Votes at a glance: Assembly passes dozens of measures including bills on housing, transit, and public safety
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Summary
On July 17 the Assembly passed a long daily file, concurring in numerous Senate amendments and passing a mix of bills including AB 580 (water reclamation sunset extension), AB 688 (Telehealth for All), AB 920 (housing portal), SB 390 (Mello‑Roos fix), SB 272 (job order contracting), SB 9 (ADU enforcement), and many others during a rapid floor session and consent calendar.
The California State Assembly completed a full daily file on July 17, passing and retaining dozens of measures across policy areas including water infrastructure, health care, housing, public safety, and local government procurement. Several bills were taken with brief presentations and voice or roll‑call votes; many additional items were approved via the consent calendar.
Notable items taken up and passed include:
- AB 580 (Wallace) — Extends the sunset for the Metropolitan Water District’s master reclamation plan to support maintenance of the Colorado River Aqueduct (concurrence with Senate amendments; ayes 48–0).
- AB 688 (Mark Gonzales) — Telehealth for All Act of 2025, returned from the Senate with clarified amendments (ayes 50–0).
- AB 815 (Ortega) — Insurance technical amendments (ayes 52–0).
- AB 875 (Muratsuchi) — Authority to remove illegal electric vehicles from streets (ayes 51–0).
- AB 920 (Kolozoa) — Centralized housing application portal for jurisdictions over 150,000 residents (ayes 55–0).
- SB 390 (Becker) — Fixes a Mello‑Roos loophole affecting shoreline properties and advances infrastructure projects (ayes 60–1).
- SB 272 (Becker) — Authorizes job order contracting for San Mateo County Transit District under conditions (ayes 61–1).
- SB 9 (Arreguin) — Adds enforcement to ensure local ADU ordinances comply with state standards (ayes 55–2).
- SB 227 (Grayson) — Expands the Green Empowerment Zone and adds environmental‑justice representation (ayes 59–0; urgency clause passed).
- SB 8 (Ashby) — Extends workers’ compensation/disability treatment to park rangers (ayes 63–0).
The Assembly also approved numerous other Senate bills and house resolutions on the consent calendar (consent calendar adopted, ayes 69–0). The session concluded with multiple adjournments in memory and a motion to adjourn until the next scheduled floor sitting.
Many of the measures presented on July 17 were described as bipartisan and noncontroversial on the floor; a small subset prompted extended debate (notably AJR 8 and SB 301). Where roll‑call tallies were recorded on the floor, vote counts are noted above.
