Saratoga, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom on July 16 signed a package of bills touching water safety, wildfire prevention, drought planning, clean-air programs, transit-oriented housing and pupil-health measures.
The package includes a 2024 bond measure funding drinking-water safety, wildfire prevention, drought planning and clean-air efforts, alongside measures on federal home-loan banks, pupil-health suicide prevention, missing-persons DNA testing, renewable-generation aggregation for logistics and manufacturing firms, vocational training for young caregivers, child-welfare nonprofits and construction-debris diversion.
Also enacted were Senate bills on public-contract claim resolution, transit-oriented housing on excluded parcels, a public-transit revenue district, local-agency design-build authority, California Coastal Act permit appeals, administrative rules, state-records management and the State Lottery prize assignment. Together they touch water, housing, transportation, education and consumer fees.