Extends supplemental paid sick leave for certain essential workers.

Minimizes the time youths spend on probation and tailors probation conditions to meet their individual needs.

Bans toxic PFAS chemicals in paper food packaging.

Requires a city or county that receives a complaint of a substandard building or a lead hazard violation to inspect the building and document the violations.

Mandates written notice of intended closure of a grocery establishment, provision of safety net programs and local workforce training services information to each employee of the grocery establishment, and city tracking of grocery closures for potential intervention.

Makes the California Racial Justice Act of 2020 retroactive, allowing previously convicted defendants to challenge racial discrimination.

Limits disruptions to rehabilitative programming in prisons by prioritizing incarcerated persons for similar programs when transferred to a new facility.

Sets in motion the nation's first public banking option, closing a critical financial services gap in many disadvantaged communities.

Prohibits online retailers from using single-use packaging, and mandates certain businesses establish at-store recycling and plastic bag reuse programs.

Prohibits the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from denying in-person contact visits as a disciplinary measure.

Prohibits online retailers from using single-use packaging, and mandates certain businesses establish at-store recycling and plastic bag reuse programs.

Codifies California’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2045.

Establishes a Fast Food Sector Council to set industry wide standards on wages, working hours, and other working conditions.

Protects those deemed eligible for prison release from being transferred to immigration detention.

Limits disruptions to rehabilitative programming in prisons by prioritizing incarcerated persons for similar programs when transferred to a new facility.

Ensures that anyone who wants a COVID-19 test or vaccine can get one without paying extra out-of-pocket costs.

Reduces the list of crimes that can accompany gang enhancements and separates gang allegations from underlying charges at trial.

Provides guidelines to judges on the use of sentence enhancements, which have been disproportionately applied to people of color and those suffering from mental illness.

Requires law enforcement agencies to receive approval from their governing bodies before acquiring military equipment.

Provides resentencing hearings for anyone currently serving a sentence made up of certain (now eliminated) sentencing enhancements.

Stops mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenders of drug crimes, and replaces with paths to rehabilitation, probation and treatment.

Repeals “loitering for purpose of prostitution” law, which results in profiling and harassment of sex workers.

Expunges or seals most criminal records for those who have completed their sentences.

Creates the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act to strengthen requirements for mandatory reporters who hold a reasonable suspicion of child abuse.

Establishes a minimum distance between oil and gas production and schools, playgrounds, residences and hospitals.

Allows a person on parole to preregister to vote, register to vote, and vote.

Forces hospitals to give communities more notice of closures of healthcare facilities.

Sets environmental and oceanic preservation goals for the state to achieve by 2030.

Extends the statute of limitations to file certain workplace complaints with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

Guarantees employees 10 days of unpaid bereavement leave.

Increases financial penalties for failing to notify state and federal agencies after discharging oil into state waters.

Protects homeowners and renters from foreclosure and eviction due to COVID-related circumstances.

Strengthens protections for workers facing COVID-related layoffs in the hospitality industries.

Requires employers to file an annual equal pay report.

Authorizes tenants to terminate leases without penalty because they or a family member were the victim of a crime.

Allows counties to establish Sheriff's Department oversight boards.

Prohibits racial discrimination in prosecutions and creates a process for criminal defendants to challenge racial discrimination.

Prohibits prosecutors from striking prospective jurors from jury pools on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender and other identities.

Increases financial penalties for failing to notify state and federal agencies after discharging oil into state waters.

Strengthens protections for workers facing COVID-related layoffs in the hospitality industries.

Allows nurse practitioners in California to work without physician supervision.

Animals: prohibitions on importation and possession of wild animals: live animal markets.

Forces employers to grant employee requests for up to 12 work weeks of unpaid parental leave.

Removes remnants of discriminatory anti-sodomy laws from statutory rape punishments.

Requires all single-use packaging sold in California be recyclable or compostable by 2030.

Prohibits "no rehire" provisions that bar victims of mistreatment from employment with offending company

Bans (for 3 yrs) biometric surveillance and facial recognition from use in police body cameras

Empowers local districts to evaluate charter school applications based on economic impact criteria

Expedites the process to obtain police misconduct records in a criminal trial

Prevents dialysis companies from steering patients from medi-cal to boost corporate profits

Prohibits employers from forcing job candidates to waive legal rights in favor of forced arbitration

Strengthens emissions reporting requirements and transparency on environmental impact of abandoned wells

Strengthens food safety training requirements and mandates employer-provided insurance for delivery drivers

Allows state to contract safe-injection site operators in the Bay Area

Lengthens statute of limitations for filing workplace retaliation claims from 6 months to 3 years

Prohibits the state from charging inmates an administrative fee for a medical visit

Creates Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, to raise and distribute affordable housing funds

Strengthens transparency around nonfloating oil transport and creates contingency plans to prepare for spillage

Allows people incarcerated as youth to earn time off their earliest parole date

Allows counties to establish Sheriff's Department oversight boards.

Encourages affordable housing production in “high-resource” areas that show patterns of exclusion

Eliminates critical oversight of telecom companies

Caps rent increase at 5% in 12-month period, and forces landlords to present 'just cause' before evicting

Decriminalizes truancy and limits power of probation departments over youths not charged with crimes

Sets goals to reduce waste from single-use packaging and products.

Requires insurance providers to charge same out-of-pocket costs for emergency care whether in plan or not

Allows local governments to sponsor public banks

Forces UC system to reduce contracted services in order to increase percent of union workers on their payroll

Lowers voting age to 17

Prohibits "no rehire" provisions that bar victims of mistreatment from employment with offending company

Restores voting rights for people on parole

Offers voters more information on potentially progressive taxation measures

Allows formerly incarcerated people to serve on juries

Prevents dialysis companies from steering patients from medi-cal to boost corporate profits

Allows people incarcerated as youth to earn time off their earliest parole date

Prohibits landlords from rejecting applicants based on Section 8 status

Forces debt collectors to leave final $1,724 in a bank account

Caps rent increase at 5% in 12-month period, and forces landlords to present 'just cause' before evicting

Expedites the process to obtain police misconduct records in a criminal trial

Bans (for 3 yrs) biometric surveillance and facial recognition from use in police body cameras

Creates Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, to raise and distribute affordable housing funds

Repeals sentencing enhancements for those with prior offenses

Allows local governments to sponsor public banks

Strengthens California environmental standards to pre-Trump federal levels

Establishes penalties for claims that arise under Fair Housing and Employment Act