Of the bills sent to Newsom in 2026, he signed 1,040. Those bills ranged from providing more training opportunities for people to recognize opioid overdoses and administer naloxone to considering forced marriage as grounds for seeking a domestic violence restraining order. There’s legislation requiring high school coaches to complete mental health training to better help their players, and another creating a first-in-the-nation state seal to identify non-ultraprocessed foods.

Patricia Guerrero made history as the first Latina to lead the California Supreme Court. Her appointment as the state’s 29th chief justice marked a major milestone for Latina representation at the highest levels of California’s legal system. 

On Tuesday, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors approved the sale of county-owned property at 1134 and 1144 Monterey St. to the Judicial Council of California. The state plans to develop and build a new courthouse at the site after agreeing to pay the county nearly $6.9 million.

(Subscription required) Starting next year, California attorneys will be required to disclose when they use generative artificial intelligence to create documents submitted to a court, under legislation signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week. SB 574 will also bar arbitrators from delegating any part of their decision-making to a generative-AI tool, a restriction aimed at an emerging field in alternative dispute resolution.