Sen. Lena Gonzalez

Maddy summarySenate Resolution 17 designates February 2025 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month in California. It encourages schools, communities, families, and youth to hold programs that raise awareness about teen dating violence and teach skills for healthy relationships. The resolution references CDC data showing one in three adolescents experiences dating abuse but does not create new laws or funding. It is a symbolic, non-binding resolution to promote awareness and community action.

Maddy summarySenate Concurrent Resolution 14 designates January 31-February 7, 2025, as CalEITC Awareness Week in California. This procedural resolution does not create new policy or alter the CalEITC program itself; it solely aims to raise public awareness about the existing California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC). The CalEITC is a refundable tax credit for low-income working individuals and families, with benefits reaching nearly 3.5 million filers annually. The resolution follows context about the credit's role in reducing poverty and supporting households, but the resolution itself only serves as a symbolic recognition.

This measure adopts the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 2025–26 Regular Session, as set forth in Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1, as the Joint Rules for the 2025–26 First Extraordinary Session, except as specified.

Maddy summaryThis Senate Resolution elects Senator Reyes to replace Senator Gonzalez on the Senate Committee on Rules, addressing a vacancy without changing policy. It is a procedural action to maintain committee membership, adopted unanimously (36-0) on January 30, 2025. The resolution directly affects committee composition but does not alter legislative procedures or create new laws.

Maddy summaryThis Senate Resolution (SR 2) formally elects three officers for the California State Senate: Mike McGuire as President pro Tempore, Erika Contreras Valles as Secretary, and Katrina Rodriguez as Sergeant at Arms. It directly affects these individuals by confirming their appointment to leadership roles within the Senate. The resolution was introduced and adopted on December 2, 2024, as a routine procedural step to finalize leadership positions. No policy changes or broader impacts are involved, as it solely confirms existing Senate leadership appointments.

Maddy summarySenate Resolution 4 establishes the operational rules for California's Senate during the 2025-26 legislative session. It sets daily meeting times (9:00 a.m. except weekends), requires senators to obtain leave for absences (with penalties for unexcused absence), and details the order of business including roll calls, committee reports, and bill consideration. The resolution also defines roles for Senate officers like the President pro Tempore and Sergeant at Arms, and outlines procedures for executive sessions. As a procedural resolution, it governs internal Senate operations rather than substantive policy.

Maddy summarySenate Resolution 1 (SR 1) is a procedural resolution adopted by the California Senate on December 2, 2024. It directs holdover Senators - those whose terms continue into the new legislative session - to take their seats and allows the Senate to organize. This resolution does not create new laws or affect any specific groups; it simply addresses the Senate's internal administrative process for the start of the 2025-26 session. As a routine procedural measure, it has no policy impact beyond facilitating the Senate's organizational structure.

This measure adopts the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 2023–24 Regular Session, as set forth in Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1, as the Joint Rules for the 2023–24 Second Extraordinary Session, except as specified.

Existing law requires the Governor to appoint every officer whose mode of appointment is not prescribed by law. Existing law also prescribes the manner of the Governor's appointment of those officers. This bill would require the office of the Governor, commencing January 1, 2026, to maintain on its internet website a list of every state board and commission that includes, for each state board or commission, the membership list, stated purpose, duties, meeting frequency, internet website, and vacancies in the membership. The bill would require the office of the Governor, on or before January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, to create and publish on its internet website a report containing aggregate demographic information of appointments made by the office during the prior calendar year, as specified.

(1) Existing law requires state agencies, boards, and commissions, in the course of collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians, to use separate collection categories and tabulations for certain groups, as specified. Existing federal law imposes various requirements on the collection of demographic data, as provided. Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health, which is responsible for various programs relating to the health and safety of people in the state. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to collect and report specified information, including data on violent deaths. This bill would require the department, on or after January 1, 2028, in the course of collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of California residents for any report that includes rates for major diseases and leading causes of death, as specified, to use separate collection categories and tabulations for Hispanic or Latino groups using standardized federal race and ethnicity categories from the federal Office of Management and Budget's "Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity," as specified. The bill would require the department to use separate collection categories and tabulations for each major Latino group and Mesoamerican Indigenous nation, if that group or nation is not included in the standardized federal race and ethnicity categories, as specified. The bill would require the department, when collecting the preferred language of program participants, to include specified languages. Existing law requires state agencies, boards, and commissions to report, as specified, data on collection categories and tabulations for certain groups. Existing law requires the collected data to be made available to the public, except as specified, including, among other things, personal identifying information, which existing law deems confidential. Existing law requires state agencies to update their data collection to reflect additional certain groups as they are reported by the United States Census Bureau, as specified. This bill would require the department to include the collected data in every demographic report on ancestry, ethnic origins, or language of California residents that the department publishes or releases on or after July 1, 2029. The bill would require the department to make available to the public the collected data, except as specified, including, among other things, personal identifying information, which the bill would deem confidential. On or before July 1, 2029, and annually thereafter, the bill would require the department to report to the Legislature on the collected data and the methods used to collect that data. The bill would require the department to update its data collection to reflect additional Latino groups, Mesoamerican Indigenous nations, and Mesoamerican Indigenous language groups as they are reported by the United States Census Bureau, as specified. This bill would authorize the State Department of Public Health to continue to collect and report demographic data in the form that the data was submitted if the data was collected pursuant to federal programs or surveys, by other state entities, or by third-party entities, as specified. (2) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.