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Chart of Bill Signing Messages

20 years’ worth of signing messages by three Governors

By Chris Micheli, October 2, 2024 4:34 pm

In reviewing gubernatorial signing messages over the past two decades, I compiled the following chart of bills that have signing messages. The chart includes the session year, the Governor, the bill number and author, and the subject of the bill. This chart includes 20 years’ worth of signing messages by three Governors:

Session Year Governor Bill Number / Author Bill Subject
2024 Gavin Newsom
AB 1284 (Ramos) Tribal ancestral lands and waters: cogovernance and comanagement agreements
AB 1755 (Kalra) Civil actions: restitution for or replacement of a new motor vehicle
AB 1775 (Haney) Cannabis: retail preparation, sale, and consumption of noncannabis food and beverage products
AB 1963 (Friedman) Pesticides: paraquat dichloride
AB 2074 (Muratsuchi) Pupil instruction: English Learner Roadmap Policy: statewide implementation plan
AB 2348 (Ramos) California Emergency Services Act: notification systems: Feather Alert
AB 2357 (Bains) University of California: school of medicine: University of California Kern County Medical Education Endowment Fund
AB 2738 (Luz Rivas) Labor Code: alternative enforcement: occupational safety
AB 3190 (Haney) Public works
AB 3206 (McKinnor) Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale: arenas in the City of Inglewood
SB 59 (Skinner) Battery electric vehicles: bidirectional capability
SB 583 (Padilla) Salton Sea Conservancy
SB 729 (Menjivar) Health care coverage: treatment for infertility and fertility services
SB 896 (Dodd) Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act
SB 1025 (Eggman) Pretrial diversion for veterans
SB 1063 (Grove) Pupil safety: identification cards
SB 1342 (Atkins) California Environmental Quality Act: infrastructure projects: County of San Diego
SB 1410 (Ochoa Bogh) Pupil instruction: curriculum frameworks: mathematics: algebra.
2024 10 ABs / 8 SBs 18 total
2023 Gavin Newsom
AB 39 (Grayson) Digital financial asset businesses: regulatory oversight
AB 363 (Bauer-Kahan) Pesticides: neonicotinoids for nonagricultural use: reevaluation: control measures
AB 418 (Gabriel) The California Food Safety Act
AB 519 (Schiavo) Affordable Housing Finance Workgroup: affordable housing: consolidated application and coordinated review process
AB 579 (Ting) Schoolbuses: zero-emission vehicles
AB 590 (Hart) State-funded assistance grants and contracts: advance payments
AB 665 (Wendy Carrillo) Minors: consent to mental health services
AB 812 (Boerner) Housing development approvals: reserving affordable units in or near a cultural district for artists
AB 1167 (Wendy Carrillo) Oil and gas: acquisition: bonding requirements
AB 1194 (Wendy Carrillo) California Privacy Rights Act of 2020: exemptions: abortion services
SB 51 (Bradford) Cannabis provisional licenses: local equity applicants
SB 54 (Skinner) Venture capital companies: reporting
SB 253 (Wiener) Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act
SB 261 (Stern) Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial risk
SB 302 (Stern) Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act.
SB 410 (Becker) Powering Up Californians Act
SB 553 (Cortese) Occupational safety: workplace violence: restraining orders and workplace violence prevention plan
SB 673 (Bradford) Emergency notification: Ebony Alert: missing Black youth
2023 10 ABs / 8 SBs 18 total
2022 Gavin Newsom
AB 988 (Bauer-Kahan) Mental health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
AB 1249 (Gallagher) Income taxes: gross income exclusions: wildfires
AB 1642 (Salas) California Environmental Quality Act: water system well and domestic well projects: exemption
AB 1655 (Jones-Sawyer) State holidays: Juneteenth
AB 1801 (Nazarian) State holidays: Genocide Remembrance Day
AB 2097 (Friedman) Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements
AB 2098 (Low) Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct
AB 2117 (Gipson) Mobile stroke units
AB 2242 (Santiago) Mental health services
AB 2406 (Aguiar-Curry) Intermodal marine terminals
AB 2511 (Irwin) Skilled nursing facilities: backup power source
AB 2596 (Low) Lunar New Year holiday
SB 107 (Wiener) Gender-affirming health care
SB 357 (Wiener) Crimes: loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense
SB 490 (Caballero) The Buy American Food Act: public institutions: purchase of nondomestic agricultural food products
SB 644 (Leyva) Health care coverage outreach
SB 846 (Dodd) Diablo Canyon powerplant: extension of operations
SB 851 (Portantino) Personal Income Tax Law: Small Business Relief Act: elective tax
SB 1116 (Portantino) Arts Council: The Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund
SB 1157 (Hertzberg) Urban water use objectives
SB 1208 (Hueso) Low-income utility customer assistance programs: concurrent application process
SB 1246 (Stern) Income taxes: gross income exclusions: wildfires
SB 1340 (Hertzberg) Property taxation: active solar energy systems: extension
2022 12 ABs / 11 SBs 23 total
2021 Gavin Newsom
AB 101 (Medina) Pupil instruction: high school graduation requirements: ethnic studies
AB 315 (Stone) Voluntary stream restoration property owner liability: indemnification
AB 707 (Quirk) Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2021
SB 10 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing development: density
SB 28 (Caballero) Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006: deployment data
SB 389 (Dodd) Alcoholic beverages: retail on-sale license: off-sale privileges
SB 510 (Pan) Health care coverage: COVID-19 cost sharing
SB 816 (G.O. Committee) Master Mutual Aid Agreement: tribes
2021 3 ABs / 5 SBs 8 total
2020 Gavin Newsom
AB 1304 (Waldron) California MAT Re-Entry Incentive Program
AB 1525 (Jones-Sawyer) Cannabis: financial institutions
AB 1544 (Gipson) Community Paramedicine or Triage to Alternate Destination Act
AB 2112 (Ramos) Suicide prevention
AB 3012 (Wood) Residential property insurance
AB 3074 (Friedman) Fire prevention: wildfire risk: defensible space: ember-resistant zones
AB 3234 (Ting) Public Safety
SB 86 (Durazo) Department of Pesticide Regulation: chlorpyrifos: quarterly reports
SB 406 (Pan) Health care: omnibus bill
SB 803 (Beall) Mental health services: peer support specialist certification
SB 872 (Dodd) Residential property insurance: state of emergency
2020 7 ABs / 4 SBs 11 total
2019 Gavin Newsom
AB 5 (Gonzalez) Worker status: employees and independent contractors
AB 54 (Ting) The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act
AB 290 (Wood) Health care service plans and health insurance: third-party payments
AB 1519 (Low) Healing arts
AB 1816 (Daly) Insurance
SB 156 (Nielsen) Health facilities: emergency medical services
SB 176 (Jackson) State Bar of California
SB 206 (Skinner) Collegiate athletics: student athlete compensation and representation
SB 225 (Durazo) Citizens of the state
SB 228 (Jackson) Master Plan on Aging
SB 235 (Dodd) Planning and zoning: housing production report: regional housing need allocation
2019 5 ABs / 6 SBs 11 total
2018 Jerry Brown
AB 237 (Gonzalez Fletcher) Pilot Program for Increased Access to Responsible Small Dollar Loans
AB 987 (Kamlager-Dove) California Environmental Quality Act: sports and entertainment project
AB 1884 (Calderon) Food facilities: single-use plastic straws
AB 2629 (Eggman) Department of Transportation: airspace under state highways: leases
AB 3061 (Gloria) State highways: property leases
AB 3139 (Rob Bonta) State highways: property leases
SB 100 (de Leon) California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: emissions of greenhouse gases
SB 212 (Jackson) Solid waste: pharmaceutical and sharps waste stewardship
SB 519 (Beall) State highways: property leases
SB 700 (Wiener) Self-generation incentive program
SB 826 (Jackson) Corporations: boards of directors
SB 1194 (Lara) Privacy: lodging and common carriers
SB 1391 (Lara) Juveniles: fitness for juvenile court
2018 6 ABs / 7 SBs 13 total
2017 Jerry Brown
AB 203 (O’Donnell) School facilities: design and construction: report: regulations
AB 258 (Arambula) Child care and development services: individualized county child care subsidy plan: County of Fresno
AB 262 (Rob Bonta) Public contracts: bid specifications: Buy Clean California Act
AB 300 (Caballero) Child care and development services: individualized county child care subsidy plans: Counties of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz
AB 377 (Frazier) Child care subsidy plans: Counties of San Diego and Solano
AB 435 (Thurmond) Child care subsidy plans: Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, and Sonoma
AB 474 (Eduardo Garcia) Hazardous waste: spent brine solutions
AB 480 (Gonzalez Fletcher) CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: necessary supportive services
AB 932 (Ting) Shelter crisis: homeless shelters
AB 1082 (Burke) Transportation electrification: electric vehicle charging infrastructure: school facilities and other educational institutions
AB 1083 (Burke) Transportation electrification: electric vehicle charging infrastructure: state parks and beaches
AB 1410 (Wood) Penalty assessments: emergency services and children’s health care coverage funding
AB 1422 (Daly) Workers’ compensation insurance: fraud
AB 1448 (Shirley Weber) Elderly Parole Program
AB 1701 (Thurmond) Labor-related liabilities: original contractor.
SB 54 (Beall) Law enforcement: sharing data
SB 751 (Hill) School finance: school districts: annual budgets: reserve balance
SB 798 (Hill) Healing arts: boards
2017 15 ABs / 3 SBs 18 total
2016 Jerry Brown
AB 935 (Salas) Water projects
AB 1386 (Low) Emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors
AB 1690 (Medina) Community colleges: part-time, temporary employees
AB 2153 (Cristina Garcia) The Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Act of 2016
AB 2168 (Williams) Public Utilities Commission Audit Compliance Act of 2016
AB 2298 (Shirley Weber) Criminal gangs
AB 2329 (Bonilla) Computer science strategic implementation plan
AB 2722 (Burke) Transformative Climate Communities Program
AB 2792 (Rob Bonta) Local law enforcement agencies: federal immigration policy enforcement: ICE access
AB 2888 (Low) Sex crimes: mandatory prison sentence
SB 62 (Hill) Public Utilities Commission: Office of the Safety Advocate
SB 215 (Leno) Public Utilities Commission
SB 512 (Hill) Public Utilities Commission
SB 661 (Hill) Protection of subsurface installations
SB 1004 (Hill) Young adults: deferred entry of judgment pilot program
SB 1074 (Hueso) Energy: Federal Trust Fund: geothermal projects
SB 1383 (Lara) Short-lived climate pollutants: methane emissions: dairy and livestock: organic waste: landfills
2016 10 ABs / 7 SBs  17 total
2015 Jerry Brown
AB 187 (Rob Bonta) Medi-Cal: managed care: California Children’s Services program
AB 194 (Frazier) High-occupancy toll lanes
AB 243 (Wood) Medical marijuana
AB 266 (Rob Bonta) Medical marijuana
AB 288 (Holden) Public schools: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships
AB 914 (Brown) Toll facilities: County of San Bernardino
AB 1000 (Shirley Weber) California State University: student success fees
SB 27 (Hill) Livestock: use of antimicrobial drugs
SB 414 (Jackson) Oil spill response
2015 7 ABs / 2 SBs 9 total
2014 Jerry Brown
AB 357 (Pan) Medi-Cal Children’s Health Advisory Panel
AB 1594 (Williams) Waste management
AB 1790 (Dickinson) Foster children: mental health services
AB 1990 (Gordon) Food production
AB 2363 (Dahle) Electricity procurement
SB 883 (Hancock) West Contra Costa Healthcare District
SB 1204 (Lara) California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program
SB 1300 (Hancock) Refineries: turnarounds
SB 1341 (Mitchell) Medi-Cal: Statewide Automated Welfare System
SB 1424 (Wolk) State property: tidelands transfer: City of Martinez
2014 5 ABs / 5 SBs 10 total
2013 Jerry Brown
AB 219 (Perea) Health care coverage: cancer treatment
AB 327 (Perea) Electricity: natural gas: rates: net energy metering: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program
AB 576 (V. Manual Perez) Revenue Recovery and Collaborative Enforcement Team Act: pilot program
AB 628 (Gorell) Energy management plans for harbor and port districts
AB 711 (Rendon) Hunting: nonlead ammunition
AB 955 (Williams) Community colleges: intersession extension programs
AB 1213 (Bloom) Bobcat Protection Act of 2013
AB 1217 (Bonnie Lowenthal) Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act
SB 4 (Pavley) Oil and gas: well stimulation
SB 54 (Hancock) Hazardous materials management: stationary sources: skilled and trained workforce
SB 254 (Hancock) Solid waste: used mattresses: recycling and recovery
SB 322 (Hueso) Water recycling
SB 377 (Lieu) Public works: project determinations: wage and penalty assessments
SB 447 (Lara) Surface mining operations
2013 8 ABs / 6 SBs 14 total
2012 Jerry Brown
AB 1660 (Campos) Representation of minors: permits
AB 1842 (Monning) California Central Coast State Veterans Cemetery: Endowment Fund
AB 2109 (Pan) Communicable disease: immunization exemption
AB 2160 (Blumenfield) Insurance: retention risk
AB 2358 (Hagman) State Capitol: Ronald Reagan statue
AB 2515 (Hall) Indian gaming: local agencies
AB 2531 (Michael Allen) State hospitals: prohibited items
SB 477 (Wright) School district reorganization: bonded indebtedness: Wiseburn Unified School District: Centinela Valley Union High School District
SB 1122 (Michael Rubio) Energy: renewable bioenergy projects
SB 1148 (Pavley) Fish and Game Commission: Department of Fish and Game
SB 1161 (Padilla) Communications: Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet Protocol enabled communications service
SB 1462 (Leno) County sheriffs: release of prisoners: medical release
2012 7 ABs / 5 SBs 12 total
2011 Jerry Brown
AB x1 21 (Blumenfield) Public health: managed care plan taxes
AB 29 (John Perez) Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
AB 94 (Budget Committee) Criminal justice realignment
AB 366 (Michael Allen) Defendants: involuntary antipsychotic medication
AB 506 (Wieckowski) Local government: bankruptcy: neutral evaluation
AB 604 (Skinner) Needle exchange programs
AB 743 (Block) California Community Colleges: common assessment system
AB 809 (Feuer) Firearms
AB 873 (Furutani) Political Reform Act of 1974: postgovernment employment restrictions
AB 1112 (Huffman) Oil spill prevention and administration fee: State Lands Commission
AB 1417 (Hall) Tribal gaming: local agencies
SB 202 (Hancock) Elections: ballot measures
SB 335 (Ed Hernandez) Medi-Cal: hospitals: quality assurance fee
SB 611 (Steinberg) Public postsecondary education: University of California
SB 612 (Steinberg) Postsecondary education: instructional strategies
SB 707 (Cannella) Agricultural development
SB 769 (Fuller) Mountain lions: display, exhibition, or storage
SB 857 (Lieu) Public employment: unlawful strike damages
SB 922 (Steinberg) Public contracts: public entities: project labor agreements
SB 946 (Steinberg) Health care coverage: mental illness: pervasive developmental disorder or autism: public health
2011 11 ABs / 9 SBs 20 total
2010 Arnold Schwarzenegger
AB 231 (Huber) Environment: California Environmental Quality Act: overriding consideration
AB 635 (Accountability & Admin Review Committee) Public contracts: roof projects
AB 1695 (Beall) Santa Clara County deputy sheriffs and custodial officers: status and duties
SB 880 (Yee) Public safety: snow sport helmets
SB 1456 (Simitian) Environmental quality: cumulative effects and mediation
2010 3 ABs / 2 SBs  5 total
2009 Arnold Schwarzenegger
SB 32 (Negrete McLeod) Renewable electric generation facilities
SB 43 (Elaine Alquist) Joint powers agencies: City of Santa Clara
SB 54 (Leno) Family law: out-of-state same-sex marriages
SB 113 (Local Government Committee) Local Government Omnibus Act of 2009
SB 702 (DeSaulnier) Ancillary day care centers: employees: trustline providers
SB 788 (Wyland) Licensed professional clinical counselors
2009 0 ABs / 6 SBs 6 total
2008 Arnold Schwarzenegger
AB 619 (Emmerson) Vehicle registration amnesty program: specially constructed vehicles
AB 1879 (Feuer) Hazardous materials: toxic substances
AB 1954 (Jeffries)  High-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes
SB 375 (Steinberg) Transportation planning: travel demand models: sustainable communities strategy: environmental review
SB 509 (Simitian) Hazardous materials: toxic substances
SB 564 (Mark Ridley-Thomas) Public School Health Center Support Program
SB 588 (George Runner) Postsecondary education: community college school buildings
SB 1217 (Yee) Vessels: Board of Pilot Commissioners: pilots: fitness for duty
SB 1486 (Ducheny) Otay Mesa East Toll Facility Act
SB 1627 (Wiggins) Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, Suisun, and Monterey
2008 3 ABs / 6 SBs 9 total
2007 Arnold Schwarzenegger
AB 159 (Dave Jones) Courts: judgeships
AB 483 (Salas) Community colleges: contracting: Economic and Workforce Development Program
AB 617 (Torrico) State contracts: information technology goods and services
AB 1108 (Ma) Children’s products: phthalates
AB 1273 (Leno) State claims
AB 1723 (Judiciary Committee) Attorneys: IOLTA accounts
SB 45 (Perata) Private postsecondary education
SB 601 (Torlakson) Teachers: Physical Education Professional Development Program
SB 666 (Maldonado) Proprietary security services
SB 667 (Hollingsworth) School finance
SB 962 (Migden) Umbilical cord blood: research
SB 976 (Torlakson) San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority
SB 990 (Kuehl) Hazardous waste: Santa Susana Field Laboratory
2007 6 ABs / 7 SBs 13 total
2006 Arnold Schwarzenegger
AB 450 (Yee) Standardized emergency management system: animals
AB 2116 (Cohn) Emergency services: disaster assistance: equipment
AB 2701 (Blakeslee) San Luis Obispo County
AB 2778 (Lieber) Electricity: self-generation incentive program
AB 3035 (Laird) California Central Coast State Veterans’ Cemetery
AB 3056 (Natural Resources Committee) Beverage containers: quality incentive payments: refund values: handling fees
SB 257 (Chesbro) Special needs housing
SB 423 (Simitian) Electricity: charges: charitable organizations
SB 438 (Migden) Oral and maxillofacial surgery
SB 678 (Ducheny) Indian children
SB 1070 (Kehoe) Water quality information
SB 1245 (Figueroa) Health care coverage: cervical cancer screening test
SB 1292 (Scott) Teachers: limited-English-proficient pupils
SB 1260 (Ortiz) Reproductive health and research
SB 1309 (Scott) Nursing education: grants, loan assumptions, and faculty recruiting and retention
SB 1380 (Chesbro) Alcoholic beverages: California county wine
SB 1541 (Ducheny) Registered dental assistants: licensure
SB 1550 (Figueroa) Professional Fiduciaries Act
SB 1556 (Torlakson) Parks: The Great California Delta Trail System
SB 1614 (Simitian) Teachers: information system: identification number
SB 1710 (Ackerman) Education: California American Indian Education Center Program
SB 1758 (Figueroa) Adoption facilitators
SB 1759 (Ashburn) Health: background checks: fees: inspections
SB 1773 (Alarcon) Fines and forfeitures
2006 6 ABs / 18 SBs 24 total
2005 Arnold Schwarzenegger
AB 18 (La Malfa) Disaster relief
AB 164 (Nava) Disaster relief
AB 365 (Salinas) Local agencies: agricultural lands
AB 502 (Cogdill) Finance lenders: criminal history record checks
AB 967 (Canciamilla) Concurrent enrollment of pupils in high school and community college
AB 982 (Laird) Community colleges: fees
AB 1011 (Matthews) Pesticide brokers
AB 1200 (Laird) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
AB 1492 (Evans) Community college districts: property: sale or lease
AB 1585 (Blakeslee) Renewable energy resources: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: reporting
AB 1663 (Dave Jones) Capitol Area Plan: construction of facilities
SB 37 (Speier) Prohibited substances
SB 70 (Scott) Vocational education
SB 76 (Budget & Fiscal Review Committee) Energy
SB 387 (Ducheny) New river
SB 424 (Poochigian) Armenian Genocide
SB 640 (Escutia) Child care resource and referral programs: funding
SB 650 (Ortiz) Prostate cancer: Improving Access, Counseling, and Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer (IMPACT) Program
SB 726 (Florez) Dependent children
SB 798 (Simitian) Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program
SB 897 (Scott) International trade and investment office: Yerevan
SB 1100 (Perata) Hospital funding
2005 11 ABs / 11 SBs 22 total
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