How will California’s 2022 laws affect you?
(Illustration by Allison Hong / Los Angeles Times)
There has been a series of new laws effective January 1, 2022 covering various issues.
For more details on these new laws, please see links to articles provided at the end of this post.
• COVID-19 and Health • Housing • Criminal Justice • Policing
• Environment • Workplace •Education • Lifestyle
• Wildfires (SB 332) — Existing law prohibits, among other things, a person from setting fire or causing fire to be set to any forest, brush, or other flammable material that is on any land that is not the person's own. This had hampered efforts to clear overgrowth that fueled so many of the runaway wildfires in California over the last few years. This bill reduces the liability of those who are doing prescribed control burns for the purpose of wildland fire hazard reduction in the hopes it will encourage more to get that dry fuel cleared up ahead of the next fire season.
• Slower speed limits (AB 43)
• Delayed School Start Times (SB 328)
* Compost - or else (SB 1383)
• Mandatory menstrual products in school (AB 367)
• Minimum wage bump (SB 3)
• New rules for bacon making (PROP 12)
• Vote by mail is here to stay (AB 37)
• Seizing ghost guns (AB 1057)
* Trimmed training for barbers (SB 803)
* To Go Cocktails (SB 389)
* Removing ‘alien” from the books (AB 1096)
• Ask if you need a fork (AB 1276)
• Assisted death changes (AB 15)
• Dog blood donations (AB 1282)
• “Stealthing” is sexual assault (AB 453)
• “Duplex” law (SB 9) — CONTROVERSIAL LAW
• More housing near transit (SB 10) — CONTROVERSIAL LAW
• More women executives (SB 826)
• Roadkill-to-table pilot program (SB 395)
For more information, click on links below:
LOS ANGELES TIMES “How will California’s 2022 laws affect you?"