AB 1923: Local ballot measures: County of Fresno.

California · Assembly · 2025–2026 Regular Session · last verified September 14, 2026

What AB 1923 does, verified September 14, 2026

The bill aims to expand the distressed hospital loan program to include any hospital, regardless of ownership type or system affiliation, that meets the criteria for significant financial distress. The program will consider impacts of federal and state policy changes on hospital reimbursement and health care coverage. Loan forgiveness will be provided to hospitals that have demonstrated good faith effort to comply with program requirements before January 1, 2026, and will become financially distressed due to loan repayments or other factors. The bill appropriates $300 million to the distressed hospital loan program fund to provide additional funding to hospitals in financial distress. The fund will be available for encumbrance or expenditure until December 31, 2034, and will be abolished on that date. The bill declares that it will take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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Last action: Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 16. Page 6093.) (2026-08-06)Alert me

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Asm. Esmeralda SoriaAuthor · California State Assembly

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Coauthors

Mia BontaMatt HaneyMark GonzálezChris RogersJuan CarrilloJohn HarabedianMichelle RodriguezAnna Caballero

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Aug. 06, 2026	Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 16. Page 6093.)
Aug. 06, 2026	Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 108, Statutes of 2026.
Aug. 06, 2026	Approved by the Governor.
Aug. 06, 2026	Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
Aug. 06, 2026	Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 6084.).

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Latest bill textEnrolled version, August 6, 2026 · 455 words

Assembly Bill No. 1923

CHAPTER 108

An act relating to elections, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

[ Approved by Governor August 06, 2026. Filed with Secretary of State August 06, 2026. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1923, Soria. Local ballot measures: County of Fresno.

The electors of a county may propose an ordinance to the county board of supervisors by submitting an initiative petition containing signatures by registered voters in the county in an amount equal to 10% of the number of votes cast within the county for all candidates for Governor at the preceding gubernatorial election. If the county elections official certifies that an initiative petition has been signed by at least that number of voters, the county board of supervisors is required to either adopt the ordinance or submit it to the voters at the next statewide election occurring not less than 88 days later.

This bill would require any Fresno County initiative petition that has been certified as sufficient by the Fresno County Registrar of Voters on or before July 8, 2026, to be submitted, without alteration, to the voters at the November 3, 2026, statewide general election.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Fresno.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Any Fresno County initiative petition that has been certified as sufficient by the Fresno County Registrar of Voters on or before July 8, 2026, shall be submitted, without alteration, to the voters at the November 3, 2026, statewide general election. The Fresno County Registrar of Voters and the Fresno County Board of Supervisors shall perform all acts that they would otherwise perform to place a qualified initiative measure on the ballot.

SEC. 2.

The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique fiscal circumstances facing the County of Fresno arising from the expiration of its local transportation tax.

SEC. 3.

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to allow the County of Fresno to place a transportation funding measure before the voters at the earliest possible statewide election in 2026 before the expiration of its local transportation tax, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.

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