On the agenda: Alameda County Water District meeting — Data center (Aug 12)

ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
43885 So. Grimmer Boulevard
Fremont, CA 94538

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND COMMUNITY
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
AGENDA
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
4:15 p.m.
ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC MEETINGS: Upon request, ACWD will provide written agenda materials in appropriate
alternative formats, or disability-related modification or accommodation, including auxiliary aids or services, to
enable individuals with disabilities to participate in public meetings. Please send a written request at least 72 hours
before the meeting to the District Secretary, ACWD, 43885 S. Grimmer Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538, or to
[email protected] stating your name, mailing address, phone number, and brief description of the
requested materials and preferred alternative format or auxiliary aid or service.

Members of the public may participate in this meeting in person at the District office located at
43885 South Grimmer Boulevard, Fremont or via webinar or teleconference. In person meetings
are the primary format for the District’s Committee meetings. The District desires to accommodate
remote participation by the public, therefore as a courtesy and technology permitting, the public
will have the opportunity to fully participate in the meeting via zoom webinar. However, the
District cannot guarantee that the public’s remote access to any meeting will be uninterrupted
before or during a meeting, and technical difficulties may occur from time to time. In those
instances, so long as the public may attend the meeting in person, the meeting may be held or
continue. Members of the public desiring to provide comments as a part of the meeting are
encouraged to either submit written comments prior to the meeting or to attend the meeting in
person.
To
participate
via
webinar,
use
the
following
link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86479566543?pwd=KCzDRNk3YOFbA8RnFUYaE3bQH3Pm8T.1
(passcode: 132443). To make comments or ask questions during the meeting, “raise your hand” or
use the chat or Q&A feature in the zoom app at any time, or unmute and speak when invited.
To participate via teleconference, call any of the following phone numbers: 1-669-900-9128 or 1346-248-7799 or 1-301-715-8592 followed by 864 7956 6543 (passcode: 132443). To make
comments or ask questions during the meeting, type *9 on your dial pad to “raise” or “lower” your
“hand” at any time, or type *6 to mute or unmute and speak when invited.
This agenda and all accompanying materials can be viewed on the Alameda County Water District
website at: www.acwd.org.

8/7/2026

1.

Public Comments

2.

Introduction of New Public Affairs Interns
Presenter: Sharene Gonzales, Public Affairs Supervisor

3.

Alameda County Water District Legislative Tracker Project: Power Query
Automation
Presenter: Mackenzie Cin, former Water Resources Intern

4.

Update on State Legislation
Presenters: Jonathan Clay and Erin Gilbert, JGC Government Relations,
Inc.

5.

Public Engagement in Support of Water Waste Ordinance Update
Presenters: Stephanie Nevins, Water Use Efficiency Supervisor, and Jose
Rodriguez, Water Use Efficiency Specialist

6.

Special Assistant to the General Manager’s Report
Presenter: Jackie McCloud, Special Assistant to the General Manager

7.

Public Outreach Update
Presenter: Sharene Gonzales, Public Affairs Supervisor

8/7/2026

Alameda County Water District

Legislative Tracker:
Power Query Automation
Mackenzie Cin
Former Water Resources Intern

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Definitions
• Capitol Track – The application that pulls the bill text from the State’s
website. It also sends reports to track this information.
• Erin/JGC – Our legislative advocacy partner. She schedules the
Capitol Track reports.
• Web file – PDF with tables in it that is sent from Capitol Track. This
report contains the bill information and ACWD’s “position” on the bill.
• Power Automate – Microsoft’s automation platform, requires
knowledge of coding.
• Power Query – Works within Excel, it is a low-code data preparation
and transformation tool.
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Background
• The District tracks bills and assigns them to our subject matter
specialists who look at the bill text.
• The subject matter specialist help evaluate current proposed bills
and enables the District to determine what position to take, if any.
• In addition to initial evaluation of bills as introduced, bills often
change multiple times as they make their way through the
legislature.
• It is therefore important to be able to track bill language near real-time

• Staff sought a means of importing bill data to a system that could
support rapid keyword search, evaluation assignment, review notes,
and change tracking.
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Purpose
• Create an Excel "program" to pull the
information directly from our Capitol
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• Easily update and keep track of all bills
while making the list accessible to all
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• Previously, this process was being done
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Traditional Capital Tracker .pdf Report acwd.org
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Explored Methods
• Coding in Python
• Power BI
• Copy all text and paste into Excel, then use Python to reformat it.
• Cross Site Scripting (inject code straight into the website to extract
data)
• Copy all text from the website unformatted in a Word document. Use
a Macro to extract data from a Word Document and input to Excel.
• Write Copilot prompt sequence to pull from the website itself and
reformat into a table.
• Excel Power Query
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Chosen Method – Power Query
• Power Query – low-code data preparation and transformation
tool.
• Reasons Chosen:
• Coding wasn’t working.
• This tool is widely available and has a short learning curve.
• Allows users to pull and transform data in the same application.
• This process was the best for the intended outcome.
• Originally the data was coming from a spreadsheet.
• We wanted the final product to be an Excel spreadsheet.

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Process and Problem Solving
• Local desktop -> SharePoint

• Pull data from a spreadsheet in a folder.
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• Excel report

• One report sent

• Worked with Erin to get a new report with all the information we needed in one
spreadsheet.

• Built to pull data from an excel report, moved to web report.
• How to safely pull data from an outside link?

• Simplify the process to ensure ease of use.

• Copy and paste URL
• Ensuring privacy and safely pulling the information from the web.

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Process and Problem Solving
• Local desktop -> SharePoint

• Pull data from a spreadsheet in a folder.
• SharePoint admin permissions

• Excel report

• One report sent

• Worked with Erin to get a new report with all the information we needed in one
spreadsheet.

• Built to pull data from an excel report, moved to web report.
• How to safely pull data from an outside link?

• Simplify the process to ensure ease of use.

• Copy and paste URL
• Ensuring privacy and safely pulling the information from the web.

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One Report

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Process and Problem Solving
• Local desktop -> SharePoint

• Pull data from a spreadsheet in a folder.
• SharePoint admin permissions

• Excel report

• One report sent

• Worked with Erin to get a new report with all the information we needed in one
spreadsheet.

• Built to pull data from an excel report, moved to web report.
• How to safely pull data from an outside link?

• Simplify the process to ensure ease of use.

• Copy and paste URL
• Ensuring privacy and safely pulling the information from the web.

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Source: Excel Report -> Web Report

Topic

Brief Summary
Analysis

AB262 Caloza,_Q

AB 1945 Hadwick

Mun icipa l utility dist ricts: termination o f service.

4/16/2026 - Amended

AB 2016 Gonzalez Jeff

State Water Resources Cont rol Board: drinking water: hexavatent chromium removal.

4/16/2026 - Amended

AB 2032 Ransom
AB 2062 Patterson

Fish and wildlife: golden mussels.

ISecurity surveillance compan ies : access and use o f content.

5/18/2026 - Amended
14/23/2026 - Amended

Employment: training requirements: opioid overdose reversa ls.

5/18/2026 - Amended

AB 2214 Jackson

Government finance: deposits.

4/13/2026 - Amended

AB 2260 Connolly

Water: restoration management: small rest ora t ion use.

5/18/2026 - Amended
4/6/2026 - Amended

AB 2150

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AB2322

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Water discharge: commercial, indust rial, or inst it utional sites.

AB2469

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Data centers: water use disclosures.

5/22/2026 - Amended

AB2521~

Cal ifornia Council on Science and Technology: water availabi lity study: Central Va lley.

4/15/2026 - Amended

• AB 2577 Connolly

Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: settlements: attorney's fees.

3/19/2026 - Amended

AB 2656 Petrie-Norris

Public employees: notice: artificial int elligence performing service wit hin scope o f w ork.

4/14/2026 - Amended

AB 2729 Banta

Med i-Cal: Employer Responsibility for Med i-Cal Trust Fund.

5/18/2026 - Amended

Employment: technological displacement: notice.

5/14/2026 - Amended

SB951

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Laird

State Water Project : renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources.

5/18/2026 - Amended

SB 1149 Durazo

Employees: bereavement leave.

5/14/2026 - Amended

SB 1205 Valladares

Public contract s: retention: architecture or engineering services.

4/9/2026 - Amended

SB 1253 Laird

Sa linas Reservoir: recreational use.

4/27/2026 - Amended

AB 34

Patterson

Cal ifornia Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities: large hydroelectric generation.

1/5/2026 - Amended

AB 372

Bennett

Office of Emergency Services: state match ing funds: wat er syst em infrastructure improvements.

8/29/2025 - Amended

AB 883

Lowentha l

Data brokers: deletion of personal in formation of elected o ffi cials and judges.

AB 990

Hadwick

Public water syst ems: emergency notification plan.

6/3/2026 - Amended
2/20/2025 - Int roduced

AB 1530 Committee on Emergency Management Cal ifornia Disast er Assist ance Act .

5/23/2025 - Amended

AB 1578 Jackson

5/22/2026 - Amended

AB 1786 Harabedian

State and local officials: sexua l harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.
Public contract s: best va lue construction contracting for counties, cit ies, and the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments.

3/12/2026 - Amended

AB 1840 Sanchez

Political Reform Act of 1974: prediction market contract s.

2/11/2026 - Introduced

AB 2218 Kalra

Water policy: California Native American tribes.

4/16/2026 - Amended

AB 2323 McKinnor

Publication: newspapers o f genera l circu lat ion.

5/20/2026 - Amended

2/13/2026
2/17/2026
2/17/2026
2/18/2026
2/18/2026
2/19/2026
2/19/2026
2/19/2026
2/20/2026
2/20/2026
2/20/2026
2/20/2026
2/20/2026
2/2/2026
2/2/2026
2/18/2026
2/19/2026
2/19/2026
12/2/2024
2/3/2025
2/19/2025
2/20/2025
3/26/2025
1/12/2026
2/10/2026
2/11/2026
2/19/2026
2/19/2026

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California
Housing and
Homelessness
Agency: PINK
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06/22/26)

Fire hazard
seventy zones
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08/15/25 .I
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Employeremployee
relations:
confidential
communications

08/15/25 .I
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(text03/05/25)

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Senate AppropriatiOns

08.103/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS
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CERVANTES,
SABRINA, Chair

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Existing law, the Governor's ReorgantzatiOn Plan No_ wateh
1 Of 2025, beginning July 1 , 2026, eliminates ttle

Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency
and instead establishes the Business and Consumer
Services Agency and the California Housing and
Homelessness Agency (agency). Existing law
requires the agency to coordinate with ttle California
Health and Human Services Agency and the
California Consumer Protection Agency on various
state policies, ind udinghousing. This bill would
require the agency to create a study on issues
impacting pregnant people experiencing
homelessness and report the results of the study, as
well as recommendations to establish a PINK Alert, to
the l egislature by July 1, 2028. (Based on
06/22/2026text)
Current law requires the State Fire Marsha l lo identify wateh
areas in the state as moderate, high, and very high
fire hazard severity zones, as specified. Current law
also requires the State Fire Marshal to classify lands
within state responsibility areas Into fire hazard
severity zones, and, by regulation, to designate fire
hazard severity zones and assign to each zone a
rating reflecting ttle degree of severity of fire hazard
that is expected to prevail in the zone. Current law
requirestheStateFlreMarshal toperiodicallyrevie'N
very high fire hazard severity zones that are not state
responsibility areas, and designated and rated zones
that are state responsibility areas, as provided. This
bill would instead require ttle state Fire Marshal, al
least once every 5 years, to review areas in the state
identified as moderate, high, and very high fire
hazard severity zones, andtoreviewlandswithin
state responsibility areas dasstrled as fire hazard
severity zones _(Based on05J05/2025text)
Current law that governs the labor relations of public
employees and employers, ind uding, among others,
the Meyers-Milias-Bfown Act, ttle Ralph C. Dills Act,
provisions relatingtopublicschools, and provisions
relating to higher education, prohibits employers from
takingcertainactiOnsrelatingtoemployee

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Process and Problem Solving
• Local desktop -> SharePoint

• Pull data from a spreadsheet in a folder.
• SharePoint admin permissions

• Excel report

• One report sent

• Worked with Erin to get a new report with all the information we needed in one
spreadsheet.

• Built to pull data from an excel report, moved to web report.
• How to safely pull data from an outside link?

• Simplify the process to ensure ease of use.

• Copy and paste URL
• Ensuring privacy and safely pulling the information from the web.

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Simplify for Ease of Use

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Automated decis ion systems.
Evidentiary privileges : union agent-represented worker privilege.
02/20/2025 - Introduced
Water infrastructure: dams and reservoirs: water release: false pretenses.
06/23/2025 - Amended
Pub lic works: preva ili ng wages .
07/01/2026 - Amended
Pub lic employees' retirement benefits .
Artificia l intelligence: aud itors: enrollment.
07/09/2025 - Amended
Susta inab le Grou ndwater Management Act groundwater adj ud ication.
09/02/2025 - Amended
Ca liforn ia Disaster Ass istance Act.
05/23/2025 - Amended
06/25/2026 - Amended
Sensitive persona l information.
State and loca l officia l s: sexua l harassmenttra ining and education: anti-hate speech trainin 05/22/2026 - Amended

Zbu r, D
Dixon, R
Lackey, R

Pub lic Lan ds Protection Act.
Interferi ng with wildfi re suppress ion and emergency responses with drone.
Em inent doma in: appra isa ls.

Pacheco, D
Berma n, D
Ortega, D
Benn ett, D
Ramos , D
Bryan, D
Rub io, Blanca , D
Ha dwick, R
Ransom, D
Rogers, D
Benn ett, D
Haney, D

Ca liforn ia Pu bli c Records Act: agency response ti me.
Pub li c contracts: local agencies: res pons ive bidders.
Pub li c works.
County of Ventura: fire suppress ion: backup energy sou rce.
Ca liforn ia Indian Freedom Act of 2026.
Workp lace surveillance tools.
Fi sh an d wildlife: invas ive mussels: imported water.
Municipa l utility distri cts : term ination of service.
Fi sh an d wildlife: golden mussels.
Empl oyees: mea l periods: stationary engineers .
Grou ndwater bas in adj ud icati on: notice.
Empl oyment: tra ini ng requirements: op ioid overdose reversa ls.
Water policy: Ca liforn ia Native America n tribes.

Katra, D
Papa n,D
Haney, D
McKinn or, D
Bauer-Kahan, D

Katra, D
Connolly, D
Papan,D
McKinnor, D
Papan,D
Ellis, R

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Water: restoration ma nagement: sma ll restoration use.
Water discha rge: commercia l, industrial, or institutional sites.
Pub li cation: newspapers of genera l ci rcu lati on.
Data centers: water use disclosures.
Electricity: integrated resource plans: Department of Water Resources: prorn rement.

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07 / 11/25 S App ro priations (t
08/15/25 S Approp ri ations (t

08/15/25 S Approp riations (t
09/03/25 S Floor Ana lyses (te
08/15/25 S Approp riations (te
06/19/26 S Privacy, Digital Tee
06/19/26 S Governmenta l Org
01/22/2026 - Introduced 04/ 15/26 A Loca l Government
06/17/2026 - Amended 06/26/26 S Ju diciary (text06/l
05/18/2026 - Amended 06/19/26 S Judiciary (text 05/1
06/25/2026 - Amended
06/11/2026 - Amended
05/18/2026 - Amended

06/27 /26 S Jud iciary (text 06/2
06/26/26 S Appropriations (t

05/27/2026 - Amended
05/19/2026 - Amended
07/02/2026 - Amended
05/28/2026 - Amended
06/25/2026 - Amended

06/12/26 S Emergency Ma nag
06/29/26 S Ju diciary (text 05/1
06/30/26 SComm ittee On La b
06/24/26 S Floor Ana lyses (te
06/29/26 S Floo r Ana lyses (te

06/11/2026 - Amended
02/18/2026 - Introduced
03/25/2026 - Amended
06/25/2026 - Amended

06/29/26 S Environmenta l Qu
06/25/26 S Floo r Ana lyses (te
06/28/26 S Natural Resou rces
06/30/26 SComm ittee On La b

07/02/2026 - Amended
05/18/2026 - Amended

06/29/26 S Environmenta l Qu
06/19/26 S Natural Resou rces

04/06/2026 - Amended
06/11/2026 - Amended
07/02/2026 - Amended
04/27/2026 - Amended
07/02/2026 - Amended

06/29/26 S Environmenta l Qu
06/19/26 A Floor Ana lys is (t

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Final Product
La ckey, R
Bennett, D
Ransom , D
Connolly, D

Fire haza rd severity zones: State Fire Mars hal.
05/05/2025 - Amended
Offi ce of Emergency Services: state matching funds: water system infrastruct ure improvemen108/29/2025 - Amended
Water rate ass istance program .
07/17/2025 - Amended
Susta ina ble groundwater management: managed wetlands.

Calderon, D
Electricity: climate cred its.
Workplace surveillance.
Elhawary, D
Ba uer-Kaha n, D Data centers: reporti ng.
Lee, D
Papan , D
Hara bed ian, D

06/26/2025 - Amended
07/17/2025 - Amended
09/04/2025 - Amended
07/02/2026 - Amen ded
05/18/2026 - Amended

State employment: telework program s.
Fish and wildlife: invas ive species: invas ive mussels.
06/25/2026 - Amended
Public contra cts: best va lue constructi on contra cting for counties, cities, and th e San Gabriel 06/18/2026 - Amended

Lee, D
Lan d use: housing development approva ls: timeli nes and processes.
Aguiar-Curry, D Water diversion: groundwater recha rge: permit.

06/18/2026 - Amended
07/02/2026 - Amended

Ward, D
Loca l government: Propos it ion 218 Omn ibus Implementation Act proportiona l cost of servicE 05/22/2026 - Amen ded
Aguiar-Curry, D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.
06/25/2026 - Amended
Papan , D
Plan ning and zon ing: housing element: regional housing needs allocati on.
06/29/2026 - Amended
04/27/2026 - Amended
Johnson, R
Water district directors: compensation.

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Soria, D

Gro undwater: de minimis extractors: fees : exemption .

06/11/2026 - Amended
07/02/2026 - Amended

Soria, D
Ma cedo, R
Arregufn, D

Water: affordability and system sta bilization.
Ca liforn ia Water Res iliency Act.
Crim es: crim ina l threats.

Allen , D
McNerney, D
McNerney, D

Water: waste discharge.
Critical infra structure: artificia l intemgence systems: huma n oversight.
Delta Levees and Cana l Subs idence Fund.

Caballero, D
Dura zo, D

Loca l agency: payment: ro unding amount.
Water supp ly planning: housing developments.

Menjivar, D
Dura zo, D
Arregufn, D

Water Rate Ass istance Program.
Open meetings.
Assa ult an d battery: utility workers.

Perez, D

Mutua l water compa nies: assessments an d water charges: notice.

08/15/25 SApprop riations (text07/17/25 )
09/09/25 S Floor Ana lyses (text06/26/25)
08/15/25 SApprop riati ons (text07/17/25 )
09/08/25 S Floor Ana lyses (text09/04/25)
06/28/26 S Jud iciary (text 06/11/26)
06/19/26 S Governmenta l Organizati on (text 05/18/26)
06/27 /26 S Jud iciary (text 06/25/26 )
07/01/26 S Floor Ana lyses (text 06/18/26)
06/25/26 S Housing (text06/18/26)
06/30/26 S Environmenta l Quality (text05/22/26)
06/ 12/26 S Floor Ana lyses (text05/22/26 )
06/19/26 S Natura l Resources And Water (text 06/15/2
06/18/26 S Housing (text05/18/26)
06/19/26 S Floor Ana lyses (text04/27/26)
06/28/26 S Natural Resources And Water (text06/11/2

06/29/26 S Environmenta l Quality (text06/11/26 )
03/24/2025 - Introduced
07/02/2026 - Amended 06/29/26 A Publi c Safety (text 06/17126)
07/10/2025 - Amended 08/18/25 A Approp riati ons (text 07 /10/25 )
07/17/2025 - Amended 08/18/25 A Ap propriations (text07/17/25)
07/02/2026 - Amended 06/26/26 A Water, Pa rks An d Wildlife (text 05/14/26 )

07/02/2026 - Amended
06/17/2026 - Amended
06/09/2026 - Amended

LICA Committee
August 12, 2026

08/15/25 SAppropriations (text05/05/25 )
09/02/25 S Floor Ana lyses (text08/29/25)

07/06/2026 - Amended
05/14/2026 - Amended
06/29/2026 - Amended

06/10/26 A Floor Analys is (text 06/04/26)
06/30/26 A Loca l Government (text 06/17126)
06/23/26 A Comm ittee On Utiliti es And Energy (text 06/
06/30/26 A Loca l Government (text 06/22/26)
06/29/26 A Public Safety (text 05/14/26)
06/23/26 A Comm ittee On Ut ilities And Energy (text 04

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Final Product
Existing law, the Govern or's Reorga11 izatio11 Plan No. 1 of 2025 , begi1111i11g July 1, 2026 , eli mirn Watch
Cu rrent law requ ires the State Fire Marshal t o identify areas i11 the state as moderate, high, ar Watch
Cu rrent law charges the Office of Emergency Services (DES) with coordi11ati11g various emerge Watch
Cu rrent federal law, the Consoli dated Appropriations Act, 202 1 requ ires the federal Departme Watch
The Susta ina ble Gro undwater Management Act requ ires all groundwater bas ins des ignated a Watch
Cu rrent law vests the Pub li c Utiliti es Commiss ion (PUC ) with regu latory authority over pub li c I Watch
Cu rrent law estab li shes the Divi sion of Labor Stan da rds Enforcement with in the Department c Watch
Existing law esta bli shes the State Energy Res ou rces Conservation and Development Comm iss Watch
Existing law requ ires every state agency to develop and implement a telecommuti ng plan as p Watch
Existing law, until January 1, 2030 , genera lly proh ibits a pers on from possess ing, importing, i Watch
Existing law estab li shes a program t o allow counties to select a bidder on th e basis of best V e Watch
The Ca liforn ia Environmenta l Qu ality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigate Watch
Existing law declares that all water within the state is the property of the peop le of th e state, b Watch
The Ca liforn ia Constituti on specifi es variou s requ irements with respect t o th e levying of assei Watch
Existing law estab li shes in the Natura l Resou rces Agency the Sacramento-Sa n Joa quin Delta i Watch
For the 4th and sub sequent revi sions of th e hous ing element, exi sti ng law requires the Depa r1 Watch
Existing law auth orizes a water district, as defi ned, to adopt an ordinan ce that provides comi Watch
Existing law auth ori zes a groundwater sustaina bility agency to impose f ees , includ ing, but nc Watch
Existing law estab li shes in the Natura l Resou rces Agency the Department of Water Resources Watch
This meas ure, the Ca lifornia Water Res iliency Act, would requ ire th e Trea surer t o annually tra Watch
Existing law makes it a cr ime to willfully threaten to comm it a crim e that will resu lt in death o Watch
The State Water Resources Control Boa rd an d th e 9 Ca liforn ia regional water qu ality control b Watch
Existing law, the Ca liforn ia Emergency Services Act, esta blishes the Ca liforn ia Cybersecurity h Watch
Existing law, the Sacram ento-San Joaqu in Delta Reform Act of 2009 , declares that th e Sa cram Watch
Existing law re uires a pub lic agency to accept specifi ed meth ods of payment fo r des ignated Watch
The Ca lifo rn ia Environ menta l Qua lity Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defin ed , t o be res Watch
Existing law requ ires the State Water Resources Contro l Board t o develop a plan for th e fundir Watch
The Ra lph M. Brown Act requ ires, with specifi ed excepti ons, that all meetings of a legislative I Watch
Existing law defines an assault as an unlawful attempt, coupled with present ability, to comn Watch
Would prohibit a mutual water company from cha rging, issu ing a bill, or oth erwi se seeking tc Watch

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ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov, ACWD - DESS, ACWD - Operations, ACWD - PE
ACWD - Finance
ACWD - GW, ACWD - Wat er Resources , ACWD - WS
ACWD - Board/ Gov, ACWD - Finance
ACWD - HR, ACWD - IT
ACWD - DSD , ACWD - Water Res ou rces
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov, ACWD - HR
ACWD - Water Quality, ACWD - Water Res ou rces
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov
ACWD - DSD
ACWD - GW, ACWD - Water Resou rces , ACWD - WS
ACWD - Board/ Gov, ACWD - Finance
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov, ACWD - Wat er Resou rces, ACWD - WS
ACWD - DSD
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov, ACWD - Fina nce
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov, ACWD - ETS, ACWD - Fina nce
ACWD - GW, ACWD - Water Res ou rces
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov, ACWD - Fina nce, ACWD - Gra nts, ACWD - PE, ACWD - Water Res ou rc
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov
ACWD - Operati ons , ACWD - PE, ACWD - Water Res ources
ACWD - IT
ACWD - Board/ Gov, ACWD - Water Resou rces
ACWD - Finan ce
ACWD - DSD, ACWD - WS
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov, ACWD - HR, ACWD - DESS, ACWD - Operations
ACWD - Boa rd/ Gov, ACWD - DESS

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Future Areas for Improvement
• Include tracked changes in the spreadsheet.
• Use Power Automate to automatically grab the link from email.
• Clean up the data/adjust columns to match the District’s needs.

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TO: Ed Stevenson, Alameda County Water District
FROM: JGC Government Relations, Inc. – Jonathan Clay & Erin Gilbert
RE: August Legislative Report
DATE: August 7, 2026
The legislature returned from summer recess on Monday, August 3 rd. August 14th is the last
day for fiscal committees to meet and Monday, August 31st is the last day of session. People are
already trying to figure out if the legislature will really go home for the weekend and return on
Monday for one day of work or work through the weekend and then be home until the
swearing-in ceremony in early December. It likely depends on when the last set of amendments
gets time stamped as to when the last votes will be taken.
After a month of recess, apparently the Assembly Republicans were bored because upon their
return they immediately voted out their Minority leader Heath Flora by one vote to vacate the
chair and then a rumored 10 votes to elect Assemblymember Macedo as Minority leader and
seven abstentions. While she immediately said the caucus was united, Assemblymember
Alanis wrote a contradictory press release stating that was hardly the case. The allegation is
that when Assemblymember Flora voted to allow to increase the sales tax cap in several
counties in June that was a hard line for the conservative wing of the party to take a stand on.
Although there have been several articles of potential ethics violation for campaign finance
charges at a local East Sac bar that have raised some eyebrows.
Meanwhile, others were busy working on amendments and rather large policy issues during
the recess. Governor Newsom has been making some statements of a wildfire liability proposal
for the electric companies, and the Eaton Fire investigation just released their final report
blaming SoCal Edison for the start. While there is currently no paper or language being
released, the rumor is that they will include a cap on damages including any damages to local
governments. The Assembly Democrats have started a workgroup on the proposal and
additional briefings are supposed to occur in the days to come. There are some other big issues
that will be appearing in the final of weeks of session including Cap and Invest funding,
Proposition 4 allocations, and California Forever to name a few.
There will be 14 ballot measures for consideration on the November election. Here is a link to
the measures and their descriptions (https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballotmeasures/qualified-ballot-measures).

Alameda Positions

AB 262

Sorted by: Measure
Friday, 08/07/2026

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California Housing and Homelessness Agency: PINK Alert.
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law, the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025, beginning July 1,
2026, eliminates the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and instead
establishes the Business and Consumer Services Agency and the California Housing
and Homelessness Agency (agency). Existing law requires the agency to coordinate
with the California Health and Human Services Agency and the California Consumer
Protection Agency on various state policies, including housing. This bill would require
the agency to create a study on issues impacting pregnant people experiencing
homelessness and report the results of the study, as well as recommendations to
establish a PINK Alert, to the Legislature by July 1, 2028. (Based on 06/22/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/16/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 532

Ransom, D

Current Text:

06/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/22/2026

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Water rate assistance program.
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Status:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current federal law, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 requires the federal
Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a Low-Income Household
Drinking Water and Wastewater Emergency Assistance Program, which is also known
as the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program, for making grants to states
and Indian tribes to assist low-income households that pay a high proportion of
household income for drinking water and wastewater services, as provided. Current
law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to administer
the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program in this state, and to receive and
expend moneys appropriated and allocated to the state for purposes of that program,
pursuant to the above-described federal law. The Low Income Household Water
Assistance Program was only operative until March 31, 2024. This bill would repeal
the above-described requirements related to the Low Income Household Water
Assistance Program. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)

Summary:

Location:
Introduced:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR
02/11/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

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AB 929

Connolly, D

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

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Sustainable groundwater management: managed wetlands.
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FILE on 9/10/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requires all groundwater basins
designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources
to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater
sustainability plans, except as specified. Current law defines various terms for
purposes of the act. This bill would add various defined terms for purposes of the act,
including the terms “managed wetland” and “small community water system.” (Based
on 06/26/2025 text)

Location:

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06/26/2025 - Amended

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Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 942

Calderon, D

Last Amend:

06/26/2025

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Electricity: climate credits.
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08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes
2.) (August 29). Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

Summary:

Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over
public utilities, including electrical corporations. Current law requires the PUC to
continue a program of assistance to low-income electric and gas customers with
annual household incomes that are no greater than 200% of the federal poverty
guidelines, as specified, which is referred to as the California Alternate Rates for
Energy (CARE) program. Current law also requires the PUC to continue a program of
assistance to residential customers of the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations
consisting of households of 3 or more persons with total household annual gross
income levels between 200% and 250% of the federal poverty guideline level, which is
referred to as the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program. Current law,
except as provided, requires revenues received by an electrical corporation as a result
of the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to be credited directly to
residential, small business, and emissions-intensive trade-exposed retail customers of
the electrical corporation, commonly known as the California Climate Credit. This bill
would exclude residential customers from receiving the California Climate Credit if
they are not enrolled in the CARE or FERA program and their total electricity bills for
the previous year were less than $300. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/19/2025
N

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 1331

Elhawary, D

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Workplace surveillance.
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09/13/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/13/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the
Department of Industrial Relations. Current law authorizes the division, which is
headed by the Labor Commissioner, to enforce the Labor Code and all labor laws of
the state the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in any other officer, board
or commission. This bill would limit the use of workplace surveillance tools, as defined,
by employers, including by prohibiting an employer from monitoring or surveilling
workers in employee-only, employer-designated areas, as specified. The bill would
provide workers with the right to leave behind workplace surveillance tools that are on
their person or in their possession when entering certain employee-only areas and
public bathrooms and during off-duty hours, as specified. The bill would prohibit a
worker from removing or physically tampering with any component of a workplace
surveillance tool that is part of or embedded in employer equipment or
vehicles. (Based on 09/04/2025 text)

Summary:

Location:

09/13/2025 - Senate 2
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02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

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AB 1577

Bauer-Kahan, D

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Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission and vests the commission with various responsibilities with respect to
developing and implementing the state’s energy policies. Existing law requires the
commission to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report, as specified, and to
make the reports accessible to state, local, and federal entities and to the general
public. This bill would require the commission to establish a process for the owner of a
data center, as defined, to submit specified information to the commission, including,
among other information, the data center’s location and size, the data center’s power
usage effectiveness, as defined, and the quantity of fuel consumed by onsite
generators or other fuel-based energy systems, as specified. The bill would require the
owner of a data center to submit the required information in the manner and timeframe
specified by the commission. The bill would require the commission, beginning with
the 2029 integrated energy policy report, and in subsequent biennial reports, to
include an assessment of electrical load trends for data centers, as provided. The bill
would require the commission to annually publish the information submitted in an
anonymized and aggregated format on its internet website. (Based on 07/02/2026
text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

01/12/2026

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AB 1729

Lee, D

Current Text:

07/02/2026 - Amended

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07/02/2026

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08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law requires every state agency to develop and implement a telecommuting
plan as part of its telecommuting program in work areas where telecommuting is
identified as being both practical and beneficial to the organization. Existing law
requires the Department of General Services to establish a unit for purposes of
overseeing telecommuting programs that is required to, among other things, develop
and update policy, procedures, and guidelines to assist agencies in the planning and
implementation of telecommuting programs. Existing law requires the department to
establish criteria for evaluating the state’s telecommuting program. Existing law

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defines “telecommuting” for purposes of those provisions. This bill would revise and
recast those provisions. The bill would replace the term “telecommuting” with
“telework,” as defined. The bill would also require the Department of General Services
to establish a telework dashboard that displays the cost-effectiveness and efficiency
benefits of state telework programs. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)
Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/05/2026
Y

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 1772

Papan, D

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Fish and wildlife: invasive species: invasive mussels.
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Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law, until January 1, 2030, generally prohibits a person from possessing,
importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to
be placed or planted in any water in the state, invasive mussels, and authorizes the
Director of Fish and Wildlife or the director’s designee to engage in various
enforcement activities, including ordering the areas in conveyance that contain water
be drained, dried, or decontaminated, as provided. Existing law requires a public or
private agency that operates a water supply system to cooperate with the Department
of Fish and Wildlife to implement measures to avoid infestation by invasive mussels
and to control or eradicate any infestation that may occur in a water supply system.
Existing law requires, if invasive mussels are detected, the operator of a water supply
system to, in cooperation with the department, prepare and implement a plan to
control or eradicate invasive mussels within the system, and eliminate or minimize any
potential downstream transport of an invasive mussel. Existing law requires, on or
before December 31, 2026, the department to review all approved plans and require
all plans that do not specifically address all invasive mussel species known to be
present in bodies of water in the state as of January 1, 2026, to be updated or revised
appropriately to include all invasive mussel species, on or before September 30, 2027.
Existing law requires every invasive mussel species to be addressed in a plan no later
than 180 days from the date that the species is listed in a certain regulation. Existing
law defines “invasive mussel” for these purposes as any nonnative detrimental
mussel, as provided. This bill would prohibit a conveyance from being launched until a

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specified drying period has completed, as provided. By expanding the scope of a
crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require
the department to require water supply system operators to update their plans to
address all invasive mussel species present in the operator’s water system as of
January 1, 2026, as provided. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)
Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/09/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 1997

Lee, D

Current Text:

06/25/2026 - Amended

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06/25/2026

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Calendar:

08/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
08/10/26 #199 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE

Summary:

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a
mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the
environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is
no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on
the environment. The Permit Streamlining Act sets forth various procedures for the
review and approval of development project applications. Among other things, the act
requires a public agency that is the lead agency or a responsible agency for a
development project to approve or disapprove the project within a specified period of
time, which varies depending on the project’s phase in the CEQA process. The act
defines “development project” to include specified housing development projects, as
provided. This bill would additionally require approval or disapproval of a housing
development project within 30 days from the date of certification by the lead agency of
the environmental impact report (EIR), if the EIR is prepared pursuant to specified
provisions of CEQA if certain other conditions are met. The bill would also define
“housing development project” for the purposes of the Permit Streamlining Act and
make additional conforming changes. By imposing additional duties on local agencies,
the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/18/2026 text)

Location:

08/04/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/17/2026

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N

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Y

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06/18/2026 - Amended
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Aguiar-Curry, D

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Water diversion: groundwater recharge: permit.
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08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair
Existing law declares that all water within the state is the property of the people of the
state, but the right to the use of the water may be acquired by appropriation in the
manner provided by law. Existing law requires the appropriation to be for some useful
or beneficial purpose. Existing law provides, however, that the diversion of floodflows
for groundwater recharge does not require an appropriative water right if certain
conditions are met, including that a local or regional agency that has adopted a local
plan of flood control or has considered flood risks as part of its most recently adopted
general plan has given notice, as provided, of imminent risk of flooding and inundation
of lands, roads, or structures. Existing law defines “floodflow” for these purposes to
include circumstances in which flows would inundate ordinarily dry areas in the bed of
a terminal lake to a depth that floods dairies and other ongoing agricultural activities,
or areas with substantial residential, commercial, or industrial development. Existing
law applies those requirements to diversions commenced before January 1, 2029.
Existing law prohibits an entity from substantially diverting or obstructing the natural
flow of, or substantially changing or using any material from the bed, channel, or bank
of, any river, stream, or lake, or from depositing or disposing of certain material where
it may pass into any river, stream, or lake, without first notifying the Department of Fish
and Wildlife of that activity, and entering into a lake or streambed alteration agreement
if required by the department to protect fish and wildlife resources, except as specified.
This bill would revise and recast those conditions required for the appropriative water
right exemption for a diversion of floodflows for groundwater recharge, would apply the
requirements to a diversion commenced before January 1, 2034, and would further
exempt those diversions from the requirements of CEQA and requirements relating to
lake or streambed alteration agreements, subject to conducting tribal consultation, as
provided. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)

Summary:

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08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/17/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

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07/02/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/02/2026

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AB 2180

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Local government: Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act: proportional cost of service.
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06/11/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #81 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE (Floor Mgr.- Arreguín)

Summary:

The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying
of assessments and property-related fees and charges by a local agency. As part of
those requirements, the California Constitution mandates that such fees or charges
that are extended, imposed, or increased satisfy certain requirements, including, but
not limited to, that the amount of the fee or charge imposed upon any parcel or person
as an incident of property ownership not exceed the proportional cost of the service
attributable to the parcel. Existing law, known as the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act (act), prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local
jurisdictions to comply with these requirements and, among other things, authorizes an
agency providing water, wastewater, sewer, or refuse collection services to adopt a
schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through
increases in wholesale charges for water, sewage treatment, or wastewater treatment
or adjustments for inflation under certain circumstances. This bill would authorize a
local government to demonstrate the proportional cost of the service attributable to the
parcel by any method that reasonably allocates the ascertainable cost of providing
service to all parcels, if substantiated as provided. The bill would, however, provide
that for water or sewer service fee or charge impositions, a local government is not
required to provide an exact measure of the cost of the service at each parcel and
may instead impose uniform or tiered rates to parcel or customer classes that are
defined based on common characteristics indicative of likely water or sewer
use. (Based on 05/22/2026 text)

Location:

06/11/2026 - Senate THIRD
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Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

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AB 2216

Aguiar-Curry, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

05/22/2026 - Amended
05/22/2026

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Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta Conservancy. Existing law requires the conservancy to act as a primary
state agency to implement ecosystem restoration in the Delta and to support efforts
that advance environmental protection and the economic well-being of Delta residents.
Existing law specifies the composition of the governing board of the conservancy,
including 11 voting members, and requires liaison advisers to serve in an advisory,
nonvoting capacity. Existing law requires the conservancy to prepare and adopt a
strategic plan to achieve the goals of the conservancy and requires the strategic plan
to be consistent with certain plans. Existing law authorizes the conservancy to engage
in partnerships with nonprofit organizations, local public agencies, and landowners,
and authorizes the conservancy to provide grants and loans to state agencies, local
public agencies, and nonprofit organizations to further the goals of the conservancy.
Existing law establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Fund in the
State Treasury. Existing law makes moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation
by the Legislature, for purposes of these provisions. This bill would expand the area
covered by the conservancy to include the Valley and Lake, as defined. The bill would
rename the conservancy the Valley, Lake, and Delta Conservancy and make
conforming changes. The bill would rename the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Conservancy Fund the Delta Conservancy Fund and create the Valley and Lake
Conservancy Fund in the State Treasury, moneys in which would be available upon
appropriation by the Legislature for purposes of the conservancy in the Valley and
Lake. The bill would add to the governing board one additional voting member who is
appointed by the Lake County Board of Supervisors and one who is a tribal
representative appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. By
imposing additional requirements on the Lake County Board of Supervisors, the bill
would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 2296

Papan, D

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Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
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08/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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Summary:

08/10/26 #215 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE
For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the
Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each
council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected need for
housing, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for
cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing
plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city
and county, as provided. Existing law authorizes at least 2 or more cities and a county,
or counties, at least 28 months prior to the scheduled housing element revision, to
form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s existing and projected housing
need among its members. If the council of governments does not receive a notification
of this formation at least 28 months prior to the update, existing law requires the
council of governments to implement specified requirements regarding the regional
housing need process. Existing law requires the council of governments to determine
the share of regional housing need assigned to each delegate subregion at least 25
months prior to the scheduled revision. This bill, except with respect to the 7th housing
element cycle for councils of governments with a housing element revision due date
during the calendar year 2027 or 2028, would extend the above-described timeline for
cities and counties to form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s housing
need, as provided, from 28 months to 34 months, and the above-described timeline for
the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned
to each subregion from 25 months to 31 months. (Based on 06/29/2026 text)

Location:

08/04/2026 - Senate THIRD
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02/19/2026
N

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Y

AB 2568

Johnson, R

Current Text:

06/29/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/29/2026

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Water district directors: compensation.
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06/18/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #96 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE

Summary:

Existing law authorizes a water district, as defined, to adopt an ordinance that provides
compensation to members of the governing board, as specified. Existing law prohibits
a water district from adopting an ordinance that compensates members of the
governing board for more than a total of 10 days in any calendar month. This bill
would, until January 1, 2032, authorize a water district that has at least 90,000
residents within its jurisdiction to adopt an ordinance that compensates members of
the governing board for up to a total of 15 days in any calendar month, but would
require the members of the governing board of a water district that compensates its
members for more than 10 days in a calendar month to annually adopt a written policy
describing, based on a finding supported by substantial evidence, why providing
compensation for more than 10 days per calendar month is necessary for the effective
operation of the water district. (Based on 04/27/2026 text)

Location:

06/18/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

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AB 2728

Soria, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/27/2026 - Amended
04/27/2026

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Groundwater: de minimis extractors: fees: exemption.
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07/02/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #280 S-CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY

Summary:

Existing law authorizes a groundwater sustainability agency to impose fees, including,
but not limited to, permit fees and fees on groundwater extraction or other regulated
activity, to fund the costs of a groundwater sustainability program, and investigations,
inspections, compliance assistance, enforcement, and program administration, as
provided. Existing law prohibits a groundwater sustainability agency from imposing
those fees on a de minimis extractor, as defined, unless the agency has regulated the
user, as provided. This bill would authorize a local government, including, but not

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limited to, a groundwater sustainability agency, that imposes a fee, levy, charge, or
exaction for groundwater monitoring or management, upon making specified findings,
to exempt de minimis extractors, including the above-described regulated users, from
the payment of the fee, levy, charge, or exaction, as provided. (Based on 06/11/2026
text)
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Introduced:

07/02/2026 Senate CONSENT
CALENDAR
02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

AB 2739

Current Text:

06/11/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/11/2026

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Soria, D

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Water: affordability and system stabilization.
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Water
Resources. Existing law vests in the department powers, duties, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction in matters pertaining to water or dams. Existing law
declares the responsibility of the state to assist local governments in providing certain
essential services and facilities where water resource construction projects financed,
in whole or in part, by the state or by the state jointly with the federal government
create an undue burden on a local area’s ability to provide these services and
facilities. Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water
Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking
water to protect public health. Existing law declares it to be the established policy of
the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and
accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes.
This bill would establish in the State Treasury the Water Affordability and System
Stabilization Fund for holding the principal and income of the Water Affordability and
System Stabilization Trust, which the bill would create. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/20/2026

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N

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07/02/2026 - Amended

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07/02/2026

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ACA 11

Macedo, R

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California Water Resiliency Act.
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03/25/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee April 24.

Summary:

This measure, the California Water Resiliency Act, would require the Treasurer to
annually transfer an amount equal to 1% of all state revenues from the General Fund
to the Water Conveyance and Capacity Infrastructure Fund, which the measure would
create. The measure would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the
California Water Commission for its actual costs of implementing these provisions and
for administering grants for the entitlement, repair, design, and construction of water
infrastructure projects that will maintain or expand the availability of clean, safe
drinking water for homes and businesses, and water for agricultural uses, consistent
with area of origin water rights. (Based on 03/24/2025 text)

Location:

03/24/2025 Assembly PRINT

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Is Urgent:

03/24/2025
N

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SB 239

Arreguín, D

Current Text:

03/24/2025 - Introduced

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Crimes: criminal threats.
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Notes
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Status:

08/05/2026 - August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair
Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in
death or great bodily injury to another person, as specified. Under existing law, this
crime is punishable as a misdemeanor or by imprisonment in state prison as a felony.
Existing law, for the purposes of sentencing for a felony violation of these provisions,
authorizes the court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully
threatened to commit a crime that would result in the death or great bodily injury of a
state constitutional officer, a Member of the Legislature, or a judge or court
commissioner, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize the court to consider,
as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully threatened to commit a crime
that would result in the death or great bodily injury of an elections official of a city,
county, city and county, or public district, or an elected local agency official, as
specified. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:

08/05/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

01/30/2025

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N

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SB 601

Allen, D

Current Text:

07/02/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/02/2026

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Water: waste discharge.
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Status:

08/29/2025 - August 29 hearing postponed by committee. (Set for hearing on
08/13/2026)

Calendar:

08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair
The State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality
control boards regulate water quality and prescribe waste discharge requirements in
accordance with the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (act) and the National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. Under the act, the
State Water Resources Control Board is authorized to adopt water quality control
plans for waters for which quality standards are required by the federal Clean Water
Act, as specified, and that in the event of a conflict, those plans supersede regional

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water quality control plans for the same waters. This bill would authorize the state
board to adopt water quality control plans for nexus waters, which the bill would define
as all waters of the state that are not also navigable, except as specified. The bill
would require any water quality standard that was submitted to, and approved by, or is
awaiting approval by, the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the state
board that applied to nexus waters as of May 24, 2023, to remain in effect, as
provided. (Based on 07/10/2025 text)
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08/07/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

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02/20/2025

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SB 833

McNerney, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

07/10/2025 - Amended
07/10/2025

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Critical infrastructure: artificial intelligence systems: human oversight.
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08/29/2025 - August 29 hearing postponed by committee. (Set for hearing on
08/13/2026)

Calendar:

08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair

Summary:

Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes the California
Cybersecurity Integration Center within the Office of Emergency Services to serve as
the central organizing hub of state government’s cybersecurity activities and to
coordinate information sharing with various entities. Existing law also requires the
Technology Recovery Plan element of the State Administrative Manual to ensure the
inclusion of cybersecurity strategy incident response standards for each state agency
to secure its critical infrastructure controls and information, as prescribed. This bill
would require, on or before July 1, 2026, an operator, defined as a state agency
responsible for operating, managing, overseeing, or controlling access to critical
infrastructure, that deploys a covered artificial intelligence (AI) system, as defined, to
establish a human oversight mechanism that ensures a human monitors the system’s
operations in real time and reviews and approves any plan or action proposed by the
covered AI system before execution, except as provided. The bill would require the
Department of Technology to develop specialized training in AI safety protocols and
risk management techniques to oversight personnel. The bill would require oversight
personnel for an operator to conduct an annual assessment of its covered AI systems,
as specified, and to submit a summary of the findings to the department. The bill

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would make findings and declarations related to its provisions. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)
Location:

08/07/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Current Text:
Last Amend:

Introduced:

02/21/2025 (Spot bill)

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SB 872

McNerney, D

07/17/2025 - Amended
07/17/2025

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Delta Levees and Canal Subsidence Fund.
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Calendar:

08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair

Summary:

Existing law, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, declares that the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) is a critically important natural resource for
California and the nation and it serves as both the hub of the California water system
and the most valuable estuary and wetland ecosystem on the west coast of North and
South America. Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the
Department of Water Resources (department). Existing law requires the department
and the Department of Fish and Wildlife to determine the principal options for the Delta
and requires the department to evaluate and comparatively rate each option for its
ability to do specified things, including, among others, to maintain Delta water quality
for Delta users, and to preserve, protect, and improve Delta levees. Existing law
establishes in the agency the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy. Existing
law requires the conservancy to act as a primary state agency to implement
ecosystem restoration in the Delta and to support efforts that advance environmental
protection and the economic well-being of Delta residents. Existing law provides for
the preservation of specified management areas of the Suisun Marsh, pursuant to a
protection plan prepared and adopted by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission, as provided. Existing law establishes the Delta
Stewardship Council, and requires the council to develop, adopt, and implement a
comprehensive long-term management plan for the Delta, known as the Delta Plan, as
provided. Existing law requires the department, upon appropriation, to reimburse an
eligible local agency for costs incurred for the maintenance or improvement of
specified levees, in an amount not to exceed 75% of costs incurred in excess of a set
amount per mile, as provided. This bill would require the department to reimburse

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100% of the excess costs if a local agency demonstrates economic hardship and the
reimbursement is for a project that addresses a threat to life, property, water supply, or
habitat. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)
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08/05/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

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01/06/2026

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SB 1005

Current Text:

07/02/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/02/2026

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Local agency: payment: rounding amount.
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Summary:

08/10/26 #35 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS (Floor Mgr.- Ward)
Existing law requires a public agency to accept specified methods of payment for
designated obligations. This bill would authorize a local agency to round the amount of
any payment made wholly or partly in cash to the local agency, or any refund or other
amount tendered wholly or partly in cash by the local agency, to the nearest $0.05.
The bill would apply to a local agency only if the governing body of the local agency
adopts, by majority vote, a resolution to make its provisions applicable to the local
agency. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)

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06/08/2026 Assembly THIRD READING

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SB 1085

Durazo, D

Current Text:

07/02/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/02/2026

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Status:

08/06/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #116 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS

Summary:

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined,
to be responsible for determining whether a project is exempt from CEQA and whether
an environmental impact report, a negative declaration, or a mitigated negative
declaration is required. Existing law requires a city or county that determines a certain
type of project is subject to the requirements of CEQA to identify any public water
system that may supply water for the project and to request those public water
systems to prepare a specified water supply assessment, as provided. This bill, among
other things, would instead require a city or county, upon receipt of a preliminary
application for a housing development project that meets certain conditions, or upon a
development application for certain projects being determined as complete or deemed
complete, to make that identification of public water systems. The bill would require a
city or county, within 15 days of receiving an application that meets either of the
above-mentioned criteria, to request each identified public water system to determine
whether the projected water demand associated with the proposed project was
included in the most recently adopted urban water management plan. (Based on
06/17/2026 text)

Location:

08/06/2026 Assembly THIRD READING

Introduced:

02/13/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 1125

Menjivar, D

Current Text:

06/17/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/17/2026

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08/05/2026 - August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
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Summary:

Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to develop a plan for
the funding and implementation of the Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Program.
Existing law requires the plan to include, among other things, a description of the
method for collecting moneys to support and implement the program and a description
of the method for determining the amount of moneys that may need to be collected
from water ratepayers to fund the program. This bill would establish the Water Rate
Assistance Program. As part of the program, the bill would establish the Water Rate
Assistance Fund in the State Treasury, available upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to provide water affordability assistance for residential water services to
low-income residential ratepayers, as specified. The bill would require the state board
to take various actions in administering the fund, including, among other things,
tracking and managing revenue in the fund separately from all other revenue. The bill
would require the state board, in consultation with relevant agencies and after a public
hearing, to adopt guidelines for implementation of the program and to adopt an annual
report to be posted on the state board’s internet website identifying how the fund has
performed, as specified. The bill would require the guidelines to include minimum
requirements for eligible systems, including the ability to confirm eligibility for
enrollment through a request for self-certification of eligibility under penalty of perjury.
By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. (Based on 06/09/2026 text)

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Introduced:

08/05/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
02/17/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:

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SB 1153

Caballero, D

Current Text:

06/09/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/09/2026

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Disaster preparedness: urban retail water suppliers and public water systems: wildfire.
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Status:

08/06/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #120 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS

Summary:

The California Emergency Services Act requires all public water systems, as defined,
with 10,000 or more service connections to review and revise their disaster
preparedness plans in conjunction with related agencies, including, but not limited to,
local fire departments and the Office of Emergency Services, to ensure that the plans
are sufficient to address possible disaster scenarios. A person, as defined, who
violates the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill, beginning
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high or very high fire hazard severity zone to include incident-specific response
procedures for wildfires as part of their disaster preparedness plans, including any
applicable emergency response plan as required by federal law. The bill would require
these plans to include, among other things, mitigation actions, including actions,
procedures, and equipment, that can obviate or significantly lessen the impact of a
wildfire on the water system and the supply of drinking water provided by the water
supplier. (Based on 06/22/2026 text)
Location:

08/06/2026 Assembly THIRD READING

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

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Durazo, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

06/22/2026 - Amended
06/22/2026

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Open meetings.
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08/03/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #86 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS

Summary:

The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a
legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons
be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law, beginning July 1, 2026, requires
eligible legislative bodies, as defined, to have in place a system for electronically
accepting and fulfilling requests for meeting agendas and documents. Existing law
additionally requires these legislative bodies to translate the agenda for each meeting
of that body and to reasonably assist members of the public who wish to translate a
public meeting or receive interpretation, as specified. This bill would instead delete the
above-described requirements on eligible legislative bodies. (Based on 07/06/2026
text)

Location:

08/03/2026 Assembly THIRD READING

Introduced:

02/19/2026

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Y

Is Fiscal:

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SB 1330

Arreguín, D

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Assault and battery: utility workers.

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08/05/2026 - August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair

Summary:

Existing law defines an assault as an unlawful attempt, coupled with present ability, to
commit a violent injury upon the person of another. Existing law defines a battery as
any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. Under
existing law, an assault or battery committed against specified professionals engaged
in the performance of their duties, including peace officers, firefighters, and emergency
medical personnel, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one
year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill
would make an assault or battery committed against a utility worker, as defined, who is
engaged in the performance of their duties punishable by imprisonment in a county jail
not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and
imprisonment. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)

Location:

08/05/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 1417

Pérez, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

05/14/2026 - Amended
05/14/2026

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Mutual water companies: assessments and water charges: notice.
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Status:

08/03/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #74 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS (Floor Mgr.- Bennett)

Summary:

Would prohibit a mutual water company from charging, issuing a bill, or otherwise
seeking to hold tenants of shareholders responsible for the costs of water or its
delivery, except for specified tenants, and would require all notices of charges for
water to be sent to the last known address of the shareholder or tenant, as applicable,
or by electronic mail if the shareholder or tenant, as applicable, has provided and
verified the use of an electronic mail address to the company within the last
year. (Based on 06/29/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 Assembly THIRD READING

Introduced:

02/20/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Text:

06/29/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/29/2026

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Alameda County Water District Legislative Report
8/7/2026

Sorted by: Subject
Friday, 08/07/2026

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AB 1821

Pacheco, D

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California Public Records Act: agency response time.
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08/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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08/10/26 #193 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE

Summary:

The California Public Records Act requires each state or local agency, upon a request
for a copy of records that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records, to
make the records promptly available to any person upon payment of fees covering
direct costs of duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable, except with respect to public
records exempt from disclosure by express provisions of law. Existing law requires
each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether
the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency
and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor.
Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under
unusual circumstances, as defined. This bill would instead require each agency to
determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in
possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person as described above within
10 business days of a request for a copy of records. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)

Location:

08/04/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/11/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/05/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 06/25/26)

AB 1838

Berman, D

Current Text:

06/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/25/2026

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Public contracts: local agencies: responsive bidders.
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06/29/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair
Existing law governs the procurement process for contracts of specified public entities.
Existing law requires a local agency that requires that contracts be awarded to the
lowest responsible bidder meeting, or making a good faith effort to meet, participation
goals for minority, women, or disabled veteran business enterprises to provide in the
general conditions under which bids will be received that any person making a bid or
offer to perform a contract shall include specified information in that bid or offer. This
bill would require a contractor, as a condition of submitting a bid to a local agency for a
public works contract, to fully disclose any history of wage and hour violations, as
specified, and provide supporting documentation, as described. The bill would
authorize a contractor that fails to provide the required disclosures and supporting
materials to be disqualified from the bid. The bill would require a local agency to
establish a process for a contractor to appeal their bid disqualification, as
specified. (Based on 06/11/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:

06/29/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/11/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
06/26/26 ------(text 06/11/26)

AB 1881

Ramos, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

06/11/2026 - Amended
06/11/2026

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California Indian Freedom Act of 2026.
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Calendar:

08/10/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES,
SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes various protections for California Native American tribes,
including prohibiting a public agency or private party using or occupying public
property or operating on public property from interfering with the free expression or
exercise of Native American religion as provided in the United States Constitution and
the California Constitution. Existing law also requires a local government to provide
formal notification to each California Native American tribe that is traditionally and
culturally affiliated with the project site as an invitation to consult on the proposed
project, as provided. Existing law requires the local government, during the
consultation, to give deference to the tribal information, tribal knowledge and customs,
and the significance of the resource to the California Native American tribe. Existing
law prohibits any information, as described, that is submitted by a California Native
American tribe during the environmental review process from being included in the
environmental document or otherwise disclosed by the lead agency or any other public
agency to the public, as specified, without the prior consent of the tribe that provided
the information. This bill, the California Indian Freedom Act of 2026, would prohibit a
governmental agency from substantially burdening a California Indian or California
Native American tribe’s exercise of religious beliefs or spiritual practices on state
lands, including their access to and use of sacred sites and objects, and their ability to
perform religious ceremonies and rites, even if the burden results from a rule of
general applicability, unless the governmental agency demonstrates that application of
the burden is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is in the least
restrictive means of furthering that interest. The bill would authorize a California Indian
or tribe to assert a violation of these provisions as a claim or defense in any judicial or
administrative proceeding, as specified. The bill would require a governmental agency
to allow California Indians access to sacred sites on state lands, as specified. (Based
on 08/03/2026 text)

Location:

07/01/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

02/12/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
06/29/26 S Judiciary (text
05/19/26)

AB 1945

Hadwick, R

Current Text:

08/03/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

08/03/2026

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Municipal utility districts: termination of service.
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Summary:

The Municipal Utility District Act establishes the formation of a municipal utility district
for the provision of light, heat, water, or power within the district’s jurisdiction. The act
prohibits a district furnishing light, heat, water, or power from terminating residential
service on account of nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the district provides
a notice of delinquency and an opportunity to cure, as provided. This bill would
authorize districts to offer customers the option of electronically receiving the required
notice of delinquency, as specified. The bill would authorize districts furnishing service
to fewer than 100,000 customers to offer residential customers a prepay option, as
defined, for electrical service if certain conditions are met. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)

Location:

06/25/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/13/2026

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Is Fiscal:

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N

Current Analysis:

06/29/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 06/25/26)

AB 2032

Ransom, D

Current Text:

06/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/25/2026

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Fish and wildlife: golden mussels.
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law, until January 1, 2030, generally prohibits a person from possessing,
importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to
be placed or planted in any water within the state, invasive mussels, as defined.
Existing law requires a public or private agency that operates a water supply system to
cooperate with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to implement measures to avoid
infestation by invasive mussels and to control or eradicate any infestation that may
occur in a water supply system, and, if invasive mussels are detected, to prepare and
implement a plan, as specified, to control or eradicate invasive mussels within the
system (control plan). Existing law prohibits the importation, transportation,
possession, or live release of specified wild animals, except under a revocable,
nontransferable permit, known as a restricted species permit, issued by the
department, in cooperation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, and only if
certain requirements are met. Existing law authorizes the department to issue permits,
commonly known as scientific collecting permits, to take or possess any form of plant
or animal life for scientific, educational, or propagation purposes. This bill would
exempt from the requirement to obtain a restricted species permit for golden mussels
a public or private agency that operates a water supply system and has submitted a

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control plan to the department for maintenance and operational activities in the water
supply system, as specified. (Based on 06/11/2026 text)
Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/17/2026

Is Urgent:

Y

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 06/11/26)

AB 2150

Current Text:
Last Amend:

06/11/2026 - Amended
06/11/2026

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Calendar:

08/10/26 #205 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE

Summary:

Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority and requires the
authority to coordinate state activities concerning emergency medical services.
Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the
Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of
employment, and the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational
health and safety laws and standards. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety
and Health Act of 1973 (OSHA), requires employers to comply with certain safety and
health standards, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act.
Under OSHA, certain violations of the act are punishable as a crime. Exiting law
requires the division, before December 1, 2027, to submit a draft rulemaking proposal
to revise specified regulations on first aid materials and emergency medical services
to require first aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or
another opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug
Administration to reverse opioid overdose and instructions for using the opioid
antagonist. Existing law requires the standards board to consider for adoption revised
standards for the standards described above on or before December 1, 2028. This bill
would require an employer operating in this state that requires cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) certification training of its employees to also require those
employees, except as specified, to take an online video module training on the use of
naloxone to increase the rate of opioid overdose reversals, as prescribed. (Based on
06/25/2026 text)

Location:

08/04/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Current Text:

06/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/25/2026

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Y

Current Analysis:

08/05/26 S Floor Analyses
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AB 2260

DD

Connolly, D

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Water: restoration management: small restoration use.
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

The Water Rights Permitting Reform Act of 1988 authorizes any person to obtain a
right to appropriate water for a small domestic, small irrigation, or livestock stockpond
use, as defined, upon registering the use with the State Water Resources Control
Board, as prescribed, payment of a registration fee, and application of the water to
reasonable and beneficial use with due diligence. This bill would extend the abovedescribed ability to obtain a right to appropriate water to a small restoration use, as
provided. The bill would define several terms for these purposes, including defining a
small restoration use as a specified use of water for native fish and wildlife
preservation and enhancement in connection with a project to restore, enhance, or
provide habitat for native fish and wildlife, as provided. The bill would require the board
to give priority to processing small restoration use registrations that are coupled with a
petition for mandatory dedication to instream beneficial uses or wetlands habitat, as
specified (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/19/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/31/26 S Appropriations
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AB 2322

Papan, D

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Water discharge: commercial, industrial, or institutional sites.
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Calendar:

08/10/26 #216 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE

Summary:

The State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality
control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of
stormwater by municipalities and industries in accordance with the federal national
pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program, established by the
federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Under
existing law, the state board and the 9 regional water quality control boards issue
permits for the discharge of stormwater from municipal separate storm sewer systems
(MS4s). For purposes of issuing permits for the discharge of stormwater from MS4s,
this bill define “commercial, industrial, or institutional site” or “CII site” as a privately
owned parcel or contiguous parcels of land that are commercial, industrial, or
institutional based on the appropriate county tax assessor land use codes, as
specified. (Based on 04/06/2026 text)

Location:

08/04/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/05/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 04/06/26)

AB 2469

Papan, D

Current Text:

04/06/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/06/2026

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Data centers: water use disclosures.
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of
author.
08/10/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES,
SABRINA, Chair
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to
adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures,
and land as between industry, businesses, residences, and open space, as specified.
This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from approving a discretionary

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or ministerial permit or other entitlement that would result in the construction, or an
expansion that increases the maximum peak water use, of a data center unless
specified conditions are satisfied, including, among others, that the applicant provides
the city, county, or city and a county prescribed information. The bill would include in
this prescribed information a water scarcity plan, a water supply assessment, and a
water use assessment, each as provided. The bill would also include in the specified
conditions that the applicant assumes responsibility for the full cost of any required
water conveyance, treatment or storage, or distribution infrastructure improvements
necessary to serve the project, as determined by the Department of Water Resources
or the applicable water supplier. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)
Location:

07/01/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2026
N

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06/26/26 S Local
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07/02/2026 - Amended

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California Council on Science and Technology: water availability study: Central Valley.
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08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes the Department of Water Resources within the Natural
Resources Agency and vests it with various powers and duties related to water.
Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer a water
rights program pursuant to which the board grants and revokes permits and licenses
to appropriate water. Existing law authorizes any person who has an urgent need to
divert and use water to apply for, and authorizes the board to issue, a conditional,
temporary permit, as prescribed. Existing law finds and declares that the California
Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation
at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to
the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and
technology. This bill would, on or before January 1, 2028, require the Department of
Water Resources, in consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board and
the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to select 2 watersheds that are within, or drain
into, the Central Valley to conduct a watershedwide water availability study. The bill
would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, request CCST to, in consultation
with the Department of Water Resources and the board, undertake and complete a
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require the study to, among other things, determine daily flow rates in rivers, streams,
and creeks in the watersheds over the past 30 years to the extent data is
available. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)
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08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
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Introduced:

02/20/2026

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N

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Y

Current Analysis:

08/02/26 S Appropriations
(text 07/02/26)

AB 2577

Connolly, D

Current Text:

07/02/2026 - Amended

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07/02/2026

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Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: settlements: attorney’s fees.
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08/10/26 #319 S-CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY
The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative measure
approved by the voters as Proposition 65 at the November 4, 1986, statewide general
election, prohibits a person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and
intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer
or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly
discharging or releasing that chemical into water, or into or onto land and passing into
any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act authorizes a person, acting
in the public interest, to bring an action to enforce the requirements of the act if
specified requirements are met. If there is a settlement of an action brought by a
person in the public interest the act requires the plaintiff to submit the settlement to the
court for approval upon noticed motion, and authorizes the court to approve the
settlement only if the court makes specified findings, as provided, including that the
award of attorney’s fees is reasonable under state law. This bill would additionally
require the court to find that the award of attorney’s fees is appropriate under state law
and that the settlement is in the public interest and provides a public benefit. The bill
would further require, under a specified circumstance, the court to find that the
settlement would require the defendant to reduce the exposure to the listed chemical
from the level that existed before the settlement or provide a warning that complies
with the act if that warning was not provided previously. (Based on 06/08/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 Senate CONSENT
CALENDAR

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02/20/2026

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06/08/2026 - Amended

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06/08/2026

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08/05/26 S Floor Analyses
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AB 2656

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Public employees: notice: artificial intelligence performing service within scope of work.
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08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Executive Order No. N-12-23 requires specified state agencies, in collaboration with
other state agencies and their workforce, to draft a report to the Governor examining
the most significant, potentially beneficial use cases for deployment of generative
artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools by the state. The executive order requires the report
to explain the potential risks to individuals, communities, and government and state
government workers, and requires the report to be regularly assessed and updated in
consultation with, among others, the state government workforce or organizations that
represent state government employees, as specified. Chapter 928 of the Statutes of
2024, the Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act, requires specified state
agencies to update the report, as needed, to respond to significant developments and
to consult with specified parties, including organizations that represent state exclusive
employee representatives. This bill would require certain state and local public
employers to provide written notice to a recognized employee organization at least 45
days before taking an action to develop, purchase, or require the use of GenAI to
perform a service that is within the scope of work of the job classification represented
by the recognized employee organization. (Based on 07/01/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/20/2026

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Y

Current Analysis:

07/31/26 S Appropriations
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AB 2729

Bonta, D

Current Text:

07/01/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/01/2026

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Medi-Cal: Employer Responsibility for Medi-Cal Trust Fund.
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05/19/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Summary:

Existing federal law, Public Law 119-21, enacted on July 4, 2025, sets forth various
changes to different health care programs, including certain requirements for Medicaid
eligibility with regard to work or community engagement reporting, redeterminations,
and cost sharing, among other factors, for certain Medicaid populations pursuant to a
specified implementation timeline. Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, imposes a certain assessment on an applicable large employer,
as defined, that offers full-time employees and their dependents the opportunity to
enroll in minimum essential coverage, and for whom one or more full-time employees
have been certified as having enrolled in a qualified health plan for which a premium
tax credit or cost-sharing reduction is allowed or paid. The bill would continuously
appropriate moneys in the fund to the department to fund the costs of administering
the Medi-Cal program in a manner necessary to prevent loss of or to restore health
care coverage, benefits, or access to care following the passage of Public Law 119-21
and subsequent state budget actions. The bill would state that these provisions would
become operative only if the Medicaid provisions of Public Law 119-21 are not
repealed prior to January 1, 2027. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

05/14/2026 Assembly Appropriations

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02/20/2026 (Spot bill)

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Y

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
A Appropriations
05/05/26 ------(text 03/19/26)

SB 951

Reyes, D

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Employment: technological displacement: notice.
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Calendar:

08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which is
composed of various departments responsible for protecting and promoting the rights
and interests of workers in California, including the Division of Labor Standards
Enforcement, led by the Labor Commissioner, within the Department of Industrial
Relations. Existing law establishes the Employment Development Department (EDD),
which is administered by the Director of Employment Development. Under existing
law, the Director of Employment Development is vested with specified duties,
purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction related to job creation activity functions,
among other things. Existing law, the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act
(Cal/WARN Act), prohibits an employer from ordering a mass layoff, relocation, or
termination at a covered establishment unless, 60 days before the order takes effect,
the employer gives written notice of the order to the employees affected by the order
and to the EDD and certain local officials. Existing law makes an employer who fails to
give specified notice regarding a mass layoff, relocation, or termination subject to a
civil penalty of not more than $500 for each day of the employer’s violation. This bill
would revise the Cal/WARN Act to also require an employer giving notice of a mass
layoff, relocation, or termination caused in whole or in substantial part by an artificial
intelligence (AI) system or other automated technology replacing or automating
employment positions to include certain information in the notice, including the job
functions performed by workers that will be automated by AI. (Based on 07/02/2026
text)

Location:

08/05/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/02/2026

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Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
08/03/26 ------(text 07/02/26)

SB 952

Laird, D

Current Text:

07/02/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/02/2026

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State Water Project: renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources.
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08/06/2026 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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08/10/26 #2 A-SECOND READING FILE -- SENATE BILLS (Floor Mgr.- Papan)

Summary:

Under existing law, it is the policy of the state that eligible renewable energy resources
and zero-carbon resources supply 90% of all retail sales of electricity to California enduse customers by December 31, 2035, 95% of all retail sales of electricity to California
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California end-use customers by December 31, 2045, and 100% of electricity procured
to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2035, as specified. Existing law requires
the Department of Water Resources to procure eligible renewable energy resources
and zero-carbon resources to satisfy those state agency obligations imposed on the
State Water Resources Development System, commonly known as the State Water
Project, pursuant to that policy. Existing law authorizes the department to defer, until
no later than December 31, 2040, procuring zero-carbon electricity resource quantities
equal to the amount of electricity provided under an existing contract to procure fossil
generation entered into before January 1, 2010, if the department determines that the
full achievement of the state agency obligations imposed on the State Water Project
would require the early termination of the existing contract and that early termination of
the existing contract would result in significant uneconomic costs. Existing law requires
the department, in conducting procurement, to consider specified factors and requires
that all resources procured be used first to meet the department’s own electricity
needs. This bill would require the department, in conducting that procurement, to also
consider portfolio diversity, resource type, location, and hours of typical peak
operation. The bill would expand the scope of the department’s authorization to defer
the procurement of those resource quantities to apply to an existing contract to
procure fossil generation entered into before January 1, 2011, rather than January 1,
2010. (Based on 08/06/2026 text)
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06/10/2026 Assembly SECOND
READING
02/02/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
08/03/26 ------(text 05/18/26)

SB 1149

Durazo, D

Current Text:

08/06/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

08/06/2026

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Employees: bereavement leave.
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08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair
Existing law makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to
grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the
death of a family member, as defined, to refuse to hire, or to discharge, demote, fine,
suspend, expel, or discriminate against, an individual because of the individual’s
exercise of the right to bereavement leave or because of the individual’s giving
information or testimony as to their own or another person’s bereavement leave, or to

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interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any of these
rights, as specified. This bill would include a designated person identified by the
employee, as specified, in the definition of “family member” and authorize an employer
to limit an employee to one designated person per 12-month period for purposes of
these provisions relating to bereavement leave. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)
Location:

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07/01/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
02/18/2026

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N

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Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
06/29/26 ------(text 05/14/26)

SB 1205

Valladares, R

Current Text:

05/14/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/14/2026

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Public contracts: retention: architecture or engineering services.
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08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair

Summary:

Existing law imposes various requirements regarding the formation, content, and
enforcement of public works contracts. Existing law generally requires that retention
proceeds withheld from payment by a public entity be released within 60 days after the
date of completion of the work of improvement, except as specified in case of a
dispute. Existing law limits the allowable amount of retention proceeds withheld in a
contract between a public entity and the original contractor, a contract between the
original contractor and a subcontractor, and a contract between subcontractors, as
specified. Existing law defines “public entity” differently for these various purposes.
This bill would prohibit any retention payments from exceeding 5% of the payment for
contracts under design-bid-build, and amendments thereto, entered into on or after
January 1, 2027, directly between a public entity and an individual or legal entity
permitted by law to practice the profession of architecture or engineering. (Based on
04/09/2026 text)

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06/24/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/19/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Text:

04/09/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/09/2026

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Current Analysis:

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Laird, D

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Salinas Reservoir: recreational use.
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08/06/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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08/10/26 #154 A-CONSENT CALENDAR 1ST DAY SENATE BILLS (Floor Mgr.Addis)

Summary:

Existing law, with certain exceptions, prohibits recreational use in which there is bodily
contact with water in a reservoir in which water is stored for domestic use, and
establishes water standards for those exempted reservoirs. This bill would create an
exception from the above-described prohibition for recreation in which there is bodily
contact with water by a participant in the Salinas Reservoir if the water subsequently
receives complete water treatment in compliance with all applicable regulations of the
State Water Resources Control Board before being used for domestic purposes, the
San Luis Obispo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District conducts a
prescribed monitoring program, and the reservoir is operated in compliance with
regulations of the board. The bill would require, 2 years after approval of the changed
use of the reservoir to a body contact reservoir by the board’s Division of Drinking
Water, and biennially thereafter, the San Luis Obispo County Flood Control and Water
Conservation District to file with the Legislature and the board a report on the
recreational uses at the Salinas Reservoir and the water treatment program for that
reservoir, as specified. (Based on 06/10/2026 text)

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08/05/2026 Assembly CONSENT
CALENDAR

Introduced:

02/19/2026

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N

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Current Analysis:

Y
08/03/26 A Appropriations
(text 06/10/26)

Current Text:

06/10/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/10/2026

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AB 372

Bennett, D

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Office of Emergency Services: state matching funds: water system infrastructure improvements.

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09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/3/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current law charges the Office of Emergency Services (OES) with coordinating
various emergency activities within the state. The California Emergency Services Act,
contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature, requires the OES to enter into a
joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act with the
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a
comprehensive wildfire mitigation program relating to structure hardening and
retrofitting and prescribed fuel modification activities. Current law authorizes the joint
powers authority to establish financial assistance limits and matching funding or other
recipient contribution requirements for the program, as provided. This bill, contingent
upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the Rural Water Infrastructure
for Wildfire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching
funds to urban wildland interface communities, as defined, in designated high fire
hazard severity zones or very high fire hazard severity zones to improve water system
infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination
with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board,
the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the OES determines to
be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program. (Based on 08/29/2025 text)

Summary:

Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

08/29/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/03/2025

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

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Current Analysis:

09/02/25 S Floor Analyses
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AB 883

Lowenthal, D

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Data brokers: accessible deletion mechanism: deletion of personal information of elected officials and
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ACWD - Board/Gov
Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) to enforce
various laws protecting the privacy of individuals. If a business knowingly collects and
sells to third parties the personal information of a consumer with whom the business
does not have a direct relationship, existing law requires the business to register with
the CPPA as a data broker, except as specified. Existing law requires the CPPA to
establish an accessible deletion mechanism that allows a consumer to request that
every data broker delete any personal information related to that consumer held by the
data broker or associated service provider or contractor, as prescribed. Existing law
requires, beginning August 1, 2026, a data broker to access that deletion mechanism
at least once every 45 days and, among other things, process all deletion requests
and delete all personal information related to the consumers making the requests, as
specified. This bill would change the above-described 45-day period to a 30-day
period and make conforming changes. This bill would require the Secretary of State,
certain local government officials, and the Judicial Council to notify any state elected
official, local elected official, or judge, as applicable, that the person may submit a
request to delete that person’s personal information through the above-described
accessible deletion mechanism, as prescribed. By imposing additional duties on local
government officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based
on 06/17/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/19/2025

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07/31/26 ------(text 06/17/26)

AB 990

Hadwick, R

Current Text:

06/17/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/17/2026

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Public water systems: emergency notification plan.
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09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
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Summary:

Current law prohibits a person from operating a public water system without an
emergency notification plan that has been submitted to and approved by the State
Water Resources Control Board. Current law requires the emergency notification plan
to provide for immediate notice to the customers of the public water system of any
significant rise in the bacterial count of water or other failure to comply with any
primary drinking water standard that represents an imminent danger to the health of
the water users. This bill would authorize and encourage a public water system to
provide notification to water users in their preferred language when updating the
emergency notification plan, if resources are available. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)

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02/20/2025

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06/27/25 S Floor Analyses
(text 02/20/25)

AB 1530

Current Text:

Committee on Emergency Management

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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California Disaster Assistance Act.
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Summary:

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08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Under the California Disaster Assistance Act, current law authorizes the Office of
Emergency Services to establish a model process to assist a community in recovering
from an emergency proclaimed by the Governor that includes, among other
information, measures to encourage the participation of nongovernmental
organizations in the community recovery process to supplement recovery activities
undertaken by federal or local agencies. This bill would instead require the office to
establish that model process, and would require the model process to also include
measures to encourage the participation of private nonprofit organizations and how
they may be eligible to receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other
disaster or emergency assistance activities resulting in extraordinary cost. (Based on
05/23/2025 text)
08/29/2025 - Senate 2
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03/26/2025
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Current Analysis:

08/15/25 S Appropriations
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Current Text:

05/23/2025 - Amended

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05/23/2025

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AB 1578

Jackson, D

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State and local officials: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.
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Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment
practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer
or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer’s knowledge. Existing law
requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021,
provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and
education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one
hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual
harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once
every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive
conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally
require, beginning on January 1, 2028, for an employer that is a state agency or local
agency that the above-described training and education include, as a component of
the training and education for elected officials, anti-hate speech training, as
described. (Based on 05/22/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

01/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
S Appropriations
08/01/26 ------(text 05/22/26)

AB 1786

Harabedian, D

Current Text:

05/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/22/2026

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Public contracts: best value construction contracting for counties, cities, and the San Gabriel Valley
Council of Governments.
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Bill information

Status:
Calendar:

06/30/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
08/10/26 #138 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE (Floor Mgr.- Reyes)

Summary:

Existing law establishes a program to allow counties to select a bidder on the basis of
best value, as defined, for construction projects in excess of $1,000,000. Existing law
also authorizes counties to use a best value construction contracting method to award
individual annual contracts, not to exceed $3,000,000, for repair, remodeling, or other
repetitive work to be done according to unit prices, as specified. Existing law
establishes procedures and criteria for the selection of a best value contractor and
requires that bidders verify specified information under oath. Existing law requires the
board of supervisors of a participating county to submit a report that contains specified
information about the projects awarded using the best value procedures described
above to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee before March 1, 2029. Existing law repeals the program provisions
on January 1, 2030. This bill would, instead, authorize a county, city, or the San
Gabriel Valley Council of Governments to select a bidder on the basis of best value, as
described above, for construction projects in excess of $500,000, would make various
conforming changes to the above-described provisions, and would extend the
operation of those provisions until January 1, 2032. (Based on 06/18/2026 text)

Location:

06/30/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:
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02/10/2026
N

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Y

Current Analysis:

07/01/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 06/18/26)

AB 2218

Kalra, D

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06/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/18/2026

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Water policy: California Native American tribes.
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Resources

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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Would require the state government to support California Native Americans to maintain
cultural and linguistic traditions, practice ecosystem stewardship, and engage in good
faith government-to-government consultations with all California Native American

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tribes regarding policies that may affect tribal communities. (Based on 07/02/2026
text)
Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 07/02/26)

AB 2323

McKinnor, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

07/02/2026 - Amended
07/02/2026

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Publication: newspapers of general circulation.
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Status:

08/06/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes
75. Noes 0.).

Summary:

Existing law requires various types of notices to be provided in a “newspaper of
general circulation,” as that term is defined, in accordance with certain prescribed
publication periods and legal requirements. Existing law requires a newspaper of
general circulation to meet certain criteria, including publication, a bona fide
subscription list of paying subscribers, and printing and publishing at regular intervals
in the state, county, or city where publication is to be given. This bill would require any
public notice that is legally required to be published in a newspaper of general
circulation to be published in the newspaper’s print publication and on the
newspaper’s internet website or electronic newspaper available on the internet. This
bill would prohibit a newspaper from charging a fee or surcharge to access public
notices on their internet website or for posting a legally required public notice, as
specified. (Based on 06/11/2026 text)

Location:

08/06/2026 Assembly ENROLLMENT

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/19/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/19/26 A Floor Analysis
(text 06/11/26)

SB 992

Niello, R

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Current Text:

08/06/2026 - Enrollment

Last Amend:

06/11/2026

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County auditors: special districts: annual audit exceptions.

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08/06/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence
in Assembly amendments pending.

Calendar:
Summary:

08/10/26 #47 S-UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Existing law requires a county auditor to make or contract with a certified public
accountant or public accountant to make an annual audit of the accounts and records
of every special district within the county for which an audit is not otherwise provided,
as specified. Existing law authorizes a special district to replace this annual audit with
a financial review, or, until January 1, 2027, an agreed-upon procedures engagement
or an annual financial compilation of the special district, if specified conditions are met,
including that the special district’s annual revenues do not exceed $150,000. Until
January 1, 2027, upon receipt of the financial review, agreed-upon procedures
engagement, or financial compilation, existing law authorizes a county auditor to
appoint a certified public accountant or a public accountant to conduct an audit of the
special district, as specified. Existing law prohibits a special district from replacing the
annual audit requirement with an annual financial compilation for more than 5
consecutive years, after which existing law requires the special district to use specified
procedures. This bill would extend the January 1, 2027, repeal date referenced above
to January 1, 2037, and would increase the revenue cap described above to
$250,000. (Based on 06/23/2026 text)

Location:

08/06/2026 Senate CONCURRENCE

Introduced:

02/05/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
N

Current Analysis:

06/30/26 A Local
Government (text 06/23/26)

SB 994

Cabaldon, D

Current Text:

06/23/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/23/2026

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Local agencies: nondisclosure agreements.
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Bill information

Status:

08/06/2026 - From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
Ordered to third reading. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

Calendar:
Summary:

08/10/26 #140 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS
Existing law, the legislative code of ethics, prohibits Members of the Legislature from
entering into, or requesting that another party enter into, a nondisclosure agreement
relating to the drafting, negotiation, or discussion of proposed legislation. Existing law
also makes any nondisclosure agreement relating to the drafting, negotiation, or
discussion of proposed legislation entered into after January 1, 2026, void and
unenforceable. Existing law provides an exception for nondisclosure agreements, or
portions thereof, that prevent only the disclosure of trade secrets, financial information,
or proprietary information, as specified. This bill would prohibit a local agency official,
as defined, acting in their official capacity from entering into, or requesting that another
individual enter into, a nondisclosure agreement relating to public business that
precludes their ability to share information with fellow local agency officials serving on
the same council, board, commission, district, or agency. The bill would require a local
agency official in violation of that provision to, among other things, disclose the
existence of the nondisclosure agreement, as specified, and would provide that these
requirements imposed on a local agency official also apply to a local agency official
acting in their official capacity who entered into, or requested that another individual
enter into, a nondisclosure agreement described above before January 1,
2027. (Based on 06/22/2026 text)

Location:

08/05/2026 Assembly CONSENT
CALENDAR

Introduced:

02/05/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
08/03/26 ------(text 06/22/26)

SB 1159

Cabaldon, D

Current Text:

06/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/22/2026

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Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.
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Status:

07/02/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #58 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS

Summary:

The California Constitution provides that people have the right of access to information
concerning the conduct of the people’s business. Various provisions of existing law,
including the California Public Records Act, the Legislative Open Records Act, the

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Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and the Ralph M. Brown Act, provide, with some
exceptions, for public access to government records and meetings of government
bodies. Among those acts, the California Public Records Act defines “person” to
include any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or
association. This bill would specify that, for purposes of the California Public Records
Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Legislative
Open Records Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, the California Coastal Act of
1976, and CEQA, “person,” “interested person,” “participant,” “member of the public,”
as applicable, and any other similar terms under each act referring to those who may
engage with governmental agencies, do not include artificial intelligence, as defined,
systems, autonomous agents, or robots, whether physical or digital. (Based on
06/25/2026 text)
Location:

07/02/2026 Assembly THIRD READING

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

07/29/26 A Floor Analysis
(text 06/25/26)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

06/25/2026 - Amended
06/25/2026

ACWD - DSD
AB 300

Lackey, R

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Fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal.
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Status:
Summary:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state as moderate,
high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, as specified. Current law also requires
the State Fire Marshal to classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard
severity zones, and, by regulation, to designate fire hazard severity zones and assign
to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to
prevail in the zone. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review
very high fire hazard severity zones that are not state responsibility areas, and
designated and rated zones that are state responsibility areas, as provided. This bill
would instead require the State Fire Marshal, at least once every 5 years, to review
areas in the state identified as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity
zones, and to review lands within state responsibility areas classified as fire hazard
severity zones. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)

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Location:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/23/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 05/05/25)

AB 1624

Zbur, D

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Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

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Public Lands Protection Act.
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Status:

04/15/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of
author.

Summary:

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a
comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or
city, and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. Current
law authorizes the legislative body of a county or city to adopt ordinances that, among
other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry,
business, residences, open space, and other purposes, as provided. For these
purposes, current law authorizes the legislative body to divide a county or city into
zones, but requires that regulations adopted be uniform for each class or kind of
building or use of land throughout each zone. The California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare an environmental impact report
on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect
on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not
have that effect. This bill, the Public Lands Protection Act, would, upon transfer to any
private or nonfederal entity of a parcel of land located within the state that is owned by
the United States government on or after January 1, 2025, and that has been
designated in an adopted general plan or zoning ordinance as open space, public
land, resource conservation, or an equivalent conservation-oriented designation,
immediately subject that parcel to the zoning designation and associated state and
local restrictions. The bill would also, upon transfer of a parcel of land located within
the state that is owned by the United States government on or after January 1, 2025,
and that has not been designated in an adopted general plan or zoning ordinance at
the time of transfer to any private or nonfederal entity, automatically subject that parcel
to the most restrictive conservation-oriented zoning designation currently applied in
the jurisdiction, by operation of law. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)

Location:

03/16/2026 - Assembly Local
Government

Introduced:

01/22/2026

Current Text:

01/22/2026 - Introduced

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Is Urgent:

Y

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

04/15/26 A Local
Government (text 01/22/26)

AB 1752

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Lackey, R

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Eminent domain: appraisals.
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair
The Eminent Domain Law authorizes a public entity to exercise the power of eminent
domain to acquire property for a public use, as specified. Existing law entitles the
owner of a property acquired by eminent domain to specified compensation. Existing
law requires a public entity to pay reasonable costs, not to exceed $5,000, of an
independent appraisal ordered by the owner of a property that the public entity offers
to purchase under the threat of eminent domain. This bill would require a public entity
that offers to purchase property under a threat of eminent domain related to specified
purposes to pay the full reasonable costs of an independent appraisal ordered by the
owner, not to exceed $8,000. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/09/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 05/18/26)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

05/18/2026 - Amended
05/18/2026

ACWD - ETS
AB 1018

Bauer-Kahan, D

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Automated decision systems.
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Bill information

Status:

09/13/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/13/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act establishes the Civil Rights
Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and
requires the department to, among other things, bring civil actions to enforce the act.
Current law requires, on or before September 1, 2024, the Department of Technology
to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a
comprehensive inventory of all high-risk automated decision systems that have been
proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or
procured by, any state agency. This bill would generally regulate the development and
deployment of an automated decision system (ADS) used to make consequential
decisions, as defined. The bill would define “automated decision system” to mean a
computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data
analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues simplified output, including a score,
classification, or recommendation, that is designed or used to assist or replace human
discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons. This bill would
require a developer of a covered ADS, as defined, to take certain actions, including
conduct impact assessments of the covered ADS and provide deployers to whom the
developer transfers the covered ADS with certain information, including a high-level
summary of the results of those impact assessments. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)

Location:

09/13/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

09/09/25 S Floor Analyses
(text 09/05/25)

AB 1146

Papan, D

Current Text:

09/05/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

09/05/2025

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Water infrastructure: dams and reservoirs: water release: false pretenses.
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Summary:

Would prohibit the release of stored water from a reservoir owned and operated by the
United States in this state if the release is done under false pretenses, which the bill
would define to mean a release of water from a reservoir owned and operated by the
United States in a manner that is knowingly, designedly, and intentionally under any
false or fraudulent representation as to the purpose and intended use of the water.
The bill would authorize the State Water Resources Control Board or the Attorney
General, as provided, to bring an action for injunctive relief for a violation of the abovedescribed prohibition. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a
state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/23/2025 text)

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

02/20/2025

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Is Fiscal:

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Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 06/23/25)

AB 1198

Haney, D

Current Text:

06/23/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/23/2025

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Calendar:

06/22/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate
of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to
workers employed on public works projects. Current law requires the body awarding a
contract for a public work to obtain from the director the general prevailing rate of per
diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is to
be performed, and the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and
overtime work, for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the
contract. Under current law, if the director determines during any quarterly period that
there has been a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a locality, the
director is required to make that change available to the awarding body and their
determination is final. Under current law, that determination does not apply to public
works contracts for which the notice to bidders has been published. This bill would
instead state, commencing July 1, 2027, that if the director determines, within a
semiannual period, that there is a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a
locality, that determination applies to any public works contract that is awarded or for
which notice to bidders is published after July 1, 2027. The bill would authorize any
contractor, awarding body, or specified representative affected by a change in rates on
a particular contract to, within 20 days, file with the director a verified petition to review

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the determination of that rate, as specified. The bill would require the director to, upon
notice to the interested parties, initiate an investigation or hold a hearing, and, within
20 days after the filing of that petition, except as specified, make a final determination
and transmit the determination in writing to the awarding body and to the interested
parties. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)
Location:

06/22/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/21/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
06/19/26 ------(text 01/22/26)

AB 1405

Bauer-Kahan, D

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01/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/22/2026

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Status:

08/29/2025 - In committee: Held under submission. (Set for hearing on 08/13/2026)

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Current law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government
Operations Agency. Current law requires the department to conduct, in coordination
with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of
all high-risk automated decision systems that have been proposed for use,
development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any
state agency. Current law defines “automated decision system” as a computational
process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial
intelligence that issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or
recommendation, that is used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking
and materially impacts natural persons. Current law defines “artificial intelligence” as
an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that
can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate
outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments. This bill would require the
Government Operations Agency, by January 1, 2027, to establish a mechanism on the
agency’s internet website allowing AI auditors to enroll with the agency and allowing
natural persons to report misconduct by an enrolled AI auditor. The bill would require
the agency, commencing January 1, 2027, to publish information provided by an
enrolled AI auditor on the agency’s internet website, retain specified reports for as long
as the auditor remains enrolled, plus 10 years, and share reports submitted by
persons reporting misconduct with other state agencies as necessary for enforcement
purposes. (Based on 07/09/2025 text)

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Location:

08/07/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/21/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 07/09/25)

Current Text:

07/09/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/09/2025

ACWD - Finance
AB 1198

Haney, D

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06/22/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate
of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to
workers employed on public works projects. Current law requires the body awarding a
contract for a public work to obtain from the director the general prevailing rate of per
diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is to
be performed, and the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and
overtime work, for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the
contract. Under current law, if the director determines during any quarterly period that
there has been a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a locality, the
director is required to make that change available to the awarding body and their
determination is final. Under current law, that determination does not apply to public
works contracts for which the notice to bidders has been published. This bill would
instead state, commencing July 1, 2027, that if the director determines, within a
semiannual period, that there is a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a
locality, that determination applies to any public works contract that is awarded or for
which notice to bidders is published after July 1, 2027. The bill would authorize any
contractor, awarding body, or specified representative affected by a change in rates on
a particular contract to, within 20 days, file with the director a verified petition to review
the determination of that rate, as specified. The bill would require the director to, upon
notice to the interested parties, initiate an investigation or hold a hearing, and, within
20 days after the filing of that petition, except as specified, make a final determination
and transmit the determination in writing to the awarding body and to the interested
parties. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)

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Location:

06/22/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/21/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
06/19/26 ------(text 01/22/26)

AB 1542

Ward, D

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01/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/22/2026

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Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various
rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a
business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that collects sensitive
personal information, as defined, about the consumer to limit its use, as prescribed.
The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at
the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted
the CCPA. This bill would, under the CCPA, prohibit a business, service provider, or
contractor from selling or sharing sensitive personal information to a third party, as
specified. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/05/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/31/26 S Appropriations
------(text 06/25/26)

AB 1859

Ortega, D

Current Text:

06/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/25/2026

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Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate
of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works. Existing law defines
“public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts as, among other
things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under
contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Existing law makes any
officer, agent, or representative of the state or of any political subdivision who willfully
violates specified provisions, including providing notice of certain public works
projects, as specified, to the Department of Industrial Relations, guilty of a
misdemeanor. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations
that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects,
including the payment of prevailing wages. Existing law requires each contractor and
subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the
name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime
hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each
journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or
subcontractor in connection with the public work. This bill would require an awarding
body or owner to give reasonable access, as defined, to representatives of a jointlabor management committee in order to monitor compliance with the prevailing wage
and apprenticeship requirements. The bill would authorize an awarding body, owner,
contractor, or subcontractor to deny or revoke access to the committee’s
representative if the representative fails or refuses to comply with job site safety
requirements, as specified. The bill would authorize the committee to bring an action
against an awarding body, contractor, or subcontractor that willfully denies the
committee’s representative reasonable access. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/11/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 05/18/26)

ACA 1

Valencia, D

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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01/29/2025 - Introduced measure version corrected.

Summary:

The California Constitution prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to
limitation of the State and of each local government from exceeding the appropriations
limit of the entity of government for the prior year adjusted for the change in the cost of
living and the change in population. The California Constitution defines “appropriations
subject to limitation” of the State for these purposes. This measure would change the
1.5% required transfer to an undetermined percentage of the estimated amount of
General Fund revenues for that fiscal year. The measure would change the 10% limit
on the balance in the Budget Stabilization Account to 20% of the amount of the
General Fund proceeds of taxes for the fiscal year estimate, as specified. The
measure would specify that funds transferred under these provisions to the Budget
Stabilization Account do not constitute appropriations subject to the above-described
annual appropriations limit. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)

Location:

12/02/2024 Assembly PRINT

Introduced:

12/02/2024

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Is Fiscal:

N
Y

SB 74

Seyarto, R

Current Text:

12/02/2024 - Introduced

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Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program.
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08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 7/2/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law establishes the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in the
Governor’s office for the purpose of serving the Governor and the Governor’s cabinet
as staff for long-range planning and research and constituting the comprehensive
state planning agency. Current law authorizes a local agency to finance infrastructure
projects through various means, including by authorizing a city or county to establish
an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other

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specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the
district or the surrounding community. This bill would require the office, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program to
provide grants to local agencies for the development and construction of infrastructure
projects, as defined, facing unforeseen costs after starting construction. The bill would
authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s additional projected
cost, as defined, after the project has started construction, subject to specified
conditions, including, among other things, that the local agency has allocated existing
local tax revenue for at least 45% of the initially budgeted total cost of the
infrastructure project. When applying to the program, the bill would require the local
agency to demonstrate challenges with completing the project on time and on budget
and how the infrastructure project helps meet state and local goals, as
specified. (Based on 04/07/2025 text)
Location:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2
YEAR

Introduced:

01/15/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/30/25 A Appropriations
(text 04/07/25)

SB 473

Current Text:

04/07/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/07/2025

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Water corporations: demand elasticity: rates and surcharges.
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Summary:

Location:

08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
The California Constitution and the Public Utilities Act vest the Public Utilities
Commission with regulatory authority over electrical corporations and water
corporations. The act requires the commission to ensure that errors in estimates of
demand elasticity or sales do not result in material overcollections or undercollections
of electrical corporations. This bill would additionally require the commission to ensure
that those errors do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of water
corporations. (Based on 04/10/2025 text)

Introduced:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2
YEAR
02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/18/25 A Appropriations
-- -----(text 04/10/25)

Current Text:

04/10/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/10/2025

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SB 556

DD

Hurtado, D

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Habitat enhancement and restoration: floodplains.
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Bill information

Status:

08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law, the Wildlife Conservation Board within the Department of Fish and
Wildlife administers various habitat conservation and restoration programs. This bill
would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the sum of $21,500,000 to be
allocated to the board for floodplain acquisition, habitat restoration, and associated
conservation projects on floodplains in the Counties of Kern, Kings, and Tulare, as
provided. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)

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08/28/2025 - Assembly 2
YEAR

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02/20/2025

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N

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Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
08/18/25 ------(text 07/17/25)

SB 992

Niello, R

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

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County auditors: special districts: annual audit exceptions.
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Bill information

Status:

08/06/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence
in Assembly amendments pending.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #47 S-UNFINISHED BUSINESS

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Summary:

Existing law requires a county auditor to make or contract with a certified public
accountant or public accountant to make an annual audit of the accounts and records
of every special district within the county for which an audit is not otherwise provided,
as specified. Existing law authorizes a special district to replace this annual audit with
a financial review, or, until January 1, 2027, an agreed-upon procedures engagement
or an annual financial compilation of the special district, if specified conditions are met,
including that the special district’s annual revenues do not exceed $150,000. Until
January 1, 2027, upon receipt of the financial review, agreed-upon procedures
engagement, or financial compilation, existing law authorizes a county auditor to
appoint a certified public accountant or a public accountant to conduct an audit of the
special district, as specified. Existing law prohibits a special district from replacing the
annual audit requirement with an annual financial compilation for more than 5
consecutive years, after which existing law requires the special district to use specified
procedures. This bill would extend the January 1, 2027, repeal date referenced above
to January 1, 2037, and would increase the revenue cap described above to
$250,000. (Based on 06/23/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

08/06/2026 Senate CONCURRENCE
02/05/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/30/26 A Local
Government (text 06/23/26)

Current Text:

06/23/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/23/2026

ACWD - Grants
AB 2218

Kalra, D

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Water policy: California Native American tribes.
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Resources

Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Would require the state government to support California Native Americans to maintain
cultural and linguistic traditions, practice ecosystem stewardship, and engage in good
faith government-to-government consultations with all California Native American
tribes regarding policies that may affect tribal communities. (Based on 07/02/2026
text)

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Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/19/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 07/02/26)

Current Text:

07/02/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/02/2026

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AB 2125

Bennett, D

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Groundwater basin adjudication: notice.
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Status:

07/02/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #279 S-CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY

Summary:

Existing law requires a plaintiff who files an action to comprehensively determine rights
to extract groundwater from a basin to provide the court a draft notice of
commencement of groundwater basin adjudication and a draft form answer to
adjudication complaint, as specified. Existing law also requires a plaintiff to file, within
a specified timeframe, a motion for approval of the draft notice and draft form answer.
Under existing law, once the court approves the draft notice, the plaintiff is required to
serve the notice, as specified. Following a court order approving both the notice and
draft form answer and authorizing service thereof, existing law requires the plaintiff to
take additional steps to provide notice to defendants including, but not limited to,
mailing, by registered mail or certified mail, return receipt requested, the notice,
complaint, and form answer to all holders of fee title to real property in the basin.
Under existing law, if a return receipt is not received for a parcel of real property, the
plaintiff must post a copy of the notice, complaint, and form answer in a conspicuous
place on the real property. After completing these notice procedures, existing law
requires the plaintiff to file a notice of completion of the mailing with the court. Existing
law permits a court to authorize any other procedures it finds appropriate and
necessary to provide notice to persons who may hold groundwater rights in basin. This
bill would impose additional requirements on a plaintiff when filing the notice of
completion of mailing. The bill would require the plaintiff to include with the notice of
completion an affidavit of the person who mailed the notice and the certified or
registered mail delivery receipt for each parcel stating the date, time, and place of
mailing. The bill would further require the notice to include as an attachment any
certified or registered mail delivery receipts received as of the date of the filing. (Based
on 03/25/2026 text)

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Location:

Introduced:

07/01/2026 Senate CONSENT
CALENDAR
02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

07/30/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 03/25/26)

Current Text:

03/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/25/2026

ACWD - HR
AB 340

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Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.
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Status:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers,
including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act,
provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education,
prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization,
including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or
threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with,
restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed
rights. Those provisions of current law further prohibit denying to employee
organizations the rights guaranteed to them by current law. This bill would prohibit a
public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized
employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications
made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in
connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the
recognized employee organization’s representation. (Based on 03/05/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR
01/28/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/15/25 S Appropriations
------(text 03/05/25)

Current Text:

03/05/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/05/2025

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AB 426

Dixon, R

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Impeding emergency response with drone.
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Bill information

Status:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current law excuses a local public entity or public employee from liability for damage
to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, if the damage was caused while
the local public entity or public employee of a local public entity was providing, and the
unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system was interfering with, the operation,
support, or enabling of any emergency service, as specified. Current law imposes
liability for physical invasion of privacy on a person if the person knowingly enters onto
the land or into the airspace above the land of another person without permission or
otherwise commits a trespass in order to capture any image or recording of the other
person engaging in a private activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is
offensive to a reasonable person. This bill would prohibit a person from operating or
using an unmanned aerial vehicle, remote piloted aircraft, or drone at the scene of an
emergency and thereby impeding firefighters, peace officers, medical personnel,
military personnel, or other emergency personnel in the performance of their fire
suppression, law enforcement, or emergency response duties, unless the person has
a federal operational waiver, as specified. The bill would authorize the Attorney
General or a county counsel or city attorney to bring civil action to enforce the
prohibition and authorize a prevailing plaintiff to recover civil penalties, injunctive relief,
or reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, as specified. (Based on 04/02/2025 text)

Summary:

Location:
Introduced:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR
02/05/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/15/25 S Appropriations
------(text 04/02/25)

AB 596

Ortega, D

Current Text:

04/02/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/02/2025

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Elections: ballot disclosures.
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Bill information

Status:

09/13/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Joint Rules
61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.) Assembly Rule 63
suspended. (Page 3477.) Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments. (Ayes
37. Noes 22. Page 3513.) Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Ortega.
(Set for hearing on 08/03/2026)
08/10/26 #16 A-MOTION TO RECONSIDER

Calendar:
Summary:

Under current law, the ballot label for a statewide measure contains a condensed
version of the ballot title and summary prepared by the Attorney General, including a
fiscal impact summary prepared by the Legislative Analyst, followed by a listing of the
names of the measure’s supporters and opponents. Current law requires the
Secretary of State to create an internet website or to use other available technology to
consolidate information about each state ballot measure, including a list of the top 10
contributors supporting or opposing a measure, if compiled by the Fair Political
Practices Commission. This bill would require the 3 largest contributors of $100,000 or
more to all committees that paid for the circulation of a statewide initiative or statewide
referendum measure to also be printed on the ballot immediately following the names
of the measure’s supporters and opponents. The Secretary of State would be required
to make a copy of the top contributors available for public examination prior to printing
that information on ballots, and voters would be authorized to seek a writ of mandate
requiring the identified contributors to be amended or deleted. The bill would specify
words and phrases that may be left out of a top contributor’s name in order to shorten
the name when printed on the ballot. (Based on 09/09/2025 text)

Location:

Introduced:

07/30/2026 Assembly RECONSIDERATI
ON
02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/13/25 A Floor Analysis
(text 09/09/25)

AB 672

Caloza, D

Current Text:

09/09/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

09/09/2025

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Real property tax: welfare exemption: community land trusts.
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06/22/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing property tax law, pursuant to constitutional authorization, provides for a
“welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or
charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit
entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met.
Existing law also provides, until January 1, 2027, that property is within the welfare
exemption if that property is owned by a community land trust, as defined, otherwise
qualifying for the welfare exemption, and specified conditions are met, including that
the property is being or will be developed or rehabilitated as housing, as specified.
Existing law, however, makes community land trusts liable for property tax for the
years for which the property was exempt from taxation if the property was not
developed or rehabilitated, or if the development or rehabilitation is not in the course of
construction, by January 1, 2027, for property acquired before January 1, 2022, or
within 5 years of the lien date following acquisition of the property, for property
acquired on and after January 1, 2022. This bill would extend the operation of these
provisions until January 1, 2032. (Based on 04/28/2026 text)

Location:

06/22/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/14/2025

Is Urgent:

Y

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
06/19/26 ------(text 04/28/26)

AB 1109

Kalra, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/28/2026 - Amended
04/28/2026

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Summary:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 7/14/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current law governs the admissibility of evidence in court proceedings and generally
provides a privilege as to communications made in the course of certain relations,
including the attorney-client, physician-patient, and psychotherapist-patient
relationship, as specified. Under current law, the right of any person to claim those
evidentiary privileges is waived with respect to a communication protected by the
privilege if any holder of the privilege, without coercion, has disclosed a significant part
of the communication or has consented to a disclosure. This bill would establish a
privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented employee or
represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential communication
between the employee or former employee and the union agent made while the union
agent was acting in the union agent’s representative capacity, except as specified. The

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bill would permit a represented employee or represented former employee to prevent
another person from disclosing a privileged communication, except as
specified. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)

Current Text:

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

N
S Appropriations
07/11/25 ------(text 02/20/25)

AB 1383

McKinnor, D

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’
Retirement System (PERS) to provide a defined benefit to members of the system
based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to
certain variations. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which
is continuously appropriated for purposes of PERS, including depositing employer and
employee contributions. Under the California Constitution, assets of a public pension
or retirement system are trust funds. The California Public Employees’ Pension
Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) establishes a variety of requirements and restrictions on
public employers offering defined benefit pension plans. In this regard, PEPRA
restricts the amount of compensation that may be applied for purposes of calculating a
defined pension benefit for a new member, as defined, by restricting it to specified
percentages of the contribution and benefit base under a specified federal law with
respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. Existing law, the
Teachers’ Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS)
and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan,
which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final
compensation, creditable service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations.
This bill, for service performed on and after January 1, 2027, would prohibit the
pensionable compensation for calendar year 2027 used to calculate the defined
benefit paid to a new member of a retirement system subject to PEPRA who retires
from the system from exceeding specified percentages of the contribution and benefit
base under the specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability
insurance benefits. (Based on 07/01/2026 text)

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Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/21/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 07/01/26)

AB 1578

Jackson, D

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State and local officials: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.
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Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment
practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer
or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer’s knowledge. Existing law
requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021,
provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and
education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one
hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual
harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once
every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive
conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally
require, beginning on January 1, 2028, for an employer that is a state agency or local
agency that the above-described training and education include, as a component of
the training and education for elected officials, anti-hate speech training, as
described. (Based on 05/22/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
01/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/01/26 ------(text 05/22/26)

AB 1749

Dixon, R

Current Text:

05/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/22/2026

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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair
Existing law makes it a crime for a person to operate or use an unmanned aerial
vehicle, remote-piloted aircraft, or drone at the scene of an emergency for the purpose
of viewing the scene or emergency or military personnel, and thereby impede the
emergency or military personnel, in the performance of their duties in coping with the
emergency. Existing law excuses a local public entity or public employee from liability
for damage to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, if the damage was
caused while the local public entity or public employee of a local public entity was
providing, and the unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system was interfering
with, the operation, support, or enabling of any emergency service, as specified.
Existing law makes everyone responsible for an injury occasioned to another by their
want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person, as
provided. This bill would prohibit a person from operating or using an unmanned aerial
vehicle, remote-piloted aircraft, or drone to knowingly or recklessly interfere with,
among other things, a wildfire suppression or law enforcement or emergency response
efforts related to a wildfire suppression. (Based on 06/17/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/09/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 06/17/26)

AB 1859

Ortega, D

Current Text:

06/17/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/17/2026

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Public works.
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Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair
Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate
of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works. Existing law defines
“public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts as, among other
things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under
contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Existing law makes any
officer, agent, or representative of the state or of any political subdivision who willfully
violates specified provisions, including providing notice of certain public works
projects, as specified, to the Department of Industrial Relations, guilty of a
misdemeanor. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations
that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects,
including the payment of prevailing wages. Existing law requires each contractor and
subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the
name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime
hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each
journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or
subcontractor in connection with the public work. This bill would require an awarding
body or owner to give reasonable access, as defined, to representatives of a jointlabor management committee in order to monitor compliance with the prevailing wage
and apprenticeship requirements. The bill would authorize an awarding body, owner,
contractor, or subcontractor to deny or revoke access to the committee’s
representative if the representative fails or refuses to comply with job site safety
requirements, as specified. The bill would authorize the committee to bring an action
against an awarding body, contractor, or subcontractor that willfully denies the
committee’s representative reasonable access. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/11/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 05/18/26)

AB 1883

Bryan, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

05/18/2026 - Amended
05/18/2026

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Workplace surveillance tools.
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Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair
Would, with certain exceptions, prohibit an employer from using a workplace
surveillance tool that uses artificial intelligence to, among other things, collect neural
data or recognize an individual’s emotional state. The bill would define an employer to
include a governmental entity, including, among other entities, charter cities and the
University of California. This bill would require the Labor Commissioner to enforce the
bill’s provisions, would authorize an employee to bring a civil action for specified
remedies for a violation of the bill’s provisions, and would authorize a public
prosecutor to enforce the provisions. The bill would subject an employer who violates
the bill’s provisions to a civil penalty of up to $500 for each violation. The bill would
define various terms for purposes of its provisions. This bill would exempt from its
provisions the use of a tool to the extent that its use is to ensure safety or is
reasonably necessary to comply with, a federal statute, federal regulation, or binding
federal contract relating to the development of aircraft for use in the national airspace
or the development of products or services for national security, military, space, or
defense purposes. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill
address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore,
apply to all cities, including charter cities. (Based on 07/02/2026 text)

Summary:

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08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/12/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/31/26 S Appropriations
------(text 07/02/26)

AB 2078

Rogers, D

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07/02/2026

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Employees: meal periods: stationary engineers.
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06/25/2026 - From Consent Calendar. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #119 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE

Summary:

Current law generally prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work
period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal
period of not less than 30 minutes. Current law creates exceptions from this prohibition
for employees in specified occupations, including employees of an electrical
corporation, a gas corporation, a water corporation, or a local publicly owned electric
utility covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions.
This bill would also create an exception from the above-described prohibition for

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employees who perform building maintenance work as a stationary engineer, as
defined, covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement meeting certain
conditions. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
Location:

06/25/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
06/25/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 02/18/26)

Current Text:

02/18/2026 - Introduced

ACWD - IT
SB 420

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Property tax: welfare exemption: detention facilities.
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08/05/2026 - August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

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08/13/26 A-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 1100 WICKS, BUFFY, Chair

Summary:

The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to exempt from taxation, in
whole or in part, property that is used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable
purposes, and is owned or held in trust by a nonprofit entity. Pursuant to that authority,
existing law provides for a welfare exemption under which property used exclusively
for an exempt purpose and owned and operated by specified entities, including
foundations, limited liability companies, or corporations meeting certain statutory
requirements is exempt from taxation. This bill would specify that for the purposes of
the welfare exemption provisions above, “property used exclusively for religious,
hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes” shall not include property, or any portion
thereof, operated as a detention facility, as defined. (Based on 07/01/2026 text)

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Introduced:

08/05/2026 Assembly APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
02/18/2025 (Spot bill)

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
08/03/26 ------(text 07/01/26)

Current Text:

07/01/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/01/2026

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SB 1159

Cabaldon, D

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Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.
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07/02/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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Summary:

08/10/26 #58 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS
The California Constitution provides that people have the right of access to information
concerning the conduct of the people’s business. Various provisions of existing law,
including the California Public Records Act, the Legislative Open Records Act, the
Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and the Ralph M. Brown Act, provide, with some
exceptions, for public access to government records and meetings of government
bodies. Among those acts, the California Public Records Act defines “person” to
include any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or
association. This bill would specify that, for purposes of the California Public Records
Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Legislative
Open Records Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, the California Coastal Act of
1976, and CEQA, “person,” “interested person,” “participant,” “member of the public,”
as applicable, and any other similar terms under each act referring to those who may
engage with governmental agencies, do not include artificial intelligence, as defined,
systems, autonomous agents, or robots, whether physical or digital. (Based on
06/25/2026 text)

Location:

07/02/2026 Assembly THIRD READING

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

N
07/29/26 A Floor Analysis
(text 06/25/26)

Current Text:

06/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/25/2026

ACWD - OESS
AB 300

Lackey, R

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Fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal.
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Bill information

Status:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state as moderate,
high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, as specified. Current law also requires
the State Fire Marshal to classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard
severity zones, and, by regulation, to designate fire hazard severity zones and assign
to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to
prevail in the zone. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review
very high fire hazard severity zones that are not state responsibility areas, and
designated and rated zones that are state responsibility areas, as provided. This bill
would instead require the State Fire Marshal, at least once every 5 years, to review
areas in the state identified as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity
zones, and to review lands within state responsibility areas classified as fire hazard
severity zones. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)

Location:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

01/23/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 05/05/25)

AB 372

Current Text:
Last Amend:

05/05/2025 - Amended
05/05/2025

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Office of Emergency Services: state matching funds: water system infrastructure improvements.
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Summary:

09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/3/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current law charges the Office of Emergency Services (OES) with coordinating
various emergency activities within the state. The California Emergency Services Act,
contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature, requires the OES to enter into a
joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act with the
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a
comprehensive wildfire mitigation program relating to structure hardening and
retrofitting and prescribed fuel modification activities. Current law authorizes the joint

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powers authority to establish financial assistance limits and matching funding or other
recipient contribution requirements for the program, as provided. This bill, contingent
upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the Rural Water Infrastructure
for Wildfire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching
funds to urban wildland interface communities, as defined, in designated high fire
hazard severity zones or very high fire hazard severity zones to improve water system
infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination
with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board,
the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the OES determines to
be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program. (Based on 08/29/2025 text)
Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

08/29/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/03/2025

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

09/02/25 S Floor Analyses
(text 08/29/25)

AB 426

Dixon, R

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08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law excuses a local public entity or public employee from liability for damage
to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, if the damage was caused while
the local public entity or public employee of a local public entity was providing, and the
unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system was interfering with, the operation,
support, or enabling of any emergency service, as specified. Current law imposes
liability for physical invasion of privacy on a person if the person knowingly enters onto
the land or into the airspace above the land of another person without permission or
otherwise commits a trespass in order to capture any image or recording of the other
person engaging in a private activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is
offensive to a reasonable person. This bill would prohibit a person from operating or
using an unmanned aerial vehicle, remote piloted aircraft, or drone at the scene of an
emergency and thereby impeding firefighters, peace officers, medical personnel,
military personnel, or other emergency personnel in the performance of their fire
suppression, law enforcement, or emergency response duties, unless the person has
a federal operational waiver, as specified. The bill would authorize the Attorney
General or a county counsel or city attorney to bring civil action to enforce the
prohibition and authorize a prevailing plaintiff to recover civil penalties, injunctive relief,
or reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, as specified. (Based on 04/02/2025 text)

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Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/05/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 04/02/25)

AB 1146

Papan, D

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04/02/2025

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Water infrastructure: dams and reservoirs: water release: false pretenses.
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Bill information

Status:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Would prohibit the release of stored water from a reservoir owned and operated by the
United States in this state if the release is done under false pretenses, which the bill
would define to mean a release of water from a reservoir owned and operated by the
United States in a manner that is knowingly, designedly, and intentionally under any
false or fraudulent representation as to the purpose and intended use of the water.
The bill would authorize the State Water Resources Control Board or the Attorney
General, as provided, to bring an action for injunctive relief for a violation of the abovedescribed prohibition. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a
state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/23/2025 text)

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

02/20/2025

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Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 06/23/25)

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AB 1530

Current Text:

06/23/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/23/2025

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California Disaster Assistance Act.
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Bill information

Status:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Under the California Disaster Assistance Act, current law authorizes the Office of
Emergency Services to establish a model process to assist a community in recovering
from an emergency proclaimed by the Governor that includes, among other
information, measures to encourage the participation of nongovernmental
organizations in the community recovery process to supplement recovery activities
undertaken by federal or local agencies. This bill would instead require the office to
establish that model process, and would require the model process to also include
measures to encourage the participation of private nonprofit organizations and how
they may be eligible to receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other
disaster or emergency assistance activities resulting in extraordinary cost. (Based on
05/23/2025 text)

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

03/26/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 05/23/25)

AB 1749

Current Text:
Last Amend:

05/23/2025 - Amended
05/23/2025

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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair
Existing law makes it a crime for a person to operate or use an unmanned aerial
vehicle, remote-piloted aircraft, or drone at the scene of an emergency for the purpose
of viewing the scene or emergency or military personnel, and thereby impede the
emergency or military personnel, in the performance of their duties in coping with the
emergency. Existing law excuses a local public entity or public employee from liability
for damage to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, if the damage was
caused while the local public entity or public employee of a local public entity was

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providing, and the unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system was interfering
with, the operation, support, or enabling of any emergency service, as specified.
Existing law makes everyone responsible for an injury occasioned to another by their
want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person, as
provided. This bill would prohibit a person from operating or using an unmanned aerial
vehicle, remote-piloted aircraft, or drone to knowingly or recklessly interfere with,
among other things, a wildfire suppression or law enforcement or emergency response
efforts related to a wildfire suppression. (Based on 06/17/2026 text)
Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/09/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
07/31/26 S Appropriations
(text 06/17/26)

AB 1873

Bennett, D

Current Text:

06/17/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/17/2026

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Bill information

Status:
Calendar:

08/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
08/10/26 #296 S-CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY

Summary:

Existing law requires, by July 1, 2030, a water supplier, as defined, to have access to
sufficient backup energy sources to operate critical fire suppression infrastructure, as
defined, needed to supply water for at least 24 hours for the purpose of fire
suppression in high or very high fire hazard severity zones in the County of Ventura, or
to have access to alternative sources of water supplied by a different water supplier or
agency that can serve this same purpose of supplying backup water to critical wells
and water pumps for 24 hours, as provided. Existing law authorizes a water supplier
that uses a backup energy source that is not permanent and stationary to use mobile
backup energy sources or procure an energy source via an established mutual aid
agreement provided that the backup energy source can provide power within 12 hours
of the National Weather Service alerting the County of Ventura of a red flag warning
and provide power for at least 24 hours after a loss of power and within 60 minutes of
a loss of power. Existing law requires, if any fire damages and makes uninhabitable
more than 10 residential dwellings within the service area of a water supplier, a report
be made by the Ventura County Fire Department in cooperation with the water
supplier, as specified. This bill would authorize a water supplier to use a backup
energy source that is not permanent or stationary, provided that the backup energy
source can, among other things, provide power within 90 minutes of a loss of power,
or as soon as practically possible after deenergization. The bill would require a water

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supplier that uses a backup energy source that is not permanent and stationary to
notify the Ventura County Office of Emergency Services as soon as practically
possible, but no later than 3 business days after a loss of power, if that backup energy
source does not provide power within 90 minutes of a loss of power. (Based on
05/27/2026 text)
Location:

Introduced:

08/03/2026 Senate CONSENT
CALENDAR
02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/05/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 05/27/26)

Current Text:

05/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/27/2026

ACWD - Operations
AB 372

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Summary:

09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/3/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current law charges the Office of Emergency Services (OES) with coordinating
various emergency activities within the state. The California Emergency Services Act,
contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature, requires the OES to enter into a
joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act with the
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a
comprehensive wildfire mitigation program relating to structure hardening and
retrofitting and prescribed fuel modification activities. Current law authorizes the joint
powers authority to establish financial assistance limits and matching funding or other
recipient contribution requirements for the program, as provided. This bill, contingent
upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the Rural Water Infrastructure
for Wildfire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching
funds to urban wildland interface communities, as defined, in designated high fire
hazard severity zones or very high fire hazard severity zones to improve water system
infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination
with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board,
the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the OES determines to
be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program. (Based on 08/29/2025 text)

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Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

08/29/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/03/2025

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

09/02/25 S Floor Analyses
(text 08/29/25)

AB 426

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Impeding emergency response with drone.
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Status:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law excuses a local public entity or public employee from liability for damage
to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, if the damage was caused while
the local public entity or public employee of a local public entity was providing, and the
unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system was interfering with, the operation,
support, or enabling of any emergency service, as specified. Current law imposes
liability for physical invasion of privacy on a person if the person knowingly enters onto
the land or into the airspace above the land of another person without permission or
otherwise commits a trespass in order to capture any image or recording of the other
person engaging in a private activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is
offensive to a reasonable person. This bill would prohibit a person from operating or
using an unmanned aerial vehicle, remote piloted aircraft, or drone at the scene of an
emergency and thereby impeding firefighters, peace officers, medical personnel,
military personnel, or other emergency personnel in the performance of their fire
suppression, law enforcement, or emergency response duties, unless the person has
a federal operational waiver, as specified. The bill would authorize the Attorney
General or a county counsel or city attorney to bring civil action to enforce the
prohibition and authorize a prevailing plaintiff to recover civil penalties, injunctive relief,
or reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, as specified. (Based on 04/02/2025 text)

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

02/05/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/15/25 S Appropriations
(text 04/02/25)

AB 990

Hadwick, R

Current Text:

04/02/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/02/2025

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Public water systems: emergency notification plan.
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Status:

09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 6/30/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law prohibits a person from operating a public water system without an
emergency notification plan that has been submitted to and approved by the State
Water Resources Control Board. Current law requires the emergency notification plan
to provide for immediate notice to the customers of the public water system of any
significant rise in the bacterial count of water or other failure to comply with any
primary drinking water standard that represents an imminent danger to the health of
the water users. This bill would authorize and encourage a public water system to
provide notification to water users in their preferred language when updating the
emergency notification plan, if resources are available. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)

Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/27/25 S Floor Analyses
(text 02/20/25)

AB 1873

Bennett, D

Current Text:

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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County of Ventura: fire suppression: backup energy source.
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Status:
Calendar:

08/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
08/10/26 #296 S-CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY

Summary:

Existing law requires, by July 1, 2030, a water supplier, as defined, to have access to
sufficient backup energy sources to operate critical fire suppression infrastructure, as

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defined, needed to supply water for at least 24 hours for the purpose of fire
suppression in high or very high fire hazard severity zones in the County of Ventura, or
to have access to alternative sources of water supplied by a different water supplier or
agency that can serve this same purpose of supplying backup water to critical wells
and water pumps for 24 hours, as provided. Existing law authorizes a water supplier
that uses a backup energy source that is not permanent and stationary to use mobile
backup energy sources or procure an energy source via an established mutual aid
agreement provided that the backup energy source can provide power within 12 hours
of the National Weather Service alerting the County of Ventura of a red flag warning
and provide power for at least 24 hours after a loss of power and within 60 minutes of
a loss of power. Existing law requires, if any fire damages and makes uninhabitable
more than 10 residential dwellings within the service area of a water supplier, a report
be made by the Ventura County Fire Department in cooperation with the water
supplier, as specified. This bill would authorize a water supplier to use a backup
energy source that is not permanent or stationary, provided that the backup energy
source can, among other things, provide power within 90 minutes of a loss of power,
or as soon as practically possible after deenergization. The bill would require a water
supplier that uses a backup energy source that is not permanent and stationary to
notify the Ventura County Office of Emergency Services as soon as practically
possible, but no later than 3 business days after a loss of power, if that backup energy
source does not provide power within 90 minutes of a loss of power. (Based on
05/27/2026 text)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

Location:

08/03/2026 Senate CONSENT
CALENDAR

Introduced:

02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/05/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 05/27/26)

SB 724

Richardson, D

05/27/2026 - Amended
05/27/2026

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Public housing: lead testing.
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Status:

08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law prohibits a person from using any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture,
solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of any public water
system or any plumbing in a facility providing water for human consumption, except
when necessary for the repair of leaded joints of cast iron pipes. Current law requires
a community water system to compile an inventory of known lead user service lines in

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use in its distribution system and identify areas that may have lead user service lines
in use in its distribution system, as provided. This bill would require the owner of a
public housing unit that is owned or managed by a city, county, city and county, or city,
county, or city and county housing authority, to provide information to the residents of
the public housing unit regarding any applicable existing program that offers free
testing of the water for lead. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)
Location:
Introduced:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2
YEAR
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
08/18/25 ------(text 05/05/25)

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

ACWD - PE
AB 300

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Fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal.
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08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state as moderate,
high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, as specified. Current law also requires
the State Fire Marshal to classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard
severity zones, and, by regulation, to designate fire hazard severity zones and assign
to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to
prevail in the zone. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review
very high fire hazard severity zones that are not state responsibility areas, and
designated and rated zones that are state responsibility areas, as provided. This bill
would instead require the State Fire Marshal, at least once every 5 years, to review
areas in the state identified as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity
zones, and to review lands within state responsibility areas classified as fire hazard
severity zones. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)

Location:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

01/23/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

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Current Analysis:

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AB 372

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 05/05/25)

Bennett, D

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Status:

09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/3/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law charges the Office of Emergency Services (OES) with coordinating
various emergency activities within the state. The California Emergency Services Act,
contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature, requires the OES to enter into a
joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act with the
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and administer a
comprehensive wildfire mitigation program relating to structure hardening and
retrofitting and prescribed fuel modification activities. Current law authorizes the joint
powers authority to establish financial assistance limits and matching funding or other
recipient contribution requirements for the program, as provided. This bill, contingent
upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the Rural Water Infrastructure
for Wildfire Resilience Program within the OES for the distribution of state matching
funds to urban wildland interface communities, as defined, in designated high fire
hazard severity zones or very high fire hazard severity zones to improve water system
infrastructure, as prescribed. The bill would require the OES to work in coordination
with the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board,
the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and other state entities as the OES determines to
be appropriate, to achieve the purposes of the program. (Based on 08/29/2025 text)

Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

08/29/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/03/2025

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
09/02/25 S Floor Analyses
(text 08/29/25)

AB 550

Petrie-Norris, D

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The California Endangered Species Act: take of species proposed for listing: renewable electrical
generation facilities.
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Bill information

Status:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

The California Endangered Species Act prohibits the taking of an endangered,
threatened, or candidate species, except as specified. Under the act, the Department
of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species by certain entities through
permits or memorandums of understanding for specified purposes. The act allows take
of an endangered, threatened, or candidate species by permit if, among other things,
the impact of the authorized take is fully minimized and mitigated. This bill would also
allow the department to authorize by permit the take of a species proposed for listing,
as defined, if specified conditions are met. The bill would provide that if a species
proposed for listing becomes listed as an endangered, threatened, or candidate
species, further authorization or approval shall not be required for a take of that
species, if specified conditions are met, including that the species proposed for listing
was included as a covered species in a permit previously issued by the department for
incidental take and that the incidental take is caused by a renewable electrical
generation facility. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/11/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 06/25/26)

AB 638

Rodriguez, Celeste, D

Current Text:

06/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/25/2026

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Stormwater: uses: irrigation.
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Status:

08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

The Stormwater Resource Planning Act requires the State Water Resources Control
Board, by July 1, 2016, to establish guidance for purposes of the act. This bill would
require the board, by December 1, 2026, to develop recommendations for stormwater
capture and use for the irrigation of urban public lands, as defined. The bill would
require the recommendations to address, but not be limited to, opportunities for the
use of captured stormwater for irrigation to offset the use of potable water, as
specified, and recommendations for, among other things, pathogens and pathogen
indicators and total suspended solids. Prior to approving the recommendations, the bill
would require the board to solicit and receive written public comment on proposed
recommendations. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)

Location:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR

Introduced:

02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 07/03/25)

AB 1198

Haney, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

07/03/2025 - Amended
07/03/2025

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Public works: prevailing wages.
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Status:

06/22/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate
of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to
workers employed on public works projects. Current law requires the body awarding a
contract for a public work to obtain from the director the general prevailing rate of per
diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is to
be performed, and the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and
overtime work, for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the
contract. Under current law, if the director determines during any quarterly period that
there has been a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a locality, the
director is required to make that change available to the awarding body and their
determination is final. Under current law, that determination does not apply to public
works contracts for which the notice to bidders has been published. This bill would
instead state, commencing July 1, 2027, that if the director determines, within a
semiannual period, that there is a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a
locality, that determination applies to any public works contract that is awarded or for

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which notice to bidders is published after July 1, 2027. The bill would authorize any
contractor, awarding body, or specified representative affected by a change in rates on
a particular contract to, within 20 days, file with the director a verified petition to review
the determination of that rate, as specified. The bill would require the director to, upon
notice to the interested parties, initiate an investigation or hold a hearing, and, within
20 days after the filing of that petition, except as specified, make a final determination
and transmit the determination in writing to the awarding body and to the interested
parties. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)
Location:

06/22/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
06/19/26 S Appropriations
(text 01/22/26)

AB 1859

Ortega, D

Current Text:

01/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/22/2026

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Calendar:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate
of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works. Existing law defines
“public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts as, among other
things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under
contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Existing law makes any
officer, agent, or representative of the state or of any political subdivision who willfully
violates specified provisions, including providing notice of certain public works
projects, as specified, to the Department of Industrial Relations, guilty of a
misdemeanor. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations
that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects,
including the payment of prevailing wages. Existing law requires each contractor and
subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the
name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime
hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each
journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or
subcontractor in connection with the public work. This bill would require an awarding
body or owner to give reasonable access, as defined, to representatives of a jointlabor management committee in order to monitor compliance with the prevailing wage

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and apprenticeship requirements. The bill would authorize an awarding body, owner,
contractor, or subcontractor to deny or revoke access to the committee’s
representative if the representative fails or refuses to comply with job site safety
requirements, as specified. The bill would authorize the committee to bring an action
against an awarding body, contractor, or subcontractor that willfully denies the
committee’s representative reasonable access. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)
Location:
Introduced:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
02/11/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 05/18/26)

SB 74

Seyarto, R

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program.
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Summary:

Current law establishes the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in the
Governor’s office for the purpose of serving the Governor and the Governor’s cabinet
as staff for long-range planning and research and constituting the comprehensive
state planning agency. Current law authorizes a local agency to finance infrastructure
projects through various means, including by authorizing a city or county to establish
an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other
specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the
district or the surrounding community. This bill would require the office, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program to
provide grants to local agencies for the development and construction of infrastructure
projects, as defined, facing unforeseen costs after starting construction. The bill would
authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s additional projected
cost, as defined, after the project has started construction, subject to specified
conditions, including, among other things, that the local agency has allocated existing
local tax revenue for at least 45% of the initially budgeted total cost of the
infrastructure project. When applying to the program, the bill would require the local
agency to demonstrate challenges with completing the project on time and on budget
and how the infrastructure project helps meet state and local goals, as
specified. (Based on 04/07/2025 text)

Location:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2
YEAR

Current Text:

04/07/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/07/2025

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Introduced:

01/15/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
A Appropriations
06/30/25 ------(text 04/07/25)

ACWD - Procurement
AB 1859

Ortega, D

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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate
of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works. Existing law defines
“public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts as, among other
things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under
contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Existing law makes any
officer, agent, or representative of the state or of any political subdivision who willfully
violates specified provisions, including providing notice of certain public works
projects, as specified, to the Department of Industrial Relations, guilty of a
misdemeanor. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations
that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects,
including the payment of prevailing wages. Existing law requires each contractor and
subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the
name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime
hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each
journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or
subcontractor in connection with the public work. This bill would require an awarding
body or owner to give reasonable access, as defined, to representatives of a jointlabor management committee in order to monitor compliance with the prevailing wage
and apprenticeship requirements. The bill would authorize an awarding body, owner,
contractor, or subcontractor to deny or revoke access to the committee’s
representative if the representative fails or refuses to comply with job site safety
requirements, as specified. The bill would authorize the committee to bring an action
against an awarding body, contractor, or subcontractor that willfully denies the
committee’s representative reasonable access. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

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Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/11/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 05/18/26)

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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AB 1873

Bennett, D

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County of Ventura: fire suppression: backup energy source.
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08/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #296 S-CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY

Summary:

Existing law requires, by July 1, 2030, a water supplier, as defined, to have access to
sufficient backup energy sources to operate critical fire suppression infrastructure, as
defined, needed to supply water for at least 24 hours for the purpose of fire
suppression in high or very high fire hazard severity zones in the County of Ventura, or
to have access to alternative sources of water supplied by a different water supplier or
agency that can serve this same purpose of supplying backup water to critical wells
and water pumps for 24 hours, as provided. Existing law authorizes a water supplier
that uses a backup energy source that is not permanent and stationary to use mobile
backup energy sources or procure an energy source via an established mutual aid
agreement provided that the backup energy source can provide power within 12 hours
of the National Weather Service alerting the County of Ventura of a red flag warning
and provide power for at least 24 hours after a loss of power and within 60 minutes of
a loss of power. Existing law requires, if any fire damages and makes uninhabitable
more than 10 residential dwellings within the service area of a water supplier, a report
be made by the Ventura County Fire Department in cooperation with the water
supplier, as specified. This bill would authorize a water supplier to use a backup
energy source that is not permanent or stationary, provided that the backup energy
source can, among other things, provide power within 90 minutes of a loss of power,
or as soon as practically possible after deenergization. The bill would require a water
supplier that uses a backup energy source that is not permanent and stationary to
notify the Ventura County Office of Emergency Services as soon as practically
possible, but no later than 3 business days after a loss of power, if that backup energy
source does not provide power within 90 minutes of a loss of power. (Based on
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Location:

Introduced:

08/03/2026 Senate CONSENT
CALENDAR
02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/05/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 05/27/26)

Current Text:

05/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/27/2026

ACWD - Water Quality
AB 990

Hadwick, R

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Public water systems: emergency notification plan.
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09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 6/30/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Current law prohibits a person from operating a public water system without an
emergency notification plan that has been submitted to and approved by the State
Water Resources Control Board. Current law requires the emergency notification plan
to provide for immediate notice to the customers of the public water system of any
significant rise in the bacterial count of water or other failure to comply with any
primary drinking water standard that represents an imminent danger to the health of
the water users. This bill would authorize and encourage a public water system to
provide notification to water users in their preferred language when updating the
emergency notification plan, if resources are available. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)

Summary:

Location:
Introduced:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/27/25 S Floor Analyses
(text 02/20/25)

SB 724

Richardson, D

Current Text:

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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Public housing: lead testing.
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08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law prohibits a person from using any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture,
solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of any public water
system or any plumbing in a facility providing water for human consumption, except
when necessary for the repair of leaded joints of cast iron pipes. Current law requires
a community water system to compile an inventory of known lead user service lines in
use in its distribution system and identify areas that may have lead user service lines
in use in its distribution system, as provided. This bill would require the owner of a
public housing unit that is owned or managed by a city, county, city and county, or city,
county, or city and county housing authority, to provide information to the residents of
the public housing unit regarding any applicable existing program that offers free
testing of the water for lead. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)

Location:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2
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Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
08/18/25 ------(text 05/05/25)

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

ACWD - Water Resources
AB 550

Petrie-Norris, D

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The California Endangered Species Act: take of species proposed for listing: renewable electrical
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

The California Endangered Species Act prohibits the taking of an endangered,
threatened, or candidate species, except as specified. Under the act, the Department
of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species by certain entities through
permits or memorandums of understanding for specified purposes. The act allows take
of an endangered, threatened, or candidate species by permit if, among other things,
the impact of the authorized take is fully minimized and mitigated. This bill would also
allow the department to authorize by permit the take of a species proposed for listing,
as defined, if specified conditions are met. The bill would provide that if a species
proposed for listing becomes listed as an endangered, threatened, or candidate
species, further authorization or approval shall not be required for a take of that
species, if specified conditions are met, including that the species proposed for listing
was included as a covered species in a permit previously issued by the department for
incidental take and that the incidental take is caused by a renewable electrical
generation facility. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
02/11/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 06/25/26)

AB 638

Rodriguez, Celeste, D

Current Text:

06/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/25/2026

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Stormwater: uses: irrigation.
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08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
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Summary:

The Stormwater Resource Planning Act requires the State Water Resources Control
Board, by July 1, 2016, to establish guidance for purposes of the act. This bill would
require the board, by December 1, 2026, to develop recommendations for stormwater
capture and use for the irrigation of urban public lands, as defined. The bill would
require the recommendations to address, but not be limited to, opportunities for the
use of captured stormwater for irrigation to offset the use of potable water, as
specified, and recommendations for, among other things, pathogens and pathogen
indicators and total suspended solids. Prior to approving the recommendations, the bill
would require the board to solicit and receive written public comment on proposed
recommendations. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)

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Location:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2
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02/13/2025
N

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Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
08/15/25 ------(text 07/03/25)

AB 1413

Papan, D

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07/03/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/03/2025

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Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater adjudication.
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09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/9/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law requires the Department of Water Resources to periodically review the
groundwater sustainability plans developed by groundwater sustainability agencies
pursuant to the act to evaluate whether a plan conforms with specified laws and is
likely to achieve the sustainability goal for the basin covered by the plan. Current law
requires a groundwater sustainability agency to evaluate its groundwater sustainability
plan periodically. This bill would require a groundwater sustainability agency to, at
least once every 7 years, review, and update if appropriate, its sustainable yield to
ensure that the sustainable yield is based on the best available information and best
available science, as defined, and will achieve sustainable groundwater management.
The bill would also require a groundwater sustainability agency to provide an
opportunity for public review and comment before making a determination whether to
update its sustainable yield. To the extent that these requirements impose additional
duties on groundwater sustainability agencies that are local agencies, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 09/02/2025 text)

Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

09/02/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025 (Spot bill)

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

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N
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Current Analysis:

09/03/25 S Floor Analyses
(text 09/02/25)

AB 1894

Rubio, Blanca, D

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Fish and wildlife: invasive mussels: imported water.
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06/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #105 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE (Floor Mgr.- Rubio)

Summary:

Existing law, until January 1, 2030, generally prohibits a person from possessing,
importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to
be placed or planted in any water within the state, invasive mussels, and authorizes
the Director of Fish and Wildlife, or the director’s designee, to engage in various
enforcement activities with regard to invasive mussels. Existing law, until January 1,
2030, requires a public or private agency that operates a water supply system to
cooperate with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to implement measures to avoid
infestation by invasive mussels and to control or eradicate any infestation that occurs
in a water supply system. Existing law requires any person, or federal, state, or local
agency, district, or authority that owns or manages a reservoir, where specified
activities are permitted, except as specified, to develop and implement a program
designed to prevent the introduction of invasive mussel species, as provided. Existing
law requires any entity that discovers invasive mussels within the state to immediately
report the discovery to the department. This bill would prohibit a public agency from
prohibiting imported water deliveries for groundwater replenishment, as defined, due
to invasive mussels if the importation complies with a specified invasive mussel control
plan and unless there is substantial, documented evidence of a proven health and
safety risk as a result of the invasive mussels. (Based on 05/28/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

06/23/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING
02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/24/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 05/28/26)

AB 2125

Bennett, D

Current Text:

05/28/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/28/2026

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Groundwater basin adjudication: notice.
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Bill information

Status:

07/02/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #279 S-CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND LEGISLATIVE DAY

Summary:

Existing law requires a plaintiff who files an action to comprehensively determine rights
to extract groundwater from a basin to provide the court a draft notice of
commencement of groundwater basin adjudication and a draft form answer to
adjudication complaint, as specified. Existing law also requires a plaintiff to file, within
a specified timeframe, a motion for approval of the draft notice and draft form answer.
Under existing law, once the court approves the draft notice, the plaintiff is required to
serve the notice, as specified. Following a court order approving both the notice and
draft form answer and authorizing service thereof, existing law requires the plaintiff to
take additional steps to provide notice to defendants including, but not limited to,
mailing, by registered mail or certified mail, return receipt requested, the notice,
complaint, and form answer to all holders of fee title to real property in the basin.
Under existing law, if a return receipt is not received for a parcel of real property, the
plaintiff must post a copy of the notice, complaint, and form answer in a conspicuous
place on the real property. After completing these notice procedures, existing law
requires the plaintiff to file a notice of completion of the mailing with the court. Existing
law permits a court to authorize any other procedures it finds appropriate and
necessary to provide notice to persons who may hold groundwater rights in basin. This
bill would impose additional requirements on a plaintiff when filing the notice of
completion of mailing. The bill would require the plaintiff to include with the notice of
completion an affidavit of the person who mailed the notice and the certified or
registered mail delivery receipt for each parcel stating the date, time, and place of
mailing. The bill would further require the notice to include as an attachment any
certified or registered mail delivery receipts received as of the date of the filing. (Based
on 03/25/2026 text)

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Introduced:

07/01/2026 Senate CONSENT
CALENDAR
02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

07/30/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 03/25/26)

AB 2218

Kalra, D

Current Text:

03/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/25/2026

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Water policy: California Native American tribes.
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08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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Calendar:

08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

Would require the state government to support California Native Americans to maintain
cultural and linguistic traditions, practice ecosystem stewardship, and engage in good
faith government-to-government consultations with all California Native American
tribes regarding policies that may affect tribal communities. (Based on 07/02/2026
text)

Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
07/31/26 ------(text 07/02/26)

AB 2476

Ellis, R

Current Text:
Last Amend:

07/02/2026 - Amended
07/02/2026

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Electricity: integrated resource plans: Department of Water Resources: procurement.
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06/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #109 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE

Summary:

Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt a process for each loadserving entity, as defined, to file an integrated resource plan, adopt a schedule for
periodic updates to the plan, and ensure each load-serving entity takes specified
actions, as specified. Existing law requires the commission to determine if there is a
need for the procurement of eligible energy resources, as described, requires the
commission to specify the eligible energy resources that should be procured to meet
that need, and authorizes the commission, within 6 months of making that
determination, to request the Department of Water Resources to procure those
specified resources that meet the portfolio of resources, as specified. Existing law
authorizes the department to procure those resources pursuant to that request only
before January 1, 2035, as provided. Existing law authorizes the department to
procure resources from a pump hydroelectric facility pursuant to these provisions if the
pump hydroelectric facility does not exceed 500 megawatts and was directly
appropriated funding by the state before January 1, 2023. This bill would eliminate the
requirement that a pump hydroelectric facility be directly appropriated funding by the
state before January 1, 2023, in order for the department to procure resources from
the facility. (Based on 04/27/2026 text)

Location:

06/23/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/20/2026

Current Text:

04/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/27/2026

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Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/24/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 04/27/26)

SB 556

Hurtado, D

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Habitat enhancement and restoration: floodplains.
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08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law, the Wildlife Conservation Board within the Department of Fish and
Wildlife administers various habitat conservation and restoration programs. This bill
would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the sum of $21,500,000 to be
allocated to the board for floodplain acquisition, habitat restoration, and associated
conservation projects on floodplains in the Counties of Kern, Kings, and Tulare, as
provided. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)

Location:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2
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02/20/2025

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Current Analysis:

08/18/25 A Appropriations
------(text 07/17/25)

SB 557

Hurtado, D

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

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Child abuse: family resource centers.
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Status:

08/06/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Ordered to
engrossing and enrolling.

Summary:

Current law requires the Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of
Social Services to use federal funding to undertake specified activities, including,
among other things, supporting coordination and sharing of best practices
implemented by family resource centers with other agencies, when the best practices
reflect strategies and outcomes that were achieved and supported by evidenceinformed programs and data. Current law authorizes a county to establish a child
abuse multidisciplinary personnel team within that county to allow provider agencies to
share confidential information in order for provider agencies to investigate reports of
suspected child abuse or neglect, as specified, or for the purpose of child welfare
agencies making a detention determination. Current law specifies that the
multidisciplinary personnel team may include a representative of a local child abuse
prevention council or family-strengthening organization, including, but not limited to, a
family resource center. Current law defines “family resource center,” for purposes of
these provisions. This bill would instead define “family resource center” to mean a
family-friendly entity serving as a hub for multigenerational, family-centered, and
family-strengthening support services that are provided at no cost or low cost to
participants, embedded in communities, culturally sensitive, reflective of, and
responsive to, community needs and interests, build communities of peer support for
families, and include cross-system collaboration to assist in transforming families and
communities through reciprocity, development of social connections that reduce
isolation and stress, and asset development based on impact-driven and evidenceinformed approaches with the goal of preventing child abuse and neglect and
strengthening children and families. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)

Location:

08/06/2026 Senate ENROLLMENT

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
06/29/26 ------(text 01/05/26)

SB 599

Caballero, D

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08/06/2026 - Enrollment

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01/05/2026

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Atmospheric rivers: research: forecasting methods: experimental tools.
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08/04/2026 - From inactive file. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #94 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS (Floor Mgr.- Ward)

Summary:

Current law establishes the Atmospheric Rivers Research and Forecast Improvement
Program: Enabling Climate Adaptation Through Forecast-Informed Reservoir
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Resources. Current law requires the department to operate reservoirs in a manner that
improves flood protection, and to reoperate flood control and water storage facilities to
capture water generated by atmospheric rivers. This bill would, for novel forecasting
methods researched, developed, and implemented by the department, require the
department to include the use of experimental tools that produce seasonal and
subseasonal atmospheric river forecasts, as defined. (Based on 04/24/2025 text)
Location:
Introduced:

09/10/2025 Assembly THIRD READING
02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/02/25 A Floor Analysis
(text 04/24/25)

Current Text:

04/24/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/24/2025

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AB 550

Petrie-Norris, D

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The California Endangered Species Act: take of species proposed for listing: renewable electrical
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Calendar:

08/03/2026 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
08/13/26 S-APPROPRIATIONS SUSPENSE Upon adjournment of Session - 1021
O Street, Room 2200 CERVANTES, SABRINA, Chair

Summary:

The California Endangered Species Act prohibits the taking of an endangered,
threatened, or candidate species, except as specified. Under the act, the Department
of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the take of listed species by certain entities through
permits or memorandums of understanding for specified purposes. The act allows take
of an endangered, threatened, or candidate species by permit if, among other things,
the impact of the authorized take is fully minimized and mitigated. This bill would also
allow the department to authorize by permit the take of a species proposed for listing,
as defined, if specified conditions are met. The bill would provide that if a species
proposed for listing becomes listed as an endangered, threatened, or candidate
species, further authorization or approval shall not be required for a take of that
species, if specified conditions are met, including that the species proposed for listing
was included as a covered species in a permit previously issued by the department for
incidental take and that the incidental take is caused by a renewable electrical
generation facility. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)

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Location:

08/03/2026 - Senate APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/11/2025
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Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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Last Amend:

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Fish and wildlife: invasive mussels: imported water.
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Status:

06/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:

08/10/26 #105 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE (Floor Mgr.- Rubio)

Summary:

Existing law, until January 1, 2030, generally prohibits a person from possessing,
importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to
be placed or planted in any water within the state, invasive mussels, and authorizes
the Director of Fish and Wildlife, or the director’s designee, to engage in various
enforcement activities with regard to invasive mussels. Existing law, until January 1,
2030, requires a public or private agency that operates a water supply system to
cooperate with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to implement measures to avoid
infestation by invasive mussels and to control or eradicate any infestation that occurs
in a water supply system. Existing law requires any person, or federal, state, or local
agency, district, or authority that owns or manages a reservoir, where specified
activities are permitted, except as specified, to develop and implement a program
designed to prevent the introduction of invasive mussel species, as provided. Existing
law requires any entity that discovers invasive mussels within the state to immediately
report the discovery to the department. This bill would prohibit a public agency from
prohibiting imported water deliveries for groundwater replenishment, as defined, due
to invasive mussels if the importation complies with a specified invasive mussel control
plan and unless there is substantial, documented evidence of a proven health and
safety risk as a result of the invasive mussels. (Based on 05/28/2026 text)

Location:

06/23/2026 - Senate THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/12/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

06/24/26 S Floor Analyses
(text 05/28/26)

Current Text:

05/28/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/28/2026

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Total Measures: 62
Total Tracking Forms: 62

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ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
MEMORANDUM

DATE:

August 5, 2026

TO:

Legal, Intergovernmental, and Community Affairs (LICA) Committee

FROM:

Special Assistant to the General Manager, Jackie McCloud

SUBJECT:

LICA August Briefing

The Special Assistant to the General Manager's August briefing summarizes activities conducted
from July 9, 2026, through August 5, 2026. Key highlights include initiation of a partnership
agreement with San Jose State University (SJSU), active internship recruitment through the
California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) development with the Fremont Unified School District
(FUSD) for the Water Ambassador Program, coordination of a meeting with New Haven Unified
School District (NHUSD) to discuss an extension of the Water Ambassador program, and
development and testing of the legislative tracker with Ms. Mackenzie Cin, former Water
Resources Intern.
San Jose State University, University Organization Agreement (SJSU UOA)
On July 16, 2026, a meeting was held with Dr. Nathaniel Bogie, Assistant Professor in the
Geology Department at San Jose State University (SJSU), to explore a partnership opportunity.
The goal of this collaboration is to mirror the existing partnership with California State
University, East Bay (CSUEB), which encompasses internships, active engagement with District
staff, and integration into ongoing classroom activities at SJSU.
During the meeting, both parties agreed to initiate the SJSU University Organization Agreement
(UOA). This agreement utilizes a standard template developed by SJSU's Supporting Students
and Site Service Sites (SJS4) Department. The UOA was subsequently reviewed by General
Manager Ed Stevenson, General Counsel Pat Miyaki, and the Special Assistant to the General
Manager. As a result of this review, modifications were requested for certain sections of the
UOA, which are currently being considered by the SJS4 Department.
Internship Recruitment with CSUEB
The District’s Office of the General Manager recently posted its first internship opportunity
through the CalState S4 portal. This posting is accessible at:
https://app.calstates4.com/csueastbay/opportunity/568511
To ensure broad visibility and engagement, the California State University, East Bay (CSUEB)
Community Engagement Coordinator (CEC) shared the internship posting with selected

academic departments and faculty members, representing the District. The internship listing
continues to be active, and the District is receiving weekly inquiries from interested applicants.
Water Ambassador Program Update
The District has initiated the process of developing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
with the Fremont Unified School District (FUSD) through collaborative discussions. The draft
MOU was carefully reviewed by General Manager Mr. Ed Stevenson and General Counsel Mr.
Pat Miyaki to ensure it meets the objectives and requirements of both parties. In late July, the
draft was forwarded to FUSD for their review and suggested edits, establishing an open line of
communication and feedback. A follow-up meeting with FUSD’s new Program Manager, Ms.
Indira Kumar, is scheduled for August 11, 2026, to discuss the MOU and any proposed changes.
An update on the status and progress of the MOU will be provided to the committee in
September.
Water Ambassador Program: New Haven Unified School District (NHUSD) Engagement
In response to guidance from the District’s Board of Directors, staff have begun outreach to
additional school districts within the service area. The purpose of these efforts is to foster
collaboration and expand the Water Ambassador Program, ensuring its benefits reach a broader
student population across the District’s service area.
An initial meeting has been scheduled for August 11, 2026, with both the Superintendent and
Deputy Superintendent of the New Haven school district. This meeting will focus on introducing
the Water Ambassador Program, discussing its objectives, and exploring opportunities for
partnership and program implementation.
Following the meeting, a verbal update regarding the progress and outcomes will be presented to
the LICA committee, keeping stakeholders informed of developments and next steps.
Legislative Tracker Development
The District’s legislative tracker, which monitors Statewide legislative issues, previously
required staff to manually enter information into an Excel file each week. Recognizing the need
for a more efficient process, former Water Resources intern Ms. Mackenzie Cin took initiative to
enhance this workflow. She developed a streamlined method using Power Query, which
automated much of the data entry and updating process. As a result, staff are now able to update
the legislative tracker on a weekly basis with greater ease and efficiency, utilizing this new
automation approach.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2026

AUGUST 2026

PAGE 1

ROUTINE DISTRICT COMMUNICATION
Bill Message
June 1 - The 2025 Water Quality Report is now available, and results show
your drinking water meets or surpasses all state and federal drinking water
quality standards. View it online at acwd.org/2025CCR or call 510-668-6500
for a printed copy.
The District has a new Crisis Assistance program available. Up to $200 per
two-year period is available for customers that meet the approval
requirements of Help on Tap. For more information visit acwd.org/HOT.
Save water with a weather-based irrigation time, it adjusts automatically.
Learn more at watersavingscenter.acwd.org.
Lobby hours are Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Photo of Shinn Pond

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AUGUST 2026

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WEBSITE ARTICLES & UPDATES

Meet Ready Benny: Your
Emergency Water Preparedness
Guide
learn how to store water and stay ready for

any smBrgency.

Homepage Carousel - Meet Ready Benny: Your
Emergency Water Preparedness Guide

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Important Notice - Customer Portal, Online Payments, and Phone Payments
Temporarily Unavailable

Free Water Education Materials
for Tri- City Teachers

Homepage Carousel - Free Water Education Materials
for Tri-City Teachers

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AUGUST 2026

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WEBSITE ARTICLES & UPDATES

our Fish Passages Facilities!
Watch ACWD's virtual tour v ideo now!

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at our Fish Passage Facilities!

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News Flash - Free Water Education Materials for Tri-City Teachers

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AUGUST 2026

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MEDIA COVERAGE
The ACWD Connection

The ACWD Connection

JULY IS SMART
IRRIGATION MONTH

Water-Efficient
Landscape Rebate

Upgrade your irrigation system and save with ACWD
rebates!

Convert your lawn to a living, water-efficient landscape
and receive up to $2 per square foot of lawn converted.

• Up to $5 per high-efficiency sprinkler nozzle
• Up to $1 O per pressure-regulating spray body
• Up to $30 per large rotor

Pre-approval and attending a Q & A session is requ ired
before you start your project.

Pre-approval required for projects
(residential) or $600+ (commercial).

Learn more and app ly at acwd .org/rebates.

July 21 - July is Smart Irrigation Month

July 28 - Water-Efficient Landscape Rebate

The ACWD Connection

The ACWD Connection

AUGUST IS WATER
QUALITY MONTH

SCHOOL IS BACK IN SESSION!

Celebrate Notional Water Quali ty Month by learning
more about your drinking wate r.

Available resources include:

ACWD offers free wa ter education resources for
Tri - City students, pa rents and te

Our 2025 Water Quality Report shows your drinking
water consistently met or surpassed oil state a nd
federal drinking water standards.

• Zunzun school assemblies
• Worksheets, games and v ideos
• Wa ter education teacher t raining
• Activity books, ma terials and p osters

Read the report at acwd.org/2025CCR or coll
510-668-6500 to request o paper copy.

Learn more: acwd.org/watereducation.

August 4 - August is Water Quality Month

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August 11 - Educational Resources Back to School

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AUGUST 2026

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OTHER COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH
Office of the General Manager

• July 14 - Public Affairs (PA) supported a Fremont neighborhood’s National
Night Out event by providing 150 giveaway items and Water for
Emergencies postcards for attendees.
• July 21-22 - Melissa Rivera attended the 2026 CAPIO | California Governor’s
Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Emergency Communications
Academy in Rancho Cordova.
• August 4 - Sharene Gonzales attended the Public Water Agencies-Focused
Delta Conveyance Project Communications Committee meeting.
• August 4 - Staff from PA, Water Use Efficiency (WUE), and the Engineering &
Technology Services Department hosted an information booth at the Union
City Police Department's National Night Out event.
• August 6 - Melissa Rivera attended a California Urban Water Agencies
(CUWA) Communications Committee meeting.
• August 11 - Public Affairs staff met with Contra Costa Water District’s
Communications team to discuss education and outreach programs, and
how the agencies are working to improve accessibility on their respective
websites.

Photos from the Union City Police Department’s National Night Out Event
LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AUGUST 2026

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OTHER COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH
Finance & Administration

• July 29 - Ethan Burch updated the Water Rates Process webpage with
information on the current and upcoming rate-setting process, public
workshops, and the previous water rates process.
• July 31 - Ethan Burch updated the Help on Tap income guidelines on the
ACWD website and revised the 2026–2027 program applications.

Water Resources

• July 30 - Water Supply staff hosted a Fish Ladder Operations and Water

Stewardship (FLOWS) tour at Rubber Dam No. 1 for representatives from the
National Marine Fisheries Service, the Regional Water Quality Control Board,
and Zone 7 Water Agency.
• July 15 - August 3 - A total of ten people attended the Q&A with a WUE
Specialist.

Photos from the "Reading with a Water Hero" promotional social media video
LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AUGUST 2026

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SCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAM
•

2,803 school supplies have been distributed to date for the 2026/27
school year.

• August 5 - 6 - Renee Gonzales attended the California Department of

Water Resources’ Water Education Committee In-Person Meeting at
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Photos from the California Department of Water Resources’ Water Education
Committee meeting
LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AUGUST 2026

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UPCOMING EVENTS
• August 13 - Reading with a Water Hero
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10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

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Union City Library

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34007 Alvarado-Niles Rd., Union City

• September 19 - Newark Days Parade
0

10 a.m.

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City hall on Newark Blvd. and turns onto Cedar Blvd.

• September 20 - Newark Days Information Faire
0

12 p.m. - 4 p.m.

0

Newark Community Center - 35501 Newark Blvd., Newark

• October 3 - Science in the Park
0

9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

0

Cal State East Bay at the Music Lawn Area near the Pioneer
Amphitheater

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25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., Hayward

• October 3 - Fremont Police Department Safety Fair
0

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

0

2100 Stevenson Blvd., Fremont

• October 8 - Reading with a Water Hero
0

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

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Union City Library

0

34007 Alvarado-Niles Rd., Union City

• November 7 - Quarry Lakes’ 25th Anniversary
0

10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

0

Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area

0

2100 Isherwood Way, Fremont

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

The ACWD Connection

JULY IS SMART
IRRIGATION MONTH
Upgrade your irrigation system and save with ACWD
rebates!
Up to $5 per high-efficiency sprinkler nozzle
Up to $10 per pressure-regulating spray body
Up to $30 per large rotor
Pre-approval required for projects of $300+
(residential) or $600+ (commercial).
Learn more at acwd.org/IHR.

The ACWD Connection

Water-Efficient
Landscape Rebate
Convert your lawn to a living, water-efficient landscape
and receive up to $2 per square foot of lawn converted.
Pre-approval and attending a Q & A session is required
before you start your project.
Learn more and apply at acwd.org/rebates.
Q&A dates are available at acwd.org/calendar.

The ACWD Connection

AUGUST IS WATER
QUALITY MONTH
Celebrate National Water Quality Month by learning
more about your drinking water.
Our 2025 Water Quality Report shows your drinking
water consistently met or surpassed all state and
federal drinking water standards.
Read the report at acwd.org/2025CCR or call
510-668-6500 to request a paper copy.

The ACWD Connection

SCHOOL IS BACK IN SESSION!
ACWD offers free water education resources for
Tri-City students, parents and teachers.

Available resources include:
ZunZun school assemblies
Worksheets, games and videos
Water education teacher training
• Activity books, materials and posters
Learn more: acwd.org/watereducation.
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Reading With a Water Hero | Events | Alameda County Library

CONTACT INFO
Contact: Reference Desk

Reading With a Water Hero

Telephone: (510) 745-1464 ext.
6
Email:
[email protected]

Thursday, August 13, 2026
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Union City
Community Meeting Room

Description
Join Alameda County Water District for a special story time at the Union
City Library designed for children ages 3–6 and their families! Discover
the wonder of water through an engaging story, fun activities, and a visit
from a water hero who helps our community learn about and care for
this precious resource. Children will explore the importance of water
while building curiosity, imagination, and a lifelong appreciation for the
role water plays in our lives and our community.
Library staff may take photos, videos, or audio recordings at our events.
Please tell us if you do not wish to be photographed, video-recorded, or
audio-recorded. We will always respect your requests.
An ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter or closed captioning can be
provided for this program if requested at least seven (7) days in advance.
For assistance, please contact your library or [email protected].
Suitable for: Kids
Preschoolers
Type: Storytime

UNION CITY
Address:
34007 Alvarado-Niles Road
Union City CA 94587
Main:
(510) 745-1464
Monday:

Closed
10:00 AM – 6:00
Tuesday:
PM
10:00 AM – 6:00
Wednesday:
PM
10:00 AM – 8:00
Thursday:
PM
12:00 PM – 6:00
Friday:
PM
10:00 AM – 5:00
Saturday:
PM
Sunday:
Closed
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Tuesday, August 11 and
Wednesday, August 12: Union
City Library will not have air
conditioning. Please dress
comfortably for the warm
temperature in the building.

Language: English
Room: Community Meeting Room

https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/6a56b47ef4e5db3d00c1c89c?_gl=1*fgi3er*_ga*MTc1NDU2MjUyNi4xNzg1OTc0NDcz*_ga_G99DMMNG39…

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This event is also offered on:
Reading With a Water Hero
Thursday, October 8, 2026 (10:30 AM – 11:15 AM)

https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/6a56b47ef4e5db3d00c1c89c?_gl=1*fgi3er*_ga*MTc1NDU2MjUyNi4xNzg1OTc0NDcz*_ga_G99DMMNG39…

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