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AB
53
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(Ramos D)
Personal income taxes: exclusion: Military Services Retirement and Surviving
Spouse Benefit Payment Act.
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Current Text: Amended: 2/24/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 12/2/2024
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Last Amend: 2/24/2025
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Status: 6/11/2025-Referred to Coms. on REV. &
TAX. and M. & V.A.
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Location: 6/11/2025-S. REV. &
TAX
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Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in
modified conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines “gross
income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded,
including an exclusion for combat-related special compensation. This bill,
for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January
1, 2030, would exclude from gross income retirement pay received by a
qualified taxpayer, as defined, during the taxable year, not to exceed
$20,000, from the federal government for service performed in the uniformed
services, as defined. The bill, for taxable years beginning on or after
January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, would also exclude from gross
income annuity payments received during the taxable year, not to exceed
$20,000, by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, pursuant to a United States
Department of Defense Survivor Benefit Plan. The bill would make related
findings and declarations. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws.
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Memo:
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Support letter sent to Author
Support letter sent to Asm. R&T
Support letter sent to Asm. APPR
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AB
280
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(Aguiar-Curry D)
Health care coverage: provider directories.
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Current Text: Amended: 7/15/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/21/2025
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Last Amend: 7/15/2025
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Status: 9/11/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule
61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/8/2025)(May be acted upon
Jan 2026)
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Location: 9/11/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Summary: Existing law, the Knox-Keene
Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and
regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health
Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides
for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
Existing law requires a health care service plan and a health insurer that
contracts with providers for alternative rates of payment to publish and
maintain a provider directory or directories with information on contracting
providers that deliver health care services enrollees or insureds, and
requires a health care service plan and health insurer to regularly update
its printed and online provider directory or directories, as specified. Existing
law authorizes the departments to require a plan or insurer to provide
coverage for all covered health care services provided to an enrollee or
insured who reasonably relied on materially inaccurate, incomplete, or
misleading information contained in a plan’s or insurer’s provider directory
or directories. This bill would require a plan or insurer to annually verify
and delete inaccurate listings from its provider directories, and would
require a provider directory to be 60% accurate on July 1, 2026, with
increasing required percentage accuracy benchmarks to be met each year until
the directories are 95% accurate on or before July 1, 2029. The bill would
subject a plan or insurer to administrative penalties for failure to meet the
prescribed benchmarks. The bill would require a plan or insurer to provide
coverage for all covered health care services provided to an enrollee or
insured who reasonably relied on inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading
information contained in a health plan or policy’s provider directory or
directories and to reimburse the provider the out-of-network amount for those
services. The bill would prohibit a provider from collecting an additional
amount from an enrollee or insured other than the applicable in-network cost
sharing, which would count toward the in-network deductible and out-of-pocket
maximum. The bill would require a plan or insurer to provide information
about in-network providers to enrollees and insureds upon request, including
whether the provider is accepting new patients at the time, and would limit
the cost-sharing amounts an enrollee or insured is required to pay for
services from those providers under specified circumstances. The bill would
require the health care service plan or the insurer, as applicable, to ensure
the accuracy of a request to add back a provider who was previously removed
from a directory and approve the request within 10 business days of receipt,
if accurate. The bill would authorize a health care service plan or insurer
to include a specified statement in the provider listing before removing the
provider from the directory if the provider does not respond within 5
calendar days of the plan or insurer’s annual notification. Because a
violation of the bill’s requirements by a health care service plan would be a
crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill
contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Memo:
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Support letter sent to Author
Support letter sent to Asm. APPR
Support letter sent to Sen. Health
Support letter sent to Sen. APPR
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AB
1190
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(Haney D)
Department of Motor Vehicles: private industry partner fees.
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Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/21/2025
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Last Amend: 6/23/2025
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Status: 8/29/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule
61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted
upon Jan 2026)
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Location: 8/28/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Summary: Existing law authorizes the
Department of Motor Vehicles to establish contracts for electronic programs
that allow qualified private industry partners, including second-line
business partners, to provide services that include processing and payment
programs for vehicle registration and titling transactions. Existing law
authorizes the department to establish the maximum amount that a qualified
private industry partner may charge its customers, but requires the
department to annually adjust that amount, as specified. The bill would,
notwithstanding the above-described authorization to establish maximum charge
amounts, require the department to limit the amount that any qualified
second-line business partner may charge an individual customer for a vehicle
registration renewal that is processed on the second-line business partner’s
internet website to no more than the maximum amount a first-line service
provider may charge its customers. The bill would also direct the department
to require all qualified second-line business partners to prominently display
on their internet websites, in a clear and conspicuous manner, a working link
to the department’s internet website with a specified statement informing the
public that consumers may obtain services from the department at no
additional cost.
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Memo:
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Support letter sent to Author
Support letter sent to Asm. APPR
Support letter sent to Sen. Transp
Support letter sent to Sen. APPR
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SB
23
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(Valladares R)
Property taxation: exemption: disabled veteran homeowners.
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Current Text: Amended: 3/5/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 12/2/2024
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Last Amend: 3/5/2025
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Status: 4/28/2025-April 28 set for first hearing
canceled at the request of author.
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Location: 3/12/2025-S. M. & V.
A.
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Summary: The California Constitution
provides that all property is taxable, and requires that it be assessed at
the same percentage of fair market value, unless otherwise provided by the
California Constitution or federal law. The California Constitution and
existing property tax law provide various exemptions from taxation, including,
among others, a disabled veterans’ exemption and a veterans’ organization
exemption. This bill would exempt from taxation, property owned by, and that
constitutes the principal place of residence of, a veteran, the veteran’s
spouse, or the veteran and the veteran’s spouse jointly, if the veteran is
100% disabled. The bill would provide an unmarried surviving spouse a
property exemption in the same amount that they would have been entitled to
if the veteran was alive and if certain conditions are met. The bill would
require certain documentation to be provided to the county assessor to
receive the exemption and would prohibit any other real property tax
exemption from being granted to the claimant if receiving the exemption
provided by the provisions of this bill. The bill would make these exemptions
applicable for property tax lien dates occurring on or after January 1, 2025,
but occurring before January 1, 2035. By imposing additional duties on local
tax officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Memo:
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Support letter sent to Author
Support letter sent to Sen. M&VA
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SB
56
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(Seyarto R)
Property taxation: disabled veterans’ exemption: household income.
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Current Text: Amended: 6/19/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/7/2025
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Last Amend: 6/19/2025
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Status: 7/15/2025-July 14 hearing: Placed on REV.
& TAX. suspense file. Set, first hearing. Held in committee and under
submission.
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Location: 7/15/2025-A. REV. &
TAX SUSPENSE FILE
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Summary: The California Constitution
provides that all property is taxable, and requires that it be assessed at
the same percentage of fair market value, unless otherwise provided by the
California Constitution or federal law. The California Constitution and
existing property tax law provide various exemptions from taxation,
including, among others, a disabled veterans’ exemption. Under existing law,
the disabled veterans’ exemption exempts from taxation part of the full value
of property that constitutes the principal place of residence of a veteran,
the veteran’s spouse, or the veteran and veteran’s spouse jointly, and the
unmarried surviving spouse of a veteran, as provided, if the veteran incurred
specified injuries or died while on active duty in military service, as
described. Existing law exempts that part of the full value of the residence
that does not exceed $100,000, or $150,000 if the household income of the
claimant does not exceed $40,000, as adjusted for inflation, as specified.
This bill would, until January 1, 2036, exclude service-connected disability
payments from the definition of “household income” for purposes of the
disabled veterans’ exemption. The bill would also correct an erroneous
cross-reference in the above-described provisions. By imposing additional
duties on local tax officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Memo:
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Support letter sent to Author
Support letter sent to Sen. M&VA
Support letter sent to Sen. APPR
Support letter sent to Asm. M&VA
Support letter sent to Asm. R&T
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AB
105
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(Gabriel D)
Budget Acts of 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
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Current Text: Amended: 9/8/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/8/2025
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Last Amend: 9/8/2025
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Status: 9/13/2025-Ordered to inactive file at the
request of Senator Grayson.
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Location: 9/13/2025-S. INACTIVE FILE
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Summary: The Budget Acts of 2021, 2023,
2024, and 2025 made appropriations for the support of state government for
the 2021–22, 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26 fiscal years, respectively. This
bill would amend those budget acts by amending, adding, and repealing items
of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is
to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
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AB
156
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(Committee on Budget) Labor.
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Current Text: Amended: 9/8/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/8/2025
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Last Amend: 9/8/2025
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Status: 9/13/2025-Ordered to inactive file at the
request of Senator Grayson.
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Location: 9/13/2025-S. INACTIVE FILE
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Summary: Existing law, the Public
Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees’ Retirement
System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pensions and benefits to state
employees and their beneficiaries and prescribes the rights and duties of
employers participating in the system. Under PERL, benefits are funded by
investment income and employer and employee contributions, which are
deposited into the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, a continuously
appropriated trust fund administered by the system’s board of administration.
PERL prescribes methods for the calculation and payment of the state employer
contribution for its employees who are PERS members. PERL provides for an
annual adjustment of the state’s contribution in the budget and quarterly
appropriations to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund from the General Fund
and other funds that are responsible for payment of the employer
contribution. Existing law makes additional General Fund appropriations to
the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund for the 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23,
2023–24, and 2024–25 fiscal years. Supplemental payments connected with
appropriations for those fiscal years are to be apportioned to the state
employee member categories generally, as directed by the Department of
Finance, and to specified state employee member categories, including to the
state miscellaneous member category, the industrial member category, the
state safety member category, and the state peace officer/firefighter member
category. The California Constitution establishes the Budget Stabilization
Account in the General Fund and requires the Controller, in each fiscal year,
to transfer from the General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Account amounts
that include a sum equal to 1.5% of the estimated amount of General Fund
revenues for that fiscal year. These provisions further require, until the
2029–30 fiscal year, that the Legislature appropriate a percentage of these
moneys, the amount of which is generated pursuant to specified calculations,
for certain obligations and purposes, including addressing unfunded liabilities
for state-level pension plans. This bill would appropriate $372,000,000 from
the General Fund for the purposes identified in the constitutional provisions
described above, to supplement the state’s appropriation to the Public
Employees’ Retirement Fund. The bill would specify that this appropriation
represents a portion of the amount identified in a specific provision of the
Budget Act of 2025. The bill would require the Department of Finance to
provide the Controller with a schedule establishing the timing of specific
transfers. The bill would require the supplemental payment to the Public
Employees’ Retirement Fund to be apportioned to specified state employee
member categories, not to exceed $174,523,000 to the state miscellaneous
member category, $10,296,000 to the state industrial member category,
$20,479,000 to the state safety member category, and $166,702,000 to the
state peace officer/firefighter member category. The bill would require the
appropriation described above to be applied to the unfunded state liabilities
for the state employee member categories that are in excess of the base
amounts for the 2025–26 fiscal year.
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AB
161
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(Committee on Budget) State employment: state bargaining
units.
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Current Text: Amended: 9/8/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/8/2025
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Last Amend: 9/8/2025
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Status: 9/13/2025-Ordered to inactive file at the
request of Senator Grayson.
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Location: 9/13/2025-S. INACTIVE FILE
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Summary: Existing law provides that a
provision of a memorandum of understanding reached between the state employer
and a recognized employee organization representing state civil service
employees that requires the expenditure of funds does not become effective
unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act. Existing law
requires the Department of Human Resources to provide a memorandum of
understanding to the Legislative Analyst, who then has 10 calendar days from
the date the tentative agreement is received to issue a fiscal analysis to
the Legislature. Existing law prohibits the memorandum of understanding from
being subject to legislative determination until either the Legislative
Analyst has presented a fiscal analysis of the memorandum of understanding or
until 10 calendar days have elapsed since the memorandum was received by the
Legislative Analyst. This bill, notwithstanding the above-described statutory
provisions, would approve provisions of the agreements entered into by the
state employer and specified state bargaining units. The bill would provide
that the provisions of the agreements that require the expenditure of funds
will not take effect unless funds for these provisions are specifically
appropriated by the Legislature. The bill would authorize the state employer
or the bargaining units to reopen negotiations if funds for these provisions
are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature. The bill would require
the provisions of the agreement that require the expenditure of funds to
become effective even if the provisions are approved by the Legislature in
legislation other than the annual Budget Act. By approving provisions of the
agreements that require the expenditure of funds, this bill would make an
appropriation.
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AB
302
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(Bauer-Kahan D)
Data brokers: elected officials and judges.
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Current Text: Amended: 7/17/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/23/2025
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Last Amend: 7/17/2025
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Status: 8/29/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule
61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted
upon Jan 2026)
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Location: 8/28/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Summary: The California Consumer Privacy
Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal
information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as defined,
including the right to request that a business delete any personal
information about the consumer that the business has collected from the
consumer. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters
as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election,
amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA and establishes the California
Privacy Protection Agency (agency) and vests the agency with full
administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to enforce the CCPA.
Existing law requires the agency to establish an accessible deletion mechanism
that, among other things, allows a consumer to request the deletion of all
personal information related to that consumer through a single deletion
request. Existing law requires, beginning August 1, 2026, a data broker to
access the accessible deletion mechanism at least once every 45 days and,
within 45 days after receiving a request, process all deletion requests and
delete all personal information related to the consumers making the requests,
as prescribed. Existing law requires a data broker to delete all personal
information of the consumer at least once every 45 days unless the consumer
requests otherwise, as prescribed. Existing law defines “data broker” to mean
a business, as defined, that knowingly collects and sells to third parties
the personal information of a consumer with whom the business does not have a
direct relationship, except as provided. This bill would require the agency
to obtain a list of all state and local elected officials, would require the
Judicial Council to provide the agency with a list of all California judges,
and would require the agency to allow elected officials or a judges to remove
their information from those lists, as prescribed. The bill would require the
lists to be kept confidential, as specified. The bill would also require the
agency to upload the lists to the accessible deletion mechanism described
above and, beginning August 1, 2026, require an entity receiving a
notification that a deletion is required to do so within 5 days. This bill
would authorize an elected official or judge who is on a list described
above, the Attorney General, a county counsel, or a city attorney to bring an
action for a violation of the bill, as prescribed. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB
539
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(Schiavo D)
Health care coverage: prior authorizations.
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Current Text: Amended: 4/28/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/11/2025
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Last Amend: 4/28/2025
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Status: 7/17/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule
61(a)(10). (Last location was HEALTH on 5/21/2025)(May be acted upon Jan
2026)
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Location: 7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Summary: Existing law, the Knox-Keene
Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and
regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health
Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides
for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
Existing law provides that a health care service plan or a health insurer
that authorizes a specific type of treatment by a health care provider shall
not rescind or modify this authorization after the provider renders the
health care service in good faith and pursuant to the authorization. This
bill would require a prior authorization for a health care service by a
health care service plan or a health insurer to remain valid for a period of
at least one year from the date of approval, or throughout the course of
prescribed treatment, if less than one year. Because a violation of the bill
by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a
state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws.
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AB
787
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(Papan D)
Provider directory disclosures.
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Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/18/2025
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Last Amend: 6/23/2025
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Status: 8/29/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule
61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 7/7/2025)(May be acted
upon Jan 2026)
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Location: 8/29/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Summary: Existing law, the Knox-Keene
Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and
regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health
Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides
for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
Existing law requires specified health care service plans and health insurers
to publish and maintain a provider directory or directories with information
on contracting providers that deliver health care services to enrollees or
insureds, and requires a health care service plan or health insurer to
regularly update its printed and online provider directory or directories, as
specified. Existing law requires provider directories to include specified
information and disclosures. This bill would require a full service health
care service plan, specialized mental health or dental plan, health insurer,
or specialized mental health or dental insurer to include in its provider
directory or directories a statement advising an enrollee or insured to
contact the plan or insurer for assistance finding an in-network provider and
for an explanation of their rights regarding out-of-network coverage, and
would specify the format of the statement. The bill would require the plan or
insurer to acknowledge the request within one business day if contacted for
that assistance, and to provide a list of in-network providers confirmed to
be accepting new patients within 2 business days for a request deemed urgent
by the enrollee or insured and 5 business days for a request deemed nonurgent
by an enrollee or insured. Because a violation of these provisions by a
health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a
state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws.
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AB
871
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(Stefani D)
Mandated reporters of suspected financial abuse of an elder or
dependent adult.
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Current Text: Amended: 1/16/2026 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/19/2025
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Last Amend: 1/16/2026
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Status: 1/22/2026-Read third time. Passed. Ordered
to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.
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Location: 1/22/2026-S. RLS.
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Summary: Existing law, the Elder Abuse
and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act, establishes procedures for the
reporting, investigation, and prosecution of elder and dependent adult abuse.
Existing law requires a mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of an
elder or dependent adult, as defined, to report financial abuse in a
specified manner, including by telephone or through a confidential internet
reporting tool, as specified, immediately, or as soon as practicably
possible. If reported by telephone, existing law requires a written report to
be sent, or an internet report to be made through the internet reporting
tool, to the local adult protective services agency or the local law
enforcement agency within 2 working days. Existing law deems specified
persons to be mandated reporters of suspected financial abuse of an elder or
dependent adult, including, among others, all officers and employees of a
financial institution. A mandated reporter who fails to report financial
abuse of an elder or dependent adult is liable for civil penalties, as
specified. If a report of financial abuse is made by a mandated reporter, as
described above, this bill would also require a report to be made to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation Internet Crime Complaint Center within 2
working days. The bill would require a financial institution to provide
annual training to its mandated reporters on how to escalate internally and
report suspected financial abuse of an elder or a dependent adult to both
local and federal authorities, as specified. If suspected financial abuse of
an elder or dependent adult is discovered within 48 hours of a transaction,
the bill would require a financial institution to share information on
reporting mechanisms, as specified, with the impacted elder or dependent
adult within 24 to 48 hours. The bill would specify that violations of these
provisions would not incur the above-described liability for civil penalties.
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AB
910
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(Bonta D)
Pharmacy benefit management.
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Current Text: Amended: 1/22/2026 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/19/2025
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Last Amend: 1/22/2026
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Status: 1/26/2026-Read second time. Ordered to
third reading.
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Location: 1/26/2026-A. THIRD READING
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Calendar: 1/29/2026 #23
ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - ASSEMBLY BILLS
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Summary: Existing law requires a
pharmacy benefit manager engaging in business with a health care service plan
or health insurer to secure a license from the Department of Managed Health
Care on or after January 1, 2027, or the date on which the department has
established the licensure process, whichever is later. Existing law requires
a complaint about a pharmacy benefit manager to be considered as a complaint
against the contracting health care service plan and authorizes it to be
considered a complaint against the contracting health insurer. Existing law
requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to establish a
Health Care Payments Data Program to collect information regarding health
care costs, utilization, quality, and equity. Existing law requires a
pharmacy benefit manager to provide specified information to the Department
of Health Care Access and Information for inclusion in the program and
requires the department to include specified information in an annual
analysis. Existing law also requires the Department of Health Care Access and
Information to notify the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department
of Insurance, as appropriate, if a health care service plan or health insurer
fails to comply with specified requirements and requires those departments to
take appropriate action. This bill would require the Department of Health
Care Access and Information to include data regarding pricing and payments
related to prescription drugs in its annual analysis upon completion of specified
regulations and to notify the Department of Managed Health Care if a pharmacy
benefit manager fails to comply with specified requirements, and would
require the Department of Managed Health Care to take appropriate action. The
bill would require the Department of Managed Health Care to post on its
internet website links to analyses and reporting published by the Department
of Health Care Access and Information.
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AB
1054
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(Gipson D)
Public employees’ retirement: deferred retirement option program.
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Current Text: Amended: 1/5/2026 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/20/2025
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Last Amend: 1/5/2026
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Status: 1/27/2026-In Senate. Read first time. To
Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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Location: 1/27/2026-S. RLS.
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Summary: Existing law, the County
Employees Retirement Law of 1937, prescribes retirement benefits for members
of specified county and district retirement systems. Existing law establishes
the Deferred Retirement Option Program as an optional benefit program for specified
safety members of those systems that, by ordinance or resolution by the
county board of supervisors or the governing body, elect to adopt it. The
program provides eligible members access, upon service retirement, to a lump
sum or, in some cases, monthly payments in addition to a monthly retirement
allowance, as specified. This bill would establish the Deferred Retirement
Option Program as a voluntary program within the Public Employees’ Retirement
System (PERS) for employees of State Bargaining Units 5 (Highway Patrol) and
8 (Firefighters). The bill would require certain actions to occur, including
completion of an actuarial analysis to determine the proposed program will be
cost neutral, before the program becomes effective and applicable. The bill would
require members who elect to participate in the program to meet certain
requirements, including waiving any claims with respect to age and other
discrimination in employment laws relative to the program. The bill would
establish a program account for each participant and would require the Board
of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System to, among other
things and at least once annually, provide a statement to the participant
that displays the value or balance of the participant’s program account. The
bill would authorize the participant to designate a person or persons as
beneficiaries of the participant’s program account at any time during the
program period from their election date to the deferred retirement
calculation date. Beginning on July 1, 2027, and on that date every 5
consecutive fiscal years thereafter, the bill would require the Board of
Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System to submit a report
of an actuarial analysis to specified entities. The bill would entitle
participants who entered the program prior to the effective date of any
modifications by the Legislature to elect whether to become subject to those
modified provisions or to remain subject to the program as it existed on the
participant’s election date. The bill would require the member’s spouse, as
applicable, to execute a signed statement acknowledging the spouse’s
understanding of, and agreement with, the member’s election to participate in
the program together with an express statement of the spouse’s understanding
and agreement that benefits payable to the spouse may be reduced as a result
of participation in the program. This bill contains other existing laws.
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AB
1068
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(Bains D)
Emergency services available during natural disasters.
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Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/20/2025
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Last Amend: 7/1/2025
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Status: 8/29/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule
61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted
upon Jan 2026)
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Location: 8/29/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Summary: Existing law, the
Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, establishes, among others, the
California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services
Agency, also known as CalHHS and headed by the Secretary of CalHHS, and sets
forth its mission to provide leadership to the area agencies on aging in
developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain
individuals in their own homes or least restrictive homelike environments.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of long-term health
care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care
facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires,
among other things, the department to administer the Aging and Disability
Resource Connection (ADRC) program. No later than July 1, 2026, this bill
would require the Secretary of CalHHS, in coordination with various state
departments, offices, and other entities, as specified, to develop a working
group to make recommendations regarding the evacuation and sheltering needs
of older adults and persons with disabilities living in long-term care
facilities during natural, technological, or manmade disasters and
emergencies. The bill would require the Secretary of CalHHS to submit the
recommendations no later than July 1, 2027, and would repeal that requirement
on January 1, 2030.
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AB
1439
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(Garcia D)
Public retirement systems: development projects: labor standards.
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Current Text: Amended: 1/22/2026 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/21/2025
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Last Amend: 1/22/2026
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Status: 1/26/2026-Read second time. Ordered to
third reading.
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Location: 1/26/2026-A. THIRD READING
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Calendar: 1/29/2026 #31
ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - ASSEMBLY BILLS
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Summary: The California Constitution
grants the retirement board of a public employee retirement system plenary
authority and fiduciary responsibility for investment of moneys and
administration of the retirement fund and system. These provisions qualify
this grant of powers by reserving to the Legislature the authority to
prohibit investments if it is in the public interest and the prohibition
satisfies standards of fiduciary care and loyalty required of a retirement board.
Existing law prohibits the boards of the Public Employees’ Retirement System
(PERS) and the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) from making certain
new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee
retirement funds, including in a thermal coal company, as defined. Existing
law provides that a board is not required to take any action regarding those
investments unless the board determines in good faith that the action is
consistent with the board’s fiduciary responsibilities established in the
California Constitution. This bill would state that its purpose is to require
the boards of PERS and STRS to contract with the University of California
Labor Centers to conduct an independent study to determine the impacts on
public employee retirement funds of prohibiting the board of a public pension
or retirement system, as defined, from investing in development projects in
California that do not provide labor standards protections for workers. The
bill would require the study and a report of its findings to be completed and
provided to the Legislature and the Department of Finance by January 1, 2028,
as specified. The bill would provide that a board is not required to take
action pursuant to this provision unless it determines in good faith that the
action is consistent with the board’s fiduciary responsibilities established
in the California Constitution. This bill contains other existing laws.
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AB
1563
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(Gabriel D)
Budget Act of 2026.
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Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2026 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/9/2026
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Status: 1/10/2026-From printer.
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Location: 1/9/2026-A. PRINT
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Summary: This bill would make
appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026–27 fiscal
year. This bill contains other related provisions.
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AB
1629
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(Haney D)
Dental coverage.
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Current Text: Introduced: 1/26/2026 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/26/2026
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Status: 1/27/2026-From printer. May be heard in
committee February 26.
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Location: 1/26/2026-A. PRINT
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Summary: Existing law, the Knox-Keene
Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and
regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health
Care and makes a willful violation of the act’s requirements a crime. Existing
law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of
Insurance. Existing law prohibits a contract between a plan or insurer and a
dentist from requiring a dentist to accept an amount set by the plan or
insurer as payment for dental care services provided to an enrollee or
insured that are not covered services under the enrollee’s contract or the
insured’s policy. Existing law requires a plan or insurer to make specified
disclosures to an enrollee or insured regarding noncovered dental services.
Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to comply
with specified timely access requirements. Under existing law, a health care
service plan is required to annually report to the Department of Managed
Health Care on this compliance. Existing law authorizes the Department of
Insurance to issue guidance to insurers regarding annual timely access and
network reporting methodologies. If a health care service plan or health
insurer pays a contracting dental provider directly for covered services,
this bill would require the plan or insurer to pay a noncontracting dental
provider directly for covered services if the noncontracting provider submits
to the plan or insurer a written assignment of benefits form signed by the enrollee
or insured. The bill would require the plan or insurer to provide a
predetermination or prior authorization to the dental provider and to
reimburse the provider for not less than that amount, except as specified.
The bill would require the plan or insurer to notify the enrollee or insured
that the provider was paid and that the out-of-network cost may count towards
their annual or lifetime maximum. The bill would require a noncontracting
dental provider to make specified disclosures to an enrollee or insured
before accepting an assignment of benefits. Because a willful violation of
these provisions relative to health care service plans would be a crime, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the
Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to review
the adequacy of an entire dental provider network, including the portions of
the network serving plans and insurers not regulated by the respective
department. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
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ACA
2
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(Jackson D)
Legislature: retirement.
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Current Text: Introduced: 12/2/2024 html pdf
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Introduced: 12/2/2024
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Status: 12/3/2024-From printer. May be heard in
committee January 2.
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Location: 12/2/2024-A. PRINT
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Summary: The California Constitution
prohibits Members of the Legislature from accruing any pension or retirement
benefit other than participation in the federal Social Security program as a
result of legislative service. This measure, the Legislative Diversification
Act, would repeal that prohibition and instead require the Legislature to
establish a retirement system for Members elected to or serving in the
Legislature on or after November 1, 2010. The measure would require a Member
to serve at least 10 years in the Legislature to be eligible to receive
benefits under the retirement system. The measure would authorize a Member
who serves fewer than 10 years to transfer the service credit earned as a
result of service in the Legislature to any other public employees’ pension
or retirement system in which the Member participates.
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ACA
5
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(Schiavo D)
Property taxation: veterans’ exemption.
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Current Text: Introduced: 2/3/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/3/2025
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Status: 2/4/2025-From printer. May be heard in
committee March 6.
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Location: 2/3/2025-A. PRINT
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Summary: The California Constitution
declares that all property is taxable and establishes or authorizes various
exemptions from tax for real property, including a homeowners’ exemption in
the amount of $7,000 of the full value of a dwelling unless the dwelling receives
another real property exemption. If the Legislature increases the homeowners’
exemption, the California Constitution requires that the Legislature provide
a benefit increase to qualified renters comparable to the average increase in
benefits to homeowners. The California Constitution and existing property tax
law establish a veterans’ exemption in the amount of $4,000 for a veteran who
meets certain military service requirements and generally exempts from
property taxation the same value of property of a deceased veteran’s
unmarried spouse and parents. The California Constitution authorizes, and
existing property tax law establishes, a disabled veterans’ exemption in the
amount of $100,000 or $150,000 for the principal place of residence of a
veteran or a veteran’s spouse, including an unmarried surviving spouse, if
the veteran, because of an injury incurred in military service, is blind in
both eyes, has lost the use of 2 or more limbs, or is totally disabled, as
those terms are defined, or if the veteran has, as a result of a
service-connected injury or disease, died while on active duty in military
service. Existing law prohibits receiving the veterans’ exemption on property
owned by an unmarried person who owns more than $5,000 of property or a married
person who owns more than $10,000 of property. Existing law prohibits
receiving the deceased veterans’ exemption on property owned by a deceased
veteran’s unmarried spouse who owns more than $10,000 of property, a deceased
veteran’s unmarried parent who owns more than $5,000 of property, or a
deceased veteran’s married parent who owns more than $10,000 of property.
This measure would allow a dwelling that receives the veterans’ exemption or
the disabled veterans’ exemption to also receive the homeowners’ exemption.
The measure would authorize the Legislature to exempt property eligible for
the veterans’ exemption in an amount up to the full value of the property. If
the Legislature increases the homeowners’ exemption, the measure would
require that the Legislature provide the same increase in the veterans’
exemption, except as limited by the full value of the property. The bill
would remove the above-described prohibitions on a property receiving the
veterans’ or deceased veterans’ exemption based on the amount of property
that a veteran or veteran’s parent or spouse owns.
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AJR
13
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(Bains D)
Cuts to safety net programs.
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Current Text: Introduced: 5/23/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 5/23/2025
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Status: 5/24/2025-From printer.
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Location: 5/23/2025-A. PRINT
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Summary: This measure would censure
those members of the United States House of Representatives from California
who support cuts to social safety net programs.
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SB
1
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(Seyarto R)
Personal income taxes: exclusion: Military Services Retirement and
Surviving Spouse Benefit Payment Act.
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Current Text: Amended: 2/20/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 12/2/2024
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Last Amend: 2/20/2025
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Status: 5/23/2025-May 23 hearing: Held in committee
and under submission.
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Location: 5/12/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
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Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in
conformity with federal income tax laws, defines “gross income” as income
from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides
various exclusions from gross income, including an exclusion for combat-related
special compensation. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after
January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2035, would exclude from gross income
retirement pay received by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, during the
taxable year, not to exceed $20,000, from the federal government for service
performed in the uniformed services, as defined. The bill, for taxable years
beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2035, would also
exclude from gross income annuity payments received by a qualified taxpayer,
as defined, during the taxable year, not to exceed $20,000, pursuant to a
United States Department of Defense Survivor Benefit Plan. The bill would
make related findings and declarations. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
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SB
296
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(Archuleta D)
Property taxation: exemption: disabled veteran homeowners.
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Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/10/2025
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Last Amend: 7/3/2025
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Status: 7/15/2025-July 14 hearing: Placed on REV.
& TAX. suspense file. Retained in suspense file.
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Location: 7/15/2025-A. REV. &
TAX SUSPENSE FILE
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Summary: The California Constitution
provides that all property is taxable, and requires that it be assessed at
the same percentage of fair market value, unless otherwise provided by the
California Constitution or federal law. The California Constitution and existing
property tax law provide various exemptions from taxation, including, among
others, a disabled veterans’ exemption and a veterans’ organization
exemption. This bill would exempt from taxation, as provided, property owned
by, and that constitutes the principal place of residence of, a veteran, the
veteran’s spouse, or the veteran and the veteran’s spouse jointly, if the
veteran is blind in both eyes, has lost the use of 2 or more limbs, or is
totally disabled, as defined, as a result of injury or disease incurred in
military service. The bill would provide an unmarried surviving spouse a
property exemption in the same amount that they would have been entitled to
if the veteran was alive and if certain conditions are met. The bill would
require certain documentation to be provided to the county assessor to
receive the exemption and would prohibit any other real property tax
exemption from being granted to the claimant if receiving the exemption
provided by the provisions of this bill. The bill would make these exemptions
applicable for property tax lien dates occurring on or after January 1, 2026,
but occurring before January 1, 2036. By imposing additional duties on local
tax officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB
363
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(Wiener D)
Health care coverage: independent medical review.
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Current Text: Amended: 7/17/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/13/2025
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Last Amend: 7/17/2025
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Status: 8/28/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule
61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted
upon Jan 2026)
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Location: 8/28/2025-A. 2 YEAR
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Summary: Existing law, the Knox-Keene
Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and
regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health
Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides
for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
Existing law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each
department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health
care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service
plan or health insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a
grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days. This bill would require a
health care service plan or health insurer to annually report to the
appropriate department the total number of claims processed by the health
care service plan or health insurer for the prior year and its number of
treatment denials or modifications, separated and disaggregated as specified,
commencing on or before June 1, 2026. The bill would require the departments
to compare the number of a health care service plan’s or health insurer’s
treatment denials and modifications to (1) the number of successful
independent medical review overturns of the plan’s or insurer’s treatment
denials or modifications and (2) the number of treatment denials or
modifications reversed by a plan or insurer after an independent medical
review for the denial or modification is requested, filed, or applied for.
For a health care service plan or health insurer with 10 or more independent
medical reviews in a given year, the bill would make the health care service
plan or health insurer liable for an administrative penalty, as specified, if
more than 50% of the independent medical reviews filed with a health care
service plan or health insurer result in an overturning or reversal of a
treatment denial or modification in any one individual category of specified
general types of care. The bill would make a health care service plan or
health insurer liable for additional administrative penalties for each
independent medical review resulting in an additional overturned or reversed
denial or modification in excess of that threshold. The bill would require
the departments to annually include data, analysis, and conclusions relating
to these provisions in specified reports. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
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SB
401
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(Hurtado D)
Political Reform Act of 1974: filing deadlines: emergency situations.
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Current Text: Amended: 1/5/2026 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/14/2025
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Last Amend: 1/5/2026
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Status: 1/27/2026-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes
40. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at
Desk.
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Location: 1/27/2026-A. DESK
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Summary: Under the Political Reform Act
of 1974, various individuals and entities, including candidates, committees
that support candidates and ballot measures, lobbyists, slate mailer
organizations, and public officials, are required to periodically file certain
statements and reports that disclose their financial activities. When an
original statement or report is filed after the deadline for its filing under
the act, the person responsible for making the filing is subject to a late
filing penalty of $10 per day, as specified, in addition to any other
penalties or remedies under the act. This bill would authorize the Fair
Political Practices Commission to extend any filing deadline established by
the act for individuals that live in an area impacted by an emergency
situation. The bill would define emergency situation to mean an emergency
proclaimed by the Governor or a local governing body pursuant to a specified
law. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act. This
bill contains other existing laws.
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SB
503
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(Weber Pierson D)
Health care services: artificial intelligence.
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Current Text: Amended: 9/4/2025 html pdf
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Introduced: 2/19/2025
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Last Amend: 9/4/2025
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Status: 9/11/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule
61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/10/2025)(May be acted upon
Jan 2026)
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Location: 9/11/2025-A. 2 YEAR
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Summary: Existing law provides for the
licensure and regulation of health facilities and clinics by the State
Department of Public Health. Existing law requires a health facility, clinic,
physician’s office, or office of a group practice that uses generative artificial
intelligence to generate written or verbal patient communications pertaining
to patient clinical information, as defined, to ensure that those
communications include both (1) a disclaimer that indicates to the patient
that a communication was generated by generative artificial intelligence, as
specified, and (2) clear instructions describing how a patient may contact a
human health care provider, employee, or other appropriate person. Existing
law exempts from this requirement a communication read and reviewed by a
human licensed or certified health care provider. This bill would require
developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems to make
reasonable efforts to identify artificial intelligence systems used to
support clinical decisionmaking or health care resource allocation that are
known or have a reasonably foreseeable risk for biased impacts in the
system’s outputs resulting from use of the system in health programs or
activities. The bill would require developers and deployers to make
reasonable efforts to mitigate the risk for biased impacts in the system’s
outputs resulting from use of the system in health programs or activities.
The bill would require deployers to regularly monitor these artificial
intelligence systems and take reasonable and proportionate steps to mitigate
any bias that may occur. The bill would specify that a person, partnership,
state or local governmental agency, or corporation may be both a developer
and a deployer. The bill would specify that the department is not required to
independently inspect, test, or evaluate the functionality of an artificial
intelligence system. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2027,
developers to provide a report identifying compliance efforts with the
above-described provisions to the department before making an artificial
intelligence system commercially or publicly available to a deployer, as
specified. The bill would require deployers, beginning January 1, 2027, to
annually provide the department with a report identifying their efforts to
comply with identification, mitigation, and monitoring requirements
established pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require the
department to make these reports available on its internet website. This bill
contains other existing laws.
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SB
879
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(Laird D)
Budget Act of 2026.
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Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2026 html pdf
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Introduced: 1/9/2026
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Status: 1/12/2026-Read first time.
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Location: 1/9/2026-S. BUDGET &
F.R.
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Summary: This bill would make
appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026–27 fiscal
year. This bill contains other related provisions.
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