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

SB 227, as it passed the Senate, among other things, made changes to the membership of the board of directors of the Green Empowerment Zone for the Northern Waterfront area of the County of Contra Costa.

The Assembly amendments, in addition to those changes, remove the director representing the State Air Resources Board from the board of directors. The Assembly amendments also revise the term limits for the chair and deputy directors of the board by eliminating the prohibition against serving consecutive terms and, instead, authorizing the chair and deputy directors to be re-selected by a majority vote of the board for up to 3 additional terms.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 301, as it passed the Senate, prohibited, beginning on or after January 1, 2026, a city or district that contracts with a retirement system under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) from amending their contract with the system in a a manner that provides for the exclusion of some, but not all, employees.

The Assembly amendments instead prohibit a county or district whose officers and employees are enrolled as members of a retirement system under CERL from excluding from membership in the system any employee, group, or classification, other than those excludable officer and employees, as defined. The Assembly amendments include findings that changes proposed by the bill address a matter of statewide concern and that its provisions are declaratory of existing law.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 447, as it passed the Senate, extended the requirement for an employer of a local firefighter or peace officer who is killed or dies as a result of accident or injury caused by external violence of physical force incurred in the performance of their duty to provide health benefits to the deceased employee’s minor dependents until the minor dependents reach 26 years of age.

The Assembly amendments make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions and add a coauthor.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 506, as it passed the Senate, amended various provisions that, taken together, constitute a transportation omnibus bill.

The Assembly amendments make a change to the composition of the Tri-Valley-San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority’s governing board, amend certain provisions of the Treasure Island Transportation Management Act to remove the San Francisco County Transportation Authority from involvement with congestion pricing for Treasure Island, and revise a prohibition of driving a motor vehicle with any object or material placed upon the windshield or side or rear windows to exempt specified vehicle technology.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 686, as it passed the Senate, revised and recast various provisions relating to housing financing and development, including authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to approve the payoff of a department loan in whole or part before the end of its term and to waive specified requirements in prescribed regulatory agreements, as provided. SB 686, as it passed the Senate, also defined a term for those purposes as well as the No Place Like Home Program.

The Assembly amendments delete those provisions and, instead, require the department to allow property owners subject to a regulatory agreement with the department to take out additional debt on the development if any extracted equity, as defined, is utilized for specified purposes.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 857, as it passed the Senate, amended various provisions that, taken together, constitute the public safety omnibus bill.

The Assembly amendments remove a provision making technical amendments regarding restitution fines and add a provision providing that any conflicting bills shall prevail over this bill, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 255, as it passed the Senate, required each county within the state, on or before January 1, 2027, to establish a recorder notification program in accordance with certain requirements, including authorizing a recorder, as a condition of recording, to require that a deed, quitclaim deed, mortgage, or deed of trust indicate the assessor’s identification number or numbers that fully contain all, or a portion of, the real property described in the legal description, as specified.

The Assembly amendments require the board of supervisors of each county to adopt an authorizing resolution for purposes of the program described above. The Assembly amendments also require, if assessor’s identification numbers are required, those numbers to be listed on the first page of the document, and authorize the recorder to rely on the assessor’s identification numbers as indicated on the document.

SB 255, as it passed the Senate, authorized the board of supervisors to authorize the county recorder to collect, in addition to any other recording fee, a fee from the party filing a deed, quitclaim deed, mortgage, or deed of trust for the cost of implementing the recorder notification program subject to certain requirements, including that the fee does not exceed the reasonable regulatory costs to the county to comply with the requirements.

The Assembly amendments instead prohibit the fee described above from exceeding the reasonable costs of service of the county to provide a recorder notification and to comply with the requirements.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 466, as it passed the Senate, prohibited a public water system that meets the total chromium maximum contaminant level (MCL) enforceable standard for drinking water in California from being held liable in any civil action brought by an individual or entity that is not a governmental agency related to hexavalent chromium in drinking water while implementing and in compliance with a state board-approved hexavalent chromium MCL compliance plan, or during the period between when it has submitted a hexavalent chromium MCL compliance plan for approval to the state board and action on the proposed compliance plan by the state board is pending, except as specified.

The Assembly amendments instead prohibit a public water system that meets the total chromium MCL enforceable standard for drinking water in California from being determined, held, considered, or otherwise deemed in violation of the primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium while implementing a state board-approved compliance plan or while state board action on the proposed and submitted compliance plan is pending, except as provided.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 624, as it passed the Senate, required the department, by no later than July 1, 2026, to issue guidance to county welfare departments and juvenile probation departments with specified information to support nonminor dependents in filing state and federal income tax returns and accessing the foster youth tax credit.

The Assembly amendments, among other things, name SB 624 the Foster Outreach and Support for Tax Education Readiness (FOSTER) Act and change the deadline for the department to issue guidance to no later than July 30, 2026.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 853, as it passed the Senate, revised and recast various provisions related to the Teachers’ Retirement Law, Public Employees’ Retirement Law, and the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, including, among other things, specifying that the Teachers’ Retirement Board has final authority for determining an “employer” or “employing agency” under the Teachers’ Retirement Law, and revising what is considered compensation earnable or pensionable compensation for a member of the Public Employees’ Retirement System who is subject to the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013.

The Assembly amendments incorporate additional changes made by SB 443, to be operative only if this bill and SB 443 are enacted and this bill is enacted last, and make various nonsubstantive corrections.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 40, as it passed the Senate, prohibited a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, or a contract or policy offered in the individual or small group market on or after January 1, 2027, from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or any other cost sharing on an insulin prescription drug that exceeds $35 for a 30-day supply. SB 40, as it passed the Senate, required the cost-sharing cap to apply only to insulin prescription drugs that are in Tier 1 and Tier 2 if an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy maintains a drug formulary grouped into tiers and if there are at least 2 insulins of each drug type in all forms and concentrations on a preferred tier. If there is only one insulin for a given drug type, SB 40, as it passed the Senate, required that one insulin to be placed on Tier 1 or Tier 2 to meet the requirement. SB 40, as it passed the Senate, prohibited a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy that is a high deductible plan from imposing a deductible, coinsurance, or any other cost sharing on an insulin prescription drug, except as specified. SB 40, as it passed the Senate, defined drug type to include, among other things, rapid acting inhaled.

The Assembly amendments clarify that a large group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, is prohibited from imposing the above-described cost-sharing cap on an insulin prescription drug. For a large group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy, the Assembly amendments require at least one insulin for a given drug type in all forms and concentrations to be on the prescription drug formulary. For individual or small group health care service plan contracts or health insurance policies that maintain a drug formulary grouped into tiers, the Assembly amendments remove the condition that there are at least 2 insulins of each drug type in all forms and concentrations on a preferred tier and require at least one insulin for a given drug type in all forms and concentrations to be on Tier 1 or Tier 2. If there is no Tier 1 or Tier 2 insulin prescription drug that is clinically appropriate for an enrollee or insured, the Assembly amendments require the health care service plan or health insurer to impose the cost-sharing cap for a higher tier drug for an individual enrollee or insured. The Assembly amendments prohibit a specified high deductible plan from imposing cost sharing that exceeds $35 for a 30-day supply, except as provided. The Assembly amendments delete rapid acting inhaled from the definition of drug type and make the provisions of SB 40 severable.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 92, as it passed the Senate, specified that a city, county, or city and county is authorized, but not required, to provide, pursuant to certain provisions of the Density Bonus Law, concessions or incentives or waivers or reductions of development standards allowing for an increase in floor area to apply to the nonresidential portion, or specified parking, of a housing development.

The Assembly amendments instead specify that a concession and incentive shall not result in a proposed project, as prescribed, with a specified commercial floor area ratio. The Assembly amendments add a coauthor and make nonsubstantive changes.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 499, as it passed the Senate, revised a provision of the Mitigation Fee Act that allows a local agency to require the payment of fees or charges on designated residential developments before the first certificate of occupancy is issued if the fees or charges are for the construction of public improvements or facilities related to providing fire, public safety, and emergency services. Specifically, SB 499, as it passed the Senate, specified that those public improvements or facilities include parkland and recreational facilities identified in the local agency’s safety element for an emergency purpose, as specified. SB 499, as it passed the Senate, authorized a local agency to use a local hazard mitigation plan in lieu of a safety element for this purpose until January 1, 2031.

The Assembly amendments remove the January 1, 2031, expiration on the authority to use a local hazard mitigation plan for that purpose. The Assembly amendments also require the fees or charges on designated residential developments, as specified, to be consistent with an existing provision of law prohibiting a local agency from imposing fees or charges for water or sewer connections that exceed the estimated reasonable cost for providing the service for which the fee or charge is imposed, except as specified. The Assembly amendments additionally authorize a local agency to collect utility service charges related to connections at the time an application for service is received, as specified.

The Assembly amendments also update Section 66007 of the Government Code to include the latest amended form of that section as a result of the enactment of AB 121, which took effect immediately.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 551, as it passed the Senate, directed the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to maintain a mission statement consistent with the principles of normalization and dynamic security. SB 551, as it passed the Senate, added the promotion of personal growth for all residents in the department’s care to the primary objective of adult incarceration.

The Assembly amendments provide that the department should also develop training for all correctional staff on the principles of normalization and dynamic security.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 250, as it passed the Senate, required the State Department of Health Care Services to include skilled nursing facilities as one of the available searchable provider types through the Medi-Cal Managed Care Health Care Options internet website and any other applicable mechanisms, as part of the health care options information posted by the department.

The Assembly amendments additionally require the department to annually update the above-described provider directory to ensure that information is accurate and readily accessible to the public.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 576, as it passed the Senate, prohibited a video streaming service that serves consumers in the state from transmitting the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany.

The Assembly amendments delay the operation of that prohibition until July 1, 2026, and state that the bill does not create a private right of action.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 21, as it passed the Senate, among other things, established specified eligibility criteria for the purposes of determining eligibility for a unit that received funds from the Department of Housing and Community Development and is for a homeless individual or family, as provided.

The Assembly amendments narrow those eligibility criteria to apply for the purposes of determining eligibility for any individual displaced from or returning to a single-room occupancy unit undergoing rehabilitation or replacement, as provided. The Assembly amendments also make various nonsubstantive changes to the bill’s provisions.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 39, as it passed the Senate, exempted vaginal or vulvar products, if specified conditions are met, from the prohibitions beginning on January 1, 2027, on the manufacture, sale, delivery, holding, or offering for sale in commerce of cosmetic products that contain intentionally added boric acid. SB 39, as it passed the Senate, declared that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

The Assembly amendments instead delay the commencement of the prohibitions described above for vaginal suppository products until January 1, 2035. The Assembly amendments require, beginning on January 1, 2027, any vaginal suppository product containing boric acid to include a specified product label. The Assembly amendments also exempt a vaginal suppository product from the prohibition and labeling requirement described above if the product becomes regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 50, as it passed the Senate, required, except as specified, an account manager, as defined, to terminate or disable a connected device or account access to a perpetrator, as defined, commencing no later than 2 days after a device protection request is submitted to the account manager by a survivor of that perpetrator or by an eligible organization, as defined, on behalf of a survivor. SB 50, as it passed the Senate, specified requirements for a survivor or the eligible organization to submit a device protection request.

The Assembly amendments instead authorize a survivor, as defined, or a designated representative of a survivor, to submit a device protection request to an account manager, as defined, seeking to terminate a perpetrator’s access to a connected device or associated user account. The Assembly amendments instead require an account manager, within 2 business days of receiving a complete device protection request, to terminate or disable the perpetrator’s access to the connected device or user account, or to inform the survivor, in a clear and conspicuous manner, of any methods to reset the device, as provided. The Assembly amendments instead specify the requirements for a device protection request.

SB 50, as it passed the Senate, authorized an account manager to comply with the above-described requirements by including a means by which a person with physical access to the connected device may reset the connected device, as specified. SB 50, as it passed the Senate, required the account manager to notify the survivor or the eligible organization of specified information and required an account manager and any officer, director, employee, vendor, or agent thereof to treat any information submitted by a survivor or the eligible organization as confidential, as specified.

The Assembly amendments remove that authorization. The Assembly amendments instead require the account manager to clearly describe the process to submit a device protection request on their internet website or mobile application and prohibit the account manager from providing specified information to the perpetrator. The Assembly amendments instead require an account manager and any officer, director, employee, vendor, or agent thereof to treat any information submitted by a survivor or a designated representative of a survivor as confidential, as specified. The Assembly amendments additionally prohibit an account manager from, among other things, denying a device protection request due to arrears accrued by the account or associated with the connected device. The Assembly amendments additionally prohibit a survivor from being financially responsible for any amount incurred or charged to the connected device or associated account by the perpetrator, as specified. The Assembly amendments additionally entitle the prevailing plaintiff, as specified, to recover court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 68, as it passed the Senate, required a food facility that serves or sells restaurant-type food to the consumer to, commencing July 1, 2026, provide written notification of the major food allergens contained as an ingredient in each menu item, either directly on the food facility’s menu or in a digital format, as specified. SB 68, as it passed the Senate, specified that its provisions do not apply to compact mobile food operations.

The Assembly amendments instead require food facilities that are part of a chain with 20 or more locations and subject to federal disclosure provisions for nutrient content information, as specified, to, commencing July 1, 2026, provide written notification of the major food allergens that the food facility knows or reasonably should know are contained as an ingredient in each menu item, either directly on its menu or in a digital format. The Assembly amendments also specify that its provisions do not apply to nonpermanent food facilities.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 233, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Housing and Community Development to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodology to be used by the department to determine the region’s housing needs pursuant to prescribed deadlines. SB 233, as it passed the Senate, required, for the 7th revision of the housing element, the department to meet with the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments, among others, at least 26 months prior to the revision, and with other council of governments at least 38 months prior to the revision.

The Assembly amendments additionally require the department to meet with the County of Nevada at least 26 months prior to the revision and instead require the department to meet with the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments and the Sacramento Area Council of Governments at least 34 months prior to the revision. The Assembly amendments also incorporate additional changes to Section 65584.01 of the Government Code proposed by SB 486, to be operative only if SB 233 and SB 486 are enacted and SB 233 is enacted last.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 236, as it passed the Senate, prohibited, commencing January 1, 2030, a person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any hair relaxer product that contains specified ingredients and required a manufacturer of hair relaxer products to register with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, on or before July 1, 2030, and to provide to the department specified information and a registration fee.

The Assembly amendments remove the delayed operation of the prohibitions described above and remove the requirement for a manufacturer of hair relaxer products to register with the department or pay a registration fee.

SB 236, as it passed the Senate, required the department to, on or before January 1, 2028, publish on its internet website a list of accepted testing methods for the testing of the ingredients described above.

The Assembly amendments instead authorize the department to publish on its internet website a list of accepted testing methods for the testing of hair relaxer products for the presence of the ingredients described above.

SB 236, as it passed the Senate, created the C.U.R.L. Act Fund, required all moneys collected from penalties to be deposited in the fund, and authorized the department to create the C.U.R.L. Act Registration Fee Account within the fund.

The Assembly amendments remove the authorization to create the registration fee account.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 241, as it passed the Senate, explicitly required specified community college staff to be persons who meet the minimum qualifications to serve in those positions or the alternative qualifications to serve in those positions.

The Assembly amendments provide that the above-described qualifications requirement does not prohibit community college staff from using artificial intelligence tools to assist in the operations of a community college or in providing services to community college students.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 262, as it passed the Senate, included in the definition of “prohousing local policies,” among other things, the creation or operation of a low-barer navigation center or other noncongregate shelter, as specified.

The Assembly amendments remove that part of the definition and add to the definition the adoption of ordinances, processes, or other mechanisms that expedite, or remove barriers to, the approval of specified types of housing. The Assembly amendments also incorporate additional changes to Section 65589.9 of the Government Code proposed by AB 36 to be operative only if SB 262 and AB 36 are enacted and SB 262 is enacted last.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 355, as it passed the Senate, required, within 60 days of a final judgment being entered against an employer requiring payment to an employee or to the state, as specified, the judgment debtor employer to provide documentation to the Labor Commissioner that the judgment is fully satisfied, a certain bond has been posted, or the judgment debtor entered into an agreement for the judgment to be paid in installments, as prescribed, and is in compliance with that agreement. SB 355, as it passed the Senate, made a judgment debtor employer who fails to comply with that provision liable for a civil penalty and required, if a judgment debtor employer does not comply with that provision, the Labor Commissioner to provide written notice to the judgment debtor employer that the Labor Commissioner will submit the unsatisfied judgment to the Tax Support Division of the Employment Development Department as a notice of potential tax fraud, as prescribed.

The Assembly amendments specify that the civil penalty is assessed in a citation by the Labor Commissioner and require the Labor Commissioner to additionally provide written notice to the judgment debtor that the civil penalty is due within 90 days of the notice.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 386, as it passed the Senate, required a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on and after April 1, 2026, that provides payment directly or through a contracted vendor to a dental provider to have a non-fee-based default method of payment, as specified. SB 386, as it passed the Senate, required, beginning April 1, 2026, a health care service plan, health insurer, or contracted vendor to obtain affirmative consent from a dental provider who opts in to a fee-based payment method before the plan or vendor provides a fee-based payment method to the provider. SB 386, as it passed the Senate, authorized a dental provider to opt out of a fee-based payment method at any time by providing affirmative consent to the health care service plan, health insurer, or contracted vendor. SB 386, as it passed the Senate, required a health care service plan, health insurer, or contracted vendor that obtains affirmative consent to opt in or opt out of fee-based payment to apply the decision to include both the dental provider’s entire practice and all products or services covered pursuant to a contract with the dental provider, as specified.

The Assembly amendments instead make all of these provisions operative on April 1, 2026, and specify that these provisions apply to health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after that date.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 852, as it passed the Senate, eliminated the requirement that a bill amending the Political Reform Act of 1974 be delivered to the Fair Political Practices Commission for distribution to the news media and every person who has requested a copy, and instead required an otherwise proper amendment of the act to be printed, distributed to the Members of the Legislature, and published on the internet.

The Assembly amendments additionally expand the list of individuals that must file their statements of economic interest with the commission using the commission’s electronic filing system to include public officials who manage public investments.

The Assembly amendments expand the prohibition on the receipt, delivery, or attempted delivery of a contribution in the State Capitol, any state office building, or any office for which the state pays the majority of the rent, other than a legislative district office, to also apply to any local government office buildings and offices for which the state or a local government pays rent. The Assembly amendments further eliminate the exception to this prohibition applicable to legislative district offices.

The Assembly amendments eliminate the requirement for the Citizens Redistricting Commission to fill a vacancy that occurs on or after December 31 of a year ending in 2 within 90 days, and instead, authorize the commission to fill that vacancy.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.