Senate Floor Session

Allen, Alvarado Gil, Archuleta, Araguin, Ashby, Becker, Blakespear, Cobaltin, Caballero, Cervantes, Choi, Cortese, Daly, Durazo. Gonzales, Grayson, Grove, Hurtado, Jones, Laird, Limon, McGuire, McNerney, Menjabar, Nilo, Ochoa Bog, Padilla, Perez, Reyes, Richardson, Rubio, Cillarto, Smallwood Cuevas, Stern, Strickland, Umberg, Valadares, Wahab, Weber-Pearson, Weiner.

Thank You Mr. President. Gracious and loving God, as we come to you in prayer on this day, may we be open and responsive to your spirit. As we go about the business of our lives, may we see your goodness in each person we serve. As we strive to be persons of peace in moments of conflict, we pray for an end to war, peace for all nations, and search for the guiding presence of your truth. As we enjoy the successes of our collaborative efforts, may we know the value of patience and kindness. And as we continue the work of this legislature, may our hearts be filled with goodness and thanksgiving. We ask this in your name. Amen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, but God, indivisible, with the liberty and justice for all.

Senate Bill 1181, 1130, 1075, 938, and Assembly Bill 1526.

Thank you, Mr. President. File item number six is the confirmation of Doreen DiDiamo for reappointment to the State Water Resources Control Board. She was first appointed in 2013 and currently serves as a board's vice chair. Before joining the board, she held various staff positions in the U.S. House of Representatives and also for the California Air Resources Board. She was approved by the Rules Committee on May 6th. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you, Senators.

Allen.

Alvarado Gil. Archuleta.

Aragon.

Ashby.

Becker.

Blake Spear.

Cobaldon.

Caballero.

Cervantes.

Choi.

Cortese.

Talley. Durazo.

Allen.

Alvarado Gil.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Smallwood Cuevas.

Wahab.

Secretary, please call the absent members.

Abrago. Abrago. Daly. Gonzalez. Limon. McLerny? No. Richardson? Aye. Smallwood Cuevas?

Ayes 34, noes 1.

Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, file item 7 is a confirmation of Dr. Anne Maria DeMars for reappointment to the State Athletic Commission. She is the president and co-founder of Seven Generation Games and the president and founder of Julia Group. In 1984, she was the first United States athlete to win a gold medal in the World Judo Championships. She was approved by the Rules Committee on May 13th on a 5-0 vote. We respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Highland. Aye. I. I. Roderick Hill. Aye. Archuleta. Aye. I. I. Aye. Cabaldon. Aye. Caballero. Aye. Cervantes. Aye. Choi. Aye. Cortese. Aye. Daly. Durazo. Aye. Gonzalez. Grayson. Aye. Grove. Aye. Hurtado. Aye. Aye, Jones. Aye, Laird. Aye, Limon. McGuire. Aye, McNerney. Aye, Benjavar. Aye, Nilo. Ochoa Boat Aye Padilla Aye Perez Aye Reyes Aye Richardson Aye Rubio Aye Ciarto Aye Smallwood Cuevas Stern Aye Strickland Aye Umbert Aye Valadares Aye Wahab Aye Weber Pearson Aye Weiner Aye Nilo Aye

Dally, Gonzalez, Limon, Smallwood Cuevas. Ayes 36, no 0.

Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, for our final item today, item 8 for confirmation of Ronald Fiore for appointment to the State Athletic Commission. He is the president of Fiore and Company and a founding partner in Guaranteed Mortgage. He's also the director of Fiore Family Foundation, which supports youth in sports and underserved communities. He was approved by the Rules Committee on May 13th on a unanimous vote. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Allen. Aye. Alvarado Gil. Aye. Archuleta. Aye. Aragon. Aye. Ashby. Aye. Becker. Aye. Blayspear. Aye. Aye, Cavalden. Aye, Caballero. Aye, Cervantes. Aye, Choi. Aye, Cortese. Aye, Daly. Durazo. Aye, Gonzalez. Grayson. Aye, Grove. Aye, Hurtado. Aye, Jones. Aye, Laird. Aye, Limon. McGuire. Aye, McNerney. Aye, Menjabar. Aye, Nilo. Aye, Ochoa Boak. Aye, Padilla. Aye, Perez. Aye, Reyes. Aye, Richardson. Aye, Rubio. Aye. Ciarto. Aye. Smallwood Cuevas. Stern. Aye. Strickland. Aye. Umber. Aye. Valadez. Aye. Aye.

Daly, Gonzalez, Limon, Smallwood Cuevas. Ayes 36, noes 0.

Senate Bill 73 by Senator Cervantes, an act relating to elections and declare the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, members, for the opportunity to present Senate Bill 73 today on concurrence. California's election system is facing growing threats and attempts to undermine confidence in our democratic process. Last year, the legislature passed SB 851 to strengthen protections against election interference. SB 73 builds on those protections. We continue to see efforts to challenge legitimate election processes, which have increased concerns about election security nationwide. Federal investigations and subpoenas targeting election records in other states, along with discussion about deploying law enforcement at voting locations, demonstrate the need for stronger safeguards. Recent incidences involving the seizure of voted ballots raise serious concerns because breaking the chain of custody permanently compromises those ballots as evidence. Existing law requires voted ballots to remain in the custody of county registrars to preserve election integrity. SB 73 strengthens those protections by allowing the Secretary of State and the Attorney General with the ability to object to a county registrar authorizing for instance law enforcement, including federal officials, to be the employed at voting locations or election officers to intimidate voters. It also protects the chain of custody of voted ballots. This bill would also make it a felony to violate existing state law and take those ballots from the custody of a county registrar. It also allows the secretary of state and attorney general and the relevant county registrar to seek civil remedies for the same action. This bill will also prohibit any individual from allowing law enforcement agents from accessing, modifying, or taking possession of voting machines or voter rosters without a court order. California must act now to protect the integrity of our elections and maintain public trust in our democratic institutions. If we fail to defend our democracy, we risk losing the freedoms and constitutional protections that define our country. We have the opportunity and responsibility to act now, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. I rise in support of SB 73 as chair of the Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee and as a co-author. Make no mistake, this bill is not about hypotheticals. hypotheticals. This year we saw a MAGA County Sheriff with ties to the extremist three percenter militia group take an unprecedented step in our state's history by seizing hundreds of thousands of ballots in violation of existing state law and in doing so undermining the very fabric of our democracy. Just had to really think about that. A sheriff in California just seizing ballots because of conspiracy theories. And let's be clear, he did it on the flimsiest of pretenses at the urging of other right-wing conspiracy theorists who buy into President Trump's agenda to take away our right to vote by stealing elections. The analysis of both the press and the attorney general is clear. Sheriff Bianco's investigation in the last year's special election on Prop 50 was a sham, a complete fraud. And what is worse is that he has told the press that he has every intention of seizing ballots again as early as after the June primary election. One moment. Point of order.

My point of order is that they need to stick to the merits of what this bill is. This bill does not mention the sheriff, and this is not a trial for the sheriff of Riverside County. And I would appreciate if the speakers would maintain that quorum. Thank you.

Absolutely. I, of course, will obey the Mr. President's ruling. I disagree, though. I think it's directly relevant. But regardless we must protect the integrity of our election process and we need to take steps before these problems arise and not wait to react after they arise as there are people who want to basically destroy our ability to vote and to have a democracy. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you Senator.

SB 73 sends a wrong message to Californians. Instead of increasing transparency and confidence in our elections, this bill restricts oversight and limits the ability of observers and the law enforcement to investigate the potential wrongdoings. It even prevents observers from challenging questionable signatures on vote by mail ballots. If voter fraud is truly as rare as supporters claim, then why is California so afraid of audits and the reviews of voter data to ensure compliance with the federal law? This bill makes it look like the state has something to hide, and I respectfully ask for your no vote.

Thank you, Mr. President and colleagues. As a joint author of SB 73, I rise in strong support. When someone at the top says that we're going to, in essence, interfere with this election, when someone at the very top says that we should have seized voting machines in 2020, when someone at the top says we're going to deploy ICE to polling places, I think we should believe them. And I think we have a duty as public policy makers here and as the guardians of this election to take action. And that's what SB 73 does. SB 73 takes that action and makes sure that in California, we don't allow local officials on the flimsiest of circumstance, and I urge anyone here who's interested in the flimsiest of reasons to read the search warrant that was issued as a pretext to actually seize those ballots. We can't allow that to happen, and that's what SB 73 does. It protects California, it protects Californians, and it protects the integrity of our election. I urge an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President, members. I rise in opposition to SB 73. Is it interference or investigation? It's not interference when you just investigate to make sure that everything, every vote that is counted is counted properly. In fact, I would remind everybody on this floor, our democracy doesn't work if people don't have faith in the election outcome. And so it's not interference when you want to investigate to make sure everything has been done properly. And then also I would point out that this is a direct regulation of federal law enforcement, which violates the supremacy clause and is likely to be ruled unconstitutional. In fact, there was a bill similar to this that was ruled unconstitutional in U.S. versus Newsom. And the Ninth Circuit ruled it unconstitutional. So, again, I think this bill violates the Supremacy Clause on top of, again, we're talking about investigation versus interference, what the other side wants to say. And my understanding is even the current California Secretary of State, who is not a Republican, is opposed to this bill for those reasons. I ask for your no vote.

Allen. Aye. Alvarado Gil. No, Archuleta. Aye. Aragon. Aye. Ashby. Aye. Becker. Aye, Blakespeare. Aye, Cobaldon. Caballero. Aye, Cervantes. Aye, Choi. No, Cortese. Aye, Daly. Durazo. Aye, Gonzalez. Grayson. Aye, Grove. No, Hurtado. Aye, Jones. No, Laird. Aye. Aye. Limon. Aye. McGuire. Aye. McNerney. Aye. Menjavar. Aye. Nilo. Ochoabog. No. Padilla. Aye. Perez. Aye. Reyes. Aye. Richardson. Aye. Rubio. Aye. Ciarto. No. Smallwood Cuevas. Aye. Stirling. No. Aye. Valadeiros? No. Wahab? Aye. Weber Pearson? Aye. Weiner? Aye.

Cabaldon? Aye. Daly, Gonzalez, Nilo? Ayes 29, noes 8 on the urgency clause. Ayes 29, noes 8 on the measure.

Senate Bill 929 by Senator Jones, an acronym to Energy.

Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, I rise to present SB 929, a straightforward oversight bill requiring the chair of the California Energy Commission to annually appear and report before the legislature. In recent years, the Energy Commission's authority and responsibilities have expanded significantly, but regular legislative review has not kept pace. SB 929 closes that gap by creating a consistent annual opportunity for accountability and public transparency. It's received no votes in committee, and I ask for your aye vote today. Thank you.

Allen. Aye. Alvarado Gil. Aye. Archuleta. Aye. Aragon. Aye. Ashby. Aye. Becker. Aye. Bladespear. Aye. Cabaldon. Aye. Caballero. Aye. Cervantes. Aye. Choi. Aye. Cortese. Aye. Daly. Durazo. Aye. Gonzalez. Grayson. Aye. Grove. Aye. Hurtado. Aye. Jones. Aye. Laird. Aye. Aye. Limon. Aye. McGuire. Aye. McNerney. Aye. Menjavar. Aye. Nilo. Ochoa Bok. Aye. Padilla. Aye. Perez. Aye. Reyez. Aye. Richardson. Aye. Rubio. Aye. Ciarto. Aye. Smallwood Cuevas. Aye. Stran. Aye. Strickland. Pearson? Aye. Wiener? Aye.

Thank you, members. Members, this bill is a reflection of some of our work in the Senate implementing the SB 254 report. However, we're still in that process. So at this point, The bill merely requires the authors of that report at the California Earthquake Authority to come testify before all the relevant committees. The legislature, happy to report to you that all those committees are actually working together. We've done some joint oversight hearings. So hopefully this bill's need is obviated by our process and becomes unnecessary. But for now, we want to keep this bill moving. So I respectfully ask for aye vote.

Allen. Aye. Alvarado Gil. No, Archuleta. aye, Aragon, aye, Ashby, aye, Becker, aye, Blakespeare, aye, Cobaldon, aye, Caballero, aye, Cervantes, aye, Choi, Cortese, aye, Daly, Durazo, aye, Gonzalez, Grayson, aye, Grove, No, Hurtado. Aye. Aye, Jones. No, Laird. Aye. Aye, Limon. McGuire. Aye. Aye, McNerney. Aye. Aye, Menjavar. Aye, Nilo. Ochoa Vog. Padilla. Aye. Aye. Aye, Perez. Aye. Aye, Reyes. Aye, Richardson. Aye. Aye, Rubio. Aye. Aye, Cierto. Smallwood Cuevas. Aye, Stern. Aye. Aye, Strickland. No. Umbert? Aye. Valadez? Wahab? Aye. Weber-Pearson? Aye. Wiener? Aye.

Choi? Daly? Gonzalez? Limon? Nilo? Ochoa Bo? No. Cillarto? Valadez? Ayes 28, noes 5.

Senate Bill 983 by Senator Weber Pearson, an act relating to public contracts.

Thank you, Mr. President. Senators, I rise today to present SB 983, a bill that authorizes the Port of San Diego to utilize job order contracting for their repair, remodel, and repetitive work. Currently, when maintenance is needed on the port's property, the port must go out for competitive bidding for each individual project. This can result in major delays and can interrupt port operations. Instead, job order contracting establishes long-term contracts with pre-qualified contractors. This reduces the time and resources spent on procurement activities and is particularly beneficial for addressing unplanned or emergency repairs effectively. SB 983 provides the Port of San Diego Jock Authority until January 1, 2037, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote on SB 983.

Aye. Jones. No. Laird. Aye. Limon. McGuire. Aye. McNerney. Aye. Menjabar. Aye, Nilo. No, Padilla.

Daly, Gonzalez. Limon, Nilo.

Senate Bill 1367 by Senator Cervantes, an act relating to land use.

Thank you, Mr. President and members. SB 1367 prohibits cities and counties from approving new land use that would allow the construction of detention facilities or permit the conversion of existing buildings into such facilities. The goal of SB 1367 is to protect California residents from the rapid expansion of private detention facilities, particularly those not designed for long-term human habitation. California has a responsibility to ensure that its land-use policies do not enable human right abuses. This is particularly important given my district's proximity to the border and the number of empty warehouses in the Inland Empire. The public knows very little about what is happening inside private detention facilities, except for the trickle-whore stories about rancid food, medical neglect, and severe overcrowding, especially in ICE detention facilities as immigrants are moved across the state lines where at least 32 people have died in ICE custody in 2025 and 15 so far in 2026. The bill defines detention facilities to mean any structure, whether temporary or permanent, operated by a private entity on behalf of a government entity for the temporary holding a person's charge with a criminal offense or detained for civil or administrative purposes. This bill ensures that its land use policies are not used to facilitate human right abuses. It builds on the state's leadership in limiting detention expansion and moves us closer to a future rooted in dignity, safety, and accountability. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise in opposition to SB 1367. It seems to me that we should be moving in the opposite direction if we are concerned about the conditions of current facilities. and we should be building and maintaining facilities that are adequate for the needs of law enforcement. And so therefore, this bill goes in the opposite direction. It will maintain the current status quo, which apparently is unacceptable. And if that is the case, then we should be resolving that problem. And that means probably building different facilities that are more adequately prepared to handle the detention needs of either local agencies, county agencies, state agencies, or federal agencies. The other issue here is that with federal lands, that would mean that would be the only place for them to put any detention facilities, and the state does not get to intervene in that process. And federal lands are generally out in the middle of nowhere. And so that even makes it a further need for us to be locating these where people and the need is the most And instead we are using the federal part of this that we really don have control over to make a case for not building any more detention facilities and thus relying on the facilities we have now that apparently, like I said before, are not adequate and are dehumanizing. So let's build some humanizing ones and be responsible about it. So with that, I respectfully ask for a no vote on SB 1367.

Yes. No human being should be held in facilities meant for product supply for profit. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Allen.

Alvarado Gil.

Archuleta.

Adegeen.

Ashby.

Becker.

Blakespear.

Nilo

Daly, Gonzalez, Limon, Menjivar.

Nilo.

Senate Bill 1257 by Senator Adagin, an act relating to immigration enforcement.

Thank you, Mr. President. and I rise to present Senate Bill 1257, which requires the Attorney General to publish annually a publicly available report that summarizes immigration enforcement incidents and activities that occur in the state of California and to submit that report to the governor and legislature each year. Colleagues, last year the legislature took action to pass several important bills to protect sensitive areas from immigration enforcement, including AB 49 by Assemblyman Marisucci, SB 98 by Santa Perez and SB 81 by myself. Despite these laws, we continue to see raids happen at schools, hospitals, and in communities throughout the state of California, which creates an environment of fear for all Californians to either go to school or access the care that they need. This bill authorizes the Attorney General to request information directly from designated state locations, like schools, hospitals, courthouses, and places of worship in order to prepare this report. The Attorney General will also be empowered to take enforcement actions to ensure compliance with this bill. In context, California is home to nearly 11 million immigrants, and from January to October 2025 alone, there were over 1,800 arrests that were recorded in our state. These enforcement actions have produced a climate of fear across communities, causing people to miss medical care, avoid school, or withdraw from public life, transparent reporting restores trust and helps the state hold entities responsible to the laws that we have passed to ensure that all Californians can safely access medical care go to school go to a courthouse and go about their daily lives in our state without fear of arrest or deportation I respectfully ask for an aye vote on SB 1257.

Allen.

Abraudio.

Archuleta.

Aragin.

Ashby.

Becker.

Blakespear.

Cabaldon.

Caballero.

Pérez. Aye.

Richardson. Aye.

Ciarto. Aye.

Stern. Aye.

Umber. Aye.

Wahab. Aye.

Weiner. Aye.

Daly. Gonzales. Grove. No.

Senate Bill 1103 by Senator Perez, an act relating to civil law.

Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, I rise to present SB 1103, the Repair Act. SB 1103, the Repair Act requires large home improvement retailers doing business in California to publicly report immigration enforcement activity occurring on their premises and to provide the Attorney General with copies of any documentation gathered in the normal course of business within 72 hours of receipt of an administrative subpoena. This bill will also require retailers to publicly disclose their policies on employee interactions with immigration authorities and whether they directly or indirectly share surveillance data with federal immigration agencies. Every morning across California, day laborers gather in the parking lots of large home improvement retailers, which have long served as informal hiring sites for workers seeking jobs from homeowners and contractors in need of labor. Recently, we have witnessed these same locations increasingly become targets for immigration enforcement activity. Authorities carrying out these raids have utilized deceptive and legally questionable tactics during raids, including showing up masked, driving unmarked vehicles, utilizing military-style equipment, and otherwise racially profiling a predominantly Latino workforce. Recently, a lawsuit was filed in California alleging that Home Depot installed ALPR cameras at all its locations in our state without notifying shoppers, raising serious privacy concerns. While that behavior calls into question concerns in safety, SB 1103 is focused on providing timely information to the appropriate parties seeking to defend the rights and lives of some of our most vulnerable people. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I oppose SB 1103, and that's why I rise today. Making retailers into police and immigration agents is absurd. And while they did strike the PAGA section of this where they would have a private right of action this is the last thing that our retailers need in this state is more laws like this This is why it is so difficult. These laws are why it's so difficult to do business in California, and it's becoming such a deterrent for new businesses to even consider doing business here in California. I urge you to vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate the Senator's concerns. Unfortunately, we have seen a rise in immigration enforcement occurring at retail spaces all across California and the country. This has already created fear and concern for so many cost customers, shoppers are ready, as well as the workforce like day laborers that organize outside of these communities and seek out work and opportunity. This is about making sure that we are providing timely information when it's requested. Should an administrative subpoena be submitted on behalf of our Attorney General, we need to ensure that these stores provide a timely response and notification. It plays a huge, huge role as these cases are being investigated, especially in cases where something goes horribly wrong. I urge an aye vote. Thank you.

Alan.

Abraud Aguil.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Blakespeare. Cobaldon. Caballero. Cervantes.

Choi.

Cortese.

Daly. Durazo.

Gonzalez. Grayson. Grove.

Jones.

Laird?

Limon? McGuire?

McNerney?

Benjabar?

Nilo? Ochoa Boak?

Padilla?

Perez?

Reyes?

Richardson?

Rubio?

No.

Stern? Strickland?

Umberg?

Valadares?

Wahab?

Weber-Pherson? Weiner?

Becker?

Blakespeare? Cabaldon? Caballero? Daly? Gonzalez? Grayson? Grove? No.

Limon? Nilo? Rubio? Aye.

Weber-Pearson?

Senate bill 1399 by Senator Durazo and I will name to state government

establishes the framework for the California Department of Justice review of immigration detention facilities and mandates the department report on conditions of confinement their standard of care and how conditions affect due process rights, but that mandate is set to sunset on July 1st, 2027. This bill removes the sunset provision to continue the reviews. Cal DOJ has issued five reports since 2019. The most recent one, issued just a few weeks ago, found that many of the conditions had worsened as the federal administration's mass deportation campaign led to overcrowding at the seven facilities operating in California in 2025. There were six deaths of detained individuals between September 25 and March 26. Four men held at the Adelanto Ice Processing Center and two held at the Imperial Regional Detention Center, the highest number since Cal DOJ started conducting reviews. These deaths raised concern about these facilities' ability to safely house a growing population of individuals and highlight the need for accountability and oversight. Instead of focusing on improving conditions and enforcing its own detention standards at the inspected facilities, ICE opened an eighth facility. We have a responsibility to make transparent the treatment of detained individuals. This bill ensures that we do not lose one of the few tools we have to monitor the facilities and document the truth. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Allen.

Alvarado Gil.

Archuleta.

Aragon.

Ashby.

Becker.

Blakespear.

Caballero.

Cervantes.

Choi.

Cortese.

Dally. Durazo.

Gonzales. Grayson.

Grove.

Hurtado.

Jones.

Laird.

Limon. McGuire.

No, Padilla.

Aye, Reyes.

Aye, Rubio.

No, Smallwood Cuevas.

Aye, Strickland.

Aye, Valadares.

Aye, Weber Pearson.

Cobaldon.

Dally, Gonzalez, Limon, Nilo, Paladaris.

Senator Reyes, you are recognized.

out of courts, which will protect the legal process for all in California by preventing indiscriminate arrests by ICE agents in and around the grounds of a courthouse. In 2025 ICE detained nearly 10,000 people in California, many of whom were arrested while appearing in court. This has created a climate of fear and negatively impacts public participation in courts. California should not let the federal government make political targets out of people trying to be good stewards of the law California courts serve as an essential gateway to justice for millions of residents Discouraging people from coming to court makes our community less safe. Several states, including New York, Illinois, and Washington, have enacted legislation to protect the sanctity of courts from ICE deportations by preventing arrests at or near courthouses without a judicial warrant. California is joining those states by moving legislation to protect individuals participating in court proceedings. This bill does not prevent arrests with a judicial warrant. I am also proud to share that this bill is a Latino caucus priority. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Allen. Aye. Alvarado Gil. No. Archuleta. Aye. Aragon. Aye. Ashby.

Daly, Gonzalez, Limon, Nilo, Strickland.

Senate Bill 1292 by Senator Richardson and Aquilaine's Vehicles.

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise to present SB 1292, which deals with a crucial and important issue facing California cities, and they're all battling it now and before and going forward, and that is curb space. Parking curb space, particularly in urban communities, downtown, businesses, residential districts, are some of the most valuable and contested pieces of public right-of-way across California. As a result, double parking, bike lanes, unsafe loading behaviors, and more have become common in many communities. Under SB 1292, local governments would have the authority, if desired, not required, but if desired, to adopt an ordinance and or resolution authorizing the use of stationary cameras or sensors with clear public signage to manage parking curb activity at specific locations. There are a few important notes, however, that I wanted to make sure to bring to your attention. Number one, there is also a sunset on the system for 2032 after five years. Number two, that language through amendments were highlighted and discussed to make sure that the third-party vendors cannot collect nor enforce these notices that would go out. Number three recipients of a parking notice have the exact same ability to contest that notice as if a notice was put on someone windshield All citations are finally all citations are to be reviewed by peace officers or persons authorized to enforce parking laws. This also disqualifies third-party companies to issue tickets themselves. By giving cities these important tools, local government can adequately manage modern curb activity effectively. With that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, although I appreciate the author's intent and that this is just a pilot program, I do have grave concerns regarding the proliferation of autonomous enforcement mechanisms paired with the expansion of AI capabilities, which offers an increasingly alarming level of exposure for people in their daily lives that can be used in all sorts of valid but also nefarious matters, and some that could be also problematic. I don't think that we should be moving forward with a cheaper enforcement of parking fees and we should also be incredibly alarmed at the fact that anything, anywhere and anyone can be filmed at any time. The data retention on many of these issues can be used for any variety of ways. I'm actually really surprised that we would be considering such a bill, even as a pilot program. The privacy that this infringes upon, cameras everywhere, I think we should all be incredibly hesitant and reserved about moving forward in this manner. I respectfully ask for an aye. A no vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I, too, rise in opposition to SB 1292. And I'm going to speak on behalf of all those great parking meter folks out there, code enforcement that goes around great cities like Inglewood, like Santa Monica, like Culver City. They employ a lot of people to go out and make human-based decision-making regarding a person's legal or illegal use of a parking space. This methodology takes that human-making decision out of the equation, puts a bunch of people out of work for AI, which is something this body, I think, has told us over and over again that they want to make sure does not happen. So, you know, when we do laws like this that put people out of business, and I realize a couple of them may be retained to be able to go over the thing, What it really means is that this is a way for cities, and that's why you don't have third-party contractors do the work, because they skim money off the top, right? But when cities are doing it, they can collect full fare via the camera, and the dispute that they have to go through a process to dispute it, as opposed to having that conversation with the soon-to-be unemployed parking meter person. So with that I would urge a no vote This is something that is not needed for cities that are handling it just fine with their human people that are employed at this time and we just reducing employment With that and also it helps increase the cost of living for people who get snagged in these camera traps. So with that, I would urge a no vote. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. President. This bill was reviewed by the Privacy Committee, and it meets all of the highest standards, and it is breaking new ground for local governments in how to assure the protection of that data. It is a little odd on this floor to hear the arguments from the other side of the aisle about concerns about job loss and contracting out of municipal services for the first time, but this bill keeps humans in the loop at the most important points to exercise that discretion, simply gives the tools and the records that allow both the enforcement officers and the parker to be able to dispute the ultimate result. It isn't just somebody walks by and saw it, but there is an actual photographic record in this case. Remember, this is not mainly about parking meters. This is about vehicles that are taking up space in otherwise prohibited zones, in red zones, in loading zones, in disabled parking zones. And those have real impacts. When a small business cannot get its eggs or its milk because someone has been parking in the loading zone for the last two hours, It's not just that it's a cost on the driver who's parking illegally. It affects the entire downtown and that small business too. This is not a victimless crime when folks do this. This is a well-designed, narrow pilot program in order to make sure that our citizens get the same advantages of these technologies as the private sector does at the local level. Urge an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I also rise in support of SB 1292. I think the chair of the Privacy Committee talked about the privacy protections that were built in this bill. All of the images of license plates are reviewed by a police officer, a parking enforcement officer before a citation is issued, first and foremost. So it still is including parking enforcement officers in the process of reviewing and issuing citations. It includes civil liberties and privacy protections built into the process as well. and colleagues many of you may have read a book by Professor Donald Shoup called the cost of free parking which looked at the issue of how we can better manage our curb space to turn over parking spaces to increase occupancy and thereby improve commercial activity in our cities this is dealing with an issue around curbs that are specifically restricted and need to ensure turnover whether it's bike lanes, no stopping zones, crosswalks, places where we don't want cars idling and obstructing and stopping. So this will better manage our curb space, improve safety, improve the effectiveness of our traffic laws, and this is a pilot. The results of the pilot will be presented to the respective committees. We can assess the efficacy of the pilot and see whether this could be something that can be adopted statewide. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you,

you may close. Well, I was going to spend time to respond, but the chairman of public safety and the chairman of privacy handled it. I respectfully ask for your aye vote, SB 1292. Thank you,

Senate Bill 878 by Senator Perez, an act relating to insurance.

Thank you, Mr. President and members. SB 878 strengthens California's existing prompt payment insurance laws by imposing automatic interest penalties when insurers delay making coverage decisions or issuing payments. In the aftermath of a disaster, policyholders depend on these prompt payment protections enforced by the insurance commissioner, which require insurers to respond to claims and issue payments within established time frames. But despite these protections, survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fire have experienced a hard truth. Insurance companies do not need to deny a claim to devastate a family. They only have to delay it. This bill is based off of real stories that I've heard directly from my constituents. One of the biggest concerns that we've heard from hundreds of complaints across the Altadena area is that people are facing chronic delays and chronic denials with receiving payments from their insurance companies. This has impacted individuals' ability to be able to rebuild in a timely manner, and it violates state law. And we've continued to see this over and over again. We need enforcement here. This is about creating accountability so that insurance companies are following the law. We're ensuring survivors are able to rebuild in a timely manner, and they are getting the payments that they so rightfully deserve. I urge an aye vote. Thank you.

Senate Bill 958 by Senator Weber-Pearson,

Thank you, Mr. President. Senators, I rise today to present SB 958, which ensures that housing development is not hindered by an unprecedented ruling while still upholding the state's environmental standards. SB 958 clarifies CEQA law so that certain impacts related to increased building height are properly accounted for within a project's environmental impact report. This bill simply provides prospective guidance to the courts. SB 958 helps ensure that our environmental review process remains focused, consistent, and predictable, so that agencies, courts, and stakeholders are all operating with a shared understanding of the law. This bill has received unanimous bipartisan support, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Senate Bill 924 by Senator Hurtado, an act relating to energy.

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise to present Senate Bill 924, the Access to Energy Savings Act, and modernizes California's low-income energy assistance programs to ensure they deliver real relief for families who need it the most. It does this by expanding the types of services allowed under the Energy Savings Assistance Program to include innovative technologies and weatherization methods that can lower utility bills. It also refocuses the program by considering the improvement of health and safety and overall quality of life for households. SB 924 is about making sure our energy assistance programs work as intended, not just on paper, but in the lives of the people that we all represent. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Senate Bill 1057 by Senator Becker, an act relating to health facilities.

Thank you, Mr. President. This bill represents a common-sense shift towards restorative justice in the health care sector. The bill modernizes the certification process for certified nurse assistants and home health aides. By prioritizing current character and proven rehabilitation over past mistakes, California can build a stronger, equitable, and sustainable workforce. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Senate Bill 1092 by Senator Allen, an act relating to mobile home parks.

Thank you so much, Mr. President. Mobile home parks are the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the country. They provide important homeownership opportunities for many of our fellow Californians. You've seen a lot of these communities now going from mom and pop enterprises to ownership by some larger private equity firms and large multi-state corporations that seek to capitalize on a manufactured homeowner's unique situation. Although they're called mobile homes, mobile homes are not typically able to be moved, and many mobile homeowners are older, disabled, or on fixed incomes that limit their ability to pick up and move. And we started to see this new phenomenon driving up rents and increasing evictions. So this bill provides that if a mobile home park owner receives an offer for the sale, lease, or transfer that management intends to accept, they ought to give residents or their designated representative the opportunity to offer a competitive bid to purchase the park. This is about trying to create real pathways for residents to offer competitive bids to preserve their communities. I ask for an aye vote.

president I rise today to present Senate bill 1123 which simply requires California to include economic and other direct and indirect benefits to consumers and others in assessment and assessing pending regulations today state agencies are that implement laws that we pass are disincentivized from saving California businesses and consumers millions of dollars in fact the more money a regulation will save and benefit the public the bigger the disincentives for example if a proposed rulemaking action is anticipated to produce 50 million dollars in savings and one dollar in costs it would trigger an arduous bureaucratic process that on average consumes almost two years and cost state agencies more than a million dollars as a result the implementation of the laws we enact is massively delayed and cash-strapped state agencies often purposely scale back their regulations for example in 2014 the legislature passed a law requiring an update to firefighter personal protection equipment standards due to this process. These regulations went into effect almost 10 years later in 2023. Our state agencies should not be discouraged from promulgating cost-saving regulations, particularly when they are implementing laws enacted by this legislature, and the benefits of the laws we write should not be delayed for years just because state law treats benefits the same as costs. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you, Senator.

Thank you, Mr. President, members. I rise in opposition to SB 1123. What this bill would effectively do is end the requirement that California agencies perform when they put in their regulations a detailed economic analysis and see the real meaning and impact on hard-working families and also on our businesses. The reason why people are leaving the state of California for the first time in California history since the gold rush is because their jobs are leaving the state of California. A big part of that is these regulations that come from unaccountable boards and agencies. And I have been around a long time in this legislature. I've never seen more business of the business community be against the bill than this bill right here before us today Again, it's one of the main reasons why people are leaving the state of California, because their job is leaving the state of California. And if you want to continue the flight of citizens and their jobs leaving and go to places like Texas, Montana, and Florida, then vote for this bill. I urge your no vote.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. When this body passes a law and the governor signs it, that's the law of the land. And those laws should be expeditiously implemented by agencies. And when those laws are beneficial and sometimes in extraordinary ways, they should be quickly implemented. That's what this bill is about. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President. SB 1233 seeks to provide some additional transparency in utility rate making to ensure that electrical and gas rates are set with the necessary information to best protect rate payers. We know that so many of our constituents are falling behind on their utility bills, and a return on equity that's set too high can cost ratepayers millions of dollars annually without actually being necessary for improvements to infrastructure and service. One of the recent research from the Berkeley Energy Institute estimated the cost to consumers across the country from excess rates of return average billion per year over the past 30 years Lots of ratepayer funds have gone toward wildfire mitigation projects aimed at decreasing the risk of utility wildfire But questions do remain as to whether these efforts are being appropriately reflected in the calculations of risk and associated authorized profit. So there are a lot of bills on this subject. This bill is more narrow. It would require the electrical and gas corporations to disclose data regarding their cash on hand. an overall capital structure as it relates to ROE to minimize the total revenue requirement. That's what the bill does. This will provide interveners and the PUC with more comprehensive financial information so as to evaluate how utilities are financing projects and the appropriate ROE. The bill also would require the PUC to consider and make findings related to electrical utility wildfire mitigation behavior to prompt a more targeted consideration of the impact these projects might have on overall risk. So this is about trying to add some additional transparency during rate making to ensure that the PUC and interveners and legislators are getting the full picture that they need to best protect rate payers. And with that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President and colleagues. I rise to present SB 1237, a priority measure for the Legislative Women's Caucus. This bill will strengthen enforcement of California's pay equity reporting law to ensure the Civil Rights Department can effectively combat wage discrimination. California has led the nation on equal pay, but our laws are only as strong as their enforcement. Wage disparities persist. For every dollar that a man earns, a woman earns 81 cents, with larger gaps for women of color. To better identify and address these inequities, California requires companies with 100 or more employees to report annual pay data to CRD, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, sex, and job category. However, the Department is missing pay data for at least 400,000 workers. SB 1237 will strengthen enforcement by increasing the penalty for repeat noncompliance from $200 to $1,000 per employee. Increased penalties will serve as a meaningful deterrent against noncompliance and generate additional resources for more proactive enforcement. This bill ensures employers can treat pay data reporting as optional and gives CRD the tools it needs to effectively combat wage discrimination It is a critical step toward ending persistent wage disparities and delivering real pay equity I respectfully ask for your aye vote

Thank you very much, Mr. President and colleagues. I rise to present SB886 to protect ordinary rate payers from having to pay for the energy infrastructure costs associated with the AI revolution. A similar bill to this was introduced last year. most legislatures had probably not focused yet on data centers, never mind hyperscale, large-scale data centers. We were told that California real estate and power is too expensive for data centers wanting to locate here, how we wish that were true to some extent. Since then, data center landscape has shifted significantly. Developers across this country are building data centers at breakneck speed at unprecedented size, many of them requiring the energy and water of mid-sized cities. In my district alone, a 700-acre, 330-megawatt project alongside a residential community and elementary school is broken ground with no public input. If ultimately built, the project will dwarf all existing projects in California, and this is just the beginning. To support that development, utilities across the country are borrowing unprecedented amounts of money and passing the costs on to ordinary ratepayers, small businesses, homeowners, and renters alike. residents across the country have experienced significant cost increases as a result of hyperscale data centers designed to support the big tech AI arms race with utilities spending billions to build out infrastructure for these centers. A recent prominent example in our own country deals with the eastern seaboard and most of the Midwest. PJM, one of the largest grid operators in the country, internet interconnection proposed data centers that have driven consumer costs up 76 percent, with the market monitor states saying are irreversible. On top of that, the operator warns the region could run short of electricity as early as next year due to unchecked demand. We cannot make the same mistakes we are seeing being made in other parts of the country. We must protect existing utility rate payers from being unfairly stuck with the increased demand not caused by them or consumed by them or stuck with stranded costs. This bill directs the PUC to establish tariffing that would consider those costs and allocate them to the new demand sources for interconnection, new demanded transmission infrastructure. Be sure that undemand consumers are not paying for costs they are not generating. This is an important vote. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Thank my colleague for this bill. Rises, a co-author, spent a lot of time working on this issue with our friend from San Diego. If we get data center policy right, we have an opportunity to bring beneficial load on the grid. That's the load that helps bring down the rates for everyone. Data centers are going to require very large increases in energy supply, and we need to make sure that they pay for all the costs associated with energy needs and don't end up causing higher prices for the rest of us. So there are states that have not done this right. We have the opportunity to get this right here in California, make sure they pay up front, and make sure that those few hours a year that our grid is constrained, that they can either take load off the grid or find other sources of load that are clean. And so this bill does get it right. Thank my colleague. I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.

Thank you. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Cabaldon. Aye. Cortese. Daly. Gonzalez. Limon. Nilo. Perez. Aye.

Senate Bill 905 by Senator Becker, an act relating to electricity.

Thank you, Mr. President. This bill is about fixing some of the structural problems that have led to unaffordable electricity bills. As much as utilities may say the right things about reducing rates, there is obviously a trust problem with the public. And at the end of the day, utilities earn bigger profits and utility executives earn bigger paydays for spending more money. Given those incentives, it's hard for the public to trust and not to favor expensive investments like undergrounding 10,000 miles of wire, rather than funding more cost-effective solutions that earn less profit. So this bill makes several changes to improve those incentives. It will focus utilities on spending money better, not spending more money. First, the bill aligns the personal incentives of utility executives with keeping rates affordable for our constituents. It requires 20% of their annual compensation for anyone, VP or higher, to be tied to keeping rates from rising faster than inflation. If our bills keep going up faster than that, then they won't earn their bonuses. This bill also has significant metrics and transparency. For example, requiring the PUC to establish clear performance metrics on things that we should know. Things like reliability, system utilization, speed of connecting new customers. This will make clear what our expectations are for good performance. Third, in particular, utilization metrics. How much of the grid is being utilized will push utilities to get more value out of the infrastructure that we've already paid for. before proposing new spending. The bill also authorizes the PUC to give utilities a lower return on equity for certain categories of investments that have a lower risk or where the investors get other benefits besides a pure financial return. A good example of that is undergrounding power lines to prevent fires. Investors like that spending because they earn a return on it, and it lowers the risk of a huge fire bankrupting the utility. If they are given the same return on undergrounding as for any other investments, they'll want to overspend on that. This bill corrects for that misaligned incentive by authorizing the PUC to say that undergrounding investments, for example, earn a bit less profit than normal return on equity. As I've said many times, and we did some great work last year, but as I've said many times, there's no one silver bullet that can make electricity bills more affordable. This bill attempts to really chip away at some of the structural problems, and especially the misaligned incentives that contribute to high rates. The utilities have said a lot about how they're trying to keep rates down, and they are doing some of the right things. This bill just makes sure they are really incented to do that, and that we can use metrics to hold them accountable for it. We need them to spend more money. We need them to spend money better not spend more money With that I respectfully ask for your aye vote Thank you Senator Seeing no microphones raised for discussion or debate Secretary please call the roll Allen Aye

Daly, Durazo, aye. Gonzalez, Limon, Nilo, Perez, aye. Rubio? Aye.

Senate Bill 909 by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas, in acronym to Public Works.

Thank you, Mr. President. Good afternoon, colleagues. I'm proud to present SB 909, which strengthens enforcement of public works laws to ensure workers are paid the wages they earn, protect responsible contractors, and safeguard taxpayer dollars. We took amendments in the Senate Appropriations Committee to address opposition concerns to remove automatic annual COLA increases in this bill for contractor registration fees and public work penalties. When the state spends public dollars on construction, workers should be paid fairly. Responsible contractors should be able to compete on a level playing field, and taxpayers should know that their money is supporting lawful, high-quality work. But that is not always what happens. Wage theft and labor violations remain a serious problem on public works projects and penalties have not been meaningfully updated in over a decade. Bad actors are too often able to treat violations as a cost of doing business. And for workers, this is not an abstract. A construction worker can put in long hours on a public works project expecting a fair paycheck only to find out that they were underpaid or misclassified. That missing pay is rent, it's groceries, it's child care, it's gas money, all of the things you need to get to the next job. SB 909 fixes this by directing penalties toward enforcement, and it ensures that bad actors can no longer out-compete contractors who do follow the law. This is about protecting workers, ensuring fair competition, and making sure taxpayer dollars support lawful work. And with that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Allen. Aye. Avarado Gil. No. Archuleta. Aye. Aragin. Aye. Ashby. Aye. Becker. Aye. Blakespeare. Aye. Cabaldon. Aye. Caballero. Aye. Cervantes. Aye. Choi. No. Cortese. Aye. Dally. Durazo. Aye. Gonzalez. Grayson. Aye. Grove. No. Hurtado. Aye. Jones. No. Laird. Aye. Limon McGuire aye McNerney aye Menjabar aye Nilo Ochoa Bogue no Padilla aye Perez aye Reyes, aye. Richardson, aye. Rubio, aye. Ciarto, no. Smallwood Cuevas, aye. Stern, aye. Strickland, no. Umbert, aye. Valadares, Wahab, aye. Weber Pearson? Aye. Weiner? Secretary? Weiner, aye. Secretary, please call absent members. Daly, Gonzalez, Limon, Nilo, Valadez.

Senate Bill 925 by Senator McNerney, an act relating to fusion energy.

I like your instincts there, Mr. President. Thank you. And distinguished colleagues, SB 925 tasks the California Energy Commission with developing a statewide roadmap for the development of fusion energy. Fusion energy is made by minicking the power of the sun, by bringing atoms together, and it does not produce long-lived radioactive waste, nor is it prone to accidents that pose any risk to the population. Significant advances have been made in fusion energy development in recent years. In particular, in 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Labs in my district achieved ignition and that means getting more energy out of the reaction that was put into it. This is the first time in the world that that has happened and they're advancing. Because of this and other types of advancement, massive investments are now flowing into fusion energy. California, unfortunately, is at the risk of losing fusion ecosystem with several companies already opting to move to other states and even other countries. Filling in the regulatory gaps, which is what 925 will do, and developing a statewide roadmap for fusion energy will help these jobs and investments stay in California. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I'm just rising in support. The California Problem Solvers Caucus has been deeply digging into energy issues. We know we need an all-hands-on-deck approach to energy. This is a common sense bill. It's a priority bill from our Problem Solvers Caucus, and we urge an aye vote.

Thank you. I'd like to echo my colleagues' comments and support this bill as well and request an aye vote. As I just got up to speak just briefly, I think that we need to have an all-hands-on-deck approach for energy and all of the above, and I think California has the innovation ability to do it and respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Well, I want to thank my two colleagues for speaking up on this issue. As you all know, this is extremely important to me. I'm very passionate about fusion energy. I started working on it when I was in college, and I put it aside because it didn't seem like it was ever going to happen, but now it's really happening. Folks, I ask for your aye vote.

Ayes 37, nos 0. The measure passes. Moving to item 91, SB 954, Secretary, please read.

Senator Blakespear, you are recognized.

Thank you, Senator. Senator Valadares, you are recognized.

Senator Wiener, you are recognized.

then the environmental impact report is limited to the factor that was that near miss. both of those are not being eliminated in this bill but are being rolled back significantly so that they will be much, much, much harder to use. So as a result, I cannot support this bill today. I hope that when this comes back on concurrence, it is limited to advanced manufacturing and it does not include any rollbacks of our housing sequel work. Thank you. Thank you. Senator Choi, you are recognized.

Senator Reyes, you are recognized.

Senator Smallwood-Cuevas, you are recognized.

Senator Laird, you are recognized. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I wanted to talk briefly

Thank you, Senator. Senator Durazzo, you are recognized.

Once again, Senator Wiener, you are recognized.

Thank you, Senator. Seeing no other mics raised for discussion or debate, Senator Blakesburg, would you like to close?

Thank you, Senator. Secretary, please call roll.

Aye.

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Ochoa Boak.

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Archuleta. Aye.

Cabaldon. Caballero. Daly. Gonzalez. Grayson. Hurtado. Aye. McNerney. Nilo. Rubio. Aye.

Secretary, please call absent members.

The measure passes. Moving to item 93, SB 973. Secretary, please read.

Senator Becker, you are recognized.

Thank you, Senator. Seeing no microphones raised for discussion or debate members we actually have a bill that is eligible for unanimous roll call without objection Hearing no objection or seeing no objection Ayes 37 no zero the measure passes Moving to item 96 SB 996

related to manufactured housing. Senator Padilla you are recognized. Thank you Mr.

Seeing no microphones raised for discussion or debate, Secretary, please call roll.

Senator Cabaldon, you are recognized.

See no microphones raised for discussion or debate. Secretary, please call roll.

Aye.

Aye.

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Aye, Daly.

Grayson.

Hurtado.

Aye, Limon.

Aye, Nilo.

Aye, Perez.

Reyes.

Aye.

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Smallwood Cuevas.

Aye.

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Senate Bill 1158 by Senator Stern in Accruity to Energy.

Thank you, Mr. President. Members, I rise to present SB 1158, which would update our joint reliability planning assessment process conducted by the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission. These are quarterly reports that have been very useful for assessing our furtherance of state energy goals and our reliability needs. This bill would require those quarterly reports to include status updates on transmission upgrades and grid infrastructure capacity. A substantially similar bill passed this body in 2023 with no no votes and no opposition. This bill has similarly no opposition. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Allen.

Alvarado Gil.

Archuleta.

Aragon.

Ashby.

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Senate Bill 1167 by Senator Blakespeare, in-act relating to vehicles.

Thank you, Mr. President and colleagues. Arise to present SB 1167, which addresses misrepresentation in the e-bike marketplace and strengthens consumer protections around how electric bicycles are marketed and sold. Often, any bicycle-shaped device with an electric motor is labeled an e-bike, regardless of power and speed capabilities. But that's not true. California law clearly defines e-bikes as having no more than 750 watts of power and going no faster than 20 miles per hour on a throttle or 28 miles per hour when pedal-assisted. Manufacturers and sellers have not held fast to this legal definition. They have blurred the line by advertising more powerful motor vehicles, sometimes known as e-motos, as e-bikes. This can cause consumers to underestimate the danger of using these e-motos and other motor vehicles. SB 1167 requires clear labeling of vehicles for sale as to what type of vehicle it is and not allowing bicycles to be marketed and sold as e-bikes unless they meet the California legal definition for them. This legislation will better regulate motor vehicles that look like e-bikes so purchasers are aware of safety risks and manufacturers and sellers are held responsible for misleading advertisements. This bill is sponsored by four of the biggest groups working on e-bike issues. Cal Bike, People for Bikes, Streets for All, and Streets are for Everyone. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

You are recognized. Thank you, Mr. President. I rise in strong support of SB 1167. I want to thank the author for her leadership on this issue and on various other sustainable transportation issues. E-bikes are an essential part of the future of cycling access in California. It allows people who may not have the same physical abilities as what we traditionally think of as a cyclist to be able to ride. In fact, my father, who's now in his late 80s, he rode into his early 80s, and his e-bike helped him be able to continue to ride. I will say also, representing the greatest city on the planet, San Francisco, is also a very hilly city. And for any area that has a lot of hills, it really just helps people be able to bike. And this bill sets good standards to make sure that we're protecting consumers and that people know what they're getting without crushing the industry. So I am grateful to the author for her leadership, and I ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Chairperson. I rise in supportable SB 1167. As e-bikes become more popular, we are also seeing dangerous electric motorcycles and e-motors being marketed to families as if they are ordinary bicycles. According to a 2023 Orange County Public Works report Orange County represented 41 of all reported e injuries statewide and experienced a 500 increase in e trauma patients between 2020 and 2023 SB 1167 brings a needed accountability through clear labeling and safety standards while protecting legitimate e-bike users. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. And I want to join the senator from the greatest city in San Francisco County in support of the bill. So, and also the caution about promoting the sector. For those of you who have not been in office for longer than a couple years, there was a time in this region, in Sacramento and Yolo County, where there were red electric assist bike share bikes everywhere. This was the second largest bike share community in the country. and the scooters came along as well and for a moment for just a moment it seemed as though we might be on to our solutions on the mobility challenge on climate change on emissions on creating neighborhoods and then we decided to regulate them where we never regulated their competition so the challenges always in these in these when these newer technologies come out and bike is not new But when bikes came out, there was widespread opposition. There were lots and lots of Orange County safety incidents with regular bikes in the 1800s. This has been the story of every new technology. And we always say, well, you know, now there should be this speed limit. There should be this helmet requirement. There should be this and this and that. No parking here. And then what happens is they're competing against an automobile industry and sector that has not been regulated substantially since 1920. And so that area is largely unregulated relative to the standards that we impose on these. And then we wonder what happened to all the red bikes. What happened to everybody traveling in this region by means other than a single occupancy vehicle. And so it is absolutely essential that we create the framework and the guardrails for the e-bike sector to flourish and not simply see it as a threat. In other states there are legislation pending that would regulate every which way to Thursday. this sector, this bill is very wisely and narrowly crafted to deal with making sure consumers know exactly what it is that they're buying and not buying, and allows and encourages the industry to be successful and contribute to a healthier California. Urge an eye vote. Thank you.

Yes, thank you. Well, I really appreciate the comments from my colleagues who made excellent points. And I want to recognize how many times we do have e-bike legislation in the legislature that does not have the support of bicycle groups or mobility groups because of the fear that it will essentially squelch the market. And so we will not have people who are elderly like my good colleague from San Francisco's dad riding around on his bicycle in his 80s. and the reality is that we want people to ride their bicycles and we want e-bikes to be part of the solution so how do we manage the fact that there are things that are going far faster than an e-bike should be going and there are people who are very young riding them who have had no guidance on the rules of the road and so this this and also how do we manage the fact that the dmv doesn really want to have additional work put onto them Many e bills seem to task the DMV with doing things So this bill is narrowly crafted to recognize where we have a problem to address that It doesn't address every e-bike problem. I hear about e-bikes from my constituents all the time and various parts of the problem. But this is something that is really important, which is that when parents are buying their kids something, it should not be an e-moto or a motorcycle. It should be actually a bike and an e-bike. So with that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Secretary, please read. Senate Bill 1249 by Senator Richardson, an act relating to taxation to take effect Community tax levy.

Mr. President, in California, there are approximately 151,000 adults between the age of 86 and 90. Medicare costs have risen by 10%, inflation 3.3%, yet Social Security benefits have only increased 2.8%. Recent federal legislation recognized such hardships and implemented a $6,000 senior tax deduction to reduce economic burdens. California needs to do the same. In 2022 alone, 39.3% of all Californians age 85 and up live 200% below the federal poverty line. SB 1249 would provide senior taxpayers 86 to 90 with a $3,000 tax credit until taxable year 2032. By providing targeted relief, this aims to improve the financial stability, independence of older Americans, and amid these high rising cost of living pressures. I respectfully ask for a roll call, 100% vote on SB 1249.

Thank you Mr President I too rise in support of SB 1249 and I applaud my colleague for bringing this bill forward because the governor budget has raged war on our seniors and this will be a minimal drop in the bucket to replace what the budget is taking from them and I appreciate this bill

Unanimous consent, please.

Senate Bill 1283 by Senator Ashby, an act relating to electric vehicle charging stations.

Thank you, Presiding Officer. California has over 200,000 EV charging points available for use, but needs hundreds of thousands more to meet our zero-emission goals. SB 1283 expands existing requirements for ministerial approval of EV charging stations to include essential additions like canopies and on-site energy storage systems. This bill will help accelerate EV infrastructure and support California's clean energy goals. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Allen. Aye.

Alvarado Gil.

Archuleta.

Aragon.

Ashby.

Becker.

Blakespeare.

Cabaldon.

Caballero.

Cervantes.

Choi.

Cortese. Aye. Dally. Durazo. Aye. Gonzalez. Grayson. Aye. Grove. No. Hurtado. Aye. Jones. Laird. Aye. Limon. Aye. McGuire. Aye. McNerney. Aye. Menjabar. Aye. Nilo. Ochoabog. Padilla. Aye. aye, Perez, aye, Reyes, Richardson, aye, Rubio, aye, Ciarto, no, Smallwood Cuevas, aye, Stern, aye, Strickland, no, Umberg, aye, Valadares, Wahab, aye, Weber Pearson, aye, Weiner, aye.

Daly, Gonzalez, Jones, Nilo, Ochoa Bog, Reyes, Reyes aye. Valdez, aye.

Senate Bill 1301 by Senator Allen, an act relating to insurance.

Members, California has the fourth highest non-renewal rate in the country for insurance. This bill makes some long overdue reforms to the process by which residential property insurers choose not to renew someone's property insurance policy, known as the non-renewal process. So the bill does three things It requires insurers to disclose the reasons a policyholder policy is not being renewed The notice has to include specific information as to why their home doesn meet the underwriting guidelines and in the case of wildfire risk the community reasons It has to provide policyholders the opportunity to mitigate the problems with their property identified by their insurer. If the policyholder conducts the mitigation and provides evidence and the insurer agrees that the work was done appropriately, then the policy will be renewed. And it prohibits some unreasonable bases for non-renewal, including the idea that the claim was made below the policyholder's deductible, claims made that the insurer did not pay for, claims not covered by the policy, just to name a few. Ahead of the devastating fires in Los Angeles, the three largest companies announced their plans to dump nearly 50,000 policies. And this all happened very quickly right before the fires. More than a fifth of those non-renewed policies were in areas that would soon burn. You know, this doesn't tell the insurers that they have to keep anybody. It just says they've got to give them a little bit more time to mitigate or to go find another carrier. And the hope, of course, is that this could lead to changes, mitigation at properties, which will lower our risk. With that, I respect your eyes for an aye vote.

Alan.

Alvarado Gil.

Aragon.

Aye, Becker.

Aye, Cabaldon.

Aye, Cervantes.

No, Cortese.

Durazo.

Grayson.

No, Hurtado.

No, Laird.

Aye, McGuire.

Aye.

Menjavar.

Nilo Ochoa Bog.

Aye.

Perez.

Aye.

Aye.

Rubio.

No.

Aye.

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No.

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No.

Secretary, please call absent members.

Ayes 29, noes 7. The measure passes. Moving to item 120, SB 1314. Secretary, please read.

Senator Menjivar, you are recognized.

Secretary, please call the roll. Allen. Aye. Avarado Gil. Archuleta. Aye. Aragon. Aye. Ashby. Aye. Becker. Aye. Blake Spear. Aye. Cabaldon. Aye. Caballero. Aye. Cervantes. Aye. Choi. Cortese Aye, Daly Durazo Aye, Gonzalez Grayson Aye, Grove

Aye, Jones

Aye, Limón

Aye, McNerney

Aye, Nilo

Ochoa Bog Padilla

Reyes Perez, aye. Reyes, Richardson, aye.

Ciarto, Smallwood Cuevas, aye.

Strickland, Umber, aye.

Weber Pearson, aye.

Secretary, please call absent members. Ayes 30, Nose 2. The measure passes. Members, we're going to move forward to item 128 SB 887. Secretary, please read.

Senator Padilla, you are recognized.

senator thank you for your presentation seeing no microphones raised for

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No.

Aye.

Aye.

Richardson.

Rubio.

Siarto.

Senate Bill 907 by Senator Archuleta, an act relating to driving offenses.

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, members, and Mr. President. Today I'm presenting Senate Bill 907, which strengthens California DUI enforcement and sentencing laws for repeat offenders. As many of you know, this bill is deeply personal to me. following the death of my granddaughter, Samantha, and I am proud to have introduced this bill in honor of Samantha and victims across California. Senate Bill 907 includes three provisions that will protect California families from drunk drivers, improve road safety, hold repeat serial offenders accountable, and prevent future tragedies from occurring. The first provision, bronze law. This mandate, Watson advisements in situations where DUI is dismissed by the court or plead down to another charge, including a hit and run. After receiving a Watson warning, an individual who drives drunk again and kills someone faces second-degree murder charges. In addition, bronze law, Senate Bill 907, goes after repeat offenders, serial offenders, with enhancements for prior felonies, DUI convictions. In California, typically a person only receives a felony DUI upon fourth violations within 10 years. This means that Senate Bill 907 generally only will apply to a fifth offense within a 10-year period. Lastly Senate Bill 907 also increases punishment for hit and runs if the driver has a recent prior DUI conviction Repeat offenders know they are able to take advantage of our laws surrounding hit and runs They understand that they can benefit from running away from their crime if they are impaired. If they can delay arrest until after the drug or alcohol is out of their system, it is likely that they will only be charged with a hit and run. It is finally time to end California's support of repeat serial DUI offenders that terrorize our streets and communities. This is not a partisan issue. This is a family issue. This is about showing California that their government takes our drunk driving epidemic seriously, and we are committed to making our roads safe and prevent types of tragedies that have sadly brought us together today. I repeat, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

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I'll roll to go. Aye. Archuleta. Aye. Aye. Aragin. Aye. Ashby. Aye. Becker. Aye. Blakespeare. Aye. Cabaldon. Aye. Caballero. Aye. Cervantes. Aye. Choi. Aye. Cortese. Aye. Daly. Durazo. Aye. Gonzalez. Grayson. Aye. Aye. Grove. Aye. Hurtado. Aye. Jones. Aye. Aye. Laird. Aye. Limon. Aye. McGuire. Aye. aye, McNerney, aye, Menjabar, aye, Nilo, aye, Ochoa Vogue, aye, Padilla, aye, Perez, aye, Reyes, aye, Richardson, aye, Rubio, aye, Ciaro, aye, Smallwood Cuevas, Stern, aye, Strickland, aye, Umberg, aye, Valadez, aye, Wahab, Weber-Pearson, Weiner, aye.

Daly, Gonzalez, Smallwood Cuevas, Wahab, aye. Weber Pearson.

Senate Bill 952 by Senator Laird, in Act Relating to Energy.

Thank you. This bill supports the Department of Water Resources in achieving 100% clean energy procurement for the state water project by 2035. It ultimately reduces costs that get passed down to the state water project ratepayers. There's support on both sides and no registered opposition. I ask for an aye vote.

Allen. Aye. Cabaldon.

Caballero.

Cervantes.

Choy.

Cortese.

Daly. Durazo.

Gonzales. Grayson.

Grove.

Hurtado.

Jones.

Laird Aye Limon Aye McGuire Aye McNerney Aye Menjavar Aye Mcnerney Aye Aye Menjavar Aye Aye Nilo Aye Aye Ochoa Bog Aye Padilla Aye Aye Perez Aye Reyes Richardson.

Aye. Rubio.

Cillarto.

Aye. Smallwood Cuevas.

Stern. Strickland.

Aye. Umber.

Aye. Valdeiros.

Aye. Wahab?

Weber-Pearson?

Weiner?

Laird, aye.

Becker? Daly? Gonzalez? Reyes?

Rubio?

Stern? Wallet-Darris?

priority bill that would create state oversight of for-profit private immigration detention facilities to ensure that they meet the same standards of care and confinement to protect the health, safety and humanity of individuals held in non-criminal confinement facilities. The purpose of for-profit private detention centres in California is to involuntarily detain immigrants pending a civil immigration adjudication that could lead to their exclusion from the country or deportation. As part of their contracts with the federal government, private detention center operators agree to adhere to a minimum set of health and safety standards created by ICE. These standards include provisions that ensure safe and adequate food services, medical care, personal hygiene, religious practices, sleeping conditions, and environmental health and safety. These are all contracts with the federal government. Recent reports from multiple government oversight bodies like the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General, the Federal Government Accountability Office, and our own California Department of Justice have repeatedly identified unsafe conditions, inadequate food supplies, and poor or nonexistent medical care for these for-profit private detention facilities. routinely regulates other civil confinement facilities to ensure that while they are providing health-related and custodial services, that they are also protecting the health and safety of people who have been involuntarily confined to their facilities. The vast majority of these civil confinement facilities are privately owned and operated, and there is no question that the state has a legal obligation to ensure the protection and well-being of the people who have been confined. So the question we need to ask ourselves is, are those who are detained in private for-profit detention centers entitled to the same health and safety protections afforded to every other involuntarily detained person in California or not? The answer must be yes because California obligation to ensure the health and safety of every single person involuntarily detained in this state does not stop at the door of a for immigration detention centre I respectfully ask for your aye vote Senator Padilla you recognized Thank you very much Mr President Rise today in strong support of SB 942 As a proud co-author, no human being should be subjected to these horrific conditions, especially not in the United States. While corporations make millions in profit, detainees are forced to endure unsafe conditions, inadequate access to food and clean water, and poor and non-existent medical care resulting in dire consequences. In the last six months, there have tragically been six deaths of individuals detained inside private detention centers, two of which occurred in my district. These deaths are not isolated incidents. They're a reflection of a system that lacks oversight and accountability. While we cannot regulate federal immigration enforcement, California can and should ensure that for-profit private businesses are meeting basic health and safety safeguards. This bill will bring much-needed oversight and accountability to the system that puts profits before people respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I stand as proud as a co-author for SB 942. I just want to add to my colleagues' remarks. Just recently, there was a hunger strike that was called in two facilities to show the seriousness of what's taking place. it's very much easier for us to stand and support this bill and support them that way. I urge an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I also rise in strong support as a proud co-author of this measure. This is critically important. SB 942 recognizes that California has a responsibility to protect the health and safety of every individual health in custody, regardless of immigration status. We keep hearing reports coming out of these facilities from allegations of molestation, degrading conditions, no privacy. The list goes on and on. And what's worse is that people have attempted to go inside to ensure adequate conditions, and they're denied, which is unjustifiable and absolutely unacceptable. Last year was reported as the deadliest year in more than two decades for individuals in ICE custody. with 32 confirmed deaths nationwide. This bill creates a practical oversight framework through the California Department of Public Health, which is necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of these human beings. No one in California should be subjected to dangerous or neglectful conditions while confined in a facility operating within our state, and we should take this very seriously. With that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise in very strong support of SB 942. I also have a bill in this space and I cannot emphasize enough how important it is that we create a framework for oversight and accountability of private detention facilities across the state of California. I have a constituent in my district by the name of Masuma Khan. She was unjustly detained when she was at her immigration check-in appointment. She's a fire survivor, a 64-year-old fire survivor from Altadena after surviving the Altadena fires, had to endure being held in California City Detention Center where she was denied access to clean water, to clean food, refused access to an attorney. Her family did not know where she was for several days, and she almost suffered a health emergency. If it was not for her daughter who stepped into the situation to ensure that she received health support, she might not be here today. What is happening in these facilities is utterly unacceptable. We have seen more people die in progress. facilities in California the last two years than we have ever in our state's history. That is a problem. We need to do something about it. These facilities operate in our state and we have a responsibility to hold them accountable and to ensure that people are safe regardless of their immigration status. I urge an aye vote. Seeing no other mics up for discussion or debate, Senator

and for sharing the stories. We've heard them over and over again. There are over 6,000 immigrants detained involuntarily in these detention facilities. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Allen. Alvarado Gil. Archuleta.

Aragon.

Aye. Ashby.

Becker.

Aye. Blakespeare.

Cobaldin.

Caballero.

Cervantes.

Choi. Aye, Cortese. Aye. Aye, Dally. Durazo. Gonzalez. Grayson. Aye.

Cortado. Aye. Aye. Jones. Aye. Aye. Aye. Laird. Aye. Aye. Limon. Aye. McGuire. Aye.

Aye. Menjavar. Aye. Nilo. Aye. Ochoaubo. Aye. Padilla. Aye. Aye. Pérez.

Aye. Richardson. Aye.

Cillarto Aye Smallwood Cuevas Aye Stern Strickland Aye Umber Aye Valadez Aye

Weber Pearson. Aye.

Allen. Aye. Abraudio. Aye. Daly Durazo. Aye. Gonzalez. Perez. Aye. Aye. Stern. Aye.

Senate Bill 992 by Senator Nilo, in accordance to local government.

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise to present SB 992. It deletes an existing sunset that authorizes a special district with a budget of less than $150,000 to engage in an agreed-upon procedures engagement in lieu of a full traditional audit. The bill also increases the qualification threshold allowing districts with annual revenues not above to utilize annual financial compilations or agreed upon procedures engagements for lean special districts with smaller budgets alternative procedures provide fiscal oversight without major costs that a full audit would be a burden to them SB 992 has zero no votes and no opposition. I ask for an aye vote.

Senate Bill 1374 by Senator Nilo in acronym to civil actions.

Thank you again, Mr. President. I rise to present SB 1374. this authorizes a public higher education institution to seek a temporary restraining order on its own behalf when it as an institution faces unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence. Currently, universities may seek a restraining order on behalf of a student or an employee who has suffered a credible threat of violence. However when the threats are made toward an institution without targeting an individual the institution is unable to seek a restraining order SB 1374 would close that gap by permitting the higher education institution to seek a temporary restraining order when a credible threat is made toward the campus The bill has zero no votes, no opposition. I requestfully request an aye vote.