SS Item C-4 — Beverly Hills City Council, April 16, 2024

STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: April 16, 2024
To: Honorable Mayor & City Council
From: Cynthia Owens, Municipal Affairs Program Manager
Subject: State and Federal Legislative Update
Attachment: 1. State Legislative Bill Matrix

INTRODUCTION
The City Council adopted Legislative Platform 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.

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

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 one state legislative bill. It is:
• SUPPORT AB 817 (Pacheco) - Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body. This bill would would remove barriers to entry for appointed and elected office by allowing non-decision-making legislative bodies to participate in twoway virtual teleconferencing without posting location.

Status: As of January 25, 2024, AB 817 was read for the third time on the Assembly Floor and passed in the Assembly (54-8). The bill is in the Senate and has been referred to the Senate Rules Committee.

Meeting Date: April 16, 2024

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Staff and our state lobbyist are monitoring numerous bills in Sacramento. Staff is currently working to identify a date and time for a meeting with the City Council Legislative / Lobby Liaisons. Bills that will be heard at the next meeting cover the following topics:
• Retail theft
• Ballot Initiative on Rent Control
• Rent subsidies
• Supervised release of people on parole
• Health care coverage for emergency medical services
• Fixed charges for electricity
• Corporate ownership of single-family residential homes • Operation of autonomous vehicles in local jurisdictions State Update
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s state lobbyist. Some of the more relevant updates over the last quarter include:
• California Leaders Reach Agreement to Address Budget Gap - Governor Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire, and Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas announced an agreement on early actions to reduce the state budget shortfall by $17 billion. The package includes a mix of $3.6 billion in reductions (primarily to one-time funding), $5.2 billion in revenue borrowing, $5.2 billion in delays and deferrals, and $3.4 billion in shifts of costs from the state general fund to other state funds.
• Governor Newsom Expands Storm State of Emergency, Requests Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for Early February Storms -Supporting the ongoing recovery from early February storms, Governor Newsom expanded the storm state of emergency declared last month to 11 additional counties – Alameda, Butte, Glenn, Lake, Mendocino, Monterey, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Sonoma and Sutter – and requested a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for several communities impacted by widespread flooding, mudslides and debris flows during the storms. The emergency proclamation directs Caltrans to request immediate federal assistance for highway repairs or reconstruction, among other provisions.
• Governor Newsom Announces Contract to Install 480 New High-Tech Cameras in East Bay to Improve Public Safety - California is installing a network of 480 high-tech cameras in Oakland and the East Bay to aid law enforcement in identifying vehicles linked to crimes using real-time information and alerts. • California Adds Key Resource to Help Californians Combat Opioid Crisis - As California’s Naloxone Distribution Project (NDP) delivers millions of naloxone kits that have resulted in more than 247,000 reported opioid overdose reversals, the state announced the project will now also offer fentanyl test strips to eligible organizations. The test strips detect the presence of fentanyl, offering another tool to prevent overdoses. As part of ongoing, statewide efforts, California released the Master Plan for Tackling the Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis to support overdose prevention efforts like those announced today. Recently, the state launched Opioids.CA.GOV, a one-stop-shop for Californians seeking resources around prevention and treatment, as well as information on how California is working to hold Big Pharma and drug-traffickers accountable in this crisis.

Meeting Date: April 16, 2024

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Federal Update
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s federal lobbyist. Some of the more relevant updates over the last quarter include:
• On March 21, the United States Department of Justice and 16 state attorney generals announced an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple. In essence the lawsuit claims Apple degraded and undermined cross-platform messaging apps, limited Apple watches to iPhones, prevented cross-platform digital wallets, blocked ‘super apps’ and suppressed mobile cloud streaming services. • Funding for the last six federal spending bills was signed into law on March 23.

The bills are for Defense, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Labor-HHS, Legislative Branch, Financial Services, and State-Foreign Operations. The funding for these six bills totals $1.2 trillion. Defense comprises $826 billion of that spending. The FY 2024 budget process will begin on October 1.

FISCAL IMPACT
None.

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

Keith Sterling
Deputy City Manager
Approved By
Attachment 1
1 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 295
Fong, Vince R
Residential real
property:
foreclosure.
4/2/2024-S. RLS.
4/2/2024-
Withdrawn from
committee. Rereferred to Com.
on RLS.

Current law prescribes various requirements to be satisfied before the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust and prescribes a procedure for the exercise of that power.
• This bill would prohibit a person from contacting, soliciting, or initiating communication with an owner to claim the surplus funds from a foreclosure sale of the owner’s residence before 90 days after the trustee’s deed has been required.

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AB 637
Jackson D
Zero-emission
vehicles: fleet
owners: rental
vehicles.
1/25/2024-S. RLS.
1/25/2024-Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the
Senate. (Ayes 70.

Noes 0.) In Senate.

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

Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution the state board has found to be necessary, cost effective, and technologically feasible, to carry out specified purposes, unless preempted by federal law. • This bill would, if the state board requires a fleet owner to acquire zero-emission vehicles as part of its fleet, require the state board to authorize the rental of a zeroemission vehicle or vehicles for a cumulative total of 260 days in a calendar year to be deemed ownership of one zero-emission vehicle for purposes of meeting that obligation.

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AB 761
Friedman D
Local finance:
enhanced
infrastructure
financing districts.
9/14/2023-S. RLS.
9/14/2023-
Withdrawn from
committee. Rereferred to Com.
on RLS.

Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to designate a proposed enhanced infrastructure financing district by adopting a resolution of intention to establish the proposed district which, among other things, is required to state that an enhanced infrastructure financing district is proposed and describe the boundaries of the proposed district. Current law requires the public financing authority to direct the preparation of and adopt an infrastructure financing plan consistent with the general plan and any relevant specific plan, and consisting of, among other things, a financing section. Current law requires that the financing section include a plan for financing the public facilities, a limit on the total number of dollars of taxes that may be allocated to the district pursuant to the plan, and a date, either not more than 45 years from the date on which the issuance of the bonds is approved for the plan on which the district will cease to exist, by which time all tax allocation to the district will end, or, where the district is divided into project areas, a date on which the infrastructure financing plan will cease to be in effect and all tax allocations to the district will end and a date on which the district’s authority to repay indebtedness with incremental tax revenues will end, as specified.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill, for plans proposed on or after January 1, 2024, would specify that for the purpose of development and construction of passenger rail projects in the County of Los Angeles where at least 75% of the revenue from the district is used for debt service on a federal Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan, the date on which the district will cease to exist shall not be more than 75 years from the date of the issuance of bonds or approval of a loan, as specified. • This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for specified districts enacted primarily for the purpose of development and construction of zero-emission mass transit projects.

AB 817
Pacheco D
Open meetings:
teleconferencing:
subsidiary body.
1/25/2024-S. RLS.
1/25/2024-Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the
Senate. (Ayes 54.

Noes 8.) In Senate.

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

The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, each legislative body of a local agency to provide notice of the time and place for its regular meetings and an agenda containing a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted. The act also requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public, and that all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized. The act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Existing law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. Current law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency (emergency provisions) and, until January 1, 2026, 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 (nonemergency provisions).
• This bill, until January 1, 2026, would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use similar alternative teleconferencing provisions and would impose requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. In order to use teleconferencing pursuant to this act, the bill would require the legislative body that established the subsidiary body by charter, ordinance, resolution, or other formal Support
3 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
action to make specified findings by majority vote, before the subsidiary body uses teleconferencing for the first time and every 12 months thereafter.

AB 846
Bonta D
Low-income
housing credit:
rent increases.
1/30/2024-S. RLS.
1/30/2024-Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the
Senate. (Ayes 59.

Noes 6.) In Senate.

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

Current law establishes a low-income housing tax credit program, through which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee allocates low-income housing tax credits aimed at providing affordable low-income housing within and throughout the state.

Current law authorizes the committee to undertake specified responsibilities in allocating the tax credit, including entering into regulatory agreements relating to projects that are allocated the tax credit. Current law requires the committee, when allocating the tax credit, to prefer specified projects, including projects that serve lowest income tenants at rents affordable to those tenants. The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act authorizes an owner of residential real property to establish rental rates for a dwelling or unit that meets specified conditions. • This bill would prohibit an owner of a project that received an allocation of the lowincome housing tax credit and is subject to a regulatory agreement from increasing rent, over the course of any 12-month period, for a unit more than the lesser of the amount permitted by the program as a result of an increase in the area median gross income, 5% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, as defined, or 10% of the lowest rental rate charged for that unit at any time during the 12 months prior to the effective date of the increase. Notwithstanding these provisions, the bill would authorize an owner of a project to increase the rent up to 30% of the monthly income of the household occupying the unit.

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AB 1333
Ward D
Residential real
property: bundled
sales.
1/18/2024-S. RLS.
1/18/2024-Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the
Senate. (Ayes 48.

Noes 1.) In Senate.

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

Current law, until January 1, 2031, for purposes of the exercise of a power of sale, prohibits a trustee from bundling properties for the purpose of sale, instead requiring each property to be bid on separately, unless the deed of trust or mortgage provides otherwise. Current law also prohibits specified institutions that, during their immediately preceding annual reporting period, as established with their primary regulator, foreclosed on 175 or more residential real properties, containing no more than 4 dwelling units, from conducting a sale of 2 or more parcels of real property containing one to 4 residential dwelling units, inclusive, at least 2 of which have been acquired through foreclosure under a mortgage or deed of trust. • This bill would prohibit a developer of residential one to 4 dwelling units, inclusive, from conducting a sale of 2 or more parcels of real property containing one to 4 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
residential dwelling units, inclusive, in a single transaction to an institutional investor, as defined, if the occupancy permit was issued on or after January 1, 2025.

AB 1567
Garcia D
Safe Drinking
Water, Wildfire
Prevention,
Drought
Preparation, Flood
Protection,
Extreme Heat
Mitigation, Clean
Energy, and
Workforce
Development Bond
Act of 2024.
6/14/2023-S. N.R.
& W.
6/14/2023-
Referred to Coms.
on N.R. & W. and
GOV. & F.

Would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Clean Energy, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15,995,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean energy, and workforce development programs.

Neutral
AB 1657
Wicks D
The Affordable
Housing Bond Act
of 2024.
3/4/2024-S. APPR.
3/4/2024-From
committee chair,
with author's
amendments:

Amend, and rerefer to committee.

Read second time,
amended, and rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law authorizes the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housingrelated parks. • This bill would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and homeownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. • This bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide general election in accordance with specified law.

Neutral
AB 1772
Ramos D
1/16/2024-A. PUB.

Current law makes a first conviction for petty theft involving merchandise taken from a merchant’s premises punishable by a mandatory fine and as a misdemeanor.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Theft.
4/4/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.
• This bill would require the Department of Justice to determine the number of misdemeanor convictions for a crime of theft for which the property was taken from a retail establishment during the Governor’s declared state of emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to report that information to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026.

AB 1773
Dixon R
Vehicles: electric
bicycles.
1/16/2024-
A. TRANS.
4/1/2024-In
committee: Set,
first hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.

Current law prohibits the use of a motorized bicycle on a bicycle path or trail, bikeway, bicycle lane, equestrian trial, or hiking or recreational trail, as specified, unless the governing body of a local public agency, which has jurisdiction over the path or trail, permits the operation. Current law authorizes a governing body of a local public agency, which has jurisdiction over the path or trail, to prohibit the use of an electric bicycle on an equestrian trial, or hiking or recreational trail. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime and a person convicted of an infraction for a violation of either the Vehicle Code or a local ordinance adopted pursuant to the code is subject to a specified fine schedule, except as otherwise provided.
• This bill would clarify that a recreational trail for these purposes includes a boardwalk, as defined, regardless of whether the facility also provides bicycle access.

Notwithstanding specified law, the bill would impose a fine, not to exceed $35, against a person convicted of an infraction for a violation of an ordinance prohibiting or regulating electric bicycles on recreational trails.

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AB 1779
Irwin D
Theft: jurisdiction.
1/16/2024-A. PUB.

S.
3/12/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law sets forth specific rules relating to the jurisdiction for the prosecution of theft by fraud, organized retail theft, and receiving stolen property, including that the jurisdiction for prosecution includes 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 or abetting in the commission of a theft offense or other qualifying offense. Current law jurisdictionally limits prosecution of each of the above to criminal actions brought by the Attorney General. • This bill would no longer limit the jurisdictional rules for the above crimes to criminal actions brought by the Attorney General. If a case is brought by someone other than the Attorney General, the bill would require the prosecution to present written evidence in the jurisdiction of the proposed trial that all district attorneys in counties with jurisdiction over the offenses agree to the venue.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 1787
Villapudua D
Theft: shoplifting.
3/18/2024-A. PUB.

S.
3/19/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of money, labor, or property petty theft punishable as a misdemeanor, whenever the value of the property taken does not exceed $950.

Under current law, if the value of the property taken exceeds $950, the theft is grand theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Proposition 47 requires shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny if the value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor.
• This bill would reduce the threshold amount for petty theft and shoplifting from $950 to $450.
• The bill would make a person guilty of petty theft with a prior offense if the person is convicted of petty theft or shoplifting and has one or more prior convictions for specified theft-related offenses and would make the crime punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or as a felony for a term of 3, 5, or 7 years.
• This bill would make a person guilty of aggregated theft if the person commits 2 or more offenses of shoplifting within a 12-month period.

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AB 1794
McCarty D
Crimes: larceny.
4/1/2024-A. PUB.

S.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Under current law, if the value of the property taken exceeds $950, the theft is grand theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Proposition 47 requires shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny if the value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor. Under current law, if the value of all property taken over the course of distinct but related acts motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan exceeds $950, those values may be aggregated into a single charge of grand theft. • This bill would clarify that those values may be aggregated even though the thefts occurred in different places or from different victims. • The bill would also, declarative of existing law, provide that circumstantial evidence Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
may be used to prove that multiple thefts were motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan.
• The bill would, until January 1, 2030, also authorize counties to operate a program to allow retailers to submit details of alleged shoplifting directly to the county district attorney through an online portal on the district attorney’s internet website.

AB 1802
Jones-Sawyer D
Crimes: organized
theft.
1/22/2024-A. PUB.

S.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft. • This bill would extend the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely.

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AB 1814
Ting D
Law enforcement
agencies: facial
recognition
technology.
2/27/2024-A. P. &
C.P.
4/1/2024-In
committee:

Hearing postponed
by committee.

Previous law, until January 1, 2023, prohibited the use of real-time facial recognition technology (FRT) by law enforcement agencies in connection with body-worn cameras.
• This bill would prohibit a law enforcement agency or peace officer from using an FRT-generated match as the sole basis for probable cause in an arrest, search, or warrant.

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AB 1820
Schiavo D
Housing
development
projects:
applications: fees
and exactions.
1/29/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

Would authorize a development proponent that submits a preliminary application for a housing development project to request a preliminary fee and exaction estimate, as defined, and would require the local agency to provide the estimate within 20 business days of the submission of the preliminary application. For development fees imposed by an agency other than a city or county, the bill would require the development proponent to request the preliminary fee and exaction estimate from the agency that imposes the fee.

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8 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 1835
Muratsuchi D
Local educational
agencies: housing
development
projects: allowable
use: California
Environmental
Quality Act.
1/29/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
1/29/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on H. & C.D. and
L. GOV.

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AB 1840
Arambula D
California Dream
for All Program:
eligibility.
1/29/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
2/29/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

Current law establishes the California Housing Finance Agency in the Department of Housing and Community Development, and authorizes the agency to, among other things, make loans to finance affordable housing, including residential structures, housing developments, multifamily rental housing, special needs housing, and other forms of housing, as specified. Current law establishes the California Dream for All Program to provide shared appreciation loans to qualified first-time homebuyers, as specified. Current law establishes the California Dream for All Fund, which is continuously appropriated for expenditure pursuant to the program and defraying the administrative costs for the agency. Current law authorizes moneys deposited into the fund to include, among other moneys, appropriations from the Legislature from the General Fund or other state fund.
• This bill would specify that an applicant under the program shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.

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AB 1842
Reyes D
3/19/2024-
A. APPR.
3/19/2024-From
Current law authorizes health care service plans and health insurers that cover prescription drugs to utilize reasonable medical management practices, including prior authorization and step therapy, consistent with applicable law.

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9 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Health care
coverage:

Medicationassisted treatment.
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 13. Noes 0.)
(March 19). Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.
• This bill would prohibit a medical service plan and a health insurer from subjecting a naloxone product or another opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, or a buprenorphine product or long-acting injectable naltrexone for detoxification or maintenance treatment of a substance use disorder, to prior authorization or step therapy. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 1845
Alanis R
Crimes: Grant
program for
identifying,
apprehending, and
prosecuting resale
of stolen property.
1/29/2024-A. PUB.

S.
2/22/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections to provide statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California’s adult and juvenile criminal justice system, as specified. Under current law, the board administers several grant programs, including a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant program, a medication-assisted treatment grant program, and a violence intervention and prevention grant program.
• This bill would, until January 1, 2030, create the Identifying, Apprehending, and Prosecuting Resale of Stolen Property Grant Program to be administered by the board.
• The bill would require the board to award grants, on a competitive basis, to county district attorneys’ offices and law enforcement agencies, acting jointly to investigate and prosecute receiving stolen goods crimes and criminal profiteering. • The bill would require the board to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, as specified, regarding the impact of the grant program. • The bill’s provisions would be operative only to the extent that funding is provided, by express reference, in the annual Budget Act or another statute.

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AB 1848
Davies R
Controlled
substances:
fentanyl.
1/29/2024-A. PUB.

S.
4/1/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law makes it a crime to solicit or encourage a minor to commit specified crimes relating to controlled substances, to hire or employ a minor to transport or sell controlled substances, or to sell or give controlled substances to minors. Current law makes a person who is 18 years of age or older who violates these provisions with respect to heroin, cocaine, or cocaine base on the grounds of specified buildings, including, among others, playgrounds and childcare facilities, subject to punishment with an additional enhancement in the state prison of one year. • This bill would make that enhancement also apply to a violation of those provisions Watch
10 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
with respect to fentanyl if the person had knowledge that the specific controlled substance they possessed was fentanyl.

AB 1870
Ortega D
Notice to
employees: legal
services.
4/3/2024-A. APPR.
4/3/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
(April 3). Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Employers who are subject to the workers’ compensation system are generally required to keep posted in a conspicuous location frequented by employees and easily read by employees during the hours of the workday a notice that includes, among other information, to whom injuries should be reported, the rights of an employee to select and change a treating physician, and certain employee protections against discrimination. Current law requires the administrative director to make the form and content of this notice available to self-insured employers and insurers.
• This bill would require the notice to include information concerning an injured employee’s ability to consult a licensed attorney to advise them of their rights under workers’ compensations laws, as specified.

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AB 1886
Alvarez D
Housing Element
Law: substantial
compliance:

Housing
Accountability Act.
2/5/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

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, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. If the department finds that a draft housing element or amendment does not substantially comply with the Housing Element Law, current law requires the legislative body of the city or county to either (A) change the draft element or amendment to substantially comply with the Housing Element Law or (B) adopt the draft housing element or amendment without changes and make specified findings as to why the draft element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department.

Current law requires a planning agency to promptly submit an adopted housing element or amendment to the department and requires the department to review the adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the planning agency within 60 days.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would require a planning agency that makes the above-described findings as to why a draft housing element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department to submit those findings to the department.
• The bill would require the department to review those finding in its review of an adopted housing element or amendment.
• The bill would create a rebuttable presumption of validity for the department’s findings as to whether the adopted element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law.

AB 1893
Wicks D
Housing
Accountability Act:
housing
disapprovals:
required local
findings.
2/5/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

Current law, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households unless the local agency makes written findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified. One Under the act, one set of conditions available to a local agency for the finding necessary to disapprove a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households is that (A) the jurisdiction has adopted a housing element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, and (B) the jurisdiction has met or exceeded its share of the regional housing need allocation for the planning period for the income category proposed for the housing development project. Current law defines “housing for very low, low-, or moderate-income households” for purposes of the Housing Accountability Act to mean at least 20% of the total units shall be sold or rented to lower income households or 100% of the units are sold or rented to persons and families of moderate income.
• This bill would revise that definition to mean at least 10% of the units are dedicated to lower income households, 100% of the units are dedicated to lower income households at an affordable rent consistent with rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, 100% of the units are sold or rented to Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
persons and families of moderate income, or the housing development consists of 10 units or fewer.

AB 1932
Ward D
Personal income
tax: mortgage
interest deduction.
2/5/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/4/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

The Personal Income Tax Law allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the taxes imposed by that law, including, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, a deduction for a limited amount of interest paid on acquisition indebtedness, as defined, with respect to a qualified residence of the taxpayer. Current law limits the aggregate amount treated as acquisition indebtedness for these purposes to $1,000,000, or $500,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return. Current law specifies for these purposes that a qualified residence includes the taxpayer’s principal residence and one other residence selected by the taxpayer, as provided.
• This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, would disallow the deduction of acquisition indebtedness with respect to a qualified residence of a taxpayer other than the principal residence.
• This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board, in consultation with the Department of Finance, to estimate the amount of additional revenue resulting from the above-described modifications made with respect to the calculation of taxable income under the Personal Income Tax Law by this bill and to notify the Controller of that amount, as provided.

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AB 1948
Rendon D
Homeless
multidisciplinary
personnel teams.
4/4/2024-A. THIRD

READING
4/4/2024-Read
second time.

Ordered to third
reading.

Current law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county, and to allow provider agencies and members of the personnel team to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Current law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Ventura to expand the goals of the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team to include facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of individuals at risk of homelessness, as defined, to housing and supportive services, and the expedited prevention of homelessness.
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
of the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as specified above.

AB 1972
Alanis R
Organized retail
theft: cargo.
1/30/2024-A. PUB.

S.
3/11/2024-
Coauthors revised.

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AB 1976
Haney D
Occupational
safety and health
standards: first aid
kits: naloxone
hydrochloride.
4/4/2024-A. APPR.
4/4/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 6. Noes 0.)
(April 3). Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 (OSHA) requires employers to comply with certain safety and health standards, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Current law requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, before December 1, 2025, to submit to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board a rulemaking proposal to consider revising certain standards relating to the prevention of heat illness, protection from wildfire smoke, and toilet facilities on construction jobsites. Current law also requires the standards board to review the proposed changes and consider adopting revised standards on or before December 31, 2025.
• This bill would require the standards board, before December 1, 2026, to draft a rulemaking proposal to revise a regulation on first aid materials to require all first aid kits in a workplace to include nasal spray naloxone hydrochloride. • The bill would require the standards board to adopt revised standards for the standards described above on or before December 31, 2026.

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AB 1978
Fong, Vince R
Vehicles: speed
contests.
4/3/2024-
A. TRANS.
4/3/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on
TRANS. (Ayes 5.

Noes 0.) (April 2).

Would authorize a peace officer to not take a person into custody for violations of aiding or abetting a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed or for obstructing or placing a barricade or obstruction upon a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed, as specified, if the peace officer causes the removal and seizure of the vehicle used to commit that offense.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Re-referred to
Com. on TRANS.

AB 1987
Bennett D
Local government.
1/30/2024-
A. PRINT
1/31/2024-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 1.

Current law sets forth provisions for the formation, duties, and other authorizations, among other things, relating to cities, counties, cities and counties, and other local agencies.
• This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to local government.

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AB 1988
Muratsuchi D
Stray animals:
availability for
adoption or
release.
2/12/2024-A. B.&P.
2/12/2024-
Referred to Com.
on B. & P.

Current law requires a public or private shelter to release an impounded stray dog or cat to a nonprofit, as defined, animal rescue or adoption organization if requested by the organization before the scheduled euthanasia of that animal. Current law authorizes a puppy or kitten under 8 weeks of age that is reasonably believed to be unowned and is impounded in a public or private shelter to be made immediately available for release to a nonprofit animal rescue or adoption organization if requested by the organization, and authorizes a puppy or kitten relinquished to a public or private shelter by the purported owner, or brought in by any other person with authority to relinquish it, to be available immediately for adoption. Current law requires that a rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, potbellied pig, bird, lizard, snake, turtle, or tortoise that is legally allowed as personal property and that is impounded in a public or private shelter be held with the same opportunities for redemption and adoption by new owners or nonprofit animal rescue or adoption organizations as provided for dogs and cats, as specified.
• This bill would expand the scope of those provisions to apply to nonprofit organizations, as defined, animal rescue organizations, and adoption organizations, rather than nonprofit animal rescue organizations and nonprofit adoption organizations.

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AB 1989
Mathis R
Senior legal
services.
2/12/2024-
A. AGING & L.T.C.
2/12/2024-
Referred to Com.
on AGING & L.T.C.

Current law requires the California Department of Aging to establish a task force of certain members to study and make recommendations to the Legislature on the improvement of legal services delivery to senior citizens in California by exploring specified matters, including ways to ensure uniformity in the provision of legal services throughout the state and the possible establishment of a statewide legal hotline for seniors. Current law requires the task force to report and make its Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
recommendations to the Legislature on or before September 1, 2002. • This bill would require the department to establish a similar task force to assess the implementation of the recommendations made pursuant to the above-mentioned provisions, make additional recommendations by exploring the same matters explored by the initial task force, and to report the assessment and make its recommendations to the Legislature on or before September 1, 2026.

AB 1990
Carrillo, Wendy D
Criminal
procedure: arrests:
shoplifting.
2/12/2024-A. PUB.

S.
3/19/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law authorizes a peace officer to make a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor when the officer has probable cause to believe the person to be arrested has committed the misdemeanor in the officer’s presence. Current law also authorizes a private person to make an arrest for a misdemeanor committed in their presence, and requires the person to deliver the arrested person to a peace officer or magistrate. Current law additionally authorizes a merchant to detain a person for a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner to determine if a person has unlawfully taken merchandise. Current law authorizes a peace officer to make a warrantless arrest for specified misdemeanors relating to domestic violence, violation of a restraining order, and carrying a concealed firearm at an airport that did not occur in the officer’s presence.
• This bill would authorize a peace officer to make a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor shoplifting offense not committed in the officer’s presence if the officer has probable cause to believe that person has committed shoplifting.

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AB 1996
Alanis R
Opioid
antagonists:
stadiums, concert
venues, and
amusement parks:
overdose training.
2/12/2024-
A. HEALTH
3/26/2024-In
committee:

Hearing postponed
by committee.

Would require each stadium, concert venue, and amusement park to ensure that the naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist is easily accessible and its location is widely known.
• The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop an opioid overdose training program for these establishments and to notify these establishments of this training program.
• The bill would authorize the department to provide the overdose training program onsite.

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AB 1999
Irwin D
2/12/2024-A. U. &
E.
2/12/2024-
Under current law, the Public Utilities Commission may authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to a residential customer account. Current law requires the commission, no later than July 1, 2024, to authorize a fixed charge for default Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Electricity: fixed
charges.

Referred to Com.
on U. & E.
residential rates. Current law requires these fixed charges to be established on an income-graduated basis, with no fewer than 3 income thresholds, so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline territory would realize a lower average monthly bill without making any changes in usage.
• This bill would repeal the provisions described in the preceding paragraph. • The bill would instead permit the commission to authorize fixed charges that, as of January 1, 2015, do not exceed $5 per residential customer account per month for low-income customers enrolled in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program and that do not exceed $10 per residential customer account per month for customers not enrolled in the CARE program.
• The bill would authorize these maximum allowable fixed charges to be adjusted by no more than the annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the prior calendar year, beginning January 1, 2016.

AB 2023
Quirk-Silva D
Housing element:
inventory of land:
rebuttable
presumptions.
2/12/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/1/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

The Housing Element Law prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. Current law requires the housing element to include an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If that inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, as provided, current law requires that the local government rezone sites within 3 years after the date the housing element is adopted or within one year if the local government fails to adopt a housing element that the department finds to be in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law within 120 days of the statutory deadline to adopt the housing element.
• This bill, for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element, would require a local government to complete the rezoning of sites within one year of the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element or the earlier of 3 years after the date the housing element is adopted or 90 days after receipt of comments from the department, as specified, if the local government satisfies certain requirements, including submitting a draft element or draft amendment to the department for review within specified timeframes and adopting a draft element or Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
draft amendment that the department finds to be insubstantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, as specified.

AB 2029
Jackson D
Electric vehicle
charging stations
study.
3/19/2024-A. U. &
E.
3/19/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on U. & E.
(Ayes 13. Noes 0.)
(March 19). Rereferred to Com.
on U. & E.

Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission, to prepare, and update at least once every 2 years, a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required for the state to meet its goals of putting at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030 and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. • This bill would require the Energy Commission, beginning January 1, 2025, to biennially conduct a study on electric vehicle charging stations, as provided. • The bill would require the study to adhere to certain criteria, including, among other things, that the study include information on whether electric vehicle charging stations have a feature to call or prompt an attendant to assist the customer with the operation of the electric vehicle charging station equipment and whether electric vehicle charging stations have attendants present to provide assistance. • The bill would require the commission to incorporate the information and recommendations required to be included in the study into the statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure described above and to concurrently provide a report of the study to the Legislature, as provided.

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AB 2041
Bonta D
Political Reform
Act of 1974:
campaign funds:
security expenses.
3/20/2024-
A. APPR.
3/20/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 7. Noes 0.)
(March 20). Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 regulates the use of campaign funds held by candidates for elective office, elected officers, and campaign committees. The act 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 and that no more than $5,000 in campaign funds be used for this purpose.
• This bill would eliminate those conditions.
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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
related to security, and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family or staff of a candidate or elected officer, provided that the threat or potential threat to safety arises from the candidate’s or elected officer’s activities, duties, or status as a candidate or elected officer or from staff’s position as staff of the candidate or elected officer. • The bill would not authorize campaign funds to be used to pay, or reimburse the state, for firearms.

AB 2042
Jackson D
Police canines:
standards and
training.
3/21/2024-A. PUB.

S.
4/1/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, on or before January 1, 2026, to develop standards and training guidelines, as specified, for the use of canines by law enforcement.
• The bill would require each law enforcement agency in California, on or before January 1, 2027, to adopt a policy for the use of canines that, at a minimum, complies with the standards developed by the commission, and to require regular and periodic training for all canines and canine handlers that covers, at a minimum, the training guidelines developed by the commission. Because the bill would impose additional requirements on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a statemandated local program.

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AB 2045
Hoover R
Controlled
substances:
fentanyl trafficking
penalties.
2/12/2024-A. PUB.

S.
2/12/2024-
Referred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law makes it a crime to solicit or encourage a minor to commit specified crimes relating to controlled substances, to hire or employ a minor to transport or sell controlled substances, or to sell or give controlled substances to minors and imposes a punishment of imprisonment for a period of 3, 6, or 9 years. Current law makes a person who is 18 years of age or older who violates these provisions with respect to heroin, cocaine, or cocaine base on the grounds of, or within 1,000 feet of, public or private schools, as specified, subject to punishment with an additional enhancement in the state prison of 2 years.
• This bill would increase the penalty for that crime as it relates to fentanyl to 5, 8, or 11 years and would make the above-described enhancement applicable to offenses involving fentanyl.

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AB 2085
Bauer-Kahan D
Planning and
3/4/2024-A. L.

GOV.
4/2/2024-In
committee: Set,
Would authorize a development proponent to submit to a local agency an application for a licensed community clinic that is located in a zone where office, retail, health care, or parking are a principally permitted use.
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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
zoning: ministerial
approval:
community clinic.
first hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.
process where the development is not subject to a conditional use permit or any other nonlegislative discretionary approval, as described.
• The bill would provide that a development eligible for approval pursuant to this process is not a “project” for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), thereby expanding the exemption for ministerial approval of projects under CEQA. By establishing the streamlined, ministerial approval process for these developments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 2089
Holden D
Local government:
collection of
demographic data.
3/21/2024-A. JUD.
3/21/2024-
Referred to Com.
on JUD.

Current law requires the State Controller’s Office, to the extent the office has completed the functionality necessary, and the Department of Human Resources, when collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians hired into state employment, to use additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups.
• This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, require a city, county, or city and county, when collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of persons, to include the additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups, as described above.

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AB 2111
Wallis R
License plates:
obstruction or
alteration.
2/20/2024-
A. TRANS.
2/20/2024-
Referred to Com.
on TRANS.

Current law prohibits a person from erasing the reflective coating of, painting over the reflective coating of, or altering a license plate to avoid visual or electronic capture of the license plate or its characters by state or local law enforcement. A violation of this provision is an infraction.
• This bill would prohibit these acts to avoid visual or electronic capture of the license plate or its characters generally without regard to their capture by state or local law enforcement.

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AB 2117
Patterson, Joe R
Development
permit expirations:
actions or
proceedings.
2/20/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/3/2024-In
committee:

Hearing postponed
by committee.

The Planning and Zoning law generally requires that an action or proceeding challenging specified decisions of a public agency be commenced, and service made on the legislative body of the agency, within 90 days after the legislative body’s decision.
• This bill, for purposes of determining the period of time before a variance, conditional use permit, or any other development permit or project approval issued by a city, county, or state agency expires, would exclude the period of time during which an action or proceeding involving the approval or conditional approval of the permit or project approval is or was pending.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 2130
Santiago D
Parking violations.
3/19/2024-
A. APPR.
3/19/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
with
recommendation:

To Consent
Calendar. (Ayes

13. Noes 0.)
(March 19). Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law requires a specified administrative hearing process in the enforcement and processing of parking violations and penalties, and requires the issuing agency to conduct an initial administrative review of the notice of parking violation at the request of the contestant to whom the notice was mailed. Current law provides that if the contestant is dissatisfied with the results of the initial review, the contestant may request by telephone, in writing, or in person, an administrative hearing by an examiner of the violation no later than 21 calendar days following the mailing of the results of the issuing agency’s initial review. Current law requires that the person requesting the hearing have a choice of a hearing by mail or in person. • This bill would require the person requesting the hearing to have a choice of a hearing by mail, in person, by telephone, or by electronic means.

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AB 2140
Carrillo, Juan D
Housing: Building
Home Ownership
for All Program.
3/20/2024-
A. APPR.
3/20/2024-
Coauthors revised.

From committee:

Do pass and rerefer to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (March
20). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.

Would require the Treasurer, on or before December 31, 2025, and in consultation with the California Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and other stakeholders deemed relevant by those state bodies, to develop a framework for the Building Home Ownership for All Program in accordance with the goals and elements of the program, including, among other things, expanding access to homeownership by making it affordable for lower and moderate-income Californians, and submit a report, as specified, outlining the program framework to the Legislature.
• The bill would also make findings and declarations related to the program.

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AB 2144
Grayson D
General plan:
annual report.
3/20/2024-A. L.

GOV.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on L. GOV.

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 requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires that the annual report include, among other specified information, the progress in complying with specified laws. Current law requires a city or county to provide an option for an Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
applicant to apply for and retrieve a postentitlement phase permit on the city’s or county’s internet website. The Permit Streamlining Act requires a city, county, or special district to maintain on its internet website, as applicable, a current schedule of fees, exactions, and affordability requirements imposed by the city, county, or special district, including any dependent special district, applicable to a proposed housing development project, all zoning ordinances and development standards, and annual fee reports or annual financial reports, as specified. Current law requires a city, county, or special district to provide on its internet website an archive of impact fee nexus studies, cost of service studies, or equivalent, as specified. • This bill would require the planning agency to include in the annual report evidence of compliance with the above-described internet website requirements.

AB 2153
Lowenthal D
California Public
Records Act:
public agency
employees: notice
requirements:
personnel and
medical
information.
2/20/2024-A. JUD.
3/13/2024-In
committee: Set,
first hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.

The California Public Records Act requires public records to be open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency that retains those records, and provides that every person has a right to inspect any public record, except as provided. Current law requires each agency, upon a request for records, to determine within 10 days whether that request, in whole or in part, seeks copies of disclosable public records in the agency’s possession and to promptly notify the person making the request of its determination and reasons for that determination. Under current law, the 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 each agency, upon receipt of a request for a copy of, or the inspection of, any personnel, medical, or similar records of a public agency employee or any record that would disclose a public agency employee’s personal identity in connection with the performance of that employee’s work duties, to promptly and prior to the release of the records, provide written notice of the request to that public agency employee.

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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 2183
Jones-Sawyer D
Public employees’
retirement benefits:
final
compensation.
2/7/2024-A. PRINT
2/8/2024-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 9.

The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA), on and after January 1, 2013, requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act and, among other provisions, establishes certain new retirement formulas that may not be exceeded by a public employer offering a defined benefit pension plan. PEPRA provides, for purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, that final compensation means the highest average annual pensionable compensation earned during a period of at least 36 consecutive months, or at least 3 consecutive school years.
• This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.

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AB 2186
Fong, Vince R
Vehicles:
impoundment.
2/26/2024-
A. TRANS.
4/3/2024-In
committee:

Hearing postponed
by committee.

Current law allows a peace officer to arrest a person and seize the motor vehicle of the person if a peace officer determines that the person was engaged in a motor vehicle speed contest, reckless driving, or an exhibition of speed on a highway.

Current law allows a vehicle seized under this provision to be impounded for up to 30 days.
• This bill would expand this provision to include an exhibition of speed that occurs in an offstreet parking facility, as specified.

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AB 2187
Bryan D
Office of Tenants’
Rights and
Protections.
3/21/2024-A. JUD.
4/3/2024-In
committee: Set,
first hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.

Current law provides that there is in state government, in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the Civil Rights Department under the direction of an executive officer known as the Director of Civil Rights, who is appointed by the Governor. Among other responsibilities, the department is required to issue publications that in its judgment will tend to promote goodwill and minimize or eliminate discrimination in housing, as specified.
• This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the Office of Tenants’ Rights and Protections in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, administered by a director appointed by the Governor, and would require that office to create and maintain an up-to-date, digestible, and language-inclusive list of statewide tenants’ rights and protections.

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AB 2195
Dixon R
Fentanyl.
2/7/2024-A. PRINT
2/8/2024-From
printer. May be
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to fentanyl. Watch 23 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
heard in committee
March 9.

AB 2199
Berman D
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption:
residential or
mixed-use housing
projects.
3/18/2024-A. NAT.

RES.
3/19/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on NAT. RES.

Current law, until January 1, 2025, exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) residential or mixed-use housing projects, as defined, located in unincorporated areas of a county meeting certain requirements. Current law requires a lead agency, if the lead agency determines that a residential or mixed-use housing project qualifies for this exemption from CEQA and determines to approve or carry out the project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk in the county in which the project is located. • This bill would extend the operation of that exemption indefinitely. By also extending indefinitely the requirement on a lead agency to determine the applicability of the exemption and to file a notice of exemption with the office and the county clerk, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 2202
Rendon D
Short-term rentals:
disclosure:
cleaning tasks.
4/2/2024-A. APPR.
4/2/2024-
Coauthors revised.

From committee:

Do pass and rerefer to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 16.

Noes 1.) (April 2).

Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.

Current law, commencing July 1, 2024, prohibits a place of short-term lodging, an internet website, application, or other similar centralized platform, or any other person from advertising, displaying, or offering a room rate that does not include all fees or charges required to stay at the short-term lodging, and requires that they include in the total price to be paid, all taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay before the consumer reserves the stay.
• This bill would require a place of short-term lodging, an internet website, application, or other similar centralized platform, or any other person to also disclose any additional fees or charges that will be added to the total price to be paid, or other penalty that will be imposed, if the consumer fails to perform certain cleaning tasks at the end of the stay, and to explicitly describe the cleaning tasks in a written or electronic notice that is affirmatively acknowledged by the consumer before the consumer reserves the stay.
• The bill would make a violation of its provisions subject to the specified civil penalty and enforcement provisions described above.

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AB 2209
Sanchez R
2/26/2024-A. PUB.

S.
4/2/2024-In
committee: Set,
The California Values Act generally prohibits California law enforcement agencies from investigating, interrogating, detaining, detecting, or arresting persons for immigration enforcement purposes. Current law provides certain limited exceptions to this prohibition, including transfers of persons pursuant to a judicial warrant and Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
California Values
Act: exception.
second hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.
providing certain information to federal authorities regarding serious and violent felons in custody.
• This bill would additionally except, for purposes of the act, any California law enforcement agency performing any responsibilities under the scope of its jurisdiction regarding any person who is alleged to have violated, or who has been previously convicted of violating, specified provisions relating to fentanyl.

AB 2216
Haney D
Tenancy: common
household pets.
3/18/2024-A. JUD.
4/3/2024-In
committee: Set,
first hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.

Would prohibit a landlord, before the landlord has accepted a prospective tenant’s application for a dwelling unit, from asking the prospective tenant or otherwise inquiring into whether the prospective tenant plans to own or otherwise maintain a common household pet in the tenant’s dwelling unit.
• The bill would require a prospective tenant, no later than 72 hours before entering into a rental agreement, to inform the landlord if the prospective tenant plans to own or otherwise maintain a common household pet.

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AB 2230
Bennett D
Residential
Housing Unfair
Practices Act of
2023.
3/4/2024-A. JUD.
3/4/2024-Referred
to Com. on JUD.

The Cartwright Act makes every trust unlawful, against public policy, and void, subject to specified exemptions. A “trust” is defined for these purposes as a combination of capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons for certain designated purposes. A violation of the act is punishable as a crime.
• This bill would expand the definition of “trust” under the act to specifically include the capital, skill, or acts of all affiliated persons, as defined. For purposes of the act, the bill would define an “affiliated person” to include, among others, a natural person related within the 3rd degree of consanguinity or affinity to any other person, together with other specified persons with certain ownership interests. • The bill would expand the purposes for a trust under the act to include creating or carrying out restrictions in residential housing, preventing or limiting competition in development or redevelopment, construction, leasing, rental, or purchase of residential housing, among other specified acts.

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AB 2233
Schiavo D
Building
standards: toilet
compartments.
2/26/2024-A. B.&P.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on B. & P.

Would require the Division of the State Architect, as part of the next intervening edition of the California Building Standards Code adopted after January 1, 2025, to propose for adoption building standards that lower the threshold of toilet compartments required for an ambulatory accessible toilet compartment to be required in addition to a wheelchair accessible toilet compartment.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 2234
Boerner D
Vehicles: electric
bicycles.
2/26/2024-
A. TRANS.
4/1/2024-In
committee:

Hearing postponed
by committee.

Current law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to develop, on or before September 1, 2023, statewide safety and training programs based on evidence-based practices for users of electric bicycles, as defined, including, but not limited to, general electric bicycle riding safety, emergency maneuver skills, rules of the road, and laws pertaining to electric bicycles. Current law requires the safety and training programs to be developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and to be posted on the department’s internet website.
• This bill would require the department, on or before June 30, 2025, to issue a skills waiver containing specific information, in an electronic format, to each person who completes the electric bicycle safety and training programs described above.

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AB 2243
Wicks D
Affordable Housing
and High Road
Jobs Act of 2022:
objective
standards and
affordability and
site criteria.
3/18/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/20/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an affordable housing development or a mixed-income housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. The act makes a development that meets those objective standards and affordability and site criteria a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes depending on, among other things, the affordability requirements applicable to the project.
• This bill would make various changes to the objective standards and affordability and site criteria applicable to an affordable housing development or mixed-income housing development subject to the streamlined, ministerial review process under the act.

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AB 2248
Maienschein D
Contracts: sales of
dogs and cats.
3/18/2024-S. RLS.
3/18/2024-Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the
Senate. (Ayes 73.

Noes 0.) In Senate.

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

Current law generally regulates formation and enforcement of contracts, including what constitutes an unlawful contract. Current law provides that, except as provided, a contract entered into on or after January 1, 2018, to transfer ownership of a dog or cat in which ownership is contingent upon the making of payments over a period of time subsequent to the transfer of possession of the dog or cat is void as against public policy. Current law provides that a contract entered into on or after January 1, 2018, for the lease of a dog or cat that provides for or offers the option of transferring ownership of the dog or cat at the end of the lease term is void as against public policy.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would provide that a contract entered into on or after January 1, 2025, to transfer ownership of a dog or cat is void as against public policy if the buyer is in California, the contract requires a nonrefundable deposit, and the contract does not identify the original source of the dog or cat, including, but not limited to, the breeder.

AB 2259
Boerner D
Transportation:
bicycle safety
handbook.
3/19/2024-
A. APPR.
3/19/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
with
recommendation:

To Consent
Calendar. (Ayes

13. Noes 0.)
(March 19). Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law establishes within state government the Transportation Agency, which consists of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the California Transportation Commission, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Transportation, the High-Speed Rail Authority, and the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. The agency is under the supervision of the Secretary of Transportation, who has the power of general supervision over each department within the agency. Current law imposes various duties on the secretary, including advising the Governor on, and assisting the Governor in establishing, major policy and program matters affecting each department, office, or other unit within the agency.
• This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the agency to develop and distribute, on or before September 1, 2025, a bicycle safety handbook that includes information on, among other things, existing laws regulating bicycles and e-bikes.

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AB 2278
Carrillo, Wendy D
Rent increases:
percentage change
in the cost of
living: Department
of Housing and
Community
Development.
3/20/2024-
A. APPR.
4/1/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law, until January 1, 2030, prohibits an owner of residential real property from, over the course of any 12-month period, increasing the gross rental rate for a dwelling or a unit more than 5% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, or 10%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for that dwelling or unit at any time during the 12 months before the effective date of the increase, subject to specified conditions. Current law defines “percentage change in the cost of living” as the percentage change in the applicable Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for All Items, as specified.
• This bill would require the Attorney General to, by July 1 of each year, publish the maximum allowable rent increase on its internet website for each metropolitan area.

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AB 2283
Pacheco D
2/26/2024-A. JUD.
2/26/2024-
Would require a public agency that receives a request for the personnel records of one of the public agency’s employees to provide written notice, as prescribed, to the employee within 48 hours of receipt of the request if specified conditions are met. By Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Public Records:
employee
personnel records:
notice.

Referred to Com.
on JUD.
imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 2286
Aguiar-Curry D
Vehicles:
autonomous
vehicles.
3/18/2024-
A. TRANS.
3/18/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on TRANS. and C.
& C.

Would require a manufacturer of an autonomous vehicle to report to the Department of Motor Vehicles a collision on a public road that involved one of its autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more that is operating under a testing permit that resulted in damage of property, bodily injury, or death within 10 days of the collision.

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AB 2289
Low D
Vehicles: parking
placards and
special license
plates for disabled
veterans and
persons with
disabilities.
4/2/2024-A. M. &
V.A.
4/2/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on M. &
V.A. with
recommendation:

To Consent
Calendar. (Ayes

15. Noes 0.) (April
1). Re-referred to
Com. on M. & V.A.

Current law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a temporary distinguishing placard bearing a specified symbol to a disabled veteran or person with a disability, as specified. Prior to issuing a placard or license plate, current law requires the submission of a certificate signed by a physician and surgeon, nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife, or physician assistant, substantiating the disability, as specified, unless the applicant’s disability is readily observable and uncontested. Prior to issuing a temporary distinguishing placard, current law requires the submission of a certificate substantiating the temporary disability and stating the date upon which the disability is expected to terminate. For the disability of a person who has lost, or has lost use of, one or more lower extremities or one hand, for a disabled veteran, or both hands, for a person with a disability, or who has significant limitation in the use of lower extremities, existing law additionally authorizes a licensed chiropractor to certify these disabilities.
• This bill would additionally authorize a licensed physical therapist to certify the loss, or loss of use, of the lower extremities or hands, as described above. • The bill would also authorize a physical therapist to substantiate a temporary disability for the purpose of issuing a temporary distinguishing placard.

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AB 2290
Friedman D
Transportation:

Class III bikeways:
2/26/2024-
A. TRANS.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on TRANS.

Current law establishes 4 classifications of bikeways and defines a “Class III bikeway” as a bikeway that provides a right-of-way on-street or off-street, designated by signs or permanent markings and shared with pedestrians and motorists. • This bill would prohibit the allocation of Active Transportation Program funds for a project that creates a Class III bikeway unless the project is on a street with a design Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
bicycle facilities:

Bikeway QuickBuild Project Pilot
Program.
speed limit of 20 miles per hour or less or the project will reduce the design speed limit to 20 miles per hour or less.

AB 2299
Flora R
Labor
Commissioner:
whistleblower
protections: model
list of rights and
responsibilities.
2/26/2024-A. L. &
E.
2/26/2024-
Referred to Com.
on L. & E.

Current law prohibits employers from making, adopting, or enforcing a policy that prevents an employee from disclosing violations of a state or federal statute, or a violation or noncompliance with a local, state, or federal regulation to, among others, a government or law enforcement agency, or from retaliating against an employee who makes a disclosure. Current law requires an employer to prominently display a list of employees’ rights and responsibilities under the whistleblower laws, as prescribed. Current law creates the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations and vests the division with the general duty of enforcing labor laws. Current law provides that the Labor Commissioner is the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
• This bill would require the Labor Commissioner to develop a model list of employees’ rights and responsibilities under the whistleblower laws, as specified.

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AB 2302
Addis D
Open meetings:
local agencies:
teleconferences.
2/26/2024-A. L.

GOV.
2/26/2024-
Referred to Com.
on L. GOV.

The Ralph M. Brown Act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. The act provides an exemption to the jurisdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in specified circumstances if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with prescribed requirements. Current law imposes prescribed restrictions on remote participation by a member under these alternative teleconferencing provisions, Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
including establishing limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location, prohibiting such participation for a period of more than 3 consecutive months or 20% of the regular meetings for the local agency within a calendar year, or more than 2 meetings if the legislative body regularly meets fewer than 10 times per calendar year.
• This bill would revise those limits, instead prohibiting such participation for more than a specified number of meetings per year, based on how frequently the legislative body regularly meets.

AB 2314
Lee D
Tribal housing
developments: use
by right: density.
3/18/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/4/2024-From
committee chair,
with author's
amendments:

Amend, and rerefer to Com. on H.
& C.D. Read
second time and
amended.

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AB 2333
Santiago D
State highways:
airspace leases:
report.
4/1/2024-A. APPR.
4/2/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
with
recommendation:

To Consent
Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to lease to public agencies or private entities areas above or below state highways, subject to any reservations, restrictions, and conditions that the department deems necessary to ensure adequate protection to the safety and the adequacy of highway facilities and to abutting or adjacent land uses.
• This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Transportation with specified information on every airspace site leased by the Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Calendar. (Ayes

15. Noes 0.) (April
1). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
department, including information about site inspections and each site’s proximity to sensitive infrastructure.

AB 2336
Villapudua D
Controlled
substances: armed
possession:
fentanyl.
3/19/2024-
A. APPR.
3/21/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law classifies certain substances, including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, as controlled substances and generally prohibits the possession, sale, transportation, and use of these substances. Current law additionally prohibits the possession of certain of these controlled substances including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine while armed with a loaded and operable firearm. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a felony punishable by incarceration in the state prison. • This bill would additionally prohibit the possession of fentanyl, as specified, while armed with a loaded and operable firearm.

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AB 2341
Fong, Vince R
Criminal
procedure:
sentencing credits.
2/26/2024-A. PUB.

S.
3/14/2024-In
committee: Set,
first hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.

Current law authorizes a county sheriff or county director of corrections to grant county jail inmates credits against their term of imprisonment for good behavior and completion of work programs, as specified. Current law classifies fentanyl as a schedule II controlled substance and prohibits the possession, transportation, and sale of fentanyl, as specified.
• This bill, subject to the passage and approval by the voters of a constitutional amendment, would prohibit the granting of credits to any inmate serving a sentence for a fentanyl-related offense, as specified.

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AB 2346
Lee D
Organic waste
reduction
regulations:
procurement of
recovered organic
waste products.
2/26/2024-A. NAT.

RES.
2/26/2024-
Referred to Com.
on NAT. RES.

Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to complete, approve, and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the state to reduce the statewide methane emissions by 40% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations that achieve specified targets for reducing organic waste in landfills, as provided. The department’s organic waste regulations require local jurisdictions to annually procure a quantity of recovered organic waste products and to comply with their procurement targets by directly procuring recovered organic waste products for use or giveaway or by requiring, through a written agreement, that a direct service provider to the jurisdiction procure recovered organic waste products, or both. Those regulations specify the types of recovered organic waste products that a jurisdiction may procure, Watch
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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
including compost that is produced at a compostable material handling operation or facility, or a specified digestion facility that composts onsite. Other regulations of the department require all compostable materials handling activities to obtain a facility permit from the department prior to commencing operations and meet other specified requirements, but exclude from those requirements certain activities that the regulations state do not constitute a compostable material handling operation or facility, including the composting of green material, agricultural material, food material, and vegetative food material, and the handling of compostable materials under certain conditions, as provided.
• This bill would authorize local jurisdictions to be credited for the procurement of recovered organic waste products through an agreement with a direct service provider, as defined, and would allow the direct service provider agreement to include the procurement of recovered organic waste products on a prospective or retrospective basis as long as the purchase of those products occurs during the year for which the local jurisdiction seeks credit.

AB 2359
Ting D
Alcoholic beverage
control:
neighborhoodrestricted special
on-sale general
licenses.
2/12/2024-
A. APPR.
4/4/2024-
Coauthors revised.

From committee:

Do pass and rerefer to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 21.

Noes 0.) (April 3).

Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for a limitation on the amount of on-sale general licenses that may be issued by the department based on the population of the county in which the licensed premises are located, as provided. Current law provides an exception to the license limitation for a county of the 6th class, as specified, for up to 5 new original neighborhood-restricted special on-sale general licenses for premises located within specified census tracts in that county until a total of 30 new licenses are issued. Current law limits the total number of these licenses that may be concurrently held in each specified neighborhood. • This bill would increase the total number of new licenses authorized under this provision from 30 to 40 and would increase, for 2 of the specified neighborhoods, the total authorized number of licenses for each neighborhood from 5 to 10 licenses. • The bill would update certain census tract numbers to reflect splits made to those tracts in the 2020 Census and would additionally authorize the issuance of a license for a premises located in census tract 352020.

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AB 2361
Davies R
2/26/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
2/26/2024-
The Planning and Zoning Law 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 that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Planning and
zoning: regional
housing needs:
exchange of
allocation:

Counties of Orange
and San Diego.

Referred to Coms.
on H. & C.D. and
L. GOV.
element. That law, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region. That law further requires the appropriate council of governments, or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county in accordance with certain requirements.
• This bill would establish a pilot program for the Counties of Orange and San Diego, and the cities therein.
• The bill would authorize a city or county within the pilot program, by agreement, to transfer all or a portion of its allocation of regional housing need to another city or county within the pilot program.

AB 2417
Hoover R
Homelessness:

California
Interagency
Council on
Homelessness.
2/26/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
2/26/2024-
Referred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

Current law requires the Governor to create the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and specifies the duties of the coordinating council to include creating partnerships among state agencies and departments, local government agencies, and specified federal agencies and private entities, for the purpose of arriving at specific strategies to end homelessness. Current law requires agencies and departments administering state programs to collaborate with the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First.
• This bill would repeal Housing First policies and related requirements, thereby removing the requirement on those state agencies and departments to incorporate core components of Housing First.

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AB 2421
Low D
Employeremployee
relations:
confidential
communications.
4/3/2024-A. APPR.
4/3/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 5. Noes 0.)
(April 3). Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, provisions relating to higher education, and provisions relating to the the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights.
• This bill would also prohibit a local public agency employer, a state employer, a Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
public school employer, a higher education employer, or the district from questioning any employee or employee representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation.

AB 2427
McCarty D
Electric vehicle
charging stations:
permitting:
curbside charging.
3/4/2024-A. L.

GOV.
4/3/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on L. GOV.

Current law creates the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, known as “GO-Biz,” and requires GO-Biz to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Current law continues into existence the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) division within GO-Biz as the ZeroEmission Vehicle Market Development Office. Current law references GO-Biz’s Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook, which recommends best practices for electric vehicle supply equipment permitting. • This bill would require the office to develop a model permitting checklist, model zoning ordinances, and best practices for permit costs and permit review timelines to help local governments permit curbside charging stations as part of the office’s development of the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook or any subsequent updates.

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AB 2430
Alvarez D
Planning and
zoning: density
bonuses:
monitoring fees.
2/26/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
2/26/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on H. & C.D. and
L. GOV.

Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city, county, or city and county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus, waivers or reductions of development standards, parking ratios, and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing, including a housing development in which 100% of the units are for lower income households, except that up to 20% of the units in the development may be for moderate-income households, as specified.
• This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from charging a monitoring fee, as defined, on those types of housing developments if certain conditions are met. • The bill would provide that, beginning on January 1, 2025, any housing development that is currently placed in service, is subject to monitoring fees, and meets those conditions shall no longer be subject to those fees.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 2433
Quirk-Silva D
California Private
Permitting Review
and Inspection Act:
fees: building
permits.
3/4/2024-A. L.

GOV.
3/4/2024-Referred
to Coms. on L.

GOV. and H. &
C.D.

The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes the governing body of a county or city to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law, and fees to defray the cost of enforcement required by the law to be carried out by local enforcement agencies. • This bill, the California Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act, would require a building department of the county or city to prepare a schedule of the abovedescribed fees and post the schedule on the county or city’s internet website if the city or county prescribes the fees.

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AB 2438
Petrie-Norris D
Property crimes:
enhancements.
2/26/2024-A. PUB.

S.
2/26/2024-
Referred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law makes a person guilty of organized retail theft if, among other things, the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplace with the intent to sell, exchange, or return the merchandise for value. Under current law, these crimes are punishable as either misdemeanors or felonies, as specified. Current law requires that a court dismiss an enhancement if it is in the furtherance of justice to do so, as specified. • This bill would, notwithstanding the limitations on imposing an enhancement, make any person who acts in concert with 2 or more persons to take, attempt to take, damage, or destroy any property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony punishable by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment of one, 2, or 3 years.

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AB 2439
Quirk-Silva D
Public works:
prevailing wages:
access to records.
4/4/2024-A. L. & E.
4/4/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on L. & E. pursuant
to Assembly Rule

96. Existing law defines “public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts, as, among other things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds.

Existing 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. Existing 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 Watch
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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
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.
• This bill would require an owner, a developer, or the agent of an owner or developer, that, among other things, receives public funds from a public agency to perform specified public works projects, to make available upon written request from a joint labor-management committee, a multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust fund, or a specified tax-exempt organization specified public works records in their possession, including requests for bids and submitted bid documents, inspection and work logs, and funding documentation.

AB 2479
Haney D
Housing First: core
components.
3/18/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/20/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

Current law requires agencies and departments administering state programs related to homelessness to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First, as defined. Under current law, Housing First includes time-limited rental or services assistance, so long as the housing and service provider assists the recipient, among other things, in accessing permanent housing. Current law defines “state programs” for this purpose as any program a California state agency or department funds, implements, or administers for the purpose of providing housing or housing-based services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, except as provided. Under existing law, the core components of Housing First include, among others, services that are informed by a harm-reduction philosophy that recognizes drug and alcohol use and addiction as a part of tenants’ lives, where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding drug and alcohol use, and where tenants are offered education regarding how to avoid risky behaviors and engage in safer practices, as well as connected to evidencebased treatment if the tenant so chooses. • This bill would clarify, pursuant to that core component, that state departments and agencies may allow programs to fund recovery housing, as defined, if the state program uses at least 75% of funds for housing or housing-based services using a harm-reduction model and the recovery housing complies with specified requirements.

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AB 2485
Carrillo, Juan D
3/18/2024-A. H. &
C.D.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Regional housing
need:
determination.
3/20/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.
city, which includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. That law requires the department, in consultation with the council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need of housing for each region in a specified manner. That law requires the department’s determination to be based upon population projections produced by the Department of Finance, as specified. That law also requires the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodologies to be used to determine each region’s housing need and requires the council of governments to provide data assumptions from the council of governments’ projections, as specified. That law authorizes the department to accept or reject the information provided by the council of governments and, after consultation with each council of governments, to make determinations on the council of governments’ data assumptions and the methodology the department will use to determine each region’s housing need. That law requires the department to provide its determinations to each council of governments, as specified. • This bill would require the department to publish on its internet website the data sources, analyses, and methodology, as specified, prior to finalization of the regional determination.

AB 2498
Zbur D
Housing: the
California Housing
Security Act.
2/26/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
2/26/2024-
Referred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

Would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, establish the California Housing Security Program to provide a housing subsidy to eligible persons, as specified, to reduce housing insecurity and help Californians meet their basic housing needs. To create the program, the bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a 2-year pilot program in up to 4 counties, as specified. • The bill would require the department to issue guidelines to establish the program that include, among other things, the amount of the subsidy that shall be the amount necessary to cover the portion of a person’s rent to prevent homelessness, but shall not exceed $2,000 per month. Under the bill, the subsidy would not be considered income for purposes of determining eligibility or benefits for any other public assistance program, nor would participation in other benefits exclude a person from eligibility for the subsidy. Under the bill, an undocumented person, as specified, who Watch
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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
otherwise qualifies for the subsidy would be eligible for the subsidy. • The bill would require the department to submit a report on the program to the Legislature, as described.

AB 2502
Rivas, Luz D
Public contracts:
emergencies.
3/4/2024-A. L.

GOV.
3/4/2024-Referred
to Com. on L.

GOV.

For purposes of the Public Contract Code, current law defines an emergency as a sudden unexpected occurrence that poses a clear and imminent danger, requiring immediate action to prevent or mitigate the loss or impairment of life, health, property, or essential public services.
• This bill would additionally define an emergency as an immediate action to prevent or mitigate the loss or impairment of life, health, property, or essential public services caused by the impacts of homelessness.

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AB 2506
Lowenthal D
Property taxation:
local exemption:
possessory
interests: publicly
owned housing.
3/14/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/14/2024-Rereferred to Coms.
on H. & C.D. and
REV. & TAX.
pursuant to
Assembly Rule 96.

Would authorize a county board of supervisors to exempt from property taxation any possessory interest held by a tenant of publicly owned housing, as defined, with a value so low that the total taxes and applicable subventions on the property would amount to less than the cost of assessing and collecting them, except as provided. • The bill would provide that there is a rebuttable presumption that the property taxes and applicable subventions on a possessory interest held by a tenant in publicly owned housing are less than the costs of assessing and collecting those taxes and applicable subventions.
• The bill would set forth procedures for granting or denying those exemptions and for implementing the exemption.
• The bill would provide that the board shall be deemed to have agreed with the rebuttable presumption and the exemption shall be deemed granted if the board does not take any action, if the board agrees, by a majority vote, to grant the exemption at a public hearing, or if the board fails to reach a majority vote for or against the exemption at the public hearing. By imposing additional duties on county boards of supervisors and local tax officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 2530
Lee D
State Architect:
3/21/2024-A. ED.
3/21/2024-
Referred to Com.
on ED.

Current law establishes in the Department of General Services the Office of the State Architect and provides that the State Architect has general charge, under the Department of General Services, of the erection of all state buildings. • This bill would require the Office of the State Architect to establish a program to Watch
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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
housing for public
school employees.
provide technical assistance to public school districts to build housing for school employees.

AB 2553
Friedman D
Housing
development:
major transit stops:
vehicular traffic
impact fees.
3/21/2024-A. L.

GOV.
3/21/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on L. GOV. and H.
& C.D.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts from its requirements residential projects on infill sites and transit priority projects that meet certain requirements, including a requirement that the projects are located within 1/2 mile of a major transit stop. CEQA defines “major transit stop” to include, among other locations, the intersection of 2 or more major bus routes with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods.
• This bill would revise the definition of “major transit stop” to increase the frequency of service interval to 20 minutes.
• The bill would additionally define “major transit stop” to include a site in an urbanized area that is being served by an on-demand transit service at least 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Because the bill would require a lead agency to make an additional determination as to whether a location is a major transit stop for purposes of determining whether residential or mixed-use residential projects are exempt from CEQA, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 2559
Petrie-Norris D
Local planning:
electric vehicle
service equipment:
permitting delays.
3/21/2024-A. L.

GOV.
4/1/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on L. GOV.
• This bill would require the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to create and maintain a publicly accessible internet website that contains a landing page with functionality to collect information and report delays and denials in the permitting of electric vehicle service equipment, as specified. • The bill would require GO-Biz to establish a working group to evaluate the data it receives from the internet website and direct the working group to determine recommended solutions to address permitting delays.
• The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2026, GO-Biz to submit to the Legislature and publish on its internet website a comprehensive report regarding the challenges identified throughout the data collection process, as specified. • The bill would also require GO-Biz to establish a permit streamlining specialist to assist authorities having jurisdiction with permit delays and denials related to these provisions.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 2570
Patterson, Joe R
Department of
Housing and
Community
Development:
annual report:

Homeless Housing,
Assistance, and
Prevention
program.
3/11/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

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 Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program.

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AB 2584
Lee D
Single-family
residential real
property: corporate
entity: ownership.
3/4/2024-A. JUD.
4/3/2024-In
committee: Set,
first hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.

Current law generally regulates the obligations of owners with respect to real property.
• This bill would prohibit a business entity that has an interest in more than 1,000 single-family residential properties from purchasing, acquiring, or otherwise obtaining an interest in another single-family residential property and subsequently leasing the property.
• The bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action for a violation of these provisions, and would require a court in a civil action in which the Attorney General prevails to order specified relief, including that the business entity pay a civil penalty of $100,000 for each violation and that the business entity sell the property to an independent third party within one year of the date that the court enters judgment.

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AB 2585
Bonta D
Employee Housing
Act: permanent
single-family
housing.
2/14/2024-
A. PRINT
2/15/2024-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 16.

The Employee Housing Act requires a person operating employee housing to obtain a permit to operate that employee housing from the enforcement agency, as defined, unless otherwise exempted by the act. The act authorizes a permit to operate employee housing consisting only of permanent single-family housing to, if approved by the enforcement agency, be issued for a longer period of time not to exceed 5 years.
• This bill would instead authorize that permit to be issued for a period of time not to exceed 6 years.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 2591
Quirk-Silva D
Local government:
youth
commissions.
3/11/2024-A. L.

GOV.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on L. GOV.

Current law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining one or more high schools to include within its membership one or more pupil members if pupils submit a petition for pupil representation to the governing board, as provided. Current law requires the pupil member to be chosen by the pupils enrolled in the high school or high schools of the school district in accordance with procedures prescribed by the governing board of the school district. Current law requires the pupil member to have preferential voting rights. Current law prohibits a pupil member from being included in determining the vote required to carry any measure before the governing board. • This bill would require a city or county, as described, to establish a youth commission in response to petitions from high school pupils enrolled in their jurisdiction, as specified.

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AB 2597
Ward D
Planning and
zoning: revision of
housing element:

Southern California
Association of
Governments.
3/4/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

Existing law requires certain local governments to revise their housing elements 18 months after the adoption of every 2nd regional transportation plan update, but no later than 8 years after the deadline for the previous update of the housing element, as specified.
• This bill would extend the above-described deadline for certain local governments that are within the regional jurisdiction of the Southern California Association of Governments and that have a compliant housing element as of the adoption of the second regional transportation plan update, as specified, except the County of Los Angeles and local governments within the County of Los Angeles, to revise their housing elements 30 months after adoption of every 2nd regional transportation plan update for the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element.

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AB 2638
Ward D
Housing programs:
financing.
3/4/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/4/2024-Referred
to Com. on H. &
C.D.

Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing and to provide housing assistance and home loans. Current law sets forth various general powers of the department in implementing these programs, including authorizing the department to enter into long-term contracts or agreements of up to 30 years for the purpose of servicing loans or grants or enforcing regulatory agreements or other security documents. Current law, unless an extension of a department loan, the reinstatement of a qualifying unpaid matured loan, the subordination of a department loan to new debt, or an investment of tax credit equity would result in a rent increase for tenants of a development, authorizes the Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Department of Housing and Community Development to approve an extension, reinstatement, subordination, payoff, extraction, or investment pursuant to specified rental housing finance programs, as specified, or if the department determines that a project has, or will have after rehabilitation or repairs, a potential remaining useful life equal to or greater than the term of the restructured loan. Current law authorizes the department to charge a monitoring fee to cover the aggregate monitoring costs in years the loan is extended and a transaction fee to cover its costs for processing restructuring transactions, and requires developer fee limitations to be consistent with specified laws and regulations, including regulations by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee.
• This bill would revise and recast these provisions, including additionally authorizing the department to approve the payoff of a department loan in whole or part before the end of its term and the extraction of equity from a development for purposes approved by the department.
• The bill would specify eligible uses of loan and equity sources, if the department determines that a project has, or will have after rehabilitation or repairs, a potential remaining useful life equal to or greater than the term of the department’s regulatory agreement for purposes of approving an extension, reinstatement, subordination, payoff, extraction, or investment, as described above.

AB 2648
Bennett D
Environmentally
preferable
purchasing: singleuse plastic bottles.
3/19/2024-
A. APPR.
4/1/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Would, with certain exceptions, prohibit state agencies from entering into, modifying, amending, or renewing a contract, on or after January 1, 2025, to purchase singleuse plastic bottles, as defined, for internal use or resale and would require state agencies to take appropriate steps to replace the use of single-use plastic bottles at food service facilities with nonplastic, recyclable recyclable, and reusable alternatives, as specified.
• The bill would require the Department of General Services to ensure that any new, modified, or renewed agreements, contracts, or procurement undertaken by a food service facility as part of a contract or agreement with the Department of General Services comply with the bill, as specified.
• The bill would require state agencies to submit a report, on or before January 1, 2026, to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, confirming its compliance with these requirements.

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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would define a state agency for these purposes to include various agencies, including the California State University, and would request that the University of California comply with its provisions.

AB 2658
Bains D
Short-lived climate
pollutants: organic
waste: reduction
regulations:
exemption.
3/4/2024-A. NAT.

RES.
3/4/2024-Referred
to Com. on NAT.

RES.

Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to implement a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a reduction in statewide emissions of methane by 40% by 2030. Current law requires the methane emissions reduction goals to include a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic waste reduction goals that include, among other things, requirements intended to meet the goal that not less than 20% of edible food that is currently disposed of be recovered for human consumption by 2025 and that may include penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance, as provided.
• This bill would exempt from the above-referenced organic waste reduction goal requirements and regulations, food processing establishments, as defined, that do not divert organic waste to landfills.

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AB 2663
Grayson D
Affordable housing
fees: reports.
3/18/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/20/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

The Mitigation Fee Act, among other things, imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project, including requiring the local agency to identify the use to which the fee is to be put, as specified. The act requires a local agency, upon receipt of a fee subject to these provisions, to deposit, invest, account for, and expend the fees as specified. For the 5th fiscal year following the first deposit into the account of fund, and every 5 years thereafter, the act requires the local agency to make prescribed findings with respect to that portion of the account or fund remaining unexpended, whether committed or uncommitted, including demonstrating a reasonable relationship between the fee and the purpose for which it is charged. • This bill, commencing on January 1, 2026, would require a local agency that collects inclusionary housing zoning in-lieu fees to annually post on its internet website the amount of those fees collected in the previous year and whether those fees are intended to be used for a project, if any.
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
require a local agency that collects inclusionary housing zoning in-lieu fees to post on its internet website the amount of those fees collected in the past 5 years and the project those fees were spent on.

AB 2665
Lee D
Housing finance:

Mixed Income
Revolving Loan
Program.
3/4/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/4/2024-Referred
to Com. on H. &
C.D.

Would establish, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Mixed Income Revolving Loan Program within the California Housing Finance Agency to zero-interest construction loans to qualifying residential, infill housing developers for the purpose of constructing deed-restricted affordable housing.
• The bill would require the agency to formulate a program for the development of multifamily housing projects where a portion of the housing units are set aside to ensure affordability, as specified.
• The bill would require the agency to be the administrator of the program and to promulgate rules and regulations deemed necessary for the administration and implementation of its provisions.

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AB 2667
Santiago D
Affirmatively
furthering fair
housing: housing
element: reporting.
3/18/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.
• This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken with regards to the local agency affirmatively further fair housing that enables the reporting of the assessment components described-above, as specified.
• The bill would require local governments to utilize the standardized reporting format for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 2676
Gabriel D
Housing elements.
2/14/2024-
A. PRINT
2/15/2024-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 16.

Current law requires a city, county, or city and county to submit a draft housing element or draft amendment to its housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development for a determination as to whether the draft complies with state law governing housing elements. Current law imposes certain requirements on an action brought by an interested party to review the conformity of a housing element with applicable state law.
• This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision imposing certain requirements on those actions.

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AB 2684
Bryan D
3/4/2024-A. L.

GOV.
3/4/2024-Referred
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a safety element for the protection of the community from Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Safety element:
extreme heat.
to Coms. on L.

GOV. and E.M.
unreasonable risks associated with the effects of various geologic and seismic hazards, flooding, and wildland and urban fires. Current law requires the planning agency to review and, if necessary, revise the safety element upon each revision of its housing element or local hazard mitigation plan, but not less than once every 8 years, to identify new information relating to flood and fire hazards and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies applicable to the city or county that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element. • This bill would require a city or county, upon the next revision of its local hazard mitigation plan on or after January 1, 2024, to review and update its safety element as necessary to address the hazard of extreme heat, as specified. • The bill, after the initial revision of the safety element pursuant to these provisions, would require the planning agency to review and revise the safety element upon each revision of the housing element or local hazard mitigation plan to identify new information relating to extreme heat hazards and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element.

AB 2687
Flora R
Automated traffic
enforcement
systems.
3/21/2024-
A. TRANS.
4/4/2024-In
committee: Set,
first hearing.

Hearing canceled
at the request of
author.
• This bill would, until January 1, 2030, authorize a city or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system for a period of 5 years if, among other things, the system meets the criteria specified above.
• The bill would require a violation of any traffic law that is recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be subject only to a civil penalty, and would prohibit the Department of Motor Vehicles from suspending or revoking the privilege of a violator to drive a motor vehicle.
• The bill would require a notice of violation to be in writing and issued to the registered owner of the vehicle within 15 calendar days of the date of the violation.

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AB 2694
Ward D
Density Bonus
Law: residential
care facilities for
the elderly.
3/4/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/20/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

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

The Density Bonus Law defines a “development” for these purposes to include a shared housing development.
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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
purposes to include a residential care facility for the elderly, as defined. By expanding a city or county’s duty to administer the Density Bonus Law, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 2700
Gabriel D
Emergency
medical services:
alternate
destinations.
3/11/2024-
A. HEALTH
4/2/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on HEALTH.

Existing law authorizes a county to develop an emergency medical services (EMS) program, and requires a county developing that program to designate a local EMS agency. Existing law authorizes a local EMS agency to develop a community paramedicine or triage to alternate destination program that, among other things, selects providers to triage individuals to mental health facilities and sobering centers as alternates to emergency departments. Existing law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop and, after approval by the Commission on Emergency Medical Services, adopt regulations and establish minimum standards for the development of those programs.
• This bill would require the state to survey and analyze the facilities in each county that can serve as an alternate destination facility.
• The bill would require a local emergency medical services agency to develop an alternate destination facility plan with protocols for transporting an individual to an alternate destination facility instead of an emergency department.

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AB 2710
Lackey R
Peace officers:
active shooter
incidents.
3/4/2024-A. PUB.

S.
3/6/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop and disseminate guidelines and standardized training recommendations for Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, as specified, that would be available for use by law enforcement agencies that conduct SWAT operations.
• This bill would require each law enforcement agency at an active shooter incident to identify the incident commander, as defined, and prohibit the indiscriminate parking of police vehicles.
• The bill would require the commission to develop guidelines for law enforcement agencies to prevent unnecessary radio transmissions and inappropriate selfdeployment of law enforcement officers during an active shooter incident.

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AB 2712
Friedman D
Preferential
3/11/2024-A. L.

GOV.
4/1/2024-Re-
• This bill, for a residential, commercial, or other development project that is exempt from minimum automobile parking requirements and located within a preferential parking area, would require the development project to be excluded from the Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
parking privileges:
transit-oriented
development.
referred to Com.
on L. GOV.
boundaries of the preferential parking area and would prohibit the local authority, as defined, from issuing any permit to the residents, vendors, or visitors of the development project that grants preferential parking privileges. • The bill would also authorize a local authority to issue permits to residents, vendors, and visitors of the development project that is within the boundaries of a preferential parking area if the local authority makes written findings that including the development project would not have a substantially negative impact on the preferential parking area, as specified.
• The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.

AB 2728
Gabriel D
Planning and
zoning: housing
development:
independent
institutions of
higher education
and religious
institutions.
3/11/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/12/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

The Affordable Housing on Faith and Higher Education Lands Act of 2023 (the act) requires a housing development project on certain lands owned by an independent institution of higher education or a religious institution to be a use by right if the development project satisfies specified criteria, including that a specified percentage of the development project’s total units are for lower income households. • This bill would require the program in the housing element to develop a plan that incentivizes and promotes the production of very low, low-, and moderate-income housing on land owned by religious institutions and independent institutions of higher education.
• The bill would require a local government to include in the annual report specified information relating to housing development projects under the act, including the number of applications submitted and the total number of building permits issued under the act.
• The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a list of existing state grants and financial incentives in connection with the planning, construction, and operation of very low, low-, and moderate-income housing on land owned by religious institutions and independent institutions of higher education, and to develop a set of model partnership agreements that can be used by those institutions when they partner with an affordable housing builder.

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AB 2744
McCarty D
3/4/2024-
A. TRANS.

Current law authorizes a legislative body of a city, whenever this legislative body determines that it is necessary for the more efficient maintenance, construction, or Watch
47 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Vehicles:
pedestrian, bicycle,
and vehicle safety.
4/1/2024-In
committee:

Hearing postponed
by committee.
repair of streets and roads within the city, to contract with the board of supervisors of any county for the rental of the county’s equipment, as specified. • This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2025, prohibit the addition of a right-turn or travel lane within 20 feet of a marked or unmarked crosswalk where there is not already a dedicated and marked right-turn or travel lane, and would prohibit vehicles from using this 20-foot area for right turns unless the area is already marked as a dedicated right-turn lane before January 1, 2025.

AB 2794
Bryan D
Community
development:

Antidisplacement
Commercial
Property
Acquisition
Program.
3/21/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
4/4/2024-From
committee chair,
with author's
amendments:

Amend, and rerefer to Com. on H.
& C.D. Read
second time and
amended.

Would establish the Antidisplacement Commercial Property Acquisition Program, to be administered by GO-Biz to provide low-interest loans to eligible community-based acquisition partners to acquire commercial property in communities that are vulnerable to gentrification and displacement.
• The bill would specify the goals of the program, including ensuring local businesses remain in high-risk communities vulnerable to gentrification and displacement. • The bill would establish the Antidisplacement Commercial Property Acquisition Revolving Loan Fund, and would authorize GO-Biz, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the fund for purposes of the program, to provide low-interest loans for purposes of the program.
• The bill would require GO-Biz to adopt regulations to administer the program, including qualifications that prioritize the preservation of Black-, indigenous-, people of color-, and women-owned businesses and the acquisition of commercial property in culturally significant commercial corridors.
• The bill would require GO-Biz to report to the Legislature on the progress of the program by January 1, 2030, or 5 years after the disbursement of the first loan by GO-Biz, whichever is later.
• The bill would make the program contingent upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes.

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AB 2807
Villapudua D
Vehicles:
sideshows and
street takeovers.
3/18/2024-
A. TRANS.
4/4/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on TRANS.

Current law, commencing July 1, 2025, authorizes the court to order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to 6 months and restrict the person’s operation of a motor vehicle for the purposes of their employment if the violation occurred as part of a sideshow, as defined. Current law requires the court to consider a person’s hardships, as specified, when deciding to either suspend or restrict a Watch
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Position
driver’s license.
• This bill would clarify that a “sideshow” is also known as a “street takeover.” AB 2809
Haney D
Vehicles:
automated speed
enforcement.
3/18/2024-
A. TRANS.
3/18/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on TRANS. and P.
& C.P.

Would require the Secretary of Transportation to develop guidelines for the implementation of a state highway work zone speed safety program using automated speed enforcement systems, as specified.
• The bill would authorize the Department of Transportation to establish a state highway work zone speed safety program in accordance with those guidelines. • The bill would require the department, if a program is established, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, as specified.

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AB 2813
Aguiar-Curry D
Government
Investment Act.
4/1/2024-A. L.

GOV.
4/1/2024-Referred
to Com. on L.

GOV.

The Legislature adopted ACA 1 at the 2023–24 Regular Session of the Legislature, which, if approved by the voters, would amend and add provisions of the California Constitution to (1) create an additional exception to the 1% limit on the ad valorem tax rate on real property by authorizing a local jurisdiction 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, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters in that local jurisdiction; and (2) authorize a local jurisdiction to impose, extend, or increase a sales and use tax to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters in that local jurisdiction. Pursuant to the existing law described above, ACA 1 is scheduled to appear on the ballot at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election.
• This bill would authorize a local government that imposes a tax under ACA 1 to commit revenues to affordable housing programs, including downpayment assistance, first-time home buyer programs, and owner-occupied affordable housing rehabilitation programs.
• The bill would require a local government to ensure that any project that is funded with ACA 1 bonded indebtedness or ACA 1 special taxes to have an estimated useful life of at least 15 years or 5 years if the funds are for specified public safety buildings, facilities, and equipment.

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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 2854
Irwin D
Bradley-Burns
Uniform Local
Sales and Use Tax
Law.
3/18/2024-A. REV.
& TAX
3/19/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on REV. & TAX.

The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law (Bradley-Burns) authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law. Current law, on or after January 1, 2016, prohibits a local agency from entering into any form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to any person, as defined, for any purpose, if the agreement results in a reduction in the amount of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues that, in the absence of the agreement, would be received by another local agency and the retailer continues to maintain a physical presence within the territorial jurisdiction of that other local agency, with specified exceptions.
• This bill would require a local agency, as defined, to annually provide specified information relating to each agreement resulting in the direct or indirect payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

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AB 2881
Lee D
The Social Housing
Act.
3/11/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Com.
on H. & C.D.

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 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.
• This bill would prescribe the composition of the California Housing Authority Board, which would govern the authority, and which would be composed of appointed members and members who would be elected by residents of social housing developments, as specified.
• The bill would set forth the powers and duties of the authority and the board. • The bill would require the authority to seek to achieve revenue neutrality, as defined, and would require the authority to seek to recuperate the cost of development and operations over the life of its properties through mechanisms that Watch
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Position
maximize the number of Californians who can be housed without experiencing rent burden.

AB 2926
Kalra D
Planning and
zoning: assisted
housing
developments:
notice of expiration
of affordability
restrictions.
3/11/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Com.
on H. & C.D.
(1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires an owner of an assisted housing development proposing the termination of a subsidy contract or prepayment of governmental assistance or of an assisted housing development in which there will be the expiration of rental restrictions to provide a notice of the proposed change to each affected tenant household residing in the assisted housing development, as specified. The Planning and Zoning Law defines “assisted housing development” for these purposes to mean a multifamily rental housing development of 5 or more units that receives governmental assistance under any of specified programs, including assistance provided by counties or cities under specified law in exchange for restrictions on the maximum rents, as specified, and on the maximum tenant income, as specified. The Planning and Zoning law defines a “termination” for these purposes to mean an owner’s decision to extend or renew its participation in a federal, state, or local government subsidy program or private, nongovernmental subsidy program for an assisted housing development, as specified. The Planning and Zoning Law defines the “expiration of rental restrictions” for these purposes to mean the expiration of rental restrictions for an assisted housing development, as specified, unless the development has other recorded agreements restricting the rent to the same or lesser levels for at least 50% of the units.
• This bill would instead impose the above-described notice requirement on an owner prior to the anticipated date of termination of a subsidy contract or expiration of rental restrictions or prepayment on an assisted housing development, as specified. • The bill would expand the definition of “assisted housing development” to include a development that receives assistance from counties or cities in exchange for affordability restrictions, as described above, pursuant to the Middle Class Housing Act of 2022; streamlining assistance pursuant to the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022; specified law providing a streamlined, ministerial approval process for certain housing developments; or the Affordable Housing on Faith and Higher Education Lands Act of 2023.
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Position
described programs, as specified.
• The bill would also revise the definition of “expiration of rental restrictions” to instead exclude an expiration in a development that has other recorded agreements restricting the rent to the same or lesser levels for the same number of units. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 2943
Zbur D
Crimes:
shoplifting.
3/11/2024-A. PUB.

S.
4/4/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law punishes petty theft as a misdemeanor while grand theft is punished as either a misdemeanor or a felony. Existing law lists specific types of theft which are grand theft and all other cases of theft as petty theft. Current law authorizes a person to be charged with grand theft if the property taken exceeds $950 over the course of distinct but related acts.
• This bill would clarify that those related acts include acts committed against multiple victims or in counties other than the county of the current offense. • The bill would also clarify that, in determining whether acts are motivated by one intention, one general impulse, and one plan, the court may consider, but is not limited to, evidence that the acts involve the same defendant or defendants, are substantially similar in nature, or occur within a 60-day period.

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AB 2986
Carrillo, Wendy D
Local Agency
Formation
Commission for
the County of Los
Angeles: East Los
Angeles Task
Force.
3/21/2024-A. L.

GOV.
4/1/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on L. GOV.

Would require the Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles (LALAFCO) to establish the East Los Angeles Task Force for the purposes of identifying and evaluating the potential impacts of incorporation of, or the establishment of special districts within, East Los Angeles, as defined. • The bill would require the task force to be composed of 11 members appointed by LALAFCO in consultation with the County of Los Angeles. • The bill would require the task force to meet quarterly, incorporating robust community engagement, to discuss the potential impacts of incorporation or the establishment of special districts in East Los Angeles, as specified. • The bill, by December 1, 2026, would require the task force to complete and submit a report to the Legislature on the potential impacts of city and special district incorporation in East Los Angeles, including an analysis of advantages, disadvantages, and recommendations for future actions.
• The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027.

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AB 3057
Wilson D
3/11/2024-A. NAT.

RES.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the Watch
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Position
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption: junior
accessory dwelling
units ordinances.
4/3/2024-In
committee:

Hearing postponed
by committee.
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. CEQA exempts from its requirements the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to issue a zoning variance, special use permit, or conditional use permit for a dwelling unit to be constructed, or which is attached to or detached from, a primary residence on a parcel zoned for a single-family residence, as provided, or to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned to allow singlefamily or multifamily dwelling residential use. • This bill would expand the above CEQA exemption to include the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to provide for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones.

AB 3068
Haney D
Adaptive reuse:
streamlining:
incentives.
3/11/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on H. & C.D. and
L. GOV.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term 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, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units.
• This bill would deem an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process if the project meets specified requirements. In this regard, an adaptive reuse project, in order to qualify for the streamlined, ministerial review process, would be required to be proposed for an existing building that is less than 50 years old or meets certain requirements regarding the preservation of historic resources, including the signing of an affidavit declaring that the project will comply with the United States Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation or receive federal or state historic rehabilitation tax credits, as specified.
• The bill would require an adaptive reuse project to comply with any broadly applicable housing affordability requirement, as defined, adopted by the local government and would require at least one-half of the square footage of the adaptive Watch
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Position
reuse project to be dedicated to residential uses, unless the project is an office conversion project, as specified.

AB 3086
Santiago D
General plan:
annual report:
housing units.
3/11/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on H. & C.D. and
L. GOV.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development of the city or county that includes, among other elements, a housing element. That law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs. That law requires the city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the number of units of housing demolished and new units of housing that have been issued a completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy.
• This bill would additionally require the city or county to include in the annual report the number of units in the city or county with long-term affordable covenants or restrictions that expired in the prior year and the number of units in the city or county subject to a local rent control or any form of rent or price control that were withdrawn from rent or lease.

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AB 3116
Garcia D
Housing
development:
density bonuses:
student housing
developments.
3/11/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on H. & C.D. and
L. GOV.

Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, 20% of the total units for lower income students in a student housing development that meets certain requirements. Current law requires that all units in the student housing development be used exclusively for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled full time at an institution of higher learning, as specified. To be eligible under this provision, current law requires a developer, as a condition of receiving a certificate of occupancy, provide evidence to the city, county, or city and county that the developer has entered into an operating agreement or master lease with one or more institutions of higher education, as specified. Current law also requires the development to provide priority for the applicable affordable units for lower income students experiencing homelessness, as specified. Current law requires units described in these provisions to be subject to a recorded affordability restriction of 55 years.

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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would revise these provisions to instead require that a city or county provide a density bonus to a developer who agrees to provide 20% of bedspaces for lower income students, faculty members, or staff in a student housing development, as defined, that meets certain requirements.
• The bill would revise the above-described exclusive use requirement to instead require, except as provided, all units in the student housing development to be used exclusively for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled currently or in the past 2 years in at least 6 units at an institution of higher learning, as specified. • The bill would additionally authorize eligibility under this provision if the developer, as a condition of receiving a certificate of occupancy, established a system for confirming its renters’ status as students, faculty, or staff to ensure all units of the student housing development are occupied with students, faculty, or staff from an institute of higher education, as specified.

AB 3122
Kalra D
Streamlined
housing approvals:
objective planning
standards.
3/21/2024-A. H. &
C.D.
3/21/2024-
Referred to Coms.
on H. & C.D. and
L. GOV.

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 remain available at affordable housing costs or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate income, as specified. Current law authorizes a development proponent to request a modification to a development that has been approved under the streamlined, ministerial approval process if that request is submitted to the local government before the issuance of the final building permit. Current law authorizes a local government to apply objective planning standards adopted after the development application was first submitted to the requested modification if the development is revised such that (1) the total number of residential units or total square footage of construction changes by 15% or more or (2) the development is revised such that the total number of residential units or total square footage of construction changes by 5% or more and it is necessary to impose an objective standard beyond those in effect when the development application was submitted in order to mitigate or avoid a specific, adverse impact Watch
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Revised: April 16, 2024
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Position
upon the public health or safety.
• This bill would instead authorize a local government to apply objective planning standards adopted after the development application was first submitted to the requested modification if the development is revised such that (1) the total square footage of construction increases by 15% or more or the total number of residential units decreases by 15% or more or (2) the total square footage of construction increases by 5% or more or the total number of residential units decreases by 5% or more and it is necessary to impose an objective standard beyond those in effect when the development application was submitted in order to mitigate or avoid a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety.

AB 3171
Soria D
Controlled
substances:
fentanyl.
3/11/2024-A. PUB.

S.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Current law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Existing 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. Current law makes transportation and sales of a controlled substances punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 4, or 5 years and transportation to a noncontiguous county within the state punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 6, or 9 years.
• This bill would increase the above-described penalties, as specified, if the controlled substance involved was more than more than 28.35 grams of fentanyl, more than 28.35 grams of an analog of fentanyl, a substance containing more than

28.35 grams of fentanyl, or a substance containing more than 28.35 grams of an analog of fentanyl.

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AB 3181
Pellerin D
Electricity:
outages.
3/11/2024-A. U. &
E.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Com.
on U. & E.

Would require, if one or more customers served by an electrical distribution circuit experiences 4 or more discrete electrical outages, as defined, during a single calendar year, the electrical corporation that owns and operates that circuit to perform a review of that circuit to determine the cause of the outages and implement system improvements to reduce the anticipated risk of future outages on that circuit below the threshold level of 4 outages per calendar year.
• The bill would require the electrical corporation to make the findings of the circuit review, the scope of work expected to be performed to reduce the anticipated risk of future outages on that circuit, and the expected reduction in the risk of future outages Watch
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Position
resulting from that work available to the impacted customers and the city, county, or city and county in which the circuit is located.

AB 3237
Boerner D
California Bicycle
Routes of National,
State, or Regional
Significance Act.
2/16/2024-
A. PRINT
2/17/2024-From
printer. May be
heard in committee
March 18.

The California Bicycle Routes of National, State, or Regional Significance Act authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish a process for identifying and promoting bicycle routes of national, state, or regional significance, as provided. • This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision naming the act.

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AB 3241
Pacheco D
Law enforcement:
police canines.
3/11/2024-A. PUB.

S.
3/11/2024-
Referred to Com.
on PUB. S.

Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to adopt uniform, minimum guidelines regarding the use of canines by law enforcement, including legal standards established by the bill, and to certify courses of training for all law enforcement canine handlers and those law enforcement supervisors directly overseeing canine programs, as specified.
• The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2025, each law enforcement agency to maintain a policy for the use of canines by the agency that, at a minimum, complies with the guidelines adopted by POST, and would require law enforcement agencies to establish a training regimen that includes a course certified by the commission.

Because the bill would impose additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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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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SB 7
Blakespear D
Planning and
zoning: annual
report: housing for
1/29/2024-
A. DESK
1/29/2024-Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 32. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
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. That law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development. The law requires that the annual report include, among other specified information, the number of net new units of housing, Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
extremely low
income
households.

Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
first time. Held at
Desk.
including both rental housing and for-sale housing, that have been issued a completed entitlement, building permit, or certificate of occupancy, and the income category, by area median income, that each unit of housing satisfies, as specified. • This bill would revise and recast these provisions to specify that the income category includes extremely low income households, as defined.

SB 37
Caballero D
Older Adults and
Adults with
Disabilities
Housing Stability
Act.
1/29/2024-
A. DESK
1/29/2024-Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 36. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
first time. Held at
Desk.

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, 2025, to begin developing the Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Housing Stability Pilot Program.

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SB 53
Portantino D
Firearms: storage.
1/29/2024-
A. DESK
1/29/2024-Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 27. Noes 9.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
first time. Held at
Desk.

Would, beginning on July 1, 2025, prohibit a person from keeping or storing a firearm in a residence owned or controlled by that person unless the firearm is stored in a locked box or safe that is listed on the Department of Justice’s list of approved firearms safety devices and is properly engaged so as to render it inaccessible by any person other than the owner, as specified.
• The bill would make a first violation of this offense punishable as an infraction, and a second or subsequent violation punishable as a misdemeanor. • The bill would exempt firearms that are permanently inoperable from these provisions.
• The bill would require the Department of Justice to promptly engage in a public awareness and education campaign to inform residents about these standards for storage of firearms.
• The bill would additionally prohibit a person convicted under these provisions from owning, purchasing, receiving, or possessing a firearm within one year of the Watch
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Position
conviction, as specified.
• The bill would make a violation of this provision punishable as a misdemeanor or felony.

SB 251
Newman D
Candidates’
statements: false
statements.
1/16/2024-
A. DESK
1/16/2024-Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 36. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
first time. Held at
Desk.

Current law permits a candidate for nonpartisan elective office, and an officer whose recall is being sought, to file with the elections official a candidate’s statement that includes a brief description of the candidate’s education and qualifications. Current law requires an elections official to include in the county voter information guide a candidate’s statement from a candidate for nonpartisan elective office and from an officer whose recall is being sought. Current law prohibits a candidate for nonpartisan elective office, or an incumbent in a recall election, to knowingly make a false statement of material fact in the candidate’s statement with the intent to mislead the voters in connection with the candidate’s campaign for nomination or election to an office. Violation of this prohibition is punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000. • This bill would increase the maximum fine amount to $5,000.

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SB 294
Wiener D
Health care
coverage:
independent
medical review.
1/29/2024-
A. DESK
1/29/2024-Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 31. Noes 7.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
first time. Held at
Desk.

Would, commencing July 1, 2025, require a health care service plan or a disability insurer that upholds its decision to modify, delay, or deny a health care service in response to a grievance or has a grievance that is otherwise pending or unresolved upon expiration of the relevant timeframe to automatically submit within 24 hours a decision regarding a disputed health care service to the Independent Medical Review System, as well as the information that informed its decision, if the decision is to deny, modify, or delay specified services relating to mental health or substance use disorder conditions for an enrollee or insured up to 26 years of age. • The bill would require a health care service plan or disability insurer, within 24 hours after submitting its decision to the Independent Medical Review System to provide notice to the appropriate department, the enrollee or insured or their representative, if any, and the enrollee’s or insured’s provider. • The bill would require the notice to include notification to the enrollee or insured that they or their representative may cancel the independent medical review at any time before a determination, as specified.

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SB 402
Wahab D
1/29/2024-
A. DESK
1/29/2024-Read
The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to self or others, or gravely disabled, the Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Involuntary
commitment.
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 37. Noes 1.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
first time. Held at
Desk.
person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by specified individuals, including, among others, by peace officers and designated members of a mobile crisis team, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment.
• This bill would additionally authorize a person to be taken into custody, pursuant to those provisions, by a licensed mental health professional, as defined.

SB 552
Newman D
Public safety:
pools and spas.
1/22/2024-
A. DESK
1/22/2024-Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
first time. Held at
Desk.

Under the Swimming Pool Safety Act, upon the issuance of a building permit for the construction of a new swimming pool or spa, or the remodeling of an existing pool or spa, at a private, single-family home, the pool or spa is required to be equipped with at least 2 of 7 specified drowning prevention safety features. Under current law, these features include, among others, an approved safety pool cover, as defined; an alarm that, when placed in a swimming pool or spa, will sound upon detection of accidental or unauthorized entrance into the water; or other means of protection that afford an equal or greater degree of protection than those features specified in the act and that has been independently verified as meeting standards for those features established by ASTM International or the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

The act requires the local building code official to inspect and approve the drowning prevention safety devices before the issuance of a final approval for the completion of permitted construction or remodeling work.
• This bill would require that an approved safety pool cover be accompanied by a label verifying that the cover meets certain specifications, is in good repair, and can be opened and closed by automated mechanics.
• The bill would require that an alarm, as described above, be in good repair and operable as designed.

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SB 569
Glazer D
Political Reform
Act of 1974: audits.
8/28/2023-
A. APPR.
9/1/2023-
September 1
hearing: Held in
committee and
under submission.

Would transfer the responsibility for conducting audits and field investigations of lobbying reports to the Fair Political Practices Commission. • The bill would also exclude lobbying firms and lobbyist employers with less than one dollar in payments or contributions from being selected for audit. Additionally, this bill would require the Fair Political Practices Commission to adopt regulations or policies that would ensure the operational independence of the commission’s audit personnel from the Fair Political Practices Commission’s enforcement operations.

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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Audits conducted by the commission would be required to be posted on the commission’s internet website for 10 years following the conclusion of the audit and the commission would be required to annually report to the Legislature on the number and types of audits completed by the commission.
• This bill would delay the operation of these provisions until the January 1 of the next odd numbered year following an appropriation made to support the commission’s exercise of these responsibilities.

SB 584
Limón D
Laborforce
housing: ShortTerm Rental Tax
Law.
6/15/2023-A. H. &
C.D.
6/29/2023-June 28
set for first hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

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 the Laborforce Housing Fund in the State Treasury, and would make moneys in the fund available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, 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.

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SB 638
Eggman D
Climate Resiliency
and Flood
Protection Bond
Act of 2024.
6/15/2023-A. W.,P.
& W.
7/6/2023-July 11
hearing postponed
by committee.

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 689
Blakespear D
Local coastal
program: bicycle
lane: amendment.
1/29/2024-
A. DESK
1/29/2024-Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 31. Noes 8.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
Would provide that an application by a local government to convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane shall not require a traffic study for the processing of either a coastal development permit or an amendment to a local coastal program.
• The bill would require, if a proposal to create a dedicated bicycle lane within the developed portion of an existing right-of-way requires an amendment to a local coastal program, the amendment be processed according to specified law, if the executive director of the commission makes specified determinations.

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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
first time. Held at
Desk.

SB 724
Glazer D
Political Reform
Act of 1974:
communications.
8/28/2023-
A. APPR.
9/1/2023-
September 1
hearing postponed
by committee.

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 elected state officer, and educates the public about the previous votes cast by the elected state officer or about the source of campaign donations received by the elected state officer, and that is disseminated, broadcast, or otherwise published within 150 days of an election, as specified.

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SB 834
Portantino D
Vehicles:
preferential
parking:
residential,
commercial, or
other development
project.
2/29/2024-A. RLS.
2/29/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on RLS. pursuant
to Assembly Rule

96. Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking, and permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities. Current law prohibits a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project, as defined, that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. Current law, notwithstanding the abovedescribed prohibition, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a housing development project if specified conditions are met. Current law authorizes a local authority to authorize preferential parking for designated groups to park on specified streets if the local authority determines that use of the permits will not adversely affect parking conditions for residents and merchants in the area.
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Position
preferential parking privileges to any residents or vendors of any developments within 1/2 mile of public transit and exempt from parking minimums. • The bill would require the local authority to revise the boundaries of any such preferential parking district to exclude those developments from its boundaries. • The bill would make related findings and declarations, and state that it is the intent of the Legislature to discourage car use by incentivizing development near public transit.

SB 863
Allen D
Measures
proposed by the
Legislature.
1/30/2024-
A. DESK
1/30/2024-Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 30. Noes 7.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In
Assembly. Read
first time. Held at
Desk.

Would allow the Legislature to specify that a constitutional amendment, bond measure, or other legislative measure submitted to the people will appear on the ballot at an election other the one described above if the election specified in the proposal would occur at least 131 days after adoption of the proposal by the Legislature.

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SB 867
Allen D
Drought, Flood,
and Water
Resilience, Wildfire
and Forest
Resilience, Coastal
Resilience,
Extreme Heat
Mitigation,
Biodiversity and
Nature-Based
Climate Solutions,
Climate Smart
6/20/2023-A. NAT.

RES.
7/6/2023-July 10
hearing postponed
by committee.

Would enact the Drought, Flood, and Water Resilience, Wildfire and Forest Resilience, Coastal Resilience, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Biodiversity and NatureBased Climate Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Park Creation and Outdoor Access, and Clean Energy Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15,500,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate smart agriculture, park creation and outdoor access, and clean energy programs.

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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Agriculture, Park
Creation and
Outdoor Access,
and Clean Energy
Bond Act of 2024.

SB 905
Wiener D
Crimes: theft from
a vehicle.
4/2/2024-S. APPR.
4/4/2024-Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Would make forcibly entering a vehicle, as defined, with the intent to commit a theft or a felony therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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SB 915
Cortese D
Local government:
autonomous
vehicles.
2/21/2024-S. L.

GOV.
4/2/2024-April 3
set for first hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Existing law authorizes an autonomous vehicle, as defined, to be operated on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle being operated if certain requirements are met, including that the vehicle is being operated solely by employees, contractors, or other persons designated by the manufacturer. Existing law prohibits an autonomous vehicle from being operated on public roads until the manufacturer submits an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles containing certain certifications regarding safety and other technological requirements and the department approves that application pursuant to adopted regulations. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2030, and to the extent authorized by federal law, prohibits the operation of certain new autonomous vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles, as defined. • This bill would prohibit an autonomous vehicle service, that has received approval to conduct commercial passenger service or engage in commercial activity using driverless vehicles by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Public Utilities Commission, or another state agency, from commencing operation within a local jurisdiction until authorized by a local ordinance enacted pursuant to the bill’s provisions.
• The bill would authorize each city, county, or city and county in which an autonomous vehicle has received authorization to operate, to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by enacting an ordinance in regard to autonomous vehicle services within that jurisdiction.

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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would require each city, county, or city and county that enacts an ordinance to include certain provisions within that ordinance. These would include a policy for entry into the business of providing autonomous vehicle services including a permitting program that includes, among other things, the establishment of reasonable vehicle caps and hours of service restrictions. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 937
Wiener D
Development
projects: permits
and other
entitlements: fees
and charges.
4/3/2024-
S. HOUSING
4/4/2024-From
committee: Do
pass as amended
and re-refer to
Com. on
HOUSING. (Ayes

6. Noes 0.) (April
3).

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Existing law, the Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Existing law extended by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before, and was in effect on, March 4, 2020, and that would expire before December 31, 2021, except as specified. Existing law provides that if the state or a local agency extended the otherwise applicable time for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement for not less than 18 months, as specified, that housing entitlement would not be extended an additional 18 months pursuant to these provisions.
• This bill would extend by 24 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before January 1, 2024, and that will expire before December 31, 2025, except as specified. • The bill would toll this 24-month extension during any time that the housing entitlement is the subject of a legal challenge. By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to housing entitlements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
• The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SB 968
Seyarto R
Planning and
zoning: regional
housing needs
allocation.
2/14/2024-
S. HOUSING
3/20/2024-March
19 set for first
hearing. Failed
passage in
committee. (Ayes

2. Noes 4.)
Reconsideration
granted.

Current law requires each council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to develop a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to cities, counties, and cities and counties within the region or within the subregion, as provided. Current law requires the consideration of several specified factors in developing the methodology. Current law prohibits certain criteria from being a justification for a determination or reduction in a jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, including prior underproduction of housing in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation, as specified. • This bill would permit the council of governments or delegate subregion, in developing the methodology, to consider prior overproduction of housing units in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation in a particular income category and to count it as credit toward the future regional housing need allocation of that same income category in the next cycle. • The bill would provide that the amount eligible to count as credit toward the next cycle is determined by each jurisdiction’s most recent annual progress report, as specified.

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SB 969
Wiener D
Alcoholic
beverages:
entertainment
zones:
consumption.
3/12/2024-
S. APPR.
3/28/2024-Set for
hearing April 8.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

Current law defines “entertainment zone” for purposes of the act as a zone created by ordinance on or after January 1, 2024, in the City and County of San Francisco, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way adjacent to and during a special event permitted or licensed by the department. Current law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to establish an entertainment zone, subject to certain requirements, including providing specified information relating to the entertainment zone to the department and establishing a process or procedure by which persons in possession of alcoholic beverages in the entertainment zone may be readily identifiable as being 21 years of age or older.
• This bill would, instead, define “entertainment zone” as a zone created by a city, county, or city and county ordinance on or after January 1, 2025, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, Watch
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Position
sidewalks, or public rights-of-way.
• The bill would additionally authorize any city, county, or city and county to establish an entertainment zone, subject to the above-described requirements.

SB 981
Wahab D
Sexually explicit
digital images.
4/3/2024-S. JUD.
4/3/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on JUD.

Would require a social media platform to provide a mechanism that is reasonably accessible to users for a user who is a California resident to report covered material to the social media platform.
• The bill would define “covered material” to mean material that a user of a social media platform reasonably believes meets certain criteria, including that the material is an image or video created, or altered through, digitization that would appear to a reasonable person to be an image or video of an intimate body part of an identifiable person, an identifiable person engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration, or an identifiable person engaged in masturbation. • The bill would also require a social media platform to permanently block a reported instance of covered material from being viewable on the social media platform and to make reasonable efforts to remove and block unreported instances of reported covered material from being viewable on the social media platform.

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SB 982
Wahab D
Crimes: organized
theft.
3/12/2024-
S. APPR.
3/28/2024-Set for
hearing April 8.

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SB 1012
Wiener D
The Regulated
Psychedelic
2/14/2024-S. B., P.
& E.D.
3/20/2024-From
committee with
author's
Current law provides for the regulation of various professions and vocations by boards established under the jurisdiction of the Department of Consumer Affairs in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules, and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Facilitators Act and
the Regulated
PsychedelicAssisted Therapy
Act.
amendments.

Read second time
and amended. Rereferred to Com.
on B., P. & E. D.
in Schedule I. Current law classifies dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), ibogaine, psilocybin, and psilocyn as Schedule I substances, and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their sale, possession, transportation, manufacture, or cultivation. • This bill would enact the Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act, which would establish the Board of Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators in the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate psychedelic facilitators, as defined. • The bill would require the board to be appointed, as specified, by April 1, 2025. • The bill would require the board to establish educational, training, and other qualifications and requirements for obtaining a license as a regulated psychedelic facilitator and would establish conditions of licensure. • The bill would require the board to establish fees for the reasonable regulatory costs to the board to administer the act.
• The bill would require the board to begin accepting license applications by April 1, 2026.
• The bill would make a license subject to renewal every 2 years. • The bill would create the Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Fund in the State Treasury, would require all funds received pursuant to the act to be credited to the fund, and would make moneys in the fund available to the board for the act’s purposes upon appropriation by the Legislature.

SB 1013
Bradford D
Taxation: Property
Tax Assistance for
Descendants of
Enslaved Persons.
4/3/2024-S. REV.
& TAX
4/3/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on REV. & TAX.

The Gonsalves-Deukmejian-Petris Senior Citizens Property Tax Assistance Law authorizes individuals who meet specified criteria, including that they either be 62 years of age or older or blind or disabled, as defined, to file with the Franchise Tax Board a claim for assistance. That law authorizes assistance in an amount equal to a percentage, determined as provided, of either the property taxes accrued and paid by the claimant on their residential dwelling or, with respect to a claimant renting their residence, the applicable statutory property tax equivalent. • This bill would establish the Property Tax Assistance for Descendants of Enslaved Persons Program for purposes of making, upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys available to persons who meet specified criteria, including that the person currently live in a formerly redlined neighborhood in the state and is a descendant of a person enslaved in the United States, for purposes of providing financial assistance Watch
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Position
equal to a percentage of property taxes on a residential dwelling, as defined. • The bill would, for purposes of determining a person’s eligibility for moneys under the program, require the person to provide an affidavit, under penalty of perjury, containing specified information, if the residential dwelling is owned by the person on property owned by a nonprofit incorporated association.

SB 1028
Alvarado-Gil D
Alcoholic beverage
licensees: on-sale
general licenses
for bona fide eating
places.
3/12/2024-
S. APPR.
4/2/2024-From
committee with
author's
amendments.

Read second time
and amended. Rereferred to Com.
on APPR.

Would authorize the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue up to 10 additional new original on-sale general licenses for bona fide public eating places in the first calendar year following any year in which the county reaches the limit on onsale general licenses, subject to specified provisions. • The bill would authorize the county board of supervisors, by resolution submitted to the department on or before July 1, to limit the maximum number of additional licenses issued in the county pursuant to the bill’s provisions in that year, as specified.
• The bill would authorize the department to designate licenses issued pursuant to the bill’s provisions as on-sale general for special use.

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SB 1032
Padilla D
Housing finance:
portfolio
restructuring: loan
forgiveness.
3/20/2024-
S. APPR.
3/28/2024-Set for
hearing April 8.

Existing law establishes various rental housing finance programs administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law authorizes the department to monitor and fund various multifamily housing loans. With respect to these programs and loans, existing law authorizes the department to approve an extension of a department loan, the reinstatement of a qualifying unpaid matured loan, the subordination of a department loan to new debt, or an investment of tax credit equity pursuant to specified rental housing finance programs and multifamily housing loans administered, monitored, or funded by the department, subject to specified requirements.
• This bill would additionally authorize the department to forgive the above-described loans, including the full amounts of the principal, interests, fees, and any other outstanding balances of specified department loans, if the borrower shows that the loan is impeding their ability to maintain and operate the project, as specified. • The bill would require that projects receiving loan forgiveness meet specified requirements, including that the projects maintain the same number of affordable units at the same affordable housing cost as provided in the project’s regulatory agreement.

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Position
• The bill would authorize borrowers to appeal a loan forgiveness decision to the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing for reconsideration. • This bill contains other related provisions.

SB 1037
Wiener D
Planning and
zoning: housing
element:
enforcement.
4/3/2024-
S. HOUSING
4/3/2024-Rereferred to Coms.
on HOUSING and
JUD.

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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. The Planning and Zoning Law requires HCD to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes HCD to notify the office of the Attorney General, that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the local government has taken action in violation of specified provisions of law. The Planning and Zoning Law also requires, among other things, that an application for a housing development be subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards.
• This bill, in any action brought by the Attorney General, on behalf of HCD or in an independent capacity, to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions, as specified, or to enforce any state law that requires a city, county, or local agency to ministerially approve any land use decision or permitting application for a housing development project, as specified, would subject the city, county, or local agency to specified remedies, including a civil penalty of, at minimum, $10,000 per month, and not exceeding $50,000 per month, for each violation, as specified.

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SB 1053
Blakespear D
Solid waste:
reusable grocery
bags: standards:
plastic film
prohibition.
2/21/2024-S. E.Q.
4/4/2024-From
committee with
author's
amendments.

Read second time
and amended. Rereferred to Com.
on E.Q.

Current law prohibits a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag, as defined, to a customer, with specified exceptions, including an exemption for bags used to contain unwrapped food. Current law requires a reusable grocery bag sold by a store to a customer at the point of sale to be made by a certified reusable grocery bag producer and to meet specified requirements with regard to the bag’s durability, material, labeling, heavy metal content, and, with regard to reusable grocery bags made from plastic film, recycled material content. Current law prohibits a producer of reusable grocery bags made from plastic film from selling or distributing those bags unless the producer is certified by a third-party certification entity, and provides proof of that certification and a certification fee to the department, as specified. Current law Watch
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Position
also prohibits a store from selling or distributing a recycled paper bag at the point of sale unless the store makes that bag available for purchase for not less than $0.10.

Existing law defines “recycled paper bag,” in part, as a paper carryout bag that contains a minimum of 40% postconsumer recycled materials, except as provided, and meets other requirements. Current law allows a retail establishment to voluntarily comply with these requirements, if the retail establishment provides the department with irrevocable notice.
• This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, revise the single-use carryout bag exception to include a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item, as specified. • The bill would revise the definition of “recycled paper bag” to require it be made from 100% postconsumer recycled materials, without exception.

SB 1054
Rubio D
Climate Pollution
Reduction in
Homes Initiative:
natural gas:
customer credit.
2/21/2024-S. E. U.,
& C.
4/4/2024-Set for
hearing April 22.

Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the Department of Community Services and Development, to develop and supervise the Climate Pollution Reduction in Homes Initiative to require gas corporations to jointly award grants for local service providers, as defined, nonprofit organizations, and regional collections of local governments to provide financial assistance to low-income households for the purchase of zerocarbon-emitting appliances. • The bill would require the Energy Commission, as part of developing and administering the initiative, to develop guidelines, as specified, and authorize local service providers, nonprofit organizations, and regional collections of local governments to use those grant moneys for outreach and technical assistance, rebates, loans, installation, educational information, and other support services to assist low-income households.

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SB 1055
Min D
Accessory dwelling
2/21/2024-
S. HOUSING
3/13/2024-March
19 set for first
hearing canceled
Current law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to its legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information, the city’s or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs, as described. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, Watch
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Position
units: regional
housing need.
at the request of
author.
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.

Current law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. Current law prohibits a local agency from establishing height limitations for accessory dwelling units, including height limitations that would prohibit attached accessory dwelling units from attaining a height of 25 feet, as specified.
• This bill would prohibit a qualifying local agency from imposing height limitations that would prohibit an attached accessory dwelling unit from attaining a height of 16 feet, as specified.
• The bill would define “qualifying local agency” as a local agency that the Department of Housing and Community Development has determined that the number of housing units that have been entitled by the local agency, as shown on its most recent annual progress report, is greater than the local agency’s share of the regional housing need, for the low- and very low income categories, prorated for that annual reporting period.

SB 1058
Ashby D
Peace officers:
injury or illness:
leaves of absence.
2/21/2024-S. L.,
P.E. & R.
2/21/2024-
Referred to Com.
on L., P.E. & R.

Current law entitles, among others, peace officers employed on a regular full-time basis by a county of the first class, to a leave of absence without loss of salary while disabled by injury or illness arising out of and in the course of their duties. Current law defines a county of the first class as a county with a population of 4,000,000 and more. Current law provides that a leave of absence under those provisions is in lieu of temporary disability payments or maintenance allowance payments otherwise payable under the workers’ compensation system.
• This bill would expand these provisions to instead entitle a peace officer employed on a regular full-time basis by any county to this leave of absence.

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SB 1100
Portantino D
Discrimination:
driver’s license and
car ownership.
4/3/2024-S. JUD.
4/4/2024-From
committee with
author's
amendments.

Read second time
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits various forms of employment and housing discrimination, including various types of discrimination because of national origin, defined to include discrimination on the basis of possessing a driver’s license granted pursuant to current law that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue an original driver’s license to a person who is unable to submit satisfactory proof that the applicant’s presence in the United States Watch
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Position
and amended. Rereferred to Com.
on JUD.
is authorized under federal law, as specified. Current law empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices. • This bill would make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to include a statement in various employment materials that an applicant must have a driver’s license unless the employer reasonably expects the duties of the position to require driving and the employer reasonably believes that satisfying that job function using an alternative form of transportation would not be comparable in travel time or cost to the employer, as specified.

SB 1103
Menjivar D
Tenancy of
commercial real
properties:
agreements:
securities.
2/21/2024-S. JUD.
2/21/2024-
Referred to Com.
on JUD.

Current law regulates the terms and conditions of tenancies, including the charging of certain fees for commercial leases.
• This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to increase transparency and equity in the application of common area maintenance and other fees charged to qualifying commercial tenants for leases executed on or after January 1, 2025.

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SB 1123
Caballero D
Planning and
zoning:
subdivisions:
ministerial review.
4/3/2024-S. L.

GOV.
4/3/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on L.

GOV. (Ayes 8.

Noes 0.) (April 2).

Re-referred to
Com. on L. GOV.

Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, among other things, requires a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets certain requirements, including that the housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units, and is zoned for multifamily residential development. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing on the housing development an objective zoning standard, objective subdivision standard, or objective design standard that, among other things, physically precludes the development of a project built to specified densities. • This bill would prohibit, if a local agency chooses to permit accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units, those units from counting as residential units for purposes of the above-described requirement that a housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units. • The bill would remove the requirement that the lot is zoned for multifamily residential development and would instead require that the lot be either zoned for multifamily residential dwelling use or vacant and zoned for single-family residential Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
development.
• The bill would, notwithstanding the prohibition related to physical preclusion of a development described above, authorize a local agency to impose a specified height limit on a lot that is vacant and zoned for single-family residential development. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 1167
Blakespear D
Solid waste: singleuse drinking
vessels.
2/21/2024-S. E.Q.
4/4/2024-From
committee with
author's
amendments.

Read second time
and amended. Rereferred to Com.
on E.Q.

Current law prohibits a full-service restaurant, as specified, from providing single-use plastic straws, as defined, to consumers unless requested by the consumer. Current law requires a city, county, or city and county, to authorize an enforcement agency to enforce these provisions. Current law specifies that the first and 2nd violations of these provisions would result in a notice of violation and any subsequent violation would be an infraction punishable by a fine of $25 for each day the full-service restaurant is in violation, but not to exceed an annual total of $300. • This bill would require a chain restaurant, before serving a beverage, to ask a customer if the customer intends to consume the beverage on the premises or off the premises.
• The bill would prohibit a chain restaurant from serving a beverage in a single-use vessel if a customer indicates intent to consume the beverage on the premises, as specified, and would subject a violator to the enforcement provisions described above.

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SB 1180
Ashby D
Health care
coverage:
emergency medical
services.
2/21/2024-
S. HEALTH
2/21/2024-
Referred to Com.
on HEALTH.

Would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, to include coverage for services provided by a community paramedicine program, a triage to alternate destination program, and a mobile integrated health program.
• The bill would require those plans and policies to require an enrollee or insured who receives covered services from a noncontracting program to pay no more than the same cost-sharing amount they would pay for the same covered services received from a contracting program.
• The bill would specify the reimbursement process and amount for a noncontracting program. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. • The bill would also make services provided by these programs covered benefits Watch
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Position
under the Medi-Cal program.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 1199
Roth D
Automated traffic
enforcement
systems.
2/29/2024-
S. TRANS.
2/29/2024-
Referred to Com.
on TRANS.

Existing law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements. • This bill would delete obsolete provisions of those requirements and would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes.

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SB 1210
Skinner D
New housing
construction:
electrical, gas,
sewer, and water
service
connections:
charges.
4/2/2024-S. L.

GOV.
4/2/2024-VOTE:

Do pass as
amended, but first
amend, and rerefer to the
Committee on
[Local
Government]
(PASS)
The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission, with jurisdiction over all public utilities. Current law defines the term “public utility” for certain purposes to include, among other corporations, every gas corporation, electrical corporation, water corporation, and sewer system corporation, where the service is performed for, or the commodity is delivered to, the public or any portion thereof.
• This bill would, for new housing construction, prohibit a connection, capacity, or other point of connection charge from a public utility, as defined, or a special district, including a municipal utility district, for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service from exceeding 1% of the reported building permit value of that housing unit. • The bill would require a public utility or special district to issue an above-described charge over a period of at least 10 years commencing on the date when the housing unit is first occupied, as specified.
• The bill would require a public utility or special district to publicly report on its internet website the amount of any charge issued each year pursuant the abovedescribed provision by the housing unit’s address.

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SB 1211
Skinner D
Land use:
accessory dwelling
units: ministerial
approval.
3/20/2024-S. L.

GOV.
3/21/2024-Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com.
on L. GOV.
• This bill, in connection with the ministerial approval of a building permit for an accessory dwelling unit under one of the above-described variations, would additionally prohibit a local agency from requiring the replacement of parking spaces when a carport, covered parking structure, or uncovered parking space is demolished in conjunction with the construction of or conversion to an accessory dwelling unit.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SB 1212
Skinner D
Investment
entities:
purchasing and
acquisition
interests in
housing.
2/29/2024-S. JUD.
4/4/2024-Set for
hearing April 30.

Would, on and after January 1, 2025, prohibit an investment entity, as defined, from purchasing or acquiring an interest, as defined, in a single-family dwelling or other dwelling that consists of one or 2 residential units within this state. • The bill would provide that a purchase or acquisition of an interest in housing in violation of this prohibition is void.
• The bill would define “investment entity” as a real estate investment trust or an entity that manages funds pooled from investors and owes a fiduciary duty to those investors.
• The bill would exempt nonprofit organizations, entities primarily engaged in the construction of housing, and governmental entities from the definition of “investment entity.”
• The bill would absolve a seller of housing from liability under these provisions if the seller obtains a written release signed by the buyer stating that the buyer is not an investment entity.

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SB 1216
Blakespear D
Transportation
projects: Class III
bikeways:
prohibition.
2/29/2024-
S. TRANS.
4/3/2024-Set for
hearing April 23.

Would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, an agency responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing a Class III bikeway or restriping a Class III bikeway on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour.

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SB 1277
Stern D
Pupil instruction:
genocide
education: the
Holocaust.
2/29/2024-S. ED.
3/28/2024-Set for
hearing April 10.

Would establish the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, to be responsible for establishing a statewide teacher professional development program on genocide, including the Holocaust, for school district, county office of education, and charter school teachers.
• The bill would require the collaborative, under the State Department of Education’s direction, to consist of leading genocide and Holocaust education organizations and institutions, genocide survivors, and community leaders. • The bill would provide that the collaborative’s mission is to ensure that genocide, including Holocaust, education is taught to fidelity in schools as part of the required social studies curriculum, with the content of this education being aligned with historysocial science content standards adopted by the State Board of Education and Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
included in ways that are interdisciplinary and age-appropriate to pupils of different grade levels.
• The bill would prescribe the duties of the collaborative, including, among others, providing, as determined by the department, annual verbal or written reports to the department and the Legislature on the collaborative’s achievement of its mission.

SB 1297
Allen D
Speed safety
system pilot
program.
2/29/2024-
S. TRANS.
3/26/2024-Set for
hearing April 9.

Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, specified cities and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a local speed safety system pilot program, operated in certain types of streets and school zones, to detect speed violations by using an electronic speed safety system, as defined. Pursuant to the pilot program, a designated jurisdiction participating within the pilot program with a population of less than 300,000, as determined by the United States Census Bureau in the 2020 Census, is authorized to operate no more than 9 speed safety systems. • This bill would instead authorize a designated jurisdiction participating within the pilot program with a population of less than 300,000, as determined, to operate no more than 12 speed safety systems.

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SB 1382
Glazer D
Community and
rural health clinics:
building standards.
4/3/2024-
S. HEALTH
4/3/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on HEALTH.

Current law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information, formerly the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in consultation with the Community Clinics Advisory Committee, to prescribe minimum construction standards of adequacy and safety for clinics, as specified, in the California Building Standards Code.
• This bill would prohibit construction standards for the community clinics or rural health clinics, as defined, established by the department and established or applied by a city or county from being more restrictive than comparable construction standards established or otherwise applied to clinics exempt from licensure under specified provisions.

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SB 1395
Becker D
Shelter crisis: Low
Barrier Navigation
Center: use by
3/20/2024-S. E.Q.
3/20/2024-From
committee: Do
pass and re-refer
to Com. on E.Q.
(Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
(March 19). ReCurrent law authorizes a governing body of a political subdivision, as those terms are defined, to declare a shelter crisis if the governing body makes a specified finding.

Upon declaration of a shelter crisis, existing law, among other things, suspends certain state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances to the extent that strict compliance would prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis and allows a city, county, or city and county, in lieu of compliance, to adopt by ordinance reasonable local standards and procedures for the design, site Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
right: building
standards.
referred to Com.
on E.Q.
development, and operation of homeless shelters and the structures and facilities therein. Current law, among other things, exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act specified actions by a state agency or a city, county, or city and county to lease, convey, or encumber land owned by a city, county, or city and county, or to facilitate the lease, conveyance, or encumbrance of land owned by the local government for, or to provide financial assistance to, a homeless shelter constructed or allowed by these provisions. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.
• This bill would expand the exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act described above to include action taken by a state agency or a city, county, or city and county, to approve a contract to provide services for people experiencing homelessness to a homeless shelter constructed pursuant to, or authorized by, these provisions.

SB 1416
Newman D
Sentencing
enhancements:
sale, exchange, or
return of stolen
property.
2/16/2024-S. PUB.

S.
4/3/2024-Rereferred to Com.
on PUB S.

Would create sentencing enhancements for selling, exchanging, or returning for value, or attempting to sell, exchange, or return for value, any property acquired through one or more acts of shoplifting, theft, or burglary from a retail business, if the property value exceeds specified amounts.
• The bill would additionally make these enhancements apply to any person acting in concert with another person to violate these provisions. By adding new sentencing enhancements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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SB 1441
Allen D
Examination of
petitions: time
limitations and
reimbursement of
costs.
4/3/2024-S. E. &
C.A.
4/4/2024-Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com.
on E. & C.A.

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, except as provided. Current law generally includes in the meaning of “public records” any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics. Under current law, certain election petitions are not public records and are not open to inspection except by certain persons. Specifically, current law authorizes, among other persons, the proponents of a petition found to be insufficient or their designated representative to examine the petition no later than 21 days after certification of the insufficiency. • This bill would require the examination to conclude no later than 60 days after it commenced.

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Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would also require the proponent to reimburse all costs incurred by the county elections official due to the examination within 30 days after the examination concludes.
• The bill would, before an examination is conducted and at the beginning of each day following, require the proponent of a petition who requests to examine a petition and a memorandum to deposit with the elections official a sum required by the elections official to cover the cost of the examination for that day.

SB 1442
Ochoa Bogh R
Point-of-care tests
for fentanyl.
2/29/2024-
S. HEALTH
3/26/2024-Set for
hearing April 10.

Current law authorizes he California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA) to enter into partnerships regarding over-the-counter naloxone products for the development, manufacturing, or distribution of those products, as specified. • This bill would authorize CHHSA to enter into partnerships for the manufacture or purchase of any United States Food and Drug Administration approved point-of-care tests for fentanyl to allow for the development, manufacturing, or distribution of those tests by any entity that is authorized to do so under federal or state law.

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SB 1487
Glazer D
Vehicles: parking
violations.
2/29/2024-
S. TRANS.
4/2/2024-From
committee with
author's
amendments.

Read second time
and amended. Rereferred to Com.
on TRANS.

Current law requires the schedule of parking penalties for parking violations and late payment penalties to be established by the governing body of the jurisdiction where the notice of violation is issued, as specified.
• This bill would specify that, when paid by mail, payment of a parking penalty or late payment penalty is deemed received on the date payment is postmarked. • This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, prohibit a late payment penalty for a parking violation from exceeding 30% of the established parking penalty.

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SCA 2
Stern D
Elections: voter
qualifications.
9/5/2023-S. THIRD

READING
9/5/2023-Read
second time.

Ordered to third
reading.

The California Constitution allows a United States citizen who is at least 18 years of age and a resident of California to vote. This measure would reduce the minimum voting age to 17.

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SCA 7
Umberg D
6/22/2023-S. E. &
C.A.

Current state law forbids a public employer from deterring or discouraging public employees from becoming or remaining members of an employee organization.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: April 16, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Employment:
workers’ rights.
6/26/2023-Read
second time and
amended. Rereferred to Com.
on E. & C.A.

Current federal law forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining, or assisting a labor organization for collective bargaining purposes, or from working together to improve terms and conditions of employment, or refraining from any such activity.

This measure, the Right to Organize and Negotiate Act, would ensure that all Californians have the right to join a union and to negotiate with their employers, through their legally chosen representative, to protect their economic well-being and safety at work. This measure would require the Legislature to provide for the enforcement of these rights.

Total Measures: 181

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