On the agenda: Alameda County Water District meeting — data center (Feb 11)

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

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND COMMUNITY
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
AGENDA
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
4:15 p.m.
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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
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This agenda and all accompanying materials can be viewed on the Alameda County Water District
website at: www.acwd.org.

2/6/2026

1.

Public Comments

2.

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

3.

Public Outreach Update
Presenter: Sharene Gonzales, Public Affairs Supervisor

4.

Special Assistant to the General Manager’s Report
Presenter: Ed Stevenson, General Manager

5.

Website Redesign Update: Board Meetings and Board Member Pages
Presenter: Ed Stevenson, General Manager

2/6/2026

GOVERNMENT
RELATIONS
TO: Ed Stevenson, Alameda County Water District
FROM: JGC Government Relations, Inc. – Jonathan Clay & Erin Gilbert
RE: February Legislative Report
DATE: February 5, 2026
Since our last written report it has been relatively quiet for Sacramento…although I hestitate to
write that as who knows what can happen. The Director of Finance presented the Governor’s
budget with wildly different estimates than the LAO, as the Governor was simply noting the
risk of a potential stock market decline, and the LAO accounted for it in their estimates. As a
result, the Governor shows only a $3 billion deficit for the budget year and presented mostly a
place-holder budget with the real work to be presented in the May Revise when actual
numbers will be more closely known. State Revenues continue to come in much higher than
budget year projections.
The Assembly Democrats held a policy retreat this week where the number one topic of
discussion was rumored to be HR 1 and the financial impacts to the state, counties, hospitals,
and individuals. There has already been an Assembly informational hearing on this issue and a
Senate informational hearing is scheduled for March.
February 11th is the ACWA Legislative Symposium and Jonathan will be participating on a
legislative panel talking about the issues facing the legislature and the water community for
2026. Jonathan will also be talking about AB 35 and the work being done to attempt to get that
legislation through the Senate as soon as possible and to the Governor for signature in order to
get the funding out the door for the Prop 4 resources projects.
AI continues to be the elephant in the legislative room – from data centers and the resources
used to run those facilities, how to protect youth from AI, and how to protect jobs from being
eliminated by the use of AI are all being discussed. National and State labor leaders have called
on Governor Newsom to regulate AI and protect jobs, with State Labor Leaders saying that they
will run two dozen bills regulating AI in this year’s legislative session. Counter that with
significant amounts of money being raised and contributed by tech companies from Silicon
Valley to various PACs, lobbying efforts, and campaigns and the set up for a major political
battle is in place.
In terms of actually water policy, between the federal government approving the record of
decision on Sites Reservoir, the State Board holding its three days of hearings on the update to
the Bay Delta Plan, or the federal government calling back to Washington DC the seven basin
states to continue working on a Colorado River plan, there is lots of activity is happening in
water.
February 20th is the deadline to introduce bills for the second year of the session, but not much
has been introduced to date.
1100 K Street | Suite 100 | Sacramento, CA 95814 | ph 916.441.0202
[email protected] | [email protected]

Alameda County Water District Legislative Report
2/6/2026

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AB 34

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Patterson, R

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California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities: large
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01/27/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Summary:

The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires retail sellers and local
publicly owned electric utilities to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from
eligible renewable energy resources during certain compliance periods up to December
31, 2030. Current law provides that a local publicly owned electric utility is not required to
procure a certain amount of eligible renewable energy resources if, during a year within
those compliance periods, the local publicly owned electric utility receives more than 40%
of its retail sales from large hydroelectric generation under an ownership agreement or
contract in effect as of January 1, 2018. Current law authorizes the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to
establish appropriate multiyear compliance periods for local publicly owned electric utilities
beyond December 31, 2030. This bill would provide that the provision related to the
procurement of eligible renewable energy resources by local publicly owned electric
utilities also applies to the compliance periods established by the Energy
Commission. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)

Location:

01/27/2026 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
01/23/26 A Floor Analysis (text
01/05/26)

AB 35

Alvarez, D

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Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024:
Administrative Procedure Act: exemption: program guidelines and selection criteria.
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01/27/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Summary:

The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond
Act of 2024, approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide
general election, authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000
pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking
water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience,
extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart,
sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor
access, and clean air programs. Current law authorizes certain regulations needed to
effectuate or implement programs of the act to be adopted as emergency regulations in
accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, as provided. Current law requires the
emergency regulations to be filed with the Office of Administrative Law and requires the
emergency regulations to remain in effect until repealed or amended by the adopting state
agency. This bill, notwithstanding the above, would exempt the adoption of regulations
needed to effectuate or implement programs of the act from the requirements of the
Administrative Procedure Act, as provided. The bill would require a state entity that
receives funding to administer a competitive grant program established using the
Administrative Procedure Act exemption to do certain things, including develop draft
project solicitation and evaluation guidelines and to submit those guidelines to the
Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, except as provided. The bill would require the
Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to post an electronic form of the guidelines
submitted by a state entity and the subsequent verifications on the Natural Resources
Agency’s internet website. (Based on 01/14/2026 text)

Location:

01/27/2026 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

01/14/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Last Amend:

01/14/2026

Is Urgent:

Y

Is Fiscal:
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Y
01/23/26 A Floor Analysis (text
01/14/26)

AB 262

Caloza, D

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California Individual Assistance Act.
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Bill information

Status:

06/11/2025 - Referred to Com. on G.O.

Summary:

The California Disaster Assistance Act requires the Director of Emergency Services to
provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs,
and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred
as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified
criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its
subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to
fiscal year, for purposes of the act. This bill would enact the California Individual
Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community-based organizations, and
individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. The bill would require
the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the
cost of expenses for those purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)

Location:

06/11/2025 Senate Governmental
Organization

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/16/2025
Y

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/28/25 A Floor Analysis (text
05/23/25)

AB 465

Zbur, D

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05/23/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/23/2025

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Local public employees: memoranda of understanding.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act authorizes local public employees, as defined, to form, join,
and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the
purpose of representation on matters of labor relations and defines various terms for
these purposes. The act prohibits a public agency from, among other things, refusing or
failing to meet and negotiate in good faith with a recognized employee organization.
Current law states that the Legislature finds and declares that the duties and
responsibilities of local agency employer representatives under the act are substantially
similar to the duties and responsibilities required under existing collective bargaining
enforcement procedures and therefore the costs incurred by the local agency employer
representatives in performing those duties and responsibilities under that act are not
reimbursable as state-mandated costs. This bill would require, on or after January 1,

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2026, a memorandum of understanding between a public agency and a recognized
employee organization to include specified provisions including, among other things, a
provision providing for a system of progressive discipline that grants due process to an
employee when they are disciplined, upon the request of the recognized employee
organization. The bill would define “progressive discipline” and “due process” for this
purpose. (Based on 03/13/2025 text)
Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

03/13/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/06/2025
N

Last Amend:

03/13/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
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03/13/25)

AB 550

Petrie-Norris, D

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The California Endangered Species Act: take of species: renewable electrical generation facilities.
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07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was N.R. & W. on
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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 by permit if,
among other things, the impact of the authorized take is fully minimized and mitigated.
This bill would provide that if an at-risk species, as defined, 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
potential listing of the at-risk species was anticipated in a permit previously issued by the
department for incidental take caused by a renewable electrical generation facility. The bill
would authorize the department, in partnership with a permit applicant for an incidental
take caused by a renewable electrical generation facility, to develop a research project
that evaluates specified factors. The bill would authorize a research project reviewed and
approved by the department to contribute to a renewable electrical generation project’s
mitigation, as provided. (Based on 05/06/2025 text)

Location:

07/17/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

05/06/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/11/2025
N

Last Amend:

05/06/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/14/25 S Natural Resources
And Water (text 05/06/25)

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AB 569

Stefani, D

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California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: exceptions: supplemental defined benefit
plans.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) on and after
January 1, 2013, requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or
plans to comply with PEPRA, as specified. PEPRA prohibits a public employer from
offering a defined benefit pension plan exceeding specified retirement formulas, requires
new members of public retirement systems to contribute at least a specified amount of the
normal cost, as defined, for their defined benefit plans, and prohibits an enhancement of a
public employee’s retirement formula or benefit adopted after January 1, 2013, from
applying to service performed prior to the operative date of the enhancement. PEPRA
prohibits a public employer from offering a supplemental defined benefit plan if the public
employer did not do so before January 1, 2013, or, if it did, from offering that plan to an
additional employee group after that date. This bill would authorize a public employer, as
defined, to bargain over contributions for supplemental retirement benefits administered
by, or on behalf of, an exclusive bargaining representative of one or more of the public
employer’s bargaining units, subject to the limitations specified above. (Based on
04/24/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

04/24/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/12/2025

Last Amend:

04/24/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
05/19/25 - - - - - - - (text
04/24/25)

AB 637

Flora, R

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False or misleading commercial disaster communication.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law generally regulates the rules governing insurance and insurance contracts.
Current law prohibits a person from engaging in any trade practices that are defined as
unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the business of
insurance, including publicly making or dissimilating in a publication or advertising device,
among others, a statement containing an untrue, deceptive, or misleading statement
regarding the business of insurance, and makes a person who engages in those practices
liable to the state for a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 or $10,000, as specified. This bill
would authorize a court to increase a civil penalty by up to $2,500 for a commercial
disaster communication, as defined, that otherwise constitutes a violation of the abovedescribed provisions. (Based on 04/21/2025 text)

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01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD
02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 754

Connolly, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/21/2025 - Amended
04/21/2025

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Floating home marinas: rent caps: County of Marin.
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10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 498,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Floating Home Residency Law prescribes various terms and conditions on tenancies
in floating home marinas, as defined. Current law, until January 1, 2030, prohibits
management of a floating home marina located in the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa,
or Marin from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy for a floating home berth in a
floating home marina more than 3% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, or
5%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for a tenancy at any time
during the 12 months prior to the effective date of the increase. Current law prohibits
management of a floating home marina from increasing the rent of a new homeowner that
purchases a floating home in the marina if the purchase qualifies as an in-place transfer,
as defined. This bill would, until January 1, 2038, prohibit management of a floating home
marina located in the County of Marin from increasing the above-described rent more than
the percent change in the cost of living, as specified, over the course of any 12-month
period. The bill would require management to provide notice of any rental rate increases
to each homeowner, as specified. The bill would specify that its provisions apply to rent
increases for a tenancy in a floating home marina occurring on or after July 1, 2025. The
bill would provide that in the event that management increases the rent by more than the

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amount specified above between July 1, 2025, and January 1, 2026, then the applicable
rent on January 1, 2026, is the rent as of July 1, 2025, plus the maximum permissible
increase, and that management is not liable to the homeowner for any corresponding rent
overpayment. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
Location:

10/10/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/18/2025

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Current Analysis:

09/08/25 A Floor Analysis (text
06/12/25)

AB 777

Rodriguez, Celeste, D

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

06/12/2025

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Food assistance: disasters: utilities.
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10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 709,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance
benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible
individuals by each county. Current federal law, through the federal Disaster Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP), provides for short-term food assistance benefits
to families suffering in the wake of a major disaster. Current law requires the State
Department of Social Services and the county human services agency, if the President of
the United States issues a major disaster declaration for individual assistance, to request
to operate D-SNAP for the regions affected by the major disaster. Current uncodified law,
in the event of a declaration by the Governor or the President of the United States of a
major disaster, continuously appropriates to the department from the General Fund an
amount necessary to cover specified costs relating to the administration of disaster food
assistance services, but not to exceed $300,000 per disaster declaration. Current law
vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities,
including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the
direction of their governing boards. Under current law, a violation of any order, decision,
rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. This bill would
authorize the commission and the governing boards of local publicly owned electric
utilities to establish any memoranda of understanding or other agreements necessary to
direct electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities to timely provide
data to the department to maximize food assistance, as provided. The bill would require
electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities to make a reasonable
effort to provide aggregated customer outage data, for outages of 4 hours or longer, within

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7 calendar days of a request from the department, as specified. (Based on 10/13/2025
text)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

Location:

10/13/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/18/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 789

Bonta, D

10/13/2025 - Chaptered
09/05/2025

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Political Reform Act of 1974: security expenses.
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10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 621,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Political Reform Act of 1974 authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign
funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a
home or office electronic security system or for another tangible item related to security,
and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer,
or the immediate family or staff of a candidate or elected officer, provided that the threat or
potential threat to safety arises from the candidate’s or elected officer’s activities, duties,
or status as a candidate or elected officer or from staff’s position as staff of the candidate
or elected officer. The act permits a candidate or elected officer to expend a maximum of
$10,000 of campaign funds for these purposes during their lifetime. This bill would
eliminate that monetary cap until January 1, 2029. Beginning January 1, 2029, the bill
would instead permit a candidate or elected officer to expend a maximum of $10,000 of
campaign funds for these purposes per calendar year. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

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Is Urgent:

02/18/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

09/12/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/03/25)

AB 883

Lowenthal, D

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10/11/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/03/2025

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Elected officials and judges.

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01/27/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Summary:

Current 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. Current 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. This bill would require the
Secretary of State to provide to the agency a list of all state or local elected officials that, if
available, includes each official’s personal information, as specified, would require the
Judicial Council to provide the agency with a list of all California judges, and would require
the agency to allow elected officials or a judges to remove their information from those
lists, as prescribed. The bill would require the lists to be kept confidential, as specified.
The bill would also require the agency to upload the lists to the accessible deletion
mechanism described above and would require an entity receiving a notification that a
deletion is required to do so within 5 days. (Based on 01/07/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

01/27/2026 - Senate Rules
02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

01/23/26 A Floor Analysis (text
01/07/26)

AB 929

Connolly, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

01/07/2026 - Amended
01/07/2026

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Sustainable groundwater management: managed wetlands.
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Status:

09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
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:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

06/26/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Last Amend:

06/26/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
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Y
09/09/25 S Floor Analyses (text
06/26/25)

AB 1004

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Tribal financial information: public records: exemption.
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09/26/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 132,
Statutes of 2025.
The California Public Records Act requires each state and local agency, as defined, to
make its records open to public inspection at all times during office hours, except as
specifically exempted from disclosure by law. This bill would make any record that
contains financial information provided by an Indian tribe to a state or local agency, as a
condition of or requirement for receiving financial assistance to be confidential, not a
public record, and not open to public inspection. The bill would require each state or local
agency agreement or contract with an Indian tribe related to financial assistance to
contain a provision stating that any financial information disclosed pursuant to the
agreement or contract shall remain confidential, shall not be a public record, and shall not
be open to public inspection. (Based on 09/26/2025 text)
09/26/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

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02/20/2025

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Current Analysis:

09/04/25 A Floor Analysis (text
08/19/25)

Current Text:

09/26/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

08/19/2025

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AB 1067

Quirk-Silva, D

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Public employees’ retirement: felony convictions.
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10/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 388,
Statutes of 2025.
The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 requires a public employee
who is convicted of any state or federal felony for conduct arising out of, or in the
performance of, the public employee’s official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment,
or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other
benefits, to forfeit all accrued rights and benefits in any public retirement system from the
earliest date of the commission of the felony to the date of conviction, and prohibits the
public employee from accruing further benefits in that public retirement system. Current
law defines “public employee” for purposes of these provisions to mean an officer,
including one who is elected or appointed, or an employee of a public employer. Current
law also requires an elected public officer, who takes public office, or is reelected to public
office, on or after January 1, 2006, and who is convicted during or after holding office of
any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement
of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of
those crimes arising directly out of their official duties as an elected public officer, to forfeit
all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which
they are a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as provided. This bill would
require a public employer that is investigating a public employee for misconduct arising
out of or in the performance of, the public employee’s official duties in pursuit of the office
or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service
retirement, or other benefits, to continue the investigation even if the public employee
retires while under investigation, if the investigation indicates that the public employee
may have committed a crime. The bill would require a public employer, if the investigation
indicates that the public employee may have committed a crime, to refer the matter to the
appropriate law enforcement agency and would then authorize the public employer to
close the investigation. (Based on 10/06/2025 text)

Summary:

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10/06/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

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Current Analysis:

09/04/25 A Floor Analysis (text
07/15/25)

AB 1221

Bryan, D

Current Text:

10/06/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/15/2025

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Workplace surveillance tools.

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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Would generally regulate the use of workplace surveillance tools and an employer’s use of
worker data. The bill would, among other things, require an employer, at least 30 days
before introducing a workplace surveillance tool, to provide a worker who will be affected
a written notice that includes, among other things, a description of the worker data to be
collected, the intended purpose of the workplace surveillance tool, and how this form of
worker surveillance is necessary to meet that purpose. The bill would define “employer” to
include public employers, as specified. The bill would prohibit an employer from
transferring, selling, disclosing, or licensing worker data to a vendor, unless the vendor is
under contract to analyze or interpret the worker data and the contract includes certain
terms. The bill would prohibit an employer from using certain workplace surveillance tools,
including a workplace surveillance tool that incorporates facial, gait, or emotion
recognition technology, except as specified. The bill would also prohibit an employer from
using a workplace surveillance tool to infer specified categories of information about a
worker, including, among others, their immigration status, veteran status, ancestral history,
religious or political beliefs, disability status, criminal record, or credit history. The 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 $500 for
each violation. The bill would define various terms for purposes of its provisions. (Based
on 05/06/2025 text)

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01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD
02/21/2025

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N

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Y

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A Appropriations
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05/06/25)

AB 1313

Papan, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

05/06/2025 - Amended
05/06/2025

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Water quality: permits.
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Bill information

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02/02/2026 - Died on inactive file.

Summary:

Under current law, 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 federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program established by the federal Clean Water Act and the
Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Current law requires each regional board to
formulate and adopt water quality control plans for all areas within the region, as provided.
The bill would require the state board, after making the necessary residual designation
authority findings, to establish a statewide commercial, industrial, and institutional NPDES
order for properties with 5 acres or more of impervious surface, as provided. The bill
would require the state board to publish a draft order of the statewide order for public
comment on or before December 31, 2028, or 18 months after the reissuance of a
specified statewide permit, as specified. The bill would require the state board to
contemporaneously establish rules for offsite compliance agreements to issue with the
publication of the draft statewide order for public comment that details the necessary
components of an agreement between commercial, industrial, and institutional permittees
and local municipalities for achieving offsite stormwater capture and use within the
adopted final statewide commercial, industrial, and institutional NPDES order. (Based on
05/27/2025 text)

Location:

02/02/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

05/27/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025

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05/27/2025

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05/28/25 A Floor Analysis (text
03/24/25)

AB 1319

Schultz, D

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Protected species: California Endangered Species Act.
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10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 638,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Existing law makes it unlawful to take a bird, mammal, fish, reptile, or amphibian, except
as authorized by law. This bill would make it unlawful for a person in California to import,
cause to be imported, export, cause to be exported, transport, sell, offer for sale, possess
with the intent to sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish, wildlife, or plant that was
taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law or statute of any state or any
law, treaty, or statute of the United States with regard to fish, wildlife, or plants in effect on

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January 19, 2025. The bill would, upon conviction or other entry of judgment, require any
seized evidence be forfeited, as specified. The bill would make these provisions
inoperative on December 31, 2031, and would repeal them on January 1, 2032. This bill
contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)
Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/21/2025

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Current Analysis:

09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 1326

Ahrens, D

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/05/2025

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Health masks: right to wear.
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01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.
Current law sets forth various provisions on the wearing of a mask for health purposes.
These circumstances include, among others, a statewide stockpile of personal protective
equipment (PPE) in the event of a pandemic, wildfire smoke event, or other health
emergency; employer-supplied PPE to employees who provide direct patient care in a
general acute care hospital; employees of commercial cannabis businesses wearing a
mask for respiration; and providing peace officers with an appropriate portable manual
mask and airway assembly for use when applying cardiopulmonary resuscitation to
prevent the spread of communicable disease. Under this bill, an individual would have the
right to wear a health mask on their face in a public place for the purpose of protecting
their individual health or the public health, with regard to communicable disease, air
quality, or other health factors. The bill would define a health mask and a public place for
purposes of this provision. (Based on 09/11/2025 text)

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10/11/2025 Assembly VETOED
02/21/2025

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N

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N

Current Analysis:

10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/11/25)

AB 1331

Elhawary, D

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Vetoed

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

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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 employeeonly, 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:

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09/13/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

09/04/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Last Amend:

09/04/2025

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09/08/25 S Floor Analyses (text
09/04/25)

AB 1410

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Utilities: service outages and updates: alerts.
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10/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 396,
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Summary:

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public
utilities, including electrical corporations, gas corporations, and water corporations, while
local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. If
the commission finds after a hearing that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances,
facilities, or service of any public utility, or the methods of manufacture, distribution,
transmission, storage, or supply employed by the public utility, are unjust, unreasonable,
unsafe, improper, inadequate, or insufficient, the Public Utilities Act requires the
commission to determine and, by order or rule, fix the rules, practices, equipment,
appliances, facilities, service, or methods to be observed, furnished, constructed,
enforced, or employed. This bill would require, except as provided, each electrical
corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, or local publicly owned electric utility, on
or before March 1, 2026, to automatically enroll its customers in alerts for service outages
and updates. The bill would require customers to be provided with the opportunity to optout of any alerts they do not wish to receive, except as provided. The bill would require
each of those utilities to annually provide information on customers’ bills on how to update
their preferred contact methods and to allow customers to update their contact information
on the utility’s internet website or, if feasible, by telephone. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/06/2025 text)

Location:

10/06/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/21/2025

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N

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Y
09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 1425

Arambula, D

Current Text:

10/06/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/05/2025

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San Joaquin River Parkway: pit dewatering.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
The Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975 prohibits a person, with exceptions, from
conducting surface mining operations unless, among other things, a permit is obtained
from, a specified reclamation plan is submitted to and approved by, and financial
assurances for reclamation have been approved by the lead agency for the operation of
the surface mining operation. This bill would prohibit pit dewatering, as defined, in areas
with subsurface river flow or groundwater levels shallower than 50 feet below ground
anywhere within the San Joaquin River Parkway, as defined. (Based on 03/28/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

03/28/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Last Amend:

03/28/2025

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Y

Current Analysis:

04/25/25 A Natural Resources
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AB 1530

Committee on Emergency Management

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California Disaster Assistance Act.
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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:

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

Current Text:

05/23/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

03/26/2025

Last Amend:

05/23/2025

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N

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S Appropriations
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05/23/25)

AB 1577

Bauer-Kahan, D

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Data centers: monthly reporting.
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01/13/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.

Summary:

Current 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. Current 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 on a monthly basis,
including, among other information, the data center’s power usage effectiveness, as
defined, water usage effectiveness, as defined, and total water consumption 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, as part of the 2029 edition of the integrated energy policy report,
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 01/12/2026 text)

Location:

01/12/2026 - Assembly PRINT

Introduced:

01/12/2026

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N

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Y

AB 1578

Jackson, D

Current Text:

01/12/2026 - Introduced

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State and local officials: antihate speech training.
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01/13/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
Current law requires each state agency to offer at least semiannually, and certain state
officials to attend once every 2 years, an orientation course on the relevant ethics statutes
and regulations that govern the official conduct of state officials. Current law requires each
state agency to maintain records indicating the specific attendees, each attendee’s job
title, and dates of their attendance for each orientation course offered for a period of not
less than 5 years after each course is given. This bill would require, beginning on January
1, 2028, a state official to complete at least one hour of antihate speech training and
education within 6 months of taking office and subsequently every 4 years
thereafter. (Based on 01/12/2026 text)

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01/12/2026 - Assembly PRINT
01/12/2026

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01/12/2026 - Introduced

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AB 1622

Rubio, Blanca, D

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01/23/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
Current law, until January 1, 2028, authorizes an owner of real property to install and
operate on their property an electrified security fence that is powered by an electrical
energizer, driven by solar-charged batteries of no more than 12 volts of direct current, and
used to protect and secure manufacturing or industrial property, or property zoned under
another designation, but legally authorized to be used for a commercial purpose that
stores, parks, services, sells, or rents vehicles or other materials, subject to specified
conditions. Current law prohibits a city, county, or city and county from prohibiting or
conditioning the installation of an electrified security fence, as described above, except for
requiring an administrative permit to confirm a fence abutting a property in residential use,
or within 300 feet of a public park, childcare facility, recreation center, community center,
or school facility, meets certain requirements. Current law repeals these provisions on
January 1, 2028. Current law, starting January 1, 2028, authorizes an owner of real
property to install and operate on their property an electrified security fence that is
powered by an electrical energizer, and used to protect and secure commercial,
manufacturing, or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but
legally authorized to be used for a commercial, manufacturing, or industrial purpose,
subject to specified conditions and subject to prohibitions imposed by a city, county, or city
and county through a local ordinance. This bill would indefinitely extend the operation of
the electrified security fence provisions subject to repeal on January 1, 2028, and would
repeal the provisions that become operative on January 1, 2028. (Based on 01/22/2026
text)

Location:

01/22/2026 - Assembly PRINT

Introduced:

01/22/2026

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AB 1692

Pacheco, D

Current Text:

01/22/2026 - Introduced

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02/04/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.

Summary:

The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act
establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and
vests the commission with the authority to, among other things, adopt building design and
construction standards and energy and water conservation standards for new residential
and nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or
unnecessary consumption of energy, including energy associated with the use of water.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision naming the act. (Based on
02/03/2026 text)

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02/03/2026 - Assembly PRINT

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02/03/2026

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ACA 11

Macedo, R

Current Text:

02/03/2026 - Introduced

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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

Introduced:

03/24/2025

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03/24/2025 - Introduced

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ACA 12

Wallis, R

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Road usage charges: vote and voter approval requirements.
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03/27/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee April 26.

Summary:

The California Constitution requires any change in state statute that increases the tax
liability of any taxpayer to be imposed by an act passed by 2/3 of the membership of each
house of the Legislature and prohibits specified taxes on real property from being so
imposed. For these purposes, the California Constitution defines a “tax” as any state levy,
charge, or exaction, except as described in certain exceptions. The California Constitution
describes one of those exceptions as a charge imposed for entrance to or use of state
property, or the purchase, rental, or lease of state property, except charges governed by a
specified provision of the California Constitution. This measure, on or after its effective
date, would provide that the exception described above does not include a road usage
charge, as described, thereby requiring the imposition of this type of charge to be subject
to the 2/3 vote requirement. (Based on 03/26/2025 text)

Location:

03/26/2025 - Assembly PRINT

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03/26/2025

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SB 33

Cortese, D

Current Text:

03/26/2025 - Introduced

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Status:

01/26/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In
Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Summary:

Current law prescribes various requirements regarding the formation, content, and
enforcement of state and local public contracts. Current law establishes, until January 1,
2027, for contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2017, a claim resolution process
applicable to any claim by a contractor in connection with a public works project against a
public entity, as specified. For purposes of these provisions, current law defines “public
entity” to include, among others, a city, including a charter city, and county, including a
charter county. Current law imposes various requirements on a public entity in relating to
the claim resolution process, including, among other things, conducting a reasonable
review of the claim and, within 45 days, providing the claimant a written statement
identifying the disputed and undisputed portions of the claim. This bill would repeal the
above-described January 1, 2027, repeal date, thereby extending the operation of these
provisions indefinitely. By indefinitely extending the duties of local agencies in relation to
the above-specified claim resolution process, this bill would impose a state-mandated
local program. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)

Location:

01/26/2026 - Assembly DESK

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

01/21/26 S Floor Analyses (text
01/05/26)

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SB 238

Smallwood-Cuevas, D

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Workplace surveillance tools.
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07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was P. & C.P. on
6/26/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Would require an employer to annually provide a notice to the Department of Industrial
Relations of all the workplace surveillance tools the employer is using in the workplace.
The bill would require the notice to include, among other information, the personal
information that will be collected from workers and consumers and whether they will have
the option of opting out of the collection of personal information. The bill would require the
department to make the notice publicly available on the department’s internet website
within 30 days of receiving the notice. The bill would define “employer” to include, among
other entities, public employers, as specified. (Based on 05/01/2025 text)

Location:

07/17/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

05/01/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

01/29/2025 (Spot bill)

Last Amend:

05/01/2025

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N

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Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/14/25 A Privacy And
Consumer Protection (text
05/01/25)

SB 280

Cervantes, D

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Elections.
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08/21/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 97, Statutes of 2025

Summary:

Current law authorizes a candidate for elective office to submit a petition containing a
specified number of signatures in lieu of all or part of the fee for filing nomination papers.
Current law requires the Secretary of State to make forms for securing signatures
available to each candidate commencing 60 days before the first day for circulating
nomination papers, except as specified, and requires candidates to file in-lieu-filing-fee
petitions at least 30 days before the close of the nomination period. This bill, for the June
2, 2026, statewide direct primary election, would require the Secretary of State to make
those forms available beginning December 19, 2025. (Based on 08/21/2025 text)

Location:

08/21/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/05/2025

Is Urgent:

Y

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Y

Current Analysis:

08/21/25 S Floor Analyses (text
08/18/25)

SB 420

Padilla, D

Current Text:

08/21/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

08/18/2025

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Automated decision systems.
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Bill information

Status:

07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was P. & C.P. on
6/9/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

The California AI Transparency Act requires a covered provider, as defined, of a
generative artificial intelligence system to make available an AI detection tool at no cost to
the user that meets certain criteria, including that the tool outputs any system provenance
data, as defined, that is detected in the content. The California Consumer Privacy Act of
2018 grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is
collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that
sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or
share the consumer’s personal information, as specified. This bill would generally regulate
a developer or a deployer of a high-risk automated decision system, as defined, including
by requiring a developer or a deployer to perform an impact assessment on the high-risk
automated decision system before making it publicly available or deploying it, as
prescribed. The bill would require a state agency to require a developer of a high-risk
automated decision system deployed by the state agency to provide to the state agency a
copy of the impact assessment and would require the state agency to keep that impact
assessment confidential. The bill would also require a developer to provide to the Attorney
General or Civil Rights Department, within 30 days of a request from the Attorney General
or the Civil Rights Department, a copy of an impact assessment and would require the
impact assessment to be kept confidential. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)

Location:

07/17/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

05/23/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/18/2025 (Spot bill)

Last Amend:

05/23/2025

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N

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Y
05/27/25 S Floor Analyses (text
05/23/25)

SB 425

Rubio, D

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Bonds: public entities as beneficiaries.
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02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Bond and Undertaking Law prescribes procedures for a bond or undertaking that is
executed, filed, posted, furnished, or otherwise given as a security pursuant to any
statute, except as specified. Unless a statute providing for a bond indicates that the bond
becomes effective at a different time, a bond is effective at the time it is given or, if the
statute requires that the bond be approved, at the time it is approved. This bill would
specify that if a statute provides for a bond to be given to or in favor of a beneficiary that is
a public entity, as defined, in connection with the purchase, construction, expansion,
improvement, or rehabilitation of any real or other tangible personal property, that bond is
not effective unless the beneficiary agrees to (1) make all payments to the principal, or to

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the surety if the surety agrees to complete the work upon the principal’s default, and (2)
perform all necessary obligations owed to the principal under the contract for the
work. (Based on 03/26/2025 text)
Location:

01/15/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/26/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/18/2025

Last Amend:

03/26/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

04/25/25 S Judiciary (text
03/26/25)

SB 466

Caballero, D

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Drinking water: primary standard for hexavalent chromium: exemption.
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10/03/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 320,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The California Safe Drinking Water Act requires the State Water Resources Control Board
to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon
specified criteria and requires a primary drinking water standard to be established for
hexavalent chromium. Current law authorizes the state board to grant a variance from
primary drinking water standards to a public water system. This bill would prohibit a public
water system that meets the total chromium maximum contaminant level (MCL)
enforceable standard for drinking water in California from being determined, held,
considered, or otherwise deemed in violation of the primary drinking water standard for
hexavalent chromium while implementing a state board approved compliance plan or
while state board action on the proposed and submitted compliance plan is pending,
except as provided. (Based on 10/03/2025 text)

Location:

10/03/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/03/25 S Floor Analyses (text
08/25/25)

SB 482

Weber Pierson, D

Current Text:

10/03/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

08/25/2025

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Roster of public officials: local government.

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10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 762,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Would require, no more than 120 days after each general election, the governing body of
each city, county, or city and county, or their delegated local entity, to submit to the
Secretary of State an updated list of local elected or appointed officials for publication in
the above-specified roster, as prescribed. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)

Location:

10/13/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/19/2025 (Spot bill)
N

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Y

Current Analysis:

09/09/25 S Floor Analyses (text
06/23/25)

SB 521

Gonzalez, D

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Current Text:

10/13/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

06/23/2025

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Public employment: disqualification.
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07/30/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 92, Statutes of 2025

Summary:

Current law disqualifies a public employee, as defined, from any public employment for 5
years if the employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to
give, a bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money,
perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official
duties. This bill would expand that provision to include any felony involving a conflict of
interest. The bill would also disqualify a city manager or city attorney, as defined, including
an individual acting under contract with the city for those services, who is convicted of any
of the above-described felonies, from any future public employment in an equivalent
role. (Based on 07/30/2025 text)

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Location:

07/30/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:
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02/19/2025
N

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Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
06/30/25 - - - - - - - (text
04/24/25)

SB 601

Allen, D

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07/30/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

04/24/2025

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Water: waste discharge.
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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:

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 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)

Location:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

07/10/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

07/10/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/18/25 A Appropriations (text
07/10/25)

SB 625

Wahab, D

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Housing developments: disasters: reconstruction of destroyed or damaged structures.
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10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 548,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act governs the management and
operation of common interest developments. Current law makes any covenant, restriction,
or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument
affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a planned development, and any provision
of a governing document, that either effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the
construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot
zoned for single-family residential use, as specified, void and unenforceable. If the
governing documents require association approval before a member may make a physical
change to the member’s separate interest or to the common area, current law requires an
association to satisfy specified requirements, including to provide a fair, reasonable, and
expeditious procedure for making its decision in reviewing and approving or disapproving
a proposed physical change, as described above. This bill would make any covenant,
restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other
instrument, and any provision of a governing document, void and unenforceable to the
extent that it prohibits, or includes conditions that have the effect of prohibiting, a
substantially similar reconstruction of a residential structure, as specified, that was
destroyed or damaged in a disaster, as defined. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2025 (Spot bill)
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

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SB 730

Hurtado, D

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10/10/2025 - Chaptered

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09/02/2025

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Product safety: consumer products: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
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Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Would, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering
for sale artificial turf, carpets or rugs, cleaning products, cookware, dental floss, fabric
treatments, or upholstered furniture that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and
polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as defined. The bill would authorize the department to
adopt regulations to designate additional consumer product categories to prohibit the
distribution, selling, or offering for sale of consumer products containing intentionally
added PFAS within those consumer product categories if the department determines that
safer alternatives, as defined, are readily available at comparable costs. The bill would
prohibit the department from adopting a regulation that prohibits a consumer product
containing intentionally added PFAS from distribution, sale, or offering for sale on or
before 18 months after the regulation is adopted. The bill would define “product” for
purposes of these provisions to not include, among other things, used products offered for
sale, federally approved drugs or medical devices, or products containing fluoropolymers,
as specified. (Based on 03/26/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/26/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Last Amend:

03/26/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

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Y

Current Analysis:

04/21/25 S Environmental
Quality (text 03/26/25)

SB 827

Gonzalez, D

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Local agency officials: training.
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10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 661,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law imposes ethics training on specified local agency officials. Current law
requires each training to be 2 hours and requires the officials to receive each training
every 2 years, and as described otherwise, with the first training within one year of
commencing service. Existing law requires the local agency to maintain records of the
trainings, as prescribed. This bill would expand which local agency officials are required to
complete the above-described ethics training to include department heads, or other similar
administrative officers, as specified, and would instead require officials who commence
service on or after January 1, 2026, to receive their initial training within 6 months of
commencing service. The bill would require the local agency to publish post clear
instructions and contact information for requesting the training records on its internet
website, as specified. This bill would additionally require all local agency officials, as
defined, to receive at least 2 hours of fiscal and financial training, as described. The bill
would require the training to be received at least once every 2 years, as provided. The bill
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compliance with existing education requirements specific to their positions. This bill would
authorize a local agency or an association of local agencies to contract with or otherwise
collaborate with a provider of a training course to offer one or more training courses, or
sets of self-study materials with tests, to its local agency officials to meet the training
requirement, as described. The bill would require the training courses and materials to be
developed in consultation with experts in local government finance. finance, as
specified. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

Location:

10/11/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/21/2025

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/08/25 S Floor Analyses (text
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SB 833

McNerney, D

10/11/2025 - Chaptered
09/02/2025

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Critical infrastructure: artificial intelligence systems: human oversight.
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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:

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 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:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

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Last Amend:

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02/21/2025 (Spot bill)

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N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

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

SB 858

Committee on Local Government

07/17/2025

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Local Government Omnibus Act of 2025.
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10/01/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 242,
Statutes of 2025.
Current law authorizes a county board of supervisors, by resolution, to authorize the use
of a facsimile signature of the chairperson of the board on all papers, documents, or
instruments requiring the signature of the chairperson, as provided, if certain requirements
are met relating to the personal signature of the chairperson. Under current law, if those
requirements are met, the papers, documents, or instruments bearing the facsimile
signature are accorded the same force and effect as though personally signed by the
chairperson. This bill would remove the requirement for that authorization to occur by
resolution of the board. The bill would authorize the board, in addition to authorizing a
facsimile signature, to authorize the use of an electronic or digital signature of the
chairperson on all papers, documents, or instruments requiring the signature of the
chairperson. (Based on 10/01/2025 text)

Summary:

Location:

10/01/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

03/12/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

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N

Current Analysis:

08/25/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/08/25)

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SB 872

McNerney, D

Current Text:

10/01/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/08/2025

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Department of Water Resources: supervision of dams and reservoirs.
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01/07/2026 - From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 6.

Summary:

Current law prohibits the construction of any new dam or reservoir or the enlargement of
any new dam or reservoir until the owner has applied for and obtained from the
Department of Water Resources written approval of plans and specifications. Current law
authorizes the department, in connection with approving a dam or reservoir, to require
certain data, investigations, reports, and any other appropriate information as may be
necessary. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in these provisions. (Based on
01/06/2026 text)

Location:
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01/06/2026 - Senate Rules
01/06/2026

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N

SB 910

Current Text:

01/06/2026 - Introduced

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Seyarto, R

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Municipal water districts: water service: Indian lands.
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Summary:

01/27/2026 - From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
The Municipal Water District Law of 1911 provides for the formation of municipal water
districts and grants to those districts specified powers. Current law permits a district to
acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and
salvage any water for the beneficial use of the district, its inhabitants, or the owners of
rights to water in the district. Current law, upon the request of certain Indian tribes and the
satisfaction of certain conditions, requires a district to provide service of water at
substantially the same terms applicable to the customers of the district to the Indian tribe’s
lands that are not within a district, as prescribed. Current law also authorizes a district,
until January 1, 2027, under specified circumstances, to apply to the applicable local
agency formation commission to provide this service of water to Indian lands, as defined,
that are not within the district and requires the local agency formation commission to
approve that application. This bill would extend the above provisions regarding the
application to the applicable local agency formation commission to January 1,
2032. (Based on 01/26/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

01/26/2026 - Senate Rules
01/26/2026

Current Text:

01/26/2026 - Introduced

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N

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ACWD - Board/Gov

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AB 293

Bennett, D

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Groundwater sustainability agency: transparency.
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Resources

Bill information

Status:

10/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to be developed and implemented
for each medium- or high-priority basin by a groundwater sustainability agency. Current
law authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater
basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin, as provided.
Current law requires members of the board of directors and the executive, as defined, of a
groundwater sustainability agency to file statements of economic interests with the Fair
Political Practices Commission using the commission’s online system for filing statements
of economic interests. This bill would require each groundwater sustainability agency to
publish the membership of its board of directors on its internet website, or on the local
agency’s internet website, as provided. The bill would also require each groundwater
sustainability agency to publish a link on its internet website or its local agency’s internet
website to the location on the Fair Political Practices Commission’s internet website where
the statements of economic interests, filed by the members of the board and executives of
the agency, can be viewed. (Based on 10/06/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

10/06/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED
01/22/2025

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N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/11/25 S Floor Analyses (text
01/22/25)

AB 905

Pacheco, D

Current Text:

10/06/2025 - Chaptered

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State general obligation bonds: disclosure requirements.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The State General Obligation Bond Law generally sets forth the procedures for the
issuance and sale of bonds governed by its provisions and for the disbursal of the
proceeds of the sale of those bonds. Current law requires any state bond measure
approved on or after January 1, 2004, to be subject to an annual reporting process, with
the head of the lead state agency administering the bond proceeds reporting certain
information about the projects being funded to the Legislature and the Department of
Finance. Current law allows this information to be provided on the agency’s internet
website or the state’s open data portal under certain circumstances. This bill would require
a bond act for any state general obligation bond measure that is approved by voters on
and after January 1, 2026, to include specified information about the objectives of the
bond expenditure and related data. The bill would also require the head of the lead state
agency administering the bond to post on its internet website a notification that contains,
among other information, details about the programs and projects authorized to be funded
by the bond. (Based on 03/28/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD
02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
05/12/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/28/25)

SB 430

Cabaldon, D

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Last Amend:

03/28/2025 - Amended
03/28/2025

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02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law establishes the Government Operations Agency (GovOps), and establishes
within the agency the Department of Technology. Current law requires the Department of
Technology to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems

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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, for these purposes, an
“automated decision system” as, among other things, a computational process that is
used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts
natural persons. Current law authorizes local agencies, including cities and counties, to
provide welfare, employment, and other public social services. Current law also authorizes
the legislative body of any county or city, pursuant to specified procedures, 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. This bill would
impose certain restrictions on the use of an automated decision system by a local agency
to confer supportive services, permits, or licenses, as specified. Among those restrictions,
the bill would include a prohibition on using an output from the system as the sole basis
for an adverse eligibility or benefit determination affecting a natural person, except as
specified. The bill would require the local agency to verify the accuracy of the system’s
outputs and to promote nondiscrimination in its use, as specified. The bill would require
the local agency’s governing board to provide audits or other quality control review of the
outputs, as specified, to assure acceptable accuracy. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
Location:

01/15/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

02/18/2025 (Spot bill)

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 598

Durazo, D

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Public contracts: local water infrastructure projects: Construction Manager/General Contractor project
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Summary:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 655,
Statutes of 2025.
Current law defines the Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method
(CM/GC method) as a project delivery method in which a construction manager is
procured to provide preconstruction services during the design phase of a project and
construction services during the construction phase of the project. Under current law, the
method allows the contract for construction services to be entered into at the same time
as the contract for preconstruction services or at a later time. Current law authorizes the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to utilize the CM/GC method for regional
recycled water projects or other water infrastructure projects under specified conditions.
Pursuant to existing law, certain information required to be submitted as part of the
CM/GC method is required to be verified under oath. Current law makes the provisions
described above pertaining to the CM/GC method effective only until January 1, 2028, and

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inoperative as of that date. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, authorize a local agency,
as defined, upon approval of its governing body, to similarly use the CM/GC method for a
regional recycled water project or other water infrastructure project undertaken by the
district to alleviate water supply shortages attributable to drought or climate change. The
bill would require that authorization to apply to no more than 15 capital outlay projects for
each local agency and would require a local agency to award a contract pursuant to the
bill on a best value basis or to the lowest responsible bidder. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

Location:

10/11/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/25/25 S Floor Analyses (text
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10/11/2025 - Chaptered
07/07/2025

ACWD - Capital Projects
AB 830

Rogers, D

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01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue written permits to,
among other things, place, change, or renew an encroachment. Current law requires a
permit issued to a county, city, public corporation, or political subdivision that is authorized
by law to establish or maintain any works or facilities in, under, or over any public highway,
to contain a provision that, in the event the future improvement of the highway
necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment, the permittee will relocate or
remove the encroachment at the permittee’s sole expense, as provided. This bill would,
until January 1, 2031, exempt a public utility district in the County of Mendocino with a
ratepayer base of 5,000 households or fewer from the above-described provision and
instead would require the department to bear the sole expense of relocating or removing
the public utility district’s encroachment in the event a future improvement of the highway
necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment and to notify the public utility
district at each stage of a project that necessitates the relocation or removal of the public
utility district’s encroachment. (Based on 09/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/03/2025 Assembly VETOED

Current Text:

10/03/2025 - Vetoed

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

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Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/10/25)

AB 889

Hadwick, R

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Prevailing wage: per diem wages.
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Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 626,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law requires workers employed on public works to be paid not less than the
general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality that
the public work is performed, as prescribed, unless an exception applies. Current law
requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to determine 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. Under current law, per diem wages include certain
employer payments made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or for a program
or committee established under the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978,
as specified. Current law provides that these payments are a credit against the obligation
to pay the general prevailing rate of per diem wages. Current law requires the credit for
employer payments to be computed on an annualized basis where the employer seeks
credit for employer payments that are higher for public works projects than for private
construction performed by the same employer, except under certain circumstances,
including a determination by the director that annualization would not serve the purposes
of the provisions relating to public works projects. This bill would remove that exception
and revoke annualization exemptions authorized by the director prior to January 1, 2026.
The bill would authorize an employer to take full credit for the hourly amounts contributed
to defined contribution pension plans that provide for both immediate participation and
essentially immediate vesting even if the employer contributes at a lower rate or does not
make contributions to private construction. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/19/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/05/2025

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AB 975

Gallagher, R

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Lake and streambed alteration agreements: exemptions: culverts and bridges.
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01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

Current law prohibits a person, a state or local governmental agency, or a public utility
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
depositing or disposing of debris, waste, or other material containing crumbled, flaked, or
ground pavement where it may pass into any river, stream, or lake, unless prescribed
requirements are met, including written notification to the Department of Fish and Wildlife
regarding the activity. Current law requires the department to determine whether the
activity may substantially adversely affect an existing fish and wildlife resource and, if so,
to provide a draft lake or streambed alteration agreement to the person, agency, or utility.
Current law prescribes various requirements for lake and streambed alteration
agreements. Existing law also establishes various exemptions from these provisions. This
bill would, until January 1, 2027, exempt from these provisions, subject to certain
requirements, projects to repair or reconstruct a bridge 30 feet long or less or a culvert 70
feet long or less within the County of Sutter that has been damaged or destroyed as a
result of fire, flood, storm, earthquake, land subsidence, gradual earth movement, or
landslide, between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024, inclusive, except as
specified. (Based on 09/16/2025 text)

Location:

10/01/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/16/25)

Current Text:

10/01/2025 - Vetoed

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

AB 1198
Haney, D
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Bill information

Status:

01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 6.) In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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)

Location:
Introduced:

01/29/2026 - Senate Rules
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

01/28/26 A Floor Analysis (text
01/22/26)

SB 74

Seyarto, R

Current Text:
Last Amend:

01/22/2026 - Amended
01/22/2026

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

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 longrange 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

Introduced:

01/15/2025

Last Amend:

04/07/2025

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Is Fiscal:

N
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Current Analysis:

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

SB 90

Seyarto, R

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Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: grants:
improvements to public evacuation routes: mobile rigid water storage: electrical generators.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond
Act of 2024, approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide
general election, authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000
pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking
water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience,
extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart,
sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor
access, and clean air programs. The act makes $135,000,000 available, upon

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appropriation by the Legislature, to the Office of Emergency Services for a wildfire
mitigation grant program to provide, among other things, loans, direct assistance, and
matching funds for projects that prevent wildfires, increase resilience, maintain existing
wildfire risk reduction projects, reduce the risk of wildfires to communities, or increase
home or community hardening. The act provides that eligible projects include, but are not
limited to, grants to local agencies, state agencies, joint powers authorities, tribes,
resource conservation districts, fire safe councils, and nonprofit organizations for structure
hardening of critical community infrastructure, wildfire smoke mitigation, evacuation
centers, including community clean air centers, structure hardening projects that reduce
the risk of wildfire for entire neighborhoods and communities, water delivery system
improvements for fire suppression purposes for communities in very high or high fire
hazard areas, wildfire buffers, and incentives to remove structures that significantly
increase hazard risk. This bill would include in the list of eligible projects grants to the
above-mentioned entities for improvements to public evacuation routes in very high and
high fire hazard severity zones, mobile rigid dip tanks, as defined, to support firefighting
efforts, prepositioned mobile rigid water storage, as defined, and improvements to the
response and effectiveness of fire engines and helicopters. (Based on 03/12/2025 text)
Location:
Introduced:

01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD
01/22/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
05/02/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/12/25)

SB 231

Current Text:

03/12/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/12/2025

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California Environmental Quality Act: the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: technical advisory.
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Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

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. Under current law, the recommendation, continuous evaluation, and
execution of statewide environmental goals, policies, and plans are included within the
scope of the executive functions of the Governor. 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. This bill would require, on or before
July 1, 2027, the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to consult with regional, local,
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for greenhouse gas and noise pollution effects on the environment to assist local
agencies. The bill would require the technical advisory to provide suggested thresholds of
significance for all areas of the state, as specified, and would provide that lead agencies
may elect to adopt these suggested thresholds of significance. The bill would also require
the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to post the technical advisory on its internet
website. (Based on 03/20/2025 text)
Location:

01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/20/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/28/2025
N

Last Amend:

03/20/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
04/04/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/20/25)

SB 676

Limón, D

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California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire.
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Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 550,
Statutes of 2025.

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. This bill would require,on and after January 1, 2027, for a project, located in
a geographic area for which the Governor declared a state of emergency on or after
January 1, 2023, that is to maintain, repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or
facilities damaged or destroyed by wildfire, and the project is not otherwise exempt from
CEQA, as specified, the lead agency to prepare the record of proceeding concurrently
with the administrative process. The bill would also require an action or proceeding
brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the certification of an environmental
impact report, or the adoption of a negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration,
for the project to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 270 calendar days of the filing
of the certified record of proceedings. The bill would require an applicant to agree to pay
the costs of the trial court and court of appeal in hearing and deciding any action or
proceeding brought under these provisions, as provided. The bill would require the
Judicial Council to adopt rules of court to implement these requirements. The bill would
require the project to be consistent with the applicable zoning and land use ordinances.
By requiring a lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings concurrently with the
administrative process, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on
10/10/2025 text)

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Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/21/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

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AB 830

Rogers, D

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Status:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue written permits to,
among other things, place, change, or renew an encroachment. Current law requires a
permit issued to a county, city, public corporation, or political subdivision that is authorized
by law to establish or maintain any works or facilities in, under, or over any public highway,
to contain a provision that, in the event the future improvement of the highway
necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment, the permittee will relocate or
remove the encroachment at the permittee’s sole expense, as provided. This bill would,
until January 1, 2031, exempt a public utility district in the County of Mendocino with a
ratepayer base of 5,000 households or fewer from the above-described provision and
instead would require the department to bear the sole expense of relocating or removing
the public utility district’s encroachment in the event a future improvement of the highway
necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment and to notify the public utility
district at each stage of a project that necessitates the relocation or removal of the public
utility district’s encroachment. (Based on 09/10/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

10/03/2025 Assembly VETOED
02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/10/25)

Current Text:

10/03/2025 - Vetoed

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

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SB 543

McNerney, D

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ACWD - Development Services, ACWD Engineering

Bill information

Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 520,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation by ordinance, or by ministerial
approval if the local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of an accessory dwelling unit
(ADU) or a junior accessory dwelling unit (JADU) in accordance with specified standards
and conditions. Current law defines the term “junior accessory dwelling unit” for these
purposes to mean a unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and contained
entirely within a single-family structure. This bill would revise the definition of a “junior
accessory dwelling unit” to require the size of a JADU to be no more than 500 square feet
of interior livable space. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/28/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/08/25)

SB 598

Durazo, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered
07/08/2025

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Public contracts: local water infrastructure projects: Construction Manager/General Contractor project
delivery method.
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Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 655,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law defines the Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method
(CM/GC method) as a project delivery method in which a construction manager is
procured to provide preconstruction services during the design phase of a project and
construction services during the construction phase of the project. Under current law, the
method allows the contract for construction services to be entered into at the same time
as the contract for preconstruction services or at a later time. Current law authorizes the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to utilize the CM/GC method for regional
recycled water projects or other water infrastructure projects under specified conditions.
Pursuant to existing law, certain information required to be submitted as part of the
CM/GC method is required to be verified under oath. Current law makes the provisions
described above pertaining to the CM/GC method effective only until January 1, 2028, and
inoperative as of that date. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, authorize a local agency,
as defined, upon approval of its governing body, to similarly use the CM/GC method for a
regional recycled water project or other water infrastructure project undertaken by the
district to alleviate water supply shortages attributable to drought or climate change. The
bill would require that authorization to apply to no more than 15 capital outlay projects for
each local agency and would require a local agency to award a contract pursuant to the
bill on a best value basis or to the lowest responsible bidder. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/25/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/07/25)

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/07/2025

ACWD - Emergency Response
AB 300

Lackey, R

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Fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal.
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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 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

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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

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

01/23/2025

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/15/25 S Appropriations
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05/05/25)

AB 372

Bennett, D

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

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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)

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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Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 426

Dixon, R

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Impeding emergency response with drone.
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- Operations

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 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:
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 1075

Bryan, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/02/2025 - Amended
04/02/2025

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Fire protection: privately contracted fire prevention resources: public water sources.

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Bill information

Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 538,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law requires the Office of Emergency Services to be responsible for the state’s
emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade
disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent,
respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people
and property. The FIRESCOPE Act of 1989 requires the office to establish and administer
the FIRESCOPE program to maintain and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of
managing multiagency firefighting resources in responding to an incident. Current law
requires the office, in collaboration with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
and the board of directors of the FIRESCOPE program, to develop standards and
regulations for any privately contracted private fire prevention resources operating during
an active fire incident in the state, as provided, and to develop regulations to govern the
use of equipment used by privately contracted private fire prevention resources during an
active fire incident, as provided. This bill would additionally require the office to develop
regulations prohibiting privately contracted private fire prevention resources from hooking
up their equipment to public water sources, unless approved by incident command or the
authority having jurisdiction over the active fire incident and unless the equipment includes
a backflow prevention device. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

09/09/25 A Floor Analysis (text
06/27/25)

AB 1146

Papan, D

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

06/27/2025

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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 above-described 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

Current Text:

06/23/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2025
N

Last Amend:

06/23/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1469

Hart, D

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Disaster preparedness: public water systems.
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Status:

02/02/2026 - Died at Desk.

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. Current law requires these public water systems
to, following a declared state of emergency, furnish an assessment of their emergency
response and recommendations to the Legislature within 6 months after each disaster,
and to implement the recommendations in a timely manner. Current law requires the office
to establish emergency response and recovery plans in coordination with these public
water systems. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. (Based
on 02/21/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
N

Current Text:

02/21/2025 - Introduced

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SB 90

Seyarto, R

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Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: grants:
improvements to public evacuation routes: mobile rigid water storage: electrical generators.
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ACWD - Capital Projects, ACWD - Emergency
Response, ACWD - Finance

Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond
Act of 2024, approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide
general election, authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000
pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking
water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience,
extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart,
sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor
access, and clean air programs. The act makes $135,000,000 available, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to the Office of Emergency Services for a wildfire
mitigation grant program to provide, among other things, loans, direct assistance, and
matching funds for projects that prevent wildfires, increase resilience, maintain existing
wildfire risk reduction projects, reduce the risk of wildfires to communities, or increase
home or community hardening. The act provides that eligible projects include, but are not
limited to, grants to local agencies, state agencies, joint powers authorities, tribes,
resource conservation districts, fire safe councils, and nonprofit organizations for structure
hardening of critical community infrastructure, wildfire smoke mitigation, evacuation
centers, including community clean air centers, structure hardening projects that reduce
the risk of wildfire for entire neighborhoods and communities, water delivery system
improvements for fire suppression purposes for communities in very high or high fire
hazard areas, wildfire buffers, and incentives to remove structures that significantly
increase hazard risk. This bill would include in the list of eligible projects grants to the
above-mentioned entities for improvements to public evacuation routes in very high and
high fire hazard severity zones, mobile rigid dip tanks, as defined, to support firefighting
efforts, prepositioned mobile rigid water storage, as defined, and improvements to the
response and effectiveness of fire engines and helicopters. (Based on 03/12/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/12/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

01/22/2025

Last Amend:

03/12/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
05/02/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/12/25)

SB 732

Ochoa Bogh, R

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Emergency backup generators: critical facilities: exemptions.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of
air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Current law generally designates air
pollution control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the
control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Current law requires
the State Air Resources Board to identify toxic air contaminants that are emitted into the
ambient air of the state and to establish airborne toxic control measures to reduce
emissions of toxic air contaminants from nonvehicular sources. This bill would require an
air district without a specified rule on emergency backup generators, as defined, as of
January 1, 2026, that adopts such a rule to include in the rule provisions that allow the
operator of a critical facility, as defined, to use a permitted emergency backup generator in
exceedance of the applicable runtime and testing and maintenance limits if specified
conditions are met. The bill would require a critical facility allowed to exceed applicable
limits under a rule adopted pursuant to that provision to attest to and provide evidence of
having taken demonstrable steps toward implementing the use of backup power
technologies that meet or exceed emission standards set by the state board. (Based on
02/21/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Senate DEAD

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Text:

02/21/2025 - Introduced

ACWD - Engineering
AB 269

Bennett, D

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Dam Safety and Climate Resilience Local Assistance Program.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law provides for the regulation and supervision of dams and reservoirs by the
state, and requires the Department of Water Resources, under the police power of the
state, to supervise the construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, maintenance,
operation, and removal of dams and reservoirs for the protection of life and property, as
prescribed. Current law requires the department to, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
develop and administer the Dam Safety and Climate Resilience Local Assistance Program
to provide state funding for repairs, rehabilitation, enhancements, and other dam safety
projects at existing state jurisdictional dams and associated facilities that were in service
prior to January 1, 2023, subject to prescribed criteria. This bill would include the removal
of project facilities as additional projects eligible to receive funding under the
program. (Based on 01/17/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/17/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

04/04/25 A Water, Parks And
Wildlife (text 01/17/25)

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AB 295

Macedo, R

Current Text:

01/17/2025 - Introduced

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California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects: water storage,
water conveyance, and groundwater recharge projects: streamlined review.
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Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021
authorizes the Governor, until January 1, 2032, to certify environmental leadership
development projects that meet specified requirements for certain streamlining benefits
related to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The act, among other things,
requires a lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings for an environmental
leadership development project, as provided, and to provide a specified notice within 10
days of the Governor certifying the project. The act is repealed by its own term on January
1, 2034. This bill would extend the application of the act to water storage projects, water
conveyance projects, and groundwater recharge projects that provide public benefits and
drought preparedness. Because a lead agency would be required to prepare the record of
proceedings for water storage projects, water conveyance projects, and groundwater
recharge projects pursuant to the act, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. (Based on 01/23/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

01/23/2025

Current Text:

01/23/2025 - Introduced

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Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 300

Lackey, R

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Fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal.
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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 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

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

01/23/2025

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 372

Bennett, D

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

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:
Introduced:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
02/03/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 638

Rodriguez, Celeste, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

08/29/2025 - Amended
08/29/2025

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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

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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

Current Text:

07/03/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/13/2025
N

Last Amend:

07/03/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 639

Soria, D

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Dams: exceptions.
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ACWD - Engineering, ACWD - Operations, ACWD Water Resources

Bill information

Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 617,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law defines a dam to mean any artificial barrier, together with appurtenant works,
that does or may impound or divert water, and meets other specified criteria. Current law
excludes from the definition a barrier that is or will be not in excess of 6 feet in height,
regardless of storage capacity, or that has or will have a storage capacity not in excess of
15 acre-feet, regardless of height. This bill would additionally exclude from the definition of
a dam a barrier that does not impound water above the top of a levee where maximum
storage behind the barrier has a minimum of 3 feet of freeboard on the levee and is a weir,
as defined, but would apply only to specified weirs named in the bill. (Based on
10/11/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED
02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/03/25 A Floor Analysis (text
06/11/25)

AB 830

Rogers, D

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

06/11/2025

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State highways: encroachment permits: relocating or removing encroachments: public utility districts:
County of Mendocino.
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Status:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue written permits to,
among other things, place, change, or renew an encroachment. Current law requires a
permit issued to a county, city, public corporation, or political subdivision that is authorized
by law to establish or maintain any works or facilities in, under, or over any public highway,
to contain a provision that, in the event the future improvement of the highway
necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment, the permittee will relocate or
remove the encroachment at the permittee’s sole expense, as provided. This bill would,
until January 1, 2031, exempt a public utility district in the County of Mendocino with a
ratepayer base of 5,000 households or fewer from the above-described provision and
instead would require the department to bear the sole expense of relocating or removing
the public utility district’s encroachment in the event a future improvement of the highway
necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment and to notify the public utility
district at each stage of a project that necessitates the relocation or removal of the public
utility district’s encroachment. (Based on 09/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/03/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/10/25)

AB 975

Gallagher, R

Current Text:

10/03/2025 - Vetoed

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

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Lake and streambed alteration agreements: exemptions: culverts and bridges.
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Bill information

Status:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

Current law prohibits a person, a state or local governmental agency, or a public utility
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
depositing or disposing of debris, waste, or other material containing crumbled, flaked, or
ground pavement where it may pass into any river, stream, or lake, unless prescribed
requirements are met, including written notification to the Department of Fish and Wildlife
regarding the activity. Current law requires the department to determine whether the
activity may substantially adversely affect an existing fish and wildlife resource and, if so,
to provide a draft lake or streambed alteration agreement to the person, agency, or utility.
Current law prescribes various requirements for lake and streambed alteration
agreements. Existing law also establishes various exemptions from these provisions. This
bill would, until January 1, 2027, exempt from these provisions, subject to certain
requirements, projects to repair or reconstruct a bridge 30 feet long or less or a culvert 70
feet long or less within the County of Sutter that has been damaged or destroyed as a
result of fire, flood, storm, earthquake, land subsidence, gradual earth movement, or
landslide, between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024, inclusive, except as
specified. (Based on 09/16/2025 text)

Location:

10/01/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/16/25)

SB 231

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/01/2025 - Vetoed
09/02/2025

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California Environmental Quality Act: the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: technical advisory.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

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. Under current law, the recommendation, continuous evaluation, and
execution of statewide environmental goals, policies, and plans are included within the
scope of the executive functions of the Governor. 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

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constituting the comprehensive state planning agency. This bill would require, on or before
July 1, 2027, the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to consult with regional, local,
state, and federal agencies to develop a technical advisory on thresholds of significance
for greenhouse gas and noise pollution effects on the environment to assist local
agencies. The bill would require the technical advisory to provide suggested thresholds of
significance for all areas of the state, as specified, and would provide that lead agencies
may elect to adopt these suggested thresholds of significance. The bill would also require
the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to post the technical advisory on its internet
website. (Based on 03/20/2025 text)
Location:

01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/20/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

01/28/2025

Last Amend:

03/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
04/04/25 S Appropriations (text
03/20/25)

SB 394

Allen, D

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Water theft: fire hydrants.
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Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 540,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law authorizes a utility to bring a civil action for damages against any person who
commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts certain acts, including, diverting or
causing to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever. Current law creates a
rebuttable presumption that there is violation of these provisions if, on premises controlled
by the customer or by the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility service,
certain actions occur, including that there is an instrument, apparatus, or device primarily
designed to be used to obtain utility service without paying the full lawful charge for the
utility. This bill would add to the list of acts for which a utility may bring a civil cause of
action under these circumstances to include tampering with a fire hydrant, fire hydrant
meter, or fire detector check, or connecting to, diverting water from, or causing water to be
diverted from, a fire hydrant without authorization from the utility that owns the fire
hydrant, except as provided. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/14/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/03/2025

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Current Analysis:

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SB 543

07/14/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/03/25)

McNerney, D

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Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
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Bill information

Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 520,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation by ordinance, or by ministerial
approval if the local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of an accessory dwelling unit
(ADU) or a junior accessory dwelling unit (JADU) in accordance with specified standards
and conditions. Current law defines the term “junior accessory dwelling unit” for these
purposes to mean a unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and contained
entirely within a single-family structure. This bill would revise the definition of a “junior
accessory dwelling unit” to require the size of a JADU to be no more than 500 square feet
of interior livable space. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

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10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

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Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

08/28/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/08/25)

SB 676

Limón, D

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/08/2025

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California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire.
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Bill information

Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 550,
Statutes of 2025.

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. This bill would require,on and after January 1, 2027, for a project, located in
a geographic area for which the Governor declared a state of emergency on or after
January 1, 2023, that is to maintain, repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or
facilities damaged or destroyed by wildfire, and the project is not otherwise exempt from
CEQA, as specified, the lead agency to prepare the record of proceeding concurrently
with the administrative process. The bill would also require an action or proceeding
brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the certification of an environmental
impact report, or the adoption of a negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration,
for the project to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 270 calendar days of the filing
of the certified record of proceedings. The bill would require an applicant to agree to pay
the costs of the trial court and court of appeal in hearing and deciding any action or
proceeding brought under these provisions, as provided. The bill would require the
Judicial Council to adopt rules of court to implement these requirements. The bill would
require the project to be consistent with the applicable zoning and land use ordinances.
By requiring a lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings concurrently with the
administrative process, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on
10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

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

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

ACWD - ETS
AB 253

Ward, D

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California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.
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Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 487,
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Summary:

The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for
buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing
body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or
authorized under the State Housing Law. This bill, the California Residential Private
Permitting Review Act, would require a county or city to prepare a residential building
permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the
county or city prescribes residential building permit fees. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

01/15/2025

Is Urgent:

Y

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/12/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/04/25)

AB 370

Carrillo, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered
09/04/2025

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California Public Records Act: cyberattacks.
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Bill information

Status:

07/14/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 34, Statutes of 2025

Summary:

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records
available for public inspection, except as specified. Current 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. Current law authorizes that time
limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, and defines
“unusual circumstances” to include, among other things, the need to search for, collect,
and appropriately examine records during a state of emergency when the state of
emergency currently affects the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests due to
staffing shortages or closure of facilities, as provided. This bill would also expand the
definition of unusual circumstances to include the inability of the agency, because of a
cyberattack, to access its electronic servers or systems in order to search for and obtain a
record that the agency believes is responsive to a request and is maintained on the
servers or systems in an electronic format. (Based on 07/14/2025 text)

Location:

07/14/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/03/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/02/25 S Floor Analyses (text

Current Text:

07/14/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

03/12/2025

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03/12/25)

AB 810

Irwin, D

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Local government: internet websites and email addresses.
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Summary:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Current law requires that a local agency that maintains an internet website for use by the
public to ensure that the internet website uses a “.gov” top-level domain or a “.ca.gov”
second-level domain no later than January 1, 2029. Current law requires that a local
agency that maintains public email addresses to ensure that each email address provided
to its employees uses a “.gov” domain name or a “.ca.gov” domain name no later than
January 1, 2029. Current law defines “local agency” for these purposes as a city, county,
or city and county. This bill would recast these provisions by instead requiring a city,
county, or city and county to comply with the above-described domain requirements and
by deleting the term “local agency” from the above-described provisions. The bill would
also require a special district, joint powers authority, or other political subdivision to
comply with similar domain requirements no later than January 1, 2031. (Based on
04/10/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

04/10/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Last Amend:

04/10/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
05/05/25 - - - - - - - (text
04/10/25)

AB 830

Rogers, D

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State highways: encroachment permits: relocating or removing encroachments: public utility districts:
County of Mendocino.
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ACWD - Capital Projects, ACWD - Development
Services, ACWD - Engineering, ACWD - ETS
Bill information

Status:
Summary:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.
Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue written permits to,
among other things, place, change, or renew an encroachment. Current law requires a
permit issued to a county, city, public corporation, or political subdivision that is authorized
by law to establish or maintain any works or facilities in, under, or over any public highway,
to contain a provision that, in the event the future improvement of the highway
necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment, the permittee will relocate or
remove the encroachment at the permittee’s sole expense, as provided. This bill would,
until January 1, 2031, exempt a public utility district in the County of Mendocino with a
ratepayer base of 5,000 households or fewer from the above-described provision and
instead would require the department to bear the sole expense of relocating or removing
the public utility district’s encroachment in the event a future improvement of the highway
necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment and to notify the public utility
district at each stage of a project that necessitates the relocation or removal of the public
utility district’s encroachment. (Based on 09/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/03/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/10/25)

AB 1018

Bauer-Kahan, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/03/2025 - Vetoed
08/29/2025

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Automated decision systems.
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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
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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

Current Text:

09/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

09/05/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1102

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Sea level rise and groundwater rise: contaminated sites: report.
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Summary:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
The Department of Toxic Substances Control generally regulates the management and
handling of hazardous substances, materials, and waste. The bill would require, on or
before January 1, 2027, the department and the State Water Resources Control Board to
submit a report to the Legislature that includes specified information, including information
relating to all contaminated sites that are vulnerable to sea level rise and groundwater
rise. (Based on 04/09/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

04/09/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

04/09/2025

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04/09/25)

AB 1146

Papan, D

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

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Bill information

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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:

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 above-described 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

Current Text:

06/23/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

06/23/2025

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N

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Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
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06/23/25)

AB 1191

Tangipa, R

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California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: hydroelectric generation.
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Summary:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Current law establishes the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program, which
requires the Public Utilities Commission to implement annual procurement targets for the
procurement of eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, for all retail sellers, as
defined, and requires local publicly owned electric utilities to adopt and implement
renewable energy resources procurement plans to achieve the targets and goals of the
program. Under current law, eligible renewable energy resources include small
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bill would revise the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource for the purposes of
the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program to include all hydroelectric
generating facilities and would make conforming changes. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)
Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

02/21/2025

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

04/01/25 A Committee On
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02/21/25)

AB 1198

Haney, D

Current Text:

02/21/2025 - Introduced

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Public works: prevailing wages.
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01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 6.) In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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)

Location:

01/29/2026 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

01/22/2026 - Amended

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Last Amend:

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
01/28/26 A Floor Analysis (text
01/22/26)

AB 1405

Bauer-Kahan, D

01/22/2026

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Artificial intelligence: auditors: enrollment.
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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 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)

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

07/09/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Last Amend:

07/09/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/15/25 S Appropriations (text
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ACWD - Finance
AB 23

DeMaio, R

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The Cost of Living Reduction Act of 2025.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission (Energy Commission) with various responsibilities for developing and
implementing the state’s energy policies. This bill, the Cost of Living Reduction Act of
2025, would require the Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Commission to post,
and update monthly, dashboards on their internet websites that include the difference in
average gasoline prices and the average total price of electricity or natural gas in
California compared to national averages, and any California-specific taxes, fees,
regulations, and policies that directly or indirectly contribute to higher gasoline and
electricity or natural gas prices within the state, as specified. The bill would require the
Energy Commission and the PUC, on or before July 1, 2026, to each submit a report to
the Legislature on the governmental and nongovernmental drivers of California’s higher
gasoline prices and higher electricity and natural gas prices, and recommendations for
policy changes to reduce the costs associated with those drivers, as specified. If the
average price of gasoline in California exceeds 10% of the national average in the
preceding quarter, the bill would require all taxes and fees on gasoline, as specified, to be
suspended for a period of 6 months, and, if the average price of electricity or natural gas
in California exceeds 10% of the national average in the preceding quarter, the bill would
require the PUC to suspend the collection of all fees, as specified, charged on electricity
and natural gas bills for a period of 6 months. (Based on 03/25/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

01/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD
12/02/2024 (Spot bill)

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 253

Ward, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

03/25/2025 - Amended
03/25/2025

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California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.
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Bill information

Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 487,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for
buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing
body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or
authorized under the State Housing Law. This bill, the California Residential Private
Permitting Review Act, would require a county or city to prepare a residential building
permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the
county or city prescribes residential building permit fees. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

01/15/2025

Is Urgent:

Y

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/12/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/04/25)

AB 267

Macedo, R

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered
09/04/2025

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Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: high-speed rail: water infrastructure and wildfire prevention.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Would suspend the appropriation to the High-Speed Rail Authority for the 2026–27 and
2027–28 fiscal years and would instead require those amounts from moneys collected by
the State Air Resources Board to be transferred to the General Fund. The bill would
specify that the transferred amounts shall be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to augment funding for water infrastructure and wildfire prevention. (Based on
01/17/2025 text)

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01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD
01/17/2025

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N

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01/17/2025 - Introduced

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AB 269

Bennett, D

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Dam Safety and Climate Resilience Local Assistance Program.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law provides for the regulation and supervision of dams and reservoirs by the
state, and requires the Department of Water Resources, under the police power of the
state, to supervise the construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, maintenance,
operation, and removal of dams and reservoirs for the protection of life and property, as
prescribed. Current law requires the department to, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
develop and administer the Dam Safety and Climate Resilience Local Assistance Program
to provide state funding for repairs, rehabilitation, enhancements, and other dam safety
projects at existing state jurisdictional dams and associated facilities that were in service
prior to January 1, 2023, subject to prescribed criteria. This bill would include the removal
of project facilities as additional projects eligible to receive funding under the
program. (Based on 01/17/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

01/17/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

04/04/25 A Water, Parks And
Wildlife (text 01/17/25)

AB 351

McKinnor, D

Current Text:

01/17/2025 - Introduced

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Campaign contributions: agency officers.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

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Summary:

The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits an officer of an agency from accepting,
soliciting, or directing a contribution of more than $500 from any party, participant, or a
party or participant’s agent, while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other
entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 12 months following the date a
final decision is rendered in the proceeding, if the officer knows or has reason to know that
the participant has a financial interest, as defined. The act also prohibits an officer of an
agency from making, participating in making, or in any way attempting to use the officer’s
official position to influence the decision in a proceeding involving a license, permit, or
other entitlement for use pending before the agency if the officer has willfully or knowingly
received a contribution of more than $500 within the preceding 12 months from a party or
a party’s agent, or from any participant or a participant’s agent, if the officer knows or has
reason to know that the participant has a financial interest in the decision, as defined. This
bill would increase the contribution thresholds described above from $500 to
$1500. (Based on 01/30/2025 text)

Location:

01/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

01/30/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
04/28/25 A Elections (text
01/30/25)

AB 428

Rubio, Blanca, D

Current Text:

01/30/2025 - Introduced

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Joint powers agreements: water corporations.
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Summary:

10/01/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 151,
Statutes of 2025.
The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, if authorized by
their governing bodies, by agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the
contracting parties. Current law authorizes 2 or more local public entities, or a mutual
water company, as defined, and a public agency, to provide insurance, as specified, by a
joint powers agreement. Current law authorizes a mutual water company and a public
agency to enter into a joint powers agreement for the purposes of risk pooling, as
specified. This bill would authorize a water corporation, as defined, a mutual water
company, and one or more public agencies to provide insurance, as specified, by a joint
powers agreement. The bill would also authorize a water corporation, a mutual water
company, and one or more public agencies to enter into a joint powers agreement for the
purposes of risk pooling, as specified. The bill would prohibit the Public Utilities
Commission from allowing a water corporation to join a joint powers agency for insurance
coverage if there are no greater benefits to the customers of the water corporation than
are provided by the water corporation’s current insurance policy. (Based on 10/01/2025
text)

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Location:

10/01/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/05/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/20/25 S Floor Analyses (text
03/28/25)

AB 614

Lee, D

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10/01/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

03/28/2025

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Claims against public entities.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Government Claims Act establishes the liability and immunity of a public entity for its
acts or omissions that cause harm to persons and requires that a claim against a public
entity relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person, personal property, or
growing crops be presented not later than 6 months after accrual of the cause of action.
Under current law, claims relating to any other cause of action are required to be
presented no later than one year after the accrual of the cause of action. This bill would
remove the provisions requiring a claim against a public entity relating to a cause of action
for death or for injury to person, personal property, or growing crops to be presented not
later than 6 months after accrual of the cause of action and would instead require a claim
relating to any cause of action to be presented not later than one year after accrual of the
cause of action, unless otherwise specified by law. (Based on 03/27/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

03/27/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/13/2025

Last Amend:

03/27/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
05/05/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/27/25)

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AB 889

Hadwick, R

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Prevailing wage: per diem wages.
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Bill information

Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 626,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law requires workers employed on public works to be paid not less than the
general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality that
the public work is performed, as prescribed, unless an exception applies. Current law
requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to determine 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. Under current law, per diem wages include certain
employer payments made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or for a program
or committee established under the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978,
as specified. Current law provides that these payments are a credit against the obligation
to pay the general prevailing rate of per diem wages. Current law requires the credit for
employer payments to be computed on an annualized basis where the employer seeks
credit for employer payments that are higher for public works projects than for private
construction performed by the same employer, except under certain circumstances,
including a determination by the director that annualization would not serve the purposes
of the provisions relating to public works projects. This bill would remove that exception
and revoke annualization exemptions authorized by the director prior to January 1, 2026.
The bill would authorize an employer to take full credit for the hourly amounts contributed
to defined contribution pension plans that provide for both immediate participation and
essentially immediate vesting even if the employer contributes at a lower rate or does not
make contributions to private construction. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 905

Pacheco, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered
09/05/2025

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State general obligation bonds: disclosure requirements.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The State General Obligation Bond Law generally sets forth the procedures for the
issuance and sale of bonds governed by its provisions and for the disbursal of the
proceeds of the sale of those bonds. Current law requires any state bond measure
approved on or after January 1, 2004, to be subject to an annual reporting process, with
the head of the lead state agency administering the bond proceeds reporting certain
information about the projects being funded to the Legislature and the Department of
Finance. Current law allows this information to be provided on the agency’s internet
website or the state’s open data portal under certain circumstances. This bill would require
a bond act for any state general obligation bond measure that is approved by voters on
and after January 1, 2026, to include specified information about the objectives of the
bond expenditure and related data. The bill would also require the head of the lead state
agency administering the bond to post on its internet website a notification that contains,
among other information, details about the programs and projects authorized to be funded
by the bond. (Based on 03/28/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

03/28/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Last Amend:

03/28/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
05/12/25 A Appropriations (text
03/28/25)

AB 1198

Haney, D

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Public works: prevailing wages.
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Bill information

Status:

01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 6.) In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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

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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)
Location:

01/29/2026 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

01/22/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Last Amend:

01/22/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

01/28/26 A Floor Analysis (text
01/22/26)

AB 1452

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State mandates: claims.
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Summary:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
The California Constitution, whenever the Legislature or a state agency mandates a new
program or higher level of service on any local government, including school districts,
requires the state to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse the local government,
unless an exception applies. Statutory provisions that establish procedures for making
that reimbursement include a requirement that no claim shall be made or paid unless it
exceeds $1,000. This bill would change the minimum claim amount to $800. (Based on
02/21/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

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02/21/2025
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ACA 1

Valencia, D

Current Text:

02/21/2025 - Introduced

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Public finance.
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Status:

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

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

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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Bill information

Status:

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 longrange 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
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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

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/15/2025
N

Last Amend:

04/07/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

SB 90

Seyarto, R

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Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: grants:
improvements to public evacuation routes: mobile rigid water storage: electrical generators.
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Response, ACWD - Finance

Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond
Act of 2024, approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide
general election, authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000
pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking
water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience,
extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart,
sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor
access, and clean air programs. The act makes $135,000,000 available, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to the Office of Emergency Services for a wildfire
mitigation grant program to provide, among other things, loans, direct assistance, and
matching funds for projects that prevent wildfires, increase resilience, maintain existing
wildfire risk reduction projects, reduce the risk of wildfires to communities, or increase
home or community hardening. The act provides that eligible projects include, but are not
limited to, grants to local agencies, state agencies, joint powers authorities, tribes,
resource conservation districts, fire safe councils, and nonprofit organizations for structure
hardening of critical community infrastructure, wildfire smoke mitigation, evacuation
centers, including community clean air centers, structure hardening projects that reduce

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the risk of wildfire for entire neighborhoods and communities, water delivery system
improvements for fire suppression purposes for communities in very high or high fire
hazard areas, wildfire buffers, and incentives to remove structures that significantly
increase hazard risk. This bill would include in the list of eligible projects grants to the
above-mentioned entities for improvements to public evacuation routes in very high and
high fire hazard severity zones, mobile rigid dip tanks, as defined, to support firefighting
efforts, prepositioned mobile rigid water storage, as defined, and improvements to the
response and effectiveness of fire engines and helicopters. (Based on 03/12/2025 text)
Location:

01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/12/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

01/22/2025

Last Amend:

03/12/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
05/02/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/12/25)

SB 473

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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:

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)

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08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

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04/10/2025 - Amended

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02/19/2025

Last Amend:

04/10/2025

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Y

Current Analysis:

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

SB 556

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)

Location:
Introduced:

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

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

SB 595

Choi, R

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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Local government: investments and financial reports.
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Status:

10/03/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 323,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law regulates the investment of public funds by local agencies, as defined.
Current law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as specified, that has money
in a sinking fund or in its treasury not required for the immediate needs of the local agency
to invest the money as it deems wise or expedient in certain securities and financial
instruments, subject to various requirements. These permissible investments include
commercial paper of “prime” quality of the highest ranking or of the highest letter and
number rating as provided for by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization that
is issued by entities meeting certain criteria, if the eligible commercial paper has a
maximum maturity of 270 days or less. This bill would revise the maximum maturity

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periods for the investments in prime quality commercial paper to 397 days. (Based on
10/03/2025 text)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

Location:

10/03/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/08/25 S Floor Analyses (text
09/03/25)

10/03/2025 - Chaptered
09/03/2025

ACWD - HR
AB 288

McKinnor, D

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Employment: labor organization and unfair practices.
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Summary:

09/30/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 139,
Statutes of 2025.
Current law declares the public policy of the state regarding labor organization, including,
among other things, that it is necessary for a worker to have full freedom of association,
self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, to negotiate
the terms and conditions of their employment, and to be free from the interference,
restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such
representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of
collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Current law establishes the Public
Employment Relations Board (PERB) in state government as a means of resolving
disputes and enforcing the statutory duties and rights of specified public employers and
employees under various acts regulating collective bargaining. Under existing law, PERB
has the power and duty to investigate an unfair practice charge and to determine whether
the charge is justified and the appropriate remedy for the unfair practice. The federal
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) establishes a comprehensive statutory scheme
regulating unfair labor practices on the part of employers and labor organizations in
industries affecting interstate commerce, and vests in the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) the power to conduct elections to determine employee representatives and to
prevent unfair labor practices affecting commerce. The California Public Records Act
requires that public records, as defined, be available to the public for inspection and made
promptly available to any person. This bill would expand PERB’s jurisdiction by
authorizing a worker, under specified circumstances, to petition PERB to protect and
enforce prescribed rights, including, among other circumstances, if the worker is
employed in a position subject to the NLRA but the NLRB expressly or impliedly cedes
jurisdiction, as specified. The bill would authorize PERB to, among other things, decide

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unfair labor practice cases, as specified, pursuant to a specified timeline and order all
appropriate relief for a violation, including civil penalties, as prescribed. In order to pursue
relief from PERB, the bill would require a covered worker or their representative to file an
unfair practice charge or petition that includes specified information, including, where
applicable, the original charge or petition filed with the NLRB. The bill would require PERB
to hold the supporting documentation and evidence confidential and maintain it as part of
its investigatory file and would exempt this documentation and evidence from the
California Public Records Act. (Based on 09/30/2025 text)
Location:

09/30/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

01/22/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 339

Ortega, D

Current Text:

09/30/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/05/2025

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Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.
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Summary:

10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 687,
Statutes of 2025.
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining
of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment
Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local
public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a
public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms
and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations.
Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions
designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in
cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of
any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of
representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards
and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and
boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency,
to give the recognized employee organization no less than 45 days’ written notice before
issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing
contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications
represented by the recognized employee organization, subject to certain exceptions. The
bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated
duration of the contract. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)

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Location:

10/13/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/28/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/04/25 A Floor Analysis (text
08/29/25)

AB 340

Ahrens, D

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08/29/2025

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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:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

03/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

01/28/2025

Last Amend:

03/05/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

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

AB 426

Dixon, R

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Impeding emergency response with drone.
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- Operations

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:

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

AB 596

Ortega, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/02/2025 - Amended
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 1/5/2025)

Calendar:

02/09/26 #4 A-MOTION TO RECONSIDER

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:

09/13/2025 Assembly RECONSIDERATION
02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 614

Lee, D

Current Text:

09/09/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

09/09/2025

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Claims against public entities.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Government Claims Act establishes the liability and immunity of a public entity for its
acts or omissions that cause harm to persons and requires that a claim against a public
entity relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person, personal property, or
growing crops be presented not later than 6 months after accrual of the cause of action.
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presented no later than one year after the accrual of the cause of action. This bill would
remove the provisions requiring a claim against a public entity relating to a cause of action
for death or for injury to person, personal property, or growing crops to be presented not
later than 6 months after accrual of the cause of action and would instead require a claim
relating to any cause of action to be presented not later than one year after accrual of the
cause of action, unless otherwise specified by law. (Based on 03/27/2025 text)
Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

03/27/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/13/2025
N

Last Amend:

03/27/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
05/05/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/27/25)

AB 672

Caloza, D

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Public employment: notifications and right of intervention.
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09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 8/25/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in state
government as a means of resolving disputes and enforcing the statutory duties and rights
of specified public employers and employees under various acts regulating collective
bargaining. Under current law, PERB has the power and duty to investigate an unfair
practice charge and to determine whether the charge is justified and the appropriate
remedy for the unfair practice. This bill would require a plaintiff or petitioner filing a civil
action seeking injunctive relief against a strike, work stoppage, or other labor action by
public employees whose labor relations are regulated by PERB, if PERB is not a party to
the action, to serve a copy of the petition or complaint by electronic mail on the general
counsel of PERB, in accordance with certain procedures. The bill would also require a
plaintiff or petitioner that intends to apply to a superior court for a temporary restraining
order to enjoin a strike, work stoppage, or other labor action by public employees whose
labor relations are regulated by PERB, if PERB is not a party to the action, to give notice
by electronic mail to the general counsel of PERB of the application when the plaintiff or
petitioner provides that notice to the defendant or respondent. The bill would specify that
the above-described provisions do not authorize a plaintiff or petitioner to seek relief in
court without first exhausting administrative remedies before PERB when exhaustion is
required by statute, regulation, or case law. (Based on 06/18/2025 text)

Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

06/18/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/14/2025

Last Amend:

06/18/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

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Current Analysis:

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AB 889

08/20/25 S Floor Analyses (text
06/18/25)

Hadwick, R

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Prevailing wage: per diem wages.
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Bill information

Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 626,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law requires workers employed on public works to be paid not less than the
general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality that
the public work is performed, as prescribed, unless an exception applies. Current law
requires the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to determine 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. Under current law, per diem wages include certain
employer payments made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or for a program
or committee established under the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978,
as specified. Current law provides that these payments are a credit against the obligation
to pay the general prevailing rate of per diem wages. Current law requires the credit for
employer payments to be computed on an annualized basis where the employer seeks
credit for employer payments that are higher for public works projects than for private
construction performed by the same employer, except under certain circumstances,
including a determination by the director that annualization would not serve the purposes
of the provisions relating to public works projects. This bill would remove that exception
and revoke annualization exemptions authorized by the director prior to January 1, 2026.
The bill would authorize an employer to take full credit for the hourly amounts contributed
to defined contribution pension plans that provide for both immediate participation and
essentially immediate vesting even if the employer contributes at a lower rate or does not
make contributions to private construction. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 1109

Kalra, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered
09/05/2025

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Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.
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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 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)

Summary:

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

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

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AB 1383

McKinnor, D

Current Text:

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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Public employees’ retirement benefits: safety members.
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01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 2.) In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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Summary:

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. 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, on and after January 1, 2027, would require a retirement system subject to
PEPRA to adjust pensionable compensation limits to be consistent with specified
percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with
respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. The bill would require a
new member of STRS to be subject to specified limits of the Teachers’ Retirement
Law. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)

Location:

01/29/2026 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

01/22/2026 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/21/2025
N

Last Amend:

01/22/2026

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

01/28/26 A Floor Analysis (text
01/22/26)

SB 7

McNerney, D

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Employment: automated decision systems.
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Status:

10/13/2025 - Vetoed by Governor. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

Calendar:

02/09/26 #22 S-GOVERNOR'S VETOES

Summary:

Existing law requires 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 (ADS) that have been proposed for use, development, or
procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. This bill
would require an employer to provide a written notice that an ADS, for the purpose of
making employment-related decisions, not including hiring, is in use at the workplace to all
workers that will foreseeably be directly affected by the ADS, as specified. The bill would
require the employer to maintain an updated list of all ADS currently in use. The bill would
require an employer to notify, as provided, a job applicant that the employer utilizes an
ADS when making hiring decisions, if the employer will use the ADS in making decisions
for that position. The bill would prohibit an employer from using an ADS that does certain
functions and would limit the purposes and manner in which an ADS may be used to
make decisions. The bill would authorize a worker to request, and require an employer to

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provide, a copy of the most recent 12 months of the worker’s own data primarily used by
an ADS to make a discipline, termination, or deactivation decision, as specified. The bill
would require an employer that primarily relied on an ADS to make a discipline,
termination, or deactivation decision to provide the affected worker with a written notice,
as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on
09/17/2025 text)
Location:

10/13/2025 - Senate VETOED

Current Text:

10/13/2025 - Vetoed

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

12/02/2024 (Spot bill)
N

Last Amend:

09/05/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

10/20/25 S Floor Analyses (text
09/17/25)

SB 317

Hurtado, D

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Status:

10/06/2025 - Vetoed by Governor. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

Calendar:

02/09/26 #14 S-GOVERNOR'S VETOES

Summary:

Current law establishes the State Department of Public Health to implement various
programs throughout the state relating to public health. The department administers the
California Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard that provides an overview of data from
testing wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 virus in California. The data in the dashboard is
generated by those participating in the department’s California Surveillance of
Wastewaters (Cal-SuWers) network, including the Cal-SuWers program,
WastewaterSCAN, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National
Wastewater Surveillance System, wastewater utilities, and academic, laboratory, and
other state and federal partners. This bill would require the department, in consultation
with participating wastewater treatment facilities, local health departments, and other
subject matter experts, to maintain the Cal-SuWers network to test, as appropriate for
public health use, for pathogens, toxins, or other public health indicators in wastewater.
The bill would require participation in the Cal-SuWers network from local health
departments and wastewater treatment facilities to be voluntary. The bill would authorize
the department to coordinate with health care providers, local health departments, and
emergency response agencies to ensure wastewater surveillance data is used for early
intervention, outbreak response, epidemiological investigations, and public health
planning. (Based on 09/13/2025 text)

Location:

10/06/2025 - Senate VETOED

Current Text:

10/06/2025 - Vetoed

Introduced:

02/11/2025

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

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Current Analysis:

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SB 430

10/09/25 S Floor Analyses (text
09/13/25)

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Local agencies: automated decision systems.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law establishes the Government Operations Agency (GovOps), and establishes
within the agency the Department of Technology. Current law requires 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. Current law defines, for these purposes, an
“automated decision system” as, among other things, a computational process that is
used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts
natural persons. Current law authorizes local agencies, including cities and counties, to
provide welfare, employment, and other public social services. Current law also authorizes
the legislative body of any county or city, pursuant to specified procedures, 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. This bill would
impose certain restrictions on the use of an automated decision system by a local agency
to confer supportive services, permits, or licenses, as specified. Among those restrictions,
the bill would include a prohibition on using an output from the system as the sole basis
for an adverse eligibility or benefit determination affecting a natural person, except as
specified. The bill would require the local agency to verify the accuracy of the system’s
outputs and to promote nondiscrimination in its use, as specified. The bill would require
the local agency’s governing board to provide audits or other quality control review of the
outputs, as specified, to assure acceptable accuracy. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/18/2025 (Spot bill)
N

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 464

Smallwood-Cuevas, D

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Employer pay data.
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Bill information

Status:

10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 760,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Existing law establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer
Services, and Housing Agency to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and
employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold
employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status. This bill
would require an employer to collect and store any demographic information gathered by
an employer or labor contractor for the purpose of submitting the pay data report
separately from employees’ personnel records, and, beginning January 1, 2027, increase
the number of job categories, as specified above, to 23. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)

Location:

10/13/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

SB 513

Durazo, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/13/2025 - Chaptered
09/05/2025

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Personnel records.
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Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 654,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law grants current and former employees, or their representative, the right to
inspect and receive a copy of personnel records maintained by the employer relating to
the employee’s performance or to any grievance concerning the employee. Current law
requires the employer to make the contents of those personnel records available for
inspection, as specified, and makes it a crime for an employer to violate these
requirements. This bill would provide that personnel records relating to the employee’s

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performance include education and training records and would require an employer who
maintains education and training records to ensure those records include specified
information. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)
Location:

10/11/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/22/25 A Floor Analysis (text
05/06/25)

SB 693

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

05/06/2025

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Cortese, D

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Employees: meal periods.
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Status:

07/30/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 95, Statutes of 2025

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, or a local publicly owned electric utility covered by a valid collective
bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions. Current law charges the Labor
Commissioner with enforcement of these provisions. This bill would also create an
exception from the above-described prohibition for employees of a water corporation, as
defined. (Based on 07/30/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

07/30/2025 Senate CHAPTERED
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/07/25 A Appropriations
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02/21/25)

Current Text:

07/30/2025 - Chaptered

ACWD - OGM
AB 293

Bennett, D

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Groundwater sustainability agency: transparency.

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Resources

Bill information

Status:

10/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359,
Statutes of 2025.
Current law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to be developed and implemented
for each medium- or high-priority basin by a groundwater sustainability agency. Current
law authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater
basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin, as provided.
Current law requires members of the board of directors and the executive, as defined, of a
groundwater sustainability agency to file statements of economic interests with the Fair
Political Practices Commission using the commission’s online system for filing statements
of economic interests. This bill would require each groundwater sustainability agency to
publish the membership of its board of directors on its internet website, or on the local
agency’s internet website, as provided. The bill would also require each groundwater
sustainability agency to publish a link on its internet website or its local agency’s internet
website to the location on the Fair Political Practices Commission’s internet website where
the statements of economic interests, filed by the members of the board and executives of
the agency, can be viewed. (Based on 10/06/2025 text)

Summary:

Current Text:

Location:

10/06/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

01/22/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/11/25 S Floor Analyses (text
01/22/25)

AB 351

McKinnor, D

10/06/2025 - Chaptered

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Campaign contributions: agency officers.
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Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits an officer of an agency from accepting,
soliciting, or directing a contribution of more than $500 from any party, participant, or a
party or participant’s agent, while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other
entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 12 months following the date a
final decision is rendered in the proceeding, if the officer knows or has reason to know that
the participant has a financial interest, as defined. The act also prohibits an officer of an
agency from making, participating in making, or in any way attempting to use the officer’s
official position to influence the decision in a proceeding involving a license, permit, or
other entitlement for use pending before the agency if the officer has willfully or knowingly
received a contribution of more than $500 within the preceding 12 months from a party or
a party’s agent, or from any participant or a participant’s agent, if the officer knows or has
reason to know that the participant has a financial interest in the decision, as defined. This
bill would increase the contribution thresholds described above from $500 to
$1500. (Based on 01/30/2025 text)

Location:

01/31/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

01/30/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

04/28/25 A Elections (text
01/30/25)

AB 359

Ramos, D

Current Text:

01/30/2025 - Introduced

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Fair Political Practices Commission.
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Summary:

10/03/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 257, Statutes of 2025
The Political Reform Act of 1974 permits the Fair Political Practices Commission, upon
mutual agreement between the commission and the governing body of a local government
agency, to assume primary responsibility for the administration, implementation, and
enforcement of a local campaign finance or government ethics law passed by the local
government agency. The act authorizes the commission with respect to the local
campaign finance or government ethics law to, among other things, provide advice,
investigate possible violations, and bring civil actions. If such an agreement is executed,
the act further requires the commission to report to the Legislature on or before January 1,
2025 with specified information, including legislative recommendations, regarding the
performance of the agreement. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.
The act authorizes the commission to enter into a similar agreement with the Board of
Supervisors of the County of San Bernardino. This bill would additionally authorize the
commission to conduct audits with respect to the local campaign finance or government
ethics law. The bill would delete the requirement for the commission to report to the

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Legislature and remove the January 1, 2026 repeal date, thereby indefinitely extending
the operation of the provisions described above. (Based on 10/03/2025 text)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

Location:

10/03/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

01/30/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/13/25 A Floor Analysis (text
07/02/25)

AB 370

10/03/2025 - Chaptered
07/02/2025

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California Public Records Act: cyberattacks.
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Bill information

Status:

07/14/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 34, Statutes of 2025

Summary:

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records
available for public inspection, except as specified. Current 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. Current law authorizes that time
limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, and defines
“unusual circumstances” to include, among other things, the need to search for, collect,
and appropriately examine records during a state of emergency when the state of
emergency currently affects the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests due to
staffing shortages or closure of facilities, as provided. This bill would also expand the
definition of unusual circumstances to include the inability of the agency, because of a
cyberattack, to access its electronic servers or systems in order to search for and obtain a
record that the agency believes is responsive to a request and is maintained on the
servers or systems in an electronic format. (Based on 07/14/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

07/14/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED
02/03/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/02/25 S Floor Analyses (text
03/12/25)

AB 372

Bennett, D

Current Text:

07/14/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

03/12/2025

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Office of Emergency Services: state matching funds: water system infrastructure improvements.
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ACWD - Emergency Response, ACWD Engineering, ACWD - OGM, ACWD - Operations

Bill information

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:
Is Urgent:

02/03/2025
N

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 487

Committee on Insurance

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Insurance.
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ACWD - OGM
Bill information

Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 558,
Statutes of 2025.
Current law generally regulates the business of insurance in the state, including the
issuance of securities. Existing law defines an agent to mean every person employed or
appointed by an insurer or broker who sells a security in this state for compensation. This
bill would update the term “agent” to “stock agent” and would make conforming
changes. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Summary:

Location:

10/10/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/10/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/27/25 A Floor Analysis (text
07/03/25)

AB 497

Wilson, D

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/03/2025

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San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary Water Quality Control Plan: update:
substitute environmental document: exemption.
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Bill information

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Summary:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act establishes a statewide program for the
control of the quality of all the waters in the state and makes certain legislative findings
and declarations. Current law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board to
exercise the adjudicatory and regulatory functions of the state in the field of water
resources. Pursuant to its authority, the board adopted the Water Quality Control Plan for
the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary (Bay-Delta Plan) that,
among other things, establishes objectives to protect the beneficial uses of the water and
prevent nuisance within the waters specified in the Bay-Delta Plan. The California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR)
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 would require the board to adopt an update to the Bay-Delta Plan that
addresses the Sacramento River and its tributaries, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
(Delta) eastside tributaries, and the Delta no later than August 31, 2026. The bill would
exempt the board from the requirements to prepare, provide for review, transmit to state

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agencies, and include written or oral responses to comments on a specified draft
substitute environmental document, as provided. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
Location:
Introduced:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD
02/10/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 614

Current Text:
Last Amend:

01/05/2026 - Amended
01/05/2026

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Lee, D

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Claims against public entities.
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Bill information

Status:
Summary:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
The Government Claims Act establishes the liability and immunity of a public entity for its
acts or omissions that cause harm to persons and requires that a claim against a public
entity relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person, personal property, or
growing crops be presented not later than 6 months after accrual of the cause of action.
Under current law, claims relating to any other cause of action are required to be
presented no later than one year after the accrual of the cause of action. This bill would
remove the provisions requiring a claim against a public entity relating to a cause of action
for death or for injury to person, personal property, or growing crops to be presented not
later than 6 months after accrual of the cause of action and would instead require a claim
relating to any cause of action to be presented not later than one year after accrual of the
cause of action, unless otherwise specified by law. (Based on 03/27/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

03/27/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/13/2025

Last Amend:

03/27/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
A Appropriations
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03/27/25)

AB 707

Soria, D

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San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority: B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Died at Desk.

Summary:

Would appropriate $455,500,000 from the General Fund to the San Luis and DeltaMendota Water Authority for the purpose of funding the State Highway 152 Route
improvements required to complete the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion
Project. (Based on 02/14/2025 text)

Location:

02/02/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

02/14/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 734

Schultz, D

Current Text:

02/14/2025 - Introduced

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Environmental protection: biological resources data: State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission: powerplants: power lines: applications.
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Status:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

Current law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission with the power to certify locations on which an electrical transmission line or
thermal powerplant is constructed, or is proposed to be constructed, except as provided.
Current law authorizes the commission to exempt from certification a thermal powerplant
with a generating capacity of up to 100 megawatts, and modifications to existing
generating facilities that do not add capacity in excess of 100 megawatts, if the
commission finds that no substantial adverse impact on the environment or energy
resources will result from the construction or operation of the proposed facility or from the
modifications. This bill would require any biological resources data submitted to the
commission in an application for certification or small powerplant exemption pursuant to
the above-described provisions to be made publicly available on the commission’s docket
as part of the certification proceeding unless the Department of Fish and Wildlife makes a
written determination that the data to be made public includes specified location data, the
disclosure of which would pose a significant risk to individuals of the species. The bill
would require the department, if it makes that determination, to include in the written
determination an assessment of the maximum amount of the specified data that can be
released without posing a risk to the species. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)

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Location:

10/01/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/18/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 810

Irwin, D

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04/21/2025

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Local government: internet websites and email addresses.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law requires that a local agency that maintains an internet website for use by the
public to ensure that the internet website uses a “.gov” top-level domain or a “.ca.gov”
second-level domain no later than January 1, 2029. Current law requires that a local
agency that maintains public email addresses to ensure that each email address provided
to its employees uses a “.gov” domain name or a “.ca.gov” domain name no later than
January 1, 2029. Current law defines “local agency” for these purposes as a city, county,
or city and county. This bill would recast these provisions by instead requiring a city,
county, or city and county to comply with the above-described domain requirements and
by deleting the term “local agency” from the above-described provisions. The bill would
also require a special district, joint powers authority, or other political subdivision to
comply with similar domain requirements no later than January 1, 2031. (Based on
04/10/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

04/10/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/19/2025
N

Last Amend:

04/10/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/05/25 A Appropriations
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04/10/25)

AB 905

Pacheco, D

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State general obligation bonds: disclosure requirements.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The State General Obligation Bond Law generally sets forth the procedures for the
issuance and sale of bonds governed by its provisions and for the disbursal of the
proceeds of the sale of those bonds. Current law requires any state bond measure
approved on or after January 1, 2004, to be subject to an annual reporting process, with
the head of the lead state agency administering the bond proceeds reporting certain
information about the projects being funded to the Legislature and the Department of
Finance. Current law allows this information to be provided on the agency’s internet
website or the state’s open data portal under certain circumstances. This bill would require
a bond act for any state general obligation bond measure that is approved by voters on
and after January 1, 2026, to include specified information about the objectives of the
bond expenditure and related data. The bill would also require the head of the lead state
agency administering the bond to post on its internet website a notification that contains,
among other information, details about the programs and projects authorized to be funded
by the bond. (Based on 03/28/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

03/28/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Last Amend:

03/28/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
05/12/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/28/25)

AB 990

Hadwick, R

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Public water systems: emergency notification plan.
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Bill information

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
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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

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N

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Current Analysis:

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

AB 1096

Connolly, D

Current Text:

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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Water: schoolsites: lead testing.
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Status:
Summary:

Location:

10/03/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 290,
Statutes of 2025.
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.
Current federal regulations require community water systems to contact all schools and
childcare facilities, as defined, to provide information about the health risks from lead in
drinking water and of eligibility to be sampled for lead by the water system. Current federal
regulations require a community water system to report to the state annually on the
notification of eligibility and sampling for lead, and information regarding the number and
names of schools and childcare facilities served by the water system, those sampled in
the previous year, the facilities that declined sampling, facilities that did not respond to
outreach attempts for sampling, and information pertaining to those outreach attempts for
sampling. This bill would require a community water system, when making outreach
attempts to elementary schools and childcare facilities for the purposes of offering lead
sampling in drinking water, to compile specified information and to provide elementary
schools and childcare facilities that decline lead testing with an opportunity to provide
information about their reasons for declining by allowing them to select from a list that
includes specified options, unless the school or childcare facility is exempted from lead
testing by federal waiver, as provided. The bill would authorize the state board to add
additional reasons for declining lead testing to that list. The bill would require a community
water system to submit all of the above-described information that it compiles or that is
provided to it to the state board, as provided. The bill would require the state board, on or
before June 30, 2028, to make all of that information publicly available in a searchable
format on its internet website, as specified. (Based on 10/03/2025 text)
10/03/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Current Text:

10/03/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/04/2025

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Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/04/25)

SB 430

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Cabaldon, D

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Local agencies: automated decision systems.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law establishes the Government Operations Agency (GovOps), and establishes
within the agency the Department of Technology. Current law requires 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. Current law defines, for these purposes, an
“automated decision system” as, among other things, a computational process that is
used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts
natural persons. Current law authorizes local agencies, including cities and counties, to
provide welfare, employment, and other public social services. Current law also authorizes
the legislative body of any county or city, pursuant to specified procedures, 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. This bill would
impose certain restrictions on the use of an automated decision system by a local agency
to confer supportive services, permits, or licenses, as specified. Among those restrictions,
the bill would include a prohibition on using an output from the system as the sole basis
for an adverse eligibility or benefit determination affecting a natural person, except as
specified. The bill would require the local agency to verify the accuracy of the system’s
outputs and to promote nondiscrimination in its use, as specified. The bill would require
the local agency’s governing board to provide audits or other quality control review of the
outputs, as specified, to assure acceptable accuracy. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

02/18/2025 (Spot bill)

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 598

Durazo, D

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Public contracts: local water infrastructure projects: Construction Manager/General Contractor project
delivery method.
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Bill information

Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 655,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law defines the Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method
(CM/GC method) as a project delivery method in which a construction manager is
procured to provide preconstruction services during the design phase of a project and
construction services during the construction phase of the project. Under current law, the
method allows the contract for construction services to be entered into at the same time
as the contract for preconstruction services or at a later time. Current law authorizes the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to utilize the CM/GC method for regional
recycled water projects or other water infrastructure projects under specified conditions.
Pursuant to existing law, certain information required to be submitted as part of the
CM/GC method is required to be verified under oath. Current law makes the provisions
described above pertaining to the CM/GC method effective only until January 1, 2028, and
inoperative as of that date. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, authorize a local agency,
as defined, upon approval of its governing body, to similarly use the CM/GC method for a
regional recycled water project or other water infrastructure project undertaken by the
district to alleviate water supply shortages attributable to drought or climate change. The
bill would require that authorization to apply to no more than 15 capital outlay projects for
each local agency and would require a local agency to award a contract pursuant to the
bill on a best value basis or to the lowest responsible bidder. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
08/25/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/07/25)

SB 654

Stern, D

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/07/2025

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California Environmental Protection Agency: contract: registry: greenhouse gas emissions that result
from the water-energy nexus.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The California Environmental Protection Agency is required to oversee the development of
a registry for greenhouse gas emissions that result from the water-energy nexus using the
best available data. Current law provides that participation in the registry is voluntary and
open to any entity conducting business in the state. Existing law authorizes the agency to
enter into a contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to do specified things, including
to recruit broad participation in the registry from all economic sectors and regions of the
state. Current law limits the term of the term of the contract to 3 years, except as provided.
This bill would instead require the agency to oversee the administration of the abovedescribed registry and would authorize the agency to enter into a new contract, limited to
a term of 3 years and with a total budget of $2,000,000, to do specified things, including to
recruit broad participation in the registry from all economic sectors and regions of the state
to meet the different needs of water users throughout the state by various means, as
provided. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
04/18/25 - - - - - - - (text
02/20/25)

SB 684

Menjivar, D

Current Text:

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025.
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Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Would enact the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 and would establish the
Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Program to be administered by the California
Environmental Protection Agency to require fossil fuel polluters to pay their fair share of
the damage caused by greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere during the
covered period, which the bill would define as the time period between the 1990 and 2024
calendar years, inclusive, resulting from the extraction, production, refining, sale, or
combustion of fossil fuels or petroleum products, to relieve a portion of the burden to
address cost borne by current and future California taxpayers. The bill would require the
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responsible parties, which the bill would define as an entity with a majority ownership
interest in a business engaged in extracting or refining fossil fuels that, during the covered
period, did business in the state or otherwise had sufficient contact with the state, and is
determined by the agency to be responsible for more than 1,000,000,000 metric tons of
covered fossil fuel emissions, as defined, in aggregate globally, during the covered
period. (Based on 03/26/2025 text)
Location:

02/02/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/26/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/21/2025
Y

Last Amend:

03/26/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

04/01/25 S Environmental
Quality (text 02/21/25)

ACWD - Operations
AB 339

Ortega, D

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Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.
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Bill information

Status:

10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 687,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining
of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment
Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local
public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a
public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms
and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations.
Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions
designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in
cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of
any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of
representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards
and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and
boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency,
to give the recognized employee organization no less than 45 days’ written notice before
issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing
contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications
represented by the recognized employee organization, subject to certain exceptions. The
bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated
duration of the contract. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)

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Location:

10/13/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/28/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/04/25 A Floor Analysis (text
08/29/25)

AB 372

Bennett, D

HTML

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10/13/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

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

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 426

Dixon, R

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Impeding emergency response with drone.
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- Operations

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 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:
Introduced:

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

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/15/25 S Appropriations
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04/02/25)

AB 620

Jackson, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/02/2025 - Amended
04/02/2025

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Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program: rental vehicles.
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ACWD - Operations
Bill information

Status:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

Current law establishes the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet
Purchasing Assistance Program (program) within the Air Quality Improvement Program to
make financing tools and nonfinancial supports available to operators of medium- and
heavy-duty vehicle fleets to enable those operators to transition their fleets to zeroemission vehicles. This bill, for any regulation adopted to develop or implement the
program, or other regulations that are regarding the procurement or use of medium- and
heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles by a public or private fleet, would require the state
board to consider specified things, including, among other things, the environmental and
supply chain benefits of renting medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles
compared to procuring them. (Based on 09/08/2025 text)

Location:

10/03/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/08/25)

AB 639

Soria, D

Current Text:

10/03/2025 - Vetoed

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Dams: exceptions.
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Bill information

Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 617,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law defines a dam to mean any artificial barrier, together with appurtenant works,
that does or may impound or divert water, and meets other specified criteria. Current law
excludes from the definition a barrier that is or will be not in excess of 6 feet in height,
regardless of storage capacity, or that has or will have a storage capacity not in excess of
15 acre-feet, regardless of height. This bill would additionally exclude from the definition of
a dam a barrier that does not impound water above the top of a levee where maximum
storage behind the barrier has a minimum of 3 feet of freeboard on the levee and is a weir,
as defined, but would apply only to specified weirs named in the bill. (Based on
10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered
06/11/2025

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Introduced:

02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
09/03/25 A Floor Analysis (text
06/11/25)

AB 794

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Gabriel, D

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California Safe Drinking Water Act: emergency regulations.
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02/02/2026 - Died on inactive file.

Summary:

The California Safe Drinking Water Act (state act) requires the State Water Resources
Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to
protect public health. The state board’s duties include, but are not limited to, enforcing the
federal Safe Drinking Water Act (federal act) and adopting and enforcing regulations.
Current law authorizes the state board to adopt as an emergency regulation, a regulation
that is not more stringent than, and is not materially different in substance and effect than,
the requirements of a regulation promulgated under the federal act, with a specified
exception. This bill would provide that the authority of the state board to adopt an
emergency regulation pursuant to these provisions includes the authority to adopt
requirements of a specified federal regulation that was in effect on January 19, 2025,
regardless of whether the requirements were repealed or amended to be less stringent.
The bill would prohibit an emergency regulation adopted pursuant to these provisions from
implementing less stringent drinking water standards, as provided, and would authorize
the regulation to include monitoring requirements that are more stringent than the
requirements of the federal regulation. The bill would prohibit maximum contaminant
levels and compliance dates for maximum contaminant levels adopted as part of an
emergency regulation from being more stringent than the maximum contaminant levels
and compliance dates of a regulation promulgated pursuant to the federal act. (Based on
04/10/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

02/02/2026 - Assembly DEAD
02/18/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/28/25 A Floor Analysis (text
04/10/25)

AB 823

Boerner, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/10/2025 - Amended
04/10/2025

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Solid waste: plastic microbeads: plastic glitter.

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Status:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

The Plastic Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law prohibits a person, as defined, from
selling or offering for promotional purposes in this state a personal care product containing
plastic microbeads that are used to exfoliate or cleanse in a rinse-off product, including,
but not limited to, toothpaste. Existing law exempts a product containing less than one
part per million (ppm) by weight of plastic microbeads from the prohibition. The Plastic
Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per
day for each violation of the prohibition, as provided, and authorizes the Attorney General
and local officials to enforce the prohibition. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2029,
prohibit a person from selling, offering for sale, distributing, or offering for promotional
purposes in this state a personal care product containing plastic glitter, or a personal care
product in a non-rinse-off product or a cleaning product containing one ppm or more by
weight of plastic microbeads that are used as an abrasive, as specified. The bill would
authorize, until January 1, 2030, a person to continue to sell, offer for sale, distribute, or
offer for promotional purposes in this state an existing stock of personal care products
containing plastic glitter, as specified. By adding these prohibitions to the Plastic
Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law, the bill would impose the civil penalty for violations
of these prohibitions. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 990

Hadwick, R

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Vetoed

Last Amend:

05/23/2025

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Public water systems: emergency notification plan.
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Bill information

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:
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02/20/2025
N

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N

Current Analysis:

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

AB 995

Caloza, D

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Department of Justice: phone scams.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Would require the Department of Justice to establish and maintain a database of known
phone scams on its internet website. The bill would require the department to include a
mechanism to report suspected scams and to search for known phone scams, as
specified. The bill would also require the department to report annually to the Legislature,
commencing January 1, 2028, specified information relating to phone scams. The bill
would repeal its provisions January 1, 2033. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

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Y

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05/05/25)

AB 1191

Tangipa, R

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California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: hydroelectric generation.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law establishes the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program, which
requires the Public Utilities Commission to implement annual procurement targets for the
procurement of eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, for all retail sellers, as
defined, and requires local publicly owned electric utilities to adopt and implement
renewable energy resources procurement plans to achieve the targets and goals of the
program. Under current law, eligible renewable energy resources include small
hydroelectric generation facilities of 30 megawatts or less that meet specified criteria. This
bill would revise the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource for the purposes of
the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program to include all hydroelectric
generating facilities and would make conforming changes. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

04/01/25 A Committee On
Utilities And Energy (text
02/21/25)

AB 1469

Hart, D

Current Text:

02/21/2025 - Introduced

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Disaster preparedness: public water systems.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Died at Desk.

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

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to address possible disaster scenarios. Current law requires these public water systems
to, following a declared state of emergency, furnish an assessment of their emergency
response and recommendations to the Legislature within 6 months after each disaster,
and to implement the recommendations in a timely manner. Current law requires the office
to establish emergency response and recovery plans in coordination with these public
water systems. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. (Based
on 02/21/2025 text)
Location:
Introduced:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

SB 31

McNerney, D

Current Text:

02/21/2025 - Introduced

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Water quality: recycled water.
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Bill information

Status:

10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 736,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Water Recycling Law generally provides for the use of recycled water. Current law
requires any person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits an
unauthorized discharge of 50,000 gallons or more of recycled water in or on any waters of
the state to immediately notify the appropriate regional water board. This bill would, for the
purposes of the above provision, redefine “recycled water” and provide that water
discharged from a decorative body of water during storm events is not to be considered
an unauthorized discharge if recycled water was used to restore levels due to
evaporation. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)

Location:

10/13/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

12/02/2024

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Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

09/03/25 S Floor Analyses (text
06/09/25)

SB 231

Seyarto, R

Current Text:

10/13/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

06/09/2025

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California Environmental Quality Act: the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: technical advisory.
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ACWD - Capital Projects, ACWD - Engineering,
ACWD - Operations, ACWD - Water Resources

Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

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. Under current law, the recommendation, continuous evaluation, and
execution of statewide environmental goals, policies, and plans are included within the
scope of the executive functions of the Governor. 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. This bill would require, on or before
July 1, 2027, the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to consult with regional, local,
state, and federal agencies to develop a technical advisory on thresholds of significance
for greenhouse gas and noise pollution effects on the environment to assist local
agencies. The bill would require the technical advisory to provide suggested thresholds of
significance for all areas of the state, as specified, and would provide that lead agencies
may elect to adopt these suggested thresholds of significance. The bill would also require
the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to post the technical advisory on its internet
website. (Based on 03/20/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/20/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/28/2025
N

Last Amend:

03/20/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
04/04/25 - - - - - - - (text
03/20/25)

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SB 394

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Allen, D

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Water theft: fire hydrants.
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Bill information

Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 540,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law authorizes a utility to bring a civil action for damages against any person who
commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts certain acts, including, diverting or
causing to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever. Current law creates a
rebuttable presumption that there is violation of these provisions if, on premises controlled
by the customer or by the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility service,
certain actions occur, including that there is an instrument, apparatus, or device primarily
designed to be used to obtain utility service without paying the full lawful charge for the
utility. This bill would add to the list of acts for which a utility may bring a civil cause of
action under these circumstances to include tampering with a fire hydrant, fire hydrant
meter, or fire detector check, or connecting to, diverting water from, or causing water to be
diverted from, a fire hydrant without authorization from the utility that owns the fire
hydrant, except as provided. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/14/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

N
07/14/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/03/25)

SB 496

Hurtado, D

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/03/2025

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Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: appeals advisory committee: exemptions.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting
greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve
the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission
reductions from those sources. Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the
Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning
local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other highpriority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission
vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities subject to the
regulation to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. This
bill would require the state board to establish the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation
Appeals Advisory Committee by an unspecified date for purposes of reviewing appeals of
denied requests for exemptions from the requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets
Regulation. The bill would require the committee to include representatives of specified

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governmental and nongovernmental entities. The bill would require the committee to meet
monthly and would require recordings of its meetings to be made publicly available on the
state board’s internet website. The bill would require the committee to consider, and make
a recommendation on, an appeal of an exemption request denial no later than 60 days
after the appeal is made. The bill would require specified information relating to the
committee’s consideration of an appeal to be made publicly available on the state board’s
internet website. (Based on 04/07/2025 text)
Location:
Introduced:

01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD
02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Appropriations
05/02/25 - - - - - - - (text
04/07/25)

SB 724

Richardson, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/07/2025 - Amended
04/07/2025

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Public housing: lead testing.
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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 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 YEAR

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

SB 732

Ochoa Bogh, R

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Emergency backup generators: critical facilities: exemptions.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of
air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Current law generally designates air
pollution control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the
control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Current law requires
the State Air Resources Board to identify toxic air contaminants that are emitted into the
ambient air of the state and to establish airborne toxic control measures to reduce
emissions of toxic air contaminants from nonvehicular sources. This bill would require an
air district without a specified rule on emergency backup generators, as defined, as of
January 1, 2026, that adopts such a rule to include in the rule provisions that allow the
operator of a critical facility, as defined, to use a permitted emergency backup generator in
exceedance of the applicable runtime and testing and maintenance limits if specified
conditions are met. The bill would require a critical facility allowed to exceed applicable
limits under a rule adopted pursuant to that provision to attest to and provide evidence of
having taken demonstrable steps toward implementing the use of backup power
technologies that meet or exceed emission standards set by the state board. (Based on
02/21/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Senate DEAD

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Text:

02/21/2025 - Introduced

ACWD - Water Quality
AB 794

Gabriel, D

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California Safe Drinking Water Act: emergency regulations.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - Died on inactive file.

Summary:

The California Safe Drinking Water Act (state act) requires the State Water Resources
Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to
protect public health. The state board’s duties include, but are not limited to, enforcing the
federal Safe Drinking Water Act (federal act) and adopting and enforcing regulations.
Current law authorizes the state board to adopt as an emergency regulation, a regulation
that is not more stringent than, and is not materially different in substance and effect than,
the requirements of a regulation promulgated under the federal act, with a specified
exception. This bill would provide that the authority of the state board to adopt an
emergency regulation pursuant to these provisions includes the authority to adopt
requirements of a specified federal regulation that was in effect on January 19, 2025,
regardless of whether the requirements were repealed or amended to be less stringent.
The bill would prohibit an emergency regulation adopted pursuant to these provisions from
implementing less stringent drinking water standards, as provided, and would authorize
the regulation to include monitoring requirements that are more stringent than the
requirements of the federal regulation. The bill would prohibit maximum contaminant
levels and compliance dates for maximum contaminant levels adopted as part of an
emergency regulation from being more stringent than the maximum contaminant levels
and compliance dates of a regulation promulgated pursuant to the federal act. (Based on
04/10/2025 text)

Location:

02/02/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

04/10/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/18/2025

Last Amend:

04/10/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
05/28/25 A Floor Analysis (text
04/10/25)

AB 823

Boerner, D

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Solid waste: plastic microbeads: plastic glitter.
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Bill information

Status:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

The Plastic Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law prohibits a person, as defined, from
selling or offering for promotional purposes in this state a personal care product containing
plastic microbeads that are used to exfoliate or cleanse in a rinse-off product, including,
but not limited to, toothpaste. Existing law exempts a product containing less than one
part per million (ppm) by weight of plastic microbeads from the prohibition. The Plastic
Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per
day for each violation of the prohibition, as provided, and authorizes the Attorney General
and local officials to enforce the prohibition. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2029,
prohibit a person from selling, offering for sale, distributing, or offering for promotional

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purposes in this state a personal care product containing plastic glitter, or a personal care
product in a non-rinse-off product or a cleaning product containing one ppm or more by
weight of plastic microbeads that are used as an abrasive, as specified. The bill would
authorize, until January 1, 2030, a person to continue to sell, offer for sale, distribute, or
offer for promotional purposes in this state an existing stock of personal care products
containing plastic glitter, as specified. By adding these prohibitions to the Plastic
Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law, the bill would impose the civil penalty for violations
of these prohibitions. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)
Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 990

Hadwick, R

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Vetoed

Last Amend:

05/23/2025

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Bill information

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)

Current Text:

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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AB 995

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Caloza, D

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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Would require the Department of Justice to establish and maintain a database of known
phone scams on its internet website. The bill would require the department to include a
mechanism to report suspected scams and to search for known phone scams, as
specified. The bill would also require the department to report annually to the Legislature,
commencing January 1, 2028, specified information relating to phone scams. The bill
would repeal its provisions January 1, 2033. (Based on 05/05/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
05/12/25 - - - - - - - (text
05/05/25)

SB 31

McNerney, D

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Water quality: recycled water.
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Bill information

Status:

10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 736,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Water Recycling Law generally provides for the use of recycled water. Current law
requires any person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits an
unauthorized discharge of 50,000 gallons or more of recycled water in or on any waters of
the state to immediately notify the appropriate regional water board. This bill would, for the

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purposes of the above provision, redefine “recycled water” and provide that water
discharged from a decorative body of water during storm events is not to be considered
an unauthorized discharge if recycled water was used to restore levels due to
evaporation. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)
Location:

10/13/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

09/03/25 S Floor Analyses (text
06/09/25)

SB 724

Richardson, D

Current Text:

10/13/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

06/09/2025

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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 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 YEAR

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/21/2025
N

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

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AB 43

Schultz, D

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Wild and scenic rivers.
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10/07/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 431,
Statutes of 2025.
Current law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to take specified
actions relating to the addition of rivers or segments of rivers to the state’s wild and scenic
rivers system if, among other things, the federal government enacts a statute that, upon
enactment, would require the removal or delisting of any river or segment of a river in the
state that was included in the national wild and scenic rivers system and not in the state
wild and scenic rivers system. Current law authorizes, only until December 31, 2025, the
secretary to take action under these provisions to add a river or segment of a river to the
state wild and scenic rivers system. Current law requires those actions to remain in effect
until December 31, 2025, except as otherwise provided. This bill would indefinitely extend
the date by which the secretary is authorized to take the specified actions relating to the
addition of rivers or segments of rivers to the state’s wild and scenic rivers system, as
described above. (Based on 10/07/2025 text)

Summary:

Current Text:

Location:

10/07/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

12/02/2024
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

07/08/25 S Floor Analyses (text
12/02/24)

AB 263

Rogers, D

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Scott River: Shasta River: watersheds.
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Status:

09/26/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 130,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law provides that an emergency regulation adopted by the State Water Resources
Control Board following a Governor’s proclamation of a state of emergency based on
drought conditions, for which the board makes specified findings, may remain in effect for
up to one year, as provided, and may be renewed if the board determines that specified
conditions relating to precipitation are still in effect. This bill would provide that specified
emergency regulations adopted by the board for the Scott River and Shasta River
watersheds shall remain in effect until January 1, 2031, or until permanent rules
establishing and implementing long-term instream flow requirements are adopted for
those watersheds, whichever occurs first. (Based on 09/26/2025 text)

Location:
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09/26/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED
01/16/2025

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N

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Y

Current Analysis:

09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/03/25)

AB 267

Macedo, R

Current Text:

09/26/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/03/2025

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Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: high-speed rail: water infrastructure and wildfire prevention.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Would suspend the appropriation to the High-Speed Rail Authority for the 2026–27 and
2027–28 fiscal years and would instead require those amounts from moneys collected by
the State Air Resources Board to be transferred to the General Fund. The bill would
specify that the transferred amounts shall be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to augment funding for water infrastructure and wildfire prevention. (Based on
01/17/2025 text)

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01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD
01/17/2025

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N

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AB 293

Bennett, D

Current Text:

01/17/2025 - Introduced

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Groundwater sustainability agency: transparency.

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Bill information

Status:

10/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 359,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to be developed and implemented
for each medium- or high-priority basin by a groundwater sustainability agency. Current
law authorizes any local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater
basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin, as provided.
Current law requires members of the board of directors and the executive, as defined, of a
groundwater sustainability agency to file statements of economic interests with the Fair
Political Practices Commission using the commission’s online system for filing statements
of economic interests. This bill would require each groundwater sustainability agency to
publish the membership of its board of directors on its internet website, or on the local
agency’s internet website, as provided. The bill would also require each groundwater
sustainability agency to publish a link on its internet website or its local agency’s internet
website to the location on the Fair Political Practices Commission’s internet website where
the statements of economic interests, filed by the members of the board and executives of
the agency, can be viewed. (Based on 10/06/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

10/06/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED
01/22/2025

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N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/11/25 S Floor Analyses (text
01/22/25)

AB 295

Macedo, R

Current Text:

10/06/2025 - Chaptered

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California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects: water storage,
water conveyance, and groundwater recharge projects: streamlined review.
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Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021
authorizes the Governor, until January 1, 2032, to certify environmental leadership
development projects that meet specified requirements for certain streamlining benefits
related to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The act, among other things,
requires a lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings for an environmental
leadership development project, as provided, and to provide a specified notice within 10
days of the Governor certifying the project. The act is repealed by its own term on January
1, 2034. This bill would extend the application of the act to water storage projects, water
conveyance projects, and groundwater recharge projects that provide public benefits and
drought preparedness. Because a lead agency would be required to prepare the record of
proceedings for water storage projects, water conveyance projects, and groundwater
recharge projects pursuant to the act, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. (Based on 01/23/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

01/23/2025

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 430

Alanis, R

Current Text:

01/23/2025 - Introduced

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State Water Resources Control Board: emergency regulations.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law provides that an emergency regulation adopted by the State Water Resources
Control Board following a Governor’s proclamation of a state of emergency based on
drought conditions, for which the board makes specified findings, may remain in effect for
up to one year, as provided, and may be renewed if the board determines that specified
conditions relating to precipitation are still in effect. This bill would require the board, within
180 days following a finding by the board that a nonfee emergency regulation is no longer
necessary, as provided, to conduct a comprehensive economic study assessing the
impacts of the regulation, as specified. (Based on 05/01/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

05/01/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/05/2025

Last Amend:

05/01/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
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AB 497

Wilson, D

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San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary Water Quality Control Plan: update:
substitute environmental document: exemption.
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Status:
Summary:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act establishes a statewide program for the
control of the quality of all the waters in the state and makes certain legislative findings
and declarations. Current law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board to
exercise the adjudicatory and regulatory functions of the state in the field of water
resources. Pursuant to its authority, the board adopted the Water Quality Control Plan for
the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary (Bay-Delta Plan) that,
among other things, establishes objectives to protect the beneficial uses of the water and
prevent nuisance within the waters specified in the Bay-Delta Plan. The California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or
cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR)
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 would require the board to adopt an update to the Bay-Delta Plan that
addresses the Sacramento River and its tributaries, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
(Delta) eastside tributaries, and the Delta no later than August 31, 2026. The bill would
exempt the board from the requirements to prepare, provide for review, transmit to state
agencies, and include written or oral responses to comments on a specified draft
substitute environmental document, as provided. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/10/2025
N

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 514

Petrie-Norris, D

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Water: emergency water supplies.
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ACWD - Water Resources
Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Would declare that it is the established policy of the state to encourage, but not mandate,
the development of emergency water supplies by both local and regional water suppliers,
as defined, and to support their use during times of drought or unplanned service or
supply disruption, as provided. (Based on 05/01/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

05/01/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/10/2025
N

Last Amend:

05/01/2025

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Y

Current Analysis:

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05/12/25 - - - - - - - (text
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AB 638

Rodriguez, Celeste, D

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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

Current Text:

07/03/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/13/2025

Last Amend:

07/03/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

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

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AB 639

Soria, D

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Dams: exceptions.
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Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 617,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law defines a dam to mean any artificial barrier, together with appurtenant works,
that does or may impound or divert water, and meets other specified criteria. Current law
excludes from the definition a barrier that is or will be not in excess of 6 feet in height,
regardless of storage capacity, or that has or will have a storage capacity not in excess of
15 acre-feet, regardless of height. This bill would additionally exclude from the definition of
a dam a barrier that does not impound water above the top of a levee where maximum
storage behind the barrier has a minimum of 3 feet of freeboard on the levee and is a weir,
as defined, but would apply only to specified weirs named in the bill. (Based on
10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
09/03/25 A Floor Analysis (text
06/11/25)

AB 707

Soria, D

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

06/11/2025

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San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority: B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project.
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02/02/2026 - Died at Desk.

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Summary:

Would appropriate $455,500,000 from the General Fund to the San Luis and DeltaMendota Water Authority for the purpose of funding the State Highway 152 Route
improvements required to complete the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion
Project. (Based on 02/14/2025 text)

Location:

02/02/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

02/14/2025

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N

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AB 709

Gonzalez, Jeff, R

Current Text:

02/14/2025 - Introduced

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Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability plans.
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10/07/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 439,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requires a groundwater sustainability
agency, upon adoption of a groundwater sustainability plan, to submit the groundwater
sustainability plan to the department for review. If groundwater sustainability agencies
develop multiple groundwater sustainability plans for a basin, the act requires, when the
entire basin is covered by groundwater sustainability plans, the groundwater sustainability
agencies to jointly submit to the Department of Water Resources the groundwater
sustainability plans, an explanation of how the plans satisfy specified provisions of the act,
and a copy of the coordination agreement between the groundwater sustainability
agencies. The act requires the department to evaluate a groundwater sustainability plan
within 2 years of its submission and issue an assessment of the plan. This bill would
provide that nothing in those provisions relating to making submissions to the department
shall be construed to prohibit groundwater sustainability agencies that have developed
multiple groundwater sustainability plans for a basin from amending the coordination
agreement following department issuance of an assessment of the plans. (Based on
10/07/2025 text)

Location:

10/07/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/14/2025

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N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/11/25 S Floor Analyses (text
02/14/25)

AB 717

Aguiar-Curry, D

Current Text:

10/07/2025 - Chaptered

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Water rights: appropriation: small restoration use.
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02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

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. Current law requires a person, in registering their water
use to the board, to set forth a certification that the registrant has contacted the
Department of Fish and Wildlife and to include a copy of any conditions required by the
department. This bill would authorize any person to also obtain a right to appropriate
water for a small restoration use, as defined. The bill would also authorize a person to
apply for a restoration management permit from the Department of Fish and Wildlife, as
provided, and if the permit is issued, the person would be required to include a copy of
any conditions required by the restoration management permit with the required
certification. (Based on 03/10/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

03/10/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/14/2025

Last Amend:

03/10/2025

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AB 734

Schultz, D

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Environmental protection: biological resources data: State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission: powerplants: power lines: applications.
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01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

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Summary:

Current law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission with the power to certify locations on which an electrical transmission line or
thermal powerplant is constructed, or is proposed to be constructed, except as provided.
Current law authorizes the commission to exempt from certification a thermal powerplant
with a generating capacity of up to 100 megawatts, and modifications to existing
generating facilities that do not add capacity in excess of 100 megawatts, if the
commission finds that no substantial adverse impact on the environment or energy
resources will result from the construction or operation of the proposed facility or from the
modifications. This bill would require any biological resources data submitted to the
commission in an application for certification or small powerplant exemption pursuant to
the above-described provisions to be made publicly available on the commission’s docket
as part of the certification proceeding unless the Department of Fish and Wildlife makes a
written determination that the data to be made public includes specified location data, the
disclosure of which would pose a significant risk to individuals of the species. The bill
would require the department, if it makes that determination, to include in the written
determination an assessment of the maximum amount of the specified data that can be
released without posing a risk to the species. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)

Location:

10/01/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/18/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/05/25)

AB 1044

Macedo, R

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/01/2025 - Vetoed
04/21/2025

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Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency Act.
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02/02/2026 - Died on inactive file.

Summary:

Existing law, 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. The act authorizes any local agency
or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a
groundwater sustainability agency for that basin. The act deems certain agencies created
by statute to manage groundwater the exclusive local agencies within their respective
statutory boundaries with powers to comply with the act and authorizes these agencies to
opt out of being the exclusive groundwater management agency. This bill would create the
Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency and would establish the agency’s initial
boundaries. The bill would authorize the boundaries of the agency to be adjusted, as
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agency under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act for that portion of the Tule
Subbasin that lies within the boundaries of the agency and would require the agency to
develop and implement a groundwater sustainability plan to achieve sustainable
groundwater management within the territory of the agency. The bill would generally
specify the powers and purposes of the agency. The bill would prescribe the composition
of the 5-member board of directors of the agency and would require members and
alternates to be chosen, as specified. By imposing duties on the agency and the County of
Tulare, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would deem the
Tule East Groundwater Sustainability Agency the exclusive local agency with powers to
comply with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
Location:

02/02/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

05/23/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2025
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Last Amend:

05/23/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/28/25 A Floor Analysis (text
05/23/25)

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AB 1102

Boerner, D

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Sea level rise and groundwater rise: contaminated sites: report.
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Bill information

Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

The Department of Toxic Substances Control generally regulates the management and
handling of hazardous substances, materials, and waste. The bill would require, on or
before January 1, 2027, the department and the State Water Resources Control Board to
submit a report to the Legislature that includes specified information, including information
relating to all contaminated sites that are vulnerable to sea level rise and groundwater
rise. (Based on 04/09/2025 text)

Location:

01/23/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Current Text:

04/09/2025 - Amended

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02/20/2025
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04/09/2025

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04/09/25)

AB 1203

Ahrens, D

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Water conservation: water wise designation.

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Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in coordination with the
Department of Water Resources, to adopt long-term standards for the efficient use of
water and performance measures for commercial, industrial, and institutional water use
(CII water use), among other water uses, before June 30, 2022. Current law requires the
department, in coordination with the board, to conduct necessary studies and
investigations and make recommendations, no later than October 1, 2021, for purposes of
those standards and performance measures for CII water use. This bill would require the
department and the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications to
include, within the Save Our Water Campaign, a statewide “water wise” designation to be
awarded to businesses in the CII sector that meet or exceed the recommendations for CII
water use best management practices pursuant to those performance measures. (Based
on 02/21/2025 text)

Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

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AB 1367

Gallagher, R

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The California Water Plan: water storage.
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ACWD - Water Resources

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Status:

02/02/2026 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the
California Water Plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation,
development, and use of the water resources of the state. This bill would require the
department to amend The California Water Plan to state that water storage is the
preferred method to be used by the state to meet increased water demands by urban,
agricultural, and environmental interests. (Based on 02/21/2025 text)

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Location:

01/15/2026 - Assembly DEAD

Introduced:

02/21/2025

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AB 1373

Soria, D

Current Text:

02/21/2025 - Introduced

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Water quality: state certification.
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Status:

01/22/2026 - Stricken from file.

Summary:

Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
Under federal law, any applicant seeking a federal license or permit for an activity that
may result in any discharge into the navigable waters of the United States is required to
first seek a state water quality certification, as specified. The Porter-Cologne Water
Quality Control Act authorizes the state board to certify or provide a statement to a federal
agency, as required pursuant to federal law, that there is reasonable assurance that an
activity of any person subject to the jurisdiction of the state board will not reduce water
quality below applicable standards. The federal act provides that if a state fails or refuses
to act on a request for this certification within a reasonable period of time, which shall not
exceed one year after receipt of the request, then the state certification requirements are
waived with respect to the federal application. This bill would require the state board, if
requested by the applicant within 14 days of an initial draft certification being issued, to
hold a public hearing at least 21 days before taking action on an application for
certification for a license to operate a hydroelectric facility, as provided. The bill would, if a
public hearing is requested on the draft certification, prohibit the authority to issue a
certification for a license to operate a hydroelectric facility from being delegated. The bill
would authorize the state board to include in its fee schedule for hydroelectric facility
applicants an amount up to the reasonable costs incurred by the state board in
implementing these provisions. (Based on 09/16/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly VETOED

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
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Y
10/23/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/16/25)

AB 1413

Papan, D

Current Text:

10/11/2025 - Vetoed

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

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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)
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)

Summary:

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09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
02/21/2025 (Spot bill)

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1466

Hart, D

Current Text:

09/02/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

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Groundwater adjudication.
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Status:

10/11/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 643,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law establishes procedures for the comprehensive adjudication of groundwater
rights in civil court. Under current law, if the court finds that claims of right to extract or
divert only minor quantities of water, as defined, would not have a material effect on the
groundwater rights of other parties, the court may exempt those claimants from the
proceedings, except as specified. Current law further prescribes that a judgment in a
comprehensive adjudication to determine rights to extract groundwater in a basin is not
binding on, among others, claimants whose claims have been exempted. This bill would
authorize a court, in lieu of the exemption process described above, to treat persons with
claims of right to extract or divert only minor quantities of water separately from other
parties to the comprehensive adjudication. (Based on 10/11/2025 text)

Location:

10/11/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/21/2025

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N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/10/25 A Floor Analysis (text
09/04/25)

SB 31

McNerney, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/11/2025 - Chaptered
09/04/2025

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Water quality: recycled water.
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Summary:

10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 736,
Statutes of 2025.
The Water Recycling Law generally provides for the use of recycled water. Current law
requires any person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits an
unauthorized discharge of 50,000 gallons or more of recycled water in or on any waters of
the state to immediately notify the appropriate regional water board. This bill would, for the
purposes of the above provision, redefine “recycled water” and provide that water
discharged from a decorative body of water during storm events is not to be considered
an unauthorized discharge if recycled water was used to restore levels due to
evaporation. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)

Location:

10/13/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/13/2025 - Chaptered
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SB 224

09/03/25 S Floor Analyses (text
06/09/25)

Hurtado, D

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Department of Water Resources: water supply forecasting.
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Status:

10/03/2025 - Vetoed by Governor. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

Calendar:

02/09/26 #8 S-GOVERNOR'S VETOES

Summary:

Current law requires the Department of Water Resources to gather and correlate
information and data pertinent to an annual forecast of seasonal water crop. Current law
also requires the department to update every 5 years the plan for the orderly and
coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as “The California Water Plan.”This bill would
require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, to update its water supply
forecasting models and procedures to address the effects of climate change and
implement a formal policy and procedures for documenting the department’s operational
plans and the department’s rationale for its operating procedures, including the
department’s rationale for water releases from reservoirs. The bill would also require the
department to establish, and publish on the department’s internet website, the specific
criteria that it will employ to determine when its updated water supply forecasting model
has demonstrated sufficient predictive capability to be ready for use in each of the
watersheds. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2028, and
annually thereafter, to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report on its progress
toward implementing the new forecasting model and to post the report on the
department’s internet website. (Based on 09/13/2025 text)

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10/03/2025 - Senate VETOED
01/27/2025

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Current Analysis:

10/08/25 S Floor Analyses (text
09/13/25)

SB 231

Seyarto, R

Current Text:
Last Amend:

10/03/2025 - Vetoed
09/02/2025

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California Environmental Quality Act: the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: technical advisory.
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ACWD - Capital Projects, ACWD - Engineering,
ACWD - Operations, ACWD - Water Resources

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02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

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. Under current law, the recommendation, continuous evaluation, and
execution of statewide environmental goals, policies, and plans are included within the
scope of the executive functions of the Governor. 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. This bill would require, on or before
July 1, 2027, the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to consult with regional, local,
state, and federal agencies to develop a technical advisory on thresholds of significance
for greenhouse gas and noise pollution effects on the environment to assist local
agencies. The bill would require the technical advisory to provide suggested thresholds of
significance for all areas of the state, as specified, and would provide that lead agencies
may elect to adopt these suggested thresholds of significance. The bill would also require
the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to post the technical advisory on its internet
website. (Based on 03/20/2025 text)

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01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

03/20/2025 - Amended

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01/28/2025
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Last Amend:

03/20/2025

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SB 394

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Allen, D

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Water theft: fire hydrants.
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Bill information

Status:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 540,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law authorizes a utility to bring a civil action for damages against any person who
commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts certain acts, including, diverting or
causing to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever. Current law creates a
rebuttable presumption that there is violation of these provisions if, on premises controlled
by the customer or by the person using or receiving the direct benefit of utility service,
certain actions occur, including that there is an instrument, apparatus, or device primarily
designed to be used to obtain utility service without paying the full lawful charge for the
utility. This bill would add to the list of acts for which a utility may bring a civil cause of
action under these circumstances to include tampering with a fire hydrant, fire hydrant
meter, or fire detector check, or connecting to, diverting water from, or causing water to be
diverted from, a fire hydrant without authorization from the utility that owns the fire
hydrant, except as provided. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/14/2025

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Is Fiscal:
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07/14/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/03/25)

SB 463

Alvarado-Gil, R

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/03/2025

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Drought planning: resiliency measures.
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Status:

02/02/2026 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Summary:

Current law requires small water suppliers, defined for purposes of these provisions to
mean a community water system serving 15 to 2,999 service connections, inclusive, and
that provides less than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually, and nontransient noncommunity
water systems that are schools to implement specified drought resiliency measures,
including, among other things, no later than January 1, 2032, metering each service
connection and monitoring for water loss due to leakages. This bill would exempt a small
water supplier or nontransient noncommunity water system from these metering and
monitoring requirements if it (1) is in the process of applying for state funding, has been
determined to be ineligible for state funding, or is not able to obtain state funding because
there is no funding available in applicable state programs, and (2) has made a finding that
increasing its rates to raise revenue locally is not a feasible option. (Based on 04/09/2025
text)

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01/23/2026 - Senate DEAD

Current Text:

04/09/2025 - Amended

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Last Amend:

Introduced:

02/19/2025

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Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

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SB 556

Hurtado, D

04/09/2025

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Habitat enhancement and restoration: floodplains.
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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, 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 YEAR

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

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SB 557

Hurtado, D

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Child abuse: family resource centers.
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Status:

01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In
Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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 evidence-informed 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 impactdriven and evidence-informed approaches with the goal of preventing child abuse and
neglect and strengthening children and families. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)

Location:

01/29/2026 - Assembly DESK

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

Is Urgent:

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Is Fiscal:

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Current Analysis:

01/23/26 S Floor Analyses (text
01/05/26)

SB 599

Caballero, D

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Atmospheric rivers: research: forecasting methods: experimental tools.
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09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/10/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Summary:

Current law establishes the Atmospheric Rivers Research and Forecast Improvement
Program: Enabling Climate Adaptation Through Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations
and Hazard Resiliency (AR/FIRO) Program in the Department of Water Resources.
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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:

09/11/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

04/24/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

04/24/2025

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Current Analysis:

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

SB 614

Stern, D

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Public resources: transportation of carbon dioxide.
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10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 529,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Elder California Pipeline Safety Act of 1981 requires the State Fire Marshal to
administer provisions regulating the inspection of intrastate pipelines that transport
hazardous liquids. A person who willfully and knowingly violates the act or a regulation
issued pursuant to the act is, upon conviction, subject to a fine, imprisonment, or both a
fine and imprisonment, as provided. This bill would revise the definition of “pipeline,” for
purposes of the act, to include intrastate pipelines used for the transportation of carbon
dioxide. The bill would require the State Fire Marshal, by July 1, 2026, to adopt
regulations governing the safe transportation of carbon dioxide in pipelines that, at a
minimum, are as protective as certain draft regulations issued by the federal Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration on January 10, 2025. The bill would authorize
the State Fire Marshal to amend those regulations, as provided. The bill would prohibit the
approval of a pipeline for use in transporting carbon dioxide if the pipeline is originally
constructed to transport any other liquid or gas and would prohibit the construction of
those pipelines using previously used pipe or components. The bill would prohibit an
operator from constructing a pipeline transporting carbon dioxide in a location where one
or more sensitive receptors, as defined, are located within the emergency planning zone
of the pipeline, which is defined as an area within 2 miles of either side of the pipeline,
except as provided. The bill would require an operator of a pipeline transporting carbon
dioxide to submit to the State Fire Marshal and the public agency that is the lead agency
for the project that includes the pipeline an emergency planning zone inventory and map,
as provided, and would require the State Fire Marshal and the lead agency to review, at
least once every 3 years, the inventory and map for completeness and accuracy. The bill
would require the operator, at least once every 3 years, to provide to local governments
providing emergency response services to sensitive receptors within an emergency

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planning zone the inventory and map determined by the State Fire Marshal and the lead
agency to be complete and accurate and any updates to the inventory and map. The bill
would require the State Fire Marshal and the lead agency to make publicly available on its
internet website all inventories and maps determined to be current, complete, and
accurate and would require the State Fire Marshal and the lead agency to redact any
personally identifiable information from the publicly available inventories and maps. To the
extent this requirement imposes additional duties on a local agency regarding the posting
of, and the redaction of information from, the inventories and maps, this bill would impose
a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the operator to annually provide
the map to sensitive receptors within the emergency planning zone of the pipeline. The bill
would authorize the State Fire Marshal, for a pipeline transporting carbon dioxide, to order
a pipeline shutdown for violations of state or federal laws, or if continued pipeline
operations present an immediate danger to health, welfare, or the environment. The bill
would, in the event of a pipeline rupture, require the pipeline to remain nonoperational
until an investigation into the pipeline rupture is completed and the origin and cause of the
pipeline rupture is determined. Because the bill would expand the application of a crime to
pipelines transporting carbon dioxide and because a violation of the regulations adopted
by the State Fire Marshal related to pipelines transporting carbon dioxide would be a
crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that to
be recognized by the state board for meeting any requirement under the California Global
Warming Solutions Act of 2006, carbon dioxide transported by pipeline be transported only
by pipelines meeting or exceeding the standards adopted by the State Fire Marshal. This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 10/10/2025 text)
Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
09/12/25 S Floor Analyses (text
09/05/25)

SB 650

Cabaldon, D

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

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09/05/2025

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The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009.
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Status:

10/03/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 324,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 provides that it is the intent of the
Legislature to provide for the sustainable management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta ecosystem, to provide for a more reliable water supply for the state, to protect and
enhance the quality of water supply from the Delta, as defined, and to establish a
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enforceable Delta Plan. This bill would make the provisions of the Delta Plan
severable. (Based on 10/03/2025 text)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

Location:

10/03/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

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Current Analysis:

08/28/25 S Floor Analyses (text
08/18/25)

SB 676

Limón, D

10/03/2025 - Chaptered
08/18/2025

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California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire.
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Summary:

10/10/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 550,
Statutes of 2025.
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. This bill would require,on and after January 1, 2027, for a project, located in
a geographic area for which the Governor declared a state of emergency on or after
January 1, 2023, that is to maintain, repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or
facilities damaged or destroyed by wildfire, and the project is not otherwise exempt from
CEQA, as specified, the lead agency to prepare the record of proceeding concurrently
with the administrative process. The bill would also require an action or proceeding
brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the certification of an environmental
impact report, or the adoption of a negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration,
for the project to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 270 calendar days of the filing
of the certified record of proceedings. The bill would require an applicant to agree to pay
the costs of the trial court and court of appeal in hearing and deciding any action or
proceeding brought under these provisions, as provided. The bill would require the
Judicial Council to adopt rules of court to implement these requirements. The bill would
require the project to be consistent with the applicable zoning and land use ordinances.
By requiring a lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings concurrently with the
administrative process, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on
10/10/2025 text)

Location:

10/10/2025 Senate CHAPTERED

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Current Text:

10/10/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

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Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

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10/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 422,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to hold proceedings to
determine all rights to water of a stream system whether based upon appropriation,
riparian right, or other basis of right. Current law provides various requirements for the
board when determining adjudication of water rights, including, among other things,
performing a detailed field investigation of a stream system, as defined, issuing an order
of determination, providing notice and a hearing process, and filing a final order. This bill
would revise the above-described provisions regarding the board’s statutory adjudication
of water rights during an investigation of a stream system to, among other things, require
representatives of the board to investigate in detail the use of water with the authority, but
no requirement, to conduct a field investigation, authorize the board, if the board
determines that the information provided by the person, as specified, is inadequate, to
issue information orders that require claimants to submit reports of water use from the
stream system through a form provided by the board, and require claimants to respond to
that order within 75 days of the date of issuance by the board. (Based on 10/06/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

10/06/2025 Senate CHAPTERED
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

08/29/25 S Floor Analyses (text
07/03/25)

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10/06/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

07/03/2025

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Status:

10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 789,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency
from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing
development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households unless the local
agency makes written findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified.
Existing law defines, for its purposes, a housing development project as a use consisting
of, among other things, mixed-use developments consisting of residential and
nonresidential uses meeting one of several conditions, including that at least 2/3 of the
new or converted square footage is designated for residential use. This bill would revise
the definition of “housing development project” to, in the case of mixed-use developments
with at least 2/3 of the new or converted square footage designated for residential use,
require that no portion of the project be designated for use as a hotel, motel, bed and
breakfast inn, or other transient lodging, except as specified. This bill contains other
related provisions. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

10/13/2025 Senate CHAPTERED
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

09/11/25 S Floor Analyses (text
09/05/25)

Current Text:

10/13/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

09/05/2025

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Status:

10/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 687,
Statutes of 2025.

Summary:

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining
of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment
Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local
public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a
public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms
and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations.
Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions
designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in
cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of
any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of
representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards
and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and
boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency,
to give the recognized employee organization no less than 45 days’ written notice before
issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing
contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications
represented by the recognized employee organization, subject to certain exceptions. The
bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated
duration of the contract. (Based on 10/13/2025 text)

Location:
Introduced:

10/13/2025 Assembly CHAPTERED
01/28/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

09/04/25 A Floor Analysis (text
08/29/25)

Current Text:

10/13/2025 - Chaptered

Last Amend:

08/29/2025

Total Measures: 134
Total Tracking Forms: 134

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Alameda Positions

AB 259

Sorted by: Measure
Friday, 02/06/2026

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Status:

07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was JUD. on
5/14/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

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. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the
legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing if, during the
teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body
participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda
that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the
local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with prescribed
requirements. Current law requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to
participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing
provisions, including that specified circumstances apply. Current law establishes limits on
the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a
remote location pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including
prohibiting such participation for more than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body
regularly meets once per month or less. This bill would extend the alternative
teleconferencing procedures until January 1, 2030. (Based on 04/21/2025 text)

Location:

07/17/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

04/21/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/16/2025
N

Last Amend:

04/21/2025

Is Fiscal:

N

AB 532

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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 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)

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/11/2025

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 239

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Status:
Summary:

01/27/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 11.) Ordered to the Assembly. In
Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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. The act generally requires for teleconferencing that
the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at
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agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be
accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least
a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the
boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except as
specified. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes specified neighborhood city
councils to use alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda, and public
participation, as prescribed, if, among other requirements, the city council has adopted an
authorizing resolution and 2/3 of the neighborhood city council votes to use alternate
teleconference provisions, as specified This bill would authorize a subsidiary body, as
defined, to use alternative teleconferencing provisions and would impose requirements for
notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The bill would require the
subsidiary body to post the agenda at each physical meeting location designated by the
subsidiary body, as specified. The bill would require the members of the subsidiary body
to visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is publicly
accessible via the internet or other online platform, as specified. (Based on 04/07/2025
text)
Location:

01/27/2026 - Assembly DESK

Current Text:

04/07/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/30/2025
N

Last Amend:

04/07/2025

Is Fiscal:

N

Total Measures: 3
Total Tracking Forms: 3

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LEGAL,
INTERGOVERNMENTAL
& COMMUNITY
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2026

FEBRUARY 2026

PAGE 1

ROUTINE DISTRICT COMMUNICATION
Bill Message
February 5 - Attention Tri-City Parents & Guardians: Did you know that
ACWD hosts an annual WaterClips Student Video Contest? Middle and high
school students can win up to $500 in scholarships for creating 30-second
videos about water. The contest ends on March 13, so encourage your
children to enter soon. Learn more at acwd.org/waterclips.
Water efficiently by upgrading to a weather-based irrigation timer. It
adjusts to the weather so you don’t have to. Learn more at
WaterSavingsCenter.acwd.org.
Simplify your life with eBilling! Access your bills anytime, reduce paper
waste, receive automatic payment reminders, and more. For convenient
and eco-friendly billing, sign up or log in at portal.acwd.org.
Lobby hours are Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Fish screens in Alameda Creek

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

FEBRUARY 2026

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WEBSITE ARTICLES & UPDATES

News Flash - Lights, Camera,
Hydration! Enter the 7th Annual
WaterClips Student Video
Contest

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

FEBRUARY 2026

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MEDIA COVERAGE

January 20 - WaterClips Student Video
Contest

January 27 - Toilet Tips

February 3 - 24/7 Emergency Hotline

February 10 - Join ACWD Board &
Committes Meetings

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

FEBRUARY 2026

PAGE 3

MEDIA COVERAGE

January 21 - Climate Ready Fremont
Newsletter
LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

FEBRUARY 2026

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OTHER COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH
Office of the General Manager
January 22 - Renee Gonzales and Sharene Gonzales attended California
Association of Public Information Officials Northern California Regional
Meeting with presentations on how agencies are using AI and ADA
accessibility.
January 29 - Sharene Gonzales attended California Special District
Association’s Micro-Storytelling for Public Sector Impact webinar.
January 30 - Renee Gonzales attended a CUWA Communications
Committee Meeting.
February 3 - Sharene Gonzales attended the Bay Area Potable Outreach
Collaboration Meeting.
February 6 - Jackie McCloud and Sharene Gonzales met with California
State University East Bay Marketing Professor He and five Master of Science
Marketing students to discuss their proposed social media marketing
campaign for their capstone project.
February 11 - Renee Gonzales attended the Bay Area Urban Area Security
Initiative (UASI) Golden Eagle Tabletop Exercise.

Finance and Administration
January 15 - Ethan Burch published the revised Debt Management and
Disclosure Policy to the District’s website.

Water Resources
January 15 - February 11, 2026 - A total of 1 person attended the Q&A
Session with a Water Use Efficiency Specialist.
January 21 - Climate Ready Fremont Newsletter included an article on the
Water Savings Center portal.
January 22 - Sent email to 31 local plumbers regarding BAWSCA’s Leak
Repair Elite training and certification class.
February 2 - SGMA Letter: Groundwater Management for Niles Cone
Subbasin 2-09.01 and Replenishment Assessment Act of the Alameda
County Water District to Owner Operators and Other Agencies.

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FEBRUARY 2026

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SCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAM
For the 2025/2026 school year, ZunZun performed at 30 assemblies
at 14 schools reaching 7,748 students.
18,230 school supplies have been distributed to date for the 2025/26
school year.
January 29 - Met with Alicia Dutro, USD Environmental Outreach
Representative, about classroom outreach.

ACWD’s WaterClips Student Video Contest flyers
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FEBRUARY 2026

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UPCOMING EVENTS
March 18 - Spring into STEAM Event
5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Downtown Event Center
3500 Capitol Ave., Fremont
March 27 - FUSD Garden Network Event
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
ACWD Headquarters
43885 S Grimmer Blvd., Fremont
April 18 - Fremont Earth Day
TBD
Downtown Event Center & Plaza
3500 Capitol Ave., Fremont
April 23 - Historical Mural Unveiling & Tree Planting Ceremony
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
ACWD Headquarters
43885 S. Grimmer Blvd. Fremont

Photo from a past ACWD-hosted event
LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

The ACWD Connection
ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
7TH ANNUAL

Student
Video Contest
WIN $500!

ore
plus m
!
prizes

Create a 30-second video about how ACWD water
influences, inspires or supports physical health and
wellness. Individual and team entries welcome!
Contest open to students in grades 6-12 from Fremont, Newark and Union City.
Scan code for contest details and info or visit acwd.org/waterclips.

The ACWD Connection

IS YOUR TOILET SECRETLY WASTING WATER?
Conserve water where it counts! Here are three easy toilet tips ACWD recommends:
TIP #1

TIP #2

TIP #3

Toilets are one of the largest
water users in your home. Silent
leaks waste up to 200 gallons or
more of water daily. ACWD
encourages customers to find
and fix leaks.

To test for a silent toilet leak,
drop a dye tablet or a few drops
of food coloring into the tank
and wait 15-20 minutes. If color
appears in the bowl without
flushing, you have a leak. Watch
this short video to see how it
works: bit.ly/Dye-Tablet-Test.

Check and replace the toilet
flapper regularly. A worn or
misaligned flapper is a
common cause of a running
toilet, and replacing it is an
easy, low-cost fix that can save
hundreds of gallons of water.

For more water saving tips, visit: acwd.org/conserve.

The ACWD Connection

Water emergency?
We’re here for you
every day!
Emergencies don’t take the weekend off! Water
leaks and major main breaks can happen any
day of the week.
ACWD is ready 24/7, 365 days a year to address
water emergencies. Give us a call whenever you
need us.

ACWD Water Emergency
Hotline: 510-668-6500

The ACWD Connection

YOU’RE INVITED TO ATTEND
ACWD BOARD AND
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Join Alameda County Water District’s monthly Board and
Committee meetings to learn about ongoing projects, water
resources and conservation, capital improvements, finances,
and more! You can participate in the processes affecting your
water by attending ACWD’s meetings.
Board and Committee meetings are held each month,
typically in the ACWD Board Room, 43885 S. Grimmer Blvd.
in Fremont, and on Zoom. For meeting dates, times, and
details, visit acwd.org/calendar.

ACWD Headquarters

ACWD Headquarters

February 2, 2026
Dear Groundwater Well Owner/Operator and Interested Parties:
Subject: Groundwater Management for Niles Cone Subbasin 2-09.01
Replenishment Assessment Act of the Alameda County Water District

and

Alameda County Water District (ACWD or District) is providing notice to all well
owners/operators and interested parties that the Board of Directors will be discussing and
considering items regarding the management of Niles Cone Subbasin 2-09.01 (Niles
Cone) during a series of Committee Meetings, Regular Board of Director’s meetings, and
Board Workshops planned for calendar year 2026. These meetings and workshops will
focus on a number of water resources planning-related topics, such as the Replenishment
Assessment Act of the Alameda County Water District (Replenishment Assessment Act),
Annual Survey Report on Groundwater Conditions for Niles Cone Subbasin 2-09.01,
Water Resources Master Plan, and ACWD’s Alternative to a Groundwater Sustainability
Plan.
The Board of Directors will be considering items regarding the Replenishment
Assessment Act beginning at the February 12, 2026, regular Board of Directors meeting.
The Replenishment Assessment Act requires ACWD to prepare an annual Survey Report
on Groundwater Conditions and for the Board of Directors, over a few months, to hear
and consider several reports and resolutions for setting the replenishment assessment
for the upcoming fiscal year. Every year the same process is followed.
As a result, staff plans to cover items pertaining to the Replenishment Assessment Act,
under this annual process at the following Regular Board of Director meetings on
February 12, March 12, and April 14. The tentative schedule is as follows:
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February 12, 2026 – Regular Board Meeting: Delivery of the Survey Report on
Groundwater Conditions and the Groundwater Monitoring Report to the Board of
Directors and consideration of two resolutions relating to findings that update
groundwater conditions and state the amount of replenishment assessment funds
needed next fiscal year, and extending the deadline for installing measuring devices.

•

March 12, 2026 – Regular Board Meeting: Staff will provide a presentation to assist
the Board and public in its review of the Survey Report on Groundwater Conditions
and the Groundwater Monitoring Report.

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April 14, 2026 – Regular Board Meeting/Public Hearing: The Board will receive public
comment and consider the adoption of resolutions relating to adopting the
replenishment assessment rate for groundwater pumped or extracted for other than
agricultural and municipal recreational purposes, effective in FY 2026/27.

ACWD’s Survey Report on Groundwater Conditions and Groundwater Monitoring Report
will be made available on ACWD’s website on February 9, 2026. Hard copies of each
report can be provided upon request.
In addition, to prepare for ACWD’s Alternative Update or Periodic Evaluation submittal on
or before December 29, 2026, we are providing notice to all well owners/operators and
interested parties that the Board of Directors will be discussing and considering items
regarding the management of Niles Cone Subbasin 2-09.01 (Niles Cone) during a series
of Committee meetings, regular Board of Directors meetings, and Board workshops
planned for calendar year 2026.
The following is a list of Committee Meetings, Regular Board of Director’s Meetings, and
Board Workshop dates and potential topics pertaining to ACWD’s activities related to the
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, groundwater management activities, and
groundwater related projects. Please note that generally the start time for the Water
Resources & Conservation Committee Meetings is 3:30 p.m., Regular Board of Directors
Meetings is 6:00 p.m., and Board Workshops is 5:30 p.m., however these start times may
vary; confirmed dates, times, and agenda items for these meetings may be found online
at: https://www.acwd.org/351/Meetings-Agendas-Minutes.
•

Water Resources & Conservation Committee Meetings: Groundwater management
activities and construction projects related to groundwater management are
discussed in this Committee meeting. The Committee meeting is a noticed and public
meeting, is informational only, and the agendas with topics for discussion are posted
on ACWD’s website at www.acwd.org. The Committee will meet and discuss
various water supply initiatives, including groundwater, on February 25, March
25, April 22, May 27, June 24, July 22, August 26, September 23, October 28,
November 16, and December 14.

•

Other Committee Meetings: While most groundwater management activities and
construction projects related to groundwater management are discussed in the Water
Resources & Conservation Committee Meetings, from time to time, the Engineering
and Information Technology Services Committee and the Operations and Water
Quality Committees will have informational items that correspond specifically to
ACWD groundwater production facilities. A calendar of all Committee Meetings is
provided at https://www.acwd.org/calendar.aspx and the agendas with topics are
posted on ACWD’s website at www.acwd.org and can be e-mailed to you directly by
signing up for "Notify Me" under ACWD's Customer Help Center on ACWD's website.

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•

Regular Board of Director Meetings:
o February 12, March 12, April 14, May 14, June 11, July 9, August 13,
September 10, October 8, November 12, and December 10, 2026: During
the February through April timeframe, the Board will consider items related
to the Replenishment Assessment Act as previously mentioned. During the
February through December timeframe, the Board will consider possible
award of groundwater related projects such as the New Cedar Aquifer
Reclamation Program Wells, the ACWD Alternative Data Gap Project, the
Brackish Groundwater Reclamation Project, and items related to ACWD’s
Alternative to a Groundwater Sustainably Plan. On November 12, 2026,
the Board of Directors will consider the ordering of the Survey Report on
Groundwater Conditions. Other groundwater related topics not listed
above, may be added to the agendas based on business needs.

•

Board Workshops:
o March 26, 2026: The Board has held a series of workshops in 2024 and
2025 focusing on long-term management of the District’s water resources
in the face of climate change, evolving regulations, declining availability of
water supplies, new water supply alternatives, and other factors, using an
integrated resources planning approach. This Water Resources Planning
workshop will specifically focus on presentation of the District’s draft Water
Resources Master Plan including discussion of the water supply portfolios
under consideration, implementation considerations, review of next steps,
and the path forward in finalizing the Plan. More information on planning
efforts and information regarding the District’s Water Resources Master
Plan can be found online at: https://acwd.org/waterresourcesplanning.
o May 19, 2026: The Board will hold a Budget and Capital Improvement
Program Workshop where various water supply and groundwater related
programs and projects are budgeted. There are two additional Workshop
tentatively scheduled on May 28 and June 25, 2026, regarding the Budget
and Capital Improvement Program if the Board determines it is necessary.

The above information provides a tentative schedule and potential topics; however,
topics may change based on business needs. To see or confirm if a topic of your
interest is on the agenda for a particular meeting, ACWD's Board meeting materials are
posted on ACWD's website at www.acwd.org at least 72 hours in advance of a meeting.
Meeting materials can be e-mailed to you directly by signing up for "Notify Me" under
ACWD's Customer Help Center on ACWD's website. ACWD also may hold additional
meetings or informational events that are not included in this letter and, if it does, ACWD
will send a separate notice regarding the meeting or informational event.
As a reminder, ACWD’s Alternative to a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (Alternative),
Alternative Update, and Annual Report (posted on April 1 of each year) are posted on

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DWR’s Alternative Portal (https://sgma.water.ca.gov/portal/alternative/all) and a link is
also provided on ACWD’s website.
Please call me at (510) 668-4454 if you would like more information regarding the
Replenishment Assessment Act or activities related to the Sustainable Groundwater
Management Act.
Sincerely,

Michelle A. Walden
Groundwater Resources Manager
maw/gt
cc:
Laura Hidas, ACWD

ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
MEMORANDUM

DATE:

February 6, 2026

TO:

Legal, Intergovernmental, and Community Affairs (LICA) Committee

FROM:

Special Assistant to the General Manager, Jackie McCloud

SUBJECT:

LICA February Briefing

The Special Assistant to the General Manager February Briefing includes activities from January
15, 2026 through February 11, 2026. Highlights for the past month include capstone project
coordination with California State University East Bay (CSUEB) professors from the College of
Business, participation in a public sector career panel that will be hosted on campus March 10,
2026 with CSUEB Community Empowerment Center, open office hours for the Fremont Unified
School District’s (FUSD) Water Ambassadors to discuss proposed capstone projects, hosting the
Water Ambassador Pilot Program Module #4 at ACWD Headquarters with FUSD Instructional
Coach Mr. Nate Ivy on February 9, 2026, Board approval of the Alameda County Water District
(ACWD) Strategic Plan 2025-2030, continued staff development of the ACWD Strategic Plan
2025-2030 Implementation Action Plan, and a presentation of the ACWD Strategic Plan 20252030 to the Newark Rotary Club on February 10, 2026.
CSUEB Coordination
On January 26, 2026, Public Affairs Supervisor, Ms. Sharene Gonzales and I received notification
from Dr. Yi He, Professor and Chair of the Department of Marketing in the School of Business at
CSUEB that five of the Master’s students would participate in the ACWD capstone project. The
capstone project would be in collaboration with the ACWD Public Affairs team. The project will
be a public outreach campaign. While the details are to be developed, it will be based on existing
customer feedback and in alignment with the District’s goals to increase the community’s
awareness about important water-related topics. Ms. Gonzales and I are meeting with Dr. He and
the students on February 6, 2026.
In December 2025, the CSUEB Community Empowerment Center and I brainstormed a public
sector career panel for students. The panel would be aimed at bringing awareness to students from
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