ITEM C-4 — Beverly Hills City Council, May 5, 2026

STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: May 5, 2026
To: Honorable Mayor & City Council
From: Mandy Jiang, Senior Management Analyst
Magdalena Davis, Community Outreach Manager
Subject: Quarter 1 State and Federal Legislative Update Attachments: 1. State Legislative Bill Matrix

INTRODUCTION
This report provides an informational update to City Council on legislative activities occurring in Sacramento, California, and Washington, D.C., from both staff and the City’s contracted lobbyists, during the timeframe of January through April 2026. The formal positions taken on legislative bills are guided by the City’s adopted 2026 Legislative Platform.

DISCUSSION
From January through April, the City has officially taken positions on 16 legislative bills.

Some of the notable ones are listed below:
 SUPPORT AB 2576 (Harabedian) – Transit-Oriented Development. This bill provides a one-year extension to certain SB 79 implementation deadlines, increases the population threshold from 35,000 to 40,000 tied to specific requirements, and expands the definition of historic resources to include resources listed on local, state, or national registers under recent SB 79 (Wiener). (Based on 03/19/2026 bill text)
Status: As of 4/22/26, passed out of Assembly Committee on Local Governments.  SUPPORT SB 922 (Laird) - Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee, or other charge for the privilege of using its streets or highways, other than a permit fee for an extralegal load unless the local agency had imposed the fee prior to June 1, 1989. This bill would expressly limit this prohibition to charges based on weight. The bill would also explicitly state that a fee, charge, or surcharge imposed by or for a local agency to recover the cost of street maintenance and repair and other costs associated with the use of its streets, roads, or highways to provide public services or public works is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision above. (Based on 03/11/2026 text).

Meeting Date: May 5, 2026

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Status: As of 3/19/26, read second time. Ordered to third reading in Senate.  OPPOSE AB 2443 (McKinnor) - Telephone Corporations: Carriers of Last Resort. This bill would require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to develop a reasonable process for a carrier of last resort to be relieved, on or before January 1, 2029, of that status in areas where customers have other options for voice service.

Status: As of 3/9/26, referred to Committee on Communications & Conveyance.  OPPOSE SB 866 (Blakespear) - Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: housing element. This bill would expand the data local governments provide in the housing element specific to homeless populations, by requiring all but 14 large cities not receiving Housing, Homeless HHAP funding.

This bill would require the assessment to include, among other things, specified data regarding the population of individuals who are unhoused and a description of key actions that will be taken to reduce individuals who are unhoused based on the data. (Based on 03/25/2026 text).

Status: As of 4/20/26, read second time and amended; referred to Committee on Appropriations.
 SUPPORT AB 2517 (Calderon) – Fire Hazard Severity Zone This bill is sponsored by CalCities and would improve public access/transparency to the State’s process of establishing Fire Hazard Severity Zones. It would require more frequent updates to the Local Responsibility Area (LRA) maps, include public input, and helps ensure that wildfire risk designations are based on accurate and up-to-date information before being codified into local law.

Status: As of April 23, re-referred to Committee on Appropriations.

All formal position 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 advocating in support for, opposing, or monitoring, is attached for reference as Attachment 1.

Staff is currently working to schedule a meeting with the City Council Legislative / Lobby Liaisons to hear bills covering the following topics:
 Extension of notice for tenants
 Amendments to the Government Claims Act
 Streamline state permitting for mixed-used developments in commercial zones  Prohibitions on local governments from taking specified actions related to transitoriented development stops State Update
Some relevant state updates over the last quarter include the following:
 Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas announced that 14 Assemblymembers have been selected for a first-of-its-kind “Outcomes Review” project — a new oversight tool designed to evaluate whether enacted laws are being implemented as intended and producing measurable results for Californians. Under the process, members will identify laws for review, convene hearings and community meetings through the spring and summer, and publish findings and recommendations by the end of the legislative year. The 2026 reviews will cover a wide range of issues, including housing affordability, telehealth, clean energy, worker protections, wildfire recovery, groundwater recharge, and foster care. Rivas said the initiative reflects the Assembly’s push to prioritize accountability and oversight — Meeting Date: May 5, 2026

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emphasizing that public trust is built not just by passing laws, but by ensuring they work in practice.
 Two statewide initiative constitutional amendments have been reported by the Secretary of State as eligible for the November ballot, which would significantly impact local government taxing authority and housing finance mechanisms:

1. Measure 25-0006A1 “Limits Ability of Voters to Raise Revenues for Local Government Services” (Initiative Constitutional Amendment), would raise the voter threshold for approving local special taxes proposed by initiative from a simple majority to two-thirds and restrict charter cities’ ability to impose real estate transfer taxes beyond the existing statutory documentary transfer tax rate (0.11%). The measure would also invalidate existing voter-approved property-related taxes that do not meet these requirements two years after enactment. According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), the measure could result in an annual loss of up to several billion dollars to local governments, primarily affecting charter cities, and could further constrain future local revenue generation by increasing voting thresholds and limiting allowable tax structures. The initiative is also associated with the “Local Taxpayer Protection Act” campaign led by taxpayer advocacy groups, while opposition has centered on concerns from public safety and local government stakeholders regarding funding impacts on core services.

2. Measure 25-0013A1 “Creates Loan Program for Middle-Income Buyers of Qualified New Homes” (Initiative Statute), would authorize up to $25 billion in bonds to provide subsidized, fixed-rate mortgage assistance for eligible middle-income homebuyers purchasing qualifying new homes. Eligible borrowers would be required to meet residency, income, occupancy, and down payment requirements, with loan repayment structured through homeowner mortgage payments rather than direct state repayment obligations. The LAO estimates that the measure would have no direct state or local fiscal costs, as bond repayment would be structured through borrower payments rather than general fund obligations.

Upcoming legislative deadlines:
 May 29 – Last day for each house to pass bills from first house to second house  June 15 – State budget bill must pass by midnight
 June 25 – Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the Nov.3 General Election ballot
 July 2 – Last day for policy committees to meet; Summer Recess begins provided Budget Bill has passed
 August 3 – Legislature reconvenes after Summer Recess  August 14 – Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills to the Floor  August 17 through 31 – Floor sessions only
 August 21 – Last day to amend on the Floor
 August 31 – Last day for each house to pass bills; final recess upon adjournment Federal Update
Some relevant federal updates over the last quarter include:
 Through Congressman Lieu’s support, the City was awarded $1,092,000 in federal funding designated for a water utility project through the passage of H.R. 6938 in early 2026. Congressman Lieu has once more selected a city project through the Meeting Date: May 5, 2026

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Fiscal Year 2027 Community Project Funding (CPF) process—this time for a sewer utility project. The City may expect news in the first quarter of 2027.  As of late April, 11 of 12 appropriations bills have been signed into law funding those portions of the government through September 30, 2026. Portions of the Department of Homeland Security have shut down with a lapse in funding.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has gone without new, full-year appropriations for 73 days, marking the longest funding lapse for a single federal department in US history. The House and Senate are set to work on a budget reconciliation package that will fund ICE and part of CBP for as much as three years. This package could be protected from a filibuster in the Senate but must follow very specific rules of what can be inserted into the legislation. The Senate adopted a budget resolution, which would pave the way for a reconciliation bill to provide $70 billion in immigration enforcement funding, in a 50-48 vote on April 23.

It now heads to the House for consideration. The Senate budget resolution calls on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Judiciary Committee to write reconciliation legislation by May 15 and for the House Homeland Security and Judiciary panels to do the same.

FISCAL IMPACT
None associated with this informational report.

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

Keith Sterling
Deputy City Manager
Approved By
Attachment 1
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
AB 262
Caloza D
California Individual
Assistance Act.
06/11/2025 - S. G.O.
06/11/2025 - 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 306
Schultz D
Building regulations:
state building standards.
04/23/2025 - S.

HOUSING
06/23/2025 - 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.
• 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.

Oppose
AB 311
McKinnor D
Dwelling units: persons
at risk of homelessness.
05/07/2025 - S. JUD.
05/07/2025 - 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 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
terms regarding the rent payable in those circumstances to be agreed to in writing by the owner or landlord and the tenant.
• This bill, until January 1, 2031, would reinstate the above-described provisions, and would include certain new provisions regarding occupancy.
• The bill would additionally define “person at risk of homelessness” to include any person who is displaced from their residence as a result of a disaster in a disaster-stricken area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor.
• The bill, among other things, would permit a tenant, with written approval of the owner or landlord, to temporarily permit the occupancy of their dwelling unit by a person who is at risk of homelessness and one or more common household pets owned or otherwise maintained by the person.

AB 609
Wicks D
California
Environmental Quality
Act: exemption: housing
development projects.
05/20/2025 - S. RLS.
05/20/2025 - 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 647
González, Mark D
Abandoned recreational
vehicles.
01/27/2026 - S. RLS.
01/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

Current law, until January 1, 2030, authorizes the Counties of Alameda and Los Angeles to implement a program for the disposal of abandoned recreational vehicles. Current law imposes specified conditions on this authority, including, among other things, requiring a public agency, immediately after removal of the recreational vehicle, to notify the Stolen Vehicle System of the Department of Justice of the removal.
• This bill would also authorize any public agency within the Counties of Alameda and Los Angeles or a state agency, as specified, to implement a program to dispose of these recreational vehicles within the County of Alameda or the County of Los Angeles and would extend this authorization until January 1, 2032.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
AB 736
Wicks D
The Affordable Housing
Bond Act of 2026.
04/21/2026 - S. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes

1.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.

Support if
Amended
AB 883
Lowenthal D
Elected officials and
judges.
01/27/2026 - S. RLS.
01/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

Current law establishes the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) to enforce various laws protecting the privacy of individuals. If a business knowingly collects and sells to third parties the personal information of a consumer with whom the business does not have a direct relationship, existing law requires the business to register with the CPPA as a data broker, except as specified.

Current law requires the CPPA to establish an accessible deletion mechanism that allows a consumer to request that every data broker delete any personal information related to that consumer held by the data broker or associated service provider or contractor, as prescribed. • This bill would require the Secretary of State to provide to the agency a list of all state or local elected officials that, if available, includes each official’s personal information, as specified, would require the Judicial Council to provide the agency with a list of all California judges, and would require the agency to allow elected officials or a judges to remove their information from those lists, as prescribed.
• The bill would require the lists to be kept confidential, as specified. • The bill would also require the agency to upload the lists to the accessible deletion mechanism described above and would require an entity receiving a notification that a deletion is required to do so within 5 days.

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AB 939
Schultz D
Housing development:
density bonuses:
affordability of for-sale
units.
01/29/2026 - S. RLS.
01/29/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the Senate.
(Ayes 60. Noes 9.) In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

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. Current law, among other things, requires compliance with certain affordability requirements, including requiring that the applicant agree to ensure, and that the city, county, or city and county ensure, that a for-sale unit that qualified the applicant for the award of the density bonus is either (1) initially sold to and occupied by a person or family of very low, low, or moderate income, as specified, or (2) if the unit is not purchased by an income-qualified person or family within 180 days after the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, the unit is purchased by a qualified nonprofit housing corporation, as provided.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
• This bill would additionally allow the applicant and the city, county, or city and county to comply with the above-described affordability requirements with respect to a for-sale unit by ensuring that the unit is purchased by a nonprofit corporation, as specified, for properties to be sold to and occupied by extremely low, very low, or lower income families who participate in a below-market interest rate loan program, as described.

AB 1383
McKinnor D
Public employees’
retirement benefits:
safety members.
01/29/2026 - S. RLS.
01/29/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the Senate.
(Ayes 70. Noes 2.) In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) establishes a variety of requirements and restrictions on public employers offering defined benefit pension plans. In this regard, PEPRA restricts the amount of compensation that may be applied for purposes of calculating a defined pension benefit for a new member, as defined, by restricting it to specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under a specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. The Teachers’ Retirement Law establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final compensation, creditable service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. • This bill, on and after January 1, 2027, would require a retirement system subject to PEPRA to adjust pensionable compensation limits to be consistent with specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits.
• The bill would require a new member of STRS to be subject to specified limits of the Teachers’ Retirement Law.

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AB 1538
Krell D
Crimes: corruption.
04/08/2026 - A. APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE
04/08/2026 - In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Referred to
APPR. suspense file.

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to, by force or threat of force, willfully injure, intimidate, interfere with, oppress, or threaten another person in the free exercise or enjoyment of a right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of this state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States, in whole or in part, because of one or more of specified actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including disability, gender, religion, race, or sexual orientation. • This bill would make it a crime for an elected or appointed official, under color of authority, to retaliate or exert political retribution, as defined, against a person for exercising a constitutionally protected right.
• The bill would make a violation of this crime punishable by forfeiture of office.

Watch
AB 1557
Papan D
Vehicles: electric
bicycles.
04/22/2026 - A. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 12.

Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Existing law defines a “class 1 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Noes 0.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
miles per hour. Existing defines a “class 2 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing law defines a “class 3 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that, in pertinent part, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. • This bill would instead define a class 1 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour.
• The bill would define a class 2 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour.
• The bill would provide that, notwithstanding these definitions, an electric bicycle manufactured prior to January 1, 2027, that was equipped with a motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of continuous power and otherwise met the legal requirements for the relevant class at the time of manufacture shall retain its classification.

AB 1567
Ta R
General plan: annual
report: congregate and
residential care for the
elderly.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 10. Noes 0.)
(April 22). Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

The Planning and Zoning law requires each planning agency to prepare and the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan containing specified elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to be revised according to a specific schedule. After the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, existing law requires the planning agency to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to various entities that includes specified information.
• This bill would, for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element, authorize a planning agency to include in that report the number of units approved for congregate care for the elderly or residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, for up to 15% of a jurisdiction’s regional housing need allocation for any income category.

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AB 1569
Davies R
Pupil safety: electric
bicycle: safety and
training program.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.

Would require, on or before March 1, 2028, the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to develop a standardized electric bicycle safety and training program for pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as provided. In developing the program, the bill would authorize the State Department of Education and the Department of the California Highway Patrol to collaborate with local law enforcement agencies or local governments that have implemented electric bicycle training programs already to ensure the program reflects proven best practices.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
(Ayes 15. Noes 0.)
(April 20). Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.
• The bill would encourage local educational agencies and parent organizations to offer training demonstrations to pupils and parents on electric bicycle operations in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies or local governments, as specified.

AB 1588
Stefani D
Vehicles: Sideshow
Accountability and
Community Safety Act.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 -
Coauthors revised.

From committee: Do
pass and re-refer to
Com. on APPR. (Ayes

15. Noes 0.) (April 20).

Re-referred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law prohibits a person from, among other things, engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. Under existing law, a violation of this prohibition is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law, beginning on January 1, 2029, authorizes a court to suspend the privilege to operate a vehicle for 90 days to 6 months for a person who engages in, aids, or abets a motor vehicle exhibition of speed that occurred as part of a sideshow. For these purposes, existing law defines “sideshow” as an event in which 2 or more persons block or impede traffic on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, or reckless driving for spectators.
• This bill would revise the definition of sideshow to include the use or operation of any motor vehicle, including, but not limited to, motorcycles or off-highway motor vehicles, as specified, to barricade, block, impede, or otherwise obstruct traffic. • The bill would also provide enhanced penalties for engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed as part of a sideshow.

Support
AB 1621
Wilson D
Planning and Zoning
Law: postentitlement
phase permits: Housing
Accountability Act.
04/23/2026 - A. THIRD

READING
04/23/2026 - Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency or state agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information required from any applicant for a postentitlement phase permit, as defined. Existing 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. Existing law requires the time limits to be tolled, if the local agency or state agency requires review of the application by an outside entity, until the outside entity completes the review and returns the application, as specified.
• This bill would prohibit a local agency or state 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 or state agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 plan check and specification reviews.

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AB 1632
Johnson R
Trespass.
03/23/2026 - A. THIRD

READING
03/23/2026 - Read
second time. Ordered
Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to commit the crime of trespass, which includes refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structures belonging to, or lawfully occupied by, another and not open to the general public upon being requested to leave by a peace officer at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession and upon being informed by the peace Support
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
to third reading.
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officer that they are acting at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession. Existing law requires the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession to make a separate request to the peace officer on each occasion when the peace officer’s assistance in dealing with a trespass is requested, except that a single request for peace officer assistance may be made for a period not to exceed 12 months when there is a fire hazard to the premises or property, the owner is absent from the premises or property, or the premises or property is closed to the public and posted as being closed. Existing law authorizes a single request for assistance to be made and submitted electronically, in a notarized form provided by the law enforcement agency, to a peace officer, and authorizes local governments to accept electronic submissions of requests for peace officer assistance.
• This bill would remove the requirement that the submitted form described above be notarized.

AB 1679
González, Mark D
Local pop-up small
business program.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended.

Existing law establishes various programs to promote small businesses operating in nonstandard locations, including cottage food operations and sidewalk vendors, and imposes requirements on, and provides authorizations to, local governments relating to these programs. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of an incorporated city or the board of supervisors of a county, as applicable, to license any kind of business not prohibited by law, transacted and carried on within the limits of the jurisdiction of the city or county, and to fix the rate of the license fee and provide for its collection, as provided.
• This bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, defined as a local jurisdiction to allow temporary commercial activation authorization for a pop-up small business, as those terms are defined, to operate for no more than 120 days in an eligible commercial space without requiring full compliance with standards applicable to permanent occupancy, as specified. • The bill would require a local jurisdiction to consider temporarily suspending, deferring, or modifying specified standards and discretionary requirements.
• The bill would require a temporary commercial activation to comply with health and safety standards governing temporary use and structures, as specified.

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AB 1693
Zbur D
Accelerated retailer
building plan approval:
tenant improvements.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 18.

Noes 0.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards 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. Current law authorizes local governments to enact ordinances or regulations that make building standards amendments to the California Building Standards Code, as specified. Current law establishes a streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant improvement related to a restaurant, as defined.
• This bill would establish a similar streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
improvement relating to a retailer, as defined. In this regard, the bill would require a local building department, upon the request and at the expense of the permit applicant, to allow a qualified professional certifier, defined as a licensed architect or engineer who meets certain requirements, to certify that the plans and specifications of the tenant improvement comply with all applicable building, health, and safety codes, as specified.
• The bill would require a qualified professional certifier, or the applicant, as applicable, to prepare certain affidavits related to the tenant improvement under penalty of perjury. • The bill would require the local building department to approve or deny the permit application within 20 business days of receiving a complete application and would deem the plan approved for permitting purposes if the local building department does not approve or deny the application within that timeframe.
• The bill would also authorize the applicant to resubmit corrected plans addressing the deficiencies identified in the initial denial, would limit the local building department’s review of each subsequent resubmission to the deficiencies identified in the initial denial, and would require the local building department to approve or deny each subsequent resubmission within 10 business days of receipt.

AB 1708
Solache D
Homeless Housing,
Assistance, and
Prevention program:
round 8: smaller
jurisdictions.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes

0.) (April 23). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. To be eligible for round 5 or round 6 base program allocation, existing law requires a jurisdiction that is not a tribe to apply as part of a region and be signatory to a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that meets specified requirements.
• This bill would apply to the allocation of funding available under round 8 of the program and require a round 8 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan to include certain components, including a description of programs and interventions provided by smaller jurisdictions, as defined, that serve the objects and goals of the program, as specified.

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AB 1710
Carrillo D
Housing developments:
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.
04/16/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.

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 Watch
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ordinances, policies, and
standards.
on APPR. (Ayes 10.

Noes 0.) (April 15). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
04/29/26 AAPPROPRIATIONS 9
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 1100 WICKS,
BUFFY, Chair
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 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 1712
Pacheco D
City of Santa Fe Springs:
sale of water utility
property.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.
04/15/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 13.

Noes 0.) (April 14). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law authorizes the furnishing of utility services by publicly owned public utilities, including municipal corporations, that are subject to control by their governing bodies. Existing law authorizes any municipal corporation to acquire, construct, own, operate, or lease any public utility, as defined, and authorizes a municipal corporation to sell or dispose of any public utility it owns. Existing law establishes procedures whereby a municipal corporation may lease, sell, or transfer that portion of a water utility used for furnishing water service outside or inside the boundaries of the municipal corporation, including, in the case of sale or transfer of the public utility located inside the municipal boundaries, the determination that the public utility is not necessary for supplying water to its own inhabitants or that its inhabitants will be provided with equal or better service by the acquiring entity, if the sale or transfer is approved by a majority of all voters voting on the issue in an election, and the acquiring entity discloses specified information before the election. • This bill would authorize the City of Santa Fe Springs, until January 1, 2032, to sell its public utility for furnishing water service for the purpose of consolidating its public water system with another public water system pursuant to specified procedures if certain requirements are met.

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AB 1738
Carrillo D
State Housing Law:
remote inspections.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.
04/16/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 10.

Noes 0.) (April 15). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
04/29/26 AAPPROPRIATIONS 9
The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce the provisions of the State Housing Law, the State Building Standards Code, and other specified rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law authorizes an officer, employee, or agent of an enforcement agency to enter and inspect any building or premises whenever necessary to secure compliance with, or prevent a violation of, any provision of the State Housing Law, the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of the State Housing Law. Existing law provides certain immunities to a public entity or employee immunity relative to an inspection or license, as provided.

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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 1100 WICKS,
BUFFY, Chair
• This bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county to offer a homeowner or contractor the option of requesting remote inspections for all or a subset of an inspection required by a building permit for specified works in one- or 2-family dwelling units, by July 1, 2027, as provided.
• The bill would apply the above-described immunities to remote inspections.

AB 1740
Zbur D
Coastal resources:
coastal development
permits: Santa Monica.
04/22/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Amend,
and do pass as
amended and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
(April 22).
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The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires, among other things, anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission or a local government, as provided. The act provides that a coastal development permit is not required for specified types of development in specified areas, as provided.
• This bill would provide that a coastal development permit is not required for certain activities and types of development within the city of Santa Monica, as specified. • The bill would repeal these permit exemptions on January 1, 2037.

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AB 1751
Quirk-Silva D
Missing Middle
Townhome Ownership
Act.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes

0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

The Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process, depending on the type of housing development, as specified. Existing law, 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, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, among other things, requires a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets certain requirements, including that the housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units, except as provided.
• This bill, the Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act, would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a townhome housing development project that is subject to a prescribed ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain procedural requirements and satisfies specified objective planning standards.

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• The bill would also require a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a townhome development project that meets all of specified requirements, including that the proposed subdivision will result in parcels and residential units that will meet prescribed densities and that the newly created parcels are no smaller than 600 square feet.

AB 1768
Bryan D
Transactions and use
taxes: Counties of
Contra Costa and Los
Angeles.
04/23/2026 - A. REV. &
TAX
04/23/2026 - Assembly
Rule 56 suspended.
(Pending re-refer to
Com. on L. GOV.)
04/27/26 A-REVENUE
AND TAXATION 2:30
p.m. - State Capitol,
Room 126 GIPSON,
MIKE, Chair
04/29/26 A-LOCAL
GOVERNMENT 1:30
p.m. - State Capitol,
Room 447 CARRILLO,
JUAN, Chair
Existing law authorizes various local governmental entities, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the Transactions and Use Tax Law, including a requirement that the combined rate of all taxes that may be imposed in accordance with that law in any county not exceed 2%.
• This bill would authorize, until December 31, 2031, the County of Los Angeles, by an ordinance adopted by the county, to levy a tax pursuant to the Transactions and Use Tax Law at a rate not to exceed 0.5% for general and special purposes, subject to voter approval, as specified. • The bill would also authorize, until December 31, 2031, the County of Contra Costa, by an ordinance adopted by the county, to levy a tax pursuant to the Transactions and Use Tax Law at a rate not to exceed 0.625% for general or specific purposes, subject to voter approval, as specified.

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AB 1771
Alvarez D
State Housing Law:
apartment houses.
04/22/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Amend,
and do pass as
amended and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
(April 22).
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The State Housing Law establishes statewide building standards relating to occupancy, use, and maintenance of hotels, motels, lodging houses, apartment houses, and dwellings, and authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt rules and regulations for this purpose.

Pursuant to that authority, current law requires a manager or other responsible person to reside upon the premises and have charge of every apartment house in which there are 16 or more apartments, as specified.
• This bill would prohibit a state or local entity from requiring a manager or other caretaker to reside upon the premises of an apartment house and would require the department to update its regulations, as specified.

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AB 1779
Davies R
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of drug testing laboratories and adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities and provides for the certification and regulation of adult Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Alcoholism and drug
abuse recovery and
treatment programs:
inducement of
participants.
second time and
amended.
alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment programs by the State Department of Health Care Services and authorizes the department to enforce those provisions. Existing law authorizes a facility described above to offer transportation services to an individual who is seeking recovery or treatment services only if specified conditions are met, including, among other things, that any air transportation provided to the individual includes a return ticket that may be used by the individual upon discharge and that a return ticket not used by an individual upon discharge is made available to the individual upon request for a period of one year following the individual’s discharge. • This bill would require a laboratory, facility, or program described above that provides air transportation to provide a ticket for round-trip transportation. • The bill would additionally require, as conditions on the provision of transportation services, that the cost of the recovery or treatment services are prohibitive for the individual without assistance from the laboratory, facility, or program, and would require the laboratory, facility, or program to obtain written acknowledgment by the individual that the transportation is not tied to insurance benefits or program participation, to document the purpose and cost of the transportation, to compile information related to the provision of transportation, and to annually publish the compiled information on its internet website.

AB 1788
Boerner D
Political Reform Act of
1974: travel
expenditures.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE
04/15/2026 - In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Referred to
APPR. suspense file.

Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, requires a nonprofit organization that regularly organizes and hosts travel for elected officials and that makes payments, advances, or reimbursements for their travel that total more than $10,000 per year, or more than $5,000 per year for a single official, to disclose the names of donors to the organization who donated at least $1,000 and accompanied the official on their travel during the preceding year. • This bill would instead apply these disclosure requirements to any nonprofit organization that makes expenditures for travel by elected state and local officials in the amounts specified above. • The bill would additionally require the organization to disclose each payment for travel by the elected state or local official and the name of the person for whom the payment for travel was made.

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AB 1801
Lee D
Public agencies:
approval: detention
facilities.
04/16/2026 - S. RLS.
04/16/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the Senate.
(Ayes 54. Noes 17.) In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

Existing law prohibits a city, county, city and county, or public agency from approving or signing a deed, instrument, or other document related to a conveyance of land or issuing a permit for the building or reuse of existing buildings by any private corporation, contractor, or vendor to house or detain noncitizens for purposes of civil immigration proceedings, unless the city, county, city and county, or public agency has given notice to the public of the proposed conveyance or permitting action at least 180 days before execution of the conveyance or permit and solicited and heard public comments on the proposed conveyance or permit action in at least 2 separate meetings open to the public.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
agency from approving or executing, among other documents, any document signifying the public entity’s approval for the building or reuse of existing buildings by any private corporation, contractor, or vendor to house or detain a person for purposes of civil immigration custody before the public entity has given notice to the public of the proposed action 180 days before execution or approval of the proposed action, promptly provided access to any documents related to the proposed action, as provided, and solicited and heard public comments on the proposed action in at least 2 separate meetings open to the public.

AB 1815
Wicks D
Factory-built housing:
building standards.
04/22/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Amend,
and do pass as
amended and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
(April 22).
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The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Government Operations Agency. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law, 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, county, city and county or district that may be applicable to the construction of housing, as specified, and prohibits a city, county, city and county, and district from requiring submittal of plans for any factory-built housing manufactured, or to be manufactured pursuant to these provisions, as specified. That law specifically and entirely reserves to local jurisdictions certain local requirements, including local use zone requirements. That law also requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to enforce its provisions, except for in-plant inspections of the manufacture and installation of factory-built housing by local enforcement or inspection agencies, as specified. That 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 prohibit a city, county, or city and county from imposing or enforcing building standards that exceed the state minimum building standards in the California Building Standards Code on a housing construction project that utilizes factory-built housing, provided that at least 15% of the project’s hard costs, as defined, are spent on factory-built housing that bears the insignia of the Department of Housing and Community Development.

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AB 1820
Schiavo D
Electric vehicle charging
stations: permit fees.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.
04/16/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes

0.) (April 15). Rereferred to Com. on
Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to administratively approve an application to install an electric vehicle charging station through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit, and requires every local government to adopt an ordinance that creates an expedited, streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations, as provided. Existing law requires fees charged by a local agency for specified purposes, including permits, to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless a question regarding the amount of the fee charged in excess of this cost is submitted to, and approved by, 2/3 of Watch
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APPR. the electors. Existing law, until January 1, 2034, prohibits a city, county, city or county, or charter city from charging a permit fee for a solar energy system that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, which cannot exceed $450 plus $15 per kilowatt for each kilowatt above 15kW for residential solar energy systems, and $1,000 plus $7 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $5 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for commercial solar energy systems, unless the city, county, city and county, or charter city provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, as provided.
• This bill, until January 1, 2036, would prohibit a city, county, city or county, or charter city from charging a permit fee for an electric vehicle charging station that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, which cannot exceed $100 plus $15 per kilowatt for each kilowatt above 15kW for residential electric vehicle charging stations, and $500 plus $5 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $2 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for commercial electric vehicle charging stations, unless the city, county, city and county, or charter city provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, as provided AB 1821
Pacheco D
California Public Records
Act: agency response
time.
04/23/2026 - A. THIRD

READING
04/23/2026 - Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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ASSEMBLY BILLS
The California Public Records Act requires each state or local agency, upon a request for a copy of records that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records, to make the records promptly available to any person upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable, except with respect to public records exempt from disclosure by express provisions of law.

Existing law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, as defined. • This bill would instead require each agency to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person as described above within 10 business days of a request for a copy of records.

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AB 1834
Patel D
Subdivisions: tentative
and final map:
exceptions.
04/09/2026 - S. RLS.
04/09/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the Senate.
(Ayes 64. Noes 0.) In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.

The Subdivision Map Act requires a tentative and final map for specified subdivisions, including subdivisions of 5 or more parcels or condominiums, except under certain circumstances, including if the land consists of a parcel or parcels of land having approved access to a public street or highway, which comprises part of a tract of land zoned for industrial or commercial development, and which has the approval of the governing body as to street alignments and widths. Existing law requires a subdivision that qualifies for one of those exceptions to file a parcel map instead. • This bill would expand the exception described above to additionally include land that comprises Watch
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for assignment. part of a tract of land zoned for mixed-use development, inclusive of mixed-use developments containing residential uses, and that satisfies the other requirements contained in that exception.

AB 1837
González, Mark D
Video imaging of
parking violations.
04/23/2026 - A.

SECOND READING
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended. Ordered
returned to second
reading.
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Existing law authorizes a public transit operator in the state, until January 1, 2027, and authorizes the City and County of San Francisco indefinitely, to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes and at transit stops through the use of video imaging, and to install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes, as specified. Existing law requires a public transit operator, prior to issuing notices of parking violations, to issue warning notices for the first 60 days and to make a public announcement of the program. Existing law requires a designated employee, or a contracted law enforcement agency, to review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane or at a transit stop and to issue a notice of violation to the registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days, as specified. Existing law makes these video image records confidential and provides that these records are available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law requires a public transit operator that implements an automated enforcement system to enforce parking violations in transitonly traffic lanes and at transit stops to submit a report to specified committees of the Legislature by no later than January 1, 2025.
• This bill would extend the authorization for the use of video imaging to enforce parking and stopping violations until January 1, 2034.
• The bill would require that a public transit operator issue warnings for 60 days prior to issuing notices of violations when it uses video imaging for enforcement of a violation that it has not previously used video imaging to enforce.

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AB 1838
Berman D
Public contracts: local
agencies: responsive
bidders.
04/20/2026 - S. RLS.
04/20/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the Senate.

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

Would require a contractor, as a condition of submitting a bid to a local agency for a public works contract, to fully disclose any history of wage and hour violations, as specified, and provide supporting documentation, as described.
• The bill would authorize a contractor that fails to provide the required disclosures and supporting materials to be disqualified from the bid.

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AB 1859
Ortega D
Public works.
04/07/2026 - A. APPR.
04/08/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes
Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works. Current law defines “public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts as, among other things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Current law makes any officer, agent, or representative of the state or of any political Watch
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3.) (April 7). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
subdivision who willfully violates specified provisions, including providing notice of certain public works projects, as specified, to the Department of Industrial Relations, guilty of a misdemeanor.

Current law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages. Current law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work.
• This bill would require an awarding body or owner to give reasonable access, as defined, to representatives of a joint-labor management committee in order to monitor compliance with the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements.
• The bill would authorize the committee to bring an action against an awarding body, contractor, or subcontractor that willfully denies the committee’s representative reasonable access.

AB 1914
Schiavo D
General plan elements:
childcare.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Amend,
and do pass as
amended and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April
23).
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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 land use, circulation, housing, safety, and environmental justice element. Existing law requires a city or county to update its general plan elements subject to certain criteria and timelines. • This bill would require a city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2028, but no later than January 1, 2033, to prepare and adopt a childcare plan or integrate a childcare plan into the next adoption of the city, county, or city and county’s general plan to address the childcare needs of the jurisdiction, as specified.

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AB 1915
Gabriel D
Accelerated restaurant
equipment permitting
approval: retail food
safety.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 18. Noes 0.)
(April 21). Re-referred
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, and open space, including agriculture, recreation, enjoyment of scenic beauty, use of natural resources, and other purposes. Existing law establishes a streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant improvement relating to a restaurant, as those terms are defined. • This bill would establish a streamlined approval process for a local permit for a like-for-like equipment installation relating to a restaurant, as those terms are defined. In this regard, the bill would require a local building department, upon the request and at the expense of the permit applicant, to allow a qualified licensed contractor certifier, defined as a licensed commercial Watch
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to Com. on APPR. contractor that meets certain requirements, to submit a certification of the installation’s compliance with applicable codes.
• The bill would require a qualified licensed contractor certifier to prepare certain affidavits related to the equipment installation under penalty of perjury.
• The bill would require the local building department to approve or deny the permit application within 10 business days of receipt and would deem the plan approved for permitting purposes if the local building department does not approve or deny the application within that timeframe, provided that all required fees have been paid.

AB 1930
Zbur D
Legally protected health
care activity: inquiries,
investigations,
subpoenas, or
summons.
04/22/2026 - A. APPR.
04/22/2026 -
Coauthors revised.

From committee: Do
pass and re-refer to
Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7.

Noes 0.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law provides for various protective measures for persons engaging in legally protected health care activity, including prohibiting a provider of health care, health care service plan, health insurer, or contractor from releasing medical information related to, among other things, an individual seeking or obtaining gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care, and prohibiting a state or local public agency, or any employee thereof acting in their official capacity, from cooperating with or providing information to an individual or agency from another state or a federal law enforcement agency, as specified, regarding a legally protected health care activity that is lawful in this state and performed in this state.
• This bill would prohibit a person or entity that is located, headquartered, incorporated, or otherwise conducting business in California and receives, is served with, or is subject to a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons for information regarding legally protected health activity from complying with or providing information in response to the inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons unless specified conditions are met, including that the inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons contains or is accompanied by an affidavit under penalty of perjury attesting certain information, including that the inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons is related to an investigation or proceeding regarding activity that is unlawful under California civil or criminal law, and it identifies the California law under which the activity is unlawful.

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AB 1941
González, Mark D
Organized metal theft.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE
04/15/2026 - In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Referred to
APPR. suspense file.

Existing law makes a person who is a dealer in or collector of junk, metals, or secondhand materials, or their agent, employee, or representative, who buys or receives any wire, cable, copper, lead, solder, mercury, iron, or brass that the person knows or reasonably should know is used by or belongs to specified entities, including a railroad, certain utility companies, or a public entity engaged in furnishing public utility service, without using due diligence to ascertain that the person selling or delivering that material has a legal right to do so, guilty of criminally receiving that property and, in addition to imprisonment, makes that act punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000. • This bill would prohibit organized metal theft, described as acting in concert with one or more persons to steal metal materials from one or more of specified materials and items with the intent to Watch
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sell, exchange, or return those metal materials for value, acting in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess those metal materials knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acting as an agent of another to steal those metal materials as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruiting, coordinating, organizing, supervising, directing, managing, or financing another to undertake acts of theft of metal.
• The bill would make a violation of organized metal theft punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony.

AB 1942
Bauer-Kahan D
Electric bicycles:
registration and special
license plates.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 -
Coauthors revised.

From committee: Do
pass and re-refer to
Com. on APPR. (Ayes

12. Noes 0.) (April 20).

Re-referred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner license plates that identify the vehicles for which they are issued for the period of their validity, as specified.

Existing law also requires a motorized bicycle to display a special license plate issued by the department. Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution, authorizes the licensing agency, by ordinance or resolution, to adopt rules and regulations for the collection of license fees, as specified, and sets the fee for each new bicycle license and registration certificate at a sum of no more than $4 per year. Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. • This bill would require class 2 electric bicycles and class 3 electric bicycles to be registered with the department and to display a special license plate issued by the department. • The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement these requirements, and would make a person operating a class 2 or class 3 electric bicycle in violation of these requirements guilty of an infraction punishable by specified fines. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 1953
Lowenthal D
Short-term rentals:
emergencies and special
events.
03/19/2026 - A.

A.,E.,S., & T.
04/06/2026 - In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

The California Emergency Services Act establishes the Office of Emergency Services and vests the office with responsibility for the state’s emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or man-made disasters and emergencies, as specified. Existing law establishes the Office of Tourism within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and requires the office to establish the California Travel and Tourism Commission for the purpose of increasing the number of persons traveling to and within California.
• This bill would require both the Office of Emergency Services and the Office of Tourism to establish a public registration system.
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registration systems.
• The bill would provide that registration authorizes the registered party to immediately commence offering an eligible residential dwelling, as defined, as a short-term rental during a declared state of emergency or a special event period, as applicable.
• The bill would require the Office of Tourism to define specific special event periods, as provided, and to post that information online at least 180 days prior to the event. • This bill would prohibit a city, county, city and county, or any other political subdivision of the state from maintaining, enforcing, prescribing, or continuing in effect any law, rule, regulation, requirement, standard, or other provision that prohibits an individual or entity that controls an eligible residential dwelling that has been registered from offering that dwelling as a short-term rental during a declared state of emergency or a special event, as applicable.

AB 1976
Wicks D
Streets and highways:
pedestrian and bicycle
facilities.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Amend,
and do pass as
amended and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April
22).
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Existing law grants the legislative body of a city certain powers with respect to city streets and highways, including the power to construct and maintain those streets and highways. Existing law grants the board of supervisors of a county general supervision, management, and control of county highways and authorizes the board of supervisors to lay out, construct, improve, and maintain county highways.
• This bill would prohibit a city or county from holding a community input meeting to gather input from the general public on a proposed pedestrian or bicycle safety project after the project is included in an approved plan that will be implemented as part of the circulation element of the city or county’s general plan. At a public meeting where a contract is awarded for, or when county or city staff, as applicable, are directed to begin, the construction of a pedestrian or bicycle safety project, or anytime thereafter, the bill would prohibit the city or county from terminating the project unless the city or county makes specified findings at a public meeting.

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AB 2005
Ahrens D
Housing developments:
urban lot split: owneroccupancy.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 10.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

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• This bill would require the local agency to require an applicant to either sign the above-described affidavit requiring owner-occupancy or for the applicant to require, as a condition of sale to a homebuyer, that all one of the units on both parcels of an urban lot split remain owner occupied for 3 years, beginning on the date a parcel or unit is conveyed by the applicant to a homebuyer. By increasing the duties of local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 2015
Wicks D
Department of
Transportation: thirdparty navigation
applications: study and
report.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 13.

Noes 1.) (April 20). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Would require the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Transportation Agency and local authorities, to conduct a comprehensive study on the impact of third-party navigation applications on the state highway system and local street and road networks. • The bill would require the study to analyze how third-party navigation applications affect congestion displacement, local infrastructure, safety metrics, and emergency response, as provided. • The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2028, to submit the study, and a report of related policy recommendations for regulatory or legislative action to improve the alignment between third-party navigation applications and state and local traffic management goals, to the relevant fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. • The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.

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AB 2037
Patterson R
Wildfire Mitigation
Aging and Disability
Grant Pilot Program.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended.

The Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act establishes the California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services Agency and sets forth its mission to provide leadership to the area agencies on aging in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or the least restrictive homelike environments. • This bill would establish the Wildfire Mitigation Aging and Disability Grant Pilot Program to be administered by the California Department of Aging through specified area agencies on aging, including Planning and Service Areas 4, 29, and 33.
• The bill would award grants, based on specified criteria, to seniors and individuals with disabilities to mitigate against wildfires on properties they own that they would not otherwise be able to protect with existing resources.
• The bill would require the area agencies on aging to award grants on a competitive basis and would require applications to contain specified information, including proof of need.

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AB 2058
Harabedian D
California Factory-Built
Housing Law:
inspection: permitting.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 10.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on
The California Factory-Built Housing Law requires all factory-built housing manufactured 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 submittal of plans for any factory-built housing manufactured, or to be manufactured, pursuant to these provisions, as specified. The law requires the Department of Housing and Watch
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APPR. Community Development to enforce its provisions, except for in-plant inspections of the manufacture and installation of factory-built housing by local enforcement or inspection agencies, as specified.

Existing law authorizes the local enforcement agency to, by ordinance, establish an inspection fee for the inspection of the installation of factory-built housing. Existing law authorizes the department to provide by regulation for the qualification and disqualification of quality assurance agencies to perform inspections of factory-built housing manufacturers. The law requires the department to adopt rules and regulations to interpret and make specific these provisions, as specified. 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 remove the requirement that a local enforcement agency enforce and inspect the installation of factory-built housing and, instead, require a first user to choose to have either the local enforcement agency or a quality assurance agency, acting on behalf and subject to the supervision of the department, enforce and inspect the installation of factory-built housing. • The bill would limit a local enforcement agency’s inspection fee to no more than 50% of the equivalent inspection fee for nonfactory-built housing. • The bill would prohibit a local enforcement agency from charging an inspection fee if a first user chooses to have a quality assurance agency enforce and inspect the installation.

AB 2074
Haney D
Regional transit hub
districts: downtown
housing developments.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 11.

Noes 3.) (April 20). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

The Planning and Zoning Law generally regulates local government zoning and approval of certain types of housing development projects. The law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a prescribed ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain procedural requirements and satisfies specified objective planning standards. The law also requires a housing development project within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development stop to 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 specified requirements, as applicable.
• This bill would, by July 1, 2027, require major transit cities to designate one or more regional transit hub districts and prescribe requirements for those districts, including requiring that a district make a downtown housing development an allowable use, as specified. • The bill would prescribe requirements for downtown housing developments, including requiring specified labor standards and requiring the developments to be eligible for streamlined ministerial approval, as specified.
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applicants to develop downtown housing developments, as specified. By establishing a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.

AB 2076
Lowenthal D
The Parent’s
Accountability and Child
Protection Act: online
marketplaces: nitrous
oxide.
04/07/2026 - A. APPR.
04/13/2026 - Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law requires a person or business that conducts business in California and that seeks to sell specified products or services, to take reasonable steps, as specified, to ensure that the purchaser is of legal age at the time of purchase or delivery, including, but not limited to, verifying the age of the purchaser. That law specifies that a person or business that violates these provisions is subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $7,500 for each violation.
• This bill would add nitrous oxide, as provided, to the above-referenced list of specified products or services.
• The bill would prohibit an online seller from allowing a purchaser to use a gift card for specified products or services that are illegal to sell to a minor. • The bill would increase the amount of the civil penalty that may be imposed upon a person or business that violates these provisions to $7,500 for each violation.

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AB 2118
Hoover R
Affordable Housing and
High Road Jobs Act of
2022: use by right:
objective standards.
04/20/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Amend,
and do pass as
amended and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
(April 20).
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The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a mixed-income housing development along a commercial corridor that satisfies specified site criteria, affordability criteria, and objective development standards, and deems a housing development that meets those requirements a use by right and subject to streamlined, ministerial review. Current law prohibits the objective standards from precluding a development from being built at specified residential density required and from requiring the development to reduce unit size to meet the objective standards. • This bill would also prohibit the objective standards from prohibiting or otherwise limiting mixed-use development in a housing development project.

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AB 2134
Addis D
City council members:
absences without
permission.
03/16/2026 - A. L.

GOV.
03/17/2026 - Rereferred to Com. on L.

GOV.
04/29/26 A-LOCAL
GOVERNMENT 1:30
p.m. - State Capitol,
Room 447 CARRILLO,
JUAN, Chair
Existing law provides that if a city council member is absent without permission from all regular city council meetings for a specified number of days from the last regular meeting they attended, their office becomes vacant and shall be filled as any other vacancy. • This bill would prohibit a city from refusing permission for a council member to take absences for parental leave and would exclude parental leave from counting toward the number of allowed absences allotted to each council member.
• The bill would prohibit a city from requiring a council member to request approval for their parental leave at a public hearing.

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AB 2159
Garcia D
Pupil discipline:
cyberbullying: parent
accountability.
02/18/2026 - A. PRINT
02/19/2026 - From
printer. May be heard
in committee March

21. Current law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed an act from a list of specified acts, including an act of bullying, which is defined as any severe or pervasive physical or verbal act or conduct, including communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, directed toward one or more pupils that has or can be reasonably predicted to have one or more specified effects. • This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would, among other things, require that a pupil and the parent or guardian of a pupil who engages in repeated acts of cyberbullying or is suspended for cyberbullying participate in a program of rehabilitative cyberbullying education, counseling, or training.

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AB 2168
Wicks D
Active Transportation
Program: guidelines.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 11.

Noes 4.) (April 20). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law requires the California Transportation Commission to develop guidelines with regard to project eligibility that include, among other project types, safe routes to transit projects that will encourage transit by improving biking and walking routes to mass transportation facilities and schoolbus stops.
• This bill would instead require the guidelines with regard to project eligibility to include projects for safe routes to transit projects that encourage access to transit facilities and schoolbus stops by biking and walking, as specified, and projects that will expand access to transit in underserved or rural areas.

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AB 2255
Pellerin D
Political Reform Act of
1974: candidate
controlled committees:
campaign statements.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.
04/15/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April
15). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing, including requiring elected officials, candidates for elective office, and committees to file periodic campaign statements.
• This bill would require a candidate controlled committee established for an elective office for the controlling candidate to report additional information on its campaign statement if (1) the candidate will not appear on the ballot at the next election and (2) The committee makes expenditures to a single person exceeding $20,000 in the aggregate during the reporting period. If the candidate controlled committee is required to report this information, its campaign statement must include the full name and street address of the person to whom the expenditures were made, the amount of each expenditure, and a description of any consideration for which each expenditure was made.

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AB 2295
Johnson R
Regional housing need:
affordable housing.
03/09/2026 - A. H. &
C.D.
03/09/2026 - Referred
to Coms. on H. & C.D.
and L. GOV.

Current law requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop and adopt a methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to cities, counties, and cities and counties within the region or within the subregion, as provided. Current law also requires each council of governments and delegate subregion, as applicable, to adopt a final allocation of regional housing needs to each local government in the region or subregion, where applicable, and the department, based on that adopted methodology. Current law requires that the Watch
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housing element of a county’s or city’s general plan include, among other things, a quantification of the locality’s existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, which must include the locality’s share of the regional housing need, as provided. Current law authorizes a local government within the same county as a federally recognized Native American tribe to enter into a voluntary agreement with a tribe to allow new tribal housing development projects to count toward the locality’s share of the regional housing needs allocation if certain conditions are met. • This bill would authorize a local government, as defined, to enter into a voluntary agreement with another local government to allow new housing development projects to count toward each locality’s share of the regional housing needs allocation if certain conditions are met, including that the project includes affordable housing units for very low and lower income households.

AB 2296
Papan D
Planning and zoning:
housing element:
regional housing needs
allocation.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 10.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Under the Planning and Zoning Law existing law authorizes at least 2 or more cities and a county, or counties, at least 28 months prior to the scheduled housing element revision, to form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s existing and projected housing need among its members. If the council of governments does not receive a notification of this formation at least 28 months prior to the update, existing law requires the council of governments to implement specified requirements regarding the regional housing need process. Existing law requires the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each delegate subregion at least 25 months prior to the scheduled revision.
• This bill would extend the above-described timeline for cities and counties to form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s housing need, as provided, from 28 months to 34 months, and the above-described timeline for the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each subregion from 25 months to 31 months, respectively.

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AB 2307
Sanchez R
Transportation: traffic
signal synchronization
pilot program: Western
Riverside Council of
Governments.
04/13/2026 - A. APPR.
04/14/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 16. Noes 0.)
(April 13). Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Would, until January 1, 2032, authorize the Western Riverside Council of Governments, in required coordination with the Department of Transportation, to establish and administer a traffic signal synchronization pilot program for its member local agencies to evaluate a regional model for coordinating traffic signal timing between state highways and local street and road systems, as specified.
• The bill would require the Western Riverside Council of Governments, in coordination with the department, to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot program, including assessing its impacts on congestion, travel time reliability, operational efficiency, and vehicle emissions and to submit, on or before January 1, 2028, a specified report to the Legislature relating to the pilot program. • This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the local agencies that constitute the Western Riverside Council of Governments.

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April 27, 2026
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AB 2319
Schultz D
Personal Income Tax
Law: Corporation Tax
Law: credits: qualified
motion picture:
postproduction.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes

1.) (April 20). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including various motion picture credits, commonly referred to as motion picture credit 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0, and the certified studio credit, to be allocated by the California Film Commission in differing amounts equal to specified percentages of the qualified expenditures of a qualified motion picture in this state. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Tax Relief and Refund Account and provides that payments required to be made to taxpayers or other persons from the Personal Income Tax Fund are to be paid from that account. • This bill would allow a credit against those taxes in an amount between 35% and 50% of qualified expenses relating to the postproduction of a qualified motion picture in California to be allocated by the California Film Commission, as specified.
• The bill would require the credit to be administered in the same manner as the motion picture credit

4.0, except as specified.
• This bill would allow a qualified taxpayer to elect to be paid a refund if the amount allowable as a credit exceeds the qualified taxpayer’s tax liability for the taxable year, as specified.

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AB 2337
Lackey R
Peace officers: theft.
04/22/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended.

Existing law authorizes Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to suspend or revoke the certification of a peace officer if the peace officer has engaged in any serious misconduct, as specified.

Existing law requires POST to adopt by regulation a definition of “serious misconduct” that serves as the criteria to be considered for ineligibility for, or revocation of, certification, as provided. • This bill would additionally authorize POST to suspend or revoke the certification of a peace officer who commits specified theft under color of authority.

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AB 2341
Fong D
Local government:
emergency response
services: use of
languages other than
English.
04/20/2026 - A. THIRD

READING
04/20/2026 - Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
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Existing law requires, in the event of an emergency within the jurisdiction of a local agency that provides emergency response services and that serves a population within which 5% or more of the people speak English less than “very well,” according to American Community Survey data, and jointly speak a language other than English, that the local agency provide information related to the emergency in English and in all languages spoken jointly by the 5% or more of the population that speaks English less than “very well,” as specified.
• This bill would revise these provisions to instead require the local agency to provide information related to an emergency within a local agency’s jurisdiction in English and translated in each language spoken by 5% or more of the population that speaks English less than “very well.” Watch
AB 2343
Patel D
Alcohol and other drug
04/14/2026 - A. APPR.
04/20/2026 - Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate adult alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities that provide residential nonmedical services, as specified, and further requires the department to certify and regulate alcohol and other drug programs, as specified.
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programs: consumer
protection platform.
program to participate in a public consumer protection platform designated or designed by the department in order to be licensed or certified.
• The bill would specify that participation in the public consumer protection platform pursuant to these provisions is only required if the department determines that sufficient funding has been appropriated or otherwise secured to cover the costs of participation in the platform. • The bill would authorize the department to charge a reasonable fee to alcohol or other drug treatment facilities and alcohol or other drug programs required to enroll in the platform, as specified, and would prohibit the administrator of the public consumer protection platform from accepting payment from the entities subject to these provisions.
• The bill would authorize the department to verify compliance with participation in the public consumer protection platform as part of the certification or licensing process.

AB 2346
Wilson D
Vehicles: electric
bicycles and speed
limits.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 12.

Noes 0.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions for various purposes.
• This bill would require all class 1 and class 2 electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with a speedometer. • The bill would also require all electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with an integrated front lamp and a rear lamp, as specified. • The bill would also require manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to include a written description of California’s electric bicycle laws with the bicycle’s packaging to be provided to the consumer.
• The bill would also require sellers and distributors of electric bicycles to provide specified disclosures at or before the point of sale.

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AB 2347
Ahrens D
Commission on Peace
Officer Standards and
Training: hate crime
training and guidelines.
04/08/2026 - A. APPR.
04/08/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April
7). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
04/29/26 ACurrent law defines a “hate crime” as a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including, among other things, race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. Current law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), in consultation with specified subject-matter experts, to develop guidelines and a course of instruction and training for law enforcement officers addressing hate crimes. Beginning January 1, 2027, this bill would require POST to conduct a comprehensive review of existing hate crimes training programs, as specified.
• The bill would require the review to be completed by January 1, 2028. • The bill would require POST to, by July 1, 2028, adopt evidence-based training requirements to address the gaps identified in the review regarding the prevention, identification, and investigation of hate crimes.

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APPROPRIATIONS 9
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 1100 WICKS,
BUFFY, Chair
AB 2390
Schiavo D
Streamlined housing
approvals: objective
standards: review and
modifications.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

The Planning and Zoning Law, until January 1, 2036, 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 (streamlining process). Existing law, for purposes of this streamlining process, authorizes a development proponent to request a modification to an approved development if submitted to the local government before the issuance of the final building permit required for construction of the development. Existing law requires a local government to approve a modification if it determines the modification is consistent with the objective planning standards in effect when the original development application was first submitted. Existing law requires evaluations of modifications for consistency with the objective planning standards to be made using the same assumptions and analytical methodology the local government originally used, as described.
• This bill would instead require the local government to approve a modification if it determines the modification is consistent with objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards that were in effect when the original development application was first submitted, as described.

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AB 2397
Ta R
Local government:
community facilities
districts: financing.
04/23/2026 - A. H. &
C.D.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on H. & C.D. (Ayes 10.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on H.
& C.D. From
committee chair, with
author's amendments:

Amend, and re-refer to
Com. on H. & C.D.

Read second time and
The Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 authorizes a local agency, as defined, to initiate proceedings to establish a community facilities district as an alternative method of financing certain public capital facilities and services, especially in developing areas undergoing rehabilitation, only if it has first considered and adopted local goals and policies, as prescribed. Existing law authorizes a local agency to take any actions or make any determinations which it determines are necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of the act and which are not otherwise prohibited by law. • This bill would prohibit the legislative body of a local agency from taking certain actions with respect to a critical housing infrastructure district, as defined, including abandoning the proposed establishment of the district, as specified, unless prior to taking the action it makes findings based upon substantial evidence that, among other things, establishment of the district, levying the special taxes, or incurring bonded indebtedness, as applicable, would have a specific adverse impact upon the public interest.
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
amended.
04/29/26 A-HOUSING

AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT 9:30
a.m. - State Capitol,
Room 437 HANEY,
MATT, Chair
taking any other action authorized by the act with respect to a critical housing infrastructure district, as specified.

AB 2400
Wallis R
General plan: annual
report: suite-style
student housing
quarters.
03/09/2026 - A. H. &
C.D.
03/09/2026 - Referred
to Coms. on H. & C.D.
and L. GOV.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development of the city or county that includes, among other elements, a housing element. That law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs. That law requires the city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the number of units of housing demolished and new units of housing that have been issued a completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy.
• This bill would additionally require the city or county to include in the annual report the number of suite-style student housing quarters, as determined by the department.

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AB 2409
Valencia D
Digital assets: meme
coins.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes

0.) (April 20). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law prohibits a state officer or employee from engaging in any employment, activity, or enterprise that is clearly inconsistent, incompatible, in conflict with, or inimical to their duties. Existing law also prohibits specified local agency officers or employees from engaging in any employment, activity, or enterprise for compensation that is inconsistent, incompatible, or in conflict with, or inimical to, their duties, as specified.
• This bill would prohibit a public officer and specified public employees, as those terms are defined, from issuing a meme coin.
• The bill would define “public officer” for purposes of these provisions to include a state or local elected or appointed officer, including a Member of the Legislature, or an elected or appointed member of a governmental board, commission, committee, or other body, including a governmental body that has only advisory powers.
• The bill would define “public employee” for these purposes to mean an employee of a state or a local government entity who has decisionmaking authority over bids and contracts for that entity.

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AB 2415
Hoover R
Transit-oriented housing
04/22/2026 - A. L.

GOV.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
Existing law requires a housing development project to be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development within prescribed distances of a transit-oriented development stop if the development complies with specified requirements. Existing law applies these provisions to a local agency beginning July 1, 2026, unless the Watch
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developments:
alternative plans.
and re-refer to Com.
on L. GOV. (Ayes 12.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on L.

GOV. From committee
chair, with author's
amendments: Amend,
and re-refer to Com.
on L. GOV. Read
second time and
amended.
04/29/26 A-LOCAL
GOVERNMENT 1:30
p.m. - State Capitol,
Room 447 CARRILLO,
JUAN, Chair
local agency adopts an ordinance or local transit-oriented development alternative plan, as specified.

Existing law prescribes requirements for these plans, including requiring that the plan not reduce the capacity in any transit-oriented development zone in total units or residential floor area by more than 50%. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes. • This bill would provide that a transit-oriented development alternative plan may reduce the capacity in up to one transit-oriented development zone in total units or residential floor area by more than 50% if certain requirements are met.

AB 2418
González, Mark D
Local building permits:
nonresidential private
permitting review.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
(April 21). Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Current law requires every city, county, or city and county, whether general law or chartered, that requires the issuance of a permit as a condition precedent to the construction, alteration, improvement, demolition, or repair of any building or structure, to require the execution of a permit application, as specified. Current law permits a local agency, defined as a city, county, or city and county, to authorize its enforcement agency to contract with or employ a private entity or persons on a temporary basis to perform plan-checking functions for a nonresidential building, but that the local agency is not required to do so if it determines that no entities or persons are available or qualified to perform plan-checking services. Under current law, when there is an excessive delay, as defined, in checking plans submitted as part of an application for specified nonresidential projects, a local agency is required to, upon request of the applicant, contract with or employ a private entity or persons on a temporary basis to perform the plan-checking function. Current law defines “excessive delay” to mean, among other things, the local agency has taken more than 50 days to check plans and specifications, as provided.
• This bill would, until January 1, 2037, revise and recast the above-described provisions related to private plan checking.
• The bill would, upon an application for a nonresidential building permit being deemed complete, as provided, require the local agency to provide the applicant with an estimated timeframe in which it will determine if the completed application is compliant with permit standards.

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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
AB 2433
Alvarez D
Housing development:
density bonus.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to grant a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, to an applicant for a housing development when the applicant seeks a density bonus for the housing development, as specified, if the applicant agrees to construct, among other things, a specified percentage of units for very low income, lower income, or senior citizen housing, and meets other requirements. • This bill would, instead, require a city or county to grant a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, to an applicant for a housing development when the applicant submits an application for a housing development that a city, county, or city and county determines meets specified criteria, including, among others, the housing development includes specified percentage of units for very low income, lower income, or senior citizen housing.

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AB 2443
McKinnor D
Telephone corporations:
carriers of last resort.
03/09/2026 - A. C. & C.
03/09/2026 - Referred
to Com. on C. & C.

Current law authorizes the Public Utilities 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 to develop a reasonable process for a carrier of last resort to be relieved, on or before January 1, 2029, of that status in areas where customers have other options for voice service.

Oppose
AB 2480
Ávila Farías D
Housing development:
density bonus: student
housing developments.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 -
Coauthors revised.

From committee: Do
pass and re-refer to
Com. on APPR. (Ayes

10. Noes 0.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on
APPR.

The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, 20% of the total units, as defined, for lower income students in a student housing development that meets certain requirements. These requirements include, among other things, that all units in the student housing development be used exclusively for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled full time at an institution of higher learning, and the rent provided in the applicable units of the development for lower income students is calculated at 30% of 65% of the area median income for a single-room occupancy unit type.
• This bill, for the purposes of a student housing development being eligible for a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, would revise and recast the rent requirements for the applicable units of the development for lower income students.
• The bill would also require a city or county to provide an additional density bonus, as specified, for a Watch
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student housing development that meets the requirements for being eligible for the above-described density bonus and meets other specified criteria, including that the development provides 24% of the total units to lower income students, and the applicant agrees to include additional rental units affordable to moderate-income students, as defined, provided that the resulting student housing development would not restrict more than 50% of the total units to moderate-income or lower income students.

AB 2517
Calderon D
Fire safety: fire hazard
severity zones.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April
23). Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.

Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas, commonly known as local 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. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review and make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones within local responsibility areas. Under existing law, this review is required to coincide with review of state responsibility area lands every 5 years and, when possible, fall within the timeframes for each county’s general plan update. Existing law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving the recommendations from the State Fire Marshal. Existing law authorizes a local agency to, at its discretion, include areas within its jurisdiction not identified as very high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal as very high fire hazard severity zones and areas not identified as moderate and high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal as moderate and high fire hazard severity zones. Under existing law, a local agency is required to transmit a copy of this adopted ordinance to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection within 30 days of adoption. Existing law provides that changes made by a local agency to the recommendations made by the State Fire Marshal are final. • This bill would require the State Fire Marshal to, no fewer than 180 days before finalizing the designation of local responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, post specified information relating to those designations on its public internet website, provide at least one workshop on the draft maps for stakeholder participation, host a 30-day public comment period to receive written comments from interested stakeholders, respond to all written comments by local agencies regarding land use and zoning matters that address the accuracy of the data used by the State Fire Marshal for those designations within 30 days of the end of the public comment period, and coordinate with other state agencies to help educate their constituencies, as specified.

Support
AB 2576
Harabedian D
04/15/2026 - A. L.

GOV.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass.

Existing law provides that a housing development project shall be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development if specified conditions and requirements are met. Existing law provides that these provisions do not apply to a local agency until January 1, 2026, unless the local agency adopts an ordinance or local transit-oriented development alternative plan, as defined, deemed compliant by Support
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Transit-oriented
development.
(Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April
22).
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-- ASSEMBLY BILLS
the Department of Housing and Community Development before July 1, 2026. Existing law specifies that, beginning on January 1, 2027, a local government that denies a housing development project meeting the requirements referenced above that is located in a high-resource area is presumed to be in violation of specified law and immediately liable for specified penalties. Existing law specifies exclusions from the provisions described above, including a site with a historic resource designated as of January 1, 2025, on a local register.
• This bill would also exclude from the provisions described above, a contributing site within a historic district included on the State Historic Resources Inventory designated before January 1, 2025, and a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included on the State Historic Resources Inventory designated before January 1, 2025.

AB 2601
Lee D
Planning and zoning:
housing development:
streamlined approval
and subdivisions.
04/15/2026 - A. L.

GOV.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass.
(Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April
22).
04/27/26 #52 ASECOND READING FILE
-- ASSEMBLY BILLS
Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county 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. Existing law requires a local agency to consider ministerially a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone, without discretionary review or a hearing, if the proposed housing development meets specified requirements. Existing law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the parcel meets specified requirements.
• This bill would require that an application for a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone, as described above, be eligible for concurrent processing with an application for a parcel map for an urban lot split, as provided. • The bill would authorize a local agency to condition issuance of building permits, grading permits, or certificates of occupancy for a proposed housing development upon the applicant first obtaining approval and recording a parcel map for eligible parcels pursuant to the above-described urban lot split provisions.

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AB 2620
Carrillo D
California
Environmental Quality
Act: exemption: wireless
telecommunications
03/16/2026 - A. NAT.

RES.
04/16/2026 - In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

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 also 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.

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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
facility: broadband
internet access projects.
• This bill would exempt from CEQA projects for the installation of a wireless telecommunications facility, as defined, or a broadband internet access project, as defined, that is not a small wireless facility, as defined. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a project would qualify for this exemption, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 2676
Gallagher R
Housing Crisis Act of
2019.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 -
Coauthors revised.

From committee: Do
pass and re-refer to
Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law, known as the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, with respect to land where housing is an allowable use and except as specified, prohibits a county or city, including the electorate exercising its local initiative or referendum power, in which specified conditions exist, determined as provided by the Department of Housing and Community Development, from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition, as defined, that would have certain effects. Under existing law, these proscribed policies, standards, or conditions include, among others, (A) changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use within an existing zoning district below what was allowed under the general plan or specific plan land use designation and zoning ordinances of the county or city as in effect on January 1, 2018, and (B) imposing or enforcing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city, except as provided. Existing law states that these prohibitions apply to any zoning ordinance adopted or amended on or after the effective date of these provisions, and that any development policy, standard, or condition on or after that date that does not comply is deemed void. Existing law prohibits a county or city subject to these provisions from enforcing a zoning ordinance imposing a moratorium or other similar restriction on or limitation of housing development until it has submitted the ordinance to, and received approval from, the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires the department to approve a zoning ordinance submitted to it only if the department determines that the zoning ordinance satisfies these requirements. If the department denies approval of the zoning ordinance, as specified, existing law states that the ordinance is deemed void.
• This bill would expand the prohibition against enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that has the effect of imposing or enforcing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city to also prohibit these policies, standards, or conditions within the sphere of influence of a city, as defined.

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AB 2679
Hadwick R
Road Maintenance and
Rehabilitation Program:
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Existing law creates the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway system and the local street and road system. Existing law provides for the deposit of various moneys, including revenues from certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees, for the program into the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA). Existing law requires funds available for the program to be allocated for various specified purposes and requires the remaining funds available for the program to be continuously appropriated, with 50% for allocation to the Watch
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
State Highway Account
loans: cities.

Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 15. Noes 0.)
(April 20). Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Department of Transportation and 50% for apportionment to cities and counties by the Controller. Of the funds to be apportioned to cities and counties, existing law requires the Controller to apportion 50% of those funds to counties pursuant to a specified formula and 50% of those funds to cities in the proportion that the total population of each city bears to the total population of all the cities in the state. Existing law requires a city or county to submit to the California Transportation Commission a list of proposed projects, as specified, to be eligible for an apportionment of those funds. Existing law establishes the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. With specified exceptions, money in the State Highway Account is required to be appropriated by the Legislature. • This bill would authorize a city to submit a request to the Controller to receive a supplemental apportionment from the State Highway Account if, among other things, the city’s apportionment from the RMRA for the applicable fiscal year is no more than $200,000, the cost of the city’s list of projects submitted to the commission exceeds the amount of its apportionment, and the city agrees to reimburse the amount of supplemental funding provided from the State Highway Account with its future apportionments from the RMRA in accordance with terms and conditions established by the commission.

AB 2689
Ávila Farías D
Low-income housing tax
credits: lease
nonrenewal: good
cause.
03/19/2026 - A. H. &
C.D.
04/09/2026 - In
committee: Hearing
postponed by
committee.
04/29/26 A-HOUSING

AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT 9:30
a.m. - State Capitol,
Room 437 HANEY,
MATT, Chair
Existing law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, establishes a low-income housing tax credit program through which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee allocates low-income housing tax credits aimed at providing affordable low-income housing within and throughout the state. Existing federal law sets limitations and guidelines regarding what projects are eligible for credits, including a requirement that an extended low-income housing commitment is in effect, and a prohibition against eviction except for good cause.
• This bill would specify, for housing projects where the low-income housing commitment requires 100% of the units, not including any manager’s units, to be restricted to lower income households, as defined, that good cause for nonrenewal of a lease includes cases where the nonrenewal relates to a household whose income exceeds 140% of the area median income for at least 2 consecutive years and 30% of the household’s monthly income exceeds the fair market rent for the county where they reside.

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AB 2692
Irwin D
Common interest
developments:
reinstatement of
terminated
04/22/2026 - A. JUD.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on JUD. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.

The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development governs the creation and operation of common interest developments. The act requires a declaration to be recorded to create a common interest development, and authorizes the declaration to be amended pursuant to the declaration’s provisions or pursuant to processes specified in the act.
• This bill would establish a process for reinstating a declaration that has been terminated by operation of the provisions that set forth the initial term of the declaration. As a condition for reinstatement, the bill would require approval by the percentage of members that the declaration Watch
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
declarations: County of
Los Angeles.
(Ayes 12. Noes 0.)
(April 22). Re-referred
to Com. on JUD.
04/28/26 A-JUDICIARY
9 a.m. - State Capitol,
Room 437 KALRA, ASH,
Chair
required for extending the term of the declaration. If the declaration does not specify that percentage, the bill would require approval by a majority of all members. • The bill would make the declaration effective upon satisfaction of additional requirements, including certification of member approval and recording the declaration in the county recorder’s office.

AB 2720
Schiavo D
Human trafficking victim
support coordinator.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.
04/20/2026 - Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and charges it with, among other duties, developing and disseminating guidelines and training for all peace officers in this state. Existing law requires POST to develop and implement a course of instruction for the training of peace officers on commercial sexual exploitation of children and victims of human trafficking that includes, but is not limited to, certain topics and activities. • This bill would require each law enforcement agency with more than 25 peace officers to designate at least one human trafficking victim support coordinator by January 1, 2028. • The bill would require the coordinator to take the above-described course of instruction no later than 6 months after designation and, upon completion of the course, serve as a liaison between trusted community-based organizations and victims.
• The bill would require each law enforcement agency to, by July 1, 2028, display specified information on their internet website, including specified contact information of any human trafficking victim support coordinators.

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AB 2788
Committee on
Transportation
Transportation:
omnibus bill.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 15. Noes 0.)
(April 20). Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person to pilot a vessel through the Golden Gate and into or out of a harbor in the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun, unless the person has a license as a pilot, as provided. Existing law defines “Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun” as all the waters of the Bay of San Francisco, Bay of San Pablo, and Bay of Suisun, and of the tributaries, ports, and harbors of those bays, including the water areas from the south end of San Francisco Bay and from the Ports of Sacramento and Stockton to the Golden Gate Bridge. Existing law requires a pilot that provides pilotage service in the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun to be insured, as provided, and requires a vessel, owner, operator, or demise or bareboat charterer hiring the pilot to either defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the pilot or provide trip insurance, as provided. • This bill would clarify that the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun includes the Ports of Sacramento and Stockton.

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SB 16
Blakespear D
06/09/2025 - A. H. &
C.D.
07/10/2025 - July 16
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 Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Ending Street
Homelessness Act.
hearing postponed by
committee.
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 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 130
Committee on Budget
and Fiscal Review
Housing.
03/24/2025 - A.

BUDGET
06/26/2025 - From
committee with
author's amendments.

Read second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on BUDGET.

Current law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units (JADUs), as defined, in single-family residential zones and requires the ordinance to include, among other things, standards for the creation of a JADU, required deed restrictions, and occupancy requirements. Current law makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that either effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) or JADU on a lot zoned for singlefamily residential use that meets the above-described minimum standards established for those units.

However, existing law permits reasonable restrictions that do not unreasonably increase the cost to construct, effectively prohibit the construction of, or extinguish the ability to otherwise construct, an ADU or JADU consistent with those aforementioned minimum standards provisions. • This bill would prohibit fees and other financial requirements from being included in the abovedescribed reasonable restrictions.

Oppose
SB 239
Arreguín D
Open meetings:
01/27/2026 - A. DESK
01/27/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 29. Noes 11.)
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 Watch
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
teleconferencing:
subsidiary body.

Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Desk.
teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except as specified. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes specified neighborhood city councils to use alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed, if, among other requirements, the city council has adopted an authorizing resolution and 2/3 of the neighborhood city council votes to use alternate teleconference provisions, as specified • This bill would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use alternative teleconferencing provisions and would impose requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. • The bill would require the subsidiary body to post the agenda at each physical meeting location designated by the subsidiary body, as specified.
• The bill would require the members of the subsidiary body to visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is publicly accessible via the internet or other online platform, as specified.

SB 417
Cabaldon D
The Affordable Housing
Bond Act of 2026.
04/22/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 -
Coauthors revised.

From committee: Do
pass and re-refer to
Com. on APPR. (Ayes

10. Noes 2.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on
APPR.

Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing 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 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 457
Becker D
Housing element
compliance: committed
assistance: in-kind
services.
01/26/2026 - A. DESK
01/26/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
The Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element of a city or county sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period that the local government is undertaking or intends to undertake to implement the policies and achieve the goals of the housing element, as provided.

Current law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to allow a city or county to substitute the provision of units pursuant to this schedule of actions if the community includes in its housing element a program committing the local government to provide specified units that will be made available through the provision of committed assistance to lower income Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Desk. households at affordable housing costs or rents, as defined. Current law requires a unit to meet specified requirements to qualify for inclusion in the program. Existing law defines “committed assistance” for these purposes to mean that the city or county enters into a legally enforceable agreement during a specified time period that obligates sufficient available funds or other in-kind services to provide the assistance necessary to make the identified units affordable and that requires that the units be made available for occupancy within 2 years of the execution of the agreement. • This bill would define “in-kind services” for these purposes.

SB 490
Umberg D
Alcohol and drug
programs.
01/26/2026 - A. DESK
01/26/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Desk.

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. 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 health care services, through feefor-service or managed care delivery systems. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Current law establishes the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program (Drug Medi-Cal) and authorizes the department to enter into a Drug Medi-Cal contract with each county for the provision of alcohol and drug use services within the county service area. • 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.

Support
SB 492
Menjivar D
Youth Housing Bond Act
of 2026.
01/27/2026 - A. DESK
01/27/2026 - Read
third time. Urgency
clause adopted.

Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes
The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018 authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires the proceeds from the sale of these bonds to be used to finance various housing programs and a specified program for farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance for veterans, as provided. Current law establishes, among various other programs intended to address homelessness in this state, the Watch
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Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position

9.) Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Desk.

Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing. • This bill would enact the Youth Housing Bond Act of 2026 (bond act), which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $1,000,000,000 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.

SB 574
Umberg D
Generative artificial
intelligence: attorneys
and arbitrators.
01/29/2026 - A. DESK
01/29/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Desk.

The State Bar Act requires an attorney to strictly maintain client confidences and to preserve client secrets at their own peril.
• This bill would obligate an attorney who uses generative artificial intelligence to practice law to ensure that confidential personal identifying, or other nonpublic information, is not entered into a public generative artificial intelligence system.
• The bill would also require an attorney to ensure that reasonable steps are taken to verify the accuracy of generative artificial intelligence material and to correct any erroneous or hallucinated output in any material used by the attorney. Existing law requires every pleading, petition, written notice of motion, or other similar paper to be signed by the attorney of record, or if a party is unrepresented, by the party, thereby certifying to the best of the person’s knowledge, information, and belief that it is not being presented primarily for an improper purpose and that the claims, defenses, and legal and factual contentions are warranted, as specified. • This bill would prohibit a brief, pleading, motion, or any other paper filed in any court from containing any citations that the attorney responsible for submitting the pleading has not personally read and verified, including any citation provided by generative artificial intelligence.

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SB 677
Wiener D
Housing development:
transit-oriented
development.
01/26/2026 - A. DESK
01/26/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 24. Noes 10.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Current law requires 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 certain applicable requirements, as provided. Among these requirements, current law establishes requirements concerning height limits, density, and residential floor area ratio in accordance with a development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops, as provided, and requires a development to meet specified labor standards that require that a specified affidavit be Oppose
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Desk. signed under penalty of perjury, under specified circumstances. Current law specifies that a development proposed pursuant to these provisions is eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval, as provided. Current law defines, among other terms, the term “high-frequency commuter rail” for purposes of these provisions to mean a commuter rail service operating a total of at least 48 trains per day across both directions, not including temporary service changes of less than one month or unplanned disruptions, and not meeting the standard for very high frequency commuter rail, at any point in the past three years. Current law also defines the term “Tier 2 transit-oriented development stop” for these purposes to mean a TOD stop within an urban transit county, as defined, excluding a Tier 1 transit-oriented development stop, as defined, served by light rail transit, by high-frequency commuter rail, or by bus service meeting specified standards. • This bill would revise the definition of “high-frequency commuter rail” to instead mean a public commuter or intercity rail station with a total of at least 48 passenger trains on average per weekday across all directions, not including temporary service changes of less than one month or unplanned disruptions, and not meeting the standard for very high frequency commuter rail, at any point in the past three years.

SB 691
Wahab D
Body-worn cameras:
policies.
01/27/2026 - A. DESK
01/27/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 33. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Desk.

Current law requires law enforcement agencies, departments, or entities to consider specified best practices regarding the downloading and storage of body-worn camera data, such as specifically stating the length of time that recorded data is to be stored, when establishing policies and procedures for the implementation and operation of a body-worn camera system, as specified. • This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027, each law enforcement agency that has a bodyworn camera policy to update that policy to include a procedure for emergency service personnel to request the redaction of evidentiary and nonevidentiary recordings of a patient undergoing medical or psychological evaluation, procedure, or treatment by emergency service personnel.

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SB 722
Wahab D
Transit-oriented housing
development: excluded
parcels and sites.
01/26/2026 - A. DESK
01/26/2026 - Read
third time. Urgency
clause adopted.

Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes

0.) Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Desk.

Current law requires that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development 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 certain, applicable requirements, as provided. Among these requirements, current law prohibits a proposed development under these provisions from being located on sites where the development would require demolition of housing, or that was previously used for housing, that is subject to rent or price controls, as provided. • This bill would additionally prohibit the development from being located on an existing parcel of land or site governed under the Mobilehome Residency Law, the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law, the Mobilehome Parks Act, or the Special Occupancy Parks Act. • This bill contains other related provisions.

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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
SB 799
Allen D
Joint powers
authorities: South Bay
Regional Housing Trust.
01/26/2026 - A. DESK
01/26/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 39. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Desk.

Current law authorizes the establishment of the South Bay Regional Housing Trust, a joint powers authority, by the County of Los Angeles and any or all of the cities within the jurisdiction of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, with the stated purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within the South Bay Cities region. Current law requires that the South Bay Regional Housing Trust be governed by a board of directors consisting of an appropriate number of directors, to be determined by the governing board of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. Current law requires the board of directors to include mayors, council members, or County of Los Angeles supervisors, as described. Existing law requires that the board of directors to elect a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its members at the first meeting held in each calendar year. Current law requires the governing board of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments to appoint the board of directors and, in the case of a vacancy on the board of directors, qualified individuals to fill the vacancy, as specified. • This bill would instead require the joint powers agreement to establish the number of directors of the trust and the process for appointing directors and filling vacancies. • The bill would additionally authorize the board of directors to include persons appointed and designated as alternate members of the board of directors, as specified. • The bill would require all directors and alternates to be subject to the board of directors’ adopted conflict of interest code.
• The bill would prohibit each alternate that is currently not an elected official from participating as a voting member in more than 75% of all meetings in a calendar year.

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SB 866
Blakespear D
Planning and zoning:
housing element:
unhoused population.
04/15/2026 - S. APPR.
04/20/2026 - Read
second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

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. Existing law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to meeting these needs. Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. For a local government that does not receive HHAP funding, this bill would require the assessment to include, among other things, specified data Oppose
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
regarding the population of individuals who are unhoused and a description of key actions that will be taken to reduce individuals who are unhoused based on the data.

SB 908
Wiener D
Residential windows:
retrofitting: residential
window replacement
projects: California
Building Code
compliance.
04/21/2026 - S. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act governs the management and operation of common interest developments. Existing law places various limits and prohibitions on the governing documents, as defined, relative to an owner’s separate interest within those developments. • This bill would prohibit those governing documents from limiting or prohibiting the owner of a separate interest within a common interest development from completing a residential window replacement project, as defined, or from imposing any requirements on California Energy Codecompliant windows in a housing development project, as defined.

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SB 917
Laird D
Alcoholic beverages:
certified farmers’
market sales permit.
04/14/2026 - S. THIRD

READING
04/14/2026 - Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
04/27/26 #63 SSENATE BILLS -THIRD

READING FILE
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a certified farmers’ market sales permit to a licensed winegrower, which authorizes the licensee, a member of the licensee’s family, or an employee of the licensee to sell wine at certified farmers’ market locations, as provided. The act places certain restrictions on the wine that the licensed winegrower may sell at a certified farmers’ market, including requiring the wine to be produced entirely from grapes or other agricultural products grown by the winegrower. • This bill would remove the requirement that the grapes or other agricultural products that produced the wine be grown by the winegrower.

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SB 922
Laird D
Vehicles: local agency
charges: use of streets
or highways.
03/19/2026 - S. THIRD

READING
03/19/2026 - Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
04/27/26 #51 SSENATE BILLS -THIRD

READING FILE
Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee, or other charge for the privilege of using its streets or highways, other than a permit fee for an extralegal load unless the local agency had imposed the fee prior to June 1, 1989.
• This bill would expressly limit this prohibition to charges based on weight. • The bill would also explicitly state that a fee, charge, or surcharge imposed by or for a local agency to recover the cost of street maintenance and repair and other costs associated with the use of its streets, roads, or highways to provide public services or public works is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision above.

Support
SB 935
Choi R
Local agency designbuild projects:
authorization.
04/16/2026 - A. DESK
04/16/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 38. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Current law authorizes a local agency, as defined, with approval of its governing body, to procure design-build contracts for public works projects in excess of $1,000,000, awarding the contract either to the lowest bid or the best value. Current law, among other requirements for the design-build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing local agencies to use the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2031.

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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Desk. • This bill would repeal the above-described January 1, 2031, repeal date, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely.

SB 938
Menjivar D
Peace officers:
qualifications.
04/22/2026 - S. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Existing law contains numerous provisions governing the qualifications, standards, and training of peace officers. Existing law specifies circumstances that disqualify a person from holding office or being employed as a peace officer, including, among other things, having been convicted of a felony. • This bill would disqualify a person from being a peace officer if they were previously employed as a sworn law enforcement officer by a federal agency engaged in immigration enforcement and personally assisted with immigration enforcement, as defined, after January 20, 2025, except as specified.
• The bill would authorize a person to apply for eligibility as a peace officer only after a minimum cooling-off period of 10 years from the date of separation from prior the federal immigration enforcement agency. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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SB 939
Laird D
Public employees’
retirement: service
credit: payments.
04/23/2026 - A. DESK
04/23/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.
(Ayes 37. Noes 0.)
Ordered to the
Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at
Desk.

The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS), which provides a defined benefit to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. PERL vests management and control of PERS in the Board of Administration. Under that law, members may make certain elections, including elections to purchase service credit for various types of public service, upon payment of additional contributions. Existing law permits a member who retires before paying off the entire amount for service credit to pay the balance due by deductions from their retirement allowance equal to those authorized as payroll deductions, as specified. Under existing law, upon the death of that member, a survivor of the member, who is eligible for a monthly allowance, may elect to continue those deductions from the survivor’s allowance. Existing law authorizes the member, survivor, or beneficiary, as an alternative, on or after January 1, 2020, to elect to receive an allowance that is reduced by the actuarial equivalent of any balance remaining unpaid by the member. • This bill would limit that alternative option to elections made on or after January 1, 2020, with an initial effective date prior to January 1, 2028. (2)Existing law provides that all elections taking effect on or after January 1, 2020, including elections for normal contributions, arrears contributions, absences, or public service become due and payable at the time of the member’s retirement or preretirement death.
• This bill would require, for all elections with an effective date on or after January 1, 2028, except as specified, the member’s payment to be received by the system no later than 90 days after the member’s retirement effective date, or the survivor or beneficiary’s payment to be received by the system no later than 90 days after the date the notification of balance due is mailed. For any balance Watch
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
not paid, the service credit included in the election would be reduced or eliminated, as specified. • This bill would also require all contributions or service credit adjustments required by law or agreement with an effective date on or after January 1, 2028, to become due and payable at the time of retirement or preretirement death.

SB 956
Choi R
Vehicles: Electric Bicycle
Special License Plate
Pilot Program.
03/18/2026 - S.

TRANS.
04/20/2026 - April 21
set for first hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Under existing law, a person riding an electric bicycle is subject to the laws pertaining to the operation of a bicycle upon a highway. For these purposes, existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions, as specified. Existing law states that these provisions do not prevent local authorities, by ordinance, from regulating the registration of bicycles and the parking and operation of bicycles on pedestrian or bicycle facilities, provided such regulation is not in conflict with the Vehicle Code. Existing law prohibits a city or county, which adopts a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution, from prohibiting the operation of an unlicensed bicycle. • The bill would, until January 1, 2032, authorize the County of Orange to establish a pilot program to require the display of a special license plate on electric bicycles. • The bill would authorize the county to adopt ordinances or resolutions to implement the pilot program, and would make a person operating an electric bicycle in violation of this requirement guilty of an infraction punishable by specified fines and mandatory attendance of the Department of the California Highway Patrol-approved electric bicycle training course.

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SB 958
Weber Pierson D
California
Environmental Quality
Act: environmental
impacts: building height.
04/22/2026 - S. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes

0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
05/04/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
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. • This bill would, for purposes of CEQA, prohibit the environmental impacts that are associated with increased building height alone from being considered significant impacts on the environment, if a project meets specified conditions, as provided. Because a lead agency would be required to determine if a project meets the specified conditions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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SB 967
Blakespear D
04/15/2026 - S. APPR.
04/17/2026 - Set for
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of that county or city, and specified land outside its Watch
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Planning and zoning:
housing element:
interim housing units:
acutely low income
households.
hearing April 27.
04/27/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected regional housing need, as provided, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing need plan allocating a share of the regional housing need to each city or county, as provided. Existing law requires the housing element to include an analysis of any special housing needs, including, among others, families and persons in need of emergency shelter. Existing law requires a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the department that includes, among other things, the city’s or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs, as specified, and number of units approved and disapproved in the prior year. • The bill would authorize a city or county that met or exceeded its need for emergency shelter capacity and that provides committed support for interim housing, as defined, to report the number of interim housing units receiving that support that are approved, as specified, as units approved or disapproved for acutely low income households, for purposes of the annual progress report.

SB 979
Strickland R
Planning and zoning:
housing element:
regional housing needs
allocation: judicial
review.
02/11/2026 - S.

HOUSING
04/06/2026 - April 7
set for first hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

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 the council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to adopt a final regional housing needs plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county. Current law requires each council of governments and delegate subregion to distribute a draft allocation of regional housing needs to each local government in the region or subregion. Current law authorizes a local government within the region or the delegate subregion or the department to appeal to the council of governments or the delegate subregion for a revision of the share of the regional housing need proposed to be allocated to one or more local governments, as specified. Current law requires the council of governments or the delegate subregion to make a final determination that either accepts, rejects, or modifies each appeal, as provided.
• This bill would provide that the final determination by the council of governments or the delegate subregion is subject to judicial review, as specified.

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SB 1001
Archuleta D
Local agency, public
utility, or mutual water
04/14/2026 - S. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee with
author's amendments.

Read second time and
Existing law authorizes officers of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, police departments, marshal’s office or sheriff’s office, and officers or employees of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection or the Department of Fish and Wildlife designated as peace officers to close to all unauthorized persons an area where a menace to the public health or safety created by a calamity exists for the duration of the menace and the immediate area surrounding any emergency Watch
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company: personnel
access: Personal Identity
VerificationInteroperable.
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.
04/27/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
field command post or any other command post activated for the purpose of abating a calamity, riot, or other civil disturbance, as specified. Under existing law, an unauthorized person who enters or remains in a closed area, as prescribed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. • This bill would, beginning on July 1, 2028, require the Office of Emergency Services, upon request, to issue a local agency, public utility, or mutual water company responsible for public works and critical infrastructure with specified credentialing to facilitate personnel access to an area during or following a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster. • The bill would specify that the credentialing, a Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable (PIV-I), would conform with the federal Personal Identity Verification standards pursuant to federal National Incident Management System guidelines.

SB 1004
Wiener D
Law enforcement:
masks.
04/14/2026 - S. APPR.
04/21/2026 - Set for
hearing April 27.
04/27/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
Existing law makes it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear a facial covering in the performance of their duties, except as specified. Existing law defines law enforcement officer for these purposes as anyone designated by California law as a peace officer who is employed by a city, county, or other local agency, and any officer or agent of a federal law enforcement agency, agency or law enforcement agency of another state, or any person acting on behalf of a federal law enforcement agency.
• This bill would add peace officers employed by a state agency to the definition of law enforcement officers, thereby making those law enforcement officers subject to those criminal penalties. • The bill would specify that facial coverings does not include certain items, including, among other things, sunglasses.

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SB 1013
Cervantes D
Automated license plate
recognition systems.
04/21/2026 - S. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes

2.) (April 20). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
05/04/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
Existing 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. Existing 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, a public transit operator, or a local department of transportation or public works department, as specified. • The bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, require new, updated, expansions of, or addendums of contractual agreements with ALPR vendors, manufacturers, or suppliers to mandate that no default access is provided to any national ALPR database and that an agency’s collected scans are by default not accessible to any other agency, and would impose new requirements on sharing between California state law enforcement agencies.
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
locating vehicles or persons when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense.

SB 1014
Grayson D
Development projects:
preliminary estimate of
required improvements:
onsite and offsite
improvements.
04/21/2026 - S. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

The Permit Streamlining Act sets forth various procedures for the review and approval of development project applications, including, among other things, requiring each public agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act also requires a city, county, or city and county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the project is being sought.
• This bill would permit an applicant who submits a preliminary application for a housing development project, as specified, or an application if a preliminary application is not submitted, to include in the preliminary application or application a request for a preliminary estimate of required improvements, as provided.
• The bill would require a city, county, or city and county that receives a request under these provisions to provide the preliminary estimate within 30 business days of the submission of the request, as provided.
• The bill, within 30 business days of deeming an application for a postentitlement phase permit complete, would additionally require the city, county, or city and county to provide the applicant with an itemized list of all onsite and offsite improvements that will be required prior to issuance of, or otherwise in connection with, that permit, as provided. • The bill would define various terms for these purposes.

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SB 1024
Menjivar D
Firefighter postpartum
and recovery leave.
04/15/2026 - S. APPR.
04/17/2026 - Set for
hearing April 27.
04/27/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
The Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 entitles an employee who works in California for the same employer for 30 or more days within a year from the commencement of employment to paid sick days. Under existing law, an employee accrues paid sick days at a rate of not less than one hour per every 30 hours worked, subject to certain use, accrual, and yearly carryover limitations. • This bill would entitle active firefighting members of specified fire departments who, after 20 weeks of gestation, give birth or have a stillbirth or miscarriage to 26 weeks of fully paid postpartum and recovery leave.
• The bill would require the leave to be granted without regard to length of service or employment classification and to begin immediately upon the childbirth, stillbirth, or miscarriage.

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SB 1036
Grayson D
Mitigation Fee Act.
04/16/2026 - S. THIRD

READING
04/16/2026 - Read
second time and
The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project, including requiring the local agency to identify the use to which the fee is to be put and determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the type of development project on which the fee Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
amended. Ordered to
third reading.
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READING FILE
is imposed.
• This bill would require the amount of a fee that is imposed on a development project that demolishes or changes an existing use to be offset to account for the demolition or change so that the amount of the fee is attributable only to the development project’s incremental impact on public facilities or services, as provided.

SB 1060
Valladares R
Alcohol and drug
treatment facilities.
02/26/2026 - S.

HEALTH
04/06/2026 - April 8
set for first hearing
canceled at the
request of author.

Current law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate facilities that provide residential nonmedical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services. Violation of licensing provisions is punishable through revocation or suspension of the license and civil penalties. • This bill would prohibit an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility from operating within 1,000 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school or a daycare center if the recovery or treatment facility serves more than 6 residents and treatment is being provided at the facility.

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SB 1105
Pérez D
Law enforcement.
04/20/2026 - S. APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE
04/20/2026 - April 20
hearing: Placed on
APPR. suspense file.

Existing law defines those persons who are peace officers in the state, grants certain authority to those individuals and their employing entities, and places certain requirements on those individuals and their employing entities. Under existing law, federal criminal investigators and law enforcement officers are not California peace officers but are granted specified limited arrest authority in limited circumstances including when violations of state and local laws occur in their presence, when there is an immediate danger to persons or property, when detaining a person for evaluation or treatment who, due to a mental illness, is a danger to themselves or others, and when requested by a California law enforcement agency to be involved in a joint task force or criminal investigation. Existing law additionally grants peace officer status to federal employees who comply with certain training requirements, while they are engaged in enforcing state or local law on and adjacent to property owned or possessed by the United States Government, with the written consent of local law enforcement officials, as specified.
• This bill would remove certain arrest authority or peace officer status for federal criminal investigators, law enforcement officers, and federal employees, including for the purposes of executing a warrant for the arrest of a person.
• The bill would also prohibit a California law enforcement agency, as defined, from entering into an interagency agreement, if, among other things, their assistance includes racial or identity profiling, as specified.

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SB 1109
Alvarado-Gil R
04/20/2026 - S. APPR.
04/20/2026 - VOTE: Do
pass as amended, but
The California Community Care Facilities Act provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including short-term residential therapeutic programs, by the State Department of Social Services, and defines a short-term residential therapeutic program as a residential facility Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Short-term residential
therapeutic programs.
first amend, and rerefer to the Committee
on [Appropriations]
(PASS)
licensed by the department and operated by any public agency or private organization that provides an integrated program of specialized and intensive care and supervision, services and supports, treatment, and short-term, 24-hour care and supervision to children that is trauma-informed. Under the act, the department is authorized to issue citations for violations of these provisions. • This bill would, notwithstanding any law and commencing January 1, 2027, require licenses for short-term residential therapeutic programs to be renewed annually if the licensee has a total of 5 or more specified citations in the past 12 months, or if a short-term residential therapeutic program operates in a county with less than 75,000 residents and that does not have a high school or a general acute care hospital operating in the county.

SB 1116
Caballero D
Planning and zoning:
housing development
projects: subdivisions.
04/22/2026 - S. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county 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. Existing law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development project on a subdivided lot, as specified, that meets specified requirements, and requires a local agency to ministerially consider that application, as specified. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing on a housing development on a lot subdivided as specified an objective zoning standard, objective subdivision standard, or objective design standard that, among other things, physically precludes the development of a project built to specified densities. However, with respect to certain lots, existing law allows a local agency to impose a height limit of no less than the height allowed pursuant to the existing zoning designation applicable to the lot. Existing law authorizes a local agency to adopt an ordinance to implement these requirements.
• This bill would require the height limits under these provisions to apply exclusively to the physical height of a building rather than the number of floors.
• The bill would additionally prohibit a local agency from imposing specified front or internal setbacks, except as specified.
• The bill would also modify prohibitions relating to density on the lot, among other things. • The bill would require that the above-described provisions relating to ministerial approval of housing developments on certain subdivided lots be interpreted liberally in favor of producing the maximum number of total housing units.

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SB 1117
Cervantes D
04/22/2026 - S. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation by ordinance, or by ministerial approval if the local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires fees charged for the construction of ADUs to Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Accessory dwelling units
and junior accessory
dwelling units.
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes

0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
05/04/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
be determined in accordance with specified provisions of the Mitigation Fee Act. Current law prohibits a local agency, special district, or water corporation from imposing any impact fee upon the development of an ADU that has 750 square feet of interior livable space or less, and requires any impact fees charged for an ADU that has more than 750 square feet of interior livable space to be charged proportionately in relation to the square footage of the primary dwelling unit. • This bill would additionally require the charge to be based only on the area in excess of 750 square feet of interior livable space. By changing the duties of local agencies with regard to calculating fees for ADUs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

SB 1151
Cervantes D
Sales and Use Tax Law:
exemptions: infant
formula.
04/08/2026 - S. REV. &
TAX
04/09/2026 - Set for
hearing May 6.
05/06/26 S-REVENUE
AND TAXATION 9:30
a.m. - State Capitol,
Room 112 MCNERNEY,
JERRY, Chair
Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes. • This bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, and before January 1, 2040, exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state, of infant formula, as defined.

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SB 1169
Grayson D
Subdivision Map Act:
tentative maps:
expiration dates.
04/15/2026 - S. APPR.
04/17/2026 - Set for
hearing April 27.

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 processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative maps, among other maps. Existing law requires a vesting tentative map to be filed and processed in the same manner as a tentative map, except as specified. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. Under existing law, an approved tentative map expires 24 months after its approval or conditional approval. Existing law authorizes the approval or conditional approval to be extended up to 24 months pursuant to local ordinance, and by 48 months, as provided, if the subdivider is required to expend more than a certain amount of money to construct, improve, or finance the construction or improvement of public improvements outside the property boundaries of the tentative map, as provided. Existing law prohibits those extensions from extending the tentative map more than 10 years from its approval or conditional approval, except as specified.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
• This bill would extend the initial expiration period of an approved or conditionally approved tentative map to 8 years, except as provided.
• The bill would remove the authorization to extend the approval or conditional approval by 48 months if the subdivider is required to expend more than a certain amount of money to construct, improve, or finance the construction or improvement of public improvements outside the property boundaries of the tentative map.

SB 1187
Durazo D
Open meetings:
majority.
03/04/2026 - S. L.

GOV.
04/09/2026 - Set for
hearing April 29.
04/29/26 S-LOCAL
GOVERNMENT 9:30
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200 DURAZO,
MARÍA ELENA, Chair
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. Existing law defines “meetings” for these purposes to mean any congregation of a majority of the members of a legislative body at the same time and location, as specified, to hear, discuss, deliberate, or take action on any item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body.
• This bill would define “majority” for purposes of the act to mean the number of members of the legislative body equaling more than half of the total number of seats on the legislative body. • The bill would specify that if a seat on the legislative body is vacant, that seat is to still be counted as a seat on the legislative body.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1196
McNerney D
Accessory dwelling units
and junior accessory
dwelling units: electrical
service connections.
04/21/2026 - S. APPR.
04/21/2026 -
Withdrawn from
committee. Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
05/04/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
The Powering Up Californians Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine the criteria for timely service for electrical customers to be energized, including, among other things, categories of timely electric service through energization, as specified. The act requires the commission to establish reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods to ensure that work is completed in a manner that minimizes delay in meeting the date requested by an electrical customer to the greatest extent possible.
• This bill would require the commission, by September 30, 2027, in a new or existing proceeding, to establish timelines for electrical corporations to respond to and process requests to energize accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units, as provided.

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SB 1258
Wiener D
Hazardous waste: site
04/20/2026 - S. APPR.
04/20/2026 -
Withdrawn from
committee. Rereferred to Com. on
Existing law authorizes, when a release of waste occurs and remedial action is required, a responsible party, as defined, to request a local officer to supervise the remedial action if the site is not already overseen by the Department of Toxic Substances Control or a regional water quality control board.

Existing law authorizes the department or a regional water quality control board to retain or assume oversight authority from a local officer, as specified.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
remediation: residential
suitability guidelines.

APPR.
05/04/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
• This bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board, working jointly with the department and in consultation with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, to develop guidelines for developers and for agencies overseeing development-specific site remediations and making determinations of site suitability, as provided. • The bill would require the board, in conjunction with the department, to develop thresholds of significance for contaminants from different sources and for different future uses, as provided.

SB 1272
Menjivar D
Local ordinances:
administrative fines or
penalties.
04/08/2026 - S. L.

GOV.
04/09/2026 - Set for
hearing April 29.
04/29/26 S-LOCAL
GOVERNMENT 9:30
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200 DURAZO,
MARÍA ELENA, Chair
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as defined, to, by ordinance, make any violation of an ordinance subject to an administrative fine or penalty. Existing law requires a local agency to set forth, by ordinance, the administrative procedures that govern the imposition, enforcement, collection, and administrative review of those administrative fines or penalties. Existing law requires the administrative procedures to provide for a reasonable period of time, as specified in the ordinance, for a person responsible for a continuing violation to correct or otherwise remedy the violation prior to the imposition of administrative fines or penalties, when the violation pertains to building, plumbing, electrical, or other similar structural or zoning issues, that do not create an immediate danger to health or safety.
• This bill would prohibit the imposition of an administrative fine or penalty as described above for any violation pertaining to building, plumbing, electrical, or other similar structural or zoning issues, that do not create an immediate danger to health or safety, of any ordinance enacted by the local agency if certain conditions are met, including that the property involved in the violation is a residential property that is owner occupied.
• The bill would make conforming changes to the remedy provision.

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SB 1279
Gonzalez D
City of Long Beach
Pacific Coast Highway
speed safety system
pilot program.
04/14/2026 - S. APPR.
04/17/2026 - Set for
hearing April 27.
04/27/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the City of Long Beach (city), among others, to establish a program for speed enforcement that utilizes a speed safety system if the system meets specified requirements. Existing law requires the city to adopt a Speed Safety System Use Policy that sets forth, among other things, the specific purpose for the system. Existing law requires the city to adopt a Speed Safety System Impact Report that, among other things, includes the locations where the systems may be deployed. Existing law requires the policy and report to be made available for public review, as specified. Existing law also requires the city to develop uniform guidelines for, among other things, the processing and storage of confidential information, and designates all photographic or administrative records made by a system as confidential, except as specified. Existing law prohibits a speed safety system in the city from being operated on any California state route, including all freeways and expressways, United States highways, interstate highways, or any public road in unincorporated areas of any county where the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol has full Watch
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April 27, 2026
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responsibility and primary jurisdiction for the administration and enforcement of the laws, and for the investigation of traffic accidents.
• This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2032, the City of Long Beach to establish a similar program for speed enforcement that utilizes up to 5 speed safety systems on the Pacific Coast Highway.

SB 1283
Ashby D
Electric vehicle charging
stations: installation:
permits.
04/22/2026 - S. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended. Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county (local government) to administratively approve an application to install an electric vehicle charging station (EV station) through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Existing law requires those EV stations to meet all applicable safety and performance standards established by specified entities. • This bill would require this administrative approval to extend to EV stations with a canopy, as defined, or onsite energy storage systems sized to support charging.

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SB 1292
Richardson D
Enhanced curb
management system.
04/23/2026 - S. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Rereferred to Com. on
APPR. pursuant to
Joint Rule 10.5.
05/04/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2030, a local agency, as defined, to install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned or district-owned parking enforcement vehicles for the purpose of taking photographs of parking violations occurring in bicycle lanes. Existing law requires a designated employee of a city, county, city and county, or a contracted law enforcement agency for a special transit district, who is qualified by the city and county or the district to issue parking citations, to review photographs for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a bicycle lane and to issue a notice of violation to the registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days, as specified. Existing law requires these photographic records to be confidential and makes these records available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law requires any local agency that implements this pilot program to report to specified committees of the Legislature on the system’s effectiveness and impact on traffic outcomes, among other things, by December 31, 2028.
• This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2032, the City of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Inglewood, San Diego, or Long Beach, or the city parking enforcement authority within those cities, to establish an enhanced curb management system that records images of vehicles for the purpose of enforcing parking violations or automating parking payments if certain requirements are met.
• The bill would require the governing body of the participating city to adopt a public ordinance or resolution that would authorize the use of a system in specified locations, including, among others, passenger loading zones and smart loading zones.
• The bill would require a participating city that automates parking payments by charging vehicles a fee for access to outline the fee, and any adjusted rates, in an ordinance or resolution.

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SB 1317
Arreguín D
03/04/2026 - S. L.

GOV.

Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law defines “surplus land” for these purposes to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for Watch
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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Exempt surplus land:
locally owned land
04/16/2026 - April 29
set for first hearing
canceled at the
request of author.
which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a regular public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Existing law provides that an agency is not required to follow certain requirements for the disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land,” as defined. Existing law, the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994, authorizes local governmental entities to establish a property and business improvement district to levy assessments on properties and businesses within the district for the purpose of financing certain improvements and promoting activities that benefit property in the district. Existing law requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to identify disadvantaged communities for investment opportunities from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and for other purposes. • This bill would define “exempt surplus land” to include surplus land that is owned by a local agency and is located within a property and business improvement district designated pursuant to the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 and a disadvantaged community identified by the California Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the above-referenced provisions.

SB 1318
Allen D
Coastal resources: local
coastal program: coastal
development permit:
non-owner-occupied
short-term rentals.
04/21/2026 - S. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass as
amended and re-refer
to Com. on APPR.
(Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April
21).
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BILLS - SECOND

READING FILE
The California Coastal Act of 1976 establishes the California Coastal Commission and prescribes procedures for the preparation, approval, and certification of local coastal programs. Existing law requires any proposed amendments to a certified local coastal program to be submitted to, and processed by, the commission in accordance with specified procedures. The act generally requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit from the commission before certification of the local coastal program or to a local government after certification of a local coastal program, as provided. The act finds and declares that it is important for the commission to encourage the protection of existing and the provision of new affordable housing opportunities for persons of low and moderate income in the coastal zone and requires the commission to encourage housing opportunities for persons of low and moderate income.
• This bill would require the commission to approve a coastal development permit or a local coastal program amendment restricting or prohibiting non-owner-occupied short-term rentals, regardless of the availability of other visitor-serving accommodations, as provided.

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SB 1319
Durazo D
California Public Records
Act: public investment
funds.
04/22/2026 - S. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes

0.) (April 22). Rereferred to Com. on
The California Public Records Act (act) requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. The act exempts from disclosure certain records regarding alternative investments in which public investment funds invest, including records containing information regarding the portfolio positions in which alternative investment funds invest. The act, however, requires certain information contained in those records to be disclosed, including, among other things, the name, address, and vintage year of each alternative investment vehicle. The act defines various terms for these purposes.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
APPR.
05/04/26 SAPPROPRIATIONS 10
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200

CERVANTES, SABRINA,
Chair
• This bill would additionally require the disclosure of certain additional information, including, among other things, the name of each general partner or manager of each alternative investment vehicle and of each person with a direct or indirect interest in the general partner or manager. • The bill would except this information contained in those records subject to disclosure, as provided, from the records containing information regarding the portfolio positions described above that are exempt from disclosure.

SB 1383
Arreguín D
Housing development:
density bonus:
incentives or
concessions: labor
standards.
04/15/2026 - S. L.

GOV.
04/17/2026 - Set for
hearing April 29.
04/29/26 S-LOCAL
GOVERNMENT 9:30
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 2200 DURAZO,
MARÍA ELENA, Chair
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, waivers or reductions of development standards, parking ratios, and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing, including, among other types of housing, housing that will include specified percentages of units for rental or sale to lower income households or very low income households, as specified. Existing law requires a city or county to grant incentives or concessions requested by an applicant for a density bonus except under prescribed circumstances. Existing law defines “incentives or concessions” to include, among other things, a reduction in site development standards or a modification of zoning code requirements or architectural design requirements that exceed the minimum building standards, as specified, and regulatory incentives or concessions proposed by the developer or the city or county that result in identifiable and actual cost reductions to provide for affordable housing costs, as specified.
• This bill would exclude a reduction in site development standards, a modification of zoning code or architectural design requirements, and other regulatory incentives or concessions that include or relate to a labor standard, as defined, from the definition of “incentives or concessions.” Watch
SB 1415
Arreguín D
Real property tax:
welfare exemption:
moderate-income
housing.
03/04/2026 - S. REV. &
TAX
04/09/2026 - Set for
hearing May 6.
05/06/26 S-REVENUE
AND TAXATION 9:30
a.m. - State Capitol,
Room 112 MCNERNEY,
JERRY, Chair
Existing property tax law, pursuant to constitutional authorization, provides for a “welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met. That law provides a partial welfare exemption in the case of residential rental property used for lower income households, as specified, calculated as that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units.
• This bill would provide a partial welfare exemption in the case of certain residential rental property used for low- and moderate-income households. The partial exemption would be equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving low- and moderate-income households, as defined, represents of the total number of residential units, as provided.

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Legislative Bill Position Matrix
April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
• The bill would require an owner to make specified certifications relating to the use of the property.

By expanding the duties of local tax officials, and by expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
• This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 262
Caloza D
California Individual
Assistance Act.
06/11/2025 - S. G.O.
06/11/2025 - Referred
to Com. on G.O.

Support
AB 306
Schultz D
Building regulations:
state building standards.
04/23/2025 - S.

HOUSING
06/23/2025 - From
committee chair, with
author's amendments:

Amend, and re-refer to
committee. Read
second time,
amended, and rereferred to Com. on
HOUSING.

Oppose
AB 311
McKinnor D
05/07/2025 - S. JUD.
05/07/2025 - Referred
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 Watch
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Dwelling units: persons
at risk of homelessness.
to Com. on JUD. 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.

AB 609
Wicks D
California
Environmental Quality
Act: exemption: housing
development projects.
05/20/2025 - S. RLS.
05/20/2025 - In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

Oppose
AB 647
González, Mark D
Abandoned recreational
vehicles.
01/27/2026 - S. RLS.
01/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
• This bill would also authorize any public agency within the Counties of Alameda and Los Angeles or a state agency, as specified, to implement a program to dispose of these recreational vehicles within the County of Alameda or the County of Los Angeles and would extend this authorization until January 1, 2032.

AB 736
Wicks D
The Affordable Housing
Bond Act of 2026.
04/21/2026 - S. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes

1.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Support if
Amended
AB 883
Lowenthal D
Elected officials and
judges.
01/27/2026 - S. RLS.
01/27/2026 - In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

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AB 939
Schultz D
Housing development:
density bonuses:
01/29/2026 - S. RLS.
01/29/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the Senate.
(Ayes 60. Noes 9.) In
Senate. Read first
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. Current law, among other things, requires compliance with certain affordability requirements, including requiring that the applicant agree to ensure, and that the city, county, or city and county ensure, that a for-sale unit that qualified Watch
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
affordability of for-sale
units.
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.
the applicant for the award of the density bonus is either (1) initially sold to and occupied by a person or family of very low, low, or moderate income, as specified, or (2) if the unit is not purchased by an income-qualified person or family within 180 days after the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, the unit is purchased by a qualified nonprofit housing corporation, as provided. • This bill would additionally allow the applicant and the city, county, or city and county to comply with the above-described affordability requirements with respect to a for-sale unit by ensuring that the unit is purchased by a nonprofit corporation, as specified, for properties to be sold to and occupied by extremely low, very low, or lower income families who participate in a below-market interest rate loan program, as described.

AB 1383
McKinnor D
Public employees’
retirement benefits:
safety members.
01/29/2026 - S. RLS.
01/29/2026 - Read
third time. Passed.

Ordered to the Senate.
(Ayes 70. Noes 2.) In
Senate. Read first
time. To Com. on RLS.
for assignment.

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AB 1538
Krell D
Crimes: corruption.
04/08/2026 - A. APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE
04/08/2026 - In
committee: Set, first
hearing. Referred to
APPR. suspense file.

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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
AB 1557
Papan D
Vehicles: electric
bicycles.
04/22/2026 - A. APPR.
04/22/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 12.

Noes 0.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Existing law defines a “class 1 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing defines a “class 2 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing law defines a “class 3 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that, in pertinent part, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. • This bill would instead define a class 1 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour.
• The bill would define a class 2 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour.
• The bill would provide that, notwithstanding these definitions, an electric bicycle manufactured prior to January 1, 2027, that was equipped with a motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of continuous power and otherwise met the legal requirements for the relevant class at the time of manufacture shall retain its classification.

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AB 1567
Ta R
General plan: annual
report: congregate and
residential care for the
elderly.
04/23/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 10. Noes 0.)
(April 22). Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.

Support
AB 1569
Davies R
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
Would require, on or before March 1, 2028, the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to develop a standardized electric bicycle safety and Watch
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Pupil safety: electric
bicycle: safety and
training program.
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. with
recommendation: To
Consent Calendar.
(Ayes 15. Noes 0.)
(April 20). Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.
training program for pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as provided. In developing the program, the bill would authorize the State Department of Education and the Department of the California Highway Patrol to collaborate with local law enforcement agencies or local governments that have implemented electric bicycle training programs already to ensure the program reflects proven best practices.
• The bill would encourage local educational agencies and parent organizations to offer training demonstrations to pupils and parents on electric bicycle operations in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies or local governments, as specified.

AB 1588
Stefani D
Vehicles: Sideshow
Accountability and
Community Safety Act.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 -
Coauthors revised.

From committee: Do
pass and re-refer to
Com. on APPR. (Ayes

15. Noes 0.) (April 20).

Re-referred to Com. on
APPR.

Support
AB 1621
Wilson D
Planning and Zoning
Law: postentitlement
phase permits: Housing
Accountability Act.
04/23/2026 - A. THIRD

READING
04/23/2026 - Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
04/27/26 #117 ATHIRD READING FILE -

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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
• The bill would authorize a local agency or state agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 plan check and specification reviews.

AB 1632
Johnson R
Trespass.
03/23/2026 - A. THIRD

READING
03/23/2026 - Read
second time. Ordered
to third reading.
04/27/26 #81 A-THIRD

READING FILE -

ASSEMBLY BILLS
Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to commit the crime of trespass, which includes refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structures belonging to, or lawfully occupied by, another and not open to the general public upon being requested to leave by a peace officer at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession and upon being informed by the peace officer that they are acting at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession. Existing law requires the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession to make a separate request to the peace officer on each occasion when the peace officer’s assistance in dealing with a trespass is requested, except that a single request for peace officer assistance may be made for a period not to exceed 12 months when there is a fire hazard to the premises or property, the owner is absent from the premises or property, or the premises or property is closed to the public and posted as being closed. Existing law authorizes a single request for assistance to be made and submitted electronically, in a notarized form provided by the law enforcement agency, to a peace officer, and authorizes local governments to accept electronic submissions of requests for peace officer assistance.
• This bill would remove the requirement that the submitted form described above be notarized.

Support
AB 1679
González, Mark D
Local pop-up small
business program.
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/23/2026 - Read
second time and
amended.

Watch
AB 1693
Zbur D
04/21/2026 - A. APPR.
04/21/2026 - From
The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt Watch
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April 27, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary City Position
Accelerated retailer
building plan approval:
tenant improvements.
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 18.

Noes 0.) (April 21). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Current law authorizes local governments to enact ordinances or regulations that make building standards amendments to the California Building Standards Code, as specified. Current law establishes a streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant improvement related to a restaurant, as defined.
• This bill would establish a similar streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant improvement relating to a retailer, as defined. In this regard, the bill would require a local building department, upon the request and at the expense of the permit applicant, to allow a qualified professional certifier, defined as a licensed architect or engineer who meets certain requirements, to certify that the plans and specifications of the tenant improvement comply with all applicable building, health, and safety codes, as specified.
• The bill would require a qualified professional certifier, or the applicant, as applicable, to prepare certain affidavits related to the tenant improvement under penalty of perjury. • The bill would require the local building department to approve or deny the permit application within 20 business days of receiving a complete application and would deem the plan approved for permitting purposes if the local building department does not approve or deny the application within that timeframe.
• The bill would also authorize the applicant to resubmit corrected plans addressing the deficiencies identified in the initial denial, would limit the local building department’s review of each subsequent resubmission to the deficiencies identified in the initial denial, and would require the local building department to approve or deny each subsequent resubmission within 10 business days of receipt.

0.) (April 23). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. To be eligible for round 5 or round 6 base program allocation, existing law requires a jurisdiction that is not a tribe to apply as part of a region and be signatory to a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that meets specified requirements.
• This bill would apply to the allocation of funding available under round 8 of the program and require a round 8 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan to include certain components, including a Support
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description of programs and interventions provided by smaller jurisdictions, as defined, that serve the objects and goals of the program, as specified.

AB 1710
Carrillo D
Housing developments:
ordinances, policies, and
standards.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.
04/16/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 10.

Noes 0.) (April 15). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.
04/29/26 AAPPROPRIATIONS 9
a.m. - 1021 O Street,
Room 1100 WICKS,
BUFFY, Chair
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 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 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.

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AB 1712
Pacheco D
City of Santa Fe Springs:
sale of water utility
property.
04/15/2026 - A. APPR.
04/15/2026 - From
committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com.
on APPR. (Ayes 13.

Noes 0.) (April 14). Rereferred to Com. on
APPR.

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