CalChamber Reports
Issues/Economy
Issues and The Economy
2025 Business Issues and Legislative GuideAnnual guide provides overviews of CalChamber policy priorities for the year and the data to support our positions. The CalChamber sends this guide to our members every year. Print and electronic formats. (February 2025)
2025 Major Victories (pdf)Each year, the CalChamber tracks about 3,000 proposals on behalf of California employers, fighting ill-conceived bills and promoting cost-saving reforms.
Past Reports
AI
AI in Eight Pages: Bridging Technology to Policy through ScienceThe California Foundation for Commerce & Education, in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) today released an educational brief on the relationship between AI and California, designed to provide state lawmakers with science-based context as they consider AI policy decisions. (January 2026)
California Legislature
California Legislature
Gives the CalChamber’s position on a bill and how each legislator voted. Reports are published once a year, focusing on bills that were of high priority. The information allows businesses to measure their legislators’ performance.
Status Report on Major Business Bills
2025 Final Status Report (10/17/2025)
The report lists the status of priority bills at three specific points in the legislative year: at the start of summer recess; when legislators adjourn for the year; and when the Governor completes action on bills.
California Constitutional/Statewide Officers Roster
Pictorial roster of the California Legislature and statewide officers includes telephone numbers.
The Affordability Agenda highlights legislation that helps businesses and consumers by cutting costs, as well as those policies that will drive costs up as Californians struggle with the high cost of living.
CalChamber takes positions on hundreds of proposed state laws every year, highlighting proposals that are Cost Cutters and those that are Cost Drivers.
Federal
Federal
California Congressional Delegation
Pictorial roster of California representatives in Congress.
Poll
CalChamber Poll
2024
California voters have grown more anxious and pessimistic about living in California over the past decade, according to findings from the California Chamber of Commerce poll, The People’s Voice, 2024.
The People’s Voice: Annual Poll Outlines Priorities for New Legislature (11/22/2024)
The People’s Voice: State Voters Pessimistic About Living in California (11/18/2024)
The People’s Voice: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (11/19/2024)
2023
California voters have grown more anxious and pessimistic about living in California than a year ago, according to findings from the California Chamber of Commerce Poll, The People’s Voice, 2023.
The People’s Voice: State Voters Pessimistic About Living in California (10/31/2023)
The People’s Voice: Voter Beliefs About Their Future in California (11/1/2023)
People’s Voice: Affordability, Crime Among Top Voter Concerns (11/2/2023)
People’s Voice: Views on Property Tax, Health Care, Labor Law Reform (11/3/2023)
2022
The cost of living weighs heavily on the minds of voters, and has become the principal lens through which they consider California public policy issues. This finding and many others were revealed from the recently-released, eighth semi-annual California Chamber of Commerce Poll.
Read summary at High Cost of Living Drives Voter Concerns.