SB 837 Aging and Disabilities Emergency Preparedness Act Provides internetwork training to ensure emergency response services for vulnerable communities. Status: Assembly - Pending Referral to Committee Bill Information
SB 873 Kick ICE out of Courts Aims to prevent federal immigration agents from disrupting regularly scheduled court appearances with unannounced and indiscriminate arrests. SB 873, once amended in the coming weeks, will provide legal assurances that Californians are safe from immigration agents in and around the grounds of a courthouse. Status: Senate Rules Committee View Bill Details
SB 930 Encrypted Info and Student Safety Would require proctoring facilitators to encrypt testing data before submission to local education agencies. Status: Senate Committee on Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Bill Information
SB 951 AI Job Killer Notice Would extend WARN Act notifications to jobs lost to AI deployment. Status: Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employmentm and Retirement Bill Information
SB 969 DDS Remote Services Approval Would make services more accessible by permanently offering the option for remote services. Status: Senate Committee on Human Services Bill Information
SB 1017 Foster Youth Data Access Would provide foster youth aged 14 and older access to personal records held by a local educational agency. Status: Senate Committee on Education Bill Information
SB 1032 The Staffing Agency Fair employment (SAFE) Act Creates a clear, common-sense regulatory framework for temporary staffing agencies, similar to what already exists for contractors and other high-risk industries. Status: Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Bill Information
SB 1044 Veteran Small Business State Contracts Increases the contract award amount cap from $250,000 to $350,000 so that a certified small business or a disabled veteran business enterprise can fairly compete for state projects. Status: Senate Committee on Governmental Organization Bill Information
SB 1075 Mitigating Air Pollution Impacts Expands on current air quality policies to ensure land use decisions address air pollution impacts. Status: Senate Rules Committee Bill Information
SB 1099 Public Benefits Clarifies CA’s ability to provide public benefits using state and local funds as allowed by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Status: Senate Committee on Health Bill Information
SB 1130 Wearable Device Privacy Protection Modernize existing privacy eavesdropping and secret recording laws to include wearable devices, like smart glasses, and prohibit modification of devices. Status: Senate Committee on Public Safety Bill Information
SB 1154 Best Value Procurement Would authorize community college districts to employ a best-value procurement method for contract bids and evaluations through 2030. Status: Senate Education Committee Bill Information
SB 1178 Official State Yellow Jacket This bill would designate the California Yellow Jacket as the official state vespula. Status: Senate Committee on Governmental Organization Bill Information
SB 1255 HSI Designation This bill would establish an Hispanic-Serving Institution designation in California. Status: Senate Education Committee Bill Information
SB 1369 Recall Elections Procedure This bill introduces reasonable safeguards to regulate the recall petition process for judges. Status: Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments Bill Information
SB 1414 Independent Redistricting Commission This bill would establish an independent redistricting commission for San Bernardino County. Status: Senate Committees on Elections and Constitutional Amendments, and Local Government. Bill Information
2025 Legislative Proposals
SB 245 Streamlining Expungements for Fire Camp Participants Would streamline and clarify the expungement process established under AB 2147 (Reyes, 2020) for individuals who have successfully participated in the California Conservation Camp Program, institutional fire house programs, or county incarcerated individual hand crew programs. Status: Signed into Law View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 271 Transforming Higher Ed for Student Parents through Financial & Childcare Support Services Requires student parents on higher education campuses to be notified about childcare and financial aid resources available to them at one of the following campus locations: a financial aid office, a child development center, or a basic need center. Status: Signed into Law View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 294 The Workplace Know Your Rights Act Creates a template for employers to inform employees about their rights to equal and just treatment under the law. Also protects families by requiring notice to a worker’s emergency contact should they be arrested or detained by ICE. Status: Signed into Law View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 305 Community College Financial Aid Access Establishes a systemic approach to ensure that first-time and continuing community college students apply for financial aid (or opt-out) during college orientation and throughout their college journey. Builds on the success of California’s universal financial aid completion policy for high school seniors established by AB 469 (Reyes, 2021). Status: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 316 High School Voter Registration Would provide high school students in California opportunity and resources needed to pre-register to vote, register to vote, and information about how to vote by the end of their eleventh grade. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 334 Education Against Harassment Act Would require the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) to consider including resources and information related to sexual harassment and its related protections in the Health Education Framework in K-12 Public Schools. Would also establish “Sexual Harassment Safety Weeks” in California schools to inform students and parents of the resources available to them and also cultivate a safer school environment. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 352 Environmental Justice Protection Act Strengthens air quality monitoring programs created by AB 617 (2018) in vulnerable communities and makes state leaders accountable for progress. Status: Signed into Law View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 415 PLANS Act Would strengthen and clarify changes to recently enacted legislation, AB 98 (Carrillo, 2024) related to logistics use development and requirements. The bill is meant to serve as a cleanup to last year’s historic effort. Status: Signed into Law View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 485 Public Defender Job Security & Integrity Act Would eliminate the "at-will" employee status of appointed Chief Public Defenders, so that they can only be removed by the board of supervisors with a 3/5 vote for reasons such as neglect of duty, malfeasance, misconduct, or other justifiable causes. Status: Vetoed View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 548 Overdose Death & Addiction Reduction Act Would establish a goal to reduce alcohol and drug related addiction deaths by 50 percent by 2033. Would require the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS) to direct the Behavioral Health Task Force to develop recommendations to support an implementation plan for reducing alcohol and drug-related addiction deaths by 2033 goal. Status: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 618 Utility Rebate Promise Would require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) develop a standardized methodology for calculating the cost to a customer for interruption of electrical service during a public safety power shutoff. The CPUC would be authorized to assess fines to an investor owned utility for violating commission rules or laws and direct those fines as credits to customers affected by the shut offs. Status: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 659 Online Sales to Minors Would allow a public prosecutor or a parent or legal guardian of a minor, who has acquired a product prohibited to minors, to take legal action against an online business who sold that product. The bill would enhance punishment in place for the illegal sale of prohibited products to minors by establishing meaningful penalties for negligent, willful and intentional violations of law in a civil case. Status: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 686 Affordable Housing Financing Would allow the sale and refinancing of housing projects that were funded by Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) loans in order to deploy additional affordable housing opportunities. Status: Signed into Law View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 781 Small Business Utilization Plans Would encourage cities and counties to adopt Small Business Utilization Plans to leverage local contracting activities to support small businesses and foster local economic growth. The bill would also clarify that the state is able to continue to fund small business programs regardless of federal matching requirements. Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 800 Highway Emergency Life Protection program Requires suicide-prevention planning guidelines for bridges and overpasses on the state highway system. Status: Signed into Law View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
SB 847 Uninsured Employers’ Benefits Trust Fund Would prevent uninsured employers from evading their responsibility to reimburse the Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund (UEBTF) by authorizing the Director of Industrial Relations (DIR) to make a prima facie determination in relation to UEBTF cases. Status:Signed into Law View Bill Details View Fact Sheet
