A federal judge has ruled that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has systematically violated the due process rights of inmates, and continues to ignore a 2015 settlement between the state and two Pelican Bay State Prison inmates held in solitary confinement for decades based on their perceived gang affiliations. The California Correctional Peace Officers Association wrote in a letter of opposition that forcing violent inmates back into the general prison population will lead to more violence, both to inmates and prison guards. AB 2223 garnered the most opposition, spurring heated protests outside the Capitol amid allegations that the bill is overbroad and legalizes infanticide, which supporters strongly deny. SB 1 by Senator Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) Coastal resources: sea level rise. They raised concerns about spent nuclear waste and safety issues due to the plants proximity to seismic fault lines. The barrier to more student housing is poor university planning and insufficient funding, the California Environmental Justice Alliance argued. Here is what you need to know about the new laws coming . The state has a Sept. 6 deadline to apply for federal funding. Senate Bill 903 authored by now-retired Senator Bob Hertzberg attempts to measure this prison-to-streets pipeline. In addition, all state agencies must source their energy from 100% renewable sources by 2035, ten years sooner than the current law requires. County mental health directors and the union that represents county mental health employees called for the bill to be amended, saying they want private insurers to pitch in more, and that they fear implementation may be patchy and variable among counties without sufficient funding. The new law would . SB 905: Environmental justice groups are opposed, saying carbon capture, use and storage technology is unproven. Gavin Newsom aim to establish California as a progressive leader on abortion access, on measures to counter climate change and on transgender health care for minors. At least 140 organizations and more than 400 individuals registered their opposition to the bill because they say it sets up a system of coerced, involuntary outpatient civil commitment that deprives people with mental health disabilities of the right to make self-determined decisions about their own lives. Instead of building up the critical housing and mental health infrastructure people need, the costly new court process will simply re-traumatize people struggling with mental illness, they say. Californians have been struggling to pay their water bills statewide, and it reached a boiling point during the pandemic. The state achieved that target four years early, but its not on pace to meet its current 2030 goal of a 40% cut much less a larger one. The new law requires the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board, part of the Office of the Inspector General, to issue annual reports to the governor and Legislature. Those with violent or serious felonies in their backgrounds wouldnt get their records automatically sealed, but would be able to petition a court to have them sealed. AB 1287, authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer Kahan, an Orinda Democrat, would prohibit an individual or business from charging a different price for a product based on the customers gender. In 2022, the California Legislature passed nearly 1,200 bills and nearly 1,000 became law with Gov. It would be a first-in-the-nation law requiring broad privacy protections online for children under 18, and would represent yet another step California has taken to lead privacy regulation. The bill followed a series of CalMatters stories exposing the problems caused by these loopholes, which have allowed owners to operate homes while license applications are in yearslong pending status, or even when the licenses have been outright denied. California enacted AB 32 in 2006, which required the state to set strict emission limits, including a target that greenhouse gas emission levels must reach 1990 levels by 2020. It also abolishes the requirement that coroners investigate stillbirths and protects someone who helps a pregnant person end their pregnancy voluntarily from criminal or civil liability. Democratic Assembly member Buffy Wicks, who drafted the act, says it marks a turning point for Californias housing production needs no longer will lack of land be an issue. Gavin Newsom and pushed through the Legislature in SB 1338 by Sens. The bill responds to a recent national wave of legislation that aims to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. Supporters say few low-income workers can afford the 30% to 40% pay cut to take time off for a disability or to care for a new child or sick family member. Union representation among Californias farmworkers has dwindled to statistically zero, UC Merced researchers found, and a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year effectively kicked union organizers off growers property. It gives agricultural employers two options for union drives: They could select a labor peace process in which they pledge to remain neutral during a union election, during which farmworkers could choose to receive and submit ballots by mail from the Agricultural Labor Relations Board; or if growers do not agree to neutrality, workers could unionize via a card check process in which growers must recognize the union if a majority of workers sign cards expressing interest. Minimum wage bump Businesses with 26 or more employees will be required to pay a $15 minimum. GovernorNewsom Announces Appointments 2.28.23, Governor Newsom Marks End of Californias COVID-19 State of Emergency, Governor Newsom, Attorney General Bonta and CPPA File Letter Opposing Federal Privacy Preemption, GovernorNewsom Announces Appointments 2.24.23, 6 Ways California is Capturing & Storing Water from Storms. SB 224 by Senator Anthony Portantino (D-La Caada Flintridge) Pupil instruction: mental health education. This would be the only program of its kind in the country. The California Department of Finance is opposed to both bills, noting that the fiscal effect is unknown but potentially in the tens of millions of dollars. SACRAMENTO Governor Gavin Newsom today highlighted new bills signed into law in 2021 that will go into effect January 1, 2022, including historic measures to expand worker protections, tackle the states housing crisis, redress historical injustices, increase voter access and more. It protects a woman or pregnant person who chooses to end a pregnancy from prosecution, even if the abortion is self-induced or happens outside of the medical system. The bill was sponsored by Common Sense media, a non-profit that reviews entertainment and technology for families and schools, and 5Rights Foundation, a UK non-profit whose founder led the charge on a similar law now in place in the UK. They view the bill as vital to protecting much-needed housing development from environmental lawsuits. Under the law, a judge will have to determine the admissibility of the lyrics in question as evidence, and whether they are directly linked to an alleged crime. The state Capitol in Sacramento on July 6, 2022. AB 2147, The Freedom to Walk Act, would allow law enforcement officers to stop a pedestrian for jaywalking only when a reasonably careful person would realize there is an immediate danger of a collision. The Legislature passed, but Newsom vetoed, a similar bill last year that would have repealed the states jaywalking laws and prohibited fines until Jan. 1, 2029. The Governor vetoed 169 bills, saving the state billions in taxpayer dollars. But at the same time, we know $15 is barely enough at this point in time.. Its also labors foothold toward bargaining power for a low-wage workforce that has been difficult to unionize because of widespread franchise ownership. The legislation only addresses undergraduate degrees. Your regular monthly contribution supports JPR's local journalism and all our music and cultural programming. But to build out the system as envisioned, including providing mobile crisis response, proponents of the cell phone fee say the state needs ongoing funding. Californias secretary of state is responsible for reviewing the signatures and certifying that a referendum qualifies for the ballot. Jay Jordan, the CEO of Alliance for Safety and Justice, a nonprofit that supported SB 731, said the barriers ex-convicts face in life after prison are referred to as collateral consequences., If people who have served their time, who did everything the system said they needed to do, are not given a second chance, thats not democracy, thats not justice, thats just pure punitive, Jordan said. This measure increases oversight over the fund, requiring annual reports be made to the Legislature, and directs the state Health and Human Services Agency to create a website outlining abortion services available in the state. Newsom and environmental groups are top supporters. This new law expands to all consumer products sold in California and enacts penalties of up to $2500 per violation. Gavin Newsom signed 770 new bills last legislative session, some of which go into effect starting Saturday. It argues that dismissing records for violent criminals will reduce deterrents for repeat offenders and jeopardize public safety. Newsom signed the bill Sept. 29. It's a tool to educate. The bill was supported by the environmental group Californians Against Waste and by two companies who offer sustainable burial services, Better Place Forests and Recompose. Following a 2017 change in the law, most students started taking gateway courses to eventually get into a UC or CSU, but still thousands 20% of first-time students continue to take these remedial courses. A 2022 study from the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco showed that white ex-convicts were more likely to benefit from clean slate laws than Black people, for example. Newsom signed the bill into law Sept. 18. Assemblymember Phil Ting, a San Francisco Democrat and the bills author, is hopeful this version of the legislation meets Newsoms objections. Supporters of the new law say serving prison time can change the trajectory of a persons life permanently and unfairly. When you apply for housing, you have to say whether you have a criminal record or not. There's nothing stopping CalGEM, which is the agency responsible for permitting in California, to just stop permitting within the setback zone, Naseck said. We expanded it to schools because we decided that was a sensitive space where we don't want, especially our young people, to be terrorized.. Understanding the prison-to-streets problem. The bill is an effort to ease the path toward collective bargaining and potentially higher wages for the 400,000-member California agricultural workforce. Civil liberties groups, immigration advocates and a constellation of criminal justice reform groups, including the California Public Defenders Association. COVID disinformation has been linked to vaccine hesitancy and in some cases has popularized unproven treatments. Some of the new laws became effective immediately and others, including some that were signed into law just weeks ago, take effect January 1, 2023, or later. The bill authorizes the attorney general to seek a court order to stop violations, and courts to impose a penalty of as much as $10,000 for first violations and $1,000 for each subsequent violation. The first step to create the council required collecting 10,000 signatures of approval from fast-food employees, which the state chapter of the Service Employees International Union says was accomplished with nearly twice the required number. It applies to a much wider swath of land and doesnt cap rents, but developers must use at least some union labor on every project. Last year, Newsom vetoed a similar bill over the costs, but his administrations been silent on this years version. AB 1757: Newsom and environmental justice groups were supporters. They say the plant is critical to Californias efforts to provide a steady power supply as it builds its renewable energy sources, cuts greenhouse gases and reduces reliance on fossil fuels. Even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections, Democratic leaders in California positioned the state as a reproductive health safe haven. Now, with dozens of other states moving to ban or severely restrict abortions, California has become the nearest abortion provider for an estimated 8,000 to 16,000 people. The people operating prisons and the Security Housing Units within them. The UFW says under the current, more rigid voting system, growers hearing of unionization efforts have called immigration authorities on organizing workers. By banning this practice, this bill would eliminate the pink tax, which supporters call the additional costs to female consumers. Headlining that effort is AB 2223 by Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks of Oakland. Though the state is responsible for less than 1% of greenhouse gases emitted globally, it has the fifth largest economy and helps drive global policy changes. One reason current data is unreliable is that inmates often tell parole boards they have housing, even if they dont, according to Chris Martin, policy director with Housing California, a nonprofit that supported the law. Disinformation can have serious consequences. If signed, the bill would make California a refuge for minors seeking gender-affirming care by prohibiting the removal of a child from their parent or guardian because that parent allowed their child to receive gender-affirming care. Included is a plan to monitor toxic leaks and emissions, and install alarm systems. At the same time, local law enforcement agencies in California write thousands of jaywalking tickets every year, which studies find disproportionately impact people of color. His main sticking point: that the bill allows workers to request union ballots before growers are notified there will be an election. Legislators approved a one-time $40 million appropriation for the fund as part of the budget. SB 395 by Senator Anna Caballero (D-Salinas) Excise tax: electronic cigarettes: Health Careers Opportunity Grant Program: Small and Rural Hospital Relief Program. Many of these wont necessarily intersect with your everyday existence. Thank you! AB 1405 by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) Debt settlement practices. A swath of business and restaurant groups representing individual franchise owners and corporate chains, including a number of minority chambers of commerce, opposed it. Over the Labor Day holiday, President Biden announced his strong support. Lawmakers rushed to pass hundreds of remaining bills before the clock struck midnight on Aug. 31. Legislators introduced more than a dozen bills this session designed to improve and protect access to abortion in California. California has struggled for years to keep up with the very real and visible issue of increasing numbers of seriously mentally ill people living on the street. Just look at historic photos of communities like Huntington Beach and there are forests of oil derricks. It passed the Senate 39-0. They get kept in prison.. The opposition is led by the California Family Council, which argues that gender-affirming care is not an agreed-upon treatment for transgender children. The legislation was vigorously opposed by the oil and gas industry, refiners and drilling specialists. Assembly Bill 1705 continues Californias efforts to ensure more community college students enroll in classes required to transfer to a UC or Cal State campus. However, the oll industry also is opposed. By clicking subscribe, you agree to the Terms. The bill also prohibits cities from requiring bicycle licenses. And if you reply yes, youre not going to get that unit, Martin said. Several advocacy organizations for nursing home residents, including the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, support this bill. CNN/Adobe Stock. Accelerating greenhouse gas cuts is essential to meeting the states goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. Groups supporting workers rights, child and maternal health, gender equity, retirees, and benefits for low-income Californians are pushing for the bill. The Sheriffs' Association and Georgia Police Chiefs talked in favor of the legislation. The California Bicycle Coalition, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and other groups say the bill will prevent racially biased enforcement while still keeping pedestrians safe. Newsom signed the bill on Sept. 30 among his final decisions. This coming legislative session, Weber hopes to introduce a new bill that would mandate all California schools to utilize the list of practices developed by the states education department, to ensure all students, regardless of where their school is located, are able to benefit. The bill is supported by the California Future of Abortion Council, a collective of more than three dozen reproductive rights groups convened by Newsom in 2021 to examine abortion access in the state. I think, especially in high school, the threat of a legal consequence will mitigate behavior. Versher said. The group says it would have supported the bill if it excluded violent criminals. Gavin Newsom, environmental justice groups and The Utility Reform Network, a consumer advocacy group. Scientific and medical analysis indicates that people living near wells are at higher risk of asthma, respiratory illness and some cancers. Californias farmworkers are the lifeblood of our state, and they have the fundamental right to unionize and advocate for themselves in the workplace, Newsom said in a statement. AB 2799 would require prosecutors who want to use creative expressions as evidence of a crime to hold a pretrial hearing away from the jury to prove that rap lyrics or other artistic expression are relevant to the case. Newsom signed this and other climate bills on Sept. 16. A new law will give qualified nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives the ability to perform first-trimester abortions in California without the supervision of a physician. According to a survey by The Trevor Project, affirming gender identity among transgender and nonbinary youth is consistently associated with lower rates of attempted suicide. All three aim to improve how our food system functions. After calling housing affordability the original sin of California, Newsom said that these housing bills would be different. AB 2091, by Democratic Assemblymember Mia Bonta of Oakland, prohibits medical providers, health insurers and prison staff from disclosing abortion-related medical records to out-of-state law enforcement officials who seek to use that information to prosecute an individual for getting an abortion. Proposition 65 requires California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Dozens of cities and local control advocates say the bills take away critical neighborhood input to development decisions and worry local governments may lose tax revenue from commercial properties. It would exclude crimes requiring the offender to register as a sex offender. More immediately, without this bill the current amount of benefits is set to expire and would return to 55% of a workers wages in January. People in California who have served time in prison will soon have a chance to appeal to have their criminal records sealed. It all depends on what happens in the coming days. The fast food industry, however, is trying to qualify a referendum for the 2024 ballot to overturn the law. That means [cyclists] get a little bit of a head start to get through the intersection, which are the most dangerous places for [them], Banks said. Fast-food workers in California were hoping for higher wages in the New Year after Governor Gavin Newsom signed landmark legislation back on Labor Day. Disability rights groups from across the country worry the model sets a dangerous national precedent. No one officially. The council would consist of fast food workers, their advocates, restaurant owners, fast food corporations and the states labor and business departments. The Western States Petroleum Association and the California Chamber of Commerce say the measure falls short because it would stop the oil and gas industries from using the technology for enhanced oil recovery. If a person refuses to comply, or fails out, they could be considered by the court for conservatorship just as if a county fails to provide the necessary services, they could face fines of up to $1,000 per day. 1: One For the Road When restaurants shut down in-person dining early in the pandemic, the laws governing. Some energy experts and environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Union of Concerned Scientists, were opposed. Garcia said the state needs more environmentally friendly burial options, since traditional methods put chemicals into the ground, or release carbon into the atmosphere. The law, authored by Democratic Assembly member Dr. Akilah Weber, is an effort to disrupt the so-called school-to-prison pipeline, which refers to the disproportionate and increased likelihood of students of color particularly Black students being disciplined in school via suspension or police to end up incarcerated as adults. And under current law, lower-earning workers contribute a greater share of their paychecks to the program than higher earners because of the cap on taxing incomes above $145,600. AB 257, or the FAST Recovery Act, would create a first-of-its-kind fast-food council to set rules for chains with a hundred or more restaurants nationally. But on Sept. 29, the secretary of state cleared for circulation an industry-backed referendum to seek to overturn the law on the 2024 ballot. Faculty unions, associations and the academic senate, plus Mt. Protect your nonprofit, nonpartisan state news. AB 2091 also seeks to outmaneuver laws in places such as Texas, where private citizens may sue abortion providers. SB 731 would, as of July 1, expand criminal record relief for all felonies, not just jailable felonies, if an individual is no longer serving a probationary sentence, not currently involved in another case, and two years have elapsed. Instead, the groups are advocating for more market-based approaches that trade credits and capture and store carbon while still allowing continued use of fossil fuels. Some 10,000 California nursing home residents died during the pandemic. Nearly 650,000 residential and 46,000 business accounts owed more than $315 million in unpaid water and wastewater bills by September 2021. Tom Umberg of Garden Grove and Susan Talamantes Eggman of Stockton. It also bans California from complying with out-of-state subpoenas seeking medical information related to gender-affirming care. The first it was tax season. Over time research chipped away at that logic: Students with high school grades who enrolled directly into transfer-level math and English courses were likelier to pass the courses in a year than if they took a remedial class first. With the signing of this bill, California will ensure these kids and their families can seek and obtain the medical and mental health care they need.. On November 3, 2022, the PA legislature passed Act 122 of 2022, amending the reporting requirement for businesses registered in the state. Newsom had until Sept. 30 to either sign or veto the bills that did pass and his choices will likely be more closely watched than ever as speculation builds about whether he is positioning himself to run for president. Not to give the same speech and expect the same applause, but to begin to do something about it.. It also allows for housing on that land, and exempts such projects from local approval processes and the California Environmental Quality Act. California is committed to ensuring that the men and women who have helped build our world-class economy are able to share in the states prosperity, he said in a statement. If the answer is no, they then do not get paroled, Martin explained. A fourth part of the bill doesnt go into effect until 2024. They say it will prolong the use of fossil fuels and the lifespan of other polluting industries. The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act identifies areas zoned for parking, retail or office buildings where land could be used for housing. The bill was authored by Democratic Senator Maria Elena Durazo. All eyes are on the Newsom administration, in terms of being able to secure these protections in the next two years, should the referendum make it to the ballot.. After failed attempts in 2020 and 2021, a bill to legalize natural organic reduction, or turning bodies into soil as an after-death option was resurrected this year. But just after the bill was signed into law in September, a referendum effort fueled by oil and gas companies was launched to undo it. Abortion rights advocates contend that the cases open the door to prosecute people who pursue a self-induced abortion and seek to prohibit that outcome. It is opposed by the Right to Life League, which also opposed AB 2223 and AB 2091. And thats the hard work of the next year.. Become a Sustainer! The Future of Abortion Council, created by the governor, supports all three bills along with Attorney General Rob Bonta, Lt. Gov. Several high-profile mass shootings and a sustained rise in gun violence across the United States in 2022 have spurred law enforcement officials and lawmakers to push for . Advocates say the bill will make biking safer. Cremating one corpse can release almost 600 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, exacerbating severe weather events and causing global changes in temperature and precipitation. Sex offenders would not be eligible. Supporters say that criminal records are serious barriers to the successful reentry of formerly incarcerated individuals to society. The bill sets phased-in targets to assist the states transition to 100% renewable energy. Pretty much everyone but faculty. A Dec. 13 statement from CIPA said that the signatures were submitted to the state for verification. The bill will require drivers to change lanes before passing a cyclist, if a lane is available. While larger companies hit the $15 per hour minimum wage in January 2022, smaller businesses had an extra year to meet the requirement. Many of the new laws are minor fixes to laws that legislators and the governor previously enacted. Thats in the wake of a 2020 report showing the latter district has one of the highest suspension rates for Black students, mainly boys, in California. The bill, by Democratic Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin of Camarillo, would order community colleges to enroll most students in a transfer-level math and English course if their program requires those subjects. 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