• On March 25, Equal Pay Day—10 years after the passage of the Fair Pay Act—Sen. Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) announced new legislation to bolster the Fair Pay Act and provide workers with the opportunity to earn their “fair share,” according to the senator’s office. Specifically, SB 642 seeks to expand on Limón’s previous legislation, SB 1162 (2021), by defining an appropriate pay range on job postings to provide a clearer picture of what a potential employee may earn. The bill also seeks to strengthen the Fair Pay Act by clarifying what constitutes “wages,” providing workers with additional time to recover lost wages, and modernizes the law to include all workers. “The Golden State has one of the lowest wage gaps in the country, with women earning 87 cents on the dollar, thanks in part to our strong equal pay laws, but more must be done to ensure workers are able to earn what they are truly owed,” Limón said in a statement. “According to the National Women’s Law Center, California women lose more than $350,000 over a 40-year career to the wage gap—that is money for groceries, child care, rent, and so much more. The state must do more to support workers, put money they earned back into their pockets, and finally deliver true pay equity.” Since 2015, California has passed some of the nation’s strongest pay laws, according to Limón’s office. Despite this, women continue to earn less than their male counterparts. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, women make less in every job sector, including managerial roles, nursing, and business and finance. With SB 642, California has an opportunity to move one step closer to closing the wage gap, Limón said in the statement.
• U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and California’s former secretary of state, led 14 Democratic senators in calling on President Donald Trump to revoke his illegal anti-voter executive order that would disenfranchise millions of Americans, according to a March 28 statement from the senator’s office. The League of Women Voters of the U.S. also decried the executive order, calling it an attempt to silence voters and a threat to Americans’ freedom to vote. In a March 31 statement, Marcia Johnson, League chief counsel, said, “The president can’t unilaterally change election law. This order is not only an attack on American voters’ fundamental freedom to vote, it is also plainly unlawful. The League is committed to working with our partners and legal advocates to pursue all avenues in fighting back against this dangerous order, and we will use every tool at our disposal to defend voters from unjust restrictions on their freedom to vote.” In a letter signed by Padilla and 14 other senators, the lawmakers said that Trump’s executive order would likely disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by creating barriers to voting and “inviting chaos into state voter registration processes”—including by sharing Americans’ data with the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “Under the Constitution and existing law, this executive order cannot be implemented,” the senators wrote to the president. The proof of citizenship requirements in the executive order would restrict the right to vote for millions of Americans given the burden it creates to obtain these documents. Nearly half of all American citizens don’t have valid passports, and millions more have a legal name that differs from other government-issued documents, including up to 69 million married women whose birth certificates no longer match their legal name, according to Padilla’s office. “Voting by noncitizens is already a federal crime and, despite unsubstantiated claims to the contrary, is extremely rare. By interjecting DOGE into the process, this order would interfere with states’ maintenance of voter registration lists, compromising voters’ personal information,” the letter stated.
This article appears in Apr 3-13, 2025.
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