STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: December 9, 2025
To: Honorable Mayor and City Council
From: Mandy Jiang, Senior Management Analyst
Subject: State Legislative Year End Report
Attachment: 1. 2025 City of Beverly Hills State Legislative Scorecard
INTRODUCTION
The City Council adopted the City’s 2025 Legislative Platform this past April, which provides direction to the City’s legislative advocates and City staff as they work to secure clear and strategic initiatives locally, as well as in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
This report is for information only and transmits updates from the City’s state lobbyist on legislative activities for the first of the two-year 2025-2026 state legislative session.
DISCUSSION
The 2025 state legislative session officially ended on September 13, 2025, giving the Governor until October 13 to sign or veto legislation. During the past year, the City took a position on or closely monitored 36 bills:
• Opposed – 11 bills
• Supported – 16 bills
• Support if Amended – 2 bills
• Neutral – 2 bills
• Watch – 5 bill
Of the 16 bills the City supported, 8 were signed into law by the Governor, and one was vetoed by the Governor. Some of the more impactful bills signed or vetoed by the Governor which the City took a position on, include but are not limited to:
• SUPPORT SB 346 (Durazo) – Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: shortterm rental facilitator. The Governor has signed this bill into law, which enables cities and counties to require short-term rental facilitators, e.g. AirBnB, VRBO, etc., to report property addresses, license numbers, and other key data in an effort to enforce compliance with local ordinances and the collection of transient occupancy taxes (TOT). This law will only apply to a local agency that adopts an ordinance that makes the provisions of this law applicable within its jurisdictional boundaries.
Meeting Date: December 9, 2025
• SUPPORT AB 424 (Davies) – Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints. The Governor has signed this bill into law, would require more transparency into how the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) processes complaints against licensed alcohol and drug treatment facilities, by requiring DHCS to notify individuals at three key points: when their complaint is received, when the investigation concludes, and the outcome of the investigation. Currently, DHCS does not automatically provide this information upon request. Instead, complainants must file a Public Records Act (PRA) request, to receive a response from the agency.
• SUPPORT AB 650 (Papan) - Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation. The Governor has vetoed this bill sponsored by the League of California Cities. This bill would’ve required the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to provide greater clarity to local jurisdictions; if HCD found that a draft housing element is deficient, HCD would have had to provide the specific analysis and draft text that should be included in the jurisdiction's housing element. This measure would’ve also allowed local jurisdictions to begin the housing element update six months earlier than what is required under existing law. The Governor issued a veto message, stating his concern that the bill would inappropriately shift responsibility for preparing housing elements from local jurisdictions to HCD, which would add $11 million in new annual costs to the State.
• OPPOSE SB 79 (Wiener) - Housing development: transit-oriented development.
Perhaps the most controversial bill this legislative year, SB 79 was amended 13 times before the Governor signed it into law. This complex law overrides local zoning by setting statewide zoning minimums for height and densities for housing developments located within a quarter to half mile radius near transit stops, as defined, on parcels zoned for residential, mixed use, or commercial use.
Of the two bills the City was neutral on, SB 720 (Ashby) was signed by the Governor.
Four of five bills that the City was watching were signed by the Governor. The two bills the City took a position of “support if amended” have become two-year bills.
A description of the bills that the City took a position on in the 2025 legislative session is attached for informational purposes (Attachment 1). The official position letters the City sent may be found at www.beverlyhills.org/legislation. Both the City Attorney’s Office and City staff are analyzing various bills that were signed into law to determine how they would impact the City.
FISCAL IMPACT
The fiscal impact is unknown at this time for the state legislation signed into law.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the City Council receive and file this report as it is for informational purposes only.
Keith Sterling
Deputy City Manager
Approved By
Attachment 1
City of Beverly Hills
2025 End of Year Scorecard
The first year of the two-year, 2025-2026 state legislative session, ended on September 13, 2025, giving the Governor until October 13, 2025, to sign or veto legislation.
In 2025, the City took positions on 29 pieces of state legislation as follows:
• Opposed – 11 bills
• Supported – 16 bills
• Support if Amended – 2 bills
The table below contains a list of the 36 bills on which the City took a position or closely monitored during the 2025 state legislative session, along with their final status.
Bill
Number
Author Description Position Outcome
AB 1 Connolly Residential property insurance:
wildfire risk.
Support Signed by Governor
AB 11 Lee The Social Housing Act. Support if
Amended
Two-year bill
AB 262 Caloza California Individual Assistance
Act.
Support Two-year bill
AB 306 Schultz Building regulations: state
building standards.
Oppose Two-year bill
AB 357 Alvarez Coastal resources: coastal
development permit
application: higher education
housing project.
Watch Signed by Governor
AB 424 Davies Alcohol and other drug
programs: complaints.
Support Signed by Governor
AB 470 McKinnor Telephone corporations:
carriers of last resort.
Oppose Two-year bill
AB 476 Gonzalez Metal theft. Support Signed by Governor AB 492 Valencia Alcohol and drug programs:
licensing.
Support Signed by Governor
AB 507 Haney Adaptive reuse: streamlining:
incentives.
Oppose Signed by Governor
AB 523 Irwin Metropolitan water districts:
proxy vote authorizations.
Support Signed by Governor
AB 609 Wicks California Environmental
Quality Act: exemption:
housing development projects.
Oppose Two-year bill
AB 610 Alvarez Housing element:
governmental constraints:
disclosure statement.
Watch Signed by Governor
2 Bill
Number
Author Description Position Outcome
AB 647 Gonzalez Housing development
approvals: residential units.
Oppose Two-year bill
AB 650 Papan Planning and zoning: housing
element: regional housing
needs allocation.
Support Vetoed by Governor
AB 715 Zbur Educational equity:
discrimination: antisemitism
prevention
Support Signed by Governor
AB 736 Wicks The Affordable Housing Bond
Act of 2026.
Support if
Amended
Two-year bill
AB 920 Caloza Permit Streamlining Act:
housing development projects:
centralized application portal.
Watch Signed by Governor
AB 961 Avila Farias Hazardous materials: California
Land Reuse and Revitalization
Act of 2004.
Watch Signed by Governor
AB 1061 Quirk-Silva Housing developments: urban
lot splits: historical resources.
Oppose Signed by Governor
AB 1294 Haney Planning and zoning: housing
development: standardized
application form.
Oppose Two-year bill
SB 6 Ashby Controlled substances:
xylazine.
Support Two-year bill
SB 35 Umberg Alcohol and drug programs. Support Two-year bill SB 74 Seyarto Office of Land Use and Climate
Innovation: Infrastructure GapFund Program.
Support Two-year bill
SB 79 Wiener Housing development: transitoriented development.
Oppose Signed by Governor
SB 239 Arreguin Open meetings:
teleconferencing: subsidiary
body.
Support Two-year bill
SB 328 Grayson Hazardous waste generation
and handling fees: Department
of Toxic Substances Control
oversight responses: housing
development projects.
Watch Two-year bill
SB 329 Blakespear Alcohol and drug recovery or
treatment facilities:
investigations.
Support Two-year bill
SB 346 Durazo Regional property crimes task
force.
Support Signed by Governor
SB 445 Wiener High-speed rail: third-party
agreements, permits, and
approvals: regulations.
Oppose Two-year bill
3 Bill
Number
Author Description Position Outcome
SB 569 Blakespear Department of Transportation:
homeless encampments.
Support Two-year bill
SB 634 Perez Local government:
homelessness.
Oppose Signed by Governor
SB 677 Wiener Housing development:
streamlined approvals.
Oppose Two-year bill
SB 681 Wahab Housing. Neutral Two-year bill
SB 720 Ashby Automated traffic enforcement
system programs.
Neutral Signed by Governor
SB 838 Durazo Housing Accountability Act:
housing development projects.
Support Signed by Governor