Press Releases

SACRAMENTO – Senate Public Safety Chair Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley) and Assembly Public Safety Chair Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) announced today that they have been working this year to propose an additional amendment to SB 1414 to protect victims and punish predators.




Sacramento—SB 980, The Smile Act—authored by California Senator Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley)—expands coverage for dental implant benefits for Medi-Cal recipients, and passed Assembly Health Committee with unanimous bipartisan support.




Sacramento, CA — SB 980, The Smile Act—authored by California Senator Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley)—expands coverage for dental implant benefits for Medi-Cal recipients, and officially passed the Senate with unanimous bipartisan support, including has 34 co-authors.




Sacramento, CA — SB 980, The Smile Act—authored by California Senate Assistant Majority Leader Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley)—expands coverage for dental implant benefits for Medi-Cal recipients, and was moved off the Senate Appropriations suspense file to the Senate Floor.




Sacramento, CA — SB 981, Digital Identity Theft Act—authored by California Senator Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley), Chair of Senate Public Safety Committee—will prompt social media platforms to create a reporting mechanism for removing material considered Digital Identity Theft. On Tuesday, the bill passed Senate Judiciary with unanimous bipartisan support.




Sacramento, CA — Senator Aisha Wahab’s (D-Silicon Valley) has a trio of labor-related bills which have all passed Senate Labor Committee and are heading to Appropriations.




Sacramento, CA — SB 926, Safeguarding Against Digitized Misrepresentation—authored by California Senator Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley), Chair of Senate Public Safety Committee—expands existing law to ensure the intentional distribution of AI-generated photos—with the intent to harm the person whose face is in the photo—is a crime. SB 926 passed Public Safety with unanimous bipartisan support.




Sacramento, CA — Senator Aisha Wahab’s (D-Silicon Valley) behavioral health bills emphasizing substance use disorders, SB 1319 and SB 1320, both passed Senate Health Committee on Wednesday with unanimous bipartisan support.