2025 Priority Legislation
Courage California’s 2025 priority legislation includes the following bills:
Abortion and Reproductive Justice
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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AB 54 | Krell, Aguiar-Curry | The Access to Safe Abortion Care Act would ensure access to medication abortion. | Introduced in Assembly 12/2/24. In committee. |
AB 551 | Krell | Seeks to establish the Reproductive Health Emergency Preparedness Program (RHEPP) for the purpose of expanding and improving access to reproductive, sexual, and miscarriage care in Emergency Departments across California. | Introduced in Assembly 2/11/25. In committee. |
Climate and Environmental Justice
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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SB 222 | Wiener and Pérez | The Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act would would allow insurers, California’s FAIR Plan, and victims to recover losses related to climate disasters from oil and gas companies. | Introduced in Senate 1/27/25. In committee. |
SB 332 | Wahab | The Investor-Owned Utility Accountability Act would address ongoing issues of affordability and safety with California’s investor-owned utilities (IOUs), including PG&E. The Act has a multi-prong approach, including capping IOU rate increases, prohibiting shut-offs for vulnerable ratepayers, requiring annual audits of equipments in high fire risk areas, tying executive compensation to safety metrics, and funding resilience hubs and community infrastructure to meet power needs during emergencies. | Introduced in Senate 2/12/25 |
SB 684 / AB 1243 | Menjivar and Addis | The Polluters Pay Climate Action Superfund Act of 2025 would force fossil fuel polluters to pay for climate damage mitigation and prevention. | Introduced in Senate and Assembly 2/21/25 |
Democracy and Voting Rights
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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SB 42 | Umberg, Allen, and Lee | The California Fair Elections Act of 2026 would put a measure on the November 2026 ballot to repeal California’s ban on public funding of campaigns so that every local government and the state can pass public financing if they want to. | Introduced in Assembly 2/5/25 |
Health Equity
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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AB 4 | Arambula | Would authorize Covered California to establish a parallel marketplace to offer the same qualified health plans to undocumented Californians, who are currently excluded from accessing the program. | Introduced in Assembly 12/2/25. In committee. |
AB 298 | Bonta | Would expand the prohibition on out-of-pocket costs, including copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles to all covered health care services provided to children under 21. | Introduced in Assembly 1/23/25. In committee. |
AJR 3 | Schiavo | A comprehensive statement to U.S. Congress explaining how Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are foundational to California communities and that any cuts to these programs will only offer irreparable harm. | Introduced 3/3/25. |
Housing and Homelessness
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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AB 246 | Bryan and Pérez | Would call for a rent freeze across LA County. | Introduced in Assembly 1/15/25. In committee. |
AB 736 | Wicks | The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026 would authorize $10 billion in general obligation bond funds to support the construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable housing and permanent supportive housing. | Introduced in Assembly 2/18/25. In committee. |
SB 52 | Pérez | The End AI Rent Hikes Act protect renters by prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to manipulate and unfairly increase rents. | Introduced in Assembly 12/24/24. In committee. |
Immigrant Rights
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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AB 49 | Muratsuchi | Would prohibit school or child care center employees from letting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers enter their sites without a valid ID, statement of purpose, court order and approval from the school district’s superintendent or director of the child care center. | Introduced in Assembly 12/2/24. In committee. |
AB 421 | Solache | Would generally restrict local police and sheriff’s deputies from helping immigration authorities near medical offices, places of worship and day care centers. | Introduced in Assembly 2/5/25. In committee. |
SB 48 | Gonzalez | Would prohibit school or child care center employees from letting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers enter their sites without a valid ID, statement of purpose, court order, and approval from the school district’s superintendent or director of the child care center. | Introduced in Senate 12/16/24. In committee. |
SB 98 | Pérez | The Sending Alerts to Families in Education (SAFE) Act would mandate schools and college campuses to immediately notify all students, parents, faculty, staff, and other community members if immigration officers are present on the premises, similar to early warning systems in place for emergency alerts. | Introduced in Senate 1/23/25. In committee. |
SBX1-1 and SB X1-2 | Wiener and Gabriel | Designates $25 million for the California Department of Justice to defend the state against the Trump administration and an additional $25 million for grants to nonprofits to provide legal services. | SIGNED INTO LAW 2/7/25 |
LGBTQ+ Rights
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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AB 82 | Ward | Would protect transgender and nonbinary Californians accessing essential healthcare and those seeking abortion and reproductive healthcare by limiting the sharing of sensitive patient data related to these services. The bill also expands safe-haven protections for patients, their families and medical professionals who offer this care to protect them from harassment, violence and hostile out-of-state actors. | Introduced in Assembly 12/20/24 |
AB 715 | Zbur | Would shield attorneys in California from disciplinary action for providing legal services to patients, medical providers and others seeking or offering health services that are lawful in the state but illegal in other states. | Introduced in Assembly 2/14/25. In committee. |
SB 59 | Wiener | The Transgender Privacy Act: Protects the privacy and safety of transgender and nonbinary Californians by making all court records related to name and gender marker changes confidential, reducing their risk of being outed and exposed to danger. It also prohibits these records from being posted publicly. | Introduced in Senate 1/8/25. In committee. |
SB 497 | Wiener | Would strengthen legal protections for transgender people, their teachers, healthcare providers, and family by shielding health data and medical information and supporting gender affirmation. | Introduced in Assembly 12/2/24. In committee. |
Public Safety and Justice
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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AB 1376 | Bonta | End Endless Probation would protect youth unnecessarily languishing on probation and codify existing case law that requires the conditions of probation to be individually tailored, developmentally appropriate, proportional, and not excessive | Introduced in Assembly 2/21/25. In committee. |
ACA 6 | Wilson | Would amend the California Constitution to prohibit slavery in all forms. Requires a 2/3 vote. | Introduced in Assembly 2/6/25 |
Workers’ Rights
Bill | Author | Description | Status |
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AB 247 | Bryan | Would guarantee that incarcerated firefighters receive wages equal to the lowest non-incarcerated firefighter pay for the time they are actively fighting fires and make sure that these wages get updated annually. Incarcerated individuals who fight state wildfires are currently compensated only $5 to $10 per day. | Introduced in Assembly 1/15/25. In committee. |
SB 261 | Wahab | Would help workers collect the money they are owed from employers who have committed wage theft. | Introduced in Senate 2/3/25. In committee. |