Affordability & Consumer Protection
Focused on lowering costs, expanding access, and protecting working families.
Restructures the California Public Utilities Commission board to incorporate geographic diversity in representation. It will also require accountability and transparency with rate hikes to protect consumers from excessive price increases.
AB 532 – Water Rate Assistance Program
Clarifies that public urban retail water suppliers have the authority to operate low-income water rate assistance programs to expand access to clean, safe, and affordable drinking water.
AB 918 – Income Tax Relief for First Responders
Creates income tax breaks for local and public first responders and staff providing mutual aid for duly declared state and local emergencies. This bill would only apply to the pay received while deployed in California as part of requested mutual aid.
AB 1414 – Internet Service Provider Choice
Gives California tenants the right to seek internet service from a service provider of their choice, ensuring that landlords or other service providers do not prevent tenants from seeking out the service that best fits their needs.
Creates the Patient Advocate Advisory Group within the Office of Health Care Affordability.
Sustainability & Innovation
Investing in clean energy, environmental protection, and forward-thinking solutions.
AB 274 – Abandoned Vessels Cleanup
Requires the State Lands Commission to compile an inventory of abandoned commercial and recreational vessels located within the Delta.
AB 436 – Composting Facility Guidelines
Requires the Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to create and post a guide on best practices for siting composting facilities. It would require cities and counties to use this guide to update their land use plans for composting facility locations.
AB 696 – Lithium-Ion Battery Advisory Group
Creates the Lithium-Ion Car Battery Advisory Group to bring together state, local, and private partners to develop safety and best practices guidance for first responders to safely respond to and extinguish lithium-ion car battery fires.
AB 899 – Local Glass Bottle Use
Incentivizes the purchase of glass bottles made in California to support our local glass manufacturers and save around 1,000 union jobs in California.
Creates the Managed Honeybee Health Program within the Department of Food and Agriculture. It would allow the department to work with commercial beekeepers, the State Veterinarian, farmers, county agricultural commissioners, and other professionals or nongovernmental entities to advise on ways to protect the managed pollinator population in California. Lastly, it would allow the department to provide grants to groups promoting the health and safety of California’s pollinators.
AB 1285 – Lithium Battery Storage Safety (Emergency Managment Committee)
Requires the State Fire Marshal to develop fire prevention, response, and recovery measures for lithium-ion battery storage facilities to enhance firefighter safety, emergency preparedness, and to protect first responders and communities around these storage facilities.
Makes a technical change to the Valley Link statute by replacing the Mountain House Community Services District with the City of Mountain House.
Emergency Response & Public Safety
Strengthening California’s disaster readiness and supporting frontline workers.
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal FIRE) and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to jointly evaluate the Ventura Training Center to identify ways to increase the number of formerly incarcerated graduated trainees who enter the firefighter workforce.
AB 1283 – Mutual Aid Codification
Codifies and enhances California Office of Emergency Services’ (Cal OES) mutual aid, prepositioning, and fire engine replacement program by establishing the Firefighting Mutual Aid and Prepositioning Program and an associated reimbursement program.
AB 1284 – Catastrophic Emergency Plans (Emergency Managment Committee)
Requires Cal OES to develop a state recovery framework and assist local governments develop regional recovery frameworks for California’s catastrophic plans to ensure California is both prepared and equipped to recover rapidly and build long-term resilience during disasters.
- AJR 11- Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program: federal funding cuts
AB 1530 - California Disaster Assistance Act Funds (Emergency Managment Committee)
Requires Cal OES to establish a model process to assist communities recover from a disaster, including measures to encourage the participation of private nonprofit organizations and how they may be eligible to receive state assistance under the California Disaster Assistance Act. The bill would also provide greater flexibility to Cal OES by allowing them to implement their existing State Private Non-Profit Organization Assistance Program through guidelines as opposed to bureaucratic regulations.
AB 1531 - Wildfire Mitigation Program Board Representatives (Emergency Managment Committee)
Adds the Department of Insurance to the California Mitigation Program Board to ensure the state takes a more comprehensive approach to investments in wildfire hazard mitigation projects.
Equity, Rights & Community Empowerment
Centering civil rights, democratic access, and support for vulnerable communities.
Requires the Department of Justice to automatically report any Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer who appears on the Child Abuse Central Index.
AB 935 – Demographic Data Collection for Equity
Requires the Civil Rights Department, State Department of Education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to collect demographic information (like ethnicity, race, and gender) from people filing complaints, along with details about the complaint itself.
AB 1164 – Voter Bill of Rights
Strengthen the California Voter Bill of Rights by more clearly outlining circumstances where a voter is entitled to receive a replacement ballot.
