California legislators will return to Sacramento this Monday after spending almost all of July on summer break. Though they have wrapped up a difficult budget negotiation, lawmakers must still debate and vote on hundreds of bills before their work is done for the year.
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Lawmakers will tackle bills touching on a wide variety of issues from the tech industry to retail and grocery stores, higher education to election interference when they resume work. Here are three things to know as legislative work resumes Monday.
LAWMAKERS HAVE A VARIETY OF BILLS TO TACKLE
Lawmakers have a good deal of unfinished business waiting for them starting Monday. In the Senate, there is Assembly Bill 886, which would tax online platforms such as Google and Meta to pay into a fund intended to support California journalism.
There’s Assembly Bill 1780, which would end legacy admissions at private universities, such as Stanford. Assembly Bill 2236 would ban grocery stores and retailers from offering reusable plastic bags, while Assembly Bill 2655 would prohibit artificial intelligence-generated “deepfake” videos from being shared on social media platforms if they pertain to elections.
In the Assembly, Senate Bill 1043 would crack down on so-called “troubled teen” reform facilities, while Senate Bill 1446 would limit grocery stores’ ability to offer self-service checkout stations.
We need to have a Proposition to vote for a part-time Legislature. These guys are too stuck on managing their vision of a nanny State to do anything worthwhile whatsoever.
Assembly Bill 1780, which would end legacy admissions at private universities………………….
Hey isn’t the “key” to this one is “private?”
Senate Bill 1043 would crack down on so-called “troubled teen” reform facilities,…………..
Are they criminal in nature? What are you going to do with long term addiction patients……
As Carrie says………………a par time legislature that gets rid of the “professional” office sitters that cannot make it outside of government.
Boy part time would put a huge dent in Slick and his face time.