Alameda City Council Presentation
2023 Legislative Package
AB 37: Candidate Security
Authorizes campaign funds to be used for candidate, elected official, family, and staff security, whether a security system or security personnel, and remove the $5,000 lifetime spending cap.
AB 722: AHS Contracting Out
Continues to protect public physicians at Alameda Health System from their jobs being contracted by removing a sunset on their protections from current law.
AB 793: Reverse Warrants
Prohibits the use of geofencing and keyword search reverse warrants.
AB 846: Keep Affordable Housing Affordable
Prohibits owners of affordable housing funded by the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) from imposing excessive rent increases.
AB 1104: Rehabilitation Works
Clarifies that the purposes and intent of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) are: (1) When a sentence includes incarceration in person THAT achieves the public safety purpose of punishment and that the purpose of prison is not to inflict further punishment but to rehabilitate and prepare people for re-entry. (2) Community-based organizations play an integral role in achieving the CDCR rehabilitative objective to ensure that all people incarcerated in CDCR have access to healing and transformative programs.
AB 1148: Child Support Deferred Payments
Defers court mandated child support payment for 18 months following release from prison, encouraging employment and successful re-entry.
AB 1156: Rebuttable Presumption for Nurses
Creates a rebuttable presumptions that certain conditions such as infectious disease, cancer, musculoskeletal injury, post-traumatic stress disorder or respiratory disease, are occupational injuries for nurses and are therefore,, presumptively eligible for workers’ compensation benefits.
AB 1186: Youth Restitution
Eliminates restitution owed by youth and their families for crimes, as youth have the least ability to pay and youth of color are disproportionately ordered to pay restitution.
AB 1273: Classified Staff Ratios
Evaluates the existing and optimal classified staff to student ratios to achieve positive student outcomes.
AB 1321: It Takes a Village
Establishes a three-year California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services grant program to implement new, and strengthen existing, neighborhood and regional cradle to career (C2C) networks to reduce inequities and increase economic mobility in communities across California through integrated place-based support systems.
AB 1352: Child Care Pilot Program Extension
Establishes a statewide childcare pilot subcommittee of the UPK Mixed Delivery Quality and Access Workgroup to propose, evaluate, and collect evidence to support the creation of statewide pilot policies for childcare development programs overseen by the state Department of Education (CDE) and Department of Social Services (CDSS).
AB 1525: Equity Carve Out for Transportation Funding
Requires that a minimum of 60% of all state and federal transportation funds that flow through the California state transportation agencies (CalSTA, CTC and Caltrans) must be located in, and benefit priority populations, and must not cause harm, which would support local transportation equity initiatives.
AB 1644: Food as Medicine
Carries on the pioneering work of the late Supervisor Wilma Chan by requiring Medi-Cal plans to offer Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition as a covered benefit. Currently it is an optional benefit offered by some, but not all, Medi-Cal plans in Alameda County.
AB 1661: ADUs Now
Prevents utilities from requiring separate gas and electric meters and hookups when seeking to install an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU), helping address the housing crisis by installing more ADUs now.
Sponsored by the City of Oakland and Mayor Sheng Thao.
AB 1706: Encinal Terminal
City of Alameda, a private developer, and the state lands commission are doing a multi-party land swap which needs legislative approval and would increase public access to the coastline at Encinal Terminal.
Bills Still Being Developed
AB 51: Mixed Delivery Preschool
With the expansion of preschool to four and five year olds, our childcare providers, workforce, and families are in a financial crisis, which AB 51 is seeking to address.
AB 887: Floating Homes
Requires owners of floating home marinas regulated under AB 252 (Bonta, 2022) to disclose certain financial documents.
AB 921: Mental Health
Supporting a mental health workforce pipeline for diverse communities and community based organizations.
AB 1520: Civics Education Pilot Project
Requires local educational agencies to work with community based organizations on civic engagement projects that address community needs and social and individual development.
AB 1604: Charter School Facilities Funding
Seeks to implement recommendations made by the California State Auditor in the February 2023 report titled Charter School Facility Grant Program and Conduit Financing Program: The Programs Are Generally Achieving Their Purpose of Increasing Charter Schools' Access to Facility Funding.
AB 1719: Cannabis CEQA
Streamlines licensing and CEQA compliance for cannabis retail, manufacturing, testing, and distribution businesses.