California Governor Gavin Newsom signedSenate Bill 219(SB-219)Greenhouse Gases: Climate Corporate Accountability: Climate-Related Financial Risk, into law on September 27, 2024. This law amends California climate bills passed in October 2023. See article below for a summary of the original bills. S...
Public health and safety concerns in the area of cosmetic and plastic surgery; Need for physicians to follow several specific rules designed to avoid deceiving patients.Wynn, PaulDermatology Times
Some of the highest-profile bills passed by the Legislature in 2023 will not take effect until later. Fast food workers will get a minimum wage increase to$20 per houron April 1.Health care workersare scheduled to see the first increases in their minimum wage on June 1. Laws requ...
The measure is among hundreds of bills that passed in the state Senate and Assembly this week before Friday—the last day a bill can pass out of its original chamber and get a chance to become law later this year. The bill, which passed the Assembly floor with bipartisan support, would r...
The California Legislative Women’s Caucus & Future of Abortion Council introduced alengthy package of 17 billsearlier in 2023 on “Reproductive Justice & Abortion Rights.” These are the 10 bills signed into law by Gov. Newsom: AB 254 (Bauer-Kahan) Adds CMIA/HIPAA protections for data collect...
States includingKansasand Iowa passed laws banning DEI offices and initiatives in higher education, and Republican lawmakers in about two dozen statesproposed at least 50 bills to restrict DEI programslast year. Trump’s incoming deputy chief of policy will be his former adv...
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed hundreds of bills into law this year aimed at addressing a range of key issues facing the state including retail theft, consumer protection and affordable housing. According to a February survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute...
Authority, a public developer of “social housing.” Social housing is government funded and occupied by residents of all income levels. The bill passed the Assembly floor and will now be reviewed by Senate committees. Two previous social housing bills sponsored by Lee failed to pass the ...
Most companies are already doing safety testing, he said, to comply with President Biden’s AI Executive Order that was passed in October 2023. “This is just making it so that it’s law, as opposed to an executive order that’s rescindable by some future administration,” he said. Ng...
Wiener said the debate around the bill has dramatically advanced the issue of AI safety, and that he would continue pressing that point. a host of billspassed by the Legislature this year to regulate AI,fight deepfakesandprotect workers. State lawmakers said California must take actions this yea...