These Are the Bills Newsom Is Still Deciding On

Already, Newsom has approved much than 350 bills and vetoed astir 25, according to information from his office. (A fewer notable vetoes: proposals to boost household permission payments, require businesses to beryllium they’re not contributing to deforestation and allow farmworkers to ballot to unionize by mail.)

Newsom inactive has galore much decisions to marque by the extremity of the week, including astir immoderate measures that were hotly-debated successful the Legislature. Here’s a snapshot:

AB 101: Making taste studies a graduation requirement

Under this proposal, nationalist schoolhouse students would beryllium required to implicit an taste studies people to postgraduate from precocious schoolhouse starting successful the autumn of 2024. This is the 3rd effort by Assemblyman Jose Medina, Democrat of Riverside, to walk specified a mandate, CalMatters reports.

Newsom vetoed this thought past twelvemonth amid pushback from immoderate parents arsenic good arsenic members of the state’s Jewish community, which said the program had bias toward Palestine.

AB 1238: Decriminalizing jaywalking

This measure would region fines for crossing the thoroughfare extracurricular of a crosswalk — unless there’s imminent danger. There would beryllium nary much tickets for moving crossed the roadworthy erstwhile cars are obscurity to beryllium seen.

Supporters of the instrumentality accidental the constabulary enforce jaywalking laws successful unequal ways oregon usage them arsenic pretext to detain radical for nary bully reason. Police officers successful California are 5 times arsenic apt to halt a Black idiosyncratic for a walking infraction arsenic a achromatic person, Bloomberg CityLab reports.

AB 1456: Expanding assemblage fiscal aid

This measurement would importantly loosen eligibility requirements for assemblage fiscal assistance truthful that tens of thousands of further students could person assistance.

The proposal, expected to outgo betwixt $85 cardinal to $175 cardinal a year, is the latest effort by lawmakers who person agelong wanted to supply much fiscal assistance to students, CalMatters reports.

The governor’s concern section opposes the bill, but supporters anticipation that the state’s fund surplus volition transportation Newsom to motion it anyway.

AB 928: Making it easier to transportation to four-year colleges

This measure could beryllium different with large consequences for the state’s assemblage system, arsenic it would creaseless the way for assemblage assemblage students to transportation to a California State University oregon University of California campus.

Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and pupil groups endorse the measure, portion the U.C. Office of the President and Newsom’s concern section are against it, CalMatters reports.

SB 110: Paying cause users not to use

California could go the archetypal authorities to statesman attraction that pays radical not to usage methamphetamines and cocaine. This measure would let the state’s Medicaid programme to money these caller efforts.

Studies person recovered that affirmative reinforcement — successful this case, paying radical not to usage drugs — is the astir effectual attraction for meth oregon cocaine addiction, peculiarly erstwhile combined with behavioral therapy, KQED reports.

SB 98: Protecting rights for journalists

After caller injuries and arrests of journalists covering protests, this measurement aims to bounds however overmuch the constabulary tin interfere with the quality media astatine nationalist events.

The measure would forestall constabulary officers from blocking journalists covering demonstrations and halt them from citing journalists for nonaccomplishment to disperse oregon for obstruction for being wherever they request to beryllium to bash their jobs.

Newsom vetoed a mentation of this measure past year.

More connected caller laws:

• On Tuesday evening, Newsom ended mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent cause crimes.

• California is taking steps under a caller authorities law to instrumentality a Manhattan Beach spot stolen from a Black couple.

• Dependent parents tin now beryllium added to wellness security plans.

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Closing arguments statesman contiguous successful the proceedings of 2 men accused of paying to get their children into the University of Southern California.

The remainder of the news

• Oil spill: See the grade of the harm from the pipeline nonaccomplishment disconnected the Southern California seashore with these maps.

  The spill has besides emboldened activists who are calling connected President Biden to state a clime exigency and artifact each caller fossil substance projects, The Washington Post reports.

• Covid-19 surge: California’s National Guard has been deployed to 4 hospitals struggling to grip an influx of coronavirus patients.

• Private jails: A national appeals tribunal ruled connected Tuesday that a authorities instrumentality aimed astatine phasing retired backstage detention facilities successful the authorities cannot beryllium enforced, Politico reports.

• Tech fix: It’s clip to stop paying for a VPN.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

• Real estate: A Silver Lake rental gets a minimalist update.

• Sex, drugs and roller skates: A caller publication pays tribute to Flipper’s, a storied 1970s skate palace successful Los Angeles.

• Air quality: A caller study ranks Southern California’s aerial prime arsenic the worst successful the country, The Press-Enterprise reports.

• Toxic cleanup: Four companies volition wage astir $78 cardinal to cleanable up contaminated groundwater astatine 2 Los Angeles-area toxic discarded sites, The Associated Press reports.

• Massive shipping bottleneck: As galore arsenic fractional a cardinal shipping containers whitethorn beryllium waiting to beryllium offloaded from cargo ships disconnected the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Sacramento CBS Local reports.

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

• Diablo Canyon powerfulness plant: Why is California shutting down its past atomic plant? NBC Los Angeles reports.

• Yosemite: Reservations are nary longer needed to participate Yosemite National Park, The Sacramento Bee reports.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

• School fiscal crisis: The authorities is stepping successful to code the San Francisco schoolhouse district’s $116 cardinal fund shortfall, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

• Officer connected trial: Opening arguments began this week successful the proceedings of an East Bay constabulary serviceman accused of sidesplitting a mentally sick antheral successful 2018, The Associated Press reports.

• Opioid overdoses: Deaths from fentanyl look to beryllium rising crossed the Bay Area, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Where we’re traveling

Today’s question extremity comes from Evy Journey, a scholar who lives successful Berkeley. Evy recommends Bodega Bay successful Sonoma County:

The airy successful Bodega Bay amazes. While it tin show its afloat aggravated spectrum, casting a rainbow of shadows connected everything it floods, it’s ne'er harsh. It caresses the water with shimmering metallic oregon imbues it with acheronian impenetrable blue.

Beaches and undulating paths with breathtaking coastal panoramas beckon for day walks.

Tell america astir your favourite places to sojourn successful California. Email your suggestions to CAtoday@nytimes.com. We’ll beryllium sharing much successful upcoming editions of the newsletter.