2025 Priority Legislation
Courage California’s 2025 priority legislation includes the following bills:
Climate Justice
| Bill | Author | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 22 | Wiener and Pérez | The Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act would hold oil and gas companies accountable for their decades-long deception of Californians about the catastrophic impacts of the unrestricted production and use of their fossil fuel products on global warming and climate change. | Introduced in Senate 1/27/25 |
Public Safety and Justice
| Bill | Author | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AB 247 | Bryan | Incarcerated individuals who bravely step forward to fight our state’s wildfires are currently compensated a mere $5 to $10 per day. This bill would guarantee that incarcerated firefighters receive wages equal to the lowest non-incarcerated firefighter pay for the time they are actively fighting fires. It will also make sure that these wages get updated annually. |
Immigrant Rights
| Bill | Author | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. | |
| 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 1/27/25 |
| SB 1 | Wiener and Gabriel | Proposes $25 million for legal services: $10 million to the One CA Immigration Services Program, $10 million to the Equal Access Fund, and $5 million to the California Access to Justice Commission to bolster immigration legal services. | Passed state legislature, on Gov. Newsom’s desk |
Health Equity
| Bill | Author | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AB 45 | Bauer-Kahan | This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to make it unlawful to geofence an entity that provides in-person health care services and to prohibit health care providers from releasing medical research information related to an individual seeking or obtaining an abortion in response to a subpoena or request if that subpoena or request is based on the laws of another state that interfere with a person’s rights under the Reproductive Privacy Act. | Introduced in Assembly 12/3/24 |
| 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. |
Housing and Homelessness
| Bill | Author | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AB 246 | Bryan and Pérez | Would call for a rent freeze across LA County. |