Senate Floor
- Steven Glazer
Person
Good morning, everyone. Senate will come to order. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, quorum is present. I want to invite all Members to come to their desks, please. Thank you for your attention. Would the Members and guests beyond the rail and in the gallery please rise.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We will be led in prayer this morning by our chaplain, Sister Michelle, after which, please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance to our flag.
- Michelle Gorman
Person
We gather in God's presence. O God of gifts, quicken in me a sense of humor bright enough to help me find my way in these tarnished times, fruitful enough to be made the wine of hope, to warm the hearts of those I live and work with, make me glad to be one of a kind, yet one with a kind called not to be more like others, but more of myself.
- Michelle Gorman
Person
A gorilla of grace that in daring to be authentic, I may become more of a humankind. O God of gifts, liberate me. To share without apology or arrogance, not only the gifts I have, but the gift I am. Amen.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag. Thank you so much, sister Michelle. Members, if I could have your attention. Let me try to give you a little bit of a rundown on the day today. We have an exciting day ahead of us before we. All right. All right.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're going to first move to privilege. I'll give you a rundown in a minute, but first, before we begin, we're going to go to privileges of the floor. Members, can I have all your attention, please? Can I ask Members to return to their desks, please? Thank you. Members, I want to recognize, under privileges of the floor, Senator Padilla. Please give him your attention.
- Steve Padilla
Legislator
Members, Mister President and colleagues, I rise to respectfully request that this morning the. Senate observe a moment of silence in. Memory of San Diego police officer Austin Matchitar. I take this unusual privilege simply because.
- Steve Padilla
Legislator
Not only was he a young hero that died needlessly a little more than 24 hours ago, he was someone who was near and dear to me into my community. He was family. Our heart is breaking. He was a hero. He was a brilliant and beautiful person, inside and out. And his life's journey was to help and to serve others. And he was taken too young. And I'm grateful if we observe a moment of silence in his honor.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Padilla. We're very sorry for your loss. And our loss. Members, we're going to. Senator Gonzalez, for what purpose? You rise.
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. We will be caucusing Dem caucus at the Maddy lounge now for about 30 minutes. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, Democrats will caucus in the Maddy lounge. We're on recess for caucus Members. Members, the Senate will convene in 60 seconds. Members, the Senate will come back to order. If Members can return to their desks, please. All right. Thank you all for your patience today. It will be a long day.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're hoping to get through between 150 and 200 bills. We will take a lunch break asking Members to stay here in the building. And the same with dinner. All right, let us begin our session. Messages from the Governor will be deemed read. Messages from the Assembly will be deemed read. Reports of Committee will be deemed read.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Move next to motions, resolutions and notices. Pursuant to Senate rule 29.10, the following bills are referred to the Committee on Rules. File item number eight. Assembly Bill 2243. Like to recognize the majority leader, Senator Gonzalez.
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Members, I move to suspend Senate rule 29.4 for AB 181 please.
- Steven Glazer
Person
A motion to suspend by Senator Gonzalez. Senator Niello, what purpose do you rise?
- Roger Niello
Legislator
I'm sorry, I didn't hear what that motion was.
- Steven Glazer
Person
It's a motion to suspend the Senate rules, Sir
- Roger Niello
Legislator
I object to that motion.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, Senator Gonzalez is asking for a aye vote. Senator Niello is asking for a no vote. Want to read the resolution? Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
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- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 29 to nine, the Senate rules are suspended. Members, we're going to jump around a little bit today, but let me just let you know that for the next few minutes at least, we're going to take up file item 278. That's a compact.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Grove is going to present, we're going to follow that by about eight different budget votes. Their file item 270 through 276. And that's our schedule heading into lunch. So we will begin with file item 278. This is Assembly Bill 2656. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2656 by Assembly Member Ramos, an act relating to tribal gaming and declaring the entity thereof to take effect immediately.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Grove, the floor is yours.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Colleagues, it is my honor to stand before you and present AB 2656 a compact for Table Mountain Rancheria. It's a class three compact. The compact originally entered into in 1999 and has led the tribe into an age of prosperity and self-sufficiency. Gaming compacts can result in historic land.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
It was a gaming compact, excuse me, as a result of the hard-fought struggle to recognize tribal sovereignty and forge a path forward for self-sufficiencies for the tribal community and its people. Employees are team members of this tribe. They employ 1200 plus people, and every one of these employees is treated like a team member.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
They're given excellent wages, benefits, paid time off, sick leave, life insurance policies, educational opportunities for their families and their children. And much like we do here in the Senate, when one of our Members falls or our staff falls on hard times, we come together and donate sick leave and things like that.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
The tribe also has a program similar to what we do here in the Senate, to make sure that their Members or their team Members, their employees, whether from the community or the tribe that fall on hard times, have an opportunity to be able to be helped additionally from their fellow workers and the Tribal Council, the Table Mountain Tribe and the Chukchansi and Mono people is endured, and they have been successful in the wake of all of this. They're committed to improving the general welfare of all their tribal Members, and it's important to partner with the surrounding community.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
They're a good partner with our local communities. They're an asset. It's a wonderful destination in the Fresno community area. I can tell you, colleagues, that the Chairwoman has walked the halls with her council Members the last couple of weeks, and I just thank all of you for your support on this compact and ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Grove. Any further discussion on this measure? Any further discussion? Senator Seyarto.
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I rise in favor and support of this tribal compact and totally support the effort in the compact as written. What I was disappointed with was the process that this particular tribe had to go through in order to get here, and I will leave it at that. But I ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Seyarto. Any further comments? Seeing none. Senator Grove, you may close.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Thank you, Mister Chair. I would like to if, with the chair's permission, ask the honorable Chairwoman Michelle Herodia Cordova to stand. She's in the gallery up here.
- Steven Glazer
Person
So recognized.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Thank you. I would like to close by simply reading. She's not allowed to read this statement on the floor. Obviously, we don't allow that. But I would like to read the honorable Chairwoman's statement if permission is granted.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Without objection.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Thank you. Halishma Hilihili. Greetings. I am Michelle Herodia Cordova and I have the privilege of being the tribal Chairwoman for Table Mountain Rancheriva Rancheria, a sovereign band of Chukchansi and Mono people. The words I hear I share today, I share in a good way.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Over the past two weeks, my fellow council members and I have walked the halls asking for your support in having our compact heard. During that time, someone remarked that we have this. We can do this because we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
I can tell you that the sentiment is not lost on us, for we don't just stand on the shoulders. We carry their blood, their sweat, and their tears from genocide, slavery to displacement and forced assimilation. There is no compensation great enough to make reparations for what California's first people endured.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
This compact is not just an agreement or a contract, for we are not a business, or a corporation focused on improving the bottom line. For us, gaming is a revenue. This gaming revenue has been a lifeline helping us piece together what was once broken.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
With this revenue, we've been able to provide the best medical care for our tribal citizens as well as for 1300-plus employees and their families. We are currently working on building a new medical facility to expand our services to the public.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Along with our own medical operation, we have made major contributions and are lifetime partners with the community medical center, St. Agnes and Valley Children's Hospital. In terms of housing, we can now afford the infrastructure, such as power, water, and roads needed to build homes to bring our tribal citizens back to their ancestral lands.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
For education, we cover the full tuition for our tribal citizens so they can pursue higher education and return with that knowledge to help strengthen our tribe. We also have a preschool that serves both our tribal community and the families of our employees.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
We contribute to our local schools through donations and sponsorships and have a longstanding partnership with Fresno State. In cultural preservation, over the last 25 years, we've brought back numerous baskets and artifacts and we're currently working on building a cultural center to showcase our collection. A place where we can share our history and tell our story.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
This center will also house a dedicated space to preserve our language, ceremonies, songs, native food, and traditions. Through gaming revenue, we support the operation of our tribal police department, which serves to protect our tribal citizens, employees, and patrons.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
The new compact will allow our tribe to continue important partnerships with law enforcement, fire protection agencies, and others in our community. The revenue generated through gaming has allowed us to buy back and reclaim our original lands and increase our base, including our tribal cemetery.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
My aunt, the late Chairwoman Beverly J. Hunter, who now rests there, was instrumental in fighting to bring back the tribe's cemetery and the resting place of our ancestors, and it's now back under our possession. She began these compact negotiations with us, and I know she, along with our ancestors, are here with us today.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
In closing, we thank you for all your time and respectfully ask for your support for Table Mountain Rancheria gaming compact. We thank the Governor and the compact negotiations team for their collaborative efforts in reaching this agreement with our tribe. A new class three gaming compact. We look forward to future continued collaboration and mutual success. Thank you.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
And I say this in honor. Thank you, colleagues. And I respectfully asked for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, I'll debate having ceased. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 39 to zero on the urgency, 39 to zero on the measure. The measure passes. Senate extends its congratulations and welcome to the leaders of the tribe that are here in the chambers today. All right, Members, we're going to move next to file item 270.
- Steven Glazer
Person
This is Assembly Bill 157 presented by our budget chair, Senator Wiener. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 157 by Assembly Member Gabriel, an act relating to the state budget and making an appropriation, therefore, to take effect immediately. Budget bill.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener, the floor is yours.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mister Chair. Colleagues, AB 157 is a budget bill junior, amending the Budget Act. Specifically, it makes a variety of amendments and technical corrections to the 2024 Budget Act.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Specific highlights include appropriation of $71 million for the Aliso Canyon recovery account for a variety of local air quality and public health improvements, and ratepayer support for the Aliso Canyon delivery area. Providing funding for a variety of priority investments, including the California Earned Income Tax Credit, outreach activities, in-prison programming, and the California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program, among others.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
It authorizes Department of Finance to increase expenditure authority for increased costs related to the reimbursement of stolen food and cash benefits, and it makes a variety of other types of technical changes and adjustments necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2024. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Wiener. Discussion and debate. Senator Niello.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I'm going to, I'd like to speak to this bill and really applies to the rest of the budget bills also.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
So, Proposition 25 was proposed by the majority party as a promise to pass a budget on time if they just didn't have to deal with the priorities of the millions of Californians who we pesky Republicans represent.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
What we've seen repeatedly and has been written by Dan Walters and others, has been a mere placeholder budget developed largely without transparency to be, and always is completed later like today. But for the PAGA-related allocations and the MOUs, these bills deal with issues that largely existed in June.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
So, this hearing gives proof to the fib that was that on-time budget passed over two months ago. This is nothing new for me, of course, I have been redundantly redundant in my criticism of our budget process, and by right could just oppose everything.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
But to explain ahead of time and avoid the admonition of Ralph Waldo Emerson that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, I will support some of the proposals that I find nonetheless compelling and important. But as for AB 157, I urge a no vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Niello. Senator Stern.
- Henry Stern
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I rise in favor of this measure, and I just want to deliver my gratitude both to the budget chair and the staff for helping work through penalty funding that has been bottlenecked for quite a while now.
- Henry Stern
Legislator
The disaster in Aliso Canyon was several years ago, but people still have not been made whole. The mechanics, I think, are sound, and we're going to cut people's bills, $70 million in Los Angeles instead of sending that back to the gas company.
- Henry Stern
Legislator
So, I think it's going to be good for all rate payers, and especially those who are aggrieved most in the largest methane disaster in western history. So would respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you. Senator Stern, any further discussion or debate? Seeing none. Senator Wiener, you may close.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Respectfully, ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All debate having ceased, Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 31 to nine, the measure passes. We're going to move next to file item 271. This is Assembly Bill 158 presented by Senator Wiener. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 158 by Assembly Member Gabriel, an act relating to the state budget and making an appropriation, therefore, to take effect immediately. Budget bill.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President and colleagues. AB 158 is a budget bill junior, amending the Budget Act. Specifically, it makes a variety of amendments and technical corrections to the 2022 and 2023 budget acts.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Some highlights include authorizing the Department of Finance to provide up to $3 million in greenhouse gas reduction funds to the California Energy Commission to administer programs related to zero-emission school bus charging or refueling infrastructure, adjusting the funding needed to cover debt service costs for California community college student housing projects, and making a variety of other technical changes.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion or debate on the on the measure? Any discussion or debate? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 31 to nine, the measure passes. Members, we're gonna ask folks to please stay here in the chambers. We have a long, long day ahead of us and a lot of measures to discuss and vote on. And we need everyone's cooperation for us to kind of get through it efficiently.
- Steven Glazer
Person
So please, everyone, if you can, please stay in the chamber. Next up is file item 271. This is Assembly Bill 176. Excuse me, 272. Assembly Bill 176. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 176 by the Assembly Committee on Budget, an act relating to education finance and making an appropriation, therefore, to take effect immediately, be related to the budget.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, please give Senator Wiener your attention. Senator Wiener?
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Colleagues, AB 176 is the childcare, preschool, K-12 education, and higher education omnibus trailer bill. It includes a requirement for the state fire marshal to work with the Department of Social Services on new building regulations for daycare centers.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
It also includes mostly technical and clarifying amendments to proposals that were enacted earlier this year, including preschool enrollment for two-year-olds, TK-12 attendance recovery, the Golden State Teachers Grant Program, and streamlining reports for the community college system. Respectfully asked for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Skinner.
- Nancy Skinner
Person
Thank you, Mister President and Members. I rise in support of this bill. This has been a number of the provisions here for our early care and education have been hard fought and are very important.
- Nancy Skinner
Person
And to allow us to realize the gains that we have been funding to make sure that our children, zero to four, have adequate early care. And with that, I ask for your aye votes.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any further discussion or debate on the measure? Any further discussion or debate? Seeing none, Senator Wiener, you may close.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 39 to zero, the measure passes. We'll move next to file item 273. This is Assembly Bill 177. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 177 by the Assembly Committee on Budget, an act relating to health and making an appropriation therefore, to take effect immediately. Bill related to the budget.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President and colleagues. AB 177 is the health omnibus trailer bill. It implements a near real time data system to provide electronic information to health care providers, first responders, and others on the availability of beds in hospitals and behavioral health facilities to aid in placement and timely access to treatment. It implements a Medi-Cal Managed Care directed payment reimbursement methodology to improve reimbursement for the Martin Luther King Junior Community Hospital.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
It extends the existing moratorium of licensure of hospice agencies for an additional year to allow for the promulgation of regulations to address quality issues raised by the State Auditor, and it authorizes the Department of State Hospitals to adopt emergency regulations through June 30, 2026 regarding treatment of contraband in state hospitals. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion or debate on this measure? Any discussion or debate? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members, and then we're closing the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Member.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 40 to zero, the measure passes. I'd like to ask all the Members to please stay here in the chamber so we can complete our business. We're going to move next to file item 274. Is that what we just did? 274. We're going to file item 275.
- Steven Glazer
Person
This is Assembly Bill 179. Secretary, please read. 274 is next up. 274, thank you. Correction. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 178 by the Assembly Committee on Budget, an act relating to public resources and making an appropriation, therefore, to take effect immediately. Bill, related to the budget.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Colleagues, AB 178 is the resources trailer bill that includes a variety of actions to implement the budget. Among other things, it provides customers who are experiencing undue hardship the ability to request greater payment plan flexibility beyond 12 months. It reduces the required minimum contribution amount for the Whale Tail Fund from 250,000 to 200,000.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
It restores statutory language recently repealed, authorizing Cal Recycle to solicit and use expertise available in other state agencies for purposes of the Tire Recycling Act. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Wiener. Any discussion or debate on this measure? Any discussion or debate. Seeing no microphones up, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 34 to zero, the measure passes. We'll move next to file item 275. Assembly Bill 179. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 179 by the Assembly Committee on Budget, an act relating to state government and making an appropriation, therefore, to take effect immediately. Bill related to the budget.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
I thank you, Mister President and colleagues. AB 179 is the general government trailer bill. It includes a variety of actions to implement the budget. Among other things, it makes various technical changes and conforming changes to continue enabling various departments to conduct background checks and fingerprinting.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
It establishes through December 31st, 2030, the projected surplus temporary holding account to temporarily hold for up to a year, a portion of General Fund surplus money for use in future fiscal years.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
And it extends the appeals deadline to January 1st 2025, for applications to the forced or involuntary sterilization compensation program as well as extending the program through January 1st 26. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Wiener. Any discussion or debate on this measure. Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members one last time.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 35 to one, the measure carries. We'll move next to file item 276. Assembly Bill 181. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 181 by the Assembly Committee on Budget, an act relating to public employment and making an appropriation, therefore, to take effect immediately. Bill related to the budget.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Colleagues AB 181 is this year's MOU bill. The measure ratifies three employee contracts between the state and the Highway Patrol officers, the state firefighters, and the professional scientists.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
The new contract with the CHP officers is a three-year contract that includes new levels of seniority pay and increases pay for officers with specific professional skills or training. The measure also ratifies a two-year contract with California's firefighters, implementing provisions that reduce the current 72-hour workweek to a 66-hour workweek.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Also in this bill is a three-year contract with the California Association of Professional Scientists that includes salary increases ranging from three to 12%, depending on the classification and the employee's salary range. To retain senior employees, the contract contains longevity pay increases for employees who have over 17 years of state service.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Finally, the bill includes a 2.6% general salary increase for state judges. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Wiener. Any further discussion or debate on this measure? Any discussion or debate. Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 40 to zero, the measure carries. That completes our budget bills that I understand. Senator Weiner, your microphone is still up, but I think you're set. Okay, we're going to move next to the second reading file. The second reading file. Secretary, please read the second reading file.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill A 63, 1113, 2250, 2263, 2460, 2629, 2851, 2243.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're going to move next to motions, resolutions, and notices. Without objection. Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1, Joint Rule 61 will be suspended to allow Assembly bills 1205, 1831, 1843, and 2095 to be amended after the deadline. This request has been approved by the Rules Committee. Senator Gonzalez, for what purpose do you rise?
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President and Members. There is a resolution at the desk requesting permission to suspend Joint Rule 61 for the purpose of allowing Assembly bills 98, 1252, and 2930 to be amended after the deadline. The requests have been approved by the Rules Committee.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Seyarto, for what purpose do you rise?
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
I rise because we oppose this action. We have rules for a reason that we established before we started our legislative session.
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
And continuing to break those rules so that we can fit these things in is unfair to the people that are in this room, that have other things that they were planning on getting to later on this week.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Seyarto. It's an undebatable motion, but we have a request from the majority leader to suspend the rules. That's a yes vote. Senator Seyarto's suggesting a no vote. Secretary, can you read the resolution, please?
- Committee Secretary
Person
Resolve that Joint Rule 61 be dispensed with.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 31 to nine, the joint rules are suspended. We're going to move back to the majority leader, Senator Gonzalez.
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Members, there is a resolution at the desk requesting permission to suspend Joint Rule 61 and 62A for the purpose of allowing Assembly bills 98 and 1205 to be heard in Policy and Fiscal Committee after the deadline. These requests have. Have been approved by the Rules Committee.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Seyarto.
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
Same objection. We can substitute the roll.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, sir. Let's have the resolution be read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Resolve that Joint Rule 61 and 62 be dispensed with.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any objection to using the previous roll call on this resolution? Seeing no objection. Ayes 31. Noes nine. Joint rules are suspended.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Niello, I'm told that you are asking for recognition. Is that mistaken? I was told that you wanted recognition under motions and resolutions.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
Oh, yes, I did. Thank you very much for responding to that. We're here to help. On behalf of the author, I'd like. To remove AB 2471 by Assemblyman Jim Patterson from special consent calendar.
- Steven Glazer
Person
The desk will note. Thank you, sir. All right. Anything further on motions and resolutions? All right. See no microphones up at the moment. We're going to. Senator Padilla. For what purpose do you rise?
- Steve Padilla
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I want to pull file item 300, AB 2381 by Banta from special consent.
- Steven Glazer
Person
The desk will note we're going to move next to unfinished business. Members, we have three items on unfinished business. I know. There'll be more later in the day. Those are file items 21, 29 and 37. If you want to follow along at home. First one up is file item 21. This is SB 782.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 782 by Senator Limon, an act relating to state government.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Limone.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Thank you, President and colleagues. SB 72, 782 requires an annual report with aggregate Democrat demographic information of individuals appointed to the state's boards and Commission. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator. Any further discussion or debate on this measure? All right, seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members one more time.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 36 to zero, then the Assembly amendments are concurred in. We're going to move next to file item 29, SB 1061. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 1061 by Senator Limón, an act to consumer debt.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Limón.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Thank you, Members. I present SB 1061, which seeks to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports. Assembly amendments reduce the scope of the bill exempting medical credit cards and specialty loans. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Limón, any discussion on this measure? Any discussion? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call... Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 31 to eight, the Assembly amendments are concurred in. And for those keeping track at home, that's two for the Ms. Popularity, Senator Limón. We're going to move next to file item 37. This is Senate Bill 1318.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 1318 by Senator Wahab an act relating to people health.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wahab.
- Aisha Wahab
Legislator
Thank you, colleagues and Members of the public. SB 1318, child suicide prevention, is back for concurrence. The bill ensures that students experiencing a mental health crisis on school campus receive care from a qualified behavioral health professional. SB 1318 enjoys bipartisan support and has no registered opposition. Respectfully, ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator. Any discussion on this measure? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Call the absent members.
- Steven Glazer
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 32 to 6, the Assembly amendments are concurred in. Members, we're going to move next to Assembly third reading. Assembly third reading. First up is file item 48, followed by file item 62, 63 and 68. We'll begin with file item 48, AB 2865.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2865 by Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo, an act relating to pupil instruction.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We will turn to our early leader for Ms. Popularity, Senator Limón.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Thank you. I rise to present AB 2865, which aims to change, ensuring that... Which aims to change that by ensuring that the students learn and understand the effects of alcohol, we can have... Excuse me. Which aims to change the understanding for students in terms of the impacts that alcohol can have on their body long term. This bill has bipartisan support and no registered opposition. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion on this measure? This is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection, ayes 40, noes zero. The measure passes. We're going to move next to file item 62. This is Assembly Bill 2293. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2293 by Assembly Member Mathis, an act relating to joint powers.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Durazo is presenting. Please give her your attention, Members.
- MarÃa Elena Durazo
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. On behalf of Assembly Member Mathis, this bill will allow a 501(c)(3) organization to join a joint powers agreement to provide healthcare services. It replicates an existing improving mechanism that currently allows a 501(c)(3) to partner with the JPA when providing services to zero emission transportation systems. The bill has received no opposition and received unanimous support in the Assembly. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Durazo. Any discussion on this measure? Seeing none. This is eligible for unanimous roll call, Members. Without objection, ayes 40, noes zero. The measure passes. Senators, in the gallery today, we are joined by the tribal leaders of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe, the Pit River Tribe, and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. Let's please give a warm Senate welcome to the guests that we have here in the gallery. Welcome to the Senate. This is one of our quieter days. All right, we're going to move next to Assembly third reading. This is file item 63, Assembly Bill 2375.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2375 by Assemblymember Lowenthal, an act relating to alcoholic beverages.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Rubio is presenting. Senator Rubio.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, I rise to present AB 2375 on behalf of Assemblymember Lowenthal. This Bill is intended to address drinking and spiking of drinks, commonly known as roofing.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
AB 2375 simply requires type 48-licensed establishments to provide a lid to a patron's drink upon their request to post a sign alerting guest that it is available. And this will help perpetrators intending to commit crimes and from spiking drinks and committing the ultimate crime of assaulting and raping victims while incapacitated.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
With unanimous bipartisans support, I ask for an aye vote. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Rubio. Any discussion on this measure? This is... Senator Alvarado-Gil.
- Marie Alvarado-Gil
Legislator
Thank you. I rise with neutral support on this Bill, although I do support the premise of this. I believe that we are entrusted with making laws that do not use slang terms, but actual factual terms. This Bill, unfortunately, has a connotation of "roofing" that applies to a rohypnol drug.
- Marie Alvarado-Gil
Legislator
We know now that there are various drugs that cause intoxication, and I do not believe a plastic lid with a sign saying, don't get roofied, drink lids are available, will help to educate the public around what intoxication through drugs is.
- Marie Alvarado-Gil
Legislator
So although I don't oppose this Bill, I do oppose using language that are slang terms in official legislation.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any further discussion on this measure? Any further discussion? Seeing none, Senator Rubio, you may close.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Well, the intent of the Bill is just to make sure that we give options to those that need it. So with that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, this was eligible for unanimous roll call. I just want to clarify. All right, no objection to that. Okay. Is there any objection to a unanimous roll call? Seeing nine ayes, 40. Noes, zero. The measure passes. We're going to move next to file item 68. This is Assembly Bill 3227.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 3227 by Assembly Member Alvarez and equaling to environmental quality and declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Atkins. Please give Senator Atkins your attention, Members.
- Toni Atkins
Person
Thank you, Mr. President. I rise to present Assembly Bill 3227 on behalf of Assembly Member Alvarez, on this support support bill. It creates a new five year exemption in the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, for routine maintenance of stormwater channels that are fully concrete or have conveyance capacity of less than 100 year storm event. It cuts the red tape to ensure timely upkeep of essential infrastructure. I ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Atkins. Any discussion on this measure? This is eligible for unanimous roll call. Seeing no objections. That's 40-0 on the urgency, 40-0 on the measure. The measure passes. All right, Members, next up are file items 77, 82, 86, and 96. We'll begin next with file item 77. This is Assembly Bill 1819.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1819 by Assembly Member Waldron, an act relating to local government.
- Steven Glazer
Person
I'd like to recognize our favorite Senator, Senator Limón.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Well, thank you. On behalf of Assembly Member Waldron to present AB 1819, which allows for the creation of special infrastructure financing districts in areas categorized as high or very high fire hazard severity zones. This bill has no opposition and received unanimous support. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
As expected. Is there any further discussion or debate on this measure? Seeing none. This is eligible for unanimous roll call. Seeing no objection. Ayes 40, noes zero. The measure passes. Next up is file item 82, AB 1801.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1801 by Assemblymember Jackson, an act relating to housing.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Blakespear.
- Catherine Blakespear
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President and Members. I rise to present AB 1801, which will provide clarity to existing law by allowing nonprofits the ability to build. Their administrative buildings and office space on the same sites as their supportive housing complex. Current law is unclear on whether or not California nonprofits can construct their administrative office space on the same property.
- Catherine Blakespear
Legislator
To combat the growing housing crisis. Nonprofit organizations in California have been actively involved in constructing and offering supportive housing, including permanent and temporary options to facilitate. Stability, safety, and access to services. This Bill seeks to simply clarify and support these vital efforts.
- Catherine Blakespear
Legislator
I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Blakespear. Any further discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Seeing no objections, ayes 40, noes zero. The measure passes. Next up is file item 86. This is Assembly Bill 2229.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2229 by Assembly Member Wilson an act relating to pupil instruction.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Rubio.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Today I rise on behalf of Assemblymember Wilson to present AB 2229, also known as your period act, which will ensure that all students receive menstrual health education, which the World Health Organization has framed as a human right.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Issue AB 2229 is a Bill that will help dismantle harmful stigmas about menstruation, improve health outcomes, and support the personal development and confidence of our young individuals. This bill was brought to us by a 16 year old young lady, Surya.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
I'm going to try to say the names, Sirni Vasan, which is to me an example of California's bright future. We have our young individuals getting engaged in legislation, and with that, I ask for your support. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Rubio, any discussion on this measure? Seeing no microphones up, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
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- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call absent Member Allen. Aye. On a vote of 40 to zero, the measure passes. Next up is file item 96. This is Assembly Bill 3089.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 3089 by assemblymember Jones-Sawyer, an act relating to state government and making an appropriation therefore.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Bradford
- Steven Bradford
Person
Thank you, Mister President. On behalf of assemblymember Jones-Sawyer, I'm here to present AB 3089, the California Apology Act for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity, with special consideration for African American slaves and their descendants.
- Steven Bradford
Person
I, along with Mister Jones-Sawyer, had the privilege of serving on the reparations task force for two years, and I'm very proud of the report that was produced by the body as required by statute.
- Steven Bradford
Person
The task force was required to include in its findings how the State of California will offer a formal apology on behalf of the people of California for perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African American slaves and their descendants. This bill is the completion of that charge by offering a formal apology for the past wrongs.
- Steven Bradford
Person
California will join nine other states that have enacted some form of apology for their role in the slave trade.
- Steven Bradford
Person
It's long past time for the State of California to acknowledge its role in promoting and facilitating slave-era policies and to affirm its responsibility to protect and uplift the descendants of enslaved people who have been harmed by the enduring legacy of state-sanctioned horror and terror.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Even though California entered the union as a free state, every branch of government, from top down, held his hand in perpetrating the oppressions of black Californians. This builds the opportunity to confront those tropes in a meaningful way. I thank you. My colleagues and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Bradford, any discussion or debate on this measure? Any discussion or debate? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 32-0, the measure passes. Members, we're planning to go till 12:30 for our lunch and committee break. So the next items that we are planning to advance for discussion are file item 99, 100, 102, and 106. We'll begin next with file item 99. This is Assembly Bill 2120.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2120 by Assemblymember Chen, an act relating to trespass.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Seyarto.
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. Members, today I rise to present AB 2120 on behalf of Assemblymember Chen. When a debtor has failed to repay their debt, the legal owner who owned who holds the note collateral may issue a repossession order.
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
AB 2120 clarifies that while repossessors are exempt from trespass laws, they are only for the ability to be on the property upon completion. The repossessor must leave the property immediately. This Bill is enjoyed bipartisan support, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Seyarto. Any discussion on this measure? This is eligible for unanimous roll call, seeing no objections. Ayes 40, noes zero. The measure passes. Next up is file item 100. This is Assembly Bill 2134. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2134 by Assemblymember Muratsuchi, an act relating to school employees.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. I rise to present AB 2134 which strengthens existing statute to protect educator's sick leave after a job change. Unfortunately, there have been many instances where new employees, new employers have misinterpreted the law, resulting in new employees losing their accrued sick time when they change jobs.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
No teacher or classified school employees should have to worry that they will lose their earned sick time just because they moved to a different school district. With that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Cortese, any discussion on this measure? Seeing no microphones up. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call] I Rubio. I siorto. I Skinner. I small work. Cuebas. I Stern. I umbergous. Aye Wahab. Aye. Wiener. I Wilk. Please call the absent Members. Aye. Allen. Aye. Jones. Aye. Manjawar.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Vote of 40 to zero, the measure passes. Next up is file item 102. This is Assembly Bill 99. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 99 by Assembly Member Connolly, an act relating to pesticides.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Stern is presenting.
- Henry Stern
Legislator
Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. Members, this bill will require Caltrans to use less invasive and harmful methods of controlling pests by our roadsides if necessary. It doesn't require them to stop spraying, but when there are more effective uses like brush clearing and other tools that don't take away as much habitat or create as much wildfire risk, as well as have impacts on good pests and good wildlife, they'll be using those tools going forward. Respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, discussion or debate? I see a microphone up from Senator Cortese. No? Okay, any discussion or debate on this measure? Any further discussion or debate? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 27 to nine, the measure passes. We're going to move next to File Item 106. This is Assembly Bill 1899. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 1899 by Assembly Member Cervantes, an act relating to courts.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Eggman.
- Susan Talamantes Eggman
Person
Thank you very much, Mr. President. AB 1899 has to do with gender expression represented on juries. I ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
No further discussion or debate on this measure. Any further discussion or debate?Secretary, please call the roll.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent members.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 34 to zero, the measure passes. Members, we're going to do one more bill before our committee and lunch break. The next one up is File Item 112: AB 2462.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2462 by Assemblymember Calderon, an act relating to energy.
- Susan Talamantes Eggman
Person
Thank you very much. AB 2462 asked CPUC in their annual 696 report to include current trends and their impact on cost. I ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Eggman.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any further discussion or debate on this. Seeing no microphones up. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Member.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Skinner, aye.
- Steven Glazer
Person
It's a vote of 40 to zero. The measure passes. Okay, Members, we're going to break now for Committee hearings and for lunch. It's a 1 hour break. I know we have some Committee announcements to make. We'll begin with Senator Wahab.
- Aisha Wahab
Legislator
Thank you. Senate Public Safety will immediately begin at the break in room 113 to hear one bill, SB 285, by Senator Allen. So, Members, please make your way there.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We'll next recognize Senator Umberg.
- Thomas Umberg
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Senate Judiciary Committee will meet in room 112 immediately following banking Committee. So I recommend that Members of Senate Judiciary Committee immediately eat lunch and then proceed to room 112. I'm told banking Committee shouldn't last that long. We'll see.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We'll check with Senator Limon for reports. Senator Limon.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
On that note, the banking Committee is going to be meeting immediately after the call of recess. And we are asking that if you are on the banking Committee, you actually come vote before you eat. In order to allow the Judiciary Committee, we will meet in room 112.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right. And finally, we have Senator Allen.
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
So, Senate Environmental Quality Committee will be meeting immediately after judiciary. We're going to be hearing one. Sorry, excuse me. Public safety. Public safety. That's going to be in room 113. Right after public safety, we'll be hearing Senator Portentino's SB 551. Senator, Eq.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, just a quick review for the folks that are paying attention. Public safety will be meeting immediately upon our recess in 113, followed by EQ in 113. Banking will begin immediately after our recess in room 112, followed by judiciary in room 112, Members have an enjoyable Committee hearing and lunch. We'll see you in an hour.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Okay, Members, can I ask all the Senators to return to the Senate chambers, please, so we can begin to. Right, okay. The Senate will come out of recess in 60 seconds. How about that? I counted. The Senate will come back from recess. Thank you, all Members, for being prompt and back here in the chamber. So let me.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're going to go ahead and take up a Bill, then we're going to go to motions and resolutions. So I have. Senator Atkins. Oh, is Senator Skinner here? Senator Skinner is here. Okay, Members, we're going to begin at file item 113. This is Assembly Bill 2483.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2483 by Assembly Member Ting, an act relating to post-conviction proceedings.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Skinner, the floor is yours. Please give Senator Skinner your attention, Members.
- Nancy Skinner
Person
Thank you, Mr. President and Members. AB 2483 makes the--provides for our courts standardized guidelines and consistency with the implementation of resentencing laws that are already on the books. So this does not change any sentencing law. It purely sets the guidelines on resentencing procedures.
- Nancy Skinner
Person
This is backed by Judicial Council and others and was--came out of the Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code's recommendations. And with that, I ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any discussion or debate on this measure? Any discussion or debates? See none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Skinner.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Skinner moves the call. Members, we're going to move back to motions and resolutions. Pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10, the following bills are referred to the Committee on Rules: file item 410, SB 1456. Senator Skinner, do you mean to have your microphone up? Okay. All right. Nothing else on motions and resolutions?
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, so here's where we're going to go next. Members, we are going to jump around a little bit with purpose, which is that we do have Members off the floor. So we are going to be putting bills on call. So we're going to collect up what we think are bills that are eligible for unanimous consent and put them aside until we can get a full house, which will allow for much more efficiency. So we're going to go to bills that we're going to have roll call votes on.
- Steven Glazer
Person
And so we're going to jump around the file a little bit, but I'll give you a preview of the order in which we're going to take them up. So the order is file item 117, followed by 137, 146, 150, and 157. So that's the next five bills up. Going to begin with file item 117.
- Steven Glazer
Person
This is Assembly Bill 2783. Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2783 by Assembly Member Alvarez an relating to the San Diego Unified Port district.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Atkins, the floor is yours.
- Toni Atkins
Person
Thank you, Mister President. Colleagues, I rise to present AB 2783. This Bill implements key reforms that will improve transparency, accountability, and oversight at the port of San Diego. Since introducing the bill, the author has taken has worked diligently with all stakeholders and opposition to amend the measure.
- Toni Atkins
Person
The amendments taken in the Senate Appropriations Committee have removed all opposition. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on this support support Bill.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Atkins, any discussion or debate? Discussion or debate scene none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Aye Senator Atkins moves a call. Next up is file item 137. This is Assembly Bill 1799. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1799 by Assembly Member Jackson, an act relating to child abuse.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, I rise to present AB 1799 on behalf of Assembly Member Jackson. This bill allows mandated reporters to report cases of general neglect to one or more community based agencies or service providers that will provide the parent, guardian, or Indian custodian of the child with services and supports that the reporter believes will improve the conditions impacting the welfare of the child.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
The bill authorizes the mandated reporter to make this report in addition to or in lieu of reporting to law enforcement or the welfare department in instances of general neglect. To be clear, under this bill, mandated reporters can still report cases of neglect to law enforcement or the Child Welfare Department.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
The current definition of general neglect is overly broad and captures situations that Child Protection Agency hotline workers typically screen out. With the current standard of reporting, mandated reporters overreport instances of suspected neglect due to their fear of prosecution. As a result, the majority of the calls that the child protection hotline receives are for the catch all category of neglect, including cases of poverty or lack of resources.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
In California, the LAO finds that of children born in 1999, approximately 50% of black and indigenous children will have some level of child welfare involvement by the age of 18 due to bias, a lack of standard education, and the pressure of liability. Many of these referrals are due to race, ethnicity, or income status. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Wiener. I see microphones up from Senator Rubio and Senator Smallwood-Cuevas. Senator Rubio.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, as an avid advocate for victims and children, I unfortunately rise today with concerns on AB 1799. I've heard from proponents, and I do understand the intent of the bill, and I understand that 80% of cases sometimes are not substantiated.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
But I will submit that for the 20% that are substantiated, that may mean a life saved. However, as we're speaking right now, I just can't help but think of all the children that are currently being harmed, abused, starved, and many innocent lives are lost. And I wanted to share with you that sometimes, you know, when we talk about general neglect, that means different things to different people.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
And when we're asked to not report and send it over to other agencies that are not necessarily trained or don't have the resources to take care of this issue, I believe we're putting children in harm's way. If mandated reporters are going to report abuse or neglect, sometimes, like I said, even as professionals, they miss the signs that have led to death. I'm going to bring up the case of Gabriel Fernandez, for example, that at least four adults that were meant to be professionals saw some of the abuse that was happening, and they thought it was just general neglect.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
And at the end of the day, that little boy suffered the consequence of starvation, torture, and so many other things that could have been prevented. But it's that definition of general neglect that could be very harmful to children when you don't understand what that means. Again, my point here is that even professionals miss the signs of general neglect when it actually was abuse. So I say that why create a system where we don't have the resources? Why not fix the system we have?
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
This week on the floor, we voted for AB 1913 that intends to do just that. Figure out how to increase the professionalism and for professionals that are already mandatory reporters to understand what that means, how to report. I am a teacher and I'm a mandated reporter, and I cannot remember a time that they sat us down to explain to us what to look for and what to do. Again, this bill, AB 1913 that we voted on this week, will attempt to do that.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
I have a lot of service providers that are coming to me during this time begging for funding services because they're struggling financially. And now we're going to punt up all these cases to other people that may not have the resources, the capacity, or the expertise to save these children.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
And again, to be clear, my issue is when we talk about general neglect, we're really being subjective because that means different things to different people. When we're talking about children, we cannot take that chance of someone missing the signs. Child after child has been harmed and even killed because people thought it was general neglect.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
So I'm really adamantly opposed to putting it off to someone right now that may not have the resources, the expertise, and I just, you know, cry inside for those children right now that need our help. And when we do refer it to the proper agencies, at least there might be a visit.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Some of the kids that are being harmed today require that one home visit that may save them. We all remember that family that had about 13 children. From the outside, they looked like a perfect family in pictures, in their outings, and yet they were being tortured inside the home.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
They were starved, they were not fed, they were abused, they were harmed. And no one saw that because it looked really nice from the outside. We have to leave it in the hands of the professionals. My suggestion is that we fix the system that we have and we don't create another one where our children end up dead. I respectfully ask for a no vote. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Rubio. Senator Smallwood-Cuevas.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. And I want to thank my good colleague for her words and her advocacy in this space. And we know, even with the system that we have, far too many of our children fall through the cracks. And all we are saying in this bill, and I appreciate the Member from Moreno Valley pulling this issue to the top of the surface so we can all look at it. But all we're saying is that we want to provide options. We want to provide options.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
Many of us work with community based organizations who are vigilant, who do what the system cannot, who are there for families when the system has broken down. And all we are saying is to give an option for mandatory reporters to be able to go to our trusted nonprofit advocates, to those community based agencies so they too can step in. Over 50%, 50% of children who are involved with our welfare system are black and indigenous. Over 50%. And we know far too long...
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
And as a black woman whose family has experienced this, the system is involved, particularly when there's poverty. Sometimes the only thing the parents have is that they're poor. And yes, that oftentimes gets translated as neglect, but they just need help. And so we are not saying to stop the ways in which our mandatory reporters engage.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
What we're saying is, let's put some more boots on the ground. Let's bring these communities, these trusted, community based nonprofit organizations to the table to also support this system. That is all we're saying. So I think we can hold up, and we need to do more to support our public welfare agencies.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
They're overburdened because we have a safety net that has been destroyed over the last 40 years, and they are having to do too much. And all this bill is saying is, let's give options. Let's engage these nonprofit organizations that have the trust of our communities, and let's let them stand next to these welfare agencies to do what our families need, and that is service to help. And sometimes we know when we call in police, that isn't often a help in far too many cases.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
So let's be able to call in folks in our communities who are trusted, and let's give folks options to be able to provide the care and the service that our communities need. And that with that, I respectfully ask for the aye vote. And I respectfully thank, again, the Members who have spoken on this issue. But I think the State of California, we can always do better. And when we have more on boots on the ground, we are able to help more of our community. Again, respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator. Senator Min.
- Dave Min
Person
Thank you, Mr. President. I wasn't planning to speak on this, but as many of you know, my wife is a leading domestic violence expert, and I know this is something that she has discussed with my colleague from Baldwin Park. They disagree on the value of some slight waivers or exemptions from mandatory reporting. But what my wife and other DV experts have always told me is that sometimes you want to have escape valves, because mandatory reporting can, in certain instances, lead to adverse consequences. And I will just note that this bill is discretionary.
- Dave Min
Person
It's something that specifically does not apply to situations where a mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects a child has been a victim of abuse or involving near fatalities. So I think that some of the descriptions of situations described by my colleague from Baldwin Park have already been addressed by some of the provisions of this bill. So I'm going to be voting aye on this bill. I would urge my colleagues to vote aye as well.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right. Any further discussion or debate on this measure? Any further discussion or debate? Seeing no microphones up, Senator Wiener, you may close.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you very much, Mr. President. And thank you for the debate today. I think it's very important to be clear this bill applies to cases of quote unquote general neglect, not severe neglect. Physical abuse is still mandated reporting. This is general neglect.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
For right now, there are cases that are getting funneled into law enforcement where they do not need to be funneled into law enforcement. And this is about respecting the professional judgment of these who are now mandated reporters about whether to call law enforcement or child welfare or whether to work with social services. And I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All debate having ceased, Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener moves the call. We're gonna move next to file item 46, 146. That's... File item 146. We're going to pass temporarily.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're going to move next to file item 150. This is Assembly Bill 2105. Senator Rubio is the floor manager. Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2105 by Senate Member Lowenthal an relating to healthcare coverage.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator. Senator Rubio, this is your Bill.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Thank you, madam. I'm sorry. Mister President, today I rise to present. AB 2105 on behalf of Assemblymember Lowenthal. Which requires a healthcare service plan, contract or health insurance policy issued, amended or renewed to provide coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome prescribed or ordered by a physician or surgeon. Also known as pandas, they are inflammatory diseases of the brain that result in sudden onset devastating behavioral and neurological dysfunctional.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
That dysfunction that usually occurs after triggering an infection. Early and expeditious access to treatment is critical for these patients and effective treatments of pandas and pants in order to avoid potentially permanent neurological damage and sometimes fatal outcomes associated with these disorders is important. Unfortunately, too often, treatment is routinely denied. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Rubio, any discussion or debate on this measure? Any discussion or debate? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Rubio moves a call. Next up--floor managers. Next up: Senator Limon, Senator Dodd. We're going to go next to File Item 157. This is Assembly Bill 2316. Senator Limon, are you prepared? All right. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2316 by Assembly Member Gabriel, an act relating to pupil nutrition.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Limon, the floor is yours, followed by Senator Dodd.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Thank you, Members. Thank you, President and colleagues. I rise to present AB 2316, on behalf of Assembly Member Gabriel. This bipartisan bill would prohibit schools from serving foods containing dangerous additives that can harm our children and interfere with their ability to learn.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Given the longstanding concerns, in 2019, the Legislature directed the California EPA to conduct an independent and thorough scientific examination into the impact of synthetic food dyes on children.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
In 2021, after an exhaustive review, California EPA issued a report which concluded that, I quote, 'consumption of synthetic food dyes can result in hyperactivity and other neurobehavioral problems in some children.' To be clear, this bill will not result in a ban on foods in California, nor will it result in any products coming off the shelf.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
More than 95% of the products served in schools are already free from these chemicals, and that--and school districts around the state, including LAUSD and rural school districts, have already stopped serving foods that includes these harmful additives.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
The author has taken amendments to delay implementation and limit the scope of the bill, which has removed opposition from the Ag Council, American Chemistry Council, and the Dairy Association, among others.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
It is sponsored by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond, and supported by the LA County Office of Education, CTA, CFT, California Environmental Voters, SEIU, and more than 70 additional organizations. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Limon. Is there discussion and debate on this measure? Any discussion or debate? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Limon moves a call. Members, I want to just repeat that in an announcement earlier that some may have missed, we're trying to deal with--Members off the floor, we're trying to deal with measures that are going to require a roll call vote, okay? So we're going to jump around a little bit.
- Steven Glazer
Person
I'll let you know over the next six or seven bills in order so you can be prepared and the floor managers can be prepared. So the order is as follows: File Item 168: Floor Manager Dodd, File Item 172: Floor Manager Allen, File Item 185: Floor Manager Wahab, File Item 193: Floor Manager Senator Wiener, File Item 204: Floor Manager Senator Roth.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Floor Manager Senator Roth, File Item 207: Floor Manager Senator Grove. All right, so we'll begin at the top of the list. This is File Item 168: AB 3259. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 3259 by Assembly Member Wilson, an act relating to taxation and declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Dodd.
- Bill Dodd
Person
Mr. President and Members, I rise today to present AB 3259, on behalf of Assembly Member Wilson. This is a district bill that would provide needed flexibility for residents in Solano County, the City of Pinole, and the City of Campbell to vote on pending local revenue measures to protect essential services and improve critical transportation infrastructure.
- Bill Dodd
Person
This bill does not raise any new taxes. It simply empowers voters within Solano County, the City of Pinole, and the City of Campbell by allowing them to decide whether to approve local revenue measures. I respectfully ask your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Remind me at the end. Thank you, Senator Dodd, is there further discussion on this measure? Further discussion on this measure? Seeing none, this is a two-thirds vote bill. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Dodd moves the call. We're going to move next to file item 172. This is Assembly Bill 2454. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2454 by Assembly Member Lee, an act relating to drinking water.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Allen.
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
Thank you, members. I'm here to present AB 2454. This bill would require well owners to take advantage of free well water testing programs, ensuring that those living in areas serviced by domestic wells have access to safe and clean tap water.
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
Because state and federal law do not currently require domestic wells to be tested for drinking water contaminants, those who are drinking from those wells may not know whether contaminants are present in their drinking water, this bill requires the testing of these wells for contaminants.
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
It will help to achieve the right of every Californian to have access to safe drinking water. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Allen. Any discussion on this measure? Seeing no microphones up, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Allen moves a call. Next up, file item 185. This is Assembly Bill 884. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 884 by sending Member Low and according to elections.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wahab.
- Aisha Wahab
Legislator
Thank you, colleagues and Members of the public. I rise as a proud co author to present AB 884, which requires the Secretary of State to identify language needs by December 15, 2025 and by 2028 requires counties to translate materials into languages to meet those identified identified needs, including providing translated votable ballots rather than reference ballots.
- Aisha Wahab
Legislator
California leads the nation in language diversity, with 43.9% of households speaking a language other than English at home and nearly 3 million eligible voters who identify as being limited English proficient on the census. AB 884 will ensure limited English proficient voters have meaningful access to the ballot. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Wahab. Any discussion on this measure? See no microphone steps. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wahab moves a call. We'll move next to file item 193. This is Assembly Bill 3190. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 3190 by Assemblymember Haney, an act relating to public works.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener, the floor is yours.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I rise to present AB 3190 on behalf of Assemblymember Haney. This bill ensures that construction workers on certain affordable housing projects are being paid a fair wage while also advancing our state's housing goals by recruiting the workforce we need to build housing.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Prevailing wage exemptions as well as lack of benefits and wage theft can prevent the state from recruiting the construction workers we need to build housing and reach our housing goals. California needs 100,000 more residential construction workers to meet our goals. It also needs an additional 200,000 construction workers to meet our overall housing goals.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
AB 3190 provides a clear solution to these challenges and will help recruit the workforce we need by extending prevailing wage requirements to construction workers on affordable housing projects with estate low-income housing tax credits. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Wiener, any discussion or debate on this measure? Seeing no microphones, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener moves the call. Next up, file item 204. This is Assembly Bill 1577. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 1577 by Assembly Member Low, an act relating to health facilities.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Roth.
- Richard Roth
Person
Thank you, Mr. President. This bill requires health facilities and clinics to meet with a community college or California State University nursing program upon the college's request, and to work in good faith to meet the needs of the college's nursing program clinical placement needs.
- Richard Roth
Person
Additionally, the bill requires the health facility, if it is unable, to provide additional clinical placement slots to inform HCAI, or Department of Health Care Access and Information, of its lack of capacity or capability using a form developed by that department. The health facilities would be subjected to a $1,000 fine for failure to provide the information requested.
- Richard Roth
Person
While this bill does not establish the nursing clinical placement inventory that the Senator from Stockton and I have been pursuing for several years--that bill, Senate Bill 1042, was held in the Assembly--this is a good start, and the rest of you can finish the job next year. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
That's that special Roth charm right there. Members, any further discussion or debate? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Roth moves a call. All right, Members, let me give you the order of things to come. We're going to do File Item 207 next. That's a floor manager Senator Grove. It's going to be followed by File Item 258, 260, 261, 268, and 281 with floor managers Senators Gonzalez, Cortese, Skinner, Portantino, and Cortese.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We'll move now to file item 207. This is Assembly Bill 2119. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 119 by Assemblymember Weber, an act relating to mental health.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Grove.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President and colleagues. I rise today. Present AB 2119 on behalf of Assembly Member Doctor Weber. AB 2119 would remove stigmatizing language related to mental health conditions from current law and substituting it with personal first language where suitable.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Nearly 50% of Americans are likely to experience a mental health challenge at some point in their lives. And mental health conditions are the world's leading cause for a disability, yet the significant amount of stigma persists around mental health conditions and treatment. Utilizing first-person language should be found as a positive impact for destigmatizing mental health conditions.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Does any Senator want to be heard on this measure? Any discussion? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Grove moves the call.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Next up is file item 258. This is Assembly Bill 2286. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2286 by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry, an act relating to vehicles.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Gonzalez.
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President and Members. I rise today to present AB 2286 on behalf of Assembly Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry. It will ensure an intentional and safe transition to autonomous technology as it is integrated into large vehicles like heavy duty trucks. It does not ban autonomous trucks. It does, however, ask that a human safety operator be present to monitor the technology and respond to emergencies as tested and deployed. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, discussion and debate on this measure? Discussion or debate? Seeing none, Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Gonzalez moves the call. We're going to move next to file item 260. This is file item AB 2245. Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2245 by Assemblymember Juan Carrillo an act relating to school employees.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese, the floor is yours.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
All right. Thank you, Mister President. I rise to represent Assembly to present Assembly Bill 2245 on behalf of Assemblymember Juan Carrillo.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
This is a straightforward parity Bill, and it would allow career technical education teachers employed by regional occupation centers or their programs, which are operated by a single school district, meaning no JPAs single school districts to attain permanent status after a probationary period of two years. Like other CTE teachers in California.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
As we all know, when employees are able to be classified as permanent, they're no longer employed at will and can receive due process and basically, labor rights, such as notice of discipline or layoff, and procedures for appeal.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
In order to fully invest in CTE programs, you must start by retaining and protecting our workforce, which is the sole foundation and driving force of keeping these programs available for students. Thank you. And I urge an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion or debate on this measure. Discussion or debate? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese moves the call. Next up is file item 261. It's Assembly Bill 2022. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2022 by Assembly Member Addis, an act relating to mobile home parks.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Skinner presenting.
- Nancy Skinner
Person
Thank you, Mister President and members. AB 2022 allows for making it safer for our mobile home park residents by requiring more comprehensive emergency preparedness plans and making sure that those plans are easily accessible for the residents. Ensuring, for example, that residents have access to entry and exit points, utility shutoff capabilities, and working fire hydrants.
- Nancy Skinner
Person
This has support from many of our mobile home park residents and with that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Skinner, any Senator want to be heard on this measure? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Skinner moves the call. Next up is file item 268. This is Assembly Bill 1038.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1038 by Assembly Member Mike Fong en act relating to surplus residential property and declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Portantino.
- Anthony Portantino
Person
Thank you, Mister President and Members. And may I never see another Bill related to the 710 corridor again in my life. This is an important, exciting measure because it brings closure to a section of South Pasadena where there is a desire to create more affordable housing.
- Anthony Portantino
Person
This bill brings South Pasadena in parity with the language used for Pasadena, which would allow the city to sell surplus property and use the proceeds to build affordable housing.
- Anthony Portantino
Person
Under the current system, there is a $7 million liability on the table that would be required in order to bring these properties up to speed in order to sell them. That isn't a significant financial burden on Caltrans in the City of South Pasadena.
- Anthony Portantino
Person
If the city in Caltrans could not meet that burden, these homes would be sold at auction and not be used as affordable housing. What this bill does is allow the city to purchase the homes at the original purchase price and then sell them and use the proceeds to build affordable housing.
- Anthony Portantino
Person
There's currently a 51 unit project on the table that if this bill doesn't pass, would be jeopardized, because in the financing, we're using the proceeds from the sale of these other houses in a three to one multiplier. So for every house we sell, we will get three more additional units.
- Anthony Portantino
Person
So Assembly Member Fong and myself, in working with Caltrans, HCD, and the Administration over the past year have crafted SB 268 and respectfully ask for an aye vote from you all. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Portantino, any Member want to be heard on this measure? Any Member? Senator Jones, is there some issue with you? Senator Jones, is there a concern? I heard a disturbance over there. I just wanted to make sure you're okay. All right, all right. We won't call for medical. All right.
- Steven Glazer
Person
If there's no further discussion, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Portantino moves to call. All right, next up is file item 281. This is Assembly Bill 892. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 892 by Assembly Member Bains, an act relating to healthcare facilities.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
Okay, thank you again, Mr. President. I rise on behalf of Assembly Member Bains present AB 892, which ensures that the Kern County Hospital Authority and the Kern Medical Center Foundation follow best practices established by the Accounting Standards Board, publish an annual audit, and comply with the California Public Records Act.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
Ensuring the long term health of Kern Medical is of particular importance to Dr. Bains, as it is the hospital where she completed her residency. The hospital has a Medi-Cal caseload north of 70%, and it's the region's only level two trauma center. Losing Kern Medical would mean losing lives. And as the closure of Madera Community Hospital has shown us, the San Joaquin Valley cannot afford to lose a single hospital, clinic, or doctor. The bill has no registered opposition. I respectfully request an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Cortese, for carrying a bill for Kern. Any further discussion on this measure? Any discussion on this measure? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese moves the call. Okay, Members, good news. Good news is that we have Senate bills that have come back over under unfinished business. So we're going to go and do six Senate bills. Authors are Umberg, Wiener, Bradford, and Blakespear.
- Steven Glazer
Person
That got everybody pretty excited. We're going to pause for a moment. Okay, so here are the file numbers for those unfinished business Senate concurrence and Assembly amendments. It's going to be filed item 192428-3233 and 39. So, authors, be prepared for your speeches. We're going to begin first with file item 19. We have it. All right.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, so we're ready to get the computer up to speed. We're moving faster than technology, ladies and gentlemen, so we're going to let it catch up for just a moment. All right, ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, we're back in session here.
- Steven Glazer
Person
The technology has caught up with us, and so we're going to begin on unfinished business. And I'll tell you the order again. The file items are 19 and 24 by Senator Umberg, 28 by Senator Wiener, 32 and 33 by Senator Bradford, and 39 by Senator Blakespear. All right, next up, file item 19, SB 758.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 758 by Senator Umberg, an act relating to firearms.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Umberg.
- Thomas Umberg
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President and colleagues. The amendments to SB 758 remove provisions of the bill creating crimes for specified firearms transfers. So I would expect those who were opposed originally the Bill would embrace these amendments and support them along with me. I urge an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, anyone wishes to speak on the Assembly amendments, any further discussion? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
No. Senator Umberg moves a call. Next up is file item 24, SB 919. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Senate Bill 919 by Senator Umberg an act relating to franchises.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Umberg.
- Thomas Umberg
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President and colleagues. The amendments taking the Assembly clarified definitions change, required application fee, and authorized DFPI to define by rule material changes that require the amended disclosure to be filed. I understood, and I assume everybody else understood that, urge an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Does a Member have a question about this measure? Discussion, debate. All right, seeing none, Senator Umberg. Looks like you explained it very well. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Umberg moves a call. Next up is file item 28. This is Senate Bill 988. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Senate Bill 988 by Senator Wiener an act relating to independent contractors.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Colleagues, SB 988 is back on concurrence. This is the Freelance Worker Protection act. And the amendments in the Assembly simply remove the labor Commissioner's office from the Bill. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Wiener. Any discussion or debate on this measure? Senator Grove.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Thank you, Mister chair. Rise in support of this Bill. I know we're chipping away at AB 5 and the disaster that that caused in this state. We still have to address manicurists. You guys, the manicurists are freaking out because on January 1, they're not allowed to work at a salon.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
And we just appreciate us addressing that issue, which is consistent with this Bill that's excluding freelance newspaper writers. Thank you, and respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
It should go underground like all the other labor. Any further discussion or debate seeing none Senator Wiener, you may close.
- Scott Wiener
Legislator
Respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Wiener moves a call. Next up is file item 32. This is Senate Bill 1130 by Senator Bradford. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 1130 by Senator Bradford, an act relating to electricity.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Bradford.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Thank you, Mister President. 1130 is back on concurrence. The amendment to reduce the threshold on electrical IOUs to enroll customers by changing this is sufficiently enrolled to made reasonable efforts to enroll and make clarifying in language and I huh?
- Steven Bradford
Person
And I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Bradford and company. Members, any discussion on these on this measure? Any further discussion on this measure? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Bradford moves the call. Next up, file item 33. This is Senate Bill 1177, also by Senator Bradford.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 1177 by Senator Bradford, an act relating to public utilities.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Bradford.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Thank you, Mister President. 1177 updates California utility supplier diversity law to better understand spin concentration, foster more diverse workforce. The amendments at reporting requirements clarify that the information is reported as aggregate, and allows entities required to file a report to use data collected by the PUC supplier's clearinghouse. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Bradford. Any discussion on the measure? Seeing no microphones. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Bradford moves the call. Next up is file item 39. This is Senate Bill seven. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 7 by Senator Blakespear, an act relating to land use.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Blakespear.
- Catherine Blakespear
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President and Members. I rise today to present SB 7, which is back from the Assembly on concurrence. This bill will make minor changes to the RHNA development process based on HCD's evaluation. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, discussion or debate on this measure? Discussion or debate? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Blakespear moves the call. All right, we're going to move next, members, to motions and resolutions. Motions and resolutions. Pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10C, following bills are referred to the Committee on Rules. Assembly Bill 1205. Assembly Bill 98. Anything else on motions and resolutions, members? All right. All right.
- Steven Glazer
Person
The game plan now, folks, is to go back to Assembly Third Reading. I want to give you a heads-up on measures and bills so you can all be prepared over there on the north side of the chamber. And we're going to continue to put bills on call.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We do have missing members, so we're only going to go through the roll once the order for the next six bills are file item 61. Excuse me. All right, here are the next four bills we're going to go through. File item 89, followed by file item 108, 111, and 115.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Those are floor managers Caballero, Smallwood-Cuevas, and Allen. All right, so next up is file item 89. This is Assembly Bill 26770.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Secretary, please read Assembly Bill 2670 by Assemblymember Schiavo, an act relating to health.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Caballero.
- Anna Caballero
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Members, we're all aware of the battle over abortion rights in our country, as well as the role California plays to ensure access. However, many Californians still don't know where they can see comprehensive and accurate reproductive health care services.
- Anna Caballero
Legislator
AB 2670 will prompt the launch of a public awareness campaign by the Department of Health Care Services to communicate the facts about pregnancy care abortion services through a website, abortion.ca.gov. Timely reproductive healthcare is essential. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Caballero. Any discussion or debate. Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Caballero moves the call. Next up is file item 108. This is Assembly Bill 1975. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1975 by Assembly Member Bonta an act relating to Medi Cal.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Smallwood-Cuevas.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
Thank you Mister President and colleagues. On behalf of assemblymember Banta, I am pleased to present AB 1975. Upon appropriations of funds, AB 1975 would make medically supportive food and nutrition interventions a covered benefit to all medi Cal recipients when deemed medically necessary by their healthcare provider.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
AB 1975 would direct the Department of Health Care Services to form a Committee to issue guidance for implementing these intervention services. Food is medicine is a legislative reparations priority for the California Legislative Black Caucus. And I respectfully ask for your I.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Vote thank you, Senator. Any discussion or debate on the measure? Any discussion or debate seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Smallwood- Cuevas moves a call. Next up is file item 111. Assembly Bill 2319.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2319 by Assembly Member Wilson, an act relating to maternal health.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Smallwood-Cuevas.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President and colleagues. I want to say on behalf of Assembly Member Wilson, I'm pleased to co-author and present AB 2319. This bill aims to reduce the alarming and disproportionate maternal mortality rate of black women and other pregnant persons of color.
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Legislator
The Department of Justice conducted an investigation that revealed a need for the enforcement mechanism, public transparency of compliance data, firm compliance deadlines, and additional specificity. Adopting these recommendations would allow facilities to know which providers need to be trained. We need to protect all pregnant people of color across the state. And I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator. Any discussion or debate? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Smallwood-Cuevas moves the call. All right, the next three floor managers for measures we're going to take up are Senators Allen, Newman, and Cortese. We'll begin first with file item 115, Assembly Bill 2552.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2552 by Assembly Member Friedman, an act relating to pesticides.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Allen, the floor is yours.
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
Members, this is an important environmental bill building upon previous legislation that's restricted some of the most dangerous rodenticides, anticoagulant rodenticides, which have been linked to the poisonings of non-targeted wildlife, pets, and children. It's been considerably scaled back. A number of ag opponents have dropped their opposition, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Is there any discussion or debate on this measure? Discussion or debate? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Allen moves a call. Next up is file item 165, AB 2642.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2642 by Assembly Member Berman, an act relating to elections and declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Newman.
- Josh Newman
Person
Thank you, Mister President. I rise on behalf of Assembly Member Berman to present Assembly Bill 2642. AB 2642 will strengthen and supplement California's existing anti intimidation laws by providing explicit civil protections for both election workers and voters.
- Josh Newman
Person
This bill also establishes a presumption that a person who openly carries a firearm or an, or an imitation firearm while interacting with or observing election activities, such as voting or counting votes, is doing so for the purpose of intimidation. This bill has had no registry opposition.
- Josh Newman
Person
It is an urgency measure so as to be an effective applied to the upcoming election cycle. On behalf of Assembly Member Berman, I am respectfully asking for your aye vote today.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Newman. Any discussion on the measure? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Newman moves the call. Next up, file I have 184. This is Assembly Bill 1963. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1963 by Assembly Member Friedman, an act relating to pesticides.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I rise to present AB 1963, Assembly Member Friedman's Bill.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
It requires the Department of Pesticide regulations otherwise known as DPR to complete a reevaluation of the pesticide paraquat by January 1, 2029 and to make the determination at that time, January 1, 2029 to either retain, cancel or suspend its registration or to place new restrictions on the use of pesticides. Products containing paraquat.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
Paraquat is a highly toxic herbicide or weed killer. It's banned in more than 60 countries including those with large agricultural economies. California should follow their lead. Although this bill does not amount to a ban it amounts to this five-year evaluation that I just described and I think I respectfully ask you for your aye vote. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you. Senator Cortese, any discussion on the measure? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese moves the call. All right, here's the order for the next three. We're going to go next to file item 214. Floor manager Stern. Next we're going to do file item 231. Floor manager, Senator Durazo, followed by item 234. Floor manager, Senator Limon. So, next up, file item 214. This is AB 347.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 347 by Assembly Member Ting, an act relating to consumer protection.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Stern.
- Henry Stern
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I rise on behalf of Assembly Member Ting carrying AB 347. This bill would not add new regulations, but instead require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to come up with a testing enforcement framework for existing regulations around PFAS. These chemicals are currently regulated in food packaging, juvenile products, and textiles.
- Henry Stern
Legislator
Recent amendments have clarified the funding mechanism by which DTSC will implement the bill. They strike out the application of both cosmetics as well as cookware, and they delay the timeline for implementation for DTSC to get this testing framework up and running. Respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Stern. Senator Dahle.
- Brian Dahle
Person
Thank you, Mister President. Members, I rise in opposition. And I stated many times on the floor about PFAS. And we have many bills on PFAs. And this is another example of why we need to have a hearing, and we should talk about PFAS. PFAS is everywhere.
- Brian Dahle
Person
It's in our water, it's in a bag of microwave popcorn. And we need to get a handle on how we're going to move forward with PFAS.
- Brian Dahle
Person
So, for those reasons, I oppose these bills with PFAS until we have a hearing, and we talk about what the future looks like, not only for the manufacturers, but for our folks that do water purification or community service districts. For those reasons, I oppose the bill.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Dahle. Any further discussion or debate on this measure? Any further discussion or debate? Seeing none. Senator Stern, you may close.
- Henry Stern
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I appreciate my colleague from Bieber's ask about a hearing. I think that's a reasonable suggestion. And I appreciate also his concerns about the lack of enforcement around PFAS. It is everywhere. It is getting into us and our children. We need to do something about it.
- Henry Stern
Legislator
So, we hope that this bill moves the ball forward and that we have that kind of oversight and hearing going forward. So, with that, respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Stern. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Stern moves a call. All right, Members, I thank you for all your attention today, and we're really making progress. That's a little slow, so I'm hoping we can pick up the pace. All right, Members, we have the next two items that we're going to take up. File item 231 with the floor manager, Durazo.
- Steven Glazer
Person
And file item 234 with the floor manager this popularity. Senator Limon. So next up, 231. This is Assembly Bill 2447. Secretary, please read
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2447 by Assemblymember Valencia an act relating to the California State University.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Durazo.
- MarÃa Elena Durazo
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. On behalf of assemblymember Valencia, AB 2447 will require the California State University system to publish supplemental data on their expenditures above $25,000. Reporting this data will provide a better understanding of how the CSU spending compares to the Reserve surpluses and operating budget.
- MarÃa Elena Durazo
Legislator
The author has actively collaborated with the CSU to address and alleviate any concerns regarding the Bill. We respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you. Senator Durazzo, any discussion on this measure? Does any Senator want to be heard on this measure? All right, seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Durazo moves the call. Want to remind Members that we're only going through the roll once. Pay attention. Okay. All right, next up is file item 234. This is Assembly Bill 2537, and we'll go to... Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2537 by Assembly Member Addis, an act relating to offshore wind energy development and making an appropriation therefore.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Limón, the floor is yours.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Thank you. I rise to present AB 2537, the Community Engagement and Offshore Wind Energy Act, on behalf of Assembly Member Addis. This bill establishes a grant program to build capacity for local and tribal communities to engage in the process of offshore wind development. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion on this measure? Senator Dahle.
- Brian Dahle
Person
Thank you, Madam Speaker and Members. It's probably no surprise that I rise in opposition. Here we are again, talking about we're just going to go to offshore wind without doing good science.
- Steven Glazer
Person
I'm not the Speaker. Okay. It's the President. You addressed me...
- Brian Dahle
Person
Excuse me, Mr. President. Sorry, sir.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Let's start again. All right. We'll start again, Senator Dahle.
- Brian Dahle
Person
Thank you, Mr. President. Members, it's probably no surprise that I'm rising on this bill because here we are going out and going to just go for offshore wind when we have really not address the environmental concerns that we have here in our state. We just had a bill up in committee this morning talking about fishing offshore and doing a resolution. Look, we need to do this right. We need to plan, we need to make sure that we mitigate the environmental damage that's going to happen if we just move to offshore wind. For those reasons, I will be opposing AB 2537, Mr. President.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Assembly Member Dahle. Any further discussion or debate on this, Members? I don't see any microphones up, certainly from any Assembly Members. Secretary, please call the roll. Oh, excuse me. I want to give the proponent the opportunity to...
- Monique Limón
Legislator
I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Limón. This is bill five for you. Is that right, Senator Limón? Bill five? Yeah. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Limón moves the call.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Okay, Members, if I can get your attention, please. So here's kind of the direction we're going. First, we're going to take in a few, in a moment, a 10 minute break, I can tell you that. And I'm sure you know, in tracking our progress today that we're going to have a very long night ahead of us.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We have a lot of Members off the floor. We're going to try to bring them back so that we can make more progress on our. On our calendar today. When we do come back, we're going to lift calls. Okay? So use these 10 minutes to get ready for those bills that you missed so you can be prepared to vote on those. When we go through that, and we do it fairly quickly, we're asking you to not leave the building. No runs around the park.
- Steven Glazer
Person
It's going to be a 10 minute break, and then we'll be back at our work. We are now going to move, before we break, to motions and resolutions without objection. Pursuant to joint rule 33.1, joint rule 61 will be suspended to allow Assembly bills 2471 and 2795 to be amended after the deadline. The request has been approved by the Rules Committee. Senator Gonzalez, what purpose do you rise?
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Members, I move the Senate rules be suspended to allow the Energy, Utilities and Communication Committee to amend Assembly Bill 3264.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right. Senator Gonzalez has made a request. Senator Seyarto?
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
We would rather not. So we oppose that.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Gonzalez is asking for a yes vote, an aye vote. Senator Seyarto is asking for a we would, we would appreciate not. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 30 to eight, the rules are suspended. Senator Gonzalez.
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Members, there is a resolution at the desk requesting permission to suspend joint rule 61 for the purpose of allowing Assembly Bill 3024 to be amended after the deadline requests have been approved by the Rules Committee.
- Steven Glazer
Person
I see a microphone up from Senator Seyarto.
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Again, our preference would be that we did not do that and ask for a no vote. Thank you, sir. Would the secretary read the resolution?
- Committee Secretary
Person
Resolve that joint rule 61 be dispensed with.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
A vote of 29 to eight, this joint rules are suspended. Senator Gonzalez.
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. And Members, there is a resolution at the desk requesting permission to suspend joint rules 61 and 62 a for the purpose of allowing Assembly Bill 3264 to be heard in policy and Fiscal Committee after the deadline. These requests have also been approved by the Rules Committee.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Gonzalez. Senator Seyarto,
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
Once again, we would prefer that we did not suspend the rules anymore ever again and would request a. No vote. But we are amenable to a substitute roll.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, is there any objection to using the last roll call on this previous roll call on this resolution? Seeing no objection. Oh, wait. All right, let's read the resolution, then we'll deal with the vote. Please read the resolution, secretary.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Resolve that joint rule 61 and 62 be dispensed with.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, that objection. We'll use the previous roll call. Eyes, 29, noes, eight joint rules are suspended. Okay, Members, we're going to take a 10 minute break, come back to do all the votes on call. Excuse me, Senator Niello.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I move to adjourn.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Niello, your motion is out of order because we have bills on call according to Senate rules, so we have bills on call according to Senate rules, meaning that your motion at this moment in time is out of order. Thank you, sir.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
Please accept my deepest apologies.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, sir. All right, we're going to take a 10 minute break and we're going to bill's on call when we come back, Members, thank you for your patience.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Members, we're going to ask you to return to the floor. We'll begin in about 60 seconds. We will get to show back on the road. Members, we're going to ask you again to return to the floor. We have a number of items that are eligible for unanimous roll call.
- Steven Bradford
Person
So it would be helpful if we have everybody on the floor. All right, Members, we have number of items that are eligible for unanimous roll call. We need all Members back on the floor as soon as possible. We're ready to go.
- Steven Bradford
Person
All right, Members, we're ready to get going. We're going to start off with a series of bills by Senator Glazer. We're going to first start out with file item 125 AB 2057. Secretary, you may read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2057 by Assemblymember Berman, an act relating to post-secondary education.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Senator Glazer, the floor is yours.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Mister President. This Bill would build upon Assemblymember Berman's transfer legislation, which established the associate degree for transfer intersegmental implementation Committee to facilitate greater coordination between our higher education segments. This past December, the Committee, which includes students and faculty, released a report with numerous recommendations.
- Steven Glazer
Person
This Bill would enact four low cost and high-impact recommendations from that Committee to improve transfer for high-unit STEM majors. With that, respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Any further discussion or debate on this item hearing and seeing none. This is eligible, but we don't have everybody on this floor right now. All right, we're going to call the roll on file item 125. Secretary, please call the Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Bradford
Person
All right, we're going to put this item on call. Now next up is file item 131 AB 298. Senator Glazer is prepared. Secretary, you may read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2198 by Assembly Member Flora, an act relating to healthcare.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Senator Glazier.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Mister President. This bill, on behalf of Assembly Member Flora, is a cleanup bill that aligns California law with federal law by exempting commercial dental and vision plans with application programming interface requirements. The bill has received no no votes and respectfully asked for an aye vote.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Any further discussion or debate on this item? Hearing and seeing none, Members this is eligible for a unanimous roll call. Any objection to applying a unanimous roll call? Ayes 39. Noes zero. The measure passes. Now, Members, we're moving on to file item 146 AB 27 2711. Senator Glazer? He's prepared.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Secretary, you may read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2711 by Assembly Member Ramos, an act relating to pupil discipline.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Senator Glazer.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Mr. President. On behalf of Assembly Member Ramos, this bill is targeted at supporting our youth who may be struggling with substance use. It takes a proactive approach of ensuring a student who wants help and voluntarily discloses their use of a substance is not suspended for doing so.
- Steven Glazer
Person
In order to better protect our youth, we must look at addressing the health needs of these students in these situations, and with that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Any further discussion or debate on this item? Hearing and seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Bradford
Person
Please call the absent members.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Bradford
Person
Ayes: 33; noes: six. The measure passes. Now we're moving on to File Item 250: AB 2664. Senator Glazer is prepared.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Secretary, you may read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2664 by Assembly Member Bryant an act relating to foster youth.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Senator Glazier.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Mister President. On behalf of Assembly Member Brian. This Bill seeks to clarify family reunification timelines in the child welfare system. The Bill has received unanimous support throughout the process. With that, respectfully ask for your aye vote today.
- Steven Bradford
Person
Members, this is eligible for unanimous roll call. Is there any objection to using the unanimous roll call here on file item 250? Hearing seeing no objection. Ayes, 39 no, zero. The measure passes. Members, we're going to ask that you stay on the floor.
- Steven Bradford
Person
We want to lift the call shortly on all those items, so we're going to need Members on the floor for that.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, all right, so the next item on the docket, folks, is file item 218, 218. This is Assembly Bill 1866. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1866 by Assemblymember Hart, an act relating to oil and gas and making an appropriation therefore.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Goes to our friendly Assembly Senator Limon.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
I am pleased to present Assembly Bill 1866 on behalf of Assemblymember Hart, which addresses issues with our idle wells. AB 1866 requires oil operators to develop a comprehensive plan to plug an estimated 40,000 idle oil wells in California. The bill also requires operators to prioritize plugging wells within 3200ft of where communities live, work, and play.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Over half of the idle wells in California have not produced oil in decades, and it may take over a century to plug all idle wells under current law. Without AB 1866, many of these wells could become orphan and California taxpayers would be responsible for billions in cleanups.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Recent amendments phase in the bill's requirements and restore fees to Fund a program that uses skilled and trained labor to plug orphan wells. AB 1866 is a necessary tool to solve our issues with idle wells in California. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator. I see mics up from Senator Grove.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I rise in opposition of AB 1866. I represent the largest oil-producing county in the State of California, where 70% of the oil is produced. The Bill would require an operator of an idle well or gas well to plan with CalGem to provide a management of elimination of all idle wells.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
In 2016, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed AB 2729, which created an idle well management plan of CalGem. And since 2019, more than 15,000 idle wells have been plugged and abandoned, and 11,000 of those in just the last few years. The different, there's different reasons why. And sometimes these wells are not plugged and abandoned.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Sometimes it's a global price on oil and it doesn't make it profitable to operate. And sometimes it's decision to halt production for a period of time. And sometimes it may really do need to be or abandoned, and so they abandon that well. But the majority of the time, it's just not getting permits.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
30 permits have been issued this entire year. We're about 270 permits from being issued, even on maintenance well. So if you have something that is. Has a little, you know, bolt loose or something like that, you can't go and do maintenance on those wells without getting a permit. Permits are not being issued. So it just sits idle.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
So if we could address some of those root causes that cause us not to be able to operate some of these wells, maybe we wouldn't have idle wells again. Policies affect coming out of this building, affect the way that we do business. We should continue to, we should always continue to encourage operators to remediate their own assets.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
We also want to note that for an operator will be able to shut down an idle well. There needs to be income generated from other wells, again, not getting permits. So there's no income coming in to shut down these wells. And the Bill is arbitrary in an attempt to fix a problem that's already being addressed.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
Members, California imports about 70% of its oil. I know I sound like a broken record. It costs about $7 a barrel to do that. We are transitioning off of oil, but only domestically produced oil.
- Shannon Grove
Legislator
And we're getting it from foreign countries where all our policies have a detrimental impact on global issues that take place, meaning wars, infrastructure, all of those things. And we should definitely produce oil here, reduce carbon emissions. And I respectfully ask for a no vote on this ridiculous Bill.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Grove, Senator Dodd.
- Bill Dodd
Person
Thank you, Mister President and members. I also rise in opposition. I just want to. I think it's very disingenuous to say the taxpayers are going to be on the hook for abandoned wells. We have an abandoned well process where we did have abandoned wells that were done 50 years ago.
- Bill Dodd
Person
The companies came in and there's been a fee put on to take care of those idle wells. Through the years that I've been in the Legislature on natural resources and on environmental quality and energy, we've talked about these idle wells.
- Bill Dodd
Person
The biggest challenge we have in California is that we have CalGem that is not performing at the levels that the oil companies actually paid to have them deployed. They pay a fee for those positions to be funded, and they haven't been. We haven't filled those positions. And we just last week had a.
- Bill Dodd
Person
Or this week had a hearing talking about CalGem. We need to do an audit of Calgem, and we need to stop running bills and putting fear in the public that there's going to be some abandoned well. There isn't. There's a process for those wells. There's money for those wells.
- Bill Dodd
Person
And quite frankly, the ratepayers of California who buy gas and oil and diesel have paid that.
- Bill Dodd
Person
The biggest tax heist in California is the money that we pay to California Air Resources Board for every gallon of fuel that we buy and that's dispersed throughout the state to things like the high-speed train to water infrastructure, which has nothing to do with oil wells.
- Bill Dodd
Person
And so I think we need to be honest with the ratepayers of California, people who buy gasoline, diesel and natural gas, that these wells are not really the problem. The really problem is how we're dispersing the money and how Calgen is not doing their job to make sure Californians are safe and get the job done.
- Bill Dodd
Person
So for those reasons, I oppose AB 1866 and ask for no vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you. Any other Senator want to be heard on this measure? Seeing none. Senator Lemon, you may close.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Thank you. Members, I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All debate having ceased. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Call the absent members one last time, folks. We have a full house, so we'll close the roll after this last go through it.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 29-7, the measure passes. Members, we're now going to move to items that are on call. Okay, so that's where we're going to go next. We're going to go items that are on call.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're going to ask all members to be at their desks and have a quiet in the Senate so that we can hear everybody's vote, and we're going to close the roll on all these votes in just a minute or two.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, Members, we have 32 bills on call. You should all have that recorded on your devices on your desks. Senator Jones, we need everyone's attention. Everyone at their seats. If we could, please. All right, we're going to begin at file item 113. Assembly Bill 2483. Secretary, please open the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're going to move next to motions and resolutions. Motions and resolutions pursuant to Senate rule 2910 d 2110 d. The following bills are referred to the Committee on Rules SB 299, SB 537, SB 707, and SB 1266. Senator Gonzalez, for what purpose you rise.
- Lena Gonzalez
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I'd like to add AB 2901. File item 221 to the inactive file. On behalf of Assembly Majority Leader Aguiar Curry.
- Steven Glazer
Person
The desk will note. Senator Roth.
- Richard Roth
Person
Thank you, Mister President. Request that we move AB 2914 file item number 66 to the inactive file.
- Steven Glazer
Person
The desk will note. All right, Members, we're going to move back to Assembly third reading file item 181. Assembly Bill 869. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 869 by Assembly Member Wood, an act relating to hospitals.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Roth, you're recognized.
- Richard Roth
Person
Thank you, Mister President. This bill provides small, rural district and financially distressed hospitals with the opportunity to request the Department of Health Care Access and Information, known as HCAI, to grant an up to three-year delay in their seismic safety compliance requirements.
- Richard Roth
Person
The bill also allows HCAI to approve an additional up to two-year delay for hospitals that continue to be in financial distress or need to address contractor labor material delays, government entitlements, or other circumstances beyond the hospital's control.
- Richard Roth
Person
In either case, the hospital will be required to provide HCAI with a proposed compliance plan and meet agreed-upon progress milestones in order to receive the delay.
- Richard Roth
Person
The bill also expands eligibility for the Small and Rural Hospital Relief Program and provides grants to those hospitals to secure structural performance category 4d assessments and plan for their 2030 seismic safety compliance requirements.
- Richard Roth
Person
We're all aware that many hospitals in California are experiencing difficult financial situations, but hospitals covered by this bill have continually faced financial challenges due to the location and populations that they serve.
- Richard Roth
Person
This bill is a targeted approach to help preserve a small number of hospitals that are most often a community's only access to emergency care and are likely to close if some assistance in meeting seismic requirements is not provided. The author has worked with the California Hospital Association, the governor's office, and HCAI to incorporate the technical assistance offered.
- Richard Roth
Person
There has been no opposition, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Roth. Senator Caballero.
- Anna Caballero
Legislator
Thank you very much, Mister President. I stand in support of this particular bill. Folks, you'll remember that this body passed off my legislation that does the exact same thing. What we are trying to do is to create a framework so that hospitals will meet their compliance requirements by 2030 if they can.
- Anna Caballero
Legislator
And if they can't, they have to go to HCAI, and they've got to ask for permission to extend the time. The reason this becomes important is the only option that remains if we don't do this extension is that the hospital loses its license.
- Anna Caballero
Legislator
Having been in a situation where one of the hospitals in my district had to close and they are struggling to reopen, I can tell you that it has devastating impacts on the local community, on their healthcare services, and their ability to be able to get emergency care services. So, this is really, really important.
- Anna Caballero
Legislator
And many of the elements that are included in my bill are also included in this bill to protect the integrity of the process that that gives HCAI the authority to be able to grant these extensions of time. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on this as well.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any further discussion or debate? Seing none, Senator Roth, you may close.
- Richard Roth
Person
Respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All debate having seized. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 37 to zero, the measure passes. Members, we're going to move next to file item. I see a microphone up from Senator Allen, so we'll move back to motions and resolutions. Senator Allen, what purpose do you rise?
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
Mister President, the request of the author. We'd like to move AB 1917 to the inactive file.
- Steven Glazer
Person
The desk will note. Senator Becker,
- Josh Becker
Legislator
For my twin. I'd also like to move AB. No, I'm kidding. At the request of the author, please move 2959 Ortega, file item 119 to the inactive file.
- Steven Glazer
Person
The desk will note, redundancy for Senator Allen is sometimes appreciated. Okay, all right, we're done.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, we're going to move Assembly, third reading. I'm going to try to give you a heads up in terms of the order in which we're going to go through it. We're going to begin with file item 126, followed by file item 144, 149 and 151. Four authors, four managers there. Please be aware.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Min, Senator Rubio, Senator Menjivar, Senator Min. Let's go with file item 126. Assembly Bill 2295.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2295 by Assembly Member Addis, an act relating to crimes.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Min.
- Dave Min
Person
Thank you, Mr. President. On behalf of Assembly Member Addis, I present AB 2295. It's a support support bill that would help survivors of child sexual abuse, so I think you should vote for it.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any discussion or debate? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll. Excuse me, is this eligible? This is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection, ayes: 38; noes: zero. The measure passes. We're going to move to File Item 144. This is Assembly Bill 1511. Secretary, please read. Senator Rubio.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1511 by Assembly Member Santiago an act relating to state government.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Rubio.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Today I rise to present AB 1511 on behalf of Assemblymember Santiago, which seeks to integrate ethnic and community media outlets in the state's outreach efforts to better inform and educate California's diverse communities.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
California's ethnic and community media sectors have a long history of serving as trusted messengers of culturally competent and community specific needs to underserved communities, but have been underutilized in the deployment of state outreach and advertising campaigns.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
This Bill aims to remedy this by requiring state agencies to develop plans for increasing outreach and investments in the ethnic community media outlets with unanimous bipartisan support. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Rubio. Any discussion on this matter? Any discussion? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Eyes 38. No, zero. The measure passes. Next up is file item 149, Assembly Bill 3291. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 3291 by the Assembly Committee on Human Services, an act relating to Developmental Services.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Menjivar.
- Caroline Menjivar
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. AB 3281 is the Assembly Human Services Committee Bill that proposes a succession plan for aging caregivers and allows Regional Centers to offer services to consumers who are at risk of homelessness rather than waiting until they are homeless. Respectfully asking for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion on this matter, any Senator want to be heard seeing no microphones up. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Please call the absent Members
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 38 to zero, the measure passes. All right, Members, the majority leader asked that I share this information with you all. We've gotten over 65 bills so far today. Great job. We will break for dinner at 05:00 p.m. for 30 minutes. Thank you. All right, next up is file item 151. Assembly Bill 1738.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1738 by Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo, an act relating to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Min.
- Dave Min
Person
Thank you, Mr. President. Members, I rise to present AB 1738 on behalf of Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo. This support support bill requires the DMV to establish a mobile homeless connect pilot program to assist persons experiencing homelessness with obtaining an ID card. I respectfully ask your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any discussion? This is eligible for unanimous roll call. Seeing no objections. Ayes 38, noes zero. The measure passes. Next up is file item 163. This is Assembly Bill 2531. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2531 by Assembly Member Bryan, an act relating to law enforcement.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Menjivar.
- Caroline Menjivar
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. AB 2531 will include youth in the data collection of individuals dying while in custody and aligns the definition of in-custody deaths with federal standards. Respectfully asking for an aye vote any.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion on this measure? Any discussion? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
Who are we missing there?
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 38 to zero, the measure passes. Members, these next six items all have support support on both sides and are eligible. I'm gonna go through them, starting off with File Item 170, 171, 174, 175, 176, and 179. The floor managers are Dahle, Cortese, Allen, Limon, Padilla, Limon, Caballero.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We'll begin first with again, these are all support support file item 170. AB 1868. Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1868 by Assemblymember Friedman an act relating to taxation.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Dahle.
- Brian Dahle
Person
Thank you, Mister President. Members, I rise to present AB 1868. It addresses a wide variance between jurisdictions about assessing the value of affordable homes sold to and occupied low income families that participate in low interest mortgages. This is an organization like humanity, Habitat for Humanity, that sells homes to individual families who qualify for low income homes.
- Brian Dahle
Person
This Bill basically takes care of low-income people and on their mortgages. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
And was there any discussion on this? This is eligible for a unanimous roll call without objection. Ayes. Ayes 38 Noes 0. The measure passes. Next up is file item 171. Assembly Bill 2137. Secretary, please read.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're going to pass temporarily on 171. We'll move next to file item 174. Assembly Bill Senator Limon here on the floor. Senator Limon is here on the floor. We're going to move to file item 174. This is Assembly Bill 1842.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 1842 by Assemblymember Reyes, an act relating to healthcare coverage.
- Steven Glazer
Person
It says support-support. Senator Limon.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Thank you, President and colleagues. AB 1842 is a bill that prohibits commercial health insurance from imposing prior authorization rules to create barriers to accessing medication-assisted treatment for patients suffering from substance abuse or overdoses. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion or debate on this measure is eligible for united on this roll call. Without objection; ayes 38, noes zero. The measure passes. We're going to move next to file item 175. Assembly Bill 2757.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2757 by Assembly Member Garcia, an act relating to economic development.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Padilla.
- Steve Padilla
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President and colleagues. I'm presenting AB 2757 on behalf of Assembly Member Garcia.
- Steve Padilla
Legislator
This bill would streamline and accelerate economic development in Salton Sea area and communities most impacted by lithium extraction and facilitate collaboration with state, federal, regional, and local organizations, entities, and governments on issues of mutual interest to advance the economy and quality of life for residences in this area.
- Steve Padilla
Legislator
It's received broad bipartisan support, has no no votes. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Seeing no objections. Ayes 38. Noes zero. The measure passes. We'll move back to file item 171. This is AB 2137. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2137 by Assembly Member Quirk-Silva an act relating to homeless and foster youth.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Arise to present AB 2037-2137 on behalf of Assembly woman Quirk-Silva. The bill supports homeless and foster youth in education by streamlining the ability of foster youth coordinating programs to provide direct support. Senate amendments narrow the scope of the Bill, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator. Is there any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Seeing no objection. Ayes, 38. No, 0. The measure passes. We'll move next to file item 176. This is Assembly Bill 2574.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2574 by Assembly Member Valencia, an act relating to alcohol and drug programs.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Limon.
- Monique Limón
Legislator
Thank you. I rise to present AB 2574, on behalf of Assembly Member Valencia. This bill aims to enhance the reporting requirements for certified programs and licensed facilities that provide alcoholism or drug abuse recovery treatment. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion? Any debate? This is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection, ayes: 38; noes: zero. The measure passes. Move to File Item 179: AB 3275. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 3275 by Assembly Member Soria, an act relating to healthcare coverage.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Caballero.
- Anna Caballero
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President, for the opportunity to present SB 3275 on behalf of Assembly Member Soria. This bill shortens the timeframe for health plans and ensures to pay providers for completed claims to 30 calendar days. Respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion or debate on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection. Ayes 38. Noes zero. The measure passes. All right, we're going to go. This is the order for the next collection of bills. It's going to begin with file item 189, 191, 201, and 203. These are floor managers Niello, Blakespear, Cortese, and Becker.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We'll begin first with file item 189, AB 801. This has support support on both sides. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 801 by Assembly Member Joe Patterson, an act relating to privacy.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Niello.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Good afternoon or good morning. I think it's good evening and it's going to be good night. Members and colleagues, I rise to present Assembly Bill 801 on behalf of Assemblyman Joe Patterson. AB 801 would allow a parent or student to require school technology vendors. Mister President?
- Steven Glazer
Person
You can continue.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
To require school technology vendors, such as Internet websites and mobile applications to delete the student's private information after no longer being enrolled at a K-12 educational institution preventing the vendors from selling the students' information.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
Instead of only allowing the deletion of private and sensitive information through a school, this legislation would give students and parents the direct authority to delete their information as well. The bill has no opposition and has zero, no votes. I respectfully ask an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Niello. I'm sorry you were bothered by the noise in the room. Any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous. Senator Jones, for what purpose do you rise?
- Brian Jones
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. I just wanted to offer my support on AB 801, which is a support support bill. I think we should all support it. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, sir. Any further discussion or debate or anything else. Sorry.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
With that, I get to close, do I not?
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Niello, you need to wait to be recognized.
- Roger Niello
Legislator
I respectfully ask an I vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
I'd like to now recognize you to close, Senator Neillo. Would you like to close? All right. Unauthorized close. This is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection. Ayes 38. Noes zero. The measure passes. We'll move next to file item 191.
- Steven Glazer
Person
This is Assembly Bill 2446. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2446 by Assembly Member Ortega Enac an act relating to Med-Cal.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Blakespear is presenting. It is your floor.
- Catherine Blakespear
Legislator
Thank you. President and Members, I rise to present AB 2446 on behalf of Assemblymember Ortega. This Bill would provide medically necessary diapers through Medi Cal. Recent amendments make the Bill conditional upon. The state obtaining any necessary federal approvals and available federal funding. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection I 3800. The measure passes. Next up is file item 201, Assembly Bill 2866. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2866 by Assembly Member Pellerin, an act relating to pool safety.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Cortese, this is a support support.
- Dave Cortese
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President and Members. On Monday, October 2nd, 2023, one-year-old Payton Cobb and 18-month-old Lillian Hanan lost their lives in a horrific event. These children were at a licensed home daycare located in San Jose, my hometown, when three toddlers accessed the swimming pool located on the premises unsupervised. This bill, AB 2866, will help prevent this tragedy from ever happening again. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Cortese. Any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection, ayes: 39; noes: zero. The measure passes. We're going to take three more measures up, all eligible for a unanimous roll call. They're File Item 203--Becker is the floor manager--210: Eggman, and 216: Hurtado.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, we're making good progress, and thank you for giving everyone--every Senator, your attention. We're moving next to File Item 203. This is Assembly Bill 2925.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2925 by Assemblymember Friedman an act relating to post secondary education.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Becker.
- Josh Becker
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. This Bill requires college campuses to include training to combat and address discrimination against the five most targeted groups in the state as part of any anti discrimination training or DEI initiatives offered. The authors added clarifying language just concerns the Bill would unintentionally leave out groups not in the top five.
- Josh Becker
Legislator
It's a party Bill for the Jewish caucus, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator. Any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection, Ayes 39.Noes 0. The measure passes. Next up is file item 2001070 Bill 2058. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2058 by Assemblymember Weber an act relating to public health.
- Susan Talamantes Eggman
Person
Thank you very much, Mister President. AB 2058 requires the manufacturer of a device that collects data from your physiological matter to do some kind of disclosure. There's a couple different options about where they can do that.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Eggman.
- Susan Talamantes Eggman
Person
That some of the devices that use this kind of data can be wrong per your size, per your skin color and or tone. So people should be aware of that. I ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Eggman, for that informative presentation. Any further discussion on this matter? This is eligible for unanimous roll call. Members? Without objection, Ayes 39 Noes 0. The measure passes. We'll move next to file item 216. Assembly Bill 3145. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 3145 by Assembly Member Bryan, an act relating to child welfare.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Hurtado.
- Melissa Hurtado
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. I rise to present AB 3145, on behalf of Assembly Member Bryan. This bill is support support, and I respectfully ask for your support. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator Hurtado. Any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection, ayes: 39; no: zero. The measure passes. All right, we're going to--the next four bills we're going to take up, Members, are 217, 229, 230, and 238. Floor managers are Allen, Padilla, Rubio, and Laird.
- Steven Glazer
Person
We'll begin with file item 217, AB 2331. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2331 by Assembly Member Gabriel, an act relating to carbon offsets.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Allen.
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. Pleased to present 2331 which is a cleanup bill to provide additional clarification for buyers and sellers of voluntary carbon offset credits.
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
Last year, you all know we, of course, passed AB 1305, which established disclosure requirements for buyers and sellers of these offset credits and entities making claims about major emissions reductions. This measure will clarify that the first annual disclosures have to be published on an entity's Internet websites.
- Benjamin Allen
Legislator
They have to make makes a couple of other clarifying changes to help facilitate implementation. No known opposition. Bipartisan support. Ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion on this measure? Any discussion, Members? Seeing none. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
On a vote of 39 to zero, the measure passes. Members, the next two items are also eligible for unanimous roll call. That's file item 229 and 230. First up, 229, AB 2922.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Secretary, please read Assembly Bill 2922 by Assembly Member Garcia en act relating to local government and declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Padilla.
- Steve Padilla
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President and colleagues arise to present AB 2922 on behalf of Assembly Member Garcia. The bill extends the authorization for Capital Investment Incentive program until January 1, 2035 and authorizes CIP for proponents of qualified manufacturing facilities with an assessed value exceeding 25 million. Additionally, it introduces labor requirements and job creation plan for these proponents.
- Steve Padilla
Legislator
This bill has had no opposition and no votes, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you. Senator Padilla, any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Without objection. I's 39 no zero on the urgency. Ayes, 39. No, 0. On the measure. Moving on to file item 230, AB 2843.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Assembly Bill 2843 by Assemblymember Patrick Norrisan act relating to Healthcare coverage
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Rubio is presenting.
- Susan Rubio
Legislator
Thank you, Mr. President. Today I rise to present AB 2843, which will prohibit insurers from charging rape survivors for medical services and care related to their assault. Rape and sexual assault statistics are staggering, and very few come forward. It is hard enough to deal with the challenge of the pain, the stress, and the trauma. We should not add the cost to it, and with that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any discussion on this measure? It is eligible for unanimous roll call. Seeing no objections, ayes: 39; no: zero. The measure passes. We're going to do two more measures before we break so everyone can keep their attention focused. We're going to begin with File Item 238 and then File Item 253. 238: floor manager: Laird.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Floor Manager Laird, it's AB 2207.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Secretary, please read Assembly Bill 2207 by Assembly Member Reyes an act relating to public health.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Laird.
- John Laird
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President. This bill would increase the representation of older adults on three state boards, commissions, and advisory committees to align with the master plan for aging. There's support on both sides. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
This is possible. Unanimous roll call, Members. Anyone object to using a unanimous roll call? Seeing no objection. Ayes 39. No, 0. The measure passes. We'll end our afternoon session with file item 253. This is Assembly Bill 2237. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Assembly Bill 2237 by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry, an act relating to Medi-Cal.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Menjivar.
- Caroline Menjivar
Legislator
Thank you, sir. When youth are moved from county to county, their mental health care is halted while they reestablish eligibility for services. AB 2237 requires that DHCS issue guidance to support those kids who go from county to county and will issue counties to coordinate and expedite the transfer of specialty mental health services from one county to another. Respectfully asking for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Thank you, Senator. Senator Eggman.
- Susan Talamantes Eggman
Person
Thank you very much, Mr. President. Just a point for future reference for all the Senators here, if they're looking for good bill ideas, it would be great if we just had one Medi-Cal. You didn't have to change when you went from county to county. To get a statewide Medi-Cal would make things so much easier. Thank you.
- Steven Glazer
Person
I know that related to the bill in question. Thank you very much, Senator Eggman. Senator Menjivar, any further discussion? Seeing none, Senator Menjivar, you get to close.
- Caroline Menjivar
Legislator
Once again, respectfully asking for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, this is eligible for unanimous roll call, Members. Without objection, ayes: 39; no: zero. The measure passes. All right, well, that was a good run. You get applause for that. As per the direction of our Majority Leader, we're going to take a dinner break of 30 minutes.
- Steven Glazer
Person
30 minutes, asking that you remain here in the Capitol so that we can come back and continue our work. We have a lot of work to do still. Appreciate all your help. We'll be in recess.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Our evening session and get our work done. Good evening again, Senators. We're about to begin our Senate session. We want to invite all the Senators to come back into the chambers. Senators, we'd like to invite you to come back into the chambers and get to our desks so we can continue to move forward. Sergeants, can you call the Members into the chamber, please?
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, good evening again. We'd like to invite all the Members to come back to the chambers and take their seats. Senators, please, if we could curb the conversations now and invite Members to come back to the Senate and take their seats. We have a lot of work to do this evening and we need everyone's help it.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senators, if I could get your attention, please. We're going to move back to unfinished business. This is going to be file item 15, SB 310. I'd like to ask the secretary to read. Senator Dodd is presenting.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 310 by Senator Dodd an act relating to fire prevention.
- Steven Glazer
Person
All right, Senator Dodd, this is your bill coming back on amendments. Floor is yours.
- Bill Dodd
Person
Thank you very much, Mister President. You're really doing a fine job this evening.
- Bill Dodd
Person
Okay, Mister President. Members, SB 310 pertaining to cultural burning is back for concurrence in the Assembly amendments. Assembly amendments. Do the following.
- Bill Dodd
Person
Add more robust findings, limit the types of agreements between a Native American tribe and the secretary of natural resources, authorize, but not mandate air quality districts to enter into agreements, eliminate an advisory workgroup and move the sunset back one year. Respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any discussion or debate on this measure. Any discussion or debate. Scene nine. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
We're gonna call the absent Members one more time and then close the roll. Please call the absent Members. Oh, we're gonna go on call. Okay, so that would be. Senator Dodd moves the call. Thank you, Senator Dodd. All right, next up is file item 22, Senator Umberg's bill, SB 900.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Senate Bill 900 by Senator Umberg, an act relating to common interest developments.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Umberg.
- Thomas Umberg
Legislator
Thank you very much, Mr. President and colleagues. The amendments to SB 900 simply clarify that if the Board of Association fails to fix widespread outages in 14 days, then the quorum for the next meeting is reduced. Urge an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Any discussion on this measure? Any discussion? All debate having ceased, secretary, please call the roll.
- Reading Clerk
Person
[Roll Call].
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Umberg moves a call. Next up is File Item 25 by Senator Seyarto. Secretary, please read.
- Reading Clerk
Person
Senate Bill 936 by Senator Seyarto an act relating to transportation.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Seyarto, the floor is yours.
- Kelly Seyarto
Legislator
Thank you, Mister President, SB 936 is back here on concurrence from the Assembly. The amendments taken were technical and clarifying. The Bill has earned bipartisan support, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any discussion on this measure? Any further discussion? Seeing none, secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Seyarto moves the call. We're going to move to file item 30. This is Senate Bill 1064. Secretary, please read.
- Committee Secretary
Person
Senate Bill 1064 by Senator Laird an act relating to cannabis.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Senator Laird.
- John Laird
Legislator
Thank you very much, Mister President. This is back on concurrence. Assembly Members simplify the licensing scheme by combining a couple of categories. There's support on both sides. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.
- Steven Glazer
Person
Members, any discussion on this measure? Any further discussion? Seeing none. This is a 27 vote Bill. Secretary, please call the roll.
- Committee Secretary
Person
[Roll Call]