New California laws 2027: laws taking effect in California in 2027
146 new California laws on healthcare, employment, AI, insurance, data privacy, alcohol and beverage, data centers and energy, children's online safety, packaging and PFAS, rental housing, cannabis, cybersecurity and intellectual property take effect in 2027. Each is listed below with its date, what it does and a link to the official text.
- 146 laws take effect on 1 January 2027.
- By topic: healthcare 39, employment 33, AI 20, insurance 20, data privacy 11, alcohol and beverage 9, data centers and energy 8, children's online safety 7, packaging and PFAS 5, rental housing 5, cannabis 4, cybersecurity 2 and intellectual property 2.
Updated 25 October 2026
One-line summaries are drafted by software from the bill text and are not reviewed by an attorney.
AB 1126: Medi-Cal managed care plans: enrollees with other health care coverage.
Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to ensure that providers billing Medi-Cal managed care plans for dual-covered enrollees face no excessive administrative requirements compared to fee-for-service billing.
AB 1199: Medical staff: health care provider credentialing.
AB 1587: Prescription drug refills: prescriber notifications.
AB 1629: Dental coverage.
AB 1637: Physicians and surgeons: medical records.
AB 1696: Emergency services and care: nurse-midwives.
AB 173: Health.
AB 1760: Dentistry.
AB 1770: Arbitration: health care service plans: Lindalee's Law.
AB 1811: Health professionals.
AB 1843: Communicable diseases: hepatitis C.
Prohibits health care service plans and health insurers from requiring prior authorization for medically necessary direct-acting antiviral drugs treating hepatitis C.
AB 1876: Health care coverage: nondiscrimination.
AB 1887: Prescription drug coverage for rare diseases.
AB 1906: Health care coverage: home test kits.
AB 1979: Health care services: artificial intelligence.
Requires health care chatbots to comply with patient confidentiality rules and ensures licensed health care professionals retain independent judgment when using clinical decision support systems.
AB 2233: Behavioral health treatment plans.
AB 2311: Health care districts: employment.
AB 2499: Health care coverage: claims payments.
Requires health care service plans and insurers to accept electronic medical records and supporting documentation through standard electronic submission methods and prohibits them from denying or delaying claims solely because their systems cannot accept otherwise compliant documentation.
AB 2531: Public health: abortion services.
AB 2562: Alcohol or other drug recovery and treatment programs and facilities: suicide prevention.
AB 2598: Health care facilities: notification of next of kin.
AB 2613: Health care service plans: provider contract termination: notice.
AB 2775: Chiropractic Act.
AB 280: Health care coverage: provider directories.
AB 375: Medical Practice Act: health care providers: qualified autism service paraprofessionals.
SB 1023: Health care coverage: antiretroviral drugs, drug devices, and drug products.
Requires health care service plans and health insurers to cover antiretroviral drugs, devices, and products for HIV prevention without prior authorization or step therapy, and mandates coverage under both medical and prescription drug benefits starting 1 January 2027.
SB 1049: Health care claims reimbursement.
SB 1094: Prescription drugs.
SB 1124: Public health.
SB 1302: Nursing.
SB 1323: Health care providers: patient access: immigration enforcement.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 1400: Alameda Health System: hospital authority.
SB 329: Alcohol and drug recovery: licensed treatment facilities and certified programs: investigations.
SB 331: Health care coverage: hearing aids.
SB 503: Health care services: artificial intelligence.
Requires developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems supporting clinical decisions to identify, mitigate, and monitor risks of biased impacts, with annual reporting to the state department beginning 1 January 2027.
SB 626: Perinatal health screenings and treatment.
SB 874: Medi-Cal: behavioral health treatment: stakeholder feedback.
SB 950: Health care coverage: dementia.
SB 964: Prescription drug coverage: dose adjustments.
Requires health care service plans and health insurers to grant treating providers' written requests to adjust prescription drug doses or frequency without prior authorization if specified conditions are met.
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AB 1198: Public works: prevailing wages.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
AB 1235: California State University: skilled and trained workforce requirement.
AB 1331: Workplace surveillance.
Requires employers to prohibit workplace surveillance tools in bathrooms, locker rooms, changing areas, and lactation spaces, and allows workers to leave surveillance devices behind when entering these areas and public bathrooms or during off-duty hours.
AB 1439: Public retirement systems: development projects: labor standards.
AB 1683: Workers' compensation: prepaid cards.
Extends indefinitely the authorization for employers to deposit workers' compensation disability indemnity payments into prepaid card accounts that meet specified requirements and disclosure standards.
AB 1803: Employment: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.
AB 1818: California State University: employer-employee relations: meeting and conferring.
AB 187: Employment.
AB 1883: Workplace surveillance tools.
Requires employers to stop using workplace surveillance tools with artificial intelligence that collect neural data, recognize emotional states, make inferences based on gait, or identify protected characteristics, with exceptions for federal defense and security purposes.
AB 1904: Teachers: credentialed educator apprenticeship programs.
AB 1980: Labor: apprenticeship: Equal Representation in Construction Apprenticeships Grant Program.
Requires the Department of Industrial Relations to establish a grant program providing stipends and support services to women, nonbinary individuals, and underrepresented populations in construction apprenticeships.
AB 2078: Employees: meal periods: stationary engineers.
AB 2129: State employees: compensation: firefighters.
AB 2157: Workforce development: Displaced Oil and Gas Worker Pilot Program: extension.
AB 2227: Farm labor contractors: surety bonds.
Requires farm labor contractors to deposit higher surety bonds with the Labor Commissioner based on annual gross receipts: $50,000 for up to $500,000, $100,000 for $500,000 to $2,000,000, and $150,000 for over $2,000,000.
AB 2321: Occupational safety and health: investigations.
Requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health Bureau of Investigations to establish written policies for reviewing workplace incidents and deciding whether to investigate or refer cases for prosecution.
AB 2466: Strong Workforce Program: work-based learning opportunities: regional consortia.
AB 2563: Sex discrimination: scope.
AB 2634: Workforce development: High road training partnerships: scoring preference.
AB 2646: Employment: minimum wages: agricultural workers.
Requires employers to pay approved agricultural employees and corresponding employees a minimum wage of $19.75 per hour, adjusted annually for cost-of-living starting 1 January 2027.
AB 2682: Transportation network company drivers: labor relations: appeals.
SB 1012: Employment of inmates.
SB 1046: Occupational safety: transboundary pollution.
Requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to propose, by 1 January 2030, a standard protecting employees with high or prolonged outdoor exposure to transboundary pollution from Baja California.
SB 1083: Noncertificated public school employees: private school employees: egregious misconduct: statewide data system: Commission on Teacher Credentialing: adverse actions: contracts and background checks for educational services.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 1166: Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District: employee relations.
SB 1227: Department of Industrial Relations: apprenticeship pilot program.
SB 1316: Employment.
SB 1371: Solid waste handling services: labor dispute.
SB 1383: Housing development: density bonus: incentives or concessions: labor standards.
SB 1444: Employment.
SB 909: Public works.
SB 947: Employment: automated decision systems.
Beginning 1 July 2027, employers are prohibited from using automated decision systems to make certain employment decisions and must provide workers with data used and written notice when an automated system primarily drives discipline or termination decisions.
SB 951: Employment: technological displacement: notice.
Requires employers to give affected workers and state agencies 60 days' notice before laying off 50 or more workers due to artificial intelligence or automation replacing positions, and prohibits discharge without cause during the notice period.
Next year's employment laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Employment and Labor Legislation Tracker.
AB 1159: Student personal information.
Requires operators of websites, apps, and online services used for K-12, preschool, or higher education to protect student personal information and prohibits using student data to train artificial intelligence systems.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
AB 1405: Artificial intelligence: auditors: registration.
Requires the Government Operations Agency to establish an enrollment mechanism for AI auditors by 1 January 2027, and prohibits unregistered AI auditors from conducting covered audits starting that date.
AB 1609: Customer service chatbots.
Requires large private businesses to disclose that customer service chatbots are artificial intelligence, prohibit representing them as human, and provide access to human agents within 15 minutes.
AB 1651: State Bar of California: artificial intelligence.
Requires the State Bar to disclose on its website and study materials the use of artificial intelligence-generated content in developing bar examinations and study materials beginning 1 January 2028.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
AB 1883: Workplace surveillance tools.
Requires employers to stop using workplace surveillance tools with artificial intelligence that collect neural data, recognize emotional states, make inferences based on gait, or identify protected characteristics, with exceptions for federal defense and security purposes.
AB 1979: Health care services: artificial intelligence.
Requires health care chatbots to comply with patient confidentiality rules and ensures licensed health care professionals retain independent judgment when using clinical decision support systems.
AB 2392: Public postsecondary education: generative artificial intelligence systems: procurement standards: training.
Requires California Community Colleges and State University to create joint procurement standards and training for generative artificial intelligence systems by 1 January 2028, and provide annual training reviews.
AB 2504: Community colleges: artificial intelligence: pilot program.
Requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor's office to establish a pilot program providing reskilling and upskilling opportunities for creative workers displaced by artificial intelligence at up to ten participating community college districts.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
AB 2713: California AI Transparency Act: system provenance data.
Requires large online platforms to detect system provenance data in content and allow users to inspect it through their interface, links, or downloadable formats, while prohibiting knowingly stripping such data.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 1050: False advertising: synthetic performers.
Requires persons creating advertisements that prominently feature synthetic performers to include clear and conspicuous disclosure that the advertisement includes a synthetic performer.
SB 1111: Digital replicas.
Expands civil liability for unauthorized use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness to include digital replicas and removes a presumption protecting employers.
SB 1119: Companion chatbots: children's safety.
Requires companion chatbot operators to annually assess child safety risks, implement protective measures, publish safety policies, and submit to independent audits starting 1 July 2027.
SB 1159: Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.
Prohibits people from knowingly using artificial intelligence to falsely represent that a natural person engaged with governmental agencies, and excludes artificial intelligence systems from participating in state transparency and governance laws.
SB 1246: Autonomous vehicles.
Requires autonomous vehicle manufacturers to maintain emergency communications capacity, employ US-based remote drivers with valid California licenses, immediately dispatch local technicians to accidents, and notify jurisdictions of fleet emergencies.
SB 503: Health care services: artificial intelligence.
Requires developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems supporting clinical decisions to identify, mitigate, and monitor risks of biased impacts, with annual reporting to the state department beginning 1 January 2027.
SB 574: Attorneys, arbitrators, judicial officers, and alternative resolution providers.
Requires attorneys using generative artificial intelligence to protect confidential information, verify accuracy of outputs, and personally verify all citations in court filings, and prohibits arbitrators from delegating decisions to artificial intelligence without disclosing such use to parties.
SB 813: Independent verification organizations.
The Business and Consumer Services Agency must establish by 1 July 2027 the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission to develop AI safety standards and designate independent verification organizations to assess AI system risks.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 867: Toys: companion chatbots.
Bans the manufacture, sale, exchange, and offering for sale of toys that include companion chatbots until 1 January 2031.
SB 947: Employment: automated decision systems.
Beginning 1 July 2027, employers are prohibited from using automated decision systems to make certain employment decisions and must provide workers with data used and written notice when an automated system primarily drives discipline or termination decisions.
SB 951: Employment: technological displacement: notice.
Requires employers to give affected workers and state agencies 60 days' notice before laying off 50 or more workers due to artificial intelligence or automation replacing positions, and prohibits discharge without cause during the notice period.
Next year's AI laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the AI Legislation Tracker.
AB 1126: Medi-Cal managed care plans: enrollees with other health care coverage.
Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to ensure that providers billing Medi-Cal managed care plans for dual-covered enrollees face no excessive administrative requirements compared to fee-for-service billing.
AB 1278: Mortgages: hazard insurance proceeds: interest.
Requires financial institutions holding hazard insurance proceeds in loss draft accounts for one- to four-family residences to credit or pay borrowers at least 2% annual simple interest, with uncashed checks canceled after 90 days.
AB 1683: Workers' compensation: prepaid cards.
Extends indefinitely the authorization for employers to deposit workers' compensation disability indemnity payments into prepaid card accounts that meet specified requirements and disclosure standards.
AB 1781: Federal Home Loan Banks.
Prohibits Federal Home Loan Banks from being stayed or enjoined from enforcing rights against collateral pledged by insurer-members, and prevents insurance receivers from voiding related transfers unless made with intent to defraud creditors.
AB 1798: Genetic testing for life and disability insurance.
Life and disability insurers cannot cancel, limit, deny, or base underwriting decisions on genetic information or test results, except under specified criteria.
AB 1931: Insurance: home protection companies.
Requires home protection contract limited lines agents to obtain Department of Insurance licenses and authorizes utilities to collect home protection contract fees through utility bills beginning 1 July 2027.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
AB 2038: Residential property insurance: cancellations and nonrenewals.
Requires insurers to renew residential property insurance policies for at least 36 months after a total loss from disaster and prohibits cancellations or nonrenewals for two years after wildfire emergencies.
AB 2054: Family temporary disability insurance program: covered active duty.
Expands the family temporary disability insurance program to include workers taking leave for training, non-foreign deployments, and state active duty of military family members.
AB 2227: Farm labor contractors: surety bonds.
Requires farm labor contractors to deposit higher surety bonds with the Labor Commissioner based on annual gross receipts: $50,000 for up to $500,000, $100,000 for $500,000 to $2,000,000, and $150,000 for over $2,000,000.
AB 2361: Insurance: personal vehicle sharing.
Requires personal vehicle sharing programs to assume liability for bodily injury or property damage to third parties in amounts of at least $250,000 per person and $500,000 total for injuries, and $100,000 for property damage.
AB 2499: Health care coverage: claims payments.
Requires health care service plans and insurers to accept electronic medical records and supporting documentation through standard electronic submission methods and prohibits them from denying or delaying claims solely because their systems cannot accept otherwise compliant documentation.
AB 2724: Insurance: distressed areas.
Requires the Insurance Department to review and update distressed areas yearly beginning July 2027, hold public meetings for input, and publish lists of affected ZIP Codes by January 2028 and annually thereafter.
AB 69: FAIR Plan policy notices and renewals.
Requires the FAIR Plan Association to share policyholder information with participating insurers, provide annual coverage option notices to policyholders, and require insurers to report quarterly on policies issued to FAIR Plan policyholders.
SB 1023: Health care coverage: antiretroviral drugs, drug devices, and drug products.
Requires health care service plans and health insurers to cover antiretroviral drugs, devices, and products for HIV prevention without prior authorization or step therapy, and mandates coverage under both medical and prescription drug benefits starting 1 January 2027.
SB 1206: Insurance: omnibus.
Requires the Insurance Commissioner to inactivate licenses of insurers and agents dissolved, forfeited, terminated, canceled, or surrendered by the Secretary of State.
SB 1209: Insurance: examination of insurers.
Requires examined insurance companies to take corrective actions to remediate violations identified in examination reports and subjects companies to penalties up to twenty thousand dollars for failing to comply.
SB 1301: Residential property insurance: nonrenewals.
Beginning 1 January 2028, insurers must give policyholders at least 90 days' notice before not renewing residential property insurance and must explain the grounds in plain language.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 354: Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act.
Requires insurance licensees, surplus line insurers, reinsurers, and third-party service providers to provide privacy notices, obtain consumer consent, and allow consumers to access or delete personal information starting 1 July 2028.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 876: Fire and residential property insurance.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 988: California Motor Vehicle Glass Act.
Requires motor vehicle glass repair shops to notify customers about advanced driver assistance systems, obtain claim numbers before contracting with insurers, provide good faith estimates, and prohibits offering rebates or incentives for insurance claims.
Next year's insurance laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Insurance Tracker.
AB 1159: Student personal information.
Requires operators of websites, apps, and online services used for K-12, preschool, or higher education to protect student personal information and prohibits using student data to train artificial intelligence systems.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
AB 1331: Workplace surveillance.
Requires employers to prohibit workplace surveillance tools in bathrooms, locker rooms, changing areas, and lactation spaces, and allows workers to leave surveillance devices behind when entering these areas and public bathrooms or during off-duty hours.
AB 1798: Genetic testing for life and disability insurance.
Life and disability insurers cannot cancel, limit, deny, or base underwriting decisions on genetic information or test results, except under specified criteria.
AB 1883: Workplace surveillance tools.
Requires employers to stop using workplace surveillance tools with artificial intelligence that collect neural data, recognize emotional states, make inferences based on gait, or identify protected characteristics, with exceptions for federal defense and security purposes.
AB 2448: Medical information: confidentiality.
Requires businesses that electronically store medical information to limit access to and segregate records related to gender affirming care, abortion services, and contraception.
AB 2561: Operating systems and applications: privacy settings.
Prohibits operating systems and applications from reversing a user's privacy setting choices without the user's consent.
AB 883: Data brokers: accessible deletion mechanism: deletion of personal information of elected officials and judges.
Requires data brokers to process deletion requests from the California Privacy Protection Agency within 30 days and authorizes attorneys to sue data brokers on behalf of elected officials and judges for violations.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 1114: Data collection: sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex status: disclosure.
Requires state agencies and public universities to keep confidential information about sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex status, prohibiting disclosure outside state government except under specified exceptions.
SB 354: Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act.
Requires insurance licensees, surplus line insurers, reinsurers, and third-party service providers to provide privacy notices, obtain consumer consent, and allow consumers to access or delete personal information starting 1 July 2028.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
SB 923: Consumer privacy requests: deletion request records and request submission methods.
Requires businesses to let consumers request deletion of all personal information collected about them and permits businesses to retain records of deletion requests and minimum necessary data to prevent unauthorized reuse.
SB 930: Student Test Taker Privacy Protection Act: end-to-end encryption.
Requires businesses providing proctoring services to school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools for classroom or course-based exams to use end-to-end encryption beginning 1 July 2027.
Next year's data privacy laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Data Privacy Legislation Tracker.
AB 1982: On-sale general public premises: drink lids and drug testing devices.
Requires holders of on-sale general public premises alcohol licenses to offer drink lids and drug testing devices for sale to customers at reasonable costs and post notices about their availability.
AB 1991: Alcoholic beverages: market research study: taste testing.
Allows licensed alcohol manufacturers and producers to provide taste samples to consumers as part of market research studies measuring sensory perceptions, subject to specified conditions including participant age and sample limits.
AB 2375: Alcoholic beverage control.
Requires licensed wholesalers to charge one percent interest on unpaid alcoholic beverage balances after 30 days and revises beer production standards and payment processing rules for retailers and wholesalers.
AB 2731: Alcoholic beverage control: neighborhood-restricted on-sale general licenses.
Allows the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue up to five new neighborhood-restricted on-sale general licenses yearly to restaurants in specified Santa Cruz County census tracts until twelve total licenses are issued.
AB 2751: Alcoholic beverages: imports: personal or household use: reasonable amounts.
Allows adults entering the United States as pedestrians or in private vehicles to bring up to six liters of alcoholic beverages into California every 31 days for personal use.
AB 744: Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: exceptions: off-sale retail services.
Expands the container size limits for distilled spirits and wine that alcoholic beverage manufacturers and wholesalers can service at off-sale retail locations from 355 milliliters to 500 milliliters.
SB 1195: Tied-house exceptions: advertising: Counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
SB 1273: Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: instructional events and promotional lectures: advertisements.
Allows wine producers, importers, and agents to include videos up to 60 seconds long and prominent images in advertisements for instructional events and promotional lectures at retail premises.
SB 917: Alcoholic beverages: certified farmers' market sales permit.
Lets licensed winegrowers sell wine at certified farmers' markets without requiring the grapes to be grown by them, allows up to three winegrowers to conduct instructional tastings per market, and requires responsible beverage service training for tastings.
Next year's alcohol and beverage laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Alcohol and Beverage Tracker.
AB 1577: Data centers: reporting.
Requires data center owners to submit energy consumption and operational information to the state Energy Commission and to local agencies when applying for permits, with annual public reporting in anonymized form.
AB 2266: Electricity: load-serving entities.
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to use consistent methods for assessing resource reliability contributions and to consolidate load-serving entity procurement plans and reporting by 1 January 2030.
AB 2383: Electricity: data centers.
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish by 1 January 2028 a separate electricity rate classification for large energy use facilities, and requires electrical corporations and load-serving entities to offer compliant tariffs to such facilities.
AB 2469: Data centers: water use disclosures.
Cities and counties must require data center applicants to provide water supply assessments, water use assessments, water scarcity plans, and workforce disclosures, and assume full infrastructure improvement costs.
AB 2476: Electricity: integrated resource plans: Department of Water Resources: procurement.
Allows the Department of Water Resources to procure resources from pump hydroelectric facilities not exceeding 500 megawatts regardless of prior state funding.
AB 2619: Water resources: data centers.
Requires data center owners or operators to provide water suppliers with estimated water use projections before applying for initial city business licenses and to report annual water use upon license renewal.
SB 1168: Data centers: rate structures.
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to assess rate structures ensuring data centers pay their reasonable share of transmission, distribution, and reliability costs while reducing pressure on residential ratepayers.
SB 887: California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects: data centers: geothermal powerplant projects.
Requires lead agencies to conduct full environmental review of data center projects instead of using categorical exemptions, and authorizes the Governor to certify data centers and geothermal powerplants as environmental leadership development projects.
Next year's data centers and energy laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Data Centers and Energy Load Tracker.
AB 1159: Student personal information.
Requires operators of websites, apps, and online services used for K-12, preschool, or higher education to protect student personal information and prohibits using student data to train artificial intelligence systems.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
AB 1709: Covered platforms: age restriction: e-Safety Advisory Commission.
Covered platforms must prevent users under 16 from creating accounts and implementing reasonable measures to block their access to addictive features.
AB 1856: Age verification signals: software applications.
Starting 1 January 2027, operating system providers must provide an accessible account setup interface requiring users to indicate birth date or age, and send age bracket signals to application stores, developers, browser providers, and internet website operators.
AB 2: Injuries to children: civil penalties.
Requires social media platforms generating over one hundred million dollars annually to exercise ordinary care in managing their services or face statutory damages up to one million dollars per injured child.
AB 2246: Online service, product, or feature: access by children.
Requires businesses providing online services, products, or features likely accessed by children to protect privacy, prevent harm, configure high-privacy defaults, and avoid profiling or collecting unnecessary personal information.
SB 1119: Companion chatbots: children's safety.
Requires companion chatbot operators to annually assess child safety risks, implement protective measures, publish safety policies, and submit to independent audits starting 1 July 2027.
SB 1247: Social media platforms: child influencers.
Requires social media platforms to provide a mechanism for child influencers to request vloggers delete or edit paid content featuring them as minors within 10 business days.
Next year's children's online safety laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Children's Online Safety Legislation Tracker.
AB 1603: Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Department of Pesticide Regulation.
Bans the Department of Pesticide Regulation from registering new pesticides containing intentionally added PFAS unless applications were submitted before 1 January 2027.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
AB 1901: Children's diapers: intentionally added ingredients: disclosure.
Requires manufacturers of children's diapers sold in the state to list all intentionally added ingredients with chemical names, CAS numbers, and functions on their websites and product packaging starting 1 January 2029.
AB 2481: Beverage containers: recycling: glass: quality incentive payments.
Authorizes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to make quality incentive payments for clean empty glass beverage containers used to manufacture non-beverage glass products in the state.
SB 1341: Beverage containers: wine and distilled spirits: processing fees.
Requires beverage manufacturers to pay a processing fee for bag in box wine and distilled spirit containers based on the weight of the flexible bag and valve, starting 1 January 2027.
SB 633: Plastic beverage containers: recycling.
Requires beverage manufacturers to report plastic content used in containers and provide third-party validation of recycled plastic content by 1 March 2027.
Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.
Next year's packaging and PFAS laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Packaging and PFAS Tracker.
AB 1817: Mobilehome parks: termination of tenancy: failure to comply with a rule or regulation.
Requires mobilehome park management to serve written notice specifying violated rules and required corrective actions before terminating a tenant's lease for rule violations.
AB 2128: Housing authorities: term limits and work requirements.
Prohibits housing authorities and other covered housing providers from imposing term limits or work requirements as conditions for eligibility or rent subsidy amounts in federally funded housing programs.
AB 2689: Low-income housing tax credits: lease nonrenewal: good cause.
Requires owners of certain low-income housing tax credit projects to provide notice and allow nonrenewal of leases when tenants' income exceeds 140 percent of area median income for two consecutive years.
SB 1160: Judicial Council: eviction data reporting.
Requires each California county court to report monthly to the Judicial Council the number of unlawful detainer cases filed, dismissed, and resolved by judgment, aggregated by ZIP Code, beginning 1 January 2027.
SB 594: Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2026.
Authorizes Indian tribes to require short-term rental facilitators to report rental addresses, collect transient occupancy taxes, and display tax certifications under tribal law.
Next year's rental housing laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Rental Housing Tracker.
New California cannabis laws in 2027
AB 1965: Cannabis: testing: quality assurance.
Requires cannabis testing laboratories to undergo performance testing for result consistency, allows the Department of Cannabis Control to access cannabis for off-shelf testing, and requires retailers to provide certificates of analysis to customers upon request.
AB 2249: Cannabis: labels, packaging, and advertising.
Commencing 1 January 2028, prohibits cannabis licensees from selling or distributing cannabis products with packaging or labeling designed or likely to appeal to individuals under 21 years of age.
AB 2250: Cannabis: cannabinoids.
Begins 1 January 2028, excluding CBN isolate from the cannabis concentrate definition and prohibits cigarette and tobacco retailers from making any sale of cannabis or cannabis products at any location.
AB 2532: Cannabis: labels, packaging, and advertising.
Requires cannabis beverage labels to include the Poison Help line number and multi-serving notice, and prohibits marketing multi-serving beverages as single-serve products starting 1 July 2027.
Next year's cannabis laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Cannabis Legislation Tracker.
New California cybersecurity laws in 2027
AB 2281: Office of Elections Cybersecurity.
Requires the Office of Elections Cybersecurity to consult with academic researchers and assess whether additional state resources are needed to replace election cybersecurity resources previously provided by the federal government.
AB 2298: Pupil instruction: computer science: content standards.
The Instructional Quality Commission must consider incorporating cybersecurity skills into computer science content standards and instructional materials during their next revisions after 1 January 2027.
Next year's cybersecurity laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Cybersecurity Legislation Tracker.
New California intellectual property laws in 2027
SB 1050: False advertising: synthetic performers.
Requires persons creating advertisements that prominently feature synthetic performers to include clear and conspicuous disclosure that the advertisement includes a synthetic performer.
SB 1111: Digital replicas.
Expands civil liability for unauthorized use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness to include digital replicas and removes a presumption protecting employers.
Next year's intellectual property laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Intellectual Property Legislation Tracker.
Questions about new California laws in 2027
When do new laws take effect in California in 2027?
Most take effect on 1 January 2027. Of the 146 laws listed here, 146 start on 1 January 2027. In California, a statute from a regular session takes effect on the 1 January after 90 days from enactment unless it is an urgency measure (Cal. Const. art. IV, sec. 8(c)(1)).
What new laws take effect on 1 January 2027 in California?
146 laws in healthcare, employment, AI, insurance, data privacy, alcohol and beverage, data centers and energy, children's online safety, packaging and PFAS, rental housing, cannabis, cybersecurity and intellectual property, including California AB 1126 (Medi-Cal managed care plans: enrollees with other health care coverage), California AB 1159 (Student personal information), California AB 1198 (Public works: prevailing wages), California AB 1199 (Medical staff: health care provider credentialing) and California AB 1235 (California State University: skilled and trained workforce requirement). The full list, with what each one does, is above.
Is this legal advice?
No. Dates and the one-line summaries are drafted by software from the bill text and are not reviewed by an attorney. Each law links to the legislature’s own record: check the text before relying on it.
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