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Votes at a glance: California Senate clears 40+ confirmations and bills Sept. 2, 2025
Summary
The Senate advanced more than 40 items on Sept. 2, including confirmations to commissions and a string of bills on topics from housing and public health to consumer protections. Many measures were adopted on unanimous or near‑unanimous recorded roll calls; the transcript lists the file items and presenters for each measure.
The California Senate on Sept. 2, 2025, moved a large package of confirmations and bills, approving more than 40 items in floor session ranging from gubernatorial appointments to bills on education, housing, public health and local government.
Key confirmations and appointments - File items 137–140: The Senate confirmed multiple governor appointments to state commissions and boards; presenters included Senator Laird. The transcript records those confirmations.
Selected bills approved or considered (floor presentation and, where recorded, vote tallies): - SB 765 (state symbol designation) — presented by Senator Nilo; roll called and measure advanced (tally not specified in excerpt). - SB 303 (employment discrimination training language) — presented by Senator Smallwood Cuevas; roll called and measure advanced (tally not specified in excerpt). - SB 391 (community colleges, research‑fee exemption) — presented by Senator Laird; measure concurred (tally not specified in excerpt). - SB 395 (San Francisco hospitality zone, low‑cost liquor licenses) — presented by Senator Wiener; roll called and measure advanced (tally not specified in excerpt). - SB 543 (ADU technical cleanups) — presented by Senator McNerney; measure advanced (tally not specified in excerpt). - SB 544 (railroad crossing reviews) — presented by Senator Laird; measure advanced (tally not specified in excerpt). - SB 346 (Short Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025) — presented by Senator Durazo; assembly amendments narrowed reporting and audit authority (detailed article above). - SB 697 (stream adjudication clarifications) — presented by Senator Laird; measure advanced (tally not specified in excerpt). - AB 581 (state shrub designation), AB 503 (Civic Center Act maintenance fee renewal), AB 1150 (customer facility charge increase for airports), AB 344 (successor beer manufacturer definition), AB 438 (authorized emergency vehicle permits), AB 516 (various professional licensing), and many others were presented on the floor and taken up; several were recorded as adopted by unanimous consent on the roll calls printed in the transcript.
The Senate also handled agriculture, education and local government measures: AB 492 (treatment‑facility licensing notifications), AB 238 (mortgage forbearance for wildfire survivors), AB 652 (San Diego County air pollution district alternates), and numerous committee bills amending professional and administrative codes.
Overall outcome: The clerk’s entries across the transcript show the Senate processed at least 40 measures and confirmations in the session. Many bills were adopted unanimously or with large majorities; in several cases the transcript records explicit roll‑call tallies (for example, multiple items recorded “ayes 39, noes 0” and others showed recorded tallies on urgency measures). For items where the transcript excerpt did not include the final tally, the record indicates the measure was taken up and the roll called but the exact numeric result was not printed in the provided excerpt.
What to watch next: For items with assembly amendments, reporters should review the enrolled bills and the final vote records to confirm exact tallies and to capture any implementation provisions or fiscal details that staff referenced on the floor but that did not appear in the public excerpt.
