STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: August 20, 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 July 31, the City has officially taken a position on forty-four pieces of state legislation, two federal bills, and one 2024 ballot initiative.
Some of the more impactful bills the City has taken a position on include:
• Assembly Bill 2943 (Zbur) - Crimes: shoplifting. This bill makes various changes to provisions of law on arrest authority, aggregation, and probation terms for theft-related offenses and creates the new crime of unlawful deprivation of a retail business opportunity.
City Position: Support
Status: Passed out of the State Senate. Returned to the State Assembly for concurrence on amendments (As of August 8, 2024)
Meeting Date: August 20, 2024
• Assembly Bill 1802 (Jones-Sawyer) - Crimes: organized theft. This bill removes the sunset date on the provision of law that criminalizes organized retail theft, thereby making the operation of the law permanent, and extend the operation of the regional property crimes task force indefinitely.
City Position: Support
Status: Passed out of the State Senate. Returned to the State Assembly for concurrence on amendments (As of August 8, 2024)
• Senate Bill 268 (Alvarado) - Crimes: serious and violent felonies. This bill classifies rape of an intoxicated person as a “violent” felony.
City Position: Support
Status: Passed out of the State Senate. Passed by the Assembly Public Safety Committee. Currently in the suspense file in the Assembly Appropriations Committee (As of August 8, 2024)
• Assembly Bill 2797 (McKinnor) - Telephone corporations: carriers of last resort:
tariffs. This bill would no longer require a telephone corporation seeking relief from carrier of last resort obligations to be a carrier of last resort or to have any carrier of last resort obligations if the telephone corporation submits a notice containing certain information to the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”) and modifies and removes CPUC tariffs.
City Position: Oppose
Status: This bill is considered dead for the 2023-2024 Legislative Session (As of August 8, 2024)
State Update
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s state lobbyist. Some of the more relevant updates over the last quarter include:
• Organized Retail Crime Enforcement Results in 700+ Arrests, Recovery of $6.8 Million in Stolen Goods. Governor Newsom announced that the California Highway Patrol (CHP) achieved a record number of arrests and recovery of stolen goods so far in 2024. Since January, the CHP’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force has conducted 320 investigations, made 717 arrests, and recovered nearly 230,000 stolen goods valued at more than $6.8 million. CHP’s operations are part of the state’s comprehensive efforts to combat organized retail crime, which also includes new measures to crack down on property crime and the state’s unprecedented police funding to local communities, including to Orange, Riverside, Los Angeles, and Bay Area counties.
• Governor Newsom Proclaims State of Emergency in Plumas, Butte and Tehama Counties Due to Fires. Governor Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in Plumas County due to the Gold Complex Fire and in Butte and Tehama counties due to the Park Fire. The fires have together burned more than 181,000 acres, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents, destroying homes and threatening critical infrastructure.
• Governor Newsom Orders State Agencies to Address Encampments in their Communities with Urgency and Dignity. Governor Newsom issued an executive order ordering state agencies and departments to adopt clear policies that urgently address homeless encampments while respecting the dignity and well- Meeting Date: August 20, 2024
being of all Californians. With the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass v Johnson, local governments now have the tools and authority to address dangerous encampments and help provide those residing in encampments with the resources they need.
Federal Update
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s federal lobbyist. Some of the more relevant updates over the last quarter include:
• As of August 2, the United States Senate continues to make progress on their spending bills. The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved the Defense, Financial Services, Energy-Water Development and Labor-HHS-Education this week. The Senate Appropriations Committee has one bill left to markup – the Homeland Security bill. This is contentious as it funds border security and the Secret Service.
• On July 16, President Biden called for national rent caps on corporate landlords and announced plans to make more public land available for housing, particularly in Las Vegas, Nevada. In an effort to lower housing costs, Biden is:
o Calling on Congress to pass legislation giving corporate landlords a choice to either cap rent increases on existing units at 5 percent or risk losing current valuable federal tax breaks;
o Repurposing public land sustainably to enable as many as 15,000 additional affordable housing units to be built near Las Vegas, Nevada; and o Rehabilitating distressed housing, building more affordable housing, and revitalizing neighborhoods.
• On June 2, the House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress f or refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case. Garland is now the third attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress. It is unlikely the Justice Department, which Garland oversees, will prosecute him.
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
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: August 13, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
AB 52
Grayson D
Income tax credit:
sales and use taxes
paid: manufacturing
equipment: research
and development
equipment.
6/26/2023-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
9/1/2023-In
committee: Held
under submission.
(Set for Hearing in
APPR. SUSPENSE
8/15/2024)
The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law, authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and current laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws.
• This bill would allow, for a taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer in an amount equal to the amount of tax reimbursement paid during the taxable year for sales tax on gross receipts that would be exempt from taxation under the Sales and Use Tax Law pursuant to the sales and use tax exemption described above but for the provision that prohibits that exemption from applying with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district pursuant to, or in accordance with, the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, and sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the California Constitution.
Watch
AB 262
Holden D
Children’s camps:
safety and regulation.
8/12/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/12/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
The California Community Care Facilities Act generally provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including child daycare facilities, by the State Department of Social Services. Current law also requires the State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for organized camps, defined as a site with a program and facilities established for the primary purposes of providing an outdoor group living experience with social, spiritual, educational, or recreational objectives, for 5 days or more during one or more seasons of the year, except as specified.
• This bill, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, would require the State Department of Social Services to prepare a report, in consultation with a wide variety of stakeholders, regarding approaches for children’s camp health and safety regulation and oversight.
• The bill would require the stakeholder group to be composed of representatives of designated state entities, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Education, and other stakeholders, such as parent advocate groups and local parks and health departments. • The bill would require the department, following consultation with the stakeholder group, and within 24 months after funds are appropriated, to submit its recommendations in a report to the Legislature, as specified.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
AB 637
Jackson D
Zero-emission
vehicles: fleet
owners: rental
vehicles.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. Current law also generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution.
Current law requires the state 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.
Watch
AB 761
Friedman D
Local finance:
enhanced
infrastructure
financing districts.
5/30/2024-S. THIRD
READING
5/30/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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.
• This bill, for plans proposed on or after January 1, 2025, 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 (TIFIA) loan, the date on which the district will cease to exist shall not be more than 75 years from the date of the approval of a TIFIA loan, as specified.
Watch
AB 799
Rivas, Luz D
8/12/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
Current law requires the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness, consisting of specified members. Among other goals, current law requires the council to Watch 3 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Interagency Council
on Homelessness:
funding: state
programs.
8/12/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
coordinate existing funding and applications for competitive funding. Current law requires the council to create a statewide data system, which is known as the Homeless Data Integration System, that collects local data through the Homeless Management Information System, with a goal of matching data on homelessness to programs impacting homeless recipients of state programs. Current law also requires the council to collect, compile, and make available to the public financial data provided to the council from all state-funded homelessness programs. Current law defines state programs as any programs 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 specified. • This bill would additionally require the council to include the Governor’s Tribal Advisor. • The bill would remove the above-mentioned reference to competitive funding and would instead require the council to coordinate applications for funding. • The bill would require council staff to develop and regularly maintain a strategic funding guide and a calendar of new or existing funding opportunities. • The bill would require agencies and departments administrating state programs to provide the council updated information on new or existing funding opportunities on a quarterly basis.
AB 846
Bonta D
Low-income housing
credit: rent increases.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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. Existing 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.
• This bill would require the committee, on or before June 30, 2025, to adopt regulations to establish a limit on annual rent increases for tenants in existing properties that were allowed a low-income housing tax credit.
Watch
AB 886
Wicks D
California Journalism
Preservation Act.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
Current law generally regulates online platforms, including by requiring, on a semiannual basis and as specified, a social media company to submit to the Attorney General a terms of service report that includes, among other things, the current version of the terms of service of the social media platform.
• This bill, the California Journalism Preservation Act, would require a covered platform, as defined, to either pay at least $____ annually to compensate digital journalism providers, as defined, for accessing the internet websites of the providers for a California Support if
Amended
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
audience, where the money is annually adjusted, as specified, and annually distributed to digital journalism providers, as described, or to participate in a final arbitration process, as specified, and fully pay the arbitration award, as provided. • The bill would require, commencing not later than March 1, 2025, a covered platform to compile and post on its internet website a list of digital journalism providers, as described, that the platform accessed for a California audience during the preceding 12 months.
AB 1011
Weber D
Social care: data
privacy.
8/9/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
9/1/2023-In
committee: Held
under submission.
(Set for hearing on
08/15/2024)
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) establishes certain requirements relating to the provision of health insurance, including provisions relating to the confidentiality of health records. Current state law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, a contractor, a corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates, or any business that offers software or hardware to consumers, including a mobile application or other related device, as defined, from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, except as provided.
• This bill would prohibit a participating entity of a closed-loop referral system (CLRS) from selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, social care information stored in or transmitted through a CLRS in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration, except as specified.
• The bill would further prohibit a participating entity from using social care information stored in, or transmitted through, a CLRS for any purpose or purposes other than the social care purpose or purposes for which that social care information was collected or generated, except as specified.
Watch
AB 1082
Kalra D
Authority to remove
vehicles.
8/9/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
9/1/2023-In
committee: Held
under submission.
(Set for hearing on
08/15/2024)
Current law authorizes a peace officer and specified public employees, as an alternative to removal of a vehicle, to immobilize the vehicle with a device designed and manufactured for that purpose, if, among other circumstances, the vehicle is found upon a highway or public lands by the peace officer or employee and it is known to have been issued 5 or more notices of parking violations that are delinquent because the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded to the appropriate agency within a designated time period.
• This bill would instead allow only an agent of public higher educational institutions, including the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges, to remove or immobilize a vehicle under those circumstances. • The bill would limit the related authority to conduct a lien sale to cover towing and Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
storage expenses to agents of public higher educational institutions, as specified. • The bill would make various conforming and technical changes.
AB 1168
Bennett D
Emergency medical
services (EMS):
prehospital EMS.
8/12/2024-
S. SECOND
READING
8/12/2024-From
inactive file. Ordered
to second reading.
The Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems and authorizes each county to develop an EMS program and designate a local EMS agency. Current law requires a county to enter into a written agreement with a city or fire district that contracted for or provided prehospital EMS as of June 1, 1980. Current law requires, until that written agreement is reached, prehospital EMS to be continued at not less than the existing level and the administration of prehospital EMS by cities and fire districts contracting for or providing those services as of June 1, 1980, to be retained by those cities and fire districts. • This bill would require a city to be treated as if it had retained its authorities regarding, and the administration of, prehospital EMS if specified requirements are met.
Watch
AB 1413
Ting D
Housing
Accountability Act:
disapprovals:
California
Environmental Quality
Act.
8/8/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/8/2024-From
Consent Calendar.
Ordered to third
reading.
The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act defines “disapprove the housing development” as including, among other things, until January 1, 2031, any instance in which a local agency fails to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project, to certify an environmental impact report for the project, or to approve another comparable environmental document, if certain conditions are satisfied, or fails to make a determination of whether the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) or commits an abuse of discretion if certain conditions are met, including that the applicant has given timely written notice to the local agency, as specified. The act requires the local agency, within 5 working days of receiving the notice, to file the notice with the county clerk for each county in which the project will be located, as specified. • This bill would also require the local agency, within 5 working days of receiving the notice, to post the notice on the local agency’s internet website and provide a copy to specified persons.
• The bill would additionally require the local agency to consider all objections, comments, evidence, and concerns submitted about the project or the applicant’s written notice and would prohibit the local agency from making a determination until at least 60 days after the applicant has given timely written notice.
• The bill would make technical changes to the above-described provisions of the act defining “disapprove the housing development.”
Watch
AB 1567
Garcia D
5/22/2024-S. N.R. &
W.
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 Neutral
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Safe Drinking Water,
Wildfire Prevention,
Drought Preparation,
Flood Protection,
Extreme Heat
Mitigation, Clean
Energy, and
Workforce
Development Bond
Act of 2024.
5/22/2024-Re-referred
to Com. on N.R. & W.
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.
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 re-refer
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 housing-related 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.
Support
AB 1779
Irwin D
Theft: jurisdiction.
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling. (Ayes 71.
Noes 0.). Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Current law defines types of theft, including petty theft, grand theft, and shoplifting. Current law also defines the crimes of robbery and burglary. 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 and multiple offenses are committed by the same defendant in multiple Support
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jurisdictions, the bill would allow a criminal action to be brought in any of those jurisdictions subject to a hearing on consolidation of the offenses, as specified.
AB 1794
McCarty D
Crimes: larceny.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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. 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 may be used to prove that multiple thefts were motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan.
Support
AB 1802
Jones-Sawyer D
Crimes: organized
theft.
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling. (Ayes 74.
Noes 0.). Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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.
Support
AB 1814
Ting D
Law enforcement
agencies: facial
recognition
technology.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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 FRTgenerated match as the sole basis for probable cause in an arrest or search. • The bill would prohibit a judge from granting an application for a warrant based solely on an FRT match.
• The bill would authorize a court to award damages of up to $25,000 to an individual who Watch
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is subjected to a violation of these provisions and reasonable attorney’s fees to the prevailing party.
AB 1820
Schiavo D
Housing development
projects:
applications: fees and
exactions.
8/6/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/6/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law requires a city or county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city or county from which approval for the project is being sought. Current law requires a housing development project be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when the preliminary application was submitted.
• This bill 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 a city, county, or city and county to provide the estimate within 30 business days of the submission of the preliminary application. For development fees imposed by an agency other than a city, county, or city and county, the bill would require the development proponent to request the fee schedule from the agency that imposes the fee without delay.
Neutral
AB 1827
Papan D
Local government:
fees and charges:
water: higher
consumptive water
parcels.
6/27/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/27/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of assessments and property-related fees and charges by a local agency, including requiring that the local agency provide public notice and a majority protest procedure in the case of assessments and submit property-related fees and charges for approval by property owners subject to the fee or charge or the electorate residing in the affected area following a public hearing. Current law, known as the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with these requirements and, among other things, authorizes an agency providing water, wastewater, sewer, or refuse collection services to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water, sewage treatment, or wastewater treatment or adjustments for inflation under certain circumstances. Current law defines, among other terms, the term “water” for these purposes to mean any system of public improvements intended to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of water from any source. • This bill would provide that the fees or charges for property-related water service imposed or increased, as specified, may include the incrementally higher costs of water service due to specified factors, including the higher water usage demand of parcels.
Support
AB 1840
Arambula D
California Dream for
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
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 Watch
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All Program:
eligibility.
to APPR suspense
file.
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 who meets all other requirements for a loan under the program, including, but not limited to, any requirements imposed by the Federal National Mortgage Association or other loan servicer, shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status. By expanding the persons eligible to receive moneys from a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
• The bill would recast the fund so that appropriations from the Legislature from the General Fund or other state fund are deposited into the California Dream for All Subaccount, which the bill would create and make available upon appropriation by the Legislature for specified purposes.
AB 1842
Reyes D
Health care coverage:
Medication-assisted
treatment.
6/11/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/11/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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. • 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 1886
Alvarez D
Housing Element
Law: substantial
compliance: Housing
Accountability Act.
8/6/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/6/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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 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 Oppose
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
within 60 days.
• 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 1890
Patterson, Joe R
Public works:
prevailing wage.
8/6/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/6/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law defines the term “public works” for the purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages, the regulation of working hours, and the securing of workers’ compensation for public works projects. Current law requires an entity awarding a public works contract, as specified, to provide notice to the Department of Industrial Relations.
Current law requires civil penalties to be imposed on an entity that fails to provide that required notice and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue a citation for civil penalties to an entity that fails to provide the required notice. • This bill would additionally require the awarding body to provide notice to the department, within 30 days, if there is a change in the identity of a contractor or subcontractor performing the project or, if the total amount of the contract change exceeds specified thresholds.
• The bill would exempt projects of awarding bodies operating labor compliance programs that are approved and monitored by the department and covered by a valid project labor agreement.
Oppose
AB 1893
Wicks D
Housing
Accountability Act:
housing
disapprovals:
required local
findings.
8/12/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/12/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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. Among these conditions, the act allows a local agency to disapprove a housing development project that is inconsistent with the jurisdiction’s zoning ordinances and general plan land use designation as it existed on the date the application was deemed complete, if the jurisdiction has adopted a revised housing element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, Oppose
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
as specified.
• This bill would make various changes to that condition. • The bill would specify that a local agency may disapprove or condition approval of a housing development project or emergency shelter, as described above, if the local agency makes written findings that on the date the application for the housing development project or emergency shelter was deemed complete the jurisdiction did not have an adopted revised housing element that was in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law and the housing development project is not a builder’s remedy project, as defined.
AB 1932
Ward D
Personal income tax:
mortgage interest
deduction.
5/15/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
5/16/2024-Joint Rule
62(a), file notice
suspended. In
committee: Held
under submission.
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.
Watch
AB 1960
Rivas, Robert D
Sentencing
enhancements:
property loss.
7/1/2024-S. THIRD
READING
7/1/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
State law, repealed as of January 1, 2018, required a court to impose an additional term of imprisonment, as specified, on a person who takes, damages, or destroys property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as specified. • This bill would, until January 1, 2030, create sentencing enhancements for taking, damaging, or destroying property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as specified.
Support
AB 1972
Alanis R
Regional property
crimes task force.
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Urgency
clause adopted.
Senate amendments
concurred in. To
Current law authorizes the Governor to appoint and commission individuals designated by a railroad company to serve as police officers. Current law, until January 1, 2026, requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to coordinate with the Department of Justice to convene a regional property crimes task force to identify geographic areas experiencing increased levels of property crimes and assist local law enforcement with resources, such as personnel and equipment.
Support
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Engrossing and
Enrolling. (Ayes 75.
Noes 0.). Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• This bill would require the task force to assist railroad police and would specify cargo theft as a property crime for consideration by the regional property crimes task force.
AB 1976
Haney D
Occupational safety
and health standards:
first aid materials:
opioid antagonists.
6/24/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
6/24/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, and the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. 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, before December 1, 2025, to submit to the 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 first aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to reverse opioid overdose and instructions for using the opioid antagonist.
Watch
AB 1978
Sanchez R
Vehicles: speed
contests.
8/6/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/6/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Would authorize a peace officer to not take a person into custody for a violation of obstructing or placing a barricade or obstruction upon a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of facilitating or aiding 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.
Watch
AB 1996
Alanis R
Opioid antagonists:
stadiums, concert
venues, and
amusement parks:
overdose training.
8/8/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/8/2024-Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling.
Current law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2016, to award funding to local health departments, local governmental agencies, or on a competitive basis to other organizations, as specified, to support or establish programs that provide naloxone or another opioid antagonist to first responders and at-risk opioid users through programs that serve at-risk drug users. Current law requires each stadium, concert venue, and amusement park to maintain unexpired doses of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist on its premises at all times, and to ensure that at least 2 employees are aware of the location of the naloxone Watch
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hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist.
• This bill 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 known by emergency responders on the premises or otherwise widely known.
AB 2023
Quirk-Silva D
Housing element:
inventory of land:
rebuttable
presumptions.
8/12/2024-
S. SECOND
READING
8/12/2024-From
committee: Be
ordered to second
reading pursuant to
Senate Rule 28.8.
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 draft amendment that the department finds to be insubstantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, as specified.
Oppose
AB 2041
Bonta D
Political Reform Act
of 1974: campaign
funds: security
expenses.
6/25/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/25/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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.
• The bill would instead authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system or for another tangible item 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 Watch
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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:
guidelines.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
Current law requires all law enforcement agencies to maintain a use of force policy, as specified, and requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to implement courses of instruction for the training of law enforcement officers in the use of force.
• This bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2026, to develop guidelines, as specified, for the use of canines by law enforcement. • The bill would authorize the commission to periodically update these guidelines. • The bill would require law enforcement agencies with a canine unit, on or before July 1, 2027, to adopt a policy for the use of canines that, at a minimum, complies with the guidelines developed by the commission.
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AB 2081
Davies R
Substance abuse:
recovery and
treatment programs.
6/25/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/25/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law grants the State Department of Health Care Services the sole authority in state government to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities.
The department is authorized to issue a license to specified types of facilities if certain criteria are met. Current law requires licensees to report specified events and incidents to the department, including, among others, the death of a resident at a licensed facility.
Current law authorizes the department to investigate allegations of violations of governing law and take action upon a finding of a violation, as specified. • This bill would require an operator of a licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or certified alcohol or other drug program to include on its internet website and intake form paperwork a disclosure that an individual may check the internet website of the State Department of Health Care Services to confirm whether the facility’s license or program’s certification has been placed in probationary status, been subject to a temporary suspension order, been revoked, or the operator has been given a notice of operation in violation of law.
Support -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
the City
Council
AB 2085
Bauer-Kahan D
Planning and zoning:
permitted use:
community clinic.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects. • This bill would make a development that meets specified objective planning standards, including that, among other things, it is on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
health care, or parking are a principally permitted use, a permitted use and would require a local agency to review an application for that development on an administrative, nondiscretionary basis.
• The bill would require a local agency, within 60 calendar days of receiving an application pursuant to these provisions, to approve or deny the application subject to specified requirements, including that, among other things, if the local agency determines that the development is in conflict with any of the above-described standards, the local agency is required to provide the development proponent written documentation of which standard or standards the development conflicts with, as specified. • The bill would provide that a development eligible for approval pursuant to this process is not a “project” for purposes of CEQA, thereby expanding the exemption for ministerial approval of projects under CEQA.
AB 2117
Patterson, Joe R
Development permit
expirations: actions
or proceedings.
8/12/2024-
A. CONCURRENCE
8/12/2024-Read third
time. Passed. Ordered
to the Assembly.
(Ayes 38. Noes 0.). In
Assembly.
Concurrence in
Senate amendments
pending. May be
considered on or after
August 14 pursuant to
Assembly Rule 77.
The Planning and Zoning law generally requires that an action or proceeding challenging a public agency’s decision on a variance, conditional use permit, or any other permit, among other decisions, 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, except as specified.
Watch
AB 2130
Santiago D
Parking violations.
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Read third
time. Passed. Ordered
to the Assembly.
(Ayes 38. Noes 0.). In
Assembly. Ordered to
Engrossing and
Enrolling.
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, or, if offered by the issuing agency, by telephone or electronic means.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
AB 2144
Grayson D
General plan: annual
report.
7/1/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/1/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 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.
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AB 2186
Wallis R
Vehicles:
impoundment.
8/6/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/6/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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.
Watch
AB 2199
Berman D
California
Environmental Quality
Act: exemption:
residential or mixeduse housing projects.
8/6/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/6/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. Current law, until January 1, 2025, exempts from CEQA residential or mixed-use housing projects, as defined, located in unincorporated areas of a county meeting certain requirements, except for residential or mixed-use housing projects if certain conditions exist, as specified. 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 Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
in which the project is located.
• This bill would extend the operation of that exemption until January 1, 2035. 2032.
AB 2202
Rendon D
Short-term rentals:
disclosure: cleaning
tasks.
7/1/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/1/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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.
Watch
AB 2234
Boerner D
Vehicles: electric
bicycles.
6/18/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/18/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law defines an electric bicycle and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Under existing law, a “class 1 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Under current law, a “class 2 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Under current law, a “class 3 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. Current law prohibits a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 3 electric bicycle.
• This bill, the San Diego Electric Bicycle Safety Pilot Program, would, until January 1, 2029, authorize a local authority within the County of San Diego, or the County of San Diego in unincorporated areas, to adopt an ordinance or resolution that would prohibit a person under 12 years of age from operating a class 1 or 2 electric bicycle. For the first 60 days following the adoption of an ordinance or resolution for this purpose, the bill would make a violation of the ordinance or resolution punishable by a warning notice. After 60 days, the bill would make a violation of the ordinance or resolution punishable by a fine of $25, except as specified.
• This bill would make a parent or legal guardian with control or custody of an Watch
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emancipated minor who violates the ordinance or resolution jointly and severally liable with the minor for the amount of the fine imposed.
AB 2236
Bauer-Kahan D
Solid waste: reusable
grocery bags:
standards: plastic film
prohibition.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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 thirdparty certification entity, and provides proof of that certification and a certification fee to the department, as specified. Current law 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 a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and after January 1, 2028, without exception.
• The bill would also prohibit a store from providing, distributing, or selling a bag to a customer at the point of sale, except as provided.
Support
AB 2243
Wicks D
Affordable Housing
and High Road Jobs
Act of 2022: objective
standards and
8/12/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/12/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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.
Oppose
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
affordability and site
criteria.
• 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.
AB 2248
Maienschein D
Contracts: sales of
dogs and cats.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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. • This bill would provide that a contract entered into on or after January 1, 2025, to transfer ownership of a dog or cat that is offered, negotiated, brokered, or otherwise arranged by a broker and where the buyer is located in California is void as against public policy if specified conditions are met, including that the contract requires a nonrefundable deposit.
• The bill would require a contract entered into on or after January 1, 2025, between a broker and a buyer who is located in California to include specified information, including that the broker is required to disclose the original source of the dog or cat involved in the contract.
Watch
AB 2259
Boerner D
Transportation:
bicycle safety
handbook.
6/24/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
6/24/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the Transportation 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. • The bill would require the agency to make a downloadable electronic version of the bicycle safety handbook available on specified internet websites. In developing the handbook, the bill would require collaboration and consultation between the agency and prescribed state entities, including, among others, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of the California Highway Patrol.
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AB 2278
Carrillo, Wendy D
Rent increases:
percentage change in
the cost of living:
Department of
Housing and
6/24/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
6/24/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Community
Development.
• 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.
AB 2286
Aguiar-Curry D
Vehicles:
autonomous vehicles.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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 or deployment permit that resulted in damage of property, bodily injury, or death within 10 days of the collision.
• The bill would require a manufacturer of an autonomous vehicle to annually submit to the department specified information regarding the deactivation of the autonomous mode for its autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more that were operating under a testing or deployment permit that authorized the vehicle to operate on public roads.
Support -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
the City
Council
AB 2289
Low D
Vehicles: parking
placards and special
license plates for
disabled veterans and
persons with
disabilities.
6/24/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
6/24/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a distinguishing placard to a qualified disabled veteran or person with a disability, upon application, to be displayed upon a parked vehicle for the purpose of identifying eligibility for certain parking privileges.
Current law also authorizes the department to issue a special license plate to a disabled veteran or person with a disability, upon application. Current law authorizes the department 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, beginning on January 1, 2026, would additionally authorize a licensed physical therapist to certify the loss, or loss of use, of the lower extremities or hands, as described above.
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AB 2290
Friedman D
Transportation: Class
6/24/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
6/24/2024-In
Existing law establishes the Active Transportation Program in the Department of Transportation for the purpose of encouraging increased use of active modes of transportation, such as biking and walking, with specified available funds to be allocated to eligible projects by the California Transportation Commission and regional transportation Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
III bikeways: bicycle
facilities: Bikeway
Quick-Build Project
Pilot Program.
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
agencies through the adoption of a program of projects. Existing law requires the commission to develop guidelines regarding, among other topics, project eligibility and project selection for the program of projects, as provided. • This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2026, the commission from adding a project that creates a Class III bikeway or adds a specific road marking used to inform road users that bicyclists might occupy the travel lane to the program of projects, unless the bikeway or road marking is on a highway with a design speed limit of 25 miles per hour or less or the project will implement improvements to reduce the design speed limit to 25 miles per hour or less.
AB 2302
Addis D
Open meetings: local
agencies:
teleconferences.
6/6/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/6/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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, 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.
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AB 2309
Muratsuchi D
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
Current law authorizes the city attorney of any general law city or chartered city to, with the consent of the district attorney of that county, prosecute any misdemeanor committed within the city arising out of violation of state law, as specified. • This bill would, notwithstanding the above-described authorization for city attorneys, Support
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
City attorney: state
law: misdemeanor.
to APPR suspense
file.
authorize the city attorney of any general law city to prosecute any misdemeanor committed within the city arising out of violation of state law, provided that specified conditions are met, including that the legislative body of a city passes an ordinance granting that prosecutorial authority to the city attorney.
AB 2333
Santiago D
State highways:
airspace leases:
report.
6/24/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
6/24/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 department, including information about site inspections and each site’s proximity to sensitive infrastructure, as specified.
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AB 2346
Lee D
Organic waste
reduction regulations:
procurement of
recovered organic
waste products.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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, 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 Watch
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of recovered organic waste products on a prospective basis as long as the purchase of those products occurs during the year for which the local jurisdiction seeks credit, and under other specified circumstances.
AB 2359
Ting D
Alcoholic beverage
control:
neighborhoodrestricted special onsale general licenses. 6/11/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/11/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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 2421
Low D
Employer-employee
relations: confidential
communications.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, and provisions relating to judicial employees, public schools, higher education, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, the Sacramento Regional Transit District, and other public transit employees, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organizations. This includes 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. Those provisions further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by existing law. • This bill would also prohibit a local public agency employer, a state employer, a judicial employer, a 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.
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AB 2427
McCarty D
7/1/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/1/2024-In
Current law continues into existence the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) division within GOBiz as the Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development Office. Current law references GOBiz’s Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook, which recommends best Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Electric vehicle
charging stations:
permitting: curbside
charging.
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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. • The bill would also require the office to consult with local governments, electric vehicle service providers, and utilities while developing the above-described materials.
AB 2430
Alvarez D
Planning and zoning:
density bonuses:
monitoring fees.
8/8/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/8/2024-From
Consent Calendar.
Ordered to third
reading.
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 and 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 moderateincome 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, except as specified.
• 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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AB 2485
Carrillo, Juan D
Regional housing
need: determination.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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 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), in consultation with each council of governments, where applicable, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, at least 2 years prior to the scheduled revision of the housing element, as specified. That law requires the department’s determination to be based upon population projections produced by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts developed by the council of governments and used for the preparation of the regional transportation plan, 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 a 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, requires the department, after consultation with the council of Watch
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governments, to make determinations on the data assumptions and the methodology the department will use to determine the region’s housing need, as specified. That law requires the department to provide its determinations to the council of governments, as specified.
• This bill would for the 8th and subsequent revisions of the housing element require the department to convene and engage stakeholders to consider improvements to the process of determining the existing and projected housing need for each region before determining any region’s existing projected housing need.
• The bill would require the department, prior to finalization of the regional determination, as specified, to publish on the department’s internet website a summary of the information the department considered and determinations made by the department to improve the process of determining the existing and projected housing need for each region.
AB 2498
Zbur D
Housing: the
California Housing
Security Act.
8/12/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/12/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
Current law establishes various programs, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program and the homeless youth emergency service pilot projects to provide assistance to homeless persons.
• This bill would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, establish the California Housing Security Program to provide counties with funding to administer 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, by January 1, 2026, to establish a 2-year pilot program, as specified, and to issue suggested guidelines to establish the program that include, among other things, criteria for program eligibility. • The bill would specify that 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 otherwise qualifies for the subsidy would be eligible for the subsidy.
Support -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
the City
Council
AB 2506
Lowenthal D
Property taxation:
local exemption:
possessory interests:
publicly owned
housing.
4/24/2024-A. REV. &
TAX
4/29/2024-In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.
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.
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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.
AB 2553
Friedman D
Housing
development: major
transit stops:
vehicular traffic
impact fees.
8/5/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/5/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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 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 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.
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AB 2557
Ortega D
Local agencies:
contracts for special
services and
temporary help:
performance reports.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
Would require, as of July 1, 2025, each county board of supervisors that solicits for and enters into a specified contract for special services, except as specified, to post that contract and any related documents, as specified, on its internet website. • The bill would require, as of July 1, 2026, each contract, as described above, to include, among other things, the objectives, desirables, and goals of the contract. • The bill would require, before beginning a procurement process to contract for functions, duties, responsibilities, or services, as specified, the board of supervisors, or its representative, to give reasonable written notice to the exclusive employee representative of the workforce affected by the contract of its determination to begin that process. • The bill would also require, at least 30 days before the modification or renewal of the above-described contract, the board of supervisors, or its representative, to notify, as specified, the exclusive employee representative of the workforce affected by the contract of the intent to modify or renew the contract.
Oppose -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
the City
Council
AB 2559
Petrie-Norris D
Local planning:
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
Existing law creates the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GOBiz) 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. Existing law requires every city, county, and city and Watch
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electric vehicle
service equipment:
permitting delays.
to APPR suspense
file.
county to administratively approve an application to install electric vehicle charging stations through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit and requires the review of an application to install an electric vehicle charging station to be limited to the building official’s review of whether it meets all health and safety requirements of local, state, and federal law. Existing law requires an electric vehicle charging station to comply with, among other things, all applicable rules of the Public Utilities Commission regarding safety and reliability, as specified. • This bill would require 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 regarding all applicable forms of permitting for zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, as specified.
• The bill would prohibit GO-Biz from publicly displaying any submissions received under these provisions.
• The bill would require GO-Biz in a new or existing working group, as specified, 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.
AB 2561
McKinnor D
Local public
employees: vacant
positions.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (act) authorizes local public employees, as defined, to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on matters of labor relations. The act prohibits a public agency from, among other things, imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with specified employee rights guaranteed by the act. • This bill would require each public agency with high vacancy rates for more than 180 days, at the request of the recognized employee organization, to promptly meet and confer with the representative of the recognized employee organization within 21 days about substantive strategies to fill vacancies and to hold a public hearing within 90 days about high vacancy rates and specified related matters.
Oppose - -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
the City
Council
AB 2574
Valencia D
Alcoholism or drug
6/27/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/27/2024-From
Consent Calendar.
Current law requires certified adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery programs and licensed facilities to disclose specified information to the State Department of Health Care Services, including ownership or a financial interest in a recovery residence, as defined, and contractual relationships with entities that provide recovery services to clients of Support -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
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abuse recovery or
treatment programs
and facilities:
disclosures.
Ordered to third
reading.
certified programs or licensed facilities if the entity is not a part of a certified program or a licensed facility.
• This bill would require an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a certified program or a licensed facility to disclose to the department whether the licensee, or a general partner, director, or officer of the licensee owns or has a financial interest in a recovery residence and whether it has contractual relationships with entities that provide recovery services to clients of certified programs or licensed facilities if the entity is not a part of a certified program or a licensed facility.
the City
Council
AB 2597
Ward D
Planning and zoning:
revision of housing
element: regional
housing need
allocation appeals:
Southern California
Association of
Governments.
7/2/2024-S. THIRD
READING
7/2/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. Current law requires the council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to adopt a final regional housing needs plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county.
Current law requires each council of governments and delegate subregion to distribute a draft allocation of regional housing needs to each local government in the region or subregion. Current law authorizes, within 45 days following receipt of the draft allocation, a local government within the region or the delegate subregion or the department to appeal to the council of governments or the delegate subregion for a revision of the share of the regional housing need proposed to be allocated to one or more local governments, as specified.
• This bill would reduce the period to appeal from 45 days following receipt of the draft allocation to 30 days.
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AB 2631
Fong, Mike D
Local agencies:
ethics training.
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Read third
time. Passed. Ordered
to the Assembly.
(Ayes 38. Noes 0.). In
Assembly. Ordered to
Engrossing and
Enrolling.
Current law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Current law requires all local agency officials who are members of specified public bodies to receive the above-described training, whether or not the member receives any type of compensation, salary, or stipend or reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. Current law requires an entity that develops curricula to satisfy the above-described requirements to consult with the Fair Political Practices Commission and the Attorney General regarding the sufficiency and accuracy of the proposed course content. Current law prohibits the Fair Political Practices Commission and the Attorney General, as specified, from precluding an Support -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
the City
Council
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entity from also including local ethics policies in the curricula. • This bill would require the Fair Political Practices Commission, in consultation with the Attorney General, to create, maintain, and make available to local agency officials an ethics training course, as specified.
AB 2638
Ward D
Housing programs:
financing.
8/12/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/12/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act 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 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.
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AB 2663
Grayson D
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Senate
amendments
Would, commencing on January 1, 2026, would require a local agency that collects inclusionary housing in-lieu fees and has an internet website 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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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Inclusionary housing:
fees: reports.
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling. (Ayes 76.
Noes 0.).
• The bill would define “inclusionary housing in-lieu fees” to mean fees imposed as an alternative means of compliance with an inclusionary housing requirement. • The bill, commencing on January 1, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, would require a local agency that collects inclusionary housing 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 2667
Santiago D
Affirmatively
furthering fair
housing: housing
element: reporting.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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.
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AB 2675
Low D
Planning and zoning:
regional housing
needs: exchange of
allocation.
5/6/2024-A. RLS.
5/7/2024-Re-referred
to Com. on RLS.
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 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 authorize a city or county, by agreement, to transfer all or a portion of its allocation of regional housing need to another city or county. • The bill would allow the transferring city to pay the transferee city or county an amount determined by that agreement, as well as a surcharge to offset the impacts and associated costs of the additional housing on the transferee city.
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AB 2684
Bryan D
Safety element:
extreme heat.
6/18/2024-S. THIRD
READING
6/18/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Would require a city or county, upon the next update of one or more of the elements included in the general plan on or after January 1, 2028, to review and update its safety element as necessary to address the hazard of extreme heat, as specified. • The bill would authorize a city or county that has adopted an extreme heat action plan or other document that fulfills commensurate goals and objectives to use that information in the safety element, as specified, and, upon doing so, would require the city or county to summarize and incorporate into the safety element the other plan or document. • The bill would also authorize a city or county to use or reference information in the Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Extreme Heat Action Plan and the State Hazard Mitigation Plan, as described, to comply with the above-described updating requirement.
AB 2694
Ward D
Density Bonus Law:
residential care
facilities for the
elderly.
8/12/2024-
S. SECOND
READING
8/12/2024-Read third
time and amended.
Ordered to second
reading.
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, and defines various other terms, including “shared housing unit. ”
• This bill would expand the definition of a development for the above-described purposes to include a residential care facility for the elderly, as defined. • The bill would also specify that, in the case of a residential care facility, a “shared housing unit” includes a unit without an individual kitchen where a room may be shared by unrelated and a unit where a room may be shared by unrelated persons that meets the minimum room area requirements, as specified.
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AB 2712
Friedman D
Preferential parking
privileges: transitoriented
development.
8/5/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/5/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways during all or certain hours of the day. Current law authorizes the ordinance or resolution to include a designation of certain streets upon which preferential parking privileges are given to residents and merchants adjacent to the streets for their use and the use of their guests, under which the residents and merchants may be issued permits that exempt them from the prohibition or restriction of the ordinance or resolution. Current law prohibits a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined, unless the public agency makes written findings that not imposing or enforcing minimum automobile parking requirements on the development would have a substantially negative impact on, among other things, the city’s, county’s, or city and county’s ability to meet its share of the regional housing need for low- and very low income households. • This bill would, for purposes of its provisions, define “development project” to mean a residential, commercial, or other development project exempt from minimum automobile parking requirements, or subject to parking minimum reductions based on any other applicable law, located within the boundaries of the City of Los Angeles. • This bill, for a development project that is located within a preferential parking area, would require the development project to be excluded from the boundaries of the preferential parking area and would prohibit the local authority, as defined, from issuing any permit to the residents or visitors of the development project that grants preferential parking privileges.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
AB 2728
Gabriel D
Planning and zoning:
housing
development:
independent
institutions of higher
education and
religious institutions.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law requires the city’s or county’s planning agency, after the legislative body has adopted a general plan, to submit an annual report to the legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development. • This 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.
AB 2729
Patterson, Joe R
Development
projects: permits and
other entitlements:
fees and charges.
8/12/2024-
S. SECOND
READING
8/12/2024-From
committee: Be
ordered to second
reading pursuant to
Senate Rule 28.8.
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. Current 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. Current 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. Current 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 18 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 18-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.
Oppose
AB 2807
Villapudua D
Vehicles: sideshows
and street takeovers.
8/5/2024-S. THIRD
READING
8/5/2024-From
Consent Calendar.
Ordered to third
reading.
Current law prohibits a person from engaging in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or aiding or abetting in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway. Upon conviction, existing law punishes a person by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than $500, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
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 Watch
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hardships, as specified, when deciding to either suspend or restrict a driver’s license. • This bill would clarify that a “sideshow” is also known as a “street takeover.” AB 2854
Irwin D
Bradley-Burns
Uniform Local Sales
and Use Tax Law.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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 BradleyBurns 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.
• The bill would additionally require the local agency to publish that information on its internet website.
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AB 2926
Kalra D
Planning and zoning:
assisted housing
developments: notice
of expiration of
affordability
restrictions.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
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 Watch
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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.
• The bill would revise the definition of “termination” for these purposes to instead mean the failure of an owner to extend or renew its participation in the above-described programs, as specified.
AB 2943
Zbur D
Crimes: shoplifting.
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling. (Ayes 64.
Noes 4.). Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Current law divides theft into grand theft and petty theft. Existing law punishes petty theft as a misdemeanor while grand theft is punished as either a misdemeanor or a felony.
Current 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 evidence that distinct acts are motivated by one intention, one general impulse, and one plan may include, but is not limited to, evidence that the acts involve the same defendant or defendants, are substantially similar in nature, or occur within a 90-day period.
Support
AB 2986
Carrillo, Wendy D
County of Los
Angeles: East Los
Angeles: report.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 provides the exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts, except as specified. The act continues in existence in each county a local agency formation commission (LAFCO) that consists of members appointed, as specified, and that oversees those changes of organization and reorganization. The act authorizes a LAFCO to, among other things, review and approve with or without amendment, wholly, partially, or conditionally, or disapprove proposals for changes of organization or reorganization, including incorporation of a city or formation of a district, as specified. Current law requires each county to have a board of supervisors and provides for the organization and powers of the board of supervisors.
• This bill would require the County of Los Angeles, no later than March 1, 2025, to submit to the Legislature a report that includes specified information, including, among other things, for East Los Angeles, the feasibility of forming a municipal advisory council, a local Watch
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town council, or a coordinating council that could represent the comprehensive interests of the entire East Los Angeles community. If the county has produced a report that contains substantially similar information to the information required by the above-described provisions, this bill would authorize the county to submit that report in lieu of completing a separate report.
AB 3057
Wilson D
California
Environmental Quality
Act: exemption: junior
accessory dwelling
units ordinances.
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Read third
time. Passed. Ordered
to the Assembly.
(Ayes 38. Noes 0.). In
Assembly. Ordered to
Engrossing and
Enrolling.
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 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 and the adoption of an ordinance to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned to allow single-family 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.
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AB 3068
Haney D
Adaptive reuse:
streamlining:
incentives.
8/12/2024-
S. SECOND
READING
8/12/2024-From
committee: Be
ordered to second
reading pursuant to
Senate Rule 28.8.
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 for, among other things, the preservation of exterior facades of a building that face a street, or receive federal or state historic rehabilitation tax credits, as specified. • The bill would require an adaptive reuse project to meet specified affordability criteria. In Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
this regard, the bill would require an adaptive reuse project for rental housing to include either 8% of the unit for very low income households and 5% of the units for extremely low income households or 15% of the units for lower income households. For an adaptive reuse project for owner-occupied housing, the bill would require the development to offer either 30% of the units at an affordable housing cost to moderate-income households or 15% of the units at an affordable housing cost to lower income households. • The bill would require at least one-half of the square footage of the adaptive reuse project to be dedicated to residential uses.
• The bill would provide, among other things relating to projects involving adaptive reuse, that parking is not required for the portion of a project consisting of a building subject to adaptive reuse that does not have existing onsite parking.
AB 3069
Davies R
Tied-house
restrictions:
advertising
exceptions: City of
Oceanside.
7/2/2024-S. THIRD
READING
7/2/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees, or their officers, directors, or agents, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any onsale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. In this regard, existing law specifically prohibits paying a retailer for advertising. Current law creates a variety of exceptions to this prohibition, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee that is the owner, manager, agent or assignee of the owner, or major tenant of the owner of certain venues. Current law makes specified violations of these advertising provisions punishable as a misdemeanor. • This bill would expand the above-described exception to tied-house restrictions that allows for the purchase of advertising by extending it to a fully enclosed arena with a fixed seating capacity in excess of 5,000 seats located in the City of Oceanside. • This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Oceanside.
• This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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AB 3085
Gipson D
Vehicles: removal and
impoundment.
7/3/2024-S. THIRD
READING
7/3/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law requires a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if the magistrate is presented with a peace officer’s affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer’s presence in violation of specified offenses, including, among others, a person who, while operating a motor vehicle and with the intent to evade, willfully flees or otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer’s motor vehicle. Current law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, as specified. • This bill would include this crime in the list of offenses for which a peace officer may Support
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
impound a vehicle pursuant to a warrant or order issued by a magistrate, and make other technical changes, as specified.
AB 3093
Ward D
Land use: housing
element: streamlined
multifamily housing.
8/12/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/12/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law defines various terms for purposes of requirements applicable to the housing element. Under current law, a housing element is required to include specified information, including an analysis of special housing needs, such as those of the elderly, and quantification of the locality’s existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, including extremely low income households, calculated as provided.
• This bill would define acutely low, extremely low, very low, lower, moderate, and above moderate income for purposes of requirements applicable to the housing element, and would make related changes.
Oppose
Unless
Amended
AB 3116
Garcia D
Housing
development: density
bonuses: student
housing
developments.
8/12/2024-
A. CONCURRENCE
8/12/2024-Read third
time. Passed. Ordered
to the Assembly.
(Ayes 38. Noes 0.). In
Assembly.
Concurrence in
Senate amendments
pending. May be
considered on or after
August 14 pursuant to
Assembly Rule 77.
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, as defined, 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.
• This bill would define “student housing development” to mean a development that contains bedrooms containing 2 or more bedspaces that have a shared or private bathroom, access to a shared or private living room and laundry facilities, and access to a shared or private kitchen.
• The bill would authorize units in the student housing development to be used for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled currently or in the past 6 months in at least 6 units at an institution of higher learning, as specified.
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AB 3122
Kalra D
8/6/2024-S. THIRD
READING
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, Watch 38 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Streamlined housing
approvals: objective
planning standards
and subdivision
applications.
8/6/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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 is subject to a requirement mandating a minimum percentage of below market rate housing based on, among other things, that the project seeking approval dedicates 50% of the total number of units, as specified, to housing affordable to households making at or below 80% of the area median income. Current law provides, however, that a local ordinance adopted by the locality that requires that greater than 50% of the units be dedicated to housing affordable to households making at or below 80% of the area median income applies.
• This bill would also include as an objective planning standard, notwithstanding that provision, if the project application was submitted prior to January 1, 2019, and the project includes at least 500 units or more of housing, that the project dedicates 20% of the total number of units, as specified, as affordable units, with at least 9% affordable to households making at or below 50% of the area median income and the remainder affordable to households making at or below 80% of the area median income.
AB 3179
Carrillo, Juan D
Emergency
telecommunications
medium- and heavyduty zero-emission
vehicles.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to APPR suspense
file.
The State Air Resources Board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulations which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavyduty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles, as provided. • This bill would, until January 1, 2030, exempt emergency telecommunications vehicles owned or purchased by emergency telecommunications providers that are used to participate in the federal Emergency Alert System, to provide access to 911 emergency services, or to provide wireless connectivity during service outages from specified requirements in the above-described regulations.
Support -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
the City
Council
AB 3209
Berman D
Crimes: theft: retail
theft restraining
orders.
8/12/2024-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling. (Ayes 69.
Noes 5.). Enrolled and
presented to the
Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Current law prohibits the theft of merchandise from a retail establishment. Current law authorizes a court, upon sentencing a person for specified offenses, including stalking and elder abuse, to issue a criminal protective order prohibiting the person from contacting any victim of their offense.
• This bill would authorize a court, when sentencing a person for an offense involving theft from a retail establishment, vandalism of a retail establishment, or battery of an employee of a retail establishment, to issue a criminal protective order prohibiting a person from entering the retail establishment, including any parking lots and including other franchise or chain locations of the retail establishment, as specified. • The bill would also authorize a prosecuting attorney, city attorney, county counsel, or attorney representing a retail establishment to file a petition for the issuance of a criminal protective order of this type against a person who has been arrested, including, but not Support
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limited to, the issuance of a citation in lieu of a custodial arrest, 2 or more times for any of the offenses at the same retail establishment, as specified. • The bill would also make conforming changes.
• The bill would make a violation of these orders punishable as a misdemeanor.
AB 3218
Wood D
Unflavored Tobacco
List.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
The Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act provides for enforcement of that prohibition by the Attorney General. Current law prohibits a tobacco retailer, as defined, from offering for sale any flavored tobacco product or tobacco product flavor enhancer, as specified. A violation of this prohibition is an infraction. • This bill would require the Attorney General to, by no later than December 31, 2025, establish and maintain on the Attorney General’s internet website a list of tobacco product brand styles that lack a characterizing flavor, as defined. • This bill would require each manufacturer or importer of tobacco products to submit to the Attorney General a list of all brand styles, as defined, of tobacco products that they manufacture or import for sale or distribution in or into California. • The bill would require a manufacturer or importer that submits a product pursuant to these provisions to, under penalty of perjury, describe each brand style, brand, and product category, as specified, describe, for each brand style, if a formal authorization, approval, or order from the United States Food and Drug Administration has been sought and its status, if applicable, and certify that each brand style lacks a characterizing flavor.
By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
• The bill would authorize the Attorney General to charge a fee for each submission and renewal of a brand style for the costs of processing the submissions, and operating the list, as specified.
Support
AB 3241
Pacheco D
Law enforcement:
police canines.
8/5/2024-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/5/2024-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current law requires all law enforcement agencies to maintain a use of force policy, as specified, and requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to implement courses of instruction for the training of law enforcement officers in the use of force.
• This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2026, to adopt uniform, minimum guidelines regarding the use of canines by law enforcement, and, on or before July 1, 2026, 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, 2027, each law enforcement agency with a canine unit 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 Support
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agencies to establish a training regimen that includes a course certified by the commission.
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
Regional housing
need: determination.
8/8/2024-A. THIRD
READING
8/8/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
The Planning and Zoning 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. That law, upon making that determination, authorizes the council of governments to object to the determination. • This bill, for regions in which the department is required to distribute the regional housing need, would prohibit a city or county from filing an objection to the regional housing need determination.
Oppose
SB 21
Umberg D
Controlled
substances.
5/2/2024-A. RLS.
5/2/2024-Re-referred
to Com. on RLS.
pursuant to Assembly
Rule 96. From
committee with
author's amendments.
Read second time and
Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, or sell, various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl. Current law requires the court, when granting probation after conviction of any controlled substance offense, as specified, to order as a condition of probation that the defendant secure education or treatment from a local community agency and requires the court or probation department to refer defendants to controlled substance education or treatment programs that adhere to specified standards. Current law permits a defendant to withdraw their plea of guilty or plea of nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty and authorizes Support
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on RLS.
a court to set aside a verdict of guilty, if the defendant has met certain requirements. • This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above-described crimes as they relate to fentanyl to receive a written advisory of the danger of distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the distributor can be charged with homicide or murder.
SB 24
Umberg D
Political Reform Act
of 1974: public
campaign financing.
6/19/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
6/19/2024-June 19 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits a public officer from expending, and a candidate from accepting, public moneys for the purpose of seeking elective office. • This bill would permit a public officer or candidate to expend or accept public moneys for the purpose of seeking elective office if the state or a local governmental entity established a dedicated fund for this purpose, as specified.
• The bill would prohibit the public moneys for this dedicated fund from being taken from public moneys that are earmarked for education, transportation, or public safety. This restriction would not apply to charter cities.
Support
SB 37
Caballero D
Older Adults and
Adults with
Disabilities Housing
Stability Act.
7/2/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/2/2024-July 2 set for
first hearing. Placed
on suspense file.
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.
Watch
SB 53
Portantino D
Firearms: storage.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law generally regulates the possession of firearms, including imposing storage requirements to prevent children from gaining access to firearms. • This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2026, prohibit the owner or other lawfully authorized user of a firearm 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 firearm safety devices and is properly engaged so that the firearm cannot be accessed 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.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
• 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.
SB 99
Umberg D
Law enforcement
agencies: military
equipment.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law requires a law enforcement agency, as defined, to obtain approval of the applicable governing body, by adoption of a military equipment use policy prior to taking certain actions relating to the funding, acquisition, or use of military equipment, as defined.
Current law requires the governing body to approve a military equipment use policy only if it determines compliance with certain standards, including that the military equipment is necessary because there is no reasonable alternative that can achieve the same objective of officer and civilian safety.
• This bill would add to those standards that the United States Armed Forces has not been prohibited by federal law or regulation from purchasing the military equipment from the manufacturer or seller of the military equipment.
Oppose
SB 225
Caballero D
Community AntiDisplacement and
Preservation
Program: statewide
contract.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law, upon appropriation, authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make either or both loans and grants to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department-funded housing projects that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk for conversion, as provided.
• This bill would establish the Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program for purposes of funding the acquisition and rehabilitation of unrestricted housing units, as defined, and attaching long-term affordability restrictions on the housing units, while safeguarding against the displacement of current residents. • The bill would require the department to issue a request for qualification to select a private sector entity or consortium to manage the program for a period of 5 years. • The bill would require the program manager to make loans to eligible borrowers, as defined, based on underwriting guidelines approved by the department. • The bill would authorize the department to issue grants or loans from program funds to local public entities upon request for purposes of allowing the local public entity to use the moneys to issue loans to eligible borrowers within its jurisdiction in accordance with the bill’s provisions and department regulations.
Watch
SB 226
Alvarado-Gil R
Controlled
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
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 Support
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
substances: armed
possession: fentanyl.
Placed on suspense
file.
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 if the person has knowledge that the specific controlled substance is fentanyl.
SB 251
Newman D
Candidates’
statements: false
statements.
6/17/2024-A. THIRD
READING
6/17/2024-From
consent calendar on
motion of Assembly
Member Maienschein.
Ordered to third
reading.
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.
Watch
SB 268
Alvarado-Gil R
Crimes: serious and
violent felonies.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law classifies certain criminal offenses as a “violent felony” for the purposes of various provisions of the Penal Code, including sentencing enhancements for prior convictions, as well as numerous other provisions.
• This bill would also include the rape of an intoxicated person wherein the defendant drugged the victim, as specified, in the list of violent felonies.
Support
SB 294
Wiener D
Health care coverage:
independent medical
review.
7/2/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/2/2024-July 2 set for
first hearing. Placed
on suspense file.
The Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Current law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Current law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or disability insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days. • This bill, commencing January 1, 2026, would 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 Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
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.
SB 295
Dodd D
Board of Pilot
Commissioners:
surcharge.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law establishes, in the Transportation Agency, the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. Current law prescribes the rates of bar pilotage fees required to be charged by pilots and paid by vessels inward and outward bound through those bays. Current law also imposes an additional pilot boat surcharge to recover the pilots’ costs of obtaining new pilot boats, including preliminary design and engineering, and of funding design and engineering modifications for the purpose of extending the service life of existing pilot boats, excluding costs for repair or maintenance, and authorizes the board to adjust the amount of the surcharge, as specified. Current law requires the moneys charged and collected each month from the surcharge to be paid to the Board of Pilot Commissioners’ Special Fund and credited to the Pilot Boat Surcharge Account, the moneys in which are continuously appropriated to the board to fund the pilot boat costs of obtaining new pilot boats and of funding design and engineering modifications for the purposes of extending the service life of existing pilot boats, excluding costs for repair or maintenance, and to cover the administrative costs of the board with respect to administration of the account. Existing law prohibits the amounts expended from the account for specified fiscal years from exceeding specified limits. • This bill would remove the prohibitions on expenditures above those specified limits, thereby making an appropriation.
Watch
SB 393
Glazer D
Civil actions: housing
development projects.
7/3/2024-A. THIRD
READING
7/3/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law provides that in a civil action brought by a plaintiff to challenge a housing development project that meets or exceeds the requirements for low- or moderate-income housing, a defendant may seek an order requiring the plaintiff to furnish an undertaking as security for costs and damages that may be incurred by the defendant if the bringing of the action or seeking by the plaintiff of particular relief, including injunctive relief, would result in a delay in carrying out the development project. Current law requires this motion to be made on the grounds that (1) the action was brought in bad faith, vexatiously, to delay or thwart the low- or moderate-income nature of the housing development project and (2) the plaintiff will not suffer undue economic hardship by filing the undertaking. If the court determines, after hearing, that the grounds for the motion have been established, current law requires the court to order the plaintiff to file an undertaking that may not exceed $500,000 as security for the defendant’s costs and damages.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
• This bill would require the motion described above to be made solely on the ground that the action was brought in bad faith, vexatiously, for the purpose of delay, or to thwart the low- or moderate-income nature of the housing development project. • The bill would permit the plaintiff, in responding to the motion, to seek to limit the amount of the undertaking by presenting evidence that filing the undertaking will cause the plaintiff to suffer undue economic hardship.
SB 402
Wahab D
Involuntary
commitment.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
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 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, until January 1, 2030, a person to be taken into custody, pursuant to those provisions, by a licensed mental health professional, as defined.
• The bill would require a licensed mental health professional who is not direct staff of, or contracted by, a county to complete a specified training prior to exercising that authority and would prohibit those licensed mental health professionals from transporting a person taken into custody pursuant to the above-described provisions unless specifically authorized by the county to do so.
Watch
SB 504
Dodd D
Wildfires: defensible
space: grant
programs: local
governments.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities and provides that local agencies, among others, are eligible for these grants. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas of the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on specified criteria. Current law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, the State Fire Marshal’s moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal, and authorizes a local agency, at its discretion, to include additional areas within the jurisdiction of the local agency as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones.
• This bill would require the department, when reviewing applications for the local assistance grant program, to give priority to any local governmental entity that is qualified to perform defensible space assessments in very high and high fire hazard severity zones and that reports that information using the common reporting platform, as provided.
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Revised: August 13, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
SB 537
Becker D
City or County of Los
Angeles: memorial to
forcibly deported
Mexican Americans
and Mexican
immigrants.
8/6/2024-A. G.O.
8/6/2024-From
committee with
author's amendments.
Read second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on G.O.
Current law provides for various memorials and monuments on the grounds of the State Capitol. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to maintain state buildings and grounds. The Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program, makes findings and declarations regarding the unconstitutional removal and coerced emigration of United States citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent, between the years 1929 and 1944, to Mexico from the United States during the 1930s “Mexican Repatriation” Program. Current law expresses the apology of the State of California to those individuals who were illegally deported and coerced into emigrating to Mexico and requires that a plaque to commemorate those individuals be installed and maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation in an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles.
• This bill would authorize a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants to enter into a memorandum of understanding to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial to Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants who were forcibly deported from the United States during the Great Depression, as provided. • The bill would require the memorial to be located at an appropriate public place in the City or County of Los Angeles.
• The bill would require the nonprofit organization to enter into a memorandum of understanding with either the Department of General Services, if the nonprofit organization proposes to locate the memorial on state property, or the City of Los Angeles or the County of Los Angeles, depending on which local jurisdiction owns the site where the nonprofit organization proposes to locate the memorial.
Support and
Seek
Amendments
SB 552
Newman D
Public safety: pools
and spas.
8/7/2024-
A. CONSENT
CALENDAR
8/8/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to consent calendar.
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; exit alarms, as defined, on a private single-family home’s doors that provide direct access to the swimming pool or spa, as specified; 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.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
• This bill would remove the definition of an approved safety pool cover and would recast that drowning safety feature as a manually operated or power-operated safety pool cover to be accompanied by a label verifying that the cover meets certain specifications. • The bill would remove the definition of exit alarms and would recast that drowning safety feature to include windows that provide direct access to the swimming pool or spa, as specified.
• The bill would require that an alarm that sounds upon accidental or unauthorized entrance into the water, as described above, be in good repair and operable as designed.
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. 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.
Watch
SB 584
Limón D
Laborforce housing:
Short-Term 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.
Oppose
Unless
Amended
SB 610
Wiener D
Fire prevention:
wildfire mitigation
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones and, by regulation, designate fire hazard severity zones and assign to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in the zone, as provided. Current law describes state responsibility areas for these purposes as areas of the state in which the financial responsibility of Oppose -
Pending Final
Approval on
8/20/2024 by
48 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
area: defensible
space: State Fire
Marshal.
Placed on suspense
file.
preventing and suppressing fires has been determined by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to be primarily the responsibility of the state. • This bill would revise and recast these provisions by, among other things, replacing the requirement that the State Fire Marshal classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones with a requirement that the State Fire Marshal, on or before an unspecified date, designate, by regulation, a wildfire mitigation area in the state, excluding federal lands.
• The bill would require the wildfire mitigation area to be based on fuel loading, slope, fire weather, overall fire hazard severity, and other relevant factors identified by the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection as a major cause of wildfire spread. the City
Council
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.
Watch
SB 689
Blakespear D
Local coastal
program: bicycle
lane: amendment.
8/8/2024-A. THIRD
READING
8/8/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires the issuance of a coastal development permit if the proposed development is in conformity with the certified local coastal program. The act provides for the certification of local coastal programs by the California Coastal Commission.
• This bill would provide that an application by a local government to convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane, dedicated transit lane, or a pedestrian walkway 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 convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane, dedicated transit lane, or a pedestrian walkway within the developed portion of an existing road right-of-way requires an amendment to a local coastal program, that the amendment be processed in accordance with the procedures applicable to de minimus local coastal program amendments if the executive director of the commission makes specified determinations.
Watch
SB 721
Becker D
General plan: annual
report: suite-style
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
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 Watch
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student housing
quarters.
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, for the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, require the city or county to additionally include in the annual report the number of suite-style student housing quarters, subject to specified requirements, within the number of housing units demolished and new units.
SB 724
Glazer D
Political Reform Act
of 1974:
communications.
8/28/2023-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
9/1/2023-September 1
hearing postponed by
committee. (Set for
hearing on
08/15/2024)
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.
Watch
SB 735
Cortese D
San Francisco Bay
Area Regional
Housing Finance Act:
expenditure of funds:
public works.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production. The act vests the authority with various powers, including authorizing it to place a measure on the ballot to raise revenue and allocate funds throughout the San Francisco Bay area, apply for and receive grants or loans from public and private entities, incur and issue bonds and other indebtedness, and otherwise incur liabilities or obligations, as specified. The act authorizes the authority to allocate and deploy financing to cities, counties, other public agencies within the San Francisco Bay area, and private affordable housing developers to finance affordable housing development, as specified.
The act requires revenue generated pursuant to the act be used for the construction of new affordable housing, affordable housing preservation, tenant protection programs, planning and technical assistance related to affordable housing, and for infrastructure to support housing and other purposes, as specified. Under this bill, a construction or Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
rehabilitation project receiving funding or financing from revenue under the act, as specified, would constitute a public work for which prevailing wages are required to be paid pursuant to current law.
• The bill would require that certain projects with 40 units or more be eligible to receive funding or financing from revenue generated under the act only if all construction and rehabilitation will be subject to a project labor agreement, as defined, with the same terms as the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Major Projects Project Stabilization Agreement, as specified and defined, except that if a regional or countywide project labor agreement, as defined, that meets certain requirements is negotiated, then the bill would provide that those projects are eligible for funding or financing from the agency only if all construction and rehabilitation is subject to that project labor agreement.
SB 820
Alvarado-Gil R
Cannabis:
enforcement: seizure
of property.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Would, subject to specified exceptions, authorize the Department of Cannabis Control or a local jurisdiction, after obtaining an inspection warrant, to seize specified property in the place or building, or within any yard or enclosure, where commercial cannabis activity is conducted without a license required by the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA).
• The bill would also authorize the department or a local jurisdiction to seize a vehicle used to conceal, convey, carry, deliver, or transport cannabis or cannabis products by or for a person engaging in commercial cannabis activity without that license, except as specified.
• The bill would impose requirements for notice of seizure, forfeiture proceedings, and the sale and distribution of proceeds upon a judgment in favor of the forfeiture.
Support
SB 834
Portantino D
Vehicles: preferential
parking: residential,
commercial, or other
development project.
2/29/2024-A. RLS.
2/29/2024-Re-referred
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 above-described 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. • This bill would prohibit a local authority from issuing any permit conferring preferential Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
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.
8/8/2024-
S. CONCURRENCE
8/8/2024-Read third
time. Passed. Ordered
to the Senate. In
Senate. Concurrence
in Assembly
amendments pending.
Current law requires every constitutional amendment, bond measure, or other legislative measure submitted to the people by the Legislature to appear on the ballot of the first statewide election occurring at least 131 days after the adoption of the proposal by the Legislature.
• This bill would allow the Legislature to specify, in the text of a measure that proposes an amendment or revision of the Constitution, that the constitutional amendment or revision submitted to the people will appear on the ballot at an election other than the one described above if the election specified in the measure would occur at least 131 days after adoption of the measure by the Legislature.
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SB 905
Wiener D
Crimes: theft from a
vehicle.
8/12/2024-
S. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Assembly
amendments
concurred in. (Ayes
37. Noes 0.) Ordered
to engrossing and
enrolling.
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 926
Wahab D
Crimes: distribution
of intimate images.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Would make it a crime for a person to intentionally create and distribute or cause to be distributed any photo realistic image, digital image, electronic image, computer image, computer-generated image, or other pictorial representation of an intimate body part or parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person depicted engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, or an image of masturbation by the person depicted or in which the person depicted participates that was created in a manner that would cause a reasonable person to believe the image is an authentic image of the person depicted, under circumstances in which the person distributing the image knows or should know that distribution of the image will cause serious emotional distress, and the person depicted suffers that distress. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Support
SB 937
Wiener D
8/8/2024-A. THIRD
READING
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 Oppose 52 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: August 13, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Development
projects: permits and
other entitlements:
fees and charges.
8/8/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
of specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. 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. Current 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. Current 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 for a priority designated residential development project, as those terms are 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.
SB 969
Wiener D
Alcoholic beverages:
entertainment zones:
consumption.
7/2/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/2/2024-July 2 set for
first hearing. Placed
on suspense file.
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-ofway 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, sidewalks, or public rights-ofway. • The bill would additionally authorize any city, county, or city and county to establish an entertainment zone, subject to the above-described requirements. Before enacting an ordinance to establish an entertainment zone, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to notify local law enforcement and request feedback about specific Watch
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information, including, among others, the entertainment zone’s proposed boundaries and days and hours of operation.
SB 972
Min D
Methane emissions:
organic waste:
landfills.
7/2/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/2/2024-July 2 set for
first hearing. Placed
on suspense file.
Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations, as provided, that achieve the targets for reducing organic waste in landfills. • This bill would require the department to provide procedures for local jurisdictions to request technical assistance regarding organic waste and methane reduction requirements from the department, to post those procedures on its internet website, and to provide that technical assistance, as specified.
• The bill would require the department to report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2028, on, among other things relating to organic waste and methane reduction, the status of the technical assistance provided to local jurisdictions and, on or before January 1, 2031, on the state’s ability to meet the targets for reducing the disposal of organic waste in landfills and any recommendations to modify the program to achieve those goals.
Support
SB 981
Wahab D
Sexually explicit
digital images.
8/12/2024-
S. CONCURRENCE
8/12/2024-Read third
time. Passed. Ordered
to the Senate. In
Senate. Concurrence
in Assembly
amendments pending.
Would require a social media platform to provide a mechanism that is reasonably accessible to a reporting user who is a California resident who has an account with the social media platform to report digital identify theft to the social media platform. • The bill would define “sexually explicit digital identity theft” to mean the posting of covered material on a social media platform and would define “covered material” to mean material that 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 or an identifiable person engaged in certain sexual acts, and that the reporting person is the person depicted in the material and did not consent to the use of the reporting person’s likeness in the material. • The bill would also require a social media platform to immediately remove a reported instance of sexually explicit digital identity theft from being publicly viewable on the social media platform if the social media platform determines there is a reasonable basis to believe the reported sexually explicit digital identity theft is sexually explicit digital identity theft, as prescribed.
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SB 982
Wahab D
Crimes: organized
theft.
8/12/2024-
S. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Assembly
amendments
concurred in. (Ayes
38. Noes 0.) Ordered
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 Support
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to engrossing and
enrolling.
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.
SB 1032
Padilla D
Housing finance:
portfolio
restructuring: loan
forgiveness.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law establishes various rental housing finance programs administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current 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 full amount of the principal, interest, fees, and other outstanding balances of the above-described loans if the borrower makes specified showings.
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SB 1037
Wiener D
Planning and zoning:
housing element:
enforcement.
7/3/2024-A. THIRD
READING
7/3/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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 planning or permitting application related to 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.
• The bill would require that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when the local agency’s acts or omissions, as described, are arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair.
Oppose
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• The bill would require these civil penalties, as specified, to be deposited into the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund for the sole purpose of supporting the development of affordable housing located in the affected jurisdiction, except as provided.
SB 1053
Blakespear D
Solid waste: reusable
grocery bags:
standards: plastic film
prohibition.
8/8/2024-A. THIRD
READING
8/8/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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 thirdparty certification entity, and provides proof of that certification and a certification fee to the department, as specified. Current law 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 a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and after January 1, 2028, without exception.
Support
SB 1054
Rubio D
Natural gas: customer
credit.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms in regulating those emissions. The implementing regulations adopted by the state board provide for the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to electrical corporations and gas corporations pursuant to a market-based compliance mechanism.
• This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to direct the balance of the Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
revenues received by a gas corporation as a result of that allocation to be credited directly to the residential customers of the gas corporation, as specified.
SB 1058
Ashby D
Peace officers: injury
or illness: leaves of
absence.
8/8/2024-
S. CONCURRENCE
8/8/2024-Read third
time. Passed. Ordered
to the Senate. In
Senate. Concurrence
in Assembly
amendments pending.
Current law entitles, among others, local law enforcement, firefighters, and probation officers employed on a regular full-time basis 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 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 entitle a park ranger employed on a regular full-time basis by a county or special district to this leave of absence.
Watch
SB 1100
Portantino D
Discrimination:
driver’s license.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
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.
Watch
SB 1103
Menjivar D
Tenancy of
commercial real
properties:
agreements: building
operating costs.
6/27/2024-A. THIRD
READING
6/27/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law requires a landlord of a residential dwelling to give notice to the tenant a certain number of days before the effective date of a rent increase depending on the amount of the increase, as specified.
• This bill would apply this requirement to leases of commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, as defined.
• The bill would specify, in all leases for commercial real property by a qualified commercial tenant, that a rent increase would not be effective until the notice period required by these provisions has expired.
• The bill would also specify that a violation of these provisions would not entitle a qualified commercial tenant to civil penalties.
• The bill would require a landlord of a commercial real property to include information on these provisions in the notice.
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SB 1123
Caballero D
Planning and zoning:
subdivisions:
ministerial review.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
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, is zoned for multifamily residential development, is no larger than 5 acres, as specified, and is no smaller than 600 square feet, except as provided. Current law prohibits a local agency from imposing on the housing development an objective zoning standard, objective subdivision standard, or objective design standard Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
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 revise the requirement that the lot be zoned for multifamily residential development and would instead require that the lot either be zoned for multifamily residential dwelling use or vacant, as defined, and zoned for single-family residential development.
• The bill would also revise the above-described requirements to instead include that the lot is no larger than 11/2 acres, as specified, and that if the parcels are zoned for singlefamily residential units, the newly created parcels on average are no less than 1,200 square feet.
SB 1144
Skinner D
Marketplaces: online
marketplaces.
8/12/2024-
S. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Assembly
amendments
concurred in. (Ayes
37. Noes 0.) Ordered
to engrossing and
enrolling.
Current law generally requires an online marketplace to require a high-volume third-party seller on the online marketplace to make certain disclosures. Existing law requires an online marketplace to suspend future sales activity of a high-volume third-party seller that is not in compliance with those information sharing requirements, as specified. Current law imposes certain information retention and security requirements on an online marketplace and prohibits specified uses of that information. Current law generally defines a “highvolume third-party seller,” for purposes of the above-described provisions, as a third-party seller who has entered into a certain number of consumer product sales transactions through an online marketplace for which payment is processed by the online marketplace, as specified. Current law defines an “online marketplace,” for purposes of those provisions, as a consumer-directed, electronically accessed platform that includes features that allow for, facilitate, or enable, and are used by, a third-party seller to engage in the sale, purchase, payment, storage, shipment, or delivery of a consumer product and that has a contractual relationship with consumers governing their use of the platform to purchase consumer products.
• This bill would revise the types of transactions that qualify a third-party seller as a “highvolume third-party seller,” for those purposes. Specifically, the bill would remove the conditions that the transactions be made through an online marketplace and that the online marketplace process the payment and, instead, would add the condition that the transactions were made utilizing an online marketplace.
Support
SB 1164
Newman D
6/3/2024-A. REV. &
TAX
The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. For purposes of this limitation, “full cash value” is defined Support if
Amended
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: August 13, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Property taxation:
new construction
exclusion: accessory
dwelling units.
6/24/2024-June 24 set
for first hearing
canceled at the
request of author.
as the assessor’s valuation of real property as shown on the 1975–76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred.
• This bill would exclude from classification as “newly constructed” and “new construction” the construction of an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, if construction on the unit is completed on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, until one of specified events occurs.
• The bill would require the property owner to, among other things, notify the assessor that the property owner intends to claim the exclusion for an accessory dwelling unit and submit an affidavit stating that the owner shall make a good faith effort to ensure the unit will be used as residential housing for the duration the owner receives the exclusion.
SB 1180
Ashby D
Health care coverage:
emergency medical
services.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law, until January 1, 2031, authorizes a local emergency medical services (EMS) agency to develop a community paramedicine or triage to alternate destination program that, among other things, provides case management services to frequent EMS users or triage paramedic assessments, respectively.
• This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2025, to establish a process to reimburse for services provided by a community paramedicine program, a triage to alternate destination program, and a mobile integrated health program, as defined.
Support
SB 1210
Skinner D
New housing
construction:
electrical, gas, sewer,
and water service:
service connection
information.
8/8/2024-A. THIRD
READING
8/8/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, gas corporations, sewer system corporations, and water corporations, while local publicly owned utilities, including municipal utility districts, public utility districts, and irrigation districts, are under the direction of their governing boards.
• This bill would, for new housing construction, require the above-described utilities, on or before January 1, 2026, to publicly post on their internet websites (1) the schedule of estimated fees for typical service connections for each housing development type, including, but not limited to, accessory dwelling unit, mixed-use, multifamily, and singlefamily developments, except as specified, and (2) the estimated timeframes for completing typical service connections needed for each housing development type, as specified. • The bill would exempt from its provisions a utility with fewer than 4,000 service connections that does not establish or maintain an internet website due to a hardship and would authorize the utility to establish that a hardship exists by annually adopting a resolution that includes detailed findings, as provided.
Watch
SB 1211
Skinner D
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in areas zoned for residential use, as Watch 59 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
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Revised: August 13, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Land use: accessory
dwelling units:
ministerial approval.
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
specified. That law prohibits, if a local agency adopts an ordinance to create ADUs in those zones, the local agency from requiring the replacement of offstreet parking spaces if a garage, carport, or covered parking structure is demolished in conjunction with the construction of, or is converted to, an ADU.
• This bill would also prohibit the local agency from requiring the replacement off offstreet parking spaces if an uncovered parking space is demolished in conjunction with the construction of, or is converted to, an ADU.
SB 1216
Blakespear D
Transportation
projects: Class III
bikeways: prohibition.
8/8/2024-A. THIRD
READING
8/8/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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 define “sharrow” as the pavement marking used to inform road users that bicyclists might occupy the travel lane.
• The bill 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 sharrow on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour.
Watch
SB 1242
Min D
Crimes: fires.
8/12/2024-
S. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Assembly
amendments
concurred in. (Ayes
37. Noes 0.) Ordered
to engrossing and
enrolling.
Current law prohibits unlawfully causing a fire by recklessly setting fire to, burning, or causing to be burned, any structure, forest land, or property. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony.
• This bill would, for the purposes of sentencing for a violation of these provisions, make it a factor in aggravation that the offense was carried out within a merchant’s premises in order to facilitate organized retail theft.
Support
SB 1255
Durazo D
Public water systems:
needs analysis: water
rate assistance
program.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law establishes the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water in both the near and long terms. Current law requires the state board to annually adopt a fund expenditure plan, as provided, and requires expenditures from the fund to be consistent with the fund expenditure plan. Current law requires the state board to base the fund expenditure plan on data and analysis drawn from a specified drinking water needs assessment.
• This bill would require the state board to update a needs analysis of the state’s public water systems to include an assessment, as specified, of the funds necessary to provide a 20% bill credit for low-income households served by community water systems with fewer than 3,300 service connections and for community water systems with fewer than 3,300 Oppose
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
service connections to meet a specified affordability threshold on or before July 1, 2026, and on or before July 1 of every 3 years thereafter.
SB 1262
Archuleta D
Crimes: supervised
release.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law requires the county agency supervising the release of a person on postrelease community supervision to petition a court to revoke, modify, or terminate postrelease community supervision if the agency determines, following application of its assessment processes, that intermediate sanctions are not appropriate. • This bill would require the county agency supervising the release of a person on postrelease community supervision to also petition a court to revoke, modify, or terminate postrelease community supervision if the person has violated the terms of their release for a 3rd time and the person has committed a new felony or misdemeanor.
Support
SB 1277
Stern D
Pupil instruction:
genocide education:
the Holocaust.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
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 consistent with, among other things, the content standards, curriculum frameworks, and instructional materials adopted by the State Board of Education, 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. • The bill would make the implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation.
Watch
SB 1297
Allen D
The City of Malibu’s
speed safety system
pilot program.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law requires a participating city or city and county to adopt a Speed Safety System Use Policy and a Speed Safety System Impact Report before implementing the program, and requires the participating city or city and county to engage in a public information campaign at least 30 days before implementation of the program, including information relating to when the systems would begin detecting violations and where the systems would be utilized. Current law requires a participating city or city and county to issue warning notices rather than notices of violations for violations detected within the first 60 calendar days of the program. Existing law also requires a participating city or city and county to develop uniform guidelines for, among other things, the processing and storage Watch
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of confidential information. Current law designates all photographic or administrative records, not including data about the number of violations issued or the speeds at which they were issued for, made by a system as confidential, and would only authorize public agencies to use and allow access to these records for specified purposes. • This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2032, the City of Malibu to establish a similar program for speed enforcement that utilizes up to 5 speed safety systems on the Pacific Coast Highway.
SB 1381
Wahab D
Crime.
8/5/2024-A. THIRD
READING
8/5/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Current law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Current law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Existing law makes transportation and sales of specified controlled substances, including narcotics, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 4, or 5 years.
• This bill would make the sale, furnishing, administration, or giving away of any mixture of controlled substances containing fentanyl or its analogs, knowing that fentanyl or its analogs are present within the mixture, unbeknownst to the purchaser or recipient, and without disclosing that presence to the purchaser or recipient a felony punishable in county jail for 4, 5, or 6 years.
Support if
Amended
SB 1382
Glazer D
Community and rural
health clinics:
building standards.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
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 right:
building standards.
8/5/2024-A. THIRD
READING
8/5/2024-From
consent calendar on
motion of Assembly
Member Hart.
Ordered to third
reading.
Current 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 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 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
Revised: August 13, 2024
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
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, as specified.
SB 1416
Newman D
Sentencing
enhancements: sale,
exchange, or return of
stolen property.
8/12/2024-
S. ENROLLMENT
8/12/2024-Assembly
amendments
concurred in. (Ayes
37. Noes 1.) Ordered
to engrossing and
enrolling.
Current law defines types of theft, including petty theft, grand theft, and shoplifting.
Existing law also defines the crime of burglary, which consists of entering specified buildings, places, or vehicles with the intent to commit grand or petty theft or a felony. • This bill would, until January 1, 2030, 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.
Support
SB 1441
Allen D
Examination of
petitions: time
limitations and
reimbursement of
costs.
8/8/2024-A. THIRD
READING
8/8/2024-Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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.
• 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.
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SB 1442
Ochoa Bogh R
7/2/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/2/2024-July 2 set for
Current law authorizes the 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.
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Point-of-care tests for
fentanyl.
first hearing. Placed
on suspense file.
• 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.
SB 1461
Allen D
State of emergency
and local emergency:
landslide.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Governor to declare a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to declare a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency.
• This bill would additionally include a landslide among those causes of the conditions constituting a state of emergency or local emergency.
Support
SB 1487
Glazer D
Vehicles: parking
violations.
8/7/2024-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/7/2024-August 7 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
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
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SCA 7
Umberg D
Employment:
workers’ rights.
6/22/2023-S. E. &
C.A.
6/26/2023-Read
second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on 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. 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.
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