California lawmakers are on summer vacation. Here’s where some of their bills stand.

Andrew Sheeler
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AS LAWMAKERS ENJOY A LENGTHY SUMMER VACAY, HERE’S WHERE SOME KEY BILLS STAND

It’s summer break in Sacramento, so things are fairly quiet on the California politics front.

Given that, it seems like as good a time as any to assess just where things stand with some of the bills that we have been following.

Here’s a rundown on some of them:

  • AB 886 and SB 1327: California lawmakers’ attempt to get social media companies to help pay for the news (in the form of AB 886, which charges companies like Meta and Google for news that appears on their platforms, and SB 1327, which would tax Big Tech to create a media industry tax credit) have met with heavy pushback from the tech industry. Despite that, AB 886 cleared a Senate Judiciary Committee vote and now sits in the Senate Appropriations Committee, while SB 1327 passed out of the Senate and now sits in the Assembly. It has yet to receive any committee assignments.

  • AB 1780: Assemblyman Phil Ting’s bill to block private California universities such as Stanford from allowing legacy admissions also sits in Senate Appropriations.

  • AB 1955: The hotly contested bill to ban school districts from telling parents when their children request to go by a different name or pronouns at school, or seek access to facilities or activities which do not correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificate, has made it through both houses of the Legislature and now goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom for a signature.

  • AB 2236 and SB 1053: A pair of bills aimed at banning grocery stores and retailers from handing out multi-use plastic bags now sit in the each house’s Appropriations Committee.

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