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New California Laws to Know in 2023
By Jonathan Lloyd • Published December 16, 202
ransomnote: some excerpts
COVID-19 in the Workplace
This law requires employers to provide employees with workplace COVID exposure notifications until 2024.
COVID-19 Misinformation
AB 2098 makes it easier for the state's medical board to punish doctors who spread COVID misinformation.
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Gender-Affirming Health Care
SB 107 was introduced as part of an effort to make California a sanctuary state for transgender health care. The law shields transgender individuals, including youth, from legal action from other states with bans and restrictions.
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Reproductive Rights and Abortion
Bills that were part of a package covering abortion care and birth control go into effect next year. That package includes protection from criminal and civil liabilities in cases of miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, or perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero. Another bill in the package prevents a health care provider from releases medical information about an individual seeking abortion care in response to a subpoena or request from outside the state. The package includes a bill that prohibits law enforcement and California corporations from cooperating with out-of-state entities about a lawful abortion in California. A measure expanding birth control access also was part of the broad package.
Social Media and Hate Speech
Social media companies must publicly post policies on hate speech, disinformation, harassment and extremism under this law. AB 587 also requires companies to provide reports to the state prosecutor's office regarding violations and enforcement.