Learn about bills that cleared the suspense file and will soon face decisive votes determining whether they pass the Legislature and make it to the Governor’s desk for consideration.

Environment

• SB 674 – The Refinery Pollution Reduction & Transparency Act
  Next step: concurrence vote in the Senate 
  Senate Bill (SB) 674 will create a statewide standard for the refinery fence-line monitoring program to ensure that adequate noxious pollutants are measured, and that best practices and technologies are deployed in order to better protect the health and wellbeing of the surrounding communities.
  SB 674 Bill Language
  SB 674 Fact Sheet
• SB 1182 – Climate Resilient Schools Act
  Next Step: Assembly Floor Vote
  Requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a Master Plan for Healthy, Sustainable, and Climate-Resilient Schools (Master Plan).
  SB 1182 Bill Language
  SB 1182 Fact Sheet
• SB 1425 – Long Beach Oil Cleanup Fund
  Next Step: Assembly Floor Vote
  Requires the state of California to save more each month to more adequately and responsibly reduce the State’s share of unfunded liability to plug and abandon the long-running oil extraction operations in the City of Long Beach.
  SB 1425 Bill Language
  SB 1425 Fact Sheet

Health

• SB 1016 – Latino and Indigenous Health Disparities Reduction Act
  Next Step: Assembly Floor Vote
  Requires the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), and the Department of Social Services (DSS), to collect and disaggregate anonymous demographic health data on the ancestry or ethnic origin of specified Latino, and Indigenous Peoples.
  SB 1016 Bill Language
  SB 1016 Fact Sheet
• SB 1131 – Enhancing Family Planning Accessibility
  Next Step: Assembly Floor Vote
  Senate Bill (SB) 1131 would increase access to the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program by expanding the definition of who can certify a clinic to provide Family PACT services. In addition, it allows an affiliate primary care clinic to enroll multiple sites under one site certifier.
  SB 1131 Bill Language
  SB 1131 Fact Sheet

Good Governance, Transparency & Accountability

• SB 991 – LAUSD Office of Inspector General
  Next Step: Assembly Floor Vote
  Senate Bill (SB) 991 will establish the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) permanently. By doing so, the OIG will have the authority to continue performing audits, investigations, and issuing subpoenas to prevent, detect, and deter fraud, waste, and abuse in the district’s various programs, contracts, and construction projects – a responsibility it has carried out for twenty-five years.
  SB 991 Bill Language
  SB 991 Fact Sheet
• SB 1337 – Referendum Funding Transparency
  Next Step: Assembly Floor Vote
  Senate Bill (SB) 1337 will provide California voters with additional transparency about the entities and corporations that fund referendum measures to overturn existing law.
  SB 1337 Bill Language
  SB 1337 Fact Sheet