2024 Legislative Package

16 Bills Signed into Law

Health & Aging

  • SB 1354 - Protect Seniors At All Costs Act
    • Ensures equitable treatment of Medi-Cal residents and protects against payment source discrimination at Skilled Nursing Facilities.
  • SB 1352 – Continuing Care Retirement Communities
    • Ensures residents of continuing care retirement communities are informed of all their rights upon signing their contracts.

AI

  • SB 926 – Stop The Online Predators (stop) Act
    • Expands current revenge porn law by prohibiting unauthorized distribution of artificially created sexually explicit images with the intent to cause serious emotional distress to the person depicted in the image.
  • SB 1381 - AI Child Safety
    • Prohibits the possession and distribution of explicit, abusive images of children by clarifying that images created through AI are also prohibited.
  • SB 981 – Digital Identity Theft Act
    • Requires a social media platform to provide a more active mechanism for someone to report sexually explicit images they are featured in to the social media platform.

Public Safety

  • SB 400 – Peace Officer Termination Disclosures
    • Increases police transparency by allowing departments to proactively share why an officer was terminated; if they so choose.
  • SB 1317 - Court Ordered Medications
    • Ensures continuation of the existing process for obtaining court orders to administer involuntary medication to those with severe mental health disorders who are detained in county jails
  • SB 1353 - Youth Bill of Rights Mental Health
    • Adds to the existing Youth Bill of Rights that youth detained in juvenile facilities are not to be deprived of mental health resources and services.
  • SB 982 - Organized Theft Sunset Removal
    • Ensures organized retail theft remains a crime to give prosecutors and law enforcement the effective tools they need to combat organized theft.

Mental Health

  • SB 1318 – Child Suicide Prevention
    • Requires policy updates to ensure students experiencing a mental health crisis on school campus receive care from a qualified behavioral health professional.
  • SB 1320 - Behavioral Health Integrated Coverage
    • Ensures health plans and insurers establish a process to reimburse providers for mental health and substance use disorder treatments that are integrated with primary care.

Workforce

  • SB 399 – Captive Audience
    • Protects workers' rights by ensuring employees cannot be required to attend meetings regarding political or religious speech.
  • SB 1321 – ETP
    • Updates labor standards on Employment Training Panel selection criteria, prioritizing high-quality programs, requiring plans for diverse recruitment, and increasing data transparency from the Employment Training Panel.

Women and Youth

  • SB 575–Child Marriage Data Integrity
    • Collects crucial data needed to craft informed and effective policy on the issue of child marriage, and increases transparency in the state-sanctioned minor marriage process instituted by SB 273.
  • SB 1356 - Gender Perspective Training
    • Expands the scope of existing judicial training programs to more broadly cover gender bias.

Housing

  • SB 1357 – HACA Transparency
    • Requires the Housing Authority of Alameda County (HACA) to increase transparency regarding their programming, and improve the function of their website for consumers.