Beverly Hills City Council
September 22, 2026

STAFF REPORT
Meeting Date: September 22, 2026
To: Honorable Mayor & City Council
From: Mandy Jiang, Senior Management Analyst
Magdalena Davis, Community Outreach Manager
Subject: State and Federal Legislative Update
Attachments: 1. State Legislative Bill Matrix

INTRODUCTION
This report provides an informational update to City Council on legislative activities that have occurred from May through end of August 2026, in Sacramento, California, and Washington, D.C. The information provided originates from staff and the City’s contracted state and federal lobbyists. All formal positions taken on legislative bills are guided by the City’s adopted 2026 Legislative Platform.

DISCUSSION
The 2026 state legislative session is now over. August 31 was the last day for each house to pass bills, and state legislators have adjourned for the year. Bills are now on the Governor’s desk for signature or veto through September 30, 2026. If the Governor takes no action past the 30-day deadline, the bill becomes law without his signature. While the state legislative session has concluded, the 119th Congress will continue and end on January 3, 2027.

At the end of the 2026 state legislative session, the City has officially taken positions on 26 state legislative bills and 5 federal bills. A full state legislative bill matrix is provided as Attachment 1. Some of the notable ones are listed below:

 OPPOSE AB 1383 (McKinnor) – Public employees’ retirement benefits. This measure makes changes to the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act (PEPRA) of 2013 that apply prospectively to: (1) increase the pensionable compensation limit used to calculate a Defined Benefit (DB) retirement for all public employees, as provided; (2) provide options for various DB retirement formulas applicable only to safety retirement plan members; and, (3) authorize employers and recognize employee organizations to negotiate a lower or higher DB safety retirement plan formula, as prescribed. According to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the current CalPERS actuarial analysis estimates that the bill would increase pension • • •
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costs for state, school, and local agency plans by approximately $4.8 billion in the present value of future benefits (PVB) and increase annual normal cost contributions by approximately $233 million.

Status: As of 8/30/26 - Headed to Governor; request veto letter sent.  OPPOSE AB 1751 (Quirk-Silva) - Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act.

This measure would establish a new ministerial approval process for qualifying townhome development projects. It would limit local agencies’ ability to exercise discretionary review or hold hearings for qualifying townhome developments and subdivisions. Local agencies would instead be required to process qualifying applications ministerially based on specified objective standards and statutory requirements. A development proponent could apply for ministerial approval if the project satisfies specified procedural requirements and objective planning standards. The bill would also require a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, tentative and final subdivision maps for qualifying townhome projects. To qualify, the proposed subdivision must meet the bill’s requirements for ministerial approval, and each newly created parcel must be at least 600 square feet.

Status: As of 9/3/26 - On Governor desk; request veto letter sent.  OPPOSE SB 1361 (Durazo) - Transit-oriented housing developments: local governments: transit agencies and projects. Of note, the earlier iteration of this bill sought to benefit local governments by exempting them from the impact of SB 79, which garnered positions of support from several cities. The language was then substantially amended to do the opposite in Senate back in March—this measure now prevents a city or county from adding barriers or prevent current or future transit stops from being constructed, with the intention of avoiding SB 79 requirements. Specifically, it would provide that a local government cannot request a transit operator to reduce service on a transit route, condition the approval or review of a transit stop, or withhold support for an application for federal funding on the basis of SB 79 applying to that stop.

Status: As of 8/30/26 - Headed to Governor’s desk; request veto letter sent.

All formal position letters sent by the City are published on the following City webpage:
www.beverlyhills.org/legislation.

State Update
Some relevant state updates over the last quarter include the following:
 End of Session - This year marks the largest number of bills amended on the last day since the enactment of the 72-hour in-print rule with 71 bills. There were 3 bills that were not eligible for a vote until Tuesday, September 1, which meant an additional floor session day to pass a Budget Bill Jr. and SB 492 (Becker), which tackled the wildfire negotiations between the Governor and the legislature. This wildfire proposal highlights agreements between the three houses by creating a program to try and more quickly pay claims for damages, deny short-term bonuses for utility CEOs for a year if the company starts a fire that kills at least one person and put requirements on attorneys seeking to represent victims. Governor Newsom had also leaned on the Legislature in eliminating subrogation, which is the insurance industry’s ability to sue utilities to recoup money they paid out to policyholders in the wake of a utility-caused fire. The legislature ultimately resisted, Meeting Date: September 22, 2026

opting to not making changes to the current subrogation system at this time, thus killing SB 492.

Among the major deals now emerging are SB 577, which reflects an agreement to provide some relief to counties and other public agencies facing significant liability from childhood sexual abuse claims under AB 218 (Gonzalez, 2019) while adding new prevention and oversight requirements for counties, and AB 1156, which would facilitate solar development on Williamson Act agricultural lands in critically overdrafted groundwater basins while preserving local authority over Williamson Act cancellations and project approvals.

Approximately $1 billion in state General Fund resources was set aside in the June budget for end-of-session executive and legislative priorities, with those appropriations expected to be made through AB 113/SB 113, the 2026 Budget Bill Jr. Additional appropriations from the legislative share of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) and Proposition 4 bond funds are also possible after those decisions were deferred in June.
 New Poll Shows Voters Divided on Billionaire Tax, Opposition to Voter ID Measure - A new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, cosponsored by the Los Angeles Times, provides an early look at voter sentiment on several closely watched measures heading to the November ballot. Proposition 40, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of billionaires who resided in California as of January 1 to help offset federal healthcare funding cuts, is supported by 48% of likely voters, with 41% opposed and 11% undecided. The measure's failure to reach majority support could present a challenge heading into the final months of the campaign, as undecided voters have historically tended to break against ballot measures.

Voters remain considerably less familiar with Propositions 41 and 42, two competing measures that could prevent the billionaire tax from taking effect.

Proposition 41, which would prohibit new taxes from being exempted from voterapproved state spending limits and require audits of new taxes, is supported by 35% of likely voters and opposed by 37%. Proposition 42, which would prohibit new taxes on personal property and certain retroactive state taxes, has 40% support and 37% opposition, with roughly one-quarter of voters undecided on each measure. If Proposition 40 passes and either competing measure also passes with more votes, the billionaire tax would not take effect.

Meanwhile, Proposition 39, which would establish new voter identification and citizenship verification requirements, appears to face a more difficult path. The measure would require voters to show government-issued identification when voting in person or provide specified identifying information when voting by mail and would require state and county election officials to verify registered voters' U.S. citizenship using government data. Just over half of likely voters oppose Proposition 39, while 42% support it. The poll found a significant partisan divide, with 80% of Democrats opposed and more than 90% of Republicans supportive; voters unaffiliated with either major party oppose the measure 54% to 36%. The poll surveyed 4,207 registered voters, including 2,310 likely voters, from August 3- 9, with a margin of error of approximately 2.5 percentage points for the likely voter Meeting Date: September 22, 2026

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 Governor’s May Revise - The Governor’s 2026–27 May Revision proposed total state spending of $349.4 billion, including approximately $246.6 billion General Fund, and reflected a significantly improved fiscal outlook compared to the January budget proposal. Earlier this year, the Administration projected a $2.9 billion shortfall in 2026–27 and anticipated continued deficits in future years even after balancing the budget. However, stronger-than-expected revenue collections, particularly from personal income taxes driven by capital gains and stock market performance, substantially improved the state’s position over the spring. The May Revision projected the state’s “Big Three” tax sources will generate approximately $16.5 billion more than anticipated in January across the multiyear budget window, allowing the Administration to balance both the 2026–27 and 2027–28 fiscal years while maintaining reserve levels and reducing projected out-year operating deficits by more than half. Rather than proposing major new ongoing spending commitments, the Administration instead proposed depositing additional resources into a newly created surplus holding account intended to support longterm budget stability.

Federal Update
Some relevant federal updates over the last quarter include:
 In Congress 13 Senators and 69 Representatives will not be seeking reelection next year. Three members of Congress lost primaries within their own party. This turnover is above average.
 Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was discharged from a rehab facility and has returned home amid his lengthy absence from Congress since June 14. Senate Republicans need his vote. No word on when he will return to vote in the Senate.  President Trump signed two executive orders again aimed at restricting birthright citizenship, an apparent attempt to circumvent a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutional protection. The orders include a ban on “birth tourism”.  Legislation that would place a “duty of care” on social media platforms to prevent harm to young users advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, along with three bills to regulate children’s use of artificial intelligence chatbots. The duty of care bill approved by voice vote received bipartisan support and sets up a potential clash with the House, where a children’s online safety package passed in June with a less stringent standard for social media platforms.  The House and Senate are in recess until mid-September. Before recess, the House Appropriations Committee passed all twelve funding bills. The House has passed three appropriations bills: Agriculture, Military Construction-VA, and National Security-State. The Senate Appropriations Committee has not been able to proceed with consideration of any of its bills due to a dispute over defense and non-defense spending levels and the absence of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

It now appears likely that we will have a continuing resolution funding the government through maybe December 11.

Meeting Date: September 22, 2026

The Senate passed bill excluded a White House request for $1 billion to begin building "Trump-class" battleships, though the measure includes other administration requests to accelerate funding for Navy shipbuilding programs. The House must pass a version identical to the Senate’s bill when it returns before the new fiscal year beginning on October 1.

The House on July 22 passed by a vote of 216-214 the fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget resolution that would launch the process of building the third reconciliation bill of the 119th Congress. The budget framework assumes up to $95 billion in mandatory funding, including $73 billion for war-related defense and intelligence programs, $12 billion in aid to farmers, and $10 billion for legislation aimed at preventing voting fraud. The Senate was unable to adopt a budget resolution providing for reconciliation. The stalemate in the Senate centers on the SAVE America Act, the voter ID reform proposal.

FISCAL IMPACT
None associated with this informational report.

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

Keith Sterling
Deputy City Manager
Approved By
ATTACHMENT 1
1 City of Beverly Hills - State Legislative Bill Position Matrix September 11, 2026
Bill ID/Topic Location Summary Position
AB 306Schultz D California Building Standards Commission: appeals: code interpretations. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law authorizes any person adversely affected by any regulation, rules, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of any state agency respecting the administration of any building standard to appeal the issue for resolution to the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law authorizes any local agency having authority to enforce a state building standard and any person adversely affected by any regulation, rule, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of that agency respecting that building standard to appeal to the commission, provided that both wish to appeal the issue for resolution to the commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to accept those appeals only if the commission determines that the issues involved in the appeal have statewide significance. • This bill would revise and recast those provisions to expand the reasons for which a person can appeal to the commission to include, among other things, a request for approval to use an alternate material. • The bill would modify the conditions under which the commission may accept an appeal by removing the requirement that both the local agency and the adversely affected person wish to appeal the issue, and by requiring that certain issues appealed have both statewide significance and that the person seeking the appeal has exhausted all local appeals procedures before appealing to the commission, subject to a certain exception. • The bill would require the commission to review those appealed issues with specified stakeholders.

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AB 647González, Mark D Abandoned recreational vehicles. 08/27/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/27/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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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AB 750Quirk-Silva D Department of Housing and Community Development. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation, to make loans or grants, or both loans and grants, to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department-funded housing projects that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk of conversion to market-rate housing. • This bill would also authorize the department to make those loans and grants to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of housing projects that qualify as a challenged development, as defined. • The bill would require the department to grant priority for these loans and grants to housing projects that are department funded and have an affordability restriction that has expired or have a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk for conversion, as defined. • The bill would authorize the department to establish separate selection and underwriting standards for these projects and projects that are challenged developments.

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AB 883Lowenthal D Data brokers: accessible deletion mechanism: deletion of personal information of elected officials and judges. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing law requires, beginning August 1, 2026, a data broker to access that deletion mechanism at least once every 45 days and, among other things, process all deletion requests and delete all personal information related to the consumers making the requests, as specified. • This bill would change the above-described 45-day period to a 30-day period and make conforming changes. • This bill would require the Secretary of State, certain local government officials, the Judicial Council, and the State Bar of California to notify any state elected official, local elected official, or judge, as applicable, that the person may submit a request to delete that person’s personal information through the above-described accessible deletion mechanism, as prescribed. By imposing additional duties on local government officials, this bill would impose a statemandated local program.

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AB 939Schultz D Housing development: density bonuses: affordability of for-sale units. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, 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. Existing 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. • 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 housing 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.

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AB 956Quirk-Silva D Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law also provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in single-family residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law, the DavisStirling Common Interest Development Act, among other things, makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a planned development, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use that meets the above-described standards and conditions for those units. • This bill would revise the provision governing prohibitions or restrictions on the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for singlefamily residential use to instead apply to a lot zoned to allow single-family residential use.

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AB 1294Haney D Real property tax: welfare exemption: moderate-income housing. 09/01/2026 - A. ENROLLMENT 08/31/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 5.).

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, for lien dates commencing on or after January 1, 2027, and before January 1, 2030, 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 the value of the units serving low- and moderate-income households, as defined. • The bill would require an owner to make specified certifications relating to the use of the property. • The bill would apply the exemption described above for a period of 15 years from the date of the initial filing of the exemption, as specified.

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AB 1383McKinnor D Public employees’ retirement benefits. 09/09/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/09/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.

The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) to provide a defined benefit to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which is continuously appropriated for purposes of PERS, including depositing employer and employee contributions. Under the California Constitution, assets of a public pension or retirement system are trust funds. 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. Existing law, 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, for service performed on and after January 1, 2027, would prohibit the pensionable compensation for calendar year 2027 used to calculate the defined benefit paid to a new member of a retirement system subject to PEPRA who retires from the system from exceeding specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits.

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5 Bill ID/Topic Location Summary Position
AB 1567Ta R General plan: annual report: congregate and residential care for the elderly. 09/01/2026 - A. ENROLLMENT 08/31/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).

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. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected housing need, as provided. Existing law requires each 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 and that furthers specified objectives. • 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, if congregate housing for the elderly or residential care facilities is included in the regional housing need determination, as specified.

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AB 1588Stefani D Vehicles: Sideshow Accountability and Community Safety Act. 09/09/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/09/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.

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, including, as specified, increasing fines, requiring a mandatory minimum jail sentence, and making the offense punishable as a misdemeanor or felony if the offense proximately causes injury to another person.

Support
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AB 1621Wilson D Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act. 08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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. • 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. • The bill would also authorize an applicant to request additional submittals of applications that are not compliant with the permit standards.

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AB 1679González, Mark D Local pop-up small business program. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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. • This bill would further require a local jurisdiction to provide written accessibility compliance guidance materials to an applicant.

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AB 1693Zbur D Accelerated retailer building plan approval: tenant improvements. 09/03/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law authorizes local governments to enact ordinances or regulations that make building standards amendments to the California Building Standards Code, as specified. Existing 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, unless otherwise provided by specified provisions. • 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. • 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. • The bill would require each local building department to conduct audits of tenant improvements submitted for certification, as specified.

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AB 1712Pacheco D City of Santa Fe Springs: sale of water utility property. 08/24/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/24/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

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 1738Carrillo D State Housing Law: remote inspections. 08/28/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/28/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

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. • This bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, except as specified, to offer a homeowner or contractor, as described, 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 either January 1, 2028, or July 1, 2028, as provided. • The bill would authorize these local agencies to adopt reasonable protocols governing the technical conduct of a remote inspection, as specified. • The bill would apply the above-described immunities to remote inspections. • The bill would authorize these local agencies to temporarily ban the homeowner or contractor from using the remote inspection if a homeowner is found to have willfully misrepresented the work, as provided.

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AB 1740Zbur D Coastal resources: local coastal program: coastal development permits: City of Santa Monica. 08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

The California Coastal Act of 1976 establishes the California Coastal Commission and provides for the planning and regulation of development in the coastal zone, as defined. The act generally requires each local government, as specified, to prepare a local coastal program for certification by the commission, however, the act authorizes any local government to request the commission to prepare the local coastal program for the local government, as provided. The act generally prohibits, after certification of a local coastal program and all implementing actions within the affected area, the commission from exercising its coastal development permit review authority over any new development within the area to which the certified local coastal program, or any portion thereof, applies. • This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2029, the City of Santa Monica to submit to the commission a proposed, complete local coastal program for the city’s portion of the coastal zone. By creating a new duty for the City of Santa Monica, the bill would impose a statemandated local program. • The bill would require the commission to act within 6 months of receipt of the proposed, complete local coastal program, unless an extension is requested by the city. • The bill would also require the commission, within 45 days of receipt of the proposed, complete local coastal program, to provide the city, in writing, a list of identified issues, if any, that require further refinement through suggested modifications for the local coastal program, as provided, and would require the city and the commission to coordinate expeditiously and in good faith to reach agreement on any suggested modifications within 6 months of receipt of the submitted complete proposal.

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AB 1751Quirk-Silva D Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act. 09/03/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 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. • The bill would also require a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a tentative and final map for a townhome development project that meets specified requirements, including that the proposed subdivision complies with the requirements established by the bill for ministerial approval of a townhome development project, as described in the preceding sentence, and that the newly created parcels are no smaller than 600 square feet.

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AB 1801Lee D Public agencies: approval: detention facilities. 08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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. • This bill would revise and recast those provisions to prohibit a city, county, city and county, or public 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. • The bill would prescribe the contents, the posting and publication, and the broadcast of the public notice.

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AB 1815Wicks D Factory-built housing: building standards and local requirements. 09/10/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards 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, generally regulates the design, manufacture, and installation of factory-built housing, as defined and specified. That law specifically and entirely reserves to local jurisdictions certain local requirements, including local use zone requirements, snow load requirements, and wind pressure requirements. That law provides that any person who violates any of those provisions and other specified law is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified. • This bill also would prohibit a city, county, city and county, or district from imposing or enforcing local building standards applicable to a factory-built housing structure, as defined, that exceed or differ from the applicable mandatory standards contained in the California Building Standards Code. • The bill would authorize a city or county to make changes or modifications in the requirements contained in the provisions published in the California Building Standards Code that are reasonably necessary to maintain minimum health and safety because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions, subject to the city or county making a specified finding. • The bill would create a rebuttable presumption in favor of a determination that facilitates the use of factory-built housing and allows a project to qualify as a factory-built housing structure. • This bill would define certain key terms for purposes of the California Factory-Built Housing Law.

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AB 1820Schiavo D Electric vehicle charging stations: permit fees. 08/28/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/28/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

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 defines “electric vehicle charging station” to mean any level of electric vehicle supply equipment station that is designed and built in compliance with specified provisions, and delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into a plug-in electric vehicle. 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 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 $500 plus $5 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $2 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for a level 2 electric vehicle charging station installed at a new or existing multifamily housing development, 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.

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AB 1821Pacheco D California Public Records Act: agency response time. 08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 1837González, Mark D Video imaging of parking violations. 08/27/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/27/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 transit-only 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. • The bill would require a public transit operator that uses video imaging to enforce parking violations to report to the Legislature, as specified. • The bill would exempt the City and County of San Francisco from this requirement.

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AB 1838Berman D Public contracts: local agencies: responsive bidders. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law governs the procurement process for contracts of specified public entities. Existing law requires a local agency that requires that contracts be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder meeting, or making a good faith effort to meet, participation goals for minority, women, or disabled veteran business enterprises to provide in the general conditions under which bids will be received that any person making a bid or offer to perform a contract shall include specified information in that bid or offer. • This bill 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. • The bill would require a local agency to establish a process for a contractor to appeal their bid disqualification, as specified.

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AB 1930Zbur D Abortion or genderaffirming health care services: subpoenas, discovery requests, or other requests for information. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law provides that reproductive health care services, gender-affirming health care services, and gender-affirming mental health care services are rights secured by the Constitution and laws of California, and interference with these rights, whether or not under the color of law, is against the public policy of California. Existing law defines “gender-affirming health care services” to mean medically necessary health care that respects the gender identity of the patient, as experienced and defined by the patient, as specified. 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 require 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 subpoena, discovery request, or other request for information that is part of a legal process related to a civil, criminal, regulatory, or legislative investigation regarding abortion, as defined, or gender-affirming health care services that are legally protected health care activities secured by the Constitution or laws of California to provide specified notice to the Attorney General at least 7 business days prior to producing records in response to the request unless a shorter response time is required by federal law or other federal obligation, as specified. If a shorter response time is required by federal law or other federal obligation, the bill would require the responding person or entity to provide notice to the Attorney General no later than contemporaneously with producing the responsive records.

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AB 1941González, Mark D Organized metal theft.
08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 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.

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AB 1976Wicks D Streets and highways: pedestrian and bicycle facilities. 08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLMENT 08/31/2026 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

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 reconsider, delay, or prevent implementation of a proposed pedestrian or bicycle safety project after that project has passed 90% design, as specified. After or upon the award of a contract for, or when county or city staff, as applicable, are directed to begin, the construction of a pedestrian or bicycle safety project, the bill would prohibit the city or county from terminating the project unless the city or county makes at least one specified finding at a public meeting.

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AB 2015Wicks D Department of Transportation: thirdparty navigation applications: study and report. 09/08/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

Would require the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Transportation Agency and relevant regional and local authorities, to conduct a pilot study in a region or area of the state, as determined by the department, on the impact of third-party navigation applications on the state highway system and local street and road networks. • The bill would require the pilot 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, 2029, 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, 2033.

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AB 2058Harabedian D California Factory-Built Housing Law. 09/08/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

The California Factory-Built Housing Law generally regulates the design, manufacture, and installation of factory-built housing and defines terms for its purposes. The law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development, among other things, to regulate quality assurance agencies to perform inspections of factory-built housing manufacturers. The law requires a local enforcement agency, among other things, to enforce and inspect the installation of factory-built housing. The law provides that any person who violates any of its provisions and other specified law is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified. • This bill would revise these provisions, among other things, to authorize a quality assurance agency to also perform an installation inspection of factory-built housing, at the choice of a first user, after the department adopts regulations regarding the requirements for a quality assurance agency to perform these inspections. • The bill would require the department to adopt those regulations by January 1, 2029.

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AB 2074Haney D Regional transit hub districts: downtown housing developments. 09/10/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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 at least one regional transit hub district, as specified, and prescribe requirements for those districts, including requiring that a district make a downtown housing development an allowable use, as specified. • The bill would define “downtown housing development” as a housing development project within a regional hub district that meets certain conditions, including that it meets specified labor standards. • The bill would prescribe requirements for the developments, including that the developments are eligible for streamlined ministerial approval, as specified.

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AB 2076Lowenthal D The Parent’s Accountability and Child Protection Act: online marketplaces: nitrous oxide. 08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 or store credit 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 2118Hoover R Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022: use by right: objective standards. 09/08/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

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. Existing 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, as defined, in a housing development project.

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AB 2168Wicks D Active Transportation Program: guidelines. 09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law requires the California Transportation Commission to develop guidelines and project selection criteria for the Active Transportation Program, including 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, on and after January 1, 2028, 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 2255Pellerin D Political Reform Act of 1974: candidate controlled committees: campaign statements. 08/27/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/27/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires that campaign statements contain prescribed information related to campaign contributions and expenditures of the filing entities. • This bill would require a candidate controlled committee established for an elective office for the controlling candidate, with specified exceptions, to report additional information on its campaign statement if (1) an expenditure is made to a single person and the committee makes expenditures to that person exceeding $20,000 in the aggregate during the reporting period, (2) the candidate will not appear on the ballot at the next election, and (3) the committee is not established for the purpose of reelection of the controlling candidate to the same office. If the candidate controlled committee is required to report this information, its campaign statement must describe the specific political, legislative, or governmental purpose that is satisfied by the expenditure and, if applicable, whether the person to whom the expenditure was made or a reportable subvendor is an immediate family member of the candidate, a paid member of the candidate’s campaign or officeholder staff, or an immediate family member of a paid member of the candidate’s campaign or officeholder staff.

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AB 2296Papan D Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation. 09/03/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law, 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. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected need for housing, 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 plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. • This bill, except with respect to the 7th housing element cycle for councils of governments with a housing element revision due date during the calendar year 2027, 2028, or 2029, 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. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 2319Schultz D Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: credits: qualified motion picture: postproduction. 09/10/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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 the Corporation Tax Fund and provides that payments required to be made to taxpayers or other persons are to be paid from those funds. • This bill would allow a credit against those taxes in an amount between 35% and 50% of qualified expenses relating to the post-production 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. • The bill would require the California Film Commission to utilize a post-production services ratio, as defined, to allocate credits, as specified. • The bill would limit the aggregate amount of credits allocated in a fiscal year based on a determination made by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act plus additional amounts, as described. • The bill would require that 85% of the total allocable credits are reserved for qualified taxpayers that attest, under penalty of perjury, that they will abide by specified labor condition requirements. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a statemandated locale program.

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AB 2337Lackey R Peace officers: theft.
09/10/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to set minimum standards for the recruitment and training of peace officers and to develop training courses and curriculum. Existing law authorizes 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, where the peace officer acted with specific intent to permanently deprive the owner of the property.

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AB 2343Patel D Alcohol and other drug programs: consumer protection platform. 08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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. • This bill would require an alcohol or other drug treatment facility and an alcohol or other drug program to participate in a public consumer protection platform, as defined, 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, as specified. • 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. • The bill would prohibit participation in the consumer protection platform from being used as a criterion in evaluating bids, proposals, network participation, reimbursement, or contract performance for publicly funded substance use disorder treatment services.

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AB 2346Wilson D Vehicles: electric bicycles and speed limits. 08/25/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/25/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 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 or detachable front lamp and a rear lamp, as specified. • The bill would also require sellers and distributors of electric bicycles to disclose specified information at or before the point of sale.

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AB 2390Schiavo D Streamlined housing approvals: objective standards: review and modifications. 08/20/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/20/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 or notice of intent was first submitted, as described.

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AB 2397Ta R Local government: community facilities districts: financing. 09/01/2026 - A. ENROLLMENT 08/31/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.).

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 certain findings based upon substantial evidence, including that 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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AB 2405Gipson D Mental health.
09/04/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Under existing law, when a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is a danger to others or to themselves, or is gravely disabled, they may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody for a period of up to 72 hours for assessment, evaluation, and crisis intervention, or placement for evaluation and treatment, as specified. Existing law prohibits mental health personnel from instructing a peace officer to take a person to, or keep the person at, a jail, solely because of the unavailability of an acute bed. • This bill would require a peace officer who is transporting the above-described person to a designated facility for assessment to transport the person to the closest appropriate designated facility, either geographically or by time, from where the peace officer took the person into custody, as specified. If a person is being transported by a peace officer to a designated facility for assessment, the bill would authorize the person to affirmatively express their preference to the peace officer regarding the facility that they would prefer the peace officer to take them.

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AB 2409Valencia D Digital assets: meme coins.
09/03/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 or public employee, as those terms are defined, from issuing a meme coin. • The bill would prohibit a digital asset service provider, as defined, from listing for sale on behalf of, or for purchase by, a California resident a meme coin issued on or after January 1, 2027, that is offered by, or in partnership with, a federal public official or a state or local public officer. • This bill contains other related provisions.

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AB 2418González, Mark D Local building permits: nonresidential private permitting review. 08/27/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/27/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing 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. Existing 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 existing 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 planchecking function. Existing 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, 2032, revise and recast the above-described provisions related to private plan checking. • The bill would, upon receipt of a complete application for a nonresidential building permit, 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. • This bill would require the local agency to, upon an applicant’s request, contract with or employ a private plan-checking entity if the estimated timeframe would result in an excessive delay or if there is excessive delay by the local agency.

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AB 2433Alvarez D Housing development: density bonus.
09/10/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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 2480Ávila Farías D Housing development: density bonus: student housing developments. 08/31/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 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, as defined, to moderate-income or lower income students.

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AB 2529Johnson R Civil claims: public entities and employees: declaration. 09/08/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

The Government Claims Act governs the tort liability and immunity of, and claims and actions against, public entities, officers, and employees. Existing law requires that a claim against a public entity or public employee be signed by the claimant or by some person on the claimant’s behalf. • This bill would require a claim against a public entity or public employee to include a declaration that, upon information and belief, the contents of the claim are true and correct.

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AB 2576Harabedian D Transit-oriented development: exclusions: historic sites. 08/27/2026 - A. ENROLLED 08/27/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 July 1, 2026, unless the local agency adopts an ordinance or local transit-oriented development alternative plan, as defined, deemed compliant by 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, among other sites prior to one year following the adoption of the 7th revision of the housing element, 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.

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AB 2601Lee D Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval and subdivisions. 09/10/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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. • 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 abovedescribed urban lot split provisions. • The bill would specify that a “parcel map” for purposes of these provisions means a parcel map prepared in accordance with specified provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and may include a condominium plan if proposed by the subdivider, as specified. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 2689Ávila Farías D Low-income housing tax credits: lease nonrenewal: good cause. 09/10/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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, determined as specified.

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AB 2788Committee on TransportationTransportation: omnibus bill. 09/03/2026 - A. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law authorizes a city or county in which a planned transportation facility was to be located on State Highway Route 238 in the City of Hayward and the County of Alameda to develop and file with the California Transportation Commission a local alternative transportation improvement program that addresses transportation problems and opportunities in the county, and provides for the use of revenues from the sale of excess properties acquired for the planned state facility in order to fund the local alternative transportation improvement program. Existing law prohibits the commission from approving a local alternative transportation improvement program submitted under these provisions after July 1, 2010. Existing law requires revenues from excess property sales for State Highway Route 238 to be deposited into a separate account in the Special Deposit Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to be available for expenditure by local agencies for projects designated in the local alternative transportation improvement program. • This bill would authorize the Alameda County Transportation Commission to file an amendment to the local alternative transportation improvement program for approval by the commission, and would authorize that amendment to propose to revise the projects listed in the program. Before filing the proposed amendment with the commission, the bill would require the Alameda County Transportation Commission to obtain the approval of the amendment from the city councils of the Cities of Hayward and San Leandro and the board of supervisors of the County of Alameda.

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SB 16Blakespear D Mental health: involuntary commitment. 09/09/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/09/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act provides for the involuntary detention and treatment of persons with specified mental health disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to themselves, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. Existing law authorizes a county behavioral health director to develop procedures for the county’s designation and training of professionals who will be designated to perform the above-described provisions. • This bill would instead require a county behavioral health director to establish and implement procedures governing the county’s designation and training of professionals who will be designated to perform the above-described provisions.

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SB 239Arreguín D Crimes: criminal threats.
09/02/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/02/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, as specified. Under existing law, this crime is punishable as a misdemeanor or by imprisonment in state prison as a felony. Existing law, for the purposes of sentencing for a felony violation of these provisions, authorizes the court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully threatened to commit a crime that would result in the death or great bodily injury of a state constitutional officer, a Member of the Legislature, or a judge or court commissioner, as specified. • This bill would additionally authorize the court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully threatened to commit a crime that would result in the death or great bodily injury of an elections official of a city, county, city and county, or public district, or an elected local agency official, as specified.

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SB 328Grayson D California Environmental Quality Act: exempt surplus land. 09/08/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law requires a local agency to declare land either “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” as supported by written findings, before the local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency’s policies or procedures and defines terms for these purposes. Existing law generally requires a local agency, before disposing or negotiating to dispose of surplus land, to provide a written notice of the availability of the surplus land to specified entities and housing sponsors. Existing law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for the disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land.” Existing law defines “exempt surplus land” to include certain types of land, including, surplus land totaling 10 or more acres, consisting of either a single parcel, or 2 or more adjacent or nonadjacent parcels combined for disposition to one or more buyers pursuant to a plan or ordinance adopted by the legislative body of the local agency, or a state statute and certain surplus land that is a former military base, known as the Alameda Naval Air Station, if specified conditions are met. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. That law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. • This bill would revise the definition of “exempt surplus land” to remove the reference to buyers and instead mean 2 or more adjacent or nonadjacent parcels combined for disposition to one or more persons or entities, as specified. • The bill would also exempt surplus land that is a former military base that was conveyed by the federal government to a local agency or a local reuse authority, and that is all or any portion of the Concord Naval Weapons Station, if certain requirements are met.

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SB 329Blakespear D Alcohol and drug recovery: licensed treatment facilities and certified programs: investigations. 09/04/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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

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SB 457Becker D Housing element compliance: committed assistance: in-kind services: realistic capacity formula. 09/08/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development, an analysis of the relationship of zoning and public facilities and services to these sites, and an analysis of the relationship of the sites identified in the land inventory to the jurisdiction’s duty to affirmatively further fair housing. Existing law requires a city or county, based on that inventory of land, to determine whether each site in the inventory can accommodate the development of some portion of its share of the regional housing need by income level during the planning period, as provided. Existing law requires the inventory of land to include, among other things, a description of the existing use of the property for nonvacant sites. For the nonvacant sites, existing law requires the city or county to specify the additional development potential for each site within the planning period. Existing law requires a city or county to rezone sites according to a specified program if the inventory of sites suitable and available for residential development does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels. • This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2028, the Department of Housing and Community Development to promulgate or approve one or more formulas and associated user interfaces or other tools that allow for the determination of specified information, including, among other things, the realistic capacity of housing element inventory sites, as specified. • The bill would authorize the above-described analysis and determinations by a city or county related to sites in the inventory of land suitable and available for residential development to rely on the formula promulgated or approved by the department.

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SB 490Umberg D Alcohol and drug programs.
09/02/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/02/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing law requires, if the department’s employee or agent finds evidence that the facility is providing services without a license, the employee or agent to take specified actions, including, among others, submitting the findings of the investigation to the department and issuing a written notice to the facility that includes the date by which the facility is required to cease providing services. • This bill would require the department, if it determines it has jurisdiction over the allegation, to assign the complaint to an analyst within 10 days of receiving the allegation and, except as specified, complete the investigation within 120 days of assigning the complaint. • The bill would require the department, if it receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, to notify, to the extent feasible, the complainant that it does not investigate that type of complaint. • The bill would require the employee or agent to provide their findings to the department and would require the department to issue the notice described above within 10 days of the employee or agency submitting their findings and to conduct a followup site visit to determine whether the facility has ceased providing services as required. • The bill would authorize, in counties that elect to administer the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system and that provide optional recovery housing services, the county behavioral health agency to request approval from the department to conduct a site visit of a recovery residence that the county contracts with that is alleged to be operating without a license. • The bill would permit the department to approve that request in certain circumstances, including that the department has sufficient evidence to substantiate the allegation. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 574Umberg D Attorneys, arbitrators,
judicial officers, and
alternative resolution providers.
09/09/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/09/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public corporation. The act requires an attorney to strictly maintain client confidences and to preserve client secrets at their own peril. • This bill would prohibit an attorney from delegating the practice of law to generative artificial intelligence. • The bill would require an attorney who uses generative artificial intelligence to assist in the practice of law to, among other things, not enter confidential, personal identifying, and other nonpublic information into a generative artificial intelligence system, as specified. • The bill would also require an attorney to take reasonable steps to verify the accuracy of generative artificial intelligence outputs and to correct any erroneous or hallucinated output in any material used by the attorney. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 677Wiener D Housing financing:
joint powers
agreements: bond approvals: subdivisions: tentative and final maps: appeals. 09/08/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified.

Existing law, for the purposes of that act, defines the term “public agency” to include various federal, state, local, and tribal entities. Existing law requires approval by the Department of General Services of certain joint powers agreements that include the state as a member, as provided. Existing law authorizes a joint powers authority to issue revenue bonds to pay the costs and expenses of acquiring, constructing, or conducting a program for, among other things, low-income housing projects owned or operated by a city, county, city and county, or housing authority. Existing law provides that the Treasurer and the Secretary of State are designated as elected representatives for federal tax purposes of a joint powers agency created to approve or certify the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of the joint powers agency to the extent approval is required by federal tax law. • This bill would provide that the geographic jurisdiction of a joint powers authority is the area encompassed by the combined geographical boundaries of all of its member public agencies. • The bill would declare that these provisions are declaratory of existing law. • This bill would additionally authorize the Treasurer to execute an agreement including the state as a member of a joint powers authority without obtaining approval from the Department of General Services only for the Treasurer to provide specified approvals for bonds issued by the joint powers authority to finance specified residential rental projects for which a city, county, or city and county that is a member of the joint powers authority has failed to provide specified approval required by federal tax law, as defined and provided.

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SB 691Wahab D Body-worn cameras: policies.
08/31/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.

Existing 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 body-worn 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, and to maintain an unredacted copy of the recording consistent with the policies and procedures of the agency.

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SB 715Allen D Elections.
09/09/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/09/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Existing law requires the Secretary of State to transmit a certified list of candidates for partisan and voter-nominated offices eligible to be voted on within each county to the county elections official at least 68 days before a primary or general election. Existing law also requires the Secretary of State to notify the candidates for partisan and voter-nominated offices of the names, addresses, offices, occupations, and party preferences of all other candidates for the same office at least 73 days before the election. Existing law imposes various deadlines pertaining to candidates and elections. Existing law requires a candidate who submits a ballot designation to file a ballot designation worksheet, as specified. • This bill would move the deadline to notify candidates of the other candidates for the same office to at least 78 days before the election. • The bill would move other specified deadlines earlier, including the deadline for the Secretary of State to publicly announce a list of candidates and the availability of specified forms and documents. • The bill would require a candidate to certify, under penalty of perjury, the truth and accuracy of the content of the ballot designation worksheet.

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SB 799Allen D Joint powers authorities: South Bay Regional Housing Trust. 08/24/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/24/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Existing 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. Existing law authorizes the South Bay Regional Housing Trust to, among other things, fund planning and construction of housing of all types and tenures for the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income. • This bill would expand the authority of the trust to also include funding the preservation of housing for these purposes.

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SB 908Wiener D Residential windows: retrofitting: residential window replacement projects: California Building Code compliance. 08/31/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.

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 declare void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a common interest development, or provision of a governing document that effectively prohibits or restricts the owner of a separate interest from completing a residential window replacement project or impose any requirements on California Energy Code-compliant windows, as specified.

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SB 938Menjivar D Peace officers: training requirements. 09/04/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/04/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Existing law contains numerous provisions governing the qualifications, standards, and training of peace officers. Existing law requires specified peace officers to successfully complete a training course prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) before exercising the powers of a peace officer. Existing law requires the commission, for those instances where individuals have acquired prior comparable peace officer training, to adopt regulations providing for alternative means for satisfying the training required by a specified provision of law. Existing regulations provide a Basic Course Waiver to individuals with qualifying out-of-state or federal law enforcement experience whose law enforcement training, experience, and education are deemed by POST to demonstrate sufficient law enforcement knowledge, skill, and proficiency. • This bill would provide that service as a sworn federal law enforcement officer whose primary duties consisted of any one or any combination of immigration inspection, border enforcement, or apprehension, detention, or removal of noncitizens under the federal immigration laws, and the training for that service, does not, standing alone, constitute qualifying training, experience, and education demonstrating sufficient law enforcement knowledge, skill, and proficiency for purposes of determining eligibility for a Regular Basic Course Waiver.

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SB 958Weber Pierson D California Environmental Quality Act: environmental impacts: building height. 09/08/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 1004Wiener D Law enforcement: masks.
09/02/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/02/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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. • The bill would, for all of the items excluded from the definition of facial coverings, limit that exclusion if the items are combined or otherwise used in a manner intended to conceal or obscure an officer’s identity.

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SB 1014Grayson D Development projects: preliminary estimate of required improvements: onsite and offsite improvements. 08/31/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.

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 would authorize, for improvements required by a public agency, as specified, the applicant to request, within 30 days of submission, a list of the types of improvements that may be required, 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.

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SB 1024Menjivar D Firefighter postpartum and recovery leave. 09/02/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/02/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Would require specified fire departments to provide a paid leave of absence of up to 26 weeks to an active firefighting member who requests leave because the firefighter is disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition, as provided. • The bill would apply to an active firefighting member who has at least 1,250 hours of service with the fire department in the 12-month period before the date on which the paid leave begins and would require the leave to be with full pay, except as specified, at the firefighter’s regular rate of pay set forth in a collective bargaining agreement and in accordance with their normal pay schedule. • The bill would require all benefits to continue to accrue during the paid leave, as specified, and would require a firefighter returning from the paid leave to be restored to their prior position, as provided. • The bill would request a fire department of the University of California to comply with these provisions.

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SB 1087Cabaldon D Transportation planning: sustainable communities strategies: transportation funding programs. 09/10/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires a regional transportation plan to include a policy element, a sustainable communities strategy prepared by a metropolitan planning organization, an action element, and a financial element, as provided. Existing law requires those transportation planning agencies to adopt and submit every 4 years, except as provided, an updated regional transportation plan to the California Transportation Commission and the Department of Transportation. • This bill would revise and recast the requirements for a sustainable communities strategy, including, among other things, (A) requiring a sustainable communities strategy every 8 years with a progress report after 4 years instead of requiring a sustainable communities strategy every 4 years, (B) requiring the state board to provide each region with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2035 and 2045, and (C) requiring the state board to hold technical workshops before providing those targets. • The bill would also revise the state board’s process for reviewing sustainable communities strategies and alternative planning strategies, as specified. • This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1105Pérez D Law enforcement.
09/03/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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 authorize deputized tribal law enforcement officers of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to exercise the powers of arrest, as specified, if, among other things, they are engaged in the enforcement of federal criminal law and they are exercising arrest powers that are incidental to the performance of those federal duties. • The bill would also authorize certain federal employees of, among other agencies, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, if they are enforcing specified provisions of state law on property owned by the United States government, to exercise peace officer status with the written consent of the sheriff or the chief of police from the respective jurisdiction.

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SB 1116Caballero D Planning and zoning: housing development projects: subdivisions. 08/31/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.

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. • 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.

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SB 1117Cervantes D Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units. 08/30/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/30/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.

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. Existing law requires fees charged for the construction of ADUs to be determined in accordance with specified provisions of the Mitigation Fee Act. Existing 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 require the charge for certain accessory dwelling units 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.

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SB 1151Cervantes D Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: infant formula. 08/28/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/28/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

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, including an exemption for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, food products for human consumption, as specified. • This bill would specify that “food products” includes infant formula.

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SB 1169Grayson D Subdivision Map Act: tentative maps: expiration dates. 09/03/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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. provided, except as specified. • This bill would extend the initial expiration period of an approved or conditionally approved tentative map to 48 months and the extension pursuant to local ordinance to 36 months, except as provided. • The bill would also apply all of the above-described timelines to any approved or conditionally approved tentative map that is not expired as of December 31, 2026.

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SB 1187Durazo D Open meetings.
08/28/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/28/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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, beginning July 1, 2026, requires eligible legislative bodies, as defined, to have in place a system for electronically accepting and fulfilling requests for meeting agendas and documents. Existing law additionally requires these legislative bodies to translate the agenda for each meeting of that body and to reasonably assist members of the public who wish to translate a public meeting or receive interpretation, as specified. • This bill would instead delete the above-described requirements on eligible legislative bodies.

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SB 1190Grove R Child welfare: transport escort services. 09/03/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Existing law prohibits a transport escort service from accompanying or transporting a minor to any residential facility or institution located outside the state, unless the person or persons transporting or accompanying the minor are trustline-registered childcare providers. Existing law also requires every transport escort service that accompanies or transports a minor who is a resident of California to any residential facility or institution located outside the state to first provide the minor’s parents, custodial parent, or legal guardian with specified information, including, among others things, a description of the childcare provider trustline registry. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor. • This bill, the Safe Passage for Youth Act, would expand those provisions relating to transport escort services to apply when accompanying or transporting a minor, without regard to whether the destination is an out-of-state residential facility or institution. • The bill would revise the definition of a “transport escort service” and also make these provisions inapplicable to the transport of minors by a transportation network company, minors in the care of a community care facility, or an individual providing private childcare, casual babysitting, or domestic nanny services, if certain conditions are met.

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SB 1196McNerney D Small energization projects: electrical service connections. 08/21/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/21/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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 small energization projects, as provided.

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SB 1272Menjivar D Local ordinances: administrative fines or penalties. 09/03/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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 require, 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, the reasonable period of time to correct or otherwise remedy the violation to be no less than 6 months if certain conditions are met, including that the property involved is an owner-occupied residential property containing 4 units or less and the current owner of the property submits a sworn affidavit that the current owner was not responsible for any action that caused the violation and that the current owner had no knowledge of the violation at the time the owner took title to the property. These provisions would not apply to an administrative fine or penalty imposed for a violation of various laws, regulations, and ordinances, as specified. By requiring a sworn affidavit, the bill would expand the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.

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SB 1279Gonzalez D Speed safety systems.
08/30/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/30/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.

Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the City of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, or Long Beach, or the City and County of San Francisco to establish a program for speed enforcement that utilizes a speed safety system if the system meets specified requirements, including limits on the number of speed safety systems operated by the city at any time based on population. Existing law requires the speed safety system, to the extent feasible, to be angled and focused so as to only capture photographs of speeding violations and prohibits the speed safety system from capturing identifying images of other drivers, vehicles, or pedestrians. Existing law prohibits speed safety systems in participating cities 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 responsibility and primary jurisdiction for the administration and enforcement of the laws, and for the investigation of traffic accidents. • This bill would require speed safety systems to blur any images that are unavoidably captured of other drivers, vehicles, or pedestrians who are not the subject of a notice of violation, and would require speed safety systems to blur these images, only to the extent feasible, for cameras that were installed before January 1, 2027.

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SB 1283Ashby D Electric vehicle charging stations: installation: permits. 08/30/2026 - S. ENROLLED 08/30/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.

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 1361Durazo D Transit-oriented housing developments: local governments: transit agencies and projects. 09/08/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law requires a housing development project to be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development if certain requirements are met. Existing law provides that these provisions do not apply to a local agency until July 1, 2026, unless the local agency takes specified actions. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes. Existing law prohibits a local government from adopting any requirement that applies to a project solely or partially on the basis that the project is seeking approval as a transit-oriented housing development, as specified. • This bill would additionally prohibit a local government with an existing or planned transitoriented development stop from taking specified actions with respect to transit agencies and transit projects.

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SB 1365Allen D Price gouging.
09/10/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/10/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Under existing law, upon the proclamation of a state of emergency by the President of the United States or the Governor, or upon the declaration of a local emergency by the executive officer of any county, city, or city and county, and for 30 days following the proclamation or declaration of emergency, it is price gouging, a misdemeanor, for any person, business, or other entity, to increase the rental price advertised, offered, or charged for housing, to an existing or prospective tenant, by more than 10%. Existing law exempts an increase from these provisions if the person can prove that the increase is directly attributable to additional costs for repairs or additions beyond normal maintenance that were amortized over the rental term that caused the rent to be increased greater than 10%. • This bill would instead make it an affirmative defense to charge of price gouging pursuant to that provision if an increase was directly attributable to additional costs for repairs or additions beyond normal maintenance incurred within the year prior to the proclamation or declaration and either the housing was rented, advertised for rent, or offered for rent at the time the costs were incurred or the person can prove that within a year before the proclamation or declaration, the intent to offer the housing for rent within 6 months of the repair or addition already existed.

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SB 1383Arreguín D Housing development: density bonus: incentives or concessions: labor standards. 09/08/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/08/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Existing law, commonly referred to as 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, for buildings over 85 feet in height above grade, 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, that have been adopted by the local government entity from the definition of “incentives or concessions.” • The bill would provide that, for purposes of these provisions, the applicable labor standards are those that do not exceed certain statutory requirements, as specified, as those requirements existed on December 31, 2025. • This bill contains other related provisions.

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SB 1387Stern D State agencies: collection and reporting of demographic data: Jewish identity. 09/09/2026 - S. ENROLLED 09/09/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Existing law declares that it is the policy of the state to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of specified characteristics, including race or ethnicity, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state, and states that the purpose of related existing law is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies. Existing law defines “race or ethnicity” to include ancestry, color, ethnic group identification, and ethnic background. • This bill would define ethnicity to include Jewish identity.

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