law prohibits operating an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to provide recovery, treatment, or detoxification services within this state without first obtaining a current valid license. If a facility is alleged to be providing those services without a license, existing law requires the department to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Existing law also authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to licensed facilities for the purpose of reviewing them for compliance, as specified. Existing law requires alcohol or other drug programs to be certified by the department, except as specified. Existing law prohibits those programs from operating without a certification. If a program is alleged to be providing services without a certification, existing law requires the department to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Existing law also authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to certified programs for the purpose of reviewing them for compliance, as specified. This bill would require the department to assign a complaint under its jurisdiction regarding a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility or a certified alcohol or other drug program to an analyst for investigation within 10 days of receiving the complaint. If the department receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, the bill would require the department, to the extent feasible, to notify the complainant, in writing, that it does not investigate that type of complaint. (Based on 08/31/2026 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 330 Padilla, D Budgets:
multiyear
financial
commitments.
06/11/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was ED. on
6/15/2026)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Controller, and the Director of Finance to develop and update as necessary, standards and criteria to be reviewed and adopted by the State Board of Education and to be used by local educational agencies in the development of annual budgets and the management of subsequent expenditures from that budget, as specified. Existing law requires these standards and criteria to include, among other things, multiyear commitments, including cost-of-living adjustments. This bill would specify that the multiyear commitments are for only the current fiscal year and the subsequent fiscal year. The bill would require the state board, on or before March 1, 2027, to amend specified related regulations, as provided, and would require the State Department of Education to modify the Standardized Account Code Structure reporting software infrastructure to eliminate reporting fields for a 2nd subsequent fiscal year and, commencing with the 2027–28 fiscal year, ensure that the system reflects a 2-year operational and forecasting structure. (Based on 06/11/2026 text)
Support
SB 332 Wahab, D Investor-
Owned Utilities
Accountability
Act.
07/14/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to select a research institute, as defined, to conduct a comparative analysis of the benefits and challenges of transitioning the electrical corporations to a public entity, nonprofit public benefit corporation, or mutual benefit corporation in order to identify a recommended model, as provided. The bill would require the research institute to complete the analysis on or before January 1, 2029, and, upon completion, to submit the analysis to the Legislature and the Energy Commission. The bill would require the Energy Commission to make a draft of the analysis available to the public for comment before submitting the final draft to the Legislature and would limit the cost of conducting the analysis to $5,000,000. This bill would require the research institute to conduct the first phase of the comparative analysis and to submit an interim report, on or before December 31, 2026, to the Energy Commission on threshold legal issues, as provided. The bill would require the Energy Commission to convene a group of state attorneys from the legal departments of state agencies that regulate electrical corporations to advise the research institute on the first phase of the comparative analysis, as specified. (Based on 07/14/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 336 Wiener, D Real property
tax: welfare
exemption:
moderate-
income
housing.
05/07/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 02/02/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current 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. 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. (Based on 05/07/2025 text) Monitor
SB 346 Durazo, D Local
agencies:
transient
occupancy
taxes: short-
term rental
facilitator.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
751,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days. This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period. The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short- term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 352 Reyes, D Environmental
justice:
Department of
Justice:
Bureau of
Environmental
Justice:
community air
monitoring.
09/19/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/19/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
120,
Statutes of
2025.
09/19/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Under current law, the Attorney General may maintain an action for equitable relief in the name of the people of the State of California against any person for the protection of the natural resources of the state from pollution, impairment, or destruction. This bill would continue in existence in the Department of Justice a Bureau of Environmental Justice. (Based on 09/19/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 355 Pérez, D Judgment
debtor
employers:
Employment
Development
Department.
10/13/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/13/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Current law establishes in the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement under the direction of the Labor Commissioner and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and recover civil penalties for violations of labor law, as prescribed. Current law requires an employer who pays wages to a resident employee for services performed either within or without this state, or to a nonresident employee for services performed in this state, to deduct and withhold from those wages a sum which is substantially equivalent to the amount of tax reasonably estimated to be due under the Personal Income Tax Law resulting from the inclusion in the gross income of the employee of the wages which were subject to withholding. Current law requires the Employment Development Department to have the powers and duties necessary to administer the reporting, collection, refunding to the employer, and enforcement of taxes required to be withheld by employers, as described above. This bill would require, within 60 days of a final judgment being entered against an employer requiring payment to an employee or to the state, as specified, the judgment debtor employer to provide documentation to the Labor Commissioner that the judgment is fully satisfied, a certain bond has been posted, or the judgment debtor entered into an agreement for the judgment to be paid in installments, as prescribed, and is in compliance with that agreement. The bill would make a judgment debtor employer who fails to comply with that provision liable for a civil penalty. (Based on 09/12/2025 text)
Support
SB 358 Becker, D Mitigation Fee
Act: mitigating
vehicular
traffic impacts.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
515,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. Current law requires a local agency that imposes a fee on a housing development for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts to set the rate for that fee, if the housing development satisfies all of certain prescribed characteristics, to reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation associated with such housing developments in comparison with housing developments without the prescribed characteristics, unless the local agency adopts findings after a public hearing establishing that the housing development, even with those characteristics, would not generate fewer automobile trips than a housing development without those characteristics. This bill would require those findings to be supported by substantial evidence in the record before or as part of the housing development project approval process. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 367 Allen, D Mental health. 05/01/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to themselves or others, or is gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by specified individuals, including, among others, a peace officer and a designated member of a mobile crisis team, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. Current law defines “assessment” for those purposes to mean the determination of whether a person shall be evaluated and treated. This bill would require an assessment to consider reasonably available, relevant information as specified. The bill would also authorize an assessment to be used to assist specified individuals in developing an aftercare plan for an individual, if that individual has agreed to an aftercare plan and can be properly served without being detained. (Based on 05/01/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 394 Allen, D Water theft:
fire hydrants.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
540,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes a utility to bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts certain acts, including, diverting or causing to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever. Current law creates a rebuttable presumption that there is violation of these provisions if, on premises controlled by the customer or by the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility service, certain actions occur, including that there is an instrument, apparatus, or device primarily designed to be used to obtain utility service without paying the full lawful charge for the utility. This bill would add to the list of acts for which a utility may bring a civil cause of action under these circumstances to include tampering with a fire hydrant, fire hydrant meter, or fire detector check, or connecting to, diverting water from, or causing water to be diverted from, a fire hydrant without authorization from the utility that owns the fire hydrant, except as provided. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 415 Reyes, D Planning and
zoning:
logistics use
developments:
truck routes.
10/03/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/03/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
316,
Statutes of
2025.
10/03/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. The bill would revise the definition of “logistics use” and instead define “logistics use development” for these purposes to mean a building that is primarily used as a warehouse for the movement or the storage of cargo, goods, or products that are moved to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. (Based on 10/03/2025 text)
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220
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 417 Limón, D The Veterans
and Affordable
Housing Bond
Act of 2026.
06/25/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
06/25/2026
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter 16,
Statutes of
2026.
06/25/2026 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks. Existing law, the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018, authorized, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,000,000,000 to finance various existing housing programs, as well as infill infrastructure financing and affordable housing matching grant programs, as well as financing for a specified program for farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance for veterans, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. This bill would enact the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,250,000,000, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Of the proceeds from the sale of these bonds, $10,000,000,000 would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program, and $1,250,000,000 would be used to provide additional funding for the above-described program for farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance for veterans, as provided. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 418 Menjivar, D Health care
coverage:
prescription
hormone
therapy and
nondiscriminati
on.
10/13/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/13/2025 -
Senate VETOED
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 also 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. This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after the bill’s operative date that provides outpatient prescription drug benefits to cover up to a 12-month supply of a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved prescription hormone therapy, and the necessary supplies for self-administration, that is prescribed by a network provider within their scope of practice and dispensed at one time, as specified. The bill would make the same prescription hormone therapy a covered benefit under the Medi-Cal program, as specified. The bill would prohibit a plan or an insurer from imposing utilization controls or other forms of medical management limiting the supply of this hormone therapy to an amount that is less than a 12-month supply, but would not prohibit a contract, a policy, or the Medi-Cal program from limiting refills that may be obtained in the last quarter of the plan, policy, or coverage year if a 12-month supply of the prescription hormone therapy has already been dispensed during that year. The bill would exclude a Medi- Cal managed care plan contracting with the State Department of Health Care Services from these requirements. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2035.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/16/2025 text)
Support
SB 420 Padilla, D Property tax:
welfare
exemption:
detention
facilities.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
32. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to exempt from taxation, in whole or in part, property that is used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes, and is owned or held in trust by a nonprofit entity. Pursuant to that authority, existing law provides for a welfare exemption under which property used exclusively for an exempt purpose and owned and operated by specified entities, including foundations, limited liability companies, or corporations meeting certain statutory requirements is exempt from taxation. This bill would specify that for the purposes of the welfare exemption provisions above, “property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes” shall not include property, or any portion thereof, operated as a detention facility, as defined. (Based on 08/31/2026 text) Support
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 423 Gonzalez, D California
Public
Records Act:
private
detention
facilities.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
30. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The California Public Records Act requires each state or local agency, upon a request for a copy of records that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records, to make the records promptly available to any person upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable, except with respect to public records exempt from disclosure by express provisions of law. Existing law requires, upon request, an exact copy to be provided unless it is impracticable to do so. This bill would specify that a recording of a call or a written communication that is maintained by a state or local agency that reports or describes an incident, as defined, occurring at a private detention facility, and specified records relating to that call or communication in the possession of a law enforcement agency, are not confidential, and would require an agency to disclose those records upon request to any member of the public. (Based on 08/20/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 430 Cabaldon, D Local
agencies:
automated
decision
systems.
01/05/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/15/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law establishes the Government Operations Agency (GovOps), and establishes within the agency the Department of Technology. Current 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. Current law defines, for these purposes, an “automated decision system” as, among other things, a computational process that is used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons. Current law authorizes local agencies, including cities and counties, to provide welfare, employment, and other public social services. Current law also authorizes the legislative body of any county or city, pursuant to specified procedures, to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes.
This bill would impose certain restrictions on the use of an automated decision system by a local agency to confer supportive services, permits, or licenses, as specified.
Among those restrictions, the bill would include a prohibition on using an output from the system as the sole basis for an adverse eligibility or benefit determination affecting a natural person, except as specified. The bill would require the local agency to verify the accuracy of the system’s outputs and to promote nondiscrimination in its use, as specified. The bill would require the local agency’s governing board to provide audits or other quality control review of the outputs, as specified, to assure acceptable accuracy. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 436 Wahab, D Unlawful
detainer:
notice to
terminate
tenancy.
06/18/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was JUD.
on
6/9/2025)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Current law prescribes summary procedures for actions to obtain possession of real property. Existing law authorizes a landlord to serve a notice of termination of tenancy on a tenant who is in default in the payment of rent. The notice must permit the tenant at least 3 days, excluding weekends and judicial holidays, to pay the amount that is in default and due. If the tenant does not pay the amount stated in the 3-day notice to pay rent or quit after its expiration, the landlord may file a complaint for unlawful detainer against the tenant to obtain possession of the premises. This bill would extend the notice period described above, to terminate a tenancy on a tenant who is in default in the payment of rent, to permit the tenant at least 14 days, excluding weekends and judicial holidays, to pay the amount that is in default and due. (Based on 06/18/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 445 Wiener, D High-speed
rail: third-party
agreements,
permits, and
approvals:
regulations.
07/17/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Current 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. Current law requires the inspector general to submit annual reports to the Legislature and Governor regarding its findings. 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. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 454 McNerney, D State Water
Resources
Control Board:
PFAS
Mitigation
Program.
10/01/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/01/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Current law designates the State Water Resources Control Board as the agency responsible for administering specific programs related to drinking water, including, among others, the California Safe Drinking Water Act and the Emerging Contaminants for Small or Disadvantaged Communities Funding Program. This bill, which would become operative upon an appropriation by the Legislature, would enact a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) mitigation program. As part of that program, the bill would create the PFAS Mitigation Fund in the State Treasury and would authorize certain moneys in the fund to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the state board to seek out nonstate, federal, and private funds designated for PFAS remediation and treatment and deposit the funds into the PFAS Mitigation Fund. The bill would continuously appropriate these funds to the state board for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the state board to establish accounts within the PFAS Mitigation Fund. The bill would authorize the state board to expend moneys from the fund in the form of a grant, loan, or contract, or to provide assistance services to water suppliers and sewer system providers, as those terms are defined, for multiple purposes, including, among other things, to cover or reduce the costs for water suppliers associated with treating drinking water to meet the applicable state and federal maximum PFAS contaminant levels. (Based on 09/12/2025 text) Monitor
SB 456 Ashby, D Contractors:
exemptions:
muralists.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
758,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Contractors State License Law establishes the Contractors State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business, or act in the capacity, of a contractor without a license, unless exempted. Current law exempts from the Contractors State License Law a nonprofit corporation providing assistance to an owner, as specified. This bill would exempt from that law an artist who draws, paints, applies, executes, restores, or conserves a mural, as defined, pursuant to an agreement with a person who could legally authorize the work. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 457 Becker, D Housing
element
compliance:
committed
assistance: in-
kind services:
realistic
capacity
formula.
09/01/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
30. Noes 9.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long- term general plan that includes various mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development, an analysis of the relationship of zoning and public facilities and services to these sites, and an analysis of the relationship of the sites identified in the land inventory to the jurisdiction’s duty to affirmatively further fair housing. Existing law requires a city or county, based on that inventory of land, to determine whether each site in the inventory can accommodate the development of some portion of its share of the regional housing need by income level during the planning period, as provided. Existing law requires the inventory of land to include, among other things, a description of the existing use of the property for nonvacant sites. For the nonvacant sites, existing law requires the city or county to specify the additional development potential for each site within the planning period.
Existing law requires a city or county to rezone sites according to a specified program if the inventory of sites suitable and available for residential development does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2028, the Department of Housing and Community Development to promulgate or approve one or more formulas and associated user interfaces or other tools that allow for the determination of specified information, including, among other things, the realistic capacity of housing element inventory sites, as specified. The bill would authorize the above-described analysis and determinations by a city or county related to sites in the inventory of land suitable and available for residential development to rely on the formula promulgated or approved by the department. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
Support
SB 473 Padilla, D Water
corporations:
demand
elasticity: rates
and
surcharges.
04/10/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The California Constitution and the Public Utilities Act vest the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over electrical corporations and water corporations. The act requires the commission to ensure that errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of electrical corporations. This bill would additionally require the commission to ensure that those errors do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of water corporations. (Based on 04/10/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 480 Archuleta, D Autonomous
vehicles.
10/06/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/06/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
415,
Statutes of
2025.
10/06/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law prohibits the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads until the manufacturer submits an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles, as specified, and that application is approved. Current law requires the department to adopt regulations setting forth requirements for the submission and approval of an application, including, among other things, any testing, equipment, and performance standards the department concludes are necessary to ensure the safe operation of autonomous vehicles on public roads, as specified. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, authorize an autonomous vehicle to be equipped with automated driving system (ADS) marker lamps in accordance with specified standards. For purposes of this provision, the bill would define an “ADS marker lamp” as a device that emits a light to indicate when an ADS is engaged in the operation of the vehicle. (Based on 10/06/2025 text) Monitor
SB 488 Limón, D Safety
element: local
hazard
mitigation
plan.
02/19/2025 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 02/02/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a safety element for the protection of the community from specified risks.
Current law authorizes a city or county to adopt within the safety element a local hazard mitigation plan, and requires that plan to meet specified requirements set out in the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in the provision that authorizes a city or county to adopt a local hazard mitigation plan. (Based on 02/19/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 490 Umberg, D Alcohol and
drug
programs.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of adult alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits the operation of one of those facilities without a current valid license. Existing law requires the department, if a facility is alleged to be in violation of that prohibition, to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Existing law requires, if the department’s employee or agent finds evidence that the facility is providing services without a license, the employee or agent to take specified actions, including, among others, submitting the findings of the investigation to the department and issuing a written notice to the facility that includes the date by which the facility is required to cease providing services. This bill would require the department, if it determines it has jurisdiction over the allegation, to assign the complaint to an analyst within 10 days of receiving the allegation and, except as specified, complete the investigation within 120 days of assigning the complaint. The bill would require the department, if it receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, to notify, to the extent feasible, the complainant that it does not investigate that type of complaint. The bill would require the employee or agent to provide their findings to the department and would require the department to issue the notice described above within 10 days of the employee or agency submitting their findings and to conduct a followup site visit to determine whether the facility has ceased providing services as required. The bill would authorize, in counties that elect to administer the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system and that provide optional recovery housing services, the county behavioral health agency to request approval from the department to conduct a site visit of a recovery residence that the county contracts with that is alleged to be operating without a license. The bill would permit the department to approve that request in certain circumstances, including that the department has sufficient evidence to substantiate the allegation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Monitor
SB 492 Becker, D Wildfire. 08/29/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location
was THIRD
READING
on
9/1/2026)
08/31/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, on or before July 1, 2029, in consultation with the Department of Insurance, the Natural Resources Agency, the Office of Emergency Services, and other relevant departments, to develop standards for state and local agencies to aggregate and make available data related to parcel-, neighborhood-, and community-level wildfire risk for the purpose of enabling a wildfire data sharing platform, as provided. The bill would require the department to incorporate those data standards into community wildfire risk reduction metrics. (Based on 08/29/2026 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 496 Hurtado, D Advanced
Clean Fleets
Regulation:
appeals
advisory
committee:
exemptions.
04/07/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions from those sources. Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities subject to the regulation to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. This bill would require the state board to establish the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee by an unspecified date for purposes of reviewing appeals of denied requests for exemptions from the requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation. The bill would require the committee to include representatives of specified governmental and nongovernmental entities. The bill would require the committee to meet monthly and would require recordings of its meetings to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website. The bill would require the committee to consider, and make a recommendation on, an appeal of an exemption request denial no later than 60 days after the appeal is made. The bill would require specified information relating to the committee’s consideration of an appeal to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website. (Based on 04/07/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 497 Wiener, D Legally
protected
health care
activity.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
764,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
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. 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Support
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 501 Allen, D Responsible
Battery
Recycling Act
of 2022:
covered
batteries.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022, establishes a stewardship program, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, as provided, for the collection, transportation, and recycling, and the safe and proper management, of covered batteries in the state in an economically efficient and practical manner. The act defines a “covered battery” to mean a device consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells designed to receive, store, and deliver electric energy. Existing law defines a “covered battery” to include a loose battery that is designed to be easily removed from a product by the user of the product with no more than common household tools. Existing law excludes from the definition of a covered battery a primary battery weighing over 2 kilograms. Existing law defines a “primary battery” for this purpose to mean a nonrechargeable battery, including, but not limited to, alkaline, carbon-zinc, and lithium metal batteries. Existing law also excludes from the definition of a covered battery a rechargeable battery weighing over 5 kilograms and having a watthour rating of more than 300 watthours. This bill would revise the description of a loose battery, for purposes of the definition of a covered battery, by providing that a key, application, or other locking device provided to the consumer by the producer of the product or battery that is warranted by the producer of the product or battery to serve solely to prevent theft of the battery or tampering by persons other than the consumer and not to inhibit the consumer’s ability to remove, replace, or recycle the battery would not prevent a battery from being considered designed to be easily removed from a product by the user of the product with no more than common household tools. The bill would remove the exclusions from the definition of a covered battery for a primary battery and a rechargeable battery, described above. The bill would categorize all covered batteries as either a small format battery or a medium format battery. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) Support
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 540 Becker, D Independent
System
Operator:
independent
regional
organization:
California
Renewables
Portfolio
Standard
Program.
05/29/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was U. & E.
on
7/10/2025)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Current law provides for the establishment of an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council. The Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015 provides for the transformation of the ISO into a regional organization, with the approval of the Legislature, pursuant to a specified process. That process provides that modifications to the ISO’s governance structure, through changes to its bylaws or other corporate governance documents, will not become effective until the ISO, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), the State Air Resources Board (state board), the Governor, and the Legislature take specified actions on or before January 1, 2019. This bill would delete the above-described provisions providing for the transformation of the ISO into a regional organization. The bill would authorize the ISO and the electrical corporations that are participating transmission owners whose transmission systems are operated by the ISO to use voluntary energy markets governed by an independent regional organization, only if specified requirements are satisfied. The bill would authorize the ISO, on or after January 1, 2028, to implement tariff modifications accepted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to operate the energy markets whose rules are governed by an independent regional organization if the governing board of the ISO adopts a resolution, as specified, finding that each of the specified requirements have been, or will be, adopted by the independent regional organization. (Based on 05/29/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 541 Becker, D Electricity:
load shifting.
10/03/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/03/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), in consultation with the specified entities, to adopt a biennial integrated energy policy report containing certain information in a specified format. Existing law requires the Energy Commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission and the Independent System Operator, to adopt a goal for load shifting to reduce net peak electrical demand and adjust this target in each biennial integrated energy policy report thereafter. This bill would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with specified entities, to analyze the cost-effectiveness of specific load flexibility programs and other types of load-shifting interventions and identify both the approximate amount of load shifting and the cost-effectiveness of each type of load-shifting intervention in the next update to the biennial integrated energy policy report after January 1, 2027, as provided. The bill would require the Energy Commission, as part of each integrated energy policy report, to estimate each retail supplier’s load-shifting potential, giving consideration to certain factors, as specified.
The bill would require the Energy Commission, on or before July 1, 2028, and biennially thereafter, to analyze and publish the amount of load shifting that each retail supplier achieved in the prior calendar year. (Based on 09/17/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 544 Laird, D Railroad
crossings:
permit
applications:
review.
10/01/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/01/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
224,
Statutes of
2025.
10/01/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Public Utilities Commission has the exclusive power to determine and prescribe the manner and the terms of installation, operation, maintenance, use, and protection of railroad crossings. Current law prohibits the construction of a public road, highway, or street across the track of any railroad corporation at grade and other specified actions with regard to railroad crossings without the permission of the commission. This bill would require an application for a railroad crossing to include, at a minimum, certain information concerning the proposed railroad crossing. The bill would require the commission to adopt an expedited review and approval process for ratesetting proceedings for an exempt railroad crossing application, as defined. The bill also would require the commission, upon initiating a ratesetting proceeding, to determine whether the proceeding is for an exempt railroad crossing application, and if so, to issue a proposed resolution pursuant to the expedited review and approval process. (Based on 10/01/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 545 Cortese, D High-speed
rail: economic
opportunities.
06/27/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Would require the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, on or before January 1, 2027, to commission a study on economic opportunities along the corridor of the California high-speed rail project, as defined, and other high-speed rail projects in California that are planned to directly connect to the California high-speed rail project, as provided, and to submit a progress report to the chairpersons of the Senate Committee on Transportation and the Assembly Committee on Transportation for input. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2028, the study to be completed and a report on the study’s findings and recommendations to be submitted to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The bill would require an infrastructure district, as defined, that uses its revenue to finance the construction of the high-speed rail project to dedicate a majority of its revenue to infrastructure projects within the jurisdiction of the local agencies that establish the district. (Based on 06/27/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 549 Allen, D Heritage
schools:
enrollment and
notice.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Under existing law, a “heritage school” is a school that, among other things, offers education or academic tutoring, or both, in a world language and education on the culture, traditions, or history of a country other than the United States to children who are at least 4 years and 9 months of age and no older than 18 years of age and who attend a public or private full-time day school. Existing law exempts a heritage school from licensure by the State Department of Social Services as a child day care center, as specified. This bill would expand the definition of “heritage school” to also include a school that provides services to children younger than 4 years and 9 months of age who are enrolled in kindergarten, including transitional kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 550 Cortese, D California
State
University,
San Jose:
legal
partnership
pilot program.
07/09/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Would authorize the Trustees of the California State University to establish a legal education pilot program, consisting of the California State University, San Jose, and a law school accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California as an independent nonprofit institution, to operate for a period of 6 academic years. The bill would require the legal education pilot program to commence only if the trustees approve the program, the governing board of the law school approves the program, and the law school has been continuously accredited for a minimum of 5 years before the first cohort graduates from a joint degree program. The bill would authorize the California State University, San Jose, as part of the legal education pilot program, to partner with the nonprofit law school to jointly award a juris doctor degree and to jointly provide certificate and legal education programs at the undergraduate level. The bill would require the California State University, San Jose, and the nonprofit law school to submit certain information, including an administrative plan and enrollment projections, to the trustees and the governing board of the law school before the trustees and governing board vote to approve the pilot program. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to conduct an interim evaluation and a final evaluation of the program, as provided. (Based on 07/09/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 554 Jones, R Law
enforcement:
immigration
enforcement.
04/21/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
62(a).
04/21/2025 -
Senate DEAD
The California Values Act generally prohibits California law enforcement agencies from investigating, interrogating, detaining, detecting, or arresting persons for immigration enforcement purposes, including providing information regarding a person’s release date or responding to requests for notification by providing release dates or other information, as specified. Current law provides that responses are never required, but are permitted, provided that they do not violate any local law or policy. Current law provides the above-described prohibition does not prevent a California law enforcement agency from performing certain limited exceptions to this prohibition that do not violate any policy of the law enforcement agency or any local law or policy of the jurisdiction in which the agency is operating. Current law provides a law enforcement official with discretion to cooperate with immigration authorities only if doing so would not violate any federal, state, or local law, or local policy, and where permitted by the California Values Act. This bill would instead provide that responses relating to a person’s release date, as described above, are required. The bill would instead require a California law enforcement agency to perform certain limited exceptions to the prohibition, as specified. The bill would instead require a law enforcement official to cooperate with immigration authorities only if doing so would not violate any federal or state law or policy, and where permitted by the California Values Act. (Based on 04/21/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 569 Blakespear,
D
Bikeways:
reversions and
modifications.
08/10/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location
was
INACTIVE
FILE on
9/1/2026)
08/31/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law grants the legislative body of a city certain powers with respect to city streets and highways, including the power to construct and maintain those streets and highways. Existing law grants the board of supervisors of a county general supervision, management, and control of county highways and authorizes the board of supervisors to lay out, construct, improve, and maintain county highways. Existing law authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or local agency to, among other things, establish bikeways, as defined and classified. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with county and city governments, to establish minimum safety design criteria for the planning and construction of each type of bikeway and of roadways where bicycle travel is permitted, and requires all city, county, regional, and other local agencies responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or roadways where bicycle travel is permitted to utilize the minimum safety design criteria.
This bill would prohibit a bikeway constructed, in whole or part, using moneys from the State General Fund allocated to any city, county, regional, or other local agency from being reverted to a nonactive transportation use or modified in a manner that reduces the safety, accessibility, or mobility of nonmotorized users, for a minimum of 20 years from the date of the allocation or its actual useful life, as documented in its project design or local building or permit application materials, whichever is less. less, except as specified. (Based on 08/10/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 577 Laird, D Public entities. 09/01/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
24. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law requires that specified actions for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual assault that occurred before January 1, 2024, be commenced within 22 years of the date the plaintiff attains the age of majority or within 5 years of the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered that psychological injury or illness occurring after the age of majority was caused by the sexual assault, whichever period expires later. Existing law prohibits a plaintiff from commencing specified actions against a person or entity who did not commit the act of childhood sexual assault on or after the plaintiff’s 40th birthday unless the offending person or entity knew or had reason to know of any misconduct that created a risk of childhood sexual assault by an employee, volunteer, representative, or agent, or the person or entity failed to take reasonable steps or to implement reasonable safeguards to avoid acts of childhood sexual assault. Existing law provides that there is no time limit for commencement of actions for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual assault which occurred on or after January 1, 2024. Actions subject to these time limits include actions for liability against any person or entity who owed a duty of care to the plaintiff and an action for liability against any person or entity for an intentional act that was the legal cause of the childhood sexual assault. Existing law provides that in actions against entities for violation of a duty of care, the plaintiff must establish that the entity acted wrongfully or negligently. This bill would shorten the amount of time a victim of childhood sexual assault that occurred before January 1, 2024, would have to file a specified action to 22 years from the date the plaintiff attains the age of majority or within 3 years of the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered that psychological injury or illness occurring after the age of majority was caused by the sexual assault, whichever period expires later. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 580 Durazo, D Attorney
General:
immigration
enforcement
policies.
10/12/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/12/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
670,
Statutes of
2025.
10/12/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law requires the Attorney General to develop model policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law at public schools, public libraries, courthouses, specified health facilities, shelters, and other specified state agencies. This bill would similarly require the Attorney General, on or before July 1, 2026, and in consultation with appropriate stakeholders, to publish model policies relating to interaction with immigration enforcement, consistent with federal and state law, and to publish guidance and recommendations for databases operated by state and local agencies to limit the availability of information in those databases for the purposes of immigration enforcement, consistent with federal and state law. The bill would require state and local agencies to implement the model policies on or before January 1, 2027, as specified. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state- mandated local program. (Based on 10/12/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 591 Valladares,
R
Taxation:
electronic
payments:
penalties.
07/17/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires that any payment required to be remitted to the Franchise Tax Board by an individual pursuant to specified law be remitted electronically in the form and manner prescribed by the Franchise Tax Board if specified conditions are met.
Existing law, where payment is required to be made electronically but is made by some other means instead, imposes a penalty equal to 1% of the amount paid, except as provided. This bill would, for payments made on or after January 1, 2026, change the penalty for the above-described violation to instead be waived for the first violation. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 593 Hurtado, D Electrical
corporations:
significant
voltage-related
incidents:
studies.
10/06/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/06/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
420,
Statutes of
2025.
10/06/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law requires each public utility to furnish and maintain adequate, efficient, just, and reasonable service, instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities, as are necessary to promote the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons, employees, and the public. Current law requires the commission to annually publish a report, pursuant to commission requirements, as provided. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2027, to require each large electrical corporation, as defined, to commence a study to evaluate significant voltage-related incidents, as defined, across its residential, commercial, and industrial customers that resulted in damage to customer-owned equipment, appliances, or property totaling $5,000 or more, as provided. The bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2027, to publish hyperlinks on its internet website to the studies, and to report on the studies to the Legislature. Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. (Based on 10/06/2025 text) Monitor
SB 601 Allen, D Water: waste
discharge.
07/10/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/7/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality and prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (act) and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. Under the act, the State Water Resources Control Board is authorized to adopt water quality control plans for waters for which quality standards are required by the federal Clean Water Act, as specified, and that in the event of a conflict, those plans supersede regional water quality control plans for the same waters. This bill would authorize the state board to adopt water quality control plans for nexus waters, which the bill would define as all waters of the state that are not also navigable, except as specified. The bill would require any water quality standard that was submitted to, and approved by, or is awaiting approval by, the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the state board that applied to nexus waters as of May 24, 2023, to remain in effect, as provided. (Based on 07/10/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 606 Becker, D Homeless
Housing,
Assistance,
and
Prevention
program:
reporting
requirements:
functional zero
unsheltered.
07/17/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
This bill would enact the Functional Zero Act, which, beginning with the next round of Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program applications, or when updates to the regionally coordinated homeless action plan are next required to be submitted, would require an applicant to provide information relating to its efforts to address homelessness in its jurisdiction, including an assessment of what would be required for the applicant to achieve and maintain both functional zero, which the bill would define as a milestone indicating a community has measurably solved homelessness, as specified, and functional zero unsheltered, which the bill would define as a necessary milestone in the effort to achieve functional zero indicating that sufficient housing options of all types to accommodate a jurisdiction’s unsheltered, chronically homeless population based on its most recent homeless point-in-time count.
The bill would require, as part of the assessment of progress toward functional zero, applicants to include, at a minimum, an analysis of the number of housing units of all types needed to achieve functional zero in a jurisdiction, and as part of the assessment of progress toward functional zero unsheltered, a financial model assessing the needs for investment in prescribed areas and further analysis of, among other things, funding programs that provide housing or services to persons experiencing homelessness. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)
Support
SB 607 Wiener, D Golden Gate
Bridge,
Highway and
Transportation
District:
contributions
and loans.
08/21/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/21/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
08/21/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
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. 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. (Based on 08/19/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 611 Richardson,
D
Planning and
zoning:
community
plans: review
under the
California
Environmental
Quality Act.
10/01/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/01/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
228,
Statutes of
2025.
10/01/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
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 any land outside its boundaries that, in the planning agency’s judgment, bears relation to its planning, as provided. After the legislative body has adopted a general plan, that law also authorizes, or if so directed by the legislative body, requires, the planning agency to prepare specific plans for the systematic implementation of the general plan for all or part of the area covered by the general plan, as provided.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a court, if it finds that any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency has been made without compliance with CEQA, to enter an order that includes one or more specified mandates, including a mandate to void the determination, finding, or decision of the public agency. Previous law, until January 1, 2025, notwithstanding the above- described requirement for a court to enter an order under CEQA, prohibited a court in an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the acts or decisions of the local agency, including a charter city, in adopting an update to a community plan on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA from, on the basis of that noncompliance, invalidating, reviewing, voiding, or setting aside the approval of a development project that meets certain requirements. Previous law specified that those provisions did not affect or alter the obligation for the approval of a development project that was consistent with an approved community plan update to comply with CEQA or, except as expressly provided, preclude or limit an action to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the approval of a development project that was consistent with an approved community plan pursuant to specified law. Previous law provided that the repeal of those provisions does not affect any right or immunity granted by those provisions to a development project that meets specified requirements before January 1, 2025. This bill would reenact those provisions, with certain changes. The bill would specify that its provisions would apply to an update to a community plan adopted on or after January 1, 2025, and would apply to a development project for which an application has been filed with, and accepted as complete by, the local jurisdiction on or before January 1, 2036. (Based on 10/01/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 616 Rubio, D Community
Hardening
Commission:
wildfire
mitigation
program.
10/13/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/13/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to enter into a joint powers agreement, as specified, with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a comprehensive wildfire mitigation program, known as the California wildfire mitigation financial assistance program, that, among other things, encourages cost-effective structure hardening and retrofitting that creates fire-resistant homes, businesses, and public buildings. This bill would require the joint powers authority to consider revising the wildfire mitigation program in accordance with prescribed community hardening standards and guidelines developed pursuant to the bill’s provisions, as specified below. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/18/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 627 Wiener, D Law
enforcement:
masks.
09/20/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/20/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
125,
Statutes of
2025.
09/20/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
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. 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/20/2025 text) Monitor
SB 634 Pérez, D Local
government:
homelessness.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
521,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. 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. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 635 Durazo, D Food vendors
and facilities:
enforcement
activities.
10/07/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/07/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
463,
Statutes of
2025.
10/07/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes a local authority, as defined, to adopt a program to regulate sidewalk vendors if the program complies with specified standards. These standards include restricting the local authority from requiring a sidewalk vendor to operate within specific parts of the public right-of-way, except when that restriction is directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns. This bill would prohibit a local authority, except as otherwise required by state or federal law, from providing voluntary consent to any individual to access, review, or obtain certain records of the local authority that include personally identifiable information of any sidewalk vendors in the jurisdiction without a subpoena or judicial warrant. The bill would also prohibit a local authority and its personnel from disclosing or providing in writing, verbally, or in any other manner personally identifiable information of any sidewalk vendor that is requested, except pursuant to a subpoena or a valid judicial warrant. The bill would define “personally identifiable information,” for these purposes, to include an individual’s name, business name, home address, business address, birthdate, telephone number, California driver’s license or identification, and other related information. (Based on 10/07/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 636 Menjivar, D Electrical or
gas
corporations:
deferment of
payments:
hardship.
04/10/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The Public Utilities Commission has regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. This bill would prohibit an electrical or gas corporation from disconnecting service of a customer for 3 months, if the customer meets certain requirements, as provided. The bill would require the corporation to grant that customer a 3-month deferment for any and all payments due from the date that the deferment is granted. Upon the expiration of the deferment period, the bill would require the customer to enroll in the electrical or gas corporation’s arrearage management program or be enrolled in an available payment plan for which the customer is eligible, if the customer is not eligible for the arrearage management plan, for any and all debts on the customer’s account. The bill would prohibit a customer who participates in the payment deferral from being eligible for a subsequent 3-month payment deferral within 18 months of their participation in the payment deferral. The bill would authorize the commission to adopt rules to implement these provisions. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Support
SB 653 Cortese, D Wildfire
prevention:
environmentall
y sensitive
vegetation
management.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
778,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, in accordance with policies established by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, to assist local governments in preventing future high-intensity wildland fires and instituting appropriate fuels management by making its wildland fire prevention and vegetation management expertise available to local governments, as provided. This bill would define an environmentally sensitive vegetation management project to mean vegetation management that reduces catastrophic wildfire risk over the long term while supporting native wildlife and biodiversity. (Based on 10/13/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 661 Hurtado, D Airports:
financial
assistance.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The State Aeronautics Act establishes the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund, and continuously appropriates the moneys in the account for expenditure for airport purposes by the Division of Aeronautics within the Department of Transportation and the California Transportation Commission. Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or 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, including taxes imposed on the sale, storage, use, or other consumption of jet fuels. Existing law requires revenues from these taxes to be transmitted to the Treasurer and deposited into the Retail Sales Tax Fund. Existing federal law requires that any revenue from sales and use taxes imposed on aviation fuel be used for the operation costs of airports, the local airport system, or other local facilities that are directly and substantially related to the air transportation of passengers or property, except as provided. This bill would require the Controller, on or before September 1 of each year, to transfer an amount calculated to represent the sales and use tax revenues derived with respect to the sale, storage, use, or other consumption of jet fuel, as provided, from the Retail Sales Tax Fund to the account for allocation to airports and aviation-related purposes, as provided. The bill would require all public and private use airports where jet fuel is sold or consumed to report fuel flowage statistics to the Division of Aeronautics, as provided, and would require the division to determine the revenue allocation for each airport that reports fuel flowage statistics. By adding new reporting requirements for county-owned and city-owned airports, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 08/31/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 664 Ochoa
Bogh, R
Vehicles:
public safety:
Blue Envelope
Program.
02/20/2025 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/15/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of ownership, registration cards, driver’s licenses, and all other forms that are deemed necessary. This bill would, by January 1, 2027, require the department, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to develop a Blue Envelope Program. Under the program, the bill would require the blue envelope to contain specified information for requesters with a condition or disability, as specified.
The bill would also authorize others, including a parent or legal guardian of a passenger with a disability, to request a blue envelope. (Based on 02/20/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 667 Archuleta, D Railroads:
safety: report.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to annually report to the Legislature on sites on railroad lines in the state that the commission finds to be hazardous, including a list of all railroad sites in the state that it determines pose a local safety hazard. Existing law authorizes the commission to submit in the annual report the list of railroad sites submitted in the immediate prior year annual report, and to amend or revise that list from the immediate prior year as necessary. In determining which railroad sites pose a local safety hazard, existing law requires the commission to consider, among other things, whether any local safety hazards at railroad sites have been eliminated or sufficiently remediated to warrant removal of the site from the list.
This bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2029, to review the list of railroad sites and, in the annual report, to include an evaluation of each site on the list and determine whether changes in conditions, operations, or safety data warrant the removal, modification, or addition of any site. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 671 Cervantes, D Pedestrian
crossing
signals.
10/03/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/03/2025
- Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State -
Chapter
326,
Statutes of
2025
10/03/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Under current law, a pedestrian control signal showing a “WALK” or approved “Walking Person” symbol means a pedestrian may proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal. Under existing law, a pedestrian facing a flashing “DON’T WALK” or “WAIT” or approved “Upraised Hand” symbol with a “countdown” signal, as specified, means a pedestrian may start crossing the roadway in the direction of the signal but requires the pedestrian to finish crossing prior to the display of the steady “DON’T WALK” or “WAIT” or approved “Upraised Hand” symbol, as specified. Upon the first placement or replacement of a traffic-actuated signal, as specified, current law requires that traffic-actuated signal to be installed and maintained to detect bicycle or motorcycle traffic on the roadway. For these purposes, current law defines a traffic-actuated signal as an official traffic signal, as specified, that displays one or more of its indications in response to traffic detected by mechanical, visual, electrical, or other means. Upon the first placement or replacement of a state-owned or -operated traffic-actuated signal, current law requires that the traffic-actuated signal to be installed and maintained to have a leading pedestrian interval (LPI) and include the installation, activation, and maintenance of an accessible pedestrian signal (APS) and detector that complies with certain sections of the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (CA MUTCD). At crosswalks with state-owned or -operated traffic-actuated signals and pedestrian hybrid beacons with pedestrian signal heads, this bill would require the walk indication and other visual signals to comply with CA MUTCD. The bill would require these pedestrian signal heads to have an APS pushbutton or touch-free APS that activates “WALK” or “DON’T WALK” intervals and other visual signals at signalized intersections in nonvisual formats. The bill would require touch-free APS to be installed at new signalized pedestrian crossings on capital projects on the state highway system, encroachment projects, and highway maintenance-funded projects, as specified. The bill would require, as soon as practicable, all existing state-owned or -operated traffic signals located in certain areas to be identified and recorded in the Department of Transportation management system (TMS) inventory database to assist future annual operational review requirements and coordination with local agencies for delegated signals. The bill would require LPIs to be implemented at these existing state-owned or -operated traffic signals locations at the next opportunity for regularly scheduled operational reviews. (Based on 10/03/2025 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 677 Wiener, D Housing
financing: joint
powers
agreements:
bond
approvals:
subdivisions:
tentative and
final maps:
appeals.
09/01/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
31. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
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.
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. 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. 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. (Based on 09/01/2026 text) Monitor
SB 681 Wahab, D Housing. 05/23/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was H. &
C.D. on
6/16/2025)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
(1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones by ordinance, and sets forth standards the ordinance is required to impose with respect to certain matters, including, among others, maximum unit size, parking, and height standards. Existing law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units, as defined, in single-family residential zones and requires the ordinance to include, among other things, standards for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit, required deed restrictions, and occupancy requirements. This bill would prohibit fees and other financial requirements from being included in the above-described reasonable restrictions. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 682 Allen, D Environmental
health: product
safety:
perfluoroalkyl
and
polyfluoroalkyl
substances.
10/13/2025 -
Vetoed HTML
PDF
03/02/2026
- Stricken
from file.
Veto
sustained.
10/13/2025 -
Senate VETOED
Would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a cleaning product, dental floss, juvenile product, food packaging, or ski wax, as provided, that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as defined, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would, until January 1, 2031, exempt certain components of a cleaning product from this prohibition, as specified. The bill would clarify that, on and after January 1, 2028, a cleaning product is required to comply with certain regulations adopted by the California Air Resources Board regarding volatile organic compounds in consumer products and would prohibit the use of a regulatory variance to comply with those regulations, as specified. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2030, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale cookware that contains intentionally added PFAS, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would authorize the department, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations to carry out these provisions. (Based on 09/18/2025 text)
Support
SB 684 Menjivar, D Polluters Pay
Climate
Superfund Act
of 2025.
03/26/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 02/02/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Would enact the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 and would establish the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Program to be administered by the California Environmental Protection Agency to require fossil fuel polluters to pay their fair share of the damage caused by greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere during the covered period, which the bill would define as the time period between the 1990 and 2024 calendar years, inclusive, resulting from the extraction, production, refining, sale, or combustion of fossil fuels or petroleum products, to relieve a portion of the burden to address cost borne by current and future California taxpayers. The bill would require the agency, within 90 days of the effective date of the act, to determine and publish a list of responsible parties, which the bill would define as an entity with a majority ownership interest in a business engaged in extracting or refining fossil fuels that, during the covered period, did business in the state or otherwise had sufficient contact with the state, and is determined by the agency to be responsible for more than 1,000,000,000 metric tons of covered fossil fuel emissions, as defined, in aggregate globally, during the covered period. (Based on 03/26/2025 text) Support
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 686 Reyes, D Housing
programs:
financing.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
523,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing and to provide housing assistance and home loans. Current law sets forth various general powers of the department in implementing these programs, including authorizing the department to enter into long-term contracts or agreements of up to 30 years for the purpose of servicing loans or grants or enforcing regulatory agreements or other security documents. Current law requires the department, subject to certain conditions, to allow property owners subject to a regulatory agreement with the department to take out additional debt on the development in order to finance, with the department’s approval, the rehabilitation of the property or investment in new affordable housing. Under current law, one of those conditions is that any extracted equity is required to meet at least one of several conditions, as specified. Current law defines “extracted equity” for these purposes to mean debt added to a department-regulated property that is not used in prescribed ways. This bill would, additionally, require the department to allow property owners to take out additional debt, as described above, if any extracted equity is utilized for reimbursement of borrower advances for predevelopment costs, unreimbursed capital improvements, and unreimbursed operating deficits. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 691 Wahab, D Body-worn
cameras:
policies.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/31/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law requires law enforcement agencies, departments, or entities to consider specified best practices regarding the downloading and storage of body-worn camera data, such as specifically stating the length of time that recorded data is to be stored, when establishing policies and procedures for the implementation and operation of a body-worn camera system, as specified. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027, each law enforcement agency that has a body-worn camera policy to update that policy to include a procedure for emergency service personnel to request the redaction of evidentiary and nonevidentiary recordings of a patient undergoing medical or psychological evaluation, procedure, or treatment by emergency service personnel, and to maintain an unredacted copy of the recording consistent with the policies and procedures of the agency. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Monitor
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247
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 692 Arreguín, D Vehicles:
homelessness.
08/27/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/27/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
4:30 p.m.
08/27/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law makes it unlawful for a peace officer or an unauthorized person to remove an unattended vehicle from a highway, except as provided. Under existing law, the removal of a vehicle is a seizure, subject to the limits set forth in jurisprudence for the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement and removal, as public nuisances, of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or parts of vehicles from private or public property. Existing law, whenever a peace officer or other public employee removes an abandoned vehicle valued at $500 or less, requires the public agency that removed, or caused the removal of, the vehicle to cause the disposal of the vehicle subject to specified requirements, including providing notice, as specified, to the registered and legal owners and any other person known to have an interest in the vehicle, and a process for the owners and interested persons to request and have a poststorage hearing, as specified. This bill would authorize a public agency of a city, county, or city and county to dismantle, or cause the dismantlement of, an abandoned vehicle, as defined, if the abandoned vehicle cannot be towed or otherwise moved and the vehicle has been declared a nuisance or hazard by a fire marshal, environmental health director, or public health officer of a city, county, or city and county, if various requirements are met, including attaching a distinctive notice to the vehicle at least 15 days prior to dismantlement that states the vehicle will be dismantled by the public agency if the hazard is not abated, sending a notice, within 48 hours of the attachment of the notice to the vehicle, to the owners and any other person known to have an interest in the vehicle informing them of specified information, including that the vehicle may be disposed of at least 15 days from the date of the notice and that they may have a hearing before the public agency if a request for a hearing is made within 10 days from the date of notice, as specified. (Based on 08/25/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 695 Cortese, D Transportation
: climate
resiliency:
projects of
statewide and
regional
significance.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
781,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law establishes the State Transportation Infrastructure Climate Adaptation Program, administered by the Department of Transportation, for purposes of planning, developing, and implementing projects adapting state transportation infrastructure to climate change. Current law requires the department, in consultation with, among others, the Transportation Agency and the California Transportation Commission, to develop a program of its top priority climate adaptation projects and to submit projects in this program to the commission for adoption. Current law requires the department, in developing the program of projects, to consider specified criteria, including, but not limited to, the benefits of the project to preserving or enhancing regional or statewide mobility, economy, goods movement, and safety, and other benefits associated with protecting the asset. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the commission and the agency, and on or before July 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to create a prioritized list of projects of statewide and regional significance, as defined, to better prepare the state for extreme weather-related events, with priority based on specified criteria. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Monitor
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248
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 700 Grayson, D Capital
Programs and
Climate
Financing
Authority Act:
California
Investment
and Innovation
Program.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The Capital Programs and Climate Financing Authority Act establishes the Capital Programs and Climate Financing Authority, consisting of the Director of Finance, the Treasurer, and the Controller. Among other things, the act authorizes the authority to establish one or more small business assistance funds to do various things, including fund a capital access program for small businesses pursuant to specified law, provide various forms of financial assistance, and make or acquire loans or guarantee commercial loans to participating parties eligible for assistance from those funds. The act requires any moneys repaid or returned to the authority in connection with or as a result of any loan or financial assistance made pursuant to these provisions to be deposited in the small business assistance fund from which the loan or assistance was originally provided. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining small business assistance funds, the act authorizes the authority to levy fees or other charges on, or require deposits from, participating parties receiving financing for a project under the act, as specified. The act requires the authority to establish the California Investment and Innovation Program for the purpose of providing grants to enhance the capacity of community development financial institutions to provide technical assistance and capital access to economically disadvantaged communities in the state, as specified. This bill would authorize the authority to establish one or more small business assistance funds to fund a grant program for community development financial assistance pursuant to the California Investment and Innovation Program. The bill would include in the list of allowed financial assistance that the authority may provide under the act grants made to community development financial institutions in furtherance of that program. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 707 Durazo, D Open
meetings:
meeting and
teleconference
requirements.
10/03/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/03/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
327,
Statutes of
2025.
10/03/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2026, and until January 1, 2030, require an eligible legislative body, as defined, to comply with additional meeting requirements, including that, except as specified, all open and public meetings include an opportunity for members of the public to attend via a 2-way telephonic service or a 2-way audiovisual platform, as defined, and that the eligible legislative body take specified actions to encourage residents to participate in public meetings, as specified. The bill would require an eligible legislative body, on or before July 1, 2026, to approve at a noticed public meeting in open session a policy regarding disruption of telephonic or internet services occurring during meetings subject to these provisions, as specified, and would require the eligible legislative body to comply with certain requirements relating to disruption, including for certain disruptions, recessing the open session for at least one hour and making a good faith attempt to restore the service, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/03/2025 text)
Oppose
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 715 Allen, D Elections. 08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law requires the Secretary of State to transmit a certified list of candidates for partisan and voter-nominated offices eligible to be voted on within each county to the county elections official at least 68 days before a primary or general election. Existing law also requires the Secretary of State to notify the candidates for partisan and voter- nominated offices of the names, addresses, offices, occupations, and party preferences of all other candidates for the same office at least 73 days before the election. Existing law imposes various deadlines pertaining to candidates and elections. Existing law requires a candidate who submits a ballot designation to file a ballot designation worksheet, as specified. This bill would move the deadline to notify candidates of the other candidates for the same office to at least 78 days before the election. The bill would move other specified deadlines earlier, including the deadline for the Secretary of State to publicly announce a list of candidates and the availability of specified forms and documents. The bill would require a candidate to certify, under penalty of perjury, the truth and accuracy of the content of the ballot designation worksheet. (Based on 08/20/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 720 Ashby, D Automated
traffic
enforcement
system
programs.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
782,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements, including identifying the system with signs and ensuring that the system meets specified criteria on minimum yellow light change intervals. Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a speed safety system pilot program for speed enforcement that utilizes a speed safety system in specified areas, if the system meets specified requirements. Current law prescribes specified requirements for a notice of violation issued pursuant to these provisions, and requires a violation of a speed law that is recorded by a speed safety system to be subject only to a specified civil penalty. This bill would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system program to use those systems to detect a violation of a traffic control signal, if the system meets specified requirements.
The bill would require a violation of a traffic control signal that is recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be subject to escalating civil penalties, as specified. The bill would, among other things, provide for the issuance of a notice of violation, an initial review, an administrative hearing, and an appeals process, as specified, for a violation under this program. (Based on 10/13/2025 text) Monitor
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250
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 722 Wahab, D Transit-
oriented
housing
development:
excluded
parcels and
sites.
07/16/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
07/16/2026
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
100,
Statutes of
2026.
07/16/2026 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Existing law requires that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development 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 certain, applicable requirements, as provided. Among these requirements, existing law prohibits a proposed development under these provisions from being 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, as provided. This bill would additionally prohibit the development from being located on an existing parcel of land or site governed under the Mobilehome Residency Law, the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law, the Mobilehome Parks Act, or the Special Occupancy Parks Act. (Based on 07/16/2026 text)
Support
SB 742 Pérez, D Electricity:
electrical
infrastructure:
permanently
abandoned
transmission
facilities:
emergency
response:
liaisons.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires electrical corporations to construct, maintain, and operate their electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire, as specified. Existing law requires electrical corporations to annually prepare and submit wildfire mitigation plans to the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety for review and approval. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2028, to update a general order to require each electrical corporation to remove all permanently abandoned transmission facilities, as specified. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
Monitor
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251
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 743 Cortese, D Education
finance:
Education
Equalization
Act:
Equalization
Reserve
Account.
07/07/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Current law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula (LCFF), as specified The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, set forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts in any given fiscal year. The California Constitution creates the Public School System Stabilization Account in the General Fund and requires the Controller to transfer, pursuant to a schedule provided by the Director of Finance, a specified amount from the General Fund to the account in each fiscal year, except as provided. The California Constitution generally prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the state and each local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of government for the prior fiscal year, adjusted for the change in the cost of living and the change in population. The California Constitution defines “appropriations subject to limitation” for these purposes.
This bill would establish the Equalization Reserve Account in the General Fund. The bill would require interest earned on funds in the account to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to increase per-pupil funding in non-basic aid school districts, defined as school districts that received the above-described apportionment of LCFF funds in any of the then preceding 3 fiscal years, in a manner prescribed by the Legislature. The bill would require the Controller, in any fiscal year in which there is an increase over the preceding fiscal year in the minimum amount of revenues the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts, to transfer from the General Fund to the Equalization Reserve Account an amount equal to the total amount transferred from the General Fund to the Public School System Stabilization Account in that fiscal year, as provided. (Based on 07/07/2025 text)
Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 747 Wiener, D Civil rights:
deprivation of
federal
constitutional
rights,
privileges, and
immunities.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
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. 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). 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. 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. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Monitor
SB 748 Richardson,
D
Encampment
Resolution
Funding
program: safe
parking sites:
reporting.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
524,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law establishes the Encampment Resolution Funding program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to, upon appropriation of the Legislature, increase collaboration between the department, local jurisdictions, and continuums of care for, among other things, providing encampment resolution grants to local jurisdictions and continuums of care to resolve critical encampment concerns and transition individuals into safe and stable housing. Current law authorizes a continuum of care or a local jurisdiction to submit a specified application to the department for a program grant. Current law, for additional rounds moneys, defined as moneys appropriated for the program in or after the 2021–22 fiscal year, requires that an applicant submit an application for a program grant that includes a description of how the applicant intends to use the funds to connect all individuals living in encampments to services and housing, among other things. This bill would, as part of this description, additionally require the applicant to include specified information about safe parking sites, when the application includes operating safe parking sites while locating interim or permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness living in vehicles or recreational vehicles. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
Support
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253
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 750 Cortese, D California
Housing
Finance
Agency: credit
enhancement
mechanisms
study.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
40. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Would require the California Housing Finance Agency to conduct a comprehensive assessment of potential credit enhancement mechanisms designed to reduce borrowing costs for housing projects receiving state financial assistance that includes specified evaluations. The bill would require the agency to submit an interim report by January 1, 2028, and a final report by July 1, 2028, as specified. (Based on 08/31/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 753 Cortese, D Special
business
regulations:
shopping
carts.
10/13/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/13/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
785,
Statutes of
2025.
10/13/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impound a shopping cart that has a specified permanently affixed sign if certain conditions are satisfied, including that the city, county, or city and county provides 3-day advance actual notice of the shopping cart’s discovery and location to the owner of the shopping cart or their agent, except as specified. This bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county, pursuant to an ordinance, to retrieve and return a shopping cart to the parking area or premises of the owner or retailer identified on the affixed sign, as specified, and to recover its actual costs for the retrieval and return, not to exceed $100 per shopping cart. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Sponsor
SB 758 Umberg, D Public health:
nitrous oxide.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003 requires a retailer, as defined, to hold a license from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products. This bill would expand those provisions to prohibit a retailer from selling nitrous oxide in any retail location, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would authorize a city or county or city and county to adopt an ordinance imposing greater restrictions on the retail sale of nitrous oxide provided the ordinance does not restrict legitimate uses, as specified. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Monitor
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254
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 778 Limón, D Migrant
childcare and
development
programs.
10/07/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/07/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
459,
Statutes of
2025.
10/07/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Child Care and Development Services Act, requires the State Department of Social Services to administer childcare and development programs, including, among others, migrant childcare and development programs. Current law, for purposes of migrant childcare and development programs, defines a “migrant agricultural worker family” as a family that has earned at least 50% of its total gross income from employment in fishing, agriculture, or agriculturally related work during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of application for childcare and development services.
Existing law requires the children of these families to be enrolled in child development programs on the basis of specified priorities, including priority to children whose families move from place to place. This bill would instead define a “migrant agricultural worker family” as a family with at least one individual who has earned at least 40% of their total gross income from employment in fishing, agriculture, or agriculturally related work during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of application for childcare and development services. (Based on 10/07/2025 text)
Monitor
SB 782 Pérez, D Enhanced
infrastructure
financing
district: climate
resilience
districts.
10/10/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
10/10/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
552,
Statutes of
2025.
10/10/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to designate a proposed enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects, with a governing body referred to as the public financing authority, by adopting a resolution of intention to establish the proposed district. Current law authorizes a city, county, city and county, special district, or a combination of any of those entities to form a climate resilience district, as described, for the purposes of raising and allocating funding for eligible projects and the operating expenses of eligible projects. Current law deems each district to be an enhanced infrastructure financing district and requires each district to comply with existing law concerning enhanced infrastructure financing districts, except as specified. Current law requires a district to finance only specified projects that meet the definition of an eligible project, including projects that address sea level rise, extreme heat, extreme cold, the risk of wildfire, drought, and the risk of flooding, as specified. This bill would authorize a city or county to adopt a resolution providing for the division of taxes of any participating entity without following specified procedures for the preparation and adoption of an infrastructure financing plan, if certain conditions are met. The bill would require the city or county entity proposing formation of the district to hold a public meeting to consider the resolution of intention to establish the district and the governing board of the district to hold a public meeting to consider the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan. The bill would require the city and county entity and the governing board of the district to post specified notices prior to the respective meetings, as specified. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
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255
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 789 Menjivar, D Taxation:
information
returns: vacant
commercial
real property.
04/30/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 02/02/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Current statutory law, the Documentary Transfer Tax Act, authorizes the imposition of a tax by a county or city, as provided, with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property. Current law establishes the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for the purpose of administering various taxes. This bill would require a person, as defined, that owns commercial property, as defined, in this state to register with the department, as provided. The bill would require every person owning commercial real property in this state to file an information return each year by a date determined by the department, as provided. The bill would require the information return to include specified information, including, among other requirements, whether any buildings or portions of buildings were vacant in the previous calendar year. The bill would authorize extensions of the time for a person to file an information return under specified circumstances, including for good cause. The bill would impose on any person who fails or refuses to timely furnish a return required by its provisions a penalty of $100 per commercial property that the person fails or refuses to timely furnish the information return. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to make a loan from the General Fund to the department to implement those provisions, and would require any loan to be repaid from revenues from penalties imposed. (Based on 04/30/2025 text)
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SB 801 Hurtado, D Agricultural
workers:
wages, hours,
and working
conditions:
definitions.
03/24/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
02/02/2026
- Returned
to Secretary
of Senate
pursuant to
Joint Rule
56. 01/15/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Existing law sets wage, hour, meal break requirements, and other working conditions for employees and requires an employer to pay overtime wages to an employee who works in excess of a workday or workweek. Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations and provides that one of its functions is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based on 03/24/2025 text) Monitor
SB 805 Pérez, D Crimes. 09/20/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/20/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
126,
Statutes of
2025.
09/20/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Existing law prohibits credibly impersonating a peace officer, firefighter, or employee of a public utility, state or local government agency, or search and rescue team, as specified. Existing law also prohibits willfully and credibly impersonating a peace officer, firefighter, or employee of a public utility, state or local government agency, or search and rescue team through or on an internet website, or by other electronic means, for the purposes of defrauding another. A violation of these prohibitions is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would revise and recast these provisions to prohibit impersonating a law enforcement officer, and would clarify that a law enforcement officer, for these purposes, includes a federal law enforcement officer. The bill would extend these offenses to include willfully and credibly impersonating any of those entities through any means for the purpose of defrauding another. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/20/2025 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
256
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 828 Cabaldon, D Fireworks
licenses and
permits:
disqualifying
conditions:
local
jurisdictions.
09/01/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Ordered to
special
consent
calendar.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
40. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The State Fireworks Law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations relating to fireworks as may be necessary for the protection of life and property. Existing law requires these regulations to include, among other things, provisions for the granting of licenses and permits for the manufacture, wholesale, import, export, and sale of all classes of fireworks. A violation of the State Fireworks Law or the regulations issued pursuant thereto is a misdemeanor. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations that include provisions for determining license requirements specific to importing fireworks that will not be sold within California, as provided. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
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SB 837 Reyes, D Disaster and
emergency
preparedness.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law establishes an Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) program, administered by the California Department of Aging, to provide information to consumers and their families on available long-term services and supports (LTSS) programs and to assist older adults, caregivers, and persons with disabilities in accessing LTSS programs at the local level. Existing law requires ADRC programs to provide specified services, including, among other things, enhanced information and referral services and other assistance at hours that are convenient for the public. This bill would further require ADRC programs to provide disaster and emergency preparedness community education specifically designed with the goals of informing older adults and people with disabilities about emergency preparedness and promoting their safety before, during, and after natural disasters and other emergency events, as specified. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
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Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
257
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 840 Limón, D Greenhouse
gases:
Greenhouse
Gas Reduction
Fund: studies.
09/19/2025 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
09/19/2025
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
121,
Statutes of
2025.
09/19/2025 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined. The act authorizes the state board to revise regulations or adopt additional regulations to further the act. The act authorizes that state board to include in those regulations the use of a market-based compliance mechanism to comply with those regulations. Current law requires the state board, in regulations implementing the market-based compliance mechanism to, among other things, establish limits on the use of offset credits as a means for a covered entity to meet its compliance obligations. Current law requires moneys collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and continuously appropriates a portion of the moneys in the fund for various purposes. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to direct specific percentages of the revenues deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to individual funds dedicated to funding clean transportation, housing and community investment, clean air and water, wildfire prevention and resilience, agriculture, clean energy, and climate-focused innovation. (Based on 09/19/2025 text)
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SB 842 Stern, D Energy: firm
zero-carbon
resources.
06/27/2025 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/20/2025)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires electrical corporations to submit information to the commission for various purposes, as provided. This bill would require the commission, on or before December 31, 2026, to produce a report identifying opportunities and needs to provide for local and system reliability with firm zero-carbon resources over the short term, midterm, and long term, as provided. (Based on 06/27/2025 text)
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Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
258
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 866 Blakespear,
D
Planning and
zoning: annual
report:
emergency
shelter.
06/23/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and each 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 includes, among other specified mandatory elements, 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 the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the agency’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and the number of units approved and disapproved in the prior year. This bill, beginning with the first annual report submitted after the due date for the 7th cycle revision of the housing element, would require that annual report to additionally include specified information regarding the special housing needs of families and persons in need of emergency shelter. (Based on 06/23/2026 text)
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SB 868 Wiener, D Electricity:
portable solar
generation
devices.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/31/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Would, until January 1, 2030, exempt a portable solar generation device, as defined, from all interconnection requirements imposed by state law, the Public Utilities 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. (Based on 08/28/2026 text) Monitor
SB 870 Cortese, D Fuel-burning
portable
devices.
03/10/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/27/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Existing law prohibits a person from selling, offering for sale, or distributing cigarette lighters that do not comply with standards adopted by the State Fire Marshal with respect to safety features that prevent operation of the lighters by children 5 years of age or younger. This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2027, a person from selling, offering for sale, or distributing in commerce in this state a fuel-burning portable device, as defined, manufactured on and after January 1, 2027, that does not comply with a specified safety standard of the American Society for Testing Materials. (Based on 03/10/2026 text)
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Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
259
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 876 Padilla, D Fire and
residential
property
insurance.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
09/01/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
26. Noes 9.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
09/01/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including fire and residential property insurance. Existing law prohibits a policy from limiting or denying a payment of building code upgrade cost on the basis that the insured has decided to rebuild at a new location or to purchase an already built home at a new location. If there is a total loss of the insured structure, this bill would require the building code upgrade cost payable to include all costs that would have been incurred if the insured structure been completely rebuilt at its original location. (Based on 08/20/2026 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
260
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 886 Padilla, D California
Technology
Innovation and
Ratepayer
Protection Act.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
09/01/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Unanimous
consent
granted to
take up
without
reference to
file.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
28. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
09/01/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. 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. This bill, the California Technology Innovation and Ratepayer Protection Act, would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2028, to establish new tariffs or update existing electric rules for the interconnection of participating customer facilities and the provision of retail electric service, transmission, distribution, and generation services to participating customers, as specified. The bill would require the commission, as part of establishing and updating electric rules, to, at a minimum, evaluate the risks and benefits of the tariffs to nonparticipating customers, ensure that the tariffs prevent the creation of stranded costs for, or cost shifts to, nonparticipating customers, and, for unbundled customers, ensure that charges generally included in the generation component of the unbundled customer’s consolidated bill are assessed as a separate line item on their bill. The bill would require, as part of a new or existing proceeding, the commission to establish a tariff for the interconnection of a participating customer seeking to receive retail electric service at the transmission level that meets certain requirements, as specified. The bill would authorize a participating customer to participate in a new demand response program authorized by the commission, as specified. (Based on 08/28/2026 text) Monitor
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261
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 887 Padilla, D California
Environmental
Quality Act:
environmental
leadership
development
projects: data
centers:
geothermal
powerplant
projects.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
09/01/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
29. Noes 8.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
09/01/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
(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. This bill would define "data center" for the purposes of CEQA and prohibit the application of categorical exemption to a project for the development and operation of a data center, as specified. By increasing the duties of a lead agency in relation to the environmental review of a data center project, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) Monitor
SB 904 Seyarto, R Recovery from
a state of
emergency.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency, including, but not limited to, suspending specified statutes, ordinances, orders, regulations, or rules. This bill would impose specific duties on the Department of Housing and Community Development if the Office of Emergency Services makes a written determination, within 10 days after the date that the Governor declared a state of emergency relating to a wildfire, that the wildfire caused substantial structural damage requiring significant rebuilding efforts, as defined. The bill would require the department, under this condition, to consult with other specified state entities and local governments to identify state permitting requirements and local procedures that could be suspended or revised to support recovery and rebuilding efforts as a result of the wildfire, as specified. The bill would require the department to prepare and submit initial and periodic reports to the Governor and Legislature with the information and recommendations. This bill, on or before July 1, 2028, would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with other specified state entities, to convene a workgroup to review and provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature with recommendations regarding any provision of the California Building Standards Code that should be suspended for specified types of projects to facilitate rapid, safe, disaster-resilient, and cost-effective rebuilding and recovery guidance for any future state of emergency. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) Monitor
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262
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 905 Becker, D Electricity. 09/01/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
29. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to fix the rates and charges for public utilities and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. This bill would require the commission, for each electrical corporation, to consider assigning a reduced return on equity, as a reduction applied each year to the then current authorized rate of return on equity, for specified types of capital costs included in the electrical corporation’s rate base, as specified. This bill would require the commission to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to evaluate opportunities for alternative methods of financing capital investments in electrical distribution, electrical generation, and electrical transmission that reduce costs for ratepayers, as specified. As part of the rulemaking, the bill would require the commission to establish categories of alternative financing mechanisms for each electrical corporation to evaluate and report on with respect to opportunities for alternative financing of electrical distribution, electrical generation, and electrical transmission costs, as specified. The bill would require the commission, on or before December 31, 2028, to submit a report to the Legislature outlining any findings and recommendations resulting from the rulemaking, as specified. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
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SB 907 Archuleta, D Driving under
the influence
and other
driving
offenses:
comprehensiv
e reform.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
38. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law makes it a crime to operate a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and sets forth the penalties for a violation of these provisions. Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to a person, other than that driver, to immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident and provide specified personal information to the injured person or the occupants of the other vehicle and to any traffic or police officer at the scene of the accident. Existing law makes failing to comply with these requirements a crime, punishable as a misdemeanor for an accident resulting in injury and punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony for an accident resulting in death or serious injury, as defined.
This bill would make the above-described violation for an accident resulting injury punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony and would impose an increased felony penalty for the above-described violation for an accident resulting in death or serious injury, if either of those violations occurred within 10 years of a separate driving under the influence, reckless driving, or gross vehicular manslaughter violation, as specified. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)
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263
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 911 Becker, D Transfer of
real property:
fire hazard
severity zones:
compliance
documentation
.
08/13/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location
was
INACTIVE
FILE on
8/30/2026)
08/31/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires a seller of a real property that is located in a high or very high fire hazard severity zone to provide to the buyer documentation stating that the property is in compliance with specified fire safety requirements or local vegetation management ordinances. If the seller of a real property as described above has not obtained that documentation of compliance, existing law requires the seller and the buyer to enter into a written agreement pursuant to which the buyer agrees to obtain documentation of compliance with those specified fire safety requirements or local vegetation management ordinances. In a local jurisdiction that has not enacted an ordinance requiring an owner or buyer to obtain documentation of compliance, and if a state or local agency, or other government entity, or other qualified nonprofit entity, provides an inspection with documentation for the jurisdiction in which the property is located, existing law requires the buyer to obtain documentation of compliance within one year of the date of the close of escrow. This bill would require the local fire department, or the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, as applicable, to conduct a compliance inspection at the property, as specified, if it has not received documentation of compliance from a qualified entity or otherwise certified compliance within one year of the date of the close of escrow. (Based on 08/13/2026 text) Monitor
SB 922 Laird, D Vehicles: local
agency
charges: use
of streets or
highways.
08/27/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
08/27/2026
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
148,
Statutes of
2026.
08/27/2026 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee, or other charge for the privilege of using its streets or highways, other than a permit fee for an extralegal load unless the local agency had imposed the fee prior to June 1, 1989. This bill would explicitly state that a fee, charge, surcharge, or component thereof imposed upon the provider of, or ratepayer for, public services by or for a local agency to recover the cost of street maintenance and repair and other costs associated with the use of its streets, roads, or highways to provide those public services is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision described above. The bill would provide that nothing in the Vehicle Code prohibits a local agency from imposing or collecting this fee, charge, or surcharge. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
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264
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 924 Hurtado, D Low-income
energy
assistance.
04/20/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was U. & E.
on
6/1/2026)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to require electrical corporations and gas corporations to perform home weatherization services, as described, for low- income customers if the commission determines that a significant need for those services exists in the corporation’s service territory, taking into consideration both the cost-effectiveness of the services and the policy of reducing the hardships facing low- income households, as specified. This bill would require the commission to take into consideration the cost-effectiveness of the services as a whole and to require electrical corporations and gas corporations, in performing those home weatherization services, to prioritize integration of health, safety, and indoor air quality improvement measures necessary to enable whole-home improvements, coordinated delivery across fuel types and housing types, conditions, and tenancy structures, and program design that allows for tenant-level benefits where upgrades occur in rental properties, while preserving flexibility in program design. The bill would authorize the commission to consider nonenergy benefits when establishing priorities for program design. The bill would require the commission to ensure that weatherization program costs do not result in undue cost burdens for ratepayers. The bill would require the commission to require electrical and gas corporations to report on measurable household affordability outcomes, as specified. (Based on 04/20/2026 text)
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SB 925 McNerney, D Fusion energy:
State Energy
Resources
Conservation
and
Development
Commission:
strategic plan:
certification
and
environmental
review.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/31/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to undertake various actions in furtherance of meeting the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives. Existing law requires the commission, beginning November 1, 2003, and biennially thereafter, to adopt an integrated energy policy report that contains an overview of major energy trends and issues facing the state, presents policy recommendations based on an in-depth and integrated analysis of the most current and pressing energy issues facing the state, and includes an assessment and forecast of system reliability and the need for resource additions, efficiency, and conservation, as specified. Existing law requires the commission, as part of the 2027 edition of the integrated energy policy report, to include an assessment of the potential for fusion energy to contribute to California’s power supply, as specified.
This bill would require the commission, in coordination with specified agencies, to develop a strategic plan for the development of fusion energy in California, as specified.
The bill would require the commission to submit the strategic plan to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2029. (Based on 08/28/2026 text) Monitor
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265
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 935 Choi, R Local agency
design-build
projects:
authorization.
07/16/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
07/16/2026
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter
102,
Statutes of
2026.
07/16/2026 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
Current law authorizes a local agency, as defined, with approval of its governing body, to procure design-build contracts for public works projects in excess of $1,000,000, awarding the contract either to the lowest bid or the best value. Current law, among other requirements for the design-build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury.
These provisions authorizing local agencies to use the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2031. This bill would repeal the above-described January 1, 2031, repeal date, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. (Based on 07/16/2026 text)
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SB 936 Blakespear,
D
Nitrous oxide:
sales.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Would, except as specifically exempted, prohibit the sale and distribution of a nitrous oxide container that is capable of holding more than 8 grams of nitrous oxide or from which an individual may directly inhale nitrous oxide. The bill would also prohibit the sale and distribution of a nitrous oxide that has, or is marketed as having, the taste or smell of any food. The bill would prohibit knowingly selling or distributing a device that allows an individual to inhale nitrous oxide from the container or hold nitrous oxide for the purposes of inhalation. The bill would punish a violation of these provisions as an infraction, as specified. The bill would also authorize a court to suspend a business license if the business has a prior conviction for violating these prohibitions, and to revoke a license to sell tobacco products if the business has 2 prior convictions for violating these prohibitions. The bill would make any person, distributor, or business found to have violated these prohibitions liable for all reasonable costs incurred by a public agency in the investigation, inspection, seizure, storage, transportation, handling, venting, abatement, disposal, or destruction of nitrous oxide products, nitrous oxide containers, inhalation devices, or related materials involved in the violation, as specified. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Support
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266
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 942 Caballero, D Civil
detainees.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/31/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of a person, when the person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to themselves or others, or is gravely disabled. Existing law grants persons involuntarily detained in state hospitals as a result of developmental or mental health disabilities specified rights, including a right to dignity, privacy, and humane care, to be free from harm, to religious freedom and practice, and to physical exercise and recreational opportunities. This bill, the Civil Detainees’ Bill of Rights Act of 2026, would clarify that all persons housed or detained for purposes of civil immigration proceedings in California at any state, county, local, or private locked detention facility, including any county, local, or private locked detention facility in which an individual is housed or detained on behalf of, or pursuant to a contract with, the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement or the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have the legal rights and responsibilities guaranteed all other persons by the United States Constitution and federal law and the California Constitution and state law, unless specifically limited by federal or state law or regulations. (Based on 08/28/2026 text) Monitor
SB 947 McNerney, D Employment:
automated
decision
systems.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
28. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
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 (ADS) that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. This bill would prohibit an employer from discharging, threatening to discharge, demoting, suspending, or in any manner discriminating or retaliating against any employee for taking certain actions asserting their rights under the bill. The bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to enforce the bill’s provisions and also authorize a public prosecutor to bring a civil enforcement action, as specified. The bill would set forth specified types of relief that a plaintiff may seek and specified penalties that an employer that violates these provisions is subject to, including a $500 civil penalty per violation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/21/2026 text)
Monitor
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267
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 951 Reyes, D Employment:
technological
displacement:
notice.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
09/01/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
29. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
09/01/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Existing law, the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act (Cal/WARN Act), prohibits an employer from ordering a mass layoff, relocation, or termination at a covered establishment unless, 60 days before the order takes effect, the employer gives written notice of the order to the employees affected by the order and to the Employment Development Department and certain local officials. Existing law makes an employer who fails to give specified notice regarding a mass layoff, relocation, or termination subject to a civil penalty of not more than $500 for each day of the employer’s violation. This bill would revise the Cal/WARN Act to also require an employer giving notice of a mass layoff, relocation, or termination caused in whole or in substantial part by an artificial intelligence (AI) system or other automated technology replacing or automating employment positions to include certain information in the notice, including the job functions performed by workers that will be automated by AI or other automated technology. The bill would require the department to publish a summary of the notices received on its internet website and to post a quarterly statewide summary of technological displacements reported. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2028, to submit a report to the Legislature on artificial intelligence’s effects on business hiring practices, including its impact on industries and occupations at the state and regional level. The bill would repeal the provision requiring that report on January 1, 2029. (Based on 08/21/2026 text) Monitor
SB 954 Blakespear,
D
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
advanced
manufacturing
facilities:
exemption.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
28. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
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. This bill would revise the definition of that term to include habitats for protected species identified as candidate, sensitive, or species of special status by state or federal agencies. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/31/2026 text)
Monitor
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268
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 956 Choi, R Vehicles:
Electric
Bicycle
Special
License Plate
Pilot Program.
04/06/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
04/23/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location
was
TRANS. on
3/18/2026)
04/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Under existing law, a person riding an electric bicycle is subject to the laws pertaining to the operation of a bicycle upon a highway. For these purposes, existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions, as specified. Existing law states that these provisions do not prevent local authorities, by ordinance, from regulating the registration of bicycles and the parking and operation of bicycles on pedestrian or bicycle facilities, provided such regulation is not in conflict with the Vehicle Code. Existing law prohibits a city or county, which adopts a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution, from prohibiting the operation of an unlicensed bicycle. The bill would, until January 1, 2032, authorize the County of Orange to establish a pilot program to require the display of a special license plate on electric bicycles. The bill would authorize the county to adopt ordinances or resolutions to implement the pilot program, and would make a person operating an electric bicycle in violation of this requirement guilty of an infraction punishable by specified fines and mandatory attendance of the Department of the California Highway Patrol-approved electric bicycle training course. (Based on 04/06/2026 text) Monitor
SB 967 Blakespear,
D
Planning and
zoning:
housing
element:
interim
housing units:
acutely low
income
households.
03/26/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/27/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of that county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected regional housing need, as provided, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing need plan allocating a share of the regional housing need to each city or county, as provided. Existing law requires the housing element to include an analysis of any special housing needs, including, among others, families and persons in need of emergency shelter. Existing law requires a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the department that includes, among other things, the city’s or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs, as specified, and number of units approved and disapproved in the prior year.
The bill would authorize a city or county that met or exceeded its need for emergency shelter capacity and that provides committed support for interim housing, as defined, to report the number of interim housing units receiving that support that are approved, as specified, as units approved or disapproved for acutely low income households, for purposes of the annual progress report. (Based on 03/26/2026 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
269
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 978 Pérez, D Data centers:
labor:
electricity
rates.
03/23/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/20/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Would require the Public Utilities Commission to establish a special rate structure for data centers, as defined, taking transmission level electrical service with an estimated peak demand of at least 75 megawatts of electricity to, among other things, protect other customers of electrical corporations, prohibit cost shifts to those other customers, and require data centers to pay for the electrical corporations’ upfront costs of transmission or distribution infrastructure upgrades necessary for the provision of electrical service to the data centers. The bill would require the construction of data centers subject to the special rate structure to comply with certain labor requirements. (Based on 03/23/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 982 Wiener, D Climate
disasters: civil
actions.
04/06/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
04/23/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location
was INS. on
4/21/2026)
04/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
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. 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. (Based on 04/06/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1001 Archuleta, D Local agency,
public utility, or
mutual water
company:
personnel
access:
Personal
Identity
Verification-
Interoperable.
04/21/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
4/27/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Existing law authorizes officers of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, police departments, marshal’s office or sheriff’s office, and officers or employees of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection or the Department of Fish and Wildlife designated as peace officers to close to all unauthorized persons an area where a menace to the public health or safety created by a calamity exists for the duration of the menace and the immediate area surrounding any emergency field command post or any other command post activated for the purpose of abating a calamity, riot, or other civil disturbance, as specified. Under existing law, an unauthorized person who enters or remains in a closed area, as prescribed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would, beginning on July 1, 2028, require the Office of Emergency Services, upon request, to issue a local agency, public utility, or mutual water company responsible for public works and critical infrastructure with specified credentialing to facilitate personnel access to an area during or following a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man- made disaster. The bill would specify that the credentialing, a Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable (PIV-I), would conform with the federal Personal Identity Verification standards pursuant to federal National Incident Management System guidelines. (Based on 04/21/2026 text)
Monitor
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
270
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1003 Grayson, D Prohousing
enhanced
infrastructure
financing
districts.
05/14/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location
was
INACTIVE
FILE on
8/20/2026)
08/31/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The Planning and Zoning law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to designate jurisdictions as prohousing, as specified. The law requires that jurisdictions that have adopted a housing element that has been found by the department to be in substantial compliance with specified requirements and that have been designated as prohousing based on their adoption of prohousing local policies, as defined, be awarded additional points or preference in the scoring of program applications for certain programs. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to designate a proposed enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community, including, among other things, the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for persons of very low, low, and moderate income for rent or purchase, as specified.
Existing law authorizes an infrastructure financing plan to contain a provision for the division of taxes levied upon taxable property in the area included within the district, and authorizes the public financing authority of the district to issue bonds, as provided.
This bill would authorize a city or county that is designated as prohousing to establish a prohousing enhanced infrastructure financing district if certain requirements are met, as specified. The bill would prescribe requirements applicable to those districts. The bill would expand the definition of “prohousing local policies” for purposes of the above- described provisions to include the establishment of one of these districts, and would require that the jurisdiction that established, and projects located within, a district receive enhanced points or preference than the baseline provided to other prohousing jurisdictions. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1007 Menjivar, D Common
interest
developments:
annual reports:
assessments:
discipline.
06/15/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was H. &
C.D. on
6/4/2026)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires that a common interest development be managed by an association. Existing law requires an association of a common interest development to levy regular and special assessments to perform its obligations under the governing documents and the act, as provided. Existing law requires an association to prepare an annual budget report and a policy statement, as specified. Existing law requires the association to either deliver to all members the full report or a summary of the report that includes specified information, on the first page, whenever the annual budget report or a policy statement is prepared, as provided. This bill would require the annual budget report to include a comparison breakdown of the anticipated expenses of the previous fiscal year versus actual expenditures of the previous fiscal year and a statement regarding compensation of a management company, as provided. The bill would require a summary of an annual budget to also include the comparison breakdown and the statement regarding compensation of a management company, as specified. (Based on 06/15/2026 text)
Monitor
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271
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1010 Ashby, D Hazardous
waste: major
appliances:
recycling.
06/11/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires a person, including, but not limited to, a certified appliance recycler, who transports, delivers, or sells discarded major appliances to a scrap recycling facility, as defined, to retain onsite records demonstrating compliance with certain laws related to the recycling of major appliances, as provided. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would require a person, including, but not limited to, a certified appliance recycler, who transports, delivers, or sells discarded major appliances to a scrap recycling facility to also provide those documents to the Department of Toxic Substances Control, as specified. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/11/2026 text)
Support
SB 1013 Cervantes, D Automated
license plate
recognition
systems.
08/27/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(17).
(Last
location
was THIRD
READING
on
9/1/2026)
08/31/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law prohibits a public agency, which includes the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or any agency or political subdivision of the state, a city, a county, or a city and county, including, but not limited to, a law enforcement agency, from selling, sharing, or transferring automated license plate recognition (ALPR) information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law. Existing law defines ALPR information as information or data collected through the use of an ALPR system.
This bill would provide that "public agency" does not include a transportation agency, a public transit operator, department of transportation, public works department, or campus transportation agency, as specified, a public agency or contracted parking operator when engaging in specified activities in a parking facility, a state agency operating specified parking facilities, or the State Air Resources Board. The bill would require a public agency that accesses or provides access to ALPR information to maintain a record of that access, as provided. The bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, require new, updated, renewed, extended, expansions of, or addendums of contractual agreements with ALPR vendors, manufacturers, or suppliers to mandate that no default access is provided to any national ALPR database and that an agency's collected scans are by default not accessible to any other agency, except as specified, and would impose new requirements on sharing between California state law enforcement agencies. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
Monitor
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272
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1016 Blakespear,
D
Community
Assistance,
Recovery, and
Empowerment
(CARE) Court
Program and
court-ordered
evaluations.
07/02/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Under the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, existing law requires the Judicial Council to develop a mandatory form for use to file a CARE process petition with the court and any other forms necessary for the CARE process, to be signed under the penalty of perjury, and requires the form to contain certain information, including either a specified affidavit of a licensed behavioral health professional or evidence the respondent was detained for a minimum of two intensive treatments pursuant to specified provisions of law. Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris- Short Act (LPS Act), generally provides for the evaluation, treatment, and civil commitment of persons with mental health disorders and other specified persons.
Existing law authorizes, under a superior court order, an evaluation of a person alleged, as a result of mental disorder, to be a danger to themselves or others or to be gravely disabled, and provides the forms to use for these evaluations. The CARE Act authorizes a court to terminate a respondent’s participation in the CARE process if the court determines that the respondent is not participating in the CARE process or is not adhering to their CARE plan, as specified, and authorizes the court to order the court- ordered evaluation under the LPS Act. If the court finds the petitioner has made a prima facie showing that the respondent is, or may be, a person eligible for the CARE program, the court is required to order the county behavioral health agency, or their designee, as specified, to submit a written report to the court with specified information, including, but not limited to, a determination whether the respondent meets, or is likely to meet, the criteria for the CARE process and conclusions and recommendations about the respondent’s ability to voluntarily engage in services. This bill would require the written report to include conclusions about whether the respondent is likely to need a higher level of care than is available under the CARE Act and, if so, recommendations about the appropriate level of care and the necessary steps to obtain that level of care for the respondent and remove the authorization for a court to dismiss the petition if the respondent is only likely to enroll in behavioral health treatment. If the court intends to dismiss a petition because the respondent needs a higher level of services, the bill would authorize the court to order the county to conduct a prepetition screening and hold the CARE petition open until the screening is complete. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1024 Menjivar, D Firefighter
postpartum
and recovery
leave.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
09/02/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
09/02/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Would require specified fire departments to provide a paid leave of absence of up to 26 weeks to an active firefighting member who requests leave because the firefighter is disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition, as provided. The bill would apply to an active firefighting member who has at least 1,250 hours of service with the fire department in the 12-month period before the date on which the paid leave begins and would require the leave to be with full pay, except as specified, at the firefighter’s regular rate of pay set forth in a collective bargaining agreement and in accordance with their normal pay schedule. The bill would require all benefits to continue to accrue during the paid leave, as specified, and would require a firefighter returning from the paid leave to be restored to their prior position, as provided. The bill would request a fire department of the University of California to comply with these provisions. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Monitor
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273
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1036 Grayson, D Mitigation Fee
Act.
06/30/2026 -
Chaptered HT
ML PDF
06/30/2026
- Approved
by the
Governor.
Chaptered
by
Secretary of
State.
Chapter 54,
Statutes of
2026.
06/30/2026 -
Senate CHAPTE
RED
The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project, including requiring the local agency to identify the use to which the fee is to be put and determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed. This bill would require the amount of a fee that is imposed on a development project that demolishes or changes an existing use to be offset to account for the demolition or change so that the amount of the fee is attributable only to the development project’s incremental impact on public facilities or services, as provided. (Based on 06/30/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1060 Valladares,
R
Alcohol and
drug treatment
facilities.
02/12/2026 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
04/06/2026
- April 8 set
for first
hearing
canceled at
the request
of author.
02/26/2026 -
Senate Health
Current law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate facilities that provide residential nonmedical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services. Violation of licensing provisions is punishable through revocation or suspension of the license and civil penalties. This bill would prohibit an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility from operating within 1,000 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school or a daycare center if the recovery or treatment facility serves more than 6 residents and treatment is being provided at the facility. (Based on 02/12/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1075 Reyes, D Air resources:
toxic air
contaminants:
criteria air
pollutants:
community
emissions
reduction
programs:
local
community
emissions
reduction
plans.
07/02/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare a statewide strategy to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants in communities affected by a high cumulative exposure burden that includes an assessment and identification of those communities. Existing law requires the statewide strategy to be updated at least once every 5 years. Existing law requires the state board, based on the assessment and identification, to select locations around the state for preparation of community emissions reduction programs. Existing law requires the assessment and identification to prioritize disadvantaged communities, as defined. Existing law requires the regional air quality management district or the regional air pollution control district encompassing the location selected by the state board, within one year of selection, to adopt a community emissions reduction program to achieve emissions reductions for the location selected using cost-effective measures, as provided. Existing law requires the state board to provide grants to community-based organizations for technical assistance and to support community participation in the implementation of the statewide strategy. Under this existing regulatory authority, the state board provides grants to development and implement local community emissions reduction plans. This bill would revise the definition of “disadvantaged community” to include a disadvantaged unincorporated community. By expanding the definition of “disadvantaged community,” the bill would expand the duties of districts in the preparation of community emissions reduction programs, thereby imposing a state- mandated local program. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)
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274
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1085 Durazo, D Water supply
planning:
housing
developments.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/27/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/27/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to be responsible for determining whether a project is exempt from CEQA and whether an environmental impact report, a negative declaration, or a mitigated negative declaration is required. Existing law requires a city or county that determines a certain type of project is subject to the requirements of CEQA to identify any public water system that may supply water for the project and to request those public water systems to prepare a specified water supply assessment, as provided. This bill, among other things, would instead require a city or county, upon receipt of a preliminary application for a housing development project that meets certain conditions, or upon a development application for certain projects being determined as complete or deemed complete, to make that identification of public water systems. The bill would require a city or county, within 15 days of receiving an application that meets either of the above-mentioned criteria, to request each identified public water system to determine whether the projected water demand associated with the proposed project was included in the most recently adopted urban water management plan. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1087 Cabaldon, D Transportation
planning:
sustainable
communities
strategies:
transportation
funding
programs.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
31. Noes 9.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires a regional transportation plan to include a policy element, a sustainable communities strategy prepared by a metropolitan planning organization, an action element, and a financial element, as provided. Existing law requires those transportation planning agencies to adopt and submit every 4 years, except as provided, an updated regional transportation plan to the California Transportation Commission and the Department of Transportation. This bill would revise and recast the requirements for a sustainable communities strategy, including, among other things, (A) requiring a sustainable communities strategy every 8 years with a progress report after 4 years instead of requiring a sustainable communities strategy every 4 years, (B) requiring the state board to provide each region with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2035 and 2045, and (C) requiring the state board to hold technical workshops before providing those targets. The bill would also revise the state board’s process for reviewing sustainable communities strategies and alternative planning strategies, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/21/2026 text) Support
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
275
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1099 Reyes, D State and local
public benefits.
08/28/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
11 a.m.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Current law requires each county to provide aid to its indigent residents who are not supported by other means under programs known as general assistance programs.
Current federal law, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), makes specified persons without lawful status in the United States ineligible for state and local public benefits unless a state law is enacted that affirmatively provides for that eligibility, and defines “state or local public benefit” to mean, among other things, any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of a state or local government or by appropriated funds of a state or local government. Current state law authorizes a city, county, city and county, or hospital district, at its discretion, to provide aid, including health care, to persons who, but for the previously described provision of the federal PRWORA, would meet the eligibility requirements for any program of that entity. This bill would clarify that the above-described authorization for provision of aid is an authorization to provide a state or local public benefit, as defined by the federal PRWORA. (Based on 08/25/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1103 Pérez, D Large retail
stores:
immigration
enforcement:
reporting.
07/02/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law generally regulates various business activities and practices related to consumer rights. Existing law requires law enforcement and state and local governments to interact with and report on federal action against individuals based on their perceived or actual immigration status in various specified manners. This bill would require a large retail store doing business in this state, as defined, to provide the Attorney General with copies of specified documentation related to immigration enforcement activity, as defined, that occurs on the large retail store’s premises, including copies of any video footage, upon receipt of an administrative subpoena, as specified. The bill would exempt documentation submitted as described above from the California Public Records Act. The bill would require the large retail store to preserve the documentation described above, as specified. The bill would also require the large home improvement retailer to disclose on the retailer’s internet website certain information, including any policies and practices the large home improvement retailer maintains that relate to immigration enforcement activity on its premises, as specified.
The bill would also require the large retail store to provide the county in which the immigration enforcement activity occurred with access to the above-described documentation, as specified. In connection with that requirement, the bill would require every county board of supervisors to select that appropriate agency in the county to have the authority to access that documentation. (Based on 07/02/2026 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
276
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1105 Pérez, D Law
enforcement.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/27/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
27. Noes
11.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/27/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law defines those persons who are peace officers in the state, grants certain authority to those individuals and their employing entities, and places certain requirements on those individuals and their employing entities. Under existing law, federal criminal investigators and law enforcement officers are not California peace officers but are granted specified limited arrest authority in limited circumstances including when violations of state and local laws occur in their presence, when there is an immediate danger to persons or property, when detaining a person for evaluation or treatment who, due to a mental illness, is a danger to themselves or others, and when requested by a California law enforcement agency to be involved in a joint task force or criminal investigation. Existing law additionally grants peace officer status to federal employees who comply with certain training requirements, while they are engaged in enforcing state or local law on and adjacent to property owned or possessed by the United States Government, with the written consent of local law enforcement officials, as specified. This bill would remove certain arrest authority or peace officer status for federal criminal investigators, law enforcement officers, and federal employees, including for the purposes of executing a warrant for the arrest of a person. The bill would authorize deputized tribal law enforcement officers of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to exercise the powers of arrest, as specified, if, among other things, they are engaged in the enforcement of federal criminal law and they are exercising arrest powers that are incidental to the performance of those federal duties. The bill would also authorize certain federal employees of, among other agencies, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, if they are enforcing specified provisions of state law on property owned by the United States government, to exercise peace officer status with the written consent of the sheriff or the chief of police from the respective jurisdiction. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1117 Cervantes, D Accessory
dwelling units
and junior
accessory
dwelling units.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation by ordinance, or by ministerial approval if the local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law requires fees charged for the construction of ADUs to be determined in accordance with specified provisions of the Mitigation Fee Act. Existing law prohibits a local agency, special district, or water corporation from imposing any impact fee upon the development of an ADU that has 750 square feet of interior livable space or less, and requires any impact fees charged for an ADU that has more than 750 square feet of interior livable space to be charged proportionately in relation to the square footage of the primary dwelling unit. This bill would require the charge for certain accessory dwelling units to be based only on the area in excess of 750 square feet of interior livable space. By changing the duties of local agencies with regard to calculating fees for ADUs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
Monitor
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277
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1121 Seyarto, R Vehicles:
commercial
electric vehicle
safety.
02/17/2026 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
04/23/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(5).
(Last
location
was
EMERGEN
CY
MANAGEM
ENT on
3/4/2026)
04/23/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Would require the Office of Emergency Services, on or before January 1, 2028, to develop and post on its internet website an action plan for responding to electric commercial motor vehicle battery fires that covers specified topics, including best practices for reducing wildfire risk and mitigating the risk of battery reignition. The bill would require the office, in developing the action plan, to consult with certain stakeholders, including the Department of the California Highway Patrol, electric truck manufacturers, and labor organizations. (Based on 02/17/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1138 Padilla, D Load-serving
entities:
resource
adequacy
requirements.
06/15/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities, as provided. Existing law defines load-serving entity, for that purpose, as an electrical corporation, electric service provider, or community choice aggregator. Existing law requires each load-serving entity to be subject to the same requirements for resource adequacy, the renewables portfolio standard program, and the integrated resource planning process that apply to electrical corporations, as provided. This bill would require the commission to authorize a load-serving entity to elect to demonstrate compliance with resource adequacy requirements by selling to, or otherwise making transactions with, another load-serving entity, and would require those transactions to not represent more than 25% of a load-serving entity’s compliance obligations and be of a short-term duration. The bill would require the commission to authorize those transactions to be denominated in the same unit of time used to denominate resource adequacy compliance requirements. The bill would authorize the commission to suspend or adjust that authority of a load-serving entity to sell to, or otherwise make transactions with, another load-serving entity, as specified. (Based on 06/15/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1149 Durazo, D Employees:
bereavement
leave.
08/24/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/24/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
08/24/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family member, as defined, to refuse to hire, or to discharge, demote, fine, suspend, expel, or discriminate against, an individual because of the individual’s exercise of the right to bereavement leave or because of the individual’s giving information or testimony as to their own or another person’s bereavement leave, or to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any of these rights, as specified. This bill would include a designated person identified by the employee, as specified, in the definition of “family member” and authorize an employer to limit an employee to one designated person per 12-month period for purposes of these provisions relating to bereavement leave. (Based on 08/20/2026 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
278
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1153 Caballero, D Disaster
preparedness:
urban retail
water
suppliers and
public water
systems:
wildfire.
09/01/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Ordered to
special
consent
calendar.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
40. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The California Emergency Services Act requires all public water systems, as defined, with 10,000 or more service connections to review and revise their disaster preparedness plans in conjunction with related agencies, including, but not limited to, local fire departments and the Office of Emergency Services, to ensure that the plans are sufficient to address possible disaster scenarios. A person, as defined, who violates the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill, beginning January 1, 2028, would require all urban retail water suppliers, as defined, serving 3,300 or more persons and serving a high or very high fire hazard severity zone to include incident- specific response procedures for wildfires as part of their disaster preparedness plans, including any applicable emergency response plan as required by federal law. The bill would require these plans to include, among other things, mitigation actions, including actions, procedures, and equipment, that can obviate or significantly lessen the impact of a wildfire on the water system and the supply of drinking water provided by the water supplier. Because violation of these requirements by certain urban retail water suppliers would constitute a misdemeanor, the bill would expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. (Based on 09/01/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1159 Cabaldon, D Artificial
intelligence:
transparency
and
governance.
08/28/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
11 a.m.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The California Constitution provides that people have the right of access to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business. Various provisions of existing law, including the California Public Records Act, the Legislative Open Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and the Ralph M. Brown Act, provide, with some exceptions, for public access to government records and meetings of government bodies. Among those acts, the California Public Records Act defines “person” to include any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. This bill would specify that, for purposes of the California Public Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Legislative Open Records Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, the California Coastal Act of 1976, and CEQA, “person,” “interested person,” “participant,” “member of the public,” as applicable, and any other similar terms under each act referring to those who may engage with governmental agencies, do not include artificial intelligence, as defined, systems, autonomous agents, or robots, whether physical or digital. (Based on 08/24/2026 text)
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Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
279
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1164 Cervantes, D Elections. 08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/27/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
28. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/27/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA) prohibits a political subdivision from imposing or applying an at-large method of election for members of the political subdivision’s governing body in a manner that impairs the ability of a protected class to elect candidates of its choice or its ability to influence the outcome of an election, as specified. Existing law requires courts to implement appropriate remedies, including the imposition of district-based elections, for violations of the CVRA. This bill would revise the CVRA. The bill would prohibit a political subdivision or state agency from implementing, imposing, or enforcing any election policy or practice, as defined, that results in, or is likely to result in, voter suppression. An election policy or practice would result in voter suppression if it (1) causes a material disparity in voter participation, access to voting opportunities, or the opportunity or ability to participate in the political process for members of a protected class, which is defined as any race, color, or language-minority group; or (2) based on the totality of circumstances, causes an impairment of the equal opportunity or ability of members of a protected class to participate in the political process. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1167 Blakespear,
D
Vehicles:
electric
bicycles.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions for various purposes, and requires, among other things, a class 3 electric bicycle to be equipped with a speedometer. Existing law prohibits certain vehicles that do not meet the definition of an electric bicycle from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as an electric bicycle, as specified. This bill would amend the type of vehicles that are prohibited from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as electric bicycles, including, among others, motor-driven cycles and mopeds. (Based on 08/31/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1168 McNerney, D Data centers:
rate structures.
09/01/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
38. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Would require the Public Utilities Commission to assess opportunities for rate structures to ensure data centers pay a reasonable share of their costs associated with transmission and distribution needs, ensure that data centers pay for their proportionate share of load increases and procurements needed to reliably serve their loads while maintaining consistency with the applicable integrated resource planning requirements, and alleviate cost pressures on residential ratepayers. (Based on 09/01/2026 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
280
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1169 Grayson, D Subdivision
Map Act:
tentative
maps:
expiration
dates.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/27/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/27/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
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 processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative maps, among other maps. Existing law requires a vesting tentative map to be filed and processed in the same manner as a tentative map, except as specified. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. Under existing law, an approved tentative map expires 24 months after its approval or conditional approval.
Existing law authorizes the approval or conditional approval to be extended up to 24 months pursuant to local ordinance, and by 48 months, as provided, if the subdivider is required to expend more than a certain amount of money to construct, improve, or finance the construction or improvement of public improvements outside the property boundaries of the tentative map, as provided. provided, except as specified. This bill would extend the initial expiration period of an approved or conditionally approved tentative map to 48 months and the extension pursuant to local ordinance to 36 months, except as provided. The bill would also apply all of the above-described timelines to any approved or conditionally approved tentative map that is not expired as of December 31, 2026. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1172 Hurtado, D Bradley-Burns
Uniform Local
Sales and Use
Tax Law: tax
sharing
agreements.
08/28/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
4 p.m.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law prohibits a local agency from entering into any form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of any tax revenue resulting from the imposition of a sales and use tax under the Bradley- Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law to any person for any purpose when the agreement results in a reduction in the amount of revenue under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law that, in the absence of the agreement, would be received by another local agency and the retailer continues to maintain a physical presence within the territorial jurisdiction of that other local agency. Existing law also requires a local agency entering into an agreement that results in a reduction of the amount of revenue under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law that, in the absence of the agreement, would be received by another local agency to take certain actions with respect to that agreement, including posting the proposed agreement on its internet website for at least 30 days prior to ratification or approval of that agreement by its governing body. This bill would prohibit a person from paying compensation to a consultant with respect to a specific tax sharing agreement, as defined, that exceeds the lower of 5% of the total tax revenues shared pursuant to the tax sharing agreement and $250,000. The bill would define a tax sharing agreement for this purpose to mean any agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of any tax revenue resulting from the imposition of a sales and use tax under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law to any person for any purpose. (Based on 08/25/2026 text) Monitor
Attachment B: 2025-2026 Intergovernmental Relations Priority State Legislation Log
281
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1177 Cortese, D Wage
statements:
airline cabin
crew
employees.
06/18/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was L. & E.
on
6/15/2026)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires an employer, semimonthly or at the time of payment of wages, to furnish an employee an accurate, itemized, written statement containing specified information regarding the amounts earned, hours worked, and the employee’s identity, among other things, subject to certain variations. Existing law provides that an itemized wage statement furnished by an employer pursuant to these provisions is not required to show total hours worked by the employee if, among other things, the employee is exempt from the payment of minimum wage and overtime under specified law. Existing federal law, the Railway Labor Act, regulates labor relations for rail and air carriers and entitles employees to organize and bargain collectively. This bill would provide that an itemized wage statement may, in lieu of total hours worked, show all applicable hourly rates in effect during the pay period and the corresponding number of hours worked at each hourly rate if the employee is a flight deck crewmember or cabin crewmember covered by the federal Railway Labor Act and the employer makes available certain information regarding duty hours in accordance with federal regulations, as specified. (Based on 06/18/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1180 Allen, D Plastic
Pollution
Prevention
and Packaging
Producer
Responsibility
Act: California
Plastic
Pollution
Mitigation
Fund.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
27. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act regulates certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware, as provided. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the act requires producers of covered materials to reduce and recycle covered plastic material and to ensure that covered materials that are offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, are recyclable or compostable, as provided. The act establishes, until January 1, 2037, the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund, which consists of all environmental mitigation surcharges, interest, penalties, and other amounts collected pursuant to the act, as provided. The act requires, upon appropriation by the Legislature, that 60% of the moneys in the fund be expended to monitor and reduce the historical and current environmental justice and public health impacts of plastics, and that 40% of the moneys in the fund be expended to monitor and reduce the environmental impacts of plastics on terrestrial, aquatic, and marine life and human health. This bill would, among other things, require each expenditure made upon appropriation from the fund to comply with specified requirements, including, among others, prioritizing programs, projects, and initiatives that benefit communities most burdened by the impacts of plastic pollution or demonstrate meaningful and durable partnership with California Native American tribes and that provide multiple benefits.
The bill would require each of those expenditures to achieve one or more of specified purposes, including, among others, sustained mitigation of the potential adverse health impacts of plastics, supporting a reduction in plastic production, use, and disposal, and supporting research, data collection, and monitoring activities, as specified. (Based on 08/20/2026 text)
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282
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1187 Durazo, D Open
meetings.
08/28/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/28/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
4 p.m.
08/28/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law, beginning July 1, 2026, requires eligible legislative bodies, as defined, to have in place a system for electronically accepting and fulfilling requests for meeting agendas and documents. Existing law additionally requires these legislative bodies to translate the agenda for each meeting of that body and to reasonably assist members of the public who wish to translate a public meeting or receive interpretation, as specified. This bill would instead delete the above-described requirements on eligible legislative bodies. (Based on 08/25/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1196 McNerney, D Small
energization
projects:
electrical
service
connections.
08/21/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/21/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
08/21/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The Powering Up Californians Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine the criteria for timely service for electrical customers to be energized, including, among other things, categories of timely electric service through energization, as specified. The act requires the commission to establish reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods to ensure that work is completed in a manner that minimizes delay in meeting the date requested by an electrical customer to the greatest extent possible. This bill would require the commission, by September 30, 2027, in a new or existing proceeding, to establish timelines for electrical corporations to respond to and process requests to energize small energization projects, as provided. (Based on 08/19/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1218 Arreguín, D Vehicle
immobilization:
illegal dumping
violation
penalties.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law authorizes a peace officer, as defined, or a regularly employed and salaried employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations to immobilize a vehicle with a device made for that purpose, if the vehicle is found upon a highway or public lands within the officer or employee’s jurisdiction, and the vehicle has been issued 5 or more notices of parking violations that are delinquent because the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded within the prescribed time period, or the registered owner has been issued 5 or more notices for failure to pay or failure to appear in court for traffic violations, as specified. Existing law makes it unlawful and punishable as an infraction for a person to dump or cause to be dumped waste matter upon a public or private highway or road, upon private property without the consent of the owner, or in or upon a public park or other public property, as specified. Existing law also makes it unlawful and punishable as a misdemeanor for a person to place, deposit, or dump, or cause to be placed, deposited, or dumped, waste matter in commercial quantities, as specified. This bill would similarly authorize the immobilization of a vehicle with a device made for that purpose if the registered owner of the vehicle has been issued a certain number of notices of illegal dumping violation that are delinquent, or is known to have been issued a certain number notices for failure to pay or failure to appear in court for an illegal dumping violation, as specified. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
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283
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1246 Cortese, D Autonomous
vehicles.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
08/31/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
28. Noes 7.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law authorizes the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle operated if specified requirements are satisfied. Existing law prohibits the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads until the manufacturer submits an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles (department), as specified, and that application is approved. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations setting forth requirements for the submission and approval of an application, including, among other things, any testing, equipment, and performance standards the department concludes are necessary to ensure the safe operation of autonomous vehicles on public roads, as specified. This bill would require manufacturers of autonomous vehicles to maintain communications capacity sufficient to support the maximum number of concurrent remote assistance or teleoperations sessions, as specified. The bill would require remote drivers to be located within the United States and hold a driver’s license that is valid for operation in California, is of the appropriate class, and includes any required endorsements. The bill would require an autonomous vehicle manufacturer to ensure, through its staffing and assignments, that local incident technicians are immediately dispatched upon notification, electronically or otherwise, of a crash or other incident or upon receiving a request from an emergency response official or 911 dispatch center. The bill would, in the event of a fleetwide emergency or system failure that may create a traffic hazard or impeded emergency response, require an autonomous vehicle manufacturer to immediately notify affected local jurisdictions, including emergency dispatch, of the location and status of their fleet and deploy local incident technicians, where appropriate, whenever affected vehicles cannot be remotely recovered. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2028, to adopt guidelines establishing reasonable response times for local incident technicians to be present at the scene upon the request of an emergency response official or 911 dispatch center. The bill would expand the definition of “emergency response official” for these purposes to also include traffic control, traffic enforcement, and parking enforcement personnel from a public agency in an applicable jurisdiction. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/21/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1248 Cabaldon, D State
agencies:
automated
decision
systems.
02/19/2026 -
Introduced HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/4/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
This bill would impose certain restrictions on the use of an automated decision system by a state agency to confer services, defined as, among other things, the issuance of professional licenses and provision of public benefits. Among the restrictions, the bill would include a prohibition on using an output from the system as the sole basis for an adverse service determination affecting a natural person, except as specified. The bill would require the state agency to verify the accuracy of the system’s outputs and to promote nondiscrimination in its use, as specified. The bill would require the director or designee of a state agency to provide for quality control review of the outputs, as specified, to assure acceptable accuracy. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/19/2026 text)
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284
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1258 Wiener, D Hazardous
waste: site
remediation:
residential
suitability
guidelines.
04/16/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/4/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
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. 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. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1266 Stern, D Crimes: theft. 07/02/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, requires the theft of property that does not exceed $950 to be punished as a misdemeanor, except as specified. Proposition 47 authorizes amendment of its provisions by a 2/3 vote of the Members of each house of the Legislature so long as the amendments are consistent with and further the intent of the act. Under existing law, it is grand theft to steal, take, or carry away copper materials of another valued at more than $950. This bill would amend Proposition 47 to require, for the purposes of this provision, value to be calculated as the cost to the victim to repair and replace the stolen materials, including equipment that was damaged or destroyed by the stealing, taking, or carrying away, as specified. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1283 Ashby, D Electric vehicle
charging
stations:
installation:
permits.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county (local government) to administratively approve an application to install an electric vehicle charging station (EV station) through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit.
Existing law requires those EV stations to meet all applicable safety and performance standards established by specified entities. This bill would require this administrative approval to extend to EV stations with a canopy, as defined, or onsite energy storage systems sized to support charging. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1292 Richardson,
D
Enhanced
curb
management
system.
06/11/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
07/01/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(13).
(Last
location
was
TRANS. on
6/1/2026)
07/01/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2030, a local agency, as defined, to install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned or district-owned parking enforcement vehicles for the purpose of taking photographs of parking violations occurring in bicycle lanes. Existing law requires a designated employee of a city, county, city and county, or a contracted law enforcement agency for a special transit district, who is qualified by the city and county or the district to issue parking citations, to review photographs for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a bicycle lane and to issue a notice of violation to the registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days, as specified. Existing law requires these photographic records to be confidential and makes these records available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law requires any local agency that implements this pilot program to report to specified committees of the Legislature on the system’s effectiveness and impact on traffic outcomes, among other things, by December 31, 2028. This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2032, the City of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Inglewood, San Diego, or Long Beach, or the city parking enforcement authority within those cities, to establish an enhanced curb management system that records images of vehicles for the purpose of enforcing parking violations or automating parking payments if certain requirements are met. The bill would require the governing body of the participating city to adopt a public ordinance or resolution that would authorize the use of a system in specified locations, including, among others, passenger loading zones and smart loading zones. The bill would require a participating city that automates parking payments by charging vehicles a fee for access to outline the fee, and any adjusted rates, in an ordinance or resolution. (Based on 06/11/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1295 Stern, D Electrical
corporations:
distributed
energy storage
systems.
06/29/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission 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, 2020. Existing law requires the commission to direct the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations to file applications for programs and investments to accelerate widespread deployment of distributed energy storage systems. This bill would require an electrical corporation, as part of the distribution planning process, to evaluate whether distributed energy storage systems can meet the identified reliability or capacity need, as provided. (Based on 06/29/2026 text)
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286
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1313 McNerney, D Drinking water:
perfluoroalkyl
and
polyfluoroalkyl
substances.
04/27/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/11/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Existing law establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, and moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the State Water Resources Control Board for the provision of grants and revolving fund loans to provide for the design and construction of projects for public water systems that will enable suppliers to meet safe drinking water standards. Existing law provides that moneys in the fund and its special accounts may be expended for additional purposes provided in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. This bill would provide that moneys in the fund and its special accounts may be considered eligible and expended for projects that address perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water. By expanding the purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund may be expended, the bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/27/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1314 Menjivar, D Cigarette or
tobacco
product
retailers: new
retail locations
and sale of
nitrous oxide.
07/01/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
08/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(14).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
8/5/2026)
08/14/2026 -
Assembly DEAD
The Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act requires the State Department of Public Health to establish and develop a program to reduce the availability of tobacco products to persons under 21 years of age through specified enforcement activities. In addition to the primary enforcement responsibility assumed by the department, existing law authorizes other state and local governmental agencies to conduct inspections and assess penalties for violations of the act, as specified, and encourages state and local enforcement agencies to share the results of inspections and coordinate with the department when enforcing the act. In this regard, existing law authorizes an enforcing agency to assess specified civil penalties against any person, firm, or corporation that sells, gives, or in any way furnishes to another person who is under 21 years of age any tobacco, cigarettes, or cigarette papers. Existing law, upon the assessment of a civil penalty for the 3rd, 4th, or 5th violation, requires the department to notify the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA), and requires the CDTFA to assess civil penalties and suspend or revoke a license issued under the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003. This bill, effective July 1, 2027, would prohibit a new retail location for a retailer of cigarettes or tobacco products from being located within a 600-foot radius of a school or a daycare center unless the local jurisdiction specifies a radius greater than 600 feet. The bill would also prohibit a retailer of cigarettes or tobacco products from possessing, storing, owning, or selling nitrous oxide or paraphernalia relating to the consumption of nitrous oxide. (Based on 07/01/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1319 Durazo, D California
Public
Records Act:
public
investment
funds.
04/15/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/4/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
The California Public Records Act (act) requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies.
The act exempts from disclosure certain records regarding alternative investments in which public investment funds invest, including records containing information regarding the portfolio positions in which alternative investment funds invest. The act, however, requires certain information contained in those records to be disclosed, including, among other things, the name, address, and vintage year of each alternative investment vehicle. The act defines various terms for these purposes. This bill would additionally require the disclosure of certain additional information, including, among other things, the name of each general partner or manager of each alternative investment vehicle and of each person with a direct or indirect interest in the general partner or manager. The bill would except this information contained in those records subject to disclosure, as provided, from the records containing information regarding the portfolio positions described above that are exempt from disclosure. (Based on 04/15/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1323 Rubio, D Health care
providers:
patient access:
immigration
enforcement.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/31/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law requires a health care provider entity, as defined, to designate areas where a patient is receiving treatment or care, or where a patient is discussing protected health information, as nonpublic, in order to enhance privacy available to facility users and promote a safe environment conducive to the facility’s mission and patient care.
Unless required by state or federal law, existing law prohibits a health care provider entity and its personnel from allowing any person access to the nonpublic areas of the facility for immigration enforcement purposes, unless that person has a valid judicial warrant or court order that specifically grants access to the nonpublic areas of the facility. Existing law requires a health care provider entity to inform staff and relevant volunteers on how to respond to requests relating to immigration enforcement that grants access to health care provider entity sites or to patients. This bill would also require a health care provider entity to inform staff and relevant volunteers on how to respond to requests by a person who is in custody by immigration enforcement to notify a family member or designated support person about their current location. (Based on 08/28/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1344 Cabaldon, D Civil actions:
housing
development
projects.
08/30/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/27/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
30. Noes 5.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/27/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law provides that in a civil action brought by a plaintiff to challenge a housing development project that meets or exceeds the requirements for low- or moderate- income housing, a defendant may seek an order requiring the plaintiff to furnish an undertaking as security for costs and damages that may be incurred by the defendant if the bringing of the action would result in preventing or delaying the project, as specified.
Existing law limits the liability of the plaintiff who must furnish the undertaking to $500,000. Existing law also permits a defendant in a civil action challenging the approval or permitting of a priority housing development project, as defined, to bring a special motion to strike the pleading. Existing law requires the court to deny the motion to strike if the court determines, based on the pleadings, affidavits, and administrative record if applicable, that the plaintiff has established a probability of prevailing on the claim. This bill would increase the above-referenced liability limit to $1,000,000. The bill would also generally apply the above provisions to priority care developments, as defined, that provide supportive housing or other housing assistance in connection with behavioral health services and other specified purposes. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1361 Durazo, D Transit-
oriented
housing
developments:
local
governments:
transit
agencies and
projects.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
30. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law requires a housing development project to be an allowed use as a transit- oriented housing development if certain requirements are met. Existing law provides that these provisions do not apply to a local agency until July 1, 2026, unless the local agency takes specified actions. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes.
Existing law prohibits a local government from adopting any requirement that applies to a project solely or partially on the basis that the project is seeking approval as a transit- oriented housing development, as specified. This bill would additionally prohibit a local government with an existing or planned transit-oriented development stop from taking specified actions with respect to transit agencies and transit projects. (Based on 09/02/2026 text)
Monitor
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289
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1365 Allen, D Price gouging. 08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
09/01/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
27. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
09/01/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Under existing law, upon the proclamation of a state of emergency by the President of the United States or the Governor, or upon the declaration of a local emergency by the executive officer of any county, city, or city and county, and for 30 days following the proclamation or declaration of emergency, it is price gouging, a misdemeanor, for any person, business, or other entity, to increase the rental price advertised, offered, or charged for housing, to an existing or prospective tenant, by more than 10%. Existing law exempts an increase from these provisions if the person can prove that the increase is directly attributable to additional costs for repairs or additions beyond normal maintenance that were amortized over the rental term that caused the rent to be increased greater than 10%. This bill would instead make it an affirmative defense to charge of price gouging pursuant to that provision if an increase was directly attributable to additional costs for repairs or additions beyond normal maintenance incurred within the year prior to the proclamation or declaration and either the housing was rented, advertised for rent, or offered for rent at the time the costs were incurred or the person can prove that within a year before the proclamation or declaration, the intent to offer the housing for rent within 6 months of the repair or addition already existed. (Based on 08/20/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1367 Cervantes, D Planning and
zoning:
detention
facilities.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
29. Noes
10.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, including agriculture, recreation, enjoyment of scenic beauty, use of natural resources, and other purposes. This bill would prohibit a city or county from approving new land uses in a manner that authorize construction of a detention facility or changes of use that permit use of an existing building as a detention facility, as defined for purposes of these provisions. (Based on 09/02/2026 text)
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291
Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1370 Stern, D Covered
wildfire
mitigation
projects:
consolidated
and expedited
review.
08/31/2026 -
Enrollment HT
ML PDF
09/01/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Concurrenc
e in
Assembly
amendment
s pending.
Unanimous
consent
granted to
take up
without
reference to
file.
Assembly
amendment
s concurred
in. (Ayes
39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
09/01/2026 -
Assembly ENRO
LLMENT
Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which is known as and may be referred to as CAL-FIRE. Existing law establishes in CAL-FIRE the Office of the State Fire Marshal and requires that office to establish the Community Wildfire Mitigation Assistance Program to coordinate regional and local efforts with state policies, strategies, and programs for community wildfire mitigation in order to improve wildfire preparedness and prevention, with an emphasis on the most vulnerable communities. This bill would require that, notwithstanding any other law, any state-level environmental and resource permits, approvals, consultations, and reviews required for a covered wildfire mitigation project, as defined, be consolidated into a single coordinated review by a project review team, as defined, and administered jointly by the consolidated review agencies, defined as the Natural Resources Agency in coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency. The bill would require an applicant seeking authorization to undertake a covered wildfire mitigation project to submit a single, consolidated application package to the consolidated review agencies. The bill would require a decision to be rendered by the consolidated review agencies within 60 calendar days of the consolidated review agencies deeming an application is complete, as provided, and would authorize the applicant and the consolidated review agencies to agree to extend the 60-day timeline if both parties agree to the extension. The bill would require the approvals to be in writing and to include specified information, including, among other things, a description of the project and a list of permits, agreements, consultations, or approvals waived by the review agencies’ authorization. (Based on 08/28/2026 text) Monitor
SB 1371 Durazo, D Solid waste
handling
services: labor
dispute.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/31/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
Existing law contains various provisions relating to franchise agreements between a local jurisdiction and a service provider for the provision of services such as utilities, waste hauling, and cable television. This bill would prohibit any franchise contracts, licenses, or permits for solid waste handling services, as defined, entered into or substantially amended, as defined, by a local agency on or after January 1, 2027, from including a force majeure provision that excuses or suspends the service provider’s obligation to perform under the franchise contract, license, or permit in the event of a work stoppage arising out of or in connection with a labor dispute, as defined. The bill would also provide that any force majeure provision in a franchise contract, license, or permit for solid waste handling services is void and unenforceable to the extent that it excuses or suspends performance due to a work stoppage arising out of or in connection with a labor dispute. (Based on 08/28/2026 text) Monitor
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1375 Cortese, D California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption:
urban
intermodal rail
station project.
08/21/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/21/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
3 p.m.
08/21/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. Existing law exempts from CEQA a public project for the improvement, institution, or increase of passenger rail service, including the maintenance, construction, or rehabilitation of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities that will be exclusively used by zero-emission trains or specified rolling stock or locomotives, as provided. This bill would exempt from CEQA, except as specified, a public urban, intermodal rail station project within a long-urbanized area within the statewide passenger rail network, at which high-capacity light, commuter, and intercity rail services converge that meets specified conditions, including, among other requirements, a requirement for compliance with various environmental laws and for the adoption of a plan for how any displacement from the project will be fully addressed, as provided. The bill would require a lead agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA pursuant to this exemption, and it determines to carry out the project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located, as provided. The bill would permit exemption only for projects for which a notice of exemption is filed before January 1, 2032. (Based on 08/19/2026 text)
Sponsor
SB 1399 Durazo, D Locked
detention
facilities: civil
immigration:
reviews.
09/02/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/30/2026
- Read third
time.
Passed.
Ordered to
the Senate.
In Senate.
Ordered to
engrossing
and
enrolling.
08/30/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
MENT
Existing law requires, until July 1, 2027, the Attorney General, or their designee, to engage in reviews of county, local, or private locked detention facilities in which noncitizens are being housed or detained for purposes of civil immigration proceedings in California, and, on or before March 1, 2019, to conduct a review of these facilities, as specified, including a review of the circumstances of apprehension and transfer.
Existing law also requires the Department of Justice to provide, during the budget process, updates and information to the Legislature and the Governor, concerning the reviews, as provided and pursuant to a specified date. Existing law requires the comprehensive report to be completed by March 1, 2019, and to be posted on the Attorney General’s internet website and made available to the public, as provided.
Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2027, and repeals those provisions January 1, 2028. This bill would delete all dates specified above, including inoperative and repeal provisions, thereby indefinitely extending those provisions, and would delete the requirement for the review to include an individual’s circumstances of apprehension and transfer. (Based on 09/02/2026 text)
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Measure Author Topic Current Text Status Location Brief Summary City Position
SB 1411 Stern, D Greenhouse
Gas Reduction
Fund: funding
conditions:
high-speed
rail.
04/16/2026 -
Amended HT
ML PDF
05/14/2026
- Failed
Deadline
pursuant to
Rule
61(b)(8).
(Last
location
was APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE on
5/4/2026)
05/14/2026 -
Senate DEAD
Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high- speed rail system in the state. Existing law requires moneys collected by the State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale of certain allowances as part of a market- based compliance mechanism to be deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and continuously appropriates a portion of the moneys in the fund for various purposes, including a specified portion to the authority for certain purposes. Existing law prohibits the authority from entering into new funding commitments with those moneys for activities outside of the Merced to Bakersfield segment, until June 30, 2030, or when that segment is fully funded, whichever is sooner. Notwithstanding that prohibition, existing law authorizes the authority to enter into new funding commitments outside of the Merced to Bakersfield segment for certain purposes, including for additional activities, not to cumulatively exceed $500,000,000, that maximize the efficiency of delivering the project, as specified. This bill would revise and recast that authorization to instead authorize the authority to enter into new funding commitments with the above-described moneys outside of the Merced to Bakersfield segment in any amount for activities related to early works, as defined, and for projects developed through public partnership agreements or public-private partnership agreements, subject to the requirements that those funding commitments maximize the efficiency of delivering the project and do not delay the completion of the Merced to Bakersfield segment, as specified. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Monitor
SB 1425 Cortese, D High-Speed
Rail Authority:
property:
operating
right-of-way.
08/31/2026 -
Enrolled HTM
L PDF
08/31/2026
- Enrolled
and
presented
to the
Governor at
6 p.m.
08/31/2026 -
Senate ENROLL
ED
The California High-Speed Rail Act creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties, including the power to acquire rights-of-way through purchase or eminent domain, as specified. This bill would establish a permit program, administered by the authority, for encroachments on the authority’s operating right-of-way. The bill would make any person who installs or performs an encroachment within the authority’s operating right- of-way, without a permit, guilty of a misdemeanor, except as provided. The bill would also make any person who willfully damages any feature of the high-speed train system or any portion of the authority’s operating right-of-way guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill would provide for civil penalties for specified categories of encroachment and, unless authorized by law or an encroachment permit, would make it unlawful to manage water flows in certain ways that impact the high-speed train system or the authority’s operating right-of-way, as specified. The bill would authorize the authority or the Attorney General to recover these civil penalties. The bill would require all moneys, including moneys from permit fees and civil penalties, collected pursuant to its provisions to be deposited into the High-Speed Rail Property Fund, except for the award of any reasonable attorney’s fees and costs provided to the recovering agency to recoup the cost of litigation, as provided. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, make the penalty moneys available to the authority for use in the development, improvement, and maintenance of the high-speed rail system, and the other moneys in the fund available for administering these provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/28/2026 text) Monitor
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Total Bills: 601
Attachment C: FY2027 Community Project Funding and Congressionally Directed Spending Requests
Project Title Appropriations Account Senator
Schiff
Rep.
Khanna
Rep.
Liccardo
Rep.
Panetta Total
Accessibility
Improvements –
Groesbeck Hill Park and
Brigadoon Park
Transportation, Housing and
Urban Development, and
Related Agencies Bill $1,000,000 $1,000,000
Agnews Community Open
Space Project
Transportation, Housing and
Urban Development, and
Related Agencies Bill
$500,000 $500,000
Evergreen Community
Area Enhancements
Transportation, Housing and
Urban Development, and
Related Agencies Bill
$1,250,000 $1,250,000
Mobilehome Repairs for
Seniors
Transportation, Housing and
Urban Development, and
Related Agencies Bill
$500,000 $1,800,000 $250,000 $2,550,000
SJ Fire Alerting Network
Resiliency Project
Transportation, Housing and
Urban Development, and
Related Agencies Bill
$490,000 $490,000 $980,000