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California lawmakers spent this week sifting through hundreds of bills as they faced a deadline Friday to pass bills in the house in which they were introduced.
This marks the typical halfway point in the legislative process. Assembly bills approved by the Assembly now head to the Senate, and Senate bills now head to the Assembly. Those hearings begin next week.
Here’s a look at the bills moving forward:
AB 12 – Prohibits landlords from charging a tenant more than one month’s rent for a security deposit.
SB 423 – Fast tracks the construction of affordable housing.
SB 4 – Allows religious institutions such as churches and synagogues, and nonprofit colleges to build affordable housing on their property.
AB 799 — Sets parameters to hold cities and counties accountable to meeting housing production goals and reducing homelessness when state funds are involved.
AB 1633 — Aims to keep cities from denying or slowing down housing projects by allowing them to remain in the environmental review process.
AB 412 — Creates an emergency loan program for hospitals that are closed and seek to re-open or are at risk of closure.
SB 59 – Decriminalizes psychedelics.
AB 418 – Bans certain chemicals found in candies such as Skittles and Hot Tamales.
SB 2 — Places new limits on concealed carry permit holders.
SB 50 – Prohibits law enforcement from making traffic stops for lower-level violations such as vehicle registration issues or an unlit taillight.
AB 793 – Bans the use of reverse key-word and reverse-location technology to protect the privacy of those seeking an abortion.
AB 280 – Limits solitary confinement in California prisons
SB 673 — Establishes the Ebony Alert for missing Black women and children between the ages of 12-25.
AB 881 – Increases jury duty pay from $15 to $100 a day for jurors who have low-to-moderate income.
AB 1435 – Raises the maximum age for an entry-level California Highway Patrol officer from 35 to 40.
AB 1 – allows legislative staff to unionize.
AB 1228 – Requires fast food restaurant franchisees and franchisors to share legal responsibility when state labor laws are violated.
SB 227 — Creates a program to pay undocumented workers unemployment benefits.
SB 525 — Raises minimum wage of health care workers in California to $25 dollars an hour in 2025.
AB 295 – Requires Caltrans to prioritize efforts to start defensible space maintenance projects along highways to prevent wildfires.
SB 252 –Requires the state’s teachers and employee retirement steps to stop investing in fossil fuels.
SB 253 – Requires large companies doing business in California to disclose their carbon emissions.
SB 261 – Requires large companies doing business in California to disclose their climate risk.
SB 584 – Imposes a 15% tax on short-term rentals, such as Airbnbs.
AB 372 – Allows cannabis retailers to sell non-alcoholic, non-cannabis-infused food and beverages.
AB 478 – Outlaws junk fees.
AB 8 – Requires ticket sellers to be more transparent about their fees.
SB 829 – Prohibits ticket sellers to have exclusive contracts with an entertainment venue in California.
AB 1347 – Pushes retailers to use electronic receipts and discourages use of paper receipts.
SB 74 – Bans high-risk apps, including TikTok, from state devices.
AB 886 – The Journalism Preservation Act, which requires tech companies to pay a journalism usage fee to news outlets. Read more.
AB 316- Restricts the deployment of self-driving tractor-trailers.
AB 701 – Increases jail time for fentanyl dealers in possession of at least one kilo.
AB 19 – Requires schools to have at least two doses of Narcan available.
AB 33- Creates a Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force.
AB 461 – Makes fentanyl test strips available on college campuses.
AB 890 – Creates a fentanyl-specific probation class for those convicted of fentanyl-related crimes.
AB 1060 — Requires insurers to cover the cost of Narcan.
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SB 447 – Ends California’s travel ban to states with anti-LGBTQ policies and replaces it with a donation-driven fund to push LGBTQ+ inclusion and acceptance nationwide.
SB 407 — Directs the Department of Social Services to change the foster care vetting process to ensure LGBTQ foster youth are not placed in foster homes that may be hostile to them.
AB 513 – Establishes the California Individual Assistance Act, to establish a grant program that would provide disaster relief funds to undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for federal aid.
AB 421 – Changes the signature gathering process for ballot initiatives that attempt to challenge approved state laws.
AB 1248 — Requires local jurisdictions by 2030 to form independent redistricting commissions if their population exceeds 300,000 people.
AB 252 — Creates the College Athlete Protection Act, which, among other things, would require schools to set up a degree completion fund.
SB 267 – Holds social media companies accountable for algorithms that push content that causes children to harm themselves or others. A spokesman for Senator Nancy Skinner says while the bill is now inactive, the effort is not dead for the year.
AB 742 – Limits the use of when police can use K-9s.
AB 93 – Sets new limits for police searches.
AB 83 – Prohibits campaign contributions by companies with significant foreign ownership.
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