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Governor's desk · August 2025

Every veto. Every message.

Governor Newsom vetoed 1 bill in August 2025, all on August 28. Over the same period he signed 8 bills, a veto rate of 11.1%. The messages are previewed below and open in full to RTG members.

Every message is posted within hours of the Governor's release and transcribed verbatim: anything unusual in the original is kept as written and marked [sic]. The official text replaces it when the Legislature publishes it.

01 · AUGUST 2025
1Bills vetoed

One release from the Governor's Office: 1 on August 28.

02 · OPEN TO READ
0Full messages, no sign-in

Every message this month is previewed below and opens in full to RTG members.

03 · RELEASES
1Governor's Office update

Veto messages are released in batches from the Governor's desk. Each batch appears here the day it is posted.

Signed vs vetoed

Bills approved or returned by the Governor, counted by the date of the action on LegInfo.

August 20258 signed1 vetoed11.1% vetoed
2025790 signed123 vetoed13.5% vetoed
2026 so far1,040 signed120 vetoed10.3% vetoed
§ 01 · THE LIST · 1 BILL · NEWEST RELEASE FIRST · UPDATED OCTOBER 15, 2026

Who got a veto, and when.

Every bill returned without signature in August 2025, by release. Read in full opens the whole message below. Members shows the opening lines here and the full text after sign-in.

BillAuthorSubjectVetoedMessage
1 bill returned without signature
AB 1387Quirk-SilvaBehavioral health multidisciplinary personnel team.Members

Source: the Legislature's bill history and the official veto messages as published on LegInfo. Bill subjects are the Legislative Counsel's titles.

§ 02 · THE MESSAGES · TRANSCRIBED VERBATIM FROM THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE · MATCHED TO LEGINFO WHEN PUBLISHED

The Governor's reasons, in his own words.

Each message is transcribed verbatim from the Governor's Office release the day it is posted, so any slip in the original stays as written and is marked [sic]. The official text replaces it when the Legislature publishes it.

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1 veto

AB 1387Quirk-Silva

VETOED

Behavioral health multidisciplinary personnel team.

Why Governor Newsom vetoed AB 1387 · preview

To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 1387 without my signature.

This bill would authorize counties to establish a behavioral health multidisciplinary personnel team to serve justice-involved (JI) individuals with mental illness and allow provider agencies…

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Official text as published by the Legislature.Bill on LegInfo ↗  ·  Back to list ↑

Messages are reproduced verbatim as issued by the Office of the Governor. Where the original contains a typo, it is kept as written and marked [sic]; nothing is corrected silently. When the Legislature publishes the official text, that text replaces the transcription.

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