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AB-1 2025-2026
Pending Review

Residential property insurance: wildfire risk

Author: Connolly

Requires the Department of Insurance to review "Safer from Wildfires" regulations every 5 years and consider adding new home-hardening measures that could qualify homeowners for insurance discounts.

AI Position: Support (with reservations)
Housing Insurance
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AB-2 2025-2026
Pending Review

Injuries to children: civil penalties (Social Media)

Author: Lowenthal (Coauthors: Patterson, Harabedian, Pellerin, Rivas)

Creates heightened civil liability for large social media platforms ($100M+ revenue) that injure children through negligent design. Statutory damages of $5,000 per violation up to $1M per child, or 3x actual damages.

AI Position: Support
Technology Child Safety
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AB-3 2025-2026
Pending Review

Alcohol and drug treatment facilities: local regulation

Author: Dixon

Removes residential zoning protections from alcohol/drug recovery facilities that cluster multiple homes under common ownership, or share management with commercial treatment facilities.

AI Position: Neutral (leaning oppose)
Healthcare Housing
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SB-1 2025-2026
Pending Review

Military Services Retirement and Surviving Spouse Benefit Payment Act

Author: Seyarto (Coauthors: Dahle, Jones, Ochoa Bogh, Valladares)

Excludes up to $20,000 of military retirement pay and DoD Survivor Benefit Plan payments from California state income tax for qualified taxpayers (income limits apply). Effective 2025-2034.

AI Position: Support (with reservations)
Taxes Veterans
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AB-7 2025-2026
Pending Review

Postsecondary education: admissions preference for descendants of slavery

Author: Bryan (+ numerous coauthors)

Authorizes California public and private universities to provide admissions preferences to applicants who can document direct lineage to someone subjected to American chattel slavery before 1900.

AI Position: Neutral (leaning support)
Education Reparations
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AB-10 2025-2026
Pending Review

Coastal Commission: SpaceX launches at Vandenberg

Author: Essayli

Overrides Coastal Commission's October 2024 decision blocking SpaceX from increasing rocket launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base from 36 to 50 per year. Urgency statute requiring 2/3 vote.

AI Position: Oppose
Environment Aerospace
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