SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblymember Chris Ward (D–San Diego) introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 2564 to continue efforts to prevent businesses from using consumers’ personal data to adjust prices based on individualized profiles, a practice known as surveillance pricing.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 1775 to provide critical housing, employment, and transition-to-civilian-life support for service members being discharged from the U.S. military as a result of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14183, which targets transgender service members.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 1954 to stop the practice of brokering tee times at municipal golf courses that inflate prices and take recreational opportunities from local residents by requiring written agreements between operators of publicly owned golf courses and third-party reservation service platforms.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) introduced AB 1793 to implement symmetrical rounding on cash transactions. This bill, prompted by the U.S. Mint halting production of the copper penny, first minted in 1793, aims to ensure a smooth and transparent adoption of rounding to the nearest nickel at the register.
SAN DIEGO, CA — Assemblymember Chris Ward (D–San Diego), joined by several local elected leaders, today condemned the harassment and intimidation of Somali childcare providers following reports that right-wing influencer Nick Shirley has been visiting providers’ homes, filming without consent, and spreading baseless and discredited allegations of fraud.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) introduced AB 1684, to increase access to home cooling systems amid rising temperatures. This bill, suggested by an AD 78 constituent, prohibits a California homeowners association from restricting in its governing documents the installation, use, or replacement of a cooling system.
SACRAMENTO, CA — The California State Assembly today passed Assembly Bill (AB) 1406, a measure to address California’s severe shortage of for-sale housing by incentivizing condominium development.
SACRAMENTO, CA — It is encouraging that a stronger-than-anticipated revenue forecast allows us to replenish reserves used over the past two years and increase investments in public education.
SACRAMENTO, CA — Assemblymember Chris Ward (D–San Diego), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, & Tourism, today issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has formally voted to dissolve, ending nearly six decades of federal support for public media nationwide.
