2023 PRIORITY LEGISLATION

Courage California’s 2023 priority active legislation includes the following bills:

Bill	Author	Description	Status
AB 259	Lee	Would apply a 1% tax on extreme wealth of $50 million or more per household and 1.5% on wealth in excess of one billion dollars.
ACA 4	Bryan	If approved by voters, would amend the state constitution to re-enfranchise incarcerated people in California
ACA 5	Wiener, Low	If approved by voters, would overturn Prop 8
ACA 8	Wilson	If approved by voters, would remove language allowing for indentured servitude in the California state constitution
SB 252	Gonzalez	Would require CalPERS to divest from fossil fuels
AB 83	Lee	Would prohibit foreign influenced corporations from either contributing to candidates, parties, or committees (including super PACs) or engaging in their own direct election spending in the state.
AB 1306	Carrillo	Would prevent the transfer of incarcerated individuals who qualify for release under certain criminal justice reforms to ICE
AB 1690	Kalra	Single payer bill (CNA)
ACA 3	Lee	If approved by voters, would amend the California state constitution to raise the limit on personal property tax, as it currently limits the tax rate on personal property to 0.4%.
SB 253	Wiener	Would require corporations with more than $1 billion in revenue that operate in California to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions.
SB 555	Wahab	Would declare a 10-year goal of creating 1.2 million units of social housing through a mix of acquisition and new production and a 5-year goal of creating 200,000 units of social housing that are affordable to extremely low and very low income households, and would also establish the California Social Housing Fund to do so. Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, no later than January 1, 2025, to develop, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a California Social Housing Plan for achieving the goals of the bill
ACA 10	Haney	If approved by voters, would add language to the California state constitution recognizing housing as a human right
AB 1	McKinnor	Would allow California State Legislature staff to unionize
AB 280	Holden	Would limit the use of solitary confinement in jails and prisons, including private immigration facilities.
AB 309	Lee	Would define “social housing” for purposes of the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act. The bill would make findings and declarations relating to social housing and would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently further the Social Housing Act to address the shortage of affordable homes by developing housing for people of all income levels, prioritizing low-income households
AB 617	Jones-Sawyer	Would ensure all immigrant Californians can access quality, holistic immigration services by removing criminal exclusions in the One CA program	Held
AB 1228	Holden	Would make fast food corporations would be liable for any health and safety violations of their California franchisees.
SB 261	Stern	Would require companies that earn more than $500 million in revenue to prepare climate-related financial risk reports
SB 476	Limon	Would change the state law that currently requires workers to pay for mandatory food safety training, so that employers must pay for the training and the workers’ time for completing the training. Intended to ensure worker wages are not being misdirected towards funding anti-worker lobbying and campaign efforts.
AB 550	Schiavo	Would require every city and county to hold an annual public hearing to discuss the work they are doing to address homelessness locally	Held
AB 710	Schiavo	Would launch a public information campaign to provide women with accurate information regarding access to abortion care at crisis pregnancy centers.	Held
SB 567	Durazo	Would close loopholes that allow for rampant abuse of the no-fault just causes for eviction; expand the population of protected tenants; limit allowable rent increases to a more reasonable cap; and provide mechanisms for accountability and enforcement.
AB 1672	Haney	Would allow In-Home Supportive Services caregivers to negotiate their contracts and wages at a State level instead of at the county level.
SB 770	Wiener	Would require the Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group to define the parameters of the federal waiver California seeks to facilitate the creation of a single payer healthcare system and would require the Secretary of HHS to submit recommendations regarding elements to include in a formal waiver application by no later than June 1, 2024.
AB 421	Bryan	Would establish new government oversight of signature collection, require more transparency about the groups funding signature collection, and mandate that a percentage of signatures be collected by volunteers rather than paid signature gatherers.