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ACSS Legislative Report
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5/29/2026
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1) Sponsor
AB 1729 (Lee, D) State employment: telework programs.
Current Text: 05/18/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/05/2026
Last Amended: 05/18/2026
Status: 05/28/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/28/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law
requires every state agency to develop and implement a telecommuting plan as
part of its telecommuting program in work areas where telecommuting is
identified as being both practical and beneficial to the organization. Existing
law requires the Department of General Services to establish a unit for
purposes of overseeing telecommuting programs that is required to, among other
things, develop and update policy, procedures, and guidelines to assist
agencies in the planning and implementation of telecommuting programs. Existing
law requires the department to establish criteria for evaluating the state’s
telecommuting program. Existing law defines “telecommuting” for purposes of
those provisions. This bill would revise and recast those provisions. The bill
would replace the term “telecommuting” with “telework,” as defined. The bill
would also require the Department of General Services to establish a telework
dashboard that displays the cost-effectiveness and efficiency benefits of state
telework programs, including documenting annual savings to the state of reduced
office space and operating costs. The bill would additionally require each
state agency, every 10 years, to evaluate its telework program to ensure that
it aligns with the state agency’s unique operational needs to carry out its
programmatic missions and to help recruit and retain a qualified workforce.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency
statute. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)
Memo:
Sponsor
letter sent to Author -- 2/19/26
Sponsor
letter sent to Asm PE&R -- 3/23/26
Sponsor
letter sent to Asm APPR -- 4/9/26
Floor
Alert sent to Asm -- 5/21/26
3) Support
AB 280 (Aguiar-Curry, D) Health care coverage: provider
directories.
Current Text: 07/15/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/21/2025
Last Amended: 07/15/2025
Status: 09/11/2025 - Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on
9/8/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 09/11/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR
Summary: Existing
law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the
licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of
Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing
law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of
Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan and a health
insurer that contracts with providers for alternative rates of payment to
publish and maintain a provider directory or directories with information on
contracting providers that deliver health care services enrollees or insureds,
and requires a health care service plan and health insurer to regularly update
its printed and online provider directory or directories, as specified.
Existing law authorizes the departments to require a plan or insurer to provide
coverage for all covered health care services provided to an enrollee or
insured who reasonably relied on materially inaccurate, incomplete, or
misleading information contained in a plan’s or insurer’s provider directory or
directories. This bill would require a plan or insurer to annually verify and
delete inaccurate listings from its provider directories, and would require a
provider directory to be 60% accurate on July 1, 2026, with increasing required
percentage accuracy benchmarks to be met each year until the directories are
95% accurate on or before July 1, 2029. The bill would subject a plan or
insurer to administrative penalties for failure to meet the prescribed benchmarks.
The bill would require a plan or insurer to provide coverage for all covered
health care services provided to an enrollee or insured who reasonably relied
on inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information contained in a health plan
or policy’s provider directory or directories and to reimburse the provider the
out-of-network amount for those services. The bill would prohibit a provider
from collecting an additional amount from an enrollee or insured other than the
applicable in-network cost sharing, which would count toward the in-network
deductible and out-of-pocket maximum. The bill would require a plan or insurer
to provide information about in-network providers to enrollees and insureds
upon request, including whether the provider is accepting new patients at the
time, and would limit the cost-sharing amounts an enrollee or insured is
required to pay for services from those providers under specified
circumstances. The bill would require the health care service plan or the
insurer, as applicable, to ensure the accuracy of a request to add back a
provider who was previously removed from a directory and approve the request
within 10 business days of receipt, if accurate. The bill would authorize a
health care service plan or insurer to include a specified statement in the
provider listing before removing the provider from the directory if the
provider does not respond within 5 calendar days of the plan or insurer’s
annual notification. Because a violation of the bill’s requirements by a health
care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated
local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 07/15/2025 text)
Memo: Support letter sent to Author -- 4/23/25
Support letter sent to Asm. APPR -- 4/29/25
Support letter sent to Sen. Health -- 06/27/25
Support letter sent to Sen. APPR -- 08/13/25
AB 2223 (Lowenthal, D) Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation: state contracts.
Current Text: 03/19/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026 (Spot
bill)
Last Amended: 03/19/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law
establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to
administer the state prison system under the direction of the Secretary of the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law authorizes the
secretary to, under certain circumstances, enter into contracts to provide
housing, sustenance, supervision, and services, as provided, or to provide
health care services. This bill would require CDCR to disclose, for each new
contract or contract renewal entered into by CDCR on or after January 1, 2027,
for services that are performed by civil service employees, specified
information, including, but not limited to, a description of the services
provided by the contracted party, the total hours expected to be worked by
contracted workers, and the total contract value. The bill would require CDCR
to provide this disclosure to the exclusive bargaining representative of the
affected bargaining unit at the time CDCR enters into or renews a contract as
described above. The bill would require CDCR, beginning on March 1, 2028, and
on or before March 1 of each year thereafter, to submit an annual report to the
Legislature that contains the information required to be disclosed pursuant to
these provisions. The bill would make related findings and
declarations. (Based on 03/19/2026 text)
ACA 2 (Jackson, D) Legislature: retirement.
Current Text: 12/02/2024 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 12/02/2024
Status: 12/03/2024 - From
printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
Location: 12/02/2024 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: The
California Constitution prohibits Members of the Legislature from accruing any
pension or retirement benefit other than participation in the federal Social
Security program as a result of legislative service. This measure, the
Legislative Diversification Act, would repeal that prohibition and instead
require the Legislature to establish a retirement system for Members elected to
or serving in the Legislature on or after November 1, 2010. The measure would
require a Member to serve at least 10 years in the Legislature to be eligible
to receive benefits under the retirement system. The measure would authorize a
Member who serves fewer than 10 years to transfer the service credit earned as
a result of service in the Legislature to any other public employees’ pension
or retirement system in which the Member participates. (Based
on 12/02/2024 text)
SB 1444 (Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement) Employment.
Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 03/17/2026
Last Amended: 04/23/2026
Status: 05/26/2026 - Referred
to Coms. on INS. and P. E. & R.
Location: 05/26/2026 - Assembly Insurance
Summary: Existing
law, the Public Employees’ Retirement Law, permits a member of the Public
Employees’ Retirement System to elect from among several optional settlements
for the purpose of structuring the member’s retirement allowance. Existing law
requires a member to make an election, revocation, or change of election within
30 calendar days after the making of the first payment on account of any
retirement allowance or, in the event of a change of retirement status after
retirement, within 30 calendar days after making the first payment on account
of that change in retirement status. This bill would extend the timeframe for
those actions to within 60 calendar days after making the first payment. This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based
on 04/23/2026 text)
Memo:
Support
letter sent to Sen. LPER -- 04/17/26
Support
letter sent to Sen. APPR-- 04/28/26
5) Watch
AB 105 (Gabriel, D) Budget Acts of 2021, 2023, 2024, and
2025.
Current Text: 09/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/08/2025 (Spot
bill)
Last Amended: 09/08/2025
Status: 09/13/2025 - Ordered
to inactive file at the request of Senator Grayson.
Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate INACTIVE
FILE
Summary: The Budget
Acts of 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025 made appropriations for the support of state
government for the 2021–22, 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26 fiscal years,
respectively. This bill would amend those budget acts by amending, adding, and
repealing items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would
declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill. (Based
on 09/08/2025 text)
AB 156 (Committee on Budget) Labor.
Current Text: 09/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/08/2025 (Spot
bill)
Last Amended: 09/08/2025
Status: 09/13/2025 - Ordered
to inactive file at the request of Senator Grayson.
Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate INACTIVE
FILE
Summary: Existing
law, the Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees’
Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pensions and benefits to
state employees and their beneficiaries and prescribes the rights and duties of
employers participating in the system. Under PERL, benefits are funded by
investment income and employer and employee contributions, which are deposited
into the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated trust
fund administered by the system’s board of administration. PERL prescribes
methods for the calculation and payment of the state employer contribution for
its employees who are PERS members. PERL provides for an annual adjustment of
the state’s contribution in the budget and quarterly appropriations to the
Public Employees’ Retirement Fund from the General Fund and other funds that
are responsible for payment of the employer contribution. Existing law makes
additional General Fund appropriations to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund
for the 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25 fiscal years.
Supplemental payments connected with appropriations for those fiscal years are
to be apportioned to the state employee member categories generally, as
directed by the Department of Finance, and to specified state employee member
categories, including to the state miscellaneous member category, the
industrial member category, the state safety member category, and the state
peace officer/firefighter member category. The California Constitution establishes
the Budget Stabilization Account in the General Fund and requires the
Controller, in each fiscal year, to transfer from the General Fund to the
Budget Stabilization Account amounts that include a sum equal to 1.5% of the
estimated amount of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year. These
provisions further require, until the 2029–30 fiscal year, that the Legislature
appropriate a percentage of these moneys, the amount of which is generated
pursuant to specified calculations, for certain obligations and purposes,
including addressing unfunded liabilities for state-level pension plans. This
bill would appropriate $372,000,000 from the General Fund for the purposes
identified in the constitutional provisions described above, to supplement the
state’s appropriation to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund. The bill would
specify that this appropriation represents a portion of the amount identified
in a specific provision of the Budget Act of 2025. The bill would require the
Department of Finance to provide the Controller with a schedule establishing
the timing of specific transfers. The bill would require the supplemental
payment to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund to be apportioned to specified
state employee member categories, not to exceed $174,523,000 to the state
miscellaneous member category, $10,296,000 to the state industrial member
category, $20,479,000 to the state safety member category, and $166,702,000 to
the state peace officer/firefighter member category. The bill would require the
appropriation described above to be applied to the unfunded state liabilities
for the state employee member categories that are in excess of the base amounts
for the 2025–26 fiscal year. (Based on 09/08/2025 text)
AB 161 (Committee on Budget) State employment: state
bargaining units.
Current Text: 09/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/08/2025 (Spot
bill)
Last Amended: 09/08/2025
Status: 09/13/2025 - Ordered
to inactive file at the request of Senator Grayson.
Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate INACTIVE
FILE
Summary: Existing law
provides that a provision of a memorandum of understanding reached between the
state employer and a recognized employee organization representing state civil
service employees that requires the expenditure of funds does not become
effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act. Existing
law requires the Department of Human Resources to provide a memorandum of
understanding to the Legislative Analyst, who then has 10 calendar days from
the date the tentative agreement is received to issue a fiscal analysis to the
Legislature. Existing law prohibits the memorandum of understanding from being
subject to legislative determination until either the Legislative Analyst has
presented a fiscal analysis of the memorandum of understanding or until 10
calendar days have elapsed since the memorandum was received by the Legislative
Analyst. This bill, notwithstanding the above-described statutory provisions,
would approve provisions of the agreements entered into by the state employer
and specified state bargaining units. The bill would provide that the
provisions of the agreements that require the expenditure of funds will not
take effect unless funds for these provisions are specifically appropriated by
the Legislature. The bill would authorize the state employer or the bargaining
units to reopen negotiations if funds for these provisions are not specifically
appropriated by the Legislature. The bill would require the provisions of the
agreement that require the expenditure of funds to become effective even if the
provisions are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual
Budget Act. By approving provisions of the agreements that require the
expenditure of funds, this bill would make an appropriation. (Based
on 09/08/2025 text)
AB 1054 (Gipson, D) Public employees’ retirement:
deferred retirement option program.
Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2025
Last Amended: 01/05/2026
Status: 05/06/2026 - Referred
to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Location: 05/06/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and Retirement
Summary: Existing
law, the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, prescribes retirement
benefits for members of specified county and district retirement systems.
Existing law establishes the Deferred Retirement Option Program as an optional
benefit program for specified safety members of those systems that, by
ordinance or resolution by the county board of supervisors or the governing
body, elect to adopt it. The program provides eligible members access, upon
service retirement, to a lump sum or, in some cases, monthly payments in
addition to a monthly retirement allowance, as specified. This bill would
establish the Deferred Retirement Option Program as a voluntary program within
the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) for employees of State
Bargaining Units 5 (Highway Patrol) and 8 (Firefighters). The bill would
require certain actions to occur, including completion of an actuarial analysis
to determine the proposed program will be cost neutral, before the program
becomes effective and applicable. The bill would require members who elect to
participate in the program to meet certain requirements, including waiving any
claims with respect to age and other discrimination in employment laws relative
to the program. The bill would establish a program account for each participant
and would require the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’
Retirement System to, among other things and at least once annually, provide a
statement to the participant that displays the value or balance of the
participant’s program account. The bill would authorize the participant to
designate a person or persons as beneficiaries of the participant’s program
account at any time during the program period from their election date to the
deferred retirement calculation date. Beginning on July 1, 2027, and on that
date every 5 consecutive fiscal years thereafter, the bill would require the
Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System to submit a
report of an actuarial analysis to specified entities. The bill would entitle
participants who entered the program prior to the effective date of any
modifications by the Legislature to elect whether to become subject to those
modified provisions or to remain subject to the program as it existed on the
participant’s election date. The bill would require the member’s spouse, as
applicable, to execute a signed statement acknowledging the spouse’s
understanding of, and agreement with, the member’s election to participate in
the program together with an express statement of the spouse’s understanding
and agreement that benefits payable to the spouse may be reduced as a result of
participation in the program. This bill contains other existing
laws. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
AB 1331 (Elhawary, D) Workplace surveillance.
Current Text: 09/04/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 09/04/2025
Status: 09/13/2025 - Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on
9/13/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate 2
YEAR
Summary: Existing law
establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department
of Industrial Relations. Existing law authorizes the division, which is headed
by the Labor Commissioner, to enforce the Labor Code and all labor laws of the
state the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in any other officer,
board or commission. This bill would limit the use of workplace surveillance
tools, as defined, by employers, including by prohibiting an employer from
monitoring or surveilling workers in employee-only, employer-designated areas,
as specified. The bill would provide workers with the right to leave behind
workplace surveillance tools that are on their person or in their possession
when entering certain employee-only areas and public bathrooms and during
off-duty hours, as specified. The bill would prohibit a worker from removing or
physically tampering with any component of a workplace surveillance tool that
is part of or embedded in employer equipment or vehicles. This bill would
subject an employer who violates the bill to a civil penalty of $500 per
violation and would authorize a public prosecutor to bring specified
enforcement actions. (Based on 09/04/2025 text)
AB 1383 (McKinnor, D) Public employees’ retirement
benefits.
Current Text: 05/13/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 05/13/2026
Status: 05/13/2026 - From
committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Location: 05/06/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and Retirement
Summary: The Public
Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement
System (PERS) to provide a defined benefit to members of the system based on
final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain
variations. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which
is continuously appropriated for purposes of PERS, including depositing
employer and employee contributions. Under the California Constitution, assets
of a public pension or retirement system are trust funds. The California Public
Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) establishes a variety of
requirements and restrictions on public employers offering defined benefit
pension plans. In this regard, PEPRA restricts the amount of compensation that
may be applied for purposes of calculating a defined pension benefit for a new
member, as defined, by restricting it to specified percentages of the
contribution and benefit base under a specified federal law with respect to old
age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. Existing law, the Teachers’
Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) and
creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan,
which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final
compensation, creditable service, and age at retirement, subject to certain
variations. This bill, for service performed on and after January 1, 2027,
would prohibit the pensionable compensation for calendar year 2027 used to
calculate the defined benefit paid to a new member of a retirement system
subject to PEPRA who retires from the system from exceeding specified
percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal
law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. The
bill would make related, conforming changes to these provisions on pensionable
compensation. The bill also would require a new member of STRS to be subject to
specified limits of the Teachers’ Retirement Law. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws. (Based
on 05/13/2026 text)
AB 1439 (Garcia, D) Public retirement systems:
development projects: labor standards.
Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 01/22/2026
Status: 05/06/2026 - Referred
to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Calendar: 06/10/26
S-LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200
SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair
Location: 05/06/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and Retirement
Summary: The
California Constitution grants the retirement board of a public employee
retirement system plenary authority and fiduciary responsibility for investment
of moneys and administration of the retirement fund and system. These
provisions qualify this grant of powers by reserving to the Legislature the
authority to prohibit investments if it is in the public interest and the
prohibition satisfies standards of fiduciary care and loyalty required of a
retirement board. Existing law prohibits the boards of the Public Employees’
Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) from
making certain new investments or renewing existing investments of public
employee retirement funds, including in a thermal coal company, as defined.
Existing law provides that a board is not required to take any action regarding
those investments unless the board determines in good faith that the action is
consistent with the board’s fiduciary responsibilities established in the
California Constitution. This bill would state that its purpose is to require
the boards of PERS and STRS to contract with the University of California Labor
Centers to conduct an independent study to determine the impacts on public
employee retirement funds of prohibiting the board of a public pension or
retirement system, as defined, from investing in development projects in
California that do not provide labor standards protections for workers. The
bill would require the study and a report of its findings to be completed and provided
to the Legislature and the Department of Finance by January 1, 2028, as
specified. The bill would provide that a board is not required to take action
pursuant to this provision unless it determines in good faith that the action
is consistent with the board’s fiduciary responsibilities established in the
California Constitution. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based
on 01/22/2026 text)
AB 1563 (Gabriel, D) Budget Act of 2026.
Current Text: 01/09/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/09/2026
Status: 04/06/2026 - Referred
to Com. on BUDGET.
Location: 04/06/2026 - Assembly Budget
Summary: This bill
would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026–27
fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based
on 01/09/2026 text)
AB 1564 (Ahrens, D) Employer-employee relations:
confidential communications.
Current Text: 05/18/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/12/2026
Last Amended: 05/18/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law
that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including,
among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions
relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education
prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee
organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on
employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or
otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their
exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of existing law further
prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by
existing law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a
public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an
exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an
employee and an employee representative in connection with representation
relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee
organization’s representation. The bill would also prohibit a public employer
from compelling a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee
organization, or an exclusive representative to disclose those confidential
communications to a third party. The bill would not apply to a criminal
investigation or when a public safety officer is under investigation and
certain circumstances exist. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)
AB 1619 (Valencia, D) Public employees’ retirement:
administration.
Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/21/2026
Last Amended: 04/23/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing
law, the Teachers’ Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement
System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’
Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program,
based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject
to certain variations. STRS is administered by the Teachers’ Retirement Board.
Existing law also creates the Cash Balance Benefit Program, which is
administered by the board, to provide a retirement plan for the benefit of
participating employees who provide creditable service for less than 50% of
full time. Existing law requires certain board members to receive $100 for
attendance at board and committee meetings. This bill would increase that rate
to $320. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
AB 1627 (Ávila Farías, D) Public employment:
disqualifications.
Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/26/2026
Last Amended: 04/23/2026
Status: 05/28/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/28/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law
contains numerous provisions governing the qualifications, standards, and
training of peace officers. Existing law specifies circumstances that
disqualify a person from holding office or being employed as a peace officer,
including, among other things, any person previously employed in law
enforcement in any state or United States territory or by the federal
government whose name is listed in any of specified indexes whose certification
as a law enforcement officer in that jurisdiction was revoked for misconduct or
who, while employed as a law enforcement officer, engaged in serious misconduct
that would have resulted in their certification being revoked by the commission
if employed as a peace officer in this state. This bill would specify that, for
purposes of the disqualification circumstances described above, the terms
“employed in law enforcement” and “law enforcement officer” include a law
enforcement officer employed in any state or United States territory or by the
federal government who engages in immigration enforcement, as provided. The
bill would make the provisions of the act severable. The bill would include
findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide
concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities,
including charter cities. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
AB 1630 (Caloza, D) Meet and confer: observation.
Current Text: 05/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/26/2026
Last Amended: 05/22/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law
provides for negotiations concerning wages, hours, and other terms and
conditions of employment between a higher education employer and an exclusive
representative of a recognized or certified employee organization, as these
terms are defined. Existing law requires higher education employers, or such
representatives as they may designate, to engage in meeting and conferring with
the employee organization selected as exclusive representative of an
appropriate unit on all matters within the scope of representation. Existing
law requires a reasonable number of representatives of an exclusive
representative to have the right to receive reasonable periods of released or
reassigned time without loss of compensation when engaged in meeting and
conferring and for the processing of grievances prior to the adoption of the
initial memorandum of understanding. This bill would authorize an exclusive
representative, in their discretion, to invite one or more members of a
bargaining unit to remotely observe a session held for the purpose of a meet
and confer on a memorandum of understanding. The bill would prohibit, absent an
agreement of the parties, a member of a bargaining unit observing a session
pursuant to these provisions from receiving released or reassigned time or
compensation to observe a session. The bill would not prevent the parties from
agreeing to allow in-person observers or greater participation by observers in
a meet and confer session. The bill would also not require any change in existing
practices that allow in-person observers or greater participation by observers
in a meet and confer session. (Based on 05/22/2026 text)
AB 1844 (Pacheco, D) Judges’ Retirement System II:
beneficiaries.
Current Text: 03/19/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/11/2026
Last Amended: 03/19/2026
Status: 05/06/2026 - Referred
to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and APPR.
Calendar: 06/10/26
S-LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200
SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair
Location: 05/06/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and Retirement
Summary: Existing law
establishes the Judges’ Retirement System II, which is administered by the
Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, and
provides pension and other benefits to judges who are members. Existing law
authorizes a judge to elect one of 4 optional retirement payment plans in lieu
of receiving the maximum retirement allowance for their life alone. The
optional plans provide for a reduced allowance payable to the judge for life
and a payment or allowance payable to their surviving spouse, as specified.
This bill would authorize a judge who elects one of those optional retirement
payment plans to designate a beneficiary other than their spouse to receive the
payment or allowance after the judge’s death, subject to the community property
rights of the judge’s spouse. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws. (Based on 03/19/2026 text)
AB 1883 (Bryan, D) Workplace surveillance tools.
Current Text: 05/18/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/12/2026
Last Amended: 05/18/2026
Status: 05/28/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/28/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law
establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department
of Industrial Relations. Existing law authorizes the division, which is headed
by the Labor Commissioner, to enforce the Labor Code and all labor laws of the
state, the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in any other
officer, board, or commission. This bill would generally regulate the use of
workplace surveillance tools and an employer’s use of worker data. The bill
would prohibit an employer from using a workplace surveillance tool on workers
for various purposes, including preventing compliance with laws or regulations,
inferring information about workers engaging in a protected activity, making
inferences about an individual’s emotional state or based on their gait, or
collecting neural data. The bill would prohibit an employer from using facial
recognition technology to make inferences about a worker for firing,
deactivation, or disciplinary purposes. The bill would, with certain exceptions,
also prohibit an employer from using a workplace surveillance tool to infer
specified categories of information about a worker, including, among others,
their veteran status, ancestral history, religious beliefs, or disability
status. This bill would require the Labor Commissioner to enforce the bill’s
provisions, would authorize an employee to bring a civil action for specified
remedies for a violation of the bill’s provisions, and would authorize a public
prosecutor to enforce the provisions. The bill would subject an employer who
violates the bill’s provisions to a civil penalty of up to $500 for each
violation. The bill would define various terms for purposes of its provisions.
This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)
AB 2006 (Rodriguez, Michelle, D) State government: office
buildings: daycare centers.
Current Text: 05/18/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/17/2026
Last Amended: 05/18/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing
law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, sets forth requirements for
licensure as a daycare center. This bill would require, on and after January 1,
2027, when the state constructs, acquires, or receives as a gift any office
building that can accommodate state employees, or when additions, alterations,
or repairs are made to any existing state-owned office building, priority to be
given to licensed childcare providers, as defined, that seek to contract with
the Director of General Services (director) to use a part of the space as a
daycare center, as defined. The bill would subject the use of the space as a
daycare center to terms and conditions set forth by the director, including as
to cost. This bill would authorize the director to secure other space not
attached to a state-owned office building for use as a day care daycare center
if funds are made available for those purposes and the director determines one
of certain conditions exist. The bill would also authorize existing state-owned
office buildings to be retrofitted to accommodate a day care daycare center at
the director’s discretion, to the extent that state funds are made available
for those purposes. The bill would set forth priority for enrollment of
children in day care daycare centers established pursuant to the bill’s
provisions. This bill would require compliance with local and state safety
building codes for day care daycare centers in state-owned office buildings.
The bill would exclude from the bill’s provisions office buildings used or
owned by the state that provide care or 24-hour residential care for patients,
inmates, or wards of the state. (Based on 05/18/2026 text)
AB 2103 (Irwin, D) Office of Data and Innovation: Engaged
California Program.
Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Last Amended: 04/27/2026
Status: 05/21/2026 - Read
third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read
first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/21/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law
establishes the Office of Data and Innovation within the Government Operations
Agency with a mission to deliver better government services to the people of
California through technology and service innovation, data, and design.
Existing law establishes the Data and Innovation Services Revolving Fund
consisting of certain sources of moneys including donations, endowments, or
grants of funds from private or public sources that commit to the office’s
mission of ethical, efficient, effective, secure, and responsible use of data
in a manner that respects privacy. Exiting law makes moneys in the fund
available upon appropriation of the Legislature, as specified. This bill would
establish the Engaged California Program within the office. The bill would
require the office to, among other things, design, establish, and maintain a
platform for ongoing dialogue between Californians and state government and to
establish best practices for its use. Upon appropriation by the Legislature,
the bill would require topics to be selected for deliberation in accordance
with specified procedure and would require state agencies identified by the
office to coordinate outreach, among other things. The bill would require the
Data and Innovation Services Revolving Fund to consist of supplemental funding
for the Engaged California Program from partner organizations. The bill would
prohibit organizations that provide that funding from participating in the
selection of a topic for deliberation and from participating in the
deliberation. The bill would also make any unspent funds appropriated for the
Engaged California Program during the 2026–27 fiscal year available for use by
that program during the 2027–28 fiscal year. (Based
on 04/27/2026 text)
AB 2129 (Flora, R) State employees: compensation:
firefighters.
Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/18/2026
Status: 05/28/2026 - Read
third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 1.)
Location: 05/28/2026 - Senate DESK
Summary: Existing law
provides that in order for the state to recruit skilled firefighters for the
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, it is the policy of the state to
consider prevailing salaries and benefits prior to making salary
recommendations. Existing law requires the Department of Human Resources, in
order to provide comparability in pay, to take into consideration the salary
and benefits of other jurisdictions employing 75 or more full-time firefighters
who work in California. This bill would require the state to bargain in good
faith with firefighters who are rank-and-file members of State Bargaining Unit
8, employed by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, to reach a
competitive range within 15% of the average salary for corresponding ranks in
20 listed California fire departments. The bill would require the state and the
exclusive representative for State Bargaining Unit 8 to jointly survey annually
and calculate the estimated average salaries for those fire departments. The bill
would also require the Department of Human Resources, on or before March 31,
2027, for purposes of the bargaining unit contract renewal to be conducted on
July 1, 2027, to conduct and report to the Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection a cursory survey on the salaries and benefits for the prior year of,
among other positions, each of the fire chiefs for 5 listed California fire
departments. The bill would provide that when determining compensation for
uniformed classifications of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, it
is the policy of the state to consider the salary of corresponding ranks within
the comparable jurisdictions listed, as well as other factors, including
internal comparisons. The bill would require any salary increase for firefighters
under these provisions to be implemented through a memorandum of understanding,
in accordance with specified procedures governing collective bargaining
agreements. The bill would include legislative findings and declarations
related to its provisions.This bill contains other related
provisions. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
AB 2292 (Ward, D) Disability benefits: certificates.
Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 04/16/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - Referred
to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Calendar: 06/10/26
S-LABOR, PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200
SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS, LOLA, Chair
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and Retirement
Summary: Existing law
requires a claimant for unemployment compensation disability benefits to
establish medical eligibility for each uninterrupted period of disability by
filing a first claim for disability benefits supported by a certificate of a
treating physician or practitioner that establishes the sickness, injury, or
pregnancy of the employee, or the condition of the family member that warrants
the care of the employee. For subsequent periods of uninterrupted disability
after the period covered by the initial certificate or any preceding continued
claim, existing law requires a claimant to file a continued claim for those
benefits supported by the certificate of a treating physician or practitioner.
This bill would prohibit a physician or practitioner from charging an
administrative fee to complete a form for a certificate. The bill would also
prohibit a physician or practitioner from charging an administrative fee to
complete a recertification examination or for a form that is required to
maintain continued eligibility for disability benefits. The bill would provide
that these provisions do not prohibit a physician or practitioner from billing
for medical services provided in connection with an examination or collecting
an applicable copayment, coinsurance, or deductible, as specified. (Based
on 04/16/2026 text)
AB 2294 (Ta, R) State holidays: Sylvia Mendez Day.
Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 04/16/2026
Status: 05/13/2026 - Referred
to Com. on G.O.
Calendar: 06/09/26
S-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 RUBIO, SUSAN,
Chair
Location: 05/13/2026 - Senate Governmental
Organization
Summary: Existing law
designates specific days as holidays in this state, including, among others,
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Cesar Chavez Day. Existing law designates
certain days as judicial holidays and exempts others including, Lunar New Year,
Diwali, and Genocide Remembrance Day. This bill would designate Sylvia Mendez
Day as a state holiday, but would exempt the holiday from being a judicial
holiday. The bill would include related legislative findings and
declarations. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
AB 2367 (Kalra, D) State employment: reporting: health
facilities.
Current Text: 03/19/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 03/19/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing
law, the State Civil Service Act, regulates employment with the state and vests
in the Department of Human Resources all powers, duties, and authority
necessary to operate the state civil service system. Existing law establishes
standards for the use of personal services contracts by state agencies.
Existing law permits personal services contracting to achieve cost savings when
specified conditions are met, including that the contract does not cause the
displacement of civil service employees. This bill would require specified
state departments to provide certain information, by facility, on a quarterly
basis to the relevant employee representatives regarding positions, vacancies,
and registry contract data of their state-run health facilities. The bill would
require the departments to make the information available to the public on a
publicly accessible website. (Based on 03/19/2026 text)
AB 2650 (Pellerin, D) CalSavers: retirement savings.
Current Text: 05/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 05/22/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing
law, the CalSavers Retirement Savings Trust Act, administered by the CalSavers
Retirement Savings Board (board), establishes the CalSavers Retirement Savings
Program (program) and the CalSavers Retirement Savings Trust (trust). Under
existing law, the trust consists of a program fund and an administrative fund
with trust moneys that are continuously appropriated and administered by the
CalSavers Retirement Savings Board for the purpose of promoting greater
retirement savings for California private employees. Existing law requires
eligible employers to offer a payroll deposit retirement savings arrangement so
that eligible employees may contribute a portion of their salary or wages to a
retirement savings program account in the program, as specified. Existing law
defines “eligible employer” as a person or entity engaged in a business,
industry, profession, trade, or other enterprise in the state, whether for
profit or not for profit, excluding, among others, specified federal, state,
and local governmental entities, with at least one eligible employee and that
satisfies certain requirements to establish or participate in a payroll deposit
retirement savings arrangement. This bill would enact the Savings Access and
Vested Empowerment (SAVE) for All Workers Act, which would recast those
provisions to expand that definition of “eligible employer” to include
household employers, defined as those who have hired someone to work in or
around their home for the benefit of their personal household and who provide
the employee a W-2 federal tax form. By expanding eligibility under these
provisions, the bill would remove a restriction limiting expenditure of funds
and authorize the expenditure of continuously appropriated moneys for a new
purpose, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/22/2026 text)
AB 2656 (Petrie-Norris, D) Public employees: notice:
artificial intelligence performing service within scope of work.
Current Text: 04/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/20/2026
Last Amended: 04/14/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Executive
Order No. N-12-23 requires specified state agencies, in collaboration with
other state agencies and their workforce, to draft a report to the Governor
examining the most significant, potentially beneficial use cases for deployment
of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools by the state. The executive
order requires the report to explain the potential risks to individuals,
communities, and government and state government workers, and requires the
report to be regularly assessed and updated in consultation with, among others,
the state government workforce or organizations that represent state government
employees, as specified. Chapter 928 of the Statutes of 2024, the Generative
Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act, requires specified state agencies
to update the report, as needed, to respond to significant developments and to
consult with specified parties, including organizations that represent state
exclusive employee representatives. The act also requires state agencies to
consider procurement and enterprise use opportunities for GenAI to improve
efficiency, effectiveness, accessibility, and equity of government operations,
as specified. This bill would require certain state and local public employers
to provide written notice to a recognized employee organization at least 45
days before taking an action to develop, purchase, implement, or utilize GenAI
to perform a service that is within the scope of work of the job classification
represented by the recognized employee organization. (Based
on 04/14/2026 text)
AB 2780 (Committee on Public Employment and Retirement) Public
employees’ retirement.
Current Text: 04/20/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 03/09/2026
Last Amended: 04/20/2026
Status: 05/20/2026 - Referred
to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Location: 05/20/2026 - Senate Labor,
Public Employment and Retirement
Summary: Existing
law, the Teachers’ Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement
System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’
Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program,
based on final compensation, creditable service, and age at retirement, subject
to certain variations. STRS is administered by the Teachers’ Retirement Board.
Existing law requires employers and employees to make contributions to the
system based on the member’s creditable compensation. Existing law defines
terms for the purposes of STRS. Existing law defines “retired member
activities” to mean one or more of specified identified activities within the
California public school system and performed by a member retired for service
under STRS, as prescribed. This bill, commencing July 1, 2027, would redefine
“retired member activities” to mean all service performed within the California
public school system by a member retired for service under STRS when the member
is employed in specified positions, including as an employee or independent
contractor. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Based on 04/20/2026 text)
SB 879 (Laird, D) Budget Act of 2026.
Current Text: 01/09/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/09/2026
Status: 01/12/2026 - Read
first time.
Location: 01/09/2026 - Senate Budget
and Fiscal Review
Summary: This bill
would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026–27
fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based
on 01/09/2026 text)
SB 895 (Wiener, D) California Science and Health
Research Bond Act.
Current Text: 05/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/15/2026
Last Amended: 05/14/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - Read
third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: Existing law
establishes various grant and loan programs for research, including, among
others, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, California
Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program, and the Public Interest
Research, Development, and Demonstration Program. This bill would establish the
California Foundation for Science and Health Research within the Government
Operations Agency. The bill would require the Secretary of Government
Operations to oversee the process of appointing the director of the foundation,
and would authorize the Secretary of Government Operations to delegate the task
of hiring and determining the salaries, bonuses, and benefits of additional
personnel to the director, as specified. The bill would require the director
and personnel of the foundation to be responsible for implementing the
strategic objectives of the California Foundation for Science and Health
Research Council, as described below, administering grants and loans awarded by
the council, and all other duties as deemed necessary for the operation of the
foundation. This bill would create the California Foundation for Science and
Health Research Fund and require the moneys in the fund to be used by the
foundation to award grants and make loans to public or private research
companies, universities, institutes, and organizations for scientific research
and development, in specific areas of research, including, but not limited to,
biomedical, behavioral health, and climate research. The bill would also create
the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Benefit Fund, to
consist solely of private donations. The bill would make the moneys in the
benefit fund available for the same purposes as the California Foundation for
Science and Health Research Fund. This bill contains other related provisions
and other existing laws. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)
SB 939 (Laird, D) Public employees’ retirement: service
credit: payments.
Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 01/29/2026
Last Amended: 03/16/2026
Status: 05/11/2026 - Referred
to Com. on P. E. & R.
Location: 05/11/2026 - Assembly Public
Employment and Retirement
Summary: The Public
Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees’ Retirement
System (PERS), which provides a defined benefit to members of the system based
on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to
certain variations. PERL vests management and control of PERS in the Board of
Administration. Under that law, members may make certain elections, including
elections to purchase service credit for various types of public service, upon
payment of additional contributions. Existing law permits a member who retires
before paying off the entire amount for service credit to pay the balance due
by deductions from their retirement allowance equal to those authorized as
payroll deductions, as specified. Under existing law, upon the death of that
member, a survivor of the member, who is eligible for a monthly allowance, may
elect to continue those deductions from the survivor’s allowance. Existing law
authorizes the member, survivor, or beneficiary, as an alternative, on or after
January 1, 2020, to elect to receive an allowance that is reduced by the
actuarial equivalent of any balance remaining unpaid by the member. This bill
would limit that alternative option to elections made on or after January 1,
2020, with an initial effective date prior to January 1, 2028. (2)Existing law
provides that all elections taking effect on or after January 1, 2020,
including elections for normal contributions, arrears contributions, absences,
or public service become due and payable at the time of the member’s retirement
or preretirement death. This bill would require, for all elections with an
effective date on or after January 1, 2028, except as specified, the member’s
payment to be received by the system no later than 90 days after the member’s
retirement effective date, or the survivor or beneficiary’s payment to be
received by the system no later than 90 days after the date the notification of
balance due is mailed. For any balance not paid, the service credit included in
the election would be reduced or eliminated, as specified. This bill would also
require all contributions or service credit adjustments required by law or
agreement with an effective date on or after January 1, 2028, to become due and
payable at the time of retirement or preretirement death. The bill would
require the member, survivor, or beneficiary to have their allowance reduced by
the actuarial equivalent of any balance remaining unpaid by the member.
(3)Existing law permits a member of PERS who has elected to receive credit for
service and who retires for disability, including a safety member who retires
due to industrial disability, to elect to cancel the installments
prospectively, in accordance with certain provisions. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws. (Based
on 03/16/2026 text)
SB 947 (McNerney, D) Employment: automated decision
systems.
Current Text: 05/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/02/2026
Last Amended: 05/14/2026
Status: 05/26/2026 - Referred
to Coms. on L. & E., P. & C.P., and JUD.
Location: 05/26/2026 - Assembly Labor
and Employment
Summary: Existing law
requires the Department of Technology to conduct, in coordination with other
interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all
high-risk automated decision systems (ADS) that have been proposed for use,
development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by,
any state agency. Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development
Agency, which is composed of various departments responsible for protecting and
promoting the rights and interests of workers in California, including the
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, led by the Labor Commissioner, within
the Department of Industrial Relations. This bill would prohibit an employer,
as defined, from using an ADS to perform certain functions and would limit the
purposes for and way in which an ADS may be used. The bill would authorize a
worker to request, and require an employer to provide, a copy of the most
recent 12 months of the worker’s own data primarily used by an ADS to make a
disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decision, as specified. The bill
would require an employer that primarily relied upon an ADS to make a
disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decision to provide the affected
worker with a written postuse notice, as specified. This bill would prohibit an
employer from discharging, threatening to discharge, demoting, suspending, or
in any manner discriminating or retaliating against any worker for taking
certain actions asserting their rights under the bill. The bill would require
the Labor Commissioner to enforce the bill’s provisions, authorize, in the
alternative, any worker who has suffered a violation of these provisions to
bring a civil action for damages, and authorize a public prosecutor to bring a civil
enforcement action, as specified. The bill would set forth specified types of
relief that a plaintiff may seek and specified penalties that an employer that
violates these provisions is subject to, including a $500 civil penalty. This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based
on 05/14/2026 text)
SB 951 (Reyes, D) Employment: technological
displacement: notice.
Current Text: 05/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/02/2026
Last Amended: 05/14/2026
Status: 05/26/2026 - Referred
to Coms. on L. & E. and P. & C.P.
Location: 05/26/2026 - Assembly Labor
and Employment
Summary: Existing law
establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which is composed of
various departments responsible for protecting and promoting the rights and
interests of workers in California, including the Division of Labor Standards
Enforcement, led by the Labor Commissioner (commissioner), within the
Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law establishes the Employment
Development Department (EDD), which is administered by the Director of
Employment Development. Under existing law, the Director of Employment
Development is vested with specified duties, purposes, responsibilities, and
jurisdiction related to job creation activity functions, among other things.
This bill would establish the California Worker Technological Displacement Act,
which would require an employer, as defined, to provide at least a 60-day
advanced written notice, as described, before any technological displacement
affecting 25 or more workers during any 30-day period. The bill would require
an employer to provide that notice to affected workers, the EDD, and specified
local entities. The bill would also require an employer to provide a written
technology hiring disruption notice to the EDD when it executes a technological
cessation in hiring caused in whole by the adoption of artificial intelligence
(AI) or other automating technology. The bill would impose various reporting
requirements on the EDD. For employers with more than 100 workers, this bill
would entitle workers affected by technological displacement to a right of
first bid on other positions with the employer, except as specified. The bill
would prohibit an employer, during the 60-day period from when notice is
provided to the worker, from discharging a worker affected by a technological
displacement without reasonable and substantiated cause This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based
on 05/14/2026 text)
SB 1024 (Menjivar, D) Firefighter postpartum and recovery
leave.
Current Text: 05/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/10/2026
Last Amended: 05/14/2026
Status: 05/20/2026 - In
Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 05/19/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: Existing
law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, entitles an employee
who works in California for the same employer for 30 or more days within a year
from the commencement of employment to paid sick days. Under existing law, an
employee accrues paid sick days at a rate of not less than one hour per every
30 hours worked, subject to certain use, accrual, and yearly carryover
limitations. This bill would entitle active firefighting members of specified
fire departments who, after 20 weeks of gestation, give birth or have a
stillbirth or miscarriage to 26 weeks of fully paid postpartum and recovery
leave, provided that the member has at least 1,250 hours of service with the
fire department in the 12-month period before the date of the childbirth,
stillbirth, or miscarriage. The bill would require the leave to be granted
without regard to employment classification and to begin immediately upon the
date of the childbirth, stillbirth, or miscarriage. The bill would require a
firefighter on postpartum and recovery leave to be compensated at the
firefighter’s regular rate of pay and would require all benefits to continue to
accrue during the leave, as specified. The bill would require a firefighter
returning from postpartum and recovery leave to be restored to their prior
position, as provided. The bill would request a fire department of the
University of California to comply with these provisions. (Based
on 05/14/2026 text)
SB 1038 (Laird, D) The Public Employees’ Retirement
System.
Current Text: 04/29/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/11/2026
Last Amended: 04/29/2026
Status: 05/18/2026 - Referred
to Com. on P. E. & R.
Location: 05/18/2026 - Assembly Public
Employment and Retirement
Summary: The Public
Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees’ Retirement
System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to specified public
employees and prescribes the rights and duties of members and annuitants of the
system. PERL vests management and control of PERS in the Board of
Administration. PERL authorizes the board, during the course of an audit, to
require each state employer, school employer, including each school district
represented by a school employer, and contracting agency to provide information
as deemed necessary by the board to determine eligibility for, and the
correctness of, retirement benefits, reportable compensation, enrollment in,
and reinstatement to this system. PERL requires the board, before initiating an
audit, to notify the subject of the audit of the estimated time required to
completion. This bill would require the board, before initiating an audit, to
list specific information about the audit on its internet website and provide
written notice to the affected state employer, school employer, including each
school district represented by a school employer, or contracting agency. The
bill would specify the distribution of the notice, the final audit report, and
a list of members affected by the final audit report, between the board, a
state employer, school employer, or contracting agency, and any exclusive
representative. (Based on 04/29/2026 text)
SB 1089 (Richardson, D) Preventive Treatment Health Care
Act.
Current Text: 05/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/13/2026
Last Amended: 05/14/2026
Status: 05/27/2026 - Read
third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: Existing law
requires the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA) to enter into
partnerships resulting in the production of generic prescription drugs,
including at least one form of insulin made available at production and
dispensing costs, if one does not already exist in the market. Existing law
additionally authorizes CHHSA to enter into partnerships to increase
competition, lower prices, and address supply shortages for generic or brand
name drugs to address emerging health concerns. This bill, the Preventive
Treatment Health Care Act, would specify that the above-described authorized
partnerships include those for at least one glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)
approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This bill
contains other existing laws. (Based on 05/14/2026 text)
SB 1227 (Durazo, D) Department of Industrial Relations:
apprenticeship pilot program.
Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Introduced: 02/19/2026
Last Amended: 04/16/2026
Status: 05/20/2026 - In
Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 05/19/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: Existing law
provides for the establishment of apprenticeship programs in various trades, to
be approved by the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards within the
Department of Industrial Relations in any trade in the state or in a city or
trade area whenever the apprentice training needs justify the establishment.
This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2028, the Department of
Industrial Relations (DIR) and the Department of Human Resources to partner
with the bargaining units representing employees of DIR to design and develop
an apprenticeship pilot program that addresses DIR’s staffing challenges. The
bill would require the design, development, and administration of the program
to meet specified requirements, including being consistent with the
constitutional merit principle applicable to civil service employment. The bill
would require the program to meet specified requirements, including that the
apprenticeship program classification pay scales be determined by the collective
bargaining process. The bill would include related legislative findings and
declarations. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Total Measures: 37
Total Tracking Forms: 37