2023-2024 Legislative Session
- AB 38 - Reducing Artificial Light at Night
- In order to reduce light pollution and harmful effects of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN), AB 38 limits outdoor night lighting on state buildings to promote safety for people, ecosystems, and other wildlife.
- AB 83 - Stop Foreign Influence in California Elections Act
- The bill prohibits foreign influenced corporations from contributing to candidates, parties, or committees (including super PACs) as well as from engaging in their own direct election spending.
- AB 259 & ACA 3 - Wealth Tax
- The California Tax on Extreme Wealth Act would impose an annual excise tax at a rate of 1% on extreme wealth in excess of $50 million and at a rate of 1.5% on extreme wealth in excess of $1 billion and would generate an estimated $21.6 billion.
- AB 270 - Public Campaign Financing
- AB 270 will provide voters the opportunity to decide on a measure during the November 2024 ballot to remove the current prohibition on public financing of campaigns in California. If the prohibition is removed, counties, districts, general law cities, and the State would have the option to enact public financing of campaigns to reduce the influence of money in elections and empower voters.
- AB 309 - Social Housing
- Establishes Social Housing, which is publicly owned housing that is affordable to individuals and families of different income levels. Visit CaliforniaSocialHousing.org to learn more.
- AB 320 - Student Aid Commission
- Improves student representation on the California Student Aid Commission by adding two additional student commissioners to the Student Aid Commission so that there are four student members, one from each type of higher education institution.
- AB 332 - Shelter Animal Collection Data Act
- Requires the Department of Public Health to resume collecting important information about shelter animals so resources are better optimized to help pets find their furever homes.
- AB 362 - Land Value Taxation Study
- This study looks into the potential benefits of a system that would instead tax underlying land without regard to buildings, personal property, or other improvements. This would open the door for fairer assessments and more freedom for landowners to utilize their properties however they want.
- AB 413 - Daylighting to Improve Public Safety
- Implements the safety feature "daylighting" by prohibiting parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk or intersection which would improve public safety by increasing the visibility of pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vehicles.
- AB 502 - Food Delivery Platform Disclosures
- In order to protect our small businesses, this bill would prohibit a listing service, such as Yelp or Google, from posting a phone number under a restaurant that doesn't go directly to the restaurant as well as require a disclosure to the consumer if an order they are placing through the listing service will result in a cost to the restaurant.
- AB 604 - Mobilehome Parks: Water Utility Charges
- This measure provides further clarification about a previous bill, AB 1061, which protects mobilehome residents from arbitrary and unfair water “service” charges and fees. This bill clarifies the scope of AB 1061 to explicitly include residents of all mobilehome parks in each of the protections within the statute.
- AB 640 - Expanded Work Permits
- Currently, work permits for minors are only authorized for businesses with physical locations. This bill expands the scope of work permits to online businesses.
- AB 652 - Environmental Justice Advisory Committee
- Establishes the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee which will be composed of community members most impacted by pesticides including Native American tribes and socioeconomically disadvantaged farmers to make recommendations on reducing the impacts of pesticide exposure.
- AB 664 - California Safe Drinking Water Act: Domestic Wells
- This bill provides stronger protections for tenants by ensuring that tenants that rely on domestic wells have access to safe drinking water.
- AB 835 - Single Staircase Reform
- This bill would direct the State Fire Marshal to research and develop new standards for single stairway multi-unit residential units in California to improve the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of building housing.
- AB 971 - Transit Lanes
- Would authorize cities to implement and manage bus lanes on their local streets as well as incentivize use of local shuttles, commuter shuttles provided by transportation management associations, and private employee commuter shuttles.
- AB 1490 - Adaptive Reuse
- Increases implementation of adaptive reuse affordable housing projects (such as motel and hotel conversions) by providing developments that meet certain qualifications with incentives, such as guaranteed permit turnaround times.
- AB 1503 - Excused Absences
- Allows K-12 students to receive an excused absence of one full school day to attend religious events and gatherings.
- AB 1627 - California Safe Drinking Water Act: Food Facilities
- Ensures that state law is no less stringent than the federal law and protects the state’s primacy authority to enforce the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in California including food facilities.