Josh Becker

This bill forces health plans, insurers, and public programs to cover prescription hormone therapies under expansive nondiscrimination rules, effectively locking in coverage for controversial gender-transition related treatments and limiting providers' and insurers' discretion. By declaring an urgency, it fast-tracks an ideological health-care mandate that tramples medical judgment, conscience rights, and parental authority. CPAC supports protecting children from irreversible gender-transition interventions and opposes coerced coverage mandates for ideological treatments and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-05-28 by a vote of 28-10. The Governor vetoed this bill.

This bill creates new liability rules for social media platforms based on user harms, inviting a wave of lawsuits and government-driven content policing by private companies. Instead of narrowly targeting genuine abuse against minors, it empowers California to shape online speech through litigation threats and compliance costs. CPAC supports protecting minors online but opposes broad liability schemes that fuel trial lawyer abuses and incentivize censorship and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-06-04 by a vote of 29-4. The Governor vetoed this bill.

This bill tweaks enhanced infrastructure financing districts and community revitalization areas to exclude agricultural land from certain tax allocation schemes, while still preserving complex local tax-increment financing tools. It marginally protects farmland but leaves in place opaque financing structures that can mask public debt and divert property tax revenue from core services. CPAC supports protecting agricultural land but remains skeptical of complicated tax-increment schemes that lack transparency and therefore opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-06-02 by a vote of 32-5. The Governor vetoed this bill.

This bill tightens state control over what chain restaurants may offer and market in children's meals, layering on new nutritional and beverage restrictions from Sacramento. Instead of letting parents decide what their kids eat, it expands intrusive health mandates on private businesses and family choices. CPAC supports parental responsibility and opposes government micromanagement of restaurant menus and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-03 by a vote of 40-0. The Governor vetoed this bill.

This bill revises the rules for district-level initiatives by changing how local measures are submitted to voters, shifting procedural control among local election actors. It alters the mechanics of direct democracy in California without addressing core election integrity concerns like voter ID, ballot security, and limits on ballot harvesting. CPAC supports strong election integrity reforms and is wary of procedural changes that do not strengthen safeguards and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-11 by a vote of 30-10. The Governor vetoed this bill.

This bill directs state energy bureaucrats to develop a plan for transitioning seaports to so?called alternative fuels, embedding California's green agenda deeper into the state's infrastructure. It sets the stage for costly mandates that will drive up shipping costs, hurt blue?collar port jobs, and punish fossil fuel use without meaningful environmental benefit. CPAC opposes government-driven green energy schemes that undermine affordable fossil fuel use and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-06-02 by a vote of 34-0. The Governor vetoed this bill.

This bill creates a new state program and bureaucracy to acquire, manage, and regulate agricultural land in the name of farmland access and conservation. Rather than empowering private ownership and market-based stewardship, it invites more government intervention in land markets and opens the door to heavy-handed land-use control. CPAC opposes expanding government ownership and control over private farmland and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-09 by a vote of 31-5. The Governor vetoed this bill.

This bill massively expands access to, funding for, and legal protections around abortion and related reproductive health services, including minors' access and insurance coverage mandates. CPAC believes that abortion is always a human tragedy. CPAC opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-09 by a vote of 30-8. The bill later became law.

This bill tightens methane emission requirements for petroleum and natural gas operations, favoring only 'low methane' producers under California's climate regime. It piles yet another layer of costly regulation onto fossil fuel production, driving energy prices higher and discouraging domestic oil and gas development. CPAC supports an all-of-the-above energy strategy and opposes punitive regulations on fossil fuels and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-06-04 by a vote of 37-0. The Governor vetoed this bill.

This bill requires additional disclosures and educational materials about so-called thirdhand smoke as an environmental hazard in real estate transactions. It further clutters property disclosures with speculative health warnings, increasing liability for sellers and landlords while doing little to protect buyers. CPAC opposes regulatory overreach that burdens property owners with excessive disclosure mandates and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-03 by a vote of 40-0. The bill later became law.

This bill forces local governments to provide additional formal notice and information to public employee unions before making policy changes affecting working conditions. It tilts the playing field further in favor of government unions, giving them more leverage to obstruct reforms and lock in bloated compensation packages paid by taxpayers. CPAC opposes legislation that strengthens public-sector union power against taxpayers and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-04 by a vote of 28-11. The bill later became law.

This bill tightens and clarifies prohibitions on political contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals under the Political Reform Act, aiming to keep foreign money out of California campaigns. By drawing a firmer line against foreign influence, it reinforces election integrity and helps ensure that Californian, not foreign, interests drive state policy. CPAC supports strong protections against foreign interference in American elections and supported this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-08 by a vote of 39-0. The bill later became law.

This bill creates a new regulatory scheme empowering the state to police how businesses use pricing algorithms and coordinate competitive behavior, inviting aggressive bureaucratic intervention into private-sector technology decisions. This bill risks chilling innovation and saddling employers with vague, open-ended compliance burdens. CPAC opposes this expansion of regulatory overreach into private enterprise and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-06-03 by a vote of 29-10. The bill did not become law.

This bill prohibits law enforcement officers from wearing masks or face coverings that obscure their identity while performing official duties, except under narrowly defined circumstances. It imposes additional transparency requirements on law enforcement personnel to ensure accountability. CPAC opposed this bill because it undermines law enforcement effectiveness and jeopardizes officer safety in sensitive operations. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-11 by a vote of 27-10. The bill later became law.

This bill establishes a new process for redistricting California's congressional districts under expedited procedures, potentially empowering partisan interests to reshape electoral boundaries for political advantage. CPAC opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-08-21 by a vote of 30-9. The bill later became law.

This bill imposes new restrictions on the types of foods that can be served in schools, banning items classified as 'ultraprocessed foods' and granting the government greater control over local school nutrition policies. CPAC opposed this bill because it represents unnecessary government overreach into local school decisions and parental rights. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-11 by a vote of 40-0. The bill later became law.