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 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 268, as it passed the Senate, included the crime of rape of an intoxicated person wherein the defendant drugged the victim, as a “violent felony” for the purposes of provisions related to sentencing enhancements for prior convictions and other provisions of the Penal Code.

The Assembly amendments add coauthors and make a technical, nonsubstantive change.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

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 366, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Water Resources to, in consultation with the California Water Commission, establish a stakeholder advisory committee, as provided, and develop a plan for addressing the state’s water needs and meeting certain long-term water supply targets to be known as “The California Water Plan” in consultation with the commission and a stakeholder advisory committee, among other entities. SB 366, as it passed the Senate, required the department to establish a long-term water supply target for 2050 as part of the 2028 update to the plan.

The Assembly amendments instead require the department, in consultation with the commission, to expand membership of the existing advisory committee to representatives of certain interests, develop a comprehensive, strategic plan for the sustainable management and stewardship of California’s water resources in consultation with the advisory committee, and update a specified planning target for 2050 as part of the 2033 update to the plan. The Assembly amendments require the department to offer the regional water quality control boards opportunities to provide input to assist the department in updating the plan and authorizes the department to add certain members to the advisory committee. The Assembly amendments also require each update to the plan to include various components, including a discussion of urban sector water needs and a discussion of agricultural water needs.

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 764, as it passed the Senate, required a vlogger, as defined, to compensate a minor under 18 years of age if the minor is engaged in the work of vlogging, as specified. SB 764, as it passed the Senate, defined related terms. SB 764, as it passed the Senate, defined a minor under 18 years of age as engaged in the work of vlogging if the minor met specified conditions in the previous 12-month period, including that the vlogger received actual compensation for image or video content of at least $15,000 in the prior 12-month period. SB 764, as it passed the Senate, required all vloggers whose content features a minor under 18 years of age engaged in the work of vlogging to maintain specified records and to provide the minor specified information each month. SB 764, as it passed the Senate, required the vlogger to compensate the minor, as specified.

The Assembly amendments revise the defined terminology and define a minor to be considered in the work of vlogging if the minor meets specified conditions at any time during a given month, including that the vlogger received actual compensation for image or video content of at least $1,250 in the month. The Assembly amendments require all vloggers whose content features a minor engaged in the work of vlogging to maintain, and make available to the minor upon request, specified records. The Assembly amendments revise the requirements for the amount deposited for the reporting period into the trust account for the benefit of the minor engaged in vlogging to be calculated by multiplying the percentage of total minutes the vlogger received compensation for during the reporting period in which the minor is included, as specified, by the total compensation generated from vlogs featuring the minor during the reporting period multiplied by .65. The Assembly amendments require each qualifying minor to have their own trust account and the vlogger to deposit funds into the account no less than once every 3 months. The Assembly amendments exempt from these provisions a contract for vlogging services between a minor and their parent or guardian if a court approves the contract, as specified, and require that the court, in determining whether to approve such a contract, consider whether the terms of the contract are at least as beneficial to the minor as the compensation the minor would otherwise receive under these provisions.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 951, as it passed the Senate, applied specified rezoning standards for any necessary local coastal program updates for jurisdictions located within the coastal zone.

The Assembly amendments instead delete this provision.

SB 951, as it passed the Senate, allowed a local government taking action on a coastal development permit to send notification of its final action to the California Coastal Commission by email.

The Assembly amendments instead allow that notification to the commission by electronic mail, as specified.

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 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. SB 1067, as it passed the Senate, provided that compliance with the bill does not require the department or any of the boards to open a regulatory or rulemaking process to change their licensee application process.

The Assembly amendments revise eligibility for the expedited licensure process to require an applicant to demonstrate that they intend to practice in a medically underserved area or in a health professional shortage area, as reflected in a specified federal database, or serve a medically underserved population, as defined, and meet specified requirements for the expedited licensure process. The Assembly amendments require an applicant to demonstrate their intent to practice in a medically underserved area or in a health professional shortage area, or serve a medically underserved population, by providing a letter addressed to the applicable board from an employer that includes revised prescribed information, including a written statement from the employer, signed and dated by an authorized representative of the employer, on the employer letterhead, declaring that the information provided in the letter to the board is true and correct. The Assembly amendments provide that no criminal or civil penalty is to be imposed for a violation of that employer letter requirement. The Assembly amendments omit the statement on opening a regulatory or rulemaking process.

The Assembly amendments additionally subject the Podiatric Medical Board of California to the bill.

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

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.

SB 1271, as it passed the Senate, among other changes, defined certain terms, prohibited the distribution, sale, lease or offering for sale or lease of a storage battery, as defined, and required display of certain information on specified electric bicycles, powered mobility devices, and storage batteries. SB 1271, as it passed the Senate, prohibited the rental or offer for rental of a powered mobility device unless the battery for the powered mobility device has been tested, as specified. SB 1271, as it passed the Senate, clarified the definitions of electric bicycles, class 1 electric bicycles, and class 3 electric bicycles.

The Assembly amendments require the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations that promote the fire and electrical safety of electric bicycles, powered mobility devices, and storage batteries, and make specified corresponding changes, add certain definitions, include charging systems, as defined, in specified requirements, and change the display requirements. The Assembly amendments require a powered mobility device, instead of the battery, to be tested. The Assembly amendments change the definitions of electric bicycles, class 1 electric bicycles, and class 3 electric bicycles.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 347, as it passed the Senate, required the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to award basic teaching credentials for teaching preschool in public schools.

The Assembly amendments delete the above provisions and, instead, exempt from the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act the leasing of, or the granting of an easement to, a parcel of land or any portion of the land in conjunction with a hydrogen fueling station or an electric vehicle charging station if the project is subject to discretionary action by an advisory agency or legislative body of a local agency.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 532, as it passed the Senate, changed certain requirements for ballots used when voting upon specified tax and bond measures.

The Assembly amendments delete these provisions, and, instead, change a reference from parking meter zones to parking payment zones for purposes of a prohibition against a local authority establishing parking meter zones or rates except by ordinance. The Assembly amendments exempt, until January 1, 2033, or sooner, as specified, a local authority in the City and County of San Francisco, City of Long Beach, or City of Santa Monica from a prohibition against requiring payment of parking meter fees by mobile device in a parking payment zone if the local authority meets certain requirements and performs specified duties.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 639, as it passed the Senate, revised certain provisions relating to the establishment of diagnostic and treatment centers for Alzheimer’s disease by, among other things, referring to those centers as diagnostic hubs and revising the purposes of those hubs and the authority of those hubs to collaborate with state agencies.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of the bill as it passed the Senate and instead revise course requirements under the Medical Practice Act, the Nursing Practice Act, and the Physician Assistant Practice Act to require certain practitioners under those acts with a patient population of which 25% are 65 years of age or older to complete specified mandatory continuing education hours in the field of geriatric medicine or gerontology, the special care needs of patients with dementia, or the care of older patients, as specified. The Assembly amendments make nonsubstantives changes to avoid the chaptering out of related provisions of AB 2270 and AB 2581.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 295, as it passed the Senate, authorized a public agency to adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of scooters, motorized scooters, pocket bicycles, inline skates, electric personal assistive mobility devices, other personal transportation devices, low-speed vehicles, utility-terrain vehicles, golf carts, and special construction equipment on public property under the jurisdiction of that agency.

The Assembly amendments instead remove prohibitions on expenditures from the Pilot Boat Surcharge Account exceeding specified limits in specified fiscal years.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 536, as it passed the Senate, exempted specified races from a certain limitation relating to the number of thoroughbred races imported by thoroughbred racing associations or fairs.

The Assembly amendments instead authorize the Director of General Services to sell or lease property, of an unspecified acreage, known as the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility, located in the City of Chino, in the County of San Bernardino, to the City of Chino at fair market value upon terms and conditions the director determines are in the best interests of the state, as specified.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 632, as it passed the Senate, allowed a candidate running for United States Representative or State Senate or Assembly in a multicounty district to submit their candidate statement to the Secretary of State for review and approval based on the statement’s conformance with state law, as specified. SB 632, as it passed the Senate, required the county elections official to accept the statement and prohibited requiring any modification to the approved language if the candidate received the approval of the Secretary of State.

The Assembly amendments delete those provisions, and, instead, authorize the Department of Parks and Recreation to implement a pilot project to designate combined-use highways on roads in Red Rock Canyon State Park to provide a unified system of trails for off-highway motor vehicles, among other purposes, as specified. The Assembly amendments also require the department, in conjunction with specified state agencies, to prepare and submit reports to the Legislature evaluating the effectiveness and environmental impacts of the pilot project, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 285, as it passed the Senate, authorized a local jurisdiction to allow for the preparation or sale of noncannabis food or beverage products, as specified.

The Assembly amendments, instead, commencing January 1, 2025, make an individual sentenced to death or a term of life without the possibility of parole, who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense, and who, as of January 1, 2025, has not had their judgment reviewed and verified by the sentencing court, as specified, ineligible for recall and resentencing under certain provisions.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 393, as it passed the Senate, authorized a defendant, in an action brought pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act relating to a housing development project, to file a motion requesting the plaintiff or petitioner to identify every person or entity that contributes more than $10,000, as specified, toward the plaintiff’s or petitioner’s costs of the action. The bill authorized the plaintiff or petitioner to request the court’s permission to withhold the public disclosure of a person or entity who made a monetary contribution, and prohibited those disclosures from being admitted into evidence for any purpose. The bill also prohibited an action or proceeding from being brought in the court to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul an act of a public agency for housing projects included in a master environmental impact report or other plan or project already approved following the completion of an environmental review, on grounds of noncompliance with the requirements of the act, as specified.

The Assembly amendments strike the provisions above, and instead modify the grounds that a defendant, in an action brought by a plaintiff to challenge a housing development project that meets or exceeds the requirements for low- or moderate-income housing, must assert when bringing a motion for an order requiring the plaintiff to furnish an undertaking as security for costs and damages that the defendant may occur as a result of a delay in carrying out the development project. The Assembly amendments require a defendant to bring this motion on the grounds that the action is without merit and was brought in bad faith, vexatiously, for the purpose of delay, or to thwart the low- or moderate-income nature of the housing development project. The Assembly amendments remove the requirement that a defendant bringing this motion must show that the plaintiff will not suffer under economic hardship by filing the undertaking, and instead permit the plaintiff to seek to limit the amount of the undertaking by presenting admissible evidence that filing the undertaking will cause the plaintiff to suffer undue economic hardship. The Assembly amendments authorize the court to decline to impose a bond on the plaintiff if the court determines that, based on admissible evidence presented by the plaintiff, the bond would cause the plaintiff to suffer undue economic hardship.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 551, as it passed the Senate, specified new criteria and qualifications for members of county mental health boards.

The Assembly amendments instead authorize certain beverage manufacturers to submit a consolidated report to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery regarding the types of plastics used in their beverage containers instead of submitting individual reports. The Senate amendments also declare the bill as taking effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 227, as it passed the Senate, among other things, established, until January 1, 2027, the Excluded Workers Program, to be administered by the Employment Development Department upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of providing income assistance to excluded workers who are ineligible for the existing state or federal benefits administered by the department and who are unemployed. SB 227, as it passed the Senate, for the taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2027, provided an exclusion from gross income for benefits received under the program.

The Assembly amendments remove those provisions from the bill and instead require, on or before March 31, 2025, the department to develop a detailed plan to establish a permanent Excluded Workers Program to provide cash assistance that resembles unemployment insurance benefits to unemployed workers who are ineligible for unemployment insurance due to their immigration status, as specified, and submit the plan to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of each house of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The Assembly amendments require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to review the plan and report any findings or recommendations to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of each house of the Legislature and the Department of Finance, no later than 3 months after the department submits the plan.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 379, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish an Accountability Letter Bank program, with the goal of providing an opportunity for incarcerated persons under the jurisdiction of the department to be accountable for the harm they have caused and to express remorse to those they have harmed.

The Assembly amendments additionally require the department to establish and maintain a Victim Offender Dialogue program, with the goal of providing voluntary opportunities for restorative justice processes between victims, survivors, and next of kin and people who are incarcerated or on parole.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 450, as it passed the Senate, among other things, prohibited a local agency from imposing objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards that do not apply uniformly to development within the underlying zone.

The Assembly amendments specify that the above-described provision does not prohibit a local agency from adopting or imposing objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards on the development if the standards are more permissive than applicable standards within the underlying zone. The Assembly amendments also make nonsubstantive changes to the bill, including revising legislative findings related to the bill and certain findings in existing law.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 504, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, when reviewing applications for the local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening activities, to give priority to any local governmental entity that is qualified to perform defensible space assessments in very high and high fire hazard severity zones who reports that information using the common reporting platform, as provided. SB 504, as it passed the Senate, required fuels to be maintained and spaced in a condition so that a wildfire would be unlikely to ignite the structure.

The Assembly amendments authorize, for purposes of the public education and outreach programs that are eligible under the above-mentioned grant program, new technologies and game elements to enhance and accelerate the education of property owners. The Assembly amendments, among other things, authorize regulations adopted by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to alter the fuel reduction required between 5 and 30 feet from around a structure, as specified, and provide that the requirement for the ember-resistant zone shall instead take effect for existing structures 3 years after the effective date for new structures, as specified. The Assembly amendments also include chaptering out provisions, as provided.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 571, as it passed the Senate, required the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to create and provide to the Legislature a report relating to standards for ingress and egress routes in new development, as defined, proposed to be constructed in high and very high fire hazard severity zones, as provided. SB 571, as it passed the Senate, also required the state board to do certain things when creating the report, including provide opportunities for input from the public, as specified, and prohibited the state board from adopting any regulations incorporating the standards described in the report until at least 6 months after completing that report.

The Assembly amendments, instead, require the Office of Planning and Research to conduct a study and prepare a report that evaluates potential improvements to state standards for ingress and egress and evacuation routes for development in the event of a natural disaster, as specified. The Assembly amendments require the office to submit the report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature, and the Governor, on or before January 1, 2027. The Assembly amendments also require the office, for purposes of assisting with and informing the development of the report, to convene and consult with a working group that includes specified voluntary representatives.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 575, as it passed the Senate, required the State Registrar to create a report containing the number of marriage certificates that were submitted by a local registrar. SB 575, as it passed the Senate, required the State Registrar, on or before December 31, 2025, to publish the report on its internet website and submit the report to the Legislature. SB 575, as it passed the Senate, repealed these provisions on January 1, 2026.

The Assembly amendments instead require the State Registrar to publish the report on its internet website and submit the report to the Legislature on or before September 1, 2027. The Assembly amendments instead repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 597, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct research, as specified, to assist in the development of mandatory building standards for the installation of rainwater catchment systems in newly constructed residential dwellings. SB 597, as it passed the Senate, required the department to submit those mandatory building standards to the California Building Standards Commission for adoption and for consideration during the next regularly scheduled triennial code adoption cycle. SB 597, as it passed the Senate, also authorized the department to propose an amendment or repeal of these mandatory standards as necessary in subsequent code adoption cycles.

The Assembly amendments instead require the department to review current building standards, conduct research, and develop recommendations regarding building standards for the installation of rainwater catchment systems for nonpotable uses in newly constructed residential dwellings. The Assembly amendments instead authorize the department to propose related voluntary or mandatory building standards to the commission for consideration during the next regularly scheduled triennial code adoption cycle. The Assembly amendments also require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, to provide a report to specified committees of the Legislature regarding the outcomes of its research and the recommendations developed.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 892, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Technology to develop and adopt regulations to create an artificial intelligence (AI) risk management standard, consistent with specified publications regarding AI risk management. SB 892, as it passed the Senate, required the AI risk management standard to include, among other things, a detailed risk assessment procedure for procuring automated decision systems (ADS), as defined, that analyzes specified characteristics of the ADS, methods for appropriate risk controls, as provided, and adverse incident monitoring procedures. SB 892, as it passed the Senate, required the department to collaborate with specified organizations to develop the AI risk management standard. SB 892, as it passed the Senate, prohibited, commencing 6 months after the date on which regulations are approved and final, a state agency from entering into a contract for an ADS, or any service that utilizes an ADS, unless the contract includes a clause that, among other things, provides a completed risk assessment of the relevant ADS, requires adherence to appropriate risk controls, and provides procedures for adverse incident monitoring.

The Assembly amendments instead require the department to develop and adopt regulations to create an ADS procurement standard and require the department to consider principles and industry standards addressed in specified publications regarding AI risk management in developing those standards. The Assembly amendments additionally require the ADS procurement standard to include, among other things, a detailed equity assessment, as specified, an assessment that analyzes the level of human oversight associated with the use of ADS, and adherence to data minimization standards, as specified. The Assembly amendments additionally require the department, in developing the ADS procurement standard, to consult with the California Privacy Protection Agency, solicit public comment on the ADS procurement standard, and annually review and update the ADS procurement standard and related regulations, as specified. The Assembly amendments instead prohibit, commencing January 1, 2027, a state agency from procuring an ADS, entering into a contract for an ADS, or entering into a contract for any service that utilizes an ADS, as specified, until the department has adopted regulations creating an ADS procurement standard. The Assembly amendments instead authorize, commencing January 1, 2027, a state agency to enter into a contract for an ADS, or a service that utilizes an ADS, only if the department has adopted regulations and only if the contract includes a clause that, among other things, provides a termination right in the event of a significant breach of responsibility or violation by the vendor.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 895, as it passed the Senate, required the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program in up to 15 community college districts statewide and required the chancellor’s office to identify and select eligible community college districts based on specified criteria.

The Assembly amendments limit the pilot program to up to 10 community college districts statewide and add additional criteria for the chancellor’s office to consider when identifying and selecting eligible community college districts.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 918, as it passed the Senate, required a social media platform to, at all times, make available by telephone to a law enforcement agency a law enforcement liaison for the purpose of receiving, and responding to, requests for information and, except as prescribed, required a social media platform to immediately comply with a search warrant provided to the social media platform by a law enforcement agency if the subject of the search warrant is an account on the social media platform owned by a user of the social media platform.

The Assembly amendments require, beginning July 1, 2025, a social media platform to maintain a law enforcement contact process that, among other things, makes available a staffed hotline for law enforcement personnel for purposes of receiving, and responding to, requests for information. The Assembly amendments, except as prescribed, require a social media platform to comply with a search warrant within 72 hours if the search warrant is provided to the social media platform by a law enforcement agency and the subject of the search warrant is information associated with an account on the social media platform and that information is controlled by a user of the social media platform.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 942, as it passed the Senate, required a covered provider, as defined, to create an artificial intelligence (AI) detection tool by which a person can query the covered provider as to the extent to which text, image, video, audio, or multimedia content was created, in whole or in part, by a generative AI system, as defined, provided by the covered provider that meets certain criteria, including that the AI detection tool is publicly accessible and available via a uniform resource locator (URL) on the covered provider’s internet website and through its mobile application, as applicable.

The Assembly amendments instead require a covered provider to make available an AI detection tool at no cost to the user that meets certain criteria, and additionally require, among other things, a covered provider to offer the user an option to include a manifest disclosure in image, video, or audio content, or content that is any combination thereof, created or altered by the covered provider’s generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) system that, among other things, identifies content as AI-generated content and is clear, conspicuous, appropriate for the medium of the content, and understandable to a reasonable person.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 958, as it passed the Senate, authorized the Director of General Services to sell or exchange specified property located in the County of Napa, known as Camp Coombs, by January 1, 2026, as provided.

The Assembly amendments require that sale or exchange to be separate from the sale or exchange of 850 acres of property located in the County of Napa, as part of the Skyline Wilderness Park, as specified.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 984, as it passed the Senate, required a state agency, by January 1, 2027, to identify and select a minimum of 3 major state construction projects that are required to be governed by a project labor agreement, as specified, and defined various terms for these purposes. SB 984, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of General Services, commencing January 1, 2029, to report to the Legislature about the use of project labor agreements, the advancement of community benefit goals, and apprenticeships, as specified.

The Assembly amendments, instead, require the Judicial Council and the California State University, by January 1, 2027, to identify and select a minimum of 3 major state construction projects that are required to be subject to the requirements of a project labor agreement, as specified. The Assembly amendments, instead, require the Judicial Council and the California State University, on or before January 1, 2027, to each submit a report to the Legislature regarding the selection of projects, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 997, as it passed the Senate, explicitly authorized school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to develop and adopt a policy that allows pupils in middle schools, junior high schools, high schools, and adult schools to carry a federally approved naloxone hydrochloride nasal product or any other federally approved opioid antagonist, as provided, for the emergency treatment of persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose and required, for those local educational agencies that choose to develop and adopt a policy pursuant to those provisions, to include, at a minimum, a requirement that a pupil has received instruction in the administration of those products. SB 997, as it passed the Senate, required public middle schools, junior high schools, high schools, and adult schools that are operated by a local educational agency to stock and distribute fentanyl test strips, notify pupils about the presence and location of fentanyl test strips, and allow pupils to carry fentanyl test strips, as provided.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of the bill and instead prohibit local educational agencies from prohibiting pupils in middle schools, junior high schools, high schools, or adult schools, while on a schoolsite or participating in school activities, from carrying fentanyl test strips or a federally approved opioid antagonist, as provided, for the emergency treatment of persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1006, as it passed the Senate, required transmission utilities, on or before January 1, 2026, to jointly prepare a grid-enhancing technologies strategic plan that is designed to achieve various purposes. SB 1006, as it passed the Senate, required each transmission utility, on or before January 1, 2026, and every 4 years thereafter, to complete an evaluation of which of its transmission and distribution lines can be reconductored with advanced conductors in a cost-effective manner to achieve various purposes. SB 1006, as it passed the Senate, required the transmission utilities, upon the completion of the plan and evaluations, to submit the plan and evaluations to the Public Utilities Commission and to make them publicly available.

The Assembly amendments, instead, require each transmission utility, on or before January 1, 2026, and every 2 years thereafter, to prepare a study of the feasibility of project using grid-enhancing technologies to achieve certain purposes, as provided. The Assembly amendments require each transmission utility, on or before January 1, 2026, and every 4 years thereafter, to instead prepare a study of which of its transmission lines can be reconductored with advanced conductors to achieve certain purposes, as provided. The Assembly amendments require transmission utilities to request the Independent System Operator to review the results of both studies as part of its annual transmission planning process. The Assembly amendments require transmission utilities, upon the submission of the studies to the Independent System Operator, to make the studies publicly available, except as provided. The Assembly amendments require electrical corporations operating a distribution system to consider grid-enhancing technologies and reconductoring with advance conductors as part of its annual distribution planning process.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1047, as it passed the Senate, generally regulated artificial intelligence models by, among other things, authorizing a developer of a covered model, as defined, to determine whether a covered model qualifies for a limited duty exemption before initiating training of that covered model, as specified, and defined “limited duty exemption” to mean a determination, made as specified, with respect to a covered model that is not a derivative model, that a developer can reasonably exclude the possibility that the covered model has a hazardous capability, as defined, or may come close to possessing a hazardous capability when accounting for a reasonable margin for safety and the possibility of posttraining modifications. SB 1047 also required a developer of a nonderivative covered model that is not the subject of a limited duty exemption to submit to the Frontier Model Division, which the bill created within the Department of Technology, an annual certification under penalty of perjury of compliance with the bill’s provisions signed by the chief technology officer, or a more senior corporate officer, in a format and on a date as prescribed by the Frontier Model Division and required the division to, among other things, review annual certification reports from developers received pursuant to these provisions and publicly release summarized findings based on those reports.

The Assembly amendments delete or revise those provisions to instead, among other things, require that a developer, before beginning to initially train a covered model, as defined, comply with various requirements, including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown, as defined, and implement a written and separate safety and security protocol, as specified. The Assembly amendments require a developer to retain an unredacted copy of the safety and security protocol for as long as the covered model is made available for commercial, public, or foreseeably public use plus 5 years, including records and dates of any updates or revisions and would require a developer to grant to the Attorney General access to the unredacted safety and security protocol.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1050, as it passed the Senate, required the Office of Legal Affairs, as described, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to review, investigate, and make certain determinations regarding applications from persons who claim they are the rightful owner, as defined, of property taken as a result of racially motivated eminent domain. SB 1050, as it passed the Senate, required the Office of Legal Affairs, upon a determination that providing property or just compensation is warranted, as provided, to certify that the rightful owner is entitled to specified property or compensation from the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice, as described. SB 1050, as it passed the Senate, required the Office of Legal Affairs, upon a determination that an applicant is not a rightful owner or issuing property or just compensation is not warranted, to notify the applicant of its finding and provide an appeal process, as specified.

The Assembly amendments, instead, require the Office of Legal Affairs to review, investigate, and make certain determinations regarding applications from persons who claim they are the dispossessed owner, as defined, of property taken as a result of racially motivated eminent domain. The Assembly amendments, instead, require the Office of Legal Affairs to certify that the dispossessed owner is entitled to the return of the taken property, as specified, or other publicly held property, as defined, of equal value, or financial compensation, as specified. The Assembly amendments impose additional requirements on the Office of Legal Affairs, including, among others, upon a determination that the dispossessed owner is entitled to other publicly held property of equal value, to solicit and select, as specified, a list of recommendations of publicly held properties that are suitable as compensation, as provided. The Assembly amendments also authorize the dispossessed owner, as specified, upon a rejection of the determination of the Office of Legal Affairs by the state or local agency that took property by racially motivated eminent domain, to bring an action to challenge the taking or the amount of compensation, as provided. The Assembly amendments also add additional coauthors.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1066, as it passed the Senate, among other things, established a producer responsibility program for marine flares, whereby a producer responsibility organization would be required to develop and implement a plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of marine flares.

The Assembly amendments recast the producer responsibility program as a manufacturer responsibility program, whereby a manufacturer is required to develop and implement a plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of certain pyrotechnic devices that meet the criteria for household hazardous waste and that are used in conjunction with recreational activities. The Assembly amendments incorporate the program into existing hazardous waste control laws, and thereby, subject the program to existing civil and criminal enforcement mechanisms that apply to the existing hazardous waste control laws.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1072, as it passed the Senate, declared that the provisions of the bill, which require a local agency, if a court determines that a fee or charge for a property-related service, as specified, violates specified provisions of the California Constitution relating to fees and charges, to credit the amount of the fee or charge attributable to the violation against the amount of the revenues required to provide the property-related service, unless a refund is explicitly provided for by statute, do not constitute a change in, but are declarative of, existing law.

The Assembly amendments delete that declaration.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1077, as it passed the Senate, required, by an unspecified date, the California Costal Commission, in coordination with the Department of Housing and Community Development, to coordinate to develop and provide guidance for local governments to facilitate the preparation of amendments to a local coastal program to clarify and simplify the permitting process for accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units within the coastal zone. SB 1077, as it passed the Senate, required the commission, in coordination with the department, to convene at least one public workshop to receive and consider public comments on the draft guidance before the finalization of the guidance document and to post the guidance document on the commission’s internet website, as specified.

The Assembly amendments require the above-described guidance to be developed and provided by July 1, 2026, and require the final guidance document to be posted on the commission’s and department’s respective internet websites, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1089, as it passed the Senate, required a covered establishment, defined to include a grocery establishment or a pharmacy establishment, no later than 60 days before its closure takes effect, to provide written notices of the closure to certain entities and individuals, including the employees of the covered establishment affected by the closure, as specified. SB 1089, as it passed the Senate, defined certain terms for these purposes and included certain exceptions to those requirements.

The Assembly amendments made various revisions to the notice requirements including by reducing the time before the closure that a covered establishment must satisfy the notice requirements to 45 days, and adding certain exceptions to those requirements. The Assembly amendments exclude from the definition of “pharmacy establishment” a pharmacy that is owned by a health facility or that is a part of a fully integrated delivery system, as specified.

SB 1089, as it passed the Senate, authorized a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each closure to be assessed and collected in a civil action against a covered establishment that violates the notice requirements, and authorized the court, in assessing that amount, to consider relevant circumstances, including the nature and severity of the misconduct. SB 1089, as it passed the Senate, authorized an employee that does not receive the required written notice to recover liquidated damages in a civil action, as specified.

The Assembly amendments instead make the court’s consideration of the relevant circumstances in assessing the civil penalty amount a requirement and include the number of employees employed by the defendant as a relevant circumstance for the court to consider. The Assembly amendments specify that an employee that does not receive the required written notice is entitled either to recover liquidated damages or to enforce the above-described civil penalty, but not both.

SB 1089, as it passed the Senate, required a county, after receiving a written notice described in the bill from any covered establishment, to provide the covered establishment with information about safety net programs, as specified, and required a local workforce development board to provide the covered establishment with information about the availability of local workforce training services. SB 1089, as it passed the Senate, also required a county to track the grocery establishment closures in its jurisdiction.

The Assembly amendments instead require a county, after receiving the written notice described above, to provide the local workforce development board of the county in which the covered establishment is located with information about safety net programs, and also require the local workforce development board to provide the covered establishment with information about safety net programs. The Assembly amendments remove the requirement that a county track the grocery establishment closures in its jurisdiction.

SB 1089, as it passed the Senate, required the State Department of Social Services, after receiving the written notice described above, to post on its internet website for an electronic benefit transfer system, as specified, information stating that a grocery establishment is closing and the closure date.

The Assembly amendments instead require the department, after receiving the written notice described above, to transmit that information to the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1090, as it passed the Senate, required the issuance of the initial payment for unemployment compensation disability benefits within 14 days of receipt of the claimant’s properly completed first disability claim or as soon as eligibility begins, whichever is later. SB 1090, as it passed the Senate, applied the same initial payment issuance schedule to the paid family leave program and repealed the requirement that eligible workers receive benefits generally in accordance with unemployment and disability compensation law. SB 1090, as it passed the Senate, made these changes operative when the next scheduled improvement of the Employment Development Department’s integrated claims management system is implemented.

The Assembly amendments instead make these changes operative when these changes are incorporated in the Employment Development Department’s integrated claims management system as part of the EDDNext project.

SB 1090, as it passed the Senate, required the first claim to be filed not earlier than 30 days prior to the first compensable day with respect to which the claim for benefits is made, under the state disability insurance and paid family leave programs. SB 1090, as it passed the Senate, made these changes operative when next scheduled improvement of the Employment Development Department’s integrated claims management system is implemented.

The Assembly amendments instead authorize an individual to initiate the claims process up to 30 days in advance of the anticipated first compensable day. The Assembly amendments make these changes operative when these changes are incorporated in the Employment Development Department’s integrated claims management system as part of the EDDNext project.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1100, as it passed that Senate, added a new section to the Government Code making it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to include a statement in various employment materials that an applicant must have a driver’s license unless the employer reasonably expects the duties of the position to require driving and the employer reasonably believes that satisfying that job function using an alternative form of transportation would not be comparable in travel time or cost to the employer, as specified.

The Assembly amendments instead add those provisions to an existing section of the Government Code that declares certain actions to be an unlawful employment practice, except based upon specified circumstances, thereby subjecting the above provisions to those exceptions, which include, among other things, that the action is based upon applicable security regulations established by the United States or the State of California.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1123, as it passed the Senate, among other things, revised the requirements of an existing ministerial approval process for parcel map or a tentative and final map to require that the lot either be zoned to allow multifamily residential use or be vacant and zoned for single-family development. SB 1123, as it passed the Senate, also revised an existing requirement under these provisions to require that the lot be no larger than 112 acres and substantially surrounded by qualified urban uses, as defined in existing law.

The Assembly amendments define “vacant“ for these purposes as having no permanent structure, unless the permanent structure is abandoned and uninhabitable, as specified. The Assembly amendments also instead require a lot zoned to allow multifamily residential dwelling use to be no larger than 5 acres and substantially surrounded by qualified urban uses, consistent with existing law, and require a vacant lot zoned for single-family residential development to be no larger than 112 acres and substantially surrounded by qualified urban uses. The Assembly amendments, in the case of a parcel not identified in the jurisdiction’s housing element for the current planning period, also revise a requirement under existing law to instead require that the development not result in at least the greater of 66% of the maximum allowable density as specified by local zoning or 66% of the applicable residential density specified in specified law, as provided. The Assembly amendments also make legislative findings and declarations regarding the bill’s provisions, including a finding that the changes proposed by the bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1142, as it passed the Senate, required an electrical or gas corporation to restore service to a residential customer whose service was previously terminated for nonpayment of delinquent amounts upon the customer entering into an amortization agreement to the extent authorized by the rules of the Public Utilities Commission and required the reconnection to occur within 24 hours of the payment as authorized by commission rules. SB 1142, as it passed the Senate, required the commission, in determining whether to direct electrical corporations to consider a customer’s ability to pay before terminating service, to consider whether to limit the amount an electrical corporation can collect up to 20% of the customer’s outstanding balance.

The Assembly amendments additionally require the restoration of service if the customer enters into any other arrearage payment plan determined by the commission. The Assembly amendments instead require the restoration to occur within 24 hours of the payment for remote reconnections and within one business day for field reconnections, except in situations relating to safety or extreme weather. The Assembly amendments require the commission to consider whether to limit the amount an electrical corporation can collect up to an amount specified by the commission, rather than up to 20% of the customer’s outstanding balance.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1143, as it passed the Senate, established the Household Hazardous Waste Producer Responsibility Act of 2024, which created a producer responsibility program for products containing household hazardous waste.

The Assembly amendments instead recast the architectural paint recovery program as the paint product recovery program, which expands the scope of the stewardship program from architectural paint to paint products.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1147, as it passed the Senate, required the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to study the health impacts of microplastics in drinking water, including bottled water, to evaluate and identify a level of microplastics in those types of water that is not anticipated to cause or contribute to adverse health effects or that does not pose any significant risk to health. SB 1147, as it passed the Senate, required OEHHA, after the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) adopts a standard methodology and requirements for the testing and reporting of microplastics in drinking water, and upon the request of the state board, to develop and deliver to the state board a public health goal for a level of microplastics in those types of waters, as provided. SB 1147, as it passed the Senate, required the state board to review the public health goal developed and delivered by OEHHA, and to adopt a primary drinking water standard for microplastics, as specified. SB 1147, as it passed the Senate, required, upon adoption by the state board of a primary drinking water standard for microplastics, any water-bottling plant that produces bottled water that is sold in this state to provide the State Department of Public Health’s Food and Drug Branch an annual report on the levels of microplastics found in the source water used for bottling and in the final bottled water product that is offered for sale, as provided. SB 1147, as it passed the Senate, required this report to be included with the annual water-bottling plant report and, upon request, be made available to each consumer.

The Assembly amendments instead require OEHHA to study the health effects of microplastics in drinking and bottled water to evaluate toxicity characteristics and levels of microplastics in water that are not anticipated to cause or contribute to adverse health effects, or to identify data gaps that would need to be addressed to establish those levels. The Assembly amendments require OEHHA to provide biennial status updates, and post a final report on its internet website. The Assembly amendments authorize the state board, after taking into consideration the findings of the report, to request that OEHHA prepare and publish a public health goal for microplastics in drinking water, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1150, as it left the Senate, clarified that, with respect to a proceeding for dissolution or nullity of marriage, the provisions for the restoration of birth name or former name apply to either partner.

The Assembly amendments make a nonsubstantive change to the bill.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 1166, as it passed the Senate, required the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and requested the University of California, on or before December 1, 2026, and on or before each December 1 thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature that provides a summation of the activities undertaken by each district or campus, as applicable, and by each systemwide Title IX office, to ensure campus programs and activities are free from sex discrimination, as provided.

The Assembly amendments instead require the California Community Colleges to submit the above-described report on or before December 1, 2026, and on or before December 1 every 3 years thereafter. The Assembly amendments also require the California State University, and request the University of California, to present each report during a public meeting of the trustees or regents, as applicable.

SB 1166, as it passed the Senate, required, on or before September 1, 2026, and on or before each September 1 thereafter, the governing board of each community college district to prepare and submit to the chancellor’s office a report on the activities undertaken by each community college district to ensure campus programs and activities are free from sex discrimination, as provided.

The Assembly amendments require each community college district to post those annual reports on its internet website and to present each report during a public meeting of the governing board of the community college district.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1187, as it passed the Senate, established the Tribal Housing Grant Program Trust Fund, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development (department). SB 1187, as it passed the Senate, required any appropriations through the annual Budget Act for purposes of the fund and any other funding that may be made available to the department for the purposes of the fund from any other source to be paid and deposited in the fund. SB 1187, as it passed the Senate, required the department to allocate funding in the fund using a specified formula, while also authorizing the department to periodically adjust that formula, as provided. SB 1187, as it passed the Senate, provided timeframes within which recipients were required to expend the funds, including requiring recipients to expend all funds allocated to programs and services within 3 years from the date of execution of a funding agreement with the department and to expend all funds allocated to projects within 5 years. SB 1187, as it passed the Senate, specified that the Budget Act include an appropriation for the fund every year from January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2029, as specified. SB 1187, as it passed the Senate, specified a definition for the “Tribal equity advisory committee.”

The Assembly amendments require additional sources of funding for the Tribal Housing Grant Program Trust Fund, including 10% of any moneys that will be appropriated and made available by the Legislature to the department through the annual Budget Act for certain housing-related programs. The Assembly amendments also authorize as an additional source of funding for the fund moneys made available to the department through voter-approved bonds that may be made available as tribal set-asides, as specified. The Assembly amendments require the department to monitor the balance of the fund and only make allocations once the department determines there is sufficient funding available. The Assembly amendments make changes to the allocation formula, as specified. The Assembly amendments remove the department’s ability to periodically adjust the allocation formula. The Assembly amendments extend the timeframes within which recipients of funding are required to spend the funds to 5 and 7 years, respectively, as specified. The Assembly amendments remove the specification that the Budget Act include an appropriation for the fund every year from January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2029. The Assembly amendments include a modified definition for the “Tribal housing grant program trust fund advisory committee.”

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1193, as it passed the Senate, prohibited an airport operator or aviation retail establishment from selling, distributing, or otherwise making available leaded aviation gasoline to consumers based on a specified timeline. SB 1193, as it passed the Senate, also exempted an airport operator or aviation retail establishment from that prohibition if certain requirements were met.

The Assembly amendments instead prohibit an airport operator or aviation retail establishment from selling, distributing, or otherwise making available leaded aviation gasoline to consumers on or after January 1, 2031, as specified. The Assembly amendments also delete the above-described exemption.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1197, as it passed the Senate, prohibited children who reside with a resource family and who receive both Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program benefits and regional center services from being prohibited from receiving in-home respite services. SB 1197 also prohibited Indian children who receive both AFDC-FC benefits and regional center services and who reside with an extended family member, as defined, or a tribally approved home, as defined, from being prohibited from receiving in-home respite services.

The Assembly amendments require regional centers to assess a small family home for service need, as specified, prior to approving in-home respite services for children in that placement type who receive both AFDC-FC benefits and regional center services.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1211, as it passed the Senate, among other things, required a local agency to ministerially approve not more than 8 detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on a lot with an existing multifamily dwelling, as specified, and up to 2 detached ADUs on a lot with a proposed multifamily dwelling, subject to certain height and rear yard and side setback limitations.

The Assembly amendments additionally prohibit a local agency from imposing any objective development or design standard that is not otherwise authorized, as specified, upon any ADU that meets the requirements of any of specified variations of ADUs. The Assembly amendments also define “livable space” for purposes of the provisions governing ADUs.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1213, as it passed the Senate, provided that an individual is eligible to receive specified cancer treatment services if the individual has a family income at or below 300% of the federal poverty level as determined by the provider performing the screening and diagnosis.

The Assembly amendments, commencing no later than July 1, 2026, provide that an individual is eligible to receive these treatment services if the individual has a family income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level as determined by the provider performing the screening and diagnosis.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1216, as it passed the Senate, prohibited the California Transportation Commission from adding to the program of projects for the Active Transportation Program a project that creates a Class III bikeway or a sharrow, unless the bikeway or sharrow is on a highway with a design speed of 25 miles per hour or less or the project will implement improvements to reduce the design speed limit to 25 miles per hour or less.

The Assembly amendments additionally authorize the commission to add a project that creates a Class III bikeway or sharrow to the program of projects for the Active Transportation Program if the project applicant demonstrates that the use of the Class III bikeway or sharrow is appropriate for the local community context and advances a lower stress environment or a low-stress network.

SB 1216, as it passed the Senate, also prohibited an agency responsible for the development and operation of bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing or restriping a Class III bikeway or sharrow on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 milers per hour.

The Assembly amendments instead prohibit an agency responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing a new sharrow on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour, except as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1244, as it passed the Senate, authorized a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership to offer dual enrollment courses with a school district, county office of education, or charter school within the service area of another community college district if the community college district in the service area of the school district, county office of education, or charter school declined a request from the school district, county office of education, or charter school, or failed to take action within 60 calendar days of a request by the school district, county office of education, or charter school to either enter into a CCAP partnership or to approve another community college district to enter into a CCAP partnership to offer those courses.

The Assembly amendments instead require a community college district to allow an existing CCAP partnership to be amended, or a new CCAP agreement to be established with a school district, county office of education, or charter school and a community college district outside of the primary community college district’s service area if the primary community college district has declined a request, or has failed to take action within 60 calendar days of a request, to either amend into the existing CCAP partnership the requested courses, or to approve another community college district to enter into a CCAP partnership to offer those courses.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1246, as it passed the Senate, defined the term “grant” in the context of the California Prompt Payment Act, to, in addition to a signed final agreement between any state agency and a local government agency or organization authorized to accept grant funding for victim services or prevention programs administered by any state agency, or restoration activities performed by a resource conservation district, mean a signed final agreement between any state agency and a nonprofit organization, and deleted an exception from certain penalty provisions under the act if a grant or contract was awarded to a nonprofit organization in an amount less than $500,000. SB 1246, as it passed the Senate, required, if a state agency disputes an invoice received from a nonprofit organization claimant, the state agency to pay the undisputed portion of the invoice, as specified.

The Assembly amendments, instead of changing the definition of the term “grant,” delete the definition of the term “grant” from the act and provide that only specified late payment penalties apply to a signed final agreement for a grant by any state agency to a local government agency or organization authorized to accept grant funding for victim services or prevention programs administered by any state agency, a grant to a resource conservation district for restoration activities, or a grant by any state agency to a nonprofit organization. The Assembly amendments also delete the provisions of the bill related to disputed invoices.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1263, as it passed the Senate, among other things, repealed the requirement that candidates for the preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential complete a teaching performance assessment, as part of a program of professional preparation, and related provisions. SB 1263, as it passed the Senate, also repealed the requirement that the Commission on Teacher Credentialing develop, adopt, and administer a reading instruction competence assessment, and related provisions, as provided.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of the bill and instead (1) require the commission to, among other things, (A) report the number of professional preparation programs with low teaching performance assessment pass rates and assist these programs to support candidates to pass the assessment, subject to the availability of funds, (B) maintain a secondary passing standard for the teaching performance assessment, as provided, and (C) convene a workgroup to assess current design and implementation of the state’s current teaching performance assessments, (2) authorize the commission to, subject to approval by the Department of Finance and for the 2024–25 fiscal year only, use up to $729,000 of existing funds available from the Teacher Credentials Fund for the operations of the workgroup, and (3) authorize the Governor to appoint one deputy, exempt from state civil service, to the executive director of the commission.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1280, as it passed the Senate, beginning January 1, 2028, prohibited the sale or offer for sale of propane cylinders in this state other than those propane cylinders that are reusable or refillable, as defined.

The Assembly amendments additionally require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill with an effective date of January 1, 2028.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1292, as it passed the Senate, required the Public Utilities Commission, on or before January 1, 2028, but no sooner than 2 years after the adoption of a specified income-graduated fixed charge for residential rates, to submit a report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature on the electrical corporation’s implementation of the fixed charge and that includes an evaluation of certain information. SB 1292, as it passed the Senate, prohibited the commission from authorizing a fixed charge until 30 days after the submission of the report.

The Assembly amendments additionally require that the report evaluate the extent to which the fixed charge impacts certain rates of adoption, customer conservation efforts, and residential electric vehicle charging behavior. The Assembly amendments instead prohibit the commission from authorizing a new residential fixed charge, except those fixed charges authorized before July 1, 2024, until 30 days after the submission of the report.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1321, as it passed the Senate, among other things, required the Employment Training Panel to give priority funding for certain employment training programs to projects that develop high road, as defined, jobs and career ladders for workers with demonstrated wage progression, to projects that meet the standards established by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards for high-quality training programs, and to projects that provide support for training needs and gaps or existing programs, as specified. SB 1321, as it passed the Senate, authorized the training projects developed pursuant to these provisions, to use program funding, upon appropriation, to provide training through apprenticeship programs approved by the division and training at joint labor-management training centers. SB 1321, as it passed the Senate, required the minimum standards established by the panel for the consideration of employment training proposals to include a plan to recruit, hire, and advance workers from disadvantaged, marginalized, or underrepresented communities, as specified, and required the panel to provide notice of the intent to award proposals at least 30 days before a panel meeting approving or rejecting the proposal.

The Assembly amendments require the funding priority for projects that develop high road jobs and career ladders to also demonstrate high road training partnership standards, as specified. The Assembly amendments eliminate the priority for projects that meet the standards established by the division and eliminate the priority for projects that provide support for training needs and gaps or existing programs. The Assembly amendments recast the funding provisions to authorize projects funded under the above-referenced provisions to include programs to provide training through apprenticeship programs that are registered with the division. The Assembly amendments remove the requirement for the minimum standards to include a plan to recruit, hire, and advance workers from disadvantaged, marginalized, or underrepresented communities. The Assembly amendments eliminate the 30-day notice requirement to approve or reject a proposal and, instead, require the panel to provide a regularly updated list, at least every 60 days, and make the list available to the public, of all applicants that have submitted applications. The Assembly amendments make other technical changes.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1337, as it passed the Senate, required a state referendum petition that a committee pays to circulate to include a list of the top funders and a disclosure statement on the first page of the referendum petition. SB 1337, as it passed the Senate, required a petition for a statewide referendum measure to include a space for a signer to initial confirming that they reviewed the top funders listed on the page. SB 1337, as it passed the Senate, revised the required form and contents of a state referendum petition by requiring, among other things, that the petition contain an official title and summary of the law proposed to be overturned, as prepared by the Attorney General.

The Assembly amendments require a disclosure statement on the first page of each section of the referendum petition. The Assembly amendments require a petition for a statewide referendum measure to include a box for the signer to check confirming that they reviewed the top funders listed on the page.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1348, as it passed the Senate, established the California Black-Serving Institutions Program to designate campuses of the California State University, the University of California, the California Community Colleges, and independent institutions of higher education that excel at providing academic resources to Black and African American students, as specified.

The Assembly amendments rename the program as the Designation of California Black-Serving Institutions. The Assembly amendments establish a governing board composed of certain members, to approve or deny initial and renewal applications to receive this designation. The Assembly amendments require the California State University Statewide Central Office for the Advancement of Black Excellence to serve as the managing entity and neutral administrative body tasked with, among other duties, developing the application processes and processing and presenting applications to the governing board.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1371, as it passed the Senate, makes reliance upon a system that reviews bona fide evidence of majority and biometrics to determine the age and identity of a person before admittance into a premises where alcoholic beverages may be lawfully purchased a defense to any criminal prosecution or proceedings against the holder of a license to sell alcoholic beverages.

The Assembly amendments clarify that the utilization of a biometric system is a defense to any criminal prosecution or proceedings against the licensee and require that system to be based upon a review of bona fide evidence of majority and identity of a person and that verifies and authenticates the validity of that bona fide evidence.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1386, as it passed the Senate, made specified types of evidence inadmissible in civil actions alleging conduct constituting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or sexual battery, when the evidence is used to attack the credibility of the plaintiff’s testimony on consent or on the lack of harm the plaintiff suffered. SB 1386, as it passed the Senate, provided that, in cases involving a minor and an adult in a position of authority in which sexual battery is alleged, evidence of the plaintiff’s prior sexual conduct with the defendant is not admissible to prove consent by the plaintiff or absence of harm to the plaintiff.

The Assembly amendments change the provisions limiting testimony of lack of harm to the plaintiff to instead limit testimony regarding absence of injury to the plaintiff.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1391, as it passed the Senate, among other things, required the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data, as the managing entity of the California Cradle-to-Career Data System, and under the direction of the data system’s governing board, to create a teacher training and retention dashboard within the data system on or before January 1, 2026, and required the dashboard to provide certain information on California’s teacher workforce, including, among other things, trends regarding participation in programs for addressing teacher shortages and teacher diversity, including certain specified programs, as appropriate. SB 1391, as it passed the Senate, required that data to address specified topics for that trend, including, among others, the percentage of program participants who complete a teacher preparation program and earn a preliminary teaching credential.

The Assembly amendments (1) require all specified data topics on that trend to be disaggregated by race and ethnicity, (2) require the data topics to also include the number of program participants who complete a teacher preparation program and earn a preliminary teaching credential, and (3) require both the number and the percentage of those participants to be additionally disaggregated by cohort. The Assembly amendments also make nonsubstantive changes to apply other provisions of the bill to the latest amended form of law, make changes to the related legislative findings and declarations, add a coauthor, and make nonsubstantive changes to address possible chaptering conflicts with AB 176 and SB 176.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1415, as it passed the Senate, among other things, clarified that the existing payment of $175 to $500 per semester or quarter to a CalWORKs eligible individual who is participating full time or part time in an educational activity at a publicly funded or nonprofit postsecondary educational institution, as specified, for the purpose of paying costs associated with attending that institution, is considered a standard payment for computers, along with books and other college supplies. SB 1415, as it passed the Senate, beginning January 1, 2026, or when specified automation processes are available, upon application for temporary or permanent homeless assistance under specific provisions of the CalWORKs program, required the county to refer the assistance unit to any other homeless assistance services provided under the CalWORKs program, and authorized the county to give priority to the assistance unit for those services.

The Assembly amendments remove the above-described provisions from the bill.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1418, as it passed the Senate, among other things, until January 1, 2030, modified the definition of “hydrogen-fueling station” and required every city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance that created an expedited, streamlined permitting process for hydrogen-fueling stations, as specified.

The Assembly amendments further specify the hydrogen-fueling stations to which the above-described requirement applies.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1443, as it passed the Senate, added a representative from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities as a member of the California Interagency Council on Homelessness.

The Assembly amendments make nonsubstantive double-jointing amendments.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1448, as it passed the Senate, among other things, changed the composition of the Farm to Community Food Hub Advisory Committee, including the number and qualifications of its members. SB 1448, as it passed the Senate, extended the operation of the Farm to Community Food Hub Program until January 1, 2030.

The Assembly amendments eliminate the advisory committee, instead require the Office of Farm to Fork to develop and consult with a working group comprising at least 7 individuals who possess expertise in the operation of food hubs and other specified areas, as provided, and exempt the working group from the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act. The Assembly amendments require that the program prioritize the creation of new farm to community food hubs and authorize, instead of require, that the program be administered in 2 specified phases. The Assembly amendments instead extend the operation of the program to January 1, 2034. The Assembly amendments declare that the bill is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1452, as it passed the Senate, extended the operation of the Architects Practice Act to January 1, 2029, and required, among other things, a licensee under the act who has a valid email address to report that email address to the California Architects Board at the time of renewal.

The Assembly amendments additionally authorize the board to extend a candidate’s application or examination process beyond the specified 5-year period if a state of emergency is proclaimed by the Governor and require any extension granted to be an amount of time sufficient to supplement the time lost due to the state of emergency. The Assembly amendments prescribe the expiration of an issued or renewed license to be 2 years from the last day of the month in which the license was issued or 2 years from the date on which the renewed license last expired and remove the requirement that the board give written notice by registered mail 90 days in advance of the expiration of the 5th year that a renewal fee has not been paid. The Assembly amendments revise existing fees under the act by prescribing various amounts of dollars that fees are required to be and authorize the board to adopt regulations to set the fee at a higher amount, up to a prescribed maximum. The Assembly amendments establish a fee for a license certification and prohibit that fee from exceeding $40.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1454, as it passed the Senate, among other things, expanded the definition of “person” under the Private Security Services Act to include a federally recognized tribe and prescribed additional requirements for licensure for tribal applicants. SB 1454 also excluded federally recognized tribes or security persons employed by a federally recognized tribe from the requirements of the Proprietary Security Services Act. SB 1454 additionally extended the authorization for a limited liability company to become licensed by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services as a private investigator or alarm company operator until January 1, 2030.

The Assembly amendments, among other things, expand the definition of “person” under the PSSA to include a participating tribe, defined to mean a federally recognized tribe that formally applies for licensure from the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, and revise the exclusion under the Proprietary Security Services Act to exclude a federally recognized tribe that has one or more employees who provide unarmed security services only for that tribe and an unarmed individual employed by a federally recognized tribe to provide security services only for that tribe. The Assembly amendments remove the extension of the authorization for a limited liability company to become licensed by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services as a private investigator or alarm company operator. The Assembly amendments also revise and recast various provisions under the Collateral Recovery Act, the Private Investigator Act, and the Alarm Company Act.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1465, as it passed the Senate, prohibited an enforcement agency from commencing court abatement proceedings for repair of an illegally occupied substandard building if certain conditions were met, including if the owner filed and is diligently prosecuting an unlawful detainer action against the occupant.

The Assembly amendments revise this conditions to be if the owner filed and is diligently prosecuting an unlawful detainer action against the occupant, or if the occupant is being removed pursuant to a specified provision of law relating to trespass.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1471, as it passed the Senate, authorized a certificated employee at a public school to conduct a brief period of quiet reflection, with the participation of pupils in attendance, for not more than 60 seconds at the beginning of each schoolday. SB 1471, as it passed the Senate, prohibited a certificated employee from requiring a pupil to participate in the period of quiet reflection. SB 1471, as it passed the Senate, made related legislative findings and declarations.

The Assembly amendments expand the authorization to conduct a period of quiet reflection to any employee at a public school and remove the requirement that the period of quiet reflection not exceed 60 seconds. The Assembly amendments additionally prohibit a classified employee, a guest speaker, or a contractor of the local educational agency from requiring a pupil to participate in the period of quiet reflection. The Assembly amendments, among other things, also revise the legislative findings and declarations.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1500, as it passed the Senate, in jurisdictions for which the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development granted a housing authority a specified waiver, (1) prohibited certain state entities from taking any negative actions, as specified, against certain participants in specified programs in certain circumstances, and (2) if an agreement between the participant and certain government entities imposes certain income restrictions, deemed the tenant to satisfy that income restriction if certain requirements are met.

The Assembly amendments narrow the application of SB 1500 to the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles. The Assembly amendments change the circumstances that must be met for the prohibition against negative actions apply. The Assembly amendments change requirements that must be met for a tenant to be deemed to satisfy the income restriction in the agreement described above. The Assembly amendments specify an effective rent limit for tenants, and require an owner or management agent to discontinue use of the waiver under certain circumstances. The Assembly amendments make the provisions of SB 1500 inoperative on July 31, 2025, or the final expiration date of the waiver, whichever is later, and repeal the provisions of SB 1500 as of January 1 of the following year.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1509, as it passed the Senate, provided that there is a rebuttable presumption that driving a vehicle at a speed that exceeds the posted speed limit by 26 miles per hour or more on a highway with a posted speed limit for passenger vehicles of 55 miles per hour or less is reckless driving and specified the punishment.

The Assembly amendments delete those provisions and instead, commencing January 1, 2027, prohibit excessively speeding, defined as driving a vehicle at a speed that exceeds the posted speed limit by 26 miles per hour or more on a highway with a posted speed limit for passenger vehicles of 55 miles per hour or less, require the offense of excessively speeding to be punishable as an infraction with specified fines, and require one violation point to be assessed against a driver’s record for a first violation and 2 violation points to be assessed for any subsequent violation occurring within 3 years of a previous violation.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1527, as it passed the Senate, extended a statutory authorization for a county board of spervisors to exemption up to $50,000 of property in the case of possessory interests with lien dates occurring before January 1, 2025, to instead apply to those possessory interests with lien dates occurring before January 1, 2030.

The Assembly amends added additional language required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1528, as it passed the Senate, authorized the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to serve specified notices of determination by delivering the notice electronically via secure transmission in specified circumstances. SB 1528 also expanded an existing statutory exemption from penalties for failure to timely remit sales and use taxes by increasing the limit that is excluded from an average of $1,000 per month or 5% of the total liability to an average of $1,500 per month or 25% of the total liability.

The Assembly amendments, in addition to the above changes, authorizes the department, in its discretion, to relieve any person from the requirements to make prepayments on sales and use taxes if certain conditions apply. The Assembly amendments also authorize the State Board of Equalization to serve specified notices of determination in relation to the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law by delivering the notice electronically via secure transmission in specified circumstances. The amendments also clarify that, in regards to the Hazardous Substances Tax Law, audit determinations are not included in the calculation of penalties for failure to pay timely, and makes additional conforming changes relating to all of the above-described provisions.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.