City Council
Legislative Subcommittee Agenda
70 N. First Street, Campbell CA
Monday, April 22, 2024, 12:00 pm
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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
Monday, April 22, 2024, 12:00 pm
Ralph Doetsch Conference Room – 70 N. First Street
CALL TO ORDER
PUBLIC COMMENT
NEW BUSINESS
• Legislative Updates from California State Senate David Cortese’s Office • Legislative Updates from California State Assemblymember Marc Berman’s Office • 2024 Legislation – Bills to Watch (Matrix Attached)
OLD BUSINESS
ADJOURN
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2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
1 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 1857
State Air
Resources
Board: Air
Quality
Regulation:
Valleys
Referred to
Suspense File
4/10/2024
Jackson Would require the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to improve air quality in population centers located in valleys and would require each local air district to implement those regulations with regard to stationary sources located within its jurisdiction. The bill would make those requirements inoperative on January 1, 2029, and would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2030, to submit a report to the Legislature and specified committees of the Legislature describing any air quality improvements resulting from those regulations.
Oppose
Unless
Amended
AB 1999
Electricity: Fixed
Charges
Referred to U. &
E. Comm.
2/12/2024
Irwin The Public Utilities Commission may authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to a residential customer account. Current law requires the commission, no later than July 1, 2024, to authorize a fixed charge for default residential rates.
Current law requires these fixed charges to be established on an income -graduated basis, with no fewer than 3 income thresholds, so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline territory would realize a lower average monthly bill without making any changes in usage. This bill would repeal the provisions described in the preceding paragraph and instead permit the commission to authorize fixed charges that, as of January 1, 2015, do not exceed $5 per residential customer account per month for low-income customers enrolled in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program and that do not exceed $10 per residential customer account per month for customers not enrolled in the CARE program. The bill would authorize these maximum allowable fixed charges to be adjusted by no more than the annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the prior calendar year, beginning January 1, 2016.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
2 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 2330
Endangered
Species: Routine
Fuel
Management
Activities
Re-referred to
W. & P. Comms.
4/2/2024
Holden The California Endangered Species Act prohibits the taking of an endangered, threatened, or candidate species. Under the act, the Department of Fish and Wildlife may authorize the tak ing of listed species by certain entities through permits or memorandums of understanding for specified purposes. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on c onsistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas. Current law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal. This bill would authorize a city to submit to the department a locally designed voluntary program to conduct wildfire preparedness activities on land designated as a fire hazard severity zone that minimizes impacts to wildlife and habitat for candidate, th reatened, and endangered species. The bill would require the department to approve or deny the application and notify the local agency of the approval or denial within 90 days of receipt of the application, and would allow for resubmission of a denied application, as specified. The bill would require the department to provide an approved applicant with the terms and conditions within 30 days of approval to initiate the locally designed voluntary program, in lieu of an incidental tak ings permit, as provided. The bill would require the department, commencing January 1, 2026, to annually post a summary of t he locally designed voluntary program submissions on its internet website, as specified.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
3 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 2346
Organic Waste
Regulations:
Procurement of
Recovered
Organic Waste
Products
Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
4/11/2024
Lee Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to complete, approve, and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short -lived climate pollutants in the state to reduce the statewide methane emissions by 40% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law requires the D epartment of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations that achieve specified targets for reducing organic waste in landfills. The department’s organic waste regulations require local jurisdictions to annually procure a quantity of recovered organic waste products and to comply with their procurement targets by directly procuring recovered organic waste products for use or giveaway or by requiring, through a written agreement, that a direct service provider to the jurisdiction procure recovered organic waste products, or both. Those regulations specify the types of recovered organic waste products that a jurisdiction may procure, including compost that is produced at a compostable material handling operation or facility, or a specified digestion facility that composts onsite. Other regulations of the department require all compostable materials handling activities to obtain a facility permit from the department prior to commencing operations and meet other specified requirements, but exclude from those requirements certain activities that the regulations state do not constitute a compostable material handling operation or facility, including the composting of green material, agricultural material, food material, and vegetative food material, and the handling of compostable materials under certain conditions, as provided.
This bill would authorize local jurisdictions to be credited for the procurement of recovered organic waste products through an agreement with a direct service provider and would allow the direct service provider agreement to include the procurement of recovered organic waste products on a prospective or retrospective basis as long as the purchase of those products occurs during the year for which the local jurisdiction seeks credit.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
4 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 2409
Office of
Planning and
Research:
Permitting
Accountability
Transparency
Dashboard.
Re-referred to
Com. on APPR.
4/16/2024
Papan Existing law establishes the Office of Planning and Research within the Governor’s office to provide long -range planning and research and to serve as the comprehensive state planning agency. This bill would require the office, on or before January 1, 2026, to create and maintain a permitting accountability transparency internet website (dashboard). The bill would require the dashboard to include a display for each permit to be issued by specified state agencies for all covered projects. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would also require the dashboard to include information for each permit to be issued by a state agency that is required for the completion of the project, including the permit application submission date. The bill would require each state agency with a responsibility for issuing a permit for a covered project to provide information in the appropriate time and manner as determined by the office. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.
Pending
AB 2796
Equitable
Access to Zero
Emissions
Vehicles Fund
Referred to
TRANS. And
NAT. RES
Comm.
3/11/2024
Alvarez This bill w ould establish the Equitable Access to Zero -Emission Vehicles Fund and would make moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for a new vehicle rebate program and for other specified purposes. The bill would require the State Air Resources Board, by July 1, 2025, to establish a program to offer rebates for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles and other specified vehicles from moneys made available from the fund. The b ill would require the state board to submit a biennial report to the Legislature that includes certain information relating to the expenditures from the fund.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
5 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
AB 3121
Urban Retail
Water
Suppliers:
Written Notice:
Conservation
Order: Dates
Referred to W.,
P., & W. Comm.
3/11/2024
Hart Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board, on and after January 1, 2025, to issue a written notice to an urban retail water supplier that does not meet its urban water use objective. Current law authorizes the board, on and after January 1, 2026, to issue a conservation order to an urban retail water supplier that does not meet its urban water use objective. This bill would instead provide that the date the board is authorized to issue a written notice to January 1, 2026 , and a conservation order to January 1, 2027.
Support
If
Amended
SB 972
Methane
Emissions:
Organic Waste:
Landfills
Re-referred to
Com. on E.Q.
4/15/2024
Min Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations that achieve the specified targets for reducing organic waste in landfills.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the state board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The bill would re quire the department, the state board, and the California Environmental Protection Agency to hold at least 2 joint meetings per calendar year to coordinate their implementation of policies that affect those specified targets for reducing organic waste in l andfills and the department’s regulations adopted to achieve those goals.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
6 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 1046
Organic Waste
Reduction:
Program
Environmental
Impact Report:
Composting
Facilities
Set for Hearing
4/22/204.
Laird Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations to achieve certain reduction targets in the organic waste disposed in landfills and to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government, and local governments have made in achieving those reduction targets. Current law authorizes the department to provide incentives to facilitate progress towards the reduction targets if the department determines that sufficient progress has not been made. This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to prepare and certify, by January 1, 2027, a program environmental impact report that streamlines the process with which jurisdictions can develop site green material composting operations for processing organic waste.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
7 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SB 1330
Urban Retail
Water
Suppliers:
Water Use
Set for hearing
on April 23.
Archuletta Current law requires the Department of Water Resources to conduct necessary studies and investigations and recommend for adoption by the board appropriate variances for unique uses that can have a material effect on an urban retail water supplier’s urban water use objective. Current law requires the department, in recommending variances, to also recommend a th reshold of significance for each recommended variance. Current law requires an urban retail water supplier to request and receive approval by the board for inclusion of a variance in calculating their water use objective. Current law requires the board to post specified information on its internet website relating to variances, including a list of all urban retail water suppliers with approved variances. This bill would require the board to adopt variances recommended by the department for unique uses that can have a material effect on an urban retail water supplier’s urban water use objective. The bill would provide that variances adopted by the board shall not be subject to a threshold of significance. The bill would require an urban retail water supplier to self- certify the amount of water included in its urban water use objective that is attributable to a variance. The bill would require the board to randomly audit a select number of variances each year to ensure the self -certifications are based on variances adopted by the board.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
8 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 1773
Vehicles: Electric
Bicycles
Hearing canceled
at request of
author.
4/17/2024
Dixon Existing law prohibits the use of a motorized bicycle on a bicycle path or trail, bikeway, bicycle lane, equestrian trial, or hiking or recreational trail unless the governing body of a local public agency permits the operation. Existing law authorizes a governing body of a local public agency to prohibit the use of an electric bicycle on an equestrian trail or hiking or recreational trail. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime and a person convicted of an infraction for a violation of either the Vehicle Code or a local ordinance adopted pursuant to the code is subject to a specified fine schedule. This bill would clarify that a recreational trail for these purposes includes a boardwalk regardless of whether the facility also provides bicycle access.
Notwithstanding specified law, the bill would impose a fine, not to exceed $35, against a person convicted of an infraction for a violation of an ordinance prohibiting or regulating electric bicycles on recreational trails. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Support
AB 1778
Electric Bicycles:
Helmets
Ordered to third
reading.
4/10/2024
Connolly Under current law, a “class 2 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Under current law, a “class 3 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. Current law prohibits a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 3 electric bicycle.
Existing law requires a person operating, or riding upon, a class 3 electric bicycle to wear a helmet. This bill would additionally prohibit a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 2 electric bicycle. The bill would require a person operating, or riding upon, a cla ss 2 electric bicycle to wear a helmet, as specified. The bill would clarify that an electric bicycle can only be placed in a certain class if it ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches a max speed regardless of the mode.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
9 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 1826
Digital Equity
Franchising Act
Referred to C. &
C. Comm.
4/17/2024
Holden This bill would revise and recast the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act to rename the act as the Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2024; provide that the act does not authorize the commission to regulate the rates of video services ; and authorize the commission to exercise the authority, jurisdiction, and powers authorized to be exercised by a franchise authority pursuant to certain federal law.
The bill would also require the commission to hold a public hearing related to each application for renewal of a state franchise ; and, issue a state franchise or a reject each application for a state franchise not more than 90 days after the public hearing, or after the application is deemed complete; require a franchise applicant to submit a description of the households that are known to be unserved in the video service area footprint that the applicant proposes to serve; and, extend deadlines related to the commission’s review of applications for state franchises.
Support
AB 2234
Electric Bicycles:
Safety Program
Read and
Amended.
4/17/2024
Boener Current law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to develop, on or before September 1, 2023, statewide safety and training programs based on evidence-based practices for users of electric bicycles, including general electric bicycle riding safety, emergency maneuver skills, rules of the road, and laws pertaining to electric bicycles. Current law requires the safety and training programs to be developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and to be posted on the department’s internet website. This bill would require the department, on or before June 30, 2025, to issue a skills waiver containing specific information, in an electronic format, to each person who completes the electric bicycle safety and tra ining programs described above.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
10 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 2266
California Hybrid
– Zero Emission
Truck Voucher
Incentive Project
Hearing canceled
at request of the
author.
4/4/2024
Petrie-
Norris
The State Air Resources Board administers the California Hybrid and Zero -Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project under which the agency issues a limited number of vouchers to incentivize the purchase and use of zero-emission commercial vehicles. This bill would require the state board to authorize a voucher issued under the program to be used for the acquisition of any zero -emission vehicle that meets specified requirements.
Support
AB 2286
Autonomous
Vehicles
Referred to C &C.
Com.
4/16/2024
Aguiar-
Curry
This bill w ould require a manufacturer of an autonomous vehicle to report to the Department of Motor Vehicles a collision on a public road that involved one of its autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more that is operating under a testing permit that resulted in damage of property, bodily injury, or death within 10 days of the collision.
Support
AB 2418
Vehicular Air
Pollution: Heavy
Duty Trucks
Referred to
TRANS. Comm.
2/26/2024
Patterson Current law requires the state board to adopt and implement emission standards for new motor vehicles for the control of emissions from new motor vehicles that the State Air Resources Board finds to be necessary and technologically feasible. Current state regulations establish exhaust emissions standards and test procedures for 1985 and subsequent model heavy-duty engines and vehicles. Current law defines “heavy- duty” for purposes of laws governing air resources. This bill would exempt a 2024 and subsequent model heavy-duty truck that meets federal exhaust emission standards from the state regulations described above governing exhaust emissions standards and test procedures for 1985 and subsequent model heavy -duty engines and vehicles.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
11 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 2626
Advanced Clean
Fleets
Regulations:
Local
Governments
Referred to
TRANS. & NAT.
RES Comms.
3/4/2024
Dixon Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in -use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution that the state board has found necessary, cost effective, and technologically feasible.
Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium - and heavy -duty trucks, other high -priority fleets of medium - and heavy -duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero -emission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. This bill would extend the compliance dates for local government set forth in the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation by 10 years. The bill would prohibit the state board from taking enforcement action against a local government for violating the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation if the alleged violation occurs before January 1, 2025.
Support
AB 2708
Digital Equity
Franchising Act
Re-referred to
APPR Com.
4/11/2024
Patterson Current law requires the Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy to oversee the acquisition and management of contracts for the development and construction of, and for the maintenance and operation of, a statewide open -access middle -mile broadband network . Current law requires the office, in consultation with the Department of Finance, to submit annually a report to the budget committees of the Legislature on the broadband network in compliance with specified law. This bill would require additional information to be included in the annual report, including, the total cost to complete the statewide open -access middle -mile broadband network, the total available funding for the statewide open -access middle -mile broadband network, and the projected completion d ate for the statewide open - access middle-mile broadband network.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
12 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
AB 3005
Motor Vehicle
Fuel Tax Law:
Adjustment
Suspension
Referred to
TRANS. Comm.
3/11/2024
Wallis Article XIX of the California Constitution restricts the expenditure of revenues from the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, Diesel Fuel Tax Law, and other taxes imposed by the state on fuels used in motor vehicles upon public streets and highways to street and highway and certain mass transit purposes. This bill would authorize the Governor to suspend an adjustment to the motor vehicle fuel tax, as described above, scheduled on or after July 1, 2025, upon making a determination that increasing the rate would impose an undue burden on low -income and middle -class families. The bill would require the Governor to notify the Legislature of an intent to suspend the rate adjustment on or before January 10 of that year and would require the Department of Finance to submit to the Legislature a proposal by January 10 that would maintain the same level of funding for transportation purposes as would have been generated had the scheduled adjustment not been suspended.
Oppose
AB 3219
Advanced Clean
Fleets
Regulations:
Local
Governments
Re-referred to
TRANS. Comm.
3/12/2024
Sanchez The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost -effective greenhouse gas emission reductions from those sources. Pursuant to its authority, the state board has a dopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would allow a local government that declares a fiscal emergency, through an ordinance, to be provided a delay from complying with the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
13 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
SB 915
Autonomous
Vehicles: Local
Control and
Increase Public
Safety
Re-referred to
Com. on TRANS.
4/17/2024
Cortese
This bill would prohibit an autonomous vehicle service, which has received approval to conduct commercial passenger service or engage in commercial activity using driverless vehicles by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Public Utilities Commission, or another sta te agency, from commencing operation within a local jurisdiction until authorized by a local ordinance enacted pursuant to the bill’s provisions. The bill would authorize each city, county, or city and county in which an autonomous vehicle has received aut horization to operate, to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by enacting an ordinance in regard to autonomous vehicle services within that jurisdiction. The bill would require each city, county, or city and county that enacts an ordinance to include certain provisions within that ordinance, including a policy for entry into the business of providing autonomous vehicle services and a permitting program that includes the establishment of reasonable vehicle caps and hours of service restrictions.
Support
SB 947
Department of
Transportation:
Project Design
Changes
Referred to the
TRANS. Comm.
2/14/2024
Seyarto Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of the state highway system and associated property. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into cooperative agreements with cities, counties, and other public entities with respect to the acquisition, construction, improvement, and maintenance of state highways, including agreements for the contribution of funds from any of those entities for state highway projects located within their jurisdiction and for the apportionment of expenses associated with the project. This bill would require the department, in an agreement with a city, county, or other public entity for the contribution of funds for the acquisition, construction, or improvement of any portion of state highway, to include a provision that makes the department responsible for any additional costs associated with a new project design adopted by the department after the project is included in the state transportation improvement program or the state highway operation and protection program. The bill would also make this provision applicable to agreements in effect as of January 1, 2025.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
14 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
SB 1216
Transportation
Projects: Class III
Bikeways
Re-referred to
Com. on TRANS.
4/16/2024
Blakespear
This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, an agency responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing a Class III bikeway or restriping a Class III bikeway on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour.
Pending
SB 1418
Hydrogen-
Fueling Stations:
Administrative
Approval:
Checklist
Set for Hearing.
4/23/2024
Archuletta Existing law requires each city, county, and city and county to adopt an ordinance that creates an expedited, streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county developing an ordinance to refer to the recommendations contained in the most current version of the “Plug -In Elect ric Vehicle Infrastructure Permitting Checklist .” Existing law requires a city, county, and city and county, in developing the expedited permitting process, to adopt a checklist of all requirements with which electric vehicle charging stations must comply to be eligible for expedited review. For these purposes, existing law defines “hydrogen -fueling station” to mean the equipment used to store and dispense hydrogen fuel to vehicles according to industry codes and standards that is open to the public. Existing law requires a hydrogen -fueling station to meet certain requirements, including any rules established by the State Air Resources Board, Energy Commission, or Department of Food and Agriculture regarding safety, reliability, weights, and measures. This bill would modify the definition of “hydrogen- fueling station” to mean the equipment and supporting components, including hydrogen-refueling canopies, used to store and dispense hydrogen fuel to vehicles according to industry codes and standards that are open to the public. This bill would modify the requirements a hydrogen -fueling station must meet to include all applicable state laws and regulations pertaining to hydrogen fueling, including any rules established by the State Air Resources Board, Energy Commission, or Department of Food and Agriculture regarding safety, reliability, and weights and measures.
Oppose
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
15 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 2081
Substance Abuse:
Recovery and
Treatment
Programs
Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
4/11/2024
Davies The State Department of Health Care Services is authorized to issue a license to specified types of facilities if certain criteria are met. Current law requires licensees to report specified events and incidents to the department, including, among others, the death of a resident at a licensed facility. Current law authorizes the department to investigate allegations of violations of governing law and take action upon a finding of a violation. This bill would require an operator of a licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or certified alcohol or other drug program to include a disclosure on its internet website if a legal, disciplinary, or other enforcement action has been brought by the department and the facility or program was determined to be in violation. The bill would require the internet website disclosure to include the date and nature of the violation. The bill would impose a $2,500 civil penalty for failure to comply with the internet website posting requirement.
Support
AB 2121
Community Care
Facilities
Re-referred to
HEALTH Comm.
3/19/2024
Dixon Existing law authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to issue a license to operate an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility if specified conditions are met, including submission of a written application and licensing fee. This bill would additionally require the facility to confirm that it is located more than 300 feet from any alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or any community care facility and would require the department to notify in writing the city or the county in which the facility is located of the issuance of a license.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
16 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
AB 2207
State Boards and
Commissions:
Representatives of
Older Adults
Referred to HUM. S
Com.
4/17/2024
Reyes Current law establishes the California Commission on Aging composed of 25 persons and requires the commission to hire an executive director. Current law also establishes the California Department of Aging and provides for a director of that department. Existing law establishes various state boards and commissions to address public health concerns throughout the state and generally requires that individuals appointed to these state entities be broadly reflective of the general public. This bill would expand the membership of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Advisory Committee, the California Health Workforce Education and Training Council, the California Workforce Development Board, the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, and the Interagency Council on Homelessness to include the Executive Director of the California Commission on Aging, the Director of the California Department of Aging, or both, or other persons that serve or advocate for older adults.
Pending
AB 2574
Alcoholism or Drug
Abuse Recovery or
Treatment Facilities
Referred to HEALTH
Comm.
3/4/2024
Valencia Current law requires an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility that serves 6 or fewer persons to be considered a residential use of property for the purposes of local regulations, regardless of whether or not unrelated persons are living together. This bill would exempt an unlicensed home for persons recovering from alcoholism or drug abuse in a neighborhood zoned for residential use from being considered a residential use of property when specified evidence demonstrates that the facility is an integral part of a licensed drug treatment facility located elsewhere.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
17 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
SB 37
Older Adults and
Adults with
Disabilities Housing
Stability Act
In Assembly. Read
for the first time.
Held at Desk.
1/29/2024
Caballero Existing law establishes various programs to address homelessness, including requiring the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness and establishing the Homeless Emergency Aid program for the purpose of providing localities with one-time grant funds to address their immediate homelessness challenges. Existing law commits to the Department of Housing and Community Development the administration of various housing assistance programs, including provisions relating to residential hotel rehabilitation; and, tasks the department, in consultation with each council of governments, with the determination of each region’s existing and projected housing need. This bill would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature for this express purpose, require the Department of Housing and Community Development, commencing January 1, 2025, to begin developing the Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Housing Stability Pilot Program. The bill would require the department, in administering the program, 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 in up to 5 geographic regions or counties. Repeat bill from 2023.
Pending
SB 913
Substance Use
Disorder Treatment:
Facilities
Re-referred to Com.
on JUD.
4/15/2024
Umberg Current law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to establish a program designed to provide eligible individuals with coupons that may be exchanged for fresh, nutritious foods at farmers’ markets pursuant to a program established under federal law, the WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Act of 1992.
This bill would make a technical, non-substantial change to these provisions.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
18 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
SB 1017
Available Facilities
for Inpatient and
Residential Mental
Health or Substance
Use Disorder
Treatment
Placed on Suspense
File.
4/15/2024
Eggman This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, create within the Encampment Resolution Funding program the Striking Worker Emergency Homelessness Prevention (SWEHP) program administered by the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. The bill would specify the purpose of the program would be to prevent workers suffering strike-related hardship from becoming homeless due to a prolonged labor dispute by making zero-interest loans available to eligible striking workers to assist them in paying their housing costs. The bill would require the agency, in consultation with the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, to develop an internet website and online application for the program. The bill would require an applicant for the program to electronically sign a declaration of strike-related hardship under penalty of perjury. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make other conforming changes to the Encampment Resolution Funding program.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
19 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
COMMUNITY SERVICES
SB 1334
Substance Use
Disorder Treatment:
Licensing
Set for hearing on
April 24.
Newman Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate facilities that provide residential nonmedical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol and/or drug misuse or abuse, and who need alcohol and/or drug recovery treatment or detoxification services.
Existing law requires a licensed facility to disclose specified information to the department, including ownership or control of, or financial interest in, a recovery residence, defined as a residential dwelling that provides primary housing for individuals who seek a cooperative living arrangement that supports recovery from a substance use disorder and that does not require licensure by the department or does not provide licensable services, and requires the department to conduct a site visit of a disclosed recovery residence if it is alleged to be providing recovery, treatment, or detoxification services. This bill would define a recovery residence as a residential dwelling that provides primary housing for individuals who seek a cooperative living arrangement that supports personal recovery from a substance use disorder, does not require licensure by the department, and does not provide licensable services, and would clarify that an unlicensed recovery residence may provide services to its residents, including, but not limited to, dining, housekeeping, security, transportation, and recreation. The bill would exempt recovery residences from being required to be licensed as an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility if the facility does not offer recovery services, as defined, and would allow residents of a recovery residence to actively participate in recovery services outside of the home. The bill would require a recovery residence to be operated as a separate business from a licensed facility and require the recovery residence to maintain separate agreements with each resident for the housing and services it provides.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
20 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 2302
Open Meetings:
Local Agencies:
Teleconferences
Ordered to Third
Reading.
4/15/2024
Addis The Ralph M. Brown Act generally requires that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. The act provides an exemption to the jurisdictional requirement f or health authorities. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in specified circumstances if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative bod y complies with prescribed requirements. Current law imposes prescribed restrictions on remote participation by a member under these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including establishing limits on the number of meetings a member may participate i n solely by teleconference from a remote location, prohibiting such participation for a period of more than 3 consecutive months or 20% of the regular meetings for the local agency within a calendar year, or more than 2 meetings if the legislative body regularly meets fewer than 10 times per calendar year. This bill would revise those limits, instead prohibiting such participation for more than a specified number of meetings per year, based on how frequently the legislative body regularly meets.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
21 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 2715
Ralph M. Brown
Act: Closed
Sessions
Hearing Canceled
at Author’s
Request.
4/9/2024
Boerner The Ralph M. Brown Act generally requires that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Current law authorizes a legislative body to hold a closed session on, among other things, matters posing a threat to the security of essential public services. This bill would additionally authorize a closed session to consider or evaluate matters related to cybersecurity provided that any action taken on those matters is done in open session.
Pending
AB 2631
Local Agencies:
Ethics Training
Referred to
Suspense File.
4/10/2024
Fong Current law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body. Current law requires all local agency officials who are members of specified public bodies to receive the above-described training, whether or not the member receives any type of compensation, salary, or stipend or reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation for these purposes, require the Fair Political Practices Commission, in consultation with the Attorney General, to create, maintain, and make availab le to local agency officials an ethics training course, as specified.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
22 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 1785
California Public
Records Act
Do Pass. To
Consent Calendar.
4/17/2024
Pacheco The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption applies. The act prohibits a state or local agency from posting the home address or telephone number of any elect ed or appointed official without first obtaining the written permission of that individual. This bill would prohibit a state or local agency from publicly posting the home address, telephone number, or both the name and assessor parcel number associated with the home address of any elected or appointed official on the internet without first obtaining the written permission of that individual. By expanding the scope of a current provision, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
23 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 2041
Political Reform
Act of 1974:
Campaign Funds:
Security Expenses
Ordered to Third
Reading.
4/11/2024
Bonta The Political Reform Act regulates the use of campaign funds held by candidates for elective office, elected officers, and campaign committees. The act authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system if specified conditions are met. These conditions include that the candidate or elected officer has received threats to physical safety that have been verified by law enforcement and that no more than $5, 000 in campaign funds be used for this purpose. This bill would eliminate those conditions. The bill would instead authorize a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the reasonable costs of installing and monit oring a home or office electronic security system or for another tangible item related to security, and for the reasonable costs of providing personal security to a candidate, elected officer, or the immediate family or staff of a candidate or elected officer, provided that the threat or potential threat to safety arises from the candidate’s or elected officer’s activities, duties, or status as a candidate or elected officer. The bill would not authorize campaign funds to be used to pay, or reimburse the st ate, for firearms. The bill would require the return of the security system or other item to the committee that paid for the security system or other item or reimbursement by the candidate, elected officer, immediate family, or staff, to the campaign fund account of the committee that paid for the security system or other item and reporting of the reimbursement to the Fair Political Practices Commission.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
24 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 2153
California Public
Records Act:
Public Agency
Employees: Notice
Requirements:
Personnel and
Medical
Information
Hearing canceled
at request of
author.
3/13/2024
Lowenthal The California Public Records Act requires public records to be open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency that retains those records and provides that every person has a right to inspect any public record, except as provided. Current law requires each agency, upon a request for records, to determine within 10 days whether that request, in whole or in part, seeks copies of disclosable public records in the agency’s possession and to promptly notify the person making the request of its determination and reasons for that determination.
Under current law, the act generally does not require disclosure of personnel, medical, or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Current law requires an agency, if it determines a request seeks disclosable public records, to state the estimated date and time when the records will be made available. Current law permits the prescribed time limits of the act to be extended in unusual circumstances. In this connection, “unusual circumstances” include, among other reasons, the need to search for and collect the requested records from field facilities or oth er establishments separate from the office processing the request. This bill would require each agency, upon receipt of a request for a copy of, or the inspection of, any personnel, medical, or similar records of a public agency employee or any record that would disclose a public agency employee’s personal identity in connection with the performance of that employee’s work duties, to promptly and prior to the release of the records, provide written notice of the request to that public agency employee.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
25 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 2355
Political
Advertisements:
Artificial
Intelligence
Postponed by
Committee.
4/15/2024
Carillo Current law requires a paid political advertisement that refers to an election or to any candidate for state or local elective office and that is contained or distributed with a newspaper to include the printed disclosure “Paid Political Advertisement .” Current law, until January 1, 2027, prohibits a person, committee, or other entity from distributing, with actual malice, materially deceptive audio, or visual media of a candidate for office with the intent to injure the candidate’s reputation or to deceive the voter into voting for or against the candidate. This bill would require a person, committee, or other entity that creates, originally publishe s, or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement to include in the advertisement a disclosure that the advertisement was generated using artificial intelligence , as defined. The bill would also define “qualified political advertisement” to include any paid advertisement that relates to a candidate for federal, state, or local office, any election to federal, state, or local office, a ballot measure, or a bond issue, that contains any image, audio , or video that is generated, in whole or in part, using artificial intelligence.
Pending
AB 2421
Employer-
Employee
Relations:
Confidential
Communications
Re-referred to
APPR. Comm.
4/3/2024
Low Current law prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. This bill would also prohibit a local public agency employer, a state employer, a public-school employer, a higher education employer, or the district from questioning any employee or employee representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to an y matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
26 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 2439
Public Records:
Owners and
Developers
Re-referred to
Com. on L. & E.
4/4/2024
Quirk-
Silva
Existing law defines “public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts, as construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Existing law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, addre ss, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connecti on with the public work. Existing law requires any copy of records made available for inspection and furnished upon request to the public or any public agency to be marked or obliterated to prevent disclosure of an individual’s name, address, and social security number but specifies that any copy of records made available to a Taft - Hartley trust fund for the purposes of allocating contributions to participants be marked or obliterated only to prevent disclosure of an individual’s full social security number. This bill would require an owner, developer, or agent of an owner or developer that receives public funds from a public agency to perform specified public works projects, to make available upon written request from a joint labor - management committee, a multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust fund, or a specified tax- exempt organization, specified public works records in their possession, including requests for bids and submitted bid documents, inspection and work logs, and funding documentation. The bill would subject an owner, developer, the agent of an owner or developer, a contractor, and a subcontractor, for failing to comply with the provisions of this bill, to a penalty by the Labor Commissioner and would deposit the penalties into a specified fund.
Oppose
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
27 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
AB 2839
Elections:
Deceptive Media
in Advertisements
Re-referred to
Com. on JUD.
4/15/2024
Pellerin This law w ould prohibit a person, committee, or other entity from knowingly distributing an advertisement or other election communication that contains certain materially deceptive and digitally altered or digitally created images or audio or video files with the intent to influence an election or solicit funds for a candidate or campaign. The bill would apply this prohibition within 120 days of an election and, in specified cases, 60 days after an election. The bill would authorize a recipient of a materially deceptive and digitally altered or digitally created image or audio or video file distributed in violation of this section, or a candidate or committee participating in the election, to file a civil action to enjoin the distribution of the media and to seek damages against the person, committee, or other entity that distributed it. The bill would require a court to place such proceedings on the calendar in the order of their date of filing and give the proceedings precedence.
Pending
ACR 137
Cities Week
Ordered to third
reading.
4/1/2024
Pacheco This bill would proclaim the week of April 14, 2024, to April 20, 2024, Cities Week, and would encourage all Californians to be involved in their communities and be civically engaged with their local government.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
28 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 251
Candidates’
Statements: False
Statements
In Assembly. Held
at Desk.
1/16/2024
Newman Existing law permits a candidate for a nonpartisan elective office, and an officer whose recall is being sought, to file with the elections official a candidate’s statement that includes a brief description of the candidate’s education and qualifications. Existing law requires an elections official to include in the county voter information guide a candidate’s statement from a candidate for nonpartisan elective office and from an officer whose recall is being sought. Existing law prohibits a candidate for nonpartisan elective office, or an incumbent in a recall election, to knowingly make a false statement of material fact with the intent to mislead the voters in connection with the candidate’s campaign for nomination or election to an office. Violation of this prohibition is punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the maximum fine amount to $5,000. Repeat bill from 2023.
Support
SB 1034
CA Public Records
Act: State of
Emergency
Set for Hearing
4/22/2024.
Seyarto The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection within 10 days of a request to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Current law authorizes the time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances and defines “unusual circumstances” to include certain circumstances. This bill would revise the unusual circumstances under which the time limit may be extended to include the need to search for, collect, appropriately examine, and copy records during a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor when the state of emergency has affected the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests due to decreased staffing or closure of the agency’s facilities.
Oppose
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
29 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, & LABOR RELATIONS
SB 1116
Unemployment
Insurance: Trade
Disputes:
Eligibility for
Benefits
Set for Hearing
4/24/2024.
Portantino
& Durazo
Current law provides for the payment of unemployment benefits to eligible individuals who meet specified requirements. Under current law, unemployment benefits are paid from the Unemployment Fund, which is continuously appropriated for these purposes. Curr ent law makes an employee ineligible for benefits if the employee left work because of a trade dispute and specifies that the employee remains ineligible for the duration of the trade dispute. Existing law holds that employees who left work due to a lockou t by the employer, even if it was in anticipation of a trade dispute, are eligible for benefits. This bill would restore eligibility after the first 2 weeks for an employee who left work because of a trade dispute.
Pending
Oppose
SB 1205
Workers’
Compensation:
Medical Benefits
Set for Hearing
4/22/2024.
Laird Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law requires employers to secure the payment of workers’ compensation, including wage replacement and medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. This bill would make an employee who is working entitled to receive all reasonable expenses of transportation, meals, and lodging incident to receiving treatment, in addition to one day of temporary disability indemnity, or a percentage of o ne day of temporary disability indemnity representative of the percentage of the wages lost receiving treatment.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
30 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 1657
Affordable Housing
Bond Act of 2024
Re-referred to APPR.
Comm.
3/4/2024
Wicks Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks. This bill would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and homeownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.
Support
AB 1820
Housing Development
Projects: Applications:
Fees and Exactions
Re-referred to Com.
on L. GOV.
4/16/2024
Schiavo Current law requires a housing development project be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when the preliminary application was submitted. This bill would authorize a development proponent that submits a preliminary application for a housing development project to request a preliminary fee and exaction estimate and would require the local agency to provide the estimate within 20 business days of the submission of the preliminary application. For development fees imposed by an agency other than a city or county, the bill would require the development proponent to request the preliminary fee and exaction estimate from the agency that imposes the fee.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
31 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 1886
Housing Element Law:
Substantial
Compliance: Housing
Accountability Act
Re-referred to Com.
on L. GOV.
4/16/2024
Alvarez Current law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes a housing element. Current law, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law. If the department finds that a draft housing element or amendment does not substantially comply with the Housing Element Law, current law requires the legislative body of the city or county to either (A) change the draft element or amendment to substantially comply with the Housing Element Law or (B) adopt the draft housing element or amendment without changes and make specified findings as to why the draft element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department. Current law requires a planning agency to promptly submit an adopted housing element or amendment to the department and requires the department to review the adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the planning agency within 60 days. This bill would require a planning agency that makes the above-described findings as to why a draft housing element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, despite the findings of the department, to submit those findings to the department. The bill would require the department to review those findings and would create a rebuttable presumption of validity for the department’s findings as to whether the adopted element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
32 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AB 1893
Housing
Accountability Act:
Housing Disapprovals:
Required Local
Findings
Re-referred to Com.
on L. GOV.
4/17/2024
Wicks Existing law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a development subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain objective planning standards, including that the development is compliant with the maximum density allowed within that land use designation. Existing law, until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a mixed- income housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including satisfying specified density thresholds. The act makes a development that meets those objective standards and affordability and site criteria a use by right and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process. This bill would authorize a local agency that has failed to adopt a housing element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law to disapprove or conditionally approve a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate- income households if it makes a finding that the housing development project fails to meet certain objective planning standards, including that the housing development (A) is located on a site that is designated for housing, retail, office, or parking uses, (B) is not on a site or adjoined to any site where more than 1/3 of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use, (C) does not exceed certain density thresholds, and (D) complies with other objective planning standards imposed by the local agency that apply in the closest zone in the local agency that allows for multifamily residential use. The bill would require that a housing development project that complies with these density thresholds be deemed in compliance with the density standards necessary for the streamlined, ministerial approval processes.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
33 Revised 4/18/2024
AB 2023
Housing Element
Substantial
Compliance:
Rebuttable
Presumptions
Re-referred to Com.
on L. GOV.
4/11/2024
Quirk-Silva Existing law requires the housing element to include an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If that inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, existing law requires that the local government rezone sites within 3 years after the date the housing element is adopted or within one year if the local government fails to adopt a housing element that the department finds to be in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law within 120 days of the statutory deadline to adopt the housing element. This bill, for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element, would require a local government to complete the rezoning of sites within one year of the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element or the earlier of 3 years after the date the housing element is adopted or 90 days after receipt of comments from the department if the local government satisfies certain requirements, including submitting a draft element or draft amendment to the department for review within specified timeframes and adopting a draft element or draft amendment that the department finds to be insubstantial compliance with the Housing Element Law. Existing law requires a planning agency to submit a draft element revision or draft amendment to the department for review at least 90 days prior to adoption and requires the department, in written findings, to determine whether the draft element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law. Existing law requires the legislative body to either change the draft element or draft amendment to substantially comply with the Housing Element Law or adopt the draft element or draft amendment without changes. Existing law requires a planning agency, promptly following the adoption of its element or amendment, to submit a copy to the department. This bill would specify that the duty to submit a copy of the adopted element or amendment to the department does not excuse a legislative body from taking required actions in response to the department finding that the draft element or amendment does not substantially comply with the Housing Element Law. The bill would provide that this provision is declaratory of existing law.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
34 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 834
Vehicles: Preferential
Parking: Residential,
Commercial, or Other
Development
Re-referred to RLS.
Comm.
2/29/2024
Portantino Existing law authorizes a local authority to authorize preferential parking for designated groups to park on specified streets if the local authority determines that use of the permits will not adversely affect parking conditions for residents and merchants in the area. This bill would prohibit a local authority from issuing any permit conferring preferential parking privileges to any residents or vendors of any developments within 1/2 mile of public transit and exempt from parking minimums. The bill would require the local authority to revise the boundaries of any such preferential parking district to exclude those developments from its boundaries. The bill would make related findings and declarations, and state that it is the intent of the Legislature to discourage car use by incentivizing development near public transit. The bill finds that reducing greenhouse gases and dependence on car use is a matter of statewide concern and not a municipal affair, and this bill applies to all cities, including charter cities. By changing the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
35 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 937
Development
Projects: Permits and
Other Entitlements:
Fees and Charges
Re-referred to APPR
Com.
4/17/2024
Wiener Existing law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development that includes a housing element. The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law extended by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before, and was in effect on, March 4, 2020, and that would expire before December 31, 2021, except as specified. Current law provides that if the state or a local agency extended the otherwise applicable time for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement for not less than 18 months, that housing entitlement would not be extended an additional 18 months pursuant to these provisions. This bill would extend by 24 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement that was issued before January 1, 2024, and that will expire before December 31, 2025. The bill would toll this 24- month extension during any time that the housing entitlement is the subject of a legal challenge. This bill would, for priority residential development projects, prohibit a local agency from requiring payment of fees or charges on the residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities until the date the certificate of occupancy is issued. The bill would authorize the local agency to require the payment of those fees or charges at an earlier time if certain conditions are met.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
36 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 1210
New Housing
Construction:
Electrical, Gas, Sewer,
and Water Service
Connections: Charges
Re-referred to Com.
on L. GOV.
4/10/2024
Skinner Current law defines the term “public utility” to include every gas corporation, electrical corporation, water corporation, and sewer system corporation, where the service is performed for, or the commodity is delivered to, the public. This bill would, for new housing construction, prohibit a connection, capacity, or other point of connection charge from a public utility, or a special district, for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service from exceeding 1% of the reported building permit value of that housing unit. The bill would require a public utility or special district to issue an above-described charge over a period of at least 10 years commencing on the date when the housing unit is first occupied. The bill would require a public utility to publicly report on its internet website the amount of any charge issued each year pursuant the above-described provision by the housing unit’s address. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
37 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
HOUSING, COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SB 1211
Land Use: Accessory
Dwelling Units
Set for Hearing
4/17/2024.
Skinner Existing law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling unit (ADU)s in areas zoned for residential use.
Existing law requires ministerial approval of ADUs if the local agency does not adopt an ordinance governing ADUs. Under existing law, a local agency is also required to ministerially approve an application for a building permit within a residential or mixed-use zone to create any of specified variations of ADUs. Existing law imposes various requirements and restrictions on a local agency in connection with the ministerial approval of an application for a building permit for an ADU under these specified variations, including prohibiting a local agency from requiring the correction of nonconforming zoning conditions as a condition of approval of the permit. This bill, in connection with the ministerial approval of a building permit for an ADU under one of the above-described variations, would additionally prohibit a local agency from requiring the replacement of parking spaces when a carport, covered parking structure, or uncovered parking space is demolished in conjunction with the construction of or conversion to an ADU.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
38 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 1725
Law
Enforcement
Settlements and
Judgments:
Reporting
In Senate. Read
to RLS. Comm
for assignment.
1/25/2024
McCarty This bi ll w ould require municipalities to annually post on their internet websites specified information relating to settlements and judgments of $50,000 or more resulting from allegations of improper police conduct, including, among other information, amounts paid, broken down by individual settlement and judgment, information on bonds used to finance use of force settlement and judgment payments, and premiums paid for insurance against settlements or judgmen ts resulting from allegations of improper police conduct. The bill would also require municipalities to annually post additional information pertaining to settlements and judgments, as specified, irrespective of the amount paid. By increasing requirements for local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Repeat bill from 2023.
Pending
AB 1772
Theft
Re-referred to
APPR. Com.
4/10/2024
Ramos The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, defines and prohibits an act of shoplifting and prohibits prosecution for an act of shoplifting under any other law. This bill would revise the definition of shoplifting to require an intent to steal retail property or merchandise.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
39 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 1779
Theft:
Jurisdiction
Ordered to Third
Reading.
4/11/2024
Irwin Current law sets forth specific rules relating to the jurisdiction for the prosecution of theft by fraud, organized retail theft, and receiving stolen property, including that the jurisdiction for prosecution includes the county where an offense involving the theft or receipt of the stolen merchandise occurred, the county in which the merchandise was recovered, or the county where any act was done by the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, or aiding or abetting in the commission of a theft offense or other qualifying offense. Current law jurisdictionally limits prosecution of each of the above to criminal actions brought by the Attorney General. This bill would no longer limit the jurisdictional rules for the above crimes to criminal actions brought by the Attorney General. If a case is brought by someone other than the Attorney General, the bill would require the prosecution to present written evidence in the jurisdiction of the proposed trial that all district attorneys in counties with jurisdiction over the offenses agree to the venue. The bill would require charged offenses from jurisdictions where there is not a written agreement from the district attorney to be returned to that jurisdiction.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
40 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 1794
Crimes: Larceny
Re-referred to
APPR. Com.
4/15/2024
McCarthy The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act makes the theft of money, labor, or property petty theft punishable as a misdemeanor whenever the value of the property taken does not exceed $950. Under existing law, if the value of the property taken exceeds $950, the theft is grand theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Proposition 47 requires shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny if the value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor. Under existing law, if the value of all property taken over the course of distinct but related acts motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan exceeds $950, those values may be aggregated into a single charge of grand theft. This bill would clarify that those values may be aggregated even though the thefts occurred in different places or from different victims. The bill would also provide that circumstantial evidence may be used to prove that multiple thefts were motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan. The bill would, until January 1, 2030, also authorize counties to operate a program to allow retailers to submit details of alleged shoplifting directly to the county district attorney through an online portal on the district attorney’s internet website. T he bill would require counties that participate in the program to conduct an evaluation and collect specified information, and to report that information to the Department of Justice.
Pending
AB 1814
Law
Enforcement
Agencies: Facial
Recognition
Technology
Hearing
postponed by
committee.
4/1/2024
Ting Previous law, until January 1, 2023, prohibited the use of real -time facial recognition technology (FRT) by law enforcement agencies in connection with body-worn cameras.
This bill would prohibit a law enforcement agency or peace officer from using an FRT- generated match as the sole basis for probable cause in an arrest, search, or warrant.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
41 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 2034
Crimes:
Loitering for the
Purpose of
Engaging in a
Prostitution
Offense
Hearing
postponed by
committee.
3/7/2024
Rodriguez This bill w ould make it a misdemeanor to loiter in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, and make other conforming changes. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
AB 2042
Police Canines:
Standards and
Training
Re-referred to
APPR. Com.
4/10/2024
Jackson This bill w ould require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), on or before January 1, 2026, to develop standards and training guidelines, as specified, for the use of canines by law enforcement. The bill would require each law enforcement agency in California, on or before January 1, 2027, to adopt a policy for the use of canines that, at a minimum, complies with the standards developed by the commission, and to require regular and periodic training for all canines and canine handlers that covers, at a minimum, the training guidelines developed by the commission. Because the bill would impose additional requirements on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Oppose
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
42 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 2943
Crimes:
Shoplifting
Measure version
as amended on
April 11
corrected.
Rivas &
Zbur
Existing law divides theft into grand theft and petty theft and punishes petty theft as a misdemeanor and grand theft as either a misdemeanor or a felony. Existing law lists specific types of theft which are grand theft and all other cases of theft as petty theft.
Existing law authorizes a person to be charged with grand theft if the property taken exceeds $950 over the co urse of distinct but related acts. This bill would clarify that those related acts include acts committed against multiple victims or in counties other than the county of the current offense. The bill would also clarify that, in determining whether acts are motivated by one intention, one general impulse, and one plan, the court may consider evidence that the acts involve the same defendant or defendants, are substantially similar in nature, or occur within a 60-day period.
Pending
AB 3171
Controlled
Substances:
Fentanyl
Referred to PUB.
S Comm.
3/11/2024
Soria Current law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II and makes possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of sale punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 2, 3, or 4 years. Current law makes transportation and sales of a controlled substances punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 4, or 5 years and transportation to a noncontiguous county within the state punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 6, or 9 years. This bill would increase the above -described penalties if the controlled substance involved was more tha n
28.35 grams of fentanyl, more than 28.35 grams of an analog of fentanyl, a substance containing more than 28.35 grams of fentanyl, or a substance containing more than
28.35 grams of an analog of fentanyl.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
43 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
AB 3241
Law
Enforcement:
Police Canines
Re-referred to
APPR. Com.
4/10/2024
Pacheco This bill would require the Commission on POST to adopt uniform, minimum guidelines regarding the use of canines by law enforcement, including legal standards established by the bill, and to certify courses of training for all law enforcement canine handlers and those law enforcement supervisors directly overseeing canine programs, as specified. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2025, each law enforcement agency to maintain a policy for the use of canines by the agency that, at a minimum, complies with the guidelines adopted by POST, and would require law enforcement agencies to establish a training regimen that includes a course certified by the commission. Because the bill would impose additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
SB 21
Controlled
Substances
Re-referred to
APPR. Comm.
1/17/2024
Umberg Current law makes it a crime to possess, for the purpose of sale, or transport, various controlled substances, including fentanyl. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above-described crime to receive a written advisory of the danger of distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the distributor can be charged with homicide or murder. The bill would require the fact that the advisory was given to be on the record and recorded on the abstract of the conviction. This bill would authorize a defendant who is charged with the above -described crime to undergo a treatment program in lieu of a grant of probation, or a jail or prison sentence, if certain conditions are met. Repeat bill from 2023.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
44 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
SB 820
Cannabis:
Enforcement:
Seizure of
Property
In Assembly.
Held at Desk for
First Reading.
1/29/2024
Alvarado-
Gil
This bill w ould authorize the Department of Cannabis Control or a local jurisdiction, after obtaining an inspection warrant, to seize specified property in the place or building, or within any yard or enclosure, where commercial cannabis activity is conducted without a license required by the Medicinal and Adult -Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA). The bill would also authorize the department or a local jurisdiction to seize a vehicle used to conceal, convey, carry, deliver, or transport cannabis or cannabis products by or for a person engaging in commercial cannabis activity without that license. The bill would impose requirements for notice of seizure, forfeiture proceedings, and the sale and distribution of proceeds upon a judgment in favor of the forfeiture.
Support
SB 908
Fentanyl: Child
Deaths
Set for hearing
on April 24.
Cortese This bill would require the department to utilize its data to monitor and identify current trends of fentanyl-related deaths of children 0 to 5 years of age. The bill would require the department to develop guidance and spread awareness of the trends to protect and prevent children from fentanyl exposure. The bill would require the department, on or before June 1, 2025, to annually distribute its findings and guidance to county public health departments, county boards of supervisors, and the Legislature. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031.
Pending
SB 982
Crimes:
Organized Theft
Placed on APPR.
suspense file.
4/8/2024
Wahab
Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, if the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value ; acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen ; acts as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft; or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely.
Support
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
45 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
SB 1064
Cannabis:
Operator and
Separate
Premises
License Types:
Excessive
Concentration
of Licenses
Re-referred to B,
P & E., D.
Comms.
4/16/2024
Laird The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult -Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities and establishes the Department of Cannabis Control to administer and enforce its provisions. MAUCRSA requires an applicant or licensee to apply for a separate license for each location where it engages in commercial cannabis activity. MAUCRSA sets forth a codified list of license types for different commercial cannabis activities, including, retai l sale, distribution, 2 types of manufacturing, laboratory testing, and various kinds and sizes of cultivation activities. This bill would revise the MAUCRSA licensing scheme for commercial cannabis activities other than cultivation and laboratory testing. Specifically, the bill would consolidate the licensing of those activities under one license type called an operator license and would require an operator licensee to acquire an additional premises license specific to the activity to be conducted on the premises. The bill would make various conforming changes including by revising and recasting the codified list of license types. In this regard, the bill would list the cultivation and laboratory testing types under the unified license classification, would list the other commercial cannabis activity types under the premises license classification, and would establish the operator license classification as a single license type. The bill, until January 1, 2027, would deem the holder of an unexpired annual license on January 1, 2026, to hold, as applicable, either a unified license or both an operator license and the required pre mises license with the same expiration date as the annual license. MAUCRSA requires the department, in determining whether to grant, deny, or renew a specified license, to consider if an excessive concentration, as described, exists in the area where the licensee will operate. This bill would remove this requirement.
Pending
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46 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
SB 1242
Crimes: Fires
Re-referred to
APPR. Comm.
4/2/2024
Min Existing law prohibits the starting of a fire by recklessly setting fire to, burning, or causing to be burned, any structure, forest land, or property. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would, for the purposes of sentencing for a violation of these provisions, make it a factor in aggravation that the offense was carried out within a merchant’s premises in order to facilitate organized retail theft. By increasing the punishment f or a crime, this bill would impose a state -mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
Pending
SB 1416
Sentencing
Enhancements:
Sale, Exchange,
or Return of
Stolen Property
Re-referred
APPR. Com.
4/16/2024
Newman Existing law defines types of theft, including petty theft, grand theft, and shoplifting.
Existing law also defines the crime of burglary, which consists of entering specified buildings, places, or vehicles with the intent to commit a grand or petty theft or a felony. This bill would create sentencing enhancements for selling, exchanging, or returning for value, or attempting to sell, exchange, or return for value, any property acquired through one or more acts of shoplifting, theft, or burglary from a retail business, if the property value exceeds specified amounts. The bill would additionally make these enhancements apply to any person acting in concert with another person to violate these provisions. By adding new sentencing enhancements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
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47 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
PUBLIC SAFETY
SB 1502
Controlled
Substances:
Xylazine
Re-referred to
APPR. Com.
4/15/2024
Ashby The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act categorizes controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions on those substances contained in Schedule I. Substances in Schedule I are deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. Substances in Schedules II through V have an accepted medical use but have the potential for abuse. Existing law restricts the prescription, furnishing, possession, sale, and use of controlled substances, and makes a violation of those laws a crime, except as specified. This bill would add Xylazine to the list of Schedule III substances. If an animal drug containing Xylazine that has been approved under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is not available for sale in California, the bill would create an exception for a substance that is intended to be used to compound an animal drug or an animal drug compound containing Xylazine. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Pending
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 2274
Taxation: Sales
and Use Taxes:
Exemption: Tax
Holiday
Hearing
canceled.
4/1/2024
Dixon Sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, and provides various exemptions from the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, on and after January 1, 2025, would exempt from those taxes the gros s receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, any tangible personal property purchased during the first weekend in August, beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday and ending at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.
Oppose
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
48 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
AB 2564
Property Tax
Postponement:
Senior Citizens
and Disabled
Citizens Property
Tax
Postponement
Fund
Referred to REV
& TAX suspense
file.
4/1/2024
Boerner Current law authorizes the Controller, upon approval of a claim for the postponement of ad valorem property taxes, to directly pay a county tax collector for the property taxes owed by the claimant. Current law establishes the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the Controller for specified purposes, including disbursements relating to the postponement of property taxes pursuant to the Property Tax Postponement Law. Current law requires the Controller, on June 30, 2018, and on June 30 each year thereafter, to transfer a ny moneys in the fund in excess of $15,000,000 to the General Fund. This bill would require money to be transferred, on June 30, 2025, and on June 30 each year thereafter, from the General Fund to the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement Fund when the balance in the latter fund is less than $15,000,000.
Support
AB 2854
Bradley-Burns
Uniform Local
Sales and Use
Tax
Re-referred to
APPR. Com.
4/11/2024
Irwin Existing law, on or after January 1, 2016, prohibits a local agency from entering into any form of agreement that would result in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley -Burns local tax revenues to any person for any purpose, if the agreement results in a reduction in the amount of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues that, in the absence of the agreement, would be received by another local agency and the retailer continues to maintain a physical presence within the territorial jurisdiction of that other local agency. This bill would require a local agency to annually provide specified information relating to each agreement resulting in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley -Burns local tax revenues to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. The bill would additionally require the local agency to publish that information on its internet website. The bill would impose monetary penalties on any local agency that fails to provide information to the department or fails to publish information to its internet website. By expanding the duties of local agencies, this bill would impose a state - mandated local program.
Pending
2024 Legislation - Bills to Watch
49 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
SB 955
Office of
Planning and
Research:
Infrastructure
Gap-Fund
Program
Place on
Suspense File.
4/15/2024
Seyarto Current law authorizes a local agency to finance infrastructure projects through various means, including by establishing an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community. This bill would require the Office of Planning and Research, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap -Fund Program to provide grants to assist local agencies in developing and constructing infrastructure projects. The bill would authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s total cost , subject to specified requirements, including, among other things, that the office is prohibited from awarding a grant to a local agency unless the local agency provides funding that has been raised through local taxes for at least 10% of the infrastructure project’s total cost.
Support
SB 1164
Property
Taxation: New
Construction
Exclusion:
Accessory
Dwelling Units
Set for hearing
on April 22.
Newman The California Constitution limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. For purposes of this limitation, “full cash value” is defined as the assessor’s valuation of real property as shown on the 1975 –76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred. This bill would exclude from classification as “newly constructed” and “new construction” the construction of an ADU until 15 years have passed s ince construction on the ADU was completed or there is a subsequent change in ownership of the ADU. The bill would require the property owner to, prior to or within 30 days of completion of the project, notify the assessor that the property owner intends to claim the exclusion for an ADU and submit an affidavit stating that the owner shall make a good faith effort to ensure the unit will be used as residential housing for the duration the owner receives the exclusion. The bill would require the State Board of Equalization to prescribe the manner and form for claiming the exclusion and would require all documents necessary to support the exclusion to be filed by the property owner with the assessor no later than 6 months after the completion of the project.
Oppose
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50 Revised 4/18/2024
Bill Author(s) Summary
League
Position
City
Position
REVENUE & TAXATION
SB 1494
Local Agencies:
Sales and Use
Tax: Retailers
Re-referred to
Com. on REV. &
TAX.
4/17/2024
Glazer The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose a local sales and use tax for tangible personal property sold at retail in the city or county, or purchased for storage, use, or other consumption in the city or county. This bill would prohibit, on or after January 1, 2024, a local agency from entering into, renewing, or extending any form of agreement that would result in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley -Burns local tax revenues to any retailer in exchange for the retailer locating or continuing to maintain a place of business that serves as the place of sale within the territorial jurisdiction of the local agency if that place of business would generate revenue, from the sale of tangible property delivered to and received by the purchaser in the territorial jurisdiction of another local agency, for the local a gency under the Bradley -Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law. The bill would make those forms of agreements existing before January 1, 2024, void and unenforceable on January 1, 2030. The bill would require a local agency to post th ose forms of agreements existing before January 1, 2024, on the local agency’s internet website until the form of agreement expires or is made void and unenforceable by these provisions.
Pending