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

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 1432, as it passed the Senate, extended the seismic compliance deadline imposed by the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, from January 1, 2030, to January 1, 2033, for a hospital building for which the hospital owner submitted a seismic compliance plan, a specified evaluation report, and an attestation, as specified. SB 1432, as it passed the Senate, authorized a hospital to propose a final compliance date that extended up to 5 years beyond January 1, 2033, but no later than January 1, 2038, as specified. SB 1432, as it passed the Senate, required the hospital and the department to identify at least 2 major milestones relating to the seismic compliance plan, as specified. SB 1432, as it passed the Senate, required an acute care inpatient hospital with one or more specified hospital buildings to submit a Patient Alternate Care Sites and Transfer Plan to the department, as specified, required the department, in consultation with the California Health Facilities Financing Authority, to submit a specified report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2028, and required the department, among other things, to convene a stakeholder workgroup on or before January 1, 2028, to facilitate input, as specified.

The Assembly amendments make the provisions applicable to operators as well as owners. The Assembly amendments instead authorize a hospital owner or operator to submit an application to the Department of Health Care Access and Information for an extension of the January 1, 2030, seismic compliance deadline by up to 5 years, but no later than January 1, 2035, for a hospital that submits the items specified above and, in addition, submits a financial plan, as specified. The Assembly amendments authorize the department, before acting on the application, to require the hospital owner or operator to meet and confer regarding any item in the application, as specified. The Assembly amendments instead require the department to identify at least 2 milestones, and the hospital to identify the corresponding financing sources, as specified. The Assembly amendments authorize the department to impose a fine of up to $5,000 per calendar day per hospital for the hospital’s failure to meet any agreed upon milestones until the milestones are met. The Assembly amendments remove the requirements mentioned above for acute care inpatient hospitals, the specified reporting, and the stakeholder group.

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 1266, as it passed the Senate, applied the existing prohibition on the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of any bottle or cup that contains bisphenol A, if the bottle or cup is designed or intended to be filled with any liquid, food, or beverage intended primarily for consumption by children 3 years of age or younger, instead to any juvenile’s feeding, sucking, or teething product that contains any form of bisphenol at a detectable level above 0.1 parts per billion.

The Assembly amendments instead apply the above prohibition to products that contain any form of bisphenol above the practical quantitation limit as determined by the department, and authorize the department or the Attorney General to enforce the prohibition above.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 299, as it passed the Senate, removed loss of contact with a beneficiary, as evidenced by the return of mail, as a circumstance requiring prompt redetermination of a Medi-Cal beneficiary’s eligibility to receive Medi-Cal benefits.

The Assembly amendments instead require the Secretary of State and the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop a process for the department to use information from the statewide voter registration database to determine whether a person who submits to a driver’s license application is already registered or preregistered to vote in the state. The Assembly amendments would require the department to transmit specified information provided by the person during their transaction with the department to the Secretary of State for the purpose of registering or preregistering the person to vote or to update their registration information. The Assembly amendments would make these provisions operative on the earlier of January 1, 2030, or 5 days after the Secretary of State and the department certify that the information technology infrastructure necessary to substantially implement the bill is functional.

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 537, as it passed the Senate, authorized specified legislative bodies to use alternate teleconferencing provisions under the Ralph M. Brown Act until January 1, 2028, if certain requirements were met. SB 537, as it passed the Senate, also expanded the circumstances that would allow a member of a legislative body to participate in a meeting remotely. SB 537, as it passed the Senate, declared the bill as taking effect immediately as an urgency statute.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of the bill and, instead, authorize a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants to enter into negotiations with the Department of General Services, as provided, and other state agencies as applicable, to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial in an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles dedicated to Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants who were forcibly deported from the United States during the Great Depression.

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 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 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 1447, as it passed the Senate, extended the seismic compliance deadline imposed by the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, from January 1, 2030, to January 1, 2033, for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. SB 1447, as it passed the Senate, authorized an extension process for an additional 5 years, to no later than January 1, 2038, with the submission of a seismic compliance plan submitted no later than January 1, 2026, and a demonstration by the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles that, among other things, the hospital owner demonstrates a lack of financial capacity to substantially comply. SB 1447, as it passed the Senate, required the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, as a condition of approval, to submit to the Department of Health Care Access and Information, among other things, the hospital building plans and construction timeline, as specified.

The Assembly amendments instead authorize the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to seek an extension to the January 1, 2030, seismic compliance deadline by up to 3 years, to no later than January 1, 2033, with the submission and department approval of a seismic compliance plan and evaluation report, as specified. The Assembly amendments authorize the department to authorize the extension as necessary if the hospital experiences issues with contractor, labor, or material delays, acts of God, governmental entitlements, or with other circumstances beyond the hospital’s control that prevent it from meeting the January 1, 2030, deadline. The Assembly amendments require the department to approve or deny the hospital’s seismic compliance plan and any extension to the seismic compliance deadline within 120 days, and require the seismic compliance plan to outlines steps, including milestones, to achieve compliance with seismic safety standards. The Assembly amendments impose a fine of $5,000 per calendar day for the hospital’s failure to comply with, among other things, a major milestone established by the department until the milestones are met. The Assembly amendments require the department to adopt regulations and standards to implement these provisions, as specified.

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 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 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 899, as it passed the Senate, made various changes to the procedures and enforcement of firearm restrictions for specified protective orders.

The Assembly amendments delay the operation of the provisions of the bill until January 1, 2026. The Assembly amendments also revise the relinquishment process for firearms and revise the exemption for when carrying a firearm is necessary as a condition of employment. The Assembly amendments additionally remove legislative findings and incorporate changes proposed by AB 2759 and SB 1002 to be operative only if SB 899 and those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Vote: 22. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 910, as it passed the Senate, required counties that opt to have treatment court programs to ensure the programs are designed and operated in accordance with the “Adult Treatment Court Best Practice Standards” developed by All Rise (founded as the National Association of Drug Court Professionals). SB 910 specified the Legislature intended that key components of the programs include, among others, integration by treatment courts of behavioral health treatment services with justice system case processing.

The Assembly amendments also include within its provisions courts that opt to have treatment court programs. The Assembly amendments specify the treatment court programs must be designed and operated in accordance with state and national guidelines also incorporating “Family Treatment Court Best Practice Standards” developed by All Rise, and with consideration for the distinct court system within which the program operates. The Assembly amendments specify the Legislature intends to have specified key components in the criminal adult treatment court programs.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 926, as it passed the Senate, made it a crime to intentionally create and distribute or cause to be distributed any photo realistic image, digital image, electronic image, computer image, computer-generated image, or other pictorial representation of an intimate body part or parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person depicted engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, or an image of masturbation by the person depicted or in which the person depicted participates that was created in a manner that would cause a reasonable person to believe the image is an authentic image of the person depicted, under circumstances in which the person distributing the image knows or should know that distribution of the image will cause serious emotional distress, and the person depicted suffers that distress.

The Assembly amendments exempt any person under 18 years of age from that crime and incorporate changes to Section 647 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 1874, AB 1962, and SB 1414, to be operative only if this bill and some or all of those other bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

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 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 1019, as it passed the Senate, required that the destruction of a firearm by a law enforcement agency, when required by law, means destroying the firearm in its entirety by smelting, shredding, crushing, or cutting all parts of the firearm, including any attachments, and also required every law enforcement agency to develop and maintain a written policy regarding the destruction of firearms.

The Assembly amendments exempt from this requirement the destruction of a firearm by another party pursuant to an existing contract, if the new requirements would result in a breach of that contract. The Assembly amendments also exempt from required destruction certain firearms that were stolen or used without the prior knowledge of their lawful owner and that are possessed by a public administrator, public guardian, or public conservator in the performance of their duties as the personal representative of a decedent’s estate, or in the performance of the duties of a conservator or guardian over a person or their estate. Finally, the Assembly amendments also add chaptering amendments with AB 2739 and AB 2842.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1069, as it passed the Senate, gave the Office of the Inspector General investigatory authority over all staff misconduct cases that involve sexual misconduct with an incarcerated person and authorized the office to monitor and investigate a complaint that involves sexual misconduct with an incarcerated person.

The Assembly amendments clarify when the Office of the Inspector General may exercise its investigatory authority and require the office to, upon the completion of an investigation, compile and submit a report to the appropriate hiring authority.

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 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.