City of Santa Clara
Legislative Bill Matrix
Broadband, Cable Service and Wireless Telecommunications Facilities LAP SB 716 (Durazo, D) Local government: ordinances: penalties for violation: nonresidential structures.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 08/28/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 494, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law makes the violation of a county ordinance or a city ordinance a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. Existing law specifies monetary fines for any violation of local ordinances that is an infraction, not to exceed specified amounts that vary based on the circumstances of the violation, as prescribed. This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, authorize the county board of supervisors to impose fines, penalties, and forfeitures for violations of ordinances and to fix the penalty by a fine or imprisonment, or both. The bill would also establish the amount of the fine that may be imposed for the violation of a city or county ordinance, where the violation pertains to a nonresidential structure with a floor area of 20,000 or more square feet and the violation poses a threat to health and safety, to not exceed $1,000 for the first violation, $2,000 for the 2nd violation within 5 years of the first violation, and $5,000 for subsequent violations within 5 years of the first violation, as specified. (Based on 09/27/2026 text).
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AB 1559 (Calderon, D) Residential property insurance images.
Current Text: 04/13/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/08/2026
Last Amended: 04/13/2026
Status: 07/01/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was P., D.T., & C.P. on 6/10/2026)
Location: 07/01/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including residential property insurance. Existing law requires an insurer to send various notices to a policyholder at specified intervals.
This bill would require an admitted insurer to notify a residential property insurance policyholder that aerial images may be taken or obtained of the insured property, as specified, unless a claim has been submitted or is pending on the property and the images will be used only for evaluating the claim. The bill would require the insurer to provide the aerial images upon request, as specified, and would require the notice to include instructions regarding how a policyholder may make that request. (Based on 04/13/2026 text)
AB 1749 (Dixon, R) Interfering with wildfire suppression and emergency responses with drone.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/09/2026
Last Amended: 06/17/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 762, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law makes it a crime for a person to operate or use an unmanned aerial vehicle, remote-piloted aircraft, or drone at the scene of an emergency for the purpose of viewing the scene or emergency or military personnel, and thereby impede the emergency or military personnel, in the performance of their duties in coping with the emergency. Existing law excuses a local public entity or public employee from liability for damage to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, if the damage was caused while the local public entity or public employee of a local public entity was providing, and the unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system was interfering with, the operation, support, or enabling of any emergency service, as specified. Existing law makes everyone responsible for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person, as provided. This bill would prohibit a person from operating or using an unmanned aerial vehicle, remote-piloted aircraft, or drone to knowingly or recklessly interfere with, among other things, a wildfire suppression or law enforcement or emergency response efforts related to a wildfire suppression. (Based on 09/29/2026 text)
AB 1795 (Gipson, D) Smoke Damage Recovery Act.
Current Text: 09/15/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/10/2026
Last Amended: 08/28/2026
Status: 09/15/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 240, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/15/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including fire and residential property insurance. Existing law specifies the measure of indemnity under an open fire insurance policy that requires payment of actual cash value or replacement cost. If there is a covered loss relating to a state of emergency, existing law requires additional living expense coverage to be for a period of no less than 24 months from the inception of the loss. This bill, the Smoke Damage Recovery Act, would create a rebuttable presumption that if wildfire smoke, ash, soot, char, or combustion byproducts are present in a surviving residential property in the wildfire impact zone after a wildfire, then smoke damage in the property is the result of that wildfire. The bill would prohibit an insurer from terminating additional living expenses coverage for a residential property insurance smoke damage claim for a property within the wildfire impact zone until the property has been restored to preloss condition and cleared for human occupancy, as specified. The bill would require specified regulations and guidance to apply to these claims within the wildfire impact zone. The bill would make an insurer responsible for the cost of sampling and testing that is necessary to restore a damaged property to its preloss condition and render it cleared for human occupancy. If a residential property has been cleared for human occupancy, the bill would require a claim for recontamination to be considered a new claim. The bill would require an insurer that chooses to exercise its right to inspect a smoke-damaged property to inspect the property as soon as practicable, but no later than 30 calendar days after receiving notice of the claim or, if applicable, no later than 30 calendar days after access to the property is granted. The bill would require the insurer to pay the actual cash value of the cost to restore the damaged personal property to its preloss condition no later than 30 calendar days after the inspection, unless the policyholder has agreed to restoration by the insurer. (Based on 09/15/2026 text)
AB 1960 (Bennett, D) Wildfire Prevention Grants Program: wildfire mitigation validation.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/13/2026
Last Amended: 08/19/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 764, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities in California and extends eligibility for grants to, among others, local agencies, resource conservation districts, fire safe councils, the California Conservation Corps, certified community conservation corps, Native American tribes, and qualified nonprofit organizations. Existing law requires the department, on or before December 31, 2023, and annually thereafter, to post on its internet website certain information regarding hazardous fuel reduction and vegetation management projects funded or conducted by the department for the preceding fiscal year, including projects funded under the department’s Wildfire Prevention Grants Program, as provided. Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a statewide program to allow qualified entities, as defined, who have completed a specific training program developed and administered by the department to support and augment the department in its defensible space and home hardening assessment and education efforts. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the State Fire Marshal’s Wildfire Mitigation Advisory Committee, to establish a wildfire mitigation validation program to provide voluntary official recognition to a community that achieves progress toward community-scale wildfire preparedness and mitigations. (Based on 09/29/2026 text) AB 2037 (Patterson, R) Wildfire Mitigation Aging and Disability Grant Pilot Program.
Current Text: 05/18/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/17/2026
Last Amended: 05/18/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: The Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act establishes the California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services Agency and sets forth its mission to provide leadership to the area agencies on aging in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or the least restrictive homelike environments. This bill would establish the Wildfire Mitigation Aging and Disability Grant Pilot Program to be administered by the California Department of Aging through specified area agencies on aging, including Planning and Service Areas 4, 29, and 33. Upon appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes, the bill would award grants, based on specified criteria, to seniors and individuals with disabilities to mitigate against wildfires on properties they own that they would not otherwise be able to protect with existing resources. The bill would require the area agencies on aging to award grants on a competitive basis and would require applications to contain specified information, including proof of need. The bill would also authorize the grant funding to be used towards the costs associated with hiring contractors or other qualified service providers to perform wildfire mitigation activities. (Based on 05/18/2026 text) AB 2061 (Chen, R) California FAIR Plan Association: data.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 918, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law requires the California FAIR Plan Association to establish and maintain an internet website and toll-free telephone number, requires the association to cause the toll-free telephone number to be published in all general distribution telephone directories in the state, and requires the association to include the internet website address and toll-free telephone number on all communications with an applicant or insured. This bill would require the association to, each quarter, post on its internet website specified information, including the number of policies issued by the association in each ZIP Code and the risk exposure of the association. The bill would delete the requirement that the association cause its toll-free telephone number to be published in all general distribution telephone directories in the state. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 10095.5 of the Insurance Code proposed by AB 69 to be operative only if this bill and AB 69 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
AB 2075 (Bennett, D) Forestry: safety requirements: fire equipment: internal combustion engines.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 08/11/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 766, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Under existing law, a person is prohibited from using or operating, on or near specified lands during a time of the year when burning permits are required, a motor engine, boiler, stationary equipment, welding equipment, cutting torches, tarpots, or grinding devices from which a spark, fire, or flame may originate without complying with specified requirements, including the requirement to maintain one serviceable round point shovel and one backpack pump water-type fire extinguisher fully equipped and ready for use at the immediate area during the operation. Existing law prohibits a person, except a member of an emergency crew or except the driver or owner of a service vehicle owned or operated by or for, or operated under contract with, a publicly or privately owned utility, as provided, from using or operating any vehicle, machine, tool, or equipment powered by an internal combustion engine operated on hydrocarbon fuels in an industrial operation located on specified land between April 1 and December 1 of any year, or at any other time when ground litter and vegetation will sustain combustion permitting the spread of fire, without providing and maintaining, for firefighting purposes only, suitable and serviceable tools in a fire toolbox in specified amounts, manners, and locations. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by, among other things, instead requiring a person to maintain at least one backpack pump-type fire extinguisher fully equipped and ready for use, and a sufficient number of serviceable round point shovels so that each person at the operation can be equipped to fight fire, within the operating area, at a point accessible in the event of fire.
The bill would require these fire tools to be no farther than 25 feet from the motor, engine, boiler, stationary equipment, welding equipment, cutting torches, tarpots, or grinding devices, and with unrestricted access for the operator. (Based on 09/29/2026 text) AB 2385 (Petrie-Norris, D) Local reconstruction agencies.
Current Text: 08/03/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/03/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/10/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: The Community Redevelopment Law established redevelopment agencies in each community and granted specified powers to those redevelopment agencies for the purpose of promoting redevelopment in blighted areas. Existing law dissolved those community redevelopment agencies in 2012. Other existing law, the Disaster Recovery Reconstruction Act of 1986, authorizes each city, county, or other local subdivision, as provided, to prepare, prior to a disaster, plans and ordinances facilitating the expeditious and orderly recovery and reconstruction of the area in case of a disaster. Existing law authorizes the plans and ordinances to include, among other things, a contingency plan of action and organization for short-term and long-term recovery and reconstruction to be instituted after a disaster.
Existing law authorizes the plans and ordinances to include the authority and proposed organization for establishment of a local reconstruction authority with powers parallel to those of a community redevelopment agency, except as specified. This bill would refer to those plans as a disaster recovery plan and would require a city or county that prepares a disaster recovery plan to amend its general plan, if necessary, as provided, to ensure consistency between both plans. The bill would revise the contingency plan of action and organization to include intermediate recovery and reconstruction, in addition to the short-term and long-term recovery and reconstruction, and would specify elements that may be included in the contingency plan of action and organization. The bill would require the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, on or before January 1, 2029, and in consultation with other specified state and local entities, to assess the recovery and rebuilding needs of jurisdictions across the state and develop model ordinance language, as provided. (Based on 08/03/2026 text) AB 2410 (Ellis, R) Wildfire safety: fuels reduction projects: California Environmental Quality Act.
Current Text: 07/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 07/09/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements certain projects. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, exempt from CEQA critical fuels reduction projects that address extremely flammable species, are conducted in communities located in high fire threat districts or very high fire hazard severity zones, and remove specified nonnative species or common species. The bill would require projects exempt from CEQA pursuant to this exemption to comply with the best management practices under the 2025 Statewide Fuels Reduction Environmental Protection Plan, as provided. The bill would require a lead agency carrying out a project exempt from CEQA pursuant to this exemption to consult with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, as provided, and to, within 90 days of project completion, submit a notice of project completion and a final compliance determination regarding the 2025 Statewide Fuels Reduction Environmental Protection Plan to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency and the Secretary for Environmental Protection, as provided.
The bill would require, on or before March 1, 2028, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to, in consultation with the Secretary for Environmental Protection, submit a report to the Legislature with specified information summarizing the implementation of these provisions during the preceding calendar year. (Based on 07/09/2026 text)
AB 2473 (Committee on Emergency Management) Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center: forecasted extreme, life-threatening fire weather conditions.
Current Text: 04/07/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 04/07/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: 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, lifethreatening fire weather conditions to ensure wide distribution of information for all potentially impacted agencies. (Based on 04/07/2026 text)
AB 2724 (Bauer-Kahan, D) Insurance: distressed areas.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 961, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and generally regulates the business of insurance in the state. Existing law establishes the California FAIR Plan Association, a joint reinsurance association in which all insurers licensed to write basic property insurance participate to administer a program for the equitable apportionment of basic property insurance for persons who are unable to obtain that coverage through normal channels. Existing regulations authorize insurers, in distressed areas and for properties insured by the FAIR Plan that are exposed to wildfire risk, to use catastrophe modeling, as specified. Under existing regulations, a distressed area includes undermarketed ZIP Codes and distressed counties. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to classify lands into fire hazard severity zones in accordance with state responsibility areas and local responsibility areas, as specified. Existing regulations establish and record wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas in accordance with these classifications. This bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2027, and yearly thereafter, to conduct a review and update distressed areas based on updates to the WUI designated areas. (Based on 09/30/2026 text) SB 876 (Padilla, D) Fire and residential property insurance.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/06/2026
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 656, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/27/2026 text) SB 878 (Pérez, D) Insurance business practices.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/06/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Senate VETOED
Summary: Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and generally regulates classes of insurance, including fire and residential property insurance. Existing regulations prescribe specified deadlines by which an insurer is required to, among other things, respond to a notice of claim, accept or deny a claim, in whole or in part, and, upon acceptance of a claim in whole or in part, tender payment or otherwise take action to perform its obligation, as specified. This bill, with respect to a claim under a policy of residential property insurance, would codify specified provisions of the regulations prescribing the deadlines above. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/04/2026 text)
SB 894 (Allen, D) Wildfire resiliency: financial assistance.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/15/2026
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 770, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to provide alternative methods of financing in providing and promoting the establishment of facilities using alternative methods and sources of energy and facilities needed for the development and commercialization of advanced transportation technologies, as provided. This bill would establish the California Wildfire Resilience Loan Program and would require the authority, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to administer the program to provide financial assistance for projects and activities to reduce wildfire-related risks and losses, including home hardening and defensible space improvements, as provided, and would make related changes. (Based on 09/29/2026 text) SB 899 (Grove, R) Fire prevention: Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force: wildfire smoke.
Current Text: 05/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/20/2026
Last Amended: 05/14/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 6/24/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Existing law requires the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force to develop a comprehensive implementation strategy to track and ensure the achievement of the goals and key actions identified in the state’s “Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan,” as provided. Existing law requires, on or before March 1, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, the task force to update the action plan. This bill would require the task force, on or before July 1, 2028, and in cooperation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the State Air Resources Board, and the State Department of Public Health, to assess the health costs and impacts of wildfire smoke using existing wildfire smoke and health data, as provided. The bill would require the task force, in developing this assessment, to, among other things, develop a model to determine the approximate health benefits of achieving the goals identified in the action plan and make recommendations on how the action plan can increase its health benefits. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)
SB 911 (Becker, D) Transfer of real property: fire hazard severity zones: compliance documentation.
Current Text: 08/13/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/26/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 8/30/2026)
Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: 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) SB 959 (Grayson, D) Average daily attendance: emergencies: major safety hazard.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/03/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: For purposes of state apportionments based on average daily attendance, as provided, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of a specified emergency, including, among others, the imminence of a major safety hazard as determined by a local law enforcement agency, existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school approximately the total average daily attendance that would have been credited to the school district, county office of education, or charter school had the emergency not occurred. This bill, for the above-described purposes, would additionally allow a local fire agency to make a determination of the imminence of a major safety hazard. (Based on 09/29/2026 text)
SB 1301 (Allen, D) Residential property insurance: nonrenewals.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 693, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and generally regulates classes of insurance, including residential property insurance. Existing law requires an insurer to deliver to the named insured an offer of renewal, as specified, at least 45 days before the policy expiration and to deliver a notice of nonrenewal at least 75 days before the policy expiration. If the insurer fails to do so, existing law requires the existing policy, with no change in its terms and conditions, to remain in effect for 75 days from the date that the notice of nonrenewal is delivered or mailed to the named insured. Existing law requires nonrenewal notices to contain specified information.
This bill would, beginning January 1, 2028, require an insurer to deliver to the named policyholder a notice of nonrenewal of the policy at least 90 days before the policy expiration, except as provided. The bill would require the notice to contain specified information, including all information related to the basis for the nonrenewal, as specified. If the insurer fails to deliver a notice of nonrenewal to the named policyholder, the bill would require the existing policy to remain in effect for 90 days from the date the notice of nonrenewal is delivered. (Based on 09/27/2026 text) Energy Legislation, Regulations and Issues LAP
AB 1577 (Bauer-Kahan, D) Data centers: reporting.
Current Text: 09/21/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/12/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/21/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 434, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/21/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and vests the commission with various responsibilities with respect to developing and implementing the state’s energy policies. Existing law requires the commission to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report, as specified, and to make the reports accessible to state, local, and federal entities and to the general public. This bill would require the commission to establish a process for the owner or operator of a data center, as defined, to submit specified information to the commission, including, among other information, the data center’s location and size, the data center’s power usage effectiveness, as defined, and the quantity of fuel consumed by onsite generators or other fuel-based energy systems, as specified. The bill would require the owner or operator of a data center to submit the required information in the manner and timeframe specified by the commission. The bill would require the commission, beginning with the 2029 integrated energy policy report, and in subsequent biennial reports thereafter as determined by the commission, to include an assessment of electrical load trends for data centers, as provided. (Based on 09/21/2026 text)
AB 1761 (Rogers, D) Electricity: calculation methodology: nonbypassable charges: data disclosure.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/09/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Vetoed by Governor.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Assembly VETOED
Summary: 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 would require the commission to ensure that all data serving as a basis for any decision or ruling issued by the commission, or in any proposal or analysis provided by commission staff, for the determination or application of a calculation methodology for any nonbypassable charge imposed on customers of a loadserving entity to recover costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs, is made available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates on behalf of customers. The bill would require the commission to require an electrical corporation, member association, load-serving entity, or other party, in submitting a proposal or analysis for the determination or application of a calculation methodology for any nonbypasssable charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity to recover costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs, to make all data serving as a basis for that proposal or analysis available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates on behalf of customers. (Based on 08/30/2026 text)
AB 2369 (Rogers, D) Electricity: energy storage: energy-only resources.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Vetoed by Governor.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Assembly VETOED
Summary: Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to adopt a process for each loadserving entity to file an integrated resource plan, and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and the Independent System Operator (ISO), to determine if there is a need for the procurement of eligible energy resources based on a review of the integrated resource plans. This bill would require the PUC, when requiring procurement of resources under an integrated resource plan, to account for the ability of energy-only resources to achieve required clean energy deployment rates, to charge storage resources during off-peak periods, and to increase resource diversity, and would require the PUC to enable energy-only resources to satisfy procurement requirements to the maximum extent feasible (Based on 09/02/2026 text) SB 742 (Pérez, D) Electricity: electrical infrastructure: permanently abandoned transmission facilities:
emergency response: liaisons.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 06/15/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 769, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/29/2026 text)
SB 887 (Padilla, D) California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects:
data centers: geothermal powerplant projects.
Current Text: 09/21/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/13/2026
Last Amended: 08/27/2026
Status: 09/21/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 439, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/21/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: (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 statemandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/21/2026 text)
SB 1168 (McNerney, D) Data centers: rate structures.
Current Text: 09/21/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 06/15/2026
Status: 09/21/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 440, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/21/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/21/2026 text) Housing LAP
AB 673 (Jackson, D) Unaccompanied homeless pupils: Unaccompanied Youth Support Grant Program.
Current Text: 06/18/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/14/2025
Last Amended: 06/18/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Would require the State Department of Education to administer formula grants as part of a pilot program, to be known as the Unaccompanied Youth Support Grant Program, for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide supports necessary to improve school attendance, pupil engagement, pupil graduation rates, and pupil wellbeing for unaccompanied youth, as defined, who are 16 or 17 years of age, including connecting youth with resources to find stable housing.
The bill would require, subject to an appropriation and subject to specified allocation metrics, 5-year grants that commence with the 2028–29 fiscal year, to be awarded by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to local educational agencies, or consortia of local educational agencies, to support unaccompanied youth, and would require grant funds to be used for, among other things, referrals to existing social services support systems, and providing basic needs and educational support services, as specified. The bill would require, to be eligible to apply for a grant under the program, a local educational agency to have identified at least one unaccompanied youth enrolled during the prior fiscal year, as specified. The bill would require local educational agencies applying for grant funds under the program to submit an application that includes, among other things, a description of how grant funds will be used to identify eligible pupils, the types of supports to be provided based on the eligible uses of grant funds, and the performance measures the local educational agency will use to measure progress towards program goals. The bill would require local educational agencies awarded grant funds under the program to submit annual reports to the department that include, among other things, a description of the expenditure of funds and the number and characteristics of unaccompanied youth served. (Based on 06/18/2026 text) AB 736 (González, Mark, D) Transfer taxes: limitation.
Current Text: 06/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2025
Last Amended: 06/22/2026
Status: 07/01/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was L. GOV. on 6/22/2026)
Location: 07/01/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: The Documentary Transfer Tax Act authorizes the imposition of a tax by a county or city and county, as provided, with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property.
This bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibit a local jurisdiction, defined to include a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, from collecting a transfer tax, as defined, levied on the sale or transfer of a real property interest conveyed if the combined transfer tax rate levied by the local jurisdiction exceeds 1.5% of the consideration paid for or value of the real property interest conveyed, except as otherwise provided. The bill would also prohibit a local jurisdiction from levying a transfer tax on the first sale of single-family housing property occurring within 5 years of one or more housing units on the real property being destroyed or made uninhabitable by a natural disaster, as defined. (Based on 06/22/2026 text)
AB 748 (Harabedian, D) Single-family and multifamily housing units: preapproved plans.
Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2025
Last Amended: 01/05/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities and the implementation of those general plans as may be in effect in those counties or cities. In that regard, current law requires each local agency, by January 1, 2025, to develop a program for the preapproval of accessory dwelling unit plans. This bill would require each local agency, as defined, to develop a program for the preapproval of single-family and multifamily residential housing plans, whereby the local agency accepts single-family and multifamily plan submissions for preapproval and approves or denies the preapproval applications, as specified. The bill would require a large jurisdiction, as defined, to develop this program by July 1, 2027, and a small jurisdiction, as defined, to develop a program by January 1, 2029. The bill would require the local agency to post preapproved single-family or multifamily residential housing plans and the contact information of the applicant on the local agency’s internet website. (Based on 01/05/2026 text) AB 750 (Quirk-Silva, D) Department of Housing and Community Development.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2025
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 789, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation, to make loans or grants, or both loans and grants, to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department-funded housing projects that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk of conversion to market-rate housing. This bill would also authorize the department to make those loans and grants to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of housing projects that qualify as a challenged development, as defined. The bill would require the department to grant priority for these loans and grants to housing projects that are department funded and have an affordability restriction that has expired or have a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk for conversion, as defined. The bill would authorize the department to establish separate selection and underwriting standards for these projects and projects that are challenged developments. (Based on 09/29/2026 text) AB 956 (Quirk-Silva, D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2025
Last Amended: 08/12/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 791, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law also provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in single-family residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, among other things, makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a planned development, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use that meets the above-described standards and conditions for those units. This bill would revise the provision governing prohibitions or restrictions on the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use to instead apply to a lot zoned to allow single-family residential use. (Based on 09/29/2026 text)
AB 1165 (Gipson, D) California Housing Justice Act of 2026.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Vetoed by Governor.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly VETOED
Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the California Housing and Homelessness Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the Housing for a Healthy California Program, and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program. Existing law also establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program, administered by the department, for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address homelessness challenges, as specified. This bill would enact the California Housing Justice Act of 2026, which would require the department to create, by August 1, 2030, finance plans to solve homelessness and to solve the housing unaffordability crisis, and related statewide performance metrics. The bill would also require the department to seek public consult in developing those finance plans. (Based on 09/01/2026 text) AB 1621 (Wilson, D) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/22/2026
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 780, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency or state agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information required from any applicant for a postentitlement phase permit, as defined. Existing law also establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application. Existing law requires the time limits to be tolled, if the local agency or state agency requires review of the application by an outside entity, until the outside entity completes the review and returns the application, as specified. This bill would prohibit a local agency or state agency from requiring or requesting more than 2 plan check and specification reviews in connection with an application for a building permit, as part of its review. The bill would authorize a local agency or state agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 plan check and specification reviews. The bill would also authorize an applicant to request additional submittals of applications that are not compliant with the permit standards. (Based on 09/29/2026 text) AB 1622 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Electrified security fences.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/22/2026
Status: 08/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 129, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 08/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2028, authorizes an owner of real property to install and operate on their property an electrified security fence that is powered by an electrical energizer, driven by solarcharged batteries of no more than 12 volts of direct current, and used to protect and secure manufacturing or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but legally authorized to be used for a commercial purpose that stores, parks, services, sells, or rents vehicles or other materials, subject to specified conditions. Current law prohibits a city, county, or city and county from prohibiting or conditioning the installation of an electrified security fence, as described above, except for requiring an administrative permit to confirm a fence abutting a property in residential use, or within 300 feet of a public park, childcare facility, recreation center, community center, or school facility, meets certain requirements. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2028. Current law, starting January 1, 2028, authorizes an owner of real property to install and operate on their property an electrified security fence that is powered by an electrical energizer, and used to protect and secure commercial, manufacturing, or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but legally authorized to be used for a commercial, manufacturing, or industrial purpose, subject to specified conditions and subject to prohibitions imposed by a city, county, or city and county through a local ordinance. This bill would indefinitely extend the operation of the electrified security fence provisions subject to repeal on January 1, 2028, and would repeal the provisions that become operative on January 1, 2028. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
AB 1624 (Zbur, D) Public Lands Protection Act.
Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/22/2026
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was RLS. on 8/28/2026) Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, longterm general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. Current law authorizes the legislative body of a 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, and other purposes, as provided. For these purposes, current law authorizes the legislative body to divide a county or city into zones, but requires that regulations adopted be uniform for each class or kind of building or use of land throughout each zone. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare 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. This bill, the Public Lands Protection Act, would, upon transfer to any private or nonfederal entity of a parcel of land located within the state that is owned by the United States government on or after January 1, 2025, and that has been designated in an adopted general plan or zoning ordinance as open space, public land, resource conservation, or an equivalent conservationoriented designation, immediately subject that parcel to the zoning designation and associated state and local restrictions. The bill would also, upon transfer of a parcel of land located within the state that is owned by the United States government on or after January 1, 2025, and that has not been designated in an adopted general plan or zoning ordinance at the time of transfer to any private or nonfederal entity, automatically subject that parcel to the most restrictive conservation-oriented zoning designation currently applied in the jurisdiction, by operation of law. (Based on 01/22/2026 text) AB 1693 (Zbur, D) Accelerated retailer building plan approval: tenant improvements.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/03/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 827, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code.
Existing law authorizes local governments to enact ordinances or regulations that make building standards amendments to the California Building Standards Code, as specified. Existing law establishes a streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant improvement related to a restaurant, as defined. This bill would establish a similar streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant improvement relating to a retailer, as defined. In this regard, the bill would require a local building department, upon the request and at the expense of the permit applicant, to allow a qualified professional certifier, defined as a licensed architect or engineer who meets certain requirements, to certify that the plans and specifications of the tenant improvement comply with all applicable building, health, and safety codes, as specified, unless otherwise provided by specified provisions. The bill would require a qualified professional certifier, or the applicant, as applicable, to prepare certain affidavits related to the tenant improvement under penalty of perjury. The bill would require the local building department to approve or deny the permit application within 20 business days of receiving a complete application. The bill would also authorize the applicant to resubmit corrected plans addressing the deficiencies identified in the initial denial, would limit the local building department’s review of each subsequent resubmission to the deficiencies identified in the initial denial, and would require the local building department to approve or deny each subsequent resubmission within 10 business days of receipt. The bill would require each local building department to conduct audits of tenant improvements submitted for certification, as specified. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
AB 1710 (Carrillo, D) Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: conformity with ordinances and standards.
Current Text: 07/02/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/04/2026
Last Amended: 07/02/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires public agencies to approve or disapprove of a development project within certain timeframes, as specified. The act requires public agencies to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act requires a public agency, upon its determination that an application for a development project is incomplete, to include a list and a thorough description of the specific information needed to complete the application. This bill would provide that for the purposes of the Permit Streamlining Act, a housing development project or emergency shelter shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision adopted or implemented by a public agency, as defined, if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the housing development project or emergency shelter is consistent, compliant, or in conformity, except as specified. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)
AB 1738 (Carrillo, D) State Housing Law: remote inspections.
Current Text: 09/18/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/05/2026
Last Amended: 07/02/2026
Status: 09/18/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 271, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/18/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce the provisions of the State Housing Law, the State Building Standards Code, and other specified rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law authorizes an officer, employee, or agent of an enforcement agency to enter and inspect any building or premises whenever necessary to secure compliance with, or prevent a violation of, any provision of the State Housing Law, the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of the State Housing Law. Existing law provides certain immunities to a public entity or employee immunity relative to an inspection or license, as provided. This bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, except as specified, to offer a homeowner or contractor, as described, the option of requesting remote inspections for all or a subset of an inspection required by a building permit for specified works in one- or 2-family dwelling units, by either January 1, 2028, or July 1, 2028, as provided. The bill would authorize these local agencies to adopt reasonable protocols governing the technical conduct of a remote inspection, as specified. The bill would apply the above-described immunities to remote inspections. The bill would authorize these local agencies to temporarily ban the homeowner or contractor from using the remote inspection if a homeowner is found to have willfully misrepresented the work, as provided. (Based on 09/18/2026 text) AB 1751 (Quirk-Silva, D) Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/09/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 781, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process, depending on the type of housing development, as specified. Existing law, the Subdivision Map Act, vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting 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. Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, among other things, requires a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets certain requirements, including that the housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units, except as provided. This bill, the Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act, would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a townhome development project that is subject to a prescribed ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain procedural requirements and satisfies specified objective planning standards. The bill would also require a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a tentative and final map for a townhome development project that meets specified requirements, including that the proposed subdivision complies with the requirements established by the bill for ministerial approval of a townhome development project, as described in the preceding sentence, and that the newly created parcels are no smaller than 600 square feet. (Based on 09/29/2026 text)
AB 1924 (Gabriel, D) Statewide homelessness prevention strategy.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/12/2026 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 794, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness and requires the council to take various actions to prevent and end homelessness in California. Existing law establishes various programs to prevent homelessness or assist persons experiencing homelessness, including the No Place Like Home Program and the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program. This bill would require the council, by July 1, 2028, to develop a statewide homelessness prevention strategy in the council’s publicly available Action Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. The bill would require the strategy to include specified elements, including a homelessness prevention action plan for certain state agencies and evidence-based model homeless prevention practices, as specified. (Based on 09/29/2026 text)
AB 1947 (Ta, R) Surplus land.
Current Text: 06/08/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/13/2026
Last Amended: 06/08/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law requires each state agency, each year, to make a review of all proprietary state lands, except, among other categories of land, land held for highway purposes, over which it has jurisdiction to determine what land is in excess of its foreseeable needs and report thereon to the Department of General Services, including, among other things, land that is not currently being utilized, or is currently being underutilized, by the state agency for any ongoing state program. This bill would remove the exception for land held for highway purposes and specifically require the Department of Transportation to submit the report described above. The bill would require the report to include the market value of the properties reviewed by the agency. (Based on 06/08/2026 text) AB 1997 (Lee, D) Land use: housing development approvals: timelines and processes.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/17/2026
Last Amended: 06/18/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Vetoed by Governor.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly VETOED
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. The Permit Streamlining Act sets forth various procedures for the review and approval of development project applications. Among other things, the act requires a public agency that is the lead agency or a responsible agency for a development project to approve or disapprove the project within a specified period of time, which varies depending on the project’s phase in the CEQA process. The act defines “development project” to include specified housing development projects, as provided. This bill would additionally require approval or disapproval of a housing development project within 30 days from the date of certification by the lead agency of the environmental impact report (EIR), if the EIR is prepared pursuant to specified provisions of CEQA if certain other conditions are met. The bill would also define “housing development project” for the purposes of the Permit Streamlining Act and make additional conforming changes. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
AB 2020 (Gabriel, D) Housing programs: financing.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/17/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 795, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing, as specified, pursuant to which the department provides financial assistance in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of development of specified types of housing projects. Existing 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. This bill would permit the department to, subject to prescribed requirements, authorize the transfer of the department residual receipts share or excess reserves, as defined, from one rental housing development to another rental housing development with the same owner, as specified. (Based on 09/29/2026 text) AB 2128 (Haney, D) Housing authorities: term limits and work requirements.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 08/10/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 922, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The Housing Authorities Law establishes a housing authority within each county and city and authorizes the authority to, among other things, prepare, carry out, acquire, lease, and operate housing projects and housing developments for persons of low income, as provided. This bill would, unless required by federal law, and except as specified, prohibit a housing authority or other covered housing provider, as defined, from establishing or implementing any rules, policies, or procedures that impose term limits or work requirements, as defined, as a condition of eligibility for any covered housing or that impact the amount of the rent subsidy or assistance provided to covered housing tenants. The bill would, however, permit a covered housing provider to establish or implement a voluntary employment or job training program if specified conditions apply. (Based on 09/30/2026 text) AB 2146 (Stefani, D) Coordinated Entry System: study.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 923, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (council), which has various goals, including, among other things, to serve as a statewide facilitator, coordinator, and policy development resource on ending homelessness in California. This bill would require the council to, by July 1, 2028, complete a comprehensive statewide study of the coordinated entry system and its role in connecting individuals and families experiencing homelessness to affordable housing, as specified.
The bill would require the council, in conducting the study, to meaningfully consult with a geographically representative group of stakeholders, as described, and would require the council, by July 1, 2028, to post the report on its internet website and submit the report to the Legislature and any relevant policy committees. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
AB 2238 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Mobilehome Residency Law: civil action: physical improvements.
Current Text: 05/20/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 05/20/2026
Status: 07/01/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was JUD. on 5/13/2026) Location: 07/01/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law, the Mobilehome Residency Law, prescribes various terms and conditions of tenancies in mobilehome parks. Existing law prohibits an action based upon the management’s alleged failure to maintain the physical improvement in the common facilities in good working order or condition or alleged reduction of service from being commenced by a homeowner unless the management has been given at least 30 days’ prior notice of the intention to commence the action. This bill would authorize management to move to dismiss with prejudice a claim that alleges a failure to maintain, or a reduction of service regarding, a physical improvement, as described above, if that physical improvement is not actually present within the mobilehome park, nor provided or under the control of the park owner or manager. (Based on 05/20/2026 text)
AB 2296 (Papan, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 798, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: 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, which includes, among other 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, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected need for housing, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. This bill, except with respect to the 7th housing element cycle for councils of governments with a housing element revision due date during the calendar year 2027, 2028, or 2029, would extend the above-described timeline for cities and counties to form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s housing need, as provided, from 28 months to 34 months, and the above-described timeline for the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each subregion from 25 months to 31 months, respectively.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/29/2026 text) AB 2387 (Alvarez, D) California Dream for All Program: first-generation homebuyers.
Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Status: 04/23/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was H. & C.D. on 3/9/2026)
Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Current law establishes the California Housing Finance Agency in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and, as of July 1, 2026, transfers the agency to the California Housing and Homelessness Agency created pursuant to the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025, as provided. Current law authorizes the agency to, among other things, make loans to finance affordable housing, including residential structures, housing developments, multifamily rental housing, special needs housing, and other forms of housing, as specified. Existing law establishes the California Dream for All Program, administered by the agency subject to the availability of funds, to provide shared appreciation loans, as defined, to qualified first-time homebuyers. Current law limits the program to providing assistance to low- and moderate-income homebuyers in the purchase of owner-occupied homes. Current law establishes the California Dream for All Fund, and continuously appropriates moneys in that fund for the purposes of the program, as prescribed. This bill would require the agency to expand the California Dream for All Program to provide additional assistance, as specified, to first-generation homebuyers, as defined. The bill would require the agency to prioritize this assistance to first-generation homebuyers purchasing homes built using specified state funding, and to expedite approval of that assistance for a first-generation homebuyer purchasing a home located in a moderate-density area, as provided. By expanding the purposes for which money in the California Dream for All Fund may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)
AB 2418 (González, Mark, D) Local building permits: nonresidential private permitting review.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/10/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 828, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law requires every city, county, or city and county, whether general law or chartered, that requires the issuance of a permit as a condition precedent to the construction, alteration, improvement, demolition, or repair of any building or structure, to require the execution of a permit application, as specified. Existing law permits a local agency, defined as a city, county, or city and county, to authorize its enforcement agency to contract with or employ a private entity or persons on a temporary basis to perform plan-checking functions for a nonresidential building, but that the local agency is not required to do so if it determines that no entities or persons are available or qualified to perform planchecking services. Under existing law, when there is an excessive delay, as defined, in checking plans submitted as part of an application for specified nonresidential projects, a local agency is required to, upon request of the applicant, contract with or employ a private entity or persons on a temporary basis to perform the plan-checking function. Existing law defines “excessive delay” to mean, among other things, the local agency has taken more than 50 days to check plans and specifications, as provided. This bill would, until January 1, 2032, revise and recast the above-described provisions related to private plan checking. The bill would, upon receipt of a complete application for a nonresidential building permit, require the local agency to provide the applicant with an estimated timeframe in which it will determine if the completed application is compliant with permit standards. This bill would require the local agency to, upon an applicant’s request, contract with or employ a private plan-checking entity if the estimated timeframe would result in an excessive delay or if there is excessive delay by the local agency. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
AB 2433 (Alvarez, D) Housing development: density bonus.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 800, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/29/2026 text)
AB 2531 (Irwin, D) Public health: abortion services.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the California Reproductive and TGI Health Equity Program within the Department of Health Care Access and Information for the purpose of ensuring abortion, contraception, and gender-affirming care are affordable for and accessible to all patients, regardless of their ability to pay, and to provide financial support for safety net providers of these services to offset the costs of providing uncompensated care to patients with low incomes who would otherwise lack access to care. Existing law authorizes a Medi-Cal enrolled provider to apply for a grant, and a continuation award after the initial grant, if they agree to provide abortion, contraception, and gender-affirming care services in accordance with specified requirements, including that the services are provided at no cost or a reduced cost to individuals with a household income at or below 400% of the federal poverty level who are uninsured or have health care coverage that does not include both abortion and contraception or does not include gender-affirming care and are not otherwise eligible to receive both abortion and contraception care at no cost through the Medi-Cal and Family PACT programs or receive genderaffirming care at no cost through the Medi-Cal program. This bill would additionally authorize a Medi-Cal enrolled provider to apply for a grant or a continuation of a grant if they provide the above-described services to patients who are veterans, as defined, who are uninsured or have health care coverage that does not include both abortion and contraception and are not otherwise eligible to receive both abortion and contraception care at no cost through the Medi-Cal and Family PACT programs. (Based on 09/27/2026 text)
AB 2576 (Harabedian, D) Transit-oriented development: exclusions: historic sites.
Current Text: 09/15/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/10/2026
Status: 09/14/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 214, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/14/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law provides that a housing development project shall be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development if specified conditions and requirements are met. Existing law provides that these provisions do not apply to a local agency until July 1, 2026, unless the local agency adopts an ordinance or local transit-oriented development alternative plan, as defined, deemed compliant by the Department of Housing and Community Development before July 1, 2026. Existing law specifies that, beginning on January 1, 2027, a local government that denies a housing development project meeting the requirements referenced above that is located in a high-resource area is presumed to be in violation of specified law and immediately liable for specified penalties. Existing law specifies exclusions from the provisions described above, including, among other sites prior to one year following the adoption of the 7th revision of the housing element, a site with a historic resource designated as of January 1, 2025, on a local register. This bill would also exclude from the provisions described above, a contributing site within a historic district included on the State Historic Resources Inventory designated before January 1, 2025, and a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included on the State Historic Resources Inventory designated before January 1, 2025. (Based on 09/14/2026 text) AB 2601 (Lee, D) Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval and subdivisions.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 955, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided. The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps. This bill would require that an application for a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone, as described above, be eligible for concurrent processing with an application for a parcel map for an urban lot split, as provided. The bill would authorize a local agency to condition issuance of building permits, grading permits, or certificates of occupancy for a proposed housing development upon the applicant first obtaining approval and recording a parcel map for eligible parcels pursuant to the above-described urban lot split provisions. The bill would specify that a “parcel map” for purposes of these provisions means a parcel map prepared in accordance with specified provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and may include a condominium plan if proposed by the subdivider, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
AB 2626 (Gabriel, D) Housing programs: financing.
Current Text: 06/15/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 06/15/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing, as specified, pursuant to which the department provides financial assistance in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of development of specified types of housing projects. Existing 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. This bill would permit the department to waive payment of residual receipts or minimum annual loan payments used to cover the cost of project monitoring required under a department regulatory agreement, based on the assessment by the department’s actual cost in combination with a project’s ability to pay. (Based on 06/15/2026 text) AB 2676 (Lackey, R) Housing Crisis Act of 2019.
Current Text: 06/24/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 06/24/2026
Status: 07/01/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was HOUSING on 6/24/2026)
Location: 07/01/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: 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)
AB 2689 (Ávila Farías, D) Low-income housing tax credits: lease nonrenewal: good cause.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 06/22/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 958, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, establishes a low-income housing tax credit program through which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee allocates lowincome housing tax credits aimed at providing affordable low-income housing within and throughout the state. Existing federal law sets limitations and guidelines regarding what projects are eligible for credits, including a requirement that an extended low-income housing commitment is in effect, and a prohibition against eviction except for good cause. This bill would specify, for housing projects where the low-income housing commitment requires 100% of the units, not including any manager’s units, to be restricted to lower income households, as defined, that good cause for nonrenewal of a lease includes cases where the nonrenewal relates to a household whose income exceeds 140% of the area median income for at least 2 consecutive years and 30% of the household’s monthly income exceeds the fair market rent, determined as specified. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
AB 2748 (Quirk-Silva, D) Building standards: affordable housing developments: electric vehicle charging.
Current Text: 07/02/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 07/02/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce within its jurisdiction all the provisions published in the California Building Standards Code and the provisions of the State Housing Law, as provided. Existing law makes any violation of the State Housing Law a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, by imprisonment not exceeding 6 months, or by both. Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to research and develop, and authorizes those entities to propose for adoption by the commission, mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, motels, and nonresidential developments, as provided. This bill would require a new or existing affordable housing development, as defined, for which a permit application is submitted between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, to comply with either the requirements for installation of low power Level 2 or higher electric vehicle charging receptacles in the 2025 California Green Building Standards Code, as provided, or the applicable requirements for installation of low power Level 2 or higher electric vehicle charging receptacles in the 2024 supplement to the 2022 edition of the California Green Building Standards Code.
The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030. (Based on 07/02/2026 text) ACA 4 (Jackson, D) Homelessness and affordable housing.
Current Text: 05/05/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/24/2025
Last Amended: 05/05/2025
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/14/2025)
Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: 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) SB 288 (Seyarto, R) Property taxation: change in ownership: family homes and farms.
Current Text: 06/01/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/06/2025
Last Amended: 06/01/2026
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Pursuant to constitutional authorization, existing property tax law, on and after February 16, 2021, excludes from classification as a change in ownership the purchase or transfer of a family home or family farm, as those terms are defined, of the transferor in the case of a transfer between parents and their children, or between grandparents and their grandchildren if all the parents of those grandchildren are deceased, if the property continues as the family home or family farm of the transferee, as specified.
For purposes of the transfer of a family home, that law requires the transfer to be of a principal residence of the transferor and to become the principal residence of the transferee within one year of the transfer.
That law also requires the transferee to file for the homeowners’ or disabled veterans’ exemption within a year of the transfer, as described. This bill would provide that the one-year periods described above shall be deemed to end one year after the effective date of certain court orders resolving the disposition of the property if the eligible transferee files specified documents with the assessor, including a copy of a court order indicating that a probate matter prohibited the eligible transferee from establishing the property as their principal place of residence within the one-year period described above. By expanding the duties of local tax officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/01/2026 text) SB 299 (Cabaldon, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: day care center: zoning.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/10/2025
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 413, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. 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 09/20/2026 text) SB 417 (Limón, D) The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: 06/25/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2025
Last Amended: 06/22/2026
Status: 06/25/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 16, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 06/25/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and lowincome 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) SB 479 (Arreguín, D) Homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel teams.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2025 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 07/02/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 969, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county, and to allow provider agencies and members of the personnel team to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Existing law requires the sharing of confidential information to be governed by protocols developed in each county describing how and what information may be shared by the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, and requires each county to provide a copy of its protocols to the State Department of Social Services.
This bill would additionally authorize a city that is designated as a local health jurisdiction to similarly establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as specified. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
SB 677 (Wiener, D) Housing financing: joint powers agreements: bond approvals: subdivisions: tentative and final maps: appeals.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 974, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/30/2026 text)
SB 866 (Blakespear, D) Planning and zoning: annual report: emergency shelter.
Current Text: 06/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/05/2026
Last Amended: 06/23/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: 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) SB 996 (Padilla, D) Manufactured housing: conformity.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/09/2026
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 995, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 sets forth various standards relating to manufactured homes, mobilehomes, special purpose commercial coaches, and commercial coaches, including, but not limited to, construction and alteration of those homes. Existing law, including the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 and the Uniform Commercial Code–Secured Transactions, defines the term “manufactured home” for various purposes to mean a structure that, among other things, is transportable in one or more sections, is 8 body feet or more in width, or 40 body feet or more in length, in the traveling mode, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and is built on a permanent chassis. This bill would modify that definition to mean a structure that was constructed on or after June 15, 1976, with or without a foundation system, and has the same meaning as defined in specified federal law. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
SB 1014 (Grayson, D) Development projects: preliminary estimate of required improvements: onsite and offsite improvements.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/10/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 806, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act sets forth various procedures for the review and approval of development project applications, including, among other things, requiring each public agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act also requires a city, county, or city and county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the project is being sought. This bill would permit an applicant who submits a preliminary application for a housing development project, as specified, or an application if a preliminary application is not submitted, to include in the preliminary application or application a request for a preliminary estimate of required improvements, as provided. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county that receives a request under these provisions to provide the preliminary estimate within 30 business days of the submission of the request, as provided. The bill would authorize, for improvements required by a public agency, as specified, the applicant to request, within 30 days of submission, a list of the types of improvements that may be required, as provided. The bill, within 30 business days of deeming an application for a postentitlement phase permit complete, would additionally require the city, county, or city and county to provide the applicant with an itemized list of all onsite and offsite improvements that will be required prior to issuance of, or otherwise in connection with, that permit, as provided. (Based on 09/29/2026 text)
SB 1036 (Grayson, D) Mitigation Fee Act.
Current Text: 06/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/11/2026
Last Amended: 04/16/2026
Status: 06/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 54, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 06/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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) SB 1085 (Durazo, D) Water supply planning: housing developments.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/13/2026
Last Amended: 08/19/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1004, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/30/2026 text)
SB 1117 (Cervantes, D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/17/2026
Last Amended: 07/08/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 809, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/29/2026 text) SB 1196 (McNerney, D) Small energization projects: electrical service connections.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 06/29/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 684, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/27/2026 text) SB 1383 (Arreguín, D) Housing development: density bonus: incentives or concessions: labor standards.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1032, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus, waivers or reductions of development standards, parking ratios, and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing, including, among other types of housing, housing that will include specified percentages of units for rental or sale to lower income households or very low income households, as specified. Existing law requires a city or county to grant incentives or concessions requested by an applicant for a density bonus except under prescribed circumstances. Existing law defines “incentives or concessions” to include, among other things, a reduction in site development standards or a modification of zoning code requirements or architectural design requirements that exceed the minimum building standards, as specified, and regulatory incentives or concessions proposed by the developer or the city or county that result in identifiable and actual cost reductions to provide for affordable housing costs, as specified. This bill would exclude, for buildings over 85 feet in height above grade, a reduction in site development standards, a modification of zoning code or architectural design requirements, and other regulatory incentives or concessions that include or relate to a labor standard, as defined, that have been adopted by the local government entity from the definition of “incentives or concessions.” The bill would provide that, for purposes of these provisions, the applicable labor standards are those that do not exceed certain statutory requirements, as specified, as those requirements existed on December 31, 2025. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
SCR 131 (Blakespear, D) Housing: unsheltered homelessness.
Current Text: 06/29/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 06/29/2026
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was THIRD READING on 9/1/2026)
Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Would urge the Governor, relevant state agencies, and all local governments to adopt an urgent and coordinated approach to end and prevent unsheltered homelessness statewide, as specified. (Based on 06/29/2026 text)
Human Resources/Public Sector Employment LAP
AB 1198 (Haney, D) Public works: prevailing wages.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 513, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law requires the body awarding a contract for a public work to obtain from the director the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is to be performed, and the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime work, for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the contract. Under existing law, if the director determines during any quarterly period that there has been a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a locality, the director is required to make that change available to the awarding body and their determination is final. Under existing law, that determination does not apply to public works contracts for which the notice to bidders has been published. This bill would instead state, commencing July 1, 2027, that if the director determines, within a semiannual period, that there is a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a locality, that determination applies to any public works contract that is awarded or for which notice to bidders is published after July 1, 2027, if the awarded value of the contract is $35,000,000 or greater. The bill would authorize any contractor, awarding body, or specified representative affected by a change in rates on a particular contract to, within 20 days, file with the director a verified petition to review the determination of that rate, as specified. The bill would require the director to, upon notice to the interested parties, initiate an investigation or hold a hearing, and, within 20 days after the filing of that petition, except as specified, make a final determination and transmit the determination in writing to the awarding body and to the interested parties. (Based on 09/27/2026 text)
AB 1383 (McKinnor, D) Public employees’ retirement benefits.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 08/27/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Vetoed by Governor.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Assembly VETOED
Summary: The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) to provide a defined benefit to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which is continuously appropriated for purposes of PERS, including depositing employer and employee contributions. Under the California Constitution, assets of a public pension or retirement system are trust funds. The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) establishes a variety of requirements and restrictions on public employers offering defined benefit pension plans. In this regard, PEPRA restricts the amount of compensation that may be applied for purposes of calculating a defined pension benefit for a new member, as defined, by restricting it to specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under a specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. Existing law, the Teachers’ Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final compensation, creditable service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. This bill, for service performed on and after January 1, 2027, would prohibit the pensionable compensation for calendar year 2027 used to calculate the defined benefit paid to a new member of a retirement system subject to PEPRA who retires from the system from exceeding specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
SB 342 (Umberg, D) Contractors: unlicensed work.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/12/2025 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 08/26/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 967, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law prohibits a person engaging in the business or acting in the capacity of a contractor from recovering compensation for work performed that requires a contractor’s license unless the person was a duly licensed contractor at all times during the performance of the act or contract, except as specified. This bill would further exempt from that prohibition an action for compensation arising from a contract for specified projects, including for a public work of improvement or a commercial or institutional construction project, and would, instead, authorize a person to maintain an action for compensation under one of those contracts if the person was a duly licensed contractor at the time the contract was executed and during the portion of the performance of the contract for which compensation is sought. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
SB 1159 (Cabaldon, D) Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 06/25/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 863, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/30/2026 text) SB 1371 (Durazo, D) Solid waste handling services: labor dispute.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/06/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 704, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/27/2026 text).
Public Safety LAP
AB 1569 (Davies, R) Pupil safety: electric bicycle: safety and training program.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/12/2026
Last Amended: 04/13/2026
Status: 08/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 128, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 08/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Would require, on or before March 1, 2028, the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to develop a standardized electric bicycle safety and training program for pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as provided. In developing the program, the bill would authorize the State Department of Education and the Department of the California Highway Patrol to collaborate with local law enforcement agencies or local governments that have implemented electric bicycle training programs already to ensure the program reflects proven best practices. The bill would encourage local educational agencies and parent organizations to offer training demonstrations to pupils and parents on electric bicycle operations in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies or local governments, as specified. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) AB 1632 (Johnson, R) Trespass.
Current Text: 06/10/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/26/2026
Last Amended: 06/10/2026
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was CONCURRENCE on 8/24/2026)
Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to commit the crime of trespass, which includes refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structures belonging to, or lawfully occupied by, another and not open to the general public upon being requested to leave by a peace officer at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession and upon being informed by the peace officer that they are acting at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession. Existing law requires the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession to make a separate request to the peace officer on each occasion when the peace officer’s assistance in dealing with a trespass is requested, except that a single request for peace officer assistance may be made for a period not to exceed 12 months when there is a fire hazard to the premises or property, the owner is absent from the premises or property, or the premises or property is closed to the public and posted as being closed. Existing law authorizes a single request for assistance to be made and submitted electronically, in a notarized form provided by the law enforcement agency, to a peace officer, and authorizes local governments to accept electronic submissions of requests for peace officer assistance.
This bill would remove the requirement that the submitted form described above be notarized, and would instead require the request to include a written declaration, signed under penalty of perjury, that the requestor is the owner of the property and has legal authority to request the assistance, that the information provided in the request is true and correct, that the requestor acknowledges that law enforcement may rely on the declaration in taking enforcement action, and that the requestor is required to notify law enforcement if they no longer have legal authority over the property or if the request is withdrawn. (Based on 06/10/2026 text)
AB 1941 (González, Mark, D) Organized metal theft.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/13/2026
Last Amended: 08/18/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 838, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law makes a person who is a dealer in or collector of junk, metals, or secondhand materials, or their agent, employee, or representative, who buys or receives any wire, cable, copper, lead, solder, mercury, iron, or brass that the person knows or reasonably should know is used by or belongs to specified entities, including a railroad, certain utility companies, or a public entity engaged in furnishing public utility service, without using due diligence to ascertain that the person selling or delivering that material has a legal right to do so, guilty of criminally receiving that property and, in addition to imprisonment, makes that act punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000. This bill would prohibit organized metal theft, described as acting in concert with one or more persons to steal metal materials from one or more of specified materials and items with the intent to sell, exchange, or return those metal materials for value, acting in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess those metal materials knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acting as an agent of another to steal those metal materials as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruiting, coordinating, organizing, supervising, directing, managing, or financing another to undertake acts of theft of metal. (Based on 09/30/2026 text) AB 2310 (Carrillo, D) Illegal dumping.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 06/25/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 933, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law makes it unlawful to dump waste matter in certain locations, such as 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 to place, deposit, or dump rocks, concrete, asphalt, or dirt in certain locations, as specified. A person violating these provisions is guilty of an infraction, as specified. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions in commercial quantities, as defined, a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail and by a fine, as specified. Under existing law, a private owner is not restricted in the use of their own private property, unless the placing, depositing, or dumping of the waste matter on the property creates a public health and safety hazard, a public nuisance, or a fire hazard, as determined by a local health or fire department or the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. This bill would make it a crime to transport waste matter, rocks, concrete, asphalt, dirt, or other construction debris for the purpose of placing, depositing, or dumping it in the locations described above. The bill would increase the maximum fine to $5000 for violating these provisions a 4th or subsequent time. The bill would also make it unlawful to transport for the purpose of placing, depositing, or dumping waste matter, rocks, concrete, asphalt, dirt or other construction debris in commercial quantities, as defined, in the locations described above. The bill would specify that the fact that a person is operating a vehicle with actual or apparent rocks, concrete, asphalt, dirt, or other construction debris in their vehicle does not in itself constitute reasonable suspicion to stop or detain the person, or probable cause to arrest the person. For a person who violates these provisions in commercial quantities in excess of 25 cubic yards, the bill would make that violation a misdemeanor punishable in a county jail for not more than one year and by a fine, as specified. For commercial quantities in excess of 50 cubic yards, the bill would make a violation punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified. By expanding the application of a crime and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 09/30/2026 text) AB 2318 (Elhawary, D) Law enforcement: facilitating medical care.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 747, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Would make it unlawful for a law enforcement officer to deny, delay, obstruct, or fail to facilitate access to medical evaluation or treatment for an individual under law enforcement control, but who is not in the custody of, or detained by, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, if it is safe and reasonable to provide access to treatment and a medical professional has been requested or is present and is willing to render care to the individual. If access to medical evaluation or treatment is denied or delayed when a medical professional is present and is willing to assist, the bill would require law enforcement to document the basis of the denial within 72 hours of the incident, as specified. The bill would authorize administrative discipline, including suspension or termination, against a law enforcement officer who violates those provisions. By creating a new crime and by increasing the duties on local law enforcement relating to reporting, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 09/29/2026 text)
AB 2346 (Wilson, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles and speed limits.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 06/18/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 842, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 for various purposes. This bill would require all class 2 electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with a speedometer. The bill would also require all electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with an integrated or detachable front lamp and a rear lamp, as specified. The bill would also require sellers and distributors of electric bicycles to disclose specified information at or before the point of sale. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
SB 28 (Umberg, D) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) court program.
Current Text: 07/02/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 12/02/2024
Last Amended: 07/02/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: 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 LantermanPetris-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) SB 691 (Wahab, D) Body-worn cameras: policies.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 05/26/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 416, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/20/2026 text) SB 758 (Umberg, D) Public health: nitrous oxide.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 979, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/30/2026 text) SB 936 (Blakespear, D) Nitrous oxide: sales.
Current Text: 09/18/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/29/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/18/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 317, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/18/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/18/2026 text) SB 1013 (Cervantes, D) Automated license plate recognition systems.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/10/2026 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 08/27/2026
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was THIRD READING on 9/1/2026)
Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: 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) SB 1167 (Blakespear, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 846, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/30/2026 text)
SB 1218 (Arreguín, D) Vehicle immobilization: illegal dumping violation penalties.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 425, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/20/2026 text)
SB 1230 (Valladares, R) Solid waste: illegal dumping: penalties: resources.
Current Text: 06/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 06/25/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Existing law prohibits the dumping of waste matter upon a road or highway or in other locations, as specified. A violation of this prohibition, generally, is an infraction punishable by specified fines that escalate for subsequent convictions. Under existing law, the dumping of commercial quantities of waste, as defined, is punishable as a misdemeanor and also includes escalating fines. Under existing law, each day that waste is placed, deposited, or dumped in violation of these provisions is a separate violation. This bill would repeal that latter provision making each day a separate violation. The bill would increase the fine for the dumping of commercial quantities of waste from not less than $3,000 nor more than $6,000 to not less than $4,500 nor more than $8,000 for the 2nd conviction and from not less than $6,000 nor more than $10,000 to not less than $8,000 nor more than $10,000 for the 3rd and any subsequent convictions. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)
SB 1257 (Arreguín, D) Federal immigration enforcement: report.
Current Text: 06/24/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 06/24/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: The California Values Act requires the Attorney General, by October 1, 2018, in consultation with the appropriate stakeholders, to publish model policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law at public schools, public libraries, health facilities operated by the state or a political subdivision of the state, courthouses, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement facilities, the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the Division of Workers’ Compensation, and shelters and ensure that they remain safe and accessible to all California residents, regardless of immigration status. The act requires all public schools, health facilities operated by the state or a political subdivision of the state, and courthouses to implement the model policy or an equivalent policy. This bill would require the Attorney General, on or before October 30, 2027, and annually thereafter, to submit to the Legislature and the Governor, and post on its internet website, a report that includes, among other things, a summary of all immigration enforcement incidents and activities occurring on or after September 1, 2025, conducted by a person at a designated location that have been reported by the designated location or a person who witnessed the activity to the Attorney General, as specified. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to request representatives of a designated location to furnish any reported immigration enforcement incidents and activities as part of compiling its annual report and would authorize the Attorney General to issue civil penalties or conduct other enforcement activity to ensure compliance with these provisions. (Based on 06/24/2026 text) SB 1314 (Menjivar, D) Cigarette or tobacco product retailers: new retail locations and sale of nitrous oxide.
Current Text: 07/01/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 07/01/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: 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) Regional Issues and Collaboration LAP
AB 1821 (Pacheco, D) California Public Records Act: agency response time.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/11/2026
Last Amended: 06/25/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 899, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, as defined. This bill would instead require each agency to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person as described above within 10 business days of a request for a copy of records. (Based on 09/30/2026 text) SB 239 (Arreguín, D) Crimes: criminal threats.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/30/2025
Last Amended: 07/02/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/20/2026 text)
SB 1164 (Cervantes, D) Elections.
Current Text: 09/19/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 08/20/2026
Status: 09/19/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 338, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/19/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/19/2026 text)
SB 1187 (Durazo, D) Open meetings.
Current Text: 09/18/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 07/06/2026
Status: 09/18/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 324, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/18/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. 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 09/18/2026 text)
Sustainability and Environmental Protection LAP
AB 1704 (González, Mark, D) Greenhouse gases: embodied carbon building materials.
Current Text: 06/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/04/2026
Last Amended: 06/23/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/10/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law requires, by December 31, 2026, the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, as provided, to develop a framework for measuring the average carbon intensity of the materials used in the construction of new buildings, including those for residential uses.
Existing law requires, by December 31, 2028, the state board to develop a comprehensive strategy for the state’s building sector to achieve a 40% net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of building materials, as specified, as soon as possible, but no later than December 31, 2035. Existing law authorizes the state board to establish an embodied carbon trading system, as defined, in compliance with these requirements, as provided. This bill would require the state board to determine whether using building materials with lower embodied carbon would be cost effective during the first 2-year period of their use compared to using conventional building materials before implementing the above-described provisions. (Based on 06/23/2026 text)
AB 2234 (Papan, D) California Environmental Quality Act: geothermal exploratory projects.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 08/27/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 927, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation. Existing law requires the division to be the lead agency for all geothermal exploratory projects for purposes of CEQA, except as provided. Existing law defines “geothermal exploratory project,” for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), in part as a project composed of not more than 6 wells and associated drilling and testing equipment whose chief and original purpose is to evaluate the presence and characteristics of geothermal resources. Existing law requires wells included within a geothermal exploratory project to be located at least 1/2 mile from geothermal development wells that are capable of producing geothermal resources in commercial quantities. This bill would expressly include as part of a geothermal exploratory project, among other things, equipment and activities necessary to establish interconnectivity between wells and reservoirs. The bill would specify that the above-described1/2–mile limit is measured from all points along the wellhead location and well course. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
Transportation Issues LAP
AB 939 (Schultz, D) Housing development: density bonuses: affordability of for-sale units.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2025
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 790, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law, commonly referred to as 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. Existing law, among other things, requires compliance with certain affordability requirements, including requiring that the applicant agree to ensure, and that the city, county, or city and county ensure, that a for-sale unit that qualified the applicant for the award of the density bonus is either (1) initially sold to and occupied by a person or family of very low, low, or moderate income, as specified, or (2) if the unit is not purchased by an income-qualified person or family within 180 days after the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, the unit is purchased by a qualified nonprofit housing corporation, as provided. This bill would additionally allow the applicant and the city, county, or city and county to comply with the above-described affordability requirements with respect to a for-sale unit by ensuring that the unit is purchased by a nonprofit housing corporation, as specified, for properties to be sold to and occupied by extremely low, very low, or lower income families who participate in a below market interest rate loan program, as described. (Based on 09/29/2026 text)
AB 1421 (Wilson, D) Vehicles: Road Usage Charge Technical Advisory Committee.
Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 01/05/2026
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was RLS. on 1/29/2026) Location: 08/31/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Current law requires the Chair of the California Transportation Commission to create a Road Usage Charge Technical Advisory Committee in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation to guide the development and evaluation of a pilot program assessing the potential for mileage-based revenue collection as an alternative to the gas tax system. Current law additionally requires the Transportation Agency, in consultation with the commission, to implement the pilot program, as specified.
Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the Transportation Agency, to consolidate and prepare research and recommendations related to a road user charge or a mileage-based fee system. The bill would require the commission to submit a report, as specified, on the research and recommendations described above to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature by no later than January 1, 2027. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
AB 1976 (Wicks, D) Streets and highways: pedestrian and bicycle facilities.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/13/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 565, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: 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.
This bill would prohibit a city or county from holding a community input meeting to reconsider, delay, or prevent implementation of a proposed pedestrian or bicycle safety project after that project has passed 90% design, as specified. After or upon the award of a contract for, or when county or city staff, as applicable, are directed to begin, the construction of a pedestrian or bicycle safety project, the bill would prohibit the city or county from terminating the project unless the city or county makes at least one specified finding at a public meeting. (Based on 09/27/2026 text) AB 2024 (Nguyen, D) Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements.
Current Text: 09/15/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/17/2026
Last Amended: 08/10/2026
Status: 09/14/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 208, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/14/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The Outdoor Advertising Act prohibits a person, as defined, from placing an advertising display within the areas affected by the act without a permit. The act prohibits the Department of Transportation from denying or delaying the acceptance of a permit application for a new advertising display along a portion of a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application. This bill would also prohibit the department from denying or delaying the review, processing, or determination of a permit application described above. (Based on 09/14/2026 text) AB 2059 (Wilson, D) California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impacts: vehicle miles traveled:
mitigation.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 08/25/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 576, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to prepare, develop, and transmit to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for certification and adoption proposed revisions to the CEQA implementation guidelines to establish criteria for determining the significance of transportation impacts of projects within transit priority areas, and requires the criteria to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the development of multimodal transportation networks, and a diversity of land uses. CEQA requires the office to recommend potential metrics, including, among other metrics, vehicle miles traveled, to measure these transportation impacts. This bill would require the Department of Transportation, in consultation with specified entities, to, on or before December 31, 2030, develop guidance on vehicle-miles-travel mitigation measures for transportation projects in nonmetropolitan counties, as provided. The bill would require the department to publish the guidance on its internet website and add the guidance as an addendum to the Transportation Analysis Framework and the Transportation Analysis under CEQA. The bill would specify that a transportation project for which the lead agency has issued a notice of preparation for the project’s environmental impact report on or before December 31, 2031 is presumed to have a less than significant transportation impact as determined by the vehicle-miles-traveled metric if at least 70% of the project lies within one or more nonmetropolitan counties. Because the bill would impose additional duties on a lead agency in its analysis of significant transportation impacts, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 09/27/2026 text)
AB 2307 (Sanchez, R) Transportation: traffic signal synchronization pilot program: Western Riverside Council of Governments.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 04/06/2026
Status: 08/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 140, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 08/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2032, authorize the Western Riverside Council of Governments, in required coordination with the Department of Transportation, to establish and administer a traffic signal synchronization pilot program for its member local agencies to evaluate a regional model for coordinating traffic signal timing between state highways and local street and road systems, as specified. The bill would require the Western Riverside Council of Governments, in coordination with the department, to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot program, including assessing its impacts on congestion, travel time reliability, operational efficiency, and vehicle emissions and to submit, on or before January 1, 2028, a specified report to the Legislature relating to the pilot program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the local agencies that constitute the Western Riverside Council of Governments. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) AB 2560 (Schultz, D) Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure: goals.
Current Text: 04/15/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 04/15/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law establishes the Transportation Agency, which has the power of general supervision over specified state entities. Existing law requires the agency to develop and report on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, coordinated planning and policy formation in the matters of public interest related to the agency. This bill would establish specified goals for the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI), consistent with state law. (Based on 04/15/2026 text)
AB 2679 (Hadwick, R) State highways: public parking: traffic control.
Current Text: 07/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 07/09/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: 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) SB 667 (Archuleta, D) Railroads: safety: report.
Current Text: 09/18/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2025
Last Amended: 06/03/2026
Status: 09/18/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 316, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/18/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/18/2026 text) SB 922 (Laird, D) Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/28/2026
Last Amended: 07/02/2026
Status: 08/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 148, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 08/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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)
SB 1087 (Cabaldon, D) Transportation planning: sustainable communities strategies: transportation funding programs.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/13/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1005, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/30/2026 text) SB 1265 (Richardson, D) California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority:
GoGreen Program.
Current Text: 05/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 05/14/2026
Status: 07/01/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was U. & E. on 6/1/2026) Location: 07/01/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Under existing law, the purpose of the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act is to advance the state’s goals of reducing the levels of greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the deployment of sustainable and renewable energy sources, implementing measures that increase the efficiency of the use of energy, creating high quality employment opportunities, and lessening the state’s dependence on fossil fuels and to that end to provide an alternative method of financing in providing and promoting the establishment of facilities utilizing alternative methods and sources of energy and facilities needed for the development and commercialization of advanced transportation technologies. Existing law establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to carry out that purpose. Existing Public Utilities Commission decisions established the California Hub for Energy Efficiency Financing program, administered by the authority and funded through charges collected by specified electrical corporations and gas corporations from their ratepayers. This bill would require the authority to administer the GoGreen Program, previously known as the California Hub for Energy Efficiency Financing program, and would authorize the authority to use moneys collected from the ratepayers of electrical and gas corporations, as directed by the commission, and other available funding sources, consistent with the program’s purposes. The bill would require the program to provide financing assistance to participating lenders to support residents in financing eligible energy efficiency and decarbonization measures at costs that are competitive with or below market rates. (Based on 05/14/2026 text) SB 1292 (Richardson, D) Enhanced curb management system.
Current Text: 06/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 06/11/2026
Status: 07/01/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was TRANS. on 6/1/2026)
Location: 07/01/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: 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)
SB 1293 (Alvarado-Gil, R) State highways: projects: notice.
Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 04/06/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Would require the Department of Transportation to provide written notice of certain construction or maintenance projects within the right-of-way of a state highway in a county with a population of 60,000 people or fewer to a person who resides in, or a business that is located within, 5 miles of the project limits, as specified. The bill would also require the department to place the notice on its internet website. (Based on 04/06/2026 text)
SB 1337 (Richardson, D) State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: air districts and local governments: transportation fuels refining facilities: memoranda of understanding.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 700, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight within the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to, among other things, provide independent oversight and analysis of the transportation fuels market for the protection of consumers by identifying market design flaws, market power abuses, and any other manner by which market participants act to harm competition or act contrary to the best interests of the consumers in the state. Existing law requires the director of the division, when requested, to appear before the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to provide an update on the division’s performance as compared to its objectives, the status of competition in the transportation fuels markets, and other information the committees' request. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 31, 2029, to seek to enter into memoranda of understanding with relevant air districts and local governments with transportation fuels refining facilities within their jurisdictions, as identified by the commission, to enable the further coordination that is needed to support management of the transportation fuels sector and to ensure the transportation fuels sector is successfully managed and maintains environmental, public health, labor, economic, and consumer protections. (Based on 09/27/2026 text)
SB 1382 (Alvarado-Gil, R) Department of Transportation: mountain passes: openings.
Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 04/06/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, on or before July 1, 1992, to adopt and implement a deicing policy for state highways, as specified. Existing law specifically requires the department to remove snow from a specified portion of Interstate Route 80, as specified. This bill would require, on or before April 1 of each year, the department, to the extent feasible, to notify an affected local official of the department’s proposed schedule for opening a mountain pass, as defined. The bill would require the department to develop a public outreach plan to inform the public about the closing and opening of a mountain pass, as specified. (Based on 04/06/2026 text) SB 1423 (Stern, D) Regional planning: standardized spatial planning datasets.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1039, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing 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. This bill would require the office, on or before July 1, 2028, to compile, standardize, maintain, and make publicly available through a consolidated online platform a core set of statewide standardized spatial planning datasets, as defined.
The bill would require the datasets to include specified categories of information, including hazardous data, natural resource sensitivity data, and agricultural value data, as provided. The bill would also require the office, on or before January 1, 2029, to develop and provide guidance for agencies to inform how to use and integrate the datasets in regional planning processes and products. The bill would require the office to update those datasets as new or revised data becomes available from the originating state or federal agencies. This bill would permit state, regional, and local governments to consider use of the standardized spatial planning datasets published by the office in the development and production of land use and infrastructure plans, as specified. (Based on 09/30/2026 text) Water Supply and Conservation LAP
AB 35 (Alvarez, D) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: Administrative Procedure Act: exemption: program guidelines and selection criteria.
Current Text: 07/16/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 12/02/2024
Last Amended: 06/11/2026
Status: 07/16/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 89, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 07/16/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act sets forth the requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies. The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 (act), approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election, authorized 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.
Existing law authorizes certain regulations needed to effectuate or implement programs of the act to be adopted as emergency regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, as provided.
Existing law requires the emergency regulations to be filed with the Office of Administrative Law and requires the emergency regulations to remain in effect until repealed or amended by the adopting state agency. This bill, notwithstanding the above, would exempt the adoption of regulations needed to effectuate or implement programs of the act from the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, as provided. The bill would require a state entity that receives funding to administer a competitive grant program established using the Administrative Procedure Act exemption to do certain things, including, among other things, to develop draft project solicitation and evaluation guidelines, to transmit copies of those guidelines to the fiscal committees and to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, to hold a noticed public meeting on those guidelines, and to submit those guidelines to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, except as provided. (Based on 07/16/2026 text) AB 2619 (Papan, D) Water resources: data centers.
Current Text: 09/21/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/21/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 437, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/21/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/21/2026 text)
AB 2777 (Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials) State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund program: loans: outdoor eating areas: water reuse.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/24/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 639, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund program, pursuant to which state and federal funds are continuously appropriated from the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to the State Water Resources Control Board for loans and other financial assistance for purposes related to the federal Clean Water Act. Existing law establishes the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Administration Fund (administration fund) to provide funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the state board for payment of the reasonable costs of administering the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund. Existing law authorizes the state board to assess an annual charge for financial assistance services, not to exceed 1% of the financial assistance repayment amount and computed according to the true interest cost method, as provided, and requires those annual charges to be deposited into the administration fund. Existing law authorizes the financial service rate to be applied at any time during the term of the financial assistance and requires the rate to remain unchanged for the duration of the financial assistance. Existing law prohibits the financial assistance rate from increasing the financial assistance repayment amount after being applied. Existing law requires the state board to, at least once each fiscal year, adjust the financial assistance service rate. Existing law requires the state board to set the total amount of revenue collected each year through the annual charges at an amount that is equal as practicable to the appropriation amount set forth in the annual Budget Act. This bill would additionally authorize the state board to assess fees in place of an annual charge for financial assistance and would authorize the fees or annual charge to be assessed at any rate as permitted by federal law. (Based on 09/27/2026 text) SB 1153 (Caballero, D) Disaster preparedness: urban retail water suppliers and public water systems:
wildfire.
Current Text: 09/29/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/29/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 776, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/29/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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 09/29/2026 text)
League of California Cities Sponsored Legislation
SB 490 (Umberg, D) Alcohol and drug programs.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2025
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Senate VETOED
Summary: 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)
SB 1005 (Caballero, D) Local agency: payment: rounding amount.
Current Text: 09/18/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/09/2026
Last Amended: 07/02/2026
Status: 09/18/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 321, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/18/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law requires a public agency to accept specified methods of payment for designated obligations. This bill would authorize a local agency to round the amount of any payment made wholly or partly in cash to the local agency, or any refund or other amount tendered wholly or partly in cash by the local agency, to the nearest $0.05. The bill would apply to a local agency only if the governing body of the local agency adopts, by majority vote, a resolution to make its provisions applicable to the local agency. (Based on 09/18/2026 text)
Local Representative Legislation
AB 1564 (Ahrens, D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.
Current Text: 05/18/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/12/2026
Last Amended: 05/18/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of existing law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by existing law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)
AB 1599 (Ahrens, D) Public transit: California Transit Stop Registry: transit datasets.
Current Text: 09/18/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/16/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/18/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 269, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/18/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Would require the Department of Transportation to create, on or before June 1, 2027, and with input from transit operators, the California Transit Stop Registry as a centralized, statewide dataset of standardized information regarding transit stops that includes, but is not limited to, each transit stop’s name, location, available seating, and unique identifier, and information on whether the transit stop is sheltered, as specified. (Based on 09/18/2026 text)
AB 1831 (Ahrens, D) California State University: executive compensation: restrictions.
Current Text: 06/04/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/11/2026
Last Amended: 06/04/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law requires the Trustees of the California State University to establish and adjust the salaries and classifications of all academic, nonacademic, and administrative positions. This bill would require the trustees, on or before July 1, 2027, to repeal a policy on executive compensation adopted at the November 2025 meeting of the trustees and adopt a new policy on executive compensation, as provided. The bill would prohibit the trustees, for any fiscal year in which the trustees authorize an increase in student tuition, from increasing the compensation of a chancellor, vice chancellor, or executive president. The bill would also prohibit the trustees, for any fiscal year in which the trustees do not authorize salary increases for represented staff, from increasing the compensation of a chancellor, vice chancellor, executive president, or member of the management personnel plan staff. (Based on 06/04/2026 text)
AB 1961 (Ahrens, D) Civil actions: protective orders: workplace violence.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/13/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 910, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Would authorize an employer to seek a workplace violence restraining order on behalf of all employees at the employer’s workplace or a location at which a group of employees perform their primary job duties if harassment, unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence is directed at that workplace or location. The bill would not require an employer to name any individual employee as a protected party if the employer seeks a workplace violence restraining order on behalf of all employees at the employer’s workplace or a location at which a group of employees perform their primary job duties. This bill would require the Judicial Council, on or before January 1, 2028, to adopt or modify its forms, as specified. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 527.8 of the Code of Civil Procedure proposed by AB 2179 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2179 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 527.8 of the Code of Civil Procedure proposed by AB 1753 to be operative only if (1) this bill and AB 1753 are both enacted, (2) AB 2179 is not enacted or as enacted does not amend Section 527.8 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and (3) this bill is enacted last. (Based on 09/30/2026 text)
AB 2005 (Ahrens, D) Housing developments: urban lot split: owner-occupancy.
Current Text: 08/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/17/2026
Last Amended: 08/28/2026
Status: 08/31/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was THIRD READING on 8/30/2026)
Location: 08/31/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided. The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps. Existing law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the development or parcel meets specified requirements. Existing law requires the local agency to require an applicant for an urban lot split to sign an affidavit stating that the applicant intends to occupy one of the housing units as their principal residence for a minimum of 3 years from the date of the approval of the urban lot split. Existing law authorizes a local agency to adopt an ordinance to implement these provisions, as provided. This bill would instead require the local agency to require an applicant to select one of 2 sets of owner-occupancy requirements. The first option would be for the applicant to sign, under penalty of perjury, the above-described affidavit stating that the applicant intends to occupy one of the housing units as their principal residence for a minimum of 3 years. The 2nd option would be for the applicant to sign an affidavit, under penalty of perjury, stating they intend to sell both parcels of an urban lot split after issuance of a certificate of occupancy within 3 years from the date of the approval of the urban lot split and to require that one of the units on both parcels of an urban lot split remain owner occupied for 3 years, beginning on the date a parcel or unit is conveyed by the applicant to a home buyer. (Based on 08/28/2026 text)
AB 2231 (Ahrens, D) California Environmental Quality Act: hospital projects.
Current Text: 09/30/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/30/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 926, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/30/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: 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. CEQA establishes administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the lead agency’s decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals. This bill would establish streamlined procedures for the administrative and judicial review of the environmental review and approvals granted for an environmental leadership hospital campus project, defined by the bill as a construction project of a hospital campus in the City of Santa Clara, under certain conditions. The bill would require the city council of the City of Santa Clara to certify the project for the streamlined judicial review, as specified, if it finds the project will meet those conditions. The bill would require the applicant of the environmental leadership hospital campus project to take certain actions in order for those specified procedures to apply to the project. The bill would require a certified project to meet certain labor requirements. The bill would require the Judicial Council, on or before July 1, 2027, to adopt rules of court establishing procedures requiring actions or proceedings seeking judicial review of the certification of an environmental impact report for a certified environmental leadership hospital campus project or the granting of any project approval, including any appeals to the court of appeal or the Supreme Court, to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 270 calendar days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court. The bill would require the lead agency to concurrently prepare the record of proceedings with the environmental review, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/30/2026 text) AB 2485 (Ahrens, D) Bureau of Security and Investigative Services: private investigators: client service agreements.
Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 03/16/2026
Status: 05/28/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). (Last location was APPR. on 4/21/2026)
Location: 05/28/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: the Private Investigator Act, requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to administer and enforce its provisions relating to the licensure and regulation of private investigators, and imposes certain duties on the bureau in this regard. Existing law makes a violation of the act, as specified, a crime.
Existing law requires an agreement to provide services pursuant to those provisions to, among other things, be in writing. Existing law requires the initial client service agreement and any amendment, addendum, or other modification to the agreement to be legible and clearly indicate any other document incorporated into it. This bill would require a licensee to provide a copy of the initial client service agreement and any amendment, addendum, or other modification to the agreement in the preferred language of the client if the client primarily speaks a language other than English. The bill would specify that a violation of that provision is not a crime under the act. (Based on 03/16/2026 text) AB 2756 (Ahrens, D) Medi-Cal: vision services: performance measures.
Current Text: 09/18/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 06/22/2026
Status: 09/18/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 309, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/18/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Under existing law, certain vision care benefits are covered under the Medi-Cal program, relating to, among other things, optometric and optician services and eyeglasses, as specified. This bill would require the department, by no later than January 1, 2028, to establish a list of performance measures to ensure that the vision services under the Medi-Cal program meet quality and access criteria.
The bill would require that the performance measures be designed to evaluate utilization, access, and availability of Medi-Cal vision services. The bill would require certain information within the performance measures, relating to providers and examinations, among other factors. The bill would require the department, when evaluating performance measures, to consider certain criteria, including trended data and other state performance and quality measures. The bill would require the department to report on each performance measure only to the extent that the department has existing data sources from which to calculate the applicable measure, as specified. The bill would specify a timeline for the posting of performance measures and data on the department’s internet website. The bill would also require the department to establish benchmarks for each performance measure and to annually prepare a summary report on complaints and grievances, as specified. (Based on 09/18/2026 text) AB 2764 (Ahrens, D) Extended foster care.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 636, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, revises and expands the scope of various programs relating to the provision of cash assistance and other services to and for the benefit of certain foster and adopted children, and other children who have been placed in out-of-home care, including children who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC), Adoption Assistance Program (AAP), California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) benefits. Among other provisions, the act extends to nonminor dependents up to 21 years of age the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a dependent, and specified foster care benefits if specified education or employment requirements are met, including that the nonminor is completing secondary education or a program leading to an equivalent credential or employed for at least 80 hours per month. This bill would prohibit a nonminor dependent from being denied eligibility for, or have eligibility terminated from, the abovedescribed extended foster care benefits for failure to meet education or employment participation requirements that exceed the previously described education or employment requirements. The bill would also make technical, conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 09/27/2026 text)
AB 2765 (Ahrens, D) CalFresh and CalWORKs: childhood hunger and foster youth.
Current Text: 09/18/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/18/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 310, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/18/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing federal law limits a participant who is an able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) to 3 months of CalFresh benefits in a 3-year period unless that participant has met work participation requirements or is otherwise exempt. Existing state law requires the State Department of Social Services to annually seek a federal waiver of this limitation. Existing state law requires the department to ensure that all recipients subject to the federal ABAWD time limit are permitted to meet the work requirements of the time limit through all forms of work, as specified. Existing federal law, Public Law 119-21, enacted on July 4, 2025, sets forth various changes to SNAP benefits, including the removal of an exemption from the time limit for certain former foster youth under 25 years of age, and the narrowing of an exemption for a household with a dependent under 18 years of age to instead a household with a dependent under 14 years of age, as specified. This bill would specify that an ABAWD participant includes a parent or other member of a household with responsibility for a dependent child 14 years of age or older as a result of Public Law 119-21. The bill would make various statements of legislative intent relating to, among other things, maximizing efforts to retain in the program as many eligible CalFresh recipients as possible, providing for the continuation of food benefits, mitigating harm, and streamlining the verification of exemptions for certain populations, in response to Public Law 119-21, as specified. (Based on 09/18/2026 text)
AB 2766 (Ahrens, D) Public postsecondary education: student housing: foster youth and homeless youth.
Current Text: 09/15/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 05/28/2026
Status: 09/14/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 216, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/14/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The NextUp program authorizes the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to enter into agreements with community college districts to provide, and allocate to selected community colleges within a community college district, funds for services in support of postsecondary education for foster youth. Existing law requires a student participant in the program to be a current or former foster youth whose dependency was established or continued by a court on or after the youth’s 13th birthday and who is no older than 25 years of age at the commencement of the academic year in which the student first enrolls in the program. Existing law requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority in that system to, among others, foster youth and former foster youth whose dependency was established or continued by a court on or after the youth’s 13th birthday and who is no older than 25 years of age at the commencement of the academic year. This bill would extend the requirement and request for priority enrollment to current or former foster youth whose dependency was established or continued by a court on or after the youth’s 13th birthday and who is older than 25 years of age so long as they are enrolled in the NextUp program. (Based on 09/14/2026 text)
AB 2768 (Ahrens, D) Student financial aid: waiver or deferment of fees and costs: foster youth.
Current Text: 09/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 637, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/27/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions as the segments of postsecondary education in the state. Existing law establishes various programs that provide financial aid to students attending institutions in each of the segments. This bill would require the California State University, community college districts, and private postsecondary educational institutions and independent institutions of higher education that receive state financial assistance to, and would request the University of California to, for a student who has submitted a specified financial aid application and is a foster youth or former foster youth, as defined, upon the student’s initial enrollment at the postsecondary educational institution, either (1) waive the unpaid portion of enrollment fees and costs, or (2) defer the unpaid portion of enrollment fees and costs until the student has received an initial disbursement of the student’s financial aid award, as provided. If the postsecondary educational institution is unable to waive or defer costs related to books, supplies, materials, or equipment, the bill would require the institution to provide the student with clear information regarding available campus resources, institutional programs, or community-based assistance to help the student cover those costs. (Based on 09/27/2026 text)
AB 2769 (Ahrens, D) Adoption Assistance Program: eligibility.
Current Text: 06/08/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 06/08/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 6/29/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Senate DEAD
Summary: Existing law establishes the Adoption Assistance Program (AAP) for the purpose of benefiting children residing in foster homes by providing the stability and security of permanent homes.
Under existing law, a child is eligible for AAP benefits if they meet, among other requirements, an age requirement wherein the child is (1) under 18 years of age, (2) under 21 years of age with a mental or physical handicap, or (3) under 21 years of age, has attained 16 years of age before the adoption assistance agreement became effective, and one or more of specified conditions are met. This bill would add a 4th age eligibility category for a nonminor who is 18 years of age, is under an adoption assistance agreement that became effective before the nonminor’s 16th birthday, was, prior to attaining 18 years of age, attending high school or the equivalent level of vocational or technical training on a full-time basis or pursuing a high school equivalency certificate, continues in such attendance, continues to reside with the adoptive parent, and remains otherwise eligible. This bill would make that nonminor age eligible until the date of completion of the program they are attending or the nonminor’s 19th birthday, whichever occurs first. The bill would, to the extent that federal financial participation is unavailable for adoption assistance payments continued pursuant to this eligibility expansion, require the department to ensure that staterealigned funding is available for those payments, as specified. (Based on 06/08/2026 text) SB 381 (Wahab, D) Vital records: adoptees’ birth certificates.
Current Text: 05/21/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/14/2025
Last Amended: 05/21/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Existing law prohibits an agency from disclosing personal information that would link the information to the individual unless, among other things, the information is provided to a governmental entity by law, or the disclosure is to the individual to whom the information pertains. Existing law makes vital records related to adoptions, other than a newly issued birth certificate, available only upon the order of the superior court of the county of residence of the adopted child or of the county granting the order of adoption. This bill would authorize, beginning on July 1, 2028, the disclosure of an original birth certificate, as defined, to an adopted person, or descendant, as defined, of a deceased adopted person, would require the State Registrar to provide a copy of the original birth certificate to those persons, and would establish a process to request an original birth certificate, as specified. (Based on 05/21/2026 text) SB 722 (Wahab, D) Transit-oriented housing development: excluded parcels and sites.
Current Text: 07/16/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 01/15/2026
Status: 07/16/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 100, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 07/16/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: 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)
SB 880 (Wahab, D) Residential property: transfers: institutional investors.
Current Text: 06/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/12/2026 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 06/11/2026
Status: 07/01/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was JUD. on 5/18/2026) Location: 07/01/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Prospective federal law, the federal 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (H.R. 6644), prohibits a large institutional investor from purchasing, or entering into a contract to directly or indirectly purchase, any single-family home, except as specified. If the above-described federal legislation is enacted, this bill would authorize the Attorney General, district attorney, or county counsel to coordinate with the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Director of the United States Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in the implementation of federal regulations, as described, related to violations of federal law involving tenants residing in properties owned, maintained, and managed by institutional investors. Existing law establishes various real estate disclosure requirements applicable to the transfer of residential real property. Before entering into specified transactions relating to residential real property, including an individual sale of residential real property, this bill would require an institutional investor, as defined, to provide written notice of the institutional investor’s intent to sell the property to each tenant at least 90 days before advertising the residential real property for sale in a multiple listing service, as specified. The bill would require the notice to include, among other things, a statement that the tenant has the right to remain in possession until the end of the lease term, except as specified. For sales of residential real property containing 1 to 4 residential dwelling units by an institutional investor, this bill would require the institutional investor to, among other things, only accept offers from prospective owner-occupants, including any tenant in possession, during the first 30 days after the property is listed for sale. (Based on 06/11/2026 text) SB 1193 (Wahab, D) Discretionary funds: County of Alameda.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 08/12/2026
Status: 08/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 155, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 08/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors to appropriate and expend county general fund money to establish county programs or fund other programs to meet various social needs of the county population and the needs of physically, mentally, and financially handicapped persons and aged persons. Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors to contract with other public agencies, private agencies, or individuals to operate programs that the board of supervisors determines will serve public purposes. Existing law prohibits an Orange County Board of Supervisors member from awarding district discretionary funds to a community organization or a nonprofit organization unless the board of supervisors approves that award by a majority vote. Existing law requires the Orange County Board of Supervisors to post on its internet website a log of appropriated district discretionary funds at the end of each quarter, as specified. Existing law prohibits, within 90 days preceding an election, an Orange County Board of Supervisors member who is on the ballot as an Orange County Board of Supervisors member candidate and has an opponent on that ballot from taking any action related to spending district discretionary funds, as specified. This bill would prohibit the Alameda County Board of Supervisors from awarding discretionary funds, as defined, to a community organization, nonprofit organization, or private entity, unless the board of supervisors approves that award by a majority vote and the award includes a description of how the award provides resources of communitywide significance for the district that the member of the board requesting the award represents and identifies the public purposes, as defined, that the award will serve. (Based on 08/27/2026 text)
SB 1238 (Wahab, D) Common interest developments: management.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 08/21/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate VETOED
Summary: The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act provides for the creation and regulation of common interest developments. Existing law defines “management services” for purposes of a common interest development to mean specified acts performed or offered to be performed in an advisory capacity for an association, including implementing provisions of governing documents for the operation of the common interest development. This bill would revise the above definition to specify that it means acts performed or offered to be performed by an agent, including a managing agent and its employees, in an advisory capacity for an association, as prescribed. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) SB 1302 (Wahab, D) Nursing.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 429, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Nursing Practice Act establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs, until January 1, 2027, and sets forth its powers and duties regarding the licensure and regulation of registered nurses. Existing law creates the Board of Registered Nursing Fund and makes all moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires the board, until January 1, 2027, to appoint an executive officer to perform the duties delegated by the board and to be responsible to the board for the accomplishment of those duties, as specified. Existing law requires the board, for the purpose of transacting its business, to meet at least once every 3 months, at times and places it designates by resolution, and requires those meetings to be held in northern and southern California. This bill would extend those dates until January 1, 2031. (Based on 09/20/2026 text)
SB 1303 (Wahab, D) Naturopathic Doctors Act.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/26/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 430, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Naturopathic Doctors Act, which is repealed on January 1, 2027, establishes the California Board of Naturopathic Medicine within the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate naturopathic doctors. The act requires the board to consist of 9 members, appointed by the Governor, Speaker of the Assembly, or the Senate Committee on Rules, as specified, and requires each member of the board be appointed to a 4-year term. This bill would instead repeal those provisions on January 1, 2031. The bill would specify that the 4-year term expires 4 years after the date of the appointment. (Based on 09/20/2026 text)
SB 1304 (Wahab, D) Respiratory Care Practice Act.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 431, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Respiratory Care Practice Act establishes the Respiratory Care Board of California to license and regulate respiratory care practitioners. Existing law authorizes the board to employ an executive office, as specified. Existing law establishes fees for license and examination requirements for respiratory care practitioners, including an initial license fee of no more than $300 and a license renewal fee at $230, as specified. Existing law authorizes the board to increase the license renewal fee, by regulation, to no more than $330. Existing law repeals the existence of the board and the authority for employment of an executive officer on January 1, 2027. This bill would extend the operation of the existence of the board and the executive officer to January 1, 2031, and would delete the initial license fee provision. (Based on 09/20/2026 text)
SB 1311 (Wahab, D) Licensed professions.
Current Text: 09/14/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 07/01/2026
Status: 09/14/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 232, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/14/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Dental Board of California is required to license and regulate dental auxiliaries, including, among others, dental assistants, as defined, and sets forth duties and functions that those dental auxiliaries are authorized to perform. Existing law requires an unlicensed dental assistant not enrolled in a board-approved program for registered dental assisting or an alternative dental assisting program to complete an infection control certification course, as specified. In this regard, existing law allows the unlicensed dental assistant to complete a board-approved 8-hour course, with 6 hours being didactic instruction and 2 hours being laboratory instruction, as specified. This bill would allow an unlicensed dental assistant to complete the Dental Assisting National Board’s Infection Control examination instead of completing an infection control course. The bill would also revise the requirements for those infection control courses to allow an unlicensed dental assistant to complete one of specified courses approved by the board or a course with at least 4 hours of didactic instruction and at least 2 hours of laboratory instruction using video or a series of video training tools, as specified. (Based on 09/14/2026 text) SB 1326 (Wahab, D) California Environmental Quality Act: tribal cultural resources: mitigation measures.
Current Text: 06/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 06/11/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, before releasing an environmental review document for a project, to begin consultation with a California Native American tribe that is traditionally and culturally affiliated with the geographic area of the proposed project, as provided.
CEQA authorizes the parties, as a part of the consultation, to propose mitigation measures capable of avoiding or substantially lessening potential significant impacts to a tribal cultural resource or alternatives that would avoid significant impacts to a tribal cultural resource. CEQA defines a tribal cultural resource as including, among other things, a site, feature, place, cultural landscape, sacred place, or object with cultural value to a California Native American tribe that is included or determined to be eligible for inclusion in the California Register of Historical Resources or included in a local register of historical resources, as provided. This bill would modify the definition of tribal cultural resource to, among other things, include a site, feature, place, cultural landscape, sacred place, or object with cultural value to a California Native American tribe that is identified by the Native American Heritage Commission as a sacred place, as provided, or included in a local tribal register and provided to the lead agency by a consulting California Native American tribe. (Based on 06/11/2026 text) SB 1345 (Wahab, D) Foster children: rights of foster youth.
Current Text: 09/20/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/13/2026
Status: 09/20/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 432, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/20/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various settings and governs the provision of child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families, and restoring to their families children who have been removed. Existing law provides that it is the policy of the state that all minors and nonminors in foster care have specified rights, including, among others, the right to have storage space for private use, the right to be free from unreasonable searches of personal belongings, the right to be informed of these rights in an age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate manner, and the right to receive a copy of these rights, at specified intervals. Under this bill, the foster youth would have an additional right to have their personal belongings transported during placement changes and other moves in a manner preserving the youth’s property and dignity, including the use of suitcases, duffel bags, backpacks, and moving boxes rather than trash bags or other inappropriate receptacles. (Based on 09/20/2026 text)
SB 1363 (Wahab, D) Barbering and cosmetology.
Current Text: 09/14/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/14/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 233, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/14/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Barbering and Cosmetology Act establishes the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology until January 1, 2027, to license and regulate barbering, cosmetology, electrology, esthetics, hairstyling, and manicuring. Existing law requires a person, firm, or corporation operating an establishment where licensed activity occurs to obtain a license from the board for that establishment.
Existing law requires an establishment to at all times be in the charge of a person licensed pursuant to the act, except an apprentice. This bill would extend the provisions relating to the establishment of the board to January 1, 2031. The bill would also require a partnership or limited liability company that desires to operate an establishment where licensed activity occurs to apply to obtain a license for that establishment. For any corporation or limited liability company operating such an establishment, the bill would require the organization to be registered and in good standing with the Secretary of State, and would provide for the suspension of any license from the board for a corporation or limited liability company that is not in good standing with the Secretary of State. The bill would require the board to license any federally recognized tribe, as defined, that applies for licensure and is otherwise compliant with the requirements of a licensee, and would exempt a federally recognized tribe from requirements relating to registration and good standing with the Secretary of State. (Based on 09/14/2026 text) SB 1368 (Wahab, D) Speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and hearing aid dispensers.
Current Text: 09/14/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 08/17/2026
Status: 09/14/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 234, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 09/14/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: The Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers Licensure Act, until January 1, 2027, establishes the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of speech- language pathologists, speech-language pathology aides, speech-language pathology assistants, audiologists, dispensing audiologists, and hearing aid dispensers. Existing law, until January 1, 2027, authorizes the board to appoint a person designated as the executive officer to perform duties delegated by the board and vested in them in the act. This bill would extend the operation of the board and authorization to appoint an executive officer until January 1, 2031. (Based on 09/14/2026 text) SB 1376 (Wahab, D) Physician assistants.
Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. on 6/30/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: The Physician Assistant Practice Act, establishes the Physician Assistant Board to license and regulate physician assistants. Existing law authorizes the board to convene from time to time as deemed necessary by the board. Existing law further requires the board to receive permission of the Director of Consumer Affairs to meet more than 6 times annually, and requires the director to approve meetings that are necessary for the board to fulfill its legal responsibilities. This bill would delete the provision requiring the board to receive permission from the director to meet more than 6 times annually and for the director to approve meetings. (Based on 02/20/2026 text) SB 1391 (Wahab, D) Department of Consumer Affairs: retired category licenses.
Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. on 6/30/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes any of the boards within the department, except as specified, to establish by regulation a system for a retired category of license for persons who are not actively engaged in the practice of their profession or vocation. This bill would additionally require a board that offers a retired category of licensure to disclose that information on its internet website. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)
SB 1416 (Wahab, D) Physicians and surgeons: dentists: unprofessional conduct.
Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Status: 08/14/2026 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. on 6/30/2026)
Location: 08/14/2026 - Assembly DEAD
Summary: Existing law establishes various healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including the Medical Board of California and the Dental Board of California, that license and regulate various healing arts licensees. Existing law, including the Medical Practice Act and the Dental Practice Act, deem certain violations by licensees to be unprofessional conduct subject to discipline by the licensee’s licensing board. This bill would reduce the duration for a physician and surgeon or dentist to refund a duplicate payment following patient request or patient notification to 21 days. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)