HEALTH AND SAFETY

• AB 33, Bains. Fentanyl Misuse and Overdose Prevention Task Force. Establishes, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, the Fentanyl Misuse and Overdose Prevention Task Force (Task Force) to undertake specified duties relating to fentanyl abuse. Contains an urgency clause to ensure the provisions of this bill take effect immediately. An act to add and repeal Section 11455 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• AB 43, Holden. Greenhouse gas emissions: building materials: embodied carbon trading system. This bill authorizes the Air Resources Board (ARB) to create an Embodied Carbon Trading System (Trading System) to implement provisions of AB 2446 (Holden), Chapter 352, Statutes of 2022, and makes various revisions to the framework for measuring and reducing the carbon intensity of building materials used in the construction of new buildings crated by • AB 2466. An act to amend Section 38561.3 of, and to add Section 38561.6 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gas emissions.

• AB 70, Rodriguez. Emergency response: trauma kits. Applies the requirement for the placement of trauma kits in specified buildings to certain structures constructed prior to January 1, 2023, upon a modification, renovation, or tenant improvement. An act to amend Section 19310 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to emergency response.

• AB 120, Committee on Budget. Human services. This is the Human Services Omnibus Trailer Bill, with statutory changes related to the 2023 Budget Act. An act to add Section 49557.6 to the Education Code, to amend Sections 8521, 8530, 8533, 8609, 8610, and 8621 of, to add Sections 8623, 8624, and 8625 to, to repeal Section 8921 of, and to repeal Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 8623) of Part 2 of Division 13 of, the Family Code, to amend Sections 12803, 12803.3, and 12803.35 of the Government Code, to amend Sections 1502, 1503.5, 1505, 1522.41, 1562.3, 1567.50, 1569.616, 1796.37, 1796.47, and 1796.49 of, and to add Sections 1503.1, 1796.18, and 1796.54 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 10072.3, 10075.6, 10553.13, 10553.14, 10618.8, 10625, 10626, 10626.5, 10823, 10823.1, 10823.2, 11157, 11330.6, 11361, 11362, 11363, 11364, 11391, 11450.025, 11450.027, 11461, 12201.06, 12300, 12306.16, 12316.1, 13275, 13276, 13284, 13285, 13301, 13303, 13304, 14043.51, 15770, 15771, 15925, 16501.7, 16523, 16523.1, 16523.2, 16551, 16552, 16555, 16556, 18901.25, 18997, 18997.3, 18999.1, and 18999.4 of, to amend, repeal, and add Sections 11265, 12301.61, and 17602.05 of, to add Sections 18901.26 and 18901.57 to, to add and repeal Section 12106 of, to repeal Section 13282.1 of, and to repeal and add Section 16501.9 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to human services, and making an appropriation therefore, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

• AB 126, Reyes. Vehicular air pollution: Clean Transportation Program: vehicle registration and identification plate service fees: smog abatement fee: extension. Reauthorizes fees that fund the Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), the Clean Transportation Program (CTP), and the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program (EFMP), and makes programmatic changes. An act to amend Sections 43018.9, 44060.5, 44125, 44270.3, 44271, 44272, and 44274 of, to add Sections 44272.1 and 44272.6 to, and to repeal Section 44272.4 of, the Health and Safety Code, to amend Section 25231.5 of the Public Resources Code, and to amend Sections 9250.1 and 9261.1 of the Vehicle Code, relating to the air pollution, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• AB 223, Ward. Change of gender and sex identifier. Enhances protections for minors seeking changes of name or gender by making the proceedings presumptively confidential. An act to add Section 103437 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to vital records.

• AB 267, Bauer-Kahan. Fire protection: tents: nonflammable materials. This bill revises flame retardant standards for fabric enclosures, such as tents to now: establish flame retardant regulations, as specified, must apply to a fabric enclosure, such as a tent, designed for 15 or more persons; provide exemptions for tents designed for children's play, camping, backpacking, or mountaineering; establish any tent for sale and designed for less than 15 persons must be made from flame retardant fabrics, as specified; and establish tents constructed with fabric entirely from synthetic fibers, be classified as being made from flame retardant fabrics or materials. An act to amend Section 13115 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to fire protection.

• AB 360, Gipson. Excited delirium. Provides that "excited delirium" is not a validly recognized medical diagnosis or cause of death in this state. An act to add Section 1156.5 to the Evidence Code, and to add Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 24400) to Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to excited delirium.

• AB 418, Gabriel. The California Food Safety Act. Prohibits a person or entity, commencing January 1, 2027, from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale, in commerce a food product for human consumption that contains any of the following substances: 1) Brominated vegetable oil (BVO); 2) Potassium bromate; 3) Propylparaben; or, 4) Red dye 3. Makes a violation of these provisions punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for a first violation and not to exceed $10,000 for each subsequent violation, upon an action brought by the Attorney General, a city attorney, a county counsel, or a district attorney. An act to add Chapter 17 (commencing with Section 109025) to Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to food.

• AB 424, Bryan. Neurodegenerative disease registry. Requires the Department of Public Health (DPH), as part of the system it will establish for the collection of information on the incidence and prevalence of neurodegenerative disease, to also collect information on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease (ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease). Makes a conforming change in the definition of neurodegenerative disease. An act to amend Section 103871 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.

• AB 496, Friedman. Cosmetic safety. This bill prohibits, commencing January 1, 2027, a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains any of the 26 intentionally added ingredients specified in this bill. An act to amend Section 108980 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.

• AB 536, Wilson. Bay Area Air Quality Management Advisory Council: compensation. This bill repeals the prohibition on Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Advisory Council to receive compensation for attending specified meetings. An act to repeal and add Section 40266 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to air resources.

• AB 541, Wood. California Safe Drinking Water Act: wildfire aftermath: benzene testing. Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) to require a public water system that has experienced a major wildfire event of 300 acres or more and under specified conditions to perform sample collection and analysis of its source waters for the presence of benzene as soon as it is safe to do so. Authorizes the State Water Board to require the public water system to take specified response actions if benzene is detected. An act to add Section 116596 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to water.

• AB 585, Robert Rivas. Climate change: infrastructure and clean energy projects: assessments. Requests the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) to perform a triennial assessment of the infrastructure projects necessary to achieve the state's energy, climate change, and air quality goals, as specified. Requires the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to prepare an assessment of the barriers, challenges, and impediments limiting the deployment of clean energy projects by January 1, 2026. An act to add Section 12096.3.7 to the Government Code, and to add Section 38592.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• AB 659, Aguiar-Curry. Cancer Prevention Act. Requires a health care service plan (health plan) contract or a disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage without cost sharing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, as approved by the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Specifies that 1) pupils are advised to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians, regarding full HPV immunization before admission or advancement to the eighth grade level of any private or public elementary or secondary school; and, 2) students who are 26 years of age or younger are advised to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as recommended, regarding full HPV immunization before first-time enrollment at an institution of the California State University, the University of California, or the California Community Colleges. Requires, upon a pupil's admission or advancement to the 6th grade level, the governing authority to submit to the pupil and their parent or guardian a notification containing a statement about the state's public policy on HPV and advising that the pupil adhere to current HPV guidelines. Specifies that the notification provisions do not apply to a pupil in a home-based private school. An act to add Section 48980.4 to the Education Code, to amend Sections 1367.66 and 120390 of, and to add Sections 120336 and 120390.6 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10123.18 of the Insurance Code, relating to human papillomavirus.

• AB 664, Lee. California Safe Drinking Water Act. Requires the owner of a domestic well that serves a rental property and is located within a drinking water system consolidation or extended service area, who does not provide written consent to the consolidation or extension of service, to ensure that tenants of rental properties served solely by their wells have access to an adequate supply of safe drinking water. An act to amend Sections 116275, 116577, 116650, and 116682 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.

• AB 700, Grayson. California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program. Establishes the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program (program), administered by the California Department of Public Health (DPH) to award grants to eligible institutions to conduct research on biomarkers of exposure that quantify chemical carcinogens absorbed and metabolized by firefighters, as specified, that ultimately lead to a cancer diagnosis. An act to add Article 4 (commencing with Section 104210) to Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 103 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.

• AB 701, Villapudua. Controlled substances: fentanyl. Applies the existing weight enhancements that increase the penalty and fine for trafficking substances containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine to fentanyl. An act to amend Sections 11370.4 and 11372 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

• AB 759, Grayson. Sanitary districts. This bill changes how sanitary districts can pay their bills. An act to amend Section 6801 of, and to repeal and add Section 6794 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to sanitary districts.

• AB 777, Cervantes. Hazardous waste: Stringfellow Quarry Class I Hazardous Waste Disposal Site. Prohibits any sample or waste generated from a site other than the Stringfellow Quarry Class I Hazardous Waste Disposal Site (Stringfellow) from being treated, stored, transferred to, or disposed of at Stringfellow. Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to notify the City of Jurupa Valley and the Riverside County Board of Supervisors within three days if any material or substance is treated, stored, transferred to, or disposed of at Stringfellow, if the material or substance did not originate from Stringfellow. An act to amend Section 79490 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to hazardous waste.

• AB 835, Lee. State Fire Marshal: building standards: single-exit, single stairway apartment houses: report. This bill requires the State Fire Marshal (SFM) to research standards for single-exit, single stairway apartment houses, with more than two dwelling units, in buildings abovethree stories and provide a report, as specified. An act to add and repeal Section 13108.5.2 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to fire protection.

• AB 890, Joe Patterson. Controlled substances: probation. Requires a court to order a defendant who is granted probation for specified drug offenses involving fentanyl and other specified opiates to complete a fentanyl and synthetic opiate education program. An act to amend Section 11373 of, and to add Section 11356.6 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

• AB 899, Muratsuchi. Food safety: baby food. Requires, beginning January 1, 2024, a manufacturer of baby food sold or distributed in this state to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of baby food product, at a proficient laboratory meeting specified criteria (including being accredited; using an analytical method; demonstrating proficiency), for toxic elements (meaning arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury). An act to add Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 110962) to Chapter 5 of Part 5 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to food.

• AB 935, Connolly. Tobacco sales: flavored tobacco ban. Makes provisions of current law prohibiting a tobacco retailer, or any of the tobacco retailer's agents or employees, from selling, offering for sale, or possessing with the intent to sell or offer for sale, a flavored tobacco product or a tobacco product flavor enhancer, punishable by civil penalties in the same manner as the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act. An act to amend Section 22974.8 of the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Section 104559.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to tobacco sales.

• AB 1021, Wicks. Controlled substances: rescheduling. Provides that if any Schedule I controlled substance is federally rescheduled or exempted from the Controlled Substances Act, it will automatically become lawful for health professionals to prescribe, furnish, or dispense under California law. An act to add Section 11150.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

• AB 1109, Connolly. Product sales: sodium nitrite. Makes it unlawful, on or after July 1, 2024, for a person, retailer, or online marketplace to sell sodium nitrite to a person under 18 years of age; and, makes it unlawful for a person, retailer, or online marketplace to sell sodium nitrite in concentrations greater than 10% to a person 18 years of age or older. Specifies it is a defense to a violation of selling to a minor to demonstrate that the purchaser acknowledge before purchase they were at least 18 years of age and the person, retailer, or online marketplace complies with the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. An act to add Chapter 10.5 (commencing with Section 108930) to Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health and safety.

• AB 1115, Papan. Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trust Fund Act of 1989: brownfields remediation and redevelopment. Extends the provisions of the Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trust Fund Act (UST Act) and Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trust Fund (USTCTF) to January 1, 2036. An act to amend Sections 25299.32, 25299.41, 25299.43, 25299.50.3, 25299.50.7, 25299.51, 25299.57, 25299.58, 25299.81, 25299.82, and 25299.117 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 50108 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to contamination.

• AB 1130, Berman. Substance use disorder. This bill replaces the term "addict" with "person with substance use disorder" in various provisions of the Business and Professions (BPC) and Health and Safety (HSC) codes. An act to amend Sections 2241, 2241.5, and 4301 of the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Sections 11153, 11156, 11158.1, 11215, 11217, 11217.5, 11218, 11219, 11380.7, and 11847 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to substance use disorder.

• AB 1159, Aguiar-Curry. California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: natural and working lands: market-based compliance mechanisms. Requires that all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and removals used for any market-based compliance mechanism are in addition to any reductions and removals that would otherwise occur. An act to amend Section 38561.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.

• AB 1166, Bains. Liability for opioid antagonist administration. This bill provides qualified immunity to those administering or providing, in good faith, emergency opioid antagonists, as defined, at the scene of an overdose, or suspected overdose. An act to add Section 1799.113 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to emergency response.

• AB 1210, Kalra. Sodium nitrite. Prohibits a person or entity from selling or offering for sale in this state sodium nitrite at a purity level that exceeds 10% without specified warning labels on the immediate container and on the outside of the shipping package. Makes a violation of this bill subject to a civil penalty of $10,000 for the first violation and at least $50,000 and no more than $100,000 for a second or subsequent violation. An act to add Chapter 10.6 (commencing with Section 108931) to Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to product safety.

• AB 1216, Muratsuchi. Wastewater treatment plants: monitoring of air pollutants. This bill requires the owner or operator of a wastewater treatment facility, on or before January 1, 2027, to install, operate, and maintain a fence-line monitoring system to track emissions of pollutants of concern, including hydrogen sulfide, in accordance that is approved by the appropriate air quality management district. An act to add Section 42705.7 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.

• AB 1263, Berman. Vehicles: Bureau of Automotive Repair: smog check program. Subjects the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR or Bureau) to legislative review as if it were to be sunset on January 1, 2028, and makes additional technical changes, statutory improvements, and policy reforms in response to issues raised during the Bureau's sunset review oversight process. An act to amend Sections 27, 9880.1, 9882, 9884.16, 9887.5, 9888.4.1, 9888.5, 9889.19.1, and 9889.21 of, and to add Section 9880.4 to, the Business and Professions Code, to amend Sections 44003.5, 44010.5, 44012, 44014, 44014.2, 44014.5, 44014.7, 44024.5, 44032, and 44072.10 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 2525.4, 11519, 24007, 24007.5, and 40616 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

• AB 1270, Dixon. Redevelopment: successor agency: City of Lake Forest. This bill requires the Orange County Auditor Controller, upon receipt of the final resolution of dissolution for the Orange County successor agency, to allocate property tax revenues attributable to the El Toro Project Area to the Lake Forest successor agency. An act to amend Section 34182.1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to redevelopment.

• AB 1305, Gabriel. Voluntary carbon market disclosures. Requires disclosure of specified information by sellers and buyers of voluntary carbon offsets. Subjects violators to a civil penalty up to $2,500 per day for each violation. An act to add Part 10 (commencing with Section 44475) to Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to carbon offsets.

• AB 1325, Waldron. Microenterprise home kitchen operations. Increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the maximum verifiable gross annual sales for purposes of the microenterprise home kitchen operation (MEHKO). Increases the number of meals that a MEHKO can prepare for a week from 60 to 90 individual meals. Adds an urgency and defines meal as the amount or quantity of food that is intended to be consumed by one customer in one sitting. Defines meal to include one or more of any of the following: a main dish, appetizer, side dish, beverage, baked good and/or dessert. Makes other technical changes. An act to amend Section 113825 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to retail food facilities, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• AB 1403, Garcia. Public safety: fireworks: enforcement: funding. This bill requires the State Fire Marshal (OSFM), by January 1, 2025, to collect and analyze data about firework-related fires, damages, and arrests; submit a workload analysis to the relevant committees of the Legislature and train local authorities on relevant regulations related to fireworks, as specified. Additionally, authorizes local agencies, as specified, to adopt an ordinance for the actual and reasonable costs associated with safe and sane and illegal fireworks; and requires the OSFM to develop training for the proper management of seized fireworks. An act to amend Sections 12529, 12556, 12700, and 12702 of, and to add Sections 12635.5 and 12726.1 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to fireworks.

• AB 1467, Alanis. Nevaeh Youth Sports Safety Act. This bill requires a youth sports organization that elects to offer an athletic program to ensure that by January 1, 2027, its athletes have access to an automated external defibrillator (AED) during any official practice or match. An act to add Article 2.6 (commencing with Section 124238) to Chapter 4 of Part 2 of Division 106 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to youth health.

• AB 1471, Pellerin. Hospitals: seismic compliance: O'Connor Hospital and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Extends the deadline for O'Connor Hospital (the hospital) or Santa Clara Valley Medical Center's (SCVMC) current plan for 2020 seismic compliance, and extends the dates for the hospital or SCVMC to report to the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) on their progress. Declares that this bill is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. An act to amend Section 130068 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to hospitals, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• AB 1487, Santiago. Public health: Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Wellness Reentry Fund. Establishes the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Wellness Reentry Fund in the State Treasury to fund grant programs focused on reentry programs to support TGI people who have experienced carceral systems. An act to add Division 119.1 (commencing with Section 150925) to the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.

• AB 1627, Lee. California Safe Drinking Water Act. Aligns state law with federal requirements by deleting a provision within the California Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) that applies to food facilities regulated under the California Retail Food Code and conforms California's statutory definition of a public water system to the federal definition of a public water system. An act to amend Section 116275 of, and to repeal Section 116283 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.

• AB 1701, Weber. Black infant health: California Perinatal Equity Initiative. Expands the definition of local health jurisdictions eligible to apply for the California Perinatal Equity Initiative (PEI) to include a city or city and county. An act to amend Sections 123259 and 123260 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.

• AB 1716, Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. Hazardous wastes and materials: certified unified program agencies. Makes various technical changes to the six unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory programs that are overseen by the Certified Unified Programs Agencies (CUPAs). An act to amend Sections 25143.9, 25143.10, 25201.16, 25270.4.5, 25270.6, 25270.12.1, 25281.5, 25281.6, 25284.1, 25404.1.1, 25505, 25507, 25534, and 25536 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to hazardous materials.

• AB 1731, Santiago. CURES database: buprenorphine. This bill exempts a health care practitioner who prescribes, orders, administers, or furnishes buprenorphine or other controlled substance containing buprenorphine in the emergency department of a general acute care hospital from requirements under current law to consult the state's prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) database, the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES). An act to amend Section 11165.4 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

• SB 3, Dodd. Discontinuation of residential water service: covered water system. This bill eliminates the exemption for water systems that serve less than 200 service connections (but at least 15 service connections) from statutes and policies related to the water service shutoffs due to nonpayment. An act to amend Sections 116590, 116902, 116904, 116906, 116908, 116910, 116912, 116914, 116916, 116918, 116920, 116922, and 116926 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to water.

• SB 19, Seyarto. Fentanyl Misuse and Overdose Prevention Task Force. This bill establishes, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, the Anti-Fentanyl abuse Task Force to evaluate the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in the state and to develop policy recommendations for addressing it. An act to add and repeal Section 11455 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

• SB 67, Seyarto. Controlled substances: overdose reporting. This bill requires a coroner or medical examiner to report deaths that are a result of a drug overdose to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program managed by the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program. An act to amend Section 11758.03 of, to add Sections 11758.02 and 11758.04 to, and to repeal Section 11758.06 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

• SB 137, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Health omnibus trailer bill. This bill is an omnibus health trailer bill, and contains changes to implement the 2023-24 budget. An act to amend Sections 1751.70, 1753.1, 1797.101, 11833.02, 11833.04, and 105254 of, and to add Section 127697 to, the Health and Safety Code, to amend Sections 4081 and 5328 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and to amend Section 1 of Chapter 589 of the Statutes of 2022, relating to public health, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

• SB 234, Portantino. Opioid antagonists: stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks. This bill requires stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks to maintain unexpired doses of an opioid antagonist on its premises and ensure that at least two employees are aware of the location and provides indemnification, as specified. An act to add Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 11870) to Part 2 of Division 10.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to opioids.

• SB 250, Umberg. Controlled substances: punishment. This bill prohibits the use of a statement made by a person who is immune from prosecution for being under the influence of a controlled substance or in possession of a controlled substance, controlled substance analog, or drug paraphernalia, as specified, as evidence in a criminal proceeding against the person for being under the influence of, or possessing for personal use, a controlled substance, controlled substance analog, or drug paraphernalia; and provides that it is not a crime for a person to possess for personal use a controlled substance, controlled substance analog, or drug paraphernalia if specified conditions are satisfied. An act to amend Section 11376.5 of, and to add Section 11376.6 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

• SB 253, Wiener. Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act. This bill requires any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other U.S. business entity with total annual revenues in excess of $1 billion and that does business in California to publicly report their annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as specified by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). An act to add Section 38532 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases, and making an appropriation therefor. • SB 261, Stern. Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial risk. This bill requires companies that do business in California and have gross revenues exceeding $500 million annually, excluding insurance companies, to report on their climate-related financial risk, and requires the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to contract with a qualified climate reporting organization to review and publish an analysis of those reports, as specified. An act to add Section 38533 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases, and making an appropriation therefor.

• SB 326, Eggman. The Behavioral Health Services Act. This bill revises and recasts the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) as the Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) if voters approve amendments to the MHSA at the March 5, 2024 statewide primary election. This bill clarifies that county behavioral health programs are permitted to use BHSA funds to treat primary substance use disorder conditions and makes conforming changes throughout the BHSA. This bill restructures current MHSA funding buckets. This bill enhances the current process for local planning of various services funded by the BHSA, and for oversight, accountability, and reporting of BHSA funds. An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 99277 of the Education Code, to amend, repeal, and add Section 131315 of the Health and Safety Code, to amend, repeal, and add Section 19602.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, to amend, repeal, and add Section 1095.5 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, and to amend Sections 4090, 4094, 4096.5, 5675, and 5813.6 of, to amend and repeal Sections 5840.5, 5840.8, 5846, 5847, 5848, 5878.2, 5895, and 5899 of, to amend, repeal, and add Sections 5604, 5604.1, 5604.2, 5604.3, 5604.5, 5610, 5613, 5614, 5664, 5771.1, 5805, 5806, 5813.5, 5830, 5835, 5835.2, 5840, 5840.6, 5840.7, 5845, 5845.5, 5848.5, 5849.1, 5849.2, 5849.3, 5852.5, 5868, 5878.1, 5878.3, 5881, 5886, 5890, 5891, 5891.5, 5892, 5892.1, 5892.5, 5893, 5897, 5898, 14197.7, and 14707.5 of, to add Sections 5831, 5845.1, and 14197.71 to, to add Part 4.1 (commencing with Section 5887) to Division 5 of, to add Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5963) to Part 7 of Division 5 of, to add and repeal Section 5892.3, and to repeal Section 5963.06 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to behavioral health, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• SB 344, Rubio. Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry. This bill revises provisions of law related to the Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry to make various changes, including to permit individuals who are authorized to access the confidential data in cancer registries to participate in data sharing with other authorized individuals. An act to amend Section 103885 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to cancer.

• SB 476, Limón. Food safety: food handlers. This bill requires food facility employers to pay an employee for any cost associated with the employee obtaining a food handler card, including considering the time it takes for the employee to complete the training and certification program to be compensable as "hours worked." An act to amend Section 113948 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to food safety.

• SB 642, Cortese. Hazardous materials: enforcement: county counsel. This bill provides county counsels with civil enforcement authority over hazardous waste violations related to business and area plans, underground storage tanks, aboveground storage tanks, or medical waste. An act to amend Sections 25117, 25181, 25182, 25191.7, 25192, 25270.12, 25299, 25299.01, 25299.02, 25515.5, 25515.6, 25515.7, 25516, 79705, and 118325 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to hazardous materials.

• AB 659, Aguiar-Curry. Cancer Prevention Act. Requires a health care service plan (health plan) contract or a disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage without cost sharing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, as approved by the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Specifies that 1) pupils are advised to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians, regarding full HPV immunization before admission or advancement to the eighth grade level of any private or public elementary or secondary school; and, 2) students who are 26 years of age or younger are advised to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as recommended, regarding full HPV immunization before first-time enrollment at an institution of the California State University, the University of California, or the California Community Colleges. Requires, upon a pupil's admission or advancement to the 6th grade level, the governing authority to submit to the pupil and their parent or guardian a notification containing a statement about the state's public policy on HPV and advising that the pupil adhere to current HPV guidelines. Specifies that the notification provisions do not apply to a pupil in a home-based private school. An act to add Section 48980.4 to the Education Code, to amend Sections 1367.66 and 120390 of, and to add Sections 120336 and 120390.6 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10123.18 of the Insurance Code, relating to human papillomavirus.

• AB 664, Lee. California Safe Drinking Water Act. Requires the owner of a domestic well that serves a rental property and is located within a drinking water system consolidation or extended service area, who does not provide written consent to the consolidation or extension of service, to ensure that tenants of rental properties served solely by their wells have access to an adequate supply of safe drinking water. An act to amend Sections 116275, 116577, 116650, and 116682 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.

• SB 722, Ochoa Bogh. Daycare facilities: incidental medical services plans. This bill requires the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to develop, by January 1, 2025, template forms for plans of operation and incidental medical services plans in daycare facilities. This bill allows licensed daycare facilities that submit an incidental medical services plan using the template form, to enroll a child prior to departmental approval. An act to add Section 1596.802 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to daycare facilities.

• SB 740, Cortese. Hazardous materials management: stationary sources: skilled and trained workforce. Expands skilled and trained workforce (STW) requirements, currently applicable to an owner or operator of a stationary source that is engaged in certain petroleum-related activities, to also include contracts awarded, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, by an owner or operator of a stationary source that is engaged in manufacturing hydrogen, biofuels, or certain specified chemicals, or in capturing, sequestering, or using carbon dioxide in specified conditions. An act to add Section 25536.8 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to hazardous materials.

• SB 745, Cortese. The Drought-Resistant Buildings Act. This bill requires the California Building Standards Commission (BSC) and the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to develop and propose new mandatory building standards related to water efficiency. An act to add Sections 17921.11 and 18940.7 to the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 13558 of the Water Code, relating to housing.

• SB 753, Caballero. Cannabis: water resources. This bill makes it a felony for an adult who plants, cultivates, harvests, dries, or processes more than six living Cannabis plants to intentionally or with gross negligence cause substantial environmental harm to surface or groundwater. An act to amend Section 11358 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to Cannabis.

• SB 806, Archuleta. Trash receptacles and storage containers: reflective markings: enforcement. This bill authorizes the Attorney General, or the district attorney or city attorney in the location where a violation is observed, to enforce the law requiring certain markings to be placed on trash receptacles, including reflectors and certain contact information. This bill establishes a fund within the State Treasury where all collected fines are to be deposited. An act to amend Section 26275 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public safety.