Below is a list of my 2023 legislative policy proposals. From housing, to wildfire mitigation, child care affordability, health care access and so much more, it is my honor to put forth these policies to address the challenges facing our state.
Bill List
SB 526: Creates a domestic violence awareness poster with the phone number of the National Domestic Violence Hotline for employers to put up in their workplaces, on a voluntary basis.
SB 702: Requires an annual report on data of individuals appointed by the Governor to allow us to measure and ensure the state's Boards and Commissions are representative of the state.
SB 421: Makes permanent an existing law that prohibits a health plan or health insurer from requiring more than $250 per month in out-of-pocket costs for a 30-day supply of an oral anticancer medication.
SB 496: Requires a health plan and health insurance policy (including Medi-Cal) to provide coverage for biomarker testing.
SB 401: Caps the fees that are charged at Crypto ATMs placed disproportionately in low-income communities.
SB 675: Expands the use of ecological grazing as a nature-based wildfire solution and directs the state’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force to develop a plan to expand the use of ecological grazing near communities.
SB 442: Expands the definition of a misdemeanor sexual battery to include actions taken by the perpetrator to allow for unwanted sexual contact forced upon the victim.
SB 557: Expands the Prompt Payment Act to all nonprofit grants and contracts and sets a 5% minimum discrepancy amount and includes penalties paid to nonprofits in DGS' annual report. This bill would define the term “grant” to clearly mean a signed final agreement between any state agency and a nonprofit organization, removing the current eligibility cap.
SB 639: Creates the California Alzheimer’s Diagnostic Hub and provides a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and education of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias across the state.
SB 584: The Laborforce Housing Fund creates a state program to finance publicly owned housing that is built sustainably with union labor and addresses our housing crisis by developing homes for the benefit of all Californians.
SB 533: Proposes to reestablish the childcare tax credit for businesses who provided childcare to their employees.
SB 380: Transitions our child care reimbursement model to a single reimbursement rate for early learning and childcare programs and suspends family fees until an equitable family fee schedule can be established.
SB 476: This bill requires employers to pay for employee food handler safety training, the time required to take the training course, and makes public all accredited food handler training providers and the cost of their trainings on the CDPH website.
SB 390: Ensures that voluntary carbon offsets are additional and permanent to advance our greenhouse gas goals
SB 324: Removes prior authorization or other utilization review for laparoscopic surgery for the diagnosis of endometriosis.
SB 727: Protects human trafficking survivors who have been coerced into taking on debt without their consent and prohibits creditors and debt collectors from collecting this debt.
SB 846: Updates California's automatic voter registration (AVR) system to create an "opt out" system that would register more eligible voters.
SB 825: Adds metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and regional transportation planning agencies (RTPAs) to the definition of “local agencies” that may apply for Local Agency Technical Assistance (LATA) grants funded through SB 156 (Chapter 112, Statutes of 2021)
SB 728: This bill would ban the sale of plastic gift cards.