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Votes at a glance: four Assembly bills reported out of Business and Professions Committee
Summary
The committee passed SB 1203 (security training) to Labor and Employment, SB 936 (nitrous oxide sales limits) to Public Safety, SB 1271 (midwife preceptor mapping) to Health, and SB 903 (AI in psychotherapy) to Privacy and Consumer Protection; SB 1165 was handled on the consent calendar.
The Assembly Business and Professions Committee advanced multiple bills during the hearing.
- SB 1203 (Smallwood Cuevas), the Stand for Security Act, was ordered to the Committee on Labor and Employment after testimony from security officers and industry representatives; members discussed amendments to require a regional training-capacity analysis before prohibiting employer-delivered training.
- SB 936 (Blake Spear) — a measure to prohibit retail sale of nitrous oxide canisters larger than 8 grams while preserving legitimate uses — was passed to the Committee on Public Safety with broad local-government and public-health support.
- SB 1271 (Reyes) would direct the Medical Board to collect data on licensed midwives' precepting capacity and share results with the Department of Healthcare Access and Information; the committee sent it to the Committee on Health.
- SB 903 (Padilla) — which would bar AI chatbots from advertising as therapy and require clinician oversight and consent disclosures — was passed to the Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection after emotional testimony from a licensed social worker and support from behavioral-health associations. Several hospital and tech stakeholders said they were 'opposed unless amended' and requested continued negotiation.
- SB 1165 (Caballero) was taken on the consent calendar and passed to Revenue and Taxation.
Next steps: Each bill will be considered by the committee to which it was referred, where authors expect further amendments and stakeholder negotiations.
