STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: September 9, 2025
To: Honorable Mayor & City Council
From: Mandy Jiang, Senior Management Analyst
Subject: State and Federal Legislative Update
Attachments: 1. State Legislative Bill Matrix
INTRODUCTION
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), on topical updates from the California and US legislatures. Updates may also be based upon the City’s Legislative Platform as well as items of interest identified at City Council meetings.
This report is for informational purposes and transmits updates on actions taken by the City and updates on legislative activities occurring in Sacramento, California and Washington, D.C.in from the City’s lobbyists, for the timeframe of May through August, 2025.
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 May through August, the City has officially taken positions on 29 state legislative bills and one federal bill. Some of the more impactful bills the City has taken a position on include:
• OPPOSE SB 79 (Wiener) - Housing development: transit-oriented development.
This measure would require cities to approve ministerially higher-density residential projects up to 7 stories near public transit stops if a city is in an urban transit county or a county with more than 15 rail stops. Cities in nonurban transit counties within a quarter mile of specific transit stops would have to approve residential projects by-right up to 5 stories tall regardless of local zoning codes, limit the use of local development standards on the proposed project, and grant authority to transit agencies to establish development standards on residential development on property the transit agency owns or leases within a half mile of a public transit stop on or before January 1, 2026.
Status: As of 8/20/25, referred to Assembly Appropriations suspense file.
Scheduled for Appropriations Hearing on 8/29.
Meeting Date: September 9, 2025
• SUPPORT AB 1 (Connolly) - Residential property insurance: wildfire risk. This measure would require the Department of Insurance to include wildfire mitigation efforts in the next draft of the Catastrophe Modeling regulations.
Status: As 8/18/25, referred to Senate Appropriations suspense file. Scheduled for Appropriations Hearing on 8/29.
• SUPPORT SB 35 (Umberg) – Alcohol and drug programs. This measure establishes timelines for the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to investigate allegations of licensed treatment being provided at unlicensed sober living homes. If DHCS cannot meet the timelines, SB 35 would authorize cities and counties to request approval to conduct site visits and enforce compliance with existing state licensing requirements.
Status: As 8/20/25, referred to Senate Appropriations suspense file. Scheduled for Appropriations Hearing on 8/29.
• SUPPORT SB 74 (Seyarto) – Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation:
Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program. This bill establishes a “Gap Fund” grant to provide from the state up to 20% of project costs to cities that are able to pull together the remaining balance. California has led the nation on many fronts; however, the state’s infrastructure is decaying due in part to the delayed allocation of funds that ultimately hinders critical infrastructure projects from being completed. This measure bridges those gaps.
Status: As of 7/2/25, referred to suspense file. Scheduled for Senate Appropriations Hearing on 8/29.
As of late August 2025, California legislators have returned from summer recess and are working the final weeks of floor sessions, focusing on passing bills before the September 12 deadline. All bills that are currently active have passed through policy committees and the last Appropriations Committee hearing on August 29.
Starting in September, bills that have been referred out of Appropriations Committee are being debated and voted on in the second house floor, e.g., Assembly bills are being voted on by full Senate chamber and vice versa. On the floor, most bills need a simple majority (50%+1) to pass—21 votes in Senate or 41 votes in Assembly. Exceptions that would instead require a 2/3 majority vote include bills aiming to place measures on the statewide ballot, make constitutional amendments, bills with an urgency clause, bills that appropriate funds from state budget, or bills that would impose a tax levy.
If amendments were made to the bill in the second house, then those changes will require a vote for concurrence by its House of Origin, e.g. Assembly bill with Senate amendments will return to the Assembly for a vote. If the House of Origin does concur, then the bill goes to the Governor for his consideration. Should the House of Origin refuse to concur on those amendments made by the second house, the bill will go to a temporary conference committee, comprised by three members from each house appointed by their respective Rules Committee, to negotiate and agree on a single version of the bill. This version of the bill will be sent back to both Assembly and Senate floors for approval. Conference committees often handle significant and controversial bills, particularly near the end of a legislative session.
The State Legislature adjourns on September 12, and the Governor has until October 12 to sign or veto bills. Any legislation not signed by the Governor past the deadline automatically becomes law, typically taking effect on January 1, 2026, unless stated otherwise.
Meeting Date: September 9, 2025
Staff receives regular updates from the City’s state and federal lobbyists. Some relevant updates over the last quarter include:
State Update
• Prop 50 Election Rigging Response Act - The ballot measure was approved to be placed on the November 4 ballot, and would allow the Legislature to redraw congressional maps, temporarily bypassing the state’s independent redistricting commission. The proposal emerged after other states, notably Texas, began pursuing mid-cycle redistricting, prompting California’s Democratic leaders to propose a one-time legislative alternative. If voters approve Prop. 50, the new maps go into effect for the 2026 election only if another state redraws its congressional districts without a court order. These new maps would remain in place until 2032, after which the commission would resume control over the creation of congressional maps.
o Prop 50 is tied to three legislative bills and all three were approved: ACA 8 would place a constitutional amendment on the ballot allowing legislativedrawn congressional maps, AB 604 establishes the proposed map, and SB 280 funds and sets the rules for the November special election, including consolidating local elections already scheduled for that date. • California Powered by Two-Thirds Clean Energy, Becoming Largest Economy in the World to Achieve Milestone - The state released new data showing California’s continued progress toward a clean energy future with 67% of the state’s retail electricity sales in 2023 coming from renewable and zero-carbon electricity generation, compared to just 61% the previous year and around 41% a decade ago. Sources of clean energy include generation from solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, geothermal and biomass. In 2024, the state added a record-breaking 7,000 megawatts (MW) of clean capacity to the grid, representing the largest single-year increase in clean energy capacity added to the grid in state history. This new figure broke the previous records set in both 2022 and 2023, marking a third consecutive year of unprecedented clean energy growth.
• Governor Newsom signed FY25-26 State Budget - $321.1B o AB 1138 (Zbur and Allen) was signed into law to expand the state’s Film & Television Tax Credit Program, increasing annual funding from $330M to $750M and raising base tax credit rate to 35% for participants. o Governor Newsom has also signed a series of budget trailer bills, including AB 130 and SB 131, related to housing and CEQA relief. The initial version of AB 130 would have created a minimum wage for construction workers at specific residential projects; however, the bill was amended to remove certain provisions after sharp criticism from representatives of the building and construction trades. On AB 131, Governor Newsom carved out considerable exceptions to CEQA and made the main budget bill, SB 101, contingent upon the Legislature approving and the Governor signing SB 131. Also of note, the text of AB 306 (Schultz) to freeze the State Building Code was inserted into AB 131 – this bill was opposed by some local governments and environmental organizations. The contents of AB 609 and SB 607, to exempt certain housing and infrastructure projects, were largely inserted into AB 131.
Meeting Date: September 9, 2025
Federal Update
• The House and Senate have returned from recess on September 2 and have until Sep. 30 to pass its FY 26 appropriations bill to avoid a government shutdown. The House and Senate still needs to pass 12 appropriation bills from subcommittees, whereupon the final package of the bills (omnibus package) is sent to the President for signature. The new fiscal year begins October 1.
o The Senate has passed three appropriations bills: Military ConstructionVA, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch bills. The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved the following measures: Agriculture, CommerceJustice, Defense, Interior-Environment, Labor-HHS-Education, Legislative Branch, Military Construction-VA, and Transportation-HUD. That leaves the Committee with only the Energy and Water Development, Financial Services, Homeland Security, and State-Foreign Operations bills to finish. o The House has passed the Defense appropriations bill and the Military Construction-VA (Mil Con-VA) bill, which have also been approved by the House Appropriations Committee. The House Appropriations Committee has approved the following bills: Agriculture, Energy and Water Development, Homeland Security, Interior-Environment, Legislative Branch, State-Foreign Operations, and Transportation-HUD. That leaves the House Appropriations Committee with three more measures to finish:
Labor-HHS-Education, Commerce-Justice-Science, and Financial Services.
o The City’s FY26 Community Project Funding (CPF) request to fund the water reliability project ($1,092,000) has moved through Committee process. This legislation still needs to pass the House and Senate and be signed by the President.
FISCAL IMPACT
None.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council receive and file this report as it is for informational purposes only.
Keith Sterling
Deputy City Manager
Approved By
Attachment 1
1 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 1
Connolly D
Residential property
insurance: wildfire
risk.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current Department of Insurance regulations prohibit an insurer from using a rating plan that does not take 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 measures for 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.
Support
AB 3
Dixon R
Alcohol and drug
treatment facilities:
local regulation.
5/8/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/8/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(3). (Last
location was HEALTH
on 2/3/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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 6
Ward D
Residential
developments:
building standards:
review.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/14/2025-In
committee: Referred
to APPR. suspense
file.
The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including approval and adoption of building standards and codification of those standards into the California Building Standards Code (code). Current law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety once every 3 years. 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 under the requirements of the California Support
2 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Residential Code, as specified.
• The bill would require the department, no later than December 31, 2027, 2028, to provide a onetime 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.
AB 11
Lee D
The Social Housing
Act.
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was
HOUSING on
6/11/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 if
Amended
AB 15
Gipson D
Open unsolved
homicide: review and
reinvestigation.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought. Existing law also defines manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, and establishes 3 kinds of manslaughter: voluntary, involuntary, and vehicular. • This bill would require a law enforcement agency to review the casefile regarding an open unsolved homicide upon written application by certain persons to determine if a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, as specified.
• The bill would define a homicide to include murder and manslaughter and an open unsolved homicide as a homicide committed after January 1, 1990, but no less than 3 years 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 probative investigative leads, this bill would require a reinvestigation, as specified.
Watch
AB 20
DeMaio R
Homelessness: People
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/21/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
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
3 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
First Housing Act of
2025.
location was H. &
C.D. on
3/24/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
AB 23
DeMaio 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 all taxes 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 preceding quarter, 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.
Watch
AB 33
Aguiar-Curry D
Autonomous vehicles.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/14/2025-In
committee: Referred
to APPR. suspense
file.
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 safety operator on any highway within the State of California. • The bill would make a first violation of this provision subject to a $10,000 administrative fine and a $25,000 administrative fine for subsequent violations.
• The bill would authorize the department to suspend or revoke the permit of an autonomous vehicle manufacturer for repeated violations of this provision.
Watch
AB 36
Soria D
7/15/2025-S. APPR.
8/18/2025-From
committee chair,
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 Watch
4 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Housing elements:
prohousing
designation.
with author's
amendments:
Amend, and re-refer
to committee. Read
second time,
amended, and rereferred to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 27.
Noes 0.)
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.
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, upon request by a small rural jurisdiction, to the extent feasible, the bill would require HCD to evaluate materials from the small rural jurisdiction’s housing element submission when determining whether the jurisdiction qualifies as prohousing, but only with respect to those small rural jurisdictions that have a compliant housing element. • The bill would also prohibit HCD from requiring small rural jurisdictions to renew their prohousing designation for at least 4 years.
AB 37
Elhawary D
Workforce
development: mental
health service
providers:
homelessness.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was L. & E.
on 3/13/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
Watch
AB 38
Lackey R
Crimes: serious and
violent felonies.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was PUB. S.
on 2/3/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
Watch
AB 39
Zbur D
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
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 Watch
5 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
General plans: Local
Electrification
Planning Act.
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified. • This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require 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 44
Schultz D
Energy: electrical
demand forecasts.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 of behind-the-meter load modifying technologies and programmatic measures deemed to reliably reduce or modify the load-serving entity’s electrical demand, as specified.
Watch
AB 87
Boerner D
Housing
development: density
bonuses.
7/10/2025-S. THIRD
READING
7/10/2025-Read
second time and
amended. Ordered
to third reading.
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified units and meets other requirements. • This bill would specify that certain provisions of the Density Bonus Law do not require a city, county, or city and county to approve, grant a concession or incentive requiring approval of, or waive or reduce development standards otherwise applicable to, transient lodging as part of a housing development, except as specified.
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6 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 91
Harabedian D
State and local
agencies:
demographic data.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Would, commencing January 1, 2027, 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, 2028, and to make the aggregated data available to the public.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 239
Harabedian D
State-led County of
Los Angeles disaster
housing task force.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 streamlining 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.
Watch
AB 246
Bryan D
Social Security Tenant
Protection Act of
2025.
7/16/2025-S. APPR.
8/18/2025-From
committee chair,
with author's
amendments:
Amend, and re-refer
to committee. Read
second time,
amended, and rereferred to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 27.
Noes 0.)
Current law provides that a tenant is guilty of unlawful detainer if the tenant continues to possess the property without permission of the landlord after the tenant defaults on rent or fails to perform a condition or covenant of the lease under which the property is held, among other reasons. 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. Current law, until January 1, 2030, prohibits an owner of residential real property from terminating a tenancy without just cause, as specified.
• This bill would, until January 20, 2029, enact the Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025 (the Act). The Act would authorize a tenant of residential real property to assert Social Security hardship as an affirmative defense in an unlawful detainer proceeding based on the nonpayment of rent. The Act would define “Social Security hardship” as a loss of income due to an interruption in the payment of Social Security benefits due to the action or inaction of the federal government. The Act would require a tenant asserting Social Security hardship as an affirmative defense to provide, to the satisfaction of the court, evidence that Social Security payments typically received by the tenant’s household have been terminated, delayed, or reduced due to no fault of the tenant and that the hardship prevented the tenant from paying the rent. If the tenant successfully provides this evidence, the Act would Watch
7 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
require the court to issue a stay of the unlawful detainer action, as specified. The Act would not relieve a tenant of their obligation to pay past due rent, and it would require a tenant, within 14 days of the Social Security benefits being restored, to either pay all past due rent or enter into a mutually agreed upon payment plan with the owner of the residential real property.
AB 253
Ward D
California Residential
Private Permitting
Review Act:
residential building
permits.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. 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 or city 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.
Watch
AB 255
Haney D
The SupportiveRecovery Residence
Program.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/14/2025-In
committee: Referred
to APPR. suspense
file.
Current law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to oversee the implementation of Housing First guidelines and regulations, and, among other things, identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California.
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 services that 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 90% of program funds awarded to each jurisdiction is used for housing or housing-based services using a harm-reduction model.
• This bill would specify requirements for applicants seeking funds under these programs and would require the state to perform periodic monitoring of select supportive-recovery residence programs to ensure that the supportive-recovery residences meet certain requirements, including that core outcomes of the supportive-recovery housing emphasize long-term housing stability and minimize returns to homelessness.
• The bill would also prohibit eviction on the basis of relapse, as specified.
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8 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 259
Rubio, Blanca D
Open meetings: local
agencies:
teleconferences.
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was JUD. on
5/14/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 261
Quirk-Silva D
Fire safety: fire hazard
severity zones: State
Fire Marshal.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones, and, by regulation, designate fire hazard severity zones and assign to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in the zone. 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 requires the 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 the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas, and to periodically review and, as necessary, make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones. • This bill would prohibit the State Fire Marshal’s determination of fire hazard severity zone, in both state responsibility areas and lands that are not state responsibility areas, from being based on risk mitigation activities.
• The 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 in an 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 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
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.
AB 262
Caloza D
California Individual
Assistance Act.
6/11/2025-S. G.O.
6/11/2025-Referred
to Com. on G.O.
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. • This bill would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. • The bill would require the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those purposes.
Support
AB 271
Hoover R
Crimes: looting.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was PUB. S.
on 3/28/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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 affected county 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.
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10 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• 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 government agency, or a search and rescue team, subject to a penalty enhancement.
AB 275
Petrie-Norris D
Office of Emergency
Services: wildfire
aerial response
program.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was U. & E.
on 4/24/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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. • 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.
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AB 284
Alanis R
Law enforcement:
Racial and Identity
Profiling Advisory
Board (RIPA).
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
on 4/30/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
Current law requires the Attorney General to establish the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA) for the purpose of eliminating racial and identity profiling and improving diversity and racial and identity sensitivity in law enforcement. Current law requires RIPA to include various members, including 2 representatives of human or civil rights tax-exempt organizations, 2 representatives of community organizations, and 2 religious clergy members, as specified. Current law authorizes the Governor, President pro Tempore of the Senate, and Speaker of the Assembly to each prescribe up to 2 other members to membership of RIPA.
• This bill would require RIPA to include in its membership the president of the California District Attorneys Association, or their designee.
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AB 299
Gabriel D
Motels, hotels, and
short-term lodging:
disasters.
7/17/2025-S. THIRD
READING
7/17/2025-Read
second time and
amended. Ordered
to third reading.
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 resident of a lodging, as defined, would not be considered a person who hires, nor have their lodging constitute a new tenancy for purposes of an unlawful detainer action, until the Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
guest has resided in the lodging for 270 days, if the guest is residing in the lodging as a result of a disaster, as defined, that substantially damaged, destroyed, or otherwise made uninhabitable their prior housing. housing, as specified.
• The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031.
AB 301
Schiavo D
Planning and zoning:
housing development
projects:
postentitlement
phase permits: state
agencies.
8/19/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/19/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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 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. Current law defines “postentitlement phase permit” to, among other things, include a range of permits issued by a local agency.
• This bill would require a state agency to comply with the above-described provisions relating to postentitlement phase permits applicable to a local agency. • The bill would require a state agency 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 agency’s internet website by January 1, 2026. • The bill would deem a postentitlement phase permit approved, and all related reviews complete, if a state agency fails to meet the time limits for review of an application for that permit.
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AB 306
Schultz D
Building regulations:
state building
standards.
4/23/2025-
S. HOUSING
6/23/2025-From
committee chair,
with author's
amendments:
Amend, and re-refer
to committee. Read
second time,
amended, and rereferred to Com. on
HOUSING.
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 make an express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions.
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12 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would, from October 1, 2025, to 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.
AB 311
McKinnor D
Dwelling units:
persons at risk of
homelessness.
5/7/2025-S. JUD.
5/7/2025-Referred
to Com. on JUD.
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 to adjust 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.
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AB 317
Jackson D
California First Time
Homeowner Dream
Act.
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was E.Q. on
6/4/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. 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 home buyer, 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 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
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.
AB 330
Rogers D
Local Prepaid Mobile
Telephony Services
Collection Act.
7/8/2025-S. THIRD
READING
7/8/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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, 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 requires that 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. Current law 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.
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AB 331
Pellerin D
Elections: duties of
election officials:
voter information
guides.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 law requires the elections official to send to the Secretary of State within 31 days of the election in an electronic 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 337
Bennett D
Greenhouse Gas
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
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 Watch
14 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Reduction Fund: grant
program: edible food.
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
4/9/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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. • 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 339
Ortega D
Local public employee
organizations: notice
requirements.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to 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 60 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, subject to certain exceptions.
• The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract.
• The bill would also require the public agency, if an emergency or other exigent circumstance prevents the public agency from providing the written notice described above, to provide as much advance notice as is practicable under the circumstances.
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15 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 340
Ahrens D
Employer-employee
relations: confidential
communications.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: 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 342
Haney D
Alcoholic beverages:
hours of sale:
hospitality zones.
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was G.O. on
6/18/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 June 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 specified 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 would authorize the department to issue, following the adoption of rules and regulations and the satisfaction of any conditions for issuance, as specified, 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. • The bill would authorize an additional service hours license to be used by a licensed premises in a Hospitality Zone if a local governing body, as defined, of the city or county, as applicable, in which the licensed premises is located adopts an ordinance that meets certain requirements, as specified, and submits the ordinance to the department.
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 351
McKinnor D
Campaign
contributions: agency
officers.
2/18/2025-
A. ELECTIONS
4/30/2025-In
committee: Set,
second hearing.
Failed passage.
Reconsideration
granted.
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 the officer knows or has reason to know that the participant has a financial interest, as defined. The act also 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 357
Alvarez D
Coastal resources:
coastal development
permit application:
higher education
housing project.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
8/13/2025-In
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.
The Coastal Act of 1976, which is administered by the California Coastal Commission, requires a person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit. The act provides for the submission and approval of long-range land use development plans as an alternative to project-by-project review to promote greater efficiency for the planning of state university or college or private university development projects and provides for amendments to those plans. The act places limits on the conditions the commission may impose on projects contained in a plan that has been certified by the commission. The act authorizes the commission to, after a public hearing, by regulation, adopt procedures for the issuance by the executive director of waivers from coastal development permit requirements for any development that is de minimis, as specified.
• This bill would require the commission to defer to the state university or college or private university in determining the number of vehicle parking spaces necessary for residents of student, faculty, or staff housing facilities, as provided.
• The bill would authorize the executive director to determine that a proposed amendment to a public works plan or long-range development plan is de minimis and would provide the procedures for the determination and approval of amendments that are de minimis.
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AB 382
Berman D
Pedestrian safety:
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
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 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
school zones: speed
limits.
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 school speed limit sign states specific hours, as specified.
AB 388
Rogers D
Electricity.
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/14/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 charges for 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 400
Pacheco D
Law enforcement:
police canines.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/14/2025-In
committee: 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 420
Petrie-Norris D
Public utilities:
property, franchises,
and permits:
exemption.
8/19/2025-
S. CONSENT
CALENDAR
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to Consent
Calendar.
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 easements, or changes to easements, that have 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.
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• 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. • The bill would require each public utility to annually file a Tier 1 advice letter with a report of all transactions performed pursuant to this exemption, enumerated by date, value, location, and party.
AB 423
Davies R
Alcoholism or drug
abuse recovery or
treatment programs
and facilities:
disclosures.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was HEALTH
on 2/18/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
• 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.
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AB 424
Davies R
Alcohol and other
drug programs:
complaints.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/14/2025-In
committee: Referred
to APPR. suspense
file.
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.
Support
AB 426
Dixon R
Impeding emergency
response with drone.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 public employee 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 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
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 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 436
Ransom D
Composting facilities:
zoning.
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
4/23/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 by 75% 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.
Watch
AB 438
Hadwick R
Authorized
emergency vehicles.
6/24/2025-S. THIRD
READING
6/24/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
Current law authorizes the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol to issue authorized emergency vehicle permits for certain vehicles, including any vehicle owned and operated by a public utility and any vehicle owned and operated by a fire company, as specified, upon a finding that the vehicle is used in responding to emergency calls for fire or law enforcement, the immediate preservation of life or property, or the apprehension of law violators. • This bill would authorize the commissioner 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 who is employed by the office in responding to any disaster.
Watch
AB 439
Rogers D
California Coastal Act
of 1976: local
6/24/2025-S. THIRD
READING
6/24/2025-Read
second time.
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 Watch
20 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
planning and
reporting.
Ordered to third
reading.
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 effective upon adjournment of that meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination.
AB 444
Wilson D
General plan:
circulation element.
5/8/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/8/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(3). (Last
location was PRINT
on 2/6/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
Watch
AB 451
Petrie-Norris D
Law enforcement
policies: restraining
orders.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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, and enforcement of court protection and restraining orders that include firearm access restrictions. • The bill would require these policies and standards to, among other things, provide a standard agency process for law enforcement to serve an order against a restrained person in a timely manner and ensure the agency consistently complies with specified requirements under California law governing service of protection and restraining orders. By expanding the duties of local law enforcement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Watch
AB 463
Rodriguez, Michelle D
Emergency medical
services: dogs and
cats.
8/18/2025-
A. ENROLLMENT
8/18/2025-Senate
amendments
concurred in. To
Engrossing and
Enrolling. (Ayes 76.
Noes 0.).
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. • The bill would require an ambulance operator, except as specified, that provides transport to police canines or search and rescue dogs injured in the line of duty to develop policies regarding the transport of these dogs.
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 465
Zbur D
Local public
employees:
memoranda of
understanding.
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
4/23/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 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 as state-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.
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AB 470
McKinnor D
Telephone
corporations: carriers
of last resort.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 basic service within a specified area. • This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to adopt a process through which a telephone corporation acting as a carrier of last resort is authorized to seek relief from their carrier of last resort obligations in a census block where the United States Census Bureau reports no population and where the telephone corporation provides no basic exchange service to any customer address located within the area, and in a census block that is wellserved, as defined. • The bill would require the commission, on or before December 15, 2026, to adopt a map designating well-served areas.
• The bill would require that the process include specified notice and challenge requirements.
Oppose
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would require a telephone corporation to meet certain requirements during specified time periods following the date that amended status is granted by the commission, as provided.
AB 476
González, Mark D
Metal theft.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current law governs the business of buying, selling, and dealing in secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, also known as “junk.” 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 a statement 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. • 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.
Support
AB 492
Valencia D
Alcohol and drug
programs: licensing.
7/1/2025-S. THIRD
READING
7/1/2025-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.
Support
AB 507
Haney D
Adaptive reuse:
streamlining:
incentives.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 Oppose
23 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
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 523
Irwin D
Metropolitan water
districts: proxy vote
authorizations.
6/19/2025-S. THIRD
READING
6/19/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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, until January 1, 2030, 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.
• 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 limit a proxy vote authorization’s effectiveness to no more than 6 board meetings in a calendar year.
Support
AB 557
McKinnor D
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
The California Factory-Built Housing Law requires all factory-built housing after a specified date that is sold or offered for sale to first users within the state to bear insignia of approval issued by the department, deems that housing to comply with the requirements of all ordinances or regulations enacted by any city, city and county, county, or district that may be applicable to the construction of housing, as specified, and prohibits a city, city and county, county, and district from requiring Watch
24 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
California FactoryBuilt Housing Law.location was
HOUSING on
6/11/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
submittal of plans for any factory-built housing manufactured, or to be manufactured pursuant to these provisions, as specified. Current law requires the department to provide by regulation for the qualification and disqualification of design approval agencies to perform approval of factory-built housing plans and specifications and makes approval by these agencies the equivalent of department approval. The law provides that any person who violates any of these provisions and other specified law is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified.
• This bill would require plans or specifications of factory-built housing approved pursuant to these provisions to be approved by unit serial number and would authorize the approved plans or specifications to be used in subsequent development projects unless building standards relating to factory-built housing are modified, as specified.
• The bill would require the department and the design approval agencies to limit their review to the portions of a plan or specification that has not already received approval, as specified.
AB 569
Stefani D
California Public
Employees’ Pension
Reform Act of 2013:
exceptions:
supplemental defined
benefit plans.
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/21/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
Support
AB 572
Kalra D
Criminal procedure:
interrogations.
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
• 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 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.
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25 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would provide that its provisions do not apply if the immediate family member is under custodial interrogation, as specified. By increasing duties on local law enforcement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 590
Lee 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 592
Gabriel D
Business: retail food.
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
pursuant to a COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorization approved in accordance with the Fourth Notice of Regulatory Relief issued by the department, as specified. Existing law makes these provisions effective 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.
• The bill would also prohibit the department from issuing any new COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorizations on or after January 1, 2027.
AB 609
Wicks D
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemption: housing
development
projects.
5/20/2025-S. RLS.
5/20/2025-In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on
RLS. for assignment.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements. • This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a housing development project, as defined, that meets certain conditions relating to, for example, size, density, and location, including specific requirements for any housing on the project site located within 500 feet of a freeway. • The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a specified environmental assessment regarding hazardous substance releases. If a recognized environmental condition is found, the bill would require the development proponent to complete a preliminary endangerment assessment and specified mitigation based on that assessment. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a housing development project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Oppose
AB 610
Alvarez D
Housing element:
governmental
constraints: disclosure
statement.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development 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 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.
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27 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would require the housing element to include, in addition to the above-described analysis, a potential and actual governmental constraints disclosure statement that contains, among other things, an identification of each new or amended potential or actual governmental constraint, or revision increasing the stringency of a governmental constraint, that was adopted after the due date of the previous housing element and before submittal of the current draft housing element to the department. By imposing new requirements upon local governments submitting a housing element, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 644
Gabriel D
Exposition Park:
Holocaust memorial.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency the Sixth District Agricultural Association, known as Exposition Park. Current law establishes the Department of General Services in the Government Operations Agency for purposes of providing centralized services of state government, including, among other things, planning, acquiring, constructing, and maintaining state buildings and property.
• This bill would authorize the agency to enter into a noncompetitive grant with a nonprofit organization, as specified.
• The bill would authorize the nonprofit organization, in consultation with the agency, the Legislature, and the department, to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust at Exposition Park, as specified.
• The bill would require Exposition Park to consult with the Legislature for any issues that may arise between the planning and design of the memorial and the operating policies and procedures at Exposition Park.
• The bill would require the department, in consultation with the nonprofit organization and the agency, to, among other things, review the preliminary design plans to identify potential maintenance concerns.
• The bill would require the nonprofit organization, in consultation with Exposition Park and the Legislature, and with the approval of the agency, and the department, to prepare certain items, including an agreement for the long-term maintenance and security of the memorial.
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AB 647
González, Mark D
Housing development
approvals: residential
units.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was L. GOV.
on 4/24/2025)(May
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 Oppose
28 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
AB 648
Zbur D
Community colleges:
housing: local zoning
regulations:
exemption.
7/17/2025-S. THIRD
READING
7/17/2025-Read
second time and
amended. Ordered
to third reading.
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 authorizes them to operate campuses and provide instruction to students. • This bill would provide that a community college district is not required to comply with the zoning ordinances of a city, county, or city and county, for a university housing development project constructed on property owned or leased by a community college district if specific requirements are met. If the project includes units for faculty and staff, the bill would require the community college district to ensure that a portion of the units of the project are made available at affordable rents to extremely low income faculty and staff and lower income faculty and staff.
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AB 650
Papan D
Planning and zoning:
housing element:
regional housing
needs allocation.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/14/2025-In
committee: Referred
to APPR. suspense
file.
Current law requires a public agency to administer its programs and activities relating to housing and community 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. Current 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.
Support
29 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would require the department to develop the above-described standardized reporting format on or before December 31, 2026.
AB 660
Wilson D
Planning and Zoning
Law: postentitlement
phase permits:
Housing
Accountability Act.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency, as defined, to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information required from any applicant for a postentitlement phase permit, as defined. Current law also establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application. If a local agency finds that a complete application is noncompliant, existing law requires the local agency to provide the applicant with a list of items that are noncompliant and a description of how the application can be remedied by the applicant within specified time limits.
Current law requires the time limits to be tolled, if the local agency requires review of the application by an outside entity, until the outside entity completes the review and returns the application to the local agency, as specified.
• This bill would prohibit the local agency from requiring or requesting more than 2 plan check and specification reviews in connection with an application for a building permit, as part of its review, except as specified.
• The bill would authorize a local agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 plan check and specification reviews. • The bill would also authorize an applicant to request additional submittals of applications that are not compliant with the permit standards.
• The bill, if a local agency finds that a complete application is noncompliant, would prohibit a local agency from requesting or requiring any action or inaction as a result of a building inspection undertaken to assess compliance with the applicable building permit standards that would represent a deviation from a previously approved building plan or similar approval for the building permit, except as specified.
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AB 670
Quirk-Silva D
Planning and zoning:
housing element:
converted affordable
housing units.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/14/2025-In
committee: Referred
to APPR. suspense
file.
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 part of a general plan, current 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 the number of new units of housing, as specified. • This bill would, beginning with the report due by April 1, 2027, 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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30 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 712
Wicks D
Housing reform laws:
enforcement actions:
fines and penalties.
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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. Current law within the 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 the public agency’s compliance with a housing reform law as applied to the applicant’s housing development project, 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 extend any period of limitation for actions under any state law for a period of 60 days beginning on the date the applicant provides written notice to the local agency indicating its intent to commence an action.
• 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 715
Zbur D
Educational equity:
discrimination:
antisemitism
prevention.
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was ED. on
6/11/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
Current law states the policy of the State of California is to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. Current law prohibits the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school from adopting or approving the use of any textbook, instructional material, supplemental instructional material, or curriculum if its use would subject a pupil to unlawful discrimination, as specified. • This bill would similarly prohibit the adoption or approval of the use of professional development materials or services that promote, endorse, or otherwise support actions or the use of textbooks, instructional materials, supplemental instructional materials, or curriculum that would subject a pupil to unlawful discrimination, as specified. If the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school knows or has reason to know that materials were used in a classroom or an action occurred that resulted in unlawful discrimination, or knows or has reason to know that professional development materials or services were used that resulted in unlawful discrimination, the bill would require investigation and remediation of the action, as Support
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
provided.
• The bill would provide that an antisemitic learning environment, as defined, created by a school district, county office of education, or charter school constitutes discrimination, as provided. • The bill would specify that an antisemitic learning environment is created if any one of specified actions occur, as provided.
• This bill would establish the Office of the Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator, under the administration of the State Board of Education.
• The bill would require the appointment of an Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator, as provided.
AB 734
Schultz D
Environmental
protection: biological
resources data: State
Energy Resources
Conservation and
Development
Commission:
powerplants: power
lines: applications.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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.
• The bill would require the department, if it makes that determination, to include in the written determination an assessment of the maximum amount of the specified data that can be released without posing a risk to the species.
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AB 736
Wicks D
The Affordable
Housing Bond Act of
2026.
6/4/2025-S. RLS.
6/4/2025-In Senate.
Read first time. To
Com. on RLS. for
assignment.
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.
Support if
Amended
32 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 750
Quirk-Silva D
Homeless shelters:
safety regulations.
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was JUD. on
6/24/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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, as prescribed. • 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 782
Quirk-Silva D
Subdivisions: security.
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
The Subdivision Map Act requires prescribed security from a developer if the act or a local ordinance authorizes or requires the furnishing of security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement. Current law requires the Real Estate Commissioner to make an examination of any subdivision, and to, unless there are grounds for denial, issue to the subdivider a public report authorizing the sale or lease of the lots or parcels within the subdivision. Current law specifies the grounds for denial, including, among other things, the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for all offsite improvements included in the offering or the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for any community, recreational, or other facilities included in the offering.
• This bill would prohibit the Real Estate Commissioner, in issuing a public report for a residential development or project, from requiring the furnishing of a security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement related to an improvement if the Real Estate Commissioner determines that security sufficient to protect the interests of purchasers, owners, and lessees, as necessary, has been furnished to a local agency for the same improvement pursuant to the provisions above requiring security under the Subdivision Map Act.
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AB 789
Bonta D
7/16/2025-S. THIRD
READING
7/16/2025-Read
The Political Reform Act of 1974 authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system or for another tangible item related to security, and for the reasonable Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Political Reform Act of
1974: security
expenses.
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family or staff of a candidate or elected officer, provided that the threat or potential threat to safety arises from the candidate’s or elected officer’s activities, duties, or status as a candidate or elected officer or from staff’s position as staff of the candidate or elected officer. The act permits a candidate or elected officer to expend a maximum of $10,000 of campaign funds for these purposes during their lifetime. • This bill would eliminate that monetary cap until January 1, 2029. Beginning January 1, 2029, the bill would instead permit a candidate or elected officer to expend a maximum of $10,000 of campaign funds for these purposes per calendar year.
AB 818
Ávila Farías D
Permit Streamlining
Act: local
emergencies.
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency to determine whether an application for a development project is complete within specified time periods, as specified. The act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or city and county to proclaim a local emergency under certain circumstances, as specified, and grants political subdivisions various powers and authorities in periods of local emergency.
• This bill would exempt projects related to the rebuilding or repair of an affected property, as defined, from specified requirements for solar panel installations, as provided. • The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to approve an or deny a complete application, within 10 business days of receipt of the application, for a building permit or an equivalent permit for any of the specified structures intended to be used by a person until the rebuilding or repair of an affected property is complete. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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AB 847
Sharp-Collins D
Peace officers:
confidentiality of
records.
7/9/2025-S. THIRD
READING
7/9/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
The California Public Records Act authorizes the inspection and copying of any public record except where specifically prohibited by law. Current law, with specified exemptions, makes confidential the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers 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 or to related 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 related proceedings concerning the conduct of those officers.
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34 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 877
Dixon R
Health care coverage:
substance use
disorder: residential
facilities.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was HEALTH
on 3/3/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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 888
Calderon D
California Safe Homes
grant program.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
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 for the program upon appropriation by the Legislature or upon receipt of federal or other grants or funds.
• 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 920
Caloza D
8/19/2025-
S. CONSENT
CALENDAR
The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law requires a city or county that has an internet website to, among other things, make a fee estimate tool that the public Watch
35 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Permit Streamlining
Act: housing
development
projects: centralized
application portal.
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to Consent
Calendar.
can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website.
• This bill would require a city or county with a population of 150,000 or more persons to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website to applicants for housing development projects, as prescribed.
• The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a city or county described above to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website no later than January 1, 2030, if the legislative body of the city or county, on or before January 1, 2028, takes certain action, including initiating a procurement process to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website.
• The bill would require the centralized application portal to allow for tracking of the status of an application.
• The bill would specify that a city or county is not required to provide the status of any permit or inspection required by another local agency, a state agency, or a utility provider.
AB 945
Fong D
Density Bonus Law:
incentives and
concessions: green
housing
developments.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was H. &
C.D. on
3/10/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 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.
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36 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
AB 956
Quirk-Silva D
Accessory dwelling
units: ministerial
approval: singlefamily dwellings.
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was
HOUSING on
6/4/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 961
Ávila Farías D
Hazardous materials:
California Land Reuse
and Revitalization Act
of 2004.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
The California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004 provides, among other things, that an innocent landowner, bona fide purchaser, or contiguous property owner, as defined, qualifies for immunity from liability from certain state statutory and common laws for pollution conditions caused by a release or threatened release of a hazardous material if specified conditions are met, including entering into an agreement for a specified site assessment and response plan. The act prohibits the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water Resources Control Board, and a California regional water quality control board from requiring one of those persons to take a response action under certain state laws, except as specified. Existing law repeals the act on January 1, 2027. Current law provides that a person who qualifies for immunity under the act before January 1, 2027, shall continue to have that immunity on and after January 1, 2027. • This bill would extend the repeal date of the act to January 1, 2037, and would provide that a person who qualifies for immunity under the act before January 1, 2037, shall continue to have that immunity on and after January 1, 2037, if the person continues to be in compliance with the requirements of the former act.
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AB 981
Gipson D
Vehicles: active
intelligent speed
assist devices.
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/7/2025)(May be
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 require the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish, until January 1, 2033, a pilot Watch
37 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
acted upon Jan
2026)
program in the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno, Sacramento, and Kern that 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 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 specified driving offenses is required to install an ISA, as specified.
• The bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to create a verification installation form to be submitted by persons subject to these provisions.
• The bill would impose a fee schedule to be adopted by certified ISA manufacturers and their agents for the ISA and other related costs.
AB 992
Irwin D
Peace officers.
7/7/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/7/2025-In
committee: Referred
to APPR. suspense
file.
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 1007
Rubio, Blanca D
Land use:
development project
review.
7/14/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/14/2025-In
committee: Referred
to APPR. suspense
file.
The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove a development project within specified time periods. The act requires a public agency, other than the California Coastal Commission, that is a responsible agency for specified development projects to approve or disapprove the project within 90 days of the date on which the lead agency has approved the project or within 90 days of the date on which the completed application has been received and accepted as complete by the lead agency, whichever is longer. • This bill would reduce the time period that a responsible agency is required to approve or disapprove a project, as described above, from 90 days to 45 days. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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AB 1010
Rodriguez, Michelle D
Local government:
5/8/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/8/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(3). (Last
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, Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
broadband: traffic
control requirements:
state standard.
location was PRINT
on 2/20/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
AB 1014
Rogers D
Traffic safety: speed
limits.
7/8/2025-S. THIRD
READING
7/8/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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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AB 1022
Kalra D
Authority to remove
vehicles.
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/14/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 violations to 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 1026
Wilson D
Public utilities:
electrical
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
The Powering Up Californians Act requires the Public Utilities Commission, on or before September 30, 2024, to establish reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods, as defined, and a procedure for customers to report energization delays to the commission, as provided. The act requires the commission to require the electrical corporation to take remedial actions necessary to achieve the commission’s targets and requires all reports to be publicly available. • This bill would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to require each large Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
corporations:
energization.
electrical corporation to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny an application for energization, to post an example of a complete, approved energization application and an example of a complete energization application for a housing development project, and to make those items available on its internet website by a date specified by the commission. • The bill would also require the commission to require each large electrical corporation to determine if an application for energization is complete and provide notice or otherwise provide certain information under a specified procedure.
AB 1050
Schultz D
Unlawfully restrictive
covenants: housing
developments:
reciprocal easement
agreements.
8/18/2025-S. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/18/2025-In
committee: Referred
to suspense file.
Current law provides that specified recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits on the use of land contained in specified instruments affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property are not enforceable against the owner of an affordable housing development, as defined, if an approved restrictive covenant affordable housing modification document has been recorded in the public record, as provided. As part of this process, current law requires the owner to submit to the county recorder a copy of the original restrictive covenant and any documents the owner believes necessary to establish that the property qualifies as an affordable housing development and requires the county counsel to determine, among other things, if the property qualifies as an affordable housing development and if a modification document may be recorded. Current law provides that these provisions do not authorize any development that is not otherwise consistent with local general plans, zoning ordinances, and any applicable specific plan. • This bill would extend those provisions to any housing development that is owned or controlled by an entity or individual that has submitted a development project application to redevelop an existing commercial property, and the development project includes residential uses permitted by state housing laws or local land use and zoning regulations and would make various conforming changes. • The bill would additionally make these provisions applicable to covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits contained in a reciprocal easement agreement, as provided.
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AB 1055
Boerner D
Accessory dwelling
units: proof of
residential occupancy
requirements.
5/8/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/8/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(3). (Last
location was L. GOV.
on 4/24/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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. 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.
Watch
40 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• 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.
AB 1061
Quirk-Silva D
Housing
developments: urban
lot splits: historical
resources.
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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 specified requirements, 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, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose specified objective standards on the development or parcel created by an urban lot split, except as specified. With respect to ministerial review of a proposed 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 the development that is not located in either a contributing structure within a historic district included on the State Historical Resources Inventory or within a historic property or district pursuant to city or county ordinance or in a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included in the State Historical Resources Inventory or within a property individually designated or listed as a city or county landmark under a city or county ordinance.
• The bill would also authorize a local agency to adopt objective standards for the purposes of maintaining the historical value of a historic district listed in the California Register of Historical Resources, as specified.
Oppose
AB 1206
Harabedian D
Single-family and
multifamily housing
7/15/2025-S. APPR.
8/18/2025-From
committee chair,
with author's
amendments:
The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities and the implementation of those general plans as may be in effect in those counties or cities. Current law requires each local agency, by January 1, 2025, to develop a program for the preapproval of accessory dwelling unit plans. • This bill would require each local agency, as defined, to develop a program for the preapproval of single-family and multifamily residential housing plans, whereby the local agency accepts single-family Watch
41 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
units: preapproved
plans.
Amend, and re-refer
to committee. Read
second time,
amended, and rereferred to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 27.
Noes 0.)
and multifamily plan submissions for preapproval and approves or denies the preapproval applications, as specified.
• The bill would require a large jurisdiction, as defined, to develop this program by July 1, 2026, and a small jurisdiction, as defined, to develop a program by January 1, 2028. • The bill would authorize a local agency to charge a fee to an applicant for the preapproval of a single-family or multifamily residential housing plan, as specified. • The bill would require the local agency to post preapproved single-family or multifamily residential housing plans and the contact information of the applicant on the local agency’s internet website. • The bill would require an application for preapproval to include a statement by the applicant that the applicant has sufficient authority, license, or ownership interest in the plan to submit the plan for preapproval and, if approved, posted as described above. • This bill would prohibit the preapproval program from applying to single-family or multifamily residential housing plans intended for use in certain communities and developments, as specified. • The bill would require a local agency to either approve or deny an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit, both as defined, within 30 days if the lot meets certain conditions and the application utilizes either a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit plan preapproved within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle or a plan that is identical to a plan used in an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit approved by the local agency within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle.
AB 1276
Carrillo D
Housing
developments:
ordinances, policies,
and standards.
7/9/2025-S. APPR.
8/18/2025-In
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.
The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project, as defined for purposes of the act, for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act provides that for its purposes, a housing development project or emergency shelter shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the housing development project or emergency shelter is consistent, compliant, or in conformity. The act requires a housing development project to be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when a preliminary application, as specified, was submitted, except as otherwise provided. The act defines “ordinances, policies, and standards” to include general plan, community plan, specific plan, zoning, design review standards and criteria, subdivision standards and criteria, and any other rules, regulations, requirements, and policies of a Watch
42 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
local agency, as defined, including those relating to development impact fees, capacity or connection fees or charges, permit or processing fees, and other exactions. • This bill would include in the definition of “ordinances, policies, and standards” materials requirements, postentitlement permit standards, and any rules, regulations, determinations, and other requirements adopted or implemented by other public agencies, as defined AB 1294
Haney D
Planning and zoning:
housing development:
standardized
application form.
7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was L. GOV.
on 6/11/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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 application for 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 completing specified requirements, when applicable, including, among other things, providing a description of the proposed housing development project and a list of the approvals requested by the applicant to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the housing entitlement is being sought. • The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, the Department of Housing and Community 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, a city, 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. • The bill would authorize the city, county, or city and county to develop its own application forms or templates for different housing entitlements, subject to the requirements of this bill. • This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from requiring certain information or approvals, including, among others, any approval or determination by any official, body, department, or subdepartment of the city, county, or city and county as a condition of determining that an application for a housing entitlement is complete.
Oppose
AB 1308
Hoover R
8/19/2025-
S. CONSENT
CALENDAR
The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires a county’s or city’s building department to enforce the State Housing Law and the California Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human Watch
43 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Residential building
permits: inspections:
Housing
Accountability Act.
8/20/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to Consent
Calendar.
habitation. Current law requires a county or city, upon the applicant’s request, to contract with or employ temporarily a private entity or person to check the plans and specifications submitted with an application for a residential building permit to comply with the State Housing Law or local ordinances adopted pursuant to the State Housing Law, when the building department takes more than 30 days, as specified, to complete the plan check. Current law authorizes an enforcement agency to inspect any building to secure compliance with the State Housing Law and the California Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law. • This bill would require the building department to conduct an inspection of the permitted work for specified new residential constructions of a building and residential additions to an existing building within 10 business days of receiving a notice of the completion of the permitted work authorized by a building permit issued for those projects.
AB 1333
Zbur D
Crimes: homicide.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was PUB. S.
on 3/13/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
Watch
AB 1379
Nguyen D
Vehicles: speed safety
system pilot program.
5/1/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was TRANS.
on 3/24/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
Watch
AB 1388
Bryan D
8/20/2025-S. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
Existing 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.
Existing law requires the commission to establish procedures for accepting complaints from members Watch
44 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Law enforcement:
settlement
agreements.
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
of the public regarding peace officers or law enforcement agencies that may be investigated. Existing 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.
• 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 declare that its provisions are severable. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1489
Bryan D
Peace officers.
5/23/2025-A. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/7/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
Would 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
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.
Watch
SB 6
Ashby D
Controlled
substances: xylazine.
7/16/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/16/2025-July 16
set for first hearing.
Placed on 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.
Support
45 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would exclude from the prohibitions on paraphernalia any testing equipment to analyze a substance for the presence of xylazine.
SB 9
Arreguín D
Accessory Dwelling
Units: ordinances.
8/18/2025-A. THIRD
READING
8/18/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
The Planning and Zoning 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 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.
Watch
SB 16
Blakespear D
Ending Street
Homelessness Act.
6/9/2025-A. H. &
C.D.
7/10/2025-July 16
hearing postponed
by committee.
Current law requires each city, county, and city and county to revise its housing element according to a specified schedule, as provided. Current 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, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. At least 2 years before a scheduled revision of the housing element, as specified, existing law requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop, in consultation with the department, a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to jurisdictions, as specified. Current law requires that the final allocation plan ensure that the total regional housing need, by income category, determined as specified, is maintained, and that each jurisdiction in the region receive an allocation of units for low- and very low income households. For the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, current law also requires that the allocation to each region include an allocation of units for acutely low and extremely low income households.
• This bill, until January 1, 2032, would require the council of governments, or delegate subregion, as applicable, in developing the proposed allocation methodology that allocates each jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need for acutely low income housing, to count any newly constructed interim Watch
46 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
housing, as specified, as meeting the needs of acutely low income households. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 35
Umberg D
Alcohol and drug
programs.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
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 to the facility that includes the date by which the facility is required to cease providing services. • This bill would require the department, if it determines it has jurisdiction over the allegation, to initiate that investigation within 10 days of receiving the allegation and, except as specified, complete the investigation within 60 days of initiating the investigation. • The bill would require the department, if it receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, to notify the complainant that it does not investigate that type of complaint. • 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 as required. • The bill would authorize, in counties that elect to administer the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system and that provide optional recovery housing services, the county behavioral health agency to request approval from the department to conduct a site visit of a recovery residence that is alleged to be operating without a license.
Support
SB 71
Wiener D
California
Environmental
Quality Act:
exemptions:
environmental
leadership transit
projects.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA, 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. • 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 Watch
47 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
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 74
Seyarto R
Office of Land Use and
Climate Innovation:
Infrastructure GapFund Program.
7/2/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/2/2025-July 2 set
for first hearing.
Placed on suspense
file.
Current law establishes the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in the Governor’s office for the purpose 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.
Support
SB 79
Wiener D
Housing
development: transitoriented
development.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Current law requires that the housing element 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, as specified.
Current law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to the meeting of these needs, including an inventory of land suitable for residential development, as provided. Current 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 specified, and requires the appropriate council of local governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each locality in the region. Existing law requires each local government to revise its housing element in accordance with a specified schedule.
Oppose
48 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• This bill would require that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development (TOD) stop, as defined, be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the development complies with applicable requirements, as specified. Among these requirements, the bill would establish requirements concerning height limits, density, and floor area ratio in accordance with a development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops, as provided. • The bill would provide that, for the purposes of the Housing Accountability Act, a proposed development consistent with the applicable standards of these provisions shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with prescribed requirements, as specified.
SB 92
Blakespear D
Housing
development: density
bonuses.
8/18/2025-A. THIRD
READING
8/18/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified units and meets other requirements. • This bill would specify that a concession and incentive shall not result in a proposed project, as prescribed, with a specified commercial floor area ratio. • The bill would also specify that certain provisions of the Density Bonus Law do not require a city, county, or city and county to approve, grant a concession or incentive requiring approval of, or waive or reduce development standards otherwise applicable to, transient lodging as part of a housing development, except as specified.
Watch
SB 93
Weber Pierson D
Weapons: robotic
devices.
5/23/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
4/21/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
Watch
SB 230
Laird D
7/14/2025-A. THIRD
READING
8/20/2025-Read
Current law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee, as defined, for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Current law creates a rebuttable presumption that specified injuries, such as cancer or post-traumatic stress disorder, developed or manifested in the course of Watch
49 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Workers’
compensation:
firefighters.
third time and
amended. Ordered
to third reading.
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, for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2026, additionally apply these provisions to active firefighting members of a fire department that provides fire protection to a commercial airport, as specified.
SB 233
Seyarto R
Regional housing
need: determination:
consultation with
councils of
governments.
8/21/2025-A. THIRD
READING
8/21/2025-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, 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.
Watch
SB 239
Arreguín D
Open meetings:
teleconferencing:
subsidiary body.
6/5/2025-S. 2 YEAR
6/5/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(8). (Last
location was
INACTIVE FILE on
6/3/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 Support
50 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
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.
SB 262
Wahab D
Housing element:
prohousing
designations:
prohousing local
policies.
8/21/2025-A. THIRD
READING
8/21/2025-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 substantial compliance 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 include additional examples of prohousing local policies under the abovedescribed provisions, as specified.
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SB 266
Cervantes D
Elections: language
accessibility.
5/23/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/12/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 of State’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. For an election with a single language minority group that makes up 3% or more of the voting-age residents or if the Secretary of State otherwise finds sufficient reason to provide translated ballots, the bill would require elections officials, beginning January 1, 2030, to, among other things, provide ballots, ballot identification envelopes, and Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
related notices and instructions in the language of an applicable language minority group. • The bill would also make related, conforming changes.
SB 274
Cervantes D
Automated license
plate recognition
systems.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
Current law prohibits a public agency, which includes 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 provide that “public agency” does not include a transportation agency, as specified. • The bill would authorize a law enforcement agency to use ALPR information only for purposes of locating vehicles or persons when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense.
• The bill would prohibit a public agency from retaining ALPR information for more than 60 days after the date of collection if it does not match information on an authorized hot list, as defined.
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SB 315
Grayson D
Quimby Act.
5/1/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was L. GOV.
on 3/26/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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 328
Grayson D
Hazardous waste
generation and
handling fees:
Department of Toxic
Substances Control
oversight responses:
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
The hazardous waste control laws require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to regulate the handling and management of hazardous waste and hazardous materials. Current law, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, establishes time limits for a local agency, as defined, to complete reviews regarding whether to approve or deny an application, as specified, and makes any failure to meet these time limits a disapproval of the housing development project and a violation of specified law. Upon the department receiving a request for a housing development project seeking oversight of investigation, characterization, and remediation activities, this bill would require the department to provide written notice to the requestor within specified timelines regarding subsequent actions in the review process, as specified.
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
housing development
projects.
the written notice within 60 business days of receiving the request. • The bill would require, for a housing development with 26 units or more, the department to provide the written notice within 120 business days of receiving the request. • The bill would make these provisions operative on July 1, 2028.
SB 329
Blakespear D
Alcohol and drug
recovery or treatment
facilities:
investigations.
7/2/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/2/2025-July 2 set
for first hearing.
Placed on 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 alcohol or 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 of receiving 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.
Support
SB 332
Wahab D
Investor-Owned
Utilities
Accountability Act.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to select a research institute, as defined, to conduct a comparative analysis of the benefits and challenges of transitioning the electrical corporations to a public entity, nonprofit public benefit corporation, or mutual benefit corporation in order to identify a recommended model, as provided. • The bill would require the research institute to complete the analysis on or before January 1, 2029, and, upon completion, to submit the analysis to the Legislature and the Energy Commission. • The bill would require the Energy Commission to make a draft of the analysis available to the public for comment before submitting the final draft to the Legislature and would limit the cost of conducting the analysis to $5,000,000.
• This bill would require the research institute to conduct the first phase of the comparative analysis and to submit an interim report, on or before December 31, 2026, to the Energy Commission on threshold legal issues, as provided.
• The bill would require the Energy Commission to convene a group of state attorneys from the legal departments of state agencies that regulate electrical corporations to advise the research institute on the first phase of the comparative analysis, as specified.
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53 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SB 346
Durazo D
Local agencies:
transient occupancy
taxes: short-term
rental facilitator.
7/17/2025-A. THIRD
READING
7/17/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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 manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period.
• The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. • The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to 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.
Support
SB 385
Seyarto R
Peace officers.
7/17/2025-A. THIRD
READING
7/17/2025-From
consent calendar on
motion of Assembly
Member Garcia.
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 417
Cabaldon 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 436
Wahab D
7/17/2025-A. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Current law prescribes summary procedures for actions to obtain possession of real property. Existing law authorizes a landlord to serve a notice of termination of tenancy on a tenant who is in default in Watch
54 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Unlawful detainer:
notice to terminate
tenancy.
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was JUD. on
6/9/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
the 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. • This bill would extend the notice period described above, to terminate a tenancy on a tenant who is in default in the payment of rent, to permit the tenant at least 14 days, excluding weekends and judicial holidays, to pay the amount that is in default and due.
SB 445
Wiener D
High-speed rail: thirdparty agreements,
permits, and
approvals:
regulations.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
Current law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority Office of the Inspector General (office) and authorizes the High-Speed Rail Authority Inspector General (inspector general) to initiate an audit or review regarding oversight related to delivery of the high-speed rail project undertaken by the authority and the selection and oversight of contractors related to that project. Current law requires the inspector general to submit annual reports to the Legislature and Governor regarding its findings. • This bill would require the authority, on or before July 1, 2026, to develop and adopt internal rules, as defined, setting forth standards and timelines for the authority to engage utilities to ensure coordination and cooperation in relocating utility infrastructure or otherwise resolving utility conflicts affecting the delivery of the high-speed rail project.
• The bill would require the authority to ensure that the internal rules, among other things, identify the circumstances under which the authority would be required seek to enter into a cooperative agreement with a utility that, where relevant, identifies who is responsible for specific utility relocations, as specified.
Oppose
SB 448
Umberg D
Trespassing: removal
of trespassers on
residential property.
5/23/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/12/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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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55 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SB 457
Becker D
Housing element
compliance: Housing
Accountability Act:
housing disapprovals.
5/8/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/8/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(3). (Last
location was
HOUSING on
2/26/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 and Zoning 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 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.
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SB 489
Arreguín D
Local agency
formation
commissions: written
policies and
procedures: Permit
Streamlining Act:
8/20/2025-
A. CONSENT
CALENDAR
8/21/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to consent
calendar.
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.
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56 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
housing development
projects.
• 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.
SB 492
Menjivar 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 496
Hurtado D
Advanced Clean Fleets
Regulation: appeals
advisory committee:
exemptions.
5/23/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/5/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 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.
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• 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 497
Wiener D
Legally protected
health care activity.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
(1)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. Existing 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 allow a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.
Existing 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. Existing 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 genderaffirming 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. • 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.
• The bill would prohibit these entities from releasing medical information related to sensitive services, as defined, in response to a foreign subpoena that is based on a violation of another state’s laws authorizing a criminal action against a person or entity for provision or receipt of legally protected health care activity, as defined.
• The bill would also generally prohibit the issuance of a subpoena based on a violation of another state’s law that interferes with a person’s right to seek or obtain gender-affirming health care or Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
gender-affirming mental health care, as specified.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
SB 515
Richardson D
Local government:
collection of
demographic data.
7/16/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
7/16/2025-July 16
set for first hearing.
Placed on 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 522
Wahab D
Housing: tenant
protections.
7/17/2025-A. THIRD
READING
7/17/2025-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 569
Blakespear D
Department of
Transportation:
homeless
encampments.
7/17/2025-A. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was TRANS.
on 6/16/2025)(May
be acted upon Jan
2026)
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.
• 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.
Support
59 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
• The bill would require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature summarizing specified information and recommendations regarding homeless encampments.
SB 574
Umberg D
Streamlined housing
approvals.
5/1/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was
HOUSING on
4/2/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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 607
Wiener D
California
Environmental
Quality
Act:Infrastructure
Projects.
6/5/2025-S. 2 YEAR
6/5/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(8). (Last
location was
INACTIVE FILE on
6/5/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. Current law, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, declares that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a critically important natural resource for California and the nation and it serves as both the hub of the California water system and the most valuable estuary and wetland ecosystem on the west coast of North and South America.
• This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that, among other things, no revisions shall be made to CEQA for purposes of the Delta Conveyance Project.
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SB 629
Durazo D
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review the areas in the state identified as very high fire hazard severity zones, as specified. Current law requires a local agency, within 30 days after receiving a transmittal from the State Fire Marshal that identifies those fire hazard severity Watch
60 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Wildfires: fire hazard
severity zones:
defensible space,
vegetation
management, and
fuel modification
enforcement.
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
zones, to make the information available for public review and comment, and to present the information in a format that is understandable and accessible to the general public, including, but not limited to, maps. Current law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains an occupied dwelling or structure in a very high fire hazard severity zone to take certain fire risk management measures, including maintaining defensible space of 100 feet from each side of the structure, except as provided. Current law requires the Office of the State Fire Marshal to develop a model defensible space program, as provided, that includes, but is not limited to, specified components, including enforcement mechanisms for compliance with and maintenance of defensible space requirements. Current law includes among these enforcement mechanisms, among other things, site inspections.
• This bill would require the factors on which the fire severity zones are based to include areas within the perimeter of a wildfire that burned 1,000 or more acres, destroyed more than 10 structures, or resulted in a fatality, and to include areas at risk for an urban conflagration that accounts for the potential for structures to serve as a fuel source that extends the ember cast outside of wildland areas and areas where agricultural land affects fire hazard.
• The bill would require the State Fire Marshal to publish the model and methodology used to develop the fire hazard severity zones on its internet website at least 60 days before finalizing those designations and to publish the model and methodology for specified factors whenever the State Fire Marshal reviews the fire severity zones.
SB 634
Pérez D
Local government:
homelessness.
7/17/2025-A. THIRD
READING
7/17/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
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.
• This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. • The bill would define various terms for these purposes. • 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.
Oppose
SB 671
Cervantes D
8/20/2025-
A. CONSENT
CALENDAR
8/21/2025-Read
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 existing 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 the Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Pedestrian crossing
signals.
second time.
Ordered to consent
calendar.
steady “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, current 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, current 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. • The bill would require LPIs to be implemented at these existing state-owned or -operated traffic signals locations at the next opportunity for regularly scheduled operational reviews.
SB 677
Wiener D
Housing
development:
streamlined
approvals.
5/1/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/1/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(2). (Last
location was
HOUSING on
4/9/2025)(May be
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.
Oppose
62 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
acted upon Jan
2026)
SB 681
Wahab D
Housing.
7/17/2025-A. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was H. &
C.D. on
6/16/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
(1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones by ordinance, and sets forth standards the ordinance is required to impose with respect to certain matters, including, among others, maximum unit size, parking, and height standards. Existing 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. • This bill would prohibit fees and other financial requirements from being included in the abovedescribed reasonable restrictions.
Neutral
SB 691
Wahab D
Body-worn cameras:
policies.
5/23/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/12/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
Would 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.
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SB 707
Durazo D
Open meetings:
meeting and
teleconference
requirements.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
(1)Existing law, 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 an eligible legislative body, as defined, to comply with additional meeting requirements, including that, except as specified, 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, and that the eligible legislative body take specified actions to encourage residents to participate in public meetings, as specified.
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SB 715
Allen D
7/17/2025-A. 2 YEAR
7/17/2025-Failed
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 Watch
63 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
Regional housing
need: methodology:
distribution.
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(10). (Last
location was H. &
C.D. on
6/5/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
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. Current law, 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 those lost units to be distributed proportionally according to the region’s proposed methodology, as provided, and would prohibit the lost units from solely being distributed to the jurisdictions in which they were lost.
SB 720
Ashby D
Automated traffic
enforcement system
programs.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
Existing law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements, including identifying the system with signs and ensuring that the system meets specified criteria on minimum yellow light change intervals. Existing 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 for speed enforcement that utilizes a speed safety system in specified areas, if the system meets specified requirements. Existing 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 system to 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 to escalating civil penalties, as specified.
Neutral
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
August 22, 2025
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
SB 786
Arreguín D
Planning and zoning:
general plan: judicial
challenges.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, 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. Current 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 current 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.
• The bill would extend the requirement that a court grant temporary relief, as described above, in any instance in which the court orders a continuance, rather than only if the court grants a continuance to a respondent.
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SB 815
Allen D
Planning and zoning:
very high fire hazard
areas.
5/23/2025-S. 2 YEAR
5/23/2025-Failed
Deadline pursuant to
Rule 61(a)(5). (Last
location was APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE on
5/12/2025)(May be
acted upon Jan
2026)
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a 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 the safety 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 Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City
Position
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 agency to submit the adopted strategy to the Office of Planning and Research for inclusion into the abovedescribed clearinghouse.
SB 827
Gonzalez D
Local agency officials:
training.
8/20/2025-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
8/20/2025-August
20 set for first
hearing. Placed on
suspense file.
Existing law imposes ethics training on specified local agency officials. Existing 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 department heads, or other similar administrative officers, 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 contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 838
Durazo D
Housing
Accountability Act:
housing development
projects.
8/18/2025-A. THIRD
READING
8/18/2025-Read
second time.
Ordered to third
reading.
Existing 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 unless the local agency makes written findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified. Existing law defines, for its purposes, a housing development project as a use consisting of, among other things, mixed-use developments consisting of residential and nonresidential uses meeting one of several conditions, including that at least 2/3 of the new or converted square footage is designated for residential use. • This bill would revise the definition of “housing development project” to, in the case of mixed-use developments with at least 2/3 of the new or converted square footage designated for residential use, require that no portion of the project be designated for use as a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other transient lodging, except as specified.
Support
Total Measures: 151