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2025 Legislative Update

Bills Introduced:

Environmental Impact & Local Control

  • AB 303 - The Battery Energy Safety and Accountability Act
    Promotes climate justice by uplifting the voice of local Californians and creating common-sense siting requirements for potentially hazardous battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities.
  • AB 405 - Fashion Environmental Accountability Act
    Designed to confront the fashion industry's environmental destruction and their role in generating textile waste, natural resources pollution, and harmful human health effects during use and after washing.
  • AB 1243 - Climate Superfund
    Addresses our climate crisis and helps working families by requiring the world's largest fossil fuel polluters to compensate Californians for the damage caused by their products.

Health

  • AB 510 - the Prior Authorization for Treatment: Informed Evaluation and Navigation and Trust (PATIENT) Act
    Prevents unnecessary delays from medical insurers, helping patients get the care they need faster.
  • AB 1419 - the Seamless Care Act
    Would expand the auto-enrollment feature for Covered California to include applicants who are determined to be eligible through the county eligibility process.
  • AB 1487 - the 2TGI Wellness and Equity Fund
    Will recognize Two-Spirit identities and ensure allocated resources reach the full diversity of the LGBT+ community.
  • AB 1288 - Retain and Train Act
    Helps alleviate the stress associated with the testing process while also ensuring that an increased number of qualified individuals can continue their career protecting the community's health.

Education

  • AB 560 - Special Education Caseloads
    Lowers caseloads for resource specialists from 28-1 to 20-1, includes initial assessments in caseloads.
    Establishes pupil-to-teacher ratios for special day classes on a service-need basis.
    Requires schools to create Special Education Teams.
  • AB 1159 - the CA Learner Personal Information Protection Act
    Updates and expands existing student data protections through three main actions:
    1. Clarifies and broadens scope
    2. Extends protections
    3. Strengthens data minimization
  • AB 1391 - Transitional Kindergarten Access Act
    Extends state-allocated funding for transitional kindergarten to basic aid districts and necessary small schools on an ongoing basis.

Transportation

  • AB 761 - Monterey-Salinas Transit Tax Cap
    Will allow the Monterey-Salinas Transit District (MST) to submit a measure to the voters of their district, if they choose to do so, to propose a retail transaction and use tax of no more than 1/4-cent.

Housing and Safety

  • AB 925 - Mobilehome Park Emergency Safety Act
    A commonsense approach to emergency planning in mobilehome and special occupancy parks. Ensures residents and first responders have access to working fire hydrants, operational entry and exit points, and gas systems in the event of an emergency evacuation.

Accountability & Accessibility

  • AB 808 - the Cal-Access Modernization and Transparency Act
    Will allow the public to more clearly access campaign finance reports on candidates and elected officials
  • AB 1008 - Department of Consumer Affairs: consumer complaints
    Authorizes additional alcohol licenses for restaurants in San Luis Obispo County.
  • AB 1076 - Qualified ABLE Program: CalABLE accounts: funding
    Expands access to CalABLE accounts, making it easier for people with disabilities to save and use funds for essential needs. It also allows individuals who receive CalKIDS funds but don't plan to attend college to transfer that money into CalABLE accounts, ensuring they can use it for other critical expenses.
  • AB 1208 - Regional centers: best practices
    This bill ensures streamlined delivery of services in regional centers across California by requiring the development and adoption of performance and outcome measures, as well as requiring the tracking of these measures over time.

Labor

  • AB 1336 - Farmworkers: benefits
    Protects farmworkers from the growing dangers of extreme heat by promoting compliance with existing outdoor heat illness prevention standards.

Firearms

  • AB 1316 - Hunting licenses: information on firearms
    Ensures that every person who purchases a hunting license receives, at minimum, information on certain topics related to firearms, safe firearm storage, parental liability for unsecured access, basic California firearm laws, and legal procedures for transferring or relinquishing a firearm.