WEDNESDAY 9-28-22 KAHI MORNING NEWS-GOV SIGNS MANY BILLS!

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By Jerry Henry on September 28, 2022.

Most California employers will soon be required to share salary ranges with potential hires as part of statewide effort to promote pay equity among workers. Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday signed a bill from Sen. Monique LimA3n, D-Santa Barbara, that will compel firms with 15 or more workers to include pay scales in job postings and provide them to employees upon request. Senate Bill 1162 fines companies that fail to comply with the new pay scale requirements. It can also impose fines for failing to submit demographic pay data to the state. Companies with 100 or more workers must submit pay data reports to the state with information about employeesa race and ethnicity, sex, salary, hours worked and job category. The state publishes the overall results of those reports, but LimA3nas bill would have made each companyas results public.

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Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several bills into law to give more protections to those who seek abortion care and birth control in California.

News releases from the Governoras Office state these new laws will protect those who need abortions from alegal retaliation and prohibit law enforcement and corporations from cooperating with out-of-state entities regarding lawful abortions in California, while also expanding access to contraception and abortion providers in California.a

Governor Newsom signed these following bills into law:

• AB 2223 Protections from Criminal and Civil Liabilities: This bill will help ensure that those who endure pregnancy losses will not be criminally charged. Those who go through a miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, or perinatal death will not be criminally or civilly liable.
• AB 2091 Keeps Medical Records Private: This bill will prohibit health care providers from sharing medical information regarding an out-of-state individual seeking an abortion in California.
• AB 1242 Prohibits Cooperation with Out-of-State Entities: This bill will prohibit law enforcement and California corporations from acooperating with out-of-state entities regarding a lawful abortion in California,a as well as prohibiting law enforcement from arresting an individual who was having a lawful abortion in California.
• SB 523 Expands Birth Control Access: This bill will expand birth control access regardless of insurance status by arequiring health plans to cover certain over-the-counter birth control without cost sharing.a It will also prohibit aemployment discrimination based on reproductive health decisions.a
• SB 1375 More Health Care Providers: This bill will expand training for nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwives for abortion care.

Governor Newsom also signed the following bills into law:

• AB 657: This bill will expedite licenses for health care officials who are coming to California to provide abortion care.
• AB 2626: This bill will prohibit aspecified licensing boards from suspending or revoking a license solely for performing an abortion in accordance with the licenseeas practice act.a
• AB 2205: This bill will require Covered California plans to report the total funds collected for abortion care annually.
• SB 1142: This bill will require athe establishment of an abortion care services website and an evaluation of the Abortion Practical Support Fund.a
• SB 1245: This bill will establish a reproductive health pilot project in Los Angeles County which will support innovative approaches to safeguard abortion care.
• AB 1918: This bill will create the CA Reproductive Health Equity Program that will arecruit, train, and retain a diverse workforce of health care professionals who will provide reproductive health services in underserved areas of the state.a
• AB 2134: This bill will establish athe CA Reproductive Health Equity Program which will provide grants to providers who provide uncompensated care to patients with low incomes and those who face other financial barriers.a
• AB 2586: This bill will establish athe CA Reproductive Justice and Freedom Fund to support CBOs in providing comprehensive reproductive/sexual health education, inclusive of abortion care, to disproportionately impacted communities.a

According to the Governors news release, more than $200 million was allocated to help pay for atravel costs, cover uninsured care, support health care facilities and providers, bolster security and more.a

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