AB 251 – Justice for Elder Abuse Victims: Increases access to justice for elderly and dependent adults who are physically abused and neglected in nursing homes and discourages facilities from intentionally destroying or concealing (spoliation) evidence in relation to a civil case.
AB 268 – Diwali: Adds Diwali as an official state holiday, allowing community colleges and public schools to close on Diwali and allow state employees to elect to take time off with pay in recognition of Diwali.
AB 326 – CSU Audits: Increases transparency by requiring each California State University (CSU) campus to undergo an external audit every 3 years.
AB 347 – Compassionate Learning Advancements for Science Students (CLASS) Act: Empowers students by strengthening current law that allows students to opt-out of animal dissection with the opportunity to receive a comparable alternative assignment to achieve the same educational outcome.
AB 454 – California Migratory Bird Protection Act Extension: Ensures that existing migratory bird protections provided by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) remain in effect in the state of California.
AB 516 – Veterinary Staff Duties: Encourages veterinarians to use their staff to their full ability by clarifying the scope of tasks Registered Veterinary Technicians (RVTs) are allowed to perform.
AB 572 – Coercive Police Interrogations: Empowers the family members of victims of police violence to exercise their rights in interactions with law enforcement when they are at their most vulnerable.
AB 622 – Rehabilitation Recognition Act: Reaffirms CDCR’s authority to issue credits that would allow someone with an indeterminate sentence but who has completed the most significant rehabilitation to be eligible to go before the Board of Parole Hearings, encouraging rehabilitation and reducing wasteful spending.
AB 692 – Worker Debt Contracts: Prohibits employers from trapping workers into predatory contracts that require workers to pay for costs for employment such as job training or other financial arrangements necessary to perform their duties. These worker debt contracts lock workers in jobs or penalize them for ending employment.
AB 747 – Service of Process Accountability, Reform, and Equity (SPARE) Act of 2025: Protects consumers from fraudulent or improper service and ensures they can exercise their due process rights by standardizing service of process.
AB 863 – Translated UD Forms: Requires basic language access protections for tenants facing an eviction by requiring the summons to include the top 5 non-English spoken languages in California: Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean.
AB 878 – Reasonable Housing Accommodations for Victims of Violence and Abuse: Allows survivors of violence to request reasonable accommodations from their housing provider, strengthening housing security for vulnerable renters.
AB 931 – Litigation Financing Consumer Protections: Adopts consumer protections that ensure the litigation finance industry uses best practices and avoids conflicts of interest while providing a vital service to plaintiffs.
AB 1022 – Ending Poverty Tows: Repeals the authority to immobilize and tow vehicles solely to collect unpaid parking tickets, an outdated practice that is harmful, costly, and unconstitutional.
AB 1071 – RJA Procedural Reform: Makes clarifying changes to the procedures for claims under the Racial Justice Act (RJA) to ensure uniform implementation and resolve confusion in the courts.
AB 1109 – Evidentiary Privilege: Establishes an evidentiary privilege to prohibit the disclosure of confidential communications between an employee and their union representative to better ensure the safe, private, and full disclosure of workplace concerns and needs.
AB 1157 – The Affordable Rent Act: Builds on the Tenant Protection Act by lowering the allowable amount rent can be increased, expanding these tenant protections to single-family home rentals, and makes these protections permanent. By stabilizing rent and maintaining affordability, this bill will help keep families housed.
AB 1258 – Young Adult Deferred Entry Judgement (YADEJ) Program: Extends the sunset date for Santa Clara County to continue offering the YADEJ Program, which allows young adults to receive age-appropriate support and services to help rehabilitate them in a meaningful way while holding them accountable.
AB 1362 – The Human Trafficking Prevention and Protection Act for Temporary Workers: Clarifies that all foreign labor recruiters must register with the Labor Commissioner, not just those who recruit workers through the H-2B visa category. By covering all foreign labor recruiters, this bill ensures that immigrant workers such as domestic workers, agricultural workers, and nurses are protected against wage theft, human trafficking, and other labor violations.
AB 1426 – Diablo Range Conservation Program: Establishes the Diablo Range Conservation Program to provide grants for projects that preserve habitat or enhance public recreation, educational, and interpretive opportunities in the Diablo Mountain Range.
AB 1658 – Change Orders: Removes the sunset date and limits on the existing authority for the counties of Santa Clara and Los Angeles to approve change orders at a higher threshold, allowing these updated change order thresholds to remain in statute will allow both counties to be fiscally responsible with tax-payer dollars by avoiding possible delays and associated cost increases in large, time-sensitive construction projects.
AB 1697 – AB 692 of 2025: Delays the implementation of AB 692 (Kalra, Chapter 703, Statutes of 2025) with an urgency clause. AB 692 would prohibit predatory stay-or-pay contracts or Training Repayment Agreement Provisions (“TRAPs”) that lock workers into jobs by serving as an “exit fee,” regardless of whether that worker was fired, laid off, or quit. By delaying the implementation of the bill by one year, it will allow for more time to accommodate the collective bargaining process.
AB 1900 – CalCare: Creates the policy framework for a single-payer health care coverage system in California, called CalCare, that will provide quality health care coverage for all Californians, regardless of citizenship status, while also eliminating out-of-pocket costs.
AB 1958 – RJA Disparities: Builds upon the Legislature’s work to address racial discrimination and bias in the criminal legal system by clarifying the means by which disparity claims can be proven and issuing clearer procedural guidance to the courts.
AB 1999 – Veterinary Care: Creates streamlined pathways for retired volunteers and out-of-state veterinarians to join shelter veterinary care teams and reduces statutory inefficiencies that make veterinary care less accessible.
AB 2042 – AB 747 Clean-Up: Provides guidance to the courts for the implementation of AB 747 (Kalra, 2025) as it relates to judgments filed before the bill goes into effect, the procedure for setting aside a default judgment, and its relation to the Fair Debt Buying Practice Act.
AB 2098 – Workers Compensation: Prohibits employers from denying leave to employees who must seek care for occupational injuries during work hours.
AB 2122 – Infraction Bench Warrants: Reduces the risk of incarceration for a non-jailable offense by removing the use of bench warrants for Vehicle Code infractions and only permits the use of non-custodial “cite and release” warrants for non-Vehicle Code infractions.
AB 2135 – Nursing Home Evictions: Strengthens protections for nursing home residents facing eviction by requiring clear, timely, and verifiable discharge notices in a language and format residents understand.
AB 2218 – Water Inequities and State Policy: establishes a state policy of recognizing and addressing water-related inequities perpetrated by state-sanctioned actions against California Native American Tribes.
AB 2263- VTA Employee Housing: Authorizes Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to build housing for their workers.
AB 2305 – Corporate Influence in the Practice of Law: Prohibits private equity firms, hedge funds, and other corporate investors from directing or influencing the practice of law. This will ensure that decisions about litigation, including case strategy, resolution, and representation, remain solely in the hands of licensed attorneys and their clients, rather than the investors.
AB 2367 – State-run Hospital Reporting: Requires state-run healthcare facilities to report on staff vacancy, overtime, and contract data, by classification and facility to promote transparency, accountability, and oversight.
AB 2495 – Immigration-Related Coercion: Expands the scope of prohibited unfair immigration-related practices that employers use to intimidate and dissuade workers from asserting their workplace rights.
AB 2534 – Forced Marriage Restraining Orders: Extends restraining order protections under the Domestic Violence Prevention Act (DVPA) to attempted forced marriages and survivors of forced marriages, empowering survivors and providing a resource for them to escape the harms of forced marriages.
ACR 71 – Little Saigon Freeway: Designates a portion of State Route 101 in Santa Clara County as the Little Saigon Freeway.
ACR 159 – Indigent Defense: Affirms the fundamental importance of indigent defense and public defenders to due process and encourages the state to address chronic underfunding and recruitment in public defense.