Accomplishments

The Civil Prosecutors Coalition partners with legislators and other community stakeholders to advocate for smart policy reform, ensuring that effective, enforceable bills become law.

Civil Prosecutors Coalition 2025 Legislative Accomplishments

Our members unanimously supported the following bills approved  by the Legislature and signed by the Governor:

SB 261 (Wahab) – Wage Theft Enforcement

  • Expands SB 320
  • Authorizes courts to impose penalties triple penalties on the unpaid judgment after six months of prolonged nonpayment
  • Provides for attorneys’ fees and costs

AB 561 (Quirk-Silva) – Elder Abuse Restraining Orders

  • Allows electronic filing, permits remote appearances, and grants courts the authority to permit alternative service for elder abuse restraining orders

Other bills supported by member jurisdictions approved by the Legislature and signed by the Governor:

SB 85 (Umberg) – Service of Process

  • Allows email or other electronic service in a civil case where the plaintiff is otherwise unable to effect service, despite reasonable diligence
  • Exempts an action against a governmental entity

AB 621 (Bauer-Kahan) – Deepfake pornography

  • Gives standing to public prosecutors to take enforcement actions against deepfake pornography websites by extending civil liability for intentional creation and distribution
  • Increases damages and penalties for violations

State Funding

  • Three CPC members will receive $6 million to support ongoing efforts to litigate some of the most egregious federal policy changes. These funds have already been put to good use preventing the loss of state and local funding

Previous CPC Accomplishments

2024

  • SB 899 (Skinner-Blakespear) – Preventing gun violence​, expands SB 320 and makes all firearm-prohibiting orders follow enhanced compliance reporting to ensure relinquishment occurs
  • AB 2917 (Zbur) – Improving our ability to protect communities, codifies access to the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) for City Attorneys and County Counsels pursuing Gun violence Restraining Orders (GVROs) and expands risk factors the court considers in GVRO cases.
  • AB 261 (Gabriel) – Preventing violent hate crimes, requires law enforcement trainings on hate crimes to include education on the role GVROs can play in hate crime prevention.

Other bills supported by member jurisdictions approved by the Legislature and signed by the Governor:

  • SB 1243 (Dodd) – Reforming the Levine Act, clarifies ethics laws for more effective compliance and enforcement
  • AB 2738 (Rivas) – Strengthening Labor Code enforcement, guarantees attorneys' fees for public prosecutors in successful Labor Code enforcement cases to sustain ongoing worker protection efforts

2023

  • An $18 million budget appropriation for the Workers’ Rights Enforcement Grant Program in the Department of Industrial Relations

2022

  • AB 2766 (Maienschein) amended Business & Professions Code section 16759 to grant pre-filing investigative subpoena authority to select local agencies where there is reason to suspect a violation of the Unfair Competition Law