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title: "Newsom Signs Last Batch of Bills as California Governor on His Final Day"
description: "The governor acted on 1,160 bills by Wednesday’s deadline, from social media limits for teens to a child marriage ban"
author: "rews desk"
published: 2026-09-30T23:39:10Z
modified: 2026-10-01T02:50:24Z
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# Newsom Signs Last Batch of Bills as California Governor on His Final Day

*The governor acted on 1,160 bills by Wednesday’s deadline, from social media limits for teens to a child marriage ban*

By rews desk · September 30, 2026 · https://rews.cc/a/newsom-signs-last-batch-of-bills-as-california-governor-on-h-219860

## In brief

- Newsom acted on 1,160 bills by Wednesday’s deadline, the last of nearly 8,000 he considered over two terms
- He signed 13 bills on teens’ use of social media and A.I., including a ban on “addictive” features for under-16s
- A new law bars public officials from issuing cryptocurrency meme coins; his office framed it as anti-Trump
- He signed bills banning child marriage and granting tax credits to local news outlets
- He signed one insurer accountability bill but vetoed two others backed by fire survivor groups

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed and vetoed the last bills of his governorship on Wednesday, meeting his final deadline to act on the 1,160 measures California lawmakers sent him this year.

At a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Newsom said he will have considered nearly 8,000 bills during his two terms in office. The governor, widely understood to be preparing a run for president, wanted the spotlight on some bills more than others, and his office gave particular attention to putting limits on artificial intelligence and opposing President Trump.

His first signing ceremony of the season, held in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, covered 13 bills meant to change how children and teenagers use social media and A.I. One bars social media companies from giving users younger than 16 “addictive” features such as infinite scroll. Another holds companies liable if they fail to protect a child from harm.

“Parents can’t compete,” he said. “Can’t compete with the engineering, can’t compete with the algorithms, can’t compete.”

In the weeks after that ceremony, his office kept up a steady stream of criticism of Mr. Trump. In a news release partially titled “THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP!” the governor signed a law prohibiting public officials from issuing cryptocurrency meme coins, something Mr. Trump did in 2025.

At the finish line on Wednesday, Mr. Newsom signed bills banning child marriage, strengthening the state’s ability to rein in big companies, and granting tax credits to the state’s shrinking local news industry. He made the journalism bill the occasion for the news conference, and told reporters the last batch of bills was making him nostalgic.

“I love this stuff,” he said. “We’ve had more fun devouring even bills that sunset a commission, which, trust me, I didn’t spend a lot of time on before.”

Lawmakers and the governor moved far harder on data centers this year than last. After vetoing a water disclosure bill and signing a stripped-down environmental study in 2025, Mr. Newsom enacted no fewer than seven laws this year aimed at keeping data centers from inflating Californians’ electric bills and damaging the environment, according to CalMatters.

He also signed laws toughening the state’s drunken-driving rules, on the heels of a CalMatters investigation; requiring firearm owners to take safety classes; and exempting certain older residents from jury duty.

A wave of measures took aim at the Trump administration. Democratic lawmakers passed bills letting people sue federal agents over alleged civil rights violations and expanding the state’s power to inspect immigration detention centers. A set of election laws grew out of Democratic concern that Washington would interfere with California voting by limiting mail ballots or discouraging turnout.

The state’s insurance crisis produced a mixed result. Mr. Newsom signed one bill imposing new requirements that insurers respond to policyholders, but vetoed two others put forward by fire survivor groups that would have added transparency rules and penalties.

Mr. Newsom also faced decisions on bills meant to give schools financial relief from sexual assault lawsuits and to increase the number of four-year degree programs at community colleges.