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New California laws on abortion, jaywalking, rap lyrics
Californians on private insurance plans will pay less for abortions in 2023
By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press Dec 30, 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Cheaper abortions, raises for some workers and grace for jaywalkers and loiterers are some of the hundreds of new laws that take effect in California next year.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 997 new laws in 2022 and many of them take effect on Jan. 1 while some go into effect later in the year.
Here's a look at some of them.
CHEAPER ABORTIONS
Private insurance companies can't charge people co-pays or deductibles for abortions anymore. That will save an average of $543 for a medication abortion and $887 for a procedural abortion, according to an analysis by the California Health Benefits Review Program. Lawmakers also did the same thing for vasectomies, but that law won't take effect until 2024.
EARLY RLEASE FOR CRITICALLY ILL INMATES
California will release more ill and dying prisoners in 2023. A new law eases the current standard for compassionate release, which critics said was too restrictive. Of the 304 inmates who sought compassionate release between January 2015 and April 2021, just 53 were released by the courts, according to the nonprofit advocacy group Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
DISRUPTIVE MEETINGS
Public meetings have always been a place for people to voice their frustrations with government. But the pandemic restrictions have only made those meetings more intense. In 2023, a new law sets rules for when local officials can remove people from public meetings for being too disruptive. The law says the presiding officer can remove someone only after warning them first…
Something is going to crack in California.