Beverly Hills City Council
May 6, 2025

STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: May 6, 2025
To: Honorable Mayor & City Council
From: Mandy Jiang, Senior Management Analyst
Magdalena Davis, Community Outreach Manager
Subject: State and Federal Legislative Update
Attachments: 1. State Legislative Bill Matrix

INTRODUCTION
On April 22, 2025, the City Council adopted the 2025 Legislative Platform, which houses City Council approved positions on numerous topics affecting our local jurisdiction. The Platform provides direction to City staff and the City’s contracted state and federal lobbyists, as staff and lobbyists work to advocate and represent the City’s position throughout the year at a regional level, in Sacramento, and in 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 legislative priorities listed in the Platform as well as topics of interest identified during 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., from the City’s contracted lobbyists.

DISCUSSION
All letters sent by the City are published on the following City webpage:
www.beverlyhills.org/legislation. Additionally, a current bill matrix of state legislation, which the City is actively advocating in support for, opposing, or monitoring, is attached for reference as Attachment 1. From January through April, the City has officially taken positions on seven state legislative bills:
 OPPOSE AB 647 (Gonzalez) – Override locally adopted housing plans forcing cities to ministerially approve housing developments up to eight housing units — only one of which is required to be affordable — on lots with an existing singlefamily home or in an area zoned for eight units or less, without any environmental review or public input.

Meeting Date: May 6, 2025

Status: As of April 24, 2025, amended and re-referred to Committee on Local Government; read second time and amended.
 SUPPORT AB 262 (Caloza) – California Individual Assistance Act. AB 262 includes grants for housing, essential supplies, income replacement, medical costs, and evacuation center operations—relief that can be administered quickly to residents in crisis. The bill also authorizes advanced funding for local governments and organizations, allowing communities to act swiftly in supporting affected residents.

Status: The bill will be introduced to Assembly Appropriations Committee on April 30, 2025. It was passed by the Committee of Emergency Management to (Ayes 5.

Noes 2.) to Assembly Appropriations Committee on April 7, 2025.  SUPPORT SB 6 (Ashby) – Controlled substances: xylazine. SB 6 would add xylazine to the list of controlled substances which when found with possession of such a substance is a misdemeanor offense with a fine up to $1,000 and a year of incarceration in County jail.

Status: As of April 7th hearing, placed on Appropriations suspense file.  SUPPORT AB 523 (Irwin) – Metropolitan Water Districts: Alternate Representative. This bill would allow each member agency of Metropolitan Water District entitled to only one representative, such as Beverly Hills, to designate a proxy representative for meeting participation, and possibly vote by proxy.

Status: As of April 23, re-referred to Committee on Local Government after amendments.
 SUPPORT AB 650 (Papan) – Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation. AB 650 would allow local governments to begin the housing element update process six months early, provide greater certainty and reduce ambiguity in the housing element review process, and ensure that local governments have adequate time to respond to the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s (HCD) review letters.

Status: As of April 24, passed by Committee on Local Government (Ayes 11. Noes

0.)
 SUPPORT SB 346 (Durazo) – Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: shortterm rental facilitator. SB 346 would require short-term rental facilitators, at the request of a city, to provide the Assessor Parcel Number of a short-term rental listing to a city and would provide cities audit authority for transient occupancy taxes collected and remitted by short-term rental facilitators.

Status: As of March 20, read second time and amended, re-referred to Committee on Judiciary, hearing set for May 6.
 OPPOSE SB 364 (Perez) – Homelessness: civil and criminal penalties. SB 364 severely limits cities’ ability to respond to the homelessness crisis by prohibiting local governments from adopting any regulation, policy, or guidance that imposes civil or criminal penalties on a person experiencing homelessness.

Status: April 22nd hearing postponed by committee, new hearing set for April 28.

Meeting Date: May 6, 2025

City staff and our state lobbyist are monitoring numerous bills in Sacramento. Staff is currently working to identify a date and time for a meeting with the City Council Legislative / Lobby Liaisons. Bills that will be heard at the next meeting cover the following topics:
 Automated traffic enforcement programs
 Streamlined rebuild after wildfires
 Foreign national influence on American students
 Adaptive reuse streamlining incentives
State Update
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s state lobbyist. Some relevant updates over the last quarter include:
 Governor Newsom Files Lawsuit to End President Trump’s TariffsGovernor Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging President Trump’s use of emergency powers to enact broad-sweeping tariffs that hurt states, consumers, and businesses. The lawsuit argues that President Trump lacks the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs through the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, creating immediate and irreparable harm to California, the largest economy, manufacturing, and agriculture state in the nation.
 Governor Newsom, Legislature Double down on State’s Critical Cap-and-Trade Program in Face of Federal Threats - Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas announced they will seek an extension of California’s nation-leading climate pollution reduction program – known as cap-and-trade – during this legislative year. The program is currently set to expire in 2030, and requires extension by the Legislature. As the Governor noted in his proposed budget, extending the program this year can provide the market with greater certainty, attract stable investment, further California’s climate leadership and set the state on a clear path to achieve its 2045 carbon-neutrality goal.
 Retail Theft Crackdown in 2024 Recovers $13.5 Million in Stolen Goods - Governor Newsom announced that in 2024, the state’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force conducted a record-breaking 879 investigations which led to 1,707 arrests and the recovery of 676,227 stolen goods valued at $13.5 million.  Governor Newsom Announces Record-Breaking $76 Million to Safeguard Local Faith Communities and Nonprofits - Governor Newsom announced $76 million in grants, made in partnership with the state Legislature, to 347 community groups across the state to protect nonprofits and houses of worship from violence, the most that’s ever been awarded.

Federal Update
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s federal lobbyist. Some relevant updates over the last quarter include:
 President Trump is expected to submit his full budget request to Congress in May, although no date has been set. However, a smaller “skinny” budget may be released in late April. Those documents will help guide the FY 2026 appropriations process. The House passed its budget resolution on February 25 by a vote of 217 to 215, which would provide for a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill. This still needs to be assembled and would aim for $2 trillion in spending cuts, in exchange for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over the span of a decade. On April 3, the Senate adopted Meeting Date: May 6, 2025

a motion to proceed by a vote of 52-48 and has moved onto the “vota-a-rama.” This is a series of votes on all amendments to the budget resolution, one at time.

Consideration of the budget resolution was slowed when several Republican Senators sought assurance from President Trump that Medicaid would not be cut.

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
April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 1Connolly D Residential property insurance: wildfire risk. 4/23/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/23/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

Current Department of Insurance regulations prohibit an insurer from using a rating plan that does nottake into account and reflect specified wildfire risk mitigation, including property-level building hardening measures.• This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2030, and every 5 years thereafter, to consider whether or not to update its regulations to include additional building hardening measuresfor property-level mitigation efforts and communitywide wildfire mitigation programs. As part of this consideration, the bill would require the department to consult with specified agencies to identify additional building hardening measures to consider, as well as to develop and implement a public participation process during the evaluation.

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AB 3Dixon R Alcohol and drug treatment facilities: local regulation. 2/3/2025-A. HEALTH3/24/2025-Rereferred to Com. on HEALTH.

Would exempt an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility from being considered a residential use of property for the purposes of local regulation if multiple single-family dwellings are being used as a licensed or unlicensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, they share an owner, a director, programs, or amenities with another facility, and any of the dwellings are within 300 feet of that facility, or if a single-family dwelling being used as an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility shares an owner, a director, programs, or amenities with another facility that is commercially owned, operated, and licensed that is located anywhere in the state.

Support
AB 6Ward D Residential developments: building standards: review. 2/3/2025-A. H. & C.D. 4/1/2025-Rereferred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law requires the building standards and rules and regulations to impose substantially the same requirements as are contained in the most recent editions of specified international or uniform industry codes, including the International Residential Code of the International Code Council. Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and requires the department to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department.• This bill would require the department to convene a working group no later than December 31, 2026, to research and consider identifying and recommending amendments to state building standards allowing residential developments to be built, as specified.• The bill would require the department, no later than December 31, 2027, to provide a one-time report of its findings to the Legislature in the annual report described above.• The bill, if the report identifies and recommends amendments to building standards, would require the department to research, develop, and consider proposing the standards for adoption by the commission, as specified. For the purposes of these provisions, the bill would authorize the department to exceed the scope and application of the International Residential Code to allow Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
residential developments of between 3 and 10 units to be designed and constructed under the requirements of the California Residential Code.

AB 11Lee D The Social Housing Act.
2/3/2025-A. H. & C.D. 2/3/2025-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

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

Support
AB 15Gipson D Open unsolved murder: review and reinvestigation. 4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Current law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought.• This bill would require a law enforcement agency to review the casefile regarding an open unsolved murder upon written application by certain persons to determine if a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, as specified.• The bill would define an open unsolved murder as a murder committed after January 1, 1990, but no less than one year prior to the date of the application for case review, that was investigated by a law enforcement agency, for which all probative investigative leads have been exhausted and for which no suspect has been identified. If the review determines that a reinvestigation would result in probativeinvestigative leads, this bill would require a reinvestigation, as specified.• The bill would prohibit a reinvestigation from being conducted by a person who previously investigated the homicide at issue, as specified, and would allow only one reinvestigation from being undertaken at any one time with respect to the same victim.

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AB 20DeMaio R Homelessness: People First Housing Act of 2025. 3/24/2025-A. H. & C.D. 3/25/2025-Rereferred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Would prohibit a homeless encampment from operating within 500 feet of a sensitive community area, including, but not limited to, a school, open space, or transit stop. • The bill would prohibit a person from camping, as defined, in any public space, including a sidewalk, if a homeless shelter bed is available in the city where the public space is located.

Support
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 23DeMaio R The Cost of Living Reduction Act of 2025. 3/24/2025-A. U. & E.3/26/2025-Rereferred to Com. on U. & E.

Current law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) with various responsibilities for developing and implementing the state’s energy policies.• This bill, the Cost of Living Reduction Act of 2025, would require the Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Commission to post, and update monthly, dashboards on their internet websites that include the difference in average gasoline prices and the average total price of electricity or natural gas in California compared to national averages, and any California-specific taxes, fees, regulations,and policies that directly or indirectly contribute to higher gasoline and electricity or natural gas prices within the state, as specified.• The bill would require the Energy Commission and the PUC, on or before July 1, 2026, to each submit a report to the Legislature on the governmental and nongovernmental drivers of California’s higher gasoline prices and higher electricity and natural gas prices, and recommendations for policy changes to reduce the costs associated with those drivers, as specified. If the average price of gasoline in California exceeds 10% of the national average in the preceding quarter, the bill would require alltaxes and fees on gasoline, as specified, to be suspended for a period of 6 months, and, if the average price of electricity or natural gas in California exceeds 10% of the national average in the precedingquarter, the bill would require the PUC to suspend the collection of all fees, as specified, charged on electricity and natural gas bills for a period of 6 months.

Neutral
AB 33Aguiar-Curry D Autonomous vehicles.
4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Would prohibit the delivery of commercial goods, as defined, directly to a residence or to a business for its use or retail sale through the operation of an autonomous vehicle without a human operator on any highway within the State of California.• The bill would declare that a violation of this prohibition is not an infraction and is instead punishable by a civil fine not to exceed $25,000 for each instance of the violation.• The bill would make certain findings and declarations related to these provisions.

Neutral
AB 36Soria D Housing elements:
4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with 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 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. Current law requires HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by HCD, as prescribed, and to report those designations to the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
prohousing designation.
recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Current law specifies that these emergency regulations will remain in effect until HCD promulgates permanent prohousing regulations.• This bill would instead require HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to permanent regulations adopted by HCD to implement these provisions, as specified. Beginning with the 7th housing element cycle, the bill would require HCD to evaluate materials from a nonentitlement jurisdiction’s housing element submission when determining whether the jurisdiction qualifies as prohousing, but only with respect to those nonentitlement jursidictions that have a compliant housing element.• The bill would also prohibit HCD from requiring nonentitlement jurisdictions to renew their prohousing designation for at least 5 years.

AB 37Elhawary D Workforce development: mental health service providers: homelessness. 3/13/2025-A. L. & E.3/17/2025-Rereferred to Com. on L. & E.

Current law establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Current law requires the board to assist the Governor in certain activities, including the review and technical assistance of statewide policies, programs, and recommendations to support workforce development systems in the state, as specified.• This bill would require the board to study how to expand the workforce of mental health service providers who provide services to homeless persons.

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AB 38Lackey R Crimes: serious and violent felonies.
2/3/2025-A. PUB. S.3/20/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

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. Current law includes among the list of violent felonies rape accomplished against a person’s will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear, or rape accomplished against the victim’s will by threat of violent retaliation, but does not include rape of a person unable to give consent due to disability, rape under false pretenses, or rape accomplished by threat of incarceration, arrest, or deportation.• This bill would also include specified crimes involving the rape or sexual assault of a minor who has a developmental disability in the list of violent felonies.

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AB 39Zbur D General plans: Local
4/9/2025-A. U. & E.4/24/2025-From committee chair, with author's The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Electrification Planning Act.
amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified. • This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require each city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2027, but no later than January 1, 2030, to prepare and adopt a specified plan, or integrate a plan in the next adoption or revision of the general plan, that includes locally based goals, objectives, policies, and feasible implementation measures that include, among other things, the identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging and other zero-emission vehicle fueling infrastructure, as specified, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for equitable and prioritized investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups.

AB 44Schultz D Energy: electrical demand forecasts.
4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/24/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 23). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, at least every 2 years, to conduct assessments and forecasts of all aspects of energy industry supply, production, transportation, delivery and distribution, demand, and prices. Current law authorizes the commission to require the submission of demand forecasts from electrical utilities, among other entities, to perform its assessments and forecasts. Current law requires the commission to adopt an integrated energy policy report every 2 years.• This bill would require the commission, on or before December 1, 2026, and in consultation with load-serving entities and resource aggregators, to define and publicize methodologies for load modification protocols by which a load-serving entity may reduce or modify its electrical demand forecast upon aggregated system operation, as specified.

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AB 87Boerner D Housing development: density bonuses: mixed-use developments. 4/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/24/2025-Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). ReThe Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for lower income households or very low income households, and meets other requirements. Current law requires the number of incentives or concessions a qualifying developer receives to be pursuant to a certain formula based on the total number of units in the housing development, as specified. Current law defines “housing development,” for these purposes, to mean a development project for 5 or more residential units, including mixed-use developments. • This bill would prohibit an incentive or concession granted for a mixed-use development containing a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other visitor-serving purpose from applying to the portion of the proposed development containing hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other visitor-serving purpose use. Watch 6 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
referred to Com. on L. GOV. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.

AB 91Harabedian D State and local agencies: demographic data. 4/8/2025-A. APPR.4/8/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Would require state and local agencies that collect demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate collection categories and tabulations for major Middle Eastern or North African groups, as specified, and, with certain exceptions, to include that data in every demographic report published on or after January 1, 2027, and to make the aggregated data available to the public.

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AB 239Harabedian D State-led County of Los Angeles disaster housing task force. 4/8/2025-A. APPR.4/8/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and sets forth its powers and duties, including updating and revising the California Statewide Housing Plan, as provided. Current law establishes the Office of Emergency Services (OES), which is responsible for the state’s emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or human-induced disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters on people and property. • This bill would require HCD and OES to jointly convene a state-led County of Los Angeles disaster housing task force, as specified, for the purpose of coordinating and streamling efforts between HCD, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, OES, and local governments to rebuild housing in communities impacted by the wildfires that began on January 7, 2025, in the County of Los Angeles. • The bill would require the task force to appoint a state disaster housing coordinator to accelerate the delivery of resources to communities impacted by the wildfires.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 246Bryan D Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025. 4/10/2025-A. JUD.4/10/2025-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. Rereferred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

Current law requires a tenant be served a 3 days’ notice in writing to cure a default or perform a condition of the lease, or return possession of the property to the landlord, as specified. The Mobilehome Residency Law prohibits a tenancy from being terminated unless specified conditions are met, including that the tenant fails to pay rent, utility charges, or reasonable incidental service charges, and 3 days’ notice in writing is provided to the tenant, as specified.• This bill would, until January 20, 2029, enact the Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025 (the Act). The Act would prohibit a court, during a declared social security benefit payment interruption, from issuing a summons on a complaint for unlawful detainer in any action that seeks possession of residential real property and that is based, in whole or in part, on nonpayment of rent or other charges, if the defendant experiences a loss of income due to the social security benefit payment interruption.

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AB 253Ward D California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits. 4/23/2025-S. L. GOV.4/23/2025-Rereferred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING.

Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law. • This bill, the California Residential Private Permitting Review Act, would require a county’s or city’s building department to prepare a residential building permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees.

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AB 255Haney D The SupportiveRecovery Residence Program. 2/10/2025- A. HEALTH 4/22/2025-Rereferred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law requires a state agency or department that funds, implements, or administers a state program that provides housing or housing-related services to people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness to revise or adopt guidelines and regulations to include enumerated Housing First policies. Current law specifies the core components of Housing First, including servicesthat are informed by a harm-reduction philosophy that recognizes drug and alcohol use and addiction as a part of tenants’ lives and where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding drug and alcohol use.• This bill would authorize state programs to fund supportive-recovery residences, as defined, that emphasize abstinence under these provisions as long as the state program meets specified criteria, including that at least 75% of program funds awarded to each jurisdiction is used for housing or housing-based services using a harm-reduction model.

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AB 259Rubio, Blanca D
4/22/2025-A. THIRD READING
The Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
4/22/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
participate. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing 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 requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including that specified circumstances apply. Current law establishes limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including prohibiting such participation for more than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less.• This bill would extend the alternative teleconferencing procedures until January 1, 2030.

AB 261Quirk-Silva D Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal. 3/27/2025- A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 3/27/2025-Rereferred to Com. on E.M.

Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review designated and rated zones and, as necessary, revise zones or their ratings or repeal the designation of zones. Current law also requiresthe State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on theseverity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas, and to periodically review and make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones.• This bill would, as applied to both state responsibility areas and lands that are not state responsibility areas, authorize the State Fire Marshal, in periods between the State Fire Marshal’s review of areas of the state for recommendations regarding an area’s fire hazard severity zone, to confer with entities, including, but not limited to, public agencies, tribes, nonprofit organizations,project applicants, and members of the public, on actions that may impact the degree of fire hazard inan area or the area’s recommended fire hazard severity zone designation.• The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal to provide a written response to an entity on actions that may impact the degree of fire hazard, and would require this written response to be posted on the State Fire Marshal’s internet website.

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AB 262Caloza D California Individual Assistance Act.
4/8/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

The California Disaster Assistance Act requires the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act.

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April 25, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would require the director, in administering that act, to prioritize local agencies that are not eligible for federal funding, pursuant to specified federal regulation, due to the agency’s inability to meet minimum damage thresholds.• This bill would also enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed.

AB 271Hoover R Crimes: looting.
3/28/2025-A. PUB. S.4/16/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Current law 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. Current law defines burglary of the first degree as any burglary of an inhabited building and makes burglary of the first degree punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 4, or 6 years. Current law defines all other burglary as burglary of the 2nd degree and makes it punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for one year or as a felony. Current law 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. Current law defines any 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft, during and within an affectedcounty in a state of emergency or local emergency, as specified, as looting, punishable by either imprisonment in a county jail for one year or as a felony. Current law makes petty theft committed during and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency a misdemeanor and requires a minimum jail term of 90 days. Current law prohibits credibly impersonating a peace officer,firefighter, or employee of a state or local government agency, or a search and rescue team, as specified.• This bill would make looting by the means of a 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft punishable instead as a felony.• The bill would define a petty theft committed during and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency as looting and make it punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for one year or as a felony.• The bill would require any person who in the course of committing or attempting to commit the crime of looting impersonated a peace officer, firefighter, or employee of a state or local governmentagency, or a search and rescue team, subject to a penalty enhancement.

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AB 275Petrie-Norris D
4/24/2025-A. U. & E.4/24/2025-Rereferred to Com. on
Would require the Office of Emergency Services, in consultation with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, to establish, on or before December 31, 2026, a working group to evaluate and develop recommendations for implementing a wildfire aerial response program to provide yearround, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, rapid aerial suppression capabilities.

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Office of Emergency Services: wildfire aerial response program.

E.M. Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on U. & E.) • The bill would require the working group to consider specified elements to ensure effective statewide aerial wildfire suppression and to develop recommendations, including whether the program should be implemented as a pilot program, a full-scale statewide initiative, or if implementation is not recommended based on feasibility findings.• The bill would require the Director of Emergency Services, in consultation with the department, to appoint members to the working group who are familiar with wildfire aviation response programs, as provided.• The bill would require the working group to report its findings and implementation recommendations to the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization on or before December 31, 2027, as provided.

AB 284Alanis R Law enforcement: stop data and reporting. 3/24/2025-A. PUB. S.4/22/2025-In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Current law requires each state and local agency that employs peace officers to annually report to theAttorney General specified data on all stops conducted by that agency’s peace officers for the preceding calendar year. Current law defines “stop” for purposes of these provisions to mean any detention by a peace officer of a person or any peace officer interaction with a person in which the peace officer conducts a search of the person’s body or property in the person’s possession or control.• This bill would exclude various situations from that definition, including, among other things, a peace officer interaction with a person that results from a call for service or when a detention is necessary to prevent serious bodily injury or death.

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AB 299Gabriel D Motels, hotels, and short-term lodging: disasters. 4/2/2025-S. RLS.4/2/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Current law regulates the terms and conditions of tenancies and defines the term “persons who hire” for the purpose of regulating residential tenancies. Current law excludes from these provisions occupancy at a hotel or motel if certain conditions are met, including that the occupancy is for a period of 30 days or less, as specified. Current law establishes a procedure, known as an unlawful detainer action, that a landlord must follow in order to evict a tenant. Under this bill, the continued occupancy of a guest of a lodging, as defined, would not constitute a new tenancy and the guest would not be considered a person who hires for purposes of an unlawful detainer action, if the guest is living in the motel, hotel, or short-term lodging as a result of their prior housing being damaged, destroyed, or otherwise made uninhabitable by a disaster, as defined. • The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031.

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AB 301Schiavo D Planning and zoning:
4/2/2025-S. RLS.4/2/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Current law relating to housing development approval requires a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, to post an example of a complete, approved application and an example of a complete set of postentitlement phase permits for at least 5 types of housing development projects in the jurisdiction, as specified, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. Current law Watch
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Position
housing development projects: postentitlement phase permits: state departments.

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establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant and consequences for a local agency that fails to meet that timeline, as provided. Existing law defines “postentitlement phase permit” to include a range of permits issued by a local agency.• This bill would require a state department to comply with the above-described provisions relating to postentitlement phase permits applicable to a local agency.• The bill would require a state department to make the information list, as described above, and the above-described examples of a complete, approved application and a complete set of postentitlement phase permits available on the department’s internet website by January 1, 2026.• The bill would deem a postentitlement phase permit approved, and all related reviews complete, if a state department fails to meet the time limits for review of an application for that permit.

AB 306Schultz D Building regulations: state building standards. 4/23/2025- S. HOUSING 4/23/2025-Rereferred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.

Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services. Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code). The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires, among other things, the building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Current law authorizes any city or county to make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards. Current law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making modifications or changes to those green building standards, to makean express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions.• This bill would, from June 1, 2025, until June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above-described building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety.

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AB 311McKinnor D Dwelling units:
4/2/2025-S. RLS.4/2/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Prior law, until January 1, 2024, authorized a tenant to temporarily permit the occupancy of their dwelling unit by a person who is at risk of homelessness, as defined, regardless of the terms of the lease or rental agreement, with the written approval of the owner or landlord of the property, and subject to extension under certain circumstances. Prior law further authorized an owner or landlord toadjust the rent payable under the lease during the time the person who is at risk of homelessness is Watch
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persons at risk of homelessness.

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occupying the dwelling unit, as compensation for the occupancy of that person, and required the terms regarding the rent payable in those circumstances to be agreed to in writing by the owner or landlord and the tenant.• This bill, until January 1, 2031, would reinstate the above-described provisions, and would include certain new provisions regarding occupancy.• The bill would additionally define “person at risk of homelessness” to include any person who is displaced from their residence as a result of a disaster in a disaster-stricken area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor.• The bill, among other things, would permit a tenant, with written approval of the owner or landlord, to temporarily permit the occupancy of their dwelling unit by a person who is at risk of homelessness and one or more common household pets owned or otherwise maintained by the person.

AB 317Jackson D California First Time Homeowner Dream Act. 4/7/2025-A. REV. & TAX 4/21/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

The California Environmental Quality Act 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. Current law exempts various projects from CEQA, including projects related to the conversion of a structure with a certificate of occupancy as a motel, hotel, residential hotel, or hostel to supportive or transitional housing, as defined, that meet certain conditions.• This bill would exempt from CEQA the new construction of a single-family dwelling that meets specified conditions, including that the project contains one single-family dwelling that is 1,500 square feet or less with no more than 3 bedrooms, the property is intended to be sold to a first-time homebuyer, and the lead agency determines that the developer of the project or the property owner provided sufficient legal commitments to meet the requirements of the exemption.• The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that a project qualifies for the exemption, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, formerly known as the Office of Planning and Research, and the county clerk, as specified. By placing additional requirements on the lead agency to make a determination on whether the CEQA exemption applies, and on local agencies to determine whether the project developer provided sufficient legal commitments, as described, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 330Rogers D
3/17/2025-A. REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE 3/17/2025-In
The Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act, until January 1, 2026, suspends the authority of a city, county, or city and county to impose a utility user tax on the consumption of prepaid communications service and any charge that applies to prepaid mobile telephony service, as defined, on access to communication services or access to local “911” emergency telephone systems, Watch
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Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act. committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file. and instead requires those taxes and charges to be applied during the period beginning January 1, 2016, and ending January 1, 2026, under any local ordinance to be at specified rates. The act requiresthat these local charges imposed by a city, county, or a city and county on prepaid mobile telephony services be collected from the prepaid consumer by a seller at the time of sale, as specified. Currentlaw requires that all local charges be collected and paid to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law and be deposited into the Local Charges for Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Fund, and be transmitted to the city, county, or city and county, as provided.• This bill would extend operation of the act until January 1, 2031.

AB 331Pellerin D Elections: duties of election officials: voter information guides. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Current law requires an elections official, upon completion of the count, to add the results of write-in votes and any paper ballots used as certified by the precinct board, and thereupon declare the vote. Current law requires the elections official to prepare a certified statement of the results of the election and submit it to the governing body within 30 days of the election, as specified. Current lawrequires the elections official to send to the Secretary of State within 31 days of the election in anelectronic format a complete copy of specified election results, including the vote given for persons for electors of President and Vice President of the United States, all candidates voted for statewide office, and all statewide measures.• This bill would specify that the duties described above imposed on elections officials are ministerial and nondiscretionary.

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AB 337Bennett D Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: grant program: edible food. 4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, upon appropriation, to administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to promote the in-state development of infrastructure, food waste prevention, or other projects to reduce organic waste, sort and aggregate or process organic and other recyclable materials into new, value-added products, or divert items from disposal through enhanced reuse opportunities. Current law requires the grant program to provide eligible financial assistance for certain activities, including activities that expand and improve organic waste diversion and recycling, including, but not limited to, the recovery of food for human consumption and food waste prevention. Current law specifies eligible infrastructure projects for purposes of the program, including, but not limited to, the construction of facilities to help develop, implement, or expand edible food waste recovery operations.• This bill would expand the grant program to provide financial assistance for the recovery of edible food, as specified.• The bill would specify that eligible infrastructure projects includes the construction or expansion of facilities to help develop, implement, or expand edible food waste recovery operations.

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• The bill would require the department to consider the increased amount of edible food recovery capacity that the project will create when awarding a grant for edible food recovery.

AB 339Ortega D Local public employee organizations: notice requirements. 4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions.• This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 120 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization.• The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract.

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AB 340Ahrens D Employer-employee relations: confidential communications. 4/23/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/23/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of current law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by current law.• This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive 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 342Haney D Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale: hospitality zones. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-VOTE: Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application for, and the issuance and suspension of, alcoholic beverage licenses. Current law requires moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, to sell, give, or deliver to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and for any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours. • This bill, beginning January 1, 2026, would allow an on-sale licensee, or their agent or employee, to sell or give alcoholic beverages until 4 a.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, or state holidays within a hospitality zone, defined to include a Hospitality Zone and a Special Event Hospitality Zone established pursuant to the bill’s provisions, as specified.• The bill, beginning January 1, 2026, would authorize the department to issue an additional serving hours license that authorizes an on-sale licensee, or their agent or employee, to sell or give alcoholic beverages within the timeframes described above in a hospitality zone, as specified.

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AB 351McKinnor D Campaign contributions: agency officers. 2/18/2025- A. ELECTIONS 4/7/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits an officer of an agency from accepting, soliciting, or directing a contribution of more than $500 from any party, participant, or a party or participant’s agent, while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding, if theofficer knows or has reason to know that the participant has a financial interest, as defined. The actalso prohibits an officer of an agency from making, participating in making, or in any way attempting to use the officer’s official position to influence the decision in a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use pending before the agency if the officer has willfully or knowingly received a contribution of more than $500 within the preceding 12 months from a party or a party’s agent, or from any participant or a participant’s agent, if the officer knows or has reason to know that the participant has a financial interest in the decision, as defined.• This bill would increase the contribution thresholds described above from $500 to $1500.

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AB 370Carrillo D California Public
4/24/2025-S. RLS.4/24/2025-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75.

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, except as specified. Current law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Current law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, and defines “unusual circumstances” to include, among other things, the need Watch
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Records Act: cyberattacks.

Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. to search for, collect, and appropriately examine records during a state of emergency when the state of emergency currently affects the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests due to staffing shortages or closure of facilities, as provided.• This bill would also expand the definition of unusual circumstances to include the inability of the agency, because of a cyberattack, to access its electronic servers or systems in order to search for and obtain a record that the agency believes is responsive to a request and is maintained on the servers or systems in an electronic format.

AB 382Berman D Pedestrian safety: school zones: speed limits. 4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Current law establishes a prima facie speed limit of 25 miles per hour when approaching or passing a school building or grounds contiguous to a highway or when the school grounds are not separated from the highway, as specified. Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to reduce the prima facie speed limit based on an engineering and traffic survey, as specified.• This bill would, notwithstanding the above provision and until January 1, 2029, authorize a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to determine and declare a prima facie speed limit of 20 miles per hour in a school zone.• The bill would, beginning on January 1, 2029, establish a prima facie speed limit of 20 miles per hour in a school zone, as defined, subject to specified conditions, including, among others, when a school speed limit sign states “children are present” and children are present, as defined, and when a schoolspeed limit sign states specific hours, as specified.

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AB 388Rogers D Electricity.
3/24/2025-A. U. & E.3/26/2025-Rereferred to Com. on U. & E.

The Public Utilities Act vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The act defines “electrical corporation” to include every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant for compensation within this state, except as specified. The act authorizes the commission to fix the rates and chargesfor every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. • This bill would revise the definition of “electrical corporation” to exclude a corporation or person employing certain solar or wind generating technology if electricity is transmitted exclusively and directly through private electrical lines to a single facility owned by a different corporation or person that uses the electricity only for new load, not for departing load, and for an electrolytic hydrogen production facility, as defined, or a facility using the electricity to provide industrial process heat, or both.

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AB 390Wilson D
4/10/2025-A. THIRD READING 4/10/2025-Read
Current law requires a driver approaching, among others, a stationary marked Caltrans vehicle that is displaying flashing lights to approach with due caution and either change lanes to a lane not immediately adjacent to the vehicle, or, if unable to safely do so, slow to a reasonable and prudent speed, as specified. Current law makes a violation of that provision an infraction, punishable by a fine Watch
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Vehicles: highway safety.
second time. Ordered to third reading.
of not more than $50.• This bill would expand that requirement to apply to all marked highway maintenance vehicles, as defined, and would also make that requirement applicable to any other stationary vehicle displaying flashing hazard lights or another warning device, including, but not limited to, cones, flares, or retroreflective devices.

AB 400Pacheco D Law enforcement: police canines.
4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Current law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy on the use of force, as specified. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and charges it with, among other duties, developing uniform, minimum guidelines for adoption and promulgation by law enforcement agencies for use of force.• This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2027, every law enforcement agency, as defined, with a canine unit to maintain a policy for the use of canines by the agency that, at a minimum, complies with the most recent standards established by POST.

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AB 420Petrie-Norris D Public utilities: property, franchises, and permits: exemption. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/24/2025-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and rerefer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 23).

Current law prohibits public utilities, other than certain common carriers, from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of, or encumbering, its assets that are necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public, unless the public utility has secured an order from the Public Utilities Commission to do so for a qualified transaction above $5,000,000 or an approval from the commission through the filing of an advice letter for a qualified transaction at or below $5,000,000.• This bill would exempt from that prohibition a qualified conveyance of an easement or the execution of a relocation agreement that has a ratepayer financial impact valued at $100,000 or less if a public utility that is a party to the qualified transaction has gross annual California revenues of $500,000,000 or more.• The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2030, and every 5 years thereafter, those threshold values to increase to reflect any increase in inflation, as specified.

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AB 423Davies R Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment programs and facilities: disclosures. 2/18/2025- A. HEALTH 4/3/2025-Rereferred to Com. on HEALTH.

Current law grants the sole authority in state government to the State Department of Health Care Services to certify alcohol or other drug programs and to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. Current law requires certified programs and licensed facilities to disclose to the department if any of its agents, partners, directors, officers, or owners own or have 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.• This bill would require a business-operated recovery residence to register its location with the department.

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• The bill would define a business-operated recovery residence as a recovery residence in which a business, in exchange for compensation, provides more than one service beyond those of a typical tenancy arrangement to more than one occupant, including, but not limited to, drug testing, supervision, scheduling, rule setting, rule enforcement, room assignment, entertainment, gym memberships, transportation, laundry, or meal preparation and coordination.

AB 424Davies R Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Would, when the Department of Health Care Services receives a complaint against a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, or a complaint alleging that a facility is unlawfully operating without a license, from a member of the public, require the department to provide, within 30 10 days of the date of the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been received and to provide, upon closing the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been closed and whether the department found the facility to be in violation of the provisions governing facility licensure and regulation.

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AB 426Dixon R Impeding emergency response with drone.
4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Current law excuses a local public entity or public employee from liability for damage to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, if the damage was caused while the local public entity or publicemployee of a local public entity was providing, and the unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system was interfering with, the operation, support, or enabling of any emergency service, as specified. Current law imposes liability for physical invasion of privacy on a person if the person knowingly enters onto the land or into the airspace above the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass in order to capture any image or recording of the other person engaging in a private activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person.• This bill would prohibit a person from operating or using an unmanned aerial vehicle, remote piloted aircraft, or drone at the scene of an emergency and thereby impeding firefighters, peace officers, medical personnel, military personnel, or other emergency personnel in the performance of their fire suppression, law enforcement, or emergency response duties, unless the person has a federal operational waiver, as specified.• The bill would authorize the Attorney General or a county counsel or city attorney to bring civil Watch
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action to enforce the prohibition and authorize a prevailing plaintiff to recover civil penalties, injunctive relief, or reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, as specified.

AB 436Ransom D Composting facilities: zoning.
4/23/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/23/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 establishes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to administer an integrated waste management program. Current law establishes a goal that statewide landfill disposal of organic waste be reduced from the 2014 level by75% by 2025.• This bill, on or before June 1, 2027, would require the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, in consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to develop and post on the office’s internet website, a technical advisory, as provided, reflecting best practices to facilitate the siting of composting facilities to meet the organic waste reduction goals.• The bill would require the office to consult with specified entities throughout the development of the technical advisory.

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AB 438Hadwick R Authorized emergency vehicles.
4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Would authorize the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol to issue an emergency vehicle permit to any vehicle owned by a county, city, or city and county office of emergency services only while that vehicle is being used by a public employee in responding to any disaster.

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AB 439Rogers D California Coastal Act of 1976: local planning and reporting. 4/10/2025-A. THIRD READING 4/10/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

The Coastal Act generally requires each local government, as specified, to prepare a local coastal program, for certification by the California Coastal Commission. Current law also imposes an analogous requirement on port governing bodies to prepare port master plans, for certification by the commission. With regard to local coastal programs and port master plans, current law provides that an amendment determined to be de minimus by the executive director of the commission, after notice in the agenda of the next scheduled commission meeting, becomes a part of the certified program or plan 10 days after the commission meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination.• This bill would make de minimis amendments to local coastal programs and port master plans Watch
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effective upon adjournment of that meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination.

AB 444Wilson D General plan: circulation element.
2/6/2025-A. PRINT2/7/2025-From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes certain mandatory elements, including a circulation element. Existing law requires a county or city, by January 1, 2028, to update its circulation element to meet specified requirements.• This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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AB 451Petrie-Norris D Law enforcement policies: restraining orders. 4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Current law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain policies on specified subjects, including, among others, the use of force, gun violence restraining orders, and responding to domestic violence calls.• This bill would require each municipal police department and county sheriff’s department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and the University of California and California State University Police Departments to, on or before January 1, 2027, develop, adopt, and implement written policies and standards to promote safe, consistent, and effective service, implementation, andenforcement of court protection and restraining orders that include firearm access restrictions.• The bill would require these policies and standards to include specified elements, including, among others, ensuring compliance with specified laws and instructing officers about the array of civil and criminal protection restraining order options available under California law to law enforcement officers, to victim-survivors, and other petitioners.

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AB 463Rodriguez, Michelle DEmergency medical services: dogs and cats. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/24/2025-Read second time and amended.

Current law authorizes a private ambulance owner to operate an emergency ambulance service upon obtaining a license from the Department of the California Highway Patrol, as specified.• This bill would authorize those license holders or a person who operates ambulances owned or operated by a fire department of a federally recognized Indian tribe to transport a police canine, as defined, or a search and rescue dog, as defined, that is injured in the line of duty, to a veterinary clinic or similar facility if there is no other person requiring medical attention or transport at that time.

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AB 465Zbur D Local public employees:
4/23/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/23/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

The Meyers-Milias-Brown 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 and defines various terms for these purposes. The act prohibits a public agency from, among other things, refusing or failing to meet and negotiate in good faith with a recognized employee organization. Current law states that the Legislature finds and declares that the duties and responsibilities of local agency employer representatives under the act are substantially similar to the duties and responsibilities required under existing collective bargaining Watch
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memoranda of understanding.
enforcement procedures and therefore the costs incurred by the local agency employer representatives in performing those duties and responsibilities under that act are not reimbursable asstate-mandated costs.• This bill would require, on or after January 1, 2026, a memorandum of understanding between a public agency and a recognized employee organization to include specified provisions including, among other things, a provision providing for a system of progressive discipline that grants due process to an employee when they are disciplined, upon the request of the recognized employee organization.• The bill would define “progressive discipline” and “due process” for this purpose.

AB 470McKinnor D Telephone corporations: carriers of last resort. 3/17/2025-A. C. & C.4/23/2025-Rereferred to Com. on C. & C.

Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Current law authorizes the commission to fix just and reasonable rates and charges for public utilities. Current law requires the commission, on or before February 1, 1995, to issue an order initiating an investigation and open proceeding to examine the current and future definitions of universal service in telecommunications. Pursuant to that provision, the commission issued a decision involving carriers of last resort, including the withdrawal process for carriers of last resort, defined as a carrier who provides local exchange service and stands ready to provide basic service to any customer requesting such service within a specified area. • This bill would provide procedures for telephone corporations to terminate their carrier of last resort obligations in areas where the United States Census Bureau reports no population, in areas where telephone corporations provide no basic exchange service to any customer address located within their telephone service territory, and in areas that are well-served, as defined. • The bill would require telephone corporations to fulfill specified conditions and meet certain notice requirements to be relieved of the carrier of last resort obligations. • The bill would impose additional duties on telephone corporations terminating their carrier of last resort obligations, including, among other things, publishing a notice which would specify a residential consumer’s authority to submit a written request seeking independent third-party review of the assertion that an area has no population or no basic exchange service customers or that a consumer in an area is well-served, as applicable.• The bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2027, to determine a transition plan to be followed before a telephone corporation amends its status as a carrier of last resort in areas other than those subject to amended status under the bill. • The bill would create the Public Safety Agency Technology Upgrade Grant Fund, provide that moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the commission for purposes of public safety Watch
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agency technology upgrade grants, and authorize the fund to accept donations from nongovernmental entities.

AB 476González, Mark D Metal theft.
4/22/2025-A. PUB. S.4/24/2025-Rereferred to Com. on PUB. S.

Current law requires junk dealers and recyclers to keep a written record of all sales and purchases made in the course of their business, including the place and date of each sale or purchase of junk and a description of the item or items, as specified. Current law requires the written record to include astatement indicating either that the seller of the junk is the owner of it, or the name of the person they obtained the junk from, as shown on a signed transfer document. Current law prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for nonferrous materials until the junk dealer or recycler obtains a copy of a valid driver’s license of the seller or other specified identification. Current law requires a junk dealer or recycler to preserve the written record for at least 2 years. Current law makes a violation of the recordkeeping requirements a misdemeanor.• This bill would require junk dealers and recyclers to include additional information in the written record, including the time and amount paid for each sale or purchase of junk made, and the name of the employee handling the transaction.• The bill would revise the type of information required to be included in the description of the item or items of junk purchased or sold, as specified.• The bill would require the statement referenced above indicating ownership or the name of the person from whom the seller obtained the junk from to be signed and would require the statement to include specified information, including the legal name, date of birth, and place of residence of the seller.

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AB 492Valencia D Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.
4/24/2025-A. THIRD READING 4/24/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Would require the State Department of Health Care Services, whenever it issues a license to operate an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, to concurrently provide written notification of the issuance of the license to the city or county in which the facility is located.• The bill would require the notice to include the name and mailing address of the licensee and the location of the facility.

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AB 507Haney D Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives. 4/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/24/2025-Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing Watch
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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, subject to specified exceptions. 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 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.

AB 523Irwin D Metropolitan water districts: proxy vote authorizations. 2/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/23/2025-Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV.

Under the Metropolitan Water District Act, the board of a metropolitan water district is required to consist of at least one representative from each member public agency, as prescribed. The act authorizes each member public agency to appoint additional representatives not exceeding one additional representative for each 5% of the assessed valuation of property taxable for district purposes within the entire district that is within the boundaries of that member public agency. • This bill would authorize a representative of a member public agency that is entitled to designate or appoint only one representative to the board of directors to assign a proxy vote authorization to a representative of another member public agency to be exercised when the assigning representative is unable to attend a meeting or meetings of the board, as provided. • The bill would require the proxy vote authorization to be memorialized by a written instrument, as specified, and would limit a proxy vote authorization’s effectiveness to one week. • The bill would prohibit a proxy vote authorization from authorizing the assumption of the assigning representative’s officer position at the designated meeting and would prohibit a representative from assigning more than 6 proxy vote authorizations in a year.

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AB 544Davies R
4/7/2025-A. APPR.4/8/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com.

Current law requires a bicycle operated during darkness on a highway, sidewalk, or bikeway to be equipped with, among other things, a red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. Current law defines “bicycle” for these purposes to, among other things, include an electric bicycle. Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle Watch
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Electric bicycles: required equipment.
on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power and categorizes electric bicycles into 3 classes. A violation of the provisions relating to the requirements for equipping a bicycle or an electric bicycle is punishable as an infraction.• This bill would require an electric bicycle during all hours to be equipped with a red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle.

AB 569Stefani D California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: exceptions: supplemental defined benefit plans. 4/24/2025- A. SECOND READING4/24/2025-Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) on and after January 1, 2013, requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with PEPRA, as specified. PEPRA prohibits a public employer from offering a defined benefit pension plan exceeding specified retirement formulas, requires new members of public retirement systems to contribute at least a specified amount of the normal cost, as defined, for their defined benefit plans, and prohibits an enhancement of a public employee’s retirement formula or benefit adopted after January 1, 2013, from applying to service performed prior to the operative date of the enhancement. PEPRA prohibits a public employer from offering a supplemental defined benefit plan if the public employer did not do so before January 1, 2013, or, if it did, from offering that plan to an additional employee group after that date.• This bill would authorize a public employer, as defined, to bargain over contributions for supplemental retirement benefits administered by, or on behalf of, an exclusive bargaining representative of one or more of the public employer’s bargaining units, subject to the limitations specified above.

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AB 572Kalra D Criminal procedure: interrogations.
4/10/2025-A. THIRD READING 4/10/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Current law prohibits the prosecuting attorney, attorney for the defendant, or investigator for eitherthe prosecution or the defendant from interviewing, questioning, or speaking to a victim or witness whose name has been disclosed pursuant to current law without first clearly identifying themself and identifying the full name of the agency by whom they are employed, and identifying whether they represent, or have been retained by, the prosecution or the defendant. Under current law, if an interview takes place in person, the party is also required to show the victim or witness a business card, official badge, or other form of official identification before commencing the interview or questioning.• This bill would require a peace officer, as defined, or a prosecuting attorney, prior to interviewing an immediate family member of a person who has been killed or seriously injured by a peace officer, to clearly identify themself and if the interview takes place in person, to show identification, and to inform the person of specified information, including the status of their family member, that the Watch
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person can consult with an attorney or trusted support person, and that the investigation that they are conducting may involve the culpability of the family member who was killed or injured.

AB 590Lee D Social Housing Bond Act of 2026.
3/3/2025-A. H. & C.D. 3/3/2025-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Under current law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Current law also 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 Social Housing Bond Act of 2026 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $950,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, to fund social housing programs, as specified. • The bill would create the California Housing Authority, which would be governed by the California Housing Authority Board, to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with specified goals and would authorize the authority to issue the bonds and, upon appropriation of the Legislature, utilize funds from other sources to build more low, very low, and extremely low income housing.• The bill would create the Social Housing Revolving Loan Fund to be used, upon appropriation of the Legislature, to provide zero-interest loan for the purpose of constructing housing to accommodate a mix of household incomes.

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AB 592Gabriel D Business: retail food.
4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act requires the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to make and prescribe rules to carry out the purposes and intent of existing state constitutional provisions on the regulation of alcoholic beverages, and to enable the department to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred upon it by the state constitution and the act, not inconsistent with any statute of this state. The act makes it unlawful for any person other than a licensee of the department to sell, manufacture, or import alcoholic beverages in this state, with exceptions. The department, pursuant to its powers and in furtherance of emergency declarations and orders of the Governor under the California Emergency Services Act regarding the spread of the COVID-19 virus, established prescribed temporary relief measures to suspend certain legal restrictions relating to, among other things, the expansion of a licensed footprint, sales of alcoholic beverages to-go, and delivery privileges. Current law authorizes the department, for a period of 365 days following the end of the state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor on March 4, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to permit licensees to exercise license privileges in an expanded license area authorized pursuant to a COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorization approved in accordance with the Fourth Watch
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Notice of Regulatory Relief issued by the department, as specified. Current law makes these provisionseffective only until July 1, 2026, and repeals them as of that date.• This bill, instead, would make those provisions operative until January 1, 2029, repeal those provisions on that date, and make conforming changes.

AB 610Alvarez D Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement. 4/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/24/2025-Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) 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. Current law, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. Current law provides that a housing element or amendment is considered substantially compliant with the Housing Element Law when the local agency has adopted a housing element or amendment, the department or a court of competent jurisdiction determines the adopted housing element or amendment to be in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, and the department’s compliance findings have not been superseded by subsequent contrary findings by the department or by a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction or the court’s decision has not been overturned or superseded by a subsequent court decision or by statute. Current law requires the housing element to include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels, including, among others, locally adopted ordinances that directly impact the cost and supply of residential development. Current law also requires the analysis to demonstrate local efforts to remove governmental constraints that hinder the locality from meeting its share of the regional housing need. • This bill would require the housing element to include, in addition to the above-described analysis, a governmental constraints disclosure statement, as specified.

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AB 644Gabriel D Holocaust memorial.
4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 22). ReWould authorize a nonprofit organization, as defined, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency, to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, as specified. • The bill would require the agency, in consultation with the nonprofit organization, to, among other things, review final construction documents to ensure that the documents comply with all applicable laws and to inspect all construction performed by the contractor selected by the nonprofit organization. Watch 27 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
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AB 647González, Mark D Housing development approvals: residential units. 4/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/24/2025-Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 24). Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.

The Planning and Zoning law requires a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements, including, among other requirements, that the parcel subject to the proposed housing development is located within a city, the boundaries of which include some portion of either an urbanized area or urban cluster, as defined, or, for unincorporated areas, a legal parcel wholly within the boundaries of an urbanized area or urban cluster, as defined. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards that do not conflict with specified provisions, except as provided. • This bill would require a proposed housing development containing no more than 8 residential units that is located on a lot with an existing single-family home or is zoned for 8 or fewer residential units to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements, including, among other requirements, that the proposed housing development dedicates at least one residential unit to deed-restricted affordable housing to households making at or below 80% of the area median income, as specified. • The bill would prohibit a local agency from applying any development standard that will have the effect of physically precluding the construction of a housing development that meets those requirements, as specified, and from imposing on a housing development subject to these provisions any objective zoning standard or objective design standard that meets certain criteria, including imposing any requirement that applies to a project solely or partially on the basis that the housing development receives approval pursuant to these provisions.

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AB 648Zbur D Community colleges: housing: local zoning regulations: exemption. 3/19/2025-A. L. GOV. 3/19/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (March 18).

Current law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of postsecondary education in this state. Current law establishes community college districts throughout the state and authorizesthem to operate campuses and provide instruction to students.• This bill would exempt the construction of faculty and staff housing projects, student housing projects, and university housing development projects, as defined, from local zoning regulations of any city, county, or city and county when constructed on property owned or leased by a community college district.

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AB 650Papan D Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation. 4/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/24/2025-Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.

Current law requires a public agency to administer its programs and activities relating to housing andcommunity development in a manner to affirmatively further fair housing, and take no action that is materially inconsistent with its obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. Current law defines“affirmatively furthering fair housing,” as provided. The Planning and Zoning Law requires that a housing element include, among other things, a program that sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken pursuant to the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing.• This bill would require the department to develop the above-described standardized reporting format on or before December 31, 2026.

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AB 670Quirk-Silva D Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units. 4/9/2025-A. APPR.4/10/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, and city and county to adopt a general plan that includes, among other things, a housing element. After a legislative body has adopted all or partof a general plan, existing law requires a planning agency among other things, to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to specified entities that includes prescribed information, including the number of housing development applications received in the prior year, as specified, the number of units of housing demolished and new units of housing, as specified.• This bill would require specified information to be included in the report, including additional information regarding units of new housing, the units of housing demolished, and a report on replacement housing units, as specified.

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AB 712Wicks D Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties. 4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law withinthe Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings.• This bill, where the applicant for a housing development is a prevailing party in an action brought by the applicant to enforce a housing reform law against a public agency, would entitle an applicant for a housing development project to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and would require a court to impose fines on a local agency, as specified.• The bill would prohibit a public agency from requiring the applicant to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the public agency in any action alleging the public agency violated the applicant’s rights or deprived the applicant of the benefits or protection provide by a housing reform law.

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AB 734Schultz D Environmental protection: biological resources data: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: powerplants: power lines: applications. 3/28/2025-A. W.,P. & W. 4/22/2025-Rereferred to Com. on W. P., & W.

Current law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with the power to certify locations on which an electrical transmission line or thermal powerplant is constructed, or is proposed to be constructed, except as provided. Current law authorizes the commission to exempt from certification a thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of up to 100 megawatts, and modifications to existing generating facilities that do not add capacity in excess of 100 megawatts, if the commission finds that no substantial adverse impact on the environment or energy resources will result from the construction or operation of the proposed facility or from the modifications.• This bill would require any biological resources data submitted to the commission in an application for certification or small powerplant exemption pursuant to the above-described provisions to be made publicly available on the commission’s docket as part of the certification proceeding unless the Department of Fish and Wildlife makes a written determination that the data to be made public includes specified location data, the disclosure of which would pose a significant risk to individuals of the species.

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AB 736Wicks D The Affordable
4/9/2025-A. APPR.4/21/2025-Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, 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 home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.

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Housing Bond Act of 2026.AB 750Quirk-Silva D Homeless shelters: safety regulations. 4/8/2025-A. APPR.4/10/2025-Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

The State Housing Law, among other things, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the protection of the health, safety,and general welfare of the occupant and the public relating to specified residential structures, as provided, which apply throughout the state. Current law requires a city or county that receives a complaint from an occupant of a homeless shelter, as defined, or an agent of an occupant, alleging that a homeless shelter is substandard to inspect the homeless shelter, as specified. Current law requires a city or county that determines a homeless shelter is substandard to issue a notice to correct the violation to the owner or operator of the homeless shelter, as specified. Current law makes the owner or operator of a homeless shelter responsible for correcting any violation cited pursuant to these provisions.• This bill would require a city or county to additionally perform an annual inspection of every homeless shelter located in its jurisdiction.• The bill would authorize the above-described inspection or annual inspection to be announced or unannounced.• The bill would require homeless shelters to prominently display notice of an occupant’s rights, the process for reporting a complaint alleging a homeless shelter is substandard, and prescribed information, including specified contact information.• The bill would require the homeless shelter to provide the same notice in writing to new occupants upon intake.

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AB 847Sharp-Collins D Peace officers: confidentiality of records. 3/28/2025-A. PUB. S.4/22/2025-Rereferred to Com. on PUB. S. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

The California Public Records Act authorizes the inspection and copying of any public record except where specifically prohibited by law. Existing law, with specified exemptions, makes confidential the personnel records of peace officers and custodial records and certain other records maintained by their employing agencies. Current law provides that this exemption from disclosure does not apply to investigations of these officers or their employing agencies and relating proceedings conducted by a grand jury, a district attorney’s office, or the Attorney General’s office.• This bill would additionally grant access to the confidential personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers and records maintained by their employing agencies, as specified, to civilian law enforcement oversight boards or commissions during investigations or proceedings concerning the conduct of those officers.

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AB 877Dixon R Health care coverage: substance use disorder: residential facilities. 3/3/2025-A. HEALTH4/22/2025-Rereferred to Com. on HEALTH.

Current law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, as defined, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions. Current law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive medically necessary health care services, including specified mental health and substance use disorder services, pursuant to a schedule of benefits. Current law provides for the regulation of community care facilities that provide nonmedical care, including residential facilities, short-term residential therapeutic programs, and group homes by the State Department of Social Services. Current law requires the care and supervision provided by a short-term residential therapeutic program or group home to be nonmedical, except as otherwise permitted by law.• This bill would require the Department of Managed Health Care, the Department of Insurance, and the State Department of Health Care Services to prepare and send one letter to each chief financial officer of a health care service plan, health insurer, or Medi-Cal managed care plan that provides coverage, including out-of-network benefits, in California for substance use disorder in residential facilities, as defined.• The bill would require the letter to include, among other things, a statement informing the plan or insurer that substance use disorder treatment in licensed or unlicensed residential facilities is almost exclusively nonmedical, with rare exceptions.

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AB 888Calderon D California Safe Homes grant program.
3/10/2025-A. INS.4/23/2025-Rereferred to Com. on INS.

Would establish the California Safe Homes grant program to be developed by the Department of Insurance to reduce local and statewide wildfire losses, among other things.• The bill would require the department to prioritize specified needs when awarding grant funds, and would require eligible program applicants, which would include individuals, cities, counties, and special districts, to meet specified criteria.• The bill would establish the Sustainable Insurance Account within the Insurance Fund and would make the funds available to the department upon appropriation by the Legislature. • The bill would require the department to collect specified information about the performance of the program and, on or before January 1, 2027, and every 2 years thereafter, to publish a performance report that would be posted to its internet website and submitted to the Legislature.

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AB 945Fong D
3/10/2025-A. H. & C.D. 3/10/2025-Referred
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for lower income households or very low income households, and meets other requirements. Under Watch
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Density Bonus Law: incentives and concessions: green housing developments. to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
current law, the number of incentives or concessions granted to a development under the Density Bonus Law vary based on the percentage of affordable units within the development, or whether the development serves specified other target populations, as provided. Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing. Current law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (the commission), consisting of 5 members, and establishes various duties and responsibilities of the commission relating to energy usage in the state.• This bill would require a city or county to grant additional incentives or concessions when an applicant proposes to construct a green housing development, as defined.• The bill would require that the number of incentives or concessions granted initially be set to 3 and would require HCD, as specified, to evaluate and report on the number and type of units and developments entitled, permitted, and constructed pursuant to these provisions.• The bill would require HCD, in this report, to maintain or alter the number of incentives or concessions granted under these provisions, as prescribed.

AB 956Quirk-Silva D Accessory dwelling units: ministerial approval: singlefamily dwellings. 4/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/24/2025-Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) Current law requires a local agency to ministerially approve building permit applications within a residential or mixed-use zone to create, among others, one detached, new construction, accessory dwelling unit that does not exceed 4-foot side and rear yard setbacks for a lot with a proposed or existing single-family dwelling, as specified.• This bill would increase the number of detached, new construction, accessory dwelling units that a local agency is required to ministerially approve on lots with a proposed or existing single-family dwelling, as described above, to 2. By imposing new duties on local governments with respect to the approval of accessory dwelling units, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 981Gipson D Vehicles: active intelligent speed assist devices. 4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/24/2025-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and rerefer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22).

Current law requires, until January 1, 2026, a person who has been convicted on or after January 1, 2019, of driving a motor vehicle under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, as specified, to install for a period of time, as ordered by the court, an ignition interlock device (IID) on the vehicle they operate. Installation of an IID is discretionary for a first offender, as specified. Current law also requires persons convicted of driving under the influence of a drug to install an IID. Current law specifies periods for which a person convicted of one or more prior driving-under-the-influence violations is required to install an IID, as specified. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime punishable as an infraction, unless otherwise specified.• This bill would impose a similar requirement for persons convicted of specified driving offenses relating to excessive speed, reckless driving, and exhibitions of speed to install for a period of time, as Watch
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ordered by the court, a certified active intelligent speed assist device (ISA) on any vehicle the person operates.• The bill would similarly make the installation of an ISA discretionary for a first offender, as specified.• The bill would establish periods for which a person convicted of one or more prior driving-underthe-influence violations is required to install an ISA, as specified.

AB 992Irwin D Peace officers.
4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/24/2025-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and rerefer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22).

Current law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report.• This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above.

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AB 1010Rodriguez, Michelle DLocal government: broadband: traffic control requirements: state standard. 2/20/2025-A. PRINT2/21/2025-From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

Current law authorizes any municipal corporation to acquire, construct, own, operate, or lease any public utility, and provides that “public utility” for these purposes means to supply the inhabitants of that municipal corporation with specified services, including a means of communication. Current law similarly authorizes a municipal utility district and a public utility district to acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use works for supplying the inhabitants of the district with specified services, including a means of communication. Current law authorizes a county service area to acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate broadband internet access services.• This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to implement a state standard of traffic control requirements for local governments during broadband deployment.

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AB 1014Rogers D Traffic safety: speed limits.
4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (April 21).

Current law establishes various default speed limits for vehicles upon highways, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, by regulation, to require speed limits to be rounded up or down to the nearest 5 miles per hour of the 85th percentile of free-flowing traffic. Current law authorizes a local authority to additionally lower the speed limit in specified circumstances, or retain the currently adopted speed limit in certain circumstances. • This bill would authorize the department to additionally lower or retain the speed limit in those specified circumstances.

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Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

AB 1022Kalra D Authority to remove vehicles.
4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Current law authorizes a peace officer, as defined, or a regularly employed and salaried employee, who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations, of a city, county, or jurisdiction of a state agency in which a vehicle is located, to remove a vehicle located within the territorial limits in which the officer or employee may act, under designated circumstances, including, but not limited to, when a vehicle is found upon a highway or public land, or removed pursuant to the Vehicle Code, and it is known that the vehicle has been issued 5 or more notices of parking violationsto which the owner or person in control of the vehicle has not responded within designated time periods, or the registered owner of the vehicle is known to have been issued 5 or more notices for failure to pay or failure to appear in court for traffic violations for which a certificate has not been issued by the magistrate or clerk of the court hearing the case, as specified. Under current law, a vehicle that has been removed and impounded under those circumstances that is not released may be subject to a lien sale to compensate for the costs of towage and for caring for and keeping safe the vehicle.• This bill would remove the authority of a peace officer or public employee, as appropriate, to remove a vehicle under the above-described circumstances, and make conforming changes.

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AB 1055Boerner D Accessory dwelling units: proof of residential occupancy requirements. 4/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/24/2025-Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation of an accessory dwelling unit by local ordinanceor, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards. Current law similarly provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in singlefamily residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law generally prohibits a local agency from imposing additional standards, as specified, when evaluating a proposed accessory dwelling unit on a lot that includes a proposed or existing single-family dwelling. However, existing law authorizes a local agency to require that the property be used for rentals of terms 30 days or longer.• This bill would additionally authorize a local agency to require the property owner to certify, as specified, that the accessory dwelling unit will be occupied as a residential dwelling unit for at least 6 months out of each calendar year.• The bill would authorize the local agency to annually recertify, as specified, that the accessory dwelling unit is occupied as a residential dwelling unit for at least 6 months out of each calendar year.

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AB 1061Quirk-Silva D Housing developments: urban lot splits: historical resources. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a county or city may adopt ordinances that,among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided. The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps. Current law requires a local agency to consider ministerially a specified proposed housing development or to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the development or parcel meets specifiedrequirements, including, that the development or parcel is not located within a historic district or property included on the State Historic Resources Inventory or within a site that is designated or listed as a city or county landmark or historic property or district pursuant to city or county ordinance, asspecified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose specified objective standards on the development or parcel created by an urban lot split, but prohibits a local agency from, among other things, requiring setback for an existing structure or structure constructed in the same location and to the same dimensions of an existing structure. With respect to ministerial review of a housing development under the above-described provisions, this bill would, if the other specified requirements are met, instead require a local agency to consider ministerially a proposed housing development or that is not located on a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included in the State Historical Resources Inventory, as specified, or within a property individually designated or listed as a city or county landmark under a city or county ordinance.• The bill would additionally prohibit the development from demolishing more than 25% of the exterior wall area or affecting the character-defining exterior features of a contributing structure, as specified.

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AB 1294Haney D Planning and zoning: housing development: standardized application form. 4/9/2025-A. L. GOV.4/23/2025-Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV.

The Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act requires a public agency that has received an applicationfor a development project to determine in writing whether the application is complete within 30 calendar days and to immediately transmit the determination to the applicant of the development project.• This bill would require that an application for a housing entitlement, as defined, be deemed complete upon payment of the permit processing fees and upon providing specified information, including, among other things, a description of the proposed housing development project and a list ofthe approvals requested by the applicant.• The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, the Department of Housing and Community Watch
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Development to adopt a standardized application form that applicants for a housing entitlement may use for the purpose of satisfying these requirements and would require, on or after October 1, 2026, acity, county, or city and county to accept an application submitted on the standardized application form.• The bill would prohibit the city, county, or city and county from requiring submission of any other forms, beside the standardized application form, except as specified.

AB 1333Zbur D Crimes: homicide.
3/13/2025-A. PUB. S.3/17/2025-Rereferred to Com. on PUB. S.

Current law defines homicide as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with or without malice aforethought, as specified. Current law establishes certain circumstances in which homicide is justifiable, as specified. Current law makes homicide justifiable when attempting to lawfully suppress a riot or to keep the peace, as specified.• This bill would eliminate that provision.• The bill would also specify certain circumstances in which homicide is not justifiable, including when a person was outside their habitation or property and did not retreat when they could have safely done so, when a person used more force than a reasonable person would to defend against a danger, and when the person was the initial aggressor.

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AB 1379Nguyen D Vehicles: speed safety system pilot program. 3/24/2025- A. TRANS. 3/25/2025-Rereferred to Com. on TRANS.

Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale,and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a speed safety system pilot program if the system meets specified requirements. 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.• This bill would expand the list of cities authorized to establish a speed safety system pilot program as described above to include the City of Sacramento.

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AB 1388Bryan D Law enforcement: settlement agreements.
3/13/2025-A. PUB. S.4/21/2025-Rereferred to Com. on PUB. S.

Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, and requires the commission to, among other things, establish a certification program for peace officers, as defined. Current law requires the commission to establish procedures for accepting complaints from members of the public regarding peace officers or law enforcement agencies that may be investigated. Current law establishes, within the commission, the Peace Officer Standards Accountability Division and requires the division, among other things, to bring proceedings seeking the suspension or revocation of certification of a peace officer. Current law, the California Public Records Act, generally requires public records to be open for inspection by the public. Current law provides numerous exceptions to Watch
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this requirement. Under current law, the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers are confidential and not subject to public inspection. Current law provides certain exemptions to this confidentiality, including the reports, investigations, and findings of certain incidents involving the use of force by a peace officer.• This bill would additionally exempt agreements between an employing agency and a peace officer that, among other things, require the agency to destroy, remove, or conceal a record of a misconduct investigation.• The bill would also require any agency employing a peace officer to report certain events to the commission, that occurred after January 1, 2020, and resulted in the peace officer’s separation from employment or appointment after January 1, 2023, and include the reason for the separation and whether the separation was part of the resolution or a settlement.• The bill would declare that its provisions are severable.

AB 1468Zbur D Ethnic studies: content standards, curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, and compliance monitoring. 3/13/2025-A. ED.3/13/2025-Referred to Com. on ED.

Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide academically rigorous content standards in the core curriculum areas of reading, writing, mathematics, history/social science, and science, as specified. Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the state board and develop criteria for evaluating instructional materials.• This bill would require the state board to, on or before January 1, 2028, develop and adopt academically rigorous content standards for ethnic studies instruction in high school.• The bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2028, to review and recommend to the state board curriculum frameworks and instructional materials for ethnic studies instruction in high school, as specified.• The bill would require the state board to provide the commission with evaluation criteria to use in providing its review and recommendations.• The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to establish an advisory committee with a majority of the advisory committee’s members being experts in African American studies, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, Native American studies, and Latino and Chicanx studies, to provide input to the state board on proposed content standards and to the commission on proposed curriculum frameworks and instructional materials for ethnic studies instruction in high school.• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 1489Bryan D
3/13/2025-A. PUB. S.4/23/2025-ReWould require a law enforcement agency that employs a peace officer to have a policy prohibiting that officer from carrying any firearm when the officer has a blood alcohol concentration greater than Watch 38 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
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Peace officers.
referred to Com. on PUB. S.

0.00%, whether the officer is on duty or off duty, unless the officer is on duty and engaged in an undercover assignment in the course of their employment as a peace officer. By imposing new duties on local law enforcement, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

SB 6Ashby D Controlled substances: xylazine.
4/7/2025-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/7/2025-April 7 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act categorizes controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions on those substances contained in Schedule I. Under existing law, the substances in Schedule I are deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use while substances in Schedules II through V are substances that have an accepted medical use, but have the potential for abuse. Current law restricts the prescription, furnishing, possession, sale, and use of controlled substances, and makes a violation of those laws a crime, except as specified. Current law defines drug paraphernalia and prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, and possession, as specified, of drug paraphernalia. Current law excludes from these prohibitions any testing equipment that is designed, marketed, used, or intended to be used to analyze a substance for the presence of fentanyl, ketamine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or any analog of fentanyl. • This bill would add xylazine to the list of Schedule III substances, as specified. If an animal drug containing xylazine that has been approved under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is not available for sale in California, the bill would create an exception for a substance that is intended to be used to compound an animal drug, as specified.• The bill would exclude from the prohibitions on paraphernalia any testing equipment to analyze a substance for the presence of xylazine.

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SB 9Arreguín D Accessory Dwelling Units: ordinances.
1/29/2025-S. L. GOV.4/24/2025-Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV.

The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation of an accessory dwelling unit by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards. The law requires a local agency to submit an accessory dwelling unit ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development within 60 days after adoption. The law authorizes the department to submit written findings to a local agency as to whether the ordinance complies with the standards. If the department finds that the ordinance does not comply with the standards, the law requires the department to provide a local agency reasonable time, no longer than 30 days, to respond to its findings. If the local agency does not amend its ordinance in response to those findings or does not adopt a resolution with findings explaining the reason the ordinance complies with the standards and addressing the department’s findings, the law requires the department to notify the local agency and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General that the local agency is in violation of state law.• This bill would invalidate the ordinance if the local agency fails to submit a copy of the ordinance to Watch
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the department within 60 days of adoption or fails to respond to the department’s findings that the ordinance does not comply with the standards within 30 days, as described above.

SB 16Blakespear D Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: housing element: unsheltered and chronic homelessness: assessment and financing plan. 4/2/2025-S. HEALTH4/24/2025-Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on HEALTH.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a housing element to consist of an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs and a statement of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing. Current law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to meeting these needs. Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program (HHAP) for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand ordevelop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified.(3)• The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.

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SB 35Umberg D Alcohol and drug programs.
3/19/2025-S. JUD.4/24/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

Current law provides for the licensure and regulation of adult alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits the operation of one of those facilities without a current valid license. Current law requires the department, if a facility is alleged to be in violation of that prohibition, to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation.Current law requires, if the department’s employee or agent finds evidence that the facility is providing services without a license, the employee or agent to take specified actions, including, among others, submitting the findings of the investigation to the department and issuing a written notice tothe facility that includes the date by which the facility is required to cease providing services.• This bill would require the department to initiate that investigation within 10 days of receiving the allegation and complete the investigation within 60 days of initiating the investigation.• The bill would require the employee or agent to provide the notice described above within 10 days of the employee or agency submitting their findings to the department and to conduct a followup site visit to determine whether the facility has ceased providing services by the date specified in the notice.

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SB 71Wiener D California
4/9/2025-S. APPR.4/17/2025-Set for hearing April 28.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, or bicycle transportation plans for the restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and the related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles.• This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely.

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Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects. • The bill would also exempt a transit comprehensive operational analysis, as defined, a transit route readjustment, or other transit agency route addition, elimination, or modification, from the requirements of CEQA. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a plan qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

SB 74Seyarto R Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: Infrastructure GapFund Program. 4/21/2025-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/21/2025-April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Current law establishes the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in the Governor’s office for thepurpose of serving the Governor and the Governor’s cabinet as staff for long-range planning and research and constituting the comprehensive state planning agency. Current law authorizes a local agency to finance infrastructure projects through various means, including by authorizing a city or county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community.• This bill would require the office, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program to provide grants to local agencies for the development and construction of infrastructure projects, as defined, facing unforeseen costs after starting construction.• The bill would authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s additional projected cost, as defined, after the project has started construction, subject to specified conditions, including, among other things, that the local agency has allocated existing local tax revenue for at least 45% of the initially budgeted total cost of the infrastructure project. When applying to the program, the bill would require the local agency to demonstrate challenges with completing the project on time and on budget and how the infrastructure project helps meet state and local goals, as specified.

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SB 79Wiener D Local government land: public transit use: housing development: transitoriented development. 3/12/2025-S. L. GOV.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. From committee with author's amendments. Read Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Current law defines “surplus land” for these purposes to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Current law defines “agency’s use” for these purposes to include land that is being used for agency work or operations, as provided. Current law exempts from this definition of “agency’s use” certain commercial or industrial uses, except that in the case of a localagency that is a district, except a local agency whose primary purpose or mission is to supply the public with a transportation system, “agency’s use” may include commercial or industrial uses or activities, as specified.• This bill would additionally include land leased to support public transit operations in the definition of “agency’s use,” as described above.

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second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV.

SB 92Blakespear D Housing development: density bonuses: mixed-use developments. 3/18/2025-S. L. GOV.4/24/2025-Set for hearing April 30.

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 specified percentages of units for lower income households or very low income households, and meets other requirements. Current law defines “housing development” to mean a development project for 5 or more residential units, including mixed-use developments, as specified.• This bill would define “mixed-used developments” to mean mixed-used developments consisting of residential and nonresidential uses that meet specified conditions.

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SB 93Weber Pierson D Weapons: robotic devices.
4/21/2025-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/21/2025-April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Would prohibit a person from operating a robotic device, as defined, equipped or mounted with a weapon, as defined.• The bill would make a violation an infraction punishable by a fine of at least $100 but not more than $2,000.• The bill would exclude specified persons, including a government official acting within the scope of their employment and a person acting within the scope of their employment by an organization that is researching, developing, testing, or manufacturing the robotic device for government use, if the person can demonstrate that they are researching, developing, testing, or manufacturing the robotic device for that purpose. By creating a new infraction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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SB 230Laird D Workers’ compensation: firefighters.
4/1/2025-A. DESK4/1/2025-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Under the workers’ compensation system, current law creates a rebuttable presumption that specified injuries, such as cancer or post-traumatic stress disorder, developed or manifested in the course of employment of a specified member of law enforcement or a specified first responder arose out of and in the course of employment. Current law makes these provisions applicable to certain active firefighting members, including active firefighting members of a fire department that serves a United States Department of Defense installation or active firefighting members of a fire department that serves a National Aeronautics and Space Administration installation.• This bill would additionally apply these provisions to active firefighting members of a fire department that provides fire protection to a commercial airport, as specified.

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SB 233Seyarto R Regional housing need: determination: consultation with councils of governments. 4/10/2025-A. DESK4/10/2025-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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. Current law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, where applicable, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as prescribed. Current law requires, among other things, the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodology to be used by the department to determine the region’s housing needs at least 26 months prior to the scheduled revision of the housing element and before developing the existing and projected housing need for a region.• This bill would require the department to meet and consult with the council of governments, as described above, pursuant to prescribed deadlines. For the 7th revision of the housing element, the bill would require the department to meet and consult with each council of governments at least 38 months prior to the scheduled revision, except for specified councils of governments.

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SB 239Arreguín D Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body. 4/3/2025-S. JUD.4/8/2025-Set for hearing May 6.

The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. 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, except as specified. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes specified neighborhood city councils to use alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed, if, among other requirements, the city council has adopted an authorizing resolution and 2/3 of the neighborhood city council votes to use alternate teleconference provisions, as specified• This bill would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use alternative teleconferencing provisions and would impose requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed.• The bill would require the subsidiary body to post the agenda at each physical meeting location designated by the subsidiary body, as specified.• The bill would require the members of the subsidiary body to visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is publicly accessible via the internet or other online platform, as specified.

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SB 262Wahab D Housing element: prohousing designations: prohousing local policies. 4/8/2025-S. THIRD READING 4/8/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. The Department of Housing and Community Development is required to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with those provisions. Current law requires the department to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by the department, as prescribed. Current law requires that jurisdictions that are prohousing and that are in substantialcompliance with specified provisions be awarded additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs. Current law defines “prohousing local policies” for these purposes and specifies a nonexhaustive list of examples of those policies, including local financial incentives for housing and adoption of zoning allowing for use by right for residential and mixed-use development.• This bill would include in the definition of “prohousing local policies” policies that keep people housed, and would specify additional examples of prohousing local policies under the above-described provisions.

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SB 266Cervantes D Elections: language accessibility.
4/2/2025-S. E. & C.A.4/4/2025-Set for hearing April 29. (1)Existing state and federal law, including the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, require the Secretary of State and county elections officials to provide language assistance to voters in order to access voting information, register to vote, and cast their votes at the polling place. Existing law requires a county elections official to provide, as a reference for voters, a facsimile copy of the ballot with the ballot measures and ballot instructions printed in Spanish and other languages if the Secretary of State has determined that doing so is appropriate, as specified.• This bill would require the Secretary of State, by December 15, 2029, and by December 15 of every subsequent year that immediately follows a year in which there is a presidential election, to determine the number of residents of voting age in each precinct who are members of a single language minority group and lack sufficient skills in English to vote without assistance and to post on the Secretary ofState’s website a list of languages used by single language minority groups that make up 3% or more of the voting-age residents of a particular county or precinct. In counties and municipalities with a single language minority group that makes up 3% or more of the voting-age residents or for which the Secretary of State finds that a significant and substantial need exists to provide translated ballots, the bill would require elections officials, beginning January 1, 2030, to, among other things, provide ballots, ballot identification envelopes, and related notices and instructions in the language of an applicable language minority group.• The bill would also make related, conforming changes.(2)Existing law requires translations of ballots, Watch
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ballot materials, and candidate statements printed in the county voter information guide to be made by a person with specified qualifications who is selected by the county elections official.• This bill would authorize county elections officials to select a translator or interpreter, who has demonstrated experience in translating official or legal documents and has been referred by a nonprofit organization specializing in language access, legal aid, or community advocacy, to make those translations.

SB 274Cervantes D Automated license plate recognition systems. 4/2/2025-S. PUB. S.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

Current law prohibits the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or any agency or political subdivision of the state, a city, a county, or a city and county, including, but not limited to, a law enforcement agency, from selling, sharing, or transferring automated license plate recognition (ALPR) information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law. Current law defines ALPR information as information or data collected through the use of an ALPR system. • This bill would, in compliance with specified laws, prohibit a public agency from using an ALPR system to gather geolocation data at specified locations for immigration enforcement purposes and retaining ALPR information for more than 30 days, except in specified circumstances.

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SB 280Cervantes D Political Reform Act of 1974: prohibition on contributions in state and local government office buildings. 4/22/2025-S. THIRD READING 4/22/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 comprehensively regulates political campaigns, including campaign contributions. The act prohibits the receipt, delivery, or attempted delivery of a contribution in theState Capitol, any state office building, or any office for which the state pays the majority of the rent other than a legislative district office.• This bill would expand that prohibition to apply to local government office buildings and offices for which the state or a local government pays rent.• The bill would also eliminate the exception for legislative district offices.

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SB 315Grayson D Quimby Act.
3/26/2025-S. L. GOV.4/22/2025-April 30 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.

The Quimby Act, which is within the Subdivision Map Act, authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to require the dedication of land or to impose fees for park or recreational purposes as a condition to the approval of a tentative map or parcel subdivision map if specified requirements are met. The act provides that the dedication of land, or the payment of fees, or both, shall not exceed the proportionate amount necessary to provide 3 acres of park area per 1,000 persons residing within a subdivision subject to the act, except as specified. • This bill would additionally prohibit the proportion of the land to be dedicated, or the amount of any fee to be paid in lieu thereof, or both, from exceeding 25% of the total acreage of the subdivision, if the proposed subdivision is for infill housing.

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SB 329Blakespear D Alcohol and drug recovery or treatment facilities: investigations. 4/21/2025-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/21/2025-April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Current law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Current law prohibits operating an alcoholor other drug recovery or treatment facility to provide recovery, treatment, or detoxification services within this state without first obtaining a current valid license. If a facility is alleged to be providing those services without a license, existing law requires the department to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Current law also authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to licensed facilities for the purpose of reviewing them for compliance, as specified.• This bill would require the department to assign a complaint under its jurisdiction regarding an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to an analyst for investigation within 10 days ofreceiving the complaint. If the department receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, the bill would require the department to notify the complainant, in writing, that it does not investigate that type of complaint.

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SB 332Wahab D Investor-Owned Utilities Accountability Act. 4/24/2025-S. APPR.4/24/2025-Withdrawn from committee. Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in coordination with the public advisor and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), on or before March 31, 2026, to issue a request for proposals for a team to develop a study. • The bill would require the study to conduct a historical energy justice assessment of the investorowned utility’s (IOU) operations and impacts and complete a comparative analysis of the benefits and challenges of transitioning the IOUs to a successor entity in order to identify a recommended model.• The bill would require the Energy Commission, on or before June 30, 2026, to select the study team that is awarded the contract.• The bill would require the Energy Commission to hold a public proceeding and submit a report of the study team’s findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than 24 months after selecting the study team, as specified.

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SB 346Durazo D Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator. 3/19/2025-S. JUD.4/22/2025-Set for hearing May 6.

Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days.• This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and mannerprescribed by the local agency, the assessor parcel number of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period, as well as any additional information necessary to identify the property as may be required by the local agency.• The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to Watch
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file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described.• The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency.

SB 385Seyarto R Peace officers.
4/22/2025-S. THIRD READING 4/22/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Current law required the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, on or before June 1, 2023, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission, within 2 years of the submission of the report, to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report.• This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above.

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SB 417Cabaldon D The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026. 2/18/2025-S. RLS.2/19/2025-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.

Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, 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 home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.

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SB 436Wahab D Unlawful detainer: right to redeem tenancy. 2/26/2025-S. JUD.4/21/2025-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on JUD.

Current law prescribes summary procedures for actions to obtain possession of real property. Current law authorizes a landlord to serve a notice of termination of tenancy on a tenant who is in default inthe payment of rent. The notice must permit the tenant at least 3 days, excluding weekends and judicial holidays, to pay the amount that is in default and due. If the tenant does not pay the amount stated in the 3-day notice to pay rent or quit after its expiration, the landlord may file a complaint for unlawful detainer against the tenant to obtain possession of the premises. In such a summary proceeding, the court has discretion to relieve a tenant against forfeiture of their lease or rental agreement and restore the tenant to their former estate or tenancy. To seek such discretionary relief, the tenant must, among other things, make a showing of hardship and pay the full amount of rent due.• This bill would require a court presiding over an unlawful detainer action to restore a residential tenant to their former estate or tenancy if the tenant: (1) pays the full amount of rent in arrears, as specified, along with any court-awarded costs and attorney’s fees, if applicable, or (2) submits Watch
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documentation of approval for rental assistance funds in an amount that would cover the full amount of rent in arrears and pays any court-awarded costs, if applicable. • The bill would not require a tenant to make a showing of hardship to obtain this relief. • The bill would allow a residential tenant seeking this relief to tender payment or submit required documentation to the landlord or the landlord’s designated agent. If the tenant verifies to the court of an approved application for rental assistance, but has not paid all amounts due to the landlord as of the date of the verification, the court must, if no judgment has been entered, stay the action and set a hearing within a specified time frame. At the hearing, if the tenant has paid all amounts due, the court must dismiss the unlawful detainer action with prejudice or set aside the judgment, as specified. If the tenant has not yet received the rental assistance payment, the court must continue the hearing, as specified.• The bill would provide that if the rental assistance payment has not been tendered within 40 days of the date on which the tenant verified an approved application for rental assistance, then: (1) if judgment has been entered, the court may, in its discretion, lift the stay of execution of judgment if it finds the delay was not caused by the landlord’s failure to cooperate with the rental assistance program; or (2) if judgment has not been entered, prohibit the court from entering judgment in favor of the landlord unless the landlord, under penalty of perjury, verifies, among other things, that the landlord has not received rental assistance.

SB 445Wiener D Transportation: planning: complete streets facilities: sustainable transportation projects. 4/23/2025-S. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. Withdrawn from committee. Rereferred to Com. on APPR. • This bill would instead require the Department of Transportation to develop and adopt the abovedescribed project intake, evaluation, and encroachment review process on or before February 1, 2027.• The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature to amend this bill with legislation that accelerates and makes more reliable third-party permits and approvals for preconstruction and construction activities on sustainable transportation projects.

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SB 448Umberg D Trespassing: removal of trespassers on residential property. 4/8/2025-S. JUD.4/11/2025-Set for hearing April 29.

Current law prohibits the tenant of a property to remain on a property after the lawful termination of a lease agreement, as specified. Current law prescribes a procedure for obtaining a judgment against such a tenant and for effecting the eviction of that tenant. Current law prohibits entering or occupying real property or structures without the consent of the owner. • This bill would define a squatter as somebody who unlawfully enters and remains in a residential property and, upon request, refuses to leave or falsely claims a legal right of possession. • This bill would prescribe a procedure for the notice and removal of a squatter by a local law enforcement agency.• The bill would authorize a property owner or their agent to serve a demand to vacate, as specified, upon a squatter.• The bill would authorize the owner or agent, after service of the demand, to submit a request, signed under penalty of perjury, to the local law enforcement agency with primary jurisdiction where the property is located, as specified.

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SB 457Becker D Housing element compliance: Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals. 2/26/2025- S. HOUSING 4/24/2025-Set for hearing April 29.

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, commonly referred to as the housing element law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the housing element law, as specified. Current law within the Planning andZoning Law, 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 or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes written findings, based on a preponderance of the evidence, that one of 6 specified conditions exist. 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, as specified. The act defines “deemed complete” for purposes of its provisions, until January 1, 2030, to mean that the applicant has submitted a preliminary application, as specified, or if the applicant has not submitted a preliminary application, the submission of a completed application, as specified.• This bill, for the purpose of allowing a local agency to disapprove a housing development project Watch
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that is inconsistent with the jurisdiction’s zoning ordinances and general plan land use designation, as described above, would revise the definition of “deemed complete” to mean that the applicant submitted a complete application, as specified.

SB 489Arreguín D Local agency formation commissions: written policies and procedures: Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects. 4/23/2025- S. HOUSING 4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 governs the procedures for the formation and change of organization of cities and special districts and establishes a local agency formation commission in each county consisting of members appointed as provided. The act expresses the intent of the Legislature that each local agency formation commission, by January 1, 2002, establish written policies and procedures and exercise its powers in a way that encourages and provides planned, well-ordered, efficient urban development patterns, as specified. The act requires these written policies and procedures to include forms to be used for various submittals to the commission, as provided. The act requires each commission to provide access to notices and other information to the public on an internet website, as specified, including notice of all public hearings and commission meetings.• This bill would require that each local agency formation commission establish the written policies and procedures described above.• The bill would require that the written policies and procedures include any forms necessary for a complete application to the commission concerning a proposed change of organization or reorganization.

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SB 492Menjivar D Youth Housing Bond Act of 2025.
2/19/2025-S. RLS.2/20/2025-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

Would enact the Youth Housing Bond Act of 2025 (bond act), which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $____ pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance the Youth Housing Program, established as part of the bond act.• The bill, as a part of the program, would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to make awards to local agencies, nonprofit organizations, and joint ventures for the purpose of acquiring, renovating, constructing, and purchasing equipment for youth centers or youth housing, as those terms are defined.• This bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 3, 2026, statewide general election in accordance with specified law.

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SB 496Hurtado D Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: appeals 4/22/2025-S. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions from those sources. Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty Watch
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advisory committee: exemptions.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zeroemission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities subject to the regulation to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. • This bill would require the state board to establish the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee by an unspecified date for purposes of reviewing appeals of denied requests for exemptions from the requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation. • The bill would require the committee to include representatives of specified governmental and nongovernmental entities.• The bill would require the committee to meet monthly and would require recordings of its meetings to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website. • The bill would require the committee to consider, and make a recommendation on, an appeal of an exemption request denial no later than 60 days after the appeal is made. • The bill would require specified information relating to the committee’s consideration of an appeal to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website.

SB 497Wiener D Legally protected health care activity.
4/9/2025-S. PUB. S.4/21/2025-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on PUB. S.

The United States Constitution generally requires a state to give full faith and credit to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. Current law generally authorizes a California court or attorney to issue a subpoena if a foreign subpoena has been sought in this state, but prohibits the issuance of a subpoena based on another state’s law that interferes with a person’s right to allowa child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. Current law generally prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient, enrollee, or subscriber without first obtaining an authorization, unless an exception applies, including that the disclosure is in response to a subpoena. Current law prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from releasing medical information related to a person or entity allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to a civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state’s law that authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a person or entity that allows a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.• This bill would additionally prohibit a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from releasing medical information related to a person seeking or obtaining genderaffirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to a criminal or civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state’s law that interferes with an individual’s right to seek or obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.

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• The bill would also prohibit a provider of health care, health care service plan, contractor, or employer from cooperating with or providing medical information to an individual, agency, or department from another state or, to the extent permitted by federal law, to a federal law enforcement agency that would identify an individual and that is related to an individual seeking or obtaining gender-affirming health care, as specified.

SB 515Richardson D Local government: collection of demographic data. 4/21/2025-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/21/2025-April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Current law requires the State Controller’s Office, to the extent the office has completed the functionality necessary, and the Department of Human Resources, when collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians hired into state employment, to use additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups. • This bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, require a city, county, or city and county, including a charter city, when collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of persons hired for employment by a city, county, or city and county, to include the additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups, as described above. • The bill would make related findings and declarations. By imposing new duties on cities, counties, or a city and county, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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SB 522Wahab D Housing: tenant protections.
4/10/2025-S. THIRD READING 4/10/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

The Tenant Protection Act of 2019 prohibits, until January 1, 2030, an owner of residential real property from terminating the tenancy of certain tenants without just cause, either at-fault or no-fault of the tenant. The act exempts certain types of residential real properties from that prohibition, including, among others, housing that has been issued a certificate of occupancy within the previous 15 years.• This bill would exclude housing built to replace a previous housing unit that was subject to the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, was substantially damaged or destroyed by a disaster, as defined, and was issued a certificate of occupancy before that housing unit was substantially damaged or destroyed, from the above-described exemption from the just cause requirements and rental increase limits.

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SB 569Blakespear D Department of Transportation: homeless encampments. 4/22/2025-S. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 22).

Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish maintenance programs related to highway cleanup, as specified.• This bill would require the department to establish a dedicated liaison to, among other things, facilitate communication with local governments and relevant state agencies with regard to addressing homeless encampments within the state highway system and to oversee the development and implementation of delegated maintenance agreements between local agencies and the department in which both work together to reduce and remove homeless encampments within the department’s jurisdiction.

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• The bill would authorize the department to grant a single general entry permit for the duration of a delegated maintenance agreement to conduct activities authorized by the bill. • The bill would require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature summarizing specified information and recommendations regarding homeless encampments.

SB 574Umberg D Streamlined housing approvals.
4/2/2025- S. HOUSING 4/2/2025-Rereferred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards.• This bill would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development is for single-family housing in which each unit is 1,600 square feet or less and the development is consistent with objective planning and design standards. By establishing a streamlined, ministerial approval process for certain housing developments, this bill would expand the exemption for the ministerial approval of projects under CEQA. By expanding the duties of local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.• This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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SB 634Pérez D Homelessness: civil and criminal penalties. 4/23/2025-S. JUD.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

The California Constitution authorizes a county or city to make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws. Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. Current law also prohibits a state agency from adopting or enforcing any rule or a violation of which can result in the imposition of a fine or imprisonment, or both, unless a statute specifically authorizes the imposition of such fine or imprisonment, or both, for a violation of the rule or regulation.• This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that imposes civil or criminal penalties on a person who is homeless for any act immediately related to homelessness or any act related to basic survival, or on a person who is Watch
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assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. • The bill would similarly prohibit a state agency from adopting any regulation or issuing any policy or guidance, or enforcing an existing regulation, policy, or guidance, that imposes those civil or criminal penalties.• The bill would define various terms for these purposes.

SB 671Cervantes D Pedestrian crossing signals.
4/24/2025-A. DESK4/24/2025-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Under current law, a pedestrian control signal showing a “WALK” or approved “Walking Person” symbol means a pedestrian may proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal. Under current law, a pedestrian facing a flashing “DON’T WALK” or “WAIT” or approved “Upraised Hand” symbol with a “countdown” signal, as specified, means a pedestrian may start crossing the roadway in the direction of the signal but requires the pedestrian to finish crossing prior to the display of thesteady “DON’T WALK” or “WAIT” or approved “Upraised Hand” symbol, as specified. Upon the first placement or replacement of a traffic-actuated signal, as specified, existing law requires that trafficactuated signal to be installed and maintained to detect bicycle or motorcycle traffic on the roadway.For these purposes, current law defines a traffic-actuated signal as an official traffic signal, as specified, that displays one or more of its indications in response to traffic detected by mechanical,visual, electrical, or other means. Upon the first placement or replacement of a state-owned or -operated traffic-actuated signal, existing law requires that the traffic-actuated signal to be installed and maintained to have a leading pedestrian interval (LPI) and include the installation, activation, and maintenance of an accessible pedestrian signal (APS) and detector that complies with certain sections of the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (CA MUTCD). At crosswalks with stateowned or -operated traffic-actuated signals and pedestrian hybrid beacons with pedestrian signal heads, this bill would require the walk indication and other visual signals to comply with CA MUTCD.• The bill would require these pedestrian signal heads to have an APS pushbutton or touch-free APS that activates “WALK” or “DON’T WALK” intervals and other visual signals at signalized intersections in nonvisual formats.• The bill would require touch-free APS to be installed at new signalized pedestrian crossings on capital projects on the state highway system, encroachment projects, and highway maintenancefunded projects, as specified.• The bill would require, as soon as practicable, all existing state-owned or -operated traffic signals located in certain areas to be identified and recorded in the Department of Transportation management system (TMS) inventory database to assist future annual operational review requirements and coordination with local agencies for delegated signals.

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SB 677Wiener D Housing development: streamlined approvals. 4/9/2025- S. HOUSING 4/23/2025-April 22 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.) Reconsideration granted.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements. • This bill would require ministerial approval for proposed housing developments containing no more than 2 residential units on any lot hosting a single-family home or zoned for 4 or fewer residential units, notwithstanding any covenant, condition, or restriction imposed by a common interest development association.

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SB 681Wahab D Housing.
4/23/2025-S. JUD.4/24/2025-Rereferred to Com. on JUD.

Current law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units, as defined, in single-family residential zones and requires the ordinance to include, among other things, standards for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit, required deed restrictions, and occupancy requirements. Current law makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that either effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use that meets the above-described minimum standards established for those units. However, existing law permits reasonable restrictions that do not unreasonably increase the cost to construct, effectively prohibit the construction of, or extinguish the ability to otherwise construct, an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit consistent with those aforementioned minimum standards provisions.• This bill would prohibit fees and other financial requirements from being included in the abovedescribed reasonable restrictions.

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SB 691Wahab D Body-worn cameras: policies.
3/5/2025-S. PUB. S.4/21/2025-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. ReWould require, on or before July 1, 2026, each law enforcement agency that has a body-worn camera policy to update that policy to provide guidance to personnel who wear body-worn cameras regarding the circumstances in which they are required to reasonably and temporarily limit the recording of medical or psychological evaluations, procedures, or treatment performed by emergency service personnel that may cause embarrassment or humiliation to the patient. • The bill would also require that policy update to include a procedure for emergency service personnel to request the redaction of evidentiary recordings of a patient undergoing medical or psychological evaluation, procedure, or treatment by emergency service personnel. Watch 55 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
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SB 707Durazo D Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements. 4/23/2025-S. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate.• This bill would, until January 1, 2030, require a city council or a county board of supervisors to comply with additional meeting requirements, including that all open and public meetings include an opportunity for members of the public to attend via a 2-way telephonic service or a 2-way audiovisual platform, as defined, that a system is in place for requesting and receiving interpretation services for public meetings, as specified, and that the city council or county board of supervisors encourage residents to participate in public meetings, as specified.

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SB 715Allen D Regional housing need: methodology: distribution. 4/2/2025- S. HOUSING 4/24/2025-Set for hearing April 29.

The Planning and Zoning 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, as provided, and requires the appropriate council of governments or for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing need plan allocating a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county. Current law requires the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodology to be used by the department to determine the region’s housing needs and requires the council of governments to provide data assumptions, including specified information regarding housing availability within the region. Current law requires the council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to cities, counties, and cities and counties within the region or subregion, as applicable, that furthers specified objectives. To the extent that sufficient data is available as provided, requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to consider including specified factors to develop the methodology that allocates regional housing needs, including the loss of units during a state of emergency that was declared by the Governor that have yet to be rebuilt or replaced at the time of the analysis. • This bill would remove the requirement that the loss of units factor be considered and instead require the draft methodology to allocate some or all of the housing need resulting from units lost during a state of emergency that was declared by the Governor during the planning period immediately preceding the relevant revision that have yet to be rebuilt or replaced at the time of theanalysis to jurisdictions other than the jurisdictions in which the lost units were located.

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SB 720Ashby D Automated traffic enforcement system programs. 4/9/2025-S. JUD.4/17/2025-Set for hearing April 29.

Current law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements, including identifying the system with signs and ensuring that the system meets specified criteria on minimum yellow light change intervals. Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and theCity and County of San Francisco to establish a speed safety system pilot program for speed enforcement that utilizes a speed safety system in specified areas, if the system meets specified requirements. Current law prescribes specified requirements for a notice of violation issued pursuant to these provisions, and requires a violation of a speed law that is recorded by a speed safety systemto be subject only to a specified civil penalty.• This bill would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system program to use those systems to detect a violation of a traffic control signal, if the system meets specified requirements.• The bill would require a violation of a traffic control signal that is recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be subject only to a $100 civil penalty, as specified.

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SB 786Arreguín D Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges. 4/23/2025-S. JUD.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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, and of certain land outside its boundaries, and requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements. Current law specifies that these provisions generally do not apply to a charter city, but requires a charter city to adopt a general plan that contains the mandatory elements, among other things. Current law prescribes a process to challenge the validity of a general plan. Among other things, existing law requires a petitioner to request a hearing or trial, as specified. Current law requires a court to set a date for the hearing or trial to be heard no later than 120 days after the filing of the request, as specified. Current law authorizes a court to continue for a reasonable time the date of the hearing or trial upon written motion and finding of good cause. Current law requires a court to grant the petitioner temporary relief if the court grants a continuance to a respondent, as specified. • This bill would apply to the above-described process to challenge the validity of a general plan to a charter city and state that this is declaratory of existing law. • The bill would limit the period for which a court may continue a trial or hearing, as described above, to no more than 60 days and would additionally authorize a court to grant a continuance on the court’s own motion.

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SB 815Allen D
4/2/2025-S. L. GOV.4/24/2025-From
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Planning and zoning: very high fire hazard areas.
committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV. housing element and a safety element for the protection of the community from unreasonable risks associated with the effects of various geologic and seismic hazards, flooding, and wildland and urban fires. Current law requires the housing element to be revised according to a specific schedule. Existing law requires the planning agency to review and, if necessary, revise the safety element upon each revision of the housing element or local hazard mitigation plan, but not less than once every 8 years,to identify new information relating to flood and fire hazards and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies applicable to the city or county that was not available during the previous revision of thesafety element. Existing law requires that the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, among other things, coordinate with appropriate entities, including state, regional, or local agencies, to establish a clearinghouse for climate adaptation information for use by state, regional, and local entities, as provided.• This bill would require the safety element, upon the next revision of the housing element or the hazard mitigation plan, on or after January 1, 2026, whichever occurs first, to be reviewed and updated as necessary to include a comprehensive retrofit strategy to improve safety and reduce the risk of property loss and damage during wildfires, as specified, and would require the planning agencyto submit the adopted strategy to the Office of Planning and Research for inclusion into the abovedescribed clearinghouse.

SB 827Gonzalez D Local agency officials: training.
4/2/2025-S. L. GOV.4/4/2025-Set for hearing April 30.

Current law imposes ethics training on specified local agency officials. Current law requires each training to be 2 hours and requires the officials to receive each training every 2 years, and as described otherwise, with the first training within one year of commencing service. Existing law requires the local agency to maintain records of the trainings, as prescribed. • This bill would expand which local agency officials are required to complete the above-described ethics training to include any managerial-level employee with responsibility over the agency’s finances and would instead require officials who commence service on or after January 1, 2026, to receive their initial training within 6 months of commencing service. • The bill would require the local agency to publish the training records on its internet website, as specified.• This bill would additionally require, if a local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to a member of a legislative body, or provides reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred by a member of a legislative body in the performance of official duties, all local agency officials, as defined, to receive at least 2 hours of ethical, fiscal, and financial training, as described.• The bill would require the training to be received at least once every 2 years, as provided.

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• The bill would exempt from these requirements specified local agency officials if they are in compliance with existing education requirements specific to their positions.

AB 1Connolly D Residential property insurance: wildfire risk. 4/23/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/23/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

Current Department of Insurance regulations prohibit an insurer from using a rating plan that does nottake into account and reflect specified wildfire risk mitigation, including property-level building hardening measures.• This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2030, and every 5 years thereafter, to consider whether or not to update its regulations to include additional building hardening measuresfor property-level mitigation efforts and communitywide wildfire mitigation programs. As part of this consideration, the bill would require the department to consult with specified agencies to identify additional building hardening measures to consider, as well as to develop and implement a public participation process during the evaluation.

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AB 3Dixon R Alcohol and drug treatment facilities: local regulation. 2/3/2025-A. HEALTH3/24/2025-Rereferred to Com. on HEALTH.

Would exempt an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility from being considered a residential use of property for the purposes of local regulation if multiple single-family dwellings are being used as a licensed or unlicensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, they share an owner, a director, programs, or amenities with another facility, and any of the dwellings are within 300 feet of that facility, or if a single-family dwelling being used as an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility shares an owner, a director, programs, or amenities with another facility that is commercially owned, operated, and licensed that is located anywhere in the state.

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AB 6Ward D Residential developments: building standards: review. 2/3/2025-A. H. & C.D. 4/1/2025-Rereferred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law requires the building standards and rules and regulations to impose substantially the same requirements as are contained in the most recent editions of specified international or uniform industry codes, including the International Residential Code of the International Code Council. Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and requires the department to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department.• This bill would require the department to convene a working group no later than December 31, 2026, to research and consider identifying and recommending amendments to state building standards allowing residential developments to be built, as specified.• The bill would require the department, no later than December 31, 2027, to provide a one-time report of its findings to the Legislature in the annual report described above.• The bill, if the report identifies and recommends amendments to building standards, would require the department to research, develop, and consider proposing the standards for adoption by the commission, as specified. For the purposes of these provisions, the bill would authorize the Watch
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department to exceed the scope and application of the International Residential Code to allow residential developments of between 3 and 10 units to be designed and constructed under the requirements of the California Residential Code.

AB 11Lee D The Social Housing Act.
2/3/2025-A. H. & C.D. 2/3/2025-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

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

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AB 15Gipson D Open unsolved murder: review and reinvestigation. 4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Current law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought.• This bill would require a law enforcement agency to review the casefile regarding an open unsolved murder upon written application by certain persons to determine if a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, as specified.• The bill would define an open unsolved murder as a murder committed after January 1, 1990, but no less than one year prior to the date of the application for case review, that was investigated by a law enforcement agency, for which all probative investigative leads have been exhausted and for which no suspect has been identified. If the review determines that a reinvestigation would result in probativeinvestigative leads, this bill would require a reinvestigation, as specified.• The bill would prohibit a reinvestigation from being conducted by a person who previously investigated the homicide at issue, as specified, and would allow only one reinvestigation from being undertaken at any one time with respect to the same victim.

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AB 20DeMaio R Homelessness: People
3/24/2025-A. H. & C.D. 3/25/2025-Rereferred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Would prohibit a homeless encampment from operating within 500 feet of a sensitive community area, including, but not limited to, a school, open space, or transit stop. • The bill would prohibit a person from camping, as defined, in any public space, including a sidewalk, if a homeless shelter bed is available in the city where the public space is located.

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First Housing Act of 2025.AB 23DeMaio R The Cost of Living Reduction Act of 2025. 3/24/2025-A. U. & E.3/26/2025-Rereferred to Com. on U. & E.

Current law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) with various responsibilities for developing and implementing the state’s energy policies.• This bill, the Cost of Living Reduction Act of 2025, would require the Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Commission to post, and update monthly, dashboards on their internet websites that include the difference in average gasoline prices and the average total price of electricity or natural gas in California compared to national averages, and any California-specific taxes, fees, regulations,and policies that directly or indirectly contribute to higher gasoline and electricity or natural gas prices within the state, as specified.• The bill would require the Energy Commission and the PUC, on or before July 1, 2026, to each submit a report to the Legislature on the governmental and nongovernmental drivers of California’s higher gasoline prices and higher electricity and natural gas prices, and recommendations for policy changes to reduce the costs associated with those drivers, as specified. If the average price of gasoline in California exceeds 10% of the national average in the preceding quarter, the bill would require alltaxes and fees on gasoline, as specified, to be suspended for a period of 6 months, and, if the average price of electricity or natural gas in California exceeds 10% of the national average in the precedingquarter, the bill would require the PUC to suspend the collection of all fees, as specified, charged on electricity and natural gas bills for a period of 6 months.

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AB 33Aguiar-Curry D Autonomous vehicles.
4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Would prohibit the delivery of commercial goods, as defined, directly to a residence or to a business for its use or retail sale through the operation of an autonomous vehicle without a human operator on any highway within the State of California.• The bill would declare that a violation of this prohibition is not an infraction and is instead punishable by a civil fine not to exceed $25,000 for each instance of the violation.• The bill would make certain findings and declarations related to these provisions.

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AB 36Soria D
4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass
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 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. Current law Neutral
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Housing elements: prohousing designation.
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). Rereferred to Com. on APPR. requires HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by HCD, as prescribed, and to report those designations to the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation.Current law specifies that these emergency regulations will remain in effect until HCD promulgates permanent prohousing regulations.• This bill would instead require HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to permanent regulations adopted by HCD to implement these provisions, as specified. Beginning with the 7th housing element cycle, the bill would require HCD to evaluate materials from a nonentitlement jurisdiction’s housing element submission when determining whether the jurisdiction qualifies as prohousing, but only with respect to those nonentitlement jursidictions that have a compliant housing element.• The bill would also prohibit HCD from requiring nonentitlement jurisdictions to renew their prohousing designation for at least 5 years.

AB 37Elhawary D Workforce development: mental health service providers: homelessness. 3/13/2025-A. L. & E.3/17/2025-Rereferred to Com. on L. & E.

Current law establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Current law requires the board to assist the Governor in certain activities, including the review and technical assistance of statewide policies, programs, and recommendations to support workforce development systems in the state, as specified.• This bill would require the board to study how to expand the workforce of mental health service providers who provide services to homeless persons.

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AB 38Lackey R Crimes: serious and violent felonies.
2/3/2025-A. PUB. S.3/20/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

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. Current law includes among the list of violent felonies rape accomplished against a person’s will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear, or rape accomplished against the victim’s will by threat of violent retaliation, but does not include rape of a person unable to give consent due to disability, rape under false pretenses, or rape accomplished by threat of incarceration, arrest, or deportation.• This bill would also include specified crimes involving the rape or sexual assault of a minor who has a developmental disability in the list of violent felonies.

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AB 39Zbur D
4/9/2025-A. U. & E.4/24/2025-From committee chair,
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of Watch
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General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.
with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified. • This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require each city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2027, but no later than January 1, 2030, to prepare and adopt a specified plan, or integrate a plan in the next adoption or revision of the general plan, that includes locally based goals, objectives, policies, and feasible implementation measures that include, among other things, the identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging and other zero-emission vehicle fueling infrastructure, as specified, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for equitable and prioritized investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups.

AB 44Schultz D Energy: electrical demand forecasts.
4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/24/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 23). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, at least every 2 years, to conduct assessments and forecasts of all aspects of energy industry supply, production, transportation, delivery and distribution, demand, and prices. Current law authorizes the commission to require the submission of demand forecasts from electrical utilities, among other entities, to perform its assessments and forecasts. Current law requires the commission to adopt an integrated energy policy report every 2 years.• This bill would require the commission, on or before December 1, 2026, and in consultation with load-serving entities and resource aggregators, to define and publicize methodologies for load modification protocols by which a load-serving entity may reduce or modify its electrical demand forecast upon aggregated system operation, as specified.

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AB 87Boerner D Housing development: density bonuses: mixed-use developments. 4/24/2025-A. L. GOV. 4/24/2025-Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.

The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for lower income households or very low income households, and meets other requirements. Current law requires the number of incentives or concessions a qualifying developer receives to be pursuant to a certain formula based on the total number of units in the housing development, as specified. Current law defines “housing development,” for these purposes, to mean a development project for 5 or more residential units, including mixed-use developments. • This bill would prohibit an incentive or concession granted for a mixed-use development containing a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other visitor-serving purpose from applying to the portion of Watch
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(Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). Rereferred to Com. on L. GOV. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. the proposed development containing hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other visitor-serving purpose use.

AB 91Harabedian D State and local agencies: demographic data. 4/8/2025-A. APPR.4/8/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Would require state and local agencies that collect demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate collection categories and tabulations for major Middle Eastern or North African groups, as specified, and, with certain exceptions, to include that data in every demographic report published on or after January 1, 2027, and to make the aggregated data available to the public.

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AB 239Harabedian D State-led County of Los Angeles disaster housing task force. 4/8/2025-A. APPR.4/8/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and sets forth its powers and duties, including updating and revising the California Statewide Housing Plan, as provided. Current law establishes the Office of Emergency Services (OES), which is responsible for the state’s emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or human-induced disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters on people and property. • This bill would require HCD and OES to jointly convene a state-led County of Los Angeles disaster housing task force, as specified, for the purpose of coordinating and streamling efforts between HCD, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, OES, and local governments to rebuild housing in communities impacted by the wildfires that began on January 7, 2025, in the County of Los Angeles.

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• The bill would require the task force to appoint a state disaster housing coordinator to accelerate the delivery of resources to communities impacted by the wildfires.

AB 246Bryan D Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025. 4/10/2025-A. JUD.4/10/2025-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. Rereferred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

Current law requires a tenant be served a 3 days’ notice in writing to cure a default or perform a condition of the lease, or return possession of the property to the landlord, as specified. The Mobilehome Residency Law prohibits a tenancy from being terminated unless specified conditions are met, including that the tenant fails to pay rent, utility charges, or reasonable incidental service charges, and 3 days’ notice in writing is provided to the tenant, as specified.• This bill would, until January 20, 2029, enact the Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025 (the Act). The Act would prohibit a court, during a declared social security benefit payment interruption, from issuing a summons on a complaint for unlawful detainer in any action that seeks possession of residential real property and that is based, in whole or in part, on nonpayment of rent or other charges, if the defendant experiences a loss of income due to the social security benefit payment interruption.

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AB 253Ward D California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits. 4/23/2025-S. L. GOV.4/23/2025-Rereferred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING.

Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law. • This bill, the California Residential Private Permitting Review Act, would require a county’s or city’s building department to prepare a residential building permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees.

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AB 255Haney D The SupportiveRecovery Residence Program. 2/10/2025- A. HEALTH 4/22/2025-Rereferred to Com. on H. & C.D.

Current law requires a state agency or department that funds, implements, or administers a state program that provides housing or housing-related services to people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness to revise or adopt guidelines and regulations to include enumerated Housing First policies. Current law specifies the core components of Housing First, including servicesthat are informed by a harm-reduction philosophy that recognizes drug and alcohol use and addiction as a part of tenants’ lives and where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding drug and alcohol use.• This bill would authorize state programs to fund supportive-recovery residences, as defined, that emphasize abstinence under these provisions as long as the state program meets specified criteria, including that at least 75% of program funds awarded to each jurisdiction is used for housing or housing-based services using a harm-reduction model.

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AB 259Rubio, Blanca D Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences. 4/22/2025-A. THIRD READING 4/22/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

The Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing 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 requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including that specified circumstances apply. Current law establishes limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including prohibiting such participation for more than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less.• This bill would extend the alternative teleconferencing procedures until January 1, 2030.

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AB 261Quirk-Silva D Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal. 3/27/2025- A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 3/27/2025-Rereferred to Com. on E.M.

Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review designated and rated zones and, as necessary, revise zones or their ratings or repeal the designation of zones. Current law also requiresthe State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on theseverity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas, and to periodically review and make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones.• This bill would, as applied to both state responsibility areas and lands that are not state responsibility areas, authorize the State Fire Marshal, in periods between the State Fire Marshal’s review of areas of the state for recommendations regarding an area’s fire hazard severity zone, to confer with entities, including, but not limited to, public agencies, tribes, nonprofit organizations,project applicants, and members of the public, on actions that may impact the degree of fire hazard inan area or the area’s recommended fire hazard severity zone designation.• The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal to provide a written response to an entity on actions that may impact the degree of fire hazard, and would require this written response to be posted on the State Fire Marshal’s internet website.

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AB 262Caloza D
4/8/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-In committee: Hearing
The California Disaster Assistance Act requires the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in Watch
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California Individual Assistance Act.
postponed by committee.
the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act. • This bill would require the director, in administering that act, to prioritize local agencies that are not eligible for federal funding, pursuant to specified federal regulation, due to the agency’s inability to meet minimum damage thresholds.• This bill would also enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed.

AB 271Hoover R Crimes: looting.
3/28/2025-A. PUB. S.4/16/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Current law 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. Current law defines burglary of the first degree as any burglary of an inhabited building and makes burglary of the first degree punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 4, or 6 years. Current law defines all other burglary as burglary of the 2nd degree and makes it punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for one year or as a felony. Current law 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. Current law defines any 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft, during and within an affectedcounty in a state of emergency or local emergency, as specified, as looting, punishable by either imprisonment in a county jail for one year or as a felony. Current law makes petty theft committed during and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency a misdemeanor and requires a minimum jail term of 90 days. Current law prohibits credibly impersonating a peace officer,firefighter, or employee of a state or local government agency, or a search and rescue team, as specified.• This bill would make looting by the means of a 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft punishable instead as a felony.• The bill would define a petty theft committed during and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency as looting and make it punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for one year or as a felony.• The bill would require any person who in the course of committing or attempting to commit the crime of looting impersonated a peace officer, firefighter, or employee of a state or local governmentagency, or a search and rescue team, subject to a penalty enhancement.

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AB 275Petrie-Norris D
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Office of Emergency Services: wildfire aerial response program. referred to Com. on E.M. Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Pending re-refer to Com. on U. & E.) develop recommendations for implementing a wildfire aerial response program to provide yearround, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, rapid aerial suppression capabilities.• The bill would require the working group to consider specified elements to ensure effective statewide aerial wildfire suppression and to develop recommendations, including whether the program should be implemented as a pilot program, a full-scale statewide initiative, or if implementation is not recommended based on feasibility findings.• The bill would require the Director of Emergency Services, in consultation with the department, to appoint members to the working group who are familiar with wildfire aviation response programs, as provided.• The bill would require the working group to report its findings and implementation recommendations to the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization on or before December 31, 2027, as provided.

AB 284Alanis R Law enforcement: stop data and reporting. 3/24/2025-A. PUB. S.4/22/2025-In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Current law requires each state and local agency that employs peace officers to annually report to theAttorney General specified data on all stops conducted by that agency’s peace officers for the preceding calendar year. Current law defines “stop” for purposes of these provisions to mean any detention by a peace officer of a person or any peace officer interaction with a person in which the peace officer conducts a search of the person’s body or property in the person’s possession or control.• This bill would exclude various situations from that definition, including, among other things, a peace officer interaction with a person that results from a call for service or when a detention is necessary to prevent serious bodily injury or death.

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AB 299Gabriel D Motels, hotels, and short-term lodging: disasters. 4/2/2025-S. RLS.4/2/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Current law regulates the terms and conditions of tenancies and defines the term “persons who hire” for the purpose of regulating residential tenancies. Current law excludes from these provisions occupancy at a hotel or motel if certain conditions are met, including that the occupancy is for a period of 30 days or less, as specified. Current law establishes a procedure, known as an unlawful detainer action, that a landlord must follow in order to evict a tenant. Under this bill, the continued occupancy of a guest of a lodging, as defined, would not constitute a new tenancy and the guest would not be considered a person who hires for purposes of an unlawful detainer action, if the guest is living in the motel, hotel, or short-term lodging as a result of their prior housing being damaged, destroyed, or otherwise made uninhabitable by a disaster, as defined. • The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031.

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AB 301Schiavo D
4/2/2025-S. RLS.4/2/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Current law relating to housing development approval requires a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, to post an example of a complete, approved application and an example of a complete set of postentitlement phase permits Watch
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Planning and zoning: housing development projects: postentitlement phase permits: state departments.

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for at least 5 types of housing development projects in the jurisdiction, as specified, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. Current law establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant and consequences for a local agency that fails to meet that timeline, as provided. Existing law defines “postentitlement phase permit” to include a range of permits issued by a local agency.• This bill would require a state department to comply with the above-described provisions relating to postentitlement phase permits applicable to a local agency.• The bill would require a state department to make the information list, as described above, and the above-described examples of a complete, approved application and a complete set of postentitlement phase permits available on the department’s internet website by January 1, 2026.• The bill would deem a postentitlement phase permit approved, and all related reviews complete, if a state department fails to meet the time limits for review of an application for that permit.

AB 306Schultz D Building regulations: state building standards. 4/23/2025- S. HOUSING 4/23/2025-Rereferred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.

Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services. Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code). The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires, among other things, the building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Current law authorizes any city or county to make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards. Current law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making modifications or changes to those green building standards, to makean express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions.• This bill would, from June 1, 2025, until June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above-described building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety.

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AB 311McKinnor D
4/2/2025-S. RLS.4/2/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Prior law, until January 1, 2024, authorized a tenant to temporarily permit the occupancy of their dwelling unit by a person who is at risk of homelessness, as defined, regardless of the terms of the lease or rental agreement, with the written approval of the owner or landlord of the property, and Watch
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Dwelling units: persons at risk of homelessness.

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subject to extension under certain circumstances. Prior law further authorized an owner or landlord toadjust the rent payable under the lease during the time the person who is at risk of homelessness is occupying the dwelling unit, as compensation for the occupancy of that person, and required the terms regarding the rent payable in those circumstances to be agreed to in writing by the owner or landlord and the tenant.• This bill, until January 1, 2031, would reinstate the above-described provisions, and would include certain new provisions regarding occupancy.• The bill would additionally define “person at risk of homelessness” to include any person who is displaced from their residence as a result of a disaster in a disaster-stricken area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor.• The bill, among other things, would permit a tenant, with written approval of the owner or landlord, to temporarily permit the occupancy of their dwelling unit by a person who is at risk of homelessness and one or more common household pets owned or otherwise maintained by the person.

AB 317Jackson D California First Time Homeowner Dream Act. 4/7/2025-A. REV. & TAX 4/21/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

The California Environmental Quality Act 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. Current law exempts various projects from CEQA, including projects related to the conversion of a structure with a certificate of occupancy as a motel, hotel, residential hotel, or hostel to supportive or transitional housing, as defined, that meet certain conditions.• This bill would exempt from CEQA the new construction of a single-family dwelling that meets specified conditions, including that the project contains one single-family dwelling that is 1,500 square feet or less with no more than 3 bedrooms, the property is intended to be sold to a first-time homebuyer, and the lead agency determines that the developer of the project or the property owner provided sufficient legal commitments to meet the requirements of the exemption.• The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that a project qualifies for the exemption, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, formerly known as the Office of Planning and Research, and the county clerk, as specified. By placing additional requirements on the lead agency to make a determination on whether the CEQA exemption applies, and on local agencies to determine whether the project developer provided sufficient legal commitments, as described, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 330Rogers D
3/17/2025-A. REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE
The Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act, until January 1, 2026, suspends the authority of a city, county, or city and county to impose a utility user tax on the consumption of Watch
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Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act. 3/17/2025-In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file. prepaid communications service and any charge that applies to prepaid mobile telephony service, as defined, on access to communication services or access to local “911” emergency telephone systems, and instead requires those taxes and charges to be applied during the period beginning January 1, 2016, and ending January 1, 2026, under any local ordinance to be at specified rates. The act requiresthat these local charges imposed by a city, county, or a city and county on prepaid mobile telephony services be collected from the prepaid consumer by a seller at the time of sale, as specified. Currentlaw requires that all local charges be collected and paid to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law and be deposited into the Local Charges for Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Fund, and be transmitted to the city, county, or city and county, as provided.• This bill would extend operation of the act until January 1, 2031.

AB 331Pellerin D Elections: duties of election officials: voter information guides. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Current law requires an elections official, upon completion of the count, to add the results of write-in votes and any paper ballots used as certified by the precinct board, and thereupon declare the vote. Current law requires the elections official to prepare a certified statement of the results of the election and submit it to the governing body within 30 days of the election, as specified. Current lawrequires the elections official to send to the Secretary of State within 31 days of the election in anelectronic format a complete copy of specified election results, including the vote given for persons for electors of President and Vice President of the United States, all candidates voted for statewide office, and all statewide measures.• This bill would specify that the duties described above imposed on elections officials are ministerial and nondiscretionary.

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AB 337Bennett D Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: grant program: edible food. 4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, upon appropriation, to administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to promote the in-state development of infrastructure, food waste prevention, or other projects to reduce organic waste, sort and aggregate or process organic and other recyclable materials into new, value-added products, or divert items from disposal through enhanced reuse opportunities. Current law requires the grant program to provide eligible financial assistance for certain activities, including activities that expand and improve organic waste diversion and recycling, including, but not limited to, the recovery of food for human consumption and food waste prevention. Current law specifies eligible infrastructure projects for purposes of the program, including, but not limited to, the construction of facilities to help develop, implement, or expand edible food waste recovery operations.• This bill would expand the grant program to provide financial assistance for the recovery of edible food, as specified.

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• The bill would specify that eligible infrastructure projects includes the construction or expansion of facilities to help develop, implement, or expand edible food waste recovery operations.• The bill would require the department to consider the increased amount of edible food recovery capacity that the project will create when awarding a grant for edible food recovery.

AB 339Ortega D Local public employee organizations: notice requirements. 4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions.• This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 120 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization.• The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract.

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AB 340Ahrens D Employer-employee relations: confidential communications. 4/23/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/23/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of current law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by current law.• This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in Watch
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confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation.

AB 342Haney D Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale: hospitality zones. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-VOTE: Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application for, and the issuance and suspension of, alcoholic beverage licenses. Current law requires moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, to sell, give, or deliver to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and for any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours. • This bill, beginning January 1, 2026, would allow an on-sale licensee, or their agent or employee, to sell or give alcoholic beverages until 4 a.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, or state holidays within a hospitality zone, defined to include a Hospitality Zone and a Special Event Hospitality Zone established pursuant to the bill’s provisions, as specified.• The bill, beginning January 1, 2026, would authorize the department to issue an additional serving hours license that authorizes an on-sale licensee, or their agent or employee, to sell or give alcoholic beverages within the timeframes described above in a hospitality zone, as specified.

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AB 351McKinnor D Campaign contributions: agency officers. 2/18/2025- A. ELECTIONS 4/7/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits an officer of an agency from accepting, soliciting, or directing a contribution of more than $500 from any party, participant, or a party or participant’s agent, while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding, if theofficer knows or has reason to know that the participant has a financial interest, as defined. The actalso prohibits an officer of an agency from making, participating in making, or in any way attempting to use the officer’s official position to influence the decision in a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use pending before the agency if the officer has willfully or knowingly received a contribution of more than $500 within the preceding 12 months from a party or a party’s agent, or from any participant or a participant’s agent, if the officer knows or has reason to know that the participant has a financial interest in the decision, as defined.• This bill would increase the contribution thresholds described above from $500 to $1500.

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AB 370Carrillo D
4/24/2025-S. RLS.4/24/2025-Read third time. Passed.

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, except as specified. Current law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons Watch
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California Public Records Act: cyberattacks.

Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. therefor. Current law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, and defines “unusual circumstances” to include, among other things, the need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine records during a state of emergency when the state of emergency currently affects the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests due to staffing shortages or closure of facilities, as provided.• This bill would also expand the definition of unusual circumstances to include the inability of the agency, because of a cyberattack, to access its electronic servers or systems in order to search for and obtain a record that the agency believes is responsive to a request and is maintained on the servers or systems in an electronic format.

AB 382Berman D Pedestrian safety: school zones: speed limits. 4/22/2025-A. APPR.4/22/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Current law establishes a prima facie speed limit of 25 miles per hour when approaching or passing a school building or grounds contiguous to a highway or when the school grounds are not separated from the highway, as specified. Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to reduce the prima facie speed limit based on an engineering and traffic survey, as specified.• This bill would, notwithstanding the above provision and until January 1, 2029, authorize a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to determine and declare a prima facie speed limit of 20 miles per hour in a school zone.• The bill would, beginning on January 1, 2029, establish a prima facie speed limit of 20 miles per hour in a school zone, as defined, subject to specified conditions, including, among others, when a school speed limit sign states “children are present” and children are present, as defined, and when a schoolspeed limit sign states specific hours, as specified.

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AB 388Rogers D Electricity.
3/24/2025-A. U. & E.3/26/2025-Rereferred to Com. on U. & E.

The Public Utilities Act vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The act defines “electrical corporation” to include every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant for compensation within this state, except as specified. The act authorizes the commission to fix the rates and chargesfor every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. • This bill would revise the definition of “electrical corporation” to exclude a corporation or person employing certain solar or wind generating technology if electricity is transmitted exclusively and directly through private electrical lines to a single facility owned by a different corporation or person that uses the electricity only for new load, not for departing load, and for an electrolytic hydrogen production facility, as defined, or a facility using the electricity to provide industrial process heat, or both.

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AB 390Wilson D
4/10/2025-A. THIRD READING
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Vehicles: highway safety.
4/10/2025-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
immediately adjacent to the vehicle, or, if unable to safely do so, slow to a reasonable and prudent speed, as specified. Current law makes a violation of that provision an infraction, punishable by a fine of not more than $50.• This bill would expand that requirement to apply to all marked highway maintenance vehicles, as defined, and would also make that requirement applicable to any other stationary vehicle displaying flashing hazard lights or another warning device, including, but not limited to, cones, flares, or retroreflective devices.

AB 400Pacheco D Law enforcement: police canines.
4/9/2025-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 4/9/2025-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Current law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy on the use of force, as specified. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and charges it with, among other duties, developing uniform, minimum guidelines for adoption and promulgation by law enforcement agencies for use of force.• This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2027, every law enforcement agency, as defined, with a canine unit to maintain a policy for the use of canines by the agency that, at a minimum, complies with the most recent standards established by POST.

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AB 420Petrie-Norris D Public utilities: property, franchises, and permits: exemption. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/24/2025-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and rerefer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 23).

Current law prohibits public utilities, other than certain common carriers, from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of, or encumbering, its assets that are necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public, unless the public utility has secured an order from the Public Utilities Commission to do so for a qualified transaction above $5,000,000 or an approval from the commission through the filing of an advice letter for a qualified transaction at or below $5,000,000.• This bill would exempt from that prohibition a qualified conveyance of an easement or the execution of a relocation agreement that has a ratepayer financial impact valued at $100,000 or less if a public utility that is a party to the qualified transaction has gross annual California revenues of $500,000,000 or more.• The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2030, and every 5 years thereafter, those threshold values to increase to reflect any increase in inflation, as specified.

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AB 423Davies R Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment programs 2/18/2025- A. HEALTH 4/3/2025-Rereferred to Com. on HEALTH.

Current law grants the sole authority in state government to the State Department of Health Care Services to certify alcohol or other drug programs and to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. Current law requires certified programs and licensed facilities to disclose to the department if any of its agents, partners, directors, officers, or owners own or have 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.

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and facilities: disclosures.
• This bill would require a business-operated recovery residence to register its location with the department.• The bill would define a business-operated recovery residence as a recovery residence in which a business, in exchange for compensation, provides more than one service beyond those of a typical tenancy arrangement to more than one occupant, including, but not limited to, drug testing, supervision, scheduling, rule setting, rule enforcement, room assignment, entertainment, gym memberships, transportation, laundry, or meal preparation and coordination.

AB 424Davies R Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints. 4/23/2025-A. APPR.4/23/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on APPR.

Would, when the Department of Health Care Services receives a complaint against a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, or a complaint alleging that a facility is unlawfully operating without a license, from a member of the public, require the department to provide, within 30 10 days of the date of the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been received and to provide, upon closing the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been closed and whether the department found the facility to be in violation of the provisions governing facility licensure and regulation.

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