2025
SB-254
Electricity: wildfire mitigation: rate assistance: Policy-Oriented and Wildfire Electric Reimbursement (POWER) Program
Enacts broad reforms to California’s wildfire mitigation planning, including requiring electrical corporations to submit wildfire mitigation plans for review at least once every four years.
SB-272
San Mateo County Transit District: job order contracting: pilot program
Establishes a pilot program to authorize the San Mateo County Transit District to use job order contracting as a procurement method.
SB-285
Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions goal: carbon dioxide removal: regulations
Authorizes that only qualified carbon dioxide removal can be used for counterbalancing the state’s or an entity’s greenhouse emissions, and for tracking progress against greenhouse emissions.
SB-306
Health care coverage: prior authorization
Prohibits health insurers and health care service plans from requiring prior authorization for certain services for one year if 90% or more of requests for those services were approved the previous year, and mandates transparency in posting exemption criteria online.
SB-318
Air pollution: stationary sources: best available control technology: indirect sources
Strengthens air pollution permitting and control through updating oversight laws and streamlining processes and programs.
SB-326
Wildfire safety: The California Wildfire Mitigation Strategic Planning Act
Requires the deputy director to create a Wildfire Risk Mitigation Planning Framework and Wildfire Risk Baseline and Forecast every three years which considers multiple specific data sets, as well as the creation of a Wildfire Mitigation Scenarios Report annually, starting in 2027.
SB-338
Mobile Health for Rural Communities Pilot Program
Establishes the Virtual Health Hub for Rural Communities Pilot Program, and charges the State Department of Public Health with administering it.
SB-358
Mitigation Fee Act: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts
Requires local agencies to reduce traffic mitigation fees by at least 50% for qualifying housing developments with limited onsite parking.
SB-361
Data broker registration: data collection
Requires data brokers to provide additional information to the California Privacy Protection Agency regarding potential sensitive and personal information.
SB-390
Community facilities district: inclusion or annexation of territory: County of San Mateo
Specifies that certain types of territory located within the shoreline of San Mateo County can be annexed to a specified community facilities district without the landowner’s consent.
SB-457
Housing element compliance: Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals
Revises definitions and compliance standards under housing element law to tighten the criteria for when local agencies can deny affordable housing projects based on zoning inconsistencies.
SB-468
High-risk artificial intelligence systems: duty to protect personal information
Imposes a duty on businesses that use high-risk artificial intelligence systems that process personal information to protect said personal information, and that failing to take the appropriate steps to do so constitutes a deceptive trade act.
SB-493
District agricultural associations: secretary-managers: compensation
Modernizes the salaries of Fair Managers to better reflect the work they do and their private-side counterparts, and recharacterizes them as Secretary Managers of District Agricultural Associations.
SB-498
County detention: commissary
Guarantees access to basic hygiene products to indigent incarcerated individuals for free of charge, and prohibits the denial of hygiene products as a disciplinary measure.
SB-540
Independent System Operator: independent regional organization
Authorizes California’s Independent System Operator to become a regional entity and to participate in voluntary regional energy markets if certain conditions are met and kept.
SB-541
Electricity: load shifting: dynamic pricing
Requires the Energy Commission to allocate the load shifting needed to reach already adopted load-shifting goals to each retail supplier depending on several factors.
SB-606
Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: reporting requirements: functional zero unsheltered
Enacts the Functional Zero Unsheltered Act, which adds new requirements to the HHAP program, including mandating jurisdictions to assess and report on their path to eliminating unsheltered homelessness
SB-689
Local jurisdictions: district-based elections
Adjusts CVRA rules for cities at or under 50,000 population, extends legal response timelines, adds transparency to districting data.
SB-751
Veterans and First Responders Research Pilot Program
Establishes a Veterans and First Responders Research Pilot Program to study psilocybin services for target populations in up to five counties, with oversight from the California Health and Human Services Agency and the University of California.
SB-822
Unclaimed property: digital financial assets
Amends the Unclaimed Property Law to include digital financial assets and specifies notification requirements for owners and how such assets should be handled, including sale and return procedures.
SCR-62
National Public Works Week
Declares the week of May 18th to 24th, 2025 as National Public Works Week and encourages appropriate programs and educational activities to go with it.
SJR-5
Enteric methane reduction solutions: cattle industries
Urges the state legislature and Congress to explore innovative solutions for methane-reducing technologies in cattle farming.
2024
SB-935
Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: credits: educator housing
Creates a new tax credit equal to 20% of development costs for qualified school staff housing projects from 2025 to 2030.
SB-942
California AI Transparency Act
Starting in 2026, require providers of generative AI tools to include clear disclosures on AI-generated content and provide free detection tools, with enforcement penalties for violations.
SB-993
Clean energy development incentive rate tariff
Directs the Public Utilities Commission to establish a discounted time-of-use electricity rate by 2026 to support clean energy industrial growth, especially in hydrogen production and electric process heat.
SB-1018
Electricity
Exempts certain large-scale clean energy projects from regulation as electrical corporations if they transmit power via private lines to hydrogen or industrial heat facilities, and directs the PUC to create a cost-based tariff for such self-generation systems.
SB-1060
Property insurance underwriting: risk models
Authorizes the risk models used by property insurers for underwriting to account for wildfire risk reduction and requires insurers to report annually the extent that they do so.
SB-1095
Cozy Homes Cleanup Act: building standards: gas-fuel-burning appliances
Expands existing law to permit electric appliances in manufactured homes and requires updated safety standards, while overriding local rules that block the transition from gas to electric appliances.
SB-1120
Health Care Coverage: Utilization Review
Requires health plans and insurers using AI or algorithms for utilization review to meet fairness, transparency, and medical appropriateness standards, with penalties for violations.
SB-1133
Bail
Requires courts to review bail conditions and nonmonetary release terms, creating a presumption for their removal after 60 days of compliance, unless clear evidence shows they are still necessary to protect public safety or prevent flight.
SB-1161
Juveniles
Expands juvenile court procedures by allowing minors to petition for record sealing, clarifies conditions for informal probation, and extends jurisdiction over certain minors and non-minors, while imposing new duties on local agencies.
SB-1206
GO-Biz: next generation batteries
Authorizes GO-Biz to apply for funding from next generation battery hub programs until 2030 in order to support energy projects in California aligned with resource adequacy goals and the California Renewables Portfolio Standard.
SB-1223
Consumer Privacy: Sensitive Personal Information: Neural Data
Adds neural data to the definition of “sensitive personal information” as used by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.
SB-1254
CalFresh: Enrollment of Incarcerated Individuals
Streamlines access to CalFresh benefits for incarcerated individuals by allowing pre-enrollment prior to release and establishing a workgroup to improve reentry outcomes
SB-1288
Public Schools: Artificial Intelligence Working Group
Establishes a working group to create guidance and a model policy for the safe and effective use of artificial intelligence in California public schools.
SB-1307
Childcare and Development Services: Eligibility and Priority
Excludes income from childcare workers working over 20 hours weekly when calculating eligibility and fees for subsidized care and gives their families third priority for enrollment.
SB-1374
Net Energy Metering
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to update tariffs by 2025 and 2026 to support shared renewable energy systems for apartment buildings and public school properties.
SB-1395
Shelter Crisis: Low Barrier Navigation Center: Use By Right: Building Standards
Extends and expands shelter crisis and CEQA exemptions to streamline the development and operation of homeless shelters and Low Barrier Navigation Centers through 2036.
SCR-120
Special Olympics Day
Proclaims March 11, 2024, as Special Olympics Day in California.
SJR-14
Deferred Compensation
Urges the Congress of the United States to establish a reasonable cap on deferred compensation.
2023
SB-48
Building Energy Savings Act
Improves energy efficiency and reduces greenhouse gas emissions in large buildings (both residential and commercial) in order to lower utility bills, improve grid reliability, and achieve the state’s climate targets. Status: Chaptered 10/07/2023
SB-49
Renewable energy: Department of Transportation: evaluation
Supports the development of solar generation, energy storage, and transmission lines in highway right-of-ways. Status: Chaptered 10/07/2023
SB-308
Carbon Dioxide Removal Market Development Act
Creates a plan for achieving the state's net zero emissions target by supporting the development of carbon removal projects to balance out the remaining 65 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions that the state predicts will still occur in 2045. Status: In Committee Process - Assembly Natural Resources 07/06/2023
SB-322
Zero-Emission Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Block Grants Program
Prioritizes businesses that adopt High Road workforce and job quality standards in the Zero-Emission Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Grant program to employ individuals with barriers to employment and create an equitable and just battery manufacturing industry in California. Status: Pending Action in Assembly Appropriations 09/01/2023
SB-341
Housing development
Unlocks state funding for affordable housing. Status: Chaptered 10/11/2023
SB-362
Data broker registration: accessible deletion mechanism
Creates a first in the nation option for you to delete your online data. Status: Chaptered 10/10/2023
SB-382
California Workforce Pay for Success Act
Creates the Workforce Pay for Success Program, an outcomes-based funding program that will fund workforce development projects with a proven track record of success. Status: Pending Action in Senate Appropriations 05/18/2023
SB-410
Powering Up Californians Act
Solves the massive problem of delayed interconnection improvements by holding utilities like PG&E accountable to better connect homes and businesses to the grid. Status: Chaptered 10/07/2023
SB-420
Electricity: electrical transmission facility projects
Simplifies the approval process for priority transmission projects needed to meet grid reliability and clean energy targets. Status: Vetoed 10/7/2023
SB-448
Juveniles: detention hearings
Ensures that youth will be considered for the least restrictive alternatives to detention regardless of their county of residence. Status: Chaptered 10/08/2023
SB-474
Canteens
Reduces the unjust markup on everyday necessities like hygiene products, food and health supplements in prison canteen stores. Chaptered 10/08/2023
SB-485
Elections: election worker protections
Protects election workers and volunteers from harassment. Status: Chaptered 10/08/2023
SB-537
Open meetings: multijurisdictional, cross-county agencies: teleconferences
Encourages public participation by allowing some multijurisdictional boards to choose to allow members to convene remotely when they have greater barriers to attend in-person. Status: Assembly Inactive File 09/14/2023
SB-570
Prenatal screening program
Prohibits the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) from establishing a rule or regulation, or imposing contractual requirements, that would interfere with a pregnant individual’s ability to access genetic screening as recommended by their prenatal care provider. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 09/01/2023
SB-582
Health information
Authorizes the California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework to create policies for including electronic health records vendors in the legal structure of the framework and will incorporate federal standards for the reasonableness of vendor fees. Status: Vetoed 10/08/2023
SB-608
Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program
Revamps the Kids’ Plates Specialty Vehicle Licensing funding program to increase the amount of funding captured through the sale and renewal of these special license plates to improve health outcomes for California’s kids. Status: Held in Senate Appropriations 05/18/2023
SB-634
Low Barrier Navigation Center: opportunity housing: use by right: building standards
Makes it easier to build ‘opportunity’ housing: relocatable low barrier navigation centers reserved for people experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. Status: Held in Senate Appropriations 05/18/2023
SB-719
Law enforcement agencies: radio communications
Grants communities options to maintain access to police communications while simultaneously protecting sensitive identifying information. This protects the freedom of the press to report and the public's right to know what is happening in their community. Status: Pending Action in Senate Appropriations 05/18/2023
SB-721
California Interagency AI Working Group
Creates the California Interagency Artificial Intelligence (AI) Working Group to produce a biannual report on the implications and safeguards for AI technology. Status: In Committee Process - Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection 06/01/2023
SB-755
Energy efficiency and building decarbonization programs
Requires the California Energy Commission to create a single online application to apply for California’s residential energy programs. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 09/01/2023
SB-762
Local detention facilities: safety checks
Requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to update their standards to include specific procedures to ensure that incarcerated individuals are alive and well in the county jail facilities. Status: Assembly Inactive File 09/11/2023
SB-784
Health care districts: employment
Expands healthcare access for California’s diverse and often underserved populations by providing physicians the choice to be directly hired by public healthcare district hospitals. Status: Pending Action in Senate Appropriations 05/15/2023
SB-803
Personal services contracts
Closes a loophole in existing law that allows state contractors to pay property service workers below industry standards. Status: Assembly Inactive File 09/11/2023
SCR-51
Special Olympics Day
Proclaims April 18, 2023, as Special Olympics Day in California. Status: Chaptered 05/18/2023
SR-14
“Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day”
Designates the fourth Wednesday in February of each year as “Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day” in order to raise public awareness about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Status: Enrolled 02/22/2023
2022
SB-876
Educational technology: Digital Education Equity Program: county offices of education
Requires the California Department of Education to provide technical assistance and teacher professional development to local educational agencies on educational technology. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 8/11/22
SB-887
Electricity: transmission facility planning
Accelerates the transmission construction by requiring the Public Utility Commission and the Energy Commission to provide long-term forecasts so that the Independent System Operator (CAISO) can plan and authorize necessary transmission projects. Status: Chaptered 09/16/2022
SB-893
Community colleges: San Mateo County Community College District: California College Promise
Provides greater flexibility to the San Mateo County Community College District to use their existing local revenues to reduce costs for students furthering their education. Status: Chaptered 09/30/2022
SB-917
Seamless Transit Transformation Act
Requires transit agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area to work together to improve coordination and integration in a variety of areas, including fares, service standards, mapping and wayfinding, in order to improve the rider experience. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 8/11/2022
SB-948
Housing finance programs: development reserves
Cuts costs for affordable housing projects by shifting the responsibility to hold a certain amount of money – what are called “transition reserves” – from the individual project level to a pooled reserve model operated by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Status: Chaptered 09/28/2022
SB-1000
Law enforcement agencies: radio communications
Protects the freedom of the press to report and the public's right to know what is going on in their community by granting options to access police communications while simultaneously protecting sensitive identifying information. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 8/11/2022
SB-1008
Corrections: communications
Eliminates telecommunication fees for all communications to and from currently incarcerated people in California state prisons. Status: Chaptered 09/29/2022
SB-1032
State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: electrical transmission grid development and expansion: study
Requires the Energy Commission to provide recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature for ways to reduce the cost and accelerate the development of electrical transmission. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 8/11/2022
SB-1059
Privacy: data brokers
Significantly strengthens California’s existing data broker law by giving Californians stronger privacy rights and better visibility into the data brokers who collect, sell, and share our personal data, including real-time location and other sensitive information. Status: Held in Senate Appropriations 5/19/2022
SB-1094
Local planning
Helps accelerate innovative types of affordable housing and allows Regional Housing Needs Allocation credit for interim or transitional housing. Status: Held in Senate Appropriations 5/19/2022
SB-1112
Energy: building decarbonization: notice and recordation of a decarbonization charge
Encourages the creation of Tariffed On-Bill investment programs as a way to make low-cost capital for climate-beneficial building upgrades widely available to improve our buildings and advance our climate goals. Status: Chaptered 09/29/2022
SB-1117
State Public Defender: grants
Permits the Office of the State Public Defender to issue grant awards to the most innovative public defender offices and programs across the state to elevate best practices and improve the quality and consistency of indigent defense across California. Status: Chaptered 09/27/2022
SB-1158
Retail electricity suppliers: emissions of greenhouse gases
Establishes reporting requirements for electricity suppliers so that we can measure progress against their greenhouse gas emissions targets and ensure that the electricity sector is on track to achieve our 100% clean energy goals. Status: Chaptered 09/16/2022
SB-1203
Net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases: state agency operations
Establishes a goal for all state agencies to achieve zero net greenhouse gas emissions from their own operations by 2035 or as soon as feasible thereafter. Status: Chaptered 09/16/2022
SB-1223
Criminal procedure: mental health diversion
Ensures that more Californians receive the mental health support and resources they need by safely increasing the use of mental health diversion in appropriate cases. Status: Chaptered 09/29/2022
SB-1248
Minor league baseball players: contract restrictions
Begins the process of giving Minor League baseball players – almost half of whom are people of color and immigrants – fair labor protections and benefits. Status: Held in Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement 4/19/2022
SB-1272
Crimes: intercepting telephone communications
Modernizes California’s eavesdropping statute to clarify that the existing exclusion from liability for the facilitation of services applies to all phone companies, regardless of the technology used to transmit the call. Status: Chaptered 06/20/2022
SB-1301
Corporation Tax Law: Personal Income Tax Law: credits: green energy: manufacturing
Establishes California’s first clean energy manufacturing tax credit. Status: Held in Assembly Revenue and Taxation 6/20/2022
SB-1332
Building performance standards
States the intent of the Legislature to create building performance standards for improvements in water and energy efficiency and reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases in large buildings and to create a set of related financial support programs and tenant protection measures. Status: Held in Senate Rules 3/16//2022
SB-1346
Surplus medication collection and distribution
Makes various changes to the requirements for a voluntary drug repository and distribution program that distributes surplus medications to medically indigent patients. Status: Chaptered 09/30/2022
SB-1407
California Employee Ownership Act
Establishes a dedicated hub within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to spur employee ownership of businesses. Status: Chaptered 09/29/2022
SB-1419
Health information
Provides patients the right to receive results of an imaging scan in written or oral form and provides enhanced protection for sensitive medical information. Status: Chaptered 09/30/2022
SB-1481
Preschools, child daycare facilities, and Trustline providers: meals
Creates a free meal program in child care centers that abide by the federal Child and Adult Care Food Programs standards and eliminates the State Meal Reimbursement pay penalty that currently only reimburses up to 75% of meal costs. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 8/11/2022
SR-59
Proclaims November 14, 2021, and each November 14 thereafter, as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in the State of California. Status: Passed Senate 09/10/2021
2021
SB-67
Clean energy: California 24/7 Clean Energy Standard Program
Ensures that when we meet the 100% clean energy standard by 2045, the electricity that we are using is truly 100% greenhouse gas free. Held in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications 4/26/2022
SB-68
Building electrification and electric vehicle charging
Reduces the barriers for people who are voluntarily trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Status: Chaptered 10/08/2021
SB-345
Energy programs and projects: nonenergy benefits
Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to establish common definitions of non-energy benefits, and attempt to determine consistent values for use in all distributed energy resource programs. Status: Held Senate Appropriations 5/20/2022
SB-355
Court fees and costs: waiver
Expands the categories of persons eligible for a waiver of fees and costs charged by California courts. Held on Assembly Inactive File 9/8/2022
SB-503
Voting: ballots and signature verification
Ensures that voters have ample time to correct their ballot signatures and reduces the risk that ballots are mistakenly rejected. Status: Chaptered 09/27/2021
SB-504
Elections: voter registration
Clarifies that a military/overseas voter and a voter with a disability may complete a conditional voter registration and cast a ballot, and removes obsolete provisions that refer to a vote-by-mail ballot application that may cause confusion for voters. Status: Chaptered 03/31/2022
SB-591
Senior citizens: intergenerational housing developments
Authorizes the establishment of an intergenerational housing development for senior citizens, caregivers, or transition age youths. Status: Chaptered 09/28/2021
SB-596
Greenhouse gases: cement sector: net-zero emissions strategy
Requires the California Air Resources Board, by July 1, 2023, to develop a comprehensive strategy for the state's cement sector to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than December 31, 2045. Status: Chaptered 09/23/2021
SB-640
Transportation financing: jointly funded projects
Authorizes two or more eligible cities, or one or more cities and a county, to propose a project be jointly funded with their respective local streets and roads dollars to help ease road repair and maintenance. Status: Chaptered 07/16/2021
SB-659
Community colleges: California College Promise
Authorizes a community college district to charge an enrollment fee that is lower than the amount established in statute to students who do not already benefit from existing fee waiver policies. The bill also allows a district to use California College Promise funds to assist students with their total cost of college attendance. Status: Held in Senate Appropriations 5/20/2021
SB-767
Educational technology: Digital Education Equity Program: regional consortia: State Digital Equity Plan
Creates the Digital Education Equity Program to be planned and implemented by the California Department of Education in concert with County Offices of Education to provide equitable educational technology support to all school districts. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 8/26/2022
SB-769
Housing: pilot program: rental vouchers: skilled nursing facility patients
Creates a pilot program, from January 1, 2023, to January 1, 2026, to provide housing rental-related subsidies to skilled nursing facility patients who, but for a lack of housing, would be discharged from the facility. Status: Held in Senate Housing 4/5/2022
SB-771
Prenatal screening program
Prohibits the California Department of Public Health from preventing a clinical laboratory from offering noninvasive prenatal testing to a pregnant person who has opted out of the California Prenatal Screening (PNS) Program or chosen to have testing in addition to the genetic tests offered as part of the PNS Program. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations 8/11/2022
SB-775
Felony murder: resentencing
Clarifies that SB 1437 (Skinner, 2018) applies to people who were convicted of attempted murder and those who settled their murder cases for lesser charges. Status: Chaptered 10/05/2021
SB-778
Buy Clean California Act: Environmental Product Declarations: concrete
Adds concrete to the Buy Clean program to leverage the state’s purchasing power in deploying low carbon technologies and best practices across the cement-concrete supply chain. Status: Held in Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review 6/15/2022
SB-779
California Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act: earn and learn programs
Supports job training efforts as the state recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic by modernizing the existing workforce structure and meeting the needs of those overcoming workforce barriers. Status: Chaptered 09/22/2021