FLOOR SESSION AGENDA - Regular Session: 10:00 a.m.

SB 577, as it passed the Senate, authorized the State Fire Marshal to establish and collect admission fees and other fees associated with the California Fire Service Training and Education Program, and to establish fees to implement the California Fire and Arson Training Act, as specified.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of SB 577 and, instead, clarify that specified training provisions apply to life agents selling individual life insurance policies, and authorize service of legal process, notices, and other papers to be made in specified circumstances to the Insurance Commissioner, their deputy, or their designated agent, accompanied by a substituted service fee.

The Assembly amendments authorize the commissioner to proceed with a civil action for violation of a prohibition against employing runners and other persons to procure clients, services, or benefits under workers’ compensation coverage or a contract of insurance if the district attorney elects not to pursue the matter, eliminate a requirement for the district attorney or the commissioner to give reasons for consenting to dismissal of such an action, and clarify that a civil complaint for a violation of this prohibition is required to remain under seal for at least 60 days from the date of service on the district attorney and commissioner.

The Assembly amendments require certain first responder benefit and relief associations to renew their certificate of authority within 30 days after a change in name or address or before a merger.

The Assembly amendments exempt an enforcement action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the commissioner from specified procedures for a special motion to strike in a civil cause of action arising from an act in furtherance of a person’s right of petition or free speech and for offers to compromise before commencement of a civil trial or arbitration.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1137, as it passed the Senate, revised a definition within the Unruh Civil Rights Act of “sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status” to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics. SB 1137, as it passed the Senate, also revised a definition within educational equity provisions of “disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes” to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics. SB 1137, as it passed the Senate, additionally revised a definition within the California Fair Employment and Housing Act on “race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, reproductive health decisionmaking, or veteran or military status” to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics.

The Assembly amendments delete references to “intersection” within the above provisions. The Assembly amendments incorporate additional changes to Section 51 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 1815 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1815 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. The Assembly amendments also incorporate additional changes to Section 12926 of the Government Code proposed by AB 1815 and SB 1022 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last. The Assembly amendments also add an additional coauthor.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 901, as it passed the Senate, made a person ineligible to commission or enlist in the California National Guard or State Guard if the person actively participated to advocate for, or engaged in, the use of unlawful force, unlawful violence, or other illegal means to deprive an individual of their rights, as specified, and required an officer or enlisted person to be discharged from the California National Guard under undesirable conditions if the person actively participated in this conduct.

The Assembly amendments expanded the conduct that would make a person ineligible to commission or enlist in the California National Guard or State Guard, including, among others, advocating for, engaging in, or supporting an act of rebellion or insurrection, and the amendments instead require an officer or enlisted person who actively participates in this conduct to receive an other than honorable discharge from the California National Guard.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 268, as it passed the Senate, included the crime of rape of an intoxicated person wherein the defendant drugged the victim, as a “violent felony” for the purposes of provisions related to sentencing enhancements for prior convictions and other provisions of the Penal Code.

The Assembly amendments add coauthors and make a technical, nonsubstantive change.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 312, as it passed the Senate, required a public university to obtain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification for each building within a university housing development project that is exempted from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) no later than 12 months from the issuance of the building’s certificate of occupancy or its usage. SB 312, as it passed the Senate, prohibited a public university that has exempted a university housing development project from being eligible to exempt a subsequent university housing development project until the public university has obtained LEED Platinum certification for each building within the prior exempted university housing development project.

The Assembly amendments extend the above-described university housing development project CEQA exemption by 2 years, until January 1, 2032. The Assembly amendments require a public university to obtain LEED Platinum certification for each building within a university housing development project no later than 18 months from the issuance of the building’s certificate of occupancy or an equivalent certification, or its initial usage, and authorize a public university to obtain 2 extensions for this LEED certification compliance requirement in 6-month increments, as provided. The Assembly amendments prohibit a public university that has exempted an approved university housing development project from applying that exemption to a subsequent university housing development project until the public university has obtained LEED Platinum certification for each building within the prior exempted university housing development project, except as specified. The Assembly amendments require a university housing development project carried out by the University of California, in order to be exempt from CEQA under the exemption, to be located on a campus site identified for housing, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 366, as it passed the Senate, required the Department of Water Resources to, in consultation with the California Water Commission, establish a stakeholder advisory committee, as provided, and develop a plan for addressing the state’s water needs and meeting certain long-term water supply targets to be known as “The California Water Plan” in consultation with the commission and a stakeholder advisory committee, among other entities. SB 366, as it passed the Senate, required the department to establish a long-term water supply target for 2050 as part of the 2028 update to the plan.

The Assembly amendments instead require the department, in consultation with the commission, to expand membership of the existing advisory committee to representatives of certain interests, develop a comprehensive, strategic plan for the sustainable management and stewardship of California’s water resources in consultation with the advisory committee, and update a specified planning target for 2050 as part of the 2033 update to the plan. The Assembly amendments require the department to offer the regional water quality control boards opportunities to provide input to assist the department in updating the plan and authorizes the department to add certain members to the advisory committee. The Assembly amendments also require each update to the plan to include various components, including a discussion of urban sector water needs and a discussion of agricultural water needs.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 445, as it passed the Senate, among other things, (1) required a local educational agency to, upon request by a pupil’s parent, translate into the native language of the parent, or into another mode of communication used by the parent, the pupil’s completed individualized education program (IEP), any revisions to the IEP, and certain documents discussed at an IEP team meeting, (2) required for a parent whose native language is one of the 8 most commonly spoken languages, as provided, excluding English, in a local educational agency, that the completed IEP and any revisions to the IEP be translated within 30 calendar days of that meeting or within 30 calendar days of a later request, (3) required these documents to be translated by a qualified translator, and (4) required the State Department of Education to revise its notice of procedural safeguards, in English and in the primary languages for which the department has developed translated versions, to inform parents of their right to request the translation of these documents.

The Assembly amendments delete the contents of SB 445 and instead require the department to, by January 1, 2027, or no later than 18 months after the final draft of the state standardized IEP template developed by the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence is converted to a digital platform, whichever date comes first, translate the IEP template into the top 10 most commonly spoken languages used across the state other than English and, among other things, make those templates available on its internet website, as provided.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 758, as it passed the Senate, among other things, made it a crime for a person to purchase or receive a firearm from a dealer, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the delivery of that firearm by that dealer to that person violates specified provisions regulating the delivery of a firearm by a dealer. The bill also required a change to the signage at Department of Food and Agriculture inspection stations.

The Assembly amendments remove both of these provisions.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 764, as it passed the Senate, required a vlogger, as defined, to compensate a minor under 18 years of age if the minor is engaged in the work of vlogging, as specified. SB 764, as it passed the Senate, defined related terms. SB 764, as it passed the Senate, defined a minor under 18 years of age as engaged in the work of vlogging if the minor met specified conditions in the previous 12-month period, including that the vlogger received actual compensation for image or video content of at least $15,000 in the prior 12-month period. SB 764, as it passed the Senate, required all vloggers whose content features a minor under 18 years of age engaged in the work of vlogging to maintain specified records and to provide the minor specified information each month. SB 764, as it passed the Senate, required the vlogger to compensate the minor, as specified.

The Assembly amendments revise the defined terminology and define a minor to be considered in the work of vlogging if the minor meets specified conditions at any time during a given month, including that the vlogger received actual compensation for image or video content of at least $1,250 in the month. The Assembly amendments require all vloggers whose content features a minor engaged in the work of vlogging to maintain, and make available to the minor upon request, specified records. The Assembly amendments revise the requirements for the amount deposited for the reporting period into the trust account for the benefit of the minor engaged in vlogging to be calculated by multiplying the percentage of total minutes the vlogger received compensation for during the reporting period in which the minor is included, as specified, by the total compensation generated from vlogs featuring the minor during the reporting period multiplied by .65. The Assembly amendments require each qualifying minor to have their own trust account and the vlogger to deposit funds into the account no less than once every 3 months. The Assembly amendments exempt from these provisions a contract for vlogging services between a minor and their parent or guardian if a court approves the contract, as specified, and require that the court, in determining whether to approve such a contract, consider whether the terms of the contract are at least as beneficial to the minor as the compensation the minor would otherwise receive under these provisions.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 782, as it passed the Senate, required the office of the Governor to, commencing January 1, 2026, maintain on its internet website a list of state boards and commissions including a membership list. SB 782, as it passed the Senate, required the office to publish an annual report, commencing January 1, 2027, containing aggregate demographic information about appointees made by the Governor’s office in the previous year.

SB 782, as it passed the Senate, defined “demographic information” for these purposes to include voluntarily self-reported ethnicity, gender, disability status, region, party affiliation, and veteran status.

The Assembly amendments expand the definition of “demographic information” to also include voluntarily self-reported gender identity and sexual orientation.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 900, as it passed the Senate, required an association managing a common interest development, with certain exceptions, to make repairs if the development had an interruption of specified utility services beginning in the common area, and required the association to begin the process to make repairs or replacements within 10 days.

The Assembly amendments specify that an association is responsible for the repairs and add an additional exception to the repair requirement, as specified. The Assembly amendments require the association’s board to begin the process to make repairs necessary to restore the interrupted utility service within 14 days of the interruption and create a process for reducing the requirements for a quorum in the event the association’s board is unable to establish a quorum within 14 days.

SB 900, as it passed the Senate, allowed for an association to obtain competitive financing to pay for the costs of repairs without requiring a vote of the members under certain circumstances, including if a vote does not take place to begin the process to make repairs within 10 days.

The Assembly amendments allow, if there are insufficient reserve funds to cover the cost of repairs, the association to obtain competitive financing from a financial institution to pay for the cost of repairs, as well as levy an emergency assessment to allow for repayment of the loan.

SB 900, as it passed the Senate, required that, before obtaining this financing, the board pass and distribute a resolution to the members with the notice of assessment and allowed association board members to vote electronically to initiate repairs.

The Assembly amendments require that the resolution be distributed along with notice of the emergency assessment and any other notices otherwise required by law or governing documents. The Assembly amendments require and clarify that voting may be conducted electronically notwithstanding other statutory requirements. The Assembly amendments further require all records of the vote to be considered association records and subject to specified inspection and retention requirements.

SB 900, as it passed the Senate, required that, if substantial repairs to a utility were needed, a representative from that utility service address the association in person with a description of the problem, suggested solutions, and expected timelines.

The Assembly amendments remove the requirement that a representative from a utility service present to the association in person. The Assembly amendments exempt associations from these requirements if they are located in an area impacted by a state of disaster or emergency, as specified, as long as that disaster or emergency materially affects the association’s ability to preform its responsibilities.

SB 900, as it passed the Senate, defines “major components” for the purposes of the association’s annual budget report to include gas lines.

The Assembly amendments expand the definition of “major components” to also include water and electrical service. The Assembly amendments additionally reference “replacements” together with “repairs” and clarify where the bill applies to the association director rather than board members.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 907, as it passed the Senate, required an election for the Orange County Board of Education to be consolidated with the statewide general election in November of each even-numbered year and notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, required the Orange County Board of Education to consist of 7 members.

The Assembly amendments additionally clarify that the above-described requirement for consolidation with the statewide general election begins in 2026 and that the above-described requirement for the Orange County Board of Education to consist of 7 members takes effect after the next redistricting process takes place in 2030 that accounts for 7 trustee areas.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 919, as it passed the Senate, beginning July 1, 2025, required a third-party franchise seller, as defined, to register with the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation and provide specified information. SB 919, as it passed the Senate required a registered third-party franchise seller to promptly notify the commissioner of any material change, as defined and specified.

The Assembly amendments instead apply the provisions of SB 919 to franchise brokers, as defined. The amendments also change the information that must be provided to the commissioner. The amendments also remove the definition and specification of “material change” for purposes of the provisions above, and instead authorize the commissioner to further define what shall be considered a “material change,” as specified. The amendments also remove the operative date of the provisions of SB 919 from July 1, 2025, and instead provide that implementation of the bill’s provisions is contingent upon an appropriation, as specified, and make the provisions of SB 919 operative on the later of 2 specified dates.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 936, as it passed the Senate, required the Office of Planning and Research, in coordination with the Department of Transportation, to conduct a study to identify, among other things, certain locations in the state highway system with regard to vehicle collisions and crash exposure.

The Assembly amendments instead require the department to conduct the study and eliminate the requirement that the study identify those locations in the state highway system with regard to crash exposure.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 951, as it passed the Senate, applied specified rezoning standards for any necessary local coastal program updates for jurisdictions located within the coastal zone.

The Assembly amendments instead delete this provision.

SB 951, as it passed the Senate, allowed a local government taking action on a coastal development permit to send notification of its final action to the California Coastal Commission by email.

The Assembly amendments instead allow that notification to the commission by electronic mail, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 960, as it passed the Senate, required, beginning with the 2026 state highway operation and protection program (SHOPP), all transportation projects on state highways funded or overseen by the Department of Transportation to provide complete streets facilities, except as specified. SB 960, as it passed the Senate, also required each project development team established by the department for a project on a state highway funded or overseen by the department to conduct specified outreach. SB 960, as it passed the Senate, required the Director of Transportation to adopt a transit priority policy to guide the implementation of transit priority facilities on the state highway system, as specified.

The Assembly amendments require the department to commit to specific 4-year targets to incorporate certain complete streets facilities into projects funded by the SHOPP instead of requiring all transportation projects on state highways funded or overseen by the department to provide complete streets facilities. The Assembly amendments require outreach by the department, instead of each project development team, for projects funded by the SHOPP with complete streets facilities. The Assembly amendments also require the director to implement a transit policy, instead of a transit priority policy, to guide the implementation of transit priority facilities and transit stops on the state highway system, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 988, as it passed the Senate, established the Freelance Worker Protection Act, which imposes various requirements relating to contracts between a hiring party and a freelance worker. SB 988, as it passed the Senate, authorized the Labor Commissioner, an aggrieved freelance worker, and a public prosecutor to bring a civil action to enforce the Freelance Worker Protection Act.

The Assembly amendments, among other things, remove the Labor Commissioner’s authorization, so that only an aggrieved freelance worker or a public prosecutor may bring a civil action to enforce the Freelance Worker Protection Act. The Assembly amendments also make various nonsubstantive changes.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1061, as it passed the Senate, among other things, prohibited a consumer credit reporting agency or an investigative consumer reporting agency from making a consumer credit report or an investigative consumer report containing information about medical debt, and defines the term “medical debt” to mean a debt related to, in whole or in part, a transaction, account, or balance arising from a medical service, product, or device, except as specified. SB 1061, as it passed the Senate, required a hospital to maintain a database of all litigation resulting from money owed to the hospital by a patient or a patient’s guarantor, as specified.

The Assembly amendments, instead of a database as described above, require a hospital to maintain all records relating to money owed to the hospital by a patient or a patient’s guarantor, as specified, and require any contract entered into by a hospital related to the assignment or sale of medical debt to require the assignee or buyer and any subsequent assignee or buyer to maintain records related to litigation for 5 years. The Assembly amendments change the definition of “medical debt” to mean a debt owed by a consumer to a person whose primary business is providing medical services, products, or devices, or to the person’s agent or assignee, for the provision of medical services, products, or devices.

The Assembly amendments additionally require a health insurer to send notices, with specified information, to an insured and provider if the insurer sends payment directly to the insured and not to the provider for services provided, and authorize the insurer’s share of cost in possession of the insured that has not been paid to the provider to be reported to a credit reporting agency as medical debt if certain requirements are met. The Assembly amendments also make nonsubstantive double-jointing amendments.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1064, as it passed the Senate, revised the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) licensing scheme for commercial cannabis activities other than cultivation and laboratory testing. SB 1064, as it passed the Senate, consolidated the licensing of the activities described above under one license type called an operator license, and required an operator license to acquire an additional premises license specific to the activity conducted on the premises. SB 1064, as it passed the Senate, made various conforming changes including by revising and recasting the codified list of license types, as specified. SB 1064, as it passed the Senate, made its provisions effective on January 1, 2028.

The Assembly amendments instead revise the MAUCRSA licensing scheme for commercial cannabis activities by adding a combined license classification, as specified, and make various related conforming changes. The Assembly amendments additionally specify that an owner who is an applicant for a state license is not required to resubmit owner-related information previously submitted to the Department of Justice.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1067, as it passed the Senate, required specified healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs to develop a process, as prescribed, to expedite the licensure process by giving priority review status to the application of an applicant for a license who demonstrates that they intend to practice in a medically underserved area or serve a medically underserved population, as defined. SB 1067, as it passed the Senate, authorized an applicant for a license to demonstrate their intent to practice in a medically underserved area or serve a medically underserved population by providing proper documentation, including, but not limited to, a letter from an employer that includes prescribed information. SB 1067, as it passed the Senate, provided that compliance with the bill does not require the department or any of the boards to open a regulatory or rulemaking process to change their licensee application process.

The Assembly amendments revise eligibility for the expedited licensure process to require an applicant to demonstrate that they intend to practice in a medically underserved area or in a health professional shortage area, as reflected in a specified federal database, or serve a medically underserved population, as defined, and meet specified requirements for the expedited licensure process. The Assembly amendments require an applicant to demonstrate their intent to practice in a medically underserved area or in a health professional shortage area, or serve a medically underserved population, by providing a letter addressed to the applicable board from an employer that includes revised prescribed information, including a written statement from the employer, signed and dated by an authorized representative of the employer, on the employer letterhead, declaring that the information provided in the letter to the board is true and correct. The Assembly amendments provide that no criminal or civil penalty is to be imposed for a violation of that employer letter requirement. The Assembly amendments omit the statement on opening a regulatory or rulemaking process.

The Assembly amendments additionally subject the Podiatric Medical Board of California to the bill.

The Assembly amendments repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1130, as it passed the Senate, required the Public Utilities Commission, by March 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, to require the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations to report on their efforts to enroll customers in the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program, and by June 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, to review each electrical corporation’s report to ensure it has sufficiently enrolled eligible households in the FERA program commensurate with the proportion of households the commission determines to be eligible within the electrical corporation’s service territory, as provided.

The Assembly amendments require the commission to review each electrical corporation’s report to ensure it has made reasonable efforts to enroll, rather than sufficiently enrolled, those eligible households, as provided. The Assembly amendments also expressly authorize electrical corporations to market enrollment for the FERA program separately from the California Alternate Rates for Energy program, a different low-income customer assistance program, and provide a separate FERA program-only application form.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1177, as it passed the Senate, required the Public Utilities Commission to require certain electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, telephone corporations, and community choice aggregators to annually submit a diversity, equity, and inclusion employment plan, as defined.

The Assembly amendments, among other things, instead require the above-described entities to annually submit to the commission a report describing (1) the employment of women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT (WMDVLGBT) individuals at all levels of employment within their organization and (2) the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies or activities that promote equitable recruitment and hiring. The Assembly amendments require the commission to add certain questions to the verification form described in the commission’s General Order 156, which governs the development of programs to increase the participation of WMDVLGBT business enterprises in certain procurement contracts. The Assembly amendments also authorize the commission to include an analysis of that information as part of an existing annual report from the commission to the Legislature, as provided.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1184, as it passed the Senate, required an order for treatment with antipsychotic medication for a person who is involuntarily detained for various periods of treatment time under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act because they are a person who is a danger to themselves or others, or who are gravely disabled, due to a mental disorder or chronic alcoholism or drug abuse to remain in effect at the beginning of the 14-day period, or the additional 30-day period after the 14-day period, or the second 30-day period, of the involuntary commitment provided that a petition for a new determination on the question of capacity to refuse treatment has been filed, and required the order to remain in effect until the court hears a petition for that detention period and issues a decision.

The Assembly amendments subject the above-described requirement to the presence of exigent circumstances, and require the hearing to determine a person’s capacity to refuse treatment to be held on an expedited basis as soon as reasonably practicable and within 24 hours. The Assembly amendments specify the factors required to be present in order for there to be exigent circumstances necessitating an expedited hearing, including, among others, that there has been a delay in a hearing to determine a person’s capacity to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication, creating a risk that the existing capacity determination may expire before a new capacity determination is made, and the person’s treating physician executes a specified written attestation of exigent circumstances that is maintained in the person’s medical record. The Assembly amendments require that, each time one of those attestations is made and an order for treatment with antipsychotic medication remains in effect, the treating facility report specified information to the county behavioral health director in the county in which they operate, require the county behavioral health directors to provide that information to the department, and require the department to include that information in an annual report it is required to publish. The Assembly amendments make these provisions inoperative on January 1, 2030.

The Assembly amendments also authorize, except as specified, a person’s treating physician to request a hearing for a new determination of a person’s capacity to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication at any time in the 48 hours prior to the end of the duration of the current detention period when it reasonably appears to the treating physician that it is necessary for the person to be detained for a subsequent detention period and their capacity has not been restored. The Assembly amendments authorize a capacity hearing to be conducted by remote means in an appropriate location at the facility where the person is receiving treatment, as specified.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1249, as it passed the Senate, updated and revised the legislative findings and declarations related to the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act’s requirement that the California Department of Aging designate area agencies on aging to work within a planning and service area to provide a broad array of social and nutritional services. SB 1249, as it passed the Senate, recognized the state’s major demographic shift toward an older, more diverse population and declared the Legislature’s intent to reform provisions of the act related to various functions of the area agencies on aging. SB 1249, as it passed the Senate, required, within specified time periods, the department to take various actions to reform the act, including giving counties the option to petition the department to be considered for designation as the area agency on aging that serves its local jurisdiction, develops core programs and services, and develops a statewide public awareness engagement strategy.

The Assembly amendments delete the requirement that the department give counties the option to petition the department and instead require the department to, among other things, identify older adult and family caregiver support programs and services and develop a statewide consumer engagement plan. The Assembly amendments require the department to develop regulations that address specific topics relating to area agency on aging designations. The Assembly amendments require those deliverables to be informed by data from validated sources. The Assembly amendments recast and revise other provisions of the act, including replacing the use of the word “senior” with the term “older adult.” The Assembly amendments repeal obsolete provisions of the act and the provisions establishing the Senior Housing Information and Support Center.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1271, as it passed the Senate, among other changes, defined certain terms, prohibited the distribution, sale, lease or offering for sale or lease of a storage battery, as defined, and required display of certain information on specified electric bicycles, powered mobility devices, and storage batteries. SB 1271, as it passed the Senate, prohibited the rental or offer for rental of a powered mobility device unless the battery for the powered mobility device has been tested, as specified. SB 1271, as it passed the Senate, clarified the definitions of electric bicycles, class 1 electric bicycles, and class 3 electric bicycles.

The Assembly amendments require the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations that promote the fire and electrical safety of electric bicycles, powered mobility devices, and storage batteries, and make specified corresponding changes, add certain definitions, include charging systems, as defined, in specified requirements, and change the display requirements. The Assembly amendments require a powered mobility device, instead of the battery, to be tested. The Assembly amendments change the definitions of electric bicycles, class 1 electric bicycles, and class 3 electric bicycles.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1318, as it passed the Senate, among other things, required the State Department of Education to, on or before July 1, 2026, update a specified model policy relating to pupil suicide to address crisis intervention protocols that local educational agencies would be required to follow in the event of a pupil suicide crisis. SB 1318, as it passed the Senate, required the governing board or body of a local educational agency to, on or after July 1, 2026, update their pupil suicide prevention policy to include crisis intervention protocols that align with the model policy, as provided.

The Assembly amendments revise the content required in the model policy and require the pupil suicide prevention policy of a local educational agency to include crisis intervention protocols that incorporate, rather than align with, best practices identified in the department’s model policy.

SB 1318, as it passed the Senate, required, at each meeting of the governing board or body of a local educational agency when the governing board or body reviews its policy on pupil suicide prevention, if the local educational agency does not have a school mental health professional, as defined, or contract with a mental health professional, as defined, the governing board or body to discuss whether funding should be identified for purposes of hiring a school mental health professional.

The Assembly amendments encourage, rather than require, the governing board or body of a local educational agency to consider whether funding should be identified for purposes of hiring a school mental health professional, as provided.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 347, as it passed the Senate, required the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to award basic teaching credentials for teaching preschool in public schools.

The Assembly amendments delete the above provisions and, instead, exempt from the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act the leasing of, or the granting of an easement to, a parcel of land or any portion of the land in conjunction with a hydrogen fueling station or an electric vehicle charging station if the project is subject to discretionary action by an advisory agency or legislative body of a local agency.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.