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Almost a year ago, California enacted three statutes requiring climate-related disclosures: the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253), the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (SB 261), and the Voluntary Carbon...more
As anticipated, on September 27, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 219 (SB 219), after the California legislature passed it on August 31, 2024. SB 219 amends the Climate Corporate Data...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed AB 2505 (Gabriel). Consequently active members of the California Bar will be required, with certain exceptions, to report annually whether they have provided pro bono legal...more
Welcome to the October 2024 edition of the Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter, a publication containing updates about legal developments in the United States that may be noteworthy to our clients and other leaders in the...more
California will soon require businesses to publicly share results of voluntary, non-governmental social compliance audits. Governor Newsom just signed Assembly Bill 3234 into effect on September 22, which outlines reporting...more
On October 8, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1286 (AB 1286), a sweeping pharmacy measure with several components aimed at promoting patient safety. Chief among AB 1286’s mandates is a new law requiring that...more
In previous posts, I have written about SB 253 and SB 261. The former requires "reporting entities" (as defined) to disclose Scope 1, 2 & 3 greenhouse gas emissions. The latter imposes climate-related financial risk...more
Over three and a half years since the death of George Floyd spurred some members of the venture capital community to enact promises to increase their investments in diverse entrepreneurs, California has enacted legislation in...more
Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted into law two bills, both of which will — for the first time in any U.S. state — require large companies doing business within the state to release a wide array of...more
Venture capital firms should begin planning now for compliance to avoid monetary penalties or court action. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill No. 54 (SB 54) into law on October 8, 2023. The bill is...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law two core bills of the state's “Climate Accountability Package, Senate Bill 253 (SB 253) and Senate Bill 261 (SB 261). As they currently stand, these laws impose...more
California recently enacted two sweeping and unprecedented laws that will require virtually all large companies who do any amount of business in California in any industry or sector to disclose their direct and indirect...more
The offshore wind industry now has California’s answer to a pressing concern—how might the state procure this generation resource? California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a suite of bills that create a mechanism for...more
In the past few days, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills that will require companies and investors to provide new disclosure. Climate Disclosure - On October 7, 2023, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill...more
The California State Senate and State Assembly recently approved two bills, Senate Bill 253 and Senate Bill 261, that could require thousands of companies doing business in California to disclose greenhouse gas ("GHG")...more
With the 2022 California legislative year closed, it is once again time to examine the new legislation that will affect entities operating within the state. Summaries of key legislation are below, with relevant action items...more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 1162 on Sept. 27, 2022, to expand the requirements for annual pay data reports and requires covered employers to publish pay scales with job postings as well as to retain...more
Governor Newsom signed SB 1162 into law on September 27 (effective January 1, 2023), imposing several new wage transparency reporting requirements on employers in California, and aligning California with Washington, Colorado,...more
Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed The Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act into law. The new law, which goes into effect in May of 2023, requires employers with more than 100 workers to disclose annual pay data...more
On September 27, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 1162, which expands California’s existing pay transparency and employee data reporting laws. California joins New York and Colorado, which have...more
On September 27, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1162, which takes effect on January 1, 2023. The new law requires employers to make salary and hourly wage ranges for positions available to applicants and employees,...more
On September 27, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 1162 into law. This law builds upon and expands the existing SB 973, a 2020 law, which requires employers with 100 or more employees to submit...more
Governor Newsome has signed S.B. 1162, which requires employers to make salary ranges for positions available to both applicants and employees and expands pay data reporting requirements to better identify gender and...more
As 2021 quickly comes to a close, we look back at this year’s legislative session, which included several employment-related bills signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, including bills aimed at prohibiting quotas that interfere...more
Effective January 1, 2022, SB 606 significantly expands Cal/OSHA’s enforcement powers and the potential penalties for workplace health and safety violations. Specifically, this bill (1) enhances Cal/OSHA compliance and...more