Protecting Privacy, Consumers, and Civil Rights
AB 322 CA Location Privacy Act – Modernizes the California Consumer Privacy Act to close dangerous loopholes in how precise location data is collected, retained, sold, and disclosed. It ensures that Californians’ movements—especially in sensitive spaces like protests, clinics, houses of worship, and legal service centers—are not quietly tracked or weaponized against them.
AB 1337 IPA Reform Act of 2025 – Updates California’s Information Practices Act (IPA) of 1977, which governs how public entities handle our data, to respond to the challenges of today’s digital environment.
AB 1542 CA Data Privacy Act – Closes a dangerous loophole in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) by banning businesses from the selling or sharing of sensitive personal information to a third party. Californians deserve the right to feel safe and protected while going about their daily lives, attending places of worship, seeking vital health care, exercising their right to free speech, or simply going to the grocery store to feed their families.
AB 1921 Protect our Games Act – Requires companies that sell server-connected video games to notify consumers before ending support and to provide clear information about how the game will function once it reaches “end of life.” The bill also prohibits companies from selling the game within two months of its end-of-life date and requires them to either replace the game or provide a plan allowing users to continue running it after support ends.
AB 2027 The Worker Data Protection Act – Prohibits companies from using worker data to train AI models or automated systems and extends that prohibition to contracted third parties. The bill ensures that employee data cannot be exploited to develop technologies that could replace or disadvantage workers.
AB 2564 Surveillance Pricing Act – Prohibits businesses from using the personal information of a consumer to adjust the price of goods based on their individualized data profile, a practice known as surveillance pricing.
Strengthening Homeownership and Housing Stability
AB 1070 Building Standards – Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to create a working group to explore allowing “missing middle” developments between three and 10 units to be built under the requirements of the California Residential Code, rather than the California Building Code.
AB 1406 Condo Deposits – Encourages condominium development by increasing the liquidated damages cap from 3% to 6% while maintaining strong consumer protections, giving lenders greater certainty, improving project feasibility, lowering development costs, and ultimately increasing the supply of condominiums and affordable entry-level homeownership opportunities.
AB 1684 HOA AC Installation Standards – Prohibits an HOA from restricting a homeowner’s installation, use, or replacement of a home cooling system.
AB 2089 Welfare Property Tax Exemption Reform – Reforms the State Property Welfare Tax Exemption to ease tax burdens on affordable housing providers during ownership or control transitions, preserving hundreds of thousands of dollars for affordable housing.
AB 2559 Deposit Reform – Creates a standardized timeline in which consumers can request a deposit refund for meeting the recycling requirements of local construction and demolition programs, mandated by state waste diversion laws.
Climate Smart California
AB 763 Timber Harvest Plan Permit Streamlining – This bill ensures water boards act on timber harvest permit requests when projects already meet approved environmental standards.
AB 864 Solar Recycling – Exempts solar PV modules, not identified as hazardous waste and treated as universal waste, from state hazardous waste requirements if the solar PV modules are transferred to a designated recycler for legitimate recycling as authorized under federal law and regulation.
Making Government Work Better & Supporting Local Newsrooms
AB 1793 CA Common “Cents” Act – Standardizes the symmetrical rounding of cash transactions to the nearest nickel, ensuring fairness and transparency upon the elimination of the penny.
AB 1954 Municipal Golf Course Reform – Prohibits the brokering and reselling of reservations or tee times at municipal golf courses without a written agreement.
AB 2180 Prop 218 Reform – Provides clarity and consistency to water agencies and their customers in setting proportional rates to provide predictability and minimize unnecessary legal disputes over water rates.
AB 2222 Community Newsroom Employment & Workforce Sustainability Act (The Community NEWS Act) - establishes a tax credit to incentivize local news organizations to retain and hire journalists in California, helping sustain local journalism and community reporting. The bill aims to address the decline of local newsrooms by supporting newsroom employment and strengthening access to reliable local information.
AB 2525 Mission Bay Park Surplus Land Act Exemption – Exempts San Diego’s Mission Bay Park from the State Surplus Land Act.
Supporting Veterans & Increasing Public Safety
AB 1739 Protecting Congregants from Sexual Exploitation by Clergy – Ensures clergy are held to the same standards as other professionals who hold positions of authority over individuals seeking care, guidance, or counseling.
AB 1775 Support for Discharged Service Members Act – Provides critical housing, employment, and transition-to-civilian-life support for service members being discharged from the U.S. military, particularly because of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14183, which targets transgender service members.