Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation to slash quarantine periods from 10 to five days. And labor groups want to restore emergency COVID paid sick leave - especially in light of the state’s recent move to follow the U.S. Child care providers, who recently secured a minimum 15% pay raise from the state, are pushing for expanded benefits as COVID continues to devastate the industry.
Businesses are trying to avoid shouldering the cost of California’s ballooning unemployment insurance fund debt while struggling to fill staff shortages. CalMatters’ Sameea Kamal put together a comprehensive preview of key topics to watch for, including increasing abortion access finding new ways to enforce the state’s strict gun laws creating state-funded savings accounts for children whose parents died from COVID and addressing crime, housing and climate change.Īn especially fraught fight could emerge between business and labor groups, CalMatters’ Grace Gedye reports.
10.)Īnd the state Legislature is expected to revisit many of the thorny issues it floated last year - such as single-payer health care, narrowing or eliminating the personal belief exemption in Newsom’s COVID vaccine mandate for K-12 students, and requiring COVID vaccines or weekly tests for all workers. (We’ll soon know where Newsom stands - he’s required to unveil his budget proposal by Jan. Gavin Newsom, legislators and advocacy groups over how the extra money should be split. Once again, a highly transmissible COVID variant is pummeling California, and once again, the state is awash in a multibillion-dollar budget surplus - setting the stage for battles between Gov. That more or less sums up the landscape state lawmakers will face when they return to Sacramento today for the start of the 2022 legislative session. Get the facts about the Omicron variant here: is dedicated to explaining how state government impacts our lives. Your support helps us produce journalism that makes a difference. Californians can protect themselves by getting vaccinated and boosted, wearing a mask, getting tested if they have any symptoms and staying home if sick. Our case rates and hospitalization rates have been stable through November."Ī confirmed case of the #Omicron variant is in #CA. The most important trigger for any more restrictive policies will be increases in serious illness and hospitalizations. "We have several policy levers still available to us if needed, including a mask mandate and proof of vaccination to enter restaurants and bars. "We’re confident in our monitoring systems and we’re watching closely," Willis said. Matt Willis said Wednesday there are no plans at this time to reinstate it. Cases in Marin remain low and the county's health director Dr. With the arrival of the omicron variant, some have wondered if Marin would reintroduce the mask mandate. Since then, Marin is the only county that has met the Bay Area-wide criteria for easing mask mandates and lifted the order on Nov. We’ll share additional information as we have it."Įight Bay Area counties introduced an indoor mask mandate in August in response to the surge in cases related to the Delta variant. "We’re obviously following these developments very closely.
Grant Colfax, San Francisco's director of health, said. "At this time we do not anticipate changing any of our health orders or changing any current restrictions or imposing new restrictions on activities in San Francisco," Dr. The sentiment was echoed in San Francisco at a Wednesday press conference with city officials. Newsom encouraged residents to get vaccines and boosters to prevent new restrictions.
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