AAUW CA Bill Tracking
9/2/2022	
  	
Measure	Author	Topic	Status	Location	Brief Summary	Position  	Priority  	
AB 22	McCarty D	Preschool data: data collection.	8/31/2022-
To Engrossing and Enrolling. 	8/31/2022-
ENROLLMENT (Enrollment is where the bill is reviewed and prepared for presentation to the Governor’s Desk).	This bill would require the department, by July 1, 2024, to collect pupil data for each pupil enrolled in a California state preschool program operated by a local educational agency, including all applicable data elements that are collected for pupils in transitional kindergarten, as provided. The bill would also require the department, by July 1, 2024, to collect the same data for educators in a California state preschool program operated by a local educational agency that is collected for educators in the K–12 classroom setting, as provided. 
	Watch  	  	
AB 92	Reyes D	Preschool and child care and development services: family fees.	8/30/2022- Engrossing and Enrolling. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLMENT	This bill would instead, upon appropriation, (1) prohibit those family 
fees from exceeding 1% of the family's monthly income and (2) prohibit
 a family with an adjusted monthly family income below 75% of the state 
median family income from being assessed a family fee. 
	Co-Sponsor  	Level A  	
AB 210	Committee on Budget	Early childhood: childcare and education.	6/30/2022-
Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 62, Statutes of 2022. 	6/30/2022-
CHAPTERED	Provided waiver of family fees for subsidized child care from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.	Sponsor  	Level A  	
AB 316	Cooper D	State employees: under-represented groups.	8/30/2022-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLED	This bill would require that each agency, prior to January 1, 2024, and 
once every 2 years thereafter, establish a plan to recruit, attract, and retain 
employees identified as belonging to these underutilized groups. The bill 
would further require that the Department of Human Resources, by 
January 1, 2024, develop and implement a monitoring and compliance 
program to address deficiencies and provide guidance and 
recommendations.
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 1287	Bauer-Kahan D	Price discrimination: gender.	8/30/2022-Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLMENT	Would prohibit a person, firm, partnership, company, corporation, or 
business from charging a different price for any 2 goods that are 
substantially similar, if those goods are priced differently based on the 
gender of the individuals for whom the goods are marketed and intended. 
The bill would authorize the Attorney General to seek an injunction to 
enjoin and restrain the continuance of those violations, and would 
authorize the court, in addition to granting the injunction, to impose a 
civil penalty not to exceed $10,000.	Support  	Level C  	
AB 1666	Bauer-Kahan D	Abortion: civil actions.	6/24/2022-Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 42, Statutes of 2022	6/24/2022-
CHAPTERED	Would declare another state’s law authorizing a civil action against a 
person or entity that receives or seeks, performs or induces, or aids or 
abets the performance of an abortion, or who attempts or intends to 
engage in those actions, to be contrary to the public policy of this state. 
The bill would prohibit the application of that law to a case or controversy 
heard in state court and would prohibit the enforcement or satisfaction of
 a civil judgment received under that law. The bill would declare these 
provisions to be severable. 
	Cosponsor	Level A  	
AB 1788	Cunningham R	Sex trafficking: hotels: actual knowledge or reckless disregard: civil penalty.	8/31/2022-Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1.). 	8/31/2022-
ENROLLMENT	This bill would allow civil penalties to be imposed against a hotel, as 
defined, if a supervisory employee, as defined, of the hotel knew of or 
acted with reckless disregard of the activity constituting sex trafficking 
activity, as defined, that occurred within the hotel and failed to inform law
 enforcement, the National Human Trafficking Hotline, or another 
appropriate victim service organization, as specified, or if any employee 
of that hotel knowingly benefited from participating in a venture that the 
employee knew, or acted in reckless disregard of the activity constituting
 sex trafficking activity within the hotel. This bill contains other related
 provisions and other existing laws.
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 1844	Medina D	Higher Education Student, Staff, and Faculty Protection Act.	5/20/2022-Failed ASSM. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/11/2022)	5/20/2022 
DEAD	This bill would, beginning January 1, 2023, require the 3 segments of 
public postsecondary education to take certain actions before extending 
an official offer of employment to an applicant, as defined, including 
requesting that an applicant sign a statement declaring whether the 
applicant is the subject of an informal resolution process.
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 1930	Arambula D	Medi-Cal: comprehensive perinatal services.	8/31/2022-
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.	8/25/2022-
GOVERNOR’S DESK	.This bill, during the one-year post pregnancy eligibility period, and as 
part of comprehensive perinatal services under Medi-Cal, would require 
the department to cover additional comprehensive perinatal assessments 
and individualized care plans and to provide additional visits and units of 
services in an amount, duration, and scope that are at least proportional to 
those available on July 27, 2021, during pregnancy and the initial 60-day 
post pregnancy period in effect on that date. 
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 1949	Low D	Employees: bereavement leave.	8/30/2022- To Engrossing and Enrolling. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLMENT	This bill would additionally make it an unlawful employment practice 
for an employer to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to 
take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family 
member. The bill would require that leave be completed within 3 months 
of the date of death and may be paid or unpaid leave.

	Support  	Level C  	
AB 1968	Seyarto R	Public postsecondary education: uniform informational guidance for sexual assault survivors.	7/19/2022-
Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 115, Statutes of 2022. 	7/19/2022-
SIGNED INTO LAW	Would require the Trustees of the California State University, and request 
the Regents of the University of California, to develop content and 
presentation standards and a model internet website template regarding 
the steps a campus community member who is a survivor of sexual 
assault may take immediately following the assault, as provided. The 
bill would require each campus to develop and post on its campus 
internet website informational guidance regarding those steps based on 
those standards and model, as provided.
	  	Level A  	
AB 2018	Santiago D	Personal Income Tax Law: refundable credit: student loan debt.	4/18/2022-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. 	3/17/2022-
DEAD	This bill would, for the taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2022,
and before January 1, 2023, allow a credit against those taxes for a 
qualified taxpayer.   The bill would define “qualified taxpayer” as a 
taxpayer with a degree from a university headquartered in the state who 
has worked in public service, as defined, for at least 5 years, and who 
has at least $5,000 in federal student loan debt, as defined. The bill 
would provide the amount of the credit would be equal to the lesser of
the federal student loan debt of the qualified taxpayer or $10,000. 
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2024	Friedman D	Health care coverage: diagnostic imaging.	8/12/2022- APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/8/2022	8/12/2022-
DEAD	The bill would cover supplemental breast examinations and tests for 
screening or diagnostic purposes to the extent consistent with nationally 
recognized, evidence-based guidelines. The bill would prohibit a health 
care service plan, from imposing cost sharing for screening mammography,
medically necessary or supplemental breast examinations, or testing, 
unless the contract or policy is a high deductible health plan, and the 
deductible has not been satisfied for the year. 
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2040	Maienschein D	Criminal procedure: restraining order violation.	5/20/2022-
Failed A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 4/27/2022	5/20/2022-
DEAD	This bill would make a violation of a restraining order that involves the restrained person forcibly entering or trespassing within the residential dwelling, of the protected party punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment, except as specified.
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2193	Gabriel D	Civil representation: immigration status.	8/25/2022- To Engrossing and Enrolling.  	8/25/2022-
ENROLLMENT	The Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act requires legal counsel to be appointed to represent low-income parties in civil matters involving critical issues affecting basic human needs in courts selected by the Judicial Council. This bill would require the programs to provide services without regard to the citizenship or immigration status of the person represented. 
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2223	Wicks D	Reproductive health.	8/30/2022- To Engrossing and Enrolling. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLMENT	This bill would delete the requirement that a coroner hold inquests for 
deaths related to or following known or suspected self-induced or criminal
abortion and would delete the requirement that an unattended fetal death 
be handled as a death without medical attendance. The bill would prohibit 
using the coroner’s statements on the certificate of fetal death to establish, 
bring, or support a criminal prosecution or civil cause of damages against 
a person who is immune from liability based on their actions or omissions
with respect to their pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy 
outcome, or who aids a pregnant person in exercising their rights under 
the Reproductive Privacy Act, as specified.
	Support  	Level B  	
AB 2277	Reyes D	CalWORKs: victims of abuse.	8/23/2022-
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. 	8/23/2022-
GOVERNOR’S DESK	This bill would require a county to waive a program requirement for a 
recipient who has been identified as a past or present victim of abuse 
when it has been determined that good cause exists.
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2408	Cunningham R	Social media platform: child users: addiction.	8/12/2022-Failed APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/2/2022	8/12/2022-
DEAD	This bill would prohibit a social media platform from using a design, 
feature, or affordance that the platform knew, or by the exercise of 
reasonable care should have known, causes a child user, to become 
addicted to the platform. The act would authorize the Attorney General 
or a district attorney, county counsel, or city attorney to bring an action 
to recover or obtain certain relief, including a civil penalty of up to 
$250,000 for a knowing and willful violation, and an award of litigation 
costs and attorneys’ fees. 
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2482	Calderon D	Public postsecondary education: student health: pilot program: wellness vending machines.	8/30/2022-
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. 	8/30/2022-
GOVERNOR’S DESK	Would establish a pilot program, until July 1, 2029, that would require 
the California State University and the California Community Colleges to 
establish at 5 campuses of their segments at least one vending machine 
that dispenses wellness products, as provided. Participation of community 
colleges under the pilot program would be voluntary. This bill would 
request the University of California to establish at any number of 
campuses of their segment at least one vending machine that dispenses 
wellness products, as provided.
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2525	Bryan D	School employees: dismissal or suspension: hate violence.	5/6/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was A. ED. on 3/10/2022)	5/6/2022-
DEAD	This bill would expand the definition of "hate violence" to include hate 
crimes to the extent they are not already included, and to include crimes 
committed based on actual or perceived gender expression or gender 
identity, for purposes of the State Board of Education’s actions aimed at 
discouraging the development of discriminatory attitudes in schools and 
at preventing and responding to hate violence.
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2806	Rubio, Blanca D	Childcare and developmental services: preschool: expulsion and suspension: mental health services: reimbursement rates.

	8/30/2022-
To Engrossing and Enrolling. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLMENT	The bill prohibits a contracting agency, as part of the state preschool 
program, from expelling or unenrolling a child because of a child’s 
behavior, except as provided.  The bill would also establish requirements 
for the use of suspensions in the programs described above. 
  
	Support	Level C  	
AB 2815	Berman D	Elections: vote by mail ballot drop-off locations.	8/25/2022- Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. 	8/25/2022-
ENROLLMENT	Would require a county, for a statewide primary or statewide general 
election conducted as an all-mailed ballot election or otherwise, to provide 
an additional vote by mail ballot drop-off location on the main campus of 
each California State University within the jurisdiction and, upon request, 
each University of California campus within the jurisdiction. 
	Support  	Level C  	
AB 2832	Rivas, Robert  D	Whole Child Community Equity.	8/31/2022-
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 
9:30 p.m.	8/24/2022-
GOVERNOR’S DESK	Requires the Department of Social Services and the State Department of Education, and with input from the Early Childhood Policy Council, First 5 California, and other early childhood stakeholders, to develop the Whole Child Equity Framework (the Framework) and Whole Child Community Equity Screening Tool (the Equity Tool) to provide the data needed to support the equitable distribution of resources and monitor progress on addressing racial and economic inequities. The bill would require the departments to convene a workgroup to receive input for the development of the Framework, the Equity Tool, and recommended uses of the Equity Tool for early childhood investments and whole child resources. The bill would require the departments, on or before January 1, 2024, to finalize and present the Framework, the Equity Tool, and recommended uses of the Equity Tool to the Legislature. departments’ internet website.	Watch  	  	
AB 2881	Berman D	Public postsecondary education: students with dependent children.	8/31/2022-
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 p.m.	8/24/2022-
GOVERNOR’S DESK	Would require the California State University and each community college
district, and request the University of California, with respect to each 
campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority 
enrollment system, to grant priority in that system for registration for 
enrollment to a student parent, as defined, by no later than July 1, 2023.
 By imposing additional duties on community college districts, the bill 
would impose a state-mandated local program. 
	Support  	Level B  	
AJR 23	Boerner Horvath D	Title IX: 50th anniversary.	8/19/2022-
Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 145, Statutes of 2022	8/19/2022-
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE LEGISLATURE	Would, on June 23, 2022, commemorate the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX, and would urge Californians to continue to work together to achieve the goals set by Title IX, as specified.	Co Sponsor/ Sponsor  	Level A  	
SB 17	Pan D	Racial Equity Commission.	8/31/2022-
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes.	8/16/2022-
DEAD	Would, until January 1, 2029, would establish in state government the 
Racial Equity Advisory and Accountability Commission, an independent 
public entity not affiliated with an agency or department. The bill would 
task the office with coordinating, analyzing, developing, evaluating, and 
recommending strategies for advancing racial equity across state agencies, 
departments, and the office of the Governor
	Support  	Level C  	
SB 70	Rubio D	Elementary education: kindergarten.	8/29/2022- Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 	8/29/2022-
ENROLLMENT	Current law excludes a child under 6 years of age from the public schools, 
subject to specified exceptions. This bill, beginning with the 2024–25 
school year, would require a child to have completed one year of 
kindergarten before that child may be admitted to the first grade at a 
public elementary school, except for a child who has been lawfully 
admitted to a public school kindergarten or a private school kindergarten 
in California, but has not yet completed one school year, and is judged to 
be ready for first-grade work, as specified, thereby imposing a state-
mandated local program.

	Support  	Level C  	
SB 523	Leyva D	Contraceptive Equity Act of 2022.	8/31/2022- Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 	8/31/2022-
ENROLLMENT	This bill would expand coverage of contraceptives by a health care service
plan contract on and after January 1, 2022, including requiring a health 
care service plan or health insurer to provide point-of-sale coverage for 
over-the-counter FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices, and 
products at in-network pharmacies without cost sharing or medical 
management restrictions.
	Support  	Level B  	
SB 951	Durazo D	Unemployment insurance: contribution rates: disability insurance: paid family leave: weekly benefit amount.	8/30/2022-
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. 	8/30/2022-
GOVERNOR’S DESK	This measure revised the formula for computing SDI benefits for disability
commencing on or after January 1, 2025, to 70% or 90%, depending upon 
the employees’ wages at the time of disability.  The bill also strikes 
Unemployment Insurance Code Section 985 which sets the taxable wage 
ceiling (currently $145,600) , thereby making all wages taxable for
 purposes of computing SDI worker contributions. 
	Support  	Level C  	
SB 1017	Eggman D	Leases: termination of tenancy: abuse or violence.	8/30/2022-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. 	8/30/2022-
GOVERNOR’S DESK
	Current law limits the amount of rent for which the tenant is responsible
to not more than 14 calendar days after the notice is given and requires the 
tenant to be released from responsibility for making other rent payments 
under the lease, as specified. This bill would make a landlord or agent
liable to the tenant for actual damages and, except as specified, statutory 
damages of not less than $100 and more than $5,000 in a civil action for 
violation of these provisions.
	Support  	Level C  	
SB 1083	Skinner D	CalWORKs: pregnancy and homeless assistance.	8/30/2022- Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLMENT	This bill would require county human services agencies to refer pregnant 
recipients to perinatal home visiting services administered by county 
public health agencies, county human services agencies, or applicable 
county home visiting providers.  As amended on 8/25/22, the bill would 
authorize a county to require the participation in a homelessness avoidance
case plan only if the county has also provided a housing navigation 
caseworker who can assist with securing permanent housing and housing 
case management services. The bill, commencing July 1, 2024, would 
additionally provide that a family is considered homeless if they receive 
any notice that could lead to an eviction, and would clarify that roommate,
 as described above, also includes, but is not limited to, a parent or child 
with whom they were living. 
	Support  	Level C  	
SB 1115	Skinner D	Department of Industrial Relations: annual survey: Women in Construction Priority Unit.	8/12/2022-
Failed APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 6/29/2022)	8/12/2022-
DEAD	Current law provides that one of the functions of the Department of 
Industrial Relations is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the 
wage earners of California, to improve their working conditions, and to 
advance their opportunities for profitable employment. Current law, the 
Shelley-Maloney Apprentice Labor Standards Act of 1939, authorizes a 
joint apprenticeship committee, unilateral management or labor 
apprenticeship committee, or an individual employer to administer an 
apprenticeship program, as prescribed. Current law requires the 
department to conduct an annual survey of the ethnic derivation of the 
individuals who are parties to apprentice agreements pursuant to that 
provision. This bill would require the annual survey to additionally 
include the gender of the individuals who are parties to those apprentice 
agreements. 
	Support  	Level C  	
SB 1131	Newman D	Address confidentiality: public entity employees and contractors.	8/31/2022- Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 	8/31/2022-
ENROLLMENT	This bill would authorize an applicant seeking address confidentiality 
under the Secretary of State’s program to submit a certified statement by 
the employee, patient, or volunteer for a reproductive health care service 
facility that they have been the target of threats, harassment, or acts of 
violence, or a workplace violence restraining order issued because of 
threats or acts of violence connected with a reproductive health care 
services facility, as specified, instead of a certified statement from a 
representative of the reproductive health care services facility. 
	Support  	Level C  	
SB 1162	Limón D	Employment: Salaries and Wages.	8/30/2022- Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLMENT	Current law requires a private employer that has 100 or more employees 
and is required to file an annual Employer Information Report (EEO-1) 
to submit a pay data report to the department that contains specified 
employee information on or before March 31, 2021, and on or before 
March 31 each year thereafter the costs associated with seeking the order 
for compliance. This bill would require a private employer that has 100 
or more employees to submit a pay data report to the department. on or 
before the second Wednesday of May.  The bill also requires employers 
to maintain records and provide pay scale data upon request of an 
employee.  
	Support  	Level C  	
SB 1375	Atkins D	Nursing: nurse practitioners and nurse-
midwives: abortion and practice standards.	8/30/2022
Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 	8/30/2022-
ENROLLMENT	In order to perform an abortion by aspiration techniques under the Nursing 
Practice Act, a person with a license or certificate to practice as a nurse 
practitioner or a certified nurse-midwife is required to complete board-
recognized training. This bill would revise that provision to specify that it 
applies to a person with a license or certificate to practice as a nurse 
practitioner practicing pursuant to a standardized procedure, or to a 
qualified nurse practitioner functioning pursuant to certain advanced 
practice provisions. The bill would require those persons to achieve 
clinical competency by successfully completing requisite training in 
performing these procedures.  
	Support  	Level B  	
SCA 10	Atkins D	Reproductive freedom.	6/29/2022-
Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 97, Statutes of 2022	6/29/2022-
APPROVED BY LEGISLATURE; WILL BE ON NOVEMBER BALLOT	Would amend the California Constitution to prohibit the state from 
denying or interfering with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their 
most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose 
to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse 
contraceptives.
	Support  	Level A  	
Total Measures: 36
Total Tracking Forms: 36