FLOOR SESSION AGENDA - Regular Session:Check-in Session - 9:00 a.m.

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 85, as it passed the Senate, authorized a court to direct a summons to be served in a manner that is reasonably calculated to give actual notice to the party to be served, including by electronic mail or other electronic technology, if no provision is made in statute for the service of summons, or if a plaintiff, using due diligence, has been unable to serve the summons using methods prescribed by statute. The bill excepted actions against public entities or agents or employees of public entities from these provisions.

The Assembly amendments require a motion for the court to exercise this authority and change the standard from due diligence to reasonable diligence if a plaintiff has been unable to serve the summons using methods prescribed by statute. The Assembly amendments require a plaintiff seeking to establish reasonable diligence to set forth facts that detail, as specified, the attempts to effect service pursuant to the methods prescribed by statute.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 119, as it passed the Senate, expressed the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2025.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of the bill as it passed the Senate. The Assembly amendments enact the public social services trailer bill, and declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the budget bill. The Assembly amendments enact, among other things, provisions relating to requirements for the State Department of Social Services, through the Office of Child Abuse Prevention, to develop a standardized curriculum for mandated reporters, to require the California Child Welfare Council to establish a Mandated Reporting Advisory Committee, requirements for all placing agencies, beginning January 1, 2026, to complete Integrated Practice-Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessments for every child and nonminor dependent placed in foster care under the care and supervision of the placing agency, as specified, and specifying the rates to be paid for components of the Tiered Rate Structure.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 765, as it passed the Senate, established the giant garter snake (Thamnophis gigas) as the official state snake, and made related findings and declarations.

The Assembly amendments make nonsubstantive changes to those findings and declarations.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 394, as it passed the Senate, among other things, authorized a utility to bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts to tamper with a fire hydrant, fire hydrant meter, or fire detector check, or diverts water, or causes water to be diverted, from a fire hydrant with knowledge of, or reason to believe, that the diversion or unauthorized connection existed at the time of use for nonfirefighting purposes or without authorization from the appropriate water system or fire department.

The Assembly amendments add to the list of acts for which a civil action may be brought to include connecting to a fire hydrant. The Assembly amendments, rather than require knowledge or reason to believe the use was for nonfirefighting purposes or without authorization, instead require the acts to occur without authorization from the utility that owns the fire hydrant. The Assembly amendments provide that a public agency having firefighting or emergency response responsibilities during a fire, or a qualified insurance resource, as defined, with approval from incident command or the authority having jurisdiction over the active fire incident, shall be considered to have authorization from the utility during an active fire incident.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 459, as it passed the Senate, gave a law enforcement personnel the right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing group peer support services, as defined. SB 459 also prohibited a recipient of peer support services from being examined as to any knowledge gained from other recipients of group peer support services without the consent of the person to whom the information relates.

The Assembly amendments remove the provisions prohibiting a recipient of peer support services from being examined as to any knowledge gained from other recipients of group peer support services, as specified. The Assembly amendments additionally gives a law enforcement personnel the right to refuse to disclose, and prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services made while a peer support team member or mental health professional provides group peer support services to those recipients. The Assembly amendments authorize disclosure of a confidential communication in a juvenile delinquency proceeding, and expand the definition of confidential communication to include the communication between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 757, as it passed the Senate, authorized, until January 1, 2035, the legislative body of a city or county to collect fines for specified violations related to nuisance abatement using a nuisance abatement lien or a special assessment and required those fines and penalties to be used for specified housing purposes relating to supporting local enforcement of state and local building and fire code standards.

The Assembly amendments instead require those fines and penalties to be used to fund efforts within city or county government, as applicable, to streamline the issuance of permits for housing development or to establish a revolving loan fund for specified housing purposes.

SB 757, as it passed the Senate, required the city or county to create a process for granting a hardship waiver to reduce the amount of the above-described fine upon a specified showing by the responsible person. SB 757, as it passed the Senate, also required the enforcing entity to provide 30 days, as specified, to a person responsible for a continuing violation to correct or remedy the violation prior to the imposition of penalties, except as provided.

The Assembly amendments also require the hardship waiver to totally waive fines and penalties for persons with income equal to or less than 200% of the federal poverty line and require the enforcing entity to provide 60 days to correct or remedy continuing violations.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.