Assemblymember Bauer Kahan's 2025 Legislation includes:
AB-45: Protects personal privacy and reproductive rights in two important ways, preventing reproductive health information collected during research from disclosure to out of state law enforcement requests and by prohibiting the use of geofencing around health care facilities. Status.
AB-56: Requires a black box warning label consistent with a recent call to action by the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office, to ensure that parents, adolescents, and the public are warned about the risks of social media use. Status.
AB-67: Authorizes the Attorney General’s office to enforce the Reproductive Privacy Act. Status.
AB-222: Creates transparency and efficiency requirements for large AI models and data centers, and protects ratepayers from increased energy costs. Status.
AB-290: Guarantees women access to emergency reproductive healthcare by increasing liability for hospitals that fail to provide necessary care. Status.
AB-302: Brings the California Medical Information Act medical privacy protections up to date to ensure that as new technologies are developed patients’ private medical information is not being used as a commodity. Status.
AB-412: Requires GenAI developers to provide copyright owners with information about how their copyrighted materials are used. Status.
AB-432: Ensures that menopause treatments are covered by health insurance and adds a requirement that physicians whose pool of patients is greater than 25% women receive continuing medical education in menopause care. Status.
AB-578: Increases consumer protections for Californians by ensuring that food delivery platforms refund customers when the service fails to deliver their order. Status.
AB-621: Strengthens civil enforcement options against nudification websites that use AI to create fake nude images of people without their consent. Status.
AB-774: A technical clean-up measure to AB 2837 of last year, which protects low-income consumers who are subject to a debt collection judgment by preserving their retirement savings, ensuring due process and accuracy in wage garnishments and bank levies, and providing that amounts wrongfully seized are returned to the consumer. Status.
AB-1018: Protects individuals from discrimination by requiring developers and users to assess automated decision systems (ADSs) prior to being released to the public. Status.
AB-1064: Protects children and promotes the development of safe artificial intelligence (AI) systems by establishing the Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) Standards Board within the Government Operations Agency to implement a risk-based regulatory scheme for AI systems used by or on children Status.
AB-1222: Protects ratepayers by preventing utilities from raising rates to pay for certain legal costs, and by making it easier to challenge last-minute changes to Public Utility Commission decisions. Status.
AB-1405: Creates an enrollment process for AI auditors and adopts minimum transparency and ethical standards for enrolled auditors. Status.