This measure would proclaim May 2026 as Jewish American Heritage Month in California and would commend the Jewish American community for its profound contributions to California's growth, innovation, and diversity, and would state that the Legislature encourages all Californians to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month, as specified.
This bill designates May 2026 as Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. It requires state officials to issue a formal proclamation recognizing the month and highlighting the importance of managing these health conditions. The measure does not create new laws or funding but serves as a symbolic gesture to draw public attention to asthma and allergies.
This measure would proclaim the month of May 2026 as Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injury Awareness Month and encourage schools, youth sports organizations, athletic programs, and health professionals to promote evidence-based injury prevention education and training.
This measure would declare October 2026 as Women's Small Business Month and would encourage all citizens to recognize the economic importance of women's small businesses in California.
This bill designates May 2026 as Behavioral Health Awareness Month in California. It requires state agencies and public entities to acknowledge this month, likely through proclamations or public communications. The measure does not alter funding, laws, or services but serves to highlight the importance of mental and behavioral health awareness.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including numerous motion picture credits. Existing law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, allows a motion picture credit (motion picture credit 4.0) to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2025, and before July 1, 2030, in an amount equal to 20% or 25% of qualified expenditures for the production of a qualified motion picture in this state, and limits the aggregate amount of the credit that may be allocated for a fiscal year to $330,000,000, as specified. Existing law requires the California Film Commission to certify a credit amount equal to 96 percent of the total credit allocated to a qualified taxpayer, unless the qualified taxpayer chooses to submit a diversity workplan and the California Film Commission determines that the qualified taxpayer has met or made a good-faith effort to meet the diversity goals in its diversity workplan, as specified. This bill, for motion picture credit 4.0, if a qualified taxpayer chooses to submit a diversity workplan, would remove the good faith effort standard, and instead would require the California Film Commission to determine whether the qualified taxpayer met the diversity goals in its diversity workplan, as provided. The bill would also correct erroneous cross-references in those provisions. Existing law also allows a credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2032, in an amount equal to 20% or 25%, or as modified, of qualified expenditures paid or incurred during the taxable year by a qualified motion picture produced in this state at a certified studio construction project. Existing law defines a qualified motion picture for these purposes in the same manner as the motion picture credit and additionally requires that the qualified motion picture provide a diversity workplan that is approved by the commission. Existing law requires the California Film Commission to increase a qualified motion picture applicant's credit percentage by 4 percentage points if the applicant has met or made a good faith effort to meet the diversity goals in its diversity workplan. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, would remove the good faith effort standard, and instead would allow the California Film Commission to increase a qualified motion picture applicant's credit percentage by 4 percentage points if the applicant has met the diversity goals in its diversity workplan. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
This measure would recommit to formalizing the sister state relationship between the State of Jalisco in Mexico and the State of California, as specified.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law sets a schedule of benefits that are covered by the Medi-Cal program. The federal Medicaid program prohibits payment to a state for medical assistance furnished to an alien who is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence or otherwise permanently residing in the United States under color of law. Existing state law extends Medi-Cal eligibility for the full scope of Medi-Cal benefits to individuals who do not have satisfactory immigration status if they are otherwise eligible for those benefits, with the exception of specified dental benefits for individuals who are 19 years of age or older. Existing law makes an individual who is 19 years of age or older, who does not have satisfactory immigration status, and who applies for Medi-Cal on or after January 1, 2026, or loses eligibility for eligibility for full-scope Medi-Cal on or after January 1, 2026, eligible only for pregnancy-related services and emergency medical treatment. Existing law, beginning no sooner than July 1, 2027, as specified, requires individuals who do not have satisfactory immigration status, who are not pregnant, and who are 19 to 59 years of age, inclusive, to pay a monthly premium of $30, subject to certain exceptions. This bill would require the Director of the Department of Finance to determine and report to the Legislature and the Governor the cost of implementing eligibility for the full scope of Medi-Cal benefits for individuals who do not have satisfactory immigration status if they are otherwise eligible, and whether including those costs the General Fund would be in a deficit, as defined. The bill would then, on January 1 of the year following such a determination, end the above-described limitations on services for those who apply for Medi-Cal after January 1, 2026, or who lose eligibility for the full-scope of Medi-Cal benefits on or after January 1, 2026, thereby making an individual who is 19 years of age or older, who does not have satisfactory immigration status, eligible for the full scope of Medi-Cal benefits subject to certain limitations, such as the payment of premiums and certain dental benefits. The bill would require that the implementation of eligibility for the full-scope of Medi-Cal benefits be done by groups categorized by age, beginning with individuals over 49 years of age. Because counties are required to make Medi-Cal eligibility determinations and this bill would alter Medi-Cal eligibility, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
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 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. The bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to reduce or waive the penalty under specified circumstances. The bill would further require the Labor Commissioner or its designee to issue a civil wage and penalty assessment to the developer, as specified, for a violation of the posting and notice requirement, and would authorize a request for review of the assessment under certain statutory processes. The bill would make a willful violation of the posting or notice requirement by a developer, its agent, or representative, to be a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a contractor or bidder, among others, to submit a monthly report to the public entity while the project or contract is being performed demonstrating compliance with skilled and trained workforce requirements, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to assess specified civil penalties against a contractor or subcontractor for a violation of the skilled and workforce requirements, and authorizes reduction or waiver of a penalty for specified conditions. Among these conditions is whether a contractor or subcontractor submitted and followed a plan to achieve substantial compliance with the skilled and trained workforce requirements. This bill would prohibit the Labor Commissioner from waiving penalties for an incomplete or absent monthly compliance report and a material misrepresentation. The bill would impose the highest penalty for violations of skilled and trained workforce requirements committed after a noncompliance notice, as specified. The bill would expand the conditions that the Labor Commissioner should consider when setting a monetary penalty for failure to use a skilled and trained workforce, including, for the first violation in the prior 3 years, whether a contractor or subcontractor submitted and followed a substantial compliance plan to remedy noncompliance. The bill would define various terms for these purposes, including "substantial compliance plan" and "material misrepresentation." This bill would require the Labor Commissioner to accept complaints from a labor-management committee, as provided, alleging a skilled and trained workforce violation by a contractor or subcontractor. The bill would make various technical and conforming changes. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
This Senate resolution expresses support for treating biological aging as a primary strategy to prevent and delay chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer. It calls for the state to invest in research grants and public-private partnerships aimed at developing therapies that slow, prevent, or reverse the aging process. Additionally, the resolution encourages state health and aging departments to integrate aging science into their prevention programs and fosters collaboration between universities, insurers, and biotech firms to test new interventions.
Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including residential property insurance. Existing law requires an insurer to send various notices to a policyholder at specified intervals. Existing 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 require a residential property insurer to notify a policyholder at least 30 days in advance of the day that a remotely operated unmanned aircraft will be used to take aerial images of the insured property, as specified, unless a claim has been submitted or is pending on the property and the images will be used only for evaluating the claim. The bill would require the insurer to provide the aerial images upon request, and would require the notice to include instructions regarding how a policyholder may make that request. The bill would, if a residential property insurer gathered sufficient evidence for the termination of a residential property insurance contract during an inspection of a policyholder's property that was conducted by the use of a remotely operated unmanned aircraft, require the company to provide written notice to the policyholder of specified information, including the reason for the potential termination of the contract and what the policyholder is required to do to comply with the provisions of the contract, and to provide copies of the evidence gathered during the inspection. The bill would require the insurer to give the policyholder 120 days to remedy the issue, and would prohibit the insurer from canceling the contract if the policyholder provides documentation that indicates that the work was completed to comply with the contract, as specified. The bill would require an insurer to destroy any evidence that is in their possession that was collected from or generated by a remotely operated unmanned aircraft no later than 90 days after the data has been collected or generated, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to enter or remain upon any property that is posted against trespassing and loitering, as specified, without the written permission of the owner, tenant, or occupant in legal possession or control of the property. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to operate an unmanned aerial vehicle at the scene of an emergency for the purpose of viewing the scene or the activities of emergency responders, as specified. This bill would make it an infraction to intentionally or knowingly operate an unmanned aircraft over or to come within either a specified distance or a distance that would interfere with the operations of a critical infrastructure facility, as defined, with specified exceptions, including that the operator is a governmental entity acting in their capacity as a regulator or the operator has the written consent of the owner or operator of the facility. The bill would make it an infraction to intentionally or knowingly operate an unmanned aircraft over or to come within either a specified distance or a distance that would interfere with the operations of specified property in the City of Sacramento in which the State Capitol is located, with specified exceptions, including if a person is acting with the express authorization of the Joint Rules Committee of the Legislature, and would require the Joint Rules Committee to establish related policies in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to enter into a school building or upon school grounds, or on public property adjacent to the school, and interfere with or disrupt the activities of the school by remaining on or reentering the property after being asked to leave, or creating a disruption with the intent to threaten the safety of a pupil, as specified. This bill would additionally make it a misdemeanor to use an unmanned aircraft on or above a school building or upon school grounds with the intent to surveil, closely monitor, record, or threaten the safety of any person, as specified. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law makes it an infraction, punishable by a fine of $500, for a person to operate an unmanned aircraft on or above the grounds of a penal institution, as specified. This bill would increase that penalty to $1,000. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission consisting of 5 members appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate. The constitution authorizes the commission to establish its own procedures, subject to statute and due process, and authorizes a commissioner designated by the commission to hold a hearing or investigation or issue an order, subject to the commission's approval. The constitution also authorizes the commission to fix the rates of all public utilities subject to its jurisdiction. This measure would increase the membership of the commission to 9 members with the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly each appointing 2 additional members. The measure would repeal the authorization for the commission to establish its own procedures and for a commissioner designated by the commission to hold a hearing or investigation or issue an order. The measure would require the commission, in fixing rates, to consider the affordability of rates. The California Constitution requires private corporations and persons that own, operate, control, or manage a line, plant, or system for the transmission of telephone and telegraph messages to be public utilities subject to control by the Legislature. The constitution authorizes the Legislature to prescribe additional classes of private corporations or other persons as public utilities. This measure would repeal the requirement that private corporations and persons that own, operate, control, or manage a line, plant, or system for the transmission of telephone and telegraphs messages be public utilities. The measure would authorize the Legislature to prescribe the duties, functions, and jurisdiction of the commission relating to telephone corporations, telecommunications service, and broadband service, including, but not limited to, by reassigning the commission's duties to another state entity.
