2025 Legislative Survey
The State Legislature is making a number of decisions in the final weeks of the legislative calendar. To ensure the community’s voice is heard and represented accurately, it is important to gather feedback on significant potential laws. The input given will help identify community priorities and inform legislative actions. Please take a moment to see some contentious bills before they are voted upon, and share opinions by completing this survey.
Below you can find more information on each bill, including analysis and bill text, as well as multiple choice options on how you would vote.
Feel free to contact my office if you have any questions.
Bill Summaries
AB 56 - Social Media Warning Labels: Requires social media companies to display a warning label on their products to inform the user about the association with significant mental health harms, and that it has not been proven safe for young users.
AB 84 - Nonclassroom Based Charter Schools: Makes comprehensive reforms to Nonclassroom Based charter schools to address concerns over fraud, and lifts the ban on these schools.
AB 253 - Streamline housing permitting: Allows homeowners and developers to use third-party licensed professionals to review certain post-entitlement permits.
AB 446 - Surveillance Pricing: Prohibits businesses from using the personal information of a consumer to adjust the price of goods based on their individualized data profile.
AB 1331 - Workplace Surveillance: Regulates the use of workplace surveillance tools such as cameras or biometric tracking tools to track an employee's movements and productivity throughout the day.
SB 7 - Employment Automated Decision Systems: Requires human oversight of artificial intelligence systems in the workplace to help prevent abuses.
SB 52 - Rental Price Algorithms: Prohibits landlords from using rental pricing algorithms that utilize nonpublic competitor data to set rental prices.
SB 79 - Transit Oriented Development: Streamlines housing production near major transit stops, and allows transit agencies to build housing on land that they own.
SB 243 - AI Chatbots: Requires chatbot operators to implement critical safeguards to protect users from the addictive, isolating, and influential aspects of artificial intelligence chatbots.
SB 274 - Automated License Plate Readers: Prohibits a public agency from retaining automated license plate reader information that does not match information on a hot list for more than 60 days after the date of collection.
SB 442 - Self Checkout Stations: Prohibits a grocery or drug store from providing a self-service checkout option for customers unless the line is limited to 15 items or less, and there is at least one manual checkout station staffed by an employee who can be available to assist the self-checkout stations.
SB 627 - Law Enforcement Use of Masks: Prohibits an officer of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency from wearing any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties.
SB 672 - Youth Rehabilitation: Allows inmates sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed before age 26 to request a parole hearing after serving at least 25 years in prison.