AB 1790 (Connolly): Closing the Water’s Edge Tax Loophole
Co-Sponsors: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, California School Employees Association, AFL-CIO, and End Child Poverty in California
Overview: The rules are rigged in favor of corporations and against everyday working people. Under current law, global profits can be shuffled on paper through the “Water’s Edge” tax loophole, through which California loses over $3 billion annually. This bill would close that loophole and ensure that corporations pay the taxes they owe.
AB 2729 (Bonta): Medi-Cal Trust Fund
Co-sponsor: Author–sponsored
Overview: Would require large employers that have employees enrolled in Medi-Cal to pay a penalty as a contribution to a state Employer Responsibility for Medi-Cal Trust Fund which would go toward funding the costs of administering the Medi-Cal program to prevent loss of or to restore health care coverage, benefits, or access to care.
AB 1542/AB 322 (Ward): California Sensitive Data Privacy Act & California Location Privacy Act
Co-Sponsors: AJSoCal, Consumer Reports, CITED
Overview: This pair of bills ban businesses (like Palantir) from selling and sharing our sensitive personal information, which includes our immigration status, health data, social security number, sexual orientation, genetic data and precise location. This sensitive data has been used by scammers to facilitate financial fraud, by retailers to generate predatory pricing schemes, and even by our own federal government to surveil individuals exercising their constitutional rights. This legislation protects Californians from having their movements tracked and sold when visiting sensitive places such as protests, domestic violence shelters, legal service centers, and reproductive clinics. It also requires a judicial warrant for law enforcement to access this data.
AB 1633 (Haney): Tax on Private Detention Companies
Co-Sponsors: California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC), SIREN, State Superintendent Tony Thurmond
Overview: This bill would impose a 50% gross receipts tax on corporations operating for-profit private detention facilities in California. The bill would require those funds to be reinvested into the Due Process For All fund, which would provide immigration-related services.
AB 2465 (Ortega): No Taxpayer Dollars for Family Separation
Co-Sponsors: California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC), PICO California, State Superintendent Tony Thurmond
Overview: This bill would ensure that California does not subsidize business practices that profit from detention, deportation, and family separation by prohibiting businesses from receiving any state provided tax credit, loan, or grant if the business either invests in, profits from, manages, or owns a private detention facility; or contracts with any agency engaging in immigration enforcement. AB 2465 also establishes the Due Process for All Fund to support immigrant-related services and programs.
To support the We are CA Policy Platform or for any questions, please reach out to Felicia Gomez at fgomez@caimmigrant.org and Sydney Fang at sydney@aapiforce.org.
