California Bills & Legislation (2025–2026)

Explore 119 California state bills from the 2025–2026 legislative session, with plain-language summaries, nonpartisan impact analysis, current status, and official sources.

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SB 1111 · California

Moderate impactModerate risk

Digital replicas.

Existing law creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly uses the name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness of another person, without their consent, for specified purposes. When a photograph or likeness of an employee of the person using the photograph or likeness appearing in an advertisement or other publication is incidental and not essential to the purpose of the publication, existing law establishes a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of producing ev...

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AB 1905 · California

Moderate impactModerate risk

Juveniles: custodial interrogation.

Existing law prohibits law enforcement officers from employing threats, physical harm, deception, or psychologically manipulative interrogation tactics, as specified, during a custodial interrogation of a person 17 years of age or younger. This bill would prohibit a law enforcement officer from seeking statements or information while working undercover, or by individuals working in collaboration with, or acting as agents of, law enforcement, from a person who was 17 years of age or younger d...

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AB 2018 · California

Moderate impactModerate risk

Missing persons: DNA testing.

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to develop a DNA database for all cases involving the report of an unidentified deceased person or a high-risk missing person and provides for the collection of DNA samples from unidentified deceased persons and from potential sources for comparison, as specified. Existing law requires that the database be funded by a $2 increase on death certificates issued by a local government agency or by the State of California. Existing law specifies the p...

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SB 741 · California

High impactModerate risk

Low Carbon Transit Operations Program.

Existing law creates the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program to provide operating and capital assistance for transit agencies to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases and improve mobility. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to administer the program and to adopt guidelines, in coordination with the State Air Resources Board, that describe the methodologies to be used by a recipient transit agency to demonstrate that proposed expenditures will meet specified program ex...

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ACR 216 · California

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Relative to Electronic Dance Music Month.

This measure would declare the month of June 2026 as Electronic Dance Music Month.

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ACR 218 · California

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Relative to the Huuc Atam Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Route 18 in the County of San Bernardino as the Huuc Atam Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs.

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SB 353 · California

Moderate impactLow risk

Income tax: credits: food banks.

The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2027, a credit for qualified taxpayers in an amount equal to 15% of the qualified value of fresh fruits or vegetables and specified raw agricultural products or processed foods donated to a food bank. This bill would extend the authorization for those tax credits for taxable years begi...

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AB 1951 · California

Moderate impactLow risk

Civil actions: filing fees: refunds.

Existing law provides that a civil action is commenced by filing a complaint by the court. Existing law provides that if a court clerk accepts for filing a complaint or other first paper, or any subsequent filing, and payment is made in an amount less than the required fee or by check that is later returned without payment, the clerk must notify the party who tendered the check that (1) the check was made out for an amount less than the required filing fee or has been returned without payment...

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AB 2514 · California

Moderate impactLow risk

Pupil achievement: State of the Achievement Gap Dashboard.

Existing law establishes the State Board of Education and requires the state board to study educational conditions and needs of the state and to make plans for the improvement of the administration and efficiency of the public schools of the state. Existing law establishes the State Department of Education under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and assigns to the department numerous responsibilities relating to the governance of the public elementary and secondar...

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AB 1856 · California

High impactModerate risk

Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

Existing law, the Digital Age Assurance Act, beginning January 1, 2027, requires, among other things related to age verification with respect to software applications, an operating system provider, as defined, to provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder, as defined, to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user's age bracket to applications available in a covered application...

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AB 1948 · California

Moderate impactModerate risk

Firearms: concealed carry licenses.

Existing law prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm or carrying a loaded firearm in public. Existing law requires a licensing authority to issue or renew a license to carry a firearm capable of being concealed if specified conditions are met, including, among others, that the applicant is not a disqualified person for the license, as specified, and the applicant has completed a specified course of training. Existing law makes a new or renewal license that is issued to be valid f...

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California Bills & Legislation (2025–2026)

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