Xavier Becerra

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Health care is a human right, and as California’s Health Care Governor I will deliver affordable care without debt or delays, strengthen Medi-Cal, close racial and economic gaps, and build toward a universal single-payer system that puts people before profits.

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On Day One, I will issue an executive order directing state agencies to maintain coverage continuity for every Californian affected by federal cuts or Medi-Cal rollbacks. I will also direct state agencies to protect access to essential, medically appropriate health services from federal restrictions, including reproductive care and healthcare for immigrant communities, and ensure uninterrupted, equitable access to contraception, abortion, and maternal health support. I will immediately assess which rural hospitals, community clinics, and safety-net providers are most at risk and execute emergency state interventions to prevent cascading closures. And I will fight to fully implement Proposition 35, which California voters passed in November 2024 to dedicate MCO tax revenue exclusively to Medi-Cal, ensuring those funds go to stronger provider payments and expanded access to care, not federal clawbacks. State interventions will ensure that public dollars come with public obligations, including maintaining fair labor standards and respecting the representation rights of the healthcare workforce.

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I negotiated drug price reductions of up to 79% as HHS Secretary, finalizing historic deals on ten high-cost medications including Eliquis, Jardiance, and Xarelto that will save Medicare billions of dollars every year. When I am Governor, California’s full purchasing power goes to work for patients on Day One. I will negotiate maximum reimbursement rates for drugs purchased through state employee health plans, Medi-Cal, and all state-administered programs, and direct agencies to prioritize lower-cost biosimilars and therapeutic alternatives wherever clinically appropriate.

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California pioneered CalRx to produce and purchase essential medications at lower cost, and I will accelerate and expand it, moving urgently on high-impact medicines like insulin, inhalers, EpiPens, naloxone, and antibiotics. I will also forge joint purchasing arrangements with other Western states to maximize our collective buying power and build regional pharmaceutical independence, so that a hostile federal administration or a supply chain disruption can never hold California’s patients hostage.

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Too much of what California spends on healthcare goes to paperwork, not patients. I will issue a directive requiring all healthcare oversight agencies to identify and eliminate duplicative requirements that add cost without improving care, produce a unified plan to modernize and consolidate oversight activities, and partner with health plans and providers to review outdated facility standards and operational rules that drive up costs and restrict innovation. Every dollar freed from administrative waste is a dollar that can go toward expanding access.

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As HHS Secretary, I oversaw the historic expansion of telehealth during the pandemic and saw firsthand how it saved lives in communities that had never had adequate access to specialists. As Governor, I will issue an executive order requiring all state-regulated payors to reimburse telehealth visits to the fullest extent permitted under law, prioritizing telehealth delivered by California-licensed health care professionals through local and regional providers to provide urgent care for conditions that do not require an in-person visit, and leverage California’s volunteer physician registry to open specialty telehealth access to communities that have never had it. I will also direct our oversight agencies to launch oversight and integrity programs to match the expansion of telehealth services. When a patient with a chronic condition connects online, they will be linked directly to a Federally Qualified Health Center for ongoing care.

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The most effective way to lower healthcare costs is to keep people healthy in the first place. I will invest in comprehensive community-based prevention programs targeting the chronic diseases that drive the highest costs, including diabetes, hypertension, cancer, substance use, and more, with community health workers, robust screening programs, and doula care. This initiative will prioritize Medi-Cal populations and disadvantaged communities that bear a disproportionate burden of chronic illness, and will invest in modern data systems that track patient needs and close gaps in care so that prevention is measurable, not just aspirational. As Governor, I will also strengthen public health infrastructure by restoring trust in science and expanding access to safe, effective vaccines, as I recognize immunization as one of the most powerful tools to prevent disease and protect public health. Building on California’s world-leading research institutions and innovation ecosystem, my administration will recommit to fact-based decision-making and double down on science and research to guide policy, improve outcomes, and prepare for emerging public health challenges.

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Coverage without providers is an empty promise. I will establish a long-term dedicated fund to grow the healthcare workforce where it is needed most, offering loan repayment and forgiveness programs, housing assistance in high-cost areas, and targeted incentives for primary care, behavioral health, women’s care, rural medicine, and dental providers. The fund will build lasting partnerships between health systems and California’s community colleges and universities to train the next generation of nurses, medical assistants, physicians, dentists, and allied health professionals, with incentives for health systems that invest in the workforce pipeline. I will also hold health plans accountable for building and maintaining adequate provider networks so patients can access timely, high-quality care when and where they need it.

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Universal coverage, timely access, and a strong safety net must translate into real savings for real families. I will work with regulatory agencies to ensure that as waste and inefficiency are eliminated, the savings flow back to patients, not to shareholders. I will work with employers and other purchasers of care to drive down premiums and out-of-pocket costs across the board. The goal is a system where doing the right thing for patients is also the most financially sustainable path for providers, plans, and the state.

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California loses hundreds of millions of dollars every year processing the same Medi-Cal cases twice, when eligible enrollees are dropped due to paperwork errors and then re-enroll weeks later. Children’s churn cases alone cost $120 million every three years. I will modernize Medi-Cal’s eligibility infrastructure with automated renewals that verify eligibility through existing state data, consolidate the fragmented county-by-county enrollment system, and ensure that a missed letter or a data entry error never becomes the reason an eligible Californian loses coverage.

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I prosecuted Medi-Cal fraud as California’s Attorney General, and California is still losing billions to fraudulent claims and misused benefits. I will create a dedicated healthcare fraud task force with the authority to hold funds, investigate bad actors, file charges, and see cases through to verdict. Services that are overutilized or delivered through the wrong system, including transportation and hospice abuse, home asthma remediation, and housing benefits that belong in social services will be reined in. Every dollar recovered is a dollar that can go to care for the patients who need it most.

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Some of California’s largest and most profitable corporations pay wages so low that their workers qualify for taxpayer-funded Medi-Cal, effectively subsidizing their labor costs with public money while disadvantaging competitors who do the right thing. This year’s state budget laid the foundation for this fight through the Fair Share from Big Corporations Act, directing the Department of Finance to bring forward options by March 2027 — and if I have the honor of serving as Governor, I would look forward to working with the Legislature to turn that groundwork into a real, enforceable policy. I will pursue a fee on large employers who do not offer health coverage to their low-wage workers who qualify for Medi-Cal, so that corporations who shift their healthcare costs onto taxpayers pay their fair share. Profitable companies should not get to pass their obligations onto working families.

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Medi-Cal’s current funding structure is a patchwork of supplemental payments, time-limited tools, and fragmented streams that obscures true costs, limits transparency, and makes long-term planning nearly impossible. I will pursue a unified financing strategy that consolidates duplicative payment structures, strengthens base rates, and ties funding to clear performance and accountability standards, so that Medi-Cal dollars go to access and quality, providers can plan with confidence, and California is no longer vulnerable to federal disruption of the mechanisms we rely on most.

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I believe in the California Dream, that every family, every worker, and every community deserves a fair shot at a safe and healthy life. So when the federal government continues to overreach, I will challenge it in court and refuse to back down to ensure California keeps moving forward and building together.

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On my first day as Governor, I will issue an executive order declaring California’s housing shortage a state of emergency and directing every state agency to treat housing production and affordability as the paramount priority. I will embed a senior housing delivery team across agencies that report directly to my office, whose sole job is removing obstacles to projects and identifying areas within state government that need reform so we can more swiftly deliver on housing commitments. Cabinet members and agency secretaries will coordinate, as they should, but this team will have the authority to act in furthering this priority and the direct line to my office to support that. Their first mission will be the nearly 40,000 affordable housing units sitting in approved projects across California, awaiting only a final tranche of funding to break ground. Everything will be on the table to close the funding gap – bond measures, state subsidies, public-private partnerships. These homes can and will be built, and when the funding is there, the team will identify, track and move every one of them.

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It costs too much to build a home in California, and that cost is passed on to Californians in the form of high rents and high home prices. High fees, fragmented approvals, and layers of regulatory compliance are leading causes. On my first day I will require my administration to identify cost reductions that can be made administratively and legislatively, and will work with the Legislature to comprehensively reform fees statewide. In California, building an apartment costs 2.3 times what it costs in Texas, largely because of process delay and fees. I will also work with the Legislature to end the use of impossibly high affordable housing mandates as a backdoor to kill housing for families – a tactic that some cities actually use to skirt their responsibilities. Under my administration, that abuse ends. To further build at scale, we will reform policy to unlock modular housing by creating scalable statewide uniformity in review, while creating stable union jobs. Together, my administration’s central focus will be to keep prices down for Californians and build at the speed we need.

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When I was California’s Attorney General, I pioneered legal strategies to help unblock housing projects, leading to historic wins for housing across the state. Since then, California has enacted even stronger reforms, but a law is only as good as our capacity to enforce it. All too often, cities can slow walk, litigate around or ignore their obligations. California must enforce these laws without exception and without favor. I will direct the California Department of Housing and Community Development to immediately identify cities reneging on their housing element commitments and commence enforcement action, including financial penalties where appropriate. I will expand the Housing Accountability Unit so that it can quickly answer every question of technical assistance where laws are unclear or bring enforcement actions where the law is being ignored. And, I will deepen the partnership between HCD and the Department of Justice to proactively monitor compliance wherever public dollars are at stake.

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The vast majority of California’s residential land still excludes affordable housing and apartments. My administration will pursue zoning reform, expand by-right approvals near jobs and transit, and improve the laws allowing entry-level ownership options like duplexes and small condos.

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Housing that is planned for on paper but never built is not a solution. My administration will deliver permits, not just plans. We will build on the foundation that SB 330 established, working to create a single predictable standard of review throughout California, and will defend and enhance the streamlining tools created by AB 130, reducing permitting delays and making approvals predictable for builders of all sizes, especially small builders like my father. As Governor, I will push the next phase: tightening litigation timelines, closing loopholes used to obstruct infill projects, and making it harder for bad actors to abuse the process, bringing that same discipline to state government as we have demanded of local governments. Every housing project seeking state review will receive a final response within a defined, clear timeline (e.g., 180 days), and our embedded housing teams will have my personal voice when they go to work every day looking for ways to unblock critically needed housing stuck in red tape. In San Francisco, it can take more than four years to get all the permits needed to build, about three years longer than it takes to actually start and finish construction. The path from submitted application to completed review should not take longer than the home takes to build. Under my administration, it won’t.

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Creating the California Housing and Homelessness Agency and the Housing Development and Finance Committee is the right structural move, but standing up a new agency is the beginning, not the end. The hard work of turning that framework into something that actually cuts costs and speeds production falls largely to the next governor. I have done this before. At HHS I managed an agency with a budget larger than the size of California’s entire state government, and I know what it takes to build a new entity into something that works: the staffing decisions, the interagency coordination, the accountability structures that keep it from drifting. As Governor, I will resource the Agency to succeed, set the production targets it will be held to publicly, and make clear that California’s housing crisis demands results, not just reorganization.

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Every additional public funding source a developer must assemble in order to build affordable housing adds four months to the timeline and $20,000 per unit in costs. Not because developers are inefficient, but because we built a system that forces them to navigate six, seven, or eight separate agencies and funding streams just to break ground. I watched the same dysfunction play out in health care, and at HHS we moved to fix it by consolidating programs, eliminating duplicative requirements, and holding agencies to unified goals. California’s affordable housing finance system needs the same treatment: a single coordinated state application process, unified state criteria, and funding.

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Under my administration, the 7th Regional Housing Needs Allocation cycle will no longer function as a paper exercise. I will convene housing stakeholders and policy experts to transform RHNA from a planning requirement into a genuine driver of housing production, with real accountability for jurisdictions that fall short of their allocations.

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Owning a home is the California Dream, and too many families are being shut out not because they cannot afford the mortgage, but because they cannot save a down payment fast enough and because there are not enough homes to buy in the first place. I will expand California’s down payment assistance program, increase its funding, and broaden eligibility so more first-time buyers can access it faster. This program more than pays for itself: the state recovers its investment when families sell, recycling those dollars to help the next family. But helping families afford a home only solves half the problem if there are not enough homes to buy. Townhomes and small condos were once a standard entry point into homeownership for working families, and decades of zoning rules effectively regulated them out of existence. For too long, California’s laws have made it far easier to build apartments for rent than homes for sale, and I will reform those laws to change that, because the path to homeownership has to start with homes that are actually available to own.

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Institutional investors purchasing California single-family homes and converting them into permanent rentals shrink the inventory available to first-time buyers and drive coordinated pricing that goes unchecked for renters and buyers alike. Building more homes only solves the problem if those homes reach families, not corporate portfolios. I will work with the Legislature to make it harder for large institutional investors to compete with California families for homes. I will push for beneficial ownership disclosure on bulk purchases, public registries of institutional landlords, and stronger enforcement targeting price coordination in the housing market, because whether you’re renting or trying to buy, you deserve a market that works for people, not corporations.

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Building more housing and protecting the people in homes right now are not competing goals, they are both essential, and we must build more housing and ensure that growth does not push people out. California’s Tenant Protection Act gives us the tools to stop excessive rent increases, require just cause before a family loses their home, and guarantee relocation assistance for displaced tenants. I will enforce those protections fully and stand behind communities that have chosen to protect renters through local rent control, within the statewide framework that keeps housing construction moving forward. We can grow our housing stock and protect the homes people are in right now. What we cannot afford is to let speculation and inaction squeeze working families out while California catches up on supply, and that stops on day one.

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Build a State Master Plan for Housing Affordability

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Californians are being squeezed by rising costs—from insurance and childcare to groceries—and too many families are falling behind even while working hard. This affordability crisis isn’t about people working harder or budgeting better; it’s about systems that have stopped working for everyday Californians. As governor, I will take on the cost of living head-on by standing up to price gouging and unjustified rate hikes, expanding help with childcare and essential costs, and using the power of the state to lower prices where the market has failed. No family should have to choose between caring for their kids, putting food on the table, and staying insured.

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Californians are being squeezed by rising costs—from insurance and childcare to groceries—and too many families are falling behind even while working hard. This affordability crisis isn’t about people working harder or budgeting better; it’s about systems that have stopped working for everyday Californians. As governor, I will take on the cost of living head-on by standing up to price gouging and unjustified rate hikes, expanding help with childcare and essential costs, and using the power of the state to lower prices where the market has failed. No family should have to choose between caring for their kids, putting food on the table, and staying insured.

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California’s clean-energy transition is necessary and urgent—but too many families are paying the price through rising utility bills, unreliable service, and confusing rate structures. As California’s Governor, I understand one simple truth: climate action only succeeds if it is affordable, reliable, and fair. The goal is to cut pollution and emissions while lowering household energy costs, strengthening public oversight, and ensuring the benefits of clean energy reach everyone. Bill affordability will be at the center of my energy policy, especially for low- and middle-income families. We also need stronger oversight and accountability of our utilities with increased transparency and accountability that can ensure reliability, safety, affordability, and actual emission reductions. I believe that by treating clean energy and grid resilience as public investments—and ensuring renters, low-income households, and workers share in the benefits—California can fight climate change, strengthen reliability, and make energy more affordable for everyone.

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California’s clean-energy transition is necessary and urgent—but too many families are paying the price through rising utility bills, unreliable service, and confusing rate structures. As California’s Governor, I understand one simple truth: climate action only succeeds if it is affordable, reliable, and fair. The goal is to cut pollution and emissions while lowering household energy costs, strengthening public oversight, and ensuring the benefits of clean energy reach everyone. Bill affordability will be at the center of my energy policy, especially for low- and middle-income families. We also need stronger oversight and accountability of our utilities with increased transparency and accountability that can ensure reliability, safety, affordability, and actual emission reductions. I believe that by treating clean energy and grid resilience as public investments—and ensuring renters, low-income households, and workers share in the benefits—California can fight climate change, strengthen reliability, and make energy more affordable for everyone.

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California faces worsening wildfires, floods, heat waves, and the ever-present risk of major earthquakes. Too often, disaster policy focuses on response after lives and homes are already lost. As Governor, I will put protecting Californians at the center of how we prepare for wildfires, floods, earthquakes, and extreme weather. That means shifting from a system that reacts after disaster strikes to one that prevents harm before it happens. I will fight for major investments in wildfire prevention, flood control, and seismic retrofits, prioritizing the communities most at risk. We will strengthen early warning systems, improve evacuation planning, and ensure emergency communications reach everyone—across languages, abilities, and income levels—so families have the information and support they need to stay safe.

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California faces worsening wildfires, floods, heat waves, and the ever-present risk of major earthquakes. Too often, disaster policy focuses on response after lives and homes are already lost. As Governor, I will put protecting Californians at the center of how we prepare for wildfires, floods, earthquakes, and extreme weather. That means shifting from a system that reacts after disaster strikes to one that prevents harm before it happens. I will fight for major investments in wildfire prevention, flood control, and seismic retrofits, prioritizing the communities most at risk. We will strengthen early warning systems, improve evacuation planning, and ensure emergency communications reach everyone—across languages, abilities, and income levels—so families have the information and support they need to stay safe.

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When disasters do occur, my administration will make sure recovery is fast, fair, and humane. I will protect renters and homeowners from displacement, cut red tape so people can access aid quickly, and ensure assistance reaches workers and small businesses. We will rebuild smarter—making homes and infrastructure safer and more resilient—while holding utilities and public agencies accountable for reducing risk. California can lead the nation by proving that disaster preparedness is not just about infrastructure, but about dignity, equity, and keeping people in their homes and communities.

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AI literacy means understanding how AI functions, recognizing its benefits and risks, and using it safely and effectively, and right now that knowledge is not evenly distributed. My administration will work through California’s public schools, libraries, and community colleges to ensure every Californian, regardless of zip code or background, has the tools to participate in this moment. Community institutions are already serving as vital hubs for AI skills training, and my administration will resource and scale that work in partnership with industry, so the communities historically left behind by technological change are at the front of the line this time.

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Leverage AI to Tackle California’s Most Intractable Problems California faces challenges that have resisted decades of conventional policy: homelessness, housing affordability, climate adaptation, and a health care system that reaches some communities far better than others. My administration will actively partner with the technology sector and research institutions to direct AI toward these problems, deploying it inside state government to cut permitting delays, improve benefits delivery, and find efficiencies that have long eluded us, while ensuring every deployment is transparent, audited, and developed alongside the workers it affects.

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Responsible AI in State Government AI has real potential to improve how California delivers services: faster permitting, earlier detection of public health risks, and more accessible benefits navigation. My administration will pursue that potential with full transparency and rigorous evaluation. Every California civil servant whose role is affected by automation should have a voice before that decision to deploy is made, not after. And every AI system deployed by a state agency will be subject to an independent audit.

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Track and Respond to AI’s Economic Impact Automation is already eliminating jobs in measurable numbers, and the advances of artificial intelligence are accelerating both the pace and the scope of that change. The state’s existing labor market infrastructure will be directed to continuously track AI’s effects on wages, employment, and sector-level displacement, with findings feeding directly into workforce investment decisions and, where the data demands it, broader policy intervention to ensure that workers come first and the gains of this technology are broadly shared with all Californians.

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Workforce Investment and Transition Support Displacement without support is abandonment. I will work with the Legislature, the California public education system and industry partners to build accessible, stackable workforce programs that prepare Californians for the AI economy and support workers navigating role changes. The goal is a skilled workforce that benefits employers and workers alike, with real, reachable transition support, not plans that exist only on paper.

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Fund CalCompute Startups, researchers, and public institutions should not be locked out of frontier AI infrastructure. I will fund CalCompute fully and make it operational, ensuring it delivers on its promise of broad, equitable access to AI infrastructure.

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California’s electric ratepayers must come out winners from the growth of advanced computing infrastructure. I will pursue an economic-forward standard: data centers that operate in California add value to our current energy infrastructure, are powered with clean energy, cover the costs of their own energy needs, and meet environmental performance disclosure requirements. In return, my administration will improve data center permitting programs and provide the policy certainty industry needs to invest and grow in California and the technological opportunities of tomorrow.

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Enforce & Strengthen California’s AI Standards California has the nation’s strongest AI safety laws. I will ensure existing requirements are actively enforced, close the gaps that allow bad actors to evade accountability, and work closely with technologists, workers, industry and communities to review, track and strengthen standards as the technology evolves. Good rules mean nothing without monitoring and enforcement.

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Protect Children and Families Child safety and well-being must be foremost in the formulation of California’s AI policy. AI products accessible to children carry real risks: content promoting self-harm and suicide, manipulative design that exploits adolescent psychology, and AI-generated personas presented as real. I will direct the full resources of my Administration and use its platform to hold accountable any company willing to put profits ahead of children’s safety.

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Transparency in Automated Decision-Making Workers and consumers deserve to know when consequential decisions about them are shaped by algorithms, and to have meaningful recourse. My administration will pursue transparency and human review standards for high-stakes automated decisions that significantly affect a person’s livelihood, health, housing, or freedoms that are clear, proportionate, and workable.

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The Trump administration has abdicated federal responsibility on AI governance, leaving a patchwork of state laws, or no laws at all. This ultimately protects no one. A national framework is essential, and California cannot wait for Washington to act. I will work across party lines to push states – red and blue – to adopt California standards and create a national framework. Strong standards and a thriving AI sector don’t have to be in conflict, and California is fully capable of setting the gold standard.

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On my first day as Governor, I will issue an executive order declaring California’s housing shortage a state of emergency and directing every state agency to treat housing production and affordability as the paramount priority. My administration will launch public outcomes dashboards to track per-unit costs and 12-month housing retention metrics for all state funding. We will immediately expand rental assistance and eviction defense for those most at risk, including seniors, foster youth, and veterans. I will fully enforce California’s Tenant Protection Act, including its cap on excessive rent increases, just cause eviction standards, and relocation assistance for displaced tenants, as a critical front-line tool to prevent homelessness before it starts. Furthermore, I will prioritize funding for local agencies that coordinate effectively and produce measurable results, ensuring that every dollar spent is tied to success rather than bureaucracy.

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This is not a housing crisis alone. It is a mental health crisis. People are dying on our streets because we have failed to treat it as such, and California voters understood that when they passed Proposition 1. I will implement every reform it authorizes, build thousands of treatment beds, and cut whatever red tape stands between the voters’ verdict and results on the ground.

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A few hundred dollars in rental assistance at the right moment can prevent homelessness and save tens of thousands in emergency response costs. I will establish a dedicated, stable targeted homelessness prevention funding stream within the state’s homelessness response, one that communities can plan around year over year that targets high-displacement neighborhoods and is tied to measurable reduction targets and local investment. I will fund rental assistance, eviction defense, and foreclosure prevention. Seniors, foster youth, and veterans will be prioritized first. Enforcing the California’s Tenant Protection Act and preserving local rent control ordinances consistent with the statewide framework that encourages continued housing construction while protecting the stability of existing housing stock, is also a key pillar of this prevention strategy. Prevention is not a secondary strategy; it is the smartest investment this state can make.

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California is home to half the nation’s unsheltered homeless population. We will expand shelter capacity and permanent housing, but local infighting and bureaucratic delays have gone on long enough. Communities that coordinate and produce results will be funded. Those that do not will face real consequences.

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Counties and Continuums of Care are essential partners, but too often they are defined by infighting rather than results. My administration will prioritize homelessness funding to communities that coordinate effectively and demonstrate outcomes. For programs and jurisdictions that are failing, there will be a mandatory playbook and real consequences for not following it. Collaboration is not optional when lives are at stake.

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California has invested billions in homelessness. It is time to demand the outcomes Californians deserve. My administration will restructure state homelessness grants to require 12-month housing retention outcomes, publish per-unit cost dashboards for every funded program, and eliminate the administrative barriers that slow housing placements. We will measure what works, defund what does not, and scale what does.

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California will not manage this industry’s transition from the sidelines. How content is financed, made, distributed, and how workers get paid, all of it is restructuring at once. The compensation models that sustained a generation of middle-class entertainment workers were built for an industry that no longer exists. The market alone cannot plan its way through disruption this broad and this fast. I will convene a California Entertainment Summit: guilds, crew organizations, producers, studios, streamers, and technology companies, with a binding mandate: produce a public action plan, not a report. Each workstream will have a named lead and defined milestone with a goal of making California the most modern, worker-centered production ecosystem in the world, before someone else does it without us.

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California’s tax credit program must be defended first – what exists today is the floor. From that foundation I will expand it, guided by ongoing assessment of where we are losing work: post-production and VFX, independent productions, episodic television at scale, and whatever gaps the data reveals. That means also updating eligible costs to reflect how productions are actually greenlighted and crewed today, not how they were structured a decade ago. Where demand is real, where jobs follow, and where the return to California justifies it, I intend to increase the program’s scale, capacity and access. Because a state serious about keeping this industry does not let qualified productions walk out the door, and every check it writes must come back to California workers.

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The entertainment industry has always run on the currency of success, and the ability to measure it, share in it, and build on it. The shift to streaming changed that equation in ways the industry’s compensation structures have not yet caught up with. What counts as success, what data is shared, and what triggers additional compensation are questions without consistent or verifiable answers for the writers, directors, cast, and crew whose work drives platform value. Workers cannot bargain fairly for what they cannot see, and they cannot plan careers around success they cannot verify. Voluntary transparency is not enough. I will support a California Content Performance Disclosure requirement: platforms must share meaningful performance data with the cast, writers, directors, and crew whose work drives their value, in a standardized form that gives workers what they need to bargain fairly.

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Artificial intelligence is already altering what work gets done, by whom, and at what cost. I will support state requirements that productions disclose how AI is being used, that gives performers enforceable rights over their own likenesses, and that ensures the people whose work trained these systems are compensated for it.

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The people who built this industry deserve to shape what it becomes. My administration will strengthen and expand California’s existing workforce development infrastructure, provide stronger governing authority for workers and their guilds, deepen these programs’ ties to the tax credit program, and ensure that, as new technologies transform crafts, it is California’s workers who are helping set the terms of the transition.

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No state in the country has California’s landscapes, but for many, the local and state permitting takes far too long. I will work to clear the bureaucratic friction that turns a permit request into a multi-agency ordeal, giving California’s irreplaceable locations back to the productions that want to shoot in them, and push for a more formalized state-local incentive structure to further encourage local governments to compete for the privilege of being places where films can easily get made.

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California productions compete against the full weight of foreign governments like Canada, the UK, and France, and Washington has left us to fight alone. A federal solution is not a silver bullet – the work of keeping California competitive happens here, at home, through the policies in this platform. But, a Governor who knows this fight, who built the bipartisan coalitions on the House Ways and Means Committee, and who has the relationships to move legislation in Washington is better positioned than most to push for what California’s workers deserve: a federal government that is in this fight with them, not absent from it. My administration will partner with our congressional delegation and push for a bipartisan solution, conditioned on a domestic wage guarantee so any credit creates American jobs, not foreign ones.

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California families are struggling to keep up with rising utility bills. That’s why we’re proposing the Power Hour: up to two hours of completely free electricity every day for millions of working households across the state.

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Eligibility is based on household income and household size. This program will start by focusing on affordability first for working class families using CARE and FERA program income guidelines. As an example, a family of four earning less than $82,500 a year would qualify for the program. Income thresholds are scaled for smaller and larger households, and full eligibility guidelines will be finalized as the program is developed.