Bills marked: “Signed into Law” are a done deal. That specific bill is now a LAW.

• SD  5 Susan Eggman  916/651-4005 senator.eggman@sen.ca.gov                       

• SD  7 Steven Glazer   916/651-4007 senator.glazer@sen.ca.gov                   

• SD  9 Nancy Skinner  916/651-4009 senator.skinner@sen.ca.gov

• SD 10                       916/651-4010

• AD 14 Buffy Wicks     916/319-2014 assemblymember.wicks@assembly.ca.gov

• AD 16 R.Bauer-Kahan 916/319-2016 assemblymember.bauer-kahan@assembly.ca.gov

• AD 18 Mia Bonta        916/319-2018 assemblymember.bonta@assembly.ca.gov

• AD 20 Liz Ortega        916/319-2020

• AD 24 Alex Lee          916/319-2024

Tips for Calls and Letters :

Personalize the call. Let them know you are a parent, grandparent etc…: “I ask for a 'No' vote on each of these bills (give the bill name: XX-1234, XX-2123, ...) give your reason why, because ….”.  Be polite, to the point, and convincing. You want to sway but not alienate legislators.  Many instinctively react against your interests if you attack.   Calls sometimes get legislator attention, especially when hundreds occur over several days.

The bills listed are sorted by Theme to let you contact your legislators referencing several related bills in two phone calls or two letters (one for State Senate bills and one for Assembly Bills).  We only list active bills in which you can engage State legislators or committee chairs.   Once "Chaptered", a bad bill becomes law.  The Governor signed nearly all bad bills from last Session, so try to influence bills PRIOR to his desk.

• A bill pending referral allows comment to author via legislative site but too early for other legislators.

• A bill in committee lets you ask the listed committee to 'pass' or 'kill the bill in committee'.

  • Click here for Assembly Committees chairs:   https://www.assembly.ca.gov/committees 

  • Click here for Senate  Committees chairs:   https://www.senate.ca.gov/committees

• Once examined by Appropriations, time runs out!  A floor vote or consent calendar may occur soon.   Sometimes the bill gets revisions ("Third Reading") before passed to the alternate Chamber.

Read the steps here that a Bill goes through before signed into law:  Legislation Steps.   

Theme: Abortion

The Legislature continues to promote California as the destination for cheap and easy abortions, while lowering medical safety standards.  Taxpayers pay all costs. 

AB 45 - Privacy: health care data: location and research (Bauer-Kahan) - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - This bill makes it unlawful to geofence an entity that provides in-person health care services and to prohibit health care providers from releasing medical research information related to an individual seeking or obtaining an abortion in response to a subpoena or request if that subpoena or request is based on another state’s laws that interfere with a person’s rights under the Reproductive Privacy Act.

AB 54 - Access to Safe Abortion Care - Passed Assembly, moved to Senate Inactive File - This bill makes legislative findings about medication abortion, with a focus on mifepristone and misoprostol. The bill ensures access to a medication abortion.

AB 67 - Attorney General: Reproductive Privacy Act: enforcement (Bauer-Kahan) - Appropriations Committee - Existing law prohibits a person from being subject to civil or criminal liability, or otherwise deprived of their rights, with respect to their pregnancy or their actions to assist a pregnant person exercising their reproductive rights. This bill authorizes the Attorney General, if it appears that a person is about to engage in any act constituting a violation of the Reproductive Privacy Act, to bring an action in the superior court to enforce compliance. The bill authorizes the Attorney General to make public or private investigations, publish information concerning violation of the Reproductive Privacy Act, and subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence, and require the production of documents or records that they deem relevant or material to the inquiry. This bill imposes a civil penalty not exceeding $25,000 upon any person or governmental entity that violates any provision of the act and a civil penalty for violation of the bill’s provisions.

AB 260 - Sexual and reproductive health care - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - This bill ensures that patients can continue to access care, including abortion, gender-affirming care, and other sexual and reproductive health care in California, and to allow patients to access care through asynchronous modes. Urgency clause adopted on 9/10.

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Theme: Drugs and Tobacco

💊 Fentanyl is a highly addictive and extremely lethal synthetic opioid. It is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.

SB 6 - Controlled substances: xylazine - Passed Senate, Assembly Appropriations - This bill adds xylazine to the list of Schedule III substance. If an animal drug containing xylazine that has been approved is not available in California, the bill creates an exception for a substance intended to be used to compound an animal drug. The bill excludes from the prohibitions on paraphernalia any testing equipment to analyze a substance for the presence of xylazine. By creating a new crime, the bill imposes a state-mandated local program.

AB 309 – Hypodermic needles and syringes- To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Provides free needles to drug users across the state, encouraging substance abuse instead of addressing it

AB 554 – Health care coverage: antiretroviral drugs, drug devices, and drug products. - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Forces insurers to cover HIV prevention drugs like PrEP, which works like a condom, treating personal choices as an insurance obligation

AB 575 – Obesity Prevention Treatment Parity Act. - Health Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Mandates insurance coverage for Ozempic, a weight loss drug

Failed. AB 957 – Cigarette and tobacco products: retail sale: pharmacies

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Theme: Education

SB 64 - Education expenses: School Choice Flex Account Act (Grove, Rep) - STILL in Education Committee for FOUR months! - Ask for YES Vote - This bill establishes the School Choice Flex Account (SCFA) Trust, as a fund within the State Treasury to be administered by the SCFA Trust Board. The bill would authorize certain children eligible to be enrolled in K to 12, inclusive, to establish an SCFA or Special Education Flex Account (SEFA), based on parent or guardian income. The bill would, beginning with the 2031–32 school year, authorize every child eligible to be enrolled in K to 12, inclusive, to establish an SCFA or SEFA. The bill would credit a deposit amount to the account of every eligible student enrolled in an eligible school for tuition and certain school expenses.

SCA 1 - Educational expenses: school choice flex accounts and special education flex accounts (Grove, Rep) - STILL Pending Referral after FOUR months! --Ask for YES Vote - Constitutional Amendment - The California Constitution prohibits public money for support of any sectarian or denominational school or any school not under the exclusive control of the officers of the public schools. This measure, notwithstanding the constitutional provisions referenced above or any other provision of the California Constitution, authorizes the state, and every agency or political subdivision, to disburse funds pursuant to an agreement between the state and a parent or legal guardian of an eligible child for tuition and education-related expenses associated with attending a private school serving students K to 12, inclusive, irrespective of religious affiliation, as provided by statute, and provide tax or other public benefits to private schools serving students K to 12, inclusive, irrespective of religious affiliation, to further the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.

AB 49 – School sites: immigration enforcement - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO -Prohibits ICE from going onto school property to conduct enforcement, protecting criminals instead of kids

AB 68 – School safety: armed school resource officers - Education Committee - CRA asks for YES Vote - Requires such Officers on every school Campus

AB 84 - School accountability: Office of the Education Inspector General: school financial and performance audits: charter school authorization, oversight, funding, operations, networks, and contracting: data systems: local educational agency contractor background checks and contracting. - Passed Assembly, Moved to Senate Inactive File - CRA asks for NO vote - Destroys non-classroom-based Public-Charter Schools, Homeschool Programs, and Small Business Service Vendors

AB 579 - Yaeli’s Law. - STILL pending referral for FOUR months! - Ask for YES Vote - Protects parents from being labeled neglectful for their choices regarding gender identity and health care decisions for their children.

AB 727 - Pupil and student safety: identification cards. - To Governor’s Desk - CAE joins LAW ENFORCEMENT and other California Christian Organizations to ask for a VETO.  This bill requires public schools serving grades 7 through college that issue pupil identification cards to print on the identification cards the telephone number and text line for a specified LGBTQ+ suicide hotline.

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Theme: Elections

The ACGOP contact for this theme is Jackie Cota.  See Election Integrity Project (California) website for analysis letters here: https://www.eip-ca.com/opposition_letters/ 

Delayed from 2024 ACA 13 >> ON NOVEMBER 2026 BALLOT << Voting thresholds - This Constitutional Amendment raises voter mandate from 50% to 67% for constitutional amendments by citizen initiative.  It is specifically aimed against HJTA efforts to Protect Prop 13. - Senator Glazier’s aide 9/7 said that ACA 13 was shelved in committee and probably would not be voted on. - They LIED.  Moved out of Appropriations five days later 9/12 and passed by Senate on 9/14/2023 - Quietly held on Consent Calendar until 11/1, Signed onto Ballot 11/2/2023 - Vote NO in November 2026 to kill this stealth Proposition.

AB 5 - Elections: official canvass - To Governor’s Desk - Ask him to SIGN - California Voter ID and Election Integrity. This bill requires a government-issued ID to vote, verifying the citizenship of voters, maintaining accurate voter lists, incentivizing timely counting of ballots, and enhancing the signature review process.

AB 930 - Elections and voting procedures. - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Allows non-citizens — including illegal immigrants — to serve on official recount boards and handle your ballots!

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Theme: Gun Control

SB 15 - Firearms - Appropriations Committee - Existing law authorizes a court to issue a temporary gun violence restraining order prohibiting a person from possessing a firearm or ammunition if there is reasonable cause to believe that a person poses a significant danger of harm to themselves or to another person by having a firearm. This bill enacts legislation relating to gun violence prevention. Affects identical sentence as AB256.

AB 256 - Crimes involving firearms - STILL Pending Referral after FOUR months! - Existing law generally regulates the manufacture, distribution, transportation, and importation of specified firearms.  This bill enacts legislation relating to crimes involving firearms. (as opposed to "gun violence protection").  Affects identical sentence as SB15.

AB 1127 - Firearms: converter pistols. - To Governor’s Desk - It prohibits a licensed firearms dealer to sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, transfer, or deliver any semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistol

AB 1187 – Firearms: safety certificates- Appropriations Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Requires anyone wanting to buy a gun to attend an eight-hour training course every time they purchase one

AB 1333 – Crimes: homicide.- Public Safety Committee - CRA asks for a NO vote - Makes self-defense illegal by allowing an individual to be charged with a crime for defending themselves from a criminal

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Theme: Housing

SB 79 - Planning and zoning: housing development: transit-oriented development (Wiener) - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Existing law handles disposal of surplus land by a local agency. This bill includes land leased to support public transit agencies. SB79 is a massive up-zoning by the state. SB 79 projects are approved ministerially - without city or community input and without environmental review. It up-zones around transit stops, categorized into 3 "tiers". Depending on the tier, land around transit stops are up-zoned to 45, 55, 65, and 75 feet. All are eligible for more height using density bonuses and an "adjacency intensifier". Areas affected are within a 1/4 or 1/2 mile from each stop. Mapping shows these areas overlap, up-zoning along the whole transit line and extending into surrounding neighborhoods. In some cases, up-zoning entire communities.

• Up-zoning does not increase housing supply or affordability

• Up-zoning raises land values and makes housing more expensive

• Bus transit is an unstable basis for building 50+ year structures

• Gentrification and displacement - Transit is mostly relied on by lower income families

• A major usurping of the authority of local jurisdictions

SB 336 - Real property tax: welfare exemption: moderate-income housing (Wiener) - Appropriations Committee - This bill provides a partial welfare exemption for residential rental property used for low- and moderate-income households. The bill requires an owner to make specified certifications, under penalty of perjury, relating to the use of the property. By expanding the duties of local tax officials, and by expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Theme: Job Killers

Job killer bills from California Chamber of Commerce. Bills in Inactive File get revived in January 2026.
 
SB 7 (McNerney; D-Pleasanton) - Employment: automated decision systems - To Governor’s Desk -Ask for a VETO - Restricts Use of Automated Decision Systems in Employment: Imposes impractical requirements on employers of every size related to automated decision systems, which will discourage the use of such tools and subject employers to costly litigation and onerous new compliance procedures, thereby driving up costs and consumer prices.

SB 259 (Wahab; D-Hayward) - Fair Online Pricing- Moved to Assembly Inactive File - Ask for a NO Vote - Prohibits businesses from using any input data to create prices or discounts. Forces companies to overhaul their pricing models and strategies at significant cost, to the detriment of both businesses themselves, and consumers. This threatens profitability of businesses and potentially reduces availability of discounts and personalized deals for consumers.

SB 295 (Hurtado; D) - Preventing Algorithmic Collusion - Passed Senate, seemed to fail in Assembly but being reconsidered by Assembly - Ask for a NO Vote - Prohibits a person from using or distributing pricing algorithms that use, incorporate, or were trained on "nonpublic competitor data." Exposes businesses to significant uncertainty and aggressive liability and creates a chilling effect on this technology by imposing significant costs on all businesses using technological tools.

SB 310 (Wiener; D-San Francisco) - Failure to pay wages: penalties - Moved to Inactive File - Ask for a NO Vote - Expands Private Right of Action for Penalties: Creates a new private right of action for wage and hour penalties that will be manipulated by trial attorneys, undermining the 2024 Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) reform, which sought to reduce avenues for litigation abuse and overall costs on employers.

SB 318 (Becker; D-Menlo Park) - Air pollution: stationary sources: best available control technology. - Appropriations Commitee - Ask for a NO Vote - Air Quality Governance: Imposes extensive new mandates and permitting requirements that introduce significant regulatory uncertainty, force costly technology upgrades on stationary sources, and increase the cost of operating for critical sectors such as energy, food production, manufacturing, and recycling. Such costs undermine State's competitiveness and further strain affordability for residents. 

SB 384 (Wahab; D-Hayward) - Preventing Algorithmic Price Fixing Act: prohibition on certain price-setting algorithm uses - Passed Senate, in Assembly Appropriations Committee - Ask for a NO Vote - Effectively banning the use of technology to help set prices or help manage supply levels. Will make it harder for businesses to offer discounts and competitive pricing to their customers.

SB 601 (Allen; D) - Water: waste discharge. - Passed Senate, in Assembly Appropriations Committee - Ask for a NO Vote - Originally created duplicative permitting obligations and dramatic legal liability requirements for businesses, agriculture, and water and wastewater utilities by granting the water boards broad authority to impose permitting requirements without considering economic impacts or the critical need for housing and recycled water projects. As amended requires new permits for those interacting with a vague category of "nexus waters." The permit would be subject to prescriptive federal permitting requirements and punitive enforcement measures.  While amended to remove private right of action, CalChamber remains opposed.

SB 682 (Allen; D) - Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Creates a de facto ban on perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in all commercial and consumer products, unless the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is petitioned and makes an affirmative determination that the PFAS in a particular product is an unavoidable use. Because of the breadth and scope of FAS use, including in aerospace, lithium-ion batteries, medical devices, automotive, and semiconductors, to name a few, the regulatory program established is unworkable and ultimately will lead to a ban on critically important products or otherwise make certain products less safe, and ultimately drive up prices for consumers. While amended to significantly reduce types of products to which it applies, CalChamber remains opposed.

SB755 (Blakespear; D) - Contractor Climate Transparency - Appropriations Committee - Ask for a NO vote - Imposes significant, costly new mandates on businesses that contract with the state and risks reducing participation in state contracting at a time when public procurement should be more efficient, not more burdensome. 

SB763 (Hurtado; D)-  Conspiracy against trade: punishment - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Vast Expansion of State Antitrust Penalties: Raises penalties under California's antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, from $1 million to $6 million, and individual penalties from $250,000 to $1 million, with no demonstrated need for reform or adjustment, thereby increasing liability and costs on businesses. Amended.

AB298 (Bonta; D-Alameda) Prohibits Cost Sharing: - Health Committee - Increases premiums for California's employers and employees by restricting insurers from imposing a deductible, coinsurance, or copayment for in-network health care services provided to an enrollee under 21 years of age. Author claimed to delay this to January 2026 but still active in Health Committee.

AB303 (Addis; D) Battery Energy Storage Facilities: - Utilities and Energy Committee, Hearing postponed - Slows down the construction of clean energy projects statewide.

AB325 (Aguiar-Curry; D) Cartwright Act: Nonpublic Competitor Data Violations - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Prohibits using or distributing any pricing algorithm that uses, incorporates, or was trained with nonpublic competitor data. Much like SB1154 (Hurtado) last year, a Job Killer, it would fail to actually limit the bill to nonpublic data in any meaningful way. This bill does not include SB1154's additional liability provisions. AB325 remains as serious a concern because other related bills that address the liability components of these issues, and existing law impose significant liability on the misuse of pricing algorithms. Such liability, combined with the bill's broad and vague standards, would have a chilling effect on the use of such technologies among businesses, particularly smaller ones that rely more heavily on these technologies to be more competitive with larger businesses with access to far more data.

AB446 (Ward; D) -Surveillance pricing-- Passed Assembly, Moved to Senate Inactive File -   Burdens Rewards Programs with New Private Right of Action. Makes it considerably harder to offer basic, consumer-friendly pricing practices — such as local discounts, loyalty programs, and others — by creating a private right of action for any use of personal information or aggregate data in pricing if new consent standards are not met. Conflicts with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) by rewriting disclosure and consent obligations necessary to use personally identifiable information and creates entirely new consent and opt-in obligations for the use of aggregate information. Creates a private right of action to enforce its provisions.  Amended.

AB858 (Lee; D-San Jose) - Employment: rehiring and retention: displaced workers - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Onerous Return to Work Mandate. Originally unnecessarily transformed prior COVID-19 specific law that created an onerous and stringent process for specific employers to return employees to the workforce for specified industries into a new mandate that applies to any state of emergency. While amendments narrowed scope and duration, CalChamber still opposed.

AB 914 (Garcia; D) - Air pollution: indirect sources. - Moved Assembly Inactive File - Ask for a NO vote - Massive Expansion of CARB Regulatory Authority.  Hands the California Air Resources Board (CARB) blank check fee authority, transferring a core power of Legislature to unelected bureaucracy with little to no oversight.

AB 1018 (Bauer-Kahan; D-Orinda) Automated Decision Systems - Passed Assembly, Moved to Senate Inactive File - Ask for a NO vote - Limits automated decision systems (ADS), including by small businesses, which will lead to significant liability and increased costs that will ultimately be borne by consumers. It would also hinder many beneficial uses of ADS, including but not limited to: enabling faster approvals and expanded access to credit, and enhancing real-time fraud detection.

AB1221 (Bryan; D) - Workplace surveillance tools - Appropriations Committee - Ask for a NO vote - Restricts Use of Data in Employment. Imposes impractical requirements on employers of every size relating to any worker data collected by a workplace surveillance tool, which is defined so broadly that it would impact everything from security footage to emails. These requirements will drive up costs and impact consumer prices. 

AB1234 (Ortega; D-San Leandro) - Employment: nonpayment of wages: complaints. - Passed Assembly, Moved to Senate Inactive file - Ask for a NO vote - Creates New Penalty and Revises Wage Claim Procedures.  Imposes a new 30% penalty on orders issued by the Labor Commissioner, which penalizes employers that exercise their due process rights and makes other burdensome changes to existing claims process. 

AB1331 (Elhawary; D) - Workplace surveillance. - Passed Assembly, Moved to Senate Inactive file. - Ask for a NO vote - Restricts Workplace Safety and Security Tools: - Undermines workplace safety in every workplace by effectively prohibiting use of any surveillance technology in certain areas of the workplace, including security cameras, cybersecurity systems, and anti-theft devices.

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Theme: Reparations to Black Residents 

See 4/2/2024 article at https://www.kqed.org/news/11981271/track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents  - The State is not focused upon real policy to rebuild California with industry, skilled jobs, agriculture and getting rid of illegal drugs, homelessness and crime. - Mindy P

From 2024 SB1050: California American Freedmen Affairs Agency: racially motivated eminent domain - Unfinished Business - Compensation for land taken by eminent domain. 

AB 57 - Home Purchase Assistance Program: descendants of formerly enslaved people - To Governor’s Desk - Existing California Housing Finance Agency makes loans to finance affordable housing and to administer a home purchase assistance program for low- and moderate-income home buyers. This bill reserves a portion of the moneys in the program for descendants of slaves.

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Theme: Sexual Overhaul

Scott Wiener promotes many bills hostile to traditional faith beliefs, traditional sexual morals, and parental authority.  Read carefully any bill bearing his name.  He has MANY like-minded peers.

SB 59 - Change of gender and sex identifier (Wiener) - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Existing law requires a petition for a change of gender and sex identifier (and/or name) ...  filed by a person under 18 years of age, and any papers associated, to be kept confidential by the court. Existing law limits data access solely to the minor, the minor’s parents, and their attorneys. This bill expands that confidentiality... regardless of the age of the person who filed the petition. This bill makes this provision retroactive.

SB 577 - Eliminates Civil Protections for Child Sexual Assault Victims - Ordered to the inactive file. This will be brought back up January 2026. - It could significantly undermine the protections for victims and could reverse many of the advancements for survivors of childhood sexual assault. Key concerns include the prioritization of financial interests of public entities at expense of justice and erosion of survivors' rights to pursue accountability. Specific issues include removal of treble damages for public entity cover-ups, an increased burden of proof for victims over age 40, and strict limitations on refiling of previously dismissed cases. California Federation of Republican Women Ask for a NO Vote when reactivated in January.

AB 727 - Pupil and student safety: identification cards. - To Governor’s Desk - CAE joins LAW ENFORCEMENT and other California Christian Organizations to Ask for a VETO.  This bill requires public schools serving grades 7 through college that issue pupil identification cards to print on the identification cards the telephone number and text line for a specified LGBTQ+ suicide hotline.

AB 1084 - Change of name and gender and sex identifier. - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - This is a misrepresentation of the voter majority.  The author says, “It is harder for transgender people to live openly as their authentic selves.”  This is a blatant attack on parental rights.  AB 1084 speeds up changing names and sex on official documents - including birth certificates.   It sets aside parents’ rights.    These types of bills are coming far too many in a short period.  We MUST take a stand if parents are to have any rights left at all. 

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Theme: Water 

SB 72 - California Water Plan: long-term supply targets - To Governor’s Desk - This bill expands the advisory committee to include tribes, labor, and environmental justice interests. The bill updates the interim planning target for 2050 to consider future water needs for all usage sectors. The bill requires a discussion of the estimated costs and benefits of any project type or action that could help achieve water supply targets. The bill requires public workshops to give interested parties an opportunity to comment on the plan.

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Theme: Taxation and Government Salaries

SB545 - High-speed rail: economic opportunities - Passed Senate, in Assembly Appropriations - HJTA asks for a NO Vote - Requires Legislature to look for “methods that provide new revenue”. HJTA suspects this might be a possible STATE PARCEL TAX (equal to or more than our County Parcel Tax). Once this bill is passed, it allows anti-Prop-13 taxation to slip its nose under the tent. This is not a bill seeking to kill the project but looking for new ways to steal your money to pay for it.

AB 245 - Property taxation: application of base year value: disaster relief. - To Governor’s Desk - All property is taxable and assessed at the same percentage of fair market value, unless otherwise provided by the California Constitution or federal law.  This bill provides meaningful and automatic property tax relief for disaster victims, including fire disasters, in areas proclaimed in a state of emergency by the Governor.

AB 397 – Personal Income Tax Law: young child tax credit.- Appropriations Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Provides child tax credits for undocumented individuals up to age 18, rewarding illegal behavior and draining taxpayer resources

AB 471 - County air pollution control districts: board members: compensation. - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Increases pay for county officials on Air pollution control districts

AB 1421 (Wilson) - Vehicles: Road Usage Charge - Technical Advisory Committee. - Transportation Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Imposes a costly mileage tax on all CA drivers – costing $900 to $1200 a year on top of gas and car taxes. Existing law requires the Transportation Commission to create a Road Usage Charge Technical Advisory Committee to guide a pilot program proposing mileage-based revenue collection as an alternative to the gas tax system. Existing law requires Transportation Agency to implement the pilot program. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill extends the provisions until January 1, 2035.

ACA 2 – Legislature: retirement - Thankfully still pending referral - Ask for a NO vote - Constitutional Amendment - Guarantee gold-plated pensions for politicians, ensuring politicians have a cushy retirement while taxpayers foot the bill

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Theme: Transportation

AB 12 - Low-carbon fuel standard: regulations. - Natural Resources Committee - Ask for a NO vote - Increases gas tax by another 65 cents per gallon.

AB 435 – Vehicles: child passenger restraints - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO- Increases age requirement for securing children in a baby seat from 8 to 13 years old!

AB 891 – Transportation: Quick-Build Project Pilot Program - Passed Assembly, Senate Appropriations - Ask for a NO vote -Converts already cramped highway lanes into bicycle lanes

AB 954 – State transportation improvement program: bicycle highway pilot program.- Passed Assembly, Moved to Senate Inactive File - Ask for a NO vote -Diverts gas tax revenue, which was initially promised to be used for road maintenance, to fund bicycle lane construction

AB 1421 (Wilson) - Vehicles: Road Usage Charge - Technical Advisory Committee. - Transportation Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Imposes a costly mileage tax on all CA drivers – costing $900 to $1200 a year on top of gas and car taxes. Existing law requires the Transportation Commission to create a Road Usage Charge Technical Advisory Committee to guide a pilot program proposing mileage-based revenue collection as an alternative to the gas tax system. Existing law requires Transportation Agency to implement the pilot program. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill extends the provisions until January 1, 2035.

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Theme: Other 

Year 2024 SB 227- Unemployment: Excluded Workers Program - Unfinished Business - Establishes an “Excluded Workers Program” within the Employment Development Department (EDD) to provide income assistance to unemployed excluded workers who are not eligible for regular state or federal unemployment insurance benefits due to their immigration status. 

SB 281 – Pleas: immigration advisement - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO -Vacates criminal convictions for non-citizens if they weren’t warned about deportation risks—an automatic get-out-of-jail-free card

AB 56 – Social media: warning labels- To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO- Forces social media platforms to warn you about dangers every day

AB 268 – State holidays: Diwali- To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO - Creates a new state holiday for Diwali, costing millions in overtime for government employees who still have to work

AB 446 – Surveillance pricing.- Passed Assembly, Moved to Senate Inactive File - Ask for a NO vote -Bans businesses from using personal data to adjust their prices, even though the government does the same by charging different rates based on income

AB 475 – Prisons and jails: employment of inmates - Appropriations Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Bans requiring prisoners in state prisons to do basic work like cleaning, laundry, and cafeteria work

AB 495 - Family Preparedness Plan - To Governor’s Desk - Capitol Resource Institute Asks for a VETO. - In an attempt to help unaccompanied minors among immigrants, the legislature opened up Pandora’s box. The bill allows a “relative” or a “nonrelative extended family member” to take custody of your child by their merely signing an “affidavit” to school or childcare staff. No parental signature. No court order. No background check. No verification of parental consent. According to the bill, “A parent’s signature or a seal or signature from a court is not required,” and shockingly, “A person who relies on the affidavit has no obligation to make further inquiry or investigation.” The bill sidesteps strict ID verification, allowing the so-called “caregiver” to present a California driver’s license, consular ID, or even a Medi-Cal or Social Security number as proof of identity—leaving the door open for abuse. Most alarming? If the parent isn’t aware or doesn’t actively object, this so-called “caregiver”—even a nonrelative—has the power to make critical medical decisions (example: sex-change “therapy” or abortion). The bill says, “A caregiver who is a relative or a nonrelative extended family member… shall have the same rights to authorize medical and dental care for the minor that are given to guardians.” This is a direct threat to parental authority and a dangerous step toward stripping parents of their rights—without their knowledge or consent. A rally hosted by CRI at the Capitol occurred on 8/19/25. It appears that the worst sentence in the bill was removed in response to the Rally.

AB 666 –State cryptid. - Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Designates Bigfoot as California’s official "cryptid"– wasting legislative time on imaginary creatures

AB 681 – California DREAM Loan Program: limits. - To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO -Gives undocumented students up to $140,000 in taxpayer funded loans—while citizens get nothing comparable

AB 715 – Attorneys: discipline: sensitive services.- To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO -Allows attorneys who break the law in other states to practice in California, no matter the crime!

AB 766 –State agencies and departments: strategic plans: diversity, equity, and inclusion.- To Governor’s Desk - Ask for a VETO -Forces state agencies to shove Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goals into their strategic plans

AB 916 – Safer Soap Act. - Health Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Bans hand soap and body wash containing disinfectant or antiseptic ingredients - after encouraging their use during the pandemic

AB 928 – Roosters: restrictions. - Passed Assembly, Senate Agriculture Committee - Ask for a NO vote -Fines you $2,500 per rooster if you raise more than three per acre on your own land

AB942 - Net energy metering: eligible customer-generators: tariffs. - Passed Assembly, Senate Rules Committee - Ask for a NO vote - An eligible customer-generator that has taken service pursuant to NEM 1.0 or 2.0 for 10 or more years is no longer entitled to take service under that contract or tariff. The bill would require that eligible customer-generator to take service under the then-current applicable tariff adopted by the commission after December 1, 2022, disqualify that eligible customer-generator from eligibility for the avoided cost calculator plus glide path, as specified, and would require the eligible customer-generator to pay all nonbypassable charges that are applicable to customers that are not eligible customer-generators. - CPUC proposed to break your solar contract [NEM 1.0, NEM 2.0 and NEM 3.0] and slash your solar credit, and SLAP you with a solar tax. These changes would apply to ALL solar customers who signed up for solar before April 2023 (NEM1 and NEM2).

AB1231 - Criminal procedure: Safer Communities Through Opportunities -Seemed to fail but being Reconsidered in Assembly - Ask for a NO vote - Introduces substantial alterations to felony sentencing processes by expanding diversion eligibility for a wide range of felony offenses. This broad approach lacks a clear and commensurate benefit to public safety. The bill establishes a new felony diversion program, allowing individuals accused of various felonies—including hate crimes, looting, and repeat theft and drug offenses—to qualify for diversion away from sentencing. Opponents: the Cal Police Chiefs Assoc (CPCA), the Peace Officers Research Assoc of Cal (PORAC), the Cal State Sheriffs' Assoc (CSSA), and the Chief Probation Officers of Cal (CPOC), express concerns that it permits felony offenders to evade significant consequences. This concern is underscored by the recent passage of Prop 36, which aimed to strengthen penalties for some of the very same offenses. Even after amendments on 9/8/2025, these organizations continue to oppose the bill.