Number of California Bills by Code – 2025 Edition

Number of California Bills by Code – 2025 Edition By Chris Micheli

            California’s 29 Codes, beginning with the Business & Professions Code and ending with the Welfare & Institutions Code, contain over 156,000 statutes. Each year, more statutes are being considered through legislation. So, how many bills introduced in 2025 affect these 29 Codes?

            In the following chart, I look at the number of bills adding, amending, or repealing sections of California’s 29 Codes during the 2025 Session, along with the 2023-24 Session statistics for comparison purposes. The following chart contains those numbers:

 

Code

2025

2023 – 24

Business & Professions

333

632

Civil

290

495

Civil Procedure

179

310

Commercial

13

22

Corporations

51

109

Education

322

644

Elections

78

142

Evidence

60

116

Family

62

187

Financial

46

69

Fish & Game

68

127

Food & Agricultural

55

125

Government

1,175

1,710

Harbors & Navigation

20

44

Health & Safety

613

1,117

Insurance

163

295

Labor

189

354

Military & Veterans

40

94

Penal

329

740

Probate

33

67

Public Contract

119

252

Public Resources

348

577

Public Utilities

176

333

Revenue & Taxation

228

390

Streets & Highways

64

141

Unemployment Insurance

59

109

Vehicle

135

318

Water

90

184

Welfare & Institutions

331

671

             Most interesting to me is the relative consistency each Session with the number of bills affecting the same Code, certainly over the past decade that I have been tracking this data. In other words, during the last decade, roughly the same number of bills each Session affect an individual Code. Also note how the 2025 Session numbers, the first year of the 2-year Session, is roughly half of the prior 2-year Session numbers.

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