CalChamber Bill Positions

Chamber Oppose Bills as of 12/5/2024

AB 9   Muratsuchi D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Greenhouse Gases. Imposes additional evaluation criteria on California’s cap-and-trade program that will lead to market instability and increased costs for consumers. Job Killer status removed due to April 17, 2023 amendments, but CalChamber remains opposed.
Status: 2/1/2024-Died on inactive file.

AB 68   Ward D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Quashes Housing. Worsens California’s existing housing crisis by preventing local governments from permitting new housing units in most of their jurisdictions, prioritizing only infill development at the exclusion of new housing outside these limited areas.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 83   Lee D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bans Political Contributions: This unconstitutional proposal bans corporations with 50% or more of foreign investment from contributing to campaigns or independent expenditures.
Status: 2/1/2024-Died on third reading file.

AB 102   Ting D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
State budget bill, v.2. Updates the state budget and appropriates money to re-start the Industrial Welfare Commission, but limits its authority to change regulations that will unduly burden employers.
Status: 7/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 38, Statutes of 2023.

AB 167   Committee on Budget  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Multifaceted Taxation Budget Trailer Bill. This bill contains a retroactive change to the Apportionment Factor for businesses that file on a water’s-edge basis. It also caps business incentive tax credits and suspends the Net Operating Loss deduction.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was BUDGET & F.R. on 7/1/2024)

AB 259   Lee D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Wealth Tax. Seeks to impose a massive tax increase upon all forms of personal property or wealth, whether tangible or intangible, despite California already having the highest income tax in the country. This tax increase will drive high-income earners out of the State as well as the revenue they contribute to the General Fund.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 316   Aguiar-Curry D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Vehicles: autonomous vehicles: Codifies an arbitrary date by which heavy duty autonomous vehicles will need to keep a human safety operator within the vehicle and bypasses state’s current regulatory process.
Status: 3/3/2024-Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5.

AB 331   Bauer-Kahan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bias and Discrimination Through Automated Decision Tools. Regulates all uses of automated decision tools (ADT) making consequential decisions with overly broad prescriptive mandates on how ADT developers/deployers assess and deploy the tools, including by conducting non-confidential impact assessments and requiring notice and opportunity to opt-out to be provided to individuals subject to an ADT. Makes “algorithmic discrimination” violations subject to a civil action brought by public prosecutors including the Attorney General. Sets penalties up to $10,000 for each failure to submit the mandated ADT assessment to the Civil Rights Department and allows CRD to share these assessments for any purpose with other state agencies.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 363   Bauer-Kahan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Product Regulation. Presupposes outcomes of DPR review of neonicotinoid insecticides and dictates regulation of those products.
Status: 10/8/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 520, Statutes of 2023.

AB 418   Gabriel D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Chemical Ban. AB 418 (Gabriel; D-Woodland Hills) Prior to amendments striking Titanium Dioxide from the bill, the bill banned five food chemical additives found to be safe by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Opposition removed after the bill narrowed its scope of chemicals banned. Signed—Chapter 328
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 328, Statutes of 2023.

AB 421   Bryan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Dismantles Referendum Process. Makes unnecessary changes to the state’s direct democracy process, which will make referenda more confusing for voters.
Status: 9/8/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 162, Statutes of 2023.

AB 429   Bennett D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Groundwater Restriction. Adds new regulatory layer to groundwater well permitting processes with unclear triggers for applicability. Increases costs and liability risks associated with well permitting.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 524   Wicks D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Expansion of Litigation Under FEHA. Exposes employers to costly litigation under the Fair Employment and Housing Act by asserting that any adverse employment action was in relation to the employee’s family caregiver status, which is broadly defined to include any employee who provides direct care of any person of their choosing and creates a de facto accommodation requirement that will burden small businesses.
Status: 1/29/2024-Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.

AB 560   Bennett D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Groundwater Adjudication Proceedings. Imposes new requirements for courts to consult with State Water Board prior to entering a final judgment in a groundwater adjudication, raising questions about role of executive in the judiciary.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/9/2024)

AB 591   Gabriel D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Electric Vehicle Service Equipment. Creates a standard that conflicts with federal guidelines for electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was TRANS. on 5/10/2023)

AB 594   Maienschein D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Public Prosecutor Enforcement: Allows all public prosecutors to enforce significant portion of the Labor Code, risking inconsistent enforcement and with no protection against public prosecutors contracting out their enforcement authority to private attorneys.
Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 659, Statutes of 2023.

AB 597   Rodriguez D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Workers’ Compensation Presumption: Costly expansion of workers’ compensation presumption for PTSD to private employees that is not supported by data.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 647   Holden D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Grocery Workers. Significantly expands statute related to successor grocery employers, including disrupting the ability for independent small stores to join together and creating a significant new private right of action.
Status: 10/8/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 452, Statutes of 2023.

AB 652   Lee D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Product Regulation. Increases regulatory red tape through creating a duplicative advisory committee.
Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 662, Statutes of 2023.

AB 657   Jackson D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Targeted Tax. Targeted tax on candy distributors designed to fund a mental health servicing fund.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 747   McCarty D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Non-Compete Agreements. Imposes steep, mandatory $5,000 per employee penalty on business of any size if it is determined that they presented an employee or contractor with a non-compete clause that is unenforceable and augments existing sale of ownership exemption.
Status: 2/1/2024-Died on third reading file.

AB 800   Ortega D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Workplace Law Education and Work Permits. Adjusts educational curriculum to add emphasis to labor movement history and its positive contributions, as well as suggesting a labor-sponsored think tank prepare a form for distribution to all students seeking work permits.
Status: 9/30/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 271, Statutes of 2023.

AB 828   Connolly D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Unfair Exemption. Exempts certain water users from fees and regulations under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), increasing the burdens borne by agricultural and business water users.
Status: 9/25/2024-Vetoed by Governor.

AB 836   Essayli R  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Declaring Social Media Platforms a “Traditional First Amendment Forum”. Declares any social media platform “located in California” to be a traditional First Amendment forum, as set forth in PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robbins (1980) 447 U.S. 74, and requires them to develop a policy or mechanism to address content or communications that constitute unprotected speech. Ultimately impedes companies’ ability to moderate illegal content on their platforms and exposes users to many forms of harmful speech (both running afoul of the First Amendment and the Section 230 preemption clause of the Communications Decency Act and wasting judicial resources to litigate the issue) and conflicts with recent social media laws passed by the California Legislature. For purposes of this bill, any platform with a user located in California would be considered to be “located in California” even if the person operating the platform does not operate a business in California.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 868   Wilson D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Burdens on Political Speech: Requires State’s FPPC to set up massive new database and bureaucracy to manage and compile most digital advertisements, which can already be tracked via Secretary of State.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/21/2023)

AB 874   Weber D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Health Care Cost Driver. Increases premiums for California’s employers by requiring health plans, insurers, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) take any amounts paid for an enrollee or insured's out-of-pocket expenses using a discount, repayment, product voucher, or other reduction and count them towards their health plan or policy's cost-sharing requirement.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 886   Wicks D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Fees for Content Clicks. Requires internet platforms to pay usage fee to any “eligible digital journalism provider” for the platforms’ website links to the provider’s content. Violates the First Amendment and forces social media to fund potentially misleading or otherwise problematic content; favors large conglomerates over small and independent outlets by basing fees on the number of “clicks” or views that they attract, rather than the quality of reporting or number of journalists employed; and also undermines the open internet and conflicts with copyright law, giving content creators unprecedented rights when others merely link to their work.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was RLS. on 8/15/2024)

AB 913   Petrie-Norris D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Pharmacy Network Disruption. Limits the use of preferred pharmacy networks and financial incentives which will lead to increased drug costs for patients.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 919   Kalra D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Costly Housing Mandate. Creates a cumbersome new process and invites costly lawsuits by forcing owners of residential property to offer tenants first right to buy the rental property before placing their property on the open marketplace. The process is convoluted and sets up a costly, unrealistic extended timeline that creates a back-and-forth between the landlord and tenant that forces landlords to respond to any and every demand from the tenant or risk lawsuits, thereby stalling the sale of a property for months.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 985   Arambula D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Emission Reduction Credit System: Arbitrarily dismantles a program established by a local air district to allow for the voluntary reduction of emissions beyond current requirements.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was RECONSIDERATION on 9/12/2023)

AB 1000   Reyes D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
De Facto Ban of Warehouses. Mandates a statewide setback of 1,000 feet from sensitive receptors for all new or expanded logistics use facilities, regardless of environmental impacts, establishing a de facto ban. Also creates a new private right of action in California.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 1008   Bauer-Kahan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Personal Information Formats. Seeks to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to clarify the formats in which personal information (PI) can exist, but instead increases confusion by inaccurately describing those formats and misleading consumers and businesses as to how existing law operates and how AI systems and large language models store personal data. Not only do clarifications mandate accuracy, which is lacking from AB 1008, but the CCPA is already widely acknowledged to be a technology-neutral, industry-neutral and comprehensive data privacy law where protections do not hinge on how the data is collected, the format in which it exists, is transmitted, or stored unless it is exempted, deidentified, or aggregate consumer information.
Status: 9/28/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 802, Statutes of 2024.

AB 1048   Wicks D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Dental Benefit Cost Driver. Increases premiums for California’s employers and employees by prohibiting plans and insurers that cover dental services from imposing dental waiting periods or preexisting condition provisions.
Status: 10/8/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 557, Statutes of 2023.

AB 1156   Bonta D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Workers’ compensation presumption: hospital employees. Expands Costly Presumption of Injury. Significantly increases workers’ compensation costs for public and private hospitals by presuming certain diseases and injuries are caused by the workplace and establishes an extremely concerning precedent for expanding presumptions into the private sector.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 1157   Ortega D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Durable Medical Equipment Mandate. Increases premiums for California’s employers and employees by requiring health plans and insurers to cover rehabilitative and habilitative services including durable medical equipment (DME), services, and repairs.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/14/2023)

AB 1213   Ortega D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Tolling Temporary Disability Payments – Requires tolling of temporary disability payments if Utilization Review decision is overturned during Independent Medical Review, which will drastically increase the number of unnecessary Independent Medical Review requests and is unnecessary in light of data supporting accuracy of Utilization Review decisions.
Status: 1/30/2024-Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.

AB 1290   Rivas, Luz D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bans Critical Packaging. Would circumvent the Circular Economy framework outlined in Senate Bill 54 (Allen-2022) by banning critically needed packaging used for products like over the counter medicines and to extend the shelf life of food products.
Status: 2/1/2024-Died on inactive file.

AB 1305   Gabriel D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Voluntary Carbon Emissions Offsets: Imposes duplicative reporting requirements on buyers and sellers of carbon offsets participating in the voluntary carbon offset market.
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 365, Statutes of 2023.

AB 1337   Wicks D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Water Rights. Gives broad authority to State Water Board to curtail water rights of any seniority or claim of right. Allows curtailments to issue without a hearing, depriving water rights holders of due process.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was N.R. & W. on 6/7/2023)

AB 1347   Ting D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Paper Receipt Ban. Prohibits any person or entity from printing a paper receipt in California unless expressly asked for by the consumer regardless of whether that entity has that technological capability or uses paper receipt to prevent retail theft. Further, bans BPA/BPS thermal paper by 2024.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/21/2023)

AB 1356   Haney D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
WARN Act Expansion: Significantly expands WARN Act by increasing notice period, changing definition of covered establishment, and expanding applicability to workers under overly broad definition of “employee of a labor contractor.”
Status: 2/1/2024-Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.

AB 1381   Weber D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Call Centers: Increases costs of state contracts by requiring call center operations to be located in California where contract is unrelated to call center services.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was G.O. on 6/14/2023)

AB 1394   Wicks D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Social Media Platform for Harmful Content by Users. Starting January 1, 2025, requires social media platforms to (1) “permanently block” reported material that is displayed, stored, or hosted on the platform where there is a reasonable basis to believe the reported material is child sexual abuse material where the report contains basic identifying information, as specified, (2) make reasonable efforts to remove and block other instances of the same reporter material, and (3) provide a reasonably accessible mechanism that allows users who are California residents to report material that meets such criteria, among other things. A platform must, with limited exceptions, comply with these requirements within 30 days of the report subject to significant liability, including statutory damages up to $250,000 per violation. Any platform that knowingly facilitates, aids, or abets commercial sexual exploitation under this bill is also subject to liability of not less than $1 million and up to $4 million unless it took action within 30 days of the completion of a specified biennial audit to mitigate or eliminate not only anything that violates, but that contributes to a violation of this bill. In addition to raising significant constitutionality issues and being federally preempted under Section 230, the bill creates significant implementation issues for platforms.
Status: 10/8/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 579, Statutes of 2023.

AB 1414   Kalra D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Requiring Additional Proof to Collect Debts in Court. Disallows a long-time practice of using so-called "book accounts" or "common counts" to prove a debt, and instead requires original contracts and/or documents. Particularly problematic for collection of long-term debts, such as credit cards.
Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 688, Statutes of 2023.

AB 1546   Gabriel D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Timeline for Enforcing Privacy Act. Extends the time within which the Attorney General (AG) may begin civil enforcement actions under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) from one year to 5 years from the date that a cause of action accrued to seemingly provide parity with administrative actions begun by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA). However, unlike CPPA administrative actions, provides no opportunity to cure before the civil action is begun. Does not toll damages if the AG could have begun enforcement within the first year, thereby allowing damages to accrue for the time before the enforcement action made the violation known to the alleged violator.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/21/2023)

AB 1563   Bennett D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Groundwater Restriction. Adds new regulatory layer to groundwater well permitting processes. Increases costs and liability risks associated with well permitting.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was L. GOV. on 5/22/2024)

AB 1588   Wilson D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Affordable Internet and Net Equality Act. Inappropriately complicates state procurement contracts rather than focus on the goal of securing more eligible Californians enroll in the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) to get broadband services.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

AB 1590   Friedman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Unnecessary Regulations On Hotels. Duplicates and conflicts with existing auditing and reporting requirements with the California Coastal Commission, County Agricultural Commission, California Department of Food and Agriculture that hotels and resorts are already subject to, creates a new whistleblower protection for any disgruntled employee to go to the media with and conflicts with CRV and SB 54 (Allen) laws that already address single use plastics and single-serve items.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 1645   Zbur D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Prohibits STI Cost Sharing. Increases premiums for California’s employers and employees by prohibiting health plans and insurers from imposing cost sharing requirements for coverage of recommended sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening.
Status: 1/29/2024-Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.

AB 1714   Wood D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Reduces Broadband Access. Places broadband service under the Public Utilities Commission, which is already overburdened with their current responsibilities. Will slow the deployment of broadband and lead to less investment in California.
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

AB 1757   Kalra D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Website Accessibility. Creates further litigation abuses in California related to online website accessibility, while providing illusory protection against such abuse.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 6/24/2024)

AB 1791   Weber D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Digital Content Provenance. Mandates removal of certain information from user-generated content; however, technology doesn’t currently exist to do so. Conflicts with other pending legislation.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 7/1/2024)

AB 1800   Jones-Sawyer D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Liability for Illegal Substances on Social Media. Imposes extreme standard of both civil and criminal liability on any social media company that fails to prevent a user of their platform from breaking the law by selling controlled substances on the platform, despite the fact that companies already expend millions of dollars to try and prevent such abuse of their platforms. Effectively makes platforms guilty of a misdemeanor for failing be perfect in their efforts. Amendments on April 1, 2024 remove criminal liability, replacing the contents of the bill to instead authorize any person who suffers an injury that is “proximately caused” by the illegal purchase of a controlled substance through a social media platform, to bring a claim, pursuant to the existing law statute allowing a private right of action for negligence, to recover specified statutory and actual damages if it is shown that the injury was occasioned, in whole or in part, by the negligent management of the platform. Entitles a prevailing plaintiff to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and grants significant damages, including $100,000 per violation in statutory damages, $500,000 per violation in statutory damages or double the actual damages (whichever is greater) if the violation results in death, $1 million per violation or treble the amount in actual damages if involving the death of a minor. If the minor was too young to be a user of a social medial platform without their parent’s or guardian’s permission and the platform has not used the best available technology or reasonable measures to obtain permission directly from the parent or guardian, this increases to $2 million dollars or treble the actual damages, whichever is greater.
Status: 5/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was JUD. on 4/4/2024)

AB 1826   Holden D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Undoes Statewide Video Agreements. Undoes statewide video franchise agreements and creates complex and duplicative local government oversight.
Status: 9/28/2024-Vetoed by Governor.

AB 1836   Bauer-Kahan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Liability for Digital Replicas of Deceased Personalities. Specifies that any person who produces, distributes, or makes available the digital replica of a deceased personality’s voice or likeness in an expressive audiovisual work or sound recording without prior consent is liable to any injured party in an amount equal to the greater of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or the actual damages suffered by a person controlling the rights to the deceased personality’s likeness. Recent amendments include various exceptions to the extent that the use is protected by the First Amendment, if the use of the digital replica meets certain criteria. For example, if the use if in connection with any news, public affairs, or sports broadcast or account, or for purpose of comment, criticism, scholarship, satire or parody.
Status: 9/17/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 258, Statutes of 2024.

AB 1889   Friedman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Exacerbates Housing Crisis. Worsens California’s existing housing crisis by imposing a new mandate on local governments to create a new wildlife corridor land use element in all general plans. In doing so, the bill would invite further exclusionary housing ordinances throughout California as well as additional new litigation to challenge the development of housing projects. Wildlife Corridors are already analyzed and protected for under existing laws, including the California Environmental Quality Act, the Federal and State Endangered Species Act as well as other laws and regulations.
Status: 9/27/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 686, Statutes of 2024.

AB 1949   Wicks D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Vastly Expands Existing Opt-in Rights for Children's Data. Prohibits businesses covered under the California Consumer Privacy Act from selling or sharing the personal information (PI) of anyone under the age of 18 unless the minor or the minor’s parent/guardian provide affirmative authorization (opting in), whereas the CCPA currently applies the opt-in right to minors under the age of 16, conditioned upon the business having actual knowledge that the minor is under 16. Further expands the right to opt-in to also now restrict the ability of businesses to collect, use or disclose minor’s PI or sensitive personal information, unless the minor or the minor’s parent or guardian, opts-in. In neither scenario is actual knowledge required, effectively forcing businesses to engage in age verification for every consumer and obtain opt-in consent from those shown to be under 18.
Status: 9/28/2024-Vetoed by Governor.

AB 1963   Friedman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Product Ban. Bans the herbicide paraquat, which is important for controlling weeds in agricultural crop production.
Status: 9/27/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 688, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2028   Ortega D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Dental Coverage Cost Driver. Increases dental care coverage premiums for employers by instituting a dental medical loss ratio.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was HEALTH on 2/12/2024)

AB 2066   Reyes D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Requires the European Method to make decaffeinated coffee to provide a misleading warning label that contradicts the safety determinations of the European Union, the United States and other food safety authorities around the world.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024)

AB 2079   Bennett D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Groundwater Restriction. Prevents installation of new or replacement groundwater wells throughout much of the state. Circumvents the local control component of Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) by creating statewide stringent requirements on wells rather than empowering locally informed solutions to groundwater sustainability.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was N.R. & W. on 5/29/2024)

AB 2149   Connolly D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
New obligations and liability for properties with gates. Creates new obligations around gates accessible to the public, including repeated inspection, and potential attorney's fees for related lawsuits.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

AB 2180   Weber D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Health Care Cost Driver. Increases premiums for California’s employers by requiring health plans, insurers, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) take any amounts paid for an enrollee or insured out-of-pocket expenses using a manufacturer’s discount and count them towards their health plan or policy's cost-sharing requirement if that enrollee or insured has a chronic disease or terminal illness.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024)

AB 2193   Holden D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Vague Liability for Educational Institutions. Creates liability for both secondary and post-secondary educational institutions related to allegations of hazing and creates a list of measures that institutions must undertake in order to avoid presumptive liability.
Status: 9/27/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 704, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2200   Kalra D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Government Run Health Care. Forces all Californians into a new untested state government health plan, with no ability to opt out while eliminating Medicare for California seniors and increasing taxes at least $250 billion a year on workers, income, jobs, goods and services.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024)

AB 2230   Bennett D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Worsens Housing Crisis. Substantially shuts down the production of housing in California by blocking the inflow of crucial capital that nearly all housing production relies on. The Cartwright Act already protects against price fixing so expanding it as contemplated by this bill is unnecessary and will have the unintended consequence of making any return on investment a crime.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was JUD. on 3/4/2024)

AB 2239   Bonta D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Slows Broadband Deployment. Slows down the deployment of broadband in California and will likely lead to litigation.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

AB 2286   Aguiar-Curry D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Autonomous vehicles. Would effectively ban autonomous truck deployments by requiring a “human safety operator” to be physically present in all heavy duty autonomous vehicles.
Status: 9/27/2024-Vetoed by Governor.

AB 2316   Gabriel D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bans Color Additives in Public Schools. Circumvents the FDA and bans color additives including titanium dioxide in public schools irrespective of the science that demonstrates the use of these ingredients is safe and helps extend food shelf life. In doing so, the bill sets a poor precedent of the Legislature acting as the scientific authority on the safety of food ingredients based on limited science and in contradiction to the staff scientists inside entire agencies dedicated to establishing the safety of food products in the marketplace.
Status: 9/28/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 914, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2374   Haney D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Joint Liability for Businesses of All Sizes. Originally imposed new statutory joint liability on business of any size that contracts for janitorial services if a contractor violates the Displaced Janitor Opportunity Act and placed new mandates on those businesses that should be assigned to the contractor. Job killer status removed due to May 16, 2024 amendments removing joint liability portion of the bill and making other changes. CalChamber remains opposed unless amended due to the requirement that an awarding authority must provide certain notifications to a union representing another entity’s employees.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

AB 2421   Low D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Employee-Union Agent Evidentiary Privilege. Effectively creates a new, broad evidentiary privilege in the public sector that is one-sided and will preclude relevant evidence during litigation or workplace investigations.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

AB 2439   Quirk-Silva D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)

Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. on 4/18/2024)

AB 2481   Lowenthal D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Youth Social Media Protection Act. Requires “large social media platforms” to create a process to verify an expansive list of individuals as “verified reporters,” including school principals and counselors, among others, which will result in over 146,000 verified reporters," each of which can make a report of a “social media related threat” or a violation of the platforms terms of service that in in their opinion poses a “severe risk” to the health and safety of a minor. A “social media related threat” is content that promotes, incites, facilitates, or perpetuates any one of 15 problems, many of which are entirely subjective (e.g. suicide, cyberbullying, harassment, academic dishonesty). Depending on the size of a platform, a platform must then respond to any report by a non-verified reporter within 10-21 days or, if the report is submitted by a verified reporter, within 24-72 hours. Violations are subject to a private right of action by any person making a report, or unable to make a report, in violation of the bill for relief, including statutory damages of up to $10,000 per violation.
Status: 9/28/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 832, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2489   Ward D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Local entity contracts. Significantly limits the ability of public entities to contract with local small businesses or non-profits.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024)

AB 2499   Schiavo D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Leave Expansion: Significantly expands 12-week leave related to crimes and lowers threshold of applicability to employers with just five employees. Job Killer tag removed due to May 20, 2024 amendments and June 6, 2024 amendments applying leave to employers with 25 or more employees, limiting qualifying reasons for taking leave, and limiting duration of time for specific qualifying reasons.
Status: 9/29/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 967, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2515   Papan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
PFAS Regulation Menstrual Products. Holds manufacturers liable for intentionally adding, or even if the mere presence of, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to menstrual products, thereby holding liable manufacturers that are adding it the same as those manufacturers that do not.
Status: 9/30/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1008, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2535   Bonta D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Trade Corridor Enhancement Program: Prohibits the California Transportation Commission from authorizing funding in certain areas in the state. This would severely hamper efficient goods movement and also lead to significant safety concerns.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/8/2024)

AB 2557   Ortega D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Local entity contracts. Significantly limits the ability of public entities to contract with local small businesses or non-profits.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

AB 2584   Lee D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Exacerbates Housing Crisis. Treats homebuilders and institutional investors as one and the same in a new unworkable law that will stymie the development of much needed housing in a state facing critical shortages.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was JUD. on 5/29/2024)

AB 2587   Aguiar-Curry D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Unlimited Reviver of Expired Claims of Sexual Assault. Revives any and all sexual assault claims that have passed their statute of limitations, regardless of age, effectively encouraging shakedown lawsuits and settlements where all evidence has long-since been lost.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 7/1/2024)

AB 2602   Kalra D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Digital Replicas: Limits the use of digital replicas in performances of personal or professional services.
Status: 9/17/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 259, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2619   Connolly D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Net Energy Metering: Unwinds a multi year public stakeholder process, perpetuates a massive cost shift, and could lead to a less reliable grid.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was U. & E. on 3/4/2024)

AB 2648   Bennett D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bans 100% Recyclable Bottles. Prohibits the state from purchasing and all food services inside state facilities from offering any single-use plastic bottled beverages despite this packaging having one of the highest recycling rates in the country and despite the negative impacts to both the environment and state budget from using less efficient and more expensive packaging.
Status: 5/24/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 5/24/2024)

AB 2654   Fong, Vince R  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Outlawing Necessary Non-Disclosure Agreements Between Lobbyists and Client Companies. Prohibits Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) including either lobbyists or government officials related to legislation, making it impossible for companies to retain lobbyists and share their trade secret or proprietary information with those lobbyists.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was ELECTIONS on 4/22/2024)

AB 2655   Berman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act. Based on a false assumption that online platforms definitively know whether content has been manipulated, requires large platforms to (1) block the posting or sending of materially deceptive and digitally modified or created content related to elections, during specified periods before and after an election, (2) label certain additional content inauthentic, fake, or false during specified periods before and after an election, and (3) develop procedures for Californians to report content that has not been blocked or labeled in compliance with the act. Authorizes candidates for elected office and the Attorney General, among others, to seek injunctive relief against a large online platform for noncompliance. Unlikely to have the desired outcomes as it is underinclusive (excluding platforms such as Truth Social or Parler) and incorrectly presumes platforms are the appropriate arbiter in deciding what constitutes election information. Instead, will result in significant suppression of political speech out of fear of liability, in violation of the First Amendment which affords the broadest protection to political speech – even protecting allegedly false statements about public officials and figures.
Status: 9/17/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 261, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2738   Rivas, Luz D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Labor Code enforcement. Removes court discretion to award attorney's fees and costs and instead mandates fee award, creating concern regarding financial motive in litigation.
Status: 9/29/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 969, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2751   Haney D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Prohibition on Employee Communications During Certain Hours: Prohibits any employee working for an employer of any size from contacting another employee outside of their normal work hours except in very narrow circumstances and would subject employer to costly litigation for any dispute as to whether the communication was permissible.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/8/2024)

AB 2753   Ortega D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Durable Medical Equipment Mandate. Increases premiums for California’s employers and employees by requiring health plans and insurers to cover rehabilitative and habilitative services including durable medical equipment (DME), services, and repairs.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 4/17/2024)

AB 2754   Rendon D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Joint Liability. Creates joint and several liability for any entity that uses a carrier found to have misclassified a worker, regardless of the volume of work that entity uses the carrier for.
Status: 9/27/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 739, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2761   Hart D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Packaging Ban. Bans certain types of packaging and imposes civil penalties.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was E.Q. on 6/5/2024)

AB 2762   Friedman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Reusable Beverage Policy. Compels beverage manufacturers to report on significant changes aimed at phasing out non-reusable beverage containers.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024)

AB 2765   Pellerin D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Telecom Service during Emergencies. Leads to the CPUC opening an unnecessary and costly proceeding.
Status: 9/27/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 740, Statutes of 2024.

AB 2773   Kalra D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Reduction of Evidentiary Standards for Elder Abuse. Increases unnecessary litigation for alleged elder abuse by allowing the opportunity for a plaintiff to reduce the evidentiary standard from clear and convincing evidence to preponderance of evidence if evidence is lost or destroyed.
Status: 9/29/2024-Vetoed by Governor.

AB 2800   Kalra D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Reduction of Evidentiary Standards for Elder Abuse. Increases unnecessary litigation for alleged elder abuse by allowing for the reduction of the evidentiary standard from clear and convincing evidence to preponderance of evidence.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was AGING & L.T.C. on 3/21/2024)

AB 2808   Wicks D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Prohibiting Venues from Using a Single Ticket Vendor. Prohibits entertainment venues from using a single ticket vendor, effectively ensuring secondary ticket re-sellers can act as direct sellers and rendering security measures more difficult to implement. Also removes control of ticket sales from venues by requiring artists to be able to determine terms and conditions of ticket sales.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024)

AB 2829   Papan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Tax on Digital Advertising Revenue. Implements a new tax on digital ads of 5%. In addition to increasing taxes on businesses, it is likely unconstitutional.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE on 4/29/2024)

AB 2870   Muratsuchi D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Increases State Emission. Eviscerates the state’s dairy methane reduction program and will lead to increased emissions and will make it hard to meet the state’s climate goals
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was AGRI. on 4/22/2024)

AB 2877   Bauer-Kahan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Restricting information available to train AI. Amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to prohibit a developer, as defined, from using the personal information (PI) of a consumer less than 16 years of age, as specified, to train or “fine-tune” an AI system or service unless affirmative authorization is provided pursuant to the CCPA’s provisions providing opt-out/opt-in rights. Because another pending bill, AB 1949 would also amend the existing opt-out/opt-in rights for minors under that same provision, potentially could apply to any consumer under the age of 18. Even if authorization is received, businesses would be prohibited from using the PI of minors unless they both deidentify and aggregate the data. By limiting inputs, this bill regulates the technology itself, hamstringing developers from appropriately training the technology. Realistically, forces companies to engage in either age verification or not use any PI to train any AI. Even if they are able to age verify consumers, unintended consequences are likely significant, because access to data specific to children and teens is essential to develop tools to provide them unique support for risks and challenges specific to their age groups.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

AB 2930   Bauer-Kahan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
ADT Impact Assessments. Requires developers and deployers of automated decision tools (ADTs) to perform specified impact assessments prior to first using an ADT and annually thereafter, impacting every industry and businesses of all sizes, in addition to public entities. For any ADT first used prior to January 1, 2025, the impact assessment must be conducted prior to January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter. Impact assessments must include, among other things, a statement of the ADT’s purpose, intended benefits, uses, and deployment contexts, as well as an analysis of any potential adverse impacts based on protected classifications such as sex, race, ethnicity, or religion, from the deployer’s use of the ADT, and must be provided to the Civil Rights Department (CRD) within 7 days of a request by CRD, which is allowed to share the impact assessment with public prosecutors. Enforceable by the CRD, Attorney General, and other public attorneys for significant statutory damages ranging between $10,000 (for administrative enforcement) and $25,000 (for civil enforcement), per violation, with each day constituting a separate violation.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 8/31/2024)

AB 3043   Rivas, Luz D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)

Status: 7/4/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was L., P.E. & R. on 6/5/2024)

AB 3048   Lowenthal D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Opt-Out Preference Signals. Prematurely mandates browsers to include a universal opt-out preference signal, an issue specifically addressed by voters in Proposition 24 in 2020 and has been clearly drafted to provide businesses greater flexibility. Effective January 1, 2026, prohibits businesses from developing or maintaining a browser that does not include a setting that enables consumers to send an “opt-out preference signal” (opting out from the selling or sharing of the consumer’s PI or limiting the use of their sensitive PI) to other businesses that the consumer interacts with through the browser, “unless prohibited by federal law.” Also applies the prohibition to businesses developing or maintaining a mobile operating system that does not include such a setting if it becomes operative within 6 months after California Privacy Protection Agency regulations are issued. Invariably will lead to significant confusion and compliance problems as downstream businesses receive conflicting signals, and even more complicated as states adopt different standards for these signals.
Status: 9/20/2024-Vetoed by Governor.

AB 3129   Wood D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Stifles Free Market Transactions for Health Entities. Requires private investors to obtain the consent of the California Attorney General before acquiring or effecting a change of control with respect to certain health care entities.
Status: 9/28/2024-Vetoed by Governor.

AB 3155   Friedman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Oil and Gas Wells: Civil Liability. Sets disturbing precedent by creating liability without proof for oil well owners/operators if individuals who lived within 3,200 feet of a wellhead develop certain health conditions.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 5/30/2024)

AB 3172   Lowenthal D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Social media liability for injuries to children. Makes a social media platform that has at least $100 million in gross revenues annually, liable for specified damages in addition to any other remedy provided by law, if the platform fails to exercise ordinary care or skill toward a child. Imposes significant statutory damages, the larger of (1) $5,000 per violation, up to a maximum per child of $1,000,000, or (2) three times the amount of the child’s actual damages.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 8/31/2024)

AB 3204   Bauer-Kahan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Data Digesters Registry. Creates a central repository for “data digesters” [businesses that use personal information, as defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), to train artificial intelligence (AI)]. It is overbroad, burdensome, and unnecessary given the protections that already exist under the CCPA that require entities training AI to respect privacy rights of the consumers to whom that information belongs. Mandates disclosures are not only impractical if not infeasible, but they can also be rather privacy invasive. Despite being modeled off the Data Broker Registry law, fails to incorporate significant and necessary exemptions from that law and from the CCPA. Raises significant concerns that future legislation would result in a “delete” or “opt-out” button similar to the Data Broker Registry law. Empowers the California Privacy Protection Agency to issue regulations, determine the registration fee for data digesters, and fine those not in compliance.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/8/2024)

AB 3211   Wicks D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
AI Watermarks. Places very prescriptive and technologically infeasible requirements on AI developers, large online platforms and camera/recording device manufacturers to incorporate a brand-new technology that is still developing. What this technology is currently capable of changes basically every month. For example, just a couple months ago, there wasn’t a program that can watermark text, making the bill’s requirements to do so impossible to comply with. Currently, one company is seemingly closer to having that technology, but the technology is not yet fully reliable, raising serious competition concerns around entrenching market leaders. When violations invariably occur, companies face significant penalties under this bill.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 8/31/2024)

AB 3233   Addis D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Expanded Local Government Authority. Dramatically expands local government authority over the permitting of oil and gas operations including drilling, operations, maintenance and abandonment of wells, tanks and facilities.
Status: 9/25/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 550, Statutes of 2024.

ABX2 1   Hart D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Minimum Fuel Inventories. Authorizes the California Energy Commission (CEC) to require refineries to maintain minimum transportation fuel inventories, which could create fuel shortages and increase average fuel prices for Californians.
Status: 10/14/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 1, Statutes of 2024

ACA 1   Aguiar-Curry D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Lowers Voter Threshold to Increase Property Taxes. Overbroad constitutional amendment lowers voter approval threshold from two-thirds to 55% to increase taxes for affordable housing and public infrastructure, thereby providing increased tax authority for every government agency in California—not just cities and counties, but thousands of potentially overlapping special districts.
Status: 9/20/2023-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 173, Statutes of 2023.

ACA 3   Lee D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Wealth Tax. Seeks to impose a massive tax increase upon all forms of personal property or wealth, whether tangible or intangible, despite California already having the highest income tax in the country. This tax increase will drive high-income earners out of the State as well as the revenue they contribute to the General Fund.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was REV. & TAX on 3/30/2023)

ACA 6   Haney D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Restrict University of California Competitiveness. Requires the University of California to comply with a host of labor law provisions and contracting restrictions, raising costs for students and harming competitiveness of the premier public university system in the world.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was E. & C.A. on 6/28/2023)

ACA 11   Ting D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Board of Equalization Elimination. Eliminates important checks and balances between taxpayers and tax administrators by abolishing the elected State Board of Equalization (BOE).
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was REV. & TAX on 5/4/2023)

ACA 13   Ward D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Increases Voter Threshold for Taxpayer Protections. Aims to amend the California Constitution as to require a higher voter approval requirement for citizen-proposed ballot initiatives that seek to increase protections for adoption of new taxes but does not impose that same voting threshold burden for tax increases placed on the ballot by the Legislature or local governments.
Status: 11/2/2023-Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 176, Statutes of 2023

ACA 14   Ortega D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Restricts University of California Competitiveness. Requires the University of California to comply with a host of labor law provisions and contracting restrictions, raising costs for students and harming competitiveness of the premier public university system in the world.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was RLS. on 5/24/2024)

ACA 16   Bryan D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Environmental Rights. Has far reaching negative consequences that would impair government operations, stunt development for new housing, infrastructure and clean energy project development and the strong potential to destabilize CA’s economy.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was THIRD READING on 5/20/2024)

SB 12   Stern D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Arbitrary GHG Target. Arbitrarily changes the State’s GHG Reduction goal from 40% of 1990 levels by 2030 to 55%. By the State’s own estimate this proposal will force 17 million gas powered cars off the road in the next 10 years
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 70   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Prescription Drug Cost Driver. Increases premiums for California’s employers and employees because it would prohibit limiting or excluding coverage of a drug, dose of a drug, or dosage form of a drug that is prescribed for off-label use if the drug has been previously covered for a chronic condition or cancer, regardless of whether or not the drug, dose, or dosage form is on the plan’s or insurer’s formulary.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/16/2023)

SB 90   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Increases Health Care Costs. Increases health care costs by capping cost sharing for insulin prescriptions at $35 for 30-day supply.
Status: 1/25/2024-Stricken from file. Veto sustained.

SB 102   Skinner D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
State budget bill, v.2. Updates the state budget and appropriates money to re-start the Industrial Welfare Commission, but limits its authority to change regulations that will unduly burden employers.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was BUDGET on 6/29/2023)

SB 167   Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Multifaceted Taxation Budget Trailer Bill. This bill contains a retroactive change to the Apportionment Factor for businesses that file on a water’s-edge basis. It also caps business incentive tax credits and suspends the Net Operating Loss deduction.
Status: 6/27/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 34, Statutes of 2024

SB 220   Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Corporate Tax Hike. Increases the corporate tax rate to 10.99% for many California employers which will drive them out of the state and decrease the revenue they contribute to the General Fund.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 224   Hurtado D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Investment Ban. Prohibits foreign governments from owning or leasing agricultural land, limiting ability for farmers to get mortgages and invest in their operations.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 244   Eggman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Allows Proprietary Information to be Shared Publicly. Forces manufacturers of devices and equipment to treat any alleged repair attempt the same as the manufacturer or authorized retailer and allows proprietary equipment and trade secrets to be shared with the public.
Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 704, Statutes of 2023.

SB 253   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Corporate Climate Accountability Act. Imposes a mandatory climate tracking, and auditing on climate emissions that will fall heavily on all California businesses, impacting competitiveness and increasing costs.
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 382, Statutes of 2023.

SB 257   Portantino D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Expensive Diagnostic Imaging Mandate. Increases premiums for employers and employees by mandating plans and insurers provide coverage without imposing cost sharing for follow up screening mammography and medically necessary diagnostic breast imaging.
Status: 1/25/2024-Stricken from file. Veto sustained.

SB 261   Stern D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Climate-related financial risk. Requires any business with revenues over $500 million annually to prepare a climate financial risk assessment on its holdings including any supply chain assets.
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 383, Statutes of 2023.

SB 287   Skinner D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Civil Penalty for Features that Harm Children on Social Media. Prohibits a social media platform from using a design, algorithm, or feature that it knows, or by exercise of reasonable care should have known, causes child users to purchase a controlled substance or firearm in violation of the penal code; commit suicide or inflict harm on themselves or others; develop an eating disorder, or experience addiction to the social media platform. Provides that a platform is not in violation of the bill if it both instituted and maintained a program of at least quarterly audits, as specified, and corrected, within 30 days of the audit, any design, algorithm or feature discovered to present a more than de minimis risk of violating the bill. Any platform that knowingly and willingly violates these provisions is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $250,000 per violation, an injunction, and an award of litigation costs and attorney’s fees.
Status: 2/1/2024-Died on file pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 308   Becker D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Carbon Dioxide Removal. Duplicates existing programs to create an added layer of compliance obligations.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)

SB 362   Becker D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Data Broker Deletion Mechanism. Makes significant changes to the existing Data Brokers’ Registry adding extensive new disclosure requirements and deletion obligations for a subset of businesses that are already subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), using a new deletion mechanism to be created by the California Privacy Protection Agency by January 1, 2026. Among other things, starting on August 1, 2026, any data broker on this registry must delete the content of a user every 45 days, into perpetuity, subject to various exemptions provided under the CCPA. Many requirements are duplicative, confusing, and unnecessary given existing protections under the CCPA and the existing data broker registry, creating significant compliance issues and operational burdens for businesses on the registry without demonstrated need.
Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 709, Statutes of 2023.

SB 365   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Undermines Arbitration: Discriminates against use of arbitration agreements by allowing trial courts to continue trial proceedings during any appeal regarding the denial of a motion to compel.
Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 710, Statutes of 2023.

SB 399   Wahab D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bans Employer Speech: Chills employer speech regarding religious and political matters, including unionization. Is likely unconstitutional under the First Amendment and preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.
Status: 9/27/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 670, Statutes of 2024.

SB 427   Portantino D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Costly Coverage Mandate. Increases premiums for employers and employees by mandating health plans and insurers cover all U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-recommended antiretroviral drugs, products, and devices (ARVs) for HIV/AIDS with no cost sharing or utilization review requirements.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was DESK on 5/13/2024)

SB 460   Wahab D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Ban on Criminal Background Checks: Residential. Prohibits some, but not all, landlords from being able to run criminal background checks before renting to prospective tenants, thereby jeopardizing the owners' ability to choose whom to safely rent their property to.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 478   Dodd D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
New Duplicative Enforcement Authority for the Attorney General. Allows the Attorney General and other public attorneys to pursue any potential false advertising under the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, which would allow a private right of action. Notably, the Attorney General can already pursue false advertisers under the existing False Advertising Law.
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 400, Statutes of 2023.

SB 497   Smallwood-Cuevas D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
90-day Retaliation Presumption: Implements 90-day retaliation presumption for certain claims, which is unnecessary in light of existing case law and will waste judicial resources by allowing claims to continue regardless of their merit.
Status: 10/8/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 612, Statutes of 2023.

SB 544   Laird D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Upends Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act. Would significantly reduce the transparency, accountability, and democratic nature of California’s state bodies by permitting government officials on state boards and commissions to conduct public business virtually, without ever again being present at a physical location where the public and press can directly engage them, regardless of whether there is any public health crisis.
Status: 9/22/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2023.

SB 556   Gonzalez D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Oil and Gas Wells: Civil Liability. Sets disturbing precedent by creating liability without proof for oil well owners/operators if individuals who lived within 3,200 feet of a wellhead develop certain health conditions.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 584   Limón D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Targeted Tax on Short Term Rentals. Would harm California’s tourism economy by implementing a 15% tax on short term rental stays in order to fund the Laborforce Housing Fund.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was H. & C.D. on 6/15/2023)

SB 598   Skinner D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Expensive Gold Card Program. Prevents health plans and insurers from requiring certain contracted health care providers obtain a prior authorization (PA) for any health care services if those providers meet certain PA approval thresholds. Increases health care costs by eradicating an effective cost control measure, leading to higher premiums for California’s employers.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/23/2023)

SB 616   Gonzalez D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Costly Sick Leave Expansion on All Employers: Imposes new costs and leave requirements on employers of all sizes, by nearly doubling existing sick leave mandate, which is in addition to all other enacted leave mandates that small employers throughout the state are already struggling with to implement and comply.
Status: 10/4/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 309, Statutes of 2023.

SB 627   Smallwood-Cuevas D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Onerous Return to Work Mandate: Imposes an onerous and stringent process to hire employees based on seniority alone for nearly every industry, including hospitals, retail, restaurants, and movie theaters, which will delay hiring and eliminates contracts for at-will employment.
Status: 1/25/2024-Stricken from file. Veto sustained.

SB 631   Cortese D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Workers’ Compensation Study: Requests study of gender equity in the workers’ compensation system by the non-objective UC Berkeley Labor Law Center instead of properly submitting the study for review and completion by the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/16/2023)

SB 636   Cortese D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Physician Licensing: Unnecessarily requires physicians in utilization review process to be licensed in California, which will reduce number of physicians available to review claims.
Status: 9/20/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 646   Cortese D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Liability for Distributing Illicit Pictures. Frustrates companies’ ongoing efforts to identify and remove CSAM as is required by federal law and informed by industry best practices, actually making it more challenging to address CSAM and exploitative content by mandating an unworkable system. Imposes a two-day window to remove, destroy, or return actionable material, which creates unintended consequences. While designed to inspire quick action, special handling requirements divert staff from other detection and reporting activities, slowing down the process of addressing illegal content. Exposes platforms to costly litigation with a private right of action.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/1/2024)

SB 680   Skinner D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Civil Penalty for Features that Harm Children on social media. Subject to significant liability, prohibits a social media platform from using a design, algorithm, or feature that it knows, or by exercise of reasonable care should have known, can result in any of the following for children, including (1) to inflict harm on themselves or others; (2) develop an eating disorder; or (3) experience “addiction” to the social media platform. Provides that a platform is not in violation if it instituted and maintained a program of at least quarterly audits of its designs, algorithms, and features to detect such issues and it, within 30 days of the audit, corrected any design, algorithm or feature discovered to present a more than de minimis risk of violation. Any platform that knowingly and willingly violates these provisions is subject to a civil penalty of up to $250,000 per violation, an injunction, and an award of litigation costs and attorney’s fees in an action brought by the Attorney General or other public attorneys.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/16/2023)

SB 687   Eggman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Delta Conveyance. Stops progress on the Delta Conveyance Project until Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan is updated and fully implemented. Holds infrastructure project to modernize California’s water system hostage until a lengthy planning process is both complete and “fully implemented.”
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 697   Hurtado D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Extreme Increase to Anti-Trust Penalties. Increases certain anti-trust penalties for corporations by one-hundred times, despite working group on this issue being in progress and complete recommendations for legal updates not yet being released.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)

SB 709   Allen D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Establishes arbitrary standards for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard which would strand hundreds of millions of dollars in investments towards a key methane emissions reduction program.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 723   Durazo D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Onerous Return to Work Mandate: Unnecessarily extends sunset on COVID-19 specific law that created an onerous and stringent process for specific employers to return employees to the workforce for specified industries, including hotels and restaurants that have been disproportionally impacted by this pandemic.
Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 719, Statutes of 2023.

SB 725   Smallwood-Cuevas D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Mandatory Severance: Unnecessarily requires grocery stores to pay mandatory severance, which should be left to the discretion of the employer.
Status: 1/25/2024-Stricken from file. Veto sustained.

SB 728   Limón D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bans Plastic Gift Cards. Prohibits the sale of plastic gift cards starting January 1, 2026, despite the fact that not every consumer is able to accommodate digital gift cards only, nor the fact that paper gift cards are less durable and more prone to being damaged or destroyed.
Status: 1/25/2024-Stricken from file. Veto sustained.

SB 729   Menjivar D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Health Care Cost Driver. Increases health care costs by mandating plans and insurers provide coverage for fertility services to diagnose and treat infertility, including in vitro fertilization.
Status: 9/29/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 930, Statutes of 2024.

SB 770   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Government-Run Health Care. Directs the state to create a workgroup to petition the federal government to redirect hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare and Medi-Cal funding to a costly new, untested state-run health care system.
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2023.

SB 799   Portantino D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Increased Unemployment Insurance Taxes to Subsidize Striking Workers. SB 799 will allow striking workers to claim UI benefits when they choose to strike. Because the UI Fund is paid for entirely by employers, SB 799 will effectively add more debt onto California employers. Moreover, SB 799 will effectively force employers to subsidize strikes at completely un-related businesses because the UI Fund’s debt adds taxes for all employers, regardless of whether they’ve had a strike.
Status: 1/25/2024-Stricken from file. Veto sustained.

SB 809   Smallwood-Cuevas D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Prohibits Consideration of Conviction History in Employment: Prohibits nearly every employer from considering conviction history of an applicant or existing employee in employment decisions and imposes cumbersome process on employers that are legally not allowed to hire individuals with certain convictions.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 839   Bradford D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Increases Health Care Premiums. Mandates health plans and insurers cover comprehensive coverage for obesity treatments, including intensive behavioral therapy, bariatric surgery, and the two groups of prescription drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists and non–GLP1s.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 845   Stern D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Social Media Application Requirement. Requires social media companies to create an app for third party providers, but prohibits them from setting any requirements or limitations on how the third-party providers will be able to interface with the company.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 848   Rubio D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Reproductive-Related Bereavement Leave. Requires employers to provide five days of bereavement leave for various reasons related to fertility, adoption, and surrogacy with a 20-day cap on total time that may be taken and insufficient guardrails as far as when that leave may be taken.
Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 724, Statutes of 2023.

SB 855   Archuleta D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Mandatory Holidays: Sets precedent of dictating which holidays employers must provide off to employees.
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

SB 873   Bradford D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Increases Health Care Premiums. Increases health care premiums by requiring an enrollee or insured’s prescription drug cost sharing be calculated at the point of sale (POS) based on a price that is reduced by an amount equal to 90% of all rebates received, or to be received, in connection with the dispensing or administration of the drug.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/23/2023)

SB 892   Padilla D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
State procurement of ADS. Requires the California Department of Technology (CDT) to develop and adopt regulations to create an automated decision system (ADS) procurement standard based on various principles and industry standards in specified publications regarding AI risk management, including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy white paper, the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, in consultation with the California Privacy and Protection Agency (CPPA). Bans state entities from procuring ADS until regulations are completed by CDT, requires any contract for ADS to comply with the regulations, and prohibits any regulations adopted by CDT from conflicting with any of the CPPA’s ADMT regulations under Prop 24.
Status: 9/20/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 903   Skinner D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bans All Uses of PFAS. Prohibits the use of PFAS in all commercial and consumer products by 2032 unless DTSC is petitioned and makes an affirmative determination that the PFAS in a particular product is an unavoidable use. However, regardless of DTSC’s determinations, the bill outsources California’s legislative authority to ban any product containing PFAS if any state or country in the world also bans that product. Because of the breadth and scope of PFAS use, including in aerospace, lithium ion batteries, medical devices, automotive and semiconductors, to name a few, the regulatory program established is entirely unworkable and will lead to bans on critically important products.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 4/29/2024)

SB 915   Cortese D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Local Government: Autonomous Vehicles: Prohibits operation of any commercial activity of autonomous vehicles that have been approved by the California Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Motor Vehicles from commencing operation in a local jurisdiction until that local jurisdiction has passed an ordinance approving their operations.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was TRANS. on 6/3/2024)

SB 938   Min D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Rate Recovery: Imposes burdensome and redundant reporting requirements that could lead to privacy concerns for employees.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was E. U., & C. on 2/14/2024)

SB 940   Umberg D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Limitations on Arbitration Scheduling & Changes to Discovery in Arbitration. Originally, sought to limit ability of arbitrators to schedule future arbitrations with parties to a present arbitration and expand discovery in arbitration as a matter of right, leading to more expensive arbitration for smaller claims. Opposition removed based on amends to address concerns about conflict with federal law on arbitration. Neutral
Status: 9/29/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 986, Statutes of 2024.

SB 961   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Vehicles: Special Equipment – Imposes broad mandates on all vehicles rather than seeking to remedy the underlying issue of problematic behavior of drivers. Further, this measure is technologically infeasible and likely preempts federal mandates.
Status: 9/28/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 966   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Pharmacy Network Disruption. Limits the use of preferred pharmacy networks and financial incentives which will lead to increased drug costs for patients.
Status: 9/28/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 976   Skinner D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act. Prohibits the provision of an algorithmic feed (labeled as an “addictive feed”) which it defines as any feed in which content is recommended or prioritized for display to a user based on information provided by the user, unless the user is not a minor or, in the case of a minor, their parent consents. In doing so, the bill effectively requires a social media platform to institute a chronological feed, in which content would be presented in order of what was posted most recently without any recommendations or curation, instead. However, this preference for a chronological feed is based on the faulty assumption that an algorithmically curated feed is harmful and that a chronological feed is safe. A chronological feed, for example, can also be gamed by bad actors to spread more low quality or harmful content. As such, the bill ultimately will result in the opposite safety improvements intended and diminishes user experience.
Status: 9/20/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 321, Statutes of 2024.

SB 984   Wahab D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Project Labor Agreements. Requires project labor agreements for all projects as specified.
Status: 9/29/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 1008   Bradford D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Increases Health Care Premiums. Mandates plans and insurers cover obesity treatments, bariatric surgery, Intensive behavioral therapy (IBT), and at least one drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with an indication for chronic weight management in patients with obesity.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/6/2024)

SB 1022   Skinner D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)

Status: 9/29/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 1031   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Bay Area Tax Increases. Authorize the Metropolitan Transportation District in the San Francisco Bay Area to impose a transactions and use tax, payroll tax, parcel tax, vehicle registration surcharge, or issue bonds in all or some of the nine counties the district operates in and would require that revenue generated from the tax increases be used for transportation improvements.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was DESK on 5/24/2024)

SB 1036   Limón D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Voluntary Carbon Offset. Imposes unnecessary and redundant reporting requirements on the voluntary carbon offset market. The requirements will likely stymie growth in the carbon offset market and will lead to a reduction in offsets.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was NAT. RES. on 6/3/2024)

SB 1047   Wiener D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
AI Models. Requires frontier AI developers to comply with certain requirements before beginning to initially train specified “covered models” to promote the safe and secure innovation of AI. Among other things, they must implement a specified written and separate safety and security protocol subject to significant liability, guarantee that no critical harm will ever arise, including from model derivatives, and implement the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown. Creates significant uncertainty for businesses due to vague, overbroad, and impractical (if not infeasible) standards, requirements, and definitions. Focuses almost exclusively on developer liability, creating untenable levels of liability for failing to foresee and block all conceivable uses of a model that might do “critical harm” even if a third party jailbreaks the model, with devastating downstream impacts on the AI ecosystem and deterring open-source development. Further imposes unreasonable and invasive “know your customer” requirements on operators of computing clusters and requires them to implement a “kill switch” to enact a full shutdown in the event of an emergency. Ultimately will undermine economic technological innovation without improving safety standards in any way.
Status: 9/29/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 1061   Limón D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Prohibit listing of medical debt on credit reports. Lessens the accuracy of credit reports by excluding medical debt, and also prohibits listing of debt of certain types of credit cards – creating a contrast with federal law related to those credit cards.
Status: 9/24/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 520, Statutes of 2024.

SB 1089   Smallwood-Cuevas D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Pharmacy and Grocery Closures. Creates new requirements for store closures that overlap with existing WARN Act requirements and subjects stores to a private right of action for any failure to comply with the new requirements.
Status: 9/26/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 625, Statutes of 2024.

SB 1116   Portantino D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Increased Unemployment Insurance Taxes to Subsidize Striking Workers. SB 1116 allows striking workers to claim UI benefits when they choose to strike. Because the UI Fund is paid for entirely by employers, SB 1116 will effectively add more debt onto California employers. Moreover, SB 1116 will effectively force employers to subsidize strikes at completely unrelated businesses because the UI Fund’s debt adds taxes for all employers, regardless of whether they’ve had a strike.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was INS. on 6/3/2024)

SB 1154   Hurtado D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
California Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2024. Prohibits a person from using or distributing pricing algorithms that use, incorporate, or were trained on “nonpublic competitor data” which is wholly unnecessary given that collusion is already illegal under existing law. Worse yet, the bill actually creates substantial confusion and uncertainty for businesses as to what is a lawful pricing algorithm as opposed to price fixing due to vague and overbroad standards, imposes onerous reporting requirements, and grants the Attorney General (AG) authority to request these reports detailing a business’s use of pricing algorithms for any reason and without any regard to whether the business is alleged to have behaved anticompetitively or harmed consumers. The bill also allows the AG to share the report with a third party to decipher the information reported. When combined with the aggressive liability provisions and the inevitable costs imposed on all but the smallest of businesses, the bill invariably will have a sweeping, chilling effect on price competition among businesses across all industries.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was JUD. on 2/21/2024)

SB 1167   Blakespear D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Additional Requirements on Restaurants. Requires certain restaurants to ask customers where they intend to drink a beverage.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was E.Q. on 2/21/2024)

SB 1178   Padilla D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Unfair and Unenforceable Regulation. Attempts to impose California law on facilities outside of the state and nation. Makes industry wholly financially responsible for water quality impairments caused by other sources.
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)

SB 1179   Durazo D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Slows Broadband Deployment. Establishes price controls for broadband and slows broadband deployment statewide.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was G.O. on 2/21/2024)

SB 1201   Durazo D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
New, unnecessary disclosure of Corporate Ownership. Creates new disclosure obligations for corporation’s owners, even beyond recent federal legislation, and adds potentially significant costs for the secretary of state to collect and publish this information. Moreover, requires the disclosure of the home address of owners in some cases, creating potential safety risks for some business owners.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was B. & F. on 6/3/2024)

SB 1205   Laird D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Workers’ Compensation Appointments. Requires employers of all sizes to provide time off to attend workers’ compensation appointments regardless of whether it creates an undue hardship and subjects employers to penalties for failure to do so.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 8/26/2024)

SB 1223   Becker D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Neural Data. Adds “neural data” to the category of sensitive personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to include information generated by measuring the activity of a consumer’s “peripheral nervous system” (PNS). Sweeps in any and all information or technology that records anything about human behavior because all outwardly observable human behavior results from activity of the PNS (e.g. all speech, movement, muscle stimulation, etc.). Narrowing amendments were offered to focus instead on information or technology that directly measures brain activity but ultimately rejected.
Status: 9/28/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 887, Statutes of 2024.

SB 1228   Padilla D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Social media user authentication. Mandates user authentication mechanisms on “large online platforms”, requiring such platforms to “seek to verify an influential user’s name, telephone number, and email address” by a means of the large online platform’s choosing. Requires a large online platform to verify a “highly influential user” by reviewing a government-issued identification. Negatively impacts users’ ability to freely communicate online, particularly when engaged in anonymous speech (e.g. by devaluing the speech of certain individuals by implying that any individual who exercises their right to not be authenticated or to be anonymous is not legitimate or a bot). Also raises security and privacy concerns.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/13/2024)

SB 1272   Laird D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Gift Card Cashout. Disrupts business by requiring retailers to redeem gift certificates valued at less than or equal to $25 in cash, with a value increase over time keyed to consumer price indexing. Requiring businesses to have more cash on hand exposes them to additional theft risk.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was THIRD READING on 6/25/2024)

SB 1286   Min D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
New limitations on Debt Collection. Places new limitations on collection of certain commercial debts by treating commercial debts more like personal debts.
Status: 9/24/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 522, Statutes of 2024.

SB 1299   Cortese D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Agricultural Workers' Compensation Presumption. Creates workers’ compensation presumption that would require the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) to adjudicate agriculture Cal/OSHA claims and impose a presumption regardless of any causal link between the alleged occupational injury and a violation of any provision of heat-related standards.
Status: 9/28/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 1327   Glazer D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Tax on Digital Advertising Revenue. Implements a discriminatory 7.25% tax on the revenue generated from the sale of digital advertising. The bill targets taxpayers that annually make at least $2.5 billion of revenue from these services.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was REV. & TAX on 8/8/2024)

SB 1337   Gonzalez D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Limits direct democracy. Dramatically alters the state’s direct democracy process and makes it very difficult, if not impossible for Californians to qualify a referendum for the ballot.
Status: 9/25/2024-Vetoed by the Governor. In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

SB 1345   Smallwood-Cuevas D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Prohibits Consideration of Conviction History in Employment: Effectively prohibits most employers from considering conviction history of an applicant, existing employee, or contractor in employment or contracting decisions.
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was JUD. on 4/3/2024)

SB 1346   Durazo D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Tolling Temporary Disability Payments – Requires tolling of temporary disability payments if Utilization Review decision is overturned during Independent Medical Review, which will drastically increase the number of unnecessary Independent Medical Review requests and is unnecessary in light of data supporting accuracy of Utilization Review decisions.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 4/22/2024)

SB 1372   Newman D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Airports: Third-Party Vendors: Prohibits airports in California from entering into agreements with third-party vendors that offer expedited security screening services.
Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was TRANS. on 6/3/2024)

SB 1404   Glazer D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Lobbyist Employer Audits. Substantially raises fees on lobbyists and others to continue to comply with state law.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)

SB 1424   Glazer D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Hotel Cancellation & Refund Requirements for Out-of-state Hotels. Forces out-of-state hotels to comply with in-state requirements regarding cancellation and refund policies.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/13/2024)

SB 1426   Blakespear D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Upends Circular Economy. Conflicts with existing legislative frameworks, particularly with Senate Bill 54 (Allen), Senate Bill 343 (Allen) and SB 1383 (Lara), which taken together, set forth a comprehensive and rigorous set of standards for source reduction, recycling and waste reduction to achieve a circular economy in California by allowing entities to divert materials away from the states well established waste management and recycling system.
Status: 5/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was E.Q. on 4/3/2024)

SB 1434   Durazo D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Huge Increases to Unemployment Insurance Taxes. Increases UI taxes to fund UI benefit hikes of up to 55%, as well as providing for subsequent increases based on inflation. Also creates entirely new UI program to provide benefits to workers who do not qualify for traditional UI, to be funded by a new tax on California employers.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was L., P.E. & R. on 2/29/2024)

SB 1444   Stern D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2024. Requires large social media platform providers, as defined, to create, maintain, and make available to specified third-party safety software providers a set of third-party-accessible application programming interfaces to allow a third-party safety software provider, upon authorization by a child or a parent or legal guardian of a child, to monitor a child’s online interactions, content, and account settings and initiate secure transfers of the child’s user data for these purposes, as provided. Prohibits the third-party safety software provider from disclosing user data unless specified exceptions apply and would authorize the child or the parent/legal guardian to revoke the authorization or disable the account with the large social media provider. While it intends to provide parents greater control over their teens’ use of social media, the bill likely only impedes current efforts to do so and raises numerous privacy concerns.
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/13/2024)

SB 1446   Smallwood-Cuevas D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Use of technology in grocery and retail stores: Overly prescriptive mandate regarding the use of self-checkout stations that will frustrate customers and increase costs to retailers and requires stores to notify all workers and the public any time they choose to utilize new technology.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was RLS. on 8/15/2024)

SB 1494   Glazer D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Eliminates Sales Tax Sharing Agreements between Local Governments and Employers. Eliminates an important economic development tool by prohibiting local governments from entering into sales tax sharing agreements with businesses.
Status: 5/24/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 5/24/2024)

SB 1497   Menjivar D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act of 2024: Imposes an ill-defined tax on a broad set of entities that will increase costs for goods and services in California.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 5/22/2024)

SB 1504   Stern D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Cyberbullying Protection Act. Effectively applies the Cyberbullying Protection Act to pupils, with significant differences and much more extensive and unduly burdensome liability. As drafted, central requirements within the bill conflict with one another and therefore require additional clarification. Additionally, the bill leaves various key terms undefined and subjective, at times even raising first amendment issues. For example, it is also very difficult to reliably describe what may cause a “detrimental effect on the minor’s physical or mental health.” Humans in general, especially children, have very nuanced opinions surrounding what may be detrimental to them. The lived experiences of children, teens, and adults differ immensely, and businesses do not have a roadmap to users’ lived experiences, and what could potentially cause them harm. As a result of such deficiencies, platforms may consider taking an overly broad takedown approach to avoid penalties, raising significant First Amendment concerns, as it has the potential to incentivize the removal of lawful speech.
Status: 9/28/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 900, Statutes of 2024.

SBX1 2   Skinner D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Windfall Profits Tax. Sets an arbitrary cap on the amount of profits that a refiner operating in the state of California can earn over a quarterly basis. This measure would further diminish supply, discourages operational efficiencies, and would limit the amount of capital a refiner could reinvest into their infrastructure to support California’s long-term climate goals.
Status: 3/28/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1, Statutes of 2023-24 First Extraordinary Session.

SCA 7   Umberg D  ( History)  ( Position Letters)
Special Benefits for Workers: This bill enshrines in the California Constitution unnecessary and unprecedented special benefits that will damage government operations and performance, destabilize the California economy, and is rife with unintended consequences.
Status: 8/31/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was E. & C.A. on 6/22/2023)