But some things never change: Legislators wait until the last days of the session to pass a lot of bills. In the final push, they sent Gov. Gavin Newsom some significant legislation — to tax guns and ammunition , ban caste discrimination and decriminalize some psychedelic drugs. And before they finished nearly seven months of lawmaking late Sept. He finished on Oct. By the time he cleared his desk, he vetoed bills and signed Here are some of the noteworthy bills tracked by CalMatters reporters.
Bookmark this page for updates. SB by Sen. This raise would apply to employees such as nursing assistants, medical techs and janitorial workers. The pay boost would be phased in over the next several years. After much negotiation and amendments, the union reached an agreement with health care employers, which initially opposed the bill.
Now hospitals and clinics are also in support. In exchange, the union agreed to a year moratorium on local measures that aim to increase compensation for medical workers. Also, for four years, the union will not take any dialysis-related measures to the ballot. By Ben Christopher. That means no lengthy environmental reviews or noisy city council meetings. Many local governments, building trade unions and environmental activists have lined up against bills, but for different reasons.
Local governments and other champions of local control over land use are rarely fans of state laws that usurp their decision-making authority. Many construction union groups are still angry that Wiener — arguing that the prior rules made it prohibitively expensive to actually build anything — watered down some of the hiring standards in SB Environmental activists for lower income communities removed their opposition from SB 4 after it was amended to exempt areas around oil and gas wells and other heavy industry facilities.
The law that SB would re-up was used to fast-track the approval of more than 18, units in its first four years, according to a UC Berkeley Terner Center analysis. The Terner Center also calculated that SB 4 would open up tens of thousands of acres of land for ready-to-go affordable housing construction.
