After a busy year for the California Legislature, hundreds of new state laws are taking effect in the new year, affecting ...

New Year’s Day — Thursday, Jan. 1 — marks the start of a new year and a new set of California laws. A wave of new California ...

The laws add immigration status to protected medical information, limit where officers can be at schools and informs workers ...

CARE Court provides a new pathway for the courts to coordinate mental health and substance use treatment, medications and ...

OPINION: As someone with family who have navigated California's system of care for serious mental illness, there is so much ...

Gavin Newsom signed 26 new California laws targeting housing, health and labor. Housing bills AB 130 and SB 131 took effect June 30 to streamline development. Labor and budget bills adjust pay, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a series of bills last week that address some of the most hot button topics in healthcare, including the practices of pharmacy benefit managers and private ...

Improvements to transgender, nonbinary, and queer Californians’ health care privacy and access are coming in the new year due ...

Hundreds of bills signed into law by Gov. Newsom are set to take effect in California in 2026, with most of them beginning on ...

Julie Watts is a national-award-winning investigative correspondent for CBS News, covering California. Her investigations, Capitol accountability reports, and solutions-oriented journalism air weekly ...

Pasta and bread have to include folic acid, a vitamin that’s important for infant health. Now, California is requiring that ...

California health officials reaffirm protections for transgender youth after Trump administration moves to restrict gender-affirming care.