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San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 to formally demand Kaiser Permanente withdraw its "Terrible Three" contract demands and negotiate in good faith. 2026-09-04
All three of California's AI-in-mental-health bills cleared the Legislature on adjournment day itself: AB 2575, SB 903 and SB 1119. 2026-08-31

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Kaiser Permanente's SF Board of Supervisors hearing on its AI triage tools drew a second wave of coverage on July 23, a day after a formal complaint went public.

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors held a hearing on Kaiser's AI mental-health triage tools that drew a second wave of coverage on July 23.
A formal complaint to California's DMHC and the federal Department of Labor over Kaiser's AI triage tools went public on July 22, with mediation agreed.
The dispute centers on two systems, an E-Visit auto-triage tool and an unlicensed TSR phone-triage line, part of a two-year escalation that began with a March 2026 strike.
Kaiser-NUHW mediation is expected to begin by August 31, testing whether AI-replacement contract language survives.

Whether the August mediation removes AI-replacement language from Kaiser's contract, and how DMHC and DOL respond to the complaint.

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All three of California's AI-in-mental-health bills cleared the Legislature on adjournment day itself: AB 2575, SB 903 and SB 1119. AB 2575 (shifts liability for AI-caused clinical harm onto developers) failed its Senate floor vote 18-10 on 08-28, won reconsideration 40-0 the same day, was re-amended, then passed 21-10 on 08-31 — the bare majority needed — with Assembly concurrence the same day. SB 903 (bars marketing a chatbot as "therapy") passed the Assembly 74-1 on 08-30 and got Senate concurrence 40-0 on 08-31. SB 1119 (children's companion-chatbot safety — annual risk assessments, real-time crisis referrals, AG-audited by 2027-07-01) passed its Assembly floor vote and got Senate concurrence 39-0, also 08-31. All three now sit at Engrossing and Enrolling, awaiting presentment to Governor Newsom — none signed or vetoed yet. A fourth, related bill (AB 2023, a SB 1119 companion) was not voted on: its own author pulled it to the inactive file on 08-30, a deliberate stand-down rather than a loss. Three separate AI-in-mental-health bills clearing the same session on the deadline itself is the wave this map's threads were opened to track, arriving all at once. (AB 2575, SB 903, SB 1119) 2026-08-31
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 to formally demand Kaiser Permanente withdraw its "Terrible Three" contract demands and negotiate in good faith. ⚠️ Dated 09-01, out of this window — carried because it resolves an item the 09-03 digest explicitly left as "to verify next run," and because it escalates past July's procedural "heard and filed" hearing into a formal city position. Supervisor Chyanne Chen, who introduced it: "how we're taking care of our patients and workers, especially with emerging technology, is more important" than the procedural posture. Sourced to NUHW's own release and KALW. (NUHW, KALW) 2026-09-04

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