Do CA bills regulate AI in the secret legislative process?


California's report on the state's own financial health is again late. State Capitol in Sacramento on April 29, 2024. A photo by Miguel Gutierrez -Jr., Calmatters
State Capitol in Sacramento on April 29, 2024. A photo by Miguel Gutierrez -Jr., Calmatters

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Bills for regulating artificial intelligence tools in the workplace should clear a legislative obstacle, which often becomes expensive or political stunning legislation.

AS Harry Johnson Calmatters reports, More than half a dozen accounts with ai topic are in the tension file in the legislature. In order to ultimately head to Gavard Gavin News’ desk, they must first withstand the control of almighty budget loan committees in the Assembly and Senate through an opaque processS

A key measure, a Senate Bill 7, will require employers to give the workers’ heads of 30 days before using AI instruments supported by AI to decide on issues such as compensation, hiring, dismissal and promotions. Workers would have the right to appeal these AI solutions. Employers will not be allowed to use AI to predict employees based on their immigration status, psychological fate and other factors. An analysis of the Budget Loan Committee said the state would spend about $ 600,000 a year, making sure that private business was taking into account.

Another bill for Assembly 1018 will give people 30 days to appeal the decisions of automated employment, education, housing, healthcare, financial services and parts of the criminal justice system. Costs for government agencies to comply with the bill will reach hundreds of millions of dollars, an analysis of the Budget Loan Committee said. The author of the bill said he had found that finding a surprising.

Nearly 80 groups and companies, including hospitals, are opposed to AB 1018.

  • Venna DubalAI researcher and critic said California’s legislators still have to accept these bills: “No matter how much the Newsom Governor may be against Donald Trump and California wants to be something like a rescuer for the rest of the nation, not to be important,” she really said that she said it is. In bed with the president.

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DEI prohibited against private donations

Prosecutor General Rob Bonto turns to the media during a press conference at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento on February 4, 2025. Photo from Fred Greaves, Calmatters

Private scholarships intended for black students or other marginalized groups should usually adhere to their goal to help people in these environments, even against the backdrop of Trump administration’s efforts to direct racial or ethnic focus programs.

This is according to a Advisory Advice on 10 Pages, published on Friday by California General Prosecutor Rob Bont and nine other general lawyers.

  • By a statement published by the letter: “The coalition has issued the guidelines in response to the lengthy and deliberate effort of the Trump administration to cancel programs aimed at shares and support systems designed to increase historically marginalized groups.”

The letter claims that the arguments in the Supreme Court’s decision in 2023 prohibit affirmative actions based on the competitions “do not apply or are of limited importance to privately funded Trusts and Charity Organizations.”

The guardians performing donor scholarships have a legitimate obligation to honor the donor’s intention. If the existing law challenges the university’s ability to fulfill this scholarship, the campus may consider the transfer of the award into an institution that can.

Campus or trustees of scholarships can also Slightly change the method of targeting the intended community, based on the admissibility of geography, spoken language, the ability of students to overcome adverse, given their experience and other factors. (The Ministry of Justice wrote in July that such proxies are “illegal” on campuses.)

General state lawyers say in their letter that they and the courts play a role in determining whether the intention of private scholarships can be changed.

A new effort to save NIH grant in UCLA

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Participants in the Rally “Kill the Discimodes” March against the Trump Administration Administration offered by Los Angeles Financing on April 8, 2025. Photo from Jules HotZ for CalMatters

On Tuesday, lawyers for California University researchers will try to persuade a federal judge in California to save the National Institutes of Health Grates in UCLA to be protected.

Bets are high: Last week, the US Supreme Court opened the door so that these grants could be terminated, RollerS This solution covers hundreds of grants worth about $ 800 million across the country, including California. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration has stopped 500 National Institutes of Health at UCLA at the end of last month.

But UC researchers have been able to recover some funding. In June, Rita Lynn, the judge, who controlled the hearing on Tuesday, ordered the National Scientific Foundation to restore 114 Grates from UC professors throughout the system. Researchers’ attorneys also successfully claim in early August that Lynn’s preliminary order is being applied to 300 National Scientific Foundation Grates The Trump administration stopped at UCLA.

These lawyers are now trying to claim that Lynn’s June order should be applied to the terminated health scientific subsidies, and oral hearing on Tuesday is the first step to this possible result. The Trump administration’s lawyers plan to argue against this move.

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