City Council
Legislative Subcommittee Agenda
70 N. First Street, Campbell CA
Monday, May 2, 2022, 1:00 pm
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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
Monday, May 2, 2022, 1:00 p.m.
Ralph Doetsch Conference Room – 70 N. First Street
CALL TO ORDER
PUBLIC COMMENT
NEW BUSINESS
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
1 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
AB 1944
Local
Government:
Open and Public
Meetings
(Set for Hearing
5/4/22)
Lee;
Garcia
The Ralph M. Brown Act requires meetings of a legislative body of a local agency to be open to the public and allow all members of the public to attend and participate . The Act also contains provisions regarding the timelines for posting an agenda and allows for meetings to occur via teleconferencing subject to certain requirements.
This bill would require the agenda to identify any member of the legislative body that will participate in the meeting remotely. This bill would also authorize, upon a determination by a majority vote of the legislative body, a member to be exempt from identifying the address of the member’s teleconference location in the notice and agenda or having the location be accessible to the public, if the member elects to teleconference from a location that is not a public place. These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2030.
(Based on text dated 4/18/2022)
Support Support In
Concept
AB 2062
Local Law
Enforcement
Hiring Grants
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/27/22)
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 funds to be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies 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
Support
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2 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
AB 2063
Density
bonuses:
affordable
housing impact
fees
(Amended and
Re-referred to
Com. on APPR. –
4/25/22)
Berman The Density Bonus Law requires a city to provide a developer that proposes a housing development with a density bonus and other incentives for the production of lower income housing units, or for the donation of land within the development, if the develope r agrees to, among other things, construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents, including lower income students.
This bill would prohibit affordable housing impact fees, in cluding inclusionary zoning fees and in -lieu fees, from being imposed on a housing development’s density bonus units, unless the city has adopted a local density bonus ordinance or established a local housing program , on or before January 1, 2022, that all ows for a density bonus of at least 50% for any for-sale or rental housing development containing restricted affordable units that dedicates a specified percentage of units for extremely low, very low, low-, or moderate-income households. (Based on text dated 4/21/2022)
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
3 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
AB 2181
Santa Clara
Valley
Transportation
Authority:
Board of
Directors
(Amended and
Re-Referred to
Coms. on L.
GOV. –
4/19/22)
Berman Existing law creates the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) with various powers and duties relative to transportation projects and services and the operation of public transit in the County of Santa Clara and vests the govern ance of VTA in a 12 -member board of directors, with 2 representatives of the County of Santa Clara who are members of, and appointed by, the county’s board of supervisors, 5 representatives of the City of San Jose who are city council members or the mayor and appointed by the city council, and 5 representatives of the other cities in the county who are city council members or mayors of those cities; each member serving 2-year terms.
This bill would, on and after July 1, 2023, revise the membership of the board of directors to instead consist of 2 representatives of the county who are community members and appointed by the president of the board of supervisors with board of supervisors ’ approval, 5 representatives of the City of San Jose, including 2 city council members or the mayor and 2 community members, appointed by the mayor with city council approval, and 5 representatives of the other cities in the county, including at lea st 2 community members and 2 city council members or mayors of those cities, elected through a ranked choice voting process by the city councils of those cities. The bill would, on and after July 1, 2023, authorize the board to i nclude ex officio nonvoting members from regional transportation or governmental bodies and would increase the directors’ terms of office to 4 years. (Based on text dated 4/18/2022)
Watch
Support with
Concerns –
Letter Sent to
Chair of Com.
on L. GOV.
with Copy to:
Berman,
Cortese, Low &
the League –
4/12/22
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
4 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
AB 2234
Planning.
Housing. Post -
entitlement
Phase Permit
(Do Pass as
Amended and
Re-refer to Com.
on APPR. –
4/27/22)
R. Rivas The Permit Streamlining Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act requires public agencies to approve or disapprove of a development project within certain specified timeframes and requires a city, county, or special district to provide specified information, including a current schedule of fees, exactions, and affordability requirements applicable to a proposed housing development project, and an archive of impact fee nexus studies, cost of service studies, or equivalent studies, conducted by the city, county, or special district, on its internet website.
This bill would require a public agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a post-entitlement phase permit, to post an example of an ideal application and an example of an ideal complete set of post-entitlement phase permits for the most common housing development projects in the jurisdiction, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would also require, no later than January 1, 2024, a public agency to require permits to be applied for, completed, and stored through a process on its internet website, and to accept applications and related documentation by electronic mail until that internet website is established. The bill would also require the internet website or electronic mail to list the current processing status of the applicant’s permit by the public agency, and would require that status to note whether it is being reviewed by the agency or action is required from the applicant.
(Based on text dated 4/6/2022)
Oppose
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
5 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
AB 2449
Open Meetings:
Local Agencies.
Teleconference
(Set for Hearing
– 5/4/22)
B. Rubio The Ralph M. Brown Act allows for meetings to occur via teleconferencing if the local agency notices each teleconference location of each legislative body member that will be participating in the public meeting, provides each teleconference location to be accessible to the public, allows members of the public to address the legislative body at each teleconference location, posts an agenda at each teleconference location, and requires at least a quorum of the legislative body to participate from locations within the boundaries of the local agency’s jurisdiction. The Act further provides that, until January 1, 2024, a local agency may use teleconferencing without complying with th ese teleconferencing requirements during a declared state of emergency.
This bill would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with these teleconferencing requirements if at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the local agency’s jurisdiction.
Support
Support in
Concept
SB 15 Housing
Development:
Incentives: The
Rezoning of Idle
Retail Sites
(Held at Desk –
6/1/21; Failed
Deadline per
Rule 61(a)(11) –
7/14/21)
Portantino This bill 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. This bill would define idle as 80 percent of leased or rentable square footage not occupied for at least one year. Zoning would be by right.
Support
Support -
Watch for
Return to
Committee
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
6 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
SB 513
Homeless
Shelters Grants
(Held at Desk –
1/24/22)
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 for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness. This bill would also 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.
Support
Support -
Watch for
Dates to
Return to
Committee
SB 555 Local
Agencies:
Transient
Occupancy
taxes: Online
Short-Term
Rental
Facilitator:
Collection
(Failed Deadline
per Rule
61(a)(12) –
8/27/21)
McGuire This bill 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.
Oppose
Support -
Watch for
Return to
Committee
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7 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
SB 1100
Open Meetings:
Orderly Conduct
(Amended and
Ordered to 3rd
Reading Set for
4/28/22)
Cortese The Ralph M. Brown Act requires every agenda for regular meetings to provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, before or during the legislative body’s consideration of the item. The Act also authorizes the legislative body to adopt reasonable regulations to ensure that the intent of the provisions relating to this public comment requirement are carried out, including regulations limiting the total amount of time allocated for public testimony on particular issues and for each individual speaker. The Act also authorizes the members of the legislati ve body conducting the meeting to order the meeting room cleared and continue in session if a group or groups have willfully interrupted the orderly conduct of a meeting and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting.
This bill would authorize the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for disrupting the meeting.
The bill would also require removal to be preceded by a warning that the individual is disrupt ing the proceedings, a request that the individual curtail their disruptive behavior or be subject to removal, and a reasonable opportunity for the individual to curtail their disruptive behavior.
(Based on text date 4/21/2022)
Watch
Support in
Concept /
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
8 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
SB 1297
Low-Embodied
Carbon Building
Materials;
Carbon
Sequestration
(Amended and
Re-referred to
Com. on APPR. –
4/27/22)
Cortese The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 charges the State Air Resources Board with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases and requires the Board, by July 1, 2023, to develop a comprehensive strategy for the state’s cement sector to achieve net zero-emissions of greenhouse gases used within the state as soon as possible, but no later than December 31, 2045.
This bill would require the Energy Commission to develop a plan to advance low-carbon materials and methods in building and construction projects that details a strategy and recommendations to minimize embodied carbon and maximize carbon sequestration in building materials. The bill would also require the board to develop an accounting protocol to quantify embodied carbon and carbon sequestration in building materials. Following the adoption of that protocol, the bill would require the Natural Resources Agency to incorporate projects using low- embodied carbon building materials or carbon sequestration in building materials into the California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry. The bill would require the Office of Planning and Research to evaluate the circumstances in which the use of low - embodied carbon building materials or carbon sequestration in building materials is an acceptable mitigation measure pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Based on text date 4/27/2022)
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
9 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
SB 1385
Electricity.
Multi-Family
Housing Local
Solar Program
(Do Pass as
Amended and
Re-refer to Com.
on APPR. –
4/18/22)
Cortese The Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program requires an electrical corporation with 100,000 or more customers in California to file with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) an application requesting approval of a tariff to implement a program enabling rate payers to participate directly in offsite electrical generation facilities that use eligible renewable energy resources. Existing law also requires the PUC, by June 30, 2017, to authorize, through the Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program, the awarding of monetary incentives for qualifying solar energy systems that are installed on qualified multifamily affordable housing properties through December 31, 2030.
This bill would require the PUC, on or before January 1, 2024, to establish a new multifamily housing local solar program that would require each electrical corporation with more than 100,000 service connections in California to construct, or contract for the construction of, a solar and storage system on or near qualified multifamily housing.
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
10 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
SB 1393
Energy.
Appliances.
Local
Requirements
(Amended and
Re-referred to
Com. on APPR. –
4/21/22)
Archuleta Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Commission) to gather or develop, and publish on its internet website, guidance and best practices to help building owners, the construction industry, and local gover nments overcome barriers to electrification of buildings and installation of electric vehicle charging equipment that include one or more specified topics.
This bill would require the Commission to gather or develop, and publish on its internet website, the guidance and best practices by July 1, 2023, and would require the guidance to include all of those specified topics .
The bill would require the Commission to update annually the guidance and best practices and would require a city, including a charter city, or county, when adopting an ordinance requiring the replacement of a fossil fuel-fired appliance with an electric appliance upon the alteration or retrofit of a residential and nonresidential building, to consider the guidance published by the Commission. The bill would require a local government, within 60 days of adopting that ordinance, to submit to the Commission a copy of the ordinance and require the Commission to determine whether the local government considered the Commission’s published guidance in the adoption of the ordinance. If the Commission determines that the local government had not considered the guidance, the bill would require the local government to consider the guidance, make any modification to the ordinance deemed necessary , and resubmit the ordinance to the Commission.
(Based on text date 4/21/2022)
Oppose Unless
Amended
Oppose –
Letter Sent to
Chair of Com.
on GOV. &
FIN., with Copy
to: Archuleta,
Cortese, Low
and the League
– 4/12/22
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
11 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 1953
Drinking
Water:
Accessible
Water Bottle
Refill Stations1
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/27/22)
Maienschein The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health.
This bill would require, by January 1, 2025, the owner or operator of a transit hub, local park, public building, publicly owned building, shopping mall, or municipal golf course that has a water infrastructure source to install and maintain at least one, or maintain at least one existing, accessible water bottle refill station . The bill would also require those owners and operators that have a w ater bottle refill station that is not accessible to upgrade, by January 1, 2025, the water bottle refill station to an accessible water bottle refill station.
Oppose Unless
Amended
AB 1985
Organic Waste.
List. Available
Products
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/27/22)
Rivas This bill would seek to help cities with their SB 1383 (2016) procurement requirements and require CalRecycle to compile and maintain a list on its website of information regarding persons and entities that produce , and have, organic waste products and to update the list every 6 months.
Co-Sponsor &
Support
1 Bills that are in bold and italicized reflect bills that were recently identified by the League of California Cities as additional bills to watch. These bills were not included in the “2022 Legislation – Bills to Watch” matrix dated March 25, 2022, or the “2022 Legislative Sub-Committee – Senate Bills of Interest” matrix dated April 4, 2022. They have been added here for tracking purposes. 2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
12 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 2247
Perfluoroalkyl
&
Polyfluoroalkyl
Substances and
Products
(Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
– 4/27/22)
Bloom This bill w ould 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 offer ed for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
13 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 2649
Natural Carbon
Sequestration
& Resilience
Act of 2022
(Re-referred to
Com. on NAT.
RES. – 4/21/22)
Garcia;
Stone;
Becker
The State Air Resources Board is responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the board to ensure th at statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030 and requires the board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
The Department of Food and Agriculture is charged with promoting and protecting the agricultural industry of the state. Existing law provides funds to the department for grants to promote practices on farms and ranches that improve agricultural and open-space soil health, carbon soil sequestration, erosion control, water quality, and water retention.
This bill would declare the policy of the state to achieve a goal of removing at least 60,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually on or before December 31, 2030, and 75,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually on or before December 31, 2035, through the implementation of natural carbon sequestration actions and programs on natural, working, and urban lands. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2023, the Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with its departments, the board, and the department, to refine existing, and establish new natural carbon sequestration pathways and strategies to guide specified agencies in developing and implementing programs to help the state achieve this goal. The bill would also require those agencies to expand existing and establish new natural carbon sequestration programs.
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
14 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 38
Beverage
Containers
(Re-referred to
Com. on NAT.
RES. – 2/14/22)
Wieckowski This bill w ould require California beverage manufacturers 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 bev erage containers. This bill w ould 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 imp ose administrative civil penalties for a violation of these provisions.
Oppose
SB 54
Plastic
Pollution
Producer
Responsibility
Act
(Amended –
2/25/21)
Allen; Stern;
Wiener
This bill would establish the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act to prohibit producers of single-use, disposable packaging or single- use, disposable food service ware products from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing such packaging or products that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2032, unless they are recyclable or compostable.
Support in
Concept
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
15 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 379
Residential
Solar Energy
Systems:
Permitting
(Ordered to
Assembly &
Held at Desk –
1/24/22)
Wiener This bill w ould require every city 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 to satisfy these requirements by September 30, 2024, whil e cities and counties with populations greater than 50,000 would be required to satisfy the requirements by September 30, 2023.
Watch
SB 833
Community
Energy
Resilience Act
of 2022
(Placed on
APPR Suspense
File - 4/4/22)
Dodd; Stern This bill w ould 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 . P lans would be required 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 . As a condition of receiving grant funding, a local government would need to submit its plan to the commission within 6 months of adopting the plan.
Watch
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
16 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 852
Climate
Resilience
Districts.
Formation.
Funding
Mechanisms
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR
– 4/26/22)
Dodd This bill 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 891
Business
Licenses.
Stormwater
Compliance
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR
– 4/27/22)
Hertzberg This bil l w ould 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
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
17 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 1217
State-Regional
Collaborative
for Climate,
Equity &
Resilience
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR
– 4/26/22)
Allen &
Cortese
This bill w ould 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 for sustainable communities strategies, and would 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
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
TRANSPORTATION
AB 2120
Federal
Funding in
Local Bridges
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/27/22)
Ward This bill w ould 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
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
18 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
AB 2953
Recycled
Material
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR –
4/19/22)
Salas This bill w ould require a local agency to use, to the extent feasible and cost effective, recycled materials in local streets and roads. The requirement would be t riggered based on the local agenc y’s annual revenues.
Oppose
SB 932
Circulation
Element
(Do Pass as
Amended and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR –
4/26/22)
Portantino This bill would require cities to adopt significant bicycle, pedestrian, and traffic calming elements when they develop and revise their general plans.
Oppose
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
19 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 1737
Children’s
Camps. Local
Registration
and Inspections
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR –
4/27/22)
Holden This bill would implement new registration and inspection requirements for children camps operating in cities and require cities to make announced and unannounced visits to those camps. This bill would also require cities to make public any cited violations. This bill would also require background and sex-offender checks.
Watch
AB 1789
Trails &
Greenways
Program
(Re-referred to
Com. on APPR –
4/7/22)
Bennett This bill 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
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
20 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 2346
Outdoor
Recreation.
Equitable
Access Grant
Program
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR –
4/26/22)
Gabriel This bill 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 2465
Pupil
Instruction.
Literacy Grant
Programs
(Re-referred to
Com. on APPR –
4/26/22)
Bonta This bill 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 and 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.
Pending
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
21 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 2547
Housing
Stabilization to
Prevent & End
Homelessness
Among Older
Adults & People
with Disabilities
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR –
4/20/22)
Nazarian This bill would require the state to offer competitive grants to non-profit community-based organizations, 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
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on APPR –
4/27/22)
O’Donnell This bill would require each city that has used funds from any source to assist in addressing homelessness to submit a report to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
22 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 2631
Government
Claims Act
(Referred to
Coms. on L.
GOV. & JUD. –
3/10/22)
O’Donnell This bill 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.
Oppose
SB 929
Community
Mental Health
Services. Data
Collection
(Placed on
APPR Suspense
File – 4/18/22)
Eggman This bill would expand the type of data collected by the Department of Health Care Services related to conservatorships, clinical outcomes, and services provided.
Watch
SB 1047
Early Learning
and Care
(Set for Hearing
– 5/2/22)
Limon This bill would expand the range of childcare and early learning services that a state preschool contracting agency may provide, authorize 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
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
23 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
SB 1154
Facilities for
Mental Health
or Substance
Abuse Disorder
Crises.
Database
(Placed on
APPR Suspense
File – 4/18/22)
Eggman This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop a real-time behavioral health bed registry.
Watch
SB 1338
Community
Assistance,
Recovery, and
Empowerment
Court Program
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to
Com. on
HEALTH –
4/27/22)
Umberg This bill would establish 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. This bill would address the most highly acute population and would require every county in the state to participate in this program.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
24 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 1751
Workers’
Compensation.
COVID-19.
Critical Workers
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/27/22)
Daly This bill would extend the COVID-19 workers’ compensation presumption to Jan 1, 2025 (from Jan 1, 2023).
Oppose
AB 2381
Address
Confidentiality
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/27/22)
Daly Existing law authorizes reproductive health care service providers, employees, volunteers, and patients to apply with the state to have their residence address excluded from any public record and have their identity remain confidential.
This bill would authorize an applicant to submit a certified statement by the employee, patient, or volunteer for a reproductive health care services facility that they have been the target of threats or acts of violence connected with a reproductive health care services facility, instead of a certified statement from a representative of the reproductive health care services facility.
This bill would also expand the address confidentiality program to include other individuals who face threats of violence or violence from the public because of their work, employment, or volunteer service.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
25 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 2647
Local
Government.
Open Meetings
(Hearing
Postponed to
5/4/22)
Levine This bill 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
AB 2693
COVID-19:
Exposure
(Do Pass. Second
Reading File –
4/28/22)
Reyes This bill would extend to January 1, 2025, COVID-19 laws authorizing Cal/OSHA to prohibit the performance of an operation or process, or entry into that place of employment when that place of employment, operation or process exposes wo rkers to the risk of infection with COVID-19; requir ing a notice of prohibition to be posted in a conspicuous location at the place of employments; requiring employers who receive notification of exposure to provide notice to employees and the local health agency ; and requiring employers to provide a link to the local health agency tracking the number and frequency of COVID-19 outbreaks and cases by agency.
Oppose
AB 2808
Elections.
Ranked Choice
Voting
(Held without
Recommendation
– 4/6/22)
O’Donnell This bill w ould 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. This bill would apply to all cities, including charter cities.
Oppose
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
26 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 1044
Employers.
Natural
Disasters.
Retaliation
(Placed on APPR
Suspense File –
4/4/22)
Durazo This bill would prohibit 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
SB 1127
Workers’
Compensation.
Liability
Presumption
(Placed on APPR
Suspense File –
4/4/22)
Atkins This bill would alter rules and timeframes for determining eligibility for workers’ compensation claims to reduce timelines for employers to make a decision whether to accept a claim. This bill would provide for severe penalties for failure to comply.
Oppose
SB 1173
Public
Retirement
Systems. Fossil
Fuels
(Set for Hearing
5/2/22)
L. Gonzalez This bill would prohibit the boards of CalPERS and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System from making new investments or renewing investments of retirement funds in fo ssil fuels and w ould require the boards to liquidate such investments by July 1, 2027.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
27 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 1328
Prohibited
Investments &
Contracts. Russia
& Belarus
(Set for Hearing
5/2/22)
McGuire &
Cortese
This bill w ould require CalPERS and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System pension funds to stop investing in companies with ties to the Russian and Belarusian governments - responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, aided by Belarus.
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Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ACA 1 Local
government
financing:
affordable
housing and
public
infrastructure:
voter approval
(Referred to
Com. on L. Gov.
and APPR. –
4/22/21)
Aguiar-
Curry
The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem (property value) tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions.
This bill would create an additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city 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.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
28 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 682
Density Bonus.
Cohousing
(Referred to
Com. on RLS for
assignment –
1/27/22)
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 square footage f or very low - income households. This bill w ould 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 dens ity with respect to a cohousing building eligible for a density bonus under these provisions.
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AB 1551
Development
Bonus. Multi-
Use Projects
(Referred to
Com. on RLS for
assignment –
1/27/22)
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 affo rdable housing developer to contribute affordable housing through a joint project or 2 separate projects encompassing affordable housing.
This bill would , until January 1, 2028, re-enact provisions regarding the granting of development bonuses to certain p rojects and require a city or county to annually submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development information describing an approved commercial development bonus.
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AB 1748
Surplus Lands
Act
(VOTE: Do Pass.
(FAIL) –
4/27/22)
Seyarto This bill would exempt specified city-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 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.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
29 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 1945
Affordable
Disaster
Housing
Revolving
Development
and Acquisition
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/6/22)
Aguiar-
Curry
This bill w ould create the Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program to fund the predevelopment expenses, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, 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 w ould require community development financial institutions receiving awards through the program to issue short -term loans to nonpro fit housing development corporations, tribally designated housing entities, and local government agencies to fund the cost of developing dwelling units and transitional housing, childcare, after school care, and social service facilities that are integrally linked to the dwelling units, as specified.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
30 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 2011
Affordable
Housing & High
Road Jobs Act
of 2022
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to Com.
on RULES –
4/27/22)
Wicks;
Bloom;
Grayson;
Quirk-Silva;
Villapudua
(with
Wiener;
Berman;
Fong;
Reyes;
Rivas)
Planning and zoning laws authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process and not subject to a conditional use permit if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards.
This bill would make certain housing developments that meet specified affordability and site criteria and objective development standards a use by right within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use and subject these development projects to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes.
The bill would also require, in contracts with construction contractors, certain wage and labor standards be met and that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages.
The bill would also require a development proponent for a development of 50 or more housing units to require construction contractors to participate in an apprenticeship program or request dispatch of apprentices from a state-approved apprenticeship program, and to make specified health care expenditures for construction craft employees.
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AB 2053
Social Housing
(Do Pass and
Re-refer to Com.
on APPR –
4/21/22)
Lee This bill 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.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
31 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 2295
Local
Educational
Agencies:
Housing
Development
(Re-referred to
Com. on L. GOV.
– 4/25/22)
Bloom This bill would require that a qualified housing development on land owned by a local educational agency be an authorized use if the housing development consists of at least 10 units and is 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 and 100% of the units be rented by teachers and employees of the local educational agency. This bill would prohibit a city from imposing any development standards on a housing development project under these provisions and exempt a housing development project subject to these provisions from various requirements regarding the disposal of surplus land.
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AB 2428
Mitigation Fee
Act:
Improvements:
Timeline
(Referred to
Coms. on L.
GOV. and
H.&C.D. –
3/3/22)
Ramos This bill 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.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
32 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 2705
Very High Fire
Hazard Severity
Zones
(Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.)
Quirk-Silva This bill would prohibit a city from approving a 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.
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SB 897
Accessory
Dwelling Units
(Placed on APPR
Suspense File –
4/25/22)
Wieckowski This bill 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
SB 1067 &
AB 2097
Development
Parking
Requirements
(Do Pass as
Amended and
Re-Refer to
Com. on APPR –
4/27/22)
Portantino
& Friedman
This bill would prohibit a city from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on a housing development project that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, and that either (1) dedicates 25% of the total units to very low, low-, and moderate-income households, students, the elderly, or persons with disabilities; or (2) the developer demonstrates that the development would not have a negative impact on the city’s ability to meet specified housing needs and would not have a negative impact on existing residential or commercial parking within 1/2 mile of the project, unless the city makes specified findings. (Based on text date 4/4/2022)
Oppose
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
33 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 1094
Local Planning
(Do Pass as
Amended and
Re-refer to Com.
on APPR –
4/27/22)
Becker Current law requires the housing element to identify adequate sites for housing. Current law allows the department to permit a city to substitute up to 25% of its obligation to identify adequate sites for any income category in its housing element if the city includes a program that commits the local government to provide units in that income category through the provision of committed assistance during the planning period covered by the element to low- and very low-income households at affordable housing costs or affordable rents. Current law provides that this provision does not apply to any city that has not met its share of regional housing needs for low- and very low-income households.
This bill would allow sites that contain interim housing developments to be identified as adequate sites for very low and low-income categories if the housing element demonstrates that the units will be available for occupancy by individual families who are homeless or who are at risk of homelessness during the entire planning period and that the interim units are within a residential zone.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
34 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 1369
Adaptive Reuse.
By Right
(Set for Hearing
3/31/22.
Canceled at
Request of
Author –
3/28/22)
Wieckowski The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires the preparation and completion of an environmental impact report on a project that may have a significant effect on the environment; or the adoption of a negative declaration if the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects.
This bill would make an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all areas regardless of zoning. The bill would define "adaptive reuse project" to mean any commercial, public, industrial, or office building or structure that has 25-percent occupancy or less, which is converted into a housing development project.
The bill would define “use by right” to mean that the city or county’s review of the adaptive reuse project may not re quire a conditional use permit, planned unit development permit, or other discretionary city or county review or approval that would constitute a “project” for purposes of CEQA. This bill would also prohibit a city or county from imposing various requirem ents on an adaptive reuse project, including a requirement that the adaptive reuse project provide more parking than the amount of on-site parking for the existing building or structure. The bill would also provide that an adaptive reuse project is subject to the California Existing Building Code.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
35 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 1466
Affordable
Housing:
Community
Development
Investment
Program
(Referral to
Com. on ED
rescinded due to
health concerns
related to
COVID-19)
Stern Existing law requires the county auditor to allocate property tax revenue to local jurisdictions per specified formulas and procedures and requires an annual reallocation of property tax revenue from local agencies in each county to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) in that county for allocation to specified educational entities.
This bill would establish the Affordable Housing and Community Development Investment Program, administered by the Affordable Housing and Community Development Investment Committee and authorize a city, county, city and county, joint powers agency, enhanced infrastructure financing district, affordable housing authority, community revitalization and investment authority, transit village development district, or a combination of those entities, to apply to the Committee to participate in the program and would authorize the Committee to approve or deny plans for projects meeting specific criteria. The bill would also authorize certain local agencies to apply for funding under the program and issue bonds to carry out a project under the program.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
36 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 1599
Proposition 47:
Repeal
(In Committee.
Failed Passage –
4/26/22)
Kiley;
Gallagher;
Patterson
The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act reduced the penalty for theft and possession of controlled substances, including concentrated 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.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
37 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 1670
Criminal Justice.
Commission on
Alternative
Incarceration
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/27/22)
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
AB 1740
Catalytic
Converters
(To Assembly for
Second Reading
File – 4/28/22)
Muratsuchi Existing law requires a core recycler who accepts a catalytic converter for recycling to maintain a written record of specified information regarding the transaction, including the item type and quantity, amount paid for the catalytic converter, and identification number, and the vehicle identification number, for not less than 2 years. Existi ng law makes it a crime to violate these requirements.
This bill would require a written record of the year, make, and model of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed and prohibit a core recycler from entering into a transaction to purchase or receive a catalytic converter from any person that is not a commercial enterprise or owner of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
38 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 1934
Office of
Emergency
Services:
Broadband
Communications
Grant Program:
Fairgrounds
(Do Pass as
Amended & Re-
refer to Com. on
APPR. –
4/27/22)
Rodriguez The California Emergency Services Act establishes the Office of Emergency Services within the Governor’s office under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services and makes the office responsible for the state’s emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or man -made disasters and emergencies. The act also sets forth various provisions on fairgrounds owned or operated by a district agricultural association, the California Exposition and State Fair, county fairs, and citrus fruit fairs.
This bill would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, require the Office of Emergency Services to establish a grant program on or before January 1, 2024, to provide fairs with grant funding for purposes of building and upgrading broadband communication infrastructure on fairgrounds. The bill would require the office to establish standards to determine how fairs receive grant funding based on the fairgrounds’ need for broadband capabilities to service an emergency response operation.
Support
AB 2398
Catalytic
Converters
(In Committee.
Failed Passage –
4/26/22)
Villapudua This bill would make the possession of a detached catalytic converter a crime, punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, with an exception for a person who has a certificate of title or registration for the vehicle.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
39 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 2538
State Warning
Center. Wildfire
Smoke
Notification
(Do Pass & Re-
refer to Com. on
APPR. – 4/5/22)
R. Rivas This bill w ould require the California Office of Emergency Services to expand its California State Warning Center to include targeted alerts for public health dangers, including smoke from wildfires.
Watch
AB 2645
Integration of
Access and
Functional
Needs
(Do Pass & Re-
refer to Com. on
APPR. –
4/26/22)
Rodriguez This bill would require a county to integrate access and functional needs into its emergency plan upon the next update to its emergency plan.
Specifically, this bill would require the plan to ensure that local community resilience centers are prepared to serve as communitywide assets during extreme heat events and other disasters, to designate available locations that may be necessary to provide respite to individuals during certain environmental emergencies, and to integrate sheltering plans to account for specified state grant programs relating to community resilience. The bill would require the plan to integrate transportation and sheltering plans to account for local community resilience centers.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
40 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
SB 1038
Law
Enforcement:
Facial
Recognition and
Other Biometric
Surveillance
(Third Reading
Set for 4/28/22)
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.
This bill would extend these provisions indefinitely.
Oppose
SB 1186
Medicinal
Cannabis
Patients’ Right
of Access Act
(Re-referred to
Com. on APPR. –
4/25/22)
Wiener Medical Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act – this bill would prohibit 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
(Set for Hearing
– 5/2/22)
Caballero This bill 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.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
41 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 1702
COVID-19
Prevention &
Response
Goods
(Re-referred to
Com. on REV. &
TAX – 3/23/22)
Levine This bill w ould 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
(Amend and
Re-refer to
Com. on REV. &
TAX – 4/27/22)
Grayson This bill w ould extend and expand the sales and use tax exemption for manufacturing processing, refining, fabricating, and recycling until 2033.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
42 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 2164
Disability
Access:
Funding
(Referred to
Suspense File –
4/6/22)
Lee Existing law requires the State Architect to establish a program for voluntary certification by the state of any person who meets specified criteria as a certified access specialist (CASp) and, from January 2, 2018 until December 31, 2023, requires any applicant for an original or renewal of a local business license or permit to pay an additional fee of $4 for that license or permit, or in any city that does not issue a business license or permit, existing law requires an applicant for a building permit to pay an additional fee of $4, to be collected by the city that issued the license or permit for specified purposes related to disability access, including the CASp program. Commencing January 1, 2024, that fee is reduced to $1.
This bill would repeal the provision reducing the fee to $1 commencing January 1, 2024.
Existing law requires that the city retain a specified percentage of the fees collected to fund administrative costs with the remainder to be deposited in a special fund, established by the city, and used for increased CASp training and certi fication. On and after January 1, 2018, and until December 31, 2023, the specified percentage to be retained is 90%.
Commencing January 1, 2024, the percentage is reduced to 70%.
This bill would repeal the provision reducing the percentage to be retained and expand the purpose for which the moneys in the special fund may be used to include providing financial assistance to small business owners for accessibility-related inspection, renovation, and construction.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
43 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 2328
Home
Experience
Sharing
(Referred to
Coms. on L.
GOV. & JUD. –
3/3/22)
Flora This bill would preempt explicit or implicit local prohibitions on “home experience sharing units” and define a home sharing unit as non - commercial property that is rented for no more than 18 continuous hours.
Oppose
AB 2622
Zero Emission
Bus Exemption
(Re-referred to
Com. on REV. &
TAX – 4/18/22)
Mullin This bill w ould extend, until 2033, the sales and use tax exemption provided to cities, counties, and transit agencies for zero emission transit buses.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
44 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 2887
Public
Resources:
Sales & Use
Tax Law:
Exclusions
(Set for
Hearing
5/2/22)
Garcia,
Eduardo
The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes 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 California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. The act authorizes, until January 1, 2026, the authority to provide financial assistance to a participating party in the form of specified sales and use tax exclusions for projects, including those that promote California-based manufacturing, California-based jobs, advanced manufacturing, reduction of greenhouse gases, or reduction in air and water pollution or energy consumption. The act prohibits the sales and use tax exclusions from exceeding $100,000,000 for each calendar year.
This bill would increase the limit on sales and use tax exclusions to $150,000,000 for each calendar year.
(Based on text date 3/24/2022)
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
45 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
SB 830
Education
Finance:
Supplemental
Education
Funding
(Set for
Hearing –
5/2/22)
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 instructional 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 funding to either supplement or supplant existing l ocal educational agency expenditures to address chronic absenteeism and habitual truancy.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
46 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
SB 1449
Annexation
Incentive Grant
Program
(Placed on
APPR Suspense
File – 4/25/22)
Caballero This bill w ould create an Unincorporated Area Annexation Incentive Grant Program within the State Office of Planning and Research to support cities with infrastructure needs within new or future annexed areas.
Support in
concept
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
OTHER BILLS OF INTEREST
AB 536
Office of
Emergency
Services:
Mutual Aid Gap
Analysis
(Held under
submission –
8/27/21)
Rodriguez This bill would require the state Office of Emergency Services 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.
Support
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Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
OTHER BILLS OF INTEREST
AB 1071
Officer of
Emergency
Services:
Tabletop
Exercises
(Failed
Deadline per
Rule 61(a)(15)
– 9/10/21)
Rodriguez This bill w ould require the state’s Office of Emergency Services 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.
Support
AB 1401
Residential and
commercial
development:
parking
requirements
(Failed
Deadline per
Rule 61(a)(12)
– 8/27/21)
Friedman This bill would prohibit a public agency in a county with a population of 600,000 or more from imposing a minimum 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. This bill would also 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.
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2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
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Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
OTHER BILLS OF INTEREST
SB 6 Local
Planning:
Housing:
Commercial
Zones
(Failed
Deadline per
Rule 61(a)(15)
– 9/10/21)
Caballero,
Eggman,
and Rubio
This bill 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 the density for the housing development meets or exceeds the density appropriate for lower income households according to the local jurisdiction.
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SB 15
Idle Retail Sites
Incentive
Program
(Failed
Deadline per
Rule 61(a)(11)
– 7/14/21)
Portantino This bill w ould 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 idle sites used for a big box retailer or a commercial shopping center to instead allow th e development of housing. This bill w ould also 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.
Support
2022 Legislation - Bills to Watch
49 4/28/22
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League Position City Position
OTHER BILLS OF INTEREST
SB 457
Public
Employee
Retirement
System:
Investment
Portfolios:
Divestment
from Turkey
(Failed
Deadline per
Rule 61(a)(11)
– 7/14/21)
Portantino;
Wilk
This bill w ould 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.
Oppose