October 20, 2023 California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 253, the Climate Corporate Leadership and Accountability Act, and Senate Bill 261, the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act, into law on Oct. 7, 2023. Under the statutes, companies doing business in California will be required to ...
On September 27, 2024, California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, signed into lawSenate Bill 219(SB 219), which enacts several amendments to the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253) and the Climate‐Related Financial Risk Act (SB 261), both of which are summ...
What –Effective January 1, 2023, Senate Bill 1044 protects employees from retaliation for refusing to work in "emergency conditions." Employees will be entitled to leave work or not come in during emergency conditions if they have a reasonable belief that the workplace is unsafe. You can requi...
We need bills to do something! Every and all things must tried. Write the bill to enforce >1b companies to be carbon neutral.Even in California, there is a strange hesitancy. They are going to test out this idea of covering a waterway with solar PV for some hundreds of feet. Hun...
Senate Bill 1 of 2006, which established the statewide California Solar Initiative, also required the California Energy Commission (CEC) to implement regulations that require sellers of production homes to offer a solar energy system option to all prospective homebuyers. Besides offering solar as an ...
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) climate disclosure rules loom, California has forged ahead with its own legislation related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures and reporting. Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bills (SBs) 253 ...
When asked why she asked for a different committee assignment this year, Rubio pointed to the incoming Senate freshman class. "The reality is that this is the largest class that came in," Rubio told CBS News California. Nearly 50% of California's legislature has two years of ex...
September 27, 2023 12:02 pm UPDATE below: Senate Bill 2 by Senator Anthony Portantino’s (D–Burbank), which is California’s response bill to New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, was signed into law Tuesday. SB 2 enacts numerous “sensitive locations” where guns are banned,...
A few other notable bills: Assembly Bill 12 limits the amount landlords can charge for a security deposit to just one month’s rent. Senate Bill 4 removes certain barriers to allow churches, religious organizations and colleges to build “affordable housing” on land they own. ...
SB 219 amends certain climate disclosure requirements under Senate Bill 253, Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253) and Senate Bill 261, Greenhouse Gases: Climate-Related Financial Risk (SB 261).1 The bills require companies with significant revenues in California that are “doing ...