In 2022, the California Legislature passed nearly 1,200 bills and nearly 1,000 became law with Gov. The opposition is led by the California Family Council, which argues that gender-affirming care is not an agreed-upon treatment for transgender children. They labeled it a job killer, insisting there is no clear plan to achieve the goals and that the rapid transition to a carbon-free economy would cause many workers to lose their jobs. 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 bills supporters list is largely populated by civil rights groups and city governments. Some 10,000 California nursing home residents died during the pandemic. Nearly 3 million Californians live within 3,200 feet of an active or idle oil or gas well, mostly in Kern and Los Angeles counties. COVID disinformation has been linked to vaccine hesitancy and in some cases has popularized unproven treatments. But, opponents of the law want to stop it before it starts. Newsom signed the bill on Sept. 30 among his final decisions. On Jan. 1, the minimum wage in California will increase to $15.50 an hour. They all needed to be treated equally, Bauer-Kahan said. I thank Pro Tem Atkins and Speaker Rendon for their leadership in advancing historic measures to improve the lives of Californians, including new tools to boost our housing supply, improve workplace conditions and build a stronger state. 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. Both bills are part of a climate push from Gov. SB 41 by Senator Thomas Umberg (D-Santa Ana) Privacy: genetic testing companies. Its also backed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the former head of monetization at Facebook. The bill is meant to address the chronic student housing crisis by sparing development from environmental lawsuits that in the past have slowed down dorm construction. Proposition 65 requires California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Senate Bill 1383, which aims to expand composting, will have the most significant impact on the lives of everyday Californians. Nearly 650,000 residential and 46,000 business accounts owed more than $315 million in unpaid water and wastewater bills by September 2021. Those exemptions could both speed up the process and lower the cost of building homes. Newsom signed the bill Sept. 29. In November, California voters approved Prop. I think, especially in high school, the threat of a legal consequence will mitigate behavior. Versher said. Governor Newsom additionally signed the following notable bills which will take effect on January 1: For full text of the legislation, visit:http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. 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. Hundreds of new laws are going into effect in 2022, from requiring ethnic studies to graduate, to cracking down on illegal street racing, and allowing restaurants to continue selling to-go. Members of the California Independent Petroleum Association spent millions on signature-gathering efforts to get the referendum on the ballot. AB 1405 by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) Debt settlement practices. California needs 2.5 million more homes by 2030 and almost no one wants them in their backyard. In 2021, a Contra Costa man was convicted of murder after an expert prosecution witness testified that the mans repeating of rap lyrics from popular songs was a confession to his own alleged crimes. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Every year, new laws are approved in California in the hope of tackling the problems people face in the Golden State. 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. It all depends on what happens in the coming days. It would also require the states public health department to regulate the reduction chambers where its done to prevent the spread of disease. Newsom signed the bill on Sept. 30, the last day to act. The intention here is that the minimum wage continues to rise with the cost of inflation, said David Huerta, president of SEIU-United Service Workers West. 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. 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. If AB 2273 is signed into law, businesses that provide online services or products likely to be accessed by kids under 18 would have to provide greater privacy protections by default starting in 2024. The group says it would have supported the bill if it excluded violent criminals. Supporters of the bill say if each Californian opted to be composted after death, the carbon saved would be enough to power 225,000 homes for a year. More than half of Californias farmworkers are undocumented, and they often live on their employers land. Hopefully we can see this data inform some kind of strategies and ideas around where we go from here, he said. Gavin Newsom pushed legislators in mid-August to help meet the states carbon-neutral goals. This new law expands to all consumer products sold in California and enacts penalties of up to $2500 per violation. 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. Investor-owned utilities represented by the California Water Association, such as California Water Service, also support it; the largest already offer rate assistance programs of their own. Apartments would have to be either 100% affordable or mixed-use, meaning market-rate but affordable to at least 15% of lower income earners, or 8% of very low income and 5% of extremely low income earners.SB 6, by Democratic Sen. Anna Caballero of Salinas, would bypass the first step in permitting housing on commercial real estate while allowing other opportunities for local input, like CEQA. AB 1757, authored by Democratic Assemblymembers Cristina Garcia of Bell Gardens and Robert Rivas of Salinas, would require the state to set targets for removing planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere with nature-based methods, such as planting trees, restoring wetlands and scaling up public landscaping and urban forestry projects. Pretty much everyone but faculty. The bill would attach a fee to cell phone lines.That fee has been lowered significantly in negotiations with the telecommunications industry, which in turn has dropped its opposition. It also was labeled a job killer by the state Chamber of Commerce, a criticism that has been taken up by trade unions. AB 1220 by Assemblymember Luz Rivas (D-Arleta) Homelessness: California Interagency Council on Homelessness. Assembly Bill 2632 from Democratic Assemblymember Chris Holden of Pasadena would overhaul how California prisons treat inmates in solitary confinement. Californians have been struggling to pay their water bills statewide, and it reached a boiling point during the pandemic. Civil liberties groups, immigration advocates and a constellation of criminal justice reform groups, including the California Public Defenders Association. The minimum wage has been gradually increasing under a 2016 law that brought workers' hourly minimum pay from $10 to. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California co-sponsored both bills and sits on the councils steering committee. AB 2134, by Democratic Assemblymembers Akilah Weber of San Diego and Cristina Garcia of Bell Gardens, would establish the California Reproductive Health Equity Fund to offset the cost of free or reduced-cost abortions or contraceptive services for low-income patients. Newsom announced Sept. 28 he had vetoed the bill. Newsom signed the bill on Sept. 14. SB 846, authored by Republican Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham of San Luis Obispo and Democratic state Sen. Bill Dodd of Napa, would keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant open until 2030 and give its operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, a $1.4 billion loan to do so. They view the bill as vital to protecting much-needed housing development from environmental lawsuits. It also makes efforts to repair while centering the needs of those who have been harmed. Senate Bill 846 facilitates the actions necessary to keep the option of (Diablo Canyon) as a statewide reliability asset beyond the current 2024-2025 retirement dates of the plants two units.. The California Department of Public Health was involved in drafting more recent versions of the bill. 1, a ballot measure that codified abortion as a constitutional right in the state. The state has a Sept. 6 deadline to apply for federal funding. Womens rights organizations, nonprofits and political advocacy groups comprise the bulk of the bills supporters. If the answer is no, they then do not get paroled, Martin explained. CALIFORNIA Love 'em or hate 'em, new laws passed in California in 2022 were notable for being boldly progressive. Last year, pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. hit a four-decade high, and California recorded the highest number of any state. Big Oil likes being your neighbor, and as a California resident, you just had to live with this fact until a newly passed law. New California laws 2022 taking effect on July 1 include new requirements for bars, crack down on ghost guns and later school start times. September 30, 2022 marked the last day Governor Newsom had to sign or veto new bills passed by the Legislature to end the 2022 legislative year. Gavin Newsom signed nearly 1,000 bills into law. 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. Deb Banks, executive director of the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, said it will allow bikers to cross the street at pedestrian signals instead of only at green traffic lights. 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. In poll after poll, voters say they are fed up. Carbon neutrality means balancing the volume of greenhouse gases that are emitted with the amount removed from the atmosphere. These votes took place as campaigns ramp up for 100 of the 120 seats in the Legislature. New Year's Day will bring Californians a cornucopia of new rules after Gov. Researchers have found a strong link between leaving prison and entering homelessness, but have struggled to find exact data. Newsom signed these and other climate bills on Sept. 16. It would take effect in 2027. 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. It passed the Senate 39-0. Those taking effect on July 1, 2022 range from school . 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. Assembly Bill 2632 from Democratic Assemblymember Chris Holden of Pasadena would overhaul how California prisons treat inmates in solitary confinement. These bills would unlock a glut of empty stores, offices and parking lots for as many as 1.6 million housing units market conditions permitting without contributing to urban sprawl. The law, Senate Bill 1375 authored by Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, builds on two existing laws: Atkins says the new measure clarifies those laws and allows for more trained nurse practitioners in high-need areas to perform surgical, or aspiration abortions, whereby suction is used to remove the contents of the uterus. Restorative justice practices focus on mediation and community-building, asking students to take responsibility for harm theyve caused. No one officially. Criminal records must be disclosed to school districts, which can use those records for deciding teacher credentialing or employment. Here are ten significant US laws that were passed so far in 2022. Newsom signed this and other climate bills on Sept. 16. Carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, exacerbating severe weather events and causing global changes in temperature and precipitation. Notably, law enforcement has not weighed in. Newsom signed the bill on Sept. 29, but directed his administration to draft cleanup language in the governors budget next year because the use of the revenue is unduly restricted.. Connecticut, Minnesota and New Jersey have also proposed pink tax legislation in the past year, and a federal bill was introduced in Congress in June 2021. A campaign . Digital security has become a hotly debated topic in the abortion world following Roe v. Wades overturn. This is one of the things I think well look back on with tremendous pride, when were done, Newsom said during the signing ceremony in San Jose, where he first announced the proposal in March. States across the country are passing laws to demonize the transgender community, especially transgender youth and their parents, he said in a signing statement. The Western Electrical Contractors Association, a trade group, raised concern that the measure could increase energy costs, reduce competition in the energy market and discriminate against otherwise qualified contractors. State Sen. Brian Dahle, a Republican who is running against Newsom for governor, said the bill would set an arbitrary goal that could drive up rates and contribute to the states high cost of living. The bill also prohibits cities from requiring bicycle licenses. One group was told they were from a country song, the other was told they were from rap. Newsom signed the bill on Sept. 30, among his final decisions. Over the Labor Day holiday, President Biden announced his strong support. While the state has finally started to backfill the critical demand for more housing and mental health services, lawmakers believe more is necessary to ensure that the states neediest population now languishing on the streets gets the help they need. 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. Headlining that effort is AB 2223 by Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks of Oakland. After calling housing affordability the original sin of California, Newsom said that these housing bills would be different. California created the first Paid Family Leave program in the nation 20 years ago, and today were taking an important step to ensure more low-wage workers, many of them women and people of color, can access the time off theyve earned while still providing for their family, he said in a statement. 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 state's housing crisis, redress historical injustices, increase voter access and more. SEIU, the states largest union, says the restaurant coalitions signature-gathering effort was purposely misleading to voters and says it has video to prove it, which the LA Times reviewed. AB 215 by Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco) Planning and Zoning Law: housing element: violations. RELATED: California's minimum wage. This change requires 90% by 2035 and 95% by 2040. 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. Three of the changes become effective on Jan. 1. A long list of consumer, tech, and children advocacy groups who argue technology is harming kids, and say a similar law has already spurred positive changes in the United Kingdom. For example, the bill would generally prohibit companies from collecting, selling, sharing, or keeping kids personal information other than to provide the service that the kid is actively interacting with. The legislation was vigorously opposed by the oil and gas industry, refiners and drilling specialists. The first it was tax season. Discipline could include a public reprimand, probation, suspension, or license revocation. Assembly Bill 1909 makes four changes to laws affecting bicyclists, as well as drivers and pedestrians who share California roads. 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. Newsom signed the bills on Sept. 27. Your regular monthly contribution supports JPR's local journalism and all our music and cultural programming. The labor truce also matters: Following years of heated debate and dead bills, unions put their differences aside, at least for 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. SB 731 will allow people who have served time on or after Jan. 1, 2005, to automatically have their records expunged as long as they havent been convicted of another felony in the past four years. The bill is an effort to ease the path toward collective bargaining and potentially higher wages for the 400,000-member California agricultural workforce. He says that Newsom and state agencies have the power to keep protections in place, regardless. New Laws Taking Effect Next Year and Why They Matter Published: Dec 12, 2022 SACRAMENTO - This year, the California Legislature passed and Governor Gavin Newsom signed historic measures to fight climate change, protect women's right to choose, support small businesses, pay equity and more. Included is a plan to monitor toxic leaks and emissions, and install alarm systems. AB 118 by Senator Sydney Kamlager (D-Los Angeles) Department of Social Services: C.R.I.S.E.S. California lawmakers approved SB 222 by state Sen. Bill Dodd, a Democrat from Napa, which offers state assistance to low income residents who struggle to pay for drinking water and sewage. 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. Just look at historic photos of communities like Huntington Beach and there are forests of oil derricks. They would no longer be held in solitary for longer than 15 consecutive days, or 45 days in a 180-day period. But the environmental law was catapulted into national prominence when UC Berkeley was almost forced to cut its new class of students by a third until state lawmakers bailed out the campus with another CEQA exemption in March. Lawmakers rushed to pass hundreds of remaining bills before the clock struck midnight on Aug. 31. The council also says that children often misunderstand their gender identity and are likely to regret their decision to get irreversible treatments such as hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgery. That means companies like Facebook, Apple or Google all of which facilitate private digital communications could not turn those records over to another state where abortion is illegal. Receive a free briefing on your state every day. Todays action gives hardworking fast-food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry. AB 977 by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) Homelessness program data reporting: Homeless Management Information System. The number, billed as an alternative to 911, is intended to make it easier for people experiencing mental health emergencies to tap into the states network of National Suicide Prevention Lifeline call centers. It aims to make water more affordable before Californians are in crisis. You can find our submission guidelines here. We want to fight back against acts of intimidation, but we also have to be mindful of the First Amendment and the right to free speech, said its regional director, Seth Brysk. Protect your nonprofit, nonpartisan state news. 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.. The bill received not a single dissenting vote from lawmakers. Gavin Newsom signed 770 new bills last legislative session, some of which go into effect starting Saturday. It's a tool to educate. Other workers also would get a boost, receiving 70% instead of 60% of their wages. In October 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom temporarily waived the California law requiring senior drivers to renew their licenses at a DMV field office and signed AB 174 in September 2021 to allow online or by mail renewals through the end of 2022. The Association of California Water Agencies, which represents more than 450 public water agencies, was opposed over concerns that the programs division of state and local responsibilities is inefficient and would waste money. A Dec. 13 statement from CIPA said that the signatures were submitted to the state for verification. SB 552 by Senator Robert Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) Drought planning: small water suppliers: nontransient noncommunity water systems. SB 224 by Senator Anthony Portantino (D-La Caada Flintridge) Pupil instruction: mental health education. They say the fee is an important way to make sure the services associated with the hotline are adequately funded. Supporters say the world could exceed the 1.5 degree celsius threshold of dangerous warming as early as 2030, and that California must do its part to avoid the dire effects of climate change. Its champions include the Chancellors Office of the California Community Colleges system, Lt. Gov. Legislators introduced more than a dozen bills this session designed to improve and protect access to abortion in California. The bill will require drivers to change lanes before passing a cyclist, if a lane is available. The Sheriffs' Association and Georgia Police Chiefs talked in favor of the legislation. That money was to be allocated over six years, but this bill makes the appropriation continuous. 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. And a bill that would have allowed teenagers to get vaccines without parental permission was pulled without a vote. Some individual doctors and groups like A Voice for Choice Advocacy argue that the bill infringes on doctors free speech and that physicians should be allowed to share their professional opinions without fear of repercussions. 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. They say it will prolong the use of fossil fuels and the lifespan of other polluting industries. They get kept in prison.. AB 257 would address working conditions that have been long-standing issues in the fast-food industry, Koonse said. All three aim to improve how our food system functions. 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. Kobi Naseck, coalition coordinator for environmental group VISION, says that even if the referendum effort is successful, that doesnt necessarily mean the end for these protections. Advocates on both sides of the bill have for years called for reform of the licensing system. CALIFORNIA, USA On Jan. 1, things will be a little different with the California crime laws when it pertains to certain drug offenses. 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