Assembly Floor

Morning, California. The assembly is now in session. And in this auspicious house of origin week, it is assembly member Wallis that notices the absence of a quorum. We missed you, assembly member Wallis. Thank you for all that you do. Sergeant arms will prepare the chamber bringing the absent members, and the clerk will call the roll.

[Roll Call]

Members, a quorum is present. We ask our guests and visitors in the rear of the Chamber and in the Gallery to please stand for today's prayer. Reverend Oshita will offer today's prayer. Reverend Oshita.

Please join me in a moment of reflection. Earlier this month of May, as we all reflected on the importance of a mother's love, I remembered a story shared by a Japanese American Nisei soldier serving in the U.S. Army in occupied Japan. On his first leave, he arranged to visit the village where his parents were raised. From the PX, he purchased boxes of Hershey's chocolate bars to share with family that he would be meeting for the first time.

He recalled being welcomed so warmly with his gifts of chocolate bars were received so gratefully. He was told that throughout the war, food was scarce, and to have chocolate candy was a treat beyond consideration. They had not tasted chocolate in years. He was pleased to see them so enjoying his gift. Then he noticed one relative, a young mother, holding her unopened chocolate bar. He encouraged her to try it, promising that he would bring more next time.

She smiled gratefully and said, this wonderful treat is even more delicious in the mouth of my child. It was then the soldier noticed the young child next to the mother, eyes closed with chocolate fingers feeding a chocolate smile. During this last week of Mother's Day, month of May, let us take another moment to appreciate our mothers who have always loved us more than chocolate, who have always loved us more than life itself.

Let us remember that our happiness will always-- also be their happiness, and we can only repay them by living happily and fulfilled. For those of us who have lost our moms, know this is still their day. We will always love them and hold them always close to our heart. With kindness and gratitude beyond words.

We ask our guests and visitors to remain standing and join us in the flag salute. Assembly Member Wallis will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, please join me in reciting our nation's pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

You may be seated. To our guests and visitors today, state law prohibits persons in the Chamber from interfering with legislative proceedings or disrupting the orderly conduct of official business. Persons disrupting legislative proceedings are subject to removal, arrest, or other appropriate legal remedies. Reading of the previous day's journal.

Assembly Chamber, Sacramento, Thursday, May 7th, 2026. The Assembly met at 9:00 a.m. The honorable Josh Lowenthal--

Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry moves and Mr. Ta seconds that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with. Presentation and petitions, there are none. Introduction to reference of bills will be deferred. Reports of committees will be deemed read and amendments deemed adopted.

Messages from the Governor, there are none. Messages from the Senate, there are none, which gets us to motions and resolutions. The absences of the day are as follows for legislative business: Assembly Member Celeste Rodriguez for illness, Assembly Member Muratsuchi. Members, pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2, I am re-referring Item 144. That's Assembly Bill 2285 by Assembly Member Valencia to the Banking and Finance Committee.

Couple of notes before we work the file. Okay. Just a quick announcement for everybody, if I could have your attention quickly, members. Thank you. Please be at your desk today to present your bills. If you're not, we're gonna skip over it, and we're not gonna return to those bills today. Additionally, if your item is a support-support measure, please try to keep your talk points brief.

We have hundreds of items to dispense with this week. Members, there are 227 bills that are eligible to be taken up today on this floor. I intend-- my goal is to dispense with 227 bills today, so let's go. So we're gonna move on to business on the Daily File.

We're gonna begin with our reconsideration, File Items One through Three. All items shall be continued. That is gonna bring us to the Assembly Third Reading File, File Items Four through 397. We're going to pass and retain on File Items Four through Eight.

We're gonna pass temporarily. File Item Nine. We're gonna pass and retain on File Items 10, 11, 12, 13. File Item 14: AB 1933 by Assembly Member Hoover. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1933 by Assembly Member Hoover, an act relating to land surveyors.

Assembly Member Hoover, you are recognized.

Mr. Speaker and members, AB 1933 is a common-sense bill that promotes greater reliability in the land surveying review process. It has no opposition. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Hoover. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 48; no: zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain on File Items 15 and 16. File Item 17: AB 1696 by Assembly Member Stefani. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1696 by Assembly member Stephanie, and appellating the health care.

Assembly member Stephanie, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I rise to present AB 1696, which ensures that pregnant and postpartum patients can continue receiving timely care from highly trained nurse midwives without outdated code creating unnecessary barriers, confusion, or delays. Recent amendments addressed all stakeholder concerns as the support support bill, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Stephanie. I'll debate how many seats clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll tally votes, ayes 49, no zero. The measure passes. Passenger in tandem file items eighteen, nineteen, 20. Violin 21, AB 2415 by Assembly member Hoover, the clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2415 by Assembly member Hoover and acting into land use.

Assembly member Hoover, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. AB 2415 would allow a city if the majority of a SB 79 transit oriented development zone is part of a historic district to reduce the capacity of one of those zones by more than 50% if certain conditions are met. This has received unanimous bipartisan support. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Hoover. I'll debate having cease. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll tally votes, size 54, no zero. The measure passes. Pass the new team and file items 22, 23, 24. File item 25, AB 1820 by Assembly member Schiavo.

The clerk will

read. Assembly bill 1820 by Assemblymember Schiavo and accolade to local

government. Assemblymember Schiavo, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. This is a support support bill that is focused on speeding up our electrical vehicle charging infrastructure, building out and ensuring that electric vehicle adoption is affordable. I wanna mention I'm committed to taking amendments in the Senate that will delay implementation of the measure for cities under 200,000 people until January 2028, and those cities above 200,000 people until July 2027. This will provide those jurisdictions time to conduct a fee study and implement potential changes.

And lastly, it will also add findings to the measure that provide more context for what California has already done to increase EV adoption and affordability.

And I wanna say thank you to our local gov chair and transportation chairs for their engagement on this bill and diligent work with me on the measure and respectfully request an aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Schiavo. I'll debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally votes, ayes 50, no zero. The measure passes.

File item 26, that's AB 1957 by Assemblymember Pacheco. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1957 by Assemblymember Pacheco, an accolade to mortgages.

Assemblymember Pacheco, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. Today, I rise to present AB 1957, which protects homeowners from losing their hard earned equity during the foreclosure sale process. Under current law, certain eligible bidders are allowed to submit bids after a foreclosure auction before the sale is finalized. While this process was well intentioned, some bad actors have exploited this provision to interfere with competitive bidding and reduce the final sales price. When that happens, homeowners can lose equity that should be returned to them after the foreclosure sale.

AB 1957 updates the eligible bidder and eligible property provisions in civil code section twenty nine twenty four m and provides foreclosure bidders with compensation for lost interest on their bids. These changes prevent abuse of the process while preserving the original intent of the law. I remain committed to working with stakeholders to ensure that good actors still benefit. I respectfully ask for your eye vote.

Thank you Assemblymember Pacheco. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll, tally votes, ayes 53, no zero. Measure passes. We're gonna pass and retain on file items 27, 28, 29. File item 30, that's AB 2506 by Assemblymember Hart. This is a 54 vote bill.

Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2506 by Assemblymember Hart and Accolating the Cannabis.

Assembly member Hart, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. Assembly bill 2506 will incorporate tribes into the existing framework for interstate cannabis commerce, recognizing sovereignty while opening an avenue for increased market access. This bill is a support support, and I respectfully request an aye vote.

Thank you Assemblymember Hart. I'll debate having ceased clerk open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll tally the votes aye, 60, no zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain on file item 31. Pass temporarily on file item 32. Pass and retain on file item 33.

Pass temporarily on file item 34. You are not in your seats, members. We are gonna move past your bills. Take your desk, please. File items 35, 36, 37, we're gonna pass and retain.

File Item 38 is AB 2024 by Assembly Member Nguyen. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2024 by Assembly Member Nguyen and others, an act relating to outdoor advertising.

Assembly Member Nguyen, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to present AB 2024, a narrow cleanup bill to address delays in the permitting process in the Outdoor Advertising Act. Currently, we are seeing situations where permit applications for outdoor advertising displays are accepted but not acted on, which leaves projects and permit holders in limbo. This bill clarifies that once an application is submitted, it should move through the process and receive determination.

This bill does not require approval, only that a decision is made so projects can move forward. The goal is simple: reduce delays and make sure the process is working as intended. This bill has received bipartisan support in the GO Committee, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Nguyen. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Ayes 58, no zero measure passes. Pass through 10 and file item 39. File item 40 is AB 2418. Assembly member Mark Gonzales, the clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2418 by Assembly member Mark Gonzales and others and accurately in the building permits.

Assembly member Gonzales, you are recognized. Thank

you, mister speaker. And please present AB 2418, which will streamline commercial building permit applications by creating timelines for plan reviews and inspections and allow for a third party plan checker to be used as there an excessive delay. California's local agencies face extreme plan checking delays due to combination of staff shortages and unpredictable workloads. These delays increase cost and make it harder for businesses to compete new complete new construction, simple improvement projects, or critical expansions.

By creating predictable timelines and reliable backup option for when excessive delays happen, AB 2418 will reduce cost and help all our local businesses thrive.

This bill is support support and respectfully ask for I vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gonzalez. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally votes I 61, no zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain item 41, 42, pass temporarily, file item 43. Pass and retain on file item 44, pass temporarily on file item 45.

Pass and retain on 46, 47, 48, 49. File item 50, AB 1576 by Assemblymember Ortega. Click will read.

Assembly bill 1576 by Assemblymember Ortega, appulating the workers' compensation and making an appropriation, therefore.

Assembly member Ortega, you are recognized.

Thank you, speaker and members, for the opportunity to present AB 1576 today. AB 1576 makes necessary forms to the subsequent injury benefit trust fund. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Ortega. I'll debate having ceased clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Assemblymember Ortega, you are recognized. Assemblymember Ortega wishes to move the call. File item 51 is AB 1578 by Assemblymember Jackson. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1578 by Assemblymember Jackson and acclating the public officials.

Assembly member Jackson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, mister chair. AB 1578 seeks to require elected elected local and state officials to take anti hate speech training by incorporating it into their existing sexual harassment training. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Jackson. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll tally votes, size 44, nose 17. Measure passes, pass and retain to file item 52. File item 53 is AB 1588 by Assemblymember Stephanie. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1588 by Assemblymember Stephanie and others in accolade of the vehicles.

Assemblymember Stephanie, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I rise to present AB 1588. Sideshows and street takeovers are blocking roads, shutting down bridges, and putting residents, businesses, and first responders at risk. AB 1588 gives law enforcement clearer tools to stop these dangerous events and strengthens accountability for those who put our communities in danger. This is a support support bill, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Stephanie, I'll debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. The clerk will close the roll, tally the vote size 58, no zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain excuse me. File item 54 is AB 1600 by assembly member by doctor Rambula.

Assembly bill 1,600 by Assembly member Rambula, an accolade to disadvantaged communities.

Clerk will read.

Doctor Rambula, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. California's agricultural economy generates a $100,000,000,000 annually and relies on an estimated 600 to 800,000 farm workers statewide. Despite their essential role as farm workers, these communities face overlapping climate, environmental, and economic burdens. To help impacted communities address these burdens, the state adopted a climate framework through disadvantaged communities for funding through the greenhouse gas reduction fund. Farmworker households in some parts of our state often do not qualify for these DAC communities investments that are identified through the CalEnviroScreen.

As a result, the very workers who sustain California's food supply are frequently excluded from the state's climate equity investment. AB 1,600 provides a narrowly tailored designation for farmworker housing as DAX to allow them to access vital GGRF funding. Thank you, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, doctor Arameel. I'll debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally votes, ayes 46, no, nine. The measure passes. Pass and retain on file items 55, 56.

Pass temporarily on file item 57. Pass and retain on file item 58. File item 59 is AB 1640 by Assemblymember Stephanie. Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1640 by Assemblymember Stephanie and Accolating the business.

Members, let's give our respectful attention to the authors. Thanks.

Someone member Stephanie, you are recognized. Right.

Am I right?

Thank you. Thank you, mister speaker. AB 1640 protects restaurants from reservation piracy by prohibiting bad actors from using bots to take reservations and resell them for profit without the restaurant's consent. This is a support support, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Stephanie. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire

to vote. Click will close

the roll tally votes, I 64, no zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain on file item 58. Excuse me. My bad.

Pass and retain on file item 6061, 62. File item 63, that's AB 1661 by Assembly member Brian. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1661 by Assembly member Brian and after the oil and gas.

Assembly member Brian, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and colleagues at rise to present AB 1661. Two years ago, the legislature passed a piece of legislation that closed down a toxic the largest toxic urban oil field in the state in my district. It also required that the polluters pay into a community repair fund. All this bill does is allocate resources from that repair fund and direct cash assistance to families that have had negative health impacts as a result of living next to that oil field.

It's the largest environmental reparations opportunity for South LA.

It's had no opposition thus far, and I respectfully ask for aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Brian. All debate haven't ceased. Clerk will open the role. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire

to vote. Clerk will close

the roll tally votes. Size forty four, nose ten. The measure passes. File item 64 is AB 1668 by Assemblymember Pellerin. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1668 by Assembly Member Pellerin, an act relating to taxation to take effect--

Excuse me. Assembly Member Irwin?

Am I on? Hi.

Clerk will read. Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1668 by Assembly Member Pellerin, an act relating to taxation to take effect immediately. Tax levy.

Assembly Member Pellerin, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. AB 1668 simply extends the Welfare Tax Exemption for open space lands. This bill received unanimous bipartisan support and has no opposition. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Pellerin. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. The clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 62; no: zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain on File Item 65.

File item 66, that's AB 1679 by Assembly Member Mark González. Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1679. Assembly Bill 1679 by Assembly Member Mark González and others, an act relating to local government.

Assembly Member González, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm pleased to present AB 1679, which creates a temporary commercial activation permit for local governments to allow pop up businesses to operate for 120 days. In my district, in areas like Downtown LA, Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Tokyo, Boyle Heights, and in many of our downtowns, we see storefronts after storefront boarded up and vacant.

Pop up businesses are an effective way to activate these vacant spaces, but there are no permits that fit their needs. They are also struggling to legally operate in our current permitting structure, paying unnecessary costs for permanent permits and operation.

AB 1679 will address these issues by creating an exempt an extended temporary three month permit that will reduce the barrier to entry for businesses and create a pathway for temporary testing to permanent tenancy. This bill is support support, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member González. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally votes. Ayes 60, noes zero. The measure passes. Alright.

We're gonna pass and retain on File Item 67. File Item 68 is AB 1685 by Assembly Member Lackey. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1685 by Assembly Member Lackey and others, an act relating to vehicles.

Assembly Member Lackey, you are recognized.

Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. AB 1685 is part of my DUI legislative package, and it brings consequences to when you kill somebody as a result of being--

Mr. Lackey, just a moment, please. Members, if you direct your attention to the rear of the Chamber, there's a portico. There's also a member's lounge. Let's give our respectful attention to the authors. This is a big moment for them. Please use decorum. Mr. Lackey may continue.

This is kind of a big moment because it has to do with potentially loss of life. And I appreciate the Legislature taking a deeper look at DUI laws. This is one of them, and I would appreciate your support and so would our public. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member Lackey. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 59, noes: zero. The measure passes. File Item 69 is AB 1687, also by Assembly Member Lackey.

The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1687 by Assemblymember Lackey and others in appulating the vehicles.

Assemblymember Lackey, you are recognized.

Yeah. Thank you, chair members. This too is part of my, DUI legislative package. And believe it or not, it addresses a third DUI conviction bringing greater consequences. And it also allows for a IID for four years if you've successfully completed within their vehicle for two years, and it deserves your support.

Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Lackey. Alderman having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire

to vote. Clerk will close

the roll, tally the votes, size 58, no zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain on file item seventy, seventy one, 72. File item 73 is AB 1715 by Assemblymember Schiavo. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1715 by Assembly Member Schiavo, an act relating to public utilities.

Assembly Member Schiavo, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I rise to present AB 1715. This is a straightforward bill that makes sure that if utilities see savings from lower cost public financing, that there's transparency on how those savings are factored into rates.

We all know that our constituents are feeling the squeeze of higher energy prices, and this bill makes sure that companies are transparent when they receive benefits from public financing. This bill has received bipartisan support, and I respectfully request an aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Schiavo. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Ayes 46, noes 7. The measure passes. Pass and retain on file item 74. File item 75, that's AB 1755 by Dr. Sharp-Collins. The Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1755 by Assembly Member Sharp-Collins and others, an act relating to CalWORKs.

Dr. Sharp-Collins, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to present Assembly Bill 1755, a bill that aims to eliminate the 100-hour work penalty within the CalWORKs-- the eligibility framework. To put it simple, if a family works over a hundred hours and within one month, they're automatically disqualified from CalWORKs. So with that being said, this bill is a support-support bill, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Dr. Sharp-Collins. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 66; no: zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain on File Item 76--bless you--77, 78, 79, 80. File Item 81 is AB 1787 by Assembly Member Schultz. Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1787 by Assemblymember Schultz and others in accrualating to electricity.

Assemblymember Schultz, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. Today, I rise to present AB 1787, which would require the CPUC to require the three large the three large IOUs to offer an optional dynamic rate option to customers, on or after 01/01/2027. Dynamic rate option would reward customers who can be flexible with their electricity usage to reduce consumption during times of peak demand by shifting usage to times when renewable and low carbon resources are low cost and abundant. This is real money in the pockets of consumers.

I'll note that dynamic pricing is not a new concept.

It's unimplemented and successful in the states of Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Alabama, as well as the European Union. And I just wanna close, mister speaker, with, saying that one more time, under AB 1787, no one would be forced to be put on a dynamic rate. It would simply be an option that a customer, whether residential or con or commercial, can choose to do. Thank you, mister speaker. Respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Schultz, all debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close

the role tell you that size forty three knows five. The measure passes. File item number 82 is AB 1796 by doctor Jackson. The quick read.

Assembly bill 1796 by Assembly member Jackson and others, and accolade to professions and vocations.

Doctor Jackson, you may open

on the measure. AB 1796, which would include a professional interior designer on the California architect board and create a licensure pathway for interior designers. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Doctor. Jackson. I'll debate having seized. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally votes, eyes 45, nose six, the measure passes. Pass for new tandem file items eighty three and eighty four. File item number 85 is AB 1812 by our majority leader.

The click will read.

Assembly bill 1812 by Assembly member, Akria Curry, and others, and accolades of solid waste.

Madam majority leader, you are recognized.

Excuse me. Thank you, madam speak mister speaker and members. I rise to present AB 1812, a bill to protect the integrity of our state's compost system and provide quality compost for our farmers. Our farmers, our composters, and our local governments are working hard hand in hand to meet California's waste diversion and composting goals. Unfortunately, these efforts have been undermined by contamination.

Farmers purchase more than two thirds of the compost produced in California, and they need the compost that is free from contamination to grow safe and healthy food. Today, farmers rely on the National Organic Program certification to ensure that they buy high quality compost and protect their organic certification. In 2021, the legislature passed AB 121 to require products that are labeled as compostable to meet the NOP standards next year.

This bill protects compost quality and furthers the intent of AB 121 by saying that plastic products cannot be marked as compostable in California. Unfortunately, these plastics simply do not break down in typical compost systems, and we can't have confused consumers putting them in the compost bin.

Removing contaminate contamination makes up 20% of cost for composters. These costs are passed directly onto local governments and rate payers. This building does not does not change what products can be sold in California, but it provides needed clarity. AB 1812 creates certainty for composters, protects rate payers, and eliminates consumer confusion for people who want their products to actually be composted, not contaminate the compost stream. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, madam, majority leader. Alderman Depp and Cease clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll, tally the size 47, nose one, the measure passes. Bylaw 86 is AB 1815 by Assembly member Wicks. Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1815 by Assembly member Wicks and others in appulating the housing.

Assembly member Wicks, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker members. I rise to present AB 1815, which is part of the housing innovation bill package aimed at bringing down the cost of housing for our working class families. We've done a lot on this floor over the past eight to ten years of streamlining, upzoning, but actually tackling the cost of housing and the cost of construction has been difficult. But one of the promises is factory built housing and modular housing.

So one of the issues is building code fragmentation prevents this industry from scaling across the state.

Imagine if you have 500 different bespoke local codes, it makes us not realize the benefits of factory built housing, which requires economies of scale. So AB 1815 creates the standardization that factories need to successfully be able to be successful. So with that, I view this as part of the yes, all of the above approach to housing. And with that, I would respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Oh, and I should also say, it's received no no votes, has had total bipartisan support, and with that, respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Wicks. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll.

Tally votes. High is 57. No zero. The measure passes. Pastor and Tam, file item 87.

File item number 88, that's AB 1827 by Assembly Member Chen. Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1827 by Assembly Member Chen, an act relating to small claims court.

Assembly Member Chen, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to present 1827 today. Small claims court was designed to provide a fast and affordable way to resolve routine disputes. However, the current $6,250 limit for businesses has not kept up with inflation or today's business costs.

Small business regularly face unpaid invoices, contract disputes, and other claims that exceed this outdated threshold, but are still too small to justify costly superior court litigation. As a result, many businesses are forced to either absorb the loss or spend significant time and money pursuing recovery.

AB 1827 modernizes the system by increasing the small claims limit for business to $15,000 per case, allowing business to file up to three claims per year. Most importantly, all existing safeguards remain in place. Attorney representation will still be prohibited. Procedures will remain simple and accessible, and judges will continue to maintain full oversight. With that, Mr. Speaker, I respectfully ask for aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Chen. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes 59, noes zero. Measure passes.

Pass and retain on File Items 89 and 90. File Item 91: AB 1841 by Assembly Member Ramos. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1841 by Assembly Member Ramos and others, an act relating to state holidays.

Assembly Member Ramos, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I'm here to present AB 1841, a bill that would make Native American Day, the fourth Friday of September, into a paid state holiday for state employees. The time has come for California to finally honor Native American Day as a paid state holiday. AB 1841 is not simply about adding another paid holiday to the calendar. It is about acknowledging a true history, a true past, and atrocities, but also the resiliency of California's first people.

California is home to the largest Native American population in the nation with hundreds of tribes residing within its borders, each with their own unique history and culture, yet they are not widely celebrated. Native American Day serves an opportunity for California to honor the resiliency of our state's tribal nations and begin educating our communities on the true history and resiliency of California's first people.

Recognizing this holiday would also bring long overdue attention to the issues that still plague California's first people with mental health and social resources. AB 1841 honors the history of people, of the people whose lands that we stand on here today and everywhere that we represent in the State of California. It's time that we honor them with a paid holiday in the State of California. I ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Ramos. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. The clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 64; no: zero. Measure passes. Pass and retain on File Items 92, 93, 94.

File Item 95. That's AB 1868 by Assembly Member Gallagher. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1868 by Assembly Member Gallagher and others, an act relating to health facilities.

Assembly Member Gallagher, you may open on the measure.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to present AB 1868, which would require the Department of Public Health to update their staffing requirements for heart surgery involving extracorporeal bypass within three years. Current California regulations require three surgeons to be present for each surgery.

These regulations, which date back to the 1970s, are outdated and burdensome on many of our hospitals, especially rural hospitals. California is the only state to require three surgeons to be present. These regulations need to be reformed, and this bill would require just that. I ask for your aye vote. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gallagher. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 61; no zero. The measure passes.

File item 96 is AB 1882 by Assemblymember Ellis. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1882 by Assemblymember Ellis and accurately in the hospitals.

Assemblymember Ellis, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker, members. AB 1882 establishes the safe delivery fund pilot program to protect access to essential maternity and inpatient services in California's most geographically isolated communities. In 2024 Ridgecrest Regional Hospital in in my district, the only full service hospital within a 100 miles was forced to suspend its labor and delivery unit for nine months. Hundreds of expectant mothers had to travel 90 to a 150 miles across the Mojave Desert for care.

15 babies during that time were born in emergency department with without parental care.

The regional hospital in Ridgecrest is unique in that it also serves roughly 35 residents and the civilian and military workforce at naval, airway, weapons station, China Lake, whose mission is critical for our national security. The core problem is straightforward in low volume rural hospitals across the state. The high fixed standby costs of maintaining twenty four seven obstetric surgical and pediatric coverage are not covered by today's volume based reimbursement system. Without targeted help, these services become financial financially unsustainable.

AB 1882 creates a pilot program providing up to 5,000,000 per year for eligible hospital, strictly for geographically isolated facilities that maintain twenty four seven standby capacity for labor and delivery and related inpatient services.

Payments include strong reporting and oversight requirements. This is a targeted, accountable investment in maternal health, workforce stability, and national security infrastructure. It will help keep maternity services open, therefore, preventing more maternity care deserts in rural California. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on AB 1882. Thank you.

Thank you. Assembly member Ellis, all debate having deceased clerk will open the role. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

The Clerk will close the roll tally of the votes. I 64, no zero. The measure passes. Passes and retain on file items 97. File item 98 is AB 1889 by Assemblymember Ramos.

The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1889 by Assembly Member Ramos, an act relating to protective orders.

Assembly Member Ramos, you are recognized.

Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I rise in support of AB 1889. Would authorize a protective order that has been issued by the court to be valid two years after the defendant's release. If the original order has expired or is about to expire, a judge can issue a protective order at any at times that may issue the max allowed by law, as they may not know for certain when a defendant will be released.

These protective orders serve as a safeguard for victims who may face threats, intimidation, and violence, and in instances where they expire prior to the release of a defendant. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, most female victims of intimate partner violence were previously victimized by the same offender at rates of 77% for women.

This bill would serve as a protective approach, a proactive approach by ensuring the order is in place from day one of their release. This would allow time for the victims to seek permanent solutions to better protect themselves and feel safe. I ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Ramos. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Ayes 69, noes zero. The measure passes. We're gonna go out of order, folks, to file item 225.

That's AB 2624. File item two twenty five. AB 2624 by Assembly member Bonta. Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2624 by Assembly member Bonta and others, and accolade in the privacy.

Assembly member Bonta, you are recognized.

Good afternoon, mister speaker and members. AB 2624, has been we've taken clarifying amendments in order to address feedback from first amendment organizations. So what does AB 2624 do? The Safe at Work Act. It enables California's Safe at Home program to include immigrant service providers, their employees and volunteers.

This program, nearly thirty years old, allows participants to use a substitute address designated by the secretary of state, keeping their home, work, and school addresses out of public records while still allowing them to safely receive mail and legal documents through the state. This gives them a critical layer of protection and privacy in an environment where their personal safety is increasingly at risk. Individuals who provide vital immigrant support services, including legal aid, humanitarian relief, case management, and advocacy are facing targeted harassment. This is not hypothetical.

Advocates and workers are receiving death threats being targeted at courthouses and facing coordinated online docs and campaigns, even facing this vitriol at their homes.

These threats have risen sharply in 2025 and are expected to continue due to the current political climate. At the same time, personal information is increasingly easy to access. Data brokers collect and sell information from public records, and social media can allow individuals to piece together identifying details. This makes it easier for bad actors to threaten or harm those who are simply doing their jobs.

Advocates in California repeat doxing of staff and volunteers at immigration legal aid organizations, coordinated death threats against service providers, anti immigrant vigilante activity directed at organizations by name and address.

Organizations serving LGBTQ and immigrant legal communities commonly hide their locations, staff information, and other details to keep their teams and their people safe. Currently, California state law does not provide inadequate protections for sensitive data and information, leaving immigrant advocates and service providers vulnerable. General privacy laws act after harm has already occurred and were not designed to address the coordinated online politically motivated harassment that we are now seeing.

This bill protects sensitive personal data in a way that empowers people to do their jobs safely and confident under the secretary of State's safe at home program before harm occurs. Since inception thirty years ago, the safe at home program has protected thousands of victims of stalking and domestic violence along with reproductive health care providers.

No one should face harassment or threats at their own home or at their place of work. This law helps prevent individuals with malicious intent from targeting service providers where they live, reducing the risk of escalation to violence, bodily harm, or worse. I'm continuing to work with my colleagues in the legislature and the community partners to ensure this law is carried out as intended to protect and prevent harm. At its core, this is about safeguarding the privacy, dignity, and safety of immigrant service workers and their families.

California has already recognized in the context of reproductive health care providers that when program participants are targeted because of their work, the state has a responsibility to provide protective actions take protective actions.

Immigrant service providers now face similar threats, and they deserve some of the safeguards under the safe at home program. Without these safeguards, immigrant service providers may feel unsafe doing their jobs, which directly impacts families who depend who we depend on for those essential services. I respectfully request your aye vote in this very straightforward bill.

Thank you. Assembly member Bonta. Assembly member De Maio, you're recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I rise in strong opposition to AB 2624. This is a controversial bill. I know a number of you have already heard about the controversy. You've been inundated with a variety of views to your offices on this issue.

It's brought us national attention in all the wrong ways. I want my colleagues to at least read the language that we find, to be quite offensive and and unconstitutional in this bill. If you look at section six two one eight.one nine, six two one eight.one nine, Go down to b one. This is the Stop Nick Shirley Act in

Mister DeMaio mister DeMaio, unfortunately, I need to stop you there. This is not an act, and we do not name the bills. That is out of order. Please speak to the merits of this legislation. Thank you, sir.

This is what many are calling the Stop Nick Shirley Act. This provision right here, B 1. This is the the look. I'm not gonna support the bill overall. But at the very least, if you support freedom of speech and the first amendment, B 1 is a problem.

And let me quote it in plain English directly from the bill. A person shall not publicly post or display on the Internet the image of a designated immigrant support services provider. That's the language. Plain and simple. It goes on to say, well, only if this so called provider has given a written request.

So let me give you an example. Nick Shirley shows up with his camera crew to the Somali Lering Center or maybe one of the 90 fake hospices operating in a building in Los Angeles that was, highlighted by CBS News, shows up doing the work of a citizen watchdog journalist. This is something we should we should promote. We should say, look. We want extra set of eyes.

People have a right to go out there and kick the tires and find out what are these organizations doing with our taxpayer funds. Nick Shirley records empty beds at the day care center, records no patients, no medical supplies, no nurses, no doctors at the fake hospices. On the basis of this research, investigative research, posts this on the Internet, interviews some of the providers, And all these people do is they hand Nick Shirley a business call.

Excuse me, mister DeMaio. Assemblymember Bonta, you are recognized for your point of order.

I ask the member from San Diego to actually stick to the merits of this bill, which actually has nothing to do with so called Thank

you, assembly member assembly member Bonta. Your point is well taken. Mister DeMio?

Oh, no. I'm I'm absolutely sticking to the the the specifics of this bill. If you show up at and take video of those providers under this bill, all they would have to do, all the fraudsters would have to do is hand a business card over to the investigative journalist. And if they posted that evidence that they caught on video on the Internet, they would be violating this law.

The lawyers in this room know that absolutely, under this language, would be prohibited from being posted to the Internet.

This is outrageous. And I'm urging you to uphold the first amendment and to protect the right of citizen journalists like Nick Shirley and others to do the work that they've been doing. And they've been exposing fraud. And this is fraud that tax payers ought to know about. This is the dollars of tax payers, and we have an obligation to make sure that the transparency is provided.

You can hue and cry all you want, but that's the language. And I just walked you through a real example of what Nick Shirley and other citizen journalists do and how it would be made illegal under this bill. When you vote for this, that's what you're voting to do. You are now put on notice. And then when the controversy continues to increase, that's your responsibility.

Thank you, Assemblymember DeMayo. Doctor Sharp Collins, you were recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. Thank you to my colleague from Oakland for bringing forth this bill. I rise to support assembly bill 2624. At a time when immigrant communities across this this country are being demonized for political gain, we have the responsibility to protect the people on the front lines who serves those families every single day. These are legal aid workers.

These are nonprofit staff. These are translators. These are counselors. These are faith leaders and volunteers helping families navigate impossible circumstances. And because they dare stand with the immigrant communities, they are being unjustly targeted.

Their safety is put at a risk by people who believe intimidation is a political strategy. This is not a game. This is not a social media stunt, and we should not legitimize harassment, meaning through campaigns designed to terrorize people out of public service. We are all here doing a public service, aren't we? Do we stand to be terrorized out of our public service?

I think not. So let's say the quiet part out loud. Some people are angry that immigrant communities are protected and fighting back against fear based politics. Let's just call it what it is. So assembly bill 2624 draws a clear line, and we will protect our immigrant communities and their advocates.

And with that, I respectfully ask for and I vote for assembly bill 2624.

Thank you, doctor Sharp Collins. Assembly member Ward, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. I want to respond to, I think, some of the information and points that were raised by my colleague from San Diego. I appreciate my other colleague from San Diego and her kind words. You know, over the weekend, we're still learning a little bit more information about the shooters at the the horrible tragedy that happened in my district at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

And one of their points in their manifesto and their hatred and their frustrations within the world, was amongst other things that I think get misconstrued and get emboldened and get certainly lied about out there was the fact that we had all this fraud going on at Somalia d care centers.

That is the kind of consequence that comes from this extremist rhetoric that is misguided, that is unfounded, and that ultimately results in tragedy. Go look up the news if you don't believe that in writing. But on the merits of this bill, which I am proud to be a co author of and grateful for our colleague from Oakland to be able to bring before us, It's because this is about protecting vulnerable Californians, plain and simple.

For more than two decades, this California safe at home program has done just that. People who are escaping domestic violence, stalking, sexual violence, and others facing credible threats to their safety.

And we've had to sadly recognize a simple truth that when people are targeted because of who they are or the work that they do, the state has a responsibility to be able to help protect them. And the good news is that we already have a platform to be able to do just that. Help expand health providers and patients under the safe at home program.

I would be remiss if I did not call out that we would not need to keep expanding this program if we were not living through any moments where vulnerable communities and the people who serve them are increasingly subjected to intimidation, harassment, doxing, and violence. AB 2624 recognizes the reality that immigration service providers are increasingly facing these documented threats simply for helping members of our community navigate legal services and support systems.

And it's imperative that we protect the privacy and safety of community members who are seeking critical legal support and the professionals whose basic obligation is to guide people through legal systems, provide assistance, and serve their communities. At its core, this measure is about protecting individual Californians from from targeted harm because of the work that they do in service to our community.

And while the reality of targeted hate, intimidation, and violence persists across our nation, California should continue to stand on the side of protecting people who are trying to do good work in our community and allow them to live and serve safely. Thank you, mister speaker members. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on AB 2624.

Thank Thank you. Assembly member Ward. Assembly member Schultz, you are recognized.

Well, thank you very much, mister speaker and colleagues. Let's be extraordinarily clear about what this bill is and is not about. This bill is not about citizen journalism, and it's not about anyone by the name of Nick Shirley. It's about protecting people, plain and simple. I wanna provide just a little bit of historical context, and I'll try to be brief.

But the, safe at home program has existed in the state of California since 1998, housed under the secretary of state. It offers a substitute mailing address to receive first class certified and registered mail currently for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, child abduction, and elder or dependent adult abuse. I think we could all agree that these are people worthy of protection.

It also includes reproductive health care workers out and, providers of gender affirming care that was recently amended in the last session, as well as public entity employees who are in fear of their safety. I'd like to drill down just a little bit more about how onerous it is to get access to this program.

You have to file an application under the penalty of perjury with verified grounds that a person's safety is in danger. This bill is quite simple. It adds people providing specific kinds of immigration support services, including employees and volunteers to the list of eligible people.

The privacy protections provided in this bill have been the law for the state of California for twenty to thirty years, and many of the concerns raised by the member of San Diego sound to me as if he's arguing his point of disagreement with existing law and existing protections. This bill is about adding a category of people that are being threatened in our communities right now to that list, and I would argue they absolutely deserve our protection.

There is no part, and this is the last thing I'll mention, but it's important. There is no part of this bill, none, that would prevent law enforcement district attorneys or the attorney general from investigating fraud. People claiming otherwise quite simply, and in my view, are acting in bad faith. I wanna thank my colleague from Oakland for bringing forward this measure. I really believe that in this chamber, common sense and truth and accuracy should prevail, so let's stick to the facts and vote aye on 2624.

Thank you. Assembly member Schultz, assembly member Tangipa, you were recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. And I actually wanna thank the member from Burbank for actually highlighting, some of the issues. I believe a lot of us actually agree with the safe at home program to make sure that people who are operating actually feel safe at home, especially they're working in their individual capacity. But, mister speaker, permission to read? That objection.

But this bill is not that. This bill is a Trojan horse using a good program to add bad safeguards for what a lot of people in not only the state of California, but across The United States is seeing today that is one of their number one issues, fraud and corruption, and the weaponization of what's happened in our government, especially when it includes nonprofits, nongovernmental organizations, and what they're doing with our money. As we say, we're using this bill in an attempt to protect immigration support services.

In the bill itself, the definition, as I read it to you verbatim, designated immigration support services means services provided to the immigrant population including, but not limited to, legal representation, legal assistance, advocacy, case management, humanitarian relief, immigration support, referrals. But the definition of what a designated immigration support service provider is expanded beyond just employees and volunteers.

It includes nonprofit organizations with no limitations. It includes any facility deemed to be protected by the attorney general. That is what makes this bill different. The broadening of the definitions. But not only that, in the safe at home program as well, they do not do not include posting online.

It is a verifiable fact that we have fraud in our system, that they have identified in multiple organizations across the entire state of California. We alone, on three cases, found over a quarter billion dollars in fraud where people

have to Tonguepaa, we need to stay to the strictly to the merits of the legislation and not on a broader conversation.

This talks about posting. And and that is

If you're talking about posting, let's talk about posting. That's very different than what you were just talking about. Let's stay to the merits of this bill, please.

Well, again, in the merits of the bill, when it comes to talking about posting these facilities, if you read the definition itself, it looks like we're adding safeguards to cover up. Instead of going after fraud, corruption, we are going after the ability to post that online.

And again, as we read it, designated immigration support services as a definition means a facility where immigration support services provided, including but not limited to, to nonprofit organizational offices, Department of Justice recognized entities, community legal clinics, law offices, accredited representative sites that provide immigration legal services. It is such a broad definition. This is a Trojan horse.

A Trojan horse for an issue that a lot of Americans and Californians especially care about. They want us to find the problems, not add protections for bad actors. I respectfully ask for a no vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Tong Yipa. Assemblymember Berman, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. My colleague from Clovis emphasized the concern that people have with fraud and corruption in government. And so I just wanna take this opportunity to talk about the $1,800,000,000 slush fund that president Trump is seeking to obtain for domestic terrorists in January sixth insurrectionists.

Assemblymember Sanchez, you are recognized for your point of order.

Let's make sure to speak to the merits of the bill.

Assembly member Berman, let's state in the merits of the bill. The point of order is well taken.

You betcha. Absolutely. In in regards to fraud and corruption of the government, the billion dollars that the president of The United States wants for his basement, ballroom in Washington DC, or possibly the $400,000,000 jet that the president of The United States has received

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member of the government.

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Assembly member Sanchez, you are recognized.

Let's squeeze it to the merits of the bill. Thank you.

Your point is well taken. Assembly member Berman, let's stay to the merits of this legislation.

You betcha. My apologies. So I would encourage everyone to vote for AB 2624, which is a good bill that has nothing to do with, the disingenuous arguments coming from the other side. Thank you.

Thank you. Assemblymember Berman. Assemblymember Ortega, you are recognized.

I rise in support of AB 2624. Since it's already been mentioned, I won't talk about the Federal Government and their fraud. I will stick to the merits of the bill. Permission to read?

Without objection.

Just recently, there was an LA Times article that came out about our organizations that are providing some of the services that are being given to our communities who are currently being terrorized by this federal administration. The headlines read, death, threats, vandalism. LA immigrant right groups are in their fight for their lives. We are in our fight for our lives, And that is why I rise in support of AB 2624.

Thank you. Assemblymember Ortega. Assemblymember Bauer Kehan, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. I rise in support of AB 2624. And I do so because I think it's important for us to recognize that it's a shared value that the government not engage in fraud, waste, and abuse. That that is something that is a bipartisan effort, a bipartisan belief. And in fact, our own attorney general, attorney general Bonta, just this year was the one who stopped a $267,000,000 hospice ring in the Central Valley.

So our top law enforcement agent is on top of that issue, and he is the one who should be ensuring there is no fraud, and we should absolutely be giving him the powers to do so. But there's a difference between that and doxing individuals who are trying to serve our communities. And so the legitimate press has for a long time been out there showing when things need to be aired, the press and journalism is such an important American value.

Because yes, we need them to be showing us where we aren't seeing everything all the time, but never do we need journalists to be doxing the people who are serving their communities. And we can do both at the same time.

And with that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote in a

b 2624.

Thank you. Assemblymember Bauer Kehan. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assemblymember Bonta, do you wish to close?

Thank you, mister speaker. And I wanna thank, my colleagues for speaking in support of this bill, and recognizing that we are at a pivotal moment in our history when we actually need to do the unthinkable, which is to ensure that those who are protecting our most vulnerable actually have an opportunity to be protected in the work that they do.

It is unconscionable to think that we are in a space and a time right now when those who are protecting our immigrant providers and, yes, those immigrant support providers can exist in nonprofits and in advocacy organizations and in law offices and be designated by the attorney general to be recognized as a group that can do so. That's part of what we are fighting for today, ensuring that those individuals have the ability to be protected with this shield law that has been in place for thirty years.

I really, really, really wish that our colleagues who have taken an opposition to this bill and who have spoken out on this bill would do us all the favor of increasing their reading comprehension skills.

You know, we often cite this language and you you offer permission to read from this legislation. The reality is that this bill regulates posting of personal information or image online

Excuse me. Assemblymember Bonta. Assemblymember Sanchez, you're recognized.

I'm going to respectfully ask we keep

Assemblymember Sanchez, are you making a point of order?

Point of order. Yep.

I'm going to respectfully ask we keep from disparaging our other members on this floor.

Thank you. Assemblymember Sanchez, your point is well taken. Assemblymember Bonta, you may continue.

It was a wish. Back to my points. Aye, if we were to actually take the privilege of reading from this from any legislation to fully understand the intent and the specifics of legislation in this bill, you would have to read on past the point where, the commenters in opposition decided to stop reading. You would have to read on to see that this posting is regulated online only when there is specific intent to incite violence or threaten someone.

Only when there is specific intent to threaten the designated immigration support services provider.

That is what we are focused on. So I want investigative journalists to be able to do their job, to make sure that we are operating and using the resources that we have effectively in the state of California. And I also want us to be able to have a forthright protection around the first amendment.

I also want us to make sure that when we are talking about the first amendment and these so called postings and the and the conflict that they have with this bill, that they are doing so recognizing that there's a specific intent to cause harm that is outlined in this. This bill has received a lot of energy.

A lot of hurt has come from this bill for immigration support providers across the state of California. Campaigns. And so that we can set the record straight in this moment in time, as I respectfully ask for your aye votes, I will close by saying despite those misinformation campaigns, this bill is very straightforward.

It allows us to be able to extend a thirty year old safe at home program to those who are serving our very vulnerable communities, and who need to be able to do so in unsafe conditions right there, and who need our protection. With that, I respectfully request your eye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bonta. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Size forty nine, nose nineteen, the measure passes. We're going to go back to where we left off. We had left off with file item 98. We dispensed with that.

We're gonna pass and retain on File Item 99. File Item 100 is AB 1897 by Assembly Member Haney. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1897 by Assembly Member Haney, an act relating to mentally disordered offenders.

Assembly Member Haney, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. I rise to present AB 1897, safe releases for mentally disordered offenders, which strengthens California's mentally disordered offenders' evaluation process through evidence-based risk assessments and more efficient court proceedings. It's received bipartisan support.

It will require the use of a widely recognized violence risk assessment tool while still allowing clinicians to use additional assessments they deem appropriate, which will help promote more transparent and evidence-based evaluations that are consistent between different state hospitals.

It will also allow petitions to be heard in the county of commitment to state prison rather than being tied solely to the location of the treatment facility, helping improve efficiency and reducing logistical burdens on the courts and parties involved.

It passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee unanimously, and we took amendments to address concern raised by a number of groups and are continuing to work with the remaining groups that have concerns. Respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Haney. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll.

Tally the votes. Ayes 57, noes one, the measure passes. Pass temporarily on file item 101.

Pass and retain on file item 102, 103, 104, 105. File item one zero six is AB 1990 by Assemblymember Gibson. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1990 by Assemblymember Gibson, an accolade in healing arts.

Assemblymember Gibson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, mister speaker and members. I rise to present AB 1990, which protects patients by ensuring compounded weight loss shots are safe, highly qualified, and honestly marketed. These medications were originally developed to treat type two diabetics and weight related health conditions, but they have become widely popular even beyond their intended use.

A vast number of people have recently turned to compounded versions of weight loss shots, which are not, and I repeat, not FDA approved and do not have the same requirements to ensure that the ingredients are tested for safe safety and impure are impured. Over the last several years, bad actors have exploited a patient's desire to lose weight and have flooded the marketplace with compounded weight loss shots that are unsafe.

AB 1990 protects patients by increasing regulatory standards for compounded pharmacies who produce GLP one at commercial scales and ensure enforcement from the board of pharmacy. Permission to show a prop.

Without objection.

Members, this is what our young girls are being marketed on social media. This says, struggling with weight loss, GLP treatments backed by science by science made made made easy, afforded affordable, effective, and delivered to your doors. Start your journey now. Hey, girly. Hate needles, by shedding weight loss.

And this is what girl our girls are being targeted right now. It's a birthday cake. And this is what our young girls are being targeted on social media. And you see it popping up on Instagram, TikTok, and this is what our children's are being lured into taking weight loss shots. And this bill will require that that, advertising of compounded drugs are truly are truthful and and clearly stated that this product is compounded drug, is FDA approved.

And what's taking place right now is that when you go to social media and when people are buying these drugs, they are not FDA approved. And this bill will make sure that, that, that one, we put some guardrails around this marketplace. Patients deserve to know what they are injecting in their bodies are safe and regular and regulated, and that's what this bill does. And this bill has received bipartisan support in committees. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gibson. All debate haven't ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll tally to vote size 52, no zero. The measure passes. File item one zero seven is AB 2009 by Assemblymember Chen. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2,009 by Assemblymember Chen and others, and I play it in the public health.

Assemblymember Chen, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. AB 2,009 would modernize and update California's antiquated laws regulating source plasma donation centers where source plasma is donated for the purpose of manufacturing plasma derived therapies. This bill updates procedure to allow for operational continuity when a medical director departs the donation center and updates the acceptable forms of identification. Plasma donors may utilize to become a donor. This bill also utilizes physicians to sign predonation screening functions to other licensed health care practitioners acting with their scope of practice.

With that, I respectfully ask for aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Chen. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll tally the votes size 65, no zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain the file item one zero eight. File item one zero nine is AB 2018 by Assemblymember Ramos. Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2018 by Assembly Member Ramos and others, an act relating to missing persons.

Assembly Member Ramos, you're recognized.

Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I rise to present AB 2018. 2018 provides essential clarification and updates to the Missing Person's DNA Database Program to help reach its full potential. Since its enactment over 20 years ago, there have been significant advancements in scientific methods and resources.

These updates are important in assisting the Department of Justice in identifying remains of unidentified people. This bill would strengthen the department's ability to resolve missing persons cases, deliver answers to families, and remain a leader in this field. This modernization is especially important and urgent given the disproportionate numbers of missing persons impacted by the missing and murdered indigenous persons epidemic plaguing our state.

Speaking within the context of the MMIP crisis, knowing that tribal communities can utilize the Missing Person's DNA Database as a tool to potentially bring closure to one of the many steps the state is taking on this issue.

We must utilize as many resources as possible, and this bill's goal is to assist department as they work to modernize the program to contribute to the efforts of identifying missing persons and bring closure to missing and murdered indigenous persons crisis here in the state of California. I ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Ramos. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. I 69 I 70, no zero. The measure passes. Pass through intent on file item one ten. File item one eleven is AB 2023 by assembly member Wicks.

Clerk will read.

Assembly vote twenty twenty three by assembly member Wicks and others and accolade to artificial intelligence.

Assembly member Wicks, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. I rise to present AB 2023. As any parent knows, our children have access to unlimited amounts of technology, and a lot of that technology is not tested. And we have are learning, unfortunately, the hard way, the harms of this technology can expose our children to.

Seventy two percent of teens have used AI chatbots, half are regular users, and research shows that children are more likely to view AI chatbots as quasi human and trust their input more than adults in their life, which can lead to obviously tragic results as we've seen in some certain cases.

Now these tools can be helpful, but also the impacts can be very harmful to physical and mental health of our kids.

So building on the good work of my joint author from Orinda and some senators that we are working with in the other house, this bill will create a comprehensive framework for regulating chatbots by requiring age verification of users, which is building on the building blocks of what we voted on last year, our age signal bill, which goes into effect January 1, risk assessments, which is critical, safeguards, including default settings, parental control, noticing, and measures to prevent suicidal ideation and self harm, prohibition prohibitions against targeted advertising to children and selling or sharing children's information, and third party audits for compliance.

These are basic guardrails for tools that our children are access accessing, and with that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Assembly member Wicks. Assembly member Bauer Kehan, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. And it's an honor to rise in support of AB 2023, a bill that assembly member from Oakland and I are doing, jointly to protect California's children. And as many of you know, we actually passed off this floor last year, a bill of mine that would have created safe by design chatbots for children.

Unfortunately, that bill was vetoed and so we're back again with another attempt to make sure that we are protecting kids from the technology that is being placed in front of them. Since that time, a chatbot has been turned on in every single Google classroom in the state without schools even being notified those chatbots were being put in front of California's children.

Right now, there's nothing to ensure that those chatbots are safe, that they don't hallucinate, that they don't addict our children, that they don't coach them to harm themselves. And so this bill is a basic framework that shifts our thinking from the days of social media where we said, try it on our kids and we'll see what happens, to a day where we start to demand that when products are put in front of our children, just like a physical product, it is safe.

And we know our kids can be utilizing it in a manner that will keep them responsible. When we presented this bill at a press conference, Adam Raine's mom came up, Maria Raine, to speak, in support of the bill. And she told the story of her son, Adam, who lost his life when one of the chatbots coached him to take his own life.

And to sit with her and hear every mom's worst nightmare and to know that so far not a single state in this nation nor has the Federal Government taken steps to prevent another child losing their lives at the hand of a chatbot is frankly shameful. And so with that, we will be leading the nation in ensuring our kids are safe and that the future is one where they get to explore technology in a way that parents can trust. With that, I respectfully ask for your Ipad.

Thank you. Assemblymember Bauer Kehaan. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assemblymember Wicks, do you wish to close? Excuse me. I did not see your microphone.

Assemblymember Bonta, you are recognized.

Apologies. I was behind our colleague from our joint author from Orinda. I wanted to just, thank our joint authors, from Orinda and Oakland for bringing forward this piece of legislation and offer this additional piece of information that I think is very important. Our youth and children often talk about, their interaction with, with chatbots and and and social media these days.

And one of the things that they consistently say as we meet with them in our capacities, you know, part of the children's caucus, which both of our members are, is that they would so much rather have a human in front of them to be able to interact with, give them advice and counsel.

And, this bill ensures that we have an opportunity to put the guardrails that we need to around or and arms around our children to be able to ensure that they are taken care of. So I wanna thank you for bringing forward again this bill. And this year, we shall hope that it will be signed.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bonta. Okay. Now Assemblymember Wicks, do you wish to close?

Our number one job is to keep our community safe and children are our number one priority. So with that respect, we ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Assembly member Wicks. The debate having ceased, clerk will open the role. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Ayes 58, nos eight, the measure passes. Pass and retain on file items one twelve, one thirteen, one fourteen, one fifteen, one sixteen. Violin one seventeen, AB 2115 by Assemblymember Ramos.

The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2115 by Assemblymember Ramos and others and accolades to state government and making an appropriation therefore.

Assembly member Ramos, you're recognized.

Well, thank you, mister speaker. Today, I present AB 2115, which represents an official apology from the state of California to California's first people, acknowledging the legislature's role in historic injustices and atrocities committed against the state's native American communities. The bill also serves as an apology from the state's courts for their participation and failure to prevent the systematic discrimination and violence committed against California tribal communities.

Since California statehood in 1850 and the legislature has yet to officially apologize for its own role in the early wars waged against California's first people with funding militias. The legislature enacted laws that authorized and funded the destruction of tribal nations across California, wiping out entire communities and condemning generations to a future marked by profound pain and suffering.

We continue to see that suffering take place today. But also back in those days, some lawmakers went even further by openly calling for the enslavement of the remaining natives by so called responsible citizens. The history of violence against California's first people is unfortunately part of our state's legacy and continues to impact tribal communities to this day.

Although the governor issued an apology on behalf of the state in 2019, this body, this institution, which enacted the laws that facilitated the removal and destruction of tribes has never issued its own apology. AB 2115 intends to be acknowledgment of those harms and reaffirms the state's commitment to ensuring such justices never occur again and promote the resiliency of California's first people.

AB 2115 acknowledges the legislative actions and failures that inflicted profound pain and suffering onto California's first people, while also honoring their resiliency and spirit of survival. I ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Ramos. All debate haven't ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire

to vote. Clerk will close

the roll tally votes. I 65, no zero measure passes. Pass and retain the file items one eighteen, nineteen, twenty. File item one twenty one, Assembly Bill 2162 by Assembly member Brian. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2162 by Assembly member Brian and Accolade and Housing.

Assembly member Brian, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and colleagues. I rise for an AB 2162. The Federal Government provides former foster youth housing vouchers up until the age of 24 that are then still good until the age of 28, four years after they've turned 24. The state has a housing navigate navigation and maintenance program, which helps coordinate former foster youth with using their vouchers and actually connecting to housing. But the age at which you age out of our coordinating services is sooner than your voucher expires.

This brings parity between both the coordination services and the vouchers. These vouchers, by the way, have also been extended by the Trump administration. California should get this right, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Brian. I'll debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes, high 60, no zero measure passes. Pass and retain. File item 122, 23, 24. File item one twenty five is AB 2206 by Assemblymember Fong.

Quick will read.

Assembly vote twenty two zero six by Assemblymember Fong, enact relating to teacher credentialing.

Assemblymember Fong, you are recognized.

Good afternoon, mister speaker and members. Assembly bill 2206 addresses the shortage of qualified career technical education or CTE teachers. According to commission on teacher credentialing, 63% of CTE teachers are unprepared or lack the appropriate credential for the subject they are assigned to teach. Currently, only 19 education entities are authorized to prepare CTE teachers for the classroom.

AB 2206 seeks to expand this authorization by creating a pilot by which community colleges with CTE voucher programs are able to offer CTE teacher preparation programs for the purpose of conferring CTE teaching credentials.

This play will allow our community colleges to demonstrate they are able to offer quality post bachelor degree programs while also addressing a critical workforce shortage. This bill has no no votes and respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Fong. All debate haven't ceased. Click will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll tally votes. I 62, no zero. Measure passes. File in 01/2026 is AB 2208 by Assemblymember Stephanie.

The Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2208 by Assembly Member Stefani and others, an act relating to Medi-Cal.

Assembly Member Stefani, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and colleagues. This is a bill designed to protect Californians against the harmful provisions of HR 1. As the Big Ugly Bill threatens the Medi-Cal status of up to 2 million Californians, AB 2208 protects Californians against these harmful federal cuts through a three-part approach. First, this bill reduces the cost-sharing requirements for low-income Medi-Cal patients affected by HR 1 to just one penny. Second, this bill protects three-month retroactive reimbursement for new Medi-Cal patients.

And finally, AB 2208 mandates improvements to California's public benefit systems to ensure Californians can easily access critical information about their health benefits online. When federal policy threatens healthcare for millions of Californians, we have a responsibility to respond and this bill does just that. Thank you, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Stefani. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Excuse me. Clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 42; noes: 17. The measure passes. Members, can I have your attention, please? Madam Majority Leader, you are recognized.

Good afternoon. It's now 3:00. In two hours of session, we have passed only 38 bills. So for those of you that were asking me to get out of here at 6:30, there's no way. We'll be here until eight, not unless something changes. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Majority Leader. And the underlying message there is be in your desk when it's time for your bills. Support support bills are support support bills. Pass and retain on file item 127, 128, pass temporarily on file on 129. Pass and retain on file item 130, 131. File item 132 is a support support bill. 2237 by Assembly Member Patterson. The Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2237 by Assembly Member Patterson and others, an act relating to probation.

Assembly Member Patterson, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Patterson. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 54; no: zero. The measure passes. File Item 133 is AB 2241 by Assembly Member Boerner. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2249 by Assemblymember Burner and others, an act relating to school playgrounds.

Assemblymember Burner, you are recognized.

Good afternoon, mister speaker and members. AB 2241 was written by my fifth graders at La Costa Heights Elementary School and would ensure that newly built or renovated playgrounds at public schools are made with inclusivity in mind so that children of all abilities can play with their peers. This bill enjoys bipartisan support and has no no votes. I respectfully ask for your aye votes.

Thank you, Assemblymember. Conclude. Thank you, Assemblymember Burner. All debate haven't ceased. Clerk will open the roll.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire

to vote. Clerk will close

the roll tally votes. High 62, no zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain on file items 34, 35. File item 36.

136 is AB 2246 by Assembly Member Wicks. Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2246 by Assembly Member Wicks and others, an act relating to businesses.

Assembly Member Wicks, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. In 2022, four years ago, I passed the Age Appropriate Design Code. This was a bill, first in the nation, that basically said if product is gonna be accessed by children, it needs to be by design and by default safe for them. Unfortunately, it got caught up in litigation for four years by big tech suing to stop it.

Recently, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision that several provisions of the original AADC were constitutional, thus creating a pathway for AB 2246. This bill has received bipartisan support, and with that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Wicks. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Ayes 56, noes 1. The measure passes. File item 137 is AB 2249 by Assembly Member Irwin. The Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2249 by Assembly Member Irwin, an act relating to cannabis.

Assembly Member Irwin, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Since the passage of Prop 64, California's poison control system has received roughly 5,000 calls involving children exposed to cannabis. In response to this trend, I asked the Joint Legislative Audit Committee in 2024 to request an audit of the Department of Cannabis Control's enforcement of youth advertising and marketing restrictions. The State Auditor's findings were clear. Existing law is too vague and the vagueness is allowing products that appeal to children to remain on the market.

AB 2249 addresses this statutory gap. The bill establishes a clear and enforceable definition of what makes a cannabis product and its packaging attractive to children. Additionally, the bill requires the Department of Cannabis Control to take measurable actions to aid licensees in complying with this standard. Recent amendments have addressed several opposition concerns, and I look forward to continuing discussion on this bill. Thank you, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Irwin. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll; tally the votes. Ayes: 51; noes: zero. The measure passes. Pass and retain on File Items 138 through 143.

We've already dispensed with file item one forty four. File line one forty five is AB 2299 by Assemblymember Calderon. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 229099 by Assemblymember Calderon and others, an act relating to CalFresh.

Assemblymember Calderon, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I rise to present AB 2299. This bill will support over a half a million people who will lose their SNAP benefits known in California as CalFresh due to the time limits imposed by HR 1. These cuts will impact some of the most vulnerable members of our communities, such as our veterans, former foster youth, older adults, people with dependent children, and people experiencing homelessness.

These time limits are on false assumptions that people who receive CalFresh do not work or need to be convinced to do so.

In reality, most people receiving benefits are productive members of our community who are working, attending school, or providing unpaid care for family members. This bill has enjoyed bipartisan support this far. I respectfully ask for a nigh vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Calderon. Assemblymember Bonta, you are recognized.

Thank you, Ari. It's in support of AB 2299. HR 1 does something deeply cruel. It limits both people's food assistance and their health care through Medi Cal. The research is really unambiguous.

What what with what happens. It does not help people find work. It creates unnecessary suffering, and it shifts the cost of that suffering onto California's health care. California does not accept need to accept this. A B2299 breaks the cycle by ensuring people keep the food assistance they need to stay healthy, stay out of the emergency room, and stay on their feet.

I encourage us all to support a B22299.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bonta. Doctor Sharp Collins, you are recognized.

Alright. Thank you, mister speaker. Today, I rise in support of Assembly Bill 2299, a bill targeting the Federal Government's negligent action post HR 1 that leaves Californians hungry. Once again, one aspect of the big ugly bill is the removal of individuals from CalFresh, leaving them and their families at risk of going hungry. Starting June 1, more than five hundred and sixty two thousand Californians will lose CalFresh benefits due to eligibility changes.

Sadly, we are also seeing many people removed who are able well, and and who are eligible. These families risk going months without critical food assistance. And when a parent loses CalFresh benefits, every dollar must go towards putting food on the table, forcing families deeper and deeper into a cycle of poverty. As co chair of the select committee of CalFresh enrollment and nutrition, I am constantly reminded of the devastating impacts of these cuts. Some key research.

Research has shown that children are more aware of their food insecurity, and it actually have an impact on them, but also their families. Food insecurity is not just an economic issue, but we know that it is an actual health risk. The malnourishment harms all aspect of their health. And when you're underweight, it's harder to fight illnesses. So food insecurity causes anxiety and can impact their ability to focus on their academics when it comes to our youth.

So children should not fear where their next meal will come from. They should be focusing on getting good grades and making new friends. So parents should be able to focus on their work without facing hunger pains, and we must refuse to allow this to become reality for hundreds and thousands of Californians and their children. So I ask that that you join me in keeping students full and and keeping families whole, and I urge you to support assembly bill 2299.

Thank you, doctor Sharp Collins. All debate having ceased. Assemblymember Calderon, do you wish to close?

Thank you, mister speaker.

I

respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Calderon, all debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. The clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Size 51, nose one, the measure passes. Pass through tandem file items one forty six, one forty seven. File item one forty eight is Assembly bill 2311 by Assembly member Schiavo.