Beverly Hills City Council
April 18, 2023

STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: April 18, 2023
To: Honorable Mayor & City Council
From: Cynthia Owens, Municipal Public Affairs Manager
Subject: State and Federal Legislative Update
Attachment: 1. State Legislative Bill Matrix

INTRODUCTION
The City Council adopted a Legislative Platform on February 21, 2023, which provides direction to the City’s legislative advocates and City staff as they work to secure clear and strategic initiatives locally as well as in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. The City receives reports throughout the year from both our state lobbyist (Shaw, Yoder, Antwih, Schmelzer, and Lange Inc.) and federal lobbyist (David Turch and Associates) based upon the items listed in the platform as well as items of interest the City has identified at City Council meetings and Beverly Hills City Council Liaison Legislative/Lobby Committee meetings (Mayor Gold and Councilmember Mirisch).

This report is for informational purposes and transmits updates from the City’s lobbyists on legislative activities occurring in Sacramento, California and Washington, D.C.

DISCUSSION
All letters sent by the City are published on the City’s website at:
www.beverlyhills.org/legislation. Additionally, a current bill matrix for state legislation which the City is actively advocating for, opposing, or monitoring is attached to this report (Attachment 1). From January 1 through March 31, the City has officially taken a position six pieces of state legislation, two federal bills, and one 2024 ballot initaitive as outlined below:
• SUPPORT H.R. 589 – Mahsa Amini Human Rights and Security Accountability (“MAHSA”) Act. The bill would require the executive branch to determine sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader, the officials of Supreme Leader’s Office, the Supreme Leader’s appointees, Iran’s president, and entities as well as the economic conglomerates affiliated with the Supreme Leader under authorities of Executive Order 13876, Executive Order 13553, Executive Order 13224, and Executive Order 13818.

Status: Introduced in the House of Representatives January 27, 2023. • SUPPORT SBX1-2 (Skinner). This bill makes it unlawful for oil refiner companies to charge excessive profits and would be punishable by a civil penalty from the Meeting Date: April 18, 2023

California Energy Commission (“CEC”). Any penalties collected by the CEC would go to a Price Gouging Penalty Fund and then given back to Californians.

Status: Governor Newson signed this bill into law on March 28, 2023. • SUPPORT Senate Bill 44 (Umberg) - Controlled Substances. This bill would require a person who pleads guilty, no contest, or is convicted of possession for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transportation, furnishing, administering, giving away, manufacturing, or preparing various controlled substances, including fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics to receive a written advisory of the danger of manufacturing or distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the manufacturer or distributor can be charged with voluntary manslaughter or murder.

Status: Failed in the Senate Public Safety Committee Hearing. Reconsideration granted.
• OPPOSE H.Res.100 - Expressing Support for the Iranian People's Desire for a Democratic, Secular, and Nonnuclear Republic of Iran, and Condemning Violations of Human Rights and State-Sponsored Terrorism by the Iranian Government. This resolution condemns Iranian state-sponsored terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens and officials and Iranian dissidents. The resolution also expresses support for the people of Iran who are legitimately defending their rights for freedom against repression and condemns the killing of Iranian protesters by the Iranian regime. There is some concern with this resolution as there are whereas clauses that endorse Maryam Rajavi’s “10-point plan” for Iran and offers the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) as a democratic alternative to the Islamic Republic’s authoritarian regime.

Status: Introduced in the House of Representatives February 7, 2023. • OPPOSE Initiative No. 21-0042 "The Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act". The Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act would amend the California Constitution with provisions that limit voters’ authority and input; adopt new and stricter rules for raising taxes and fees; and may make it more difficult to impose fines and penalties for violation of state and local laws.

Status: Qualified for the November 2024 general election. Opposition registered. • OPPOSE Assembly Bill 742 (Jackson) - Law Enforcement: Police Canines. This bill would prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person and any use of a police canine for crowd control.

Status: Passed out of the Public Safety Assembly Committee (6-2). Referred to the Appropriations Assembly Committee.
• OPPOSE Senate Bill 58 (Wiener) - Controlled Substances: Decriminalization of Certain Hallucinogenic Substances. This bill would make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline (these Meeting Date: April 18, 2023

are also more commonly known as psychedelic plants and fungi), for personal use or facilitated or supported use by and with persons 21 years of age or older.

Status: Passed out of the Public Safety Senate Committee (3-1). Referred to the Appropriations Senate Committee.
• OPPOSE Senate Bill 4 (Wiener) - Planning and Zoning: Housing Development:

Higher Education Institutions and Religious Institutions. This bill would require a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria.

Status: Passed out of the Housing Senate Committee (9-1-1). Referred to the Government and Finance Senate Committee.
• OPPOSE Senate Bill 423 (Wiener) - Land use: streamlined housing approvals:
multifamily housing developments. This bill would greatly expand SB 35 (Chapter 366, Statutes of 2017) provisions and eliminate the January 1, 2026, sunset date.

Status: Passed out of the Housing Senate Committee (9-1-1). Referred to the Government and Finance Senate Committee.
• FURTHER INFORMATION REQUIRED - Assembly Bill 642 (Ting) - Law Enforcement Agencies: Facial Recognition Technology. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2024, require any law enforcement agency that uses facial recognition technology (“FRT”) to have a written policy governing the use of that technology. The bill would require any FRT system used to meet certain national standards and would limit the use of FRT to use as an investigative aid. The bill would also require an agency using FRT to post their written policy and an annual summary of FRT usage on their internet website
Status: Currently in the Public Safety Assembly Committee for a future hearing.

Staff and our state lobbyist are monitoring numerous other bills in Sacramento. From the attached bill matrix (Attachment 1), 28 pieces of legislation have been identified to bring forward at the next two Beverly Hills City Council Liaison Legislative/Lobby Committee meetings. Staff is currently working to identify a date and time for these meetings.

Sixteen of the bills will be heard at the first meeting and cover the following topics:
• Open Meetings and the Brown Act
• Public Safety
• Surplus Land Act
• Broadband
• Tenant Rights
• Zoning / Land Use
State Update
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s state lobbyist. Some of the more relevant updates over the last quarter include:

Meeting Date: April 18, 2023

• Governor Newsom Eases Drought Restrictions - After the three driest years on record, recent rain and snowfall have dramatically changed conditions in many parts of the state. The state has also advanced actions to boost storage and supply. Governor Newsom has announced actions easing drought emergency provisions that are no longer needed while maintaining others to support impacted communities statewide.
• California Continues Creating Jobs - California continued creating jobs in February, adding 32,300 new jobs across eight major industry sectors. The state has created jobs in 16 out of the last 17 months and year-over-year has added 486,500 jobs.
• Governor Newsom Proposes Modernization of California’s Behavioral Health System and More Mental Health Housing - Governor Newsom proposed a 2024 ballot initiative to improve how California treats mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness: A bond to build state-of-the-art mental health treatment residential settings in the community to house Californians with mental illness and substance use disorders and to create housing for homeless veterans, and modernize the Mental Health Services Act to require at least $1 billion every year for behavioral health housing and care.
• Governor Newsom Releases Master Plan for Tackling the Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis - Following a visit to the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Governor Gavin Newsom released his administration’s Master Plan for Tackling the Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis. The Master Plan provides a comprehensive framework to deepen the impact of these investments — including through a new CalRx effort where California will seek to manufacture its own opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone.
• California Sues Huntington Beach for Violating State Housing Laws - Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) announced the filing of a lawsuit and a motion for preliminary injunction against the City of Huntington Beach for violating state housing laws. The lawsuit comes after the Newsom Administration and Attorney General Bonta issued multiple official warnings over the past month under their separate enforcement authorities, urging the Huntington Beach City Council to reject unlawful and willful attempts to flout state housing law.

Federal Update
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s federal lobbyist. Some of the more relevant updates over the last quarter include:
• House of Representative Vote to Condemn China’s Surveillance Balloons - On February 9, the House, with a vote of 419-0, condemned China’s violation of U.S. sovereignty regarding the Chinese surveillance balloon that traversed the United States before being shot down by the U.S. military just off the East Coast last Saturday. The Resolution also calls on the White House to keep Congress informed on Chinese surveillance by providing comprehensive briefings. • Debt Ceiling Update - President Biden and Senate Democrats are refusing to enter into negotiations under which Republicans would agree to an increase in the debt ceiling in return for an agreement from Democrats to support cuts in federal spending. Democrats have said Congress should raise the debt ceiling without any pre-conditions, and say they are willing to talk about possible spending cuts only in separate discussions. If no action is taken by the summer, Meeting Date: April 18, 2023

the government would not have access to the money it needs to fund current obligations, and default on its debt for the first time in history. • Energy Bill Repealing Climate Programs - House Republicans, along with a handful of Democrats, passed an energy bill with a vote of 225-204. The bill would repeal several climate programs in the 2022 climate, health and tax law, including a $4.5 billion home electrification rebate program, an EPA program to build out national green banking to support emission-reduction efforts, and a methane program that would charge fossil energy companies for emitting the highly potent greenhouse gas. The legislation requires the Interior Department to complete quarterly lease sales of oil and gas, lift a moratorium on coal leasing on federal land, and prohibit the president from declaring a national ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Critics say the bill relies to favorably on fossil fuels and ignores green energy sources, while proponents believe the bill is a boon for American energy and will help to lower domestic energy costs. • Assault Weapons Ban - In light of the recent Nashville school shooting, there is a renewed push by Democrats for gun safety legislation, primarily aimed at banning assault weapons. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that Republicans are willing to engage on solving the school shooting crisis, but that one specific piece of legislation will not be the solution.

FISCAL IMPACT
None.

RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council receive and file this report as it is for informational purposes only.

Gabriella Yap
Senior Policy & Management
Administrator, Public Safety
Approved By
Attachment 1
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 7
Friedman D
Transportation:
project selection
processes.
3/27/2023-A. APPR.
3/28/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 11.

Noes 4.) (March 27).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would require, on and after January 1, 2025, the project selection process for each transportation project that would be funded, at least partially, from specified funding sources, including the State Highway Account, the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account, and the Trade Corridor Enhancement Account, to incorporate specified principles. • The bill would require the Transportation Agency, on or before January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature on how those transportation projects that were completed during the prior year incorporated those principles. • This bill contains other existing laws.

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AB 11
Jackson D
Milton Marks “Little
Hoover” Commission
on California State
Government
Organization and
Economy.
3/29/2023-A. APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE
3/29/2023-In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Referred to
suspense file.

Current law establishes the Milton Marks “Little Hoover” Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy (the commission) for the purpose of securing assistance for the Governor and itself in promoting economy, efficiency, and improved service in the transaction of the public business, as specified, and in making the operation of all state departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, and all expenditures of public funds, more directly responsive to the wishes of the people as expressed by their elected representatives through various means. Existing law declares that the availability of housing is of vital statewide importance. Current law declares that the provision of housing affordable to lowand moderate-income households requires the cooperation of all levels of government.

Current law declares that housing prices in California have risen dramatically in all parts of the state in the past decade, while the wealth gap, especially the racial wealth gap, continues to be a growing problem in California.
• This bill would require the commission to study the causes and effects of the rising cost of living in California and develop solutions toward making California a more affordable place to live, as specified.
• The bill would require the commission to meet quarterly, as specified. • The bill would require the commission to complete 2 reports describing the commission’s findings and recommendations, as specified.
• The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2027.

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AB 12
Haney D
Tenancy: security
deposits.
1/26/2023-A. JUD.
4/6/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on JUD.

Would prohibit a landlord from demanding or receiving security for a rental agreement for residential property in an amount or value in excess of an amount equal to one month’s rent, regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

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AB 13
Essayli R
1/26/2023-
A. ELECTIONS
3/20/2023-From
Current law requires the statewide general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. Current law designates specific days as holidays in this state.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Elections: Election
Day holiday: voting
by mail.
committee: Without
further action
pursuant to Joint
Rule 62(a).
• This bill would add the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of any evennumbered year to the list of state holidays.

AB 23
Muratsuchi D
Theft: shoplifting:
amount.
1/26/2023-A. PUB.

S.
3/1/2023-In
committee: Set, final
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Would amend Proposition 47 by reducing the threshold amount for petty theft and shoplifting from $950 to $400.
• The bill would provide that it shall become effective only when submitted to, and approved by, the voters of California.

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AB 37
Bonta D
Political Reform Act
of 1974: campaign
funds: security
expenses.
3/29/2023-A. APPR.
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 7.

Noes 0.) (March 29).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system if specified conditions are met. These conditions include that the candidate or elected officer has received threats to physical safety that have been verified by law enforcement, that no more than $5,000 in campaign funds be used for this purpose, and that the candidate or elected officer report the expenditure of campaign funds to the Fair Political Practices Commission.
• This bill would eliminate those conditions.
• The bill would instead authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system, and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family and staff of a candidate or elected officer, if those costs are reasonably related to the candidate or elected officer’s status as a candidate or elected officer.

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AB 41
Holden D
Telecommunications:

The Digital Equity in
Video Franchising
Act of 2023.
1/26/2023-A. C. & C.
3/15/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
C. & C.

Would revise and recast the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 to, among other things: (1) rename the act as the Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2023; (2) provide that the act does not authorize the commission to regulate the rates of video services; (3) authorize the commission to exercise all authority, jurisdiction, and powers authorized to be exercised by a franchise authority pursuant to certain federal law; (4) require a franchise applicant to submit a description of the households that are known to be unserved in the video service area footprint that is proposed by the applicant; (5) revise the revenues excluded from the definition of “gross revenue” for purposes of calculating the franchise fee for a local jurisdiction; (6) establish a policy of the state that subscribers and potential subscribers of a state video franchiseholder should benefit from equal access, as defined, to video service Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
within the service area, as specified; (7) expand the prohibition on certain cable operators or video service providers from discriminating against, or denying access to service to, any group of potential residential subscribers to include discrimination or denial of equal access because of any rationale, rather than only because of the income of the residents in the local area in which the group resides; (8) repeal the maximum amount of a fine that could be assessed for a violation of the equal access requirement; and (9) require the commission to enforce customer service requirements for a holder of a state franchise.

AB 52
Grayson D
Income tax credit:
sales and use taxes
paid: manufacturing
equipment: research
and development
equipment.
3/16/2023-A. REV. &
TAX
3/20/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
REV. & TAX.

The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law.

Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are automatically incorporated The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including a partial exemption from those taxes, on and after July 1, 2014, and before July 1, 2030, for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property, as defined, that is, among other things, purchased by a qualified person for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal property, as specified, or purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in research and development. Current law prohibits the exemption described above from applying with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district pursuant to, or in accordance with, the BradleyBurns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, and sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the California Constitution. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws.
• This bill would allow, for a taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer in an amount equal to the amount of tax reimbursement paid during the taxable year for sales tax on gross receipts that would be exempt from taxation under the Sales and Use Tax Law pursuant to the sales and use tax exemption described above but for the provision that prohibits that exemption from applying with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district pursuant to, or in accordance with, the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, and sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the California Constitution.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 59
Gallagher R
Taxation: renter’s
credit.
4/5/2023-A. REV. &
TAX
4/6/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on REV. &
TAX.

The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit for qualified renters in the amount of $120 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of household, and surviving spouses if adjusted gross income is $50,000, as adjusted, or less, and in the amount of $60 for other individuals if adjusted gross income is $25,000, as adjusted, or less. Current law requires the Franchise Tax Board to annually adjust for inflation these adjusted gross income amounts. For 2021, the adjusted gross income limit is $87,066 and $43,533, respectively. Current law establishes the continuously appropriated Tax Relief and Refund Account in the General Fund and provides that payments required to be made to taxpayers or other persons from the Personal Income Tax Fund are to be paid from that account.
• This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1 of the taxable year that includes the date on which funding is first authorized for purposes of this bill and for the succeeding 4 taxable years, and only when specified in a bill relating to the Budget Act, would increase the credit amount to $2,000 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of households, and surviving spouses and $1,000 for other individuals. In the event the increased credit amount is not specified in a bill relating to the Budget Act, the existing credit amounts, as described above, would be the credit amounts for that taxable year.

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AB 67
Muratsuchi D
Homeless Courts
Pilot Program.
3/21/2023-A. APPR.
3/21/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 9.

Noes 0.) (March 21).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, create the Homeless Courts Pilot Program, which would remain in effect until January 1, 2029, to be administered by the Judicial Council for the purpose of providing comprehensive community-based services to achieve stabilization for, and address the specific legal needs of, homeless individuals who are involved with the criminal justice system.
• The bill would require applicant cities or counties seeking grant funds to provide a number of specified services or program components, including, but not limited to, a diversion program enabling participating defendants to have specified charges dismissed upon completion of a program, provision of temporary, time-limited, or permanent housing during the duration of the program, and a dedicated representative to assist defendants with housing needs. • The bill would require an applicant for grant funding under the program to submit a plan for a new homeless court program or expansion of an existing homeless court program, and would require any funding awarded to an applicant to be used in accordance with that plan.

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AB 68
Ward D
Land use:
streamlined housing
3/16/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/20/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
H. & C.D.

Would require a local government to approve a proposed housing development pursuant to a streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development meets certain objective planning standards, including, but not limited to, a requirement that the proposed parcel for the development be a climate-smart parcel, as described, or be included in the applicable region’s sustainable communities strategy as a priority development area.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
approvals: density,
subdivision, and
utility approvals.
• The bill would set forth procedures for approving these developments and would set forth various limitations for these developments.
• The bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to review, adopt, amend, and repeal guidelines, rules, and regulations to implement uniform standards or criteria that supplement or clarify the terms, references, or standards set forth by this process.

AB 73
Boerner Horvath D
Vehicles: required
stops: bicycles.
3/9/2023-A. TRANS.
3/23/2023-In
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.

Would require a person who is 18 years of age or older riding a bicycle upon a two-lane highway when approaching a stop sign at the entrance of an intersection with another roadway with two or fewer lanes, where stop signs are erected upon all approaches, to yield the right-of-way to any vehicles that have either stopped at or entered the intersection, or that are approaching on the intersecting highway close enough to constitute an immediate hazard, and to pedestrians, as specified, and continue to yield the right-of-way to those vehicles and pedestrians until reasonably safe to proceed.
• The bill would require other vehicles to yield the right-of-way to a bicycle that, having yielded as prescribed, has entered the intersection.
• The bill would state that these provisions do not affect the liability of a driver of a motor vehicle as a result of the driver’s negligent or wrongful act or omission in the operation of a motor vehicle.
• The bill would impose a warning citation for a first violation by a person who is under 18 years of age and fails to stop when approaching a stop sign at the entrance of an intersection.

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AB 75
Hoover R
Shoplifting:
increased penalties
for prior crimes.
12/14/2022-A. PUB.

S.
2/28/2023-Coauthors
revised. In
committee: Set,
second hearing.

Failed passage.

The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors in the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of property that does not exceed $950 in value petty theft and makes that crime punishable as a misdemeanor, with certain exceptions. The initiative statute defines shoplifting as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny while that establishment is open during regular hours, where the value of the property that is taken or intended to be taken does not exceed $950. The initiative statute requires that shoplifting be punished as a misdemeanor. Current law, as amended by Proposition 47, provides that a registered sex offender or a person with a prior conviction for certain serious or violent felonies, such as a sexually violent offense, who commits petty theft is subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years.
• This bill would reinstate a provision of law that was repealed by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 18 months or 2 or 3 years.

AB 79
Weber D
Law enforcement
agency policies:
remotely operated
force options.
3/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
3/13/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
PUB. S.

Current law prohibits law enforcement agencies from authorizing the use of certain types of force by its officers.
• This bill would prohibit a peace officer from using deadly force against a person or intend to injure, intimidate, or disorient a person by utilizing an unmanned, remotely piloted, powered ground or flying equipment unless specified criteria are met, including that the law enforcement agency has obtained prior approval from the relevant governing body to use that equipment, the officer cannot subdue the threat after using alternative force options and deescalation tactics, and the law enforcement employee has completed training on the use of the equipment.

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AB 84
Ward D
Property tax: welfare
exemption:
affordable housing.
3/29/2023-A. REV. &
TAX
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on REV. & TAX.
(Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
(March 29). Rereferred to Com. on
REV. & TAX.

Current property tax law, in accordance with the California Constitution, provides for a “welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met. Under current property tax law, property that meets these requirements that is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities is entitled to a partial exemption, equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units, in any year that any of certain criteria apply, including that the acquisition, rehabilitation, development, or operation of the property, or any combination of these factors, is financed with tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds or general obligation bonds, or is financed by local, state, or federal loans or grants and the rents of the occupants who are lower income households do not exceed those prescribed by deed restrictions or regulatory agreements pursuant to the terms of the financing or financial assistance. • This bill would expand this partial exemption to property acquired, rehabilitated, developed, or operated, or any combination of these factors, with financing from qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, as defined.

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AB 92
Connolly D
Body armor:
prohibition.
2/28/2023-A. APPR.
3/2/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Would make it a misdemeanor for a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm under the laws of this state to purchase, own, or possess body armor, as specified.

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AB 240
Kalra D
2/2/2023-A. AGRI.
3/29/2023-In
committee: Hearing
Current law establishes the Pure Pet Food Act of 1969, which is administered by the State Department of Public Health. Under the act, every person who manufactures a processed pet food, as defined, in California is required to first obtain a license from, and every person who Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Dogs and cats:

California SpayNeuter Fund.
postponed by
committee.
manufactures a processed pet food for import into California from another state is required to first obtain a registration certificate from, the State Department of Public Health. Current law excludes from the definition of “processed pet food” fresh or frozen pet foods subject to the control of the Department of Food and Agriculture. Under existing law, an annual license or registration certificate shall only be issued when certain conditions are met, including, among others, when the applicant submits to the State Department of Public Health the label that would be attached to the container of each type of processed pet food. Current law also provides that, unless a different penalty is expressly provided, a violation of any provision of the Food and Agricultural Code is a misdemeanor.
• This bill would require the Department of Food and Agriculture to collect, on an annual basis, a charge of $200 from a manufacturer of dog and cat food, as defined, for each label submitted by the manufacturer to the State Department of Public Health for dog and cat food, as provided.

AB 259
Lee D
Wealth Tax: False
Claims Act.
3/30/2023-A. REV. &
TAX
3/30/2023-Referred
to Coms. on REV. &
TAX. and JUD.

Would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2026, impose an annual tax at a rate of 1.5% of a resident of this state’s worldwide net worth in excess of $1,000,000,000, or in excess of $500,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately.
• The bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, impose an annual tax at a rate of 1% of a resident’s worldwide net worth in excess of $50,000,000, or in excess of $25,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately. • The bill would also impose, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, an additional tax at a rate of 0.5% of a resident’s worldwide net worth in excess of $1,000,000,000, or in excess of $500,000,000 in the case of a married taxpayer filing separately.
• The bill would describe worldwide net worth with reference to specific federal provisions and would provide that worldwide net worth does not include specific assets, including personal property situated out of state, directly held real property, or liabilities related to directly held real property.
• The bill would also authorize the Franchise Tax Board to adopt regulations to carry out these provisions, including regulations regarding the valuation of certain assets that are not publicly traded.
• The bill would require new certifications by taxpayers, made under penalty of perjury.

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AB 261
Kalra D
3/16/2023-S. RLS.
3/16/2023-Read third
time. Passed.

Would establish the California Golden Chanterelle (Cantharellus californicus) as the official state mushroom.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Mushrooms.

Ordered to the
Senate. (Ayes 73.

Noes 0.) In Senate.

Read first time. To
Com. on RLS. for
assignment.

AB 262
Holden D
Children’s camps:
regulation.
2/2/2023-A. HUM. S.
3/28/2023-In
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.

Would require the State Department of Social Services to establish and lead a stakeholder workgroup to inform department regulations for children’s camps. • The bill would define a “children’s camp” for these purposes as a program that offers daytime or overnight experiences administered by adults, that provides social, cultural, educational, recreational, or artistic programming to more than 5 children between 3 and 17 years of age for 5 days or longer, with specified exceptions. • The bill would require the stakeholder group to be composed of representatives of designated state entities, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Education.
• The bill would require the department to consult with other stakeholders, as needed, such as parent advocate groups, children’s advocates and safety groups, and local parks and health departments.
• The bill would require the workgroup to consider regulatory goals, including establishing child supervision requirements, facility safety standards, and requirements for camp licensure and regulation, as prescribed.
• The bill would require the workgroup, under the direction of the department, to establish a workplan for achieving and implementing the regulatory goals identified in the bill, including relevant benchmarks and timelines.
• The bill would require the department to submit the workplan to the Legislature by an unspecified date.

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AB 281
Grayson D
Planning and zoning:
housing:
postentitlement
phase permits.
3/22/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/23/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on H. & C.D. (Ayes

7. Noes 0.) (March
22). Re-referred to
Com. on H. & C.D.

Would require a special district that receives an application for a postentitlement phase permit, as specified, to provide written notice to the applicant or local agency of additional information that may be required to begin to review the application for service or approval or next steps in the review process.
• The bill would require the special district to provide this notice within 30 business days of receipt of the application for a housing development with 25 units or fewer, and within 60 business days for a housing development with more than 25 units. By imposing additional duties on special districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 284
Patterson, Joe R
Department of
Housing and
Community
Development: annual
report: Homeless
Housing, Assistance,
and Prevention
program.
2/2/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
2/2/2023-Referred to
Com. on H. & C.D.

Under current law, grants under the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program are allocated in 4 rounds of funding, administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, as provided. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department. Current law requires that the report include, among other things, the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income level. • This bill would additionally require that this report include an evaluation of the HHAP program.

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AB 286
Wood D
Broadband
infrastructure:
mapping.
3/29/2023-A. APPR.
3/29/2023-VOTE: Do
pass as amended
and be re-referred to
the Committee on
[Appropriations]
(PASS)
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in collaboration with relevant state agencies and stakeholders, to maintain and update a statewide, publicly accessible, and interactive map showing the accessibility of broadband service in the state. Current law authorizes the commission to collect information from providers of broadband services at the address level and prohibits the commission from disclosing certain protected residential subscriber information.
• This bill would require that the map identify, for each address in the state, each provider of broadband services that offers service at the address and the maximum speed of broadband services offered by each provider of broadband services at the address.

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AB 295
Fong, Vince R
Department of
Transportation:
maintenance
projects.
2/9/2023-A. TRANS.
2/9/2023-Referred to
Com. on TRANS.

Would authorize the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with local governmental entities, fire departments, fire protection districts, fire safe councils, and tribal entities to perform specified projects authorized by the department on roadways managed by the department, including activities related to roadside maintenance and the removal and clearing of material, as provided.

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AB 309
Lee D
The Social Housing
Act.
2/9/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
4/4/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law creates a housing authority in each county or city, which functions upon the adoption of a specified resolution by the relevant governing body. Existing law authorizes these housing authorities, within their jurisdictions, to construct, reconstruct, improve, alter, or repair all or part of any housing project. Current law establishes various programs that provide housing assistance.
• This bill would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the Watch
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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and preserving affordable housing.
• The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority.

AB 323
Holden D
Density Bonus Law:
purchase of density
bonus units by
nonprofit housing
organizations: civil
actions.
3/29/2023-A. JUD.
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on JUD. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (March 29).

Re-referred to Com.
on JUD.

Current property tax law establishes a welfare exemption under which property is exempt from taxation if the property is owned and operated by a nonprofit corporation that is organized and operated for the purpose of building and rehabilitating single-family or multifamily residences for sale, as provided, at cost to low-income families. Current law requires the developer and the city or county to ensure that (1) a for-sale unit that qualified the developer for the award of the density bonus is initially occupied by a person or family of the required income, offered at an affordable housing cost, as defined, and includes an equity sharing agreement, as specified, or (2) a qualified nonprofit housing organization that is receiving the abovedescribed welfare exemption purchases the unit pursuant to a specified recorded contract that includes an affordability restriction, an equity sharing agreement, as specified, and a repurchase option that requires a subsequent purchaser that desires to sell or convey the property to first offer the nonprofit corporation the opportunity to repurchase the property. • This bill would instead require the for-sale unit that qualified the developer for the award of the density bonus to be initially sold to and occupied by a person or family of the required income.
• The bill would also instead require a qualified nonprofit housing organization that is receiving the above-described welfare exemption to meet specified requirements, including having a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service affirming its tax-exempt status, as specified, being based in California, and the primary activity of the nonprofit corporation being the development and preservation of affordable home ownership housing in California that incorporates within their contracts for initial purchase a repurchase option that requires a subsequent purchaser that desires to sell or convey the property to first offer the nonprofit corporation the opportunity to repurchase the property pursuant to an equity sharing agreement or a specified recorded contract that includes an affordability restriction.

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AB 329
Ta R
Theft: jurisdiction.
2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
3/21/2023-In
committee: Set, final
hearing. Failed
passage.

Current law establishes the jurisdiction of a criminal action brought by the Attorney General for theft, organized retail theft, or receipt of stolen property as including the county where an offense involving the theft or receipt of the stolen merchandise occurred, the county in which the merchandise was recovered, or the county where any act was done by the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, or aiding in the commission of the offense. Current law defines the crime of grand theft to include stealing, taking, or carrying away the cargo of Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Reconsideration
granted.
another with a value of over $950.
• This bill would include the crime of cargo theft in the above-mentioned jurisdictional provisions.

AB 332
Lee D
Rabies control data.
2/9/2023-A. B.&P.
2/9/2023-Referred to
Com. on B. & P.

Current law governs the seizure, rescue, adopting out, and euthanasia of abandoned and surrendered animals by animal control officers, law enforcement officers, animal shelters, and rescue organizations. Current law requires the governing body of each city, city and county, or county to maintain or provide for the maintenance of an animal shelter system and a rabies control program.
• This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to collect certain rabies control program data from each city, city and county, or county, as outlined.

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AB 335
Alanis R
Retail theft.
3/7/2023-A. APPR.
3/13/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Would require the Milton Marks “Little Hoover” Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy to submit a report to the Legislature describing the reported retail thefts, as specified.
• This bill would also require state and local law enforcement to collect and provide data on retail theft to the commission, as specified.
• This bill would require the commission to issue its report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2026. By imposing new duties on local entities, the bill would impose a statemandated local program.T Watch
AB 355
Alanis R
Firearms: assault
weapons: exception
for peace officer
training.
3/9/2023-A. THIRD

READING
3/9/2023-Read
second time.

Ordered to third
reading.

Current law prohibits the sale, transfer, or possession of a large-capacity magazine, as defined. Current law exempts from this prohibition the sale or transfer to, or the possession by, a peace officer or retired peace officer, as specified, or to or by a person enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, for purposes of participation in the course, as specified. Existing law prohibits the sale, transfer, or possession of an assault weapon, as specified. Current law exempts from this prohibition the sale or transfer of an assault weapon to, or the possession of an assault weapon by, a peace officer, as specified. • This bill would also exempt from this prohibition the loaning of an assault weapon to, or the possession of an assault weapon by, a person enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, while engaged in firearms training and being supervised by a firearms instructor.

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AB 367
Maienschein D
Controlled
2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
3/23/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
PUB. S. In
Current law imposes an additional and consecutive 3- or 5-year term in the state prison on a person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person in the commission of a felony, as specified.
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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
substances:
enhancements.
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.
inflicts great bodily injury when they sell, furnish, administer, or give away fentanyl or an analog of fentanyl and the person to whom the substance was sold, furnished, administered, or given suffers a significant or substantial physical injury from using the substance. • The bill would specify that this provision does not apply to juvenile offenders.

AB 399
Ting D
Vehicles: police
pursuit data
reporting.
3/7/2023-A. APPR.
3/27/2023-In
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.

Existing law requires every state and local law enforcement agency to report all vehicle pursuit data, as specified, to the Department of the California Highway Patrol no later than 30 days after a pursuit.
• This bill would instead require every state and local law enforcement agency to report vehicle pursuit data to the department no later than 45 days after a pursuit.

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AB 413
Lee D
Vehicles: stopping,
standing, and
parking.
3/21/2023-A. APPR.
3/23/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Current law prohibits the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle in certain places and under certain conditions, including within an intersection, on a sidewalk or crosswalk, or in front of a fire station, Current law additionally authorizes local jurisdictions to, by ordinance, restrict parking in certain areas, at certain times, and for certain reasons, and to establish metered parking.
• This bill would prohibit the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle within 20 feet of any unmarked or marked crosswalk, as specified.

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AB 423
Maienschein D
Department of
Justice: missing
persons.
3/14/2023-A. APPR.
3/14/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
(March 14). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Would require the Attorney General to convene a working group, as specified, within the Department of Justice Missing and Unidentified Persons Section, to study and propose legislative solutions to the problem of “wandering,” described as the phenomenon of cognitively impaired persons, including those with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, or autism, wandering away from home, care facilities, or other familiar surroundings and becoming lost or confused about their surroundings.
• The bill would require the working group to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, as specified.

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AB 426
Jackson D
Department of
Housing and
Community
Development:
3/29/2023-A. APPR.
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.

Current law requires that the California Statewide Housing Plan incorporate, among other things, a statement of housing goals, policies, and objectives, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to update and provide a revision of the plan to the Legislature every 4 years, as specified. Current law requires each update and revision to the plan to include, among other things, an inventory of the number of affordable units needed to meet the state’s affordable housing needs for the plan period, as defined.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
California Statewide
Housing Plan.
(Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
(March 29). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
• This bill would require the plan to also include a strategy for the state to keep pace with building housing units and affiliated infrastructure during an economic downturn, as specified.

AB 436
Alvarez D
Vehicles.
3/22/2023-A. APPR.
3/23/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (March 22).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law prohibits a local authority from enacting or enforcing an ordinance on matters covered by the Vehicle Code unless expressly authorized by the Vehicle Code. Current law authorizes local authorities to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding specified matters, including, among others, crossing guards, the operation of bicycles, the removal of illegally parked vehicles, and cruising, as defined. • This bill would remove the authorization for a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or regulation regarding cruising.

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AB 440
Wicks D
Density Bonus Law:
maximum allowable
residential density.
3/9/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
4/3/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing. Current law provides for the calculation of the amount of density bonus for each type of housing development that qualifies under these provisions.

Current law defines the term “density bonus” for these purposes to mean a density increase over the otherwise maximum allowable gross residential density as of the date of the application, as described. Current law defines the term “maximum allowable residential density” for these purposes to mean the maximum number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, the maximum number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan applicable to the project. Current law provides under that definition that if the density allowed under the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with the density allowed under the land use element of the general plan or specific plan, the greater density prevails.
• This bill would instead define “maximum allowable residential density” to mean the greatest number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, the greatest number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan applicable to the project.

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AB 449
Ting D
3/14/2023-A. APPR.
3/14/2023-From
committee: Do pass
Would make adoption of a hate crimes policy by a local law enforcement agency mandatory. • The bill would require those policies to include the supplemental hate crime report in the model policy framework developed by the commission and a schedule of hate crime or related Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Hate crimes: law
enforcement policies.
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (March 14).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
trainings the agency conducts. By imposing requirements on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 458
Jones-Sawyer D
Peace officers.
3/28/2023-
A. HIGHER ED.
3/28/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on HIGHER ED. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
(March 28). Rereferred to Com. on
HIGHER ED.

Current law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature by no later than June 1, 2023, outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including age and education requirements. Commencing on January 1, 2028, this bill would require a peace officer to attain a modern policing degree, as specified, or a bachelor’s or other advanced degree from an accredited college or university prior to receiving a basic certificate from the commission.

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AB 472
Wicks D
Classified school
district and
community college
employees:
compulsory leaves of
absence:
compensation.
3/22/2023-
A. HIGHER ED.
3/22/2023-Coauthors
revised. From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on HIGHER ED.
(Ayes 6. Noes 0.)
(March 22). Rereferred to Com. on
HIGHER ED.

Current law requires the governing board of a school district to employ persons for positions not requiring certification qualifications and the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic. For those employees, known as the classified service, current law authorizes those governing boards to grant leaves of absence and vacations with or without pay.
• This bill would explicitly provide that the above-referenced authority of the governing boards of school districts and community college districts, to grant leaves of absence and vacations with or without pay, applies to voluntary leaves of absence and vacations.

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AB 480
Ting D
Surplus land.
3/29/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
4/6/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, as defined, and requires, except as provided, a local agency disposing of surplus land to comply with certain notice requirements before disposing of the land or participating in negotiations to dispose of the land with a prospective transferee, particularly that the local agency send a notice of availability to specified entities that have notified the Department of Housing and Community Development of their interest in surplus land, as specified. Under current law, if the local agency receives a notice of interest, the local agency is required to engage in good Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
faith negotiations with the entity desiring to purchase or lease the surplus land. Current law requires a local agency to take formal action in a regular public meeting to declare land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use and to declare land as either “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency’s policies or procedures. • This bill would recast that provision and would exempt a local agency, in specified instances, from making a declaration at a public meeting for land that is “exempt surplus land” if the local agency identifies the land in a notice that is published and available for public comment at least 30 days before the exemption takes effect.

AB 537
Berman D
Short-term lodging:
advertising: rates.
2/17/2023-A. B.&P.
3/28/2023-In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Would prohibit a place of short-term lodging, as defined, from advertising or offering a room rate that does not include all taxes and fees required to book or reserve the short-term lodging.
• The bill would prohibit an internet website, application, or other similar centralized online platform whereby rental of a place of short-term lodging is advertised or offered from advertising or offering a room rate that does not include all taxes and fees required to book or reserve the short-term lodging.
• The bill would make a knowing violation of those provisions subject to a specified civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 and would authorize an action to enforce those provisions to be brought by a city attorney, district attorney, or the Attorney General.

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AB 548
Boerner Horvath D
State Housing Law:
inspection.
2/17/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
2/17/2023-Referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.

The State Housing Law, a violation of which is a crime, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. • This bill would require local enforcement agencies to develop policies and procedures for inspecting a building with multiple units if an inspector or code enforcement officer has determined that a unit is substandard or is in violation of the State Housing Law, and the inspector or code enforcement officer determines that the defects or violations have the potential to affect other units of the building, as specified. By imposing new duties on local government officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 550
Schiavo D
Homelessness:
point-in-time count
results: meetings.
3/2/2023-A. L. GOV.
4/6/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on L. GOV.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element.

Current law requires the housing element to identify the existing and projected housing needs of all economic segments of the community. Current federal law requires a continuum of care, a group organized under the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, to develop a plan that includes planning for and conducting, at least biennially, a point-in-time count of homeless persons within the geographic area. Current law requires that information from the point-in-time count be used to, among other things, allocate funding for the Homeless Watch
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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Emergency Aid program and Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program. • This bill would require a city, county, and city and county, within 60 days after the local continuum of care releases the results of a point-in-time count for a city, county, or city and county’s jurisdiction, to, among other things, agendize the point-in-time count results at a meeting of the city, county, or city and county and present the steps the city, county, or city and county is taking to prevent and end homelessness, including, but not limited to, consideration of specified actions.

AB 557
Hart D
Open meetings: local
agencies:
teleconferences.
2/17/2023-A. L.

GOV.
2/17/2023-Referred
to Com. on L. GOV.

Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with specified teleconferencing requirements in specified circumstances when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health, as specified. If there is a continuing state of emergency, or if state or local officials have imposed or recommended measures to promote social distancing, existing law requires a legislative body to make specified findings not later than 30 days after the first teleconferenced meeting, and to make those findings every 30 days thereafter, in order to continue to meet under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures. Current law requires a legislative body that holds a teleconferenced meeting under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures to give notice of the meeting and post agendas, as described, to allow members of the public to access the meeting and address the legislative body, to give notice of the means by which members of the public may access the meeting and offer public comment, including an opportunity for all persons to attend via a call-in option or an internet-based service option. Current law prohibits a legislative body that holds a teleconferenced meeting under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures from requiring public comments to be submitted in advance of the meeting and would specify that the legislative body must provide an opportunity for the public to address the legislative body and offer comment in real time. • This bill would extend the above-described abbreviated teleconferencing provisions when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health, as specified, indefinitely.

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AB 562
Carrillo, Wendy D
Local government
finance: the County
of Los Angeles.
3/22/2023-A. APPR.
3/23/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (March 22).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law requires the County of Los Angeles to annually submit its proposed budget to the Governor, the Legislature, and the State Auditor, including estimated actual expenditures and revenues for the current year, an analysis of the impact of the Governor’s Budget for the next fiscal year, and any other pertinent information, as specified. Existing law requires the county to provide actual expenditure data for each program in its budget, as specified. Current law also requires the Legislative Analyst to conduct a review of the county fiscal emergency and to make specified recommendations.
• This bill would repeal these provisions.

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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 584
Hart D
California Coastal
Act of 1976: coastal
development:
emergency waiver.
3/30/2023-S. RLS.
3/30/2023-Read third
time. Passed.

Ordered to the
Senate. In Senate.

Read first time. To
Com. on RLS. for
assignment.

The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires the issuance of a coastal development permit if the proposed development is in conformity with the certified local coastal program. The act provides for the certification of local coastal programs by the California Coastal Commission.

The act authorizes the requirement of having to obtain a permit to be waived when immediate action by a person or public agency performing a public service is required to protect life and public property from imminent danger, or to restore, repair, or maintain public works, utilities, or services destroyed, damaged, or interrupted by natural disaster, serious accident, or in other cases of emergency, as specified. The act provides that this waiver provision does not authorize the permanent erection of structures valued at more than $25,000. • This bill would increase the above-described amount to $125,000, adjusted annually for inflation pursuant to the consumer price index.

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AB 587
Rivas, Robert D
Public works: payroll
records.
3/22/2023-A. APPR.
3/22/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 7.

Noes 0.) (March 22).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages. Current law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work. Current law requires any copy of records made available for inspection as copies and furnished upon request to the public or any public agency to be marked or obliterated to prevent disclosure of an individual’s name, address, and social security number but specifies that any copy of records made available to a Taft-Hartley trust fund for the purposes of allocating contributions to participants be marked or obliterated only to prevent disclosure of an individual’s full social security number, as specified. Current law makes any contractor, subcontractor, agent, or representative who neglects to comply with the requirements to keep accurate payroll records guilty of a misdemeanor.
• This bill would require any copy of records made available for inspection by, or furnished to, a multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust fund or joint labor-management committee be provided on forms provided by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement or contain the same information as those forms.

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AB 591
Gabriel D
Electric vehicle
service equipment:
3/27/2023-A. THIRD

READING
3/27/2023-Read
second time.

Would require an electric vehicle charging station that requires payment of a fee to allow a person desiring to use the station to pay via credit card. • The bill would require that any electric vehicle service equipment that is capable of charging a light-duty electric vehicle and is installed or substantially retrofitted, as defined, except for private use at a single-family residence or multifamily residence, include universal connectors, Watch
18 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
universal connectors
and public
accessibility.

Ordered to third
reading.
as defined, and be publicly accessible, including by enabling a person desiring to use the electric vehicle charging station to pay via credit card.

AB 637
Low D
Density Bonus Law.
2/17/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/29/2023-In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified percentages of units for lower income, very low income, or senior citizen housing, among other things, and meets other requirements. Current law requires a city or county to grant a proposal for an incentive or concession requested by a developer unless it would not result in identifiable and actual cost reductions, as specified, would have a specific, adverse impact on public health or safety or on specified real property and for which there is no method to avoid or mitigate that impact, as specified, or would be contrary to state or federal law. • This bill would additionally except from the requirement that a city or county to grant a proposal an incentive or concession would alter the requirements of a local program, policy, or ordinance that requires, as a condition of the development of residential units, that the development include a certain percentage of residential units that meet specified affordability requirements.

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AB 642
Ting D
Law enforcement
agencies: facial
recognition
technology.
3/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
4/5/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on PUB. S.

Would prescribe the acceptable and prohibited uses for facial recognition technology (FRT), as defined, by a law enforcement agency or peace officer, as defined. • The bill would set certain requirements for FRT systems and reference databases, as defined, used by law enforcement agencies.
• The bill would require law enforcement agencies utilizing FRT to keep certain records and to annually report certain data to the California State Auditor. • The bill would require any law enforcement agency utilizing FRT to have a written policy, as specified, and to post that policy on their internet website. • The bill would require a law enforcement agency to provide certain information to any person that FRT is used to identify.
• The bill would also require each district attorney’s office, city prosecutor’s office, and the Attorney General to annually report certain data to the California State Auditor. By imposing a new reporting requirement on district attorneys and city prosecutors, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
• The bill would require the California State Auditor to annually analyze the data submitted and to prepare and publicize a report, as specified.
• The bill would authorize a person harmed by a violation of these provisions to bring a civil action for damages, including statutory damages, as specified.

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19 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 645
Friedman D
Vehicles: speed
safety system pilot
program.
3/16/2023-
A. TRANS.
4/3/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on TRANS.

Would authorize, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a Speed Safety System Pilot Program if the system meets specified requirements. • The bill would require a participating city or city and county to adopt a Speed Safety System Use Policy and a Speed Safety System Impact Report before implementing the program, and would require the participating city or city and county to engage in a public information campaign at least 30 days before implementation of the program, including information relating to when the systems would begin detecting violations and where the systems would be utilized.
• The bill would require a participating city or city and county to issue warning notices rather than notices of violations for violations detected within the first 60 calendar days of the program.
• The bill would also require a participating city or city and county to develop uniform guidelines for, among other things, the processing and storage of confidential information. • The bill would designate all photographic, video, or other visual or administrative records, not including data about the number of violations issued or the speeds at which they were issued for, made by a system as confidential, and would only authorize public agencies to use and allow access to these records for specified purposes.

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AB 668
Quirk-Silva D
Political campaigns:
signs.
2/13/2023-A. PRINT
2/14/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 16.

Existing law sets forth requirements regarding political signs and advertisements in support of, or against, candidates for public office or measures, such as the requirement that a landlord may not prohibit tenants from displaying political signs, as specified. • This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to the posting of political signs.

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AB 670
Wilson D
Housing.
2/13/2023-A. PRINT
2/14/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 16.

Current law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to take specified actions related to housing that include, among other things, investigating housing and community development in the state, calling conferences to discuss housing and community development problems, studying the operation and enforcement of housing, building, zoning, and subdivision laws, as related to housing and community development, and promoting the formation of organizations intended to increase the supply of adequate housing and the proper living environment for people.
• This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in that provision.

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AB 671
Ward D
CalHome Program:
2/23/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/29/2023-In
committee: Set, first
Under the CalHome Program, funds may be used to enable low- and very low income households to become or remain homeowners, and to provide disaster relief assistance to households at or below 120% of that area median income. Current law also authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make grants to local agencies or Watch
20 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
accessory dwelling
units.
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.
nonprofit corporations to construct accessory dwelling units and to repair, reconstruct, or rehabilitate, in whole or in part, accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units. • This bill would require the department to allow a community land trust, as defined, that is a recipient of program funds to purchase residential real property in fee simple, to construct accessory dwelling units or junior accessory dwelling units on the property, and separately lease or convey each dwelling unit on the property to separate households.

AB 730
Lowenthal D
California Public
Records Act: public
agency employees:
notice requirements:
personnel and
medical information.
3/9/2023-A. JUD.
3/13/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
JUD.

Under current law, the California Public Records Act generally does not require disclosure of personnel, medical, or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Current law requires an agency, if it determines a request seeks disclosable public records, to state the estimated date and time when the records will be made available. Current law permits the prescribed time limits of the act to be extended in unusual circumstances. In this connection, “unusual circumstances” include, among other reasons, the need to search for and collect the requested records from field facilities or other establishments separate from the office processing the request. • This bill would require an agency to promptly provide a public agency employee with written notice of a request to disclose a record related to personnel, medical, or similar information of that employee, as specified.
• The bill would also require the agency, before disclosing or making those records available, to provide not less than 21 days’ written notice to the employee of its intent to disclose or make the records available.
• The bill would further expand the definition of “unusual circumstances” to include the need to provide those advance written notices. By placing new requirements on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 742
Jackson D
Law enforcement:
police canines.
3/22/2023-A. APPR.
3/22/2023-Coauthors
revised. From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 6.

Noes 2.) (March 21).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person, and any use of a police canine for crowd control. • The bill would prohibit law enforcement agencies from authorizing any use or training of a police canine that is inconsistent with this bill.

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AB 764
Bryan D
3/23/2023-
A. ELECTIONS
3/27/2023-ReCurrent law requires counties, general law and charter cities, and special districts that elect their governing boards using district-based elections to adopt new district boundaries following each federal decennial census. Existing law also requires county boards of education, and the Watch
21 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Local redistricting.
referred to Com. on
ELECTIONS.
governing boards of school districts and community college districts in which trustee areas have been established, to adopt new boundaries for the trustee areas following each federal decennial census. Current law requires these local governments to adopt the new boundaries using specified criteria and by specified deadlines.
• This bill would revise and recast these provisions.
• The bill would require counties, county boards of education, cities, school districts, community college districts, and special districts, if the governing body of these local governments is elected by districts, to comply with uniform requirements related to redistricting.
• The bill would require local governments to adopt district boundaries following the decision to establish district-based elections and following each federal decennial census.

AB 799
Rivas, Luz D
Homeless Housing,
Assistance, and
Prevention program:

Homelessness
Accountability Act.
2/23/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
2/23/2023-Referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing. Current law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, and counties in 4 rounds, the first of which is administered by the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and the others are administered by the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council.
• This bill, the Homelessness Accountability Act, would instead specify that the purpose of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is to provide ongoing grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by best-practices and to solve homelessness using evidence-based or, where no evidence exists, a data-informed and promising framework, as provided.

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AB 817
Pacheco D
Open meetings:
teleconferencing:
subsidiary body.
3/16/2023-A. L.

GOV.
3/20/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
L. GOV.

Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met, including restrictions on remote participation by a member of the legislative body. • This bill would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use alternative teleconferencing provisions similar to the emergency provisions indefinitely and without regard to a state of emergency. In order to use teleconferencing pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act, the bill would require the legislative body that established the subsidiary body by charter, ordinance, Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
resolution, or other formal action to make specified findings by majority vote, before the subsidiary body uses teleconferencing for the first time and every 12 months thereafter.

AB 821
Grayson D
Planning and zoning:
general plan: zoning
ordinance: conflicts.
2/23/2023-A. L.

GOV.
4/6/2023-From
committee chair, with
author's
amendments:

Amend, and re-refer
to Com. on L. GOV.

Read second time
and amended.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, longterm general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries. Current law requires that county or city zoning ordinances be consistent with the general plan of the county or city by January 1, 1974. Current law requires a zoning ordinance to be amended within a reasonable time so that it is consistent with the general plan in the event that the ordinance becomes inconsistent with the plan by reason of amendment to the plan.
• This bill, among other things, would provide that, in the event that a city or county fails to amend an inconsistent zoning ordinance within 90 days after receiving written notice of the inconsistency, a proposed development project shall not be deemed inconsistent with that zoning ordinance and related zoning standard or criteria and shall not be required to be rezoned, if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the proposed development project is consistent with objective general plan standards and criteria but the zoning for the project site is inconsistent with the general plan.

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AB 822
Alanis R
Vehicles: removal
and impoundment.
2/23/2023-A. PUB.

S.
3/14/2023-In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Current law authorizes a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if presented with a peace officer’s affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer’s presence in violation of an offense for evading a pursuing police officer's motor vehicle or bicycle. Current law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or a motor vehicle exhibition of speed, as specified. • This bill would include this crime in the list of offenses for which a peace officer may impound a vehicle pursuant to a warrant or order issued by a magistrate. • The bill would additionally allow a peace officer to submit an affidavit establishing reasonable cause that the violation occurred if they viewed or captured the violation using video surveillance that is under the sole control of a law enforcement agency.

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AB 825
Bryan D
Vehicles: bicycles on
sidewalks.
3/21/2023-A. APPR.
3/21/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 11.

Noes 4.) (March 20).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would prohibit a local authority from prohibiting the operation of a bicycle on a sidewalk adjacent to a highway or corridor that does not include a Class I, Class II, or Class IV bikeway, as defined.
• The bill would require a person riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and to adhere to a 10-miles-per-hour speed limit. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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23 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 850
Ting D
Homeless Housing,
Assistance, and
Prevention program:
round 4 funds.
2/23/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
2/23/2023-Referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law provides for the allocation of funding under the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 4 rounds, which are to be administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness. Current law requires $1,000,000,000 be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in the 2022–23 fiscal year for implementing round 4 of the program, and requires all round 4 program funds be expended by June 30, 2027, or revert to, and be paid and deposited in, the General Fund.
• This bill would instead require all round 4 program funds be expended by July 1, 2027, and would make conforming changes.

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AB 894
Friedman D
Parking
requirements: shared
parking.
3/2/2023-A. L. GOV.
3/21/2023-In
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, longterm general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law also authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking.
• This bill would require a public agency, as defined, to allow existing land uses with underutilized parking, as defined, to share the underutilized parking with the public, a private entity, a public agency, or other users.
• The bill would require a public agency to allow shared parking to be counted toward meeting automobile parking requirements for a new or existing development or use, including underutilized parking spaces, when the parking spaces meet specified conditions regarding the distance of the spaces from the applicable site.
• The bill would require a public agency to accept a parking analysis using peer-reviewed methodologies developed by a professional planning association, as specified, when determining the number of shared parking spaces that can be reasonably shared between different uses.

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AB 932
Ting D
Accessory dwelling
units: Accessory
Dwelling Unit
Program: reports.
3/2/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
4/3/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.

The California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) administers the Accessory Dwelling Unit Program, for the purpose of assisting homeowners in qualifying for loans to construct accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units on the homeowners’ property and increasing access to capital for homeowners interested in building accessory dwelling units.

Current law requires the CalHFA to convene a working group to develop recommendations for the program, as specified. Current law requires the working group to finish developing recommendations by July 1, 2023, for CalHFA to consider in the next update of its accessory dwelling unit guidelines.
• This bill would additionally require the working group to report its recommendations to the Legislature by April 1, 2024, as specified.

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24 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would also require CalHFA to evaluate the program and report CalHFA’s findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2025.

AB 955
Petrie-Norris D
Controlled
substances.
3/16/2023-A. PUB.

S.
3/16/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
P. & C.P. Rereferred to Com. on
PUB. S. pursuant to
Assembly Rule 96.

Current law makes possession of specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, except as specified.

Current law makes possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of sale of the substance punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 2, 3, or 4 years. • This bill would make the sale of fentanyl on a social media platform, as defined, in California punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 6, or 9 years.

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AB 965
Carrillo, Juan D
Local government:
broadband permit
applications.
3/20/2023-A. C. & C.
3/20/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
L. GOV. Re-referred
to Coms. on C. & C.
and L. GOV.
pursuant to
Assembly Rule 96.

Would require a city, county, city and county, charter city, special district, or publicly owned utility, to undertake batch broadband permit processing, as defined, upon receiving 2 or more substantially similar broadband permit applications submitted at the same time, within a presumptively reasonable time, as defined. If a city, county, city and county, charter city, special district, or publicly owned utility does not approve those substantially similar broadband permit applications and issue permits, or reject the applications and notify the applicants, within the presumptively reasonable time, the bill would require that all of those permits be deemed approved.
• The bill would specify that these provisions do not apply to eligible facility requests, as defined.

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AB 976
Ting D
Accessory dwelling
units: owneroccupancy
requirements.
3/29/2023-A. L.

GOV.
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on L. GOV. (Ayes 7.

Noes 0.) (March 29).

Re-referred to Com.
on L. GOV.

The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires a local ordinance to require an accessory dwelling unit to be either attached to, or located within, the proposed or existing primary dwelling, as specified, or detached from the proposed or existing primary dwelling and located on the same lot as the proposed or existing primary dwelling.
• This bill would instead prohibit a local agency from imposing an owner-occupancy requirement on any accessory dwelling unit.

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AB 978
Patterson, Joe R
California
Environmental
Quality Act: housing
2/23/2023-A. NAT.

RES.
4/5/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on NAT.

RES.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would Watch
25 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
projects: judicial
review: bonds.
avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
• This bill would require a person seeking judicial review of the decision of a lead agency made pursuant to CEQA to carry out or approve a housing project to post a bond of $1,000,000 to cover the costs and damages to the housing project incurred by the respondent or real party in interest.
• The bill would authorize the court to adjust this bond requirement upon a finding of good cause to believe that the requirement does not further the interest of justice.

AB 986
Berman D
General plans.
2/15/2023-A. PRINT
2/16/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 18.

The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and of any land outside its boundaries that relates to its planning, and provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations by counties and cities.
• This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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AB 994
Jackson D
Law enforcement:
social media.
3/22/2023-A. P. &
C.P.
3/22/2023-Coauthors
revised. From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on P. & C.P. (Ayes 5.

Noes 2.) (March 21).

Re-referred to Com.
on P. & C.P.

Would prohibit a police department or sheriff’s office from sharing, on social media, booking photos of an individual arrested on suspicion of committing any crime unless specified circumstances exist.
• This bill would also require a police department or sheriff’s office, upon posting a booking photo on social media, to use the name and pronouns given by the individual arrested. • The bill would authorize a police department or sheriff’s office to use other legal names or known aliases of an individual in limited specified circumstances.

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AB 1000
Reyes D
Qualifying logistics
use projects.
3/30/2023-A. NAT.

RES.
4/3/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on NAT.

RES.

The Planning and Zoning Law sets forth various requirements relating to the review of development project permit applications and the issuance of development permits for specified classes of development projects.
• This bill would prohibit a local agency from approving the development or expansion of any qualifying logistics use, as defined, within 1,000 feet of sensitive receptors, as defined, except as provided.
• The bill would authorize a local agency to approve the development or expansion of a qualifying logistics use greater than 750 feet from a sensitive receptor and within 1,000 feet of a sensitive receptor only if the local agency takes certain actions, including, among other things, conducting a cumulative analysis of the air quality impacts of the warehouse development project, as specified.

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26 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would require a local agency, upon receipt of an application for a warehouse development project, to take certain actions, including posting information on its internet website that is easily accessible and easily understandable by the public, as specified. • The bill would require the lead agency to conduct at least one scoping meeting at a location within one mile of the project site, except as provided.

AB 1011
Weber D
Social care: data
privacy.
3/16/2023-A. P. &
C.P.
3/20/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
P. & C.P.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) establishes certain requirements relating to the provision of health insurance, including provisions relating to the confidentiality of health records. The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, a contractor, a corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates, or any business that offers software or hardware to consumers, including a mobile application or other related device, as defined, from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, except as provided. • This bill would, among other things, prohibit a participating organization of a closed-loop referral system (CLRS) from adding to, or accessing from, a CLRS an individual’s personally identifiable information or social care information unless specified requirements are met, including that the individual provides consent.

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AB 1033
Ting D
Accessory dwelling
units: local
ordinances: separate
sale or conveyance.
3/9/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/13/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
H. & C.D.

The Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Existing law requires the ordinance to include specified standards, including prohibiting the accessory dwelling unit from being sold or otherwise conveyed separate from the primary residence, except as provided by a specified law. • This bill would instead provide that an accessory dwelling unit may be sold or otherwise conveyed separate from the primary residence as provided by specified law, as described above, or by ordinance.

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AB 1034
Wilson D
Law enforcement:
facial recognition
and other biometric
surveillance.
3/28/2023-A. P. &
C.P.
3/28/2023-Coauthors
revised. From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on P. & C.P. (Ayes 6.

Noes 2.) (March 28).

Re-referred to Com.
on P. & C.P.

Would prohibit a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from installing, activating, or using any biometric surveillance system in connection with an officer camera or data collected by an officer camera.
• The bill would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief against a law enforcement agency or officer who violates that prohibition. • The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2034.

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27 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 1060
Ortega D
Health care
coverage: naloxone
hydrochloride.
3/16/2023-
A. HEALTH
3/20/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
HEALTH.

Would make legislative findings relating to developments within the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on potentially approving a certain naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for nonprescription use.

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AB 1082
Kalra D
Authority to remove
vehicles.
3/27/2023-A. APPR.
3/28/2023-Coauthors
revised. From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 11.

Noes 2.) (March 27).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law authorizes a peace officer and specified public employees, as an alternative to removal of a vehicle, to immobilize the vehicle with a device designed and manufactured for that purpose, if, among other circumstances, the vehicle is found upon a highway or public lands by the peace officer or employee and it is known to have been issued 5 or more notices of parking violations that are delinquent because the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded to the appropriate agency within a designated time period. • This bill would delete the authority of a peace officer or public employee, as appropriate, to remove or immobilize a vehicle under those circumstances. • The bill would repeal the related authority to conduct a lien sale to cover towing and storage expenses.
• The bill would make various conforming and technical changes.

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AB 1097
Rivas, Luz D
Use tax: registration:
qualified purchaser.
3/23/2023-A. REV. &
TAX
3/23/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
REV. & TAX.
pursuant to
Assembly Rule 96.

Current sales and use tax law requires a qualified purchaser to register with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to facilitate the collection of the use tax. Current law defines “qualified purchaser” for this purpose to include a person that satisfies specified conditions, including that the person receives at least $100,000 in gross receipts from business operations per calendar year.
• This bill would amend the definition of qualified purchaser by removing the condition that the person receives at least $100,000 in gross receipts per calendar year, and would add as a condition that the person makes more than $100,000 in purchases subject to the use tax per calendar year.

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AB 1114
Haney D
Planning and zoning:
housing
development
projects:
postentitlement
phase permits.
3/22/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/28/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
H. & C.D.

Current law relating to housing development approval requires a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, to post an example of a complete, approved application and an example of a complete set of postentitlement phase permits for at least 5 types of housing development projects in the jurisdiction, as specified, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. Current law defines “postentitlement phase permit” to include all nondiscretionary permits and reviews filed after the entitlement process has been completed that are required or issued by the local agency to begin construction of a development that is intended to be at least 2/3 residential, excluding discretionary and ministerial planning permits, Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
entitlements, and certain other permits and reviews.
• This bill would modify the definition of “postentitlement phase permit” to also include all building permits and other permits issued under the California Building Standards Code or any applicable local building code for the construction, demolition, or alteration of buildings, whether discretionary or nondiscretionary.

AB 1176
Zbur D
General plans: Local
Electrification
Planning Act.
3/23/2023-A. L.

GOV.
3/27/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
L. GOV.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified.
• This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require a city or county to either adopt a climate action electrification element as part of the general plan or otherwise amend the general plan to, among other things, identify strategies and enforceable commitments to meet California’s greenhouse gas reduction goals requiring increased electrification of transportation and buildings.

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AB 1188
Boerner Horvath D
Transportation:
bicycle safety
handbook.
3/9/2023-A. TRANS.
3/13/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
TRANS.

Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the Transportation Agency to develop and distribute, on or before September 1, 2024, a bicycle safety handbook that includes information on, among other things, existing laws regulating bicycles and e-bikes, safety equipment, and sharing roads and bikeways with other users, as specified. • The bill would require the agency to make the handbook available on the internet, as specified, and in print at all Department of Motor Vehicles offices, state libraries, Department of the California Highway Patrol offices, and other appropriate state offices. In developing the handbook, the bill would require collaboration between the agency and the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the California Office of Traffic Safety, the Department of Transportation, and other relevant stakeholders, as specified.

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AB 1218
Lowenthal D
Development
projects: demolition
of residential
dwelling units.
3/9/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/13/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
H. & C.D.

The Housing Crisis Act of 2019, among other things, prohibits an affected city or an affected county, as defined, from approving a housing development project that will require the demolition of one or more residential dwelling units, unless the project creates at least as many residential dwelling units as will be demolished. The act also prohibits an affected city or affected county from approving any housing development project that will require the demolition of occupied or vacant protected units, unless specified conditions are met. In this regard, the act requires a project that will require the demolition of occupied or vacant Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
protected units to, among other things, (1) replace all existing or demolished protected units, (2) include a minimum amount of residential units, (3) allow existing occupants to occupy their units until 6 months before the start of construction activities, and (4) provide relocation benefits to the existing occupants of any protected units that are lower income households. • This bill would expand the demolition of residential dwelling units prohibitions to prohibit an affected city or affected county from approving any development project that will require the demolition of occupied or vacant protected units, or that is located on a site where protected units were demolished in the previous 5 years, unless the conditions described above are met.

AB 1221
Chen R
Parking meter fees.
3/2/2023-A. TRANS.
3/14/2023-In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Current law allows a local authority to establish parking meter zones and fix the rate of fees for those zones by ordinance. Existing law prohibits a local authority from requiring payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device, as specified.
• This bill would instead authorize a local authority to require payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device.

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AB 1249
Ta R
Sales and use taxes:
exemption: tax
holiday: school
supplies.
3/2/2023-A. REV. &
TAX
3/21/2023-In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Would, on and after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, exempt from sales and use taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified school supplies, as defined, for the two-day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the third Saturday of July of each year and ending at 11:59 p.m. on the following day.

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AB 1285
Wicks D
Encampment
Resolution Funding
program: individuals
experiencing
homelessness: statefunded permanent
housing.
3/16/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
4/6/2023-In
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.

Current law establishes the Encampment Resolution Funding program, administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, to increase collaboration between the council, local jurisdictions, and continuums of care for specified purposes. Current law requires the council to award moneys pursuant to the program as competitive grants, as specified, to be used to support encampment resolution and rehousing efforts for local jurisdictions. Current law requires the council to prioritize funding applicants that demonstrate a commitment to cross-systems collaboration and innovative efforts to resolve encampment issues or have 50 or more individuals living in the encampment. • This bill would require that an individual supported by the program receive priority for statefunded permanent housing for persons experiencing homelessness, if specified conditions are met.

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AB 1287
Alvarez D
3/2/2023-A. H. &
C.D.

Would require a city, county, or city and county to grant an additional density bonus, calculated as specified, when an applicant proposes to construct a housing development that Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Density Bonus Law:
additional density
bonus and incentives
or concessions:

California Coastal
Act of 1976.
3/22/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
H. & C.D.
conforms to specified requirements and provides 24% of the base density units to lower income households, conforms to specified requirements and provides 15% of the base density units to very low income households, or conforms to specified requirements and provides 44% of the total units to moderate-income units.
• The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to grant additional incentives or concessions for a project that meets any of those categories and also includes certain percentages of units for persons and families of moderate income. By imposing additional duties on local officials in administering the Density Bonus Law, this bill would create a statemandated local program.

AB 1297
Quirk-Silva D
Public restrooms.
3/29/2023-A. APPR.
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 6.

Noes 1.) (March 29).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would require each local government, as defined, to complete an inventory of public restrooms owned and maintained by the local government, either directly or by contract, that are available to the general population in its jurisdiction by July 1, 2024. • The bill would require local governments to report their findings to the State Department of Public Health, which would be required to compile the information and to make the inventory available in a searchable database on its internet website by March 1, 2025, as specified. • The bill would require the database to be updated quarterly. • The bill would require the department to conduct educational outreach to the general public and homelessness service providers that the database is available on its internet website.

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AB 1308
Quirk-Silva D
Planning and Zoning
Law: single-family
residences: parking
requirements.
3/29/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
4/3/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on H. & C.D.

The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes.
• This bill would prohibit a public agency, as defined, from increasing the minimum parking requirement that applies to a single-family residence as a condition of approval of a project to remodel, renovate, or add to a single-family residence, except as specified. By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 1317
Carrillo, Wendy D
Unbundled parking.
3/2/2023-A. JUD.
3/17/2023-In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Would require the owner of residential property that provides parking with a residential property to unbundle parking from the price of rent, as specified. • The bill would define “unbundled parking” as the practice of selling or leasing parking spaces separate from the lease of the residential use.
• The bill would provide a tenant of a residential property with a right of first refusal to parking spaces built for their unit, as specified.
• The bill, for residential properties where unbundled parking is not possible, would require an owner of residential property to provide a tenant with an annual itemization of the market rate cost of parking, as defined, for the parking spaces that are included in their lease.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would exempt residential properties with individual garages that are functionally a part of the property from these provisions.

AB 1318
Rivas, Luz D
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption:
residential projects.
3/2/2023-A. NAT.

RES.
3/2/2023-Referred to
Coms. on NAT. RES.
and L. GOV.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
• This bill would expand the exemption by increasing the size of a residential project that would qualify for the exemption to include a project of not more than 5 acres in total area. • The bill would require a lead agency approving an exempt residential project on an urbanized infill site to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research, as specified.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 1335
Zbur D
Local government:
transportation
planning and land
use: sustainable
communities
strategy.
3/27/2023-A. APPR.
3/28/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 11.

Noes 3.) (March 27).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would, commencing January 1, 2024, would require each transportation planning agency to follow certain population projection procedures when updating the regional transportation plan. • The bill would require the sustainable communities strategy to be based on population projections produced by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts used in determining applicable city and county regional housing needs, in consultation with each council of governments.
• The bill would impose similar reconciliation procedures, as described above, when there are differences in the population forecast provided by the council of governments and the Department of Finance. By imposing additional duties on transportation planning agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 1348
Grayson D
State government:

Controller: claims
audits.
3/16/2023-A. A. &
A.R.
3/21/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
A. & A.R.

The Government Claims Act generally requires the presentation of all claims for money or damages against local public entities and the state. Current law provides for the presentation of a claim for which appropriations have been made, or for which state funds are available, under that act to the Controller, in the form and manner prescribed by the general rules and regulations adopted by the Department of General Services. Current law, with specified exceptions, prohibits the Controller from drawing a warrant for any claim until it has been audited in conformity with law and the general rules and regulations adopted by the Department of General Services governing the presentation and audit of claims. • This bill would require the Controller to conduct, unless prohibited by the provisions of a Watch
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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
state ballot proposition passed by the electorate, financial and compliance audits as the Controller’s office deems as necessary for purposes of ensuring that any expenditures, regardless of the source or fund from which the warrants for claims are drawn, are expended in a manner consistent with the law and the voters’ intent. • The bill would also require the Controller to conduct any audits necessary to carry out their constitutional and statutory duties and responsibilities under the law.

AB 1353
Quirk-Silva D
Housing.
2/16/2023-A. PRINT
2/17/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 19.

The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. That law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce within its jurisdiction the provisions of the State Building Standards Code, the provisions of the State Housing Law, and specified other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to that law.
• This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision naming the State Housing Law.

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AB 1368
Lackey R
Sexual assault
forensic evidence:
testing.
3/28/2023-A. APPR.
3/28/2023-Coauthors
revised. From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (March 28).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would require a law enforcement agency, for any sexual assault forensic evidence connected to a reported crime received by the law enforcement agency prior to January 1, 2016, to submit that evidence to the crime lab on or before January 31, 2025. • The bill would additionally require a crime lab, for any sexual assault evidence kit received by a law enforcement agency prior to January 1, 2016, and submitted to the crime lab on or after January 1, 2024, to process that evidence kit no later than January 31, 2026. Because the bill would impose a higher level of service on local law enforcement agencies in processing that evidence, it would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 1386
Gabriel D
Veterans housing:
tenant referrals.
3/29/2023-A. M. &
V.A.
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on M. & V.A. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 8. Noes 0.)
(March 29). Rereferred to Com. on
M. & V.A.

The Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014 requires the California Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (referred to collectively as “the departments”) to establish and implement programs that focus on veterans at risk for homelessness or experiencing temporary or chronic homelessness, as specified. Current law requires the departments to ensure at least 50% of funds awarded for capital development are used to provide housing to veterans with extremely low incomes, and requires that at least 60% of units funded targeting extremely low income households are supportive housing. • This bill would authorize an entity tasked with making referrals of units targeted to extremely low income households to match prospective tenants with incomes at 60% of the area median income, as defined, in the event that an eligible tenant is unable to be matched to and accept placement in an available unit.
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
faith effort to match a tenant with an extremely low income, document these good faith efforts, and make this documentation available to the departments upon request.

AB 1403
Garcia D
Public safety:
fireworks:
enforcement:
funding.
3/9/2023-A. G.O.
4/6/2023-From
committee chair, with
author's
amendments:

Amend, and re-refer
to Com. on G.O.

Read second time
and amended.

Current law requires the State Fire Marshal, on or before July 1, 2008, to identify and evaluate methods to capture more detailed data relating to fires, damages, and injuries caused by both dangerous fireworks and safe and sane fireworks.
• This bill would move up the date by which the State Fire Marshal is required to identify and evaluate methods to capture the data described above to July 1, 2024. • The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2025, the State Fire Marshal to collect and analyze data relating to fires, damages, seizures, arrests, administrative citations, and fireworks disposal issues caused by the sale and use of both dangerous illegal fireworks and safe and sane fireworks, as provided.
• The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2025, the State Fire Marshal to provide to the appropriate policy and budget committees of the respective houses of the Legislature a workload analysis of resources needed to further assist in the training of local fire and law enforcement personnel regarding specified topics.

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AB 1409
Lowenthal D
Planning and zoning:
zoning regulations.
2/17/2023-A. PRINT
2/18/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 20.

Current law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, and open space, as specified. Current law requires those zoning ordinances to be consistent with the general plan of the county or city and authorizes any resident or property owner within a city or a county to bring an action or proceeding in the superior court to enforce this requirement, as specified. • This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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AB 1438
Carrillo, Juan D
Los Angeles County
Affordable Housing
Solutions Agency.
2/17/2023-A. PRINT
2/18/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 20.

Under current law, the purpose of the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency is to increase the supply of affordable housing in Los Angeles County by providing for significantly enhanced funding and technical assistance at a regional level for renter protections, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production, as specified. Current law makes legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a countywide agency to address the housing crisis in Los Angeles County. • This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above-described legislative findings and declarations provisions.

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AB 1443
Chen R
Cities and counties.
2/17/2023-A. PRINT
2/18/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 20.

Existing law prescribes the powers and duties that are common to cities and counties, including the powers and duties of legislative bodies. Under existing law, whenever a statute requires a local agency to take legislative action by resolution, and the local agency’s charter requires it to take legislative action by ordinance, action by ordinance is compliance with the Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
statute for all purposes.
• This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

AB 1444
Chen R
Cities and counties.
2/17/2023-A. PRINT
2/18/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 20.

Existing law prescribes the powers and duties that are common to cities and counties, including the powers and duties of legislative bodies. Under existing law, if a statute requires a local agency to take legislative action by resolution, and the local agency’s charter requires it to take legislative action by ordinance, action by ordinance is compliance with the statute for all purposes.
• This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

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AB 1460
Bennett D
Local government.
2/17/2023-A. PRINT
2/18/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 20.

Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, provides the exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts, except as specified. • This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision naming the act.

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AB 1463
Lowenthal D
Automated license
plate recognition
systems: retention
and use of
information.
3/27/2023-A. P. &
C.P.
3/28/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on P. & C.P. (Ayes

10. Noes 4.) (March
27). Re-referred to
Com. on P. & C.P.

Current law requires automated license plate recognition (ALPR) operators and ALPR endusers, as those terms are defined, to implement usage and privacy policies and to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices regarding ALPR information, as specified.

Current law requires the usage and privacy policy implemented by an ALPR operator or an ALPR end-user to include the length of time ALPR information will be retained and the process the ALPR operator or ALPR end-user will utilize to determine if and when to destroy retained ALPR information.
• This bill would require an ALPR operator or ALPR end-user that is a public agency, excluding an airport authority, to include in those policies, procedures, and practices a requirement that ALPR information that does not match information on a hot list, as defined, be purged in 30 days, as specified.
• The bill would also prohibit those ALPR operators and end-users from accessing an ALPR system that retains that unmatched ALPR information for more than 60 days, as specified.

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AB 1477
Quirk-Silva D
Alcohol and drug
treatment programs:
licensing and
certification fee.
3/21/2023-A. APPR.
3/28/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Current law makes the State Department of Health Care Services responsible for administering prevention, treatment, and recovery programs for adult alcoholism and drug abuse. Existing law requires the department to charge a fee to all programs for licensure or certification by the department and to submit any proposed new fees or fee changes to the Legislature for approval, as specified. Current law prohibits new fees or fee changes from being implemented without legislative approval.
• This bill would require all fees for licensing of residential treatment facilities and certification of treatment programs that provide addiction treatment services to be at the rate last published in 2022.

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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would leave that rate in effect until January 1, 2031, or until deaths related to opioid overdose reported by the California Overdose Surveillance Dashboard have declined by 50%, whichever is first.

AB 1485
Haney D
Housing element:
enforcement:

Attorney General.
3/9/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
H. & C.D.

Current law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify the office of the Attorney General, that a city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the department finds that the housing element or an amendment to the housing element does not substantially comply with specified provisions of the Planning and Zoning Law, or that the local government has taken action or failed to act in violation of specified provisions of law relating to housing, including, among others, the Housing Accountability Act, the Density Bonus Law, and the Housing Crisis Act of 2019. Current law provides that an intervention takes place when a nonparty becomes a party to an action or proceeding between other persons by, among other things, joining a plaintiff in claiming what is sought by the complaint.

Current law requires the court to permit a nonparty to intervene in the action or proceeding if a provision of law confers an unconditional right to intervene. • This bill would permit both the department and the office of the Attorney General to intervene as a matter of unconditional right in any legal action addressing a violation of the specified housing laws described above, including, among others, the Housing Accountability Act, the Density Bonus Law, and the Housing Crisis Act of 2019.

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AB 1519
Bains D
Vehicles: catalytic
converters.
3/9/2023-A. TRANS.
3/21/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
TRANS.

Would prohibit any person, except as exempted, from removing, altering, or obfuscating the vehicle identification number engraved, etched, or otherwise marked on a catalytic converter, or from knowingly possessing a catalytic converter that has been so altered.

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AB 1531
Flora R
Electrified security
fences: local
ordinances.
3/9/2023-A. L. GOV.
3/9/2023-Referred to
Com. on L. GOV.

Current law authorizes an owner of real property to install and operate on their property an electrified security fence that meets specified requirements, including that the fence is used to protect and secure commercial, manufacturing, or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but legally authorized to be used for a commercial, manufacturing, or industrial purpose. Current law prohibits an owner of real property from installing and operating an electrified security fence if a local ordinance prohibits that installation and operation.
• This bill would instead prohibit an owner of real property that is not commercial, manufacturing, or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but legally authorized to be used for those purposes, from installing and operating an electrified security fence if a local ordinance prohibits that installation and operation.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 1538
Muratsuchi D
Clean Energy
Reliability Program.
3/9/2023-A. U. & E.
4/3/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on U. & E.

Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over load-serving entities, which include electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators.
• This bill would establish the Clean Energy Reliability Program, to be administered by the commission, upon appropriation, to provide incentive payments to qualifying load-serving entities that use eligible resources, as defined, to exceed their clean energy capacity requirements or targets, within or at the end of a given compliance period, as those requirements and compliance periods are determined through a specified commission rulemaking or its successor.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 1620
Zbur D
Costa-Hawkins
Rental Housing Act:
permanent
disabilities:
comparable or
smaller units.
3/16/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/20/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
H. & C.D.

Would authorize a jurisdiction to require the owner of a residential real property that is subject to an ordinance or charter provision that controls the rental rate to permit a tenant who is current on their rent and who has a permanent disability related to mobility to move to an available comparable or smaller unit, as defined, located on the first floor of the building. • The bill would require an owner who grants a request pursuant to these provisions to allow the tenant to retain their lease at the same rental rate and terms of the existing lease if certain conditions are met, including, among others, the move is determined to be necessary to accommodate the tenant’s disability related to mobility and the new dwelling or unit is in the same building or on the same parcel with at least 3 other units.

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AB 1630
Garcia D
Planning and zoning:
housing
development
approvals: student
housing projects.
3/9/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/22/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
H. & C.D.

Would enact The Student Housing Crisis Act of 2023.
• The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to classify student and faculty and staff housing as a permitted use on all real property within 1,000 feet of a university campus, as defined, for zoning purposes.
• The bill would require a proposed student or faculty and staff housing project, as defined, to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or a hearing, if specified requirements are met, including that a minimum of 20% of the units in the project be rented by students or faculty and staff of the university.
• The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing or enforcing on a student or faculty and staff housing project subject to ministerial consideration certain restrictions, including a minimum automobile parking requirement.
• The bill would require student or faculty and staff housing to have certain recorded deed restrictions, except as provided, that ensure for at least 55 years that, among other things, at least 20% of the units are affordable to lower income households, as defined, except as provided. In connection with an application submitted pursuant to these provisions, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to take specified actions, including, upon the Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
request of the applicant, provide a list of permits and fees that are required by the city, county, or city and county. By imposing new duties on local jurisdictions, this bill would impose a statemandated local program.

AB 1633
Ting D
Housing
Accountability Act:
disapprovals:

California
Environmental
Quality Act.
3/9/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
3/9/2023-Referred to
Coms. on H. & C.D.
and NAT. RES.

Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record.
• This bill would define “disapprove the housing development project” as also including any instance in which a local agency fails to issue a project an exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as described, or fails to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project, to certify an environmental impact report for the project, or to approve another comparable environmental document, if certain conditions are satisfied. Among other conditions, the bill would require a housing development project subject to these provisions to be located within an urbanized area, as defined, and meet or exceed 15 dwelling units per acre. By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 1637
Irwin D
Local government:
internet websites and
email addresses.
3/16/2023-A. L.

GOV.
3/20/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
L. GOV.

The California Public Records Act requires a local agency to make public records available for inspection and allows a local agency to comply by posting the record on its internet website and directing a member of the public to the internet website, as specified. • This bill, no later than January 1, 2025, would require a local agency, as defined, that maintains an internet website for use by the public to ensure that the internet website utilizes a “.gov” top-level domain or a “.ca.gov” second-level domain, and would require a local agency that maintains an internet website that is noncompliant with that requirement to redirect that internet website to a domain name that does utilize a “.gov” or “.ca.gov” domain. • This bill, no later than January 1, 2025, would also require a local agency that maintains public email addresses to ensure that each email address provided to its employees utilizes a “.gov” domain name or a “.ca.gov” domain name. By adding to the duties of local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 1654
Addis D
City streets and
highways.
2/17/2023-A. PRINT
2/18/2023-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 20.

Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city to do any and all things necessary to lay out, acquire, and construct a section or portion of a street or highway within its jurisdiction as a freeway and to make an existing street or highway a freeway. • This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

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AB 1661
Bonta D
3/9/2023-A. U. & E.
3/9/2023-Referred to
Com. on U. & E.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission to require every residential unit in an apartment house or similar multiunit residential structure, Watch
38 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Electrical and gas
service: accessory
dwelling units.
condominium, or mobilehome park issued a building permit on or after July 1, 1982, with certain exceptions, to be individually metered for electrical and gas service. • This bill would additionally except from that requirement an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, if the owner of the property on which the accessory dwelling unit is located elects to have the accessory dwelling unit’s electrical and gas services metered through existing or upgraded utility meters located on that property.
• The bill would require an electrical corporation and gas corporation, if an owner of such a property elects to have the accessory dwelling unit’s electrical and gas services metered through utility meters located on that property, to allow the property owner to do so. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1696
Sanchez R
Sober Living
Accountability Act.
3/29/2023-A. APPR.
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 14.

Noes 0.) (March 28).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would require any government entity, as defined, that enters into a contract with a privately owned recovery residence to require that recovery residence to submit specified documents, including, among other things, written permission from the property owner to operate on the property, as specified, and the policies and procedures used by the recovery resident to address a resident’s right to access prescription and nonprescription drugs. • The bill would apply these requirements to any contracts entered into, renewed, or amended on or after January 1, 2024.

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AB 1708
Muratsuchi D
Theft.
3/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
3/13/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
PUB. S.

The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, defines and prohibits an act of shoplifting and prohibits prosecution for an act of shoplifting under any other law. • This bill would refine the definition of shoplifting and would specifically exclude certain offenses from prosecution as shoplifting, including, among others, the theft of a firearm or vehicle, identity theft, and credit card fraud.

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AB 1714
Wood D
Public utilities:
broadband service
providers.
3/9/2023-A. C. & C.
3/9/2023-Referred to
Com. on C. & C.

The Public Utilities Act imposes requirements, including a requirement that rates charged by a public utility are to be just and reasonable, over public utilities. Under existing law a violation of the act by a public utility is a crime.
• This bill would define “public utility” to include a corporation providing broadband service to the public or a portion of the public. By including corporations providing broadband service as a public utility, the bill would expand the application of requirements imposed on public utilities by the Public Utilities Act to those corporations and would, therefore, expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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ACA 1
Aguiar-Curry D
12/5/2022-A. PRINT
12/6/2022-From
The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would Watch
39 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Local government
financing: affordable
housing and public
infrastructure: voter
approval.
printer. May be
heard in committee
January 5.
create an additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city, county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, or city and county, as applicable, and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements. The measure would specify that these provisions apply to any city, county, city and county, or special district measure imposing an ad valorem tax to pay the interest and redemption charges on bonded indebtedness for these purposes that is submitted at the same election as this measure.

ACA 3
Lee D
Wealth tax:
appropriation limits.
3/30/2023-A. REV. &
TAX
3/30/2023-Referred
to Com. on REV. &
TAX.

Would authorize the Legislature to impose a tax upon all forms of personal property or wealth, whether tangible or intangible, and would require any tax so imposed to be administered and collected by the Franchise Tax Board and the Department of Justice, as determined by the Legislature in statute. The measure would authorize the Legislature to classify any form of personal property or wealth for differential taxation or for exemption by a majority vote.

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ACA 4
Bryan D
Elections: eligibility
to vote.
3/30/2023-
A. ELECTIONS
3/30/2023-Referred
to Com. on
ELECTIONS.

The California Constitution authorizes a person to vote if the person is a United States citizen, at least 18 years of age, and a resident of the state. The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for the disqualification of electors while serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony. This measure would repeal that requirement regarding the disqualification of electors incarcerated for felony convictions, thereby authorizing an otherwise qualified elector serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony to vote.

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SB 2
Portantino D
Firearms.
3/29/2023-S. APPR.
4/3/2023-Set for
hearing April 10.

Current law prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm or carrying a loaded firearm in public. Current law authorizes a licensing authority, as specified, if good cause exists for the issuance, and subject to certain other criteria including, among other things, the applicant is of good moral character and has completed a specified course of training, to issue a license to carry a concealed handgun or to carry a loaded and exposed handgun, as specified. Under current law, the required course of training for an applicant is no more than 16 hours and covers firearm safety and laws regarding the permissible use of a firearm. • This bill would require the licensing authority to issue or renew a license if the applicant is not a disqualified person for the license and the applicant is at least 21 years of age. • The bill would remove the good character and good cause requirements from the issuance criteria. Under the bill, the applicant would be a disqualified person if they, among other things, are reasonably likely to be a danger to self, others, or the community at large, as specified. • This bill would add the requirement that the applicant be the recorded owner, with the Watch
40 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Department of Justice, of the pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person.
• This bill would change the training requirement to be no less than 16 hours in length and would add additional subjects to the course including, among other things, the safe storage and legal transportation of firearms.

SB 4
Wiener D
Planning and zoning:
housing
development: higher
education
institutions and
religious institutions.
3/22/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/28/2023-From
committee with
author's
amendments. Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com. on
GOV. & F.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, longterm general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. The Zenovich-MosconeChacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee within the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires the committee to allocate state low-income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law that establishes a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits. • This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use.
• The bill would define various terms for these purposes.

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SB 7
Blakespear D
Regional housing
needs allocation:
homelessness.
2/22/2023-
S. HOUSING
2/22/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
HOUSING.

Existing law establishes various programs to address homelessness, including requiring the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness and establishing the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. • This bill, for regional housing need assessments on or after January 1, 2024, would require “homeless” to be included as an income category for purposes of the regional housing needs allocation plan. By requiring each council of governments to revise the income categories used in regional housing needs allocations, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

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41 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. • This bill contains other existing laws.

SB 17
Caballero D
Senior housing: tax
credits.
3/8/2023-
S. HOUSING
3/8/2023-Re-referred
to Com. on
HOUSING.

Current law, enacted to implement a specified low-income housing tax credit established by federal law, requires the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to annually determine and allocate the state ceiling in accordance with those provisions and in conformity with federal law. Current law requires that specified amounts of the low-income housing tax credits be set aside for allocation to rural areas, small developments, and farmworker housing, as specified. • This bill would require that the percentage of the federal ceiling on low-income housing tax credits that is awarded for projects restricted to senior citizens not be less than the percentage of lower income renter households in the state that are lower income elderly renter households, as specified.

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SB 20
Rubio D
Joint powers
agreements: regional
housing trusts.
1/18/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/23/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

Would authorize 2 or more cities, by entering into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, to create a regional housing trust for the purposes of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their jurisdictions.
• The bill would require a regional housing trust created pursuant to these provisions to be governed by a board of directors consisting of a minimum of 9 directors, as specified. • The bill would authorize a regional housing trust to fund the planning and construction of housing, receive public and private financing and funds, and authorize and issue bonds, as specified.
• The bill would require the joint powers agreement establishing the regional housing trust to incorporate specified annual financial reporting and auditing requirements.

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SB 24
Umberg D
Political Reform Act
of 1974: public
campaign financing.
1/18/2023-S. E. &
C.A.
3/30/2023-From
committee with
author's
amendments. Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com. on
E. & C.A.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits a public officer from expending, and a candidate from accepting, public moneys for the purpose of seeking elective office. • This bill would permit a public officer or candidate to expend or accept public moneys for the purpose of seeking elective office if the state or a local governmental entity established a dedicated fund for this purpose, as specified.
• The bill would prohibit the public moneys for this dedicated fund from being taken from public moneys that are earmarked for education, transportation, or public safety. This restriction would not apply to charter cities.

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SB 35
Umberg D
3/29/2023-
S. HEALTH
The Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to Watch
42 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Community
Assistance,
Recovery, and
Empowerment
(CARE) Court
Program.
4/3/2023-Set for
hearing April 19.
provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. Current law authorizes CARE Act proceedings to commence in the county where the respondent resides, is found, or is facing criminal or civil proceedings. Current law requires the act to be implemented with technical assistance and continuous quality improvement, as specified, including expected start dates for specified counties. Current law also requires the State Department of Health Care Services to implement guidelines under which counties can apply for and be provided additional time to implement the above-described provisions. Current law authorizes the department to grant an extension once, and no later than December 1, 2025.
• This bill would instead authorize the department to grant an extension no later than December 15, 2025.

SB 37
Caballero D
Older Adults and
Adults with
Disabilities Housing
Stability Act.
3/22/2023-S. HUM.

S.
3/27/2023-Set for
hearing April 24.

Current law establishes various programs to address homelessness, including requiring the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness and establishing the Homeless Emergency Aid program for the purpose of providing localities with one-time grant funds to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Current law commits to the Department of Housing and Community Development the administration of various housing assistance programs, including provisions relating to residential hotel rehabilitation and tasks the department, in consultation with each council of governments, with the determination of each region’s existing and projected housing need.
• This bill would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature for this express purpose, require the Department of Housing and Community Development, commencing January 1, 2024, to begin developing the Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Housing Stability Program.

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SB 44
Umberg D
Controlled
substances.
1/18/2023-S. PUB.

S.
3/28/2023-VOTE:
[First] hearing set for
[03-29-2023]: Failed
passage in
Committee.

Reconsideration
granted (PASS)
Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, import, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics.
• This bill, Alexandra’s Law, would require the court to advise a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes, as specified, of the danger of selling or administering illicit drugs and counterfeit pills and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the defendant can be charged with homicide.
• The bill would require the court to read the advisory statement in a case in which the defendant exchanged a controlled substance containing fentanyl or its analogs for anything else of value, as specified.

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43 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would require the advisory statement to be included in a plea form, if used, and specified on the record.

SB 50
Bradford D
Vehicles:
enforcement.
3/29/2023-S. APPR.
3/30/2023-Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Would prohibit a peace officer from stopping or detaining the operator of a motor vehicle or bicycle for a low-level infraction, as defined, unless a separate, independent basis for a stop exists.
• The bill would authorize a peace officer who does not have grounds to stop a vehicle or bicycle, but can determine the identity of the owner, to send a citation or warning letter to the owner.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 53
Portantino D
Income taxes: tax
credits: motion
picture credit.
12/5/2022-S. RLS.
1/18/2023-Referred
to Com. on RLS.

The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a motion picture credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2020, and before July 1, 2025, in an amount equal to 20% or 25% of qualified expenditures for the production of a qualified motion picture in this state, with additional credit amounts allowed, including for amounts equal to specified qualified expenditures and qualified wages relating to original photography outside the Los Angeles zone, as specified. • This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the motion picture credit.

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SB 55
Umberg D
Vehicles: catalytic
converters.
1/18/2023-
S. TRANS.
3/28/2023-From
committee with
author's
amendments. Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com. on
TRANS.

Current law requires a core recycler that accepts, ships, or sells used catalytic converters to maintain specified information regarding the purchase and sale of the catalytic converters.

Current law prohibits a core recycler from providing payment for a catalytic converter unless, among other requirements, the payment is made by check, as specified. • This bill, in addition to payment by check, would allow for payment by credit card or any other form of traceable payment other than cash.

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SB 58
Wiener D
Controlled
substances:
decriminalization of
certain
3/21/2023-S. APPR.
3/21/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 3.

Noes 1.) (March 21).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Would make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline, for personal use or facilitated or supported use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older.
• The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substance on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age.

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44 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
hallucinogenic
substances.

SB 77
Umberg D
Voting: signature
verification: notice.
3/21/2023-S. APPR.
3/28/2023-Set for
hearing April 10.

Current law requires a county elections official, upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, to compare the signature on the identification envelope with the voter’s signature appearing on specified voter registration records. If the elections official determines that the signatures do not match, or if the identification envelope does not contain a signature, current law requires the elections official to mail a notice to the voter, no later than 8 days before the certification of the election, of the opportunity to verify the voter’s signature or provide a signature, as applicable.
• This bill would require the elections official to additionally notify the voter by telephone, a text message, or email, if the elections official has a telephone number or email address for the voter on file.

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SB 225
Caballero D
Community AntiDisplacement and
Preservation
Program: statewide
contract.
3/22/2023-S. G.O.
3/28/2023-Set for
hearing April 11.

Would establish the Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program for purposes of funding the acquisition and rehabilitation of unrestricted housing units, as defined, and attaching long-term affordability restrictions on the housing units, while safeguarding against the displacement of current residents.
• The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue a request for qualification to select a private sector entity or consortium to manage the program for a period of 5 years.
• The bill would require the program manager to make loans to eligible borrowers, as defined, based on underwriting guidelines approved by the department. • The bill would authorize the department to issue grants or loans from program funds to local public entities upon request for purposes of allowing the local public entity to use the moneys to issue loans to eligible borrowers within its jurisdiction in accordance with the bill’s provisions and department regulations.
• The bill would require the department to adopt regulations for the operation of the program and would exempt the adoption of regulations by the department for these purposes from the Administrative Procedure Act.

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SB 233
Skinner D
Electricvehicles and
electric vehicle
supply equipment:
3/29/2023-S. E. U., &
C.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Coms. on
E., U. & C. and
TRANS.

Would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to establish state goals to accelerate the use of vehicle-to-home, vehicle-to-building, and vehicleto-grid, as described, in order to support emergency backup, electrical grid reliability, electric vehicle grid integration, and any other key metrics identified by the Energy Commission, as specified.
• The bill would require the Energy Commission and state board to allocate moneys appropriated for purposes of funding electric vehicles and electric vehicle service equipment to Watch
45 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
bidirectional
capability.
provide higher incentive levels for bidirectional capable, as defined, electric vehicles and electric vehicle service equipment, and, in administering programs that incentivize electric vehicle and electric vehicle service equipment deployment, to ensure that disadvantaged communities, as defined, receive meaningful health, economic, and clean energy resilience benefits from state electric vehicle and electric vehicle service equipment funding.

SB 239
Dahle R
California
Environmental
Quality Act: housing
development
projects: judicial
proceedings.
2/1/2023-S. E.Q.
3/14/2023-March 15
set for first hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a court, in an action or proceeding brought challenging any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA and a finding by the court of such noncompliance, to enter an order that includes one or more of specified mandates, one of which may be a mandate to suspend any or all specific project activity or activities, as provided. CEQA provides that, except as otherwise specified, it is not intended to limit the equitable powers of the courts. • This bill would limit the standing to file and maintain the above action or proceeding to the Attorney General.
• The bill would authorize the court, upon its own motion or of a party, to conduct a hearing to determine if the Attorney General is bringing and maintaining an action or proceeding for nonenvironmental purposes, as defined. If the court determines that the action is brought or maintained for nonenvironmental purposes, the bill would authorize the court to take necessary actions, including the dismissal of the action or proceeding, award of attorneys’ fees, or both dismissal and award.

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SB 251
Newman D
Political Reform Act
of 1974: elected
officers: conflicts of
interest.
2/9/2023-S. E. &
C.A.
4/3/2023-Set for
hearing April 18.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of conflicts of interest of public officials. The act makes a knowing or willful violation of its provisions a misdemeanor.
• This bill would prohibit an elected officer from employment by any other elected officer with the same constituency, except if the elected officer first began their employment by the other elected officer with the same constituency on or before December 31, 2023. • The bill would not apply to statewide elected officers.

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SB 267
Eggman D
Credit history of
persons receiving
government rent
subsidies.
3/29/2023-S. APPR.
4/3/2023-Set for
hearing April 10.

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), prohibits, in instances in which there is a government rent subsidy, the use of a financial or income standard in assessing eligibility for the rental of housing that is not based on the portion of the rent to be paid by the tenant. FEHA requires the Civil Rights Department to enforce specific provisions of the act, including the provision described above.
• This bill would additionally prohibit the use of a person’s credit history as part of the application process for a rental housing accommodation without offering the applicant the option of providing alternative evidence of financial responsibility and ability to pay in instances in which there is a government rent subsidy.

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46 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would require the housing provider to consider that alternative evidence in lieu of the person’s credit history in determining whether to offer the rental accommodation to the applicant.

SB 294
Wiener D
Housing
development
projects: floor area
ratios.
2/15/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
2/15/2023-Referred
to Coms. on GOV. &
F. and HOUSING.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element.

Current law prohibits a local agency, as defined, from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 1.0 on a housing development project that consists of 3 to 7 units, or less than

1.25 on a housing development project that consists of 8 to 10 units. Current law prohibits a local agency from imposing a lot coverage requirement that would physically preclude a housing development project of not more than 10 units from achieving the floor area ratios described above.
• This bill would delete the 10-unit maximum for eligible projects, and would prohibit a local agency from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 2.5 on a housing development project that consists of 11 to 20 units.
• The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 1.25 for every ten housing units, rounded to the nearest ten units, on a housing development project that consists of more than 20 units.

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SB 295
Dodd D
Vehicles: regulations
on public property.
3/29/2023-S. APPR.
3/29/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 13.

Noes 0.) (March 28).

Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law authorizes a public agency to adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, skateboards, electrically motorized boards, and roller skates on public property under the jurisdiction of that agency, as specified.
• This bill would additionally include certain transportation devices for the purposes of this provision, including, among other things, scooters, pocket bicycles, and golf carts, as specified.

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SB 316
Niello R
Shoplifting:
increased penalties
for prior crimes.
3/28/2023-S. APPR.
3/28/2023-VOTE: Do
pass, but first be rereferred to the
Committee on
[Appropriations]
(FAIL)
Current law, as amended by Proposition 47, provides that a registered sex offender or a person with a prior conviction for certain serious or violent felonies, such as a sexually violent offense, who commits petty theft is subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years.
• This bill would reinstate a provision of law that was repealed by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 18 months or 2 or 3 years. • The bill would also make this provision and the provision relating to a person with serious, Watch
47 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
violent, or sexual prior offenses applicable to a person whose prior or current conviction is for shoplifting.

SB 320
Skinner D
Property taxation:
possessory
interests:
independent:
publicly owned
housing project.
2/15/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
2/15/2023-Referred
to Com. on GOV. &
F.

Current property tax law requires that all property subject to tax be assessed at its full cash value, and includes certain possessory interests among those property interests that are subject to tax. Current property tax law defines a taxable possessory interest to be a use that is independent, durable, and exclusive. Current property tax law specifies that, for purposes of the definition of a taxable possessory interest, a possession or use is not independent if it is pursuant to a contract that includes, but is not limited to, a long-term lease for the private construction, renovation, rehabilitation, replacement, management, or maintenance of housing for active duty military personnel and their dependents, if specified criteria are met. • This bill would provide that there is no independent possession or use of land or improvements if the possession or use is for a tenancy, as defined, in a residential unit, as defined, in a publicly owned housing project, as defined, is part of a governmental assistance program, and directly fulfills the governmental, public purpose of providing the housing, as described in the governmental assistance program.

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SB 329
Dodd D
Cities: city council
members:
compensation.
2/15/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
2/15/2023-Referred
to Com. on GOV. &
F.

Current law authorizes a city council to enact an ordinance to provide each member of the city council a salary based upon the population of the city, as specified. Current law authorizes that amount to be increased by the city council by an amount that does not exceed 5% for each calendar year from the operative date of the last adjustment of the salary that is in effect when the increase is enacted, and prohibits an ordinance from being enacted or amended to provide automatic future increases in salary.
• This bill, instead, would authorize a city council to adjust, by ordinance, the amount of the salary of city council members based upon population in an amount that does not exceed inflation since January 1, 1984, based upon the California Consumer Price Index.

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SB 393
Glazer D
California
Environmental
Quality Act: judicial
challenge:
identification of
contributors:
housing projects.
3/15/2023-S. JUD.
3/29/2023-Set for
hearing April 18.

Would require a plaintiff or petitioner, in an action brought pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act relating to a housing development project, to disclose the identity of a person or entity that contributes in excess of $5,000, as specified, toward the plaintiff’s or petitioner’s costs of the action.
• The bill also would require the plaintiff or petitioner to identify any pecuniary or business interest related to the project of any person or entity that contributes in excess of $5,000 to the costs of the action, as specified.
• The bill would provide that a failure to comply with these requirements may be grounds for dismissal of the action by the court.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SB 400
Wahab D
Peace officers:
confidentiality of
records.
2/22/2023-S. PUB.

S.
3/13/2023-Set for
hearing April 11.

The California Public Records Act generally requires public records to be open for inspection by the public. Current law provides numerous exceptions to this requirement. Under current law, the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers are confidential and not subject to public inspection. Current law provides certain exemptions to this confidentiality, including the reports, investigations, and findings of certain incidents involving the use of force by a peace officer.
• This bill would clarify that this confidentiality does not prohibit an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or custodial officer from disclosing the termination for cause of that officer, as specified.

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SB 405
Cortese D
Planning and zoning:
housing element:
inventory of sites:
regional housing
need.
2/22/2023-
S. HOUSING
2/22/2023-Referred
to Com. on
HOUSING.

Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. Current law requires the appropriate council of governments, or for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. Current law requires a city or county to determine whether each site in its inventory of land can accommodate the development of some portion of its share of the regional housing need, as provided. • This bill, for a housing element or amendment adopted as part of the seventh planning period, would require the planning agency to provide notice to the owner of a site included in the above-described inventory that the site is included in that inventory, if the owner’s identity and contact information is known, as specified. If the site owner notifies the planning agency or the department that the owner does not intend to develop at least 80% of the number of units for the site, determined as described above, during the current planning period, the bill would provide that the site would not be considered a site that can be developed to meet the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, except as specified. • The bill would require the planning agency to make a reasonable effort to identify an owner and the owner’s contact information and to determine the intent of the owner to develop the site.
• The bill would require that the information be an important factor for the department in determining whether the housing element identifies sufficient sites to meet the jurisdiction share of regional housing.
• The bill would require the department to amend specified standards, forms, and definitions to implement these provisions.

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SB 406
Cortese D
3/15/2023-
S. HOUSING
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts for its requirements actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development or the California Housing Finance Agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption: financial
assistance: housing.
3/30/2023-Set for
hearing May 2.
construction of residential housing, as provided.
• This bill would extend the above exemption to actions taken by a local agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing.

SB 411
Portantino D
Open meetings:
teleconferences:
bodies with
appointed
membership.
2/22/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
2/22/2023-Referred
to Coms. on GOV. &
F. and JUD.

Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency or in other situations related to public health that exempt a legislative body from the general requirements (emergency provisions) and impose different requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The emergency provisions specify that they do not require a legislative body to provide a physical location from which the public may attend or comment.

Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met, including restrictions on remote participation by a member of the legislative body. • This bill would authorize a legislative body to use alternate teleconferencing provisions similar to the emergency provisions indefinitely and without regard to a state of emergency. • The bill would alternatively define “legislative body” for this purpose to mean a board, commission, or advisory body of a local agency, the membership of which board, commission, or advisory body is appointed and which board, commission, or advisory body is otherwise subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act.

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SB 423
Wiener D
Land use:
streamlined housing
approvals:
multifamily housing
developments.
3/22/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/28/2023-From
committee with
author's
amendments. Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com. on
GOV. & F.

The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units required, as specified, remain available at affordable housing costs, as defined, or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate-income for no less than specified periods of time. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.
• This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development on property owned by or leased to the state.

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50 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SB 466
Wahab D
Costa-Hawkins
Rental Housing Act:
rental rates.
2/22/2023-S. JUD.
3/30/2023-April 11
hearing postponed
by committee.

The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act prescribes statewide limits on the application of local rent control with regard to certain properties. The act generally authorizes an owner of residential real property to establish the initial rental rate for a dwelling or unit, except in specified circumstances, including, (1) when the residential real property has a certificate of occupancy issued after February 1, 1995, (2) when the residential real property has already been exempt from the residential rent control ordinance of a public entity on or before February 1, 1995, pursuant to a local exemption for newly constructed units, and (3) when the residential real property is alienable and separate from title to any other dwelling units, except as specified.
• This bill would instead authorize an owner of residential real property to establish the initial rental rate for a dwelling or unit when the residential real property has been issued a certificate of occupancy issued within the 15 years preceding the date on which the owner seeks to establish a rental rate under these provisions.

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SB 469
Allen D
Housing: publicly
funded low-rent
housing projects.
2/22/2023-
S. HOUSING
3/30/2023-Set for
hearing April 18.

The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition in any manner of a low-rent housing project by any state public body, as defined, until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which it is proposed to develop, construct, or acquire the same, voting upon that issue, approve the project by voting in favor at an election. The California Constitution, for purposes of this prohibition, defines “low-rent housing project” to mean any development composed of urban or rural dwellings, apartments, or other living accommodations for persons of low income, financed in whole or in part by the federal government or a state public body or to which the federal government or a state public body extends assistance by supplying all or part of the labor, by guaranteeing the payment of liens, or otherwise. Current law establishes exclusions from this definition of “low-rent housing project,” including a development that consists of the acquisition, rehabilitation, reconstruction, alterations work, or any combination thereof, of lodging facilities or dwelling units using moneys appropriated and disbursed pursuant to specified provisions of the ZenovichMoscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act relating to affordable housing preservation, rental housing development awarded funds from certain multifamily housing direct loan programs, and housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases.
• This bill would expand that exclusion to include a development that consists of the acquisition, rehabilitation, reconstruction, alterations work, or any combination thereof, of lodging facilities or dwelling units using an allocation of federal or state low-income housing tax credits from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee or moneys appropriated and Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
disbursed pursuant to any provision of the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, thereby excluding the developments that receive money from the specified funds and programs from the scope of the above-described constitutional provision.

SB 525
Durazo D
Minimum wage:
health care workers.
2/22/2023-S. L., P.E.
& R.
3/28/2023-From
committee with
author's
amendments. Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com. on
L., P.E. & R.

Would require a health care worker minimum wage of $25 per hour for hours worked in covered health care employment, as defined, subject to adjustment, as prescribed. • The bill would provide that the health care worker minimum wage constitutes the state minimum wage for covered health care employment for all purposes under the Labor Code and the Wage Orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission. The health care worker minimum wage would be enforceable by the Labor Commissioner or by a covered worker through a civil action, through the same means and with the same relief available for violation of any other state minimum wage requirement. By establishing a new minimum wage, the violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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SB 528
Rubio D
California
Earthquake
Authority.
2/22/2023-S. INS.
3/30/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

Current law establishes a capital structure for the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), with several sources of financing. Current law authorizes the CEA, with the Treasurer as its agent, to issue and sell investment grade revenue bonds or issue or secure other debt financing, or both, up to a specified amount, if claims and claim expenses paid following an earthquake event exhaust 4 specified sources of capital. Current law authorizes the CEA to impose a surcharge on all CEA policies up to a specified amount to secure funds to repay the bonded indebtedness or other debt. Current law additionally authorizes the CEA to assess participating insurers, up to a specified amount, if claims and claim expenses exhaust the CEA’s sources of capital and the policy surcharge. Current law further authorizes the CEA to assess participating insurance companies up to $1,780,000,000 if claims and claim expenses paid by the CEA due to earthquake events exhaust the 4 specified sources of capital, the policy surcharge, and the participating insurance company assessment, described above. • This bill would repeal the $1,780,000,000 assessment authorization and make conforming changes.

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SB 537
Becker D
Open meetings: local
agencies:
teleconferences.
3/29/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Coms. on
GOV. & F. and JUD.

Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency or in other situations related to public health that exempt a legislative body from the general requirements (emergency provisions) and impose different requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The emergency provisions specify that they do not require a legislative body to provide a physical location from which the public may attend or comment.

Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met, including restrictions on remote participation by a member of the legislative body. These circumstances include if a member shows “just cause,” including for a childcare or caregiving need of a relative that requires the member to participate remotely. • This bill would authorize certain legislative bodies to use alternate teleconferencing provisions similar to the emergency provisions indefinitely and without regard to a state of emergency.
• The bill would also require a legislative body to provide a record of attendance on its internet website within 7 days after a teleconference meeting, as specified. • The bill would define “legislative body” for this purpose to mean a board, commission, or advisory body of a multijurisdictional cross county agency, the membership of which board, commission, or advisory body is appointed and which board, commission, or advisory body is otherwise subject to the act.
• The bill would also define “multijurisdictional” to mean a legislative body that includes representatives from more than one county, city, city and county, special district, or a joint powers entity.

SB 538
Portantino D
Department of
Transportation:

Bicycle Czar.
2/22/2023-
S. TRANS.
4/3/2023-Set for
hearing April 25.

Would require the Director of Transportation to appoint a Bicycle Czar, to serve as the department’s chief advisor on all issues related to bicycle transportation, safety, and infrastructure.

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SB 547
Blakespear D
District agricultural
associations: real
property: affordable
housing.
3/29/2023-S. AGRI.
4/3/2023-Set for
hearing April 18.

Current law provides for the establishment of district agricultural associations and authorizes a district agricultural association to engage in various activities, including to purchase, acquire, hold, sell, exchange, or convey any interest in real property with the approval of the Department of General Services.
• This bill would specify that the construction and maintenance of affordable housing, as defined, is included in that provision.

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SB 552
Newman D
Solid waste: singleuse foodware
2/15/2023-S. RLS.
2/22/2023-Referred
to Com. on RLS.

Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would prohibit a restaurant from providing a dine-in customer with any single-use foodware accessory or single-use food packaging.

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53 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
accessory and
single-use food
packaging.

SB 555
Wahab D
Social Housing Act
of 2023.
2/22/2023-
S. HOUSING
2/22/2023-Referred
to Com. on
HOUSING.

Would establish the California Social Housing Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be made available to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purposes of this act, including promoting the achievement of the aforementioned goals. • This bill would require the department, no later than January 1, 2025, to develop, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a California Social Housing Plan for achieving the aforementioned goals, as specified.
• The bill would make related findings and declarations.

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SB 569
Glazer D
Taxation: renter’s
credit.
2/22/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/21/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit for qualified renters in the amount of $120 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of household, and surviving spouses if adjusted gross income is $50,000, as adjusted, or less, and in the amount of $60 for other individuals if adjusted gross income is $25,000, as adjusted, or less. Current law requires the Franchise Tax Board to annually adjust for inflation these adjusted gross income amounts. For 2021, the adjusted gross income limit is $87,066 and $43,533, respectively. Current law requires any bill authorizing a new tax credit to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. Current law establishes the continuously appropriated Tax Relief and Refund Account in the General Fund and provides that payments required to be made to taxpayers or other persons from the Personal Income Tax Fund are to be paid from that account. • This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, would require the Franchise Tax Board to annually recompute for inflation the abovementioned credit amounts, as provided. • The bill, for credits allowable for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, would provide that the credit amount in excess of the qualified renter’s liability would be refundable and paid from the Tax Relief and Refund Account to the qualified renter upon appropriation by the Legislature.

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SB 573
Wahab D
Political Reform Act
of 1974: Conflicts of
Interest.
3/29/2023-S. E. &
C.A.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
E. & C.A.

Would restrict the postgovernment employment activities of certain employees of the Legislature for up to 2 years following their departure from state service. For a period of 2 years after leaving employment from the Legislature, employees designated in the Senate or Assembly’s Conflict of Interest Code would be prohibited from registering as a lobbyist, working for a lobbying firm, as specified, or working for a lobbyist employer, as specified.A Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
violation of the act’s provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

SB 576
Nguyen R
General plans: land
use element: military
sites.
3/29/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
GOV. & F.

Would, commencing January 1, 2025, would require the legislative body of a city or county, upon any substantive revision of its land use element, to modify that element to prohibit highdensity housing, as defined, from being built within a 5-mile radius of a military installation or other site deemed sensitive to national security by the United States Department of Defense, except as specified. By placing new duties on county and city officials with respect to their land use planning, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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SB 580
Bradford D
Schoolbuses: stop
signal arm
enforcement system.
2/22/2023-
S. TRANS.
3/21/2023-Set for
hearing April 11.

Current law requires the driver of any vehicle, upon meeting or overtaking any schoolbus equipped with required signs that is stopped for the purpose of loading or unloading any schoolchildren and displaying a flashing red light signal and stop signal arm, if equipped with a stop signal arm, to bring the vehicle to a stop immediately before passing the schoolbus and to not proceed past the schoolbus until the flashing red light signal and stop signal arm cease operation. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Under current law, a driver is not required to stop if they are on the other roadway of a divided or multiple-lane highway, as defined. • This bill would require a driver to stop on a divided highway, unless there is an elevated barrier or the median is unpaved, and would instead punish a violation of the prohibition with a civil penalty.

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SB 584
Limón D
Laborforce housing.
3/29/2023-
S. HOUSING
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Coms. on
HOUSING and GOV.
& F.

Would enact the Laborforce Housing Financing Act of 2023, and define “laborforce housing” as housing that, among other things, is owned and managed by specified entities solely for the benefit of residents and households unable to afford market rent, and whose residents enjoy certain protections.
• The bill would establish, in the State Treasury, the Laborforce Housing Fund, to be continuously appropriated to the department, for the creation of laborforce housing and other specified housing projects by public entities, local housing authorities, and mission-driven nonprofit housing providers, as provided. By creating a new continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.

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SB 591
Min D
California
Cybersecurity
Integration Center:
consumer protection:
credit reporting.
3/29/2023-S. G.O.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Coms. on
G.O. and JUD.

Would require the California Cybersecurity Integration Center, by December 31, 2025, to submit to the Legislature, as specified, a report on the feasibility of, and the potential benefits, risks, and costs of, requiring credit reporting bureaus and lenders to implement new information security tactics that protect consumers from financial fraud, including requiring credit reporting bureaus or lenders to use multifactor authentication each time a new line of credit is opened or a credit report is accessed, and specified tactics related to using alternatives to social security numbers as authenticators.

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55 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SB 602
Archuleta D
Trespass.
2/22/2023-S. PUB.

S.
3/20/2023-From
committee with
author's
amendments. Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com. on
PUB S.

Current law makes it a misdemeanor to commit the crime of trespass, which includes refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structures belonging to, or lawfully occupied by, another and not open to the general public upon being requested to leave by a peace officer at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession and upon being informed by the peace officer that they are acting at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession. Current law requires the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession to make a separate request to the peace officer on each occasion when the peace officer’s assistance in dealing with a trespass is requested, except that a single request for peace officer assistance may be made for a period not to exceed 12 months when the premises or property is closed to the public and posted as being closed. Existing law requires the requester to inform the law enforcement agency to which the request was made when the assistance is no longer desired before the 12-month period expires. Current law also authorizes a single request for a peace officer’s assistance to be made for a period of time not to exceed 30 days and identified by specific dates when there is a fire hazard or the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession is absent from the property. Under current law, a request for assistance expires when ownership of the property changes or upon a change in the person in lawful possession. • This bill would authorize a single request for assistance to be made and submitted electronically, in a notarized writing on a form provided by the law enforcement agency, to a peace officer for a time period determined by local ordinance or 12 months, whichever is shorter, and identified by specific dates, during which there is a fire hazard or the owner, owner’s agent, or person in lawful possession is absent from the premises or property.

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SB 613
Seyarto R
Organic waste:
reduction goals:
local jurisdictions:
low-population
exemption.
3/29/2023-S. APPR.
3/29/2023-VOTE: Do
pass as amended,
but first amend, and
re-refer to the
Committee on
[Appropriations] with
the recommendation:

To Consent
Calendar (PASS)
Existing law requires, no later than January 1, 2018, the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a certain reduction in statewide emissions of methane, including a goal of a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. • This bill would exempt a local jurisdiction, as defined, from those requirements and regulations if the local jurisdiction disposes of less than 5,000 tons of solid waste per year and has fewer than 7,500 people, as provided.
• This bill contains other existing laws.

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SB 623
Laird D
3/29/2023-S. L., P.E.
& R.

Current law provides, until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes post-traumatic stress that develops or manifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Workers’
compensation: posttraumatic stress
disorder.
4/3/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.
unit. Current law requires the compensation awarded pursuant to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability indemnity, and death benefits. • This bill would instead repeal that provision on January 1, 2032, and for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2024, expand its scope to apply to firefighting members of the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Department of Developmental Services, the Military Department, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and to additional peace officers, including security officers of the Department of Justice when performing assigned duties as security officers, and the officers of a state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Developmental Services, among other officers.
• The bill would also make that provision applicable to public safety dispatchers, public safety telecommunicators, and emergency response communication employees, as defined.

SB 638
Eggman D
Climate Resiliency
and Flood Protection
Bond Act of 2024.
3/28/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/28/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on GOV. & F. (Ayes

9. Noes 0.) (March
28). Re-referred to
Com. on GOV. & F.

Would enact the Climate Resiliency and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $6,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, for flood protection and climate resiliency projects.

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SB 662
Rubio D
Courts: court
reporters.
3/29/2023-S. JUD.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Coms. on
JUD. and B., P. & E.

D.

Would authorize the Court Reporters Board of California to issue a provisional certificate, that would be valid for 3 years, to an individual who has passed the Registered Professional Reporter examination administered by the National Court Reporters Association or who is eligible to take the examination to become a certified shorthand reporter approved by the board, as specified. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a statemandated local program.

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SB 683
Glazer D
Hotels and shortterm rentals:
advertised rates:
mandatory fees.
3/1/2023-S. JUD.
3/30/2023-From
committee with
author's
amendments. Read
second time and
amended. ReWould require a person that advertises a hotel room rate or short-term rental rate before the public in this state, or from this state before the public in any state, to include in the advertised hotel room rate or short-term rental rate all mandatory fees, as defined, that will be charged in order for the consumer to stay in the hotel room or short-term rental. • The bill would require a hotel or a short-term rental to clearly and conspicuously disclose on its internet website a list of all mandatory fees and credit card surcharges imposed on consumers.
• The bill would authorize certain public attorneys, including the Attorney General, to bring an Watch
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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
referred to Com. on
JUD.
enforcement action and would require a court to impose a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each violation after consideration of specified factors. • The bill would also provide that a violation of its provisions constitutes a false or misleading statement under the FAL. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a statemandated local program.

SB 684
Caballero D
Land use:
streamlined approval
processes:
development
projects of 10 or
fewer single-family
residential units on
urban lots under 5
acres.
3/1/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/28/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. he Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process depending on the type of housing development, as specified. Current law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, requires a city or county to approve an application for a small home lot housing development project, as defined, on a proposed site to be subdivided unless the city or county makes a finding related to the development’s compliance with certain requirements or the development’s specific, adverse public health or safety impact.
• This bill would require a local agency to ministerially approve, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets specified requirements.

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SB 689
Blakespear D
Local coastal
program: conformity
determination.
3/29/2023-
S. TRANS.
3/30/2023-Set for
hearing April 11.

Current law requires the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with county and city governments, to establish minimum safety design criteria for the planning and construction of bikeways. Current law requires all city, county, regional, and other local agencies responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or roadways where bicycle travel is permitted to utilize the minimum safety design criteria established by the department or alternative criteria that meet specified requirements. Current law authorizes a city or county to prepare a bicycle transportation plan with specified required elements for these purposes and, subject to approval of the county transportation commission or transportation planning agency, authorizes the city or county to submit the plan to the department with an application for funds for bikeways and related facilities that will implement the plan. • This bill would require any project that is contained within, or consistent with, a bicycle Watch
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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
transportation plan to be deemed consistent, and in conformity, with any applicable certified local coastal program.

SB 712
Portantino D
Tenancy:
micromobility
devices.
3/30/2023-S. THIRD

READING
3/30/2023-Read
second time and
amended. Ordered
to third reading.

Would prohibit a landlord from prohibiting a tenant from owning a personal micromobility device or from storing up to one personal micromobility device in their dwelling unit for each person occupying the unit, subject to certain exceptions. • The bill would define “micromobility device” for those purposes to mean a device that is powered by the physical exertion of the rider or an electric motor and is designed to transport one individual or one adult accompanied by up to 3 minors.

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SB 713
Padilla D
Planning and zoning:
density bonuses:
preemption.
3/1/2023-
S. HOUSING
3/1/2023-Referred to
Coms. on HOUSING
and GOV. & F.

The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing.

Current law requires a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance specifying how compliance with the Density Bonus Law will be implemented and, except as provided, specifies that failure to adopt an ordinance does not relieve the city, county, or city and county from compliance with that law.
• This bill would specify that the provisions of the Density Bonus Law prevail in the event of a conflict between that law and an ordinance, regulation, or other local law enacted by initiative.

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SB 719
Becker D
Law enforcement
agencies: radio
communications.
3/8/2023-S. PUB. S.
3/29/2023-From
committee with
author's
amendments. Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com. on
PUB S.

Current law establishes the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) to make specified criminal justice databases, including individual criminal histories, wanted and missing persons, and stolen firearms, vehicles, and property, available to participating law enforcement agencies. Current law prohibits unauthorized access to CLETS and the unlawful use of CLETS information by authorized users. Current law authorizes the Attorney General to adopt policies, procedures, and practices related to the use of CLETS.

These rules require a participating agency to restrict access to CLETS and define “access” as the ability to see or hear any information obtained from CLETS. • This bill would require a law enforcement agency, including the Department of the California Highway Patrol, municipal police departments, county sheriff’s departments, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police departments, to, by no later than January 1, 2024, ensure public access, in real time, to the radio communications of that agency, as specified.

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SB 721
Becker D
California
3/29/2023-S. G.O.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Coms. on
G.O. and JUD.

Would, until January 1, 2030, create the California Interagency AI Working Group to deliver a report to the Legislature, as prescribed, regarding artificial intelligence. • The bill would require the working group members to be Californians with expertise in at least 2 of certain areas, including computer science, artificial intelligence, and data privacy.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Interagency AI
Working Group.
• The bill would require the report to the Legislature to include, among other things, a recommendation of a definition of artificial intelligence as it pertains to its use in technology for use in legislation.

SB 724
Glazer D
Political Reform Act
of 1974:
communications.
3/21/2023-S. APPR.
3/28/2023-Set for
hearing April 10.

The Political Reform Act of 1974, among other things, requires the disclosure of certain payments of or promises to pay $50,000 or more for a communication that clearly identifies a candidate for elective state office, but does not expressly advocate the election or defeat of the candidate, and that is disseminated, broadcast, or otherwise published within 45 days of an election, as specified. The Act also requires disclosure by any person who receives or is promised a payment totaling $5,000 or more for the purpose of making such a communication, unless the person who receives the payment is in the business of providing goods or services and receives or is promised the payment for the purpose of providing those goods or services. • This bill would also require the disclosure of any payment of or promise to pay $25,000 or more for a communication that clearly identifies an elective state officer, with the intent to influence the officer or public opinion, and that is disseminated, broadcast, or otherwise published within 150 days of an election, as specified.

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SB 728
Limón D
Gift cards: plastic.
3/29/2023-S. JUD.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Coms. on
JUD. and E.Q.

Current law regulates the sale of gift certificates. (CIV 1749.45-1749.6.) The definition of a gift certificate includes gift cards, but also specifically exempts gift cards that are usable with multiple sellers of goods or services provided that the expiration date, if any, is printed on the card. (CIV 1749.45.)
• This bill would prohibit the sale or distribution of plastic gift cards beginning January 1, 2026.

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SB 735
Cortese D
Motion picture
productions: safety:
firearms:
ammunition.
3/1/2023-S. L., P.E.
& R.
3/1/2023-Referred to
Coms. on L., P.E. &
R. and JUD.

Would require a motion picture production employer to hire a qualified safety supervisor for all motion picture productions to perform a risk assessment to be completed in advance of principal photography of a feature, an episode of a series, or a program, and to be on set daily to ensure cast and crew are not engaged in or exposed to an environment or activity that puts workers’ health and safety at risk.
• The bill would also require an employer to hire a qualified safety supervisor to complete a specific risk assessment to be created and, if necessary, modified, if circumstances change or there is new information that would change the risk assessment. • The bill would establish requirements for risk assessments and specific risk assessments, including documentation.
• The bill would require production to conduct a daily safety meeting on set, including, but not limited to, a safety meeting required when firearms are involved in a scene. • The bill would require a safety supervisor to participate in the safety meetings.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would require an employer to identify a person to ensure compliance with the bill and would require a safety supervisor to be present every day during production.

SB 736
McGuire D
Planning and zoning:
housing:
postentitlement
phase permits.
3/1/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/29/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

The Permit Streamlining Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. Specifically, current law establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application, as specified. Current law requires a local agency, if a postentitlement phase permit is determined to be incomplete, denied, or determined to be noncompliant, to provide a process for the applicant to appeal that decision in writing to the governing body of the agency or, if there is no governing body, to the director of the agency, as provided by that agency. • This bill would delete the provision for the applicant to appeal a decision to the director of the local agency, as described above, and, instead, require a local agency to provide a process for the applicant to appeal that decision in writing to the governing body of the agency only.

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SB 747
Caballero D
Land use: economic
development:
surplus land.
3/1/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/28/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

Current law authorizes a city, county, or city and county, with the approval of its legislative body by resolution after a public hearing, to acquire, sell, or lease property in furtherance of the creation of an economic opportunity, as defined. Current law specifies the Legislature’s intent regarding those provisions.
• This bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county, in addition to a sale or lease, to otherwise transfer property to create an economic opportunity. • The bill would make related, conforming changes.
• The bill would additionally state the Legislature’s intent is to ensure that residents of the state have access to jobs that allow them to afford housing without the need for public subsidies.

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SB 751
Padilla D
Franchise
agreements: labor
impasse.
3/1/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/21/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

Current law contains various provisions relating to franchise agreements between a local jurisdiction and a service provider for the provision of services such as utilities, waste hauling, and cable television.
• This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from entering an exclusive franchise agreement for services on or after January 1, 2024, or an agreement amended on or after that date, that contains a force majeure provision that can be triggered by a labor impasse.

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SB 760
Newman D
3/1/2023-S. ED.
3/21/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

Would require, on or before January 1, 2025, each school district, county office of education, and charter school, including charter schools operating in a school district facility, maintaining any combination of classes from kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, to provide at least one all-gender restroom for pupil use at each of its schoolsites.

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61 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
School facilities: allgender restrooms.• The bill would require the all-gender restroom to meet certain requirements, including that it (1) has appropriate signage identifying the bathroom facility as being open to all genders, (2) is unlocked, unobstructed, and easily accessible by any pupil without requesting access from teachers, faculty, or school staff, and (3) is stocked with menstrual products, as specified. • The bill would require the local educational agency to designate a staff member to serve as a point of contact for these purposes and to post a notice regarding these requirements in a prominent and conspicuous location outside at least one all-gender restroom. • The bill would require these requirements to be subject to compliance review, as specified.

By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
• The bill would authorize a local educational agency to use an existing restroom to satisfy these requirements, as provided.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 769
Gonzalez D
Local government:
fiscal and financial
training.
3/1/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
4/5/2023-April 12
hearing postponed
by committee.

Would require, if a local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to a member of a legislative body, or provides reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred by a member of a legislative body in the performance of official duties, all local agency officials, as defined, to receive at least two hours of fiscal and financial training, as described.
• The bill would require the training to be received at least once every two years, as provided. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 792
Smallwood-Cuevas D
State property.
3/29/2023-S. G.O.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
G.O.

Current law requires the Department of General Services to maintain a complete and accurate statewide inventory of all real property held by the state, to update the inventory annually, and to categorize that inventory by agency and geographical location. This inventory is required to include specified information furnished by state agencies and the University of California. • This bill would require that this inventory be completed and updated by January 1 of each year.

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SB 794
Niello R
California
Environmental
Quality Act: judicial
challenge:
identification of
3/1/2023-S. E.Q.
3/29/2023-March 29
set for first hearing.

Failed passage in
committee. (Ayes 7.

Noes 0.)
Reconsideration
granted.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA authorizes specified entities to file and maintain with a court an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul an act of a public agency on grounds of noncompliance with the requirements of the act.
• This bill would require an action or proceeding brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annual acts or decision of a public agency for a commercial, housing, or public works project Watch
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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
contributors:
housing projects.
that helps to address longstanding critical needs in the project area and that results in an investment of at least $25,000,000 in the state on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 365 days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court.

SB 825
Limón D
Local government:
public broadband
services.
3/1/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/21/2023-Set for
hearing April 12.

Would add metropolitan planning organizations and regional transportation planning authorities to that list of local government agencies included in the definition of “local agency.”
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SB 834
Portantino D
Housing: California
Family Home
Construction and
Homeownership
Bond Act of 2023.
3/1/2023-
S. HOUSING
3/16/2023-March 21
hearing postponed
by committee.

Would enact the California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Bond Act of 2023 (bond act), which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $25,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance the California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Program, established as part of the bond act. • The bill would authorize the California Housing Finance Agency to award California Socially Responsible Second Mortgage Loans to eligible applicants to use as a down payment or to pay closing costs on the purchase of a new home.
• The bill would also authorize the agency to award Family Homeownership Opportunity Infrastructure Improvement Loans to developers to be used for predevelopment infrastructure improvements and other upfront costs typically incurred in connection with new home construction, under specified conditions.
• The bill would require that moneys received from a loan recipient for the repayment of financing provided under the program be used to pay debt service when due on bonds issued pursuant to the bond act.
• The bill would also authorize the agency to issue revenue bonds for the purposes of financing the program, as specified.

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SB 835
Smallwood-Cuevas D
Baldwin Hills and
Urban Watersheds
Conservancy:
watershed and openspace plan: report.
3/29/2023-S. N.R. &
W.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
N.R. & W.

The Baldwin Hills and Urban Watersheds Conservancy Act establishes, in the Natural Resources Agency, the Baldwin Hills and Urban Watersheds Conservancy, created for the purposes of, among other purposes, to acquire and manage public lands within the Baldwin Hills, southern Ballona Creek Watershed, and Upper Dominguez Channel area, as defined.

The act requires the conservancy to do certain things, including develop and adopt a proposed watershed and open-space plan for improvements in the conservancy territory. The act requires a report on the plan to be provided to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2024.

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Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would instead require that report to be provided to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026.

SB 842
Jones R
California
Interagency Council
on Homelessness.
3/1/2023-S. HUM. S.
3/13/2023-Set for
hearing April 17.

Current law requires the Governor to establish the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and requires the council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California, and promote systems integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness while focusing on designing systems to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness.

Existing law sets forth the composition of the council, which includes, among others, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who serve as cochairs of the council. • This bill would add the Director of Developmental Services to the council described above.

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SB 852
Rubio D
Searches:
supervised persons.
3/29/2023-S. PUB.

S.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
PUB S.

Current law authorizes courts to suspend the imposition or execution of punishments in misdemeanor cases and instead enforce the terms of probation. Current law authorizes the conditions of probation to include a waiver of the person’s right to refuse searches. • This bill would clarify that a search of a person who is granted probation and subject to search or seizure must be performed only by a probation officer or other peace officer.

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SB 854
Smallwood-Cuevas D
Carpet recycling:
carpet stewardship.
3/29/2023-S. APPR.
3/29/2023-VOTE: Do
pass as amended,
but first amend, and
re-refer to the
Committee on
[Appropriations]
(PASS)
Current law requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state to submit, either individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, a carpet stewardship plan that meets specified requirements to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and requires the department to approve or disapprove the plan. Current law imposes a carpet stewardship assessment per unit of carpet sold in the state that is remitted by carpet manufacturers to the carpet stewardship organization and may be expended to carry out the organization’s carpet stewardship plan.
• This bill would require a carpet stewardship organization, as part of its carpet stewardship plan, from the assessments received for carpets sold for use in California, to expend at least 95% on activities to carry out the carpet stewardship plan within California, and at least 10% for grants to apprenticeship programs for training apprentice and journey-level carpet installers in proper carpet recycling practices.

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SB 863
Allen D
Hiring of residential
real property.
3/29/2023-S. JUD.
3/29/2023-Rereferred to Com. on
JUD.

Current law requires that before an owner of residential real property issues a notice to terminate for cause that is a curable lease violation, the owner shall first give notice of the violation to the tenant with an opportunity to cure the violation pursuant to specified provisions that authorize the tenant to perform the conditions or covenants of the lease, or to pay the stipulated rent, within 3 days, and thereby save the lease from forfeiture, unless that performance cannot occur, in which case no notice need be given. Current law specifies that if the violation is not cured within the time period set forth in the notice, existing law authorizes a Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
3-day notice to quit without an opportunity to cure to be served to terminate the tenancy. • This bill would remove the requirement that the notice to terminate for cause that is a curable lease violation be given pursuant to those provisions and would instead specify that the time period to cure the violation set forth in the notice shall not be less than 7 days, after which time, if the violation is not cured, a 3-day notice to quit without an opportunity to cure may thereafter be served to terminate the tenancy.

SB 865
Laird D
Municipal water
districts: automatic
exclusion of cities.
3/1/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/27/2023-April 12
hearing postponed
by committee.

Current law authorizes a governing body of a municipal water district to adopt an ordinance excluding any territory annexed to a metropolitan water district organized under the Metropolitan Water District Act, if the territory is annexed prior to the effective date of the formation of the municipal water district. Current law requires the Secretary of State to issue a certificate reciting the passage of the ordinance and the exclusion of the area from the municipal water district within 10 days of receiving a certified copy of the ordinance. • This bill would extend the number of days the Secretary of State has to issue a certificate to 14 days.

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SB 866
Caballero D
Land use: housing.
2/17/2023-S. RLS.
3/1/2023-Referred to
Com. on RLS.

Current law declares the importance of, and general responsibility for, making housing available and affordable for all Californians.
• This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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SB 867
Allen D
Drought and Water
Resilience, Wildfire
and Forest
Resilience, Coastal
Resilience, Extreme
Heat Mitigation,
Biodiversity and
Nature-Based
Climate Solutions,
Climate Smart
Agriculture, and Park
Creation and
Outdoor Access
Bond Act of 2023.
3/28/2023-S. GOV. &
F.
3/28/2023-From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on GOV. & F. (Ayes

8. Noes 0.) (March
28). Re-referred to
Com. on GOV. & F.

Would enact the Drought and Water Resilience, Wildfire and Forest Resilience, Coastal Resilience, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Biodiversity and Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, and Park Creation and Outdoor Access Bond Act of 2023, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in an unspecified amount pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for drought and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate smart agriculture, and park creation and outdoor access programs.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 18, 2023
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SBX1 2
Skinner D
Energy:
transportation fuels:
supply and pricing:
maximum gross
gasoline refining
margin.
3/27/2023-
S. CHAPTERED
3/28/2023-Approved
by the Governor.

Chaptered by
Secretary of State.

Chapter 1, Statutes
of 2023-24 First
Extraordinary
Session.

Current law requires operators of refineries in the state that produce gasoline meeting California specifications, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, to submit a report to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission containing certain information regarding its refining activities related to the production of gasoline in that month. Current law requires the commission to notify a refiner that has failed to timely provide the required information and imposes a civil penalty on the refiner that fails to submit the required information within 5 days of being notified of the failure. • This bill would authorize the commission to establish a maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided.
• The bill would require the commission, if the commission establishes the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, to establish a penalty for exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided.
• The bill would authorize the commission to petition the court to enjoin a refiner from exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin.
• The bill would also authorize the commission to impose an administrative civil penalty on a refiner for exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. • The bill would require the commission to consider a refiner’s request for an exemption from the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. • The bill would require a refiner seeking an exemption to file a statement under the penalty of perjury setting forth the basis of the request for exemption.

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SCA 2
Stern D
Elecations: voter
qualifications.
3/1/2023-S. E. &
C.A.
3/1/2023-Referred to
Com. on E. & C.A.

Would reduce the minimum voting age to 17. Watch
Total Measures: 199