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May 10, 2022
City Council Legislative Subcommittee
Jason Haber, Intergov ernmenta l Affairs Director
Legislative and Advocacy Update
Recommendation: Receive an update on stat e and federal legislative and budget activity and recent and ongoing advocacy efforts; discuss and provide feedback to staff, including identifying high-priority bills, advocacy positions, and items for future City Council consideration .
Discussion:
Staff and the Renne Public Policy Group (RPPG) will pre sent an update and overview of state legislative activity (Exhibit 1) and the priority legi slation being tracked on behalf of the city (Exhibit 2). The Subcommittee is requested to provide feedback to help city staff and the city' s lobbying consultant s focus the city's advocacy efforts on high -priority bill s and to identify bills for future City Council consideration.
Position Letters Authorized or Submitted to Committees and/or Legislative Offices SB 54 {Allen): Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act - Support SB 513 {Hertzberg) Homeless shelters grants : pets and veterinary services - Support SB 897 {Wieckowski): Accessory Dwelling Units - Oppose
SB 1157 {Hertzberg) : Indoor Residential Water Use - Oppose Unless Amended SB 1466 (Stern) : Aff. Housing and Community Development Investment Program {Held by Author) AB 500 {Ward) Local planning : coastal development: streamlined permitting - Oppose AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath) : Public Swimming Pools: Lifeguards - Support {Sponsor) AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) : Vessels: Public Safety Activities - Support (Sponsor) AB 1737 (Holden) : Children's Camps Local Registration and Inspections - Oppose AB 2097 {Friedman): Residential and Commercial Parking Requirements - Oppose AB 2179 {Grayson): Development Fees - Oppose (Gut and Amend to COVID-19 Tenant Relief) SB 1186 (Wiener) : Medicinal Cannabis Patients ' Right of Access Act - Oppose SB 1338 (Um berg): CARE Court Program - Support
SB 1105 (Hueso): SD Regional Affordable Housing Finance Agency- Oppose Staff continues to eva luat e bills that may impact city operations and policy priorities, which will be presented for discussion and feedback fro m th e Legislative Subcommittee .
Exhibits:
1. RPPG Legislative Monthly Report - May 2022
2. Priority Legislation List - M ay 3, 2022
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May 4, 2022
To: Mayor Matt Hall, Legislative Subcommittee Member
Council member Teresa Acosta, Legislative Subcommittee Member Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
City of Carlsbad
From: Sharon Gonsalves, Director of Government Affairs
Renne Public Policy Group
Re: State Legislative Update
April 29 was the last for policy bills that have been keyed fiscal to pass policy comm ittees. Several contentious bills failed to be voted on prior to the deadline including:
AB 2932 {Low) This bill proposed a thirty -two hour work week. The bill had been referred to the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee but missed the April 29 deadline for legislative policy committees to send it along for consideration by fiscal committees.
AB 1993 {Wicks) This bill would have required California businesses to require their employees and independent contractors receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The author did not advance the bill statin g the threat of COVID was entering a new and less threatening phase.
AB 1464 {Pan) This bill would have required sheriffs and police officers to enforce public health orders by State or County health officials. The Senate Health Committee placed a hearing of this bill on April 26, however the day of the committee the bill was withdrawn from consideration .
UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE DEADLINES
• April 29: Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal committee s fiscal bills introduced in their house.
• May 6 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to the floor nonfiscal bills introdu ced in their house (J.R. 61{b)(6)).
• May 13 Last day for policy committees to meet prior to May 31 (J.R. 61{b)(7)). • May 20 Last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the floor bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61 (b)(8)).
Last day for fiscal committees to meet prior to May 31 (J.R. 61 (b)(9)). • May 23-27 Floor session only. No committee may meet for any purpose except for Rules Committee, bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2, and Conference Committees (J.R. 61(b)(10)).
• May 27 Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house (J.R. 61(b)(11)). • May 31 Committee meetings may resume (J.R. 61(b)(12)).
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CITY SPONSORED LEGISLATION
AB 1672 {Boerner Horvath) Public Swimming Pools: lifeguards.
This bill sponsored by the City of Carlsbad wou ld authorize lifeguards who are certified by the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA) to provide services at municipal operated swimming pools. The measure advanced off the Assembly floor on May 2, 2022 with a vote of 68-0 and is now in the Senate Rules Committee awaiting referral to Senate policy committees.
AB 1682 {Boerne r Horvath) Public safety: Speeding vessels: lifeguard rescue vessels.
This bill is joint authored by Assemblymember Chris Ward and co-sponsored by the City of San Diego. The measure was passed out of the Assembly on March 7 on a unanimous vote. It is anticipated that this bill will not be heard in Senate Public Safety until mid-to-late May, ~fter the majority of Senate bills have made it through their house of origin policy committees.
CALIFORNIA GAS REBATE
Despite the Governor providing lawmakers with th e budget trai ler bill language to delay the implementat ion of t he gas tax adjustment that will go into effect on July 1, lawmakers failed to pass an early budget action item by the May 1, 2022 deadline.
However, t he gasoline price relief for taxpayers continues to be top of mind for lawmakers. Legislative leadership wou ld like to do that with direct payments, and they are concerned cutt ing the gas tax would deplete critica l funds for road repair. A bipartisan group of lawmakers say they are prepared to introduce a bill that would complete ly suspend the state's $0.51 per gallon tax for a year.
The Governor has expressed concerns that under the proposal there is no guarantee the benefits will be passed on to Californians and "not just go back to oil companies and corpo rati ons."
SENATE BUDGET PRIORITIES
Ahead on the release of t he Governor's May Revise, Senate Democrats released their budget priorities for the 2022/2023 fiscal year. In what has been deemed the "Putt ing Wealth to Work Plan," the Senate Pro Tern Toni Atkins and Senate Budget Chair Nancy Skinner are proposi ng to add $65 billion in combined current year and budget year revenues to the Governor's forecast. Highlights of the Senate plan include:
• Climate - $18 billion package to build off of t he Governor's January budget which proposes significant investments in electrical vehicles, abandoned oil well clean up, clean energy projects and building decarbonization.
o Water and Drought: $7.S billion in state and federal funds to build a climate-resi lient water system, including $2 billion to rebalance the state water supply and water rights,
o Wildfire Preparedness and Response: $6.6 billion over five years for fuel reduction, biomass accumulation, workforce development and training, Regional Conservancies, and expanding staffin g ratios for all engines.
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o Sea Level Rise: $3.3 billion over multiple years to.improve resilience, including protecting natural resources, urban waterfronts, ports, and infrastructure ; $1 billion to offset the impacts of climate change on disadvantaged communities . o Biodiversity & Outdoor Access for All: $1 billion over multiple years to conserve state lands and coastal waters, fund urban greening and forestry, and expand access to outdoors through conservancies and other conservation entities. • Mental Health: Expand investments in school-based mental health services, accelerate implementation of behavioral health treatment beds, and provide funding for financial incentives to encourage people to enter the behavioral health workforce . • Housing: $2.7 billion for affordable housing and home ownership, including $1 billion for the California Dream for All program, a new revolving fund for first -time homebuyers to partner with the state and purchase homes with little or no down payment and reduce mortgage costs by more than 20 percent.
• Homelessness: $3 billion, over three years, to build on last year's historic $12 billion two year investment, which would include additional funding for Project Homekey, local funding, and encampment resolutions.
• Public Safety: Increased funding to support victims of crime through support programs, the Restitution Fund, and Trauma Recovery Centers; expansion of homelessness pre- and post release transitional housing and programs; and investments that improve equitable access to justice.
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The plan also includes sending $8 billion back to Californians in rebates as a way to offset the rising cost of energy and consumer goods. Under the plan, California would send $200 to every taxpayer, with another $200 per dependent. Eligibility would be limited to those making less than $125,000 for individuals and $250,000 for joint filers.
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The Ralph M. Brown Act contains specified provisions regarding the timelines for posting an agenda and providing for the ability of the public to observe and provide comment. The act allows for meetings to occur via teleconferencing subject to certain requirements, particularly that the legislative body notice each teleconference location of each member that will be participating in the public meeting, that each teleconference location be accessible to the public, that members of the public be allowed to address the legislative body at each teleconference location , that the legislative body post an agenda at each teleconferen ce location, and that at least a quorum of the legislative body participate from location s within the boundaries of the local agency jurisdiction . The act provides an exemption to the juri sdictional requirement for health authoritie s, as defined. This bill would require the agenda to identify any member of the legislative body that will participate in the meeting remotely. The bill would also require an updated agenda reflecting all of the members participating in the meeting remotely to be posted, if a member of the legislative body elects to participate in the meeting remotely after the agenda is posted.
Status: 4/26/2022 -ln committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author .
Client Position: pending support
Notes: 5/2/22 - SG: Carlsbad subcommittee approved supporting AB 1944 .:... pending council approval of platform admendment.
AB 2449 (Rubio, Blanca) Open meetings : local agencies: teleconferences. (Introduced: 2/17/2022) Link Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with specified teleconferencing requirements in specified circumstances when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health. This bill would authorize a local agency to use teleconferen cing without complying with those specified teleconferencing requirements if at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situat ed within the local agency juri sdiction. The bill would impose prescribed requirement s for this exception relating to notice, agendas, the means and manner of access, and procedures for disruption s. The bill would require the legislative body to implement a procedure for receiving and swiftly resolving requests for reasonable accommodation for individual s with disabilitie s, consistent with federal law.
Status: 3/3/2022 -Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Client Position: pending support
Notes: 5/2/22 - SG: Carlsbad subcommittee approved supportin g AB 2449 - pending council approval of platform admendment .
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SB 1100 (Cortese) Open meetings: orderly conduct. (Amended : 4/21/2022) Link The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Current law requires every agenda for regular meetings of a local agency to provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, before or during the legislative body consideration of the item, that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. Current law authorizes the legislative body to adopt reasonable regulations to ensure that the intent of the provisions relating to this public comment requirement is carried out, including, but not limited to, regulations limiting the total amount oftime allocated for public testimony on particular issues and for each individual speaker. Current law authorizes the members of the legislative body conducting the meeting to order the meeting room cleared and continue in session, as prescribed, if a group or groups have willfully interrupted the orderly conduct of a meeting and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting. This bill would authorize the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for disrupting the meeting .
Status: 5/2/2022 -Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time .
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Notes: SG: Discuss further at 5/10 subcommittee meeting Cannabis
SB 1186 (Wiener) Medicinal Cannabis Patients Right of Access Act. (Amended: 4/25/2022) Link Would enact the Medicinal Cannabis Patients Right of Access Act, which, on and after January 1, 2024, would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting or enforcing any regulation that prohibits the retail sale by delivery within the local jurisdiction of medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers by medicinal cannabis businesses, as defined, or that has the effect of prohibiting the retail sale by delivery within the local juri sdiction of medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers in a timely and readily accessible manner and in types and quantities that are sufficient to meet demand from medicinal cannabis patients within the local jurisdiction, as specified. The bill, on and after January 1, 2024, would provide that the act may be enforced by an action for writ of mandate brought by a medicinal cannabis patient or their primary caregiver, a medicinal cannabis business, the Attorney General, or any other party otherwise authorized by law.
Status: 4/29/2022 -Set for hearing May 9.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes: Subcommittee motioned to oppose the bill. RPPG drafting letter of oppo sition.
Children, Youth and Recreation
AB 1737 (Holden) Children camps: local registration and inspections. (Amended: 4/20/2022) Link Current law requires the State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for organi zed camps. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt minimum fire safety regulations for organized RPPG
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camps. Current law requires local health officers to enforce building standards relating to organized camps and the other rules and regulations adopted by the State Public Health Officer . Current law define s organized camp, for these purpo ses, as a site with a program and facilities established for the primary purpo ses of providing an outdoor group living experience with social, spiritual, educational, or recreational objectives, for 5 days or more during one or more seasons of th e year, except as specified. Current law require s the Director of Public Health to consider the Camp Standards of the American Camping Association when adopting rules and regulation s pursuant to these provisions. This bill would include children camps within the definition of organized camps and would define children camp as a camp that offers daytime or overnight experiences administered by adults who provid e social, cultur al, educational, recreational , or artistic programming to more than 5 children between 3 and 17 years of age for 5 days or longer during at least one season, except as specified .
Status: 4/27 /2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referr ed to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes: 04/27 SG: Submitted letter of opposition through the Legislative portal AB 1789 (Bennett) Outdoor recreation: California Recreational Trails System Plan: California Trails Commission: Trails Corps Program: grant program. (Amended : 4/6/2022) Link Current law establishes within th e Natural Resources Agency the Department of Parks and Recreation, which is under the control of the Director of Parks and Recreation. Current law requires the director to cause to be prepared, and continuously maintained, a comprehensive plan for the development and operation of a statewid e system of recreation trails, which is known as th e California Recreational Trails System Plan. Current law requires the plan to be continuously reviewed , revised, and updated by the director. Current law requires the director to submit a report every 2 years to the Legislature describing the progress in carrying out the plan, as provided. This bill would requir e the director , on or before January 1, 2024, to prepar e and provid e to the Legislature a full update of the plan.
Status: 4/7 /2022-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2346 (Gabriel) Outdoor recreation: Outdoors for All Program. (Amended: 4/19/2022) Link Would establish in the Natural Resources Agency the Outdoors for All Program to support access to natural or cultural resources for at -risk youth, outdoor environm ental educational experiences for underserved and at-risk population s, and equitable access to parks and outdoor spaces for all Californians. This program would encompass the existing Outdoor Equity Grants Program and Youth Community Access Program, as well as the Californians Outside Program, established by this bill, to provide grants to an eligible entity, as defined , for projects that provide tran sportati on to outdoor spaces, outdoor-related recreation, outdoor physical activity programming, outdoor education, natural resources workforce development, and communications related to water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and other outdoor pursuits.
Status: 4/26/2022 -From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. {Ayes 14. Noes 0.) {April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2465 (Bonta. Mia) Pupil instruction: third-grade literacy: literacy grant program. (Amended: 4/28/2022) Link Would create the Family and Community Literacy: Supporting Literacy and Bi literacy in Schools, Families, and Communities Grant Program for the purpose of supporting the goal of all of California pupils reading at grade level by third grade and engaging families at every stage of that process. The bill would require the department to award competitive grants from the California Family Literacy Innovation Project to local educational agencies, as provided . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Status: 5/2/2022-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Elections. Political Reform and Redistricting
AB 1416 (Santiago) Elections: ballot label . (Amended: 1/27/2022) Link Current law defines the ballot label as the portion of the ballot containing the names of the candidates or a statement of a measure. For statewide measures, current law requires the Attorney General to prepare a condensed version of the ballot title and summary, including the fiscal impact summary prepared by the Legislative Analyst that is printed in the state voter information guide. This bill would additionally require the ballot label for statewide measures, and, at the option of a county, the ballot label or similar description on the ballot of county, city, district , and school district measures, to include a listing of nonprofit organizations, businesses, or individuals taken from the signers or the text of ballot arguments printed in the voter information guide that support and oppose the measure, as specified. The bill would require a nonprofit organization, business, or individual to meet certain criteria before being listed on the ballot label or similar description of the measure on the ballot.
Status: 2/1/2022 -ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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AB 2582 (Bennett) Recall elections: local offices. (Amended: 5/2/2022) Link The California Constitution reserves to the electors the power to recall an elective officer and requires the Legislature to provide for recall of local officers . Current law requires a recall election to include the question of whether the officer sought to be recalled shall be removed from office and an election for the officer successor in the event the officer is removed from office. This bill would instead require a recall election for a local officer to include only the question of whether the officer sought to be recalled shall be removed from office. If a local officer is removed from office in a recall election, the bill would provide that the office is vacant until it is filled according to law.
Status: 5/2/2022-Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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ACA 12 (Lee) Elections: nonpartisan office . (Introduced : 3/16/2022) Link The California Constitution designates as nonpartisan all jud icial, school, county, and city offices, including the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The California Constitution prohibits including the political party preference of a candidate for nonpartisan office on the ballot for the office.This measure would instead permit the political party preferen ce, or lack of a political party preference, of a candidate for nonpartisan office, except for judicial offices, to be indicated on the ballot in the manner provided by statute.
Status: 4/25/2022-ln committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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SB 1131 (Newman) Safe at Home program: election workers and reproductive health care providers. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link
Current law establishes an address confidentiality program for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, commonly known as the Safe at Home program, under which an adult person, or a guardian on behalf of a minor or an incapacitat ed person, states that they are a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking , or elder or dependent adult abuse, and designates the Secretary of State as the agent for service of process and receipt of mail. Under current law, when the Secretary of State certifies the person as a program participant, the person actual address is confidential. Under the program, any person who makes a false stateme nt in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would create a similar program for election workers, as defined. This bill would require the Secretary of State to approve an application of a program participant for a substitute address to be designated by the secretary. The secretary would also be required to charge program participants a fee to defray the actual costs of maintaining the program and to reimburse the General Fund, as specified.
Status: 4/29/2022 -Set for hearing May 9.
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Energy
SB 379 (Wiener) Residential solar energy systems: permitting. (Amended: 1/12/2022) Link Current law requires a city or county to approve administratively applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Current law requires every city, county, or city and county to develop a streamlined permitting process for the installation of small residential rooftop solar energy systems, as that term is defined. Current law prescribes and limit s permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system . Current law creates the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes its duties, which include administering programs for the installation of solar energy system s.This bill would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time for a RPPG
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solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatt s alternating current nameplate rating and an energy storage system, as defined , paired with a solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatt s alternating current nameplate rating.
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time . Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 1.) Ordered to the Assembly . In Assembly. Read first time .
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SB 833 (Dodd) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022. (Amended: 3/21/2022) Link Current law assigns the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission various duties, including applying for and accepting grants, contributions, and appropriations, and awarding grants consistent with the goals and objectives of a program or activity th e commission is authorized to implement or administer. This bill, the Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022, would require the commission to develop and implem ent a grant program for local government s to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience objectives and state clean energy and air quality goals.
Status: 4/4/2022-April 4 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
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SB 884 (McGuire) Electricity: expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program. (Amended: 4/26/2022) Link
Would require the Public Utilitie s Commission to establish an expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergroundin g program, and would authorize a large electrical corporation, as defined , to participate in the program by submitting to th e commission, on or befor e July 1, 2023, a plan that identifie s the eligible undergroundin g project s that it will construct as part of the program, including timelines for the completion of those undergro unding projects, as specified . If the commission approves the electrical corporati on plan, the bill would require a telecommunications provider to cooperate with the electrical corporation to underground any of its infrastructure on utility poles that will be removed as part of an undergrounding project , except as specified, require each undergrounding project to fully exhaust all available federal, state, and other non ratepayer moneys befor e any costs are recovered from ratepayers, and deem each undergrounding project to be an environmental leadership development proje ct for purpo ses of the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environment al Leadership Act of 2021 and a development project for purposes of the Permit Streamlining Act, as specified. The bill would require that an electrical corporation earn a rate of return on its investm ents or expenditures made pursuant to the program, subject to a perform ance metric developed by the commission that wou ld, at a minimum, require the withholding of those earnings until 60 consecutive month s have elapsed without either the undergrounding proj ect infrastru cture causing a deenergization event or a w ildfir e resulting from the undergro unding project infrastructure.
Status: 4/29/2022-Set for hearing May 9.
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AB 1001 (Garcia, Cristina) Environment: mitigation measures for air quality impacts: environmental justice. (Amended: 3/22/2022) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would require mitigation measures, identified in an environmental impact report or mitigated negative declaration to mitigate the adverse effects of a project on air quality of a disadvantaged community, to include measures for avoiding, minimizing , or otherwise mitigating for the adverse effects on that community. The bill would require mitigation measures to include measures conducted at the project site that avoid or minimize to less than signifi cant the adverse effects on the air quality of a disadvantaged comm unity or measures conducted in the affected disadvantaged community that directly mitigate those effects.
Status: 3/22/2022-From committe e chair, with author's amendments : Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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AB 1985 (Rivas, Robert) Organic waste: list: available products. (Introduced: 2/10/2022) Link Current law require s, no later than January 1, 2018, the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a reduction in statewide emissions of methane by 40%, hydrofluorocarbon gases by 40%, and anthropogenic black carbon by 50% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law require s the methane emissions reduction goals to include a 50% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2020 and a 75% reduction by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic waste reduction goals, including a requirement intended to meet the goal that not less than 20% of edible food that is currently disposed of be recovered for human consumption by 2025. This bill would require the department to compi le and maintain on its internet website a list, organized by ZIP Code, of information regarding persons or entities that produce and have available in the state organic waste products and update the list at least every 6 months .
Status: 4/27 /2022 -ln committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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AB 2142 (Gabriell Income taxes: exclusion: turf replacement water conservation program. (Amended: 4/6/2022) Link Current law provides an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate or voucher from a local water or energy agency or supplier for the purchase or installation of a water conservation water closet; energy efficient RPPG
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clothes washers, and plumbing devices, as specified. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, provide an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive issued by a public water system, as defined, local government, or state agency for participation in a turf replacement water conservation program.
Status: 4/7 /2022 -Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
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AB 2160 (Bennett) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: fees. (Amended: 3/29/2022) Link The California Coastal Act of 1976 provides for the certification of local coastal programs by the California Coastal Commission. The act prohibits the commission, except as provided, from exercising its- coastal development permit review authority, as specified, over any new development within the area to which the certified local coastal program, or any portion thereof, applies. Current law requires a local government, if it has been delegated authority to issue coastal development permits, to recover any costs incurred from fees charged to individual permit applicants . Current law authorizes the local government to elect to not levy fees, as provided. This bill would, at the request of an applicant , as defined, for a coastal development permit, authorize a city or county to waive or reduce the permit fee for specified projects . The bill would authorize the applicant, if a city or county rejects a fee waiver or fee reduction request, to submit the coastal development permit application directly to the commission.
Status: 4/28/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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AB 2593 (Boerner Horvath) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: blue carbon projects: new development:
greenhouse gas emissions. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link
The California Coastal Act of 1976, among other things, requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission, as provided. This bill would require the commission to require an applicant with a project that impacts coastal wetland, intertidal, or marine habitats or ecosystems seeking a coastal development permit to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by building or contributing to a blue carbon project, as defined .
Status: 5/2/2022 -Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 11.) Client Position:
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SB 45 (Portantino) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals: local jurisdiction assistance. (Amended: 1/3/2022) Link
Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board for 2020 and 2025, as provided . Current law require s the department, no later than July 1, 2020, and in consultation with the state board, to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government, and local governments have made in achieving these organic waste reduction goals. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the state board, to provide assistance to local jurisdictions, including, but not limit ed to, any funding appropriated by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, for purposes of assisting local agencies to comply with these provision s, including any regulations adopted by the department.
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time . Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time .
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SB 54 (Allen) Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act. (Amended: 2/25/2021) Link Wou ld establish the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, which would prohibit producer s of single-use, disposable packaging or single-use, disposable food service ware products from offering for sale, selling, distribut ing, or importing in or into the state such packaging or product s that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2032, unless they are recyclable or compostable.
Status: 1/24/2022 -Read third time . Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time .
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SB 867 (Laird) Sea level rise planning : database . (Introduced : 1/24/2022) Link Current law require s the Natural Resources Agency, in collaboration with the Ocean Protection Council, to create, update biannually , and post on an internet website a Planning for Sea Level Rise Database describing steps being taken throughout the state to prepare for, and adapt to, sea level rise. Current law further requires that variou s public agencies and private entities provide to the agency, on a biannual basis, sea level rise planning inform ation , as defined , that is under the control or juri sdiction of the public agencies or private entities, and require s the agency to determine the information necessary for inclusion in the database, as prescribed. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2023.This bill would extend the sunset date for the above provisions until January 1, 2028.
Status: 4/21/202 2-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time.
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AB 2387 (Garcia, Eduardo) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2022. (Amended : 3/21/2022) Link Would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters, wou ld authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $7,430,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation , flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, and workforce development programs.
Status: 4/26/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Government Operations and Economic Development
AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath) Public swimming pools: lifeguards. (Amended: 4/21/2022) Link Would authorize a local public agency that is certified by the United States Lifesaving Association to use qualified lifeguard personnel, as defined, to provide lifeguard services at a public swimming pool if certain requirements are met.
Status: 5/2/2022-Read third tim e. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0.) Client Position: Sponsor
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AB 2164 (Lee) Disability access: funding. (Amended: 3/23/2022} Link The federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the California Building Standards Code require that specified buildings, structure s, and facilities be accessible to, and usable by, persons with disabilities . Current law establishes a Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund, a continuou sly appropriated fund, within the Division of the State Architect for purposes of increasing disability access and compliance with construction -related accessibilit y requirements and developing educational resources for businesses to facilitate compliance with federal and state disability laws, as specified. This bill would expand the purpose of the fund to include providing financial assistance to small businesses, as defined, for construction of physical accessibility improvements.
Status: 4/6/2022 -ln committee : Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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AB 2932 (Low) Workweek: hours and overtime. (Amended: 3/24/2022) Link Would require that work in excess of 32 hours in a workweek be compensated at the rate of no less than 11/2 times the employee regular rate of pay. The bill would require the compensation rate of pay at 32 hours to reflect the previous compensation rate of pay at 40 hours and would prohibit an employer from reducing an employee regular rate of pay as a result of this reduced hourly workweek requirement. The bill would exempt an employer with no more than 500 employees from the above provisions. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state -mandated local program
Status: 4/29/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(S). (Last location was L. & E. on 3/24/2022) Client Position:
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SB 1044 (Durazo) Employers: state of emergency or emergency condition: retaliation. (Amended: 3/23/2022) Link Would prohibit an employer, in the event of a state of emergency or an emergency condition, as defined, from taking or threatening adverse action against any employee for refusing to report to, or leaving, a workplace within the affected area because the employee feels unsafe. The bill would also prohibit an employer from preventing any employee from accessing the employee mobile device or other communications device for seeking emergency assistance, assessing the safety of the situation, or communicating a person to confirm their safety. The bill would require an employee to notify the employer of the state of emergency or emergency condition requiring the employee to leave or refuse to report to the workplace , as specified . The bill would clarify that these provisions are not intended to apply when an official state of emergency remains in place but emergency conditions that pose an imminent and ongoing risk of harm to the workplace, the worker, or the worker home have ceased.
Status: 4/4/2022-April 4 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file .
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SB 1088 (Bradford) Public employment: law enforcement labor relations. (Amended: 3/16/2022) Link The Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act grants a variety of employment rights and protections to public safety officers, as defined, including with respect to investigations, interrogations , and disciplinary procedures . This bill would prohibit a procedural violation of the act deemed to be without substantive effect, as specified, from being the basis for reversing or modifying discipline of a public safety officer.
Status: 4/29/2022-Set for hearing May 9.
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AB 2211 (Ting) Shelter crisis: homeless shelters. (Amended: S/2/2022) Link Upon declaration of a shelter crisis, current law, among other things, suspends certain state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances, including those prescribing standards of housing, health, or safety to the extent that strict compliance would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis. Current law, among other things, exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act specified actions by a state agency or a city, county, or city and county relating to land owned by a local government to be used for, or to provide financial assistance to, a homeless shelter constructed pursuant to these provisions, and provides that homeless shelters constructed or allowed pursuant to these shelter crisis declarations are not subject to specified laws, including the Special Occupancy Parks Act.
Current law defines a homeless shelter as a facility with overnight sleeping accommodations, the primary purpose of which is to provide temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness that is not in existence after the declared shelter crisis. Current law provides that a temporary homeless shelter community may include supportive and self sufficiency development services and that a homeless shelter includes a parking lot owned or leased by a city, county, or city and county specifically identified as one allowed for safe parking by homeless and unstably housed individuals.
Current law repeals these provisions as of January 1, 2026. This bill would extend the repeal date of these provisions to January 1, 2030.
Status: 5/2/2022-Read second time and amended.
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AB 2325 (Rivas, Luz) Coordinated homelessness response: Office of the lnteragency Council on Homelessness. (Amended: 4/25/2022) Link
Current law requires the Governor to establish the California lnteragency Council on Homelessness, formerly known as the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, and to appoint specified members of that coordinating council.
Current law requires agencies and departments administering state programs created on or after July 1, 2017, to collaborate with the council to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First, as defined. Current law establishes the goals ofthe council, which include identifying mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. Current law require s that the coordinating council be under the direction of an executive director , who is under the direction of the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and staffed by employees of that agency. This bill would place the California lnteragency Council on Homelessness under the jurisdiction of the Office of the lnteragency Council on Homelessness, which the bill would establish within the Governor office, under the control of a director , on or before September 30, 2023.
Status: 4/26/2022-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2339 (Bloom) Housing element: emergency shelters: regional housing need. (Amended: S/2/2022) Link The Planning and Zoning Law require s the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes a housing element. Current law requires that the housing element identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, and make adequate provision for the existing and projected needs of all economic segments of a community. Current law also requires that the housing element include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels. This bill would revise the requirements of the housing element, as described above, in connection with zoning designations that allow residential use, including mixed use, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. The bill would delete language regarding emergency shelter standards structured in relation to residential and commercial developments and instead require that emergency shelters only be subject to specified written, objective standards.
Status: 5/2/2022 -Read second time and amended.
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AB 2631 (O'Donnell) Government Claims Act. (Introduced: 2/18/2022) Link The Government Claims Act establishes the liability and immunity of a public entity for its acts or omissions that cause harm to persons. This bill would provid e that a public entity is liable for injury relating to the effects of that public entity homelessness policies on another public entity.
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Corns. on L. GOV. and JUD.
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SB 513 (Hertzberg) Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services. (Amended : 1/3/2022) Link Current law establishes the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program, under the admi nistrat ion of the Department of Housing and Community Development and require s the department to, among other things, provide rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services to ensure housing affordability to people who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homele ssness. This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homel ess shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness.
Status: 1/24/2022- Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time.
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SB 847 (Hurtado) COVID-19 relief: tenancy: grant program. (Amended: 4/28/2022) Link The COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, until October 1, 2025, establishes procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpaym ent of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. Current law, among other thing s, prohibits a tenant that deliver s to a landlord or files with the court a declaration, under penalty of perjury, of COVID-19-related financial distress, as defined, from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt, as prescribed. This bill would, until January 1, 2025, create a grant program under the administration of the department and would require the department to, among other things, award a program grant, as defined , to a qualified applicant who submit s a comp lete application, as defined, on a first-come, first-served basis, except that the bill would require the program to provide grants to all tier one applicants, as defined , before processing the applications of other applicants, as specified. The bill would define qualified applicant to mean a landlord who satisfies certain criteria, including that the landlord has applied for rental assistance funds pursuant to the State Rental Assistance Program and either received a negative final decision, as specified, or the landlord has been notified that an application to the State Rental Assistance Program was submitted , as specified, but 20 days have passed without a final decision being rendered.
Status: 4/28/2022 -Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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SB 1282 (Bates) Opioid Master Settlement Agreement. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link Would establ ish the California Opioid Settlement Fund in the State Treasury and would require the total amount of the state share of fund s received pursuant to the Master Settlement Agreement, defined to mean the National Opioid Settlement agreement announced on February 25, 2022, by the Attorney General of the State of California between California and other states and the leading United States opioid product manufacturers, to be deposited in the fund . The bill would require distribution offunds from the fund to be made by annual appropriation of the Legislatur e consistent with the requirements of this bill, to the extent permissible under the term s of the Master Settlement Agreement, including a requirement that at least 60% of the funds appropriated be used to provide addiction-related services for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and priority shall be given to certain activities, including , among other s, creating new, or expanding existing, substance use disorder treatment facilities.
Status: 4/29/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was JUD. on 4/18 /2022) Client Position: Watch
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Housing, Land Use and Planning
AB 500 (Ward) Local planning: coastal development: streamlined permitting . (Amended : 8/31/2021) Link The Coastal Act generally requires each local government lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone to prepare a local coastal program for that portion of the coastal zone within its jurisdiction . Ths bill would require a local RPPG
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government lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone that has a certified land use plan or a fully certified local coastal program to adopt, by January 1, 2024, an amendment to that plan or program, as applicable, specifying streamlined permitting procedures in nonhazardous zones for the approval of (1) accessory dwelling unit s or junior accessory dwelling unit s, consistent w ith specified requirements relating to the rental of those unit s (2) projects in w hich a specified percentage of the unit s will be affordable to lower income households or designated for supportive housing, as those terms are defin ed, and (3) Low Barrier Navigation Centers, as defined . The bill would require that the amendment be submitted to, and processed and approved by, the commission consistent with the above-described requirements for the amendment of a local coastal program.
Status: 9/10/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(15). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/9/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022)
Client Position: Oppose
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AB 916 (Salas) Zoning: accessory dwelling units: bedroom addition. (Amended: 1/3/2022) Link The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances th at regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purpo ses.This bill would prohibit a city or county legislative body from adopting or enforcing an ordinance requiri ng a public hearing as a condition of adding space for additional bedrooms or reconfiguring existing space to increase the bedroom count within an existing house, condo minium , apartment, or dwelling. The bill would include findings that ensuring adequate housing is a matter of stat ewide concern and is not a municipal affair, and that the provision applies to all citie s, including charter citi es. This bill contain s other related provisions and other existing laws.
Status: 1/27 /2022 -Read third time . Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment .
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AB 1445 (Levine) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts. (Amended: 1/3/2022) Link
Would, commencing January 1, 2025, require that a council of governments, a delegate subregion, or the Department of Housing and Communit y Development, as applicable, addition ally consider among these factors emergency evacuation route capacity, wildfire risk, sea level rise, and other impact s caused by climate change.
Status: 2/1/ 2022-ln Senate. Read first tim e. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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AB 1748 (Seyartol Exempt surplus land: regional housing need. (Amended: 4/6/2022l link Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surp lus land by a local agency. Current law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for disposal of surplus land for exempt surplus land, except as provided . Current law categorizes as exempt surplus land, surplus land that a local agency is tran sferring to another local, state, or federal agency for the agency use. This bill would add to the definition of exempt surplus land, surplus land that is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential units, if residential propertie s within a radius of 500 feet of the site are zoned to have an allowable density of fewer than 30 dwelling units per acre and the most recent annual progress report, as described , submitted by the city or county that owns the surplus land shows that the tota l number of low income and very low income housing units built within the city or county meets or exceeds proportionate annual progres s toward the number of those housing units needed to meet the city or county share of regional housing need for the 6th cycle of its hou sing element, as described.
Status: 4/27/2 022-ln committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage.
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AB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022. (Amended : 4/18/2022) Link The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily hou sing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval proce ss and not subject to a condit ional use permit if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. This bill would make certain housing development s that meet specified affordabi lity and site criteria and objective development standards a use by right within a zone where office, retail , or parking are a principally permitted use, and wou ld subject these development proje cts to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes. The bill would require a development proponent for a housing development project approved pursuant to the streamlined, ministerial review process to require, in contract s with construction contractors, that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including that all construction workers shall be paid at least the genera l prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require a development proponent to certi fy to the local government that those standards will be met in project construction.
Status: 4/28/2022 -From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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AB 2053 (Lee) The Social Housing Act. (Amended: 4/6/2022) link Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independ ent state body, the mission of which would be to produce and acquire social hou sing developme nts for the purpo se of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets, as specified . The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entitie s, as specified , provided that all social housing developed by the authority would be owned by the authority. The bill would prescribe the composition of the California Housing Authority Board, which would govern the authority, and would be composed of appointed member s and member s who are elected by residents of social housing development s, RPPG
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as specified . The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of the authority and the board. The bill would provide that the authority is bound to revenue neutrality , as defined , and would require the authority to recover the cost of development and operations over the life of its propertie s through the mechanism of rent cross-subsidization , as defined.
Status: 4/21/2022 -Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2063 (Berman) Density bonuses: affordable housing impact fees. (Amended: 4/21/2022) Link Current law prohibits affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees and in-lieu fees, from being imposed on a housing developm ent affordable unit s. This bill would prohibit affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees and in-lieu fees, from being imposed on a housing developm ent density bonus units, unless the city, county , or city and county has adopted a local density bonus ordinance or established a local housing program on or before January 1, 2022, that allows for a density bonus of at least 50% for any for-sale or rental housing development containing restrict ed affordable unit s that dedicates a specified percentage of units for extremel y low, very low, low-, or moderate-income households. By imposing new restrictions on the ability of a local government to impose affordable housing impact fees, the bill would impose a state -mandat ed local program.
Status: 4/25/2022 -Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2094 (Rivas, Robert) General plan: annual report: extremely low-income housing. (Introduced : 2/14/2022) Link The Planning and Zoning Law requir es a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other thin gs, a housing element. Current law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to certain specified entities by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information, the city or county progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and local efforts to remove governm ental constraints to the maintenance, improvement , and development of housing, as specified . This bill would additionally require a city or county annual report to include the locality progress in meeting the housing needs of extremely low income households, as specified.
Status: 4/20/2022-From committ ee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referre d to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2097 (Friedman) Residential and commercial development: remodeling, renovations, and additions: parking requirements. (Introduced : 2/14/2022) Link
Would prohibit a public agency from imposing a minimum automobile parking requirement, or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement, on residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within one-half mile of public tran sit, as defined. When a project provides parking voluntarily , the bill would authorize a public agency to impose specified requirement s on the voluntary parking. The bill would prohibit these provisions from reducing, eliminating , or precluding the enforcement of any requirement imposed on a new multifamily or nonresidential development to provide electric vehicle supply equipment installed parking spaces or parking spaces that are accessible to persons with disabilities. The bill would exempt certai n commercial parking requirement s from these provisions if the requirements of the bill conflict with an existing contractual agreement of the public agency that was executed befor e January 1, 2023.
Status: 4/28/2022 -Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (Apri l 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes : SG: 4/27/2022 - Letter of Opposition submitted through portal AB 2234 (Rivas, Robert) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits. (Amended: S/2/2022) Link The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapprovin g, or conditionin g approval in a manner that renders infeasible, specified housing development projects, includin g projects for very low, low, or moderate-income households and projects for emergency shelter s, that comply with applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivi sion standards and criteria in effect at the time the application for the project is deemed comp lete, unless the local agency makes specified written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act authorizes a project applicant, a person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the housing development or emergency shelter , or a housing organization to bring a lawsuit to enforce its provisions.
This bill would require a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, as defined, to post an example of an ideal application and an example of an ideal complete set of postentitlement phase permit s for the most common housing development projects in the juri sdiction , and to make those item s available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would define local agency for these purposes to mean a city, county , or city and county. No later than January 1, 2024, except as specified, the bill would require a local agency to require permits to be applied for, comp leted, and stored through a process on its internet website, and to accept applications and related documentation by electronic mail until that internet website is established.
Status: 5/2/2022 -Read second time and amended.
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AB 2328 (Flora) Local ordinances: home experience sharing. (Introduced : 2/16/2022) Link Current law defines "hosting platform" as a marketplace that is created for the primary purpose of facilitating the rental of a resident ial unit, as specified. This bill would prohibit a city or county from prohibiting or effective ly prohibiting the RPPG
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Status: 4/27 /2022 -ln com mittee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the reque st of author .
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AB 2357 (Ting) Surplus land. (Amended : 4/5/2022) Link
Current law prescribes requirement s for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, as defined, and require s, except as provided, a local agency dispo sing of surplus land to comply with certain notice requirements before disposing of the land or participating in negotiation s to dispose of the land with a prospective transferee, parti cularly that the local agency send a noti ce of availability to specified entities that have notified the Department of Housing and Community Development of their intere st in surplus land, as specified . Under current law, if the local agency receives a notice of intere st, the local agency is required to engage in good faith negotiations with th e entity desirin g to purchase or lease the surplu s land . This bill would also require the department to maintain on its internet website a listing of all entities, includin g hou sing sponsors, that have notified th e department of their interest in surplus land fo r the purp ose of developin g low - and mod erate-income housing.
Status: 4/28/2022-Fro m committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2428 (Ramos) Mitigation Fee Act: fees for improvements: timeline for expenditure. (Introduced: 2/17/2022) Link The Miti gation Fee Act, requires a local agency that establishes, increases, or impo ses a fee as a condition of approval of a development proj ect to, among other thin gs, determine a reasonable relationship between the fee use and the type of development project on which the fee is impos ed. The Miti gation Fee Act also imposes additional requirement s for fees imposed to provide for an improvement to be constructed to serve a development proj ect, or which is a fee for public improvements, as specifie d, including that the fee s be deposited in a separate capital facilities account or fund. This bill would require a local agency that requires a qualifi ed applicant, as described, to deposit fees for improveme nts, as described, into an escrow account as a condition for receiving a condi tional use permit or equivalent development permit to expe nd the fees within 5 years of the depo sit.
Status: 4/29/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant t o Rule 61(b)(S). (Last location was L. GOV. on 3/3/2022) Client Position:
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AB 2656 (Ting) Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link
The Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act defines disapprove the housing development project as including any instance in which a local agency either votes and disapproves a proposed housing development project application, including any required land use approvals or entitlements necessary for the issuance of a building permit, or fail s to comply with specified time periods. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if the lead agency find s that the project will not have that effect. This bill would define disapprove the housing development project as also including any instance in which a local agency denies a project an exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as described, or requires further environmental study to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project or to certify an environmental impact report for the project when there is a legally sufficient basis in the record before the local agency to adopt a negative declaration or addendum or to certify an environmental impact report without further study.
Status: 4/26/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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SB 897 (Wieckowski) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link The Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. This bill would require that the standard s impo sed on accessory dwelling units be objective. For purposes of this requirement, the bill would define objective standard as a standard that involves no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified.
Status: 4/25/2022 -April 25 hearing : Placed on APPR suspense file.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes: SG - Draft letter of opposition sent 3/17 /22 Testified in Senate Housing 3/17 /22 Testified in Senate Governance and Finance 4/7 /22 Draft letter reflecting amended language sent 4/18/22 Letter submitted through portal 4/27 /22 SB 1032 (Becker) Public Utilities Commission: electrical transmission grid development and expansion: study. (Amended: 4/28/2022) Link
Under current law, it is the policy of the state that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers and 100% of electricity procur ed to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2045. Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to submit various reports to the Legislature . This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2024, to submit to the Governor and the RPPG
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Status: 5/2/2022-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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SB 1105 (Hueso) San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentally Friendly Affordable Housing Finance Agency. (Amended: 4/25/2022) Link
The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Agency to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined , and provide technical assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production . This bill, the San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentally Friendly Housing Act, would establish the San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentally Friendly Affordable Housing Agency and would state that the agency purpose is to increase the supply of equitable and environmentally friendly housing in the County of San Diego by providing for significantly enhanced funding and technical assistance across the regional level for equitable and environmentally friendly housing projects and programs, equitable housing preservation, and rental protection programs, as specified .
Status: 4/29/2022 -Set for hearing May 9.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes: Subcommittee make the motion to oppose the bill. RPPG drafting letter of opposiiton Mental Health
SB 1338 (Umberg) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program. (Amended: 4/7 /2022) Link
The Lanterman -Petris-Short Act provides for short-term and longer-term involuntary treatment and conservators hips for people who are determined to be gravely disabled. This bill would enact the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which would authoriz e specified people to petition a civil court to create a CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, stabilization medication , and housing support to adults who are suffering from schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorders and who lack medical decision making capacity. The bill would specify the process by which the petition is filed and reviewed, including requiring the petition to be signed under penalty of perjury , and to contain specified information , including the acts that support the petitioner belief that the respondent meets the CARE criterion.
Status: 4/29/2022 -Set for hearing May 9.
Client Position: Support
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SB 970 (Eggman) Mental Health Services Act. (Amended: 5/2/2022) Link The Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund (MHSF), a continuo usly appropriated fund, to fund various county mental health program s, including children mental health care, adult and older adult mental health care, prevention and early intervention programs, and innovative programs. This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, by July 1, 2025, to establish the California MHSA Outcomes and Accountability Review (MHSA-OAR), consisting of performan ce indicators, county self-assessments, and county MHSA improvement plans, to facilitate a local accountability system that fosters continuous quality improvement in county program s funded by the MHSA and in the collection and dissemination by the agency of best practices in service delivery. The bill would require the agency to convene a workgroup, as specified, to establish a workplan by which the MHSA-OAR shall be conducted, including a process for qualitative peer reviews of counties MHSA services and uniform elements for the county MHSA system improvement plans.
Status: 5/2/2022 -Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) Vessels: public safety activities . (Amended: 2/28/2022) Link Current law generally regulates the operation of vessels and associated equipme nt used, to be used, or carried in vessels used on waters subject to the jurisdiction of the state. Current law provides specified exemptions to the above described provision, including for a vessel whose owner is a state or subdivision thereof, that is used principally for govern mental purposes, and which is clearly identifiable as such. This bill would define subdivi sion thereof or subdivi sion of the state to include cities and counties.
Status: 3/17 /2022-Rea d third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position: Sponsor
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AB 2062 (Salas) Local law enforcement hiring grants. (Introduced: 2/14/2022) Link Would, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act and until January 1, 2029, require the Board of State and Community Corrections to establish a grant program to provide $50,000,000 in grants to local law enforcement agencies to incentivi ze peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved comm unitie s and to live in the communities that they are serving. The bill would require grant funds to be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies tha t are in underserved communitie s that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work. The bill would require local law enfo rcement agencies that receive grants to report specified information to the board annually and would require the board to report to the Legislatur e and the Governor office on the efficacy of the program, as prescribed, on or befor e July 1, 2028.
Status: 4/27 /2022-ln committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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Current law requires a peace officer to release a person who has been arrested for a misdemeanor after securing that person promise to appear, as specified, unless certain conditions are met for nonrelease, including , among others, there is reason to believe that the person would not appear as required or there was a reasonable likelihood that the offense or offenses for which the person was arrested would continue or resume. This bill, until January 1, 2026, would include in the reasons for non release that the person has been cited, arrested, or convicted for misdemeanor or felony theft from a store in the previous 6 months and that there is probable cause to believe that the person arrested is guilty of committing organized retail theft.
Status: 4/20/2022 -From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2644 (Holden) Juveniles: custodial interrogation. (Amended: 4/7/2022) Link Current law requires that a youth 17 years of age or younger consult with legal counsel in person, by telephone, or by video conference prior to a custodial interrogation and before waiving any of the above-specified rights. This bill would prohibit law enforcement officers from employing threats, physical harm, deception , or psychologically manipulative interrogation tactics, as specified , during an interrogation of a youth 25 years of age or younger.
Status: 4/27 /2022-ln committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
Client Position: Watch
Notes: 5/2/22 - SG: SD County publi c safety delegation will be sending a lett er of opposition .
AB 2715 (Gray) Organized retail theft . (Introduced: 2/18/2022) Link Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes it a misdemeanor to commit organized retail theft. Current law defines organized retail theft to include, among other acts, acting as an agent of another individual or group of individuals to steal merchandise from one or more merchant premises or online marketplace s as part of an organized plan to commit theft. Under current law, acts of organized retail theft that are committed on 2 or more separate occasions within a 12- month period and that have an aggregate value that exceeds $950 are punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony . This bill would remove the requirement that the person acting in concert with one or more person to steal merchandise from one or more merchant premises or on line marketplac e have the intent to sell, exchange, or return the merchandi se for value.
Status: 4/29/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was PUB. S. on 3/10/2022) RPPG
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SB 1000 (Becker) Law enforcement agencies: radio communications. (Amended : 3/16/2022) Link Current law establishes the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) to make specified criminal justice databases, including individual criminal histories , wanted and missing persons, and stolen firearms, vehicles, and property, available to participating law enforcement agencies. Current law prohibits unauthorized access to CLETS and the unlawful use of CLETS information by authorized users. Current law authorizes the Attorney General to adopt policie s, procedures, and practices related to the use of CLETS. These rules require a participating agency to restrict access to CLETS and define access as the ability to see or hear any information obtained from CLETS. This bill would require a law enforcement agency, including the California Highway Patrol, municipal police department s, county sheriff department s, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police departments , to ensure public access to the radio communications of that agency, as specified.
Status: 4/29/2022-Set for hearing May 9.
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SB 1038 (Bradford) Law enforcement : facial recognition and other biometric surveillance. (Introduced : 2/15/2022) Link Current law, until January 1, 2023, prohibits a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from installing , activating, or using any biometric surveillance system in connection with an officer camera or data collected by an officer camera. Current law allows a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief against a law enforcement agency or officer who violates this prohibition . This bill would extend these provisions indefinitely.
Status: 3/16/2022 -Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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SB 1464 (Pan) Law enforcement: public health orders. (Amended : 4/18/2022) Link Current law requires all sheriffs to execute all lawful orders of a department in their counties. Current law authorizes each sheriff to enforce all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectiou s, or communicable disease. Current law authori zes each peace officer of every political subdivision of the county to enforce within the area subject to their juri sdiction all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectiou s, or communicable disease. This bill would instead requir e those sheriffs and peace officers to enforce those orders. By expanding the duties of local law enforcement, this bill would create a st ate-mandated local program.
Status: 4/29/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(S). (Last location was HEALTH on 3/9/2022) RPPG
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AB 411 {Irwin) Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2022. {Amended: 1/24/2022) Link Existing law, the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2014 (the 2014 bond act), authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $600,000,000, as specified, for expenditure by the California Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide housing to veterans and their families pursuant to the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014 (VHHPA).This bill would enact the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2022 to authorize the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $600,000,000 to provide additional funding for the VHHPA. The bill wou ld provide for the handling and disposition of the funds in the same manner as the 2014 bond act. This bill contains other related provisions.
Status: 2/1/2022 -ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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AB 1951 {Grayson) Sales and use tax: exemptions: manufacturing. {Amended : 4/27 /2022) Link The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including a partial exemption from those taxes, on and after July 1, 2014, and before July 1, 2030, for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for purchases not exceeding $200,000,000, for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining , fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal property , as specified; qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in research and development, as provided; qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily to maintain, repair, measure, or test any qualified tangible personal property, as provided; and qualified tangible personal property purchased by a contractor purchasing that property for use in the performance of a construction contract for the qualified person, that will use that property as an integral part of specified processes.
Current law, on and after January 1, 2018, and before July 1, 2030, additionally exempts from those taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in the generation or production, as defined, or storage and distribution, as defined , of electric power. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, eliminate the limitation of $200,000,000 in purchases by a qualified person, and would make this a full exemption. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028, and would revert to the above-described partial exemption on that date.
Status: 4/28/2022-Re -referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
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AB 1622 (Chen) Smog check program: catalytic converter theft. (Introduced: 1/10/2022) Link Existing law establishes a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program , commonly known as the smog check program, that is administered and enforced by the Department of Consumer Affairs. The smog check program requires inspection of motor vehicles upon initial registration, biennially upon renewal of registration , upon transfer of ownership, and in certain other circumstances. Among other thing s, the smog check program requires the department to provide a licensed smog check station with a sign informing customers about options when their vehicle fails a biennial smog check inspection. Existing law requires the sign to be posted conspicuously, as provided , and requires the sign in all licensed smog check stations. Existing regulations implement this requirement. A person who violates these laws, including any order, rule, or regulation of the department adopted pursuant to these laws, is guilty of a misdemeanor .This bill would require the department to provide a licensed smog check station with a sign inform ing customers about strategies for deterring catalytic converter theft, including the etching of identifyin g information on the catalytic converter. The bill would require the sign to be posted conspicuously in an area frequented by customers and would require it in all licensed smog check stat ions. The bill would also authorize stations where licensed smog check technician repairs are performed to offer and recommend to customers the etching as an optional service provided in conjunction with the smog check. Because the department would adopt regulations implementing the new requirement s and a violation of these regulations would be a crime, the bill would impose a state -mandated local program . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Status: 4/29/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(S). (Last location was TRANS. on 1/10/2022) Client Position: Watch
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AB 1717 (Aguiar-Curry) Public works: definition. (Introduced: 1/27/2022) link Current law requires that , except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to worker s employed on public works projects. Current law define s the term "public works" for purpo ses of requirement s regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition , installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Current law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a misdemeanor. This bill would expand the definition of "public works" to include fu el reduction work paid for in whole or in part out of public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project, as specified.
Status: 4/2 7 /2022- ln committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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AB 1740 (Muratsuchi) Catalytic converters. (Introduced: 1/31/2022) link Current law require s a core recycler, as defined , who accepts a catalytic converter for recycling to maintain a writte n record of specified information regarding the tran saction, including the item type and quantity , amount paid for the catalytic converter, and identification number, if any, and the vehicle identification numb er, for not less than 2 years.
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Current law makes it a crime to violate these requirements . This bill would additionally require a core recycler to maintain a written record of the year, make, and model of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed.
Status: 4/28/2022-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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AB 1778 (Garcia, Cristina) State transportation funding: freeway projects: poverty and pollution: Department of Transportation. (Amended: 3/24/2022) Link
Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to do any act necessary, convenient, or proper for the construction , improvement, maintenance, or use of all highways that are under its jurisdiction, possession, or control.
Current law requires the departm ent to prepare and submit to the Governor a proposed budget, as provided . This bill would require the department to consult the California Healthy Places Index, as defined, as a condition of using state fund s or personnel time to fund or permit freeway projects, as provided. The bill would require the department to analyze housing and environmental variables through the index, as provided, and would prohibit any state funds or personnel time from being used to fund or permit freeway projects in areas that fall within the zero to 50th percentile on the housing and environm ental variables analyzed through th e index, as provided.
Status: 4/19/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Client Position: Watch
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AB 1833 (Ward) San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board: North County Transit District: consolidated agency: public contracting . (Amended: 4/27 /2022) Link The Mill s-Deddeh Transit Development Act establishes the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, also known as the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, with specified powers and duties related to the operation of publi c tran sit services in a portion of the County of San Diego. Current law requires the board, North County Transit District, and consolidated agency to follow specified procedures when contracting for certain services, the acquisition or lease of material s, supplie s, or equipment, architectural, landscape architectural , engineering, environmental, land surveying, or construction project management services. Existing law requir es th ose entitie s to follow different procedures when the amount of the contract exceeds specified thre sholds. This bill wo uld increase those thresholds from $100,000, or $50,000 in certain instances, to $150,000, and would make other clarifyin g changes, as specified.
Status: 5/2/2022-Assem bly Rule 96 suspended. Withdrawn from committ ee. Ordered to second reading.
Client Position: Watch
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AB 1946 (Boerner Horvath) Electric Bicycles: Safety and Training Program (Amended 3/11/22) Link This bill direct s the California Highway Patrol {CHP), in collaboration with relevant stakeholder s, to develop, by September 1, 2023, statewide safety standards and training programs for users of electric bicycles (e-bikes). The bill directs the CHP to post the safety standards and training program s on it internet website by September 1, 2023.
Status: 5/2/22 - In Senate. To Committee on Rules for assignment.
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AB 2237 (Friedman) Transportation planning: regional transportation improvement plan: sustainable communities strategies: climate goals. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link
Current law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportatio n plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional tran sportation system. Current law requires each regional transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization . Current law requires the Strategic Growth Council, by January 31, 2022, to submit a report to the relevant policy and fiscal committee s of the Legislature that includes, among other thing s, an overview of those sustainable communitie s strategie s, an assessment of how implementation of those sustainable communitie s strategie s will influence the configuration of the statewide integrated multimodal transportation system, and a review of the potential impacts and opportunities for coordination of specified funding programs, including the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communitie s Program. This bill would require the council, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Transportation Agency, to convene a task force to review the roles and responsibilities of metropolitan planning organizations and to define sustainable community .
Status: 4/26/2022 -From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2367 (Ward) Regional transportation plans: implementation authority: San Diego Association of Governments. (Amended: 4/27 /2022) Link
Current law requires each regional transportation plan to also includ e a sustainable communitie s strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization. Existing law provides for the consolidation of certain regional transportation planning, programming , and related functions in the County of San Diego from variou s agencies. Current law provide s for the consolidated agency, commonly known as the San Diego Association of Governments (SAN DAG), to be govern ed by a 21-member board of directors, each of whom is selected by the governing body of a city in the county or the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, as specified . Current law authori zes SAN DAG to exercise specified rights and power s including, among other thing s, adopting a regional transportation plan and issuing bonds, as provided. This bill would explicitly authoriz e SAN DAG to implement every component of the regional tran sportation plan and to seek resources and funding for projects identified in the sustainable communities strategy , as provided. The bill would also authorize SAN DAG to exercise its bonding authority to implement the regional transportation plan, as provided.
Status: 5/2/2022-Read third time . Passed. Ordered to the Senate. {Ayes 70. Noes 0.) Client Position: Watch
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Would require the Department of Transportation and a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway, to the extent feasible and cost effective, to use advanced technologies and material recycling technique s that reduce the cost of maintaining and rehabilitating streets and highways and that exhibit reduced levels of greenhouse gas emissions through material choice and construction method. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2024, a local agency that has juri sdiction over a street or highway, to the extent feasible and cost effective, to apply standard specifications that allow for the use of recycled materials in streets and highways, as specified. The bill would exempt cities and count ies whose revenues do not exceed specified thresholds from these requirements . By increasing the duties of local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program .
Status: 4/19/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. {Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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SB 922 (Wiener) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects. (Amended: 4/4/2022l link
CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements bicycle transportation plans for an urbanized area for restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway inter section operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrian s, and vehicles under certain conditions. This bill would specify that the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area or urban cluster, as designated by the United States Census Bureau. The bill would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan in an urbani zed area or urban cluster. The bill would define active transportation plan and pedestrian plan. The bill would specify that individual projects that are a part of an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan remain subject to the requirements of CEQA unless those project s are exempt by another provision of law.
Status: 4/19/2022-Read second tim e. Ordered to third reading.
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SB 932 (Portantino) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans. (Amended: 3/23/2022) Link
Current law states the Legislature intention that a county or city general plan and the elements and parts of that general plan tom prise an integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting agency. This bill would emphasize the intent of the Legislature to fight climate change with these provisions.
Status: 4/26/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
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AB 2635 (Levine) Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006: public, educational, and government access channels. (Amended: 3/11/2022) Link
The Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 provides that the holder of a state franchise is not a public utility as a result of providing video services and does not provide the Public Utilities Commission with authority to regulate the rates, terms , and conditions of video service, except as explicitly set forth in the act. The act requires a holder of a state franchise to designate a sufficient amount of capacity on its network for public, educational, and governmental access (PEG) channels, as specified. The act requires that the PEG signal be receivable by all subscribers, without the need for any equipment other than the equipment necessary to receive the lowest cost tier of service, and that PEG access capacity is of similar quality and functionality to that offered by commercial channels on the lowe st cost tier of service, as specified. This bill would instead require that the PEG signal be receivable by all subscribers, without the need for any equipment different from that equipment necessary to receive the highest quality broadcast television channels, and that PEG access capacity is of similar quality and functionality to that offered by commercial channels, as specified .
Status: 5/2/2022-Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 18. Noes 18.). Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Levine.
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SB 612 (Portantinol Electrical corporations and other load-serving entities: allocation of legacy resources. (Amended: 5/20/2021) Link
Would require an electrical corporation, by July 1, 2022, and not less than once every 3 years thereafter , to offer an allocation of certain electrical resources to its bundled customers and to other load-serving entities, including electric service provider s and community choice aggregators, that serve departing load customers who bear cost responsibility for those resources. The bill would authorize a load-serving entity within the service territory of the electrical corporation to elect to receive all or a portion of the vintaged proportional share of those legacy resources allocated to its end-use customers and, if it so elects, would require it to pay to the electrical corporation the commission established market price benchmark for the vintage proportional share of the resources received.
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Status: 7 /14/2021 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(ll). (Last location was U. & E. on 6/10/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022)
Client Position: Support
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AB 2106 (Rivas, Robert) Water quality : permits. (Amended: 3/15/2022) Link The State Water Resources Contro l Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality and prescribe waste discharge requireme nts in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program established by the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter -Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Current law requires each regional board to formu late and adopt water quality control plans for all areas within the region, as provided. This bill would require , on or before December 31, 2024, the state board to modernize its Stormwater Multiple Application and Report Tracking System (SMARTS) database through specified actions.
Status: 3/23/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (Marc h 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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SB 1157 (Hertzberg) Urban water use objectives: indoor residential water use. {Introduced: 2/17/2022) Link Current law require s the Department of Water Resources, in coord ination wit h the State Water Resources Contro l Board, and including collaboration with and input from stakeholders, to conduct necessary studies and investigations and authorizes the department and the board to jointly recommend to the Legislature a standard for indoor residential water use. Current law, unti l January 1, 2025, establishes 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water use. Existing law establishes, beginning January 1, 2025, the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, establishes the greater of SO gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. This bill wou ld eliminate the option of using the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily and the greate r of 50 gallons per capita daily, as applicab le, or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use.
Status: 4/21/2022 -Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 9.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time.
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Client Position: Oppose Unless Amended
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Legislative Subcommittee
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May 10, 2022
Legislative Calendar
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com Early May—Governor will present “May Revision” of his FY22-23 budget proposal.
May 27—House of origin deadline last day for bills introduced in 22’ to advance to the opposite house.
June 30 - FY22-23 Budget Must be signed by the Governor.
July 1- July 31—Legislative Summer Recess
August 1- 31—Last month of the two-year legislative session September 30—Last day for Governor to sign or veto legislation AB 1672 – Lifeguard Certification Equivalency
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com Introduced on January 20, AB 1672 by Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath will allow for lifeguard certification by the United State’s Lifesaving Association (USLA) be permitted to work as lifeguards at city operated swimming pools.
• Bill was amended on March 7 to address concerns raised by USLA. • RPPG continues to meet with committee members, consultants and stakeholders.
• Amended on Assembly Floor.
AB 1682 – Water Vessels Speed Limit Exemption
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com Introduced on January 24, AB 1682 is joint authored by Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath and Assemblymember Chris Ward. This bill will exempt City water vessels from the current 5 mile per hour speed limit requirement.
City of San Diego is a co-sponsor.
Next Steps:
• Meet with committee members and consultants in the Senate. • Continue to build support coalition and meet with stakeholders. • Bill was on consent in the Assembly.
• In Senate Rules Committee awaiting referral.
2022/2023 Budget Requests
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2022/2023 State Budget: Funding Requests
Ahead of the May Revise, it is estimated tax revenues will be $65 billion higher than forecasted in January. Key budget asks for local agencies include:
$500 million for New Housing and Economic Development Program • Would encourage State-Local Partnerships to make significant investments in:
• Affordable Housing
• Public Infrastructure
• Economic Development
$933.5 million for Unfunded State Mandates
• Over $933 million is owed to local governments for state mandated local programs.
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Bills of Interest
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2022 Legislation: Mental Health
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com SB 1338 (Umberg) CARE Court
CARE Court connects a person struggling with untreated mental illness with a court-ordered Care Plan for up to 24 months. Each plan is managed by a care team in the community and can include clinically prescribed, individualized interventions with several supportive services, medication, and a housing plan. The client-centered approach also includes a public defender and supporter to help make self-directed care decisions in addition to their full clinical team, as well as opportunities for early engagement and settlement agreements for treatment plans.
The Governor’s May Revision to the Budget will include costs for the new Care Court process, including judges and appointed counsel.
Status: Assembly Appropriations
City Position: Support
2022 Legislation: Mental Health
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com SB 965 (Eggman) Conservatorships: Medical Record: Hearsay Rule This bill creates, in a proceeding under the LPS Act, an exception to the rule against hearsay that allows an expert witness to rely on the out-of-court statements of medical professionals who have treated the person who is the subject of the conservatorship petition.
Status: Senate Floor
SB 1227 (Eggman) Involuntary Commitment: Intensive Treatment This bill would authorize an additional 30-day period of treatment if the patient is still in need of intensive treatment and the certification for the additional 30-day treatment period has begun. The bill also would make changes to the evaluation requirements for determining whether the patient is likely to qualify for appointment of a conservator.
Status: Senate Appropriations
2022 Legislation: Housing and Land Use
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com SB 1105 (Hueso) San Diego Regional Equitable and Environmentlally Friendly Affordable Housing Finance Agency (SD REEF)
This bill would create and a new regional authority that covers all of San Diego County and the cities in the County.
• Creates the governance structure:
• One appointee and alternate appointed by the Mayor of San Diego • One appointee and alternate appointed by the Board of Supervisors • On member and alternate from the SANDAG east county, north county coastal, north county inland and the south county subregions.
• Governing Board would be authorized to:
• Place revenue measures on the ballot, incur dept, hire staff and apply for grants, among others
• Establishes how funding will be expended.
• 50% would go to SD Reef
• 50% would go to eligible jurisdictions
Status: Senate Appropriations
2022 Legislation: Housing and Land Use
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com AB 2011 (Wicks) The Affordable Housing and High Road Job Act of 2022 This bill would create a ministerial streamlined approval process for 100% affordable housing in commercially-zoned areas and for mixed-income housing along commercial corridors. • Ensures certain wage and labor standards will be met including being paid at least prevailing wage.
• For projects of 50 or more units, contractors must either participate in a state approved apprenticeship program or request workers from such a program and provide health benefits.
• Enforcement mechanisms will be instilled to ensure payroll and benefit requirements are being met.
• There is a potential for a reduction in sales tax revenue and TOT from the loss of commercial properties.
Status: Passed Assembly Housing 4/27; Re-referred to Rules Committee 2022 Legislation: Transportation
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com AB 2953 (Salas) Streets and Highways: Recycled Materials This bill would require Caltrans and local agencies that have jurisdiction over a street or highway to use to the extent possible recycled materials.
Status: Assembly Appropriations
SB 922 (Wiener) CEQA: Exemptions: Transportation Related Projects.
In 2020 Governor Newsom signed into law, SB 288 (Wiener), temporarily exempting from CEQA certain clean transportation projects that have benefits to the environment and communities.
Under current law, these CEQA exemptions sunset on January 1, 2023. This bill would eliminate the sunset date and streamline CEQA with statutory exemptions on transit and active transportation projects.
Status: Senate Floor
2022 Legislation: Climate Resiliency
AB 1789 (Bennett) Outdoor recreation: California Recreational Trails System Plan: California Trails Commission: Trails Corps Program: grant program
This bill creates the California Trails Commission establishes the Trails Corps Program within the California Conservation Corps and appropriates funding for competitive grants to specified entities to provide nonmotorized infrastructure development and enhancements.
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 2160 (Bennett) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: fees This bill amends the California Coastal Act to authorize a city or county, at the request of an applicant for a coastal development permit, to waive or reduce the permit fee for specified projects.
Status: Assembly Floor
AB 2346 (Gabriel) Outdoor recreation: Outdoors for All Program Establishes the Outdoors for All Program at the California Natural Resources Agency and creates the Californians Outside Program to provide grants for outdoor access and education purposes.
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee
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2022 Legislation: Brown Act
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com AB 1944 (Lee) Local government: open and public meetings This bill was amended 4/18 to:
• State that if an official is participating from a public place, that the official must publicize their address and make it available to the public in accordance with current law. • States that there is an exemption from posting an official’s physical location if the official is participating from a private location.
• Specifies that in exchange for the use of hybrid meetings, the local jurisdiction shall provide two- way teleconferencing for members of the public.
• This bill would sunset in 2030.
Status: Assembly Floor
AB 2294 Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences
This bill would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with those specified teleconferencing requirements if at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the local agency’s jurisdiction.
Status: Assembly Floor
2022 Legislation: Elections
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com AB 1416 (Santiago) Elections: Ballot Label
This bill would require a statewide ballot measure include a list of supporters and opponents. This bill would permit a local ballot measure to include a list of support and opposition for the measure.
Status: Senate Elections Committee
SB 1131 (Newman) Safe and Home Program: Election Workers and Reproduction Health Care Providers
Current law establishes an address confidentiality program for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder or dependent adult abuse, commonly known as the Safe at Home program. This bill would create a similar program for election workers.
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee
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