City Council
Legislative Subcommittee Agenda
70 N. First Street, Campbell CA
Monday, May 8, 2023, 4:00 pm
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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
Monday, May 8, 2023, 4:00 pm
Ralph Doetsch Conference Room – 70 N. First Street
CALL TO ORDER
PUBLIC COMMENT
NEW BUSINESS
• Legislative Updates
o Updates from California State Assemblymember Berman’s Office o Updates from California State Senator Cortese’s Office • Matrix of Bills for Legislative Calendar Year 2023
OLD BUSINESS
ADJOURN
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2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
1 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
AB 742
Law Enforcement:
Police Canines
Referred to
suspense file
4/26/23
Jackson Would prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person, and any use of a police canine for crowd control.
Would prohibit law enforcement agencies from authorizing any use or training of a police canine that is inconsistent with this measure.
Oppose
Oppose
AB 1469
Valley Water –
Assisting
Unsheltered
People
Ordered to third
reading
5/1/23
Kalra Would expand the District Act to allow Valley Water’s purpose to include assisting unsheltered people living within their jurisdiction in consultation with cities, the County of Santa Clara, and the state, to provide housing or improved outcomes for unsheltered individuals. This change w ould allow Valley Water to offer land for transitional housing and other facilities. In addition, this bill would allow Vall ey Water more flexibility to access revenue from an existing 1% ad valorem property tax to fund outreach, counseling, transitional housing, or other services that unsheltered people deserve and are often required under federal case law.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
2 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
SB 43
Behavioral Health
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Eggman (Repeat bill that failed last year.)
Would update California's 1967 conservatorship law by expanding definition of “gravely disabled” to include a condition in which a person, due to a mental health disorder or a substance use disorder, or both, is at substantial risk of serious harm, or is currently experiencing serious harm to their physical or mental health. Under this bill, for purposes of an expert witness in any proceeding relating to the appointment or reappointment of a conservator pursuant to the above-described provisions, the statements of specified health practitioners or a licensed clinical social worker included in the medical record would not be hearsay. The bill would authorize the court to grant a reasonable continuance if an expert witness in a proceeding relied on the medical record and the medical record has not been provided to the parties or their counsel.
Support
SB 329
Cities: City Council
Members:
Compensation
In Assembly. Held
at Desk
5/1/23
Dodd This bill would increase the maximum amount of salary, based upon the population of the city, that may be approved by an ordinance passed by the city council. The bill would authorize the salary of council members to be increased beyond the specified maximums to an amount not exceeding the greater of either 5% for each calendar year from the operative date of the last adjustment of the salary in effect when the ordinance or amendment is enacted, or an amount equal to inflation since January 1, 2024, based upon the California Consumer Price Index, which shall not exceed 10% for each calendar year. The bill would require the city council to consider the adoption of an ordinance to increase council member compensation in open session during at least 2 regular meetings of the city council.
Support
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
3 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
CITY LEGISLATIVE SUB-COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
SB 363
Facilities for
Inpatient and
Residential
Mental Health
and Substance
Use Disorder:
Database
Placed on APPR
suspense file
4/24/23
Eggman (Repeat bill that failed last year.)
Would establish a real-time, internet-based dashboard to collect, aggregate, and display information about available beds in psychiatric and substance abuse facilities. The bill would require the database to include a minimum of specific information, including the contact information for a facility’s designated employee, the types of diagnoses or treatments for which the bed is appropriate, and the target populations served at the facility, and have the capacity to, among other things, enable searches to identify beds that are appropriate for individuals in need of inpatient or residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment.
Support
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 2
Recycling: Solar
Photovoltaic
Modules
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Ward Would require a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic panels sold or offered for sale in this state, or its agent, to develop an end -of-life management plan for the management and recycling of the solar photovoltaic panels it manufactured and the component materials. The bill would specify the required contents of an end-life management plan and would require the department to provide guidelines for developing an end-life management plan.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
4 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 50
Public Utilities:
Timely Service:
Timely Electrical
Interconnection
Re-referred to
APPR. Comm.
5/2/23
Wood Would require a public utility to furnish and maintain timely service, instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities. The bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2025, to determine the criteria for timely service for electric customers that mee ts specified requirements.
Until the commission determines that criteria, the bill would require each large electrical corporation, among other things to take all practical measures to deliver electric service within 90 days of issuing a written commitment to serve for customers seeking a new connection, and within 30 days of issuing a written commitment to serve for customers seeking upgrades to an existing connection. If a large electrical corporation fails to deliver service to a customer by the date com municated on a written commitment to serve, the bill would require the impacted customer to be entitled to a utility bill credit.
Pending
AB 460
State Water
Board Authority:
Interim Relief
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Bauer-Kahan This bill would authorize the board to issue, on its own motion or upon the petition of an interested party, an interim relief order to a diverter or user of water in adjudicative proceedings to apply or enforce specified provisions of law related to water rights and quality. The bill would provide that a person or entity that violates any interim relief order issued by the board would be liable to the board for a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed the sum of $10,000 for each day in wh ich a violation occurs and $5,000 for each acre-foot of water diverted in violation of the interim relief order. The bill would require these funds to be deposited in the Water Rights Fund.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
5 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 573
Organic Waste:
meeting
recovered
organic waste
product
procurement
Referred to
suspense file
5/3/23
E. Garcia Would require the department’s regulations to allow a local jurisdiction, until December 1, 2039, in procuring recovered organic waste products to meet the target procurement requirements, to use California -derived recovered organic waste that the local jurisdiction sends for processing at a facility or operation outside of the state that meets certain conditions, as provided.
Support
AB 698
Energy: Gas
Stoves
Hearing
postponed by U
& E. Comm.
4/11/23
Essayli Would prohibit state agencies and local governments directly or indirectly prohibiting the use of gas stoves in residential and nonresidential buildings.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
6 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 863
Carpet
Recycling:
Carpet
Stewardship
Organizations:
Fines:
Succession:
Procedure
Referred to
suspense file
4/26/23
Aguiar-Curry Would increase the per day penalty for violations of carpet stewardship laws to $10,000 per day or $50,000 per day if violation is intentional .
Would provide that if a carpet stewardship organization violates a provision of the carpet stewardship law three times, they become ineligible to act and the successor rules will apply. Would require a carpet stewardship organization, as part of its carpet stewardship plan, from the assessments received for carpets sold for use in California, to expend at least 95% on activities to carry out the carpet stewardship plan within California, and at least 10% for grants to apprenticesh ip programs for training apprentice and journey -level carpet installers in proper carpet recycling practices, including the installation and removal techniques that maximize the recyclability of carpet. The bill would authorize the department, if it determines that a carpet stewardship organization or manufacturer has not complied with one or more of the requirements of the carpet stewardship laws, to adopt regulations that establish requirements for carpet stewardship organizations or manufacturers t o take specific actions to bring those entities into compliance with those laws.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
7 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 1000
Qualifying
Logistics Use
Projects
Failed passage.
Reconsideration
granted
4/27/23
Reyes Would prohibit a local agency from approving the development or expansion of any qualifying logistics use, as defined, within 1,000 feet of sensitive receptors, as defined, except as provided. The bill would authorize a local agency to approve the development or expansion of a qualifying logistics use greater than 750 feet from a sensitive receptor and within 1,000 feet of a sensitive receptor only if the local agency takes certain actions, including, among other things, conducting a cumulative analysis of the air quality impacts of the warehouse development project.
The bill would require a local agency, upon receipt of an application for a warehouse development project, to take certain actions, including posting information on its internet website that is easily accessible and easily understandable by the public.
Oppose
AB 1132
Solar Energy
Systems: Permit
Fees
To RLS Comm.
for assignment
4/27/23
Friedman Existing law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2025. This bill would extend repeal date to January 1, 2034, and impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
8 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 1526
Public Resources
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/25/23
Asm. Nat
Resources
(Placeholder bill)
This bill would require a producer responsibility plan to include arrangements with processors or recyclers to ensure that covered materials that are not collected through a curbside collection program or other local collection program are collected and recycled at a viable responsible end market. The bill would require the producer responsibility plan to include a mechanism and schedule for transferring specified fee proceeds to local jurisdictions. The bill would make technical amendments and other revisions to certain components of the act. The act defines “covered material” to include, among others, wraps or wrappers and bags sold to food service establishments. This bill w ould include as “covered material” wraps or wrappers and bags used in the packaging of food offered for sale or provided to customers by food service establishments.
Support
AB 1567
SB 638
SB 867
Climate Bonds
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
E. Garcia
Eggman
Allen
Would collectively propose $20 billion in bonds for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, and extreme heat mitigation.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
9 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 1572
Potable Water:
Non-functional
Turf
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/24/23
Friedman Would prohibit the use of potable water for irrigation of nonfunction turf on specified properties. Notably,
• All commercial, industrial, municipal, and institutional properties by Jan 1, 2027
• All multifamily residential properties by 1/1/28
• All affordable multifamily housing or municipal by 1/1/29
Oppose Unless
Amended
SB 69
CEQA Document
Requests
Placed on APPR
suspense file
4/24/23
Cortese CEQA requires a state agency or a local agency that approves or determines to carry out a project subject to CEQA to file a notice of determination with the Office of Planning and Research or the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located. CEQA authorizes a state agency or a local agency that determines that a project is not subject to CEQA to file a notice of exemption with the office or the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located. The bill would require the county clerk to post the notice in both the office and on the internet website of the county clerk within 24 hours of receipt. The bill would also require a public agency to provide both the notice and any subsequent amended, corrected, or revised notice in response to a written request for the notice, regardless of the delivery method.
Oppose Unless
Amended
SB 272
Sea Level Rise
Planning
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Laird Would require local governments in coastal areas to implement sea level rise planning and adaptation by 2034. Would also require the California Coastal Commission and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to establish guidelines for the preparation of that planning and adaptation by December 2024.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
10 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 560
Solid Waste:
Gas Cylinders:
Stewardship
Program
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Laird Would establish a stewardship program for gas cylinder products, as defined, and would authorize producers of those products to establish one more producer stewardship organization for that purpose. The bill would require each producer or producer stewardship organization to submit a gas cylinder stewardship plan to the department that details, among other things, convenient and accessible opportunities for the recovery of gas cylinders used by consumers. The bill would prohibit gas cylinder producers that are not participating in a department-approved stewardship plan from supplying, selling, or offering for sale gas cylinders in the state. The bill would impose recordkeeping and reporting requirements on producers and producer stewardship organizations with department -approved stewardship plans and would require those producers to pay all administrative and operational costs associated with establishing and implementing the stewardship plan in which it participates, including the cost of collection, transportation, recycling, and the safe and proper management of recovered gas cylinders. The bill would require the department to set, review, and revise necessary convenience and performance standards and ensure appropriate data metrics for the gas cylinder stewardship program.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
11 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 615
Electric Vehicle
Traction
Batteries
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Allen & Min Would make a vehicle or battery manufacturer responsible for collecting a stranded battery and repurposing the battery, if possible, but would require the manufacturer to ensure the battery is recycle d if it cannot be reused. The bill would require, by January 1, 2025, a battery supplier, as described, to be responsible for the development of a core exchange program for replacing a battery, module, or cell removed from a vehicle .
The bill would also require a battery supplier to annually submit a report to the Department of Toxic Substances Control, as provided. The bill would require a qualified facility, as defined, buying removed batteries to submit a report containing specified informa tion to the department and would require specified entities that remove a battery from a vehicle that is still in service to participate in the core exchange program. The bill would make a secondary user that purchases a battery that was removed from a vehicle responsible for ensuring the battery is sent to a qualified facility at the end of the battery’s useful life and reporting specified information to the department.
Pending
SB 707
Responsible
Textile Recovery
Act of 2023
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Newman Would require textile producers to establish a stewardship program for the collection and recycling of a covered textile product. This bill would define a “covered product” to include any apparel, textile, or textile article that is unsuitable for reuse by a consumer in its current state or condition, except as specified.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
12 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 6
AB 7
Transportation
Planning:
Regional
Transportation
Plans
Re-referred to
APPR. Comm.
4/25/23
Friedman (Placeholder bills.)
Would prioritize transportation funding that significantly contribute towards the goals outlined in a region’s sustainable communities’ strategy.
Would require that the state board, after January 1, 2024, and not later than September 30, 2026, to establish additional targets for 2035 and 2045, respectively . This bill would require a metropolitan planning organization, at least 60 days before starting that public participation process, to submit that description of the technical methodology to the state board for approval. The bill would require a metropolitan planning organization to work with the state board unti l the state board concludes that the technical methodology operates accurately and approves its use.
Pending
AB 241
SB 84
Clean
Transportation
Program: Air
Quality
Improvement
Program:
Funding
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/25/23
Reyes
Gonzalez
(Placeholder bills.)
Would expand the purpose of the program to include developing and deploying innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help reduce criteria air pollutants and air toxins. The bill would no longer requi re the commission to provide certain project preferences. The bill would provide that the goals of the program shall be to advance the state’s clean transportation, equity, air quality, and climate emission policies and would require the commission to ensu re program investments support specified requirements. The bill would require the commission, on and after January 1, 2025, to expend at least 50% of the moneys appropriated to the program on programs and projects that directly benefit or serve residents o f disadvantaged and low -income communities and low-income Californians and would require at least 50% of funding for tangible location -based investments to be expended in disadvantaged and low-income communities.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
13 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 316
Transportation:
Autonomous
Vehicles
Read second
time and
amended
4/24/23
Aguiar-Curry Would prohibit the operation of an autonomous vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 10,000 pounds or more on public roads for testing purposes, transporting goods, or transporting passengers without a human safety operator physically present in the autonomous vehicle at the time of operation. Would require the Department of Motor Vehicles, by January 1, 2029, or 5 years after commencement of testing, whichever occurs later, and upon appropriation by the Legislature, to submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature evaluating the performance of autonomous vehicle technology and its impact on public safety and employment in the transpor tation sector for autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Department of Transportation, the State Air Resources Board, and other relevant state agencies to provide additional information needed to research the report.
Support
AB 334
Public Contracts:
Conflicts of
Interests
To Consent
Calendar 5/3/23
Rubio Would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified requirements, is not an officer for purposes of being subject to the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
14 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 400
Public Contracts:
Design Build
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/2/23
Rubio Would remove the Jan 1, 2025, sunset for local agencies to use design build on specified projects thereby making the authority permanent.
Support
AB 415
Emergency
Fairgrounds
Communications
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/19/23
Rodriguez Would establish a grant program, on or before January 1, 2025, to provide fairgrounds with grant funding for the purpose of building and upgrading communication and internet infrastructure on fairgrounds.
Support
AB 735
Workforce
Development:
Utility Careers
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Berman Would establish the High Road Utility Careers program to be administered by the California Workforce Development Board to connect existing resources with young individuals interested in careers in the utility sector and ensure a continued reliable workforce for California utilities.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
15 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 744
Transportation
Planning
Referred to
suspense file
5/3/23
Carrillo Would authorize the California Transportation Commission to establish best practices for use of data in transportation planning and to identify data elements that should be made available to state and local agencies for transportation planning.
Support
AB 1504
Planning:
Electric Vehicle
Charging
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/25/23
McCarthy Would provide that the provisions described above do not apply to applications to install an electric vehicle charging station or hydrogen- fueling station in a public right-of-way. The bill would require local agencies to complete a plan for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in the public right-of-way that includes, but is not limited to, a permitting process. In developing the plan and permitting process, the bill would require local agencies to take specified actions. The bill, except as specified, would require local agencies with populations of 250,000 or more to comply with these provisions by January 1, 2027 , and local agencies with populations of fewer than 250,000 residents to comply with these provisions by January 1, 2029. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.
Oppose
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
16 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 1637
Local
Government:
Internet
Websites and
Email Addresses
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/1/23
Irwin This bill, no later than January 1, 2025, would require a local agency, as defined, that maintains an internet website for use by the public to ensure that the internet website utilizes a “.gov” top -level domain or a “ .ca.gov” second-level domain, and would require a local agency that maintains an internet website that is noncompliant with that requirement to redirect that internet website to a domain name that does utilize a “.gov” or “.ca.gov” domain. This bill, no la ter than January 1, 2025, would also require a local agency that maintains public email addresses to ensure that each email address provided to its employees utilizes a “.gov” domain name or a “.ca.gov” domain name. By adding to the duties of local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
SB 30
Transportation:
Zero-Emission
Vehicle Signage
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Umberg Would require the department, in coordination with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO -Biz) and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to develop and design light -duty zero -emission vehicle charging and fu eling station signage to be placed along state highways based on charger or fueling type and vehicle compatibility, to increase consumer confidence in locating electric vehicle chargers and hydrogen fueling stations. The bill would authorize the department to adopt and regulations for these purposes.
Pending
SB 706
Public Contracts:
Progressive
Design Build
In Assembly.
Held at Desk
4/27/23
Caballero Would authorize all cities to use the progressive design -build process for other projects in addition to water -related projects and would extend these provisions until January 1, 2030. The bill would change the required reporting date to no later than December 31, 2028.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
17 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 24
Emergency
Response:
Opioid
Antagonist Kits
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Haney Would require a person or entity that owns, manages, or is responsible for a designated facility, defined as a bar, as defined, gas station, public library, or residential hotel, as defined, in a county that is experiencing an opioid overdose crisis, as defined, to acquire and post an opioid antagonist kit, which includes an instructional poster and opioid antagonist nasal spray, in areas that are readily accessible only by employees, including, but not limited to, a break room, and to restock the opioid antagonist kit after each use or upon expiration of the opioid antagonist nasal spray contained in the opioid antagonist kit.
Support
AB 33
Fentanyl
Addiction &
Overdoes
Prevention Task
Force
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/3/23
Bains Would establish the Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse, including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse.
Support
AB 67
Homeless
Courts Pilot
Program
Referred to
suspense file
4/19/23
Muratsuchi (Repeat bill that failed last year.)
Would create a pilot program for unhoused defendants to participate diversion programs that would provide housing, mental health services, substance abuse treatment and more.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
18 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 262
Children’s
Camps: Safety
and Regulation
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/26/23
Holden Would require the State Department of Social Services to convene and consult with a stakeholder group on children’s camp safety. This bill would require the department by June 1, 2025, to issue its recommendations, as informed by the stakeholder group, in a report to the Legislature. The bill would require the recommendations to address, among other things, a definition for a children’s camp, child supervision requirements, requirements for camp licensure and regulation, and the government agency or agencies necessary to establish and enforce rules and regulations relating to children’s camps.
Support
AB 550
Homelessness:
Point-in-Time
Count Results
Referred to
suspense file
5/3/23
Schiavo This bill would require a city, county, and city and county, within 60 days after the local continuum of care releases the results of a point-in-time count for a city, county, or city and county’s jurisdiction, to, among other things, agendize the point-in-time count results at a meeting of the city, county, or city and county and present the steps the city, county, or city and county is taking to prevent and end homelessness, including, but not limited to, consideration of specified actions. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
19 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 799
Homeless,
Housing,
Assistance, &
Prevention
Program.
Homelessness
Accountability
Act
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
L. Rivas Would specify that the purpose of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program is to provide ongoing grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by best-practices and to solve homelessness using evidence-based or, where no evidence exists, a data-informed and promising framework, as provided. The bill would require the council, in collaboration with continuums of care, counties, and big cities, as defined and other stakeholders, to establish and regularly update a financing plan to solve homelessness by the year 2035, and to establish and update statewide performance metrics by updating the Statewide Action Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness in California, no later than January 1, 2025.
Pending
AB 963
The End of the
Foster Care-to-
Homelessness
Pipeline Act
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/1/23
Schiavo Would establish the End the Foster Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline Program within the I-Bank to guarantee qualified loans made by financial institutions to qualified nonprofit and for-profit businesses for the construction, acquisition, and renovation of housing for current and former foster youth between 18 and 25 years of age and who qualify for specified programs.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
20 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 1215
Pets Assistance
with Support
Grant Program:
Homeless
Shelters:
Domestic
Violence
Shelters: Pets
Referred to
suspense file.
4/19/23
Carrillo (Repeat bill that failed last year.)
Would require the department to develop and administer the Pets Assistance With Support Grant Program (PAWS), to award grants to qualified homeless shelters and qualified domestic violence shelters, as defined.
Support
AB 1321
California
Coordinated
Neighborhood
and Community
Services Grant
Program
Referred to
suspense file
5/3/23
Bonta Would create a competitive grant program to implement a comprehensive, integrated continuum of cradle-to-career solutions at the neighborhood level. The bill would define “cradle-to-career” to mean a system of integrated services that begins before birth and leads to appropriate postsecondary success, including academic, occupational, and independent living, that benefits the individual and community as a whole.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
21 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
SB 19
Anti-Fentanyl
Abuse Task
Force
Placed on APPR
suspense file
4/10/23
Seyarto Would establish the Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse.
Support
SB 37
Older Adults
and Adults with
Disabilities
Housing
Stability Act
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Caballero (Repeat bill that failed last year.)
Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to offer competitive grants to nonprofit community-based organizations, continuums of care, public housing authorities, and area agencies on aging to administer a housing subsidy program for older adults and adults with disabilities who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, as defined.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
22 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 37
Political Reform
Act of 1974:
Campaign Funds:
Security Expenses
Ordered to third
reading
4/27/23
Bonta (Took to policy committee last time and League supported.) Would authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system, and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family and staff of a candidate or elected officer, if those costs are reasonably related to the candidate or elected officer’s status as a candidate or elected officer.
Support
AB 453
District-based
Elections
To RLS Comm. for
assignment
4/27/23
Cervantes Would require a public hearing concerning district -based elections that is consolidated with a meeting of the governing body include other substantive agenda items, to begin at a fixed time.
Pending
AB 504
State and Local
Public
Employees: Labor
Relations:
Disputes
Referred to
suspense file
5/3/23
Reyes (Gut and amend bill.)
Would allow local public employees to refuse to enter property that is the site of a primary labor dispute, perform work for an empl oyer involved in a primary labor dispute, or go through or work behind a primary picket line.
Would prohibit an employer from directing an employee to take those actions.
Oppose
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
23 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 557
Open Meetings:
Local Agencies:
Teleconferences
Ordered to third
reading 5/1/23
Hart Extends AB 361 renewal period to 45 days. Allows cities to meet remotely during proclaimed states of emergency under modified Brown Act requirements. Would also provide greater flexibility.
Support
AB 597
Workers’
Compensation:
First Responders:
Post-traumatic
Stress
Referred to Ins.
Comm 2/27/23
Rodriguez Existing law provides, until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes post- traumatic stress that develops or manifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit. Existing law requires the compensation awarded pursuant to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability indemnity, and death benefits. For injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2024, this bill would make that provision applicable to emergency medical technicians and paramedics, as defined.
Oppose
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
24 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 730
California Public
Records Act:
Public Agency
Employees:
Notice
Requirements:
Personnel and
Medical
Information
Referred to Jud.
Comm 3/13/23
Lowenthal Would require a city to promptly provide an employee with written notice of a request to disclose a record related to personnel, medical, or similar information of that employee. Would also require the agency, before disclosing, to provide not less than 21 days’ written notice to the employee of its intent to disclose.
Pending
AB 764
Local
Redistricting
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Bryan &
Cervantes
Would require counties, county boards of education, cities, school districts, community college districts, and special districts, if the governing body of these local governments is electe d by districts, to comply with uniform requirements related to redistricting. The bill would require local governments to adopt district boundaries following the decision to establish district -based elections and following each federal decennial census. This bill would require all public hearings held by an advisory or hybrid redistricting commission to comply with the same requirements applicable to hearings held by the districting body. This bill would impose requirements relating to workshops and public hearings upon local jurisdictions, districting bodies, and advisory and hybrid redistricting commissions.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
25 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 817
Open Meetings;
Teleconferencing:
Subsidiary Body
Hearing
postponed by
committee
4/25/23
Pacheco Would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use alternative teleconferencing provisions similar to the emergency provisions indefinitely and without regard to a state of emergency. In order to use teleconferencing pursuant to this act, the bill would require the legislative body that established the subsidiary body by charter, ordinance, resolution, or other formal action to make specified findings by majority vote before the subsidiary body uses teleconferencing for the first time and every 12 months thereafter.
Support
AB 1248
Local
Redistricting:
Independent
Redistricting
Commissions
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Bryan Would require independent redistricting commissions for cities over 300,000 in population.
Pending
AB 1484
Temporary Public
Employees
Referred to
suspense file
5/3/23
Zbur Would require temporary employees to be automatically included in the same bargaining unit as the permanent employees upon the request of the recognized employee organization. The bill would require complaints alleging a violation of its provisions to be processed as unfair practice charges under the act.
Oppose
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
26 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 251
Political Reform
Act of 1974:
Elected Officers:
Conflict of
Interest
Reconsideration
granted after
failed hearing
4/19/23
Newman Prohibits an elected officer from employment by another elected officers with the same constituency, except if elected office first began their employment by the other officer with the same constituency on or before December 31, 2023.
Oppose
SB 252
Public
Retirement:
Fossil Fuels
Placed on APPR
suspense file
5/1/23
Gonzalez (Reintroduction of SB 1173 that failed last year.) Would directs CalPERS to divest from fossil fuels by 2030.
Oppose
SB 399
Employer
Communications:
Intimidation
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/2/23
Wahab Would prohibit an employer from requiring its employees to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or participate in any communications with the employer, the purpose of which is to communicate the employer’s opinion about religious matters, political matters.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
27 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 751
Franchise
Agreements:
Labor Impasse
Do pass as
amended
5/3/23
Padilla Would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from entering an exclusive franchise agreement for services on or after January 1, 2024, or an agreement amended on or after that date, that contains a force majeure provision that can be triggered by a labor impasse.
Pending
SB 769
Local
Government:
Fiscal and
Financial
Training
Placed on APPR
suspense file
5/1/23
Gonzalez Would require local officials to have two hours of fiscal training every two years. The bill would exempt a local agency official from the training requirements if they comply with specified criteria under existing law relating to eligibility for appointment or election to, and continuing education for, the office of county treasurer, county tax collector, or county treasurer-tax collector.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
28 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 519
Affordable
Housing: Finance
Workgroup
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Schiavo Would require the above-described entities to jointly convene an Affordable Housing Finance Workgroup to develop a consolidated application for housing developers to use to obtain grants, loans, tax credits, tax exempt bonds, credit enhancement, and other types of financing for building affordable housing, and develop a coordinated review process for the application. The bill would require the workgroup to include representatives of the above-described entities, nonprofit and for-profit affordable housing developers, and local and tribal governments. The bill would require the workgroup to identify specified information, including a timeline for developing a single consolidated application able to be coordinated for review between the reviewing entities. On or before, July 1, 2026, the bill would require the workgroup to report recommendations on implementing a coordinated review process to the above-described entities, the Legislature, and certain committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the workgroup to develop the consolidated application and coordinated review process on the date identified in the timeline.
Support
AB 1490
Affordable
Housing
Development
Projects:
Adaptive Reuse
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/2/23
Lee Would require a city or county to approve a development proposal for a multifamily housing development project that is an adaptive reuse project and that meets specified affordability and site requirements, including that 100% of the units be made available for lower income households, 50% of which shall be made available to very low-income households.
• Approve all entitlement and permits within 60 days for 150 or fewer housing units and within 90 days for more than 150 housing units
• No maximum density requirements
• No minimum floor area ratio
• No additional parking requirements
Oppose unless
Amended
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
29 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 1532
Office Conversion
Projects
Referred to H &
CD. and Nat. Res.
Comm 3/23/23
Haney Would make an office conversion project a use by right in all areas of a city regardless of zoning. Would exempt these projects from impact fees that are not directly related to the conversion of an office building into residential dwelling units. Additionally, a city would be required to allow the developer to pay applicable impact fees over a 10-year period.
Oppose
AB 1630
Housing
Development
Approvals:
Student Housing
Projects
Referred to H &
CD. Comm
3/22/23
Garcia Would enact The Student Housing Crisis Act of 2023 and:
• Require a city to classify student housing as a permitted use on all real property within 1,000 feet of a university campus, as defined, for zoning purposes.
• Require a proposed student housing project to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or a hearing. • Prohibit a local agency from imposing or enforcing on a student or faculty and staff housing project subject to ministerial consideration certain restrictions, including a minimum automobile parking requirement.
Oppose unless
Amended
AB 1657
The Affordable
Housing Bond Act
of 2024
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Wicks Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10 billion to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund rental housing and homeownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr.
Farmworker Housing Grant Program.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
30 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ACA 1
Local
Government
Financing:
Affordable
Housing and
Public
Infrastructure:
Voter Approval
May be heard in
committee
January 5 as of
12/6/22
Aguiar-
Curry
Would authorize a local government to impose, extend, or increase a sales and use tax or transactions and use tax for the purposes of funding the construction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of its voters voting on the proposition.
Pending
ACA 10
Fundamental
Human Right to
Housing
Referred to H. &
C.D. Comm.
4/20/23
Haney Would declare the state recognizes the fundamental human right to adequate housing for everyone in California. Would make it the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill this right by all appropriate means.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
31 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 4
Planning and
Zoning: Higher
Education
Institutions and
Religious
Institutions
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Wiener (Repeat bill that failed last year.)
Would require that a housing development project be a use by right on any land owned by an independent institution of a higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024.
Pending
SB 423
Streamlined
Housing
Approvals:
Multifamily
Housing
Developments
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Wiener Would modify and expand SB 35 (from 2017) provision that allow certain multifamily housing developments to take advantage of a streamlined, ministerial approval process. Specifically, this measure would:
• Remove the 2026 sunset and makes statutes permanent
• Apply SB 35 provisions to the Coastal Zone
• Allow the state to approve housing developments on property they own or lease
• Prohibit a city from enforcing its inclusionary housing ordinance if the income limits are higher than those in SB 35
Oppose
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
32 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 834
Housing: Family
Home
Construction and
Ownership
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/2/23
Portantino Would enact the California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Bond Act of 2023, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $25 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance the California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Program.
Pending
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 40
Emergency
Medical Services
Re-referred to
APPR. Comm.
4/24/23
Rodriguez Would require EMS authority to develop an electronic signature for use between the ER department medical personnel at a receiving facility and the transporting ER medical personnel that captures the points in time when the hospital receives notification of ambulance arrival and when transfer of care is executed for documentation of ambulance patient offload time and would require every local EMS agency to develop a standard not to exceed 30 minutes, 90% of the time, for ambulance patient offload time.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
33 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 367
Controlled
Substances:
Enhancements
In Committee.
Reconsideration
granted 4/27/23
Maienschein Would add sentence enhancement of 3 to 5 years on a person who inflicts great bodily injury when they sell, furnish, administer, or give away fentanyl or an analog of fentanyl and the person to whom the substance was sold, furnished, administered, or given suffers injury or death. This provision does not apply to juvenile offenders.
Support
AB 642
Law Enforcement
Agencies: Facial
Recognition
Technology
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/2/23
Ting Would require any law enforcement agency that uses facial recognition technology (FRT) to have a written policy governing the use of that technology and would require any FRT system used to meet certain national standards and would limit the use of FRT to use as an investigative aid. Would specifically prohibit the use of any FRT-generated match from being the sole basis for probable cause in an arrest, search, or warrant and would also require an agency using FRT to post their written policy and an annual summary of FRT usage on their internet website.
Oppose
AB 1034
Law
Enforcement:
Facial
Recognition and
Other Biometric
Surveillance
Ordered to third
reading 5/2/23
Wilson Would prohibit a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from installing, activating, or using any biometric surveillance system in connection with an officer camera or data collected by an officer camera and would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief against a law enforcement agency or officer who violates that prohibition. Would sunset on January 1, 2034.
Oppose
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
34 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 1166
Liability for
Opioid
Antagonist
Administration
Referred to JUD
Comm. 5/3/23
Bains Would provide that a person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency treatment at the scene of an opioid overdose or suspected opioid overdose by administering opioid antagonist, as defined, is not liable for civil damages resulting from an act or omission , except as specified.
Support
AB 1708
Theft
Coauthors
revised
4/19/23
Muratsuchi,
Cervantes,
Gipson, Low,
Petrie-
Norris,
Rubio,
Villapudua,
and Essayli
Would amend Proposition 47 t o increase accountability for repeat offenders as well as access to participate in rehabilitation services. Would refine the definition of shoplifting and would specifically exclude certain offenses from prosecution as shoplifting, including, among others, the theft of a firearm or vehicle, identity theft, and credit card fraud.
Support
SB 44
Controlled
Substances
Failed passage in
committee
4/26/23
Umberg Would require the court to advise a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to specific crimes involving controlled substances of the danger of selling or administering illicit drugs and counterfeit pills and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the defendant can be charged with homicide.
Support
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
35 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
SB 402
Emergency
Services Limiting
Police Response
Referred to
Health and G.O.
Comms 2/22/23
Wahab Would require 911 or other service center calls for service relating to mental health or homelessness to be dispatched to fire district or department personnel, EMS personnel, mental health personnel, or nonsworn unarmed police personnel and NOT to police officers.
Oppose
SB 719
Law Enforcement
Agencies: Radio
Communication
Placed on APPR
suspense file
4/24/23
Becker (Re-run of measure from last year.)
Would require a law enforcement agency to ensure public access to the radio communications of that agency . Would also require those law enforcement agencies to ensure that any criminal justice information or personally identifiable information obtained through CLETS is not broadcast in a manner that is accessible to the public.
Oppose
SB 796
Threats: Schools
and Places of
Worship
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Alvarado-
Gil, Rubio
This bill would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime that is reasonably likely to result in death or great bodily injury to any person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of a misdemeanor.
Oppose
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
36 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 52
Income Tax
Credit: Sales and
Use Taxes Paid:
Manufacturing
Equipment:
Research and
Development
Equipment
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/2/23
Grayson Would allow, for a taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer in an amount equal to the amount of tax reimburse ment paid during the taxable year for sales tax on gross receipts that would be exempt from taxation under the Sales and Use Tax Law pursuant to the sales and use tax exemption described above but for the provision that prohibits that exemption from applying with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district pursuant to, or in accordance with, the Bradley -Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, and sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the California Constitution.
Pending
AB 84
Property Tax:
Welfare
Exemption:
Affordable
Housing
Read second time
and amended
5/3/23
Ward Expands eligibility for exemptions from property taxes for affordable rental housing (“welfare exemptions”). Would expand this partial exemption to property acquired, rehabilitated, developed, or operated, or any combination of these factors, with financing from qualified 501(c)(3) bonds.
Oppose
AB 362
Real Property
Taxation
Set for Hearing
4/11/23
Lee Would require the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to conduct a study on the efficacy of a statewide land value taxation system as an alternative to the current appraisal methods utilized for real property taxation. Would require the study to be provided to the Legislature by January 1, 2025.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
37 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 972
Local Assistance
Grant Program
Streamlining
Workgroup
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
4/27/23
Maienschein Would require the Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with the League of California Cities, to convene a statewide, cross-agency Local Assistance and Grant Program Streamlining Workgroup, no later than April 30, 2024, to centralize local assistance and develop a coordinated system to manage available state and federal funding to deliver the maximum number of projects as efficiently as pos sible. The bill would require the Office of Planning and Research to appoint the workgroup members.
Support
AB 1203
Sales and Use
Taxes: Breast
Pumps and
Related Supplies
Re-referred to
APPR Comm.
5/2/23
Bains,
Cervantes
Would exempt from the California sales and use tax the gross receipts for the sale of breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, breast pump kits, and breast pads. This exemption would apply on or after April 1, 2024, and ends April 1, 2029.
Pending
AB 1249
Sales and Use
Taxes: Exemption:
School Supplies
Held under
submission
5/1/23
Ta Exempt from sales and use taxes the gross receipts from the sale of qualified school supplies for the two-day period beginning at 12:01 am on the third Saturday of July annually and ending at 11:59 p.m. on the following day. From 1/1/24 through 1/1/29.
Pending
2023 Legislation - Bills to Watch
38 5/4/23
Bill Sponsor(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 1492
Property
Taxation:
Affordable
Housing Cost
Re-referred to
Rev. and Tax
Comms. 3/27/23
Alvarez Would provide, for property tax lien dates occurring on or after January 1, 2024, that property is exempt from taxation and is within the welfare exemption if that property is owned and operated by a nonprofit corporation, as described, that is organized and operated for the specific and primary purpose of building or rehabilitating residential units for sale or rent at an affordable cost and if at least one residential unit on the property is subject to an agreement that requires the unit to be made available at an affordable cost to buyers or renters and is recorded with the appropriate local agency.
Pending
SB 532
Ballot Measures:
Local Taxes
Set for hearing
5/8/23
Wiener This bill would exempt from this requirement a measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds. If the proposed measure imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate, or authorizes the issuance of bonds, this bill would require that the ballot include in the statement of the measure to be voted on an estimate of the amount of money to be raised annually and the rate and the duration of the tax to be levied. This statement, which may contain bullet points, would not count toward any word limit that applies to the statement of the measure.
Pending