FLOOR SESSION AGENDA - Regular Session: 10:00 a.m.

SB 577, as it passed the Senate, authorized the State Fire Marshal to establish and collect admission fees and other fees associated with the California Fire Service Training and Education Program, and to establish fees to implement the California Fire and Arson Training Act, as specified.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of SB 577 and, instead, clarify that specified training provisions apply to life agents selling individual life insurance policies, and authorize service of legal process, notices, and other papers to be made in specified circumstances to the Insurance Commissioner, their deputy, or their designated agent, accompanied by a substituted service fee.

The Assembly amendments authorize the commissioner to proceed with a civil action for violation of a prohibition against employing runners and other persons to procure clients, services, or benefits under workers’ compensation coverage or a contract of insurance if the district attorney elects not to pursue the matter, eliminate a requirement for the district attorney or the commissioner to give reasons for consenting to dismissal of such an action, and clarify that a civil complaint for a violation of this prohibition is required to remain under seal for at least 60 days from the date of service on the district attorney and commissioner.

The Assembly amendments require certain first responder benefit and relief associations to renew their certificate of authority within 30 days after a change in name or address or before a merger.

The Assembly amendments exempt an enforcement action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the commissioner from specified procedures for a special motion to strike in a civil cause of action arising from an act in furtherance of a person’s right of petition or free speech and for offers to compromise before commencement of a civil trial or arbitration.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1369, as it passed the Senate, required a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on and after January 1, 2025, that provides payment directly or through a contracted vendor to a dental provider to have a non-fee-based default method of payment, required a plan, insurer, or contracted vendor to obtain a signed authorization or electronic signature from a dental provider opting in to a fee-based payment method before the plan, insurer, or vendor provides a fee-based payment method to the provider, and authorized the dental provider to opt out of the fee-based payment method at any time by providing written or electronic authorization to the plan, insurer, or vendor.

The Assembly amendments delay these requirements until April 1, 2025, specifically require written authorization, as defined, and require a plan, insurer, or vendor that obtains written authorization to opt in or opt out of fee-based payment to apply the decision to include both the dental provider’s entire practice and all products or services covered pursuant to a contract with the dental provider.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 909, as it passed the Assembly, removed the maximum limit for loan repayments provided to a Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program participant who has completed 3 consecutive years of providing services as a physician in a medically underserved area.

The Senate amendments additionally remove the requirement for the Department of Health Care Access and Information to establish an advisory committee on the above-described program, update the definition of the practice setting in which a physician or surgeon may practice for purposes of the program, decrease the service obligation of the program to 2 years in a medically underserved area, and authorize the department to award funds to applicants from additional specialties using separate funds.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1137, as it passed the Senate, revised a definition within the Unruh Civil Rights Act of “sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status” to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics. SB 1137, as it passed the Senate, also revised a definition within educational equity provisions of “disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes” to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics. SB 1137, as it passed the Senate, additionally revised a definition within the California Fair Employment and Housing Act on “race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, reproductive health decisionmaking, or veteran or military status” to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics.

The Assembly amendments delete references to “intersection” within the above provisions. The Assembly amendments incorporate additional changes to Section 51 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 1815 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1815 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. The Assembly amendments also incorporate additional changes to Section 12926 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1815 and SB 1022 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last. The Assembly amendments also add an additional coauthor.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1251, as it passed the Senate, required an electrical corporation to enter into a vector management agreement with a mosquito abatement or vector control district or city or county health department within 180 days of a request to do so, and required the agreement to contain specified provisions, including specifying a reasonable time for the electrical corporation to provide access to its electrical vaults.

The Assembly amendments instead place the above requirements on an electrical utility, authorize the mosquito abatement district or vector control district or city or county health department to seek a vector management agreement with an electrical utility only if efforts to obtain a voluntary cooperation agreement from the electrical utility have failed, and require the above agreement to specify a reasonable time for the electrical utility to provide supervised access to its electrical vaults.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 708, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Parks and Recreation to issue a special permit to California residents to operate certain off-road motorcycles at sanctioned events, as defined. SB 708, as it passed the Senate, required this permit to be available for online purchase beginning January 1, 2025. SB 708, as it passed the Senate, required the department to establish a fee for this permit, and to deposit fees received for the permit in the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund. SB 708, as it passed the Senate, required money in the fund to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, as provided.

The Assembly amendments extend the above-described date by one year, thereby requiring the permit to be available for online purchase beginning January 1, 2026. The Assembly amendments also delete the above-described provision requiring money in the fund to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature, and make nonsubstantive changes to a provision related to the fee.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 901, as it passed the Senate, made a person ineligible to commission or enlist in the California National Guard or State Guard if the person actively participated to advocate for, or engaged in, the use of unlawful force, unlawful violence, or other illegal means to deprive an individual of their rights, as specified, and required an officer or enlisted person to be discharged from the California National Guard under undesirable conditions if the person actively participated in this conduct.

The Assembly amendments expanded the conduct that would make a person ineligible to commission or enlist in the California National Guard or State Guard, including, among others, advocating for, engaging in, or supporting an act of rebellion or insurrection, and the amendments instead require an officer or enlisted person who actively participates in this conduct to receive an other than honorable discharge from the California National Guard.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1333, as it passed the Senate, imposed requirements for state and local health department employees and contractors to annually sign confidentiality agreements prior to accessing confidential HIV-related public health records, and authorized the disclosure of public health records related to HIV or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, as specified, when necessary for the coordination of, linkage to, or reengagement in care for the subject of the record.

The Assembly amendments add legislative findings and declarations as to the benefits of HIV-related data sharing and legislative intent to enhance data sharing practices.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 691, as it passed the Senate, increased the pupil members on the State Board of Education from one to 3, assigned those 2 additional pupil members preferential voting rights, as described, and increased the number of California Association of Student Councils-approved finalists that the state board presents to the Governor for consideration for appointment to the state board from 3 to a maximum of 6.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of SB 691 and, commencing July 1, 2025, instead revise the information that a school district is required to include in its notice to a pupil’s parent or guardian upon the pupil’s initial classification as a truant by, among other things, removing specified information, including that the pupil and parent or guardian of the pupil may be subject to prosecution, and adding new information, including that school personnel are available to meet with the pupil and family to develop strategies to support the pupil’s attendance at school.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1440, as it passed the Senate, required the State Water Resources Control Board, as part of an existing public reporting requirement, to also include a description of reasonable efforts undertaken by regional water quality control boards to identify dischargers of stormwater that have not obtained coverage under an appropriate stormwater permit and required the state board to also submit that report to the Legislature on or before December 31 of each year until December 31, 2029, as provided.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of SB 1440 and, commencing with the 2025–26 school year, instead authorize the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District to operate one or more of its schools on a 4-day school week until July 1, 2029, in accordance with specified requirements applicable to all school districts authorized to operate on a 4-day school week and additional requirements that are applicable only to the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District, as specified. If the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District operates a 4-day school week pursuant to SB 1440 but subsequently experiences, in a single year, a decline in status in 50% or more of the state indicators used to measure performance that are included in the evaluation rubrics adopted by the State Board of Education, the Assembly amendments, commencing with the following school year, prohibit the school district from operating a 4-day school week. The Assembly amendments also add coauthors, update a cross reference relating to the applicable minimum instructional minute requirements for the school districts in the County of San Diego operating a 4-day school week, and include Legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 312, as it passed the Senate, required a public university to obtain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification for each building within a university housing development project that is exempted from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) no later than 12 months from the issuance of the building’s certificate of occupancy or its usage. SB 312, as it passed the Senate, prohibited a public university that has exempted a university housing development project from being eligible to exempt a subsequent university housing development project until the public university has obtained LEED Platinum certification for each building within the prior exempted university housing development project.

The Assembly amendments extend the above-described university housing development project CEQA exemption by 2 years, until January 1, 2032. The Assembly amendments require a public university to obtain LEED Platinum certification for each building within a university housing development project no later than 18 months from the issuance of the building’s certificate of occupancy or an equivalent certification, or its initial usage, and authorize a public university to obtain 2 extensions for this LEED certification compliance requirement in 6-month increments, as provided. The Assembly amendments prohibit a public university that has exempted an approved university housing development project from applying that exemption to a subsequent university housing development project until the public university has obtained LEED Platinum certification for each building within the prior exempted university housing development project, except as specified. The Assembly amendments require a university housing development project carried out by the University of California, in order to be exempt from CEQA under the exemption, to be located on a campus site identified for housing, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 445, as it passed the Senate, among other things, (1) required a local educational agency to, upon request by a pupil’s parent, translate into the native language of the parent, or into another mode of communication used by the parent, the pupil’s completed individualized education program (IEP), any revisions to the IEP, and certain documents discussed at an IEP team meeting, (2) required for a parent whose native language is one of the 8 most commonly spoken languages, as provided, excluding English, in a local educational agency, that the completed IEP and any revisions to the IEP be translated within 30 calendar days of that meeting or within 30 calendar days of a later request, (3) required these documents to be translated by a qualified translator, and (4) required the State Department of Education to revise its notice of procedural safeguards, in English and in the primary languages for which the department has developed translated versions, to inform parents of their right to request the translation of these documents.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of SB 445 and instead require the department to, by January 1, 2027, or no later than 18 months after the final draft of the state standardized IEP template developed by the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence is converted to a digital platform, whichever date comes first, translate the IEP template into the top 10 most commonly spoken languages used across the state other than English and, among other things, make those templates available on its internet website, as provided.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 542, as it passed the Senate, provided an exclusion from tax under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2028, for amounts received in settlement for costs and losses associated with the 2020 Zogg Fire in the Counties of Tehama and Shasta.

The Assembly amendments delete those provisions, and instead provide an exclusion from tax under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, for amounts received in settlement for costs and losses associated with the 2021 Dixie Fire in the Counties of Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama, or the 2022 Mill Fire in the County of Siskiyou.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 896, as it passed the Senate, required the Government Operations Agency, the Department of Technology, and the Office of Data and Innovation to produce a State of California Benefits and Risk of Generative Artificial Intelligence Report that includes certain items and required those entities to update the report, as prescribed. SB 896, as it passed the Senate, required those entities, as often as is deemed appropriate by the Director of Emergency Services, the California Cybersecurity Integration Center, and the State Threat Assessment Center, to perform a joint risk analysis of potential threats posed by the use of generative artificial intelligence to California’s critical energy infrastructure, including those that could lead to mass casualty events and environmental emergencies.

The Assembly amendments instead require the Department of Technology, under the guidance of the Government Operations Agency, the Office of Data and Innovation, and the Department of Human Resources, to update the report to the Governor, as required by Executive Order No. N-12-23, as prescribed. The Assembly amendments require the Office of Emergency Services to, as appropriate, perform a risk analysis of potential threats posed by the use of generative artificial intelligence to California’s critical infrastructure, including those that could lead to mass casualty events and require a high-level summary of the analysis be provided annually to the Legislature.

SB 896, as it passed the Senate, required a state agency or department that utilizes generative artificial intelligence to directly communicate with a person, either through an online interface or telephonically, to clearly and in a conspicuous manner identify to that person that the person’s interaction with the state agency or department is being communicated through artificial intelligence.

The Assembly amendments instead require a state agency or department that utilizes generative artificial intelligence to directly communicate with a person regarding government services and benefits to ensure those communications include both a disclaimer that indicates to the person that the communication was generated by generative artificial intelligence, as specified, and information, as specified, describing how the person may contact a human employee of the state agency or department.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 900, as it passed the Senate, required the association managing a common interest development, with some exception, to make repairs if the development had an interruption of specified utility services beginning in the common area. SB 900, as it passed the Senate, required that the association begin the process to make repairs or replacements within 10 days. SB 900, as it passed the Senate, allowed for an association to obtain competitive financing to pay for the costs of repairs without requiring a vote of the members under certain circumstances, including if a vote does not take place to begin the process to make repairs within 10 days. SB 900, as it passed the Senate, required that, before obtaining this financing, the board pass and distribute a resolution to the members with the notice of assessment. SB 900, as it passed the Senate, allowed association board members to vote electronically to initiate repairs. SB 900, as it passed the Senate, required that, if substantial repairs to a utility were needed, a representative from that utility service address the association in person with a description of the problem, suggested solutions, and expected timelines.

SB 900, as it passed the Senate, defines “major components” to include gas lines.

The Assembly amendments specify that the association is responsible for repairs necessary to restore an interrupted utility service and add an additional exception to the repair requirement, as specified. The Assembly amendments specify that the association’s board must begin the process to make repairs necessary to restore the interrupted utility service within 14 days of the interruption. If the vote to begin the process to make repairs does not take place within 14 days, the Assembly amendments allow the association to obtain competitive financing to pay for the cost of repairs, as well as levy an emergency assessment to allow for repayment of the loan. The Assembly amendments require that the resolution be distributed along with notice of the emergency and any other notices otherwise required by law or governing documents, and clarify that voting may be conducted electronically notwithstanding other statutory requirements elsewhere in the Civil Code. The amendments further state that all records of the vote will be considered association records and subject to inspection and retention rules specified elsewhere in the Civil Code. The amendments remove the requirement that a representative from a utility service present to the association in person should that utility substantially fail. The amendments exempt associations from the requirements above if they are located in an area impacted by a state of disaster or emergency, as specified, as long as that disaster or emergency materially affects the association’s ability to preform its responsibilities.

The Assembly amendments expand the definition of “major components” to also include water and electrical service. The Assembly amendments additionally reference “replacements” together with “repairs” and clarify where the bill applies to the association director rather than board members of an association.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 904, as it passed the Senate, authorized a retail transactions and use tax in the jurisdiction of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District to be imposed by a qualified voter initiative, as specified, and required the board of supervisors of the Counties of Sonoma and Marin to call a special election on a tax measure proposed by the district’s board of directors or a qualified voter initiative in their respective counties, as specified.

The Assembly amendments require the district to reimburse the counties upon request for the incremental cost of submitting the tax measure to the voters, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 906, as it passed the Senate, required, among other things, a postsecondary educational institution that provides material support or services to a student athlete in connection with the athlete’s receipt or potential receipt of compensation or items of value or services for the use of the athlete’s name, image, likeness, or athletic reputation to publicly disclose the total value of that material support or services provided to all of the postsecondary educational institution’s student athletes.

The Assembly amendments also require a postsecondary educational institution that shares revenues with student athletes to make publicly available the total value of the revenues shared with all of the postsecondary educational institution’s student athletes.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 907, as it passed the Senate, required an election for the Orange County Board of Education to be consolidated with the statewide general election in November of each even-numbered year and notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, required the Orange County Board of Education to consist of 7 members.

The Assembly amendments additionally clarify that the above-described requirement for consolidation with the statewide general election begins in 2026 and that the above-described requirement for the Orange County Board of Education to consist of 7 members takes effect after the next redistricting process takes place in 2030 that accounts for 7 trustee areas.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 919, as it passed the Senate, beginning July 1, 2025, required a third-party franchise seller, as defined, to register with the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation and provide specified information. SB 919, as it passed the Senate required a registered third-party franchise seller to promptly notify the commissioner of any material change, as defined and specified.

The Assembly amendments instead apply the provisions of SB 919 to franchise brokers, as defined. The amendments also change the information that must be provided to the commissioner. The amendments also remove the definition and specification of “material change” for purposes of the provisions above, and instead authorize the commissioner to further define what shall be considered a “material change,” as specified. The amendments also remove the operative date of the provisions of SB 919 from July 1, 2025, and instead provide that implementation of the bill’s provisions is contingent upon an appropriation, as specified, and make the provisions of SB 919 operative on the later of 2 specified dates.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 946, as it passed the Senate, provided an exclusion from gross income for amounts received by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, as a California qualified wildfire loss mitigation payment, as defined.

The Assembly amendments make technical corrections to the parts of the bill that comply with Section 41 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, and make nonsubstantive refinements to the definition of “qualified taxpayer” for purposes of the bill.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 960, as it passed the Senate, required, beginning with the 2026 state highway operation and protection program (SHOPP), all transportation projects on state highways funded or overseen by the Department of Transportation to provide complete streets facilities, except as specified. SB 960, as it passed the Senate, also required each project development team established by the department for a project on a state highway funded or overseen by the department to conduct specified outreach. SB 960, as it passed the Senate, required the Director of Transportation to adopt a transit priority policy to guide the implementation of transit priority facilities on the state highway system, as specified.

The Assembly amendments require the department to commit to specific 4-year targets to incorporate certain complete streets facilities into projects funded by the SHOPP instead of requiring all transportation projects on state highways funded or overseen by the department to provide complete streets facilities. The Assembly amendments require outreach by the department, instead of each project development team, for projects funded by the SHOPP with complete streets facilities. The Assembly amendments also require the director to implement a transit policy, instead of a transit priority policy, to guide the implementation of transit priority facilities and transit stops on the state highway system, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 972, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to provide technical assistance to local jurisdictions regarding organic waste and methane reduction requirements. It also required the department to report to the Legislature on, among other things, organic waste and methane reduction, the status of the technical assistance provided to local jurisdictions, and the state’s ability to meet the targets for reducing the disposal of organic waste in landfills.

The Assembly amendments delete the reporting requirement.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 977, as it passed the Senate, provided that a member of the County of San Luis Obispo Citizens Redistricting Commission who missed an excessive number of public hearings and meetings may be subject to removal from the commission. SB 977 prohibited commissioners from having ex parte communications about district lines and the drawing of district maps with third parties. SB 977 prohibited a commissioner from being a candidate for an elective office of the county if the election for that office would be conducted using district boundaries recommended by the commission, as specified. SB 977 permitted the removal of a member from the commission only if at least two commissioners from one political party and at least two commissioners from another political party voted for removal.

The Assembly amendments remove the above provision regarding the removal of members who miss excessive public hearings and meetings. The amendments remove the above provision regarding ex parte communications and instead prohibit commissioners from communicating with individuals or organizations regarding redistricting matters outside of a public meeting, except as specified. The amendments remove the above prohibition on commissioners being a candidate for an elective office in the county if that election is conducted using district boundaries recommended by the commission. The amendments remove the above requirement that removal of a commissioner occur through an affirmative vote of at least two members of different political parties.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 991, as it passed the Senate, among other things, required the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Inspector General of the Office of the Inspector General’s audits, investigations, inspections, and reviews to conform to the Principles and Standards for Offices of Inspector General.

The Assembly amendments instead require the inspector general to conform to the Principles and Standards for Offices of Inspector General and require audits performed by the inspector general to be conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, as provided.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1064, as it passed the Senate, revised the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) licensing scheme for commercial cannabis activities other than cultivation and laboratory testing. SB 1064, as it passed the Senate, consolidated the licensing of the activities described above under one license type called an operator license, and required an operator license to acquire an additional premises license specific to the activity conducted on the premises. SB 1064, as it passed the Senate, made various conforming changes including by revising and recasting the codified list of license types, as specified. SB 1064, as it passed the Senate, made its provisions effective on January 1, 2028.

The Assembly amendments instead revise the MAUCRSA licensing scheme for commercial cannabis activities by adding a combined license classification, as specified, and make various related conforming changes. The Assembly amendments additionally specify that an owner who is an applicant for a state license is not required to resubmit owner-related information previously submitted to the Department of Justice.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1067, as it passed the Senate, required specified healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs to develop a process, as prescribed, to expedite the licensure process by giving priority review status to the application of an applicant for a license who demonstrates that they intend to practice in a medically underserved area or serve a medically underserved population, as defined. SB 1067, as it passed the Senate, authorized an applicant for a license to demonstrate their intent to practice in a medically underserved area or serve a medically underserved population by providing proper documentation, including, but not limited to, a letter from an employer that includes prescribed information.

The Assembly amendments repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1099, as it passed the Senate, required the State Department of Public Health, commencing July 1, 2026, and each July 1 thereafter, to report various data to the Legislature, including the identity of each entity performing a research project utilizing specimens from the California Biobank, the specific nature of the research they are performing, and the potentially substantial public health benefit from the research and a list of all publication citations where biospecimens from the California Biobank were used or referenced.

The Assembly amendments instead require the department to report data that includes, among other specified information, the number of published research studies where biospecimens from the California Biobank were used or referenced and the potential public health benefits from the research.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1146, as it passed the Senate, made various changes to laws regulating mortgages.

The Assembly amendments additionally include a forbearance, extension, or modification of a loan to an exemption from the usury limitation set forth in Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution for a loan or forbearance made or arranged by any person licensed as a real estate broker by the State of California, and secured on real property, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1177, as it passed the Senate, required the Public Utilities Commission to require certain electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, telephone corporations, and community choice aggregators to annually submit a diversity, equity, and inclusion employment plan, as defined.

The Assembly amendments, among other things, instead require the above-described entities to annually submit to the commission a report describing (1) the employment of women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT (WMDVLGBT) individuals at all levels of employment within their organization and (2) the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies or activities that promote equitable recruitment and hiring. The Assembly amendments require the commission to add certain questions to the verification form described in the commission’s General Order 156, which governs the development of programs to increase the participation of WMDVLGBT business enterprises in certain procurement contracts. The Assembly amendments also authorize the commission to include an analysis of that information as part of an existing annual report from the commission to the Legislature, as provided.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1182, as it passed the Senate, required the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with specified entities and stakeholders, to develop a Master Plan for Healthy, Sustainable, and Climate-Resilient Schools on or before March 31, 2026, as provided. SB 1182, as it passed the Senate, required the commission to provide the completed master plan to the Governor, the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the commission, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Architect, the Office of Public School Construction, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency.

The Assembly amendments delete the requirement that the commission provide the master plan to itself and make nonsubstantive changes to avoid a code conflict. The Assembly amendments also add a principal coauthor.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1183, as it passed the Senate, added living in a medically underserved area or population, as designated by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, to the list of life experiences or special circumstances specified for consideration in a multicriteria screening process of a community college registered nursing program.

The Assembly amendments additionally explicitly reference the various languages of the African continent as languages that may be identified by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges as high-frequency languages for consideration in the portion of the multicriteria screening process related to proficiency or advanced level coursework in languages other than English.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1188, as it passed the Senate, required the State Water Resources Control Board to develop and adopt minimum standards related to the technical, managerial, and financial capacity of public water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people or 3,300 service connections and required those systems to demonstrate compliance with those standards, as provided. SB 1188, as it passed the Senate, required the state board and the Department of Water Resources to consider a public water system’s compliance with the technical, managerial, and financial standards when reviewing an application to grant or loan state funds and authorized the state board or the department to deny funding to a public water system serving fewer than 10,000 people or 3,300 service connections that fails to comply with the standards and other applicable provisions unless the state board or department makes a finding regarding at least one of 4 specified conditions. SB 1188, as it passed the Senate, authorized the state board to require a public water system subject to the minimum standards to show proof that it has the technical, managerial, and financial capacity to comply with the standards, including, but not limited to, annual reporting of information necessary and appropriate to monitor a public water system’s current capacity status.

The Assembly amendments instead require the state board to develop and adopt minimum standards related to the technical, managerial, and financial capacity of community water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people or 3,300 service connections and nontransient noncommunity water systems that serve K–12 schools and require these systems to demonstrate compliance with those standards, as provided. The Assembly amendments require new community water systems serving fewer than 10,000 persons or 3,300 service connections and nontransient noncommunity water systems that serve K–12 schools to demonstrate, as part of a permit application, compliance with the minimum technical, managerial, and financial standards.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1207, as it passed the Senate, made changes to the definitional provisions of the Buy Clean California Act, including technical changes to the definition of “greenhouse gas emissions” included within those provisions of the act.

The Assembly amendments remove this definition of “greenhouse gas emissions” from the definitional provisions of the Buy Clean California Act.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1225, as it passed the Senate, among other things, authorized the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers, upon petition by a licensee accompanied by a specified fee, to remove from the bureau’s internet website an item of discipline that has been posted on the bureau’s internet website for at least 10 years and for which the licensee provides evidence of rehabilitation, as specified.

The Assembly amendments limit this authority by prohibiting a licensee from petitioning to remove from the discipline posting a license revocation or a voluntary surrender that was the result of a pending investigation.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1249, as it passed the Senate, updated and revised the legislative findings and declarations related to the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act’s requirement that the California Department of Aging designate area agencies on aging to work within a planning and service area to provide a broad array of social and nutritional services. SB 1249, as it passed the Senate, recognized the state’s major demographic shift toward an older, more diverse population and declared the Legislature’s intent to reform provisions of the act related to various functions of the area agencies on aging. SB 1249, as it passed the Senate, required, within specified time periods, the department to take various actions to reform the act, including giving counties the option to petition the department to be considered for designation as the area agency on aging that serves its local jurisdiction, develops core programs and services, and develops a statewide public awareness engagement strategy.

The Assembly amendments delete the requirement that the department give counties the option to petition the department and instead require the department to, among other things, identify older adult and family caregiver support programs and services and develop a statewide consumer engagement plan. The Assembly amendments require the department to develop regulations that address specific topics relating to area agency on aging designations. The Assembly amendments require those deliverables to be informed by data from validated sources. The Assembly amendments recast and revise other provisions of the act, including replacing the use of the word “senior” with the term “older adult.” The Assembly amendments repeal obsolete provisions of the act and the provisions establishing the Senior Housing Information and Support Center.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.