Votes at a glance: Assembly Judiciary Committee action (highlights)

The Assembly Judiciary Committee heard and advanced several bills and a joint resolution during its May 20 hearing. Below are key outcomes and short descriptions of items the committee approved or advanced.

Votes and outcomes (committee action): - AB 446 (Ward) — Surveillance Pricing Protection Act: Approved as amended. Prohibits personalized “surveillance pricing”; committee accepted amendments clarifying exceptions for promotional discounts and loyalty programs and will continue stakeholder discussions on enforcement. (Advanced to next committee.) - AB 412 (Bauer-Kahan) — AI Copyright Transparency Act: Approved as amended. Gives rights holders the ability to request whether an AI model was trained on their works; amended to exempt noncommercial academic and government research models. (Advanced.) - AB 649 (Lowenthal) — CASP small-business right-to-cure pilot (ADA): Approved as amended. Creates a voluntary pilot with a 6‑year participation window and 120‑day cure periods for businesses that obtain CASP inspections; includes a sunset and monitoring provisions. (Advanced.) - AB 863 (Cara) — Language access for eviction documents: Approved as amended. Requires translated eviction notices, complaints and summons in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Korean when a lease was negotiated in those languages or the landlord had been notified; committee narrowed triggers and encouraged use of standard translated forms or court-provided templates. (Advanced.) - AB 416 (Krell) — ER physician authority to initiate 5150 holds: Approved as amended. Allows counties to designate emergency physicians to initiate psychiatric 72‑hour holds (Welf. & Inst. Code § 5150); includes county opt-in and additional guardrails. (Advanced.) - AB 806 (Connolly) — Mobile home cooling access: Approved as amended. Grants mobile-home residents the right to install in-home cooling systems (subject to electrical capacity/master-meter exceptions) and requires temperate common areas during extreme heat events when feasible. (Advanced.) - AB 632 (Hart) — Code enforcement penalties: Approved as amended. Provides local governments an expedited mechanism to obtain money judgments and reinforces ordinary priority liens for egregious code violations, such as illegal cannabis operations, slumlords, and fire hazards. (Advanced.) - AB 1523 (Judiciary Committee bill) — Increase amount-in-controversy for mandatory mediation to $75,000 and add safeguards: Approved. Committee bill reflects stakeholder compromise and added safeguards to limit referrals to cases with a strong likelihood of settlement. (Advanced.) - AJR 5 (Lee) — Resolution reaffirming birthright citizenship: Approved. Committee adopted AJR 5, a resolution reiterating that persons born in the United States are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment; the resolution notes ongoing Supreme Court review of an executive order and expresses the Legislature’s position.

Several bills drew lengthy testimony from coalitions of stakeholders. The committee adopted technical and policy amendments in several cases and requested continued negotiations between authors and affected parties before further floor action.

For full context, reporters should see the individual hearing records and the committee files for amendment language and vote records.