On the agenda: Alameda County Water District meeting — DATA CENTER (Jun 15)

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

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND COMMUNITY
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
AGENDA
Monday, June 15, 2026
4:15 p.m.
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enable individuals with disabilities to participate in public meetings. Please send a written request at least 72 hours
before the meeting to the District Secretary, ACWD, 43885 S. Grimmer Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538, or to
[email protected] stating your name, mailing address, phone number, and brief description of the
requested materials and preferred alternative format or auxiliary aid or service.

Members of the public may participate in this meeting in person at the District office located at
43885 South Grimmer Boulevard, Fremont or via webinar or teleconference. In person meetings
are the primary format for the District’s Committee meetings. The District desires to accommodate
remote participation by the public, therefore as a courtesy and technology permitting, the public
will have the opportunity to fully participate in the meeting via zoom webinar. However, the
District cannot guarantee that the public’s remote access to any meeting will be uninterrupted
before or during a meeting, and technical difficulties may occur from time to time. In those
instances, so long as the public may attend the meeting in person, the meeting may be held or
continue. Members of the public desiring to provide comments as a part of the meeting are
encouraged to either submit written comments prior to the meeting or to attend the meeting in
person.
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This agenda and all accompanying materials can be viewed on the Alameda County Water District
website at: www.acwd.org.

6/12/2026

1.

Public Comments

2.

Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) “Vision for Our Water
Future”
Presenter: Laura Hidas, Director of Water Resources

3.

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

4.

Public Outreach Update
Presenter: Sharene Gonzales, Public Affairs Supervisor

5.

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

6.

Hanson Bridgett Legal Services and Fees
Presenter: Pat Miyaki, General Counsel

6/12/2026

Alameda County Water District
Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA)
“Vision for Our Water Future”

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FOR OUR WATER FUTURE

Presenter: Laura Hidas, Director of Water Resources
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ACWA’s Vision for Our Water Future
• ACWA has initiated a “Vision for Our Water Future” to:
• Elevate water as a top priority
for California’s next governor,
legislative leadership, and
state officials
• Provide a focused framework
to secure a reliable, affordable,
and modern water system to
support California’s economy,
communities, and environment
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ACWA’s Vision for Our Water Future:
Purpose & Intent
• California faces escalating challenges:
droughts, floods, wildfire risk, aging
infrastructure, and climate volatility.
• Water is not a single-sector issue – it’s the
backbone every other sector depends on.
• The Vision calls for bold statewide
leadership to set a unified direction,
accelerate action, and deliver results.
• Intent: Improve reliability, resilience,
affordability, and statewide coordination.
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The Vision’s Four Pillars
• Lead on Water: Bold water agenda, unify
state agencies
• Protect Affordability: Funding & state
investments
• Deliver Critical Infrastructure: Strengthen
state’s backbone, safeguard Colorado
River, regional water management
• Modernize Water Management: Improve
permitting, modernize operations,
strengthen water data & science

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ACWA’s Vision for Our Water Future
• ACWA is encouraging water agencies to sign on to the Vision
and help to amplify these ideas
• Toolkit available to participate

• More information on the Vision for Our Water
Future can be found at:
https://www.acwa.com/vision/
• Full copies of the Vision and related fact
sheet are included as attachments to this
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FOR OUR WATER FUTURE

Setting the Vision
The Association of California Water Agencies
(ACWA) represents approximately 470 public water
agencies that collectively deliver approximately 90
percent of the water used by Californians — in their
homes, on their farms, and for their businesses.
Water agencies are being proactive and are on the
front lines of the state’s most pressing challenges
— from droughts, floods, and wildfires to aging
infrastructure and the need for more housing.
Meaningful progress requires state partnership with
local water suppliers to achieve common goals.
Bold leadership from the governor is critical to
setting a unified direction, accelerating action, and
delivering results to prepare California for the future.
Action is needed now.

Why Water Matters
Water is the foundation upon which
California is built. This State is the world’s
fourth-largest economy, the nation’s
breadbasket, a global technology leader,
and home to extraordinary ecosystems.
None of it functions without water.
Water is not a single-sector issue. It is the
backbone every other sector depends
on. It determines where homes can be
built, whether farms can produce, how
businesses operate and grow, and
whether species can survive a changing
climate. A safe, reliable, and affordable
water supply is one of the most important
investments California can make.

ACTION IS NEEDED NOW
1

2

3

4

Lead
on Water

Protect
Affordability

Deliver Critical
Infrastructure

Modernize Water
Management

www.acwa.com/vision

APRIL 2026

California Thrives With Water

Building A Modern System

› Housing: California must plan for 2.5 million new
homes in the next decade. Every unit requires a
reliable water supply.

Securing California’s water future requires more than
incremental fixes. It demands a fundamental shift in
how the State leads, invests, and operates. The Vision
for Our Water Future provides an essential framework
for ensuring a resilient and reliable water system.

› Agriculture: California agriculture is 12% of the
state’s economy, contributing $60 billion; employing
over 400,000 people; and producing more than
half of the nation’s fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
Both surface and groundwater are fundamental to
California’s agriculture sector.
› Economy: California’s $4 trillion economy spans
technology, innovation, manufacturing, trade, and
tourism. Every dollar of it depends on a reliable
water supply.
› Environment: California’s extraordinary ecosystems
— its rivers, wetlands, and floodplains — depend
on the same water system managed by local water
suppliers. A thriving California requires managing
water to sustain both communities and ecosystems.
› Public Health: Water suppliers are California’s first
line of public health defense, delivering safe, clean
drinking water to every community in the state.
› Climate Resilience: Climate whiplash — the swing
between extreme droughts and extreme floods — is
increasing, snowpack is diminishing, and wildfires
are growing more severe. Water suppliers are
modernizing, but they cannot do it alone.

Key Elements of A Modern
Water System
› Designed and upgraded for the future
› Flexible and responsive to changing
climate conditions
› Supported by aligned state permitting,
regulatory, and investment frameworks
› Informed by technology, data, and science
› Grounded in long-term affordability

Funded, built, and managed for extreme conditions,
our modern water system is resilient, coordinated,
and flexible — meeting the needs of California’s
communities, economy, and environment.
› Anchored by Backbone Infrastructure: The State
Water Project and Central Valley Project form the
foundation of the statewide water system. These
assets capture and manage California’s highly
variable hydrology and move water where and
when it is needed.
› Strengthened by Regional Resiliency: Regional
and watershed-based partnerships strengthen
local water reliability under changing hydrologic
conditions and during emergencies through
coordinated planning, interconnected infrastructure,
diversified supplies, and shared responsibility.
› Delivered Locally: Water is delivered by local
suppliers, even when conveyed through or
interconnected with statewide or regional
systems. Local agencies set rates and policies —
ratepayers fund approximately 85% of California’s
water system costs — while navigating structural
constraints from Proposition 218, regulatory
mandates, and permitting complexity.

A modern water system must
be resilient, coordinated, and
flexible to meet California’s
evolving needs.

Vision for Our Water Future
1

LEAD ON WATER

Recognize water as an essential resource and the
infrastructure that underpins California’s economy,
housing growth, food production, environmental
health, and community resilience. Sustained executive
leadership is needed to improve water supply
reliability, accelerate climate resilience, and ensure
coordinated action across state government.
› Set a Bold Water Agenda (First 100 Days):
Establish a focused statewide water agenda
aligned with this Vision for Our Water Future.

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FOR OUR WATER FUTURE

› Appoint Leaders to Deliver Results: Appoint and
empower leaders to deliver measurable outcomes.
› Unify State Agencies: Direct state agencies to align
under unified statewide water priorities and jointly
advance implementation in partnership with local,
regional, and federal water managers. Designate
a cabinet-level water policy executive, reporting
directly to the Governor, to align agencies and
organize state resources to implement California’s
water priorities.

PROTECT AFFORDABILITY

Ensure safe and reliable water remains affordable by
strengthening sustained state investment and funding
partnerships with local, regional, and federal agencies
to address rising infrastructure, climate, and regulatory
costs. California’s ratepayers fund more than 85% of
the system. Without predictable investment, these
costs will increasingly fall on households, businesses,
and farmers.
› Secure Sustainable Water Funding: Create a
reliable sustainable state funding source for water
infrastructure that provides predictable, long-term
investment. This funding should support critical
water infrastructure projects, environmental needs,
and California’s Human Right to Water while
leveraging federal, regional, and local investment.

› Accelerate Funding: Improve funding programs
and coordination so investments reach projects
faster — reducing administrative delays, lowering
project costs, and accelerating infrastructure
delivery.
› Integrate Investments Across Sectors: Align state
investments and integrate water infrastructure
funding across energy, housing, and climate
and hazard mitigation to advance multi-benefit
projects and maximize federal, state, and regional
investment.

3

DELIVER CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Future-proof California’s critical water infrastructure
to ensure reliable supplies in the face of climate
change, growing economic and community demands,
and escalating emergency risks. This requires
strengthening the statewide water system, including
both built and natural infrastructure, while advancing
regional resilience to maximize systemwide reliability.
› Strengthen the State’s Water Backbone: Upgrade,
repair, and optimize California’s essential backbone
infrastructure — the California State Water Project
and Central Valley Project.
♦

4

Modernize and Protect Infrastructure: Advance
a durable Delta conveyance solution, strengthen
Delta levees, safeguard critical infrastructure
from subsidence and seismic risk, and upgrade
system technologies — including Forecast
Informed Reservoir Operations, snowpack
measurement, and remote monitoring control.

♦

Improve Coordinated Operations: Integrate
operations of the California State Water Project
and Central Valley Project to increase system
flexibility, expand the storage and movement of
water, and enhance water supply reliability.

› Safeguard Colorado River Water Supplies: Protect
California’s Colorado River allocation, consistent
with the State’s legal entitlements and the efforts of
the Colorado River Board of California.
› Empower Regional Water Solutions: Champion
regional and watershed-based solutions. State policy
should empower regions with the tools, flexibility,
and investment needed to advance regional
planning, partnerships, and projects that diversify
water supplies, strengthen system connectivity
and operational efficiency, and restore ecosystem
functions to ensure reliable water supplies.

MODERNIZE WATER MANAGEMENT

Improve California’s regulatory and operational
systems so water projects can move forward reliably
and efficiently, infrastructure can be operated more
flexibly, and agencies can respond more rapidly to
changing conditions. California’s regulatory framework
should deliver clear, coordinated decisions grounded
in the best available science, while maintaining
environmental protections, public transparency, and
California’s existing water rights priority system.
› Improve Permitting Performance: Enhance
the clarity, coordination, and efficiency of state
permitting processes to accelerate infrastructure
and operational improvements; eliminate avoidable
costs; and ensure state and local agencies deliver
timely, accountable results.
♦

Integrate Permit Requirements: Integrate
requirements and processes across regulatory
agencies to eliminate redundancy and
inconsistency.

♦

Enhance Regulatory Certainty: Establish
transparent procedures, clear criteria for permit
approval, and accountable timelines for agency
decisions — developed in direct partnership
with water suppliers.

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♦

Streamline Pathways: Create efficient
pathways to advance multi-benefit, climateresilient water supply projects.

› Modernize Water Operations: Advance
operational approaches that reflect changing
climate realities to improve water supply reliability
across environmental, agricultural, and urban
sectors. This may include coordinated reservoir
management, flexible diversion rules tied to realtime hydrology, accelerated groundwater recharge
and conjunctive use, expanded water transfers,
and other adaptive strategies.
› Strengthen Water Data and Science: Invest in
integrated, science-based statewide data systems
and technology that improve transparency, inform
real-time decisions, and strengthen regulatory and
operational performance to increase efficiency and
better manage water resources.

FOR OUR WATER FUTURE

Vision for Our Water Future is
an initiative of the Association
of California Water Agencies,
representing approximately 470
public water agencies in California.

CALIFORNIA THRIVES
WITH WATER

Water is the foundation upon which California is
built. As the world’s fourth-largest economy, the
nation’s breadbasket, a global technology leader,
and home to extraordinary ecosystems, the
prosperity of the Golden State depends on safe,
resilient, and affordable water supply — now and
into the future.

WATER IS AN ESSENTIAL RESOURCE
Catastrophic wildfires, prolonged droughts, more intense storms, land
subsidence, and aging infrastructure are reshaping California’s risk
landscape. Meeting these challenges demands that we acknowledge the
seriousness of the threat, act with urgency and intention, and work together
to advance our shared priorities.

IT STARTS WITH A VISION

The Association of California Water Agencies’ (ACWA) Vision for Our
Water Future seeks to elevate water as a top priority for California’s next
governor, legislative leadership, and state officials. It provides a clear,
focused framework to secure a reliable, affordable, and modern water
system that supports California’s economy, communities, and environment.

BOLD LEADERSHIP
IS NEEDED NOW
State and local water suppliers are
on the front lines of California’s water
management to sustain communities,
agricultural land and economy.
Water managers across the state
are already pursuing local, practical
and innovative solutions, but long
term, meaningful progress requires
a strong state partnership to achieve
these shared goals. Bold leadership
is needed to set a unified direction,
accelerate action and deliver
results that prepare California for an
increasingly uncertain future.

VISION FOR
OUR WATER FUTURE

Securing California’s water future requires more than incremental fixes — it demands a fundamental
shift in how the state leads, invests, and operates. The Vision for Our Water Future provides an essential
framework for our next administration to:

1. LEAD ON WATER

Recognize water as an essential resource and the
infrastructure that underpins California’s economy,
housing growth, food production, environmental health,
and community resilience. Sustained executive leadership
is needed to improve water supply reliability, accelerate
climate resilience, and ensure coordinated action across
state government.

3. DELIVER CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Future-proof California’s critical water infrastructure to
ensure reliable supplies in the face of climate change,
growing economic and community demands, and
escalating emergency risks. This requires strengthening
the statewide water system, including both built and natural
infrastructure, while advancing regional resilience to
maximize systemwide reliability.

2. PROTECT AFFORDABILITY

Ensure safe and reliable water remains affordable by
strengthening sustained state investment and funding
partnerships with local, regional, and federal agencies to
address rising infrastructure, climate, and regulatory costs.
California’s ratepayers fund more than 85 percent of the
system. Without predictable investment, these costs will
increasingly fall on households, businesses, and farmers.

4. MODERNIZE WATER MANAGEMENT
Improve California’s regulatory and operational systems so
water projects can move forward reliability and efficiently,
infrastructure can be operated more flexibly, and agencies
can respond more rapidly to changing conditions. California’s
regulatory framework should deliver clear, coordinated
decisions grounded in the best available science, while
maintaining environmental protections, public transparency,
and California’s existing water rights priority system.

KEY ELEMENTS OF A MODERN WATER SYSTEM

Designed and
upgraded for
the future



Flexible and
responsive to
changing climate
conditions

 Supported by aligned
state permitting,
regulatory, & investment
frameworks

Informed by
technology,
data, & science

Vision for Our Water Future is an initiative of the
Association of California Water Agencies, representing
approximately 470 public water suppliers in the state.

www.acwa.com/vision

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GOVERNMENT
RELATIONS

TO: Ed Stevenson, Alameda County Water District

FROM: JGC Government Relations, Inc. – Jonathan Clay & Erin Gilbert

RE: May Legislative Report
DATE: June 11, 2026

Since it is over 100* in Sacramento, it is budget time. Both houses have been meeting to come
to an agreement, as the budget bill needs to be in print by Friday, June 12th to meet the 72-hour
rule to be voted on by June 15th. As a reminder, the budget needs to be passed by June 15th for
Legislators to be paid. Our current understanding from the rumor mill is that it is the
healthcare issues that are holding up the negotiations and apparently everything else is agreed
to, between the two houses. Of course, the healthcare issues are the trickiest to solve at this
point between potentially needing new funding sources to backfill HR 1 or making cuts.

Budget committees are scheduled to meet on June 15th and then floor session. It is likely that
what gets passed on June 15th is a framework of a budget and then during the summer recess
additional work will be done on trailer bills and budget junior bills and when the legislature
returns for the last month of the legislative session on August 3rd, the additional budget bills
will be completed. Once we see language in print, we will be sure to share with ACWD staff.

July 2nd is the last day for bills to pass policy committee. The legislature will be in recess
from July 3rd and return to Sacramento on August 3rd. August 14th is the last day for fiscal
committees to meet, with floor session only from August 17 – August 31.

There remain a few bills of interest to ACWD including AB 2215 and SB 872. AB 2215
caused a bit of consternation amongst the ACWA family but moved to the Senate. SB 872 is
also moving through the legislative process but the ultimate source of funding for the
newly created fund is unclear.
DATA CENTER BILLS
AB 2619 (Papan) is the Assembly Member’s follow up to last year’s proposal that was
vetoed by the Governor. This measure requires data center developers to provide
information for water use. There is a Data Center Coalition that is opposing the measure.
SB 886 (Padilla) requires the CPUC to establish a tariff structure for data centers to ensure
those facilities pay their share of infrastructure and procurement costs related to the energy
usage for the new data center. A large coalition of entities are opposing this measure.

SB 887 (Padilla) ensures data centers comply with CEQA and provides a pathway for data
centers to get expedited CEQA if certain standards are met using the existing environmental
leadership development program (ELDP). A large coalition of entities are opposing this
measure.
1100 K Street | Suite 100 | Sacramento, CA 95814 | ph 916.441.0202
[email protected] | [email protected]

Alameda County Water District Legislative Report
6/11/2026

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Thursday, 06/11/2026

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AB 1821

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California Public Records Act: methods of submission, fees, and agency response time.
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06/10/2026 - Referred to Com. on JUD. From committee chair, with author's amendments:
Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com.
on JUD.

Summary:

The California Public Records Act requires each state or local agency, upon a request for
a copy of records that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records, to make the
records promptly available to any person upon payment of fees covering direct costs of
duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable, except with respect to public records exempt
from disclosure by express provisions of law. This bill would require an agency to
designate a physical office location and a specified email address for the submission of
requests, and authorize an agency to designate other reasonable methods for the
submission of requests, including submission to a physical mailing address, subject to
certain requirements, including that the agency accept upon receipt any request that is
submitted at the designated physical office location or through the designated email
address during the agency’s normal business hours. If an agency designates any method
for the submission of requests, the bill would deem a request as properly requested for
purposes of specified provisions only if the request was submitted through a method of
submission that was designated by the agency. If the agency finds that a request was not
submitted through a method of submission that was designated by the agency, the bill
would deem the request as not properly requested at the time of submission and not
subject to specified timelines otherwise applicable to the request had it been properly
requested, except as specified. The bill would require an agency to provide notice to the
public of any updates or changes to any method for the submission of requests
designated by the agency by posting the updates or changes on its internet
website. (Based on 06/10/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

06/10/2026 - Senate Judiciary
02/11/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

04/24/26 A Floor Analysis (text
04/06/26)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

06/10/2026 - Amended
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AB 1881

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California Indian Freedom Act of 2026.
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05/28/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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Existing law establishes various protections for California Native American tribes,
including prohibiting a public agency or private party using or occupying public property or
operating on public property from interfering with the free expression or exercise of Native
American religion as provided in the United States Constitution and the California
Constitution. Existing law also requires a local government to provide formal notification to
each California Native American tribe that is traditionally and culturally affiliated with the
project site as an invitation to consult on the proposed project, as provided. Existing law
requires the local government, during the consultation, to give deference to the tribal
information, tribal knowledge and customs, and the significance of the resource to the
California Native American tribe. Existing law prohibits any information, as described, that
is submitted by a California Native American tribe during the environmental review
process from being included in the environmental document or otherwise disclosed by the
lead agency or any other public agency to the public, as specified, without the prior
consent of the tribe that provided the information. This bill, the California Indian Freedom
Act of 2026, would prohibit a governmental agency from substantially burdening a
California Indian or California Native American tribe’s exercise of religious beliefs or
spiritual practices on state lands, including their access to and use of sacred sites and
objects, and their ability to perform religious ceremonies and rites, even if the burden
results from a rule of general applicability, unless the governmental agency demonstrates
that application of the burden is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and
is in the least restrictive means of furthering that interest. (Based on 05/19/2026 text)

Location:

05/28/2026 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

05/19/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

02/12/2026

Last Amend:

05/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

AB 1945

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05/13/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

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The Municipal Utility District Act establishes the formation of a municipal utility district for
the provision of light, heat, water, or power within the district’s jurisdiction. The act
prohibits a district furnishing light, heat, water, or power from terminating residential
service on account of nonpayment of a delinquent account unless the district provides a
notice of delinquency and an opportunity to cure, as provided. This bill would authorize
districts to offer customers the option of electronically receiving the required notice of
delinquency, as specified. The bill would authorize districts furnishing service to fewer than
100,000 customers to offer customers a prepay option, as defined, for electrical service if
certain conditions are met, including, among other things, that the district provides the
customer with information on returning to standard billing and issues automated lowbalance alerts to the customer before suspending the customer’s electrical service, as
provided. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)

Location:

05/13/2026 - Senate Local
Government

Introduced:

02/13/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

04/21/26 A Committee On
Utilities And Energy (text
04/16/26)

AB 2016

Gonzalez, Jeff, R

Current Text:

04/16/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/16/2026

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Summary:

Would appropriate $69,425,000 from the General Fund to the State Water Resources
Control Board for the purpose of removing hexavalent chromium from drinking water. The
bill would require the board to make specified grants to specified entities to undertake
construction or planning and design of facilities to remove hexavalent chromium from
drinking water. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)

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04/20/2026 Assembly Environmental Safety

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04/16/2026 - Amended
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and Toxic Materials
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AB 2032

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Calendar:

06/23/26 S-NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113
BECKER, JOSH, Chair
Existing law, until January 1, 2030, generally prohibits a person from possessing,
importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to be
placed or planted in any water within the state, invasive mussels, as defined. Existing law
requires a public or private agency that operates a water supply system to cooperate with
the Department of Fish and Wildlife to implement measures to avoid infestation by
invasive mussels and to control or eradicate any infestation that may occur in a water
supply system, and, if invasive mussels are detected, to prepare and implement a plan, as
specified, to control or eradicate invasive mussels within the system (control plan).
Existing law prohibits the importation, transportation, possession, or live release of
specified wild animals, except under a revocable, nontransferable permit, known as a
restricted species permit, issued by the department, in cooperation with the Department of
Food and Agriculture, and only if certain requirements are met. Existing law authorizes the
department to issue permits, commonly known as scientific collecting permits, to take or
possess any form of plant or animal life for scientific, educational, or propagation
purposes. This bill would exempt from the requirement to obtain a restricted species
permit for golden mussels a public or private agency that operates a water supply system
and has submitted a control plan to the department for maintenance and operational
activities to control the spread of golden mussels in the water supply system, as
specified. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:

06/03/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/17/2026

Is Urgent:

Y

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

AB 2062

Patterson, R

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Security surveillance companies: access and use of content.
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06/10/2026 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of
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06/22/26 S-PRIVACY, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION 3
p.m. or upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 CABALDON,
CHRISTOPHER, Chair

Calendar:

Summary:

Existing law establishes various privacy protections relating to the collection, use, sale, or
distribution of personal information, images, or video recordings, including restrictions
relating to the retention, access, use, sale, or sharing of images or video recordings
collected through the operation of an in-vehicle camera. This bill would prohibit a security
surveillance company, as defined, from distributing, selling, or otherwise authorizing a
third party to access, use, or distribute content obtained from a consumer’s security
surveillance system without first obtaining the express consent of the consumer and the
adult residents of a residential rental property or upon receipt of an order of a court or
arbitrator. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)

Location:

Introduced:

05/13/2026 - Senate Privacy,
Digital Technologies, and
Consumer Protection
02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

04/19/26 A Privacy And
Consumer Protection (text
03/19/26)

AB 2150

Haney, D

Current Text:

04/23/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/23/2026

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Employment: training requirements: opioid overdose reversals.
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Status:

05/27/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Summary:

Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority and requires the
authority to coordinate state activities concerning emergency medical services. Existing
law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department
of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, and
the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws
and standards. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973
(OSHA), requires employers to comply with certain safety and health standards, as
specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Under OSHA, certain
violations of the act are punishable as a crime. Exiting law requires the division, before
December 1, 2027, to submit a draft rulemaking proposal to revise specified regulations
on first aid materials and emergency medical services to require first aid materials in a
workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist approved by the
United States Food and Drug Administration to reverse opioid overdose and instructions
for using the opioid antagonist. Existing law requires the standards board to consider for
adoption revised standards for the standards described above on or before December 1,
2028.This bill would require an employer operating in this state that requires
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification training of its employees to also require
those employees to take an online video module training on the use of naloxone to
increase the rate of opioid overdose reversals, as prescribed. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

05/27/2026 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

AB 2214

Jackson, D

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Government finance: deposits.
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04/14/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.

Summary:

Existing law requires the Treasurer to invest, or deposit into banks and other financial
institutions, specified state moneys designated as surplus as a part of the Pooled Money
Investment Account and determined to be available for that purpose by the Pooled Money
Investment Board. Existing law generally requires banks and other financial institutions to
deposit with the Treasurer securities in a value at least 10% in excess of the amount
deposited with the institution to be eligible to receive deposits of state funds, except as
specified. This bill would create within the Pooled Money Investment Account the
Community Reinvestment Account from which deposits shall be made to institutions that
meet specified performance standards including verified small business lending in
underserved census tracts and first-time or first-generation home buyer lending. The bill

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would require the Treasurer to transfer $4 billion from the Pooled Money Investment
Account to the Community Reinvestment Account. Because the moneys invested and
reinvested as part of the Pooled Money Investment Account are continuously
appropriated, this bill would make an appropriation. Notwithstanding the above-described
securities requirement, this bill would instead require securities, for a deposit from the
Community Reinvestment Account or under the Small Business Lending Time Deposit
Program, to be in an amount in value of at least 90% of the amount deposited with the
institution. (Based on 04/13/2026 text)
Location:

04/13/2026 - Assembly Local
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Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 2260

Connolly, D

Current Text:

04/13/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/13/2026

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Water: restoration management: small restoration use.
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06/10/2026 - Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

Summary:

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

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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AB 2322

Papan, D

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Water discharge: commercial, industrial, or institutional sites.
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05/27/2026 - Referred to Com. on E.Q.

Summary:

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

Location:

05/27/2026 Senate Environmental Quality

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
05/01/26 A Floor Analysis (text
04/06/26)

AB 2469

Papan, D

Current Text:

04/06/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/06/2026

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Data centers: water use disclosures.
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06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and L. GOV.

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Summary:

Would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from approving a discretionary or
ministerial permit or other entitlement that would result in the construction, or an
expansion that increases the maximum peak water use, of a data center unless specified
conditions are satisfied, including, among others, that the applicant provides the city,
county, or city and a county prescribed information. The bill would include in this
prescribed information a water scarcity plan, a water supply assessment, and a water use
assessment, each as provided. The bill would also include in the specified conditions that
the applicant assumes responsibility for the full cost of any required water conveyance,
treatment or storage, or distribution infrastructure improvements necessary to serve the
project, as determined by the Department of Water Resources or the applicable water
supplier. By expanding the duties of local agencies to administer these provisions, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/22/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/26/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/22/26)

AB 2521

Papan, D

Current Text:

05/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/22/2026

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California Council on Science and Technology: water availability study: Central Valley.
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06/10/2026 - Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

Summary:

Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer a water
rights program pursuant to which the board grants and revokes permits and licenses to
appropriate water. Existing law authorizes any person who has an urgent need to divert
and use water to apply for, and authorizes the board to issue, a conditional, temporary
permit, as prescribed. Existing law finds and declares that the California Council on
Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request
of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state
government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology. This
bill would, on or before January 1, 2028, require the Department of Water Resources, in
consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board and the Department of Fish
and Wildlife, to select 2 watersheds that are within, or drain into, the Central Valley to
conduct a watershedwide water availability study. The bill would, subject to an
appropriation by the Legislature, request CCST to, in consultation with the Department of
Water Resources and the board, undertake and complete a comprehensive study of water
availability in the selected watersheds. The bill would require the study to, among other
things, determine daily flow rates in rivers, streams, and creeks in the watersheds over the
past 30 years to the extent data is available. (Based on 04/15/2026 text)

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Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
04/15/26)

AB 2577

Connolly, D

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Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: settlements: attorney’s fees.
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06/08/2026 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to
committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Calendar:

06/16/26 S-JUDICIARY 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 UMBERG, THOMAS,
Chair

Summary:

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

Location:
Introduced:

05/27/2026 - Senate Judiciary
02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/08/26 A Floor Analysis (text
03/19/26)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

06/08/2026 - Amended
06/08/2026

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AB 2656

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06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and P., D.T., & C.P.

Calendar:

06/17/26 S-LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O
Street, Room 2200 SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair

Summary:

Executive Order No. N-12-23 requires specified state agencies, in collaboration with other
state agencies and their workforce, to draft a report to the Governor examining the most
significant, potentially beneficial use cases for deployment of generative artificial
intelligence (GenAI) tools by the state. The executive order requires the report to explain
the potential risks to individuals, communities, and government and state government
workers, and requires the report to be regularly assessed and updated in consultation
with, among others, the state government workforce or organizations that represent state
government employees, as specified. Chapter 928 of the Statutes of 2024, the Generative
Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act, requires specified state agencies to update the
report, as needed, to respond to significant developments and to consult with specified
parties, including organizations that represent state exclusive employee representatives.
This bill would require certain state and local public employers to provide written notice to
a recognized employee organization at least 45 days before taking an action to develop,
purchase, implement, or utilize GenAI to perform a service that is within the scope of work
of the job classification represented by the recognized employee organization. (Based on
04/14/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and
Retirement

Introduced:

02/20/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
04/14/26)

AB 2729

Bonta, D

Current Text:

04/14/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/14/2026

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

Summary:

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

Location:
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05/14/2026 Assembly Appropriations
02/20/2026 (Spot bill)

Is Urgent:

Y

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

SB 951

Reyes, D

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Employment: technological displacement: notice.
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06/10/2026 - VOTE: Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and
Consumer Protection] (PASS)

Summary:

Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which is
composed of various departments responsible for protecting and promoting the rights and
interests of workers in California, including the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement,
led by the Labor Commissioner (commissioner), within the Department of Industrial

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Relations. Existing law establishes the Employment Development Department (EDD),
which is administered by the Director of Employment Development. Under existing law,
the Director of Employment Development is vested with specified duties, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction related to job creation activity functions, among other
things. This bill would establish the California Worker Technological Displacement Act,
which would require an employer, as defined, to provide at least a 60-day advanced
written notice, as described, before any technological displacement affecting 25 or more
workers during any 30-day period. The bill would require an employer to provide that
notice to affected workers, the EDD, and specified local entities. The bill would also
require an employer to provide a written technology hiring disruption notice to the EDD
when it executes a technological cessation in hiring caused in whole by the adoption of
artificial intelligence (AI) or other automating technology. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)
Location:

06/10/2026 - Assembly Privacy
and Consumer Protection

Introduced:

02/02/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/09/26 A Labor And
Employment (text 05/14/26)

SB 952

Laird, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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State Water Project: renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources.
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06/10/2026 - VOTE: Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar (PASS)

Summary:

This bill would require the Department of Water Resources , in procuring electricity to
serve all state agencies, to consider portfolio diversity, resource type, location, and hours
of typical peak operation. The bill would expand the scope of the department’s
authorization to defer the procurement of those resource quantities to apply to an existing
contract to procure fossil generation entered into before January 1, 2011, rather than
January 1, 2010. The bill would authorize, on and after January 1, 2036, excess
procurement, as defined, of eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon
resources in one year to be applied to any subsequent year’s obligation, as
provided. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 Assembly Appropriations

Introduced:

02/02/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:

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Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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Current Analysis:

SB 1149

06/09/26 A Committee On
Utilities And Energy (text
05/18/26)

Durazo, D

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Employees: bereavement leave.
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06/10/2026 - VOTE: Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
(PASS)

Summary:

Existing law makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant
a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a
family member, as defined, to refuse to hire, or to discharge, demote, fine, suspend,
expel, or discriminate against, an individual because of the individual’s exercise of the
right to bereavement leave or because of the individual’s giving information or testimony
as to their own or another person’s bereavement leave, or to interfere with, restrain, or
deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any of these rights, as specified. This bill
would include a designated person identified by the employee, as specified, in the
definition of “family member” and authorize an employer to limit an employee to one
designated person per 12-month period for purposes of these provisions relating to
bereavement leave. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 Assembly Appropriations

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/09/26 A Labor And
Employment (text 05/14/26)

SB 1205

Valladares, R

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with
recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Summary:

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

Location:

06/10/2026 Assembly Appropriations

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/09/26 A Governmental
Organization (text 04/09/26)

SB 1253

Laird, D

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Last Amend:

04/09/2026 - Amended
04/09/2026

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06/10/2026 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.

Calendar:

06/16/26 A-ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS 1:30 p.m. - State
Capitol, Room 444 CONNOLLY, DAMON, Chair

Summary:

Existing law, with certain exceptions, prohibits recreational use in which there is bodily
contact with water in a reservoir in which water is stored for domestic use, and establishes
water standards for those exempted reservoirs. This bill would create an exception from
the above-described prohibition for recreation in which there is bodily contact with water
by a participant in the Salinas Reservoir if the water subsequently receives complete
water treatment in compliance with all applicable regulations of the State Water

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Resources Control Board before being used for domestic purposes, the San Luis Obispo
County Flood Control and Water Conservation District conducts a prescribed monitoring
program, and the reservoir is operated in compliance with regulations of the board. The
bill would require, 2 years after approval of the changed use of the reservoir to a body
contact reservoir by the board’s Division of Drinking Water, and biennially thereafter, the
San Luis Obispo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District to file with the
Legislature and the board a report on the recreational uses at the Salinas Reservoir and
the water treatment program for that reservoir, as specified. (Based on 06/10/2026 text)
Location:

05/26/2026 Assembly Environmental Safety
and Toxic Materials

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

05/13/26 S Floor Analyses (text
04/27/26)

Current Text:

06/10/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/10/2026

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AB 34

Patterson, R

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California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities: large
hydroelectric generation.
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Status:

06/10/2026 - Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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)

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Location:

06/10/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

12/02/2024
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Energy, Utilities And
Communications (text 01/05/26)

AB 372

Bennett, D

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01/05/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

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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 883

Lowenthal, D

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Data brokers: deletion of personal information of elected officials and judges.
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Status:

06/03/2026 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to
committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.
06/15/26 S-PRIVACY, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION 3
p.m. or upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 CABALDON,
CHRISTOPHER, Chair

Calendar:

Summary:

Existing law establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) to enforce
various laws protecting the privacy of individuals. If a business knowingly collects and
sells to third parties the personal information of a consumer with whom the business does
not have a direct relationship, existing law requires the business to register with the CPPA
as a data broker, except as specified. Existing law requires the CPPA to establish an
accessible deletion mechanism that allows a consumer to request that every data broker
delete any personal information related to that consumer held by the data broker or
associated service provider or contractor, as prescribed. This bill would create an
additional process for the deletion of personal information of state and local government
officials and California judges held by data brokers. In this regard, the bill would require
the Secretary of State, certain local government officials, and the Judicial Council to
provide to the CPPA lists of certain personal information of all state elected officials, all
local elected officials, or all California judges, respectively, and would require elected
officials and judges to be provided an opportunity to remove their information from those
lists, as prescribed. The bill would require the lists to be kept confidential, as specified. By
imposing additional duties on local government officials, this bill would impose a statemandated local program. (Based on 06/03/2026 text)

Location:

05/06/2026 - Senate Privacy,
Digital Technologies, and
Consumer Protection

Introduced:

02/19/2025

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Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 990

Hadwick, R

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06/03/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/03/2026

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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:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

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

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AB 1530

Current Text:

Committee on Emergency Management

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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California Disaster Assistance Act.
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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:

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)

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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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Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1578

Jackson, D

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State and local officials: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.
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Status:
Calendar:

06/03/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and G.O.
06/17/26 S-LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 112 DURAZO,
MARÍA ELENA, Chair

Summary:

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

Location:

06/03/2026 - Senate Local
Government

Introduced:

01/12/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

05/26/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/22/26)

AB 1786

Harabedian, D

Current Text:

05/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/22/2026

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

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Status:

05/20/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Calendar:

06/17/26 S-LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 112 DURAZO,
MARÍA ELENA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes a program to allow counties to select a bidder on the basis of best
value, as defined, for construction projects in excess of $1,000,000. Existing law also
authorizes counties to use a best value construction contracting method to award
individual annual contracts, not to exceed $3,000,000, for repair, remodeling, or other
repetitive work to be done according to unit prices, as specified. Existing law establishes
procedures and criteria for the selection of a best value contractor and requires that
bidders verify specified information under oath. Existing law requires the board of
supervisors of a participating county to submit a report that contains specified information
about the projects awarded using the best value procedures described above to the
appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee before March 1, 2029. Existing law repeals the program provisions on January
1, 2030. This bill would, instead, authorize a county, city, or the San Gabriel Valley Council
of Governments to select a bidder on the basis of best value, as described above, for
construction projects in excess of $500,000, would make various conforming changes to
the above-described provisions, and would extend the operation of those provisions until
January 1, 2040. (Based on 03/12/2026 text)

Location:

05/20/2026 - Senate Local
Government

Introduced:

02/10/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
05/08/26 A Floor Analysis (text
03/12/26)

AB 1840

Sanchez, R

Current Text:

03/12/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/12/2026

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Political Reform Act of 1974: prediction market contracts.
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Bill information

Status:

04/09/2026 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of
author.

Summary:

The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits a lobbyist or lobbying firm from, among other
things, accepting or agreeing to accept a payment that is in any way contingent upon the
defeat, enactment, or outcome of any proposed legislative or administrative action. The
act also prohibits a public official at any level of state or local government from making,
participating in making, or in any way attempting to use the public official’s official position
to influence a governmental decision in which the official knows or has reason to know the
official has a financial interest, as defined. This bill would prohibit specified officials,
employees, and lobbyists from engaging in transactions involving prediction market
contracts, as defined, if before or at the time of the transaction, the specified individual
possesses, or it is reasonably foreseeable the specified individual may obtain in the
course of their official duties, material nonpublic information, as defined, relating to the
transaction. (Based on 02/11/2026 text)

Location:

02/23/2026 Assembly Elections

Introduced:

02/11/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 2218

Kalra, D

Current Text:

02/11/2026 - Introduced

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Water policy: California Native American tribes.
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Resources

Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q.

Summary:

Would require the state government to support California Native Americans to maintain
cultural and linguistic traditions, practice ecosystem stewardship, and engage in good faith
government-to-government consultations with all California Native American tribes
regarding policies that may affect tribal communities. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/19/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
04/16/26)

Current Text:

04/16/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/16/2026

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AB 2323

McKinnor, D

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Publication: newspapers of general circulation.
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Status:

06/10/2026 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9).
06/11/26 #1 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - SECOND READING FILE

Calendar:
Summary:

Existing law requires various types of notices to be provided in a “newspaper of general
circulation,” as that term is defined, in accordance with certain prescribed publication
periods and legal requirements. Existing law requires a newspaper of general circulation
to meet certain criteria, including publication, a bona fide subscription list of paying
subscribers, and printing and publishing at regular intervals in the state, county, or city
where publication is to be given. This bill would require any public notice that is legally
required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation to be published in the
newspaper’s print publication and on the newspaper’s internet website or electronic
newspaper available on the internet. (Based on 05/20/2026 text)

Location:

06/09/2026 - Senate CONSENT
CALENDAR

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

N
06/05/26 S Judiciary (text
05/20/26)

SB 992

Niello, R

Current Text:

05/20/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/20/2026

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County auditors: special districts: annual audit exceptions.
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06/01/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

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Summary:

Current law requires a county auditor to make or contract with a certified public
accountant or public accountant to make an annual audit of the accounts and records of
every special district within the county for which an audit is not otherwise provided, as
specified. Current law authorizes a special district to replace this annual audit with a
financial review, or, until January 1, 2027, an agreed-upon procedures engagement or an
annual financial compilation of the special district, if specified conditions are met, including
that the special district’s annual revenues do not exceed $150,000. Until January 1, 2027,
upon receipt of the financial review, agreed-upon procedures engagement, or financial
compilation, current law authorizes a county auditor to appoint a certified public
accountant or a public accountant to conduct an audit of the special district, as specified.
This bill would remove the January 1, 2027, repeal date referenced above, and would
increase the revenue cap described above to $250,000. (Based on 02/05/2026 text)

Location:

06/01/2026 - Assembly Local
Government

Introduced:

02/05/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

05/01/26 S Floor Analyses (text
02/05/26)

SB 994

Cabaldon, D

Current Text:

02/05/2026 - Introduced

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Local agencies: nondisclosure agreements.
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Summary:

06/09/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with
recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com.
on L. GOV.
Existing law, the legislative code of ethics, prohibits Members of the Legislature from
entering into, or requesting that another party enter into, a nondisclosure agreement
relating to the drafting, negotiation, or discussion of proposed legislation. Existing law also
makes any nondisclosure agreement relating to the drafting, negotiation, or discussion of
proposed legislation entered into after January 1, 2026, void and unenforceable. Existing
law provides an exception for nondisclosure agreements, or portions thereof, that prevent
only the disclosure of trade secrets, financial information, or proprietary information, as
specified. This bill would prohibit a local agency official, as defined, acting in their official
capacity from entering into, or requesting that another individual enter into, a
nondisclosure agreement relating to public business that precludes their ability to share
information with fellow local agency officials serving on the same council, board,
commission, district, or agency. The bill would require a local agency official in violation of
that provision to, among other things, disclose the existence of the nondisclosure
agreement, as specified, and would provide that these requirements imposed on a local
agency official also apply to a local agency official acting in their official capacity who

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entered into, or requested that another individual enter into, a nondisclosure agreement
described above before January 1, 2027. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
Location:

06/09/2026 - Assembly Local
Government

Introduced:

02/05/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 A Judiciary (text
04/23/26)

SB 1159

Cabaldon, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/23/2026 - Amended
04/23/2026

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Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.
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Bill information

Status:

06/09/2026 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

Calendar:

06/23/26 A-PRIVACY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room
437 BAUER-KAHAN, REBECCA, Chair

Summary:

The California Constitution provides that people have the right of access to information
concerning the conduct of the people’s business. Various provisions of existing law,
including the California Public Records Act, the Legislative Open Records Act, the BagleyKeene Open Meeting Act, and the Ralph M. Brown Act, provide, with some exceptions, for
public access to government records and meetings of government bodies. Among those
acts, the California Public Records Act defines “person” to include any natural person,
corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. This bill would
specify that, for purposes of the California Public Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open
Meeting Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Legislative Open Records Act, the
Administrative Procedure Act, the California Coastal Act of 1976, and the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), “person,” “interested person,” “participant,” “member
of the public,” as applicable, and any other similar terms under each act referring to those
who may engage with governmental agencies, do not include artificial intelligence, as
defined, systems, autonomous agents, or robots, whether physical or digital. (Based on
06/09/2026 text)

Location:

05/18/2026 - Assembly Privacy
and Consumer Protection

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/18/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

04/08/26 S Floor Analyses (text
03/25/26)

Current Text:

06/09/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/09/2026

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ACWD - DSD
AB 300

Lackey, R

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Fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal.
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Bill information

Status:

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

Summary:

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

Location:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/23/2025
N

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1624

Zbur, D

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Public Lands Protection Act.
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ACWD - DSD
Bill information

Status:

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

Summary:

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

Location:

03/16/2026 - Assembly Local
Government

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

01/22/2026
Y

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1752

Lackey, R

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Eminent domain: appraisals.
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Summary:

The Eminent Domain Law authorizes a public entity to exercise the power of eminent
domain to acquire property for a public use, as specified. Existing law entitles the owner of
a property acquired by eminent domain to specified compensation. Existing law requires a
public entity to pay reasonable costs, not to exceed $5,000, of an independent appraisal
ordered by the owner of a property that the public entity offers to purchase under the
threat of eminent domain. This bill would require a public entity that offers to purchase
property under a threat of eminent domain related to specified purposes to pay the full
reasonable costs of an independent appraisal ordered by the owner, not to exceed
$8,000. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Judiciary

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Introduced:

02/09/2026

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

ACWD - ETS
AB 1018

Bauer-Kahan, D

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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
agency. This bill would generally regulate the development and deployment of an
automated decision system (ADS) used to make consequential decisions, as defined. The
bill would define “automated decision system” to mean a computational process derived
from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence that
issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, that is
designed or used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially
impacts natural persons. This bill would require a developer of a covered ADS, as defined,
to take certain actions, including conduct impact assessments of the covered ADS and
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information, including a high-level summary of the results of those impact
assessments. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)
Location:
Introduced:

09/13/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1146

Papan, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

09/05/2025 - Amended
09/05/2025

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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:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

06/23/2025

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Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1198
Haney, D
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Status:

06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
(June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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:

06/10/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
06/09/26 S Committee On
Labor, Public Employment And
Retirement (text 01/22/26)

AB 1405

Bauer-Kahan, D

Current Text:

01/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/22/2026

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Artificial intelligence: auditors: enrollment.
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Bill information

Status:

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

Summary:

Current law 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:
Introduced:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

Current Text:
Last Amend:

07/09/2025 - Amended
07/09/2025

ACWD - Finance
AB 34

Patterson, R

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California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities: large
hydroelectric generation.
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06/10/2026 - Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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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:

06/10/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Energy, Utilities And
Communications (text 01/05/26)

AB 1198

Haney, D

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
(June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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

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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:

06/10/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
06/09/26 S Committee On
Labor, Public Employment And
Retirement (text 01/22/26)

AB 1542

Ward, D

Current Text:

01/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/22/2026

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Sensitive personal information.
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Calendar:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.
06/22/26 S-PRIVACY, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION 3
p.m. or upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 CABALDON,
CHRISTOPHER, Chair

Summary:

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various rights
with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as
defined, including the right to direct a business that collects sensitive personal information,
as defined, about the consumer to limit its use, as prescribed. The California Privacy
Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020,
statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA. This bill would,
under the CCPA, prohibit a business, service provider, or contractor from selling or
sharing sensitive personal information to a third party. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)

Location:

Introduced:

06/10/2026 - Senate Privacy,
Digital Technologies, and
Consumer Protection
01/05/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Introduced

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Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
01/05/26)

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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.

Summary:

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

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and
Retirement

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/11/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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ACA 1

Valencia, D

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Bill information

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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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 long-

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

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

04/07/2025 - Amended

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)

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Padilla, D

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Water corporations: demand elasticity: rates and surcharges.
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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)

Location:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

04/10/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Last Amend:

04/10/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

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Current Analysis:

-

SB 556

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

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:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2025
N

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

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06/01/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

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Summary:

Current law requires a county auditor to make or contract with a certified public
accountant or public accountant to make an annual audit of the accounts and records of
every special district within the county for which an audit is not otherwise provided, as
specified. Current law authorizes a special district to replace this annual audit with a
financial review, or, until January 1, 2027, an agreed-upon procedures engagement or an
annual financial compilation of the special district, if specified conditions are met, including
that the special district’s annual revenues do not exceed $150,000. Until January 1, 2027,
upon receipt of the financial review, agreed-upon procedures engagement, or financial
compilation, current law authorizes a county auditor to appoint a certified public
accountant or a public accountant to conduct an audit of the special district, as specified.
This bill would remove the January 1, 2027, repeal date referenced above, and would
increase the revenue cap described above to $250,000. (Based on 02/05/2026 text)

Location:

06/01/2026 - Assembly Local
Government

Introduced:

02/05/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

05/01/26 S Floor Analyses (text
02/05/26)

Current Text:

02/05/2026 - Introduced

ACWD - Grants
AB 2218

Kalra, D

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Water policy: California Native American tribes.
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Bill information

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Summary:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q.
Would require the state government to support California Native Americans to maintain
cultural and linguistic traditions, practice ecosystem stewardship, and engage in good faith
government-to-government consultations with all California Native American tribes
regarding policies that may affect tribal communities. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
04/16/26)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

04/16/2026 - Amended
04/16/2026

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ACWD - GW
AB 2125

Bennett, D

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Groundwater basin adjudication: notice.
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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com.
on N.R. & W.

Summary:

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

Location:

06/09/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Judiciary (text
03/25/26)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

03/25/2026 - Amended
03/25/2026

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ACWD - HR
AB 340

Ahrens, D

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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:
Is Urgent:

01/28/2025
N

Last Amend:

03/05/2025

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 426

Dixon, R

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Impeding emergency response with drone.
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ACWD - HR, ACWD - OESS, ACWD - 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:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

04/02/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/05/2025

Last Amend:

04/02/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

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Elections: ballot disclosures.
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Status:

05/15/2026 - Set for Hearing 5/18/2026

Calendar:

06/11/26 #13 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
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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:

05/15/2026 Assembly RECONSIDERATION
02/13/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 672

Caloza, D

Current Text:

09/09/2025 - Amended

Last Amend:

09/09/2025

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Real property tax: welfare exemption: community land trusts.
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Status:

06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
(June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Summary:

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

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Location:

06/10/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/14/2025
Y

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Revenue And
Taxation (text 04/28/26)

AB 1109

Kalra, D

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04/28/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/28/2026

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Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.
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Status:

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)

Summary:

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)

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

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

AB 1383

McKinnor, D

Current Text:

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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Public employees’ retirement benefits.
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Status:

05/13/2026 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to
committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

Summary:

The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’
Retirement System (PERS) to provide a defined benefit to members of the system based
on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain
variations. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which is
continuously appropriated for purposes of PERS, including depositing employer and
employee contributions. Under the California Constitution, assets of a public pension or
retirement system are trust funds. The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act
of 2013 (PEPRA) establishes a variety of requirements and restrictions on public
employers offering defined benefit pension plans. In this regard, PEPRA restricts the
amount of compensation that may be applied for purposes of calculating a defined
pension benefit for a new member, as defined, by restricting it to specified percentages of
the contribution and benefit base under a specified federal law with respect to old age,
survivors, and disability insurance benefits. Existing law, the Teachers’ Retirement Law,
establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) and creates the Defined
Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit
to members of the program, based on final compensation, creditable service, and age at
retirement, subject to certain variations. This bill, for service performed on and after
January 1, 2027, would prohibit the pensionable compensation for calendar year 2027
used to calculate the defined benefit paid to a new member of a retirement system subject
to PEPRA who retires from the system from exceeding specified percentages of the
contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with respect to old age,
survivors, and disability insurance benefits. (Based on 05/13/2026 text)

Location:

Introduced:

05/06/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and
Retirement
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1578

Jackson, D

Current Text:

05/13/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/13/2026

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

Status:

06/03/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and G.O.

Calendar:

06/17/26 S-LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 112 DURAZO,
MARÍA ELENA, Chair

Summary:

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

Location:

06/03/2026 - Senate Local
Government

Introduced:

01/12/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

05/26/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/22/26)

AB 1749

Dixon, R

Current Text:

05/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/22/2026

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Interfering with wildfire suppression with drone.
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Summary:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on E.M. and JUD.
Would prohibit a person from operating or using an unmanned aerial vehicle, remotepiloted aircraft, or drone to knowingly or recklessly interfere with a wildfire suppression or
law enforcement or emergency response efforts related to a wildfire suppression. 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 03/19/2026 text)

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Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Emergency
Management

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/09/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
03/19/26)

AB 1859

Ortega, D

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Current Text:

03/19/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/19/2026

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Public works.
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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.

Summary:

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

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and
Retirement

Introduced:

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

02/11/2026

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Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

AB 1883

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Workplace surveillance tools.
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Status:

05/28/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Summary:

Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the
Department of Industrial Relations. Existing 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 generally regulate the use of workplace surveillance tools and an
employer’s use of worker data. The bill would prohibit an employer from using a workplace
surveillance tool on workers for various purposes, including preventing compliance with
laws or regulations, inferring information about workers engaging in a protected activity,
making inferences about an individual’s emotional state or based on their gait, or
collecting neural data. The bill would prohibit an employer from using facial recognition
technology to make inferences about a worker for firing, deactivation, or disciplinary
purposes. The bill would, with certain exceptions, also prohibit an employer from using a
workplace surveillance tool to infer specified categories of information about a worker,
including, among others, their veteran status, ancestral history, religious beliefs, or
disability status. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

05/28/2026 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/12/2026
N

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

AB 2078

Rogers, D

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Employees: meal periods: stationary engineers.
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Status:

06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Summary:

Current law generally prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work
period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of
not less than 30 minutes. Current law creates exceptions from this prohibition for
employees in specified occupations, including employees of an electrical corporation, a
gas corporation, a water corporation, or a local publicly owned electric utility covered by a
valid collective bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions. This bill would also
create an exception from the above-described prohibition for employees who perform
building maintenance work as a stationary engineer, as defined, covered by a valid
collective bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/09/26 S Committee On
Labor, Public Employment And
Retirement (text 02/18/26)

Current Text:

02/18/2026 - Introduced

ACWD - IT
SB 420

Padilla, D

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Property tax: welfare exemption: detention facilities.
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Status:

06/08/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

Calendar:

06/22/26 A-REVENUE AND TAXATION 3:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 GIPSON,
MIKE, Chair

Summary:

The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to exempt from taxation, in whole or
in part, property that is used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes, and
is owned or held in trust by a nonprofit entity. Pursuant to that authority, existing law

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provides for a welfare exemption under which property used exclusively for an exempt
purpose and owned and operated by specified entities, including foundations, limited
liability companies, or corporations meeting certain statutory requirements is exempt from
taxation. This bill would specify that for the purposes of the welfare exemption provisions
above, “property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes”
shall not include property, or any portion thereof, operated as a detention facility, as
defined, by a for-profit entity. (Based on 06/03/2026 text)
Location:

06/08/2026 - Assembly Revenue
and Taxation

Introduced:

02/18/2025 (Spot bill)

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

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

SB 1159

Cabaldon, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

06/03/2026 - Amended
06/03/2026

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Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.
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Bill information

Status:

06/09/2026 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

Calendar:

06/23/26 A-PRIVACY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room
437 BAUER-KAHAN, REBECCA, Chair

Summary:

The California Constitution provides that people have the right of access to information
concerning the conduct of the people’s business. Various provisions of existing law,
including the California Public Records Act, the Legislative Open Records Act, the BagleyKeene Open Meeting Act, and the Ralph M. Brown Act, provide, with some exceptions, for
public access to government records and meetings of government bodies. Among those
acts, the California Public Records Act defines “person” to include any natural person,
corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. This bill would
specify that, for purposes of the California Public Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open
Meeting Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Legislative Open Records Act, the
Administrative Procedure Act, the California Coastal Act of 1976, and the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), “person,” “interested person,” “participant,” “member
of the public,” as applicable, and any other similar terms under each act referring to those
who may engage with governmental agencies, do not include artificial intelligence, as
defined, systems, autonomous agents, or robots, whether physical or digital. (Based on
06/09/2026 text)

Location:

05/18/2026 - Assembly Privacy
and Consumer Protection

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Current Text:

06/09/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/09/2026

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Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

Current Analysis:

04/08/26 S Floor Analyses (text
03/25/26)

ACWD - OESS
AB 300

DD

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)
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)

Summary:

Location:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

01/23/2025

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
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:

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)

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AB 426

Dixon, R

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Status:

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

Summary:

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

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

04/02/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/05/2025

Last Amend:

04/02/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1146

Papan, D

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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)

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Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

06/23/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

06/23/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1530

Committee on Emergency Management

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California Disaster Assistance Act.
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Bill information

Status:

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

Summary:

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

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

05/23/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

03/26/2025

Last Amend:

05/23/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

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

AB 1749

Dixon, R

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Interfering with wildfire suppression with drone.
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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on E.M. and JUD.

Summary:

Would prohibit a person from operating or using an unmanned aerial vehicle, remotepiloted aircraft, or drone to knowingly or recklessly interfere with a wildfire suppression or
law enforcement or emergency response efforts related to a wildfire suppression. 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 03/19/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

06/10/2026 - Senate Emergency
Management
02/09/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
03/19/26)

AB 1873

Bennett, D

Current Text:

03/19/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/19/2026

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

06/09/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.M. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com.
on E.M.
06/16/26 S-EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 113
STERN, HENRY, Chair
Existing law requires, by July 1, 2030, a water supplier, as defined, to have access to
sufficient backup energy sources to operate critical fire suppression infrastructure, as
defined, needed to supply water for at least 24 hours for the purpose of fire suppression in
high or very high fire hazard severity zones in the County of Ventura, or to have access to
alternative sources of water supplied by a different water supplier or agency that can
serve this same purpose of supplying backup water to critical wells and water pumps for
24 hours, as provided. Existing law authorizes a water supplier that uses a backup energy
source that is not permanent and stationary to use mobile backup energy sources or
procure an energy source via an established mutual aid agreement provided that the
backup energy source can provide power within 12 hours of the National Weather Service

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alerting the County of Ventura of a red flag warning and provide power for at least 24
hours after a loss of power and within 60 minutes of a loss of power. Existing law requires,
if any fire damages and makes uninhabitable more than 10 residential dwellings within the
service area of a water supplier, a report be made by the Ventura County Fire Department
in cooperation with the water supplier, as specified. This bill would authorize a water
supplier to use a backup energy source that is not permanent or stationary, provided that
the backup energy source can, among other things, provide power within 90 minutes of a
loss of power, or as soon as practically possible after deenergization. The bill would
require a water supplier that uses a backup energy source that is not permanent and
stationary to notify the Ventura County Office of Emergency Services as soon as
practically possible, but no later than 3 business days after a loss of power, if that backup
energy source does not provide power within 90 minutes of a loss of power. (Based on
05/27/2026 text)
Location:

06/09/2026 - Senate Emergency
Management

Introduced:

02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Natural Resources
And Water (text 05/27/26)

Current Text:

05/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/27/2026

ACWD - Operations
AB 34

Patterson, R

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California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities: large
hydroelectric generation.
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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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

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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:

06/10/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Energy, Utilities And
Communications (text 01/05/26)

AB 372

Bennett, D

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

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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)

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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AB 426

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Bill information

Status:

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

Summary:

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

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

04/02/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/05/2025

Last Amend:

04/02/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

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

AB 990

Hadwick, R

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Public water systems: emergency notification plan.
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ACWD - Board/Gov, ACWD - Operations, ACWD Water Quality

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)

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AB 1873

Bennett, D

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02/20/2025 - Introduced

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Bill information

Status:

06/09/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.M. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com.
on E.M.

Calendar:

06/16/26 S-EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 113
STERN, HENRY, Chair

Summary:

Existing law requires, by July 1, 2030, a water supplier, as defined, to have access to
sufficient backup energy sources to operate critical fire suppression infrastructure, as
defined, needed to supply water for at least 24 hours for the purpose of fire suppression in
high or very high fire hazard severity zones in the County of Ventura, or to have access to
alternative sources of water supplied by a different water supplier or agency that can
serve this same purpose of supplying backup water to critical wells and water pumps for

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

06/09/2026 - Senate Emergency
Management

Introduced:

02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Natural Resources
And Water (text 05/27/26)

SB 724

Richardson, D

Current Text:

05/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/27/2026

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Public housing: lead testing.
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Summary:

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)
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)

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Location:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

05/05/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Last Amend:

05/05/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

A Appropriations
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05/05/25)

ACWD - PE
AB 300

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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:
Introduced:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
01/23/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 372

Bennett, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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

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

Summary:

Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

08/29/2025 - Amended

Introduced:
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)

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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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Bill information

Status:

07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was N.R. & W. on
6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

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:

02/11/2025

Last Amend:

05/06/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 638

Rodriguez, Celeste, D

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Stormwater: uses: irrigation.
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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:

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

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Location:

08/28/2025 - Senate 2 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)

AB 1198

Haney, D

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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
(June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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:

06/10/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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Current Analysis:

AB 1859

06/09/26 S Committee On
Labor, Public Employment And
Retirement (text 01/22/26)

Ortega, D

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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.

Summary:

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

Location:

Introduced:

06/10/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and
Retirement
02/11/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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SB 74

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Seyarto, R

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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:
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)

ACWD - Procurement
AB 1859

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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.

Summary:

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

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and
Retirement

Introduced:

02/11/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
05/18/26)

SB 935

Choi, R

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Local agency design-build projects: authorization.
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ACWD - Procurement

Bill information

Status:

06/03/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with
recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 3). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Summary:

Current law authorizes a local agency, as defined, with approval of its governing body, to
procure design-build contracts for public works projects in excess of $1,000,000, awarding
the contract either to the lowest bid or the best value. Current law, among other
requirements for the design-build procurement process, requires specified information
submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions
authorizing local agencies to use the design-build procurement process are repealed on
January 1, 2031. This bill would repeal the above-described January 1, 2031, repeal date,
thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. (Based on 01/29/2026
text)

Location:

06/03/2026 Assembly Appropriations

Introduced:

01/29/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/02/26 A Local Government
(text 01/29/26)

Current Text:

01/29/2026 - Introduced

ACWD - Production
AB 1873

Bennett, D

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

06/09/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.M. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com.
on E.M.

Calendar:

06/16/26 S-EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 113
STERN, HENRY, Chair

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Summary:

Existing law requires, by July 1, 2030, a water supplier, as defined, to have access to
sufficient backup energy sources to operate critical fire suppression infrastructure, as
defined, needed to supply water for at least 24 hours for the purpose of fire suppression in
high or very high fire hazard severity zones in the County of Ventura, or to have access to
alternative sources of water supplied by a different water supplier or agency that can
serve this same purpose of supplying backup water to critical wells and water pumps for
24 hours, as provided. Existing law authorizes a water supplier that uses a backup energy
source that is not permanent and stationary to use mobile backup energy sources or
procure an energy source via an established mutual aid agreement provided that the
backup energy source can provide power within 12 hours of the National Weather Service
alerting the County of Ventura of a red flag warning and provide power for at least 24
hours after a loss of power and within 60 minutes of a loss of power. Existing law requires,
if any fire damages and makes uninhabitable more than 10 residential dwellings within the
service area of a water supplier, a report be made by the Ventura County Fire Department
in cooperation with the water supplier, as specified. This bill would authorize a water
supplier to use a backup energy source that is not permanent or stationary, provided that
the backup energy source can, among other things, provide power within 90 minutes of a
loss of power, or as soon as practically possible after deenergization. The bill would
require a water supplier that uses a backup energy source that is not permanent and
stationary to notify the Ventura County Office of Emergency Services as soon as
practically possible, but no later than 3 business days after a loss of power, if that backup
energy source does not provide power within 90 minutes of a loss of power. (Based on
05/27/2026 text)

Location:

06/09/2026 - Senate Emergency
Management

Introduced:

02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

Y
06/05/26 S Natural Resources
And Water (text 05/27/26)

Current Text:

05/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/27/2026

ACWD - Water Quality
AB 990

Hadwick, R

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

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Summary:

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

Location:

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:
Current Analysis:

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

SB 724

Richardson, D

Current Text:

02/20/2025 - Introduced

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Summary:

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)
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:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

08/18/25 A Appropriations (text
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ACWD - Water Resources
AB 550

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Bill information

Status:

07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was N.R. & W. on
6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

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:

02/11/2025

Last Amend:

05/06/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 638

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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:

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)

AB 1413

Papan, D

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

Summary:

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

09/11/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR

Current Text:

09/02/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025 (Spot bill)

Last Amend:

09/02/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

AB 1894

Rubio, Blanca, D

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Fish and wildlife: invasive mussels: imported water.
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06/09/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
(June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Summary:

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

Location:
Introduced:

06/09/2026 Senate Appropriations
02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Natural Resources
And Water (text 05/28/26)

Current Text:

05/28/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/28/2026

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AB 2125

DD

Bennett, D

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06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com.
on N.R. & W.

Summary:

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

Location:

06/09/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/18/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
N

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Judiciary (text
03/25/26)

AB 2218

Kalra, D

Current Text:

03/25/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/25/2026

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Water policy: California Native American tribes.

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Bill information

Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q.

Summary:

Would require the state government to support California Native Americans to maintain
cultural and linguistic traditions, practice ecosystem stewardship, and engage in good faith
government-to-government consultations with all California Native American tribes
regarding policies that may affect tribal communities. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water
02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

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Y

Current Analysis:

05/20/26 A Floor Analysis (text
04/16/26)

AB 2476

Ellis, R

Current Text:

04/16/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/16/2026

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Electricity: integrated resource plans: Department of Water Resources: procurement.
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06/09/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.)
(June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Summary:

Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt a process for each loadserving entity, as defined, to file an integrated resource plan, adopt a schedule for periodic
updates to the plan, and ensure each load-serving entity takes specified actions, as
specified. Existing law requires the commission to determine if there is a need for the
procurement of eligible energy resources, as described, requires the commission to
specify the eligible energy resources that should be procured to meet that need, and
authorizes the commission, within 6 months of making that determination, to request the
Department of Water Resources to procure those specified resources that meet the
portfolio of resources, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to procure

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those resources pursuant to that request only before January 1, 2035, as provided.
Existing law authorizes the department to procure resources from a pump hydroelectric
facility pursuant to these provisions if the pump hydroelectric facility does not exceed 500
megawatts and was directly appropriated funding by the state before January 1, 2023.
This bill would eliminate the requirement that a pump hydroelectric facility be directly
appropriated funding by the state before January 1, 2023, in order for the department to
procure resources from the facility. (Based on 04/27/2026 text)
Location:

06/08/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

S Energy,
06/05/26 - - ··-Utilities
- - - And
-Communications (text 04/27/26)

SB 556

Hurtado, D

Current Text:

04/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/27/2026

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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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N

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

SB 557

Hurtado, D

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Child abuse: family resource centers.
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Status:

05/04/2026 - Referred to Com. on HUM. S.

Calendar:

06/16/26 A-HUMAN SERVICES 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 LEE, ALEX, Chair

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:

05/04/2026 - Assembly Human
Services

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/20/2025
N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

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SB 599

Caballero, D

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01/05/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

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Atmospheric rivers: research: forecasting methods: experimental tools.
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Position

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Bill information

Status:

09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE
FILE on 9/10/2025)(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.
Current law requires the department to operate reservoirs in a manner that improves flood
protection, and to reoperate flood control and water storage facilities to capture water
generated by atmospheric rivers. This bill would, for novel forecasting methods
researched, developed, and implemented by the department, require the department to
include the use of experimental tools that produce seasonal and subseasonal atmospheric
river forecasts, as defined. (Based on 04/24/2025 text)

Location:

09/11/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

04/24/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/20/2025

Last Amend:

04/24/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

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

ACWD - WS
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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Summary:

07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was N.R. & W. on
6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
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

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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)

AB 1894

Rubio, Blanca, D

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06/09/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
(June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Summary:

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

Location:

06/09/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

02/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Current Text:

05/28/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/28/2026

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Is Fiscal:

Y

Current Analysis:

06/05/26 S Natural Resources
And Water (text 05/28/26)

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Total Tracking Forms: 67

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Alameda Positions

AB 35

Sorted by: Measure
Thursday, 06/11/2026

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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Status:

06/10/2026 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on
APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9).

Calendar:

06/11/26 #11 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - SECOND READING FILE

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:

06/09/2026 Senate Appropriations

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Is Urgent:

Y

Current Text:

01/14/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/14/2026

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Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 259

Rubio, Blanca, D

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Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
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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 262

Caloza, D

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California Housing and Homelessness Agency: PINK Alert.
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Status:

06/03/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

Summary:

Existing law, the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025, beginning July 1, 2026,
eliminates the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and instead
establishes the Business and Consumer Services Agency and the California Housing and
Homelessness Agency (agency). Existing law requires the agency to coordinate with the
California Health and Human Services Agency and the California Consumer Protection
Agency on various state policies, including housing. This bill would require the agency to
create a study on issues impacting pregnant people experiencing homelessness and
report the results of the study, as well as recommendations to establish a PINK Alert, to
the Legislature by July 1, 2028. (Based on 05/27/2026 text)

Location:

06/03/2026 - Senate Human
Services

Introduced:

01/16/2025

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

AB 532

Ransom, D

Current Text:

05/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/27/2026

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Water rate assistance program.
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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 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

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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:
Introduced:

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

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 929

Connolly, D

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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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:

Y

AB 942

Calderon, D

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

Summary:

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

Location:

08/29/2025 - Senate Rules

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/19/2025

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 1331

Elhawary, D

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Workplace surveillance.
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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:

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.
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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)
Location:
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09/13/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
02/21/2025

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 1577

Current Text:
Last Amend:

09/04/2025 - Amended
09/04/2025

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Data centers: reporting.
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06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on E., U & C. and JUD.

Summary:

Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission and vests the commission with various responsibilities with respect to
developing and implementing the state’s energy policies. Existing law requires the
commission to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report, as specified, and to
make the reports accessible to state, local, and federal entities and to the general public.
This bill would require the commission to establish a process for the owner of a data
center, as defined, to submit specified information to the commission, including, among
other information, the data center’s location and size, the data center’s power usage
effectiveness, as defined, and the quantity of fuel consumed by onsite generators or other
fuel-based energy systems, as specified. The bill would require the owner of a data center
to submit the required information in the manner specified by the commission. (Based on
05/18/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Energy,
Utilities and Communications

Introduced:

01/12/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 1729

Lee, D

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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State employment: telework programs.
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Calendar:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and G.O.
06/17/26 S-LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O
Street, Room 2200 SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair

Summary:

Existing law requires every state agency to develop and implement a telecommuting plan
as part of its telecommuting program in work areas where telecommuting is identified as
being both practical and beneficial to the organization. Existing law requires the
Department of General Services to establish a unit for purposes of overseeing
telecommuting programs that is required to, among other things, develop and update
policy, procedures, and guidelines to assist agencies in the planning and implementation
of telecommuting programs. Existing law requires the department to establish criteria for
evaluating the state’s telecommuting program. Existing law defines “telecommuting” for
purposes of those provisions. This bill would revise and recast those provisions. The bill
would replace the term “telecommuting” with “telework,” as defined. The bill would also
require the Department of General Services to establish a telework dashboard that
displays the cost-effectiveness and efficiency benefits of state telework programs. (Based
on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and
Retirement

Introduced:

02/05/2026

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Is Fiscal:

Y
Y

AB 1772

Papan, D

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Fish and wildlife: invasive mussels.
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Notes
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Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and JUD.

Summary:

Existing law, until January 1, 2030, generally prohibits a person from possessing,
importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to be
placed or planted in any water in the state, invasive mussels, and authorizes the Director
of Fish and Wildlife or the director’s designee to engage in various enforcement activities,
including ordering the areas in conveyance that contain water be drained, dried, or
decontaminated, as provided. Existing law requires a public or private agency that
operates a water supply system to cooperate with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to
implement measures to avoid infestation by invasive mussels and to control or eradicate
any infestation that may occur in a water supply system. Existing law requires, if invasive
mussels are detected, the operator of a water supply system to, in cooperation with the
department, prepare and implement a plan to control or eradicate invasive mussels within
the system, and eliminate or minimize any potential downstream transport of an invasive
mussel. Existing law requires, on or before December 31, 2026, the department to review
all approved plans and require all plans that do not specifically address all invasive
mussel species known to be present in bodies of water in the state as of January 1, 2026,
to be updated or revised appropriately to include all invasive mussel species, on or before
September 30, 2027. Existing law requires every invasive mussel species to be
addressed in a plan no later than 180 days from the date that the species is listed in a
certain regulation. Existing law defines “invasive mussel” for these purposes as any
nonnative detrimental mussel, as provided. Under existing law, except as otherwise
provided, any violation of the Fish and Game Code, or of any rule, regulation, or order
made or adopted under the code, is a crime. This bill would prohibit a conveyance from
being launched until a specified drying period has completed, as provided. By expanding
the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill
would require the department to require water supply system operators to update their
plans to address all invasive mussel species present in the operator’s water system as of
January 1, 2026, as provided. (Based on 04/27/2026 text)

Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/09/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 1997

Lee, D

Current Text:

04/27/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/27/2026

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Land use: housing development approvals: timelines and processes.
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Status:

06/03/2026 - Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING.

Calendar:

06/17/26 S-LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 112 DURAZO,
MARÍA ELENA, Chair
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a
mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the
environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no
substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the
environment. The Permit Streamlining Act sets forth various procedures for the review and
approval of development project applications. Among other things, the act requires a
public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove
the project within a specified period of time, which varies depending on the project’s
phase in the CEQA process. This bill would additionally require approval or disapproval of
a housing development project within 30 days from the date of certification by the lead
agency of the environmental impact report (EIR), if the EIR is prepared pursuant to
specified provisions of CEQA if certain other conditions are met. By imposing additional
duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based
on 05/18/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:

06/03/2026 - Senate Local
Government

Introduced:

02/17/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

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AB 2026

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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Water diversion: groundwater recharge: permit.
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Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q.

Summary:

Existing law prohibits an entity from substantially diverting or obstructing the natural flow
of, or substantially changing or using any material from the bed, channel, or bank of, any
river, stream, or lake, or from depositing or disposing of certain material where it may pass
into any river, stream, or lake, without first notifying the Department of Fish and Wildlife of
that activity, and entering into a lake or streambed alteration agreement if required by the
department to protect fish and wildlife resources, except as specified. This bill would
revise and recast those conditions required for the appropriative water right exemption for
a diversion of floodflows for groundwater recharge, would apply the requirements to a
diversion commenced before January 1, 2034, and would further exempt those diversions
from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and
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tribal consultation, as provided. The bill would expand the definition of “floodflow” to
include flows downstream of a dam that is releasing water for flood control purposes, as
provided. (Based on 05/22/2026 text)
Location:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/17/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 2180

Ward, D

Current Text:

05/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/22/2026

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Local government: Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act: proportional cost of service.
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06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 10).

Calendar:
Summary:

06/11/26 #23 S-ASSEMBLY BILLS - SECOND READING FILE
The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of
assessments and property-related fees and charges by a local agency. As part of those
requirements, the California Constitution mandates that such fees or charges that are
extended, imposed, or increased satisfy certain requirements, including, but not limited to,
that the amount of the fee or charge imposed upon any parcel or person as an incident of
property ownership not exceed the proportional cost of the service attributable to the
parcel. Existing law, known as the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act (act),
prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with these
requirements and, among other things, authorizes an agency providing water, wastewater,
sewer, or refuse collection services to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water,
sewage treatment, or wastewater treatment or adjustments for inflation under certain
circumstances. This bill would authorize a local government to demonstrate the
proportional cost of the service attributable to the parcel by any method that reasonably
allocates the ascertainable cost of providing service to all parcels, if substantiated as
provided. The bill would, however, provide that for water or sewer service fee or charge
impositions, a local government is not required to provide an exact measure of the cost of
the service at each parcel and may instead impose uniform or tiered rates to parcel or
customer classes that are defined based on common characteristics indicative of likely
water or sewer use. (Based on 05/22/2026 text)

Location:

05/06/2026 - Senate Local
Government

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Current Text:

05/22/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/22/2026

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Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

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AB 2215

Calderon, D

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Water rights: permits: State Water Project.
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Status:

06/10/2026 - Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

Summary:

The Department of Water Resources operates the State Water Resources Development
System, commonly referred to as the State Water Project.
Existing law requires that construction work for a project that will put appropriated water to
beneficial use be commenced, prosecuted with due diligence, and completed within the
time period specified in the water right permit. Existing law authorizes the State Water
Resources Control Board to extend the deadline specified in the permit to commence or
complete construction work and to put appropriated water to beneficial use for good cause
shown. This bill would require that the time periods for the application of water to
beneficial use and for the completion of construction work for specific water right permits
held by the Department of Water Resources for the operation of the State Water Project
be December 31, 2046. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

06/10/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water
02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 2216

Aguiar-Curry, D

Current Text:

04/16/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/16/2026

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Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.
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Status:

06/03/2026 - Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

Calendar:

06/23/26 S-NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113
BECKER, JOSH, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta Conservancy. Existing law requires the conservancy to act as a primary state
agency to implement ecosystem restoration in the Delta and to support efforts that
advance environmental protection and the economic well-being of Delta residents.
Existing law specifies the composition of the governing board of the conservancy and
requires liaison advisers to serve in an advisory, nonvoting capacity. Existing law requires
the conservancy to prepare and adopt a strategic plan to achieve the goals of the
conservancy and requires the strategic plan to be consistent with certain plans. Existing
law authorizes the conservancy to engage in partnerships with nonprofit organizations,
local public agencies, and landowners, and authorizes the conservancy to provide grants
and loans to state agencies, local public agencies, and nonprofit organizations to further
the goals of the conservancy. Existing law establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Conservancy Fund in the State Treasury. Existing law makes moneys in the fund
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of these provisions. This bill
would expand the area covered by the conservancy to include the Valley, as defined. The
bill would rename the conservancy the Valley and Delta Conservancy, rename the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Fund the Valley and Delta Conservancy
Fund, and make conforming changes. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)

Location:

06/03/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
Y

AB 2296

Papan, D

Current Text:

05/18/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/18/2026

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Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
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06/10/2026 - Referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Summary:

For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the
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governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected need for housing, and
requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties
without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing plan that allocates a
share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided.
Existing law authorizes at least 2 or more cities and a county, or counties, at least 28
months prior to the scheduled housing element revision, to form a subregional entity to
allocate the subregion’s existing and projected housing need among its members. If the
council of governments does not receive a notification of this formation at least 28 months
prior to the update, existing law requires the council of governments to implement
specified requirements regarding the regional housing need process. Existing law requires
the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to
each delegate subregion at least 25 months prior to the scheduled revision. This bill would
extend the above-described timeline for cities and counties to form a subregional entity to
allocate the subregion’s housing need, as provided, from 28 months to 34 months, and
the above-described timeline for the council of governments to determine the share of
regional housing need assigned to each subregion from 25 months to 31 months,
respectively. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)
Location:
Introduced:

06/10/2026 - Senate Housing
02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 2568

Johnson, R

Current Text:
Last Amend:

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

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Water district directors: compensation.
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05/20/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Calendar:

06/17/26 S-LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9:30 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 112 DURAZO,
MARÍA ELENA, Chair
Existing law authorizes a water district, as defined, to adopt an ordinance that provides
compensation to members of the governing board, as specified. Existing law prohibits a
water district from adopting an ordinance that compensates members of the governing
board for more than a total of 10 days in any calendar month. This bill would, until January
1, 2032, authorize a water district that has at least 90,000 residents within its jurisdiction
to adopt an ordinance that compensates members of the governing board for up to a total
of 15 days in any calendar month, but would require the members of the governing board
of a water district that compensates its members for more than 10 days in a calendar
month to annually adopt a written policy describing, based on a finding supported by
substantial evidence, why providing compensation for more than 10 days per calendar

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month is necessary for the effective operation of the water district. (Based on 04/27/2026
text)
Location:

05/20/2026 - Senate Local
Government

Introduced:

02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

N

AB 2728

Soria, D

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04/27/2026

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Open and Transparent Water Data Act.
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06/03/2026 - Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

Calendar:

06/23/26 S-NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113
BECKER, JOSH, Chair
Existing law, the Open and Transparent Water Data Act, requires the Department of Water
Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the Department of Fish and
Wildlife to coordinate and integrate existing water and ecological data from local, state,
and federal agencies for specified purposes, including, among others, improving the
management of the state’s water resources. This bill would specify for purposes of that
provision that improving the management of the state’s water resources includes
improving the efficacy of management actions. This bill contains other related provisions
and other existing laws. (Based on 03/19/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:
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06/03/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water
02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

AB 2739

Soria, D

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03/19/2026 - Amended

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03/19/2026

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Water: affordability and system stabilization.
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Calendar:

06/03/2026 - Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q.
06/23/26 S-NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 113
BECKER, JOSH, Chair

Summary:

Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Water
Resources. Existing law vests in the department powers, duties, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction in matters pertaining to water or dams. Existing law
declares the responsibility of the state to assist local governments in providing certain
essential services and facilities where water resource construction projects financed, in
whole or in part, by the state or by the state jointly with the federal government create an
undue burden on a local area’s ability to provide these services and facilities. Existing law,
the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board
to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health.
Existing law declares it to be the established policy of the state that every human being
has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human
consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. This bill would establish in the State
Treasury the Water Affordability and System Stabilization Fund for holding the principal
and income of the Water Affordability and System Stabilization Trust, which the bill would
create. The bill would designate the Treasurer as trustee of the trust, as specified, and
would require the trustee, among other things, to hold, manage, and invest the principal of
the trust with the obligation of providing a growing perpetual source of annual funding to
the Water Rate Assistance Fund, administered by the state board, and the Community
Water Affordability Assistance Fund, administered by the department, beginning 25 years
after the Legislature transfers funding from the General Fund to the Water Affordability
and System Stabilization Fund. (Based on 04/06/2026 text)

Location:

06/03/2026 - Senate Natural
Resources and Water

Introduced:

02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

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Macedo, R

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

Summary:

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

Location:

03/24/2025 - Assembly PRINT

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

03/24/2025
N

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Y

SB 33

Cortese, D

Current Text:

03/24/2025 - Introduced

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06/10/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with
recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

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
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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:

06/10/2026 Assembly Appropriations

Introduced:

12/02/2024

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 238

Smallwood-Cuevas, D

Current Text:

01/05/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

01/05/2026

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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)

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05/01/2025

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SB 239

Arreguín, D

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Crimes: criminal threats.
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06/01/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

Summary:

Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death
or great bodily injury to another person, as specified. Under existing law, this crime is
punishable as a misdemeanor or by imprisonment in state prison as a felony. Existing law,
for the purposes of sentencing for a felony violation of these provisions, authorizes the
court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully threatened to
commit a crime that would result in the death or great bodily injury of a state constitutional
officer, a Member of the Legislature, or a judge or court commissioner, as specified. This
bill would additionally authorize the court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the
defendant willfully threatened to commit a crime that would result in the death or great
bodily injury of a county or city elections official, or a local agency official, as
specified. (Based on 05/28/2026 text)

Location:

06/01/2026 - Assembly Public
Safety

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01/30/2025

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SB 601

Allen, D

Current Text:

05/28/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/28/2026

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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

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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

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07/10/2025

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SB 833

McNerney, D

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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)
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)

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Location:

08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR

Current Text:

07/17/2025 - Amended

Introduced:

02/21/2025 (Spot bill)

Last Amend:

07/17/2025

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N
Y

SB 872

McNerney, D

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Delta Levees and Canal Subsidence Fund.
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05/26/2026 - Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.

Summary:

the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, declares that the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta (Delta) is a critically important natural resource for California and the
nation and it serves as both the hub of the California water system and the most valuable
estuary and wetland ecosystem on the west coast of North and South America. Existing
law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Water Resources.
Existing law requires the department and the Department of Fish and Wildlife to determine
the principal options for the Delta and requires the department to evaluate and
comparatively rate each option for its ability to do specified things, including, among
others, to maintain Delta water quality for Delta users, and to preserve, protect, and
improve Delta levees. Existing law establishes in the agency the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta Conservancy. Existing law requires the conservancy to act as a primary state
agency to implement ecosystem restoration in the Delta and to support efforts that
advance environmental protection and the economic well-being of Delta residents.
Existing law provides for the preservation of specified management areas of the Suisun
Marsh, pursuant to a protection plan prepared and adopted by the San Francisco Bay
Conservation and Development Commission, as provided. Existing law establishes the
Delta Stewardship Council, and requires the council to develop, adopt, and implement a
comprehensive long-term management plan for the Delta, known as the Delta Plan, as
provided. This bill would establish the Delta Levees and Canal Subsidence Fund in the
State Treasury and, upon appropriation, would make the moneys in the fund available to
the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for expenditure consistent with the
allocations described below. The bill would authorize the secretary to seek out, and the
fund to accept, state moneys from, among other sources, any bond funds, the General
Fund, or the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The bill would authorize the fund to accept
moneys from nonstate sources, including federal and private moneys, and would
continuously appropriate those moneys without regard to fiscal year, for allocation as
described, thereby making an appropriation. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)

Location:

05/26/2026 - Assembly Water,
Parks and Wildlife

Current Text:

05/14/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/14/2026

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Introduced:

01/06/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 997

Caballero, D

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North Fork Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency: lien authority.
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05/26/2026 - Referred to Coms. on W., P., & W. and JUD.

Calendar:

06/16/26 A-WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 PAPAN,
DIANE, Chair

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. 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. Existing law establishes
the North Fork Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency, requires the agency to be a
groundwater sustainability agency under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
for that portion of the Kings Subbasin that lies within the boundaries of the agency, and
requires the agency to develop and implement a groundwater sustainability plan to
achieve sustainable groundwater management within the territory of the agency. Existing
law generally specifies the powers of the agency, including the power to impose fees,
including, but not limited to, permit fees and fees on groundwater extraction or other
regulated activity, to fund the costs of a groundwater sustainability program. This bill would
authorize the agency to impose civil penalties on any person who extracts groundwater in
excess of the amount that person is authorized to extract under a rule, regulation,
ordinance, or resolution adopted by the agency. If any charges for water and other
services imposed by the agency pursuant to its authority remain unpaid, the bill would
authorize the amount of unpaid charges, in the discretion of the agency, to be secured at
any time by filing for record in the office of the county recorder of any county a certificate
specifying the amount of the charges and the name and address of the person liable for
the charges. The bill would require that, from the time of recordation of the certificate, the
amount required to be paid together with interest and penalties would constitute a lien
upon all real property in the county owned by the person or afterwards, and before the lien
expired, acquired by that person. (Based on 04/30/2026 text)

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Location:

05/26/2026 - Assembly Water,
Parks and Wildlife

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/09/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

N

SB 1005

Caballero, D

Current Text:

04/30/2026 - Amended

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Local agency: payment: rounding amount.
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Calendar:

06/08/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
06/11/26 #32 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS

Summary:

Existing law requires a public agency to accept specified methods of payment for
designated obligations. This bill would authorize a local agency to round the amount of
any payment made wholly or partly in cash to the local agency, or any refund or other
amount tendered wholly or partly in cash by the local agency, to the nearest $0.05. The bill
would apply to a local agency only if the governing body of the local agency adopts, by
majority vote, a resolution to make its provisions applicable to the local agency. The bill
would define terms for its purposes. (Based on 06/04/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

06/08/2026 - Assembly THIRD
READING
02/09/2026

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Y

Is Fiscal:

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SB 1036

Grayson, D

Current Text:

06/04/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/04/2026

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Mitigation Fee Act.
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Status:

06/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Calendar:
Summary:

06/11/26 #31 A-THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS
The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment,
increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a
development project, including requiring the local agency to identify the use to which the
fee is to be put and determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the fee’s
use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed. This bill would
require the amount of a fee that is imposed on a development project that demolishes or
changes an existing use to be offset to account for the demolition or change so that the
amount of the fee is attributable only to the development project’s incremental impact on
public facilities or services, as provided. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)

Location:

06/04/2026 - Assembly THIRD
READING

Introduced:

02/11/2026

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N

Is Fiscal:

N

SB 1085

Durazo, D

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Water supply planning: housing developments.
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05/26/2026 - Referred to Coms. on W., P., & W. and L. GOV.

Calendar:

06/16/26 A-WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 PAPAN,
DIANE, Chair

Summary:

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to
be responsible for determining whether a project is exempt from CEQA and whether an
environmental impact report, a negative declaration, or a mitigated negative declaration is
required. Existing law requires a city or county that determines a certain type of project is
subject to the requirements of CEQA to identify any public water system that may supply
water for the project and to request those public water systems to prepare a specified
water supply assessment, as provided. This bill, among other things, would instead
require a city or county, upon receipt of a preliminary application for a housing
development project that meets certain conditions, or upon a development application for
certain projects being determined as complete or deemed complete, to make that
identification of public water systems. The bill would require a city or county, within 15
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request each identified public water system to determine whether the projected water
demand associated with the proposed project was included in the most recently adopted
urban water management plan. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
Location:

05/26/2026 - Assembly Water,
Parks and Wildlife

Introduced:

02/13/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 1125

Menjivar, D

Current Text:

04/23/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/23/2026

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Water Rate Assistance Program.
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Status:

06/09/2026 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.

Calendar:

06/16/26 A-ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS 1:30 p.m. - State
Capitol, Room 444 CONNOLLY, DAMON, Chair

Summary:

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

Location:

06/04/2026 Assembly Environmental Safety
and Toxic Materials

Current Text:

06/09/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

06/09/2026

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Introduced:

02/17/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 1139

Laird, D

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Monterey Peninsula Water Management District: nonfunctional turf: noncompliance and enforcement.
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05/18/2026 - Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.

Calendar:

06/16/26 A-WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 PAPAN,
DIANE, Chair
The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Law establishes the Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District. The act authorizes the district to, among other
things, prohibit the use of district water during an emergency caused by drought, or other
threatened or existing water shortage, for specific uses that the district finds to be
nonessential. Existing law prohibits the use of potable water for the irrigation of
nonfunctional turf located on commercial, industrial, and institutional properties, other than
a cemetery, and on properties of homeowners’ associations, common interest
developments, and community service organizations or similar entities, as specified.
Existing law requires a person or entity to be subject to civil liability or penalties by the
State Water Resources Control Board, as prescribed, or to civil liability and penalties
imposed by an urban water supplier, pursuant to a locally adopted ordinance or policy.
Existing law authorizes a public water system, city, county, or city and county to enforce
the provisions relating to the prohibition, as specified. This bill would require a person or
entity to be subject to civil liability or penalties imposed by the Monterey Peninsula Water
Management District pursuant to a locally adopted ordinance or policy. (Based on
03/23/2026 text)

Summary:

Location:

05/18/2026 - Assembly Water,
Parks and Wildlife

Introduced:
Is Urgent:

02/18/2026
N

Is Fiscal:

N

SB 1187

Durazo, D

Current Text:

03/23/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

03/23/2026

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Open meetings: majority.
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05/18/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Summary:

Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings
of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons
be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law defines “meetings” for these purposes
to mean any congregation of a majority of the members of a legislative body at the same
time and location, as specified, to hear, discuss, deliberate, or take action on any item that
is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. This bill would define
“majority” for purposes of the act to mean the number of members of the legislative body
equaling more than half of the total number of seats on the legislative body. The bill would
specify that if a seat on the legislative body is vacant, that seat is to still be counted as a
seat on the legislative body. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 02/19/2026 text)

Location:

05/18/2026 - Assembly Local
Government

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:
Is Fiscal:

N
N

SB 1241

Smallwood-Cuevas, D

Current Text:

02/19/2026 - Introduced

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Summary:

06/08/2026 - Ordered to inactive file.
Existing law establishes requirements with respect to public contracts that apply when a
public entity is required by statute or regulation to obtain an enforceable commitment that
a bidder, contractor, or other entity will use a skilled and trained workforce to complete a
contract or project, as specified. Existing law requires a public entity subject to skilled and

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trained workforce requirements to include a specified notice in all bid documents. Existing
law specifies that a failure of a public entity to include the required notice that a project is
subject to the skilled and trained workforce requirement does not excuse a public entity
from those requirements. This bill would expand the circumstances under which those
requirements apply to specified instruments and laws, including development agreements
and resolutions, as provided. The bill would, in addition to the specified notice in bid
documents, require a public entity to post, or require a prime contractor to post, a job site
notice specifying that the project is subject to the skilled and trained workforce
requirement. The bill would also extend the same posting and notice requirement to
private developers. The bill would impose a penalty of no more than $10,000 per month
on a private developer who failed to comply with the above-described posting or notice
requirement, following an investigation by the Labor Commissioner or its
designee. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)
Location:

06/08/2026 - Senate INACTIVE
FILE

Introduced:

02/19/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

SB 1330

Arreguín, D

Current Text:

05/14/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/14/2026

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Summary:

06/08/2026 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Existing law defines an assault as an unlawful attempt, coupled with present ability, to
commit a violent injury upon the person of another. Existing law defines a battery as any
willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. Under existing
law, an assault or battery committed against specified professionals engaged in the
performance of their duties, including peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical
personnel, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a
fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would make an
assault or battery committed against a utility worker, as defined, who is engaged in the
performance of their duties punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one
year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. (Based on
05/14/2026 text)

Location:

06/08/2026 - Assembly Public
Safety

Current Text:

05/14/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

05/14/2026

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Introduced:

02/20/2026

Is Urgent:

N

Is Fiscal:

Y

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06/08/2026 - Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and P. & C.P.

Calendar:

06/24/26 A-UTILITIES AND ENERGY 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 PETRIENORRIS, COTTIE, Chair

Summary:

Existing law authorizes any corporation organized for or engaged in the business of
selling, distributing, supplying, or delivering water for irrigation purposes, and requires any
corporation organized for or engaged in the business of selling, distributing, supplying, or
delivering water for domestic use, to provide in its articles or bylaws that water shall be
sold, distributed, supplied, or delivered only to owners of its shares and that those shares
are appurtenant to certain lands, as specified. Under existing law, these corporations are
known as mutual water companies. This bill would prohibit a mutual water company from
charging, issuing a bill, or otherwise seeking to hold tenants of shareholders responsible
for the costs of water or its delivery, except for specified tenants, and would require all
notices of charges for water to be sent to the last known address of the shareholder or
tenant, as applicable. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)

Location:
Introduced:

06/08/2026 - Assembly Utilities
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Is Urgent:

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Current Text:

04/23/2026 - Amended

Last Amend:

04/23/2026

Total Measures: 36
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& COMMUNITY
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

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MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2026

JUNE 2026

PAGE 1

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

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ACWD IEarns Statewide Awards for Public
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MEDIA COVERAGE
The ACWD Connection

Scholarships Awarded to Tri-City Students
for Video Contest
ACWD is proud to announce the winners of the 7th annual WaterCl ips
Student Video Contest! On April 30, Tri-City students in grades 6-12
received scholarships for creating 30-second videos. This year's theme
challenged students to showcase how ACWD water influences, inspires
or supports physical health and wel lness. Congratu lations to this year's
talented students!
For a complete list of awardees and to watch the winning videos, visit

acwd.org/waterclips.

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June 2 - 24/7 ACWD at Your Service

Outdoor
Water Saving Tips
Adjust sprinklers to avoid watering the sidewa lk or
driveway.
Add mulch around trees and plants to help retain

soil moisture.
Plant California natives and water-efficient plants to
attract wildlife and reduce the need for fertilizer and
pesticides. Rebates available at acwd .org/rebates.
Check sprinklers and hoses for leaks. These leaks are
one of the most common ways water is unknowingly
w asted.

June 9 - Outdoor Water Saving Tips

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Alameda County Water District receives awards from the California Association of
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FREMONT - The Alameda County Water District (ACWD) received three prestigious honors,
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ACWD earned the EPIC Award In the "Graphic Design - Print" category for ns community event
"Pints and Plants - An Evening In the Garden· promoting water awareness In recognition of the
national Imagine a Day Without Water campa ign. The event also received a CAPIO Award of
Distinction in the "Special or Community Event - One-Time (In-House)" category.
The District additionally received top honors In the "Most Innovative Communications" category for
Integrating pet-focused messaging Into local water emergency preparedness outreach efforts.
"These awards reflect ACWD's commitment to engaging our communlty in meaningful, creative,
and accessible ways; said ACWD General Manager, Ed Stevenson. "Whether through community
events or Innovative preparedness messaging, our goal ts to create outreach and programs that
resonate with our customers, strengthen our connection with the community, and give our
customers the tools and Information they expect from us."
The California Association of Public Information Officlals Is the leading statewide organization
dedicated to advancing public sector communicators across all levels of government.
Through award-winning outreach programs and public education Initiatives. Alameda County
Water District continues to promote water awareness. conservation. emergency preparedness.
and community connection throughout the Tri-City area
Since 1914. the Alameda County Water District has supplied water to the residents and businesses
of southern Alameda County. ACWD supplies drinking water to the 348,000 people living in the
cities of Fremont. Newark, and Union City. For more Information, please visit www.acwd.org.

May 22 - ACWA Newsroom

ACWD Public Arfa1rs D1Y1s1on sta ff accepted multiple honors at the 2026 CAP10 Annual
Conference, recogniZ.lng !he District's outstanding public outreach and commun11y
engagl"menl effor ts. (Brant Bender Photography)

May 22 - Fremont Patch

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ALAMEDA COUNTY TAKES HOMES THREE HONORS DURING ANNUAL
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May 29 - Tri-City Voice

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JUNE 2026

PAGE 9

OTHER COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH
Office of the General Manager

• May 22 - Public Affairs (PA) issued a press release announcing awards

received from the California Association of Public Information Officials
(CAPIO) for innovative communications, graphic design, and outreach.
• May 29 - Information about the construction of the Clean Energy Program
and the Whitfield Reservoir Solar Project was posted on ACWD’s Nextdoor
account to five ‘neighborhoods’ near the project, with approximately 4,000
and 722 impressions.
• June 1 - PA staff and Assistant to the General Manager Jackie McCloud met
with Nathan Ivy from the Fremont Unified School District to discuss future
collaboration efforts for the Water Ambassador Program.
• June 2 - Renee Gonzales attended a CAPIO Webinar: Communicating
California’s Nonfunctional Turf Law.
• June 5 - PA staff celebrated World Environment Day by offering free
succulent cuttings from the ACWD employee succulent garden to
customers in the ACWD HQ lobby.
• June 10 - Staff from PA, Water Use Efficiency (WUE) and the Distribution
Maintenance Division participated in the City of Newark’s Big Truck Day, and
led an interactive activity for children.
• June 11 - PA staff delivered succulent cuttings from the ACWD employee
succulent garden to the Fremont Main Library to host a plant giveaway
offering water-wise plants to the community.

Water Resources

• May 26 - WUE staff sent a follow-up email to 44 customers who had
registered for the April 1 Landscape Workshop which included a recording
of the webinar and links to water use efficiency resources.
• June 1 - WUE staff sent a follow-up email to 90 customers who had
registered for the May 16 Landscape Workshop which included a recording
of the webinar and links to water use efficiency resources.
• June 2 - WUE staff presented to the Fremont Vista Homeowners Association
Board Members on Assembly Bill 1572 and ACWD water use efficiency
rebates and resources.
• May 21 - June 10 - A total of six people attended the Q&A with a WUE
Specialist.
LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

JUNE 2026

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SCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAM
• For the 2025/2026 school year, ZunZun performed at 36 assemblies at
16 schools reaching 10,656 students.

• 24,638 school supplies have been distributed to date for the 2025/26
school year.

• June 12 - Renee Gonzales met with Fremont Main Library staff to
discuss collaborative programming focused on water education.

Photos from the succulent giveaways held at the Fremont Main Library and at ACWD
HQ in celebration of World Environment Day

LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

JUNE 2026

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UPCOMING EVENTS
• July 4 - Fremont 4th of July Parade
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• August 4 - Union City Police Department’s National Night Out
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• October 3 - Science in the Park
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25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., Hayward

Photos from the City of Newark’s Big Truck Day
LEGAL, INTERGOVERNMENTAL & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

The ACWD Connection

Scholarships Awarded to Tri-City Students
for Video Contest
ACWD is proud to announce the winners of the 7th annual WaterClips
Student Video Contest! On April 30, Tri-City students in grades 6-12
received scholarships for creating 30-second videos. This year’s theme
challenged students to showcase how ACWD water influences, inspires
or supports physical health and wellness. Congratulations to this year’s
talented students!
For a complete list of awardees and to watch the winning videos, visit
acwd.org/waterclips.

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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
Borcelle is dealing with floods following continuous heavy rain.

The ACWD Connection

Outdoor
Water Saving Tips
Adjust sprinklers to avoid watering the sidewalk or
driveway.
Add mulch around trees and plants to help retain
soil moisture.
Plant California natives and water-efficient plants to
attract wildlife and reduce the need for fertilizer and
pesticides. Rebates available at acwd.org/rebates.
Check sprinklers and hoses for leaks. These leaks are
one of the most common ways water is unknowingly
wasted.
For more water saving tips, visit acwd.org/conserve.

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FREMONT, Calif. — The Alameda County Water District (ACWD) received three prestigious
honors, including an EPIC Award, from the California Association of Public Information
https://patch.com/california/fremont/acwd-earns-statewide-recognition-public-outreach-community-engagement

Officials (CAPIO) during the 2026 CAPIO Annual Conference in San Diego, recognizing the
District’s innovative and impactful community outreach efforts.
ACWD earned the EPIC Award in the “Graphic Design – Print” category for its community
event “Pints and Plants – An Evening in the Garden” promoting water awareness in
recognition of the national Imagine a Day Without Water campaign. The event also received
a CAPIO Award of Distinction in the “Special or Community Event – One-Time (In-House)”
category.
The District additionally received top honors in the “Most Innovative Communications”
category for integrating pet-focused messaging into local water emergency preparedness
outreach efforts.
“These awards reflect ACWD’s commitment to engaging our community in meaningful,
creative, and accessible ways,” said ACWD General Manager, Ed Stevenson. “Whether
through community events or innovative preparedness messaging, our goal is to create
outreach and programs that resonate with our customers, strengthen our connection with
the community, and give our customers the tools and information they expect from us.”
The California Association of Public Information Officials is the leading statewide
organization dedicated to advancing public sector communicators across all levels of
government.
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Through award-winning outreach programs and public education initiatives, Alameda
County Water District continues to promote water awareness, conservation, emergency
preparedness, and community connection throughout the Tri-City area.
Since 1914, the Alameda County Water District has supplied water to the residents and
businesses of southern Alameda County. ACWD supplies drinking water to the 348,000
people living in the cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City. For more information, please
visit www.acwd.org.

https://patch.com/california/fremont/acwd-earns-statewide-recognition-public-outreach-community-engagement

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Alameda County Water District Earns Statewide Recognition for Public Outreach - Association of California Water Agencies

ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
EARNS STATEWIDE RECOGNITION FOR
PUBLIC OUTREACH
BY A L A M E DA C O U N T Y WAT E R D I ST R I C T M AY 2 2 , 2 0 2 6
MEMBER SUBMITTED NEWS

FREMONT — The Alameda County Water District (ACWD) received three prestigious honors, including
an EPIC Award, from the California Association of Public Information Officials (CAPIO) during the 2026
CAPIO Annual Conference in San Diego, recognizing the District’s innovative and impactful
community outreach efforts.
ACWD earned the EPIC Award in the “Graphic Design – Print” category for its community event “Pints
and Plants – An Evening in the Garden” promoting water awareness in recognition of the national
Imagine a Day Without Water campaign. The event also received a CAPIO Award of Distinction in the
“Special or Community Event – One-Time (In-House)” category.
The District additionally received top honors in the “Most Innovative Communications” category for
integrating pet-focused messaging into local water emergency preparedness outreach efforts.
“These awards reflect ACWD’s commitment to engaging our community in meaningful, creative, and
accessible ways,” said ACWD General Manager, Ed Stevenson. “Whether through community events
or innovative preparedness messaging, our goal is to create outreach and programs that resonate
with our customers, strengthen our connection with the community, and give our customers the tools
and information they expect from us.”
The California Association of Public Information Officials is the leading statewide organization
dedicated to advancing public sector communicators across all levels of government.
Through award-winning outreach programs and public education initiatives, Alameda County Water
District continues to promote water awareness, conservation, emergency preparedness, and
community connection throughout the Tri-City area.
Since 1914, the Alameda County Water District has supplied water to the residents and businesses of
southern Alameda County. ACWD supplies drinking water to the 348,000 people living in the cities of
Fremont, Newark, and Union City. For more information, please visit www.acwd.org.
https://www.acwa.com/news/alameda-county-water-district-earns-statewide-recognition-for-creative-public-outreach-and-community-engagement/

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CAPIO
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WATER WISE At the 2026 CAPIO Annual Conference in San Diego, Alameda County Water District was recognized in three categories. Left
to Right: Renee Gonzales, Public Affairs Specialist; Sharene Gonzales, Public Affairs Supervisor and Melissa Rivera, Public Affairs Specialist
Brant Bender Photography

Government

Water district earns
statewide recognition
By: RENEE GONZALES, ACWD  May 29, 2026

The Alameda County Water District (ACWD) received three prestigious honors, including an EPIC Award,
from the California Association of Public Information Officials (CAPIO) during the 2026 CAPIO Annual
Conference in San Diego, recognizing the District’s innovative and impactful community outreach efforts.
ACWD earned the EPIC Award in the “Graphic Design—Print” category for its community event “Pints and
Plants – An Evening in the Garden” promoting water awareness in recognition of the national Imagine a Day
Without Water campaign. The event also received a CAPIO Award of Distinction in the “Special or
Community Event—One-Time (In-House)” category.
The District additionally received top honors in the “Most Innovative Communications” category for
integrating pet-focused messaging into local water emergency preparedness outreach efforts.
“These awards reflect ACWD’s commitment to engaging our community in meaningful, creative, and
accessible ways,” said ACWD General Manager, Ed Stevenson. “Whether through community events or
https://tricityvoice.com/water-district-earns-statewide-recognition/

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innovative preparedness messaging, our goal is to create outreach and programs that resonate with our
customers, strengthen our connection with the community, and give our customers the tools and information
they expect from us.”
The California Association of Public Information Officials is the leading statewide organization dedicated to
advancing public sector communicators across all levels of government.
Through award-winning outreach programs and public education initiatives, Alameda County Water District
continues to promote water awareness, conservation, emergency preparedness, and community connection
throughout the Tri-City area.

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News Release

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 22, 2026
CONTACT: Sharene Gonzales, Public Affairs Supervisor
Phone: 510.668.4208
[email protected]
@AlamedaCountyWD

Alameda County Water District Earns Statewide Recognition for
Creative Public Outreach and Community Engagement
FREMONT, Calif. — The Alameda County Water District (ACWD) received three
prestigious honors, including an EPIC Award, from the California Association of Public
Information Officials (CAPIO) during the 2026 CAPIO Annual Conference in San Diego,
recognizing the District’s innovative and impactful community outreach efforts.
ACWD earned the EPIC Award in the “Graphic Design – Print” category for its community
event “Pints and Plants – An Evening in the Garden” promoting water awareness in
recognition of the national Imagine a Day Without Water campaign. The event also
received a CAPIO Award of Distinction in the “Special or Community Event – One-Time
(In-House)” category.
The District additionally received top honors in the “Most Innovative Communications”
category for integrating pet-focused messaging into local water emergency preparedness
outreach efforts.
“These awards reflect ACWD’s commitment to engaging our community in meaningful,
creative, and accessible ways,” said ACWD General Manager, Ed Stevenson. “Whether
through community events or innovative preparedness messaging, our goal is to create
outreach and programs that resonate with our customers, strengthen our connection with
the community, and give our customers the tools and information they expect from us.”
The California Association of Public Information Officials is the leading statewide
organization dedicated to advancing public sector communicators across all levels of
government.

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Alameda County Water District

www.acwd.org • 510.668.4200 • 43885 S. Grimmer Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538

ACWD Earns Statewide Distinction Page 2

Through award-winning outreach programs and public education initiatives, Alameda
County Water District continues to promote water awareness, conservation, emergency
preparedness, and community connection throughout the Tri-City area.
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Since 1914, the Alameda County Water District has supplied water to the residents and
businesses of southern Alameda County. ACWD supplies drinking water to the 348,000
people living in the cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City. For more information,
please visit www.acwd.org.

Alameda County Water District

www.acwd.org • 510.668.4200 • 43885 S. Grimmer Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538

ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
MEMORANDUM

DATE:

June 10, 2026

TO:

Legal, Intergovernmental, and Community Affairs (LICA) Committee

FROM:

Special Assistant to the General Manager, Jackie McCloud

SUBJECT:

LICA June Briefing

The Special Assistant to the General Manager's June briefing summarizes activities conducted
from May 21, 2026, through June 10, 2026. Key highlights include participation in the Special
Board Meeting for the ACWD-Fremont Unified School District (FUSD) Water Ambassador
Pilot Program, ongoing collaboration with California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), and
attendance at the American Water Works Association (AWWA) California-Nevada Section
Water Utility Council (WUC) monthly committee meeting.
Special Board Meeting for the ACWD-FUSD Water Ambassador Pilot Program
At the Special Board Meeting held on May 21, 2026, FUSD Instructional Coach Nate Ivy and I
provided an overview of the Water Ambassador Pilot Program. The Water Ambassadors
showcased their capstone projects, which integrated various modules from the program. They
also participated in an educational mock board meeting as part of the final module, offering
students insight into the roles of decision-makers within the District. Upon completion of the
mock board meeting, students were recognized with certificates presented by the Board.

Figure 1. FUSD Water Ambassador Students as the “Board” member roles.

Figure 2. Presentation of Certificates of Completion by the Alameda County Water District
Board President and Board Members.
Collaboration with CSUEB
The District maintains its ongoing collaboration with the Career Empowerment Center (CEC) in
accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) established in 2025. Recently,
several District departments have begun exploring the process of hiring interns via the CalState
S4 portal. Upon completion of requisition submissions in the CalState S4 system, the CEC will
disseminate internship postings to designated academic departments and faculty members on
behalf of the District. Additionally, Public Affairs is contributing to the CEC end of year “Impact
Summary” which highlights the partnership and work with the Master of Arts, Marketing
students.
AWWA CA-NV WUC
The WUC is scheduled to address federal and state regulatory and legislative matters. As of the
submission date of this memorandum, the meeting had not yet taken place. A verbal update will
be delivered during the Committee meeting on Monday, June 15, 2026.
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Ed Stevenson
Marian Hsu
JR Salinas