At the Capitol in Sacramento, state Sen. Scott Wiener watches a Senate vote on his AI regulation bill, SB 1047, in April. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) ByHerbert Lin Sept. 19, 20243 AM PT Share On Aug. 29, the California Legislature passedSenate Bill 1047— the Safe and Secur...
Gavin Newsom vetoed a state senate bill that would regulate AI models. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of a state bill that would have required developers of the largest AI models—including Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic—to reduce the ...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Public Safety Committee of the U.S. California State Senate approved a bill Tuesday which would make the state a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Introduced by State Senate President pro tempore Kevin de Leon, this bill would prohibit state and local...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a pair of bills on Thursday that would protect the earnings of child influencers and expand existing law to better financially shield minors working as content creators. The blue-state governor signed SB 764, intr
5. The CCDAA is also similar to aNew York State Senate Billintroduced in January 2023.↩ 6. The CFRA defines “covered entities” the same as the CCDAA, except that it expressly exempts insurers, likely because on April 8, 2022, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which ...
The amped-up discourse and lobbying over the California bill, which passed the state’s Senate in May 32-1 and heads to a final vote in August, has reached a crescendo over the past few weeks. The state senator who introduced the bill, Scott Wiener, recently toldFortunehe likens the figh...
“Given the state court’s judgment that Thompson engaged in a course of conduct that would ‘cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety … or suffer emotional distress,’ it would be quite something for us to say that a jury acted unreasonably by reaching the same conclus...
Shortly before the California legislative session ended this summer, a state Senate reparations bill on land restitution proposed by state Sen. Steven Bradford passed 56-0. But the Black Caucus blocked votes on two other proposals in that package — one creating a fund and the third an agency...
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. ...
LEGISLATIVE billsYOUTUBE (Web resource)FAMILY Research Council of AmericaCALIFORNIA. Eliminates Rights of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. Initiative Constitutional AmendmentThe article examines the discourses surrounding the Senate Bill (SB) 48 passed by the California State Senate on April 2011, wh...