Text of CA SB 430 (2026)

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 430 Introduced by Senator Cabaldon February 18, 2025 An act relating to state government. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 430, as introduced, Cabaldon. State government: efficiency of public sector workers. Existing law establishes the Milton Marks “Little Hoover” Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy (Little Hoover Commission) to promote economy, efficiency, and improved service in the transaction of the public business in the various departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch of state government, and in making the operation of all state departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, and all expenditures of public funds, more directly responsive to the wishes of the people as expressed by their elected representatives. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would lessen the time, effort, money, and programmatic expertise of local public sector workers in compliance with state reporting and permit processing, as specified. Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would lessen the time, effort, money, and programmatic expertise of local public sector workers in compliance with state reporting and permit processing. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the legislation described in subdivision (a) would do both of the following: (1) Emphasize systematic, rather than one-off, burden-reduction initiatives, using machine learning tools to capture and analyze data, and to deploy methods of nonlinear processing of nondiscretionary permits. (2) Require workers and end-users to participate fully in technological deployment to support responsible and effective implementation.