Press Releases

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) had his Surveillance Pricing Protection Act (AB 446) pass out of the Assembly and onto the Senate.

[SACRAMENTO, CA] -- Today, Assemblymember Chris Ward of San Diego announced the introduction of AB 1070, legislation aimed at enhancing transparency, accountability, and representation within California’s transit agencies.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) –Today, Assemblymember Chris Ward introduced Assembly Bill 763, a crucial measure to synchronize the state’s timber harvest and wildfire fuel reduction permitting process.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) introduced his fourth housing bill this session, Assembly Bill (AB) 474, the Home Share Act of 2025, to improve housing affordability and ease the cost-of-living crisis.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) introduced AB 446, a bill prohibiting businesses from using personal information of a consumer to adjust the price of goods based off their individualized data profile, a practice known as surveillance pricing (SP). 

                                                Assemblymember Ward Introduces AB 368 to Advance Passive House Standards 

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – In response to California’s ongoing housing crisis, Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) has introduced legislation to streamline the review and issuance of post-entitlement permits needed to build new homes after a project is approved for small residential projects.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – With California still in the midst of a housing crisis, Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) has introduced legislation on the first day of the 2025-26 session to reduce costs from housing mandates and improve the building standards governing middle income developments.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ and other flyers with hateful messaging have increasingly been distributed in many cities throughout California in recent years, leaving law enforcement and victims with few options to hold offenders accountable due to its legal ambiguity.