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Votes at a glance: Assembly Judiciary Committee actions and outcomes
Summary
The Assembly Judiciary Committee advanced and voted on a slate of bills covering police, consumer protection, accessibility, AI transparency and immigration policy. This roundup lists each bill the committee acted on, the formal outcome, and one-line summaries of key provisions.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee met for an extended hearing and took formal action on several bills. Below is a concise “votes at a glance” roundup listing each bill acted upon in the hearing, its outcome in committee, and the core subject.
Votes and key details
- AB 416 (Krell) — Outcome: Passed (out of committee, amended). Summary: Allows emergency room physicians to initiate 5150 holds for patients in behavioral health crisis; committee accepted amendments to allow counties to set eligibility and oversight (presentation and roll-call recorded; motion passed and bill advanced). (Topic intro: 2235.66; roll-call recorded at 4604.8247.)
- AB 446 (Ward) — Outcome: Passed (out of committee, amended). Summary: Surveillance Pricing Protection Act; prohibits using surveillance-collected personal data to set individualized, higher prices; includes exemptions for loyalty programs and certain discounts; private right of action remains a point of negotiation. (Topic intro: 2929.8; action recorded at 4544.625.)
- AB 632 (Hart) — Outcome: Passed (out of committee). Summary: Provides local governments with an expedited civil procedure to obtain money judgments for unpaid administrative fines for egregious code violations (e.g., unsafe housing, large-scale illegal cannabis operations); also codifies ordinary priority lien authority. (Topic intro: 4632.7446; vote recorded at 5001.1147.)
- AB 649 (Lowenthal) — Outcome: Passed (out of committee, amended). Summary: Creates a pilot “small business right to cure” program tied to CASp inspections: businesses that obtain CASp inspections and fix construction-related violations get a six‑year window and 120‑day cure periods for later notices; bill includes a sunset and reporting. (Topic intro: 5166.89; motion passed at 7814.815.)
- AB 806 (Connolly) — Outcome: Passed (out of committee). Summary: Mobile home park residents would have the right to install cooling systems and parks may be required to provide cooled common areas during extreme heat events where feasible; committee accepted some master‑meter and feasibility language after opposition from park-owner groups. (Topic intro: 10853.489; motion passed at 11853.415.)
- AB 863 (C. B. -- tenant-language access) — Outcome: Passed (out of committee). Summary: Requires eviction notices, complaints and summons to be provided in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese or Korean when the lease was negotiated in one of those languages or a landlord has been notified the tenant’s primary language is one of those five; committee discussion highlighted implementation concerns and raised the possibility of using court/official translations. (Topic intro: 11893.7; committee roll-call recorded at 12947.601.)
- AB 412 (Bauer-Kahan) — Outcome: Passed (out of committee, amended). Summary: AI Copyright Transparency Act; grants creators a right to request disclosure whether a specific copyrighted work was used to train a generative model. Committee adopted amendments that carve out certain noncommercial academic models and adjust timelines; industry groups urged delay pending federal guidance and litigation. (Topic intro: 8362.06; committee passed at 9806.415.)
- AJR 5 (Lee) — Outcome: Passed (committee adopted resolution). Summary: A state resolution reaffirming birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment in response to a federal executive order; sponsors framed it as clarifying long-standing constitutional precedent. (Topic intro: 9867.575; motion adopted at 10807.395.)
Other actions
- AB 1523 (Judiciary Committee bill) — Outcome: Passed (out of committee). Summary: Increased the “amount in controversy” threshold for mandatory referral to mandatory mediation from $50,000 to $75,000 and added safeguards. (Topic intro: 12982.05; motion passed at 13069.615.)
How to read these entries
All items above were discussed and then moved by motion in committee. Several measures were advanced with committee amendments; authors and stakeholders signaled ongoing negotiations on technical language, enforcement mechanisms and exemptions. For bills that drew opposition, committee transcripts record the testifying organizations and the substantive areas of dispute. For procedural details and the full roll-call tallies, consult the committee minutes and the official legislative record.
