SB 1078: Civil rights violations: service of process: Civil Rights Department.

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: Senate
Latest Version Date: 2026-06-10

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-06-23: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

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Existing law, including the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976, and the Tom Bane Civil Rights Act, specifies various civil rights based on specified characteristics. Among these rights are the right to be free from discrimination in business establishments, right to be free from violence or intimidation, and right to be free from interference with the exercise of legal rights through threats, intimidation, or coercion. Existing law establishes liability for sexual harassment within certain professional relationships. If a violation of any of these specified civil rights is alleged or the application or construction thereof is in issue in any proceeding in the Supreme Court of California, the state court of appeal, or the appellate division of a superior court, existing law requires each party to serve a copy of the partys brief or petition and brief on the State Solicitor General at the office of the Attorney General.

This bill would additionally require each party to serve a copy of the partys brief or petition and brief on the Director of the Civil Rights Department.

Existing law authorizes various local governmental entities, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the Transactions and Use Tax Law, including a requirement that the combined rate of all taxes that may be imposed in accordance with that law in any county not exceed 2%.This bill would authorize, until December 31, 2030, the County of Santa Cruz, by an ordinance adopted by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, to levy a tax pursuant to the Transactions and Use Tax Law at a rate not to exceed 0.5% for general and special purposes, subject to voter approval, as specified. The bill would authorize those taxes to exceed the 2% limit described above.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Santa Cruz.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Discussed in Hearing