All bills prioritized and supported by the CLBC meet the objective of the caucus: Economic Security, Educational Equity, Racial and Social Justice
2022-2023 Priority Bills
Criminal Justice
Bonta AB 1706 - Automatic Resentencing, Dismissal, & Sealing of Past Cannabis Convictions
Ensures prior cannabis convictions, already deemed eligible for automatic sealing, are reduced, dismissed, and sealed now that cannabis is legal under state law.
Kamlager ACA 3 – Slavery: Involuntary Servitude
This constitutional amendment removes language in the state Constitution that allows involuntary servitude as punishment to a crime.
Kamlager SB 1304 - CDCR Gate Money Allowance Increase
Seeks to increase the amount of money the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) gives to people upon release from state prisons to $2589.
K-12 Education
Weber/Holden AB 2774 LCFF Lowest Performing Sub Group
Provides continuous appropriation of $400,000,000 to the California Department of Education’s to establish the Low Performing Students Block Grant.
Weber AB 2598 Restorative Justice Practices
Requires California Department of Education to develop a standard model to implement restorative justice practices on a school campus.
Housing and Homelessness
Jones-Sawyer AB 2382 Ban the Box on Rental Housing
This bill prohibits a landlord from conducting a criminal background check during the initial review of housing applicants.
Bryan AB 1816 Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program
Provides competitive grants to counties, homeless COC, CBOs to fund housing, reentry services and workforce development for people recently released from incarceration and at risk of homelessness.
2022-2023 Support Bills
Health and Human Services
Bonta AB 2253 Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis
Declares it the policy of the state that gun violence be addressed as a public health crisis and establishes the State Crime and Violence Prevention Center (SCVPC) within the DOJ.
Gipson AB 2426 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital/ Expansion of Supplemental Funding
Seeks to expand supplemental funding to the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH). The increasing volume of patients in the hospital’s emergency department accounts for loses approximately $25 million annually.
General Government and Statewide Issues
Jones-Sawyer AB 2296 Reparations Task Force
This bill extends the Reparations Task Force sunset date to July 1, 2024.
Infrastructure and Technology
Bryan AB 2419 California Justice 40 Act
Ensures that federal climate and infrastructure will advance California's to promote equity, environmental justice, and a high-road economy through targeted investments to disadvantaged and low-income communities.
Labor and Workforce Development
Holden AB 1604 Upward Mobility Act of 2022
Requires diversity on all state boards and commissions that have volunteers. And requires data to be provided to the Reparations Task Force for their deliberations.
McCarty AB 2670 CA RISE
Re-entry employment development program that provides comprehensive services for those formerly incarcerated.
K -12 Education
McCarty AB740 Educational Rights of Students in Foster Care
Protects the educational rights of foster students during school disciplinary proceedings.
Bonta AB 2498 Freedom Schools Demonstration Project
Establishes a three-year pilot project to provide grants to local education agencies (LEAs) to create and offer full day, culturally-relevant summer school literacy and learning loss mitigation programs.
Criminal Justice
Gipson AB 1621 Ban on Ghost Guns (Chaptered)
This bill seeks to increase public safety by further restricting “ghost guns” and the parts and kits used to build them, while protecting the rights of legal gun owners in California.
Holden AB2632 California Mandela Act on Solitary Confinement
Defines what constitutes solitary confinement, sets limits on its use, and bans the use for vulnerable populations, including those with disabilities and pregnant women.
