City Council
Legislative Subcommittee Agenda
70 N. First Street, Campbell CA
Monday, March 28, 2022, 2:00 pm
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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
Monday, March 28, 2022, 2:00 p.m.
Ralph Doetsch Conference Room – 70 N. First Street
CALL TO ORDER
PUBLIC COMMENT
NEW BUSINESS
1. Review Legislative Subcommittee’s Calendar for 2022
2. Review Matrix of Bills
ADJOURN
ATTACHMENTS
2022 Tentative Legislative Calendar
2022 Legislation – Bills to Watch
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2022 TENTATIVE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE & THE OFFICE OF THE ASSEMBLY CHIEF CLERK Revised 10-21-2021
JANUARY
S M T W TH F S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
DEADLINES
Jan. 1 Statutes take effect (Art. IV, Sec. 8(c)).
Jan. 3 Legislature reconvenes (J.R. 51(a)(4)).
Jan. 10 Budget must be submitted by Governor (Art. IV, Sec. 12 (a)).
Jan. 14 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal Committees fiscal bills introduced in their house in 2021 (J.R. 61(b)(1)).
Jan. 17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Jan. 21 Last day for any committee to hear and report to the Floor bills introduced in their house in 2021 (J.R. 61(b)(2)).
Jan. 21 Last day to submit bill requests to the Office of Legislative Counsel.
Jan. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in 2021 in their house (Art. IV, Sec. 10(c)), (J.R. 61(b)(3)).
FEBRUARY
S M T W TH F S
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28
Feb. 18 Last day for bills to be introduced (J.R. 61(b)(4)), (J.R. 54(a)).
Feb. 21 Presidents’ Day.
MARCH
S M T W TH F S
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
APRIL
S M T W TH F S
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Apr. 1 Cesar Chavez Day observed
Apr. 7 Spring Recess begins upon adjournment of this day’s session (J.R. 51(b)(1)).
Apr. 18 Legislature reconvenes from Spring Recess (J.R. 51(b)(1)).
Apr. 29 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal Committees fiscal bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61(b)(5)).
May 6 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to the floor non-fiscal bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61(b)(6)).
MAY
S M T W TH F S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
May 13 Last day for policy committees to meet prior to May 31 (J.R. 61(b)(7)).
May 20 Last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the Floor bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61 (b)(8)). Last day for fiscal committees to meet prior to May 31 (J.R. 61 (b)(9)).
May 23-27 Floor Session only. No committee, other than conference or Rules, may meet for any purpose (J.R. 61(b)(10)).
May 27 Last day for bills to be passed out of the house of origin (J.R. 61(b)(11)).
May 30 Memorial Day.
May 31 Committee meetings may resume (J.R. 61(b)(12)).
*Holiday schedule subject to final approval by the Rules Committee
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2022 TENTATIVE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE & THE OFFICE OF THE ASSEMBLY CHIEF CLERK Revised 10-21-2021
JUNE
S M T W TH F S
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30
June 15 Budget Bill must be passed by midnight (Art. IV, Sec. 12 (c)).
June 30 Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the Nov. 8 General election ballot (Elec. Code Sec. 9040).
JULY
S M T W TH F S
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 July 1 Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(13)).
Summer Recess begins at the end of this day’s session if Budget Bill has been passed (J.R. 51(b)(2)).
July 4 Independence Day.
AUGUST
S M T W TH F S
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
Aug. 1 Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J.R. 51(b)(2)).
Aug. 12 Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills to the Floor (J.R. 61(b)(14)).
Aug. 15 - 31 Floor Session only. No committees, other than conference and Rules, may meet for any purpose (J.R. 61(b)(15)).
Aug. 25 Last day to amend bills on the Floor (J.R. 61(b)(16)).
Aug. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills (Art. IV, Sec. 10(c)), (J.R. 61(b)(17)).
Final Recess begins at end of this day’s session (J.R. 51(b)(3)).
IMPORTANT DATES OCCURRING DURING FINAL RECESS
2022
Sept. 30 Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature before Sept. 1 and in the Governor’s possession on or after Sept. 1 (Art. IV, Sec. 10(b)(2)).
Nov. 8 General Election.
Nov. 30 Adjournment Sine Die at midnight (Art. IV, Sec. 3(a)).
Dec. 5 12 m. convening of the 2023-24 Regular Session (Art. IV, Sec. 3(a)). 2023
Jan. 1 Statutes take effect (Art. IV, Sec. 8(c)).
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
1 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 67
Clean Energy:
California 24/7
Clean Energy
Standard
Program
Becker Would establish a goal that 100% of electrical load be supplied by eligible clean energy resources.
Would establish the California 24/7 Clean Energy Standard Program, which would require that 85% of retail load annually and at least 60% of retail load within certain subperiods by December 31, 2030, and 90% of retail load annually and at least 75% of retail load within certain subperiods by December 31, 2035, be supplied by eligible clean energy resources.
Unfunded state mandated program.
2 Year Bill of Interest
SB 379
Residential
Solar Energy
Systems:
Permitting
Wiener Would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time for a solar energy system that is no larger than
38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and an energy storage system paired with a solar energy system that is no larger than
38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating.
The bill would require a city with a population of 50,000 or fewer that is not otherwise exempt to satisfy these requirements by September 30, 2024, while cities and counties with populations greater than 50,000 that are not otherwise exempt would be required to satisfy the requirements by September 30, 2023. State-mandated local program.
No reimbursement.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Held at Desk – 1/24/22
SB 54
Plastic
Pollution
Producer
Responsibility
Allen;
Stern;
Wiener
Would establish the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, which would prohibit producers of single-use, disposable packaging or single- use, disposable food service ware products from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing in or into the state such packaging or products that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2032, unless they are recyclable or compostable.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Held at Desk - 1/24/22
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
2 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 833
Community
Energy
Resilience Act
of 2022
Dodd;
Stern
Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to develop and implement a grant program for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience objectives and state clean energy and air quality goals. The bill would require a plan to identify critical facilities, facilities where the construction of microgrids or other distributed energy sources could meet local resilience needs, and potential funding sources for implementing projects in the plan, include a process for the expedited permit review of distributed energy resources by the local government, and demonstrate consistency with the city, county, or city and county general plan and other local government planning documents.
As a condition of receiving grant funding, the bill would require a local government to submit its plan to the commission within 6 months of adopting the plan.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Re-referred to Com. on APPR. –
3/21/22
SB 38
Beverage
Containers
Wieckowski This bill would require beverage manufacturers in the state to form a beverage container stewardship organization. The organization would be required to develop and submit to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery a plan, annual report, and budget for the recovery and recycling of empty beverage containers in the state. The bill would require the organization to establish a stewardship fee, to be paid by beverage manufacturer members of the organization, to assist in covering the costs of implementing the beverage container stewardship program. The bill would impose administrative civil penalties for a violation of these provisions.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
– 2/14/22
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
3 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 884
Electricity.
Expedited
Utility
Distribution
McGuire Would require the CPUC to establish an expedited utility distribution and transmission infrastructure undergrounding program and would authorize a large electrical corporation to participate in the program.
Would also require a city approve applications for underground utilities within 150 days.
Position Pending
SB 1393
Energy.
Appliances.
Local
Requirements
Archuleta Would require a city, including a charter city, or county to submit an application to, and receive approval from, the State Energy Reso urces Conservation and Development Commission before the city or county could require that a fossil fuel-fired appliance be replaced with an electric appliance upon the alteration or retrofit of a residential or nonresidential building.
Position Pending
SB 852
Climate
Resilience
Districts.
Formation.
Funding
Mechanisms
Dodd Would authorize a city, county, city and county, special district, or a combination of any of those entities to form a climate resilience district for the purposes of raising and allocating funding for eligible projects and the operating expenses of eligible projects. Eligible projects would include projects that address sea level rise, extreme heat, extreme cold, the risk of wildfire, drought, and the risk of flooding.
Watch
SB 1217
State-Regional
Collaborative
for Climate,
Equity &
Resilience
Allen &
Cortese
Would establish, until January 1, 2028, the State -Regional Collaborative for Climate, Equity, and Resilience to provide guidance, on or before January 1, 2024, to the state board for approving new guidelines fo r sustainable communities strategies. W ould require, on or before December 31, 2025, the state board to update the guidelines for sustainable communities strategies to incorporate suggestions from the collaborative.
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
4 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 1985
Organic Waste.
List. Available
Products
Rivas Would seek to help cities with their SB 1383 (2016) procurement requirements. Would require CalRecycle to compile and maintain a list on its website organized by Zip Code, of information regarding persons and entities that produce an d have organic waste products and update the list every 6 months.
Co-Sponsor & Support
SB 1383
Local
Assistance
Grant Program
Budget Ask
Lara Would provide $180 Million to help cities and counties implement SB 1383 (2016). Would supplement the $60 Million allocated for this purpose. Local government coalition led by Cal Cities.
Co-Author & Support
SB 54
Plastic
Pollution
Producer
Responsibility
Act
Allen Would create a vehicle for negotiations to reduce the amount of single - use plastics and make such products fully recyclable or compostable.
Support in Concept
AB 2247
Perfluoroalkyl
&
Polyfluoroalkyl
Substances and
Products
Bloom Would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to work with the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse to establish, on or before January 1, 2024, a publicly accessible reporting platform to collect information about perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and products or product components containing regulated PFAS being sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state.
Position Pending
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
5 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 891
Business
Licenses.
Stormwater
Compliance
Hertzberg Would make changes to the existing SB 205 (2019) business license process to check regulated business’ stormwater compliance. The measure would attempt to capture local government processes similar to business licenses but are called by other names.
Watch
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
TRANSPORTATION
AB 2120
Federal
Funding in
Local Bridges
Ward Bridge formula funding. Would ensure a fair and needs -based allocation bridge formula funding program from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Includes bridges identified by locals based on their condition – fair or poor.
Support
SB 932
Circulation
Element
Portantino Would require cities to adopt significant bicycle, pedestrian, and traffic calming elements when they develop and revise their general plans.
Unfunded state mandate.
Oppose
AB 2953
Recycled
Material
Salas Would require a local agency to use, to the extent feasible and cost effective, recycled materials in local streets and roads. Triggered based on annual revenues. Offers no flexibility in the identification of materials that are feasible and cost effective. More appropriate for highways – big projects. Not appropriate for local streets and roads which are smaller projects and would be more costly.
Oppose
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
6 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 1789
Trails &
Greenways
Program
Bennett Would include a one-time $75 M appropriation (General Fund) and an annual $15 M appropriation for investments that would create, expand, and improve the natural surface trails networks throughout the state.
Support
AB 2346
Outdoor
Recreation.
Equitable
Access Grant
Program
Gabriel Would require the Natural Resources Agency to develop the Equitable Access Grants Program to provide financial and technical assistance to local governments and nonprofit organizations to implement community access projects that improve the use, equitable admittance, and engagement with the public in stewardship of outdoor recreation areas or facilities located within the state.
Support
AB 1737
Children’s
Camps. Local
Registration
and Inspections
Holden Would implement new registration and inspection requirements for children camps operating in cities. Requires cities to make announced and unannounced visits and make public any cited violations.
Requires background and sex-offender checks.
Would increase cost for camp programming. Unclear who is responsible for enforcing.
Watch & Concerns Letter
AB 2465
Pupil
Instruction.
Literacy Grant
Programs
Bonta Would create a competitive grant program to award funds to local educational agencies, library districts, and public libraries for the purpose of providing a library card to every public-school pupil enrolled in the local educational agency. Would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to encourage all residents to use California state libraries, regardless of immigration status, and the department to provide information on its internet website about legal assistance and guidance to undocumented pupils, immigrants, and their families.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
7 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
SB 1047
Early Learning
and Care
Limon Would expand the range of childcare and early learning services that a state preschool contracting agency may provide. Authorizes the expansion of services through the State Preschool Program to children from 18 months to five years of age, and amend eligible requirements for certain childcare programs.
Support
AB 2547
Housing
Stabilization to
Prevent & End
Homelessness
Among Older
Adults & People
with Disabilities
Nazarian Would require the state to offer competitive grants to non-profit CBOs, continuums of care, and public housing authorities to administer a housing subsidy program for older adults and people with disabilities that are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless.
Support
AB 2630
Housing.
California
Interagency
Council.
Homelessness.
Report
O’Donnell Requires each city and county that has used funds from any source to assist in addressing homelessness to submit a report to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Watch
AB 2631
Government
Claims Act
O’Donnell Would allow cities and counties to sue one another for a neighboring jurisdiction’s failure to effectively address the impacts of homelessness in another neighborhood being negatively impacted.
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
8 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
SB 1338
Community
Assistance,
Recovery, and
Empowerment
(CARE) Court
Program
Umberg Establishes the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program to connect a person struggling with untreated mental illness and substance use disorders with a court-ordered CARE Plan. Every county in the state would have to participate in this program. Addresses most highly acute population.
Watch
SB 929
Community
Mental Health
Services. Data
Collection
Eggman Expands the type of data collected by the Dept. Of Health Care Services related to conservatorships, clinical outcomes, and services provided.
Position Pending
SB 1154
Facilities for
Mental Health
or Substance
Abuse Disorder
Crises.
Database
Eggman Would require the State Dept of Public Health to develop a real-time behavioral health bed registry.
Position Pending
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
9 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 1100
Open Meetings:
Orderly
Conduct
Cortese Would authorize the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for willfully interrupting the meeting.
Would require removal to be preceded by a warning by the presiding member of the legislative body that the individual is disrupting the proceedings, a request that the individual curtail their disruptive behavior or be subject to removal, and a reasonable opportunity to cease the disruptive behavior. Would similarly require a warning, a request that the individual curtail their disruptive behavior or be subject to removal, and a reasonable opportunity to cease the disruptive behavior before clearing a meeting room for willful interruptions by a group or groups. “Willfully interrupting” would mean intentionally engaging in behavior during a meeting of a legislative body that substantially impairs or renders infeasible the orderly conduct of the meeting in accordance with law and applicable rules, as specified. State -mandated program. No reimbursement.
Watch
Set for Hearing 4/5/22
(Committee on JUD)
AB 1944
Local
Government:
Open and Public
Meetings
Lee; Garcia Would specify that if a member of a legislative body elects to teleconference from a location that is not public, the address does not need to be identified in the notice and agenda or be accessible to the public when the legislative body has elected to allow members to participate via teleconferencing.
Would require all open and public meetings of a legislative body that elects to use teleconferencing to provide a video stream accessible to members of the public and an option for members of the public to address the body remotely during the public comment period through an audio-visual or call-in option.
Support in Concept
Referred to Com. on L. GOV. –
2/18/22
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
10 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 457
Public
Employee
Retirement
System:
Investment
Portfolios:
Divestment
from Turkey
Portantino;
Wilk
Would require the boards of administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to provide employers that are school districts and cities that participate in the systems an option to elect an investment portfolio that does not contain investment vehicles that are issued or owned by the government of the Republic of Turkey.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Referred to Com. on L. GOV. –
5/28/21
AB 2449
Open Meetings:
Local Agencies.
Teleconference
B. Rubio Authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with teleconferencing requirements if a quorum of the legislative body members participate in person from a singular location that is clearly identified on the agenda and is open to the public and is within the local agency’s jurisdiction.
Support
AB 2647
Local
Government.
Open Meetings
Levine Would clarify that materials distributed to a majority of a local legislative body less than 72 hours before a meeting can be posted online to satisfy the requirements of the Brown Act.
Sponsor & Support
SB 1328
Prohibited
Investments &
Contracts.
Russia &
Belarus
McGuire Would r equire CalPERS and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System pension funds to s top investing in companies with ties to the Russian and Belarusian governments - responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, aided by Belarus.
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
11 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 1173
Public
Retirement
Systems. Fossil
Fuels
L. Gonzalez Would prohibit the boards of CalPERS and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System from making new investments or renewing investments of retirement funds in fossil fuels. Would require the boards to liquidate such investments by July 1, 2027.
Watch
SB 1044
Employers.
Natural
Disasters.
Retaliation
Durazo Prohibits an employer, in the event of a state of emergency, from taking or threatening adverse action against any employee for refusing to report to, or leaving a workplace within, the affected area because the employee feels unsafe due to the emergency.
Oppose
AB 1751
Workers’
Compensation.
COVID-19.
Critical Workers
Daly Extends COVID -19 workers ’ compensation presumption to Jan 1, 2025 (from Jan 1, 2023).
Oppose
SB 1127
Workers’
Compensation.
Liability
Presumption
Atkins Alters longstanding rules and timeframes for determin ing eligibility for workers’ compensation claims. Reduces timelines for employers to make a decision whether to accept claim. Provides for severe penalties for failure to comply.
Oppose
AB 2808
Elections.
Ranked Choice
Voting.
O’Donnell This bill would prohibit the use of ranked choice voting, a method of voting that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, in state and local elections.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
Oppose
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
12 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ACA 1 Local
government
financing:
affordable
housing and
public
infrastructure:
voter approval
Aguiar-Curry The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city, county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, or city and county, as applicable, and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements.
Support
In Committee – 4/22/21
AB 1401
Residential and
commercial
development:
parking
requirements
Friedman Would prohibit a local government from imposing a minimum parking requirement, or enforcing a minimum parking requirement, on residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within ½ mile walking distance of public transit or located within a low-vehicle miles traveled area, as defined.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Held Under Submission – 8/26/21
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
13 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 5 Affordable
Housing Bond
Act
Atkins,
Caballero,
McGuire,
Rubio,
Skinner, and
Wiener
Authorizes Legislature to issue bonds in amount of $6.5 Billion.
Proceeds from bonds would be directed toward affordable rental housing and homeownership programs. Unclear if the funds would be directed into existing programs that serve these populations or if new programs would be established.
This bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 8, 2022, statewide general election in accordance with specified law.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Returned to Secretary of State –
2/1/22
SB 6 Local
Planning:
Housing:
Commercial
Zones
Caballero,
Eggman, and
Rubio
Would designate a housing development project, a parcel within a commercial zone not adjacent to an industrial site, as an allowable use on a neighborhood lot if it complies with various requirements, one of which includes: the density for a housing development must meet or exceed the density appropriate for lower income households according to the local jurisdiction.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Re-referred to Comm on H&CD –
8/23/21
SB 15 Housing
Development:
Incentives: The
Rezoning of Idle
Retail Sites
Portantino Would create an annual grant program to assist local government to rezone idle retail sites (big box or commercial shopping centers) for work force housing for lower- or moderate-income households with 55-year affordability term for a rental and 45-year term for ownership.
Would define idle as at least 80 percent of leased or rentable square footage not occupied for at least one year.
Zoning would be by right.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Held at Desk – 6/2/21
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
14 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 765
Accessory
dwelling units:
setbacks
Stern The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval. Current law prohibits a local agency’s accessory dwelling unit ordinance from imposing a setback requirement of more than 4 feet from the side and rear lot lines for an accessory dwelling unit that is not converted from an existing structure or a new structure constructed in the same location and to the same dimensions as an existing structure. This bill would remove the above-described prohibition on a local agency’s accessory dwelling unit ordinance and would instead provide that the rear and side yard setback requirements for accessory dwelling units may be set by the local agency. The bill would authorize an accessory dwelling unit applicant to submit a request to the local agency for an alternative rear and side yard setback requirement if the local agency’s setback requirements make the building of the accessory dwelling unit infeasible.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Returned to Secretary of State –
2/1/22
AB 682
Density Bonus.
Cohousing
Bloom This bill would require that a density bonus be provided to a developer who agrees to construct a housing development that is a cohousing building and will contain either 10% of the total square footage for lower income households, or 5% of the total squar e footage for very low-income households.
The bill would prohibit the city and county from requiring any minimum unit size requirements or minimum bedroom requirements in conflict with the bill’s provisions, the project to provide private open space, or maximum limit on density with respect to a cohousing building eligible for a density bonus under these provisions.
State-mandated. No reimbursement.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
In Senate – 1/27/22
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
15 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 1551
Development
Bonus. Multi-
Use Projects
Santiago Previously existing law, until January 1, 2022, required a city, county, or city and county to grant a commercial developer a development bonus when an applicant for approval of a commercial development had entered into an agreement for partnered housing with an affordable housing developer to contribute affordable housing through a joint project or 2 separate projects encompassing affordable housing.
This bill would re -enact provisions regarding the granting of development bonuses to certain projects.
The bill would require a city or county to annually submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development information describing an approved commercial development bonus. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.
State-mandated. No reimbursement.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
In Senate – 1/27/22
AB 1401
Parking
Requirements
Friedman Would prohibit a public agency in a county with a population of 600,000 or more from imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement on residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within 1/2 mile of public transit.
Would prohibit a public agency in a city with a population of 75,000 or more located in a county with a population of less than 600,000 from imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement on residential, commercial, or other development if the project is located within 1/4 mile of public transit.
Would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. No reimbursement.
2 Year Bill of Interest
Held Under Submission – 8/26/21
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
16 3/25/22
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HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 15
Idle Retail Sites
Incentive
Program
Portantino Upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer a program to provide incentives in the form of grants to local governments that rezone idl e sites used for a big box retailer or a commercial shopping center to instead allow the development of housing.
Would require that the amount of the grant awarded to each eligible local government be equal to 7 times the average amount of annual sales and use tax revenue generated by each idle site identified in the local government’s application over the 7 years immediately preceding the date of the local government’s application and that the local government receive this amount in one lump sum following the date of the local government’s application.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Held At Desk – 6/2/21
SB 513
Homeless
Shelters Grants
Hertzberg This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 5% of the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for those purposes for its costs in administering the program.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Held At Desk – 1/24/22
SB 897
Accessory
Dwelling Units
Wieckowski Would make changes to existing law to require local governments to allow ADUs to be constructed with a height of up to 25 feet.
Oppose
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
17 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 1067 &
AB 2097
Development
Parking
Requirements
Portantino &
Friedman
Would prohibit parking minimums or standards if development is within ½ mile of public transit. “Public Transit” includes entire bus lines (corridors) if they have 15 min headway.
Oppose
SB 1369
Adaptive Reuse.
By Right
Wieckowski Requires cities to use ministerial process to approve adaptive re-use projects. Applies broadly to commercial, public or office building or structure that has 25 percent occupancy which is converted into a housing development project. By right with no CEQA.
Position Pending
SB 1466
Affordable
Housing:
Community
Development
Investment
Program
Stern Would authorize state/local partnerships. $2 Billion annually to fund state approved affordable housing and infrastructure and economic development projects that also support state policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand transit-oriented development (TOD), address poverty and revitalize neighborhoods.
Sponsor & Support
AB 1748
Surplus Lands
Act
Seyarto Would exempt specified city or county owned parcels from the Surplus Lands Act if land is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential units and is owned by a city or county that demonstrates adequate progress in meeting its share of regional housing need in its annual report, has constructed an adequate number of housing units to meet its share of regional housing need in the immediately preceding or current housing element cycle, or is designated as pro- housing by the department.
Position Pending
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
18 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 1945
Affordable
Disaster
Housing
Revolving
Development
and Acquisition
Program
Aguiar-Curry Would create the Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program to fund the predevelopment expenses, acquisition, construction, reco nstruction, and rehabilitation of property to develop or preserve affordable housing in the state’s declared disaster areas that have experienced damage and loss of homes occupied by or affecting lower income households.
This bill would require community development financial institutions receiving awards through the program to issue short -term loans to nonprofit housing development corporations, tribally designated housing entities, and local government agencies to fund the cost of developing dwelling uni ts and transitional housing, childcare, after school care, and social service facilities that are integrally linked to the dwelling units, as specified.
State Mandated. No reimbursement.
Support
AB 2053
Social Housing
Lee Would enact the Social Housing Act and create California Housing Authority to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets.
Position Pending
AB 2234
Planning.
Housing. Post -
entitlement
Phase Permit
R. Rivas Would, no later than January 1, 2024, require public agencies to allow post-entitlement phase permits to be applied for, completed, and stored through a publicly available process on its website. Until the website is established, the public agency shall accept applications for permits and any related documentation by electronic mail.
Unfunded mandate.
Position Pending
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
19 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
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HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 2295
Local
educational
agencies:
housing
development
projects
Bloom Would require that a qualified housing development on land owned by a local educational agency be an authorized use if the housing development complies with certain conditions. Among these conditions, the bill would require the housing development to consist of at least 10 units, be subject to a recorded deed restriction for at least 55 years requiring that at least 49% of the units have an affordable rent for lower income households, as those terms are defined, and 100% of the units be rented by teachers and employees of the local educational agency, except as specified. The bill would prohibit a city or county from imposing any development standards on a housing development project under these
provisions. The bill would exempt a housing development project subject to these provisions from various requirements regarding the disposal of surplus land.
Position Pending
AB 2428
Mitigation Fee
Act: fees for
improvements:
timeline for
expenditure
Ramos Would require a local agency that requires a qualified applicant to deposit fees for improvement into an escrow account as a condition for receiving a conditional use permit or equivalent development permit to expend the fees within 5 years of the deposit. The bill would require any fees not expended within this period to be returned to the qualified applicant.
Oppose
AB 2705
Very High Fire
Hazard Severity
Zones
Quirk-Silva Would prohibit city from approving permit that would result in a new residential project being located within a high fire zone unless the city finds that the residential development project will meet new standards intended to address wildfire risks.
Position Pending
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
20 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
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PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 1599
Proposition 47:
Repeal
Kiley;
Gallagher;
Patterson
The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act reduced the penalty for theft and possession of controlled substances, including c oncentrated cannabis, established a procedure by which individuals convicted of those crimes prior to the passage of the act may petition for resentencing under the act, and created the crime of shoplifting. The act also required the Director of Finance to calculate the savings accruing to the state as a result of the implementation of the act and required the Controller to transfer that sum from the General Fund to the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund.
This bill would repeal these changes except those related to reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis.
Existing law makes it a crime for a caretaker of an elder or a dependent adult, or a person who is not a caretaker and who knows or reasonably should know that the victim is an elder or a dependent adult, to violate laws proscribing theft, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or identity theft with respect to the property or personal identifying information of that elder or dependent adult; and, makes a violation of those provisions punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.
This bill would reduce the value threshold for a violation of those provisions to be punishable as a felony from $950 to $400.
Existing law defines grand theft as the wrongful taking of money, labor, or property of a value exceeding $950, except as specified. Existing law also makes it grand theft where the money, labor, or real or personal property is taken by a servant, agent, or employee from their principal or employer and aggregates $950 or more in any consecutive 12-month period.
This bill would reduce the value threshold for committing grand theft under those provisions from $950 to $400.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Coauthors revised - 3/9/22
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
21 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
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PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 536
Office of
Emergency
Services:
Mutual Aid Gap
Analysis
Rodriguez Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, creates, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services, which is responsible for addressing natural, technological, or man-made disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property.
This bill would require the office to prepare a gap analysis of the state’s mutual aid systems on a biennial basis, beginning on January 1, 2022. The bill would require the gap analysis to be prepared as specified and would require the gap analysis to be provided to specified committees of the Legislature no later than February 1, 2022, and by February 1 thereafter on a biennial basis.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Held under submission – 8/26/21
AB 1071
Officer of
Emergency
Services:
Tabletop
Exercises
Rodriguez Would require Office of Emergency Services (OES) to biennially convene key personnel and agencies that have emergency management roles and responsibilities to participate in tabletop exercises in which the participant’s emergency preparedness plans are discussed and evaluated under various simulated catastrophic disaster situations, as specified.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
2 Year Bill of Interest
Held under submission. – 8/26/21
AB 1670
Criminal
Justice.
Commission on
Alternative
Incarceration
Bryan This bill would create the Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to study alternatives to incarceration, alternative crisis response models, and the effects of family separation in the jail and state prison systems.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
22 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
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PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 2062
Local Law
Enforcement
Hiring Grants
Salas This bill, upon appropriation of funds and until January 1, 2029, would require the Board of State and Community Corrections to establish a grant program to provide $50,000,000 in grants to local law enforcement agencies to incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities and to live in the communities that they are serving. The bill would require grant funds to be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement a gencies that are in underserved communities that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work.
Support
AB 2398
Catalytic
Converters
Villapudua Would make the possession of a detached catalytic converter a crime, punishable as misdemeanor or felony. Exception for person who has certificate of title or registration.
Support
SB 1038
Law
Enforcement:
Facial
Recognition
and Other
Biometric
Surveillance
Bradford Existing law, until January 1, 2023, prohibits a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from installing, activating, or using any biometric surveillance (face recognition) system in connection with an officer camera or data collected by an officer camera. Existing law allows a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief against a law enforcement agency or officer who violates this prohibition.
This bill would extend these provisions indefinitely.
Oppose
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
23 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
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PUBLIC SAFETY
SB 1186
Medicinal
Cannabis
Patients’ Right
of Access Act
Wiener Medical Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act – prohibits regulations that unreasonably restrict, among other things, the operating hours or the number of frequency of sales of medicinal cannabis businesses.
Oppose
SB 1326
Cannabis.
Interstate
Agreements
Caballero Would allow the cross jurisdictional import and export to other states, of cannabis and cannabis products, by authorizing the Governor to enter into an agreement to provide lawful interstate commerce.
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
24 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
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REVENUE & TAXATION
SB 555 Local
Agencies:
Transient
Occupancy
taxes: Online
Short-Term
Rental
Facilitator:
Collection
McGuire Would authorize a local agency to enact an ordinance exclusively delegating its authority to collect any transient occupancy tax imposed by that local agency on short-term rentals to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration and to enter into a contract with the department for purposes of registration, rate posting, collection, and transmission of revenues necessary to collect and administer any transient occupancy tax imposed on a short-term rental as specified in this bill.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Held in committee and under
submission – 8/26/21
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
25 3/25/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
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REVENUE & TAXATION
SB 830
Education
Finance:
Supplemental
Education
Funding
Portantino Existing law establishes a public-school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula that includes average daily attendance. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before February 20 of each year, to make a first principal apportionment of funds and, on or before July 2 of each year, to make a 2nd principal apportionment of funds to each local educational agency.
This bill would define “average daily membership” as the quotient of the aggregate enrollment days for all pupils in a school district, county office of education, or charter school, from transitional kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, divided by the total number of ins tructional days for the local educational agency in an academic year. The bill would require a local educational agency’s average daily membership to be calculated using data from the same fiscal year or years that the local educational agency used to calculate its average daily attendance for purposes of state apportionment. The bill, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, would require a local educational agency that submits enrollment data to the Superintendent and demonstrates a maintenance of effort to address chronic absenteeism, as provided, to receive as supplemental education funding the difference between what the local educational agency would have received under the local control funding formula based on average daily membership and what the local educational agency received under the local control funding formula based on average daily attendance for that fiscal year, as provided. The bill would require local educational agencies to use at least 30% of their supplemental education fundin g to either supplement or supplant existing local educational agency expenditures to address chronic absenteeism and habitual truancy.
The bill would expressly state that funds to implement these provisions would be continuously appropriated in the annual Budget Act.
2 Year Bill of Interest:
Re-referred to Com. on ED. –
3/9/22
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
26 3/25/22
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REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 1702
COVID-19
Prevention &
Response
Goods
Levine Would provide a sales and use tax exemption for face masks, respirators, and at home COVID-19 test kits.
Oppose Unless Amended
AB 1951
Manufacturing
Exemptions
Grayson Would extend and expand the sales and use tax exemp tion for manufacturing processing, refining, fabricating, and recycling until 2033.
Position Pending
AB 2622
Zero Emission
Bus Exemption
Mullin Would extend, until 2033, the sales and use tax exemption provided to cities, counties, and transit agencies for zero emission transit buses.
Support
AB 2328
Local
Ordinances.
Home
Experience
Sharing
Flora Would preempt explicit or implicit local prohibitions on “home experience sharing units”. A home sharing unit would be defined as non- commercial property that is rented for no more than 18 continuous hours.
Position Pending
SB 1449
Annexation
Incentive Grant
Program
Caballero Would create an Unincorporated Area Annexation Incentive Grant Program within the State Office of Planning and Research to support cities with infrastructure needs within a new or future annexed areas.
Support in concept
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27 3/25/22
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OTHER BILLS OF INTEREST
AB 2538
State Warning
Center.
Wildfire Smoke
Notification
R. Rivas Would require the California Office of Emergency Services to expand its California State Warning Center to include targeted alerts for public health dangers.
Position Pending
AB 2645
Integration of
Access and
Functional
Needs
Rodriguez Would require a county to integrate access and functional needs into its emergency plan upon the next update to its emergency plan.
Position Pending
SB 513
Homeless
Shelter Grants:
Pets and
Veterinarian
Services
Hertzberg Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to create and administer a program to award grants to homeless shelters that allow pets to provide food, housing, and veterinarian services for pets that are owned by homeless individuals.
Support