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Welcome to the webpage for Sustainable Rossmoor’s Legislative Committee! This committee was created to give Sustainable Rossmoor a voice with respect to proposed laws under consideration by the California State Legislature. We review environmental, sustainability, and climate-related bills for possible endorsement by Sustainable Rossmoor. We send letters to the Legislature and take other actions on behalf of the bills we endorse.


We are always looking for new members! No legislative experience is necessary – we can teach you everything you need to know. We meet on the second Thursday of the month at 2:00 pm in a private Rossmoor residence.


If you’re interested in learning more about the Legislative Committee, contact committee chair Pam Giarrizzo at giarrizzo@aol.com.


BILLS ENDORSED BY SUSTAINABLE ROSSMOOR FOR 2026

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AB 762 (Irwin): Would ban the sale of single-use battery-embedded vaporizer products – disposable vapes – in California.


AB 1148 (Sharp-Collins): Would prohibit three specific hazardous chemicals or classes of chemicals known to cause breast cancer from being used in food packaging.


AB 1448 (Hart): Would expand the existing prohibition on offshore oil drilling to further prohibit the use of existing oil infrastructure to expand federal oil production.


AB 1577 (Bauer-Kahan): Would require data centers to report monthly energy usage and efficiency information to the California Energy Commission.


AB 1624 (Zbur): Would enact immediate conservation or open space zoning protections for any federal lands sold or transferred to private ownership in California.


SB 327 (McNerney): Would explicitly ban investor-owned utilities from using ratepayers’ funds for activities opposing efforts by cities and counties to create their own municipal utilities.


SB 742 (Perez): Would strengthen California’s wildfire mitigation by requiring the removal of permanently abandoned power lines.


SB 868 (Wiener): Would streamline approvals for plug-in solar systems, a new form of small-scale, mobile solar panels.


SB 886 (Padilla): Would require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to establish a special tariff to protect ratepayers from the transmission costs that supply large data centers.


SB 887 (Padilla): Would clarify that data centers are not exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and would allow them to be eligible for Environmental Leadership Development Project certification if they meet certain criteria.


SB 982 (Wiener): Would authorize the California Attorney General to sue large oil and gas corporations for damages related to climate change fueled extreme weather disasters.