Bills for consideration with links

  • There are only 4 categories:
    • Economic Justice, Privacy & Civil Rights and Education 
    • Democracy Reform
    • Climate Justice 
    • Healthcare and Reproductive Rights
      • Racial & Criminal Justice, Gun Safety & Immigration had the exact number of bills nominated that it could take on, so there is no need to vote on that category.
  • You must cast at least 1 vote in every category.
  • You may cast up to the number of votes listed for each category.
  • We have a SUPPORT position on all bills proposed unless it says OPPOSE.

NOTE – Each bill number hyperlinks to the full text where available. Other terms to know:

  • Spot bill – Links to text that doesn’t fit and/or explain the description of the bill because the new bill info is not yet available. In these cases the bill says Spot bill and is highlighted. The information provided is what we know the bill to be including at this time.

Once reviewed VOTE HERE – You have until March 16th to cast your vote

Democracy Reform – Choose three

  • AB 331 (Pellerin) – AB 331 makes sure election results are certified on time, expands voter information access to jails, strengthens rules against misleading ballot collection, and addresses reimbursement for local election costs.
  • AB 359 (Ramos) – gives the FPPC more power to audit local campaign and ethics laws and removes deadlines for these changes to end.
  • SB 470 (Laird) – This bill extends rules for teleconference meetings for state bodies and advisory bodies indefinitely, keeping the meetings accessible to the public, and removes a planned change in 2026. Press Release
  • SB 843 (Stern) – Spot bill The Get Foreign Money Out Of California Elections Act: will prohibit “foreign influenced” US corporations from making political contributions to campaigns, candidates, ballot measures, PACs, Super-PACs, and political parties in California. By 2020, 40% of all the shares held in US corporations were held by foreign investors. It is already law in San Jose.  98% of the S&P 500 US corporations will qualify as “foreign influenced” under the thresholds this transformational bill will establish.
  • SJR 1 (Weiner) – Rescinds CA calls for a Constitutional Convention

Climate Justice – Choose 3

  • AB 386 (Tangipa) – This bill would require the State to evaluate the passive house energy efficiency standards, and, if appropriate, adopt those standards as an alternative compliance pathway for the building efficiency standards established by the Energy Commission. Sponsors: Climate Action California, Abundant Housing LA, SoCal350 Climate Action, Citizens Climate Lobby, The Climate Reality Project-California State Coalition, and a long list of others. Website
  • AB 1102 (Boerner) – New Requirement: If a proposed development is within 1,000 feet of a contaminated site and is in an area at risk for sea level rise or groundwater rise, the developer must complete a sea level rise and groundwater rise risk assessment as part of the application.
  • SB 332 (Wahab) – Investor-Owned Utilities Accountability Act: This bill addresses ongoing issues of affordability and safety with California’s investor-owned utilities (IOUs). It gives power back to the people on rates, safety, and holds IOUs accountable. This bill requires independent audits of IOUs for executive compensation, ratepayer funding of shareholder returns, wildfire safety and system maintenance. It strengthens restrictions on power shutoffs for nonpayment of protected groups. Establishes a timeline for an independent commission to transition from IOUs to public benefit corporations. Studies different structures for the Energy Commission as well as utilities ownership, prevents power disconnection for poor peoples’ nonpayment, limits rate hikes. Sponsors: Reclaim our Power, Center for Biological Diversity  Press Release  Fact Sheet Website 
  • SB 526 (Menjivar) – This bill strengthens air quality regs in the South Coast Air Basin by requiring stricter pollution controls for aggregate and cement operations near sensitive receptors like homes, schools, and hospitals to protect public health. 
  • SB 684/AB 1243 (Menjivar/Addis) – Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025: This bill would create a program under California’s Environmental Protection Agency to assess fees on the largest historical producers of climate-heating pollution. It would force these fossil fuel polluters to pay for their increasingly devastating and costly damage to the state. Sponsored by: Center for Biological Diversity, Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California, GreenPeace and California Environmental Voters and backed by a broad coalition of climate scientists, legal scholars and economists, as well as more than 140 public health, community advocacy and environmental organizations. Website
  • SB 755 (Blakespear) – Builds on the success of prior bills SB 253 and SB 261 regarding climate related financial risk disclosure by requiring the largest contractors with the largest contracts to report their climate related financial risk. Contractors with more than twenty-five million dollars in total State contract obligations (“Large Contractors”), will be required to make an annual disclosure of their scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions and scope 3 emissions and climate-related financial risk. Contractors with between five million dollars and twenty-five million dollars in total State contract obligations (“Significant Contractors”), will be required to make an annual disclosure of their scope 1 emissions and scope 2 emissions.   Sponsors: CA Environmental Voters, Public Citizen, CleanEarth4Kids

Economic Justice – Choose 4

  • AB 325 (Aguiar-Curry) – The bill prohibits the use or distribution of price-fixing algorithms and holds providers and users of those algorithms accountable for undermining competition, raising prices, and restricting the supply of essential goods across California’s economy. This bill removes an exploitative tool that has been used to keep prices for essential goods and services high for middle-class, working-class and poor families.   Press Release
  • AB 693 (Boerner)- The bill aims to improve broadband access in California, ensure digital equity, and create a system for addressing complaints about digital discrimination.
  • AB 736 (Wicks, Haney, Quirk-Silva) – The Affordable Housing Bond Act 2026: Authorizes $10 billion in general obligation bond funds to support the construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable housing and permanent supportive housing. An analysis found that a new bond could result in over 35,000 new homes affordable to very-low income, extremely-low income and homeless families for at least 55 years, including set asides for farmworker and tribal housing. It will also preserve and/or rehabilitate nearly 42,000 existing affordable homes. And it will assist over 13,000 families to become homeowners. Collectively, these projects will result in tens of thousands of high-paying construction jobs. Sponsors: Housing CA, PICO CA
  • AB 1022 (Kalra) – END POVERTY TOWING: Every year in California, tens of thousands of drivers get their cars towed because they can’t afford to pay their parking tickets. For low income and working households, the towing of a vehicle is often catastrophic. Poverty tows are debt collection tools that often harm low-income drivers and don’t yield any ticket revenue for cities. It is time for California to end vehicle tows that result from unpaid parking tickets. Sponsors: Western Center on Law & Poverty
  • AB 1240 (Lee) – A big part of the housing shortage and excessive cost is corporate and private investor ownership. This bill would limit one homeowner to 1000 units. Addresses anti-competitive practices and limits wealth inequality.             Press Release
  • SB 295 (Hurtado) – California Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2025: This bill would prohibit a person from using or distributing any pricing algorithm that uses, incorporates, or was trained with, competitor data. The bill would also prohibit a person from distributing a pricing algorithm, or making recommendations based on the use of a pricing algorithm that uses, incorporates, or was trained with, competitor data. It would require a person that has $5,000,000 or more in annual revenue that uses a pricing algorithm to recommend or set a price or commercial term to make certain disclosures, including to a customer, before the customer purchases the relevant product or service, that the price or a commercial term is set or recommended by a pricing algorithm. It also imposes civil and criminal liability for violating this act.
  • SB 464 (Smallwood-Cuevas) – Corporate interests bottled up employee demographic data. This bill forces it to be public, in an anonymized, aggregated way, so that we can see when companies are discriminating against people. Makes employer demographic data public to address discrimination. Sponsors: CA Legislative Black Caucus  Press Release
  • SB 642 (Limon) – This bill will help strengthen the California Fair Pay Act by: (1) revising outdated gender binary language, (2) clarifying what constitutes “wages,” to cover all types of compensation, (3) extending the statute of limitations to give workers more time to file, (4) allowing workers to recover lost wages for all discriminatory paychecks, as opposed to the limited time period for which they can currently recover unpaid wages, and (5) providing limits on how wide pay ranges may be in public job postings to effectuate the intent of existing pay transparency law. It will likely will be labeled a job killer. Sponsors: Equal Rights Advocates & CELA

Racial & Criminal Justice Reform – Choose up to 5

  • AB 321 (Schultz) – Allows judges more time to make determinations if a charge is a misdemeanor or felony which is important under Prop 36.  Sponsors: SF public defender 
  • AB 421 (Solache)- This bill would prohibit California law enforcement agencies from collaborating with, or providing any information in writing, verbally, on in any other manner to, immigration authorities regarding proposed or currently underway immigration enforcement actions when the actions could be or are taking place within a radius of one mile of any childcare or daycare facility, religious institution, place of worship, hospital, or medical office.
  • AB 475 (Wilson) – This bill would no longer require CDCR to require each able-bodied inmate to work and, instead, would require CDCR to develop a voluntary work program and to prescribe rules and regulations regarding voluntary work assignments for CDCR inmates, including the wages for work assignments, and would require wages for work assignments in county and city jail programs to be set by local ordinance.
  • AB 1231 (Elhawary) – Many Californians are incarcerated for low-level non-violent felonies, such as vandalism, and drug offenses. In many cases, judges would like the option to consider offering people charged with these low level felonies the opportunity to participate in light-touch programs and services, just as job skills training or outpatient behavioral healthcare, that will do more to improve public safety and help them contribute to their communities. This bill permits judges in their discretion to place the person on pre-trial diversion rather than a felony conviction. Sponsors: Vera California, Drug Policy Alliance, PICO, SEIU  
  • SB 277 (Weber Pierson)- Requires an officer to get consent before searching. 

Healthcare & Reproductive Justice – 5 bills

  • AB 55 (Bonta) – AB 55 protects access to reproductive care by streamlining burdensome licensing requirements for alternative birth centers to be certified as providers of comprehensive perinatal services to be Medi-Cal eligible. This bill provides for increased access to safe and medically monitored labor and delivery for pregnant people who have health insurance coverage through a Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan.
    • Currently, Medi-Cal does not reimburse birth centers that are licensed as alternative birth center specialty clinics if they are not located within 30 minutes’ drive of a facility with the capacity for management of obstetrical and neonatal emergencies, including the ability to provide cesarean section delivery. This bill removes that requirement and instead requires licensees to have a hospital transfer policy in place.
    • Allowing for Medi-Cal reimbursement of births attended by providers at the licensed alternative birth centers and clinics will increase access to safe labor and delivery for forty percent of California births. Sponsors: Black Women for Wellness Action Project (BWWAP), Western Center on Law & Poverty (WCLP) and is a Building the CA Dream Alliance priority.  Press Release
  • AB 224/SB 62 (Bonta/Menjivar)- The bill expresses the Legislature’s intent to establish a new essential benefits benchmark plan for the 2027 plan year. It opens the door for a thorough evaluation of what essential health benefits should include in the future. This could lead to expanded coverage options for Californians, addressing gaps that may have emerged over the past decade.
  • AB 280 (Aguiar-Curry) – Most people in California in search of a new medical provider have experienced the difficulty of finding correct information from their health plan’s providers database. The inaccuracy of health providers databases is responsible for delayed care, and more expensive care as people are forced to reach out to out-of-network providers. This bill would create mechanisms to improve provider directory accuracy for consumers so they get efficient  access to the care they need. It requires health plans to verify the information in their provider directories annually and to use a centralized database. It would also force plans to cover out-of-network cost of services a patient receives when relying on an inaccurate listing. Sponsors: Health Access California  Fact Sheet
  • AB 290 (Bauer-Kahn) – This bill is designed to protect women seeking emergency reproductive healthcare by increasing civil penalties for hospitals that fail to provide life-saving care in emergencies. Press Release
  • AB 823 (Boerner) – The bill strengthens the existing law by adding more products to the ban on plastic microbeads and keeping penalties for violations.
  • SB 41 (Weiner) – Helps stem rising drug prices by creating a comprehensive regulatory structure to reign in abuses by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Sponsors: California Chronic Care Coalition, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Los Angeles LGBT Center  Fact Sheet  
  • SB 363 (Weiner) – Bill will shine a light on the scope of denials of coverage by health plans and insurers, and incentivize health plans to not deny care for services likely to be overturned. Sponsors: Children Now, California Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  Fact Sheet
  • SB 418 (Menjivar) – SB-418 is a California bill that strengthens nondiscrimination protections in health care coverage specifically protecting access to gender-affirming care, including transgender and intersex individuals. The bill ensures that health care providers and insurers cannot impose discriminatory restrictions or cost barriers, reinforcing legal accountability and expanding equitable health care access. Nominated twice