This session was the first for a wave of new lawmakers and saw changes in top leadership: A new Speaker, Robert Rivas (D-Hollister), took over in the Assembly and Senate Democrats voted to make Sen. Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) their leader next year.
“We have delivered results for the 40 million Californians we represent,” Rivas told members of the Assembly at the end of the night, citing bills to raise the minimum wage for more than a million workers and to require big companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions.
“But we still have work to do,” he said, listing fentanyl and housing affordability as top priorities for 2024.
Governor Gavin Newsom has until Oct. 14 to sign or veto the bills now piled up on his desk.
Here’s a look at some of the measures lawmakers debated this year:
Labor and workers’ rights
