AB 127 Summary

• Amends California's Age-Appropriate Design Code Act by relocating the Children's Data Protection Working Group to the Attorney General's office, reducing membership from 10 to 9 members, and extending the first report deadline to July 1, 2024.

• Requires the Department of Finance to calculate and distribute subvention amounts for specific state programs to local agencies by February 1 annually for use in calculating appropriations limits.

• Extends repeal dates for multiple small business COVID-19 relief grant programs to June 30, 2024, and renames and extends the Small Agricultural Business Drought Relief Grant Program to include flood relief until January 1, 2027.

• Establishes the Racial Equity Commission within the Office of Planning and Research to develop racial equity frameworks and provide technical assistance to state agencies, operating until January 1, 2030.

• Creates multiple new funds and programs including the State Middle-Mile Broadband Enterprise Fund, California Creative Economy Workgroup, and Southeast Los Angeles Cultural Center Development Advisory Panel, with various sunset dates and operational parameters.