Here’s what the California Legislature did this year

By ADAM BEAM and DON THOMPSON
Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have finished work on their 2021 legislative session. It ended Friday, just four days before voting concludes in a statewide recall election targeting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Even if Newsom were to lose the election, he will likely have the final say on the hundreds of bills the Legislature put on his desk in the past two weeks. This year, lawmakers passed bills to make it easier to build small apartment buildings in areas zoned for single-family homes, pay people struggling with drug addiction to stay sober and make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement.