Gov. Gavin Newsom signed nearly 1,000 bills into law during the 2022 legislative session.
Among the laws that take effect Jan. 1, 2023, are harsher penalties for street racing, shrinking the minimum wage gap and resources for missing or endangered indigenous people.
Here are a few California laws that take effect on Sunday.
Senate Bill 3 was signed into law in 2016, by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. The law made California the first state to set a goal of a $15 minimum wage.
When Brown signed the bill, California's minimum wage was $10. SB 3 mandated small increases each year until California hit $15 per hour in 2022.
Since the state has hit the benchmark, effective Jan. 1, 2023, minimum wage will be $15.50 per hour. However, some California cities and counties already have higher minimum wages than the state’s rate.
Women and girls will no longer pay extra for pink merchandise beginning Jan. 1, 2023.
Under Assembly Bill 1287 — also know as the "Pink Tax" — it's illegal to charge a different price for any two items that are "substantially similar," if those items are priced differently based on the gender, according to the bill's text.
“The ‘Pink Tax’ is a gender based penalty that harms women who are already paid less,” Assembly member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan said. “This type of arbitrary gendered pricing has no place in California. It’s long past time to eliminate this type of inequality. I’m grateful Governor [Gavin] Newsom has signed this bill to ensure price equality in...
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