Direct contracting pilot pairs affordability innovation with measurable quality gains across prevention, chronic disease, women’s health and cancer screening

SACRAMENTO, September 30, 2026 – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach – D) Assembly Bill 2076, which would require an online vendor to verify age before a nitrous oxide purchase.

SACRAMENTO, September 28, 2026 – Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach – D) Assembly Bill 2030 that would ban the sale of diet pills and muscle building supplements for children under 18.

SACRAMENTO, September 28, 2026 – Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach – D) Assembly Bill 1803, which requires all California businesses with 5 or more employees to include anti-hate speech training as a mandatory component of their existing workplace harassment prevention training.

SACRAMENTO, September 28, 2026 – Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach – D) Assembly Bill 883, which requires CalPrivacy to create informational materials detailing how elected officials and judges can utilize the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) system to remove their information from data

SACRAMENTO, September 10, 2026 – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (D – Long Beach) AB 2 into law, which sets historic penalties for negligent harm caused to children by social media platforms.

SACRAMENTO, September 10, 2026 – Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1709 into law. Starting on January 1^st, 2027, California will age gate addictive features on social media and establish an expert oversight body to advise on technology regulation.

SACRAMENTO, August 26, 2026 – In the wake of the landmark Meta Settlement, California’s Legislature is on the cusp of passing Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s (Long Beach - D) social media safety package (AB 1709 and AB 2) to extend protections further than those set in the Meta Trial and invest in first-in-the-nation digital safety infrastructure through an e-Safety Advisory Co

OAKLAND, August 18, 2026 – Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (Long Beach - D) stood with social media survivors and survivor parents in front of the Oakland courthouse before the opening arguments for the landmark consortium Meta trial.