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Votes at a glance: key measures the Senate advanced on this floor day
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Summary
The Senate considered a broad set of bills across health, education, energy, elder care, and public safety. This roundup lists each bill taken up with its floor outcome and key notes from debate.
The following measures were taken up on the Senate floor during this session. For items that received extensive debate, separate articles provide fuller coverage; this roundup lists other bills and recorded outcomes for quick reference.
- SB 835 (Ochoa Bog) — Cambridge advanced academic curriculum in Education Code: Passed (roll-call recorded during floor sequence). The bill recognizes Cambridge International programs alongside AP and IB with intent language clarifying criteria for naming privately developed programs in the Education Code.
- SB 403 (Blakespear) — End of Life Option Act sunset removal: Passed 25-6 (covered in separate article).
- SB 433 (Wahab) — Income-based room-and-board cap for Medi-Cal assisted living participants: Passed 31-5 (covered separately).
- SB 435 (Wahab) — 72-hour backup power for RCFEs: Passed 38-0 (covered separately).
- SB 526 (Menjivar) — Aggregate facility air quality rule changes and amendments: Hostile amendments tabled; bill moved forward after amendments were tabled; recorded vote showed measures to table hostile amendments prevailed (final bill moved forward with amendments to be considered in the Assembly).
- SB 569 (Blakespear) — Caltrans coordination on encampments: Passed (roll-call recorded; covered separately).
- SB 596 (Menjivar) — Nurse-to-patient ratio on-call list definition: Advanced on floor; author said last outstanding concern with CA Hospital Association was to define 10% on-call list as 10% of nurses scheduled for the unit on the day. Recorded vote on file indicated passage in the session.
- SB 614 (Stern) — Carbon dioxide transport and safety standards: Passed (unanimous or near-unanimous recorded vote). The bill establishes state standards and an advisory committee for CO2 transport pipelines and requires CEQA and water-quality compliance where applicable.
- SB 701 (Wahab) — Signal jammer enforcement: Passed (unanimous recorded vote). The bill aligns state and federal law to allow local law enforcement action against illegal signal jammers.
- SB 777 (Richardson) — Private cemeteries: Passed (recorded vote). The bill updates procedures for taking abandoned cemeteries into public cemetery district control and adjusts fees and endowments to support perpetual care.
- SB 834 (Nilo) — Small-business right-to-cure ADA construction-related violations: Passed (recorded vote). The bill gives qualifying small businesses (50 or fewer employees) a 120-day cure period for alleged construction-related ADA violations before penalties apply.
- SB 14 (Blakespear) — State procurement for plastic bottles and integrated waste management plan updates: Advanced on the floor with debate and promises of technical adjustments in the Assembly.
- SB 50 (Ashby) — Victims' Digital Safety Act (connected devices): Passed (recorded vote). The bill requires technology companies to disable an abuser’s access to internet-connected devices that are being used as instruments of abuse.
This roundup is intended to capture outcomes recorded on the floor transcript; individual articles contain fuller context, votes, and speaker attributions for measures that generated substantive debate.
