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California sets mobilehome park duties after disasters

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1093 on September 29, 2026. After a disaster, mobilehome park management must make good faith efforts to give displaced residents weekly then monthly status updates, let them retrieve belongings and inspect damage starting seven days after evacuation orders are lifted, and evaluate rebuilding costs before a closure or change of use. Residents may sue management for willful violations.

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California expands ministerial housing approvals on subdivided lots

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1116 on September 29, 2026. It amends Government Code sections 65852.28 and 66499.41 on ministerial approval of housing on subdivided lots: height limits apply to building height, not floor count, and new parcels on multifamily-zoned land may be as small as 480 square feet if the average is at least 600. New Civil Code section 714.9 voids deed restrictions that would preclude such housing, outside common interest developments.

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California limits ADU impact fees to floor area above 750 square feet

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1117 on September 29, 2026. It amends Government Code section 66311.5 so that, for up to two accessory dwelling units on a lot, impact fees on an ADU larger than 750 square feet are charged proportionately and only on the area above 750 square feet. ADUs up to 750 square feet and junior ADUs up to 500 square feet remain exempt from impact fees.

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California creates wildlife coexistence program and lets livestock guard dogs pursue wolves

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1135, the California Wildlife Coexistence Act, on September 29, 2026. Upon appropriation, the Department of Fish and Wildlife must run a Wildlife Coexistence Program and a renamed Wolf-Livestock Coexistence and Compensation Program, spending at least half of compensation funds on nonlethal deterrence. Dogs guarding livestock or crops on their owner’s property may pursue wolves despite the general ban on dogs pursuing protected mammals.

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California requires large water suppliers in fire zones to add wildfire procedures

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1153 on September 29, 2026. It adds Government Code section 8607.3, requiring water suppliers serving at least 3,300 people in high or very high fire-hazard severity zones to include wildfire incident procedures in their disaster plans beginning January 1, 2028. The bill creates no duty to build infrastructure for wildfire defense.

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California lets nonprofit housing developers join public-entity insurance pools

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1170 on September 29, 2026. It amends Government Code section 990.8 to let nonprofit housing developers provide insurance through joint powers agreements and be coinsured under master policies alongside local public entities, with pooled self-insured claims not treated as insurance subject to Insurance Code regulation.

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California lets defendants move to strike suits against priority care developments and doubles housing-suit bond cap

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1344 on September 29, 2026. New Code of Civil Procedure section 425.21 lets defendants bring a special motion to strike lawsuits challenging approval or permitting of priority care developments, which provide housing tied to behavioral-health services and other specified purposes. The court denies the motion only if the petitioner shows a probability of prevailing. SB 1344 also raises the cap on undertakings in suits against qualifying housing projects from $500,000 to $1 million.

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California bars cities and counties from approving new private detention facilities

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1367 on September 29, 2026. Government Code section 65850.05 prohibits cities and counties from approving a new land use that authorizes construction of a detention facility, or a change of use that lets an existing building serve as one. A detention facility is any structure a private entity operates for a governmental entity to hold people for criminal, civil or administrative purposes. The ban applies to charter cities.

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California creates single coordinated 60-day review for wildfire mitigation projects

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1370 on September 29, 2026. New Public Resources Code sections 4240 and following direct the Natural Resources Agency, with CalEPA, to run a single consolidated review of covered wildfire mitigation projects such as fuel breaks, defensible space and prescribed fire. CEQA does not apply, and decisions are due within 60 calendar days of a complete application. Authority to issue expedited authorizations ends January 1, 2029.

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California extends attorney general reviews of immigration detention facilities indefinitely

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1399 on September 29, 2026. It amends Government Code section 12532 to indefinitely extend the Attorney General's reviews of county, local, and private locked detention facilities housing noncitizens for civil immigration proceedings, including facilities holding minors for ORR or ICE. It deletes the inoperative and repeal dates and the apprehension-and-transfer-circumstances requirement, and guarantees the Attorney General full access.

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California exempts Concord Naval Weapons Station redevelopment from surplus-land rules

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 328 on September 29, 2026, as an urgency statute effective immediately. It amends Government Code section 54221 so the former Concord Naval Weapons Station can be disposed of as exempt surplus land for a project expected to include at least 10,000 homes, with 25% restricted to lower-income households for 55 years for rentals or 45 years for ownership, a project labor agreement and 30 days' notice to HCD.

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California deems San Diego's Midway Rising environmental report CEQA-sufficient

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 344 (Chapter 786, Statutes of 2026) on September 29, 2026, as an urgency statute effective immediately. New Public Resources Code section 21080.77 deems San Diego's Midway Rising Specific Plan Subsequent Final Environmental Impact Report sufficient for CEQA, so project approvals may rely conclusively on it, and makes its mitigation measures enforceable conditions of approval. The project covers about 4,254 homes, 2,000 of them deed-restricted affordable.

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California denies charitable property-tax exemption to detention facilities

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 420 on September 29, 2026. It adds Revenue and Taxation Code section 214.12, providing that property operated as a detention facility is not exempt from property tax as religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable property for purposes of the welfare exemption. The bill is declaratory of existing law.

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California opens detention-facility incident reports to public-records disclosure

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 423 on September 29, 2026. It adds Government Code section 7923.606 to the California Public Records Act, providing that recordings and written communications to state or local agencies reporting incidents at private detention facilities — and related law-enforcement records — are not confidential and must be disclosed on request, with limited redactions. The provision does not apply to the Attorney General, the Department of Justice, or the Department of Consumer Affairs.

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California orders HCD realistic-capacity formulas for housing element site inventories by July 2028

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 457 on September 29, 2026. By July 1, 2028, the Department of Housing and Community Development must promulgate or approve formulas and tools to determine the realistic capacity of housing element inventory sites, and cities and counties may rely on them. Inventories must state the number of units allowed on each site at adoption and after rezoning, and committed assistance may include in-kind services.

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California orders removal of abandoned transmission facilities and utility liaisons to emergency centers

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 742 on September 29, 2026. By January 1, 2028, the Public Utilities Commission must update General Order 95 to require each electrical corporation to remove all permanently abandoned transmission facilities. Wildfire mitigation plans must account for all transmission facilities and set removal timelines, and certain utilities must assign liaisons to local emergency operations centers.

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California No Kings Act creates state-law action for federal constitutional violations under color of law

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 747, the No Kings Act, on September 29, 2026 (Chapter 752, Statutes of 2026), adding Civil Code section 53.8 as an urgency statute effective immediately. Any natural person who, under color of law, deprives someone of federal constitutional rights is liable to the injured party, and immunity defenses are limited to those available under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Claims must be filed within two years.

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California widens Infill Infrastructure Grant eligibility to streamlined housing sites

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 772 (Ch. 804, Stats. 2026) on September 29, 2026. It amends Health and Safety Code 53559 and 53559.1 to widen the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019: qualifying infill projects may sit on sites mostly bordered by previously developed urban uses, and qualifying infill areas include sites made ready for streamlined housing under the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022. HCD must rank applications on on-demand transit access and walkability.

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California bars civil arrests at courthouses and within 1,000 feet of them

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 873 on September 29, 2026. Civil Code section 43.54 bars civil arrests at a courthouse, including public ways within 1,000 feet, and of people traveling to or from one for lawful activity; arrests under a valid judicial warrant are exempt. Violators are liable for false imprisonment or false arrest, with actual damages plus $10,000 in statutory damages. Court security must ask entering officers for identification, purpose and a judicial warrant.

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California creates a Wildfire Resilience Loan Program without ratepayer funds

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 894 (Ch. 770, Stats. 2026) on September 29, 2026. It adds Public Resources Code sections 26090 and 26091, creating the California Wildfire Resilience Loan Program at the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. Upon appropriation, the program will finance home hardening, defensible space and other wildfire-resilience improvements, and it may not use money collected from electrical or gas corporation ratepayers.

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California sets rapid post-wildfire permitting and reporting duties

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 904 on September 29, 2026. It adds Government Code section 8608.2, requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to report within 30 days of post-wildfire permitting suspensions and update every 60 days, with a rapid-permitting goal of 30 days; section 8608.3 creates a Title 24 suspension workgroup by July 1, 2028; and section 8608.4 electronic-filing mandates take effect January 1, 2028.

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California voids HOA bans on energy-code-compliant window replacements

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 908 on September 29, 2026. New Civil Code section 4754 voids common interest development restrictions that effectively prohibit owners from replacing windows with California Energy Code-compliant windows. Associations may impose only reasonable installation restrictions and, in multifamily buildings of more than 20 units, limited aesthetic restrictions. Applications not decided in writing within 45 days are deemed approved.

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California extends undertaking-bond protection to student housing developments

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 916 on September 29, 2026. It amends Code of Civil Procedure section 529.2 so defendants in suits challenging student housing developments, like affordable housing projects, may ask the court to require the plaintiff to post an undertaking if the action is meritless and brought in bad faith, vexatiously or for delay. The plaintiff’s liability is capped at $1 million, and courts may waive the bond for undue hardship.

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California extends crowd-control limits to flash-bangs and federal agents, bars them in immigration raids

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 937 on September 29, 2026. It amends Penal Code sections 13652 and 13652.1 to extend existing limits on kinetic energy projectiles and chemical agents at assemblies to flash-bang grenades and to federal law enforcement agencies. Flash-bangs and explosive breaching charges may not be used for immigration enforcement except in joint task forces or as state law permits, and agencies must report flash-bang use.

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California codifies rights for people held in civil immigration detention

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 942 on September 29, 2026, as an urgency statute effective immediately. New Civil Code section 53.9 grants people held for civil immigration proceedings at any locked facility in California, including ICE and ORR contract facilities, rights to dignity, privacy, humane care, medical care, clean facilities, food, confidential phone access and attorney mail. The Attorney General may sue and seek $2,500 per violation.

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California bars treating building-height impacts alone as significant under CEQA

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 958 on September 29, 2026. New Public Resources Code section 21080.82 provides that impacts of increased building height alone, such as shadow, air circulation, light reflection or attracting wildlife, are not significant under CEQA if the project's use and density were analyzed in a certified EIR, the site is previously graded infill without sensitive biological resources, the project is not industrial, and it fits local airport land use plans.

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SEC sues Meyer Global Management and its CEO, alleging fraud on retail investors in pre-IPO SpaceX funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil enforcement action in Manhattan federal court against private fund adviser Meyer Global Management LLC and its chief executive Owen Meyer. The complaint alleges defendants raised $18.5 million from retail investors seeking pre-IPO exposure to SpaceX and OpenAI, while misappropriating $1.27 million for personal expenses and causing a managed fund to forfeit a nearly $3 million SpaceX investment after failing to meet capital calls.

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Treasury and IRS issue temporary Trump Accounts regulations with automatic enrollment

The Treasury Department and the IRS issued temporary regulations (T.D. 10056), effective Sept. 30, for Trump Accounts, the tax-favored savings accounts for children under section 530A. On or about Oct. 1, Treasury will elect to open 'auto accounts' for eligible children who lack one, held in a master group trust until a guardian claims them. The rules also set requirements for qualified general contributions, including gifts of publicly traded stock.

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NHTSA finalizes SAFE Vehicles Rule III resetting fuel-economy standards for model years 2022-2031

NHTSA published a final rule on Sept. 30 recalibrating Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks for model years 2022 through 2031. NHTSA estimates the standards correspond to a fleetwide average of roughly 34.9 mpg in model year 2031. The rule ends trading of credits earned in model year 2028 and later and applies updated vehicle classification definitions from model year 2030. It takes effect Nov. 30.

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