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June 14, 2022
City Council Legislative Subcommittee
Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director
Legislative and Advocacy Update
Recommendation : Receive an update on state and federal legislative and budg et activity and recent and ongoing advocacy efforts; discuss and provide feedback to staff, including identifying high -priority bills, advocacy position s, 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 legislation being trac ked on behalf of the city (Exhibit 2).
A fact sheet for AB 1946 (Boerner Horvath): E-Bike Safety Education and Training (Exhibit 3) is provid ed in response to the Subcommittee's recent request for more information regarding thi s bill.
The Subcommittee is reque sted to provide feedback to help city staff and the city' s lobbyin g consultants focus the city's advocacy efforts on high -priority bills and to identify bills for future City Council consideration.
Position Letters Submitted to Committees and/or Legislative Offices • 2022-23 State Budget Request to support the Vitality of Cities • 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 Unit s - Oppose • SB 1105 (Hueso): SD Regional Affordable Housing Finance Agency - Oppose • SB 1157 (Hertzberg): Indoor Residential Water Use - Oppose Unless Amended • SB 1186 (Wiener): Medicinal Cannabis Patients' Right of Access Act - Oppose • SB 1338 (Umberg): CARE Court Program - Support
• 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 Inspection s - Oppose June 14, 2022 Item #2 Page 1 of SO
• AB 1944 (Lee and C. Garcia): Local Government - Open and Public Meetings - Support • AB 2097 (Friedman): Residential and Commercial Parking Requirements - Oppose • AB 2179 (Grayson): Development Fees - Oppose (Gut and Amend to COVID-19 Tenant Relief)
• AB 2449 {Rubio): Open Meetings - Local Agencies - Teleconferencin g- Support • AB 2838 {O'Donnell): Electrical Corporations - Green Tariff Program - Oppose Unless Amended
• AB 2953 (Salas): Department of Transportation and Local Agencies - Oppose Unless Amended
Staff continue s to evaluate bill s that may impact city operations and policy prior ities, which will be presented for discussion and feedback from the Legislative Subcommittee .
Exhibits:
1. RPPG Legislative Monthly Report - May 2022
2. Priority Legislation List - June 8, 2022
3. Fact Sheet - AB 1946 (Boerner Horvath): E-Bike Safety Education and Training June 14, 2022 Item #2 Page 2 of 50
June 8, 2022
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To: Mayor Matt Hall, Legislative Subcommittee Member
Councilmember 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: legislative Monthly Report
May a Whirlwind of Activity as Lawmakers Rush to Meet Deadlines Exhibit 1
May was a month offiscal and legislative deadlines for the Administration and Legislature. It marked the mid-May release of the Governor's May Revision to his January FY 2022-23 Budget Proposal and the House of Origin deadline, which had thousands of bills scrambling to meet fiscal and policy committee deadlines in time to get voted off the Floor of their first house to make it to the next.
RPPG provided an extensive update on the May Revision package in the 2022 May Revise Budget Update summary we distributed to City staff on May 16, delivered a report out on the outcomes of the Suspense File hearings for Assembly and Senate Appropriation committees on May 20, and provided a House of Origin + Key Leadership Change report on May 31 capturing a snapshot of the whirlwind of activity leading up to the deadline and political happenings at the State Capitol (Attachments A, B and C).
May Revision
Governor Newsom structured his proposed additional largely one-time funding investments in the context of seeking to bolster current programs that align with the following state priorities of lowering costs, rebuilding California, creating a healthier California, making a safer California, and climate commitment. There was not a lot of additional investment in direct funding or opportunities for local government to leverage the influx of monies, despite the unprecedented surplus just shy of $100 billion, but as details are fleshed out in the actual budget bill and trailer bill language is released, there may be opportunities by way of grants or peripheral access via state programs. • Overall budget: $300.7 billion
• Overall surplus: $97.5 billion
• Discretionary surplus: $49.2 billion
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House of Origin
May 27th marked the "House of Origin" deadline which signals the half-way point in each legislative session. All majority vote bills introduced in their respective House must be voted on-garnering at least a majority from their colleagues (21 out of 40 in the Senate, 41 out of 80 in the Assembly) and advance to the opposite House in order to stay alive in 2022. What's more is due to the fact that we are in year two of the two-year legislative session, if a measure did not advance prior to the deadline, the measure has effectively stalled for the remainder of the legislative year.
All told there were 1,523 Assembly bills that made it out of the Assembly and have headed to the Senate. Conversely, there were 762 Senate measures that advanced out of the Senate and are now in the Assembly.
Legislative Timing and Key Dates:
June 15 Budget Bill must be passed by midnight (Art. IV, Sec. 12(c)).
June 30 Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the Nov. 8 General Election ballot (Elections Code Sec. 9040).
July 1 Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(14)) .
Summer Recess begins upon adjournment, provided Budget Bill has been signed (J.R. Sl(b)(2)).
July 4 Independence Day.
Aug. 1 Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J.R. Sl(b)(2)) .
Aug. 12 Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(15)).
Aug. 15 - 31. Floor session only. No committee may meet for any purpose except Rules Committee , bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rules 77.2, and Conference Committees (J.R. 61(b)(16)).
Aug. 25 Last day to amend bills on the floor (J.R. 61(b)(17)).
Aug. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills (Art. IV, Sec l0(c), J.R. 61(b)(18}). Final Recess begins upon adjournment (J.R. Sl(b)(3)).
City Sponsored Legislation
AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath) Public Swimming Pools: lifeguards.
This bill sponsored by the City of Carlsbad would authorize lifeguards who are certified by the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA) to provide services at municipal operated swimming pools. The measure advanced out of the Senate Health Committee on June 1 after the author agreed to committee amendments to require a 12-month limitation for USLA lifeguards to fill in for pool lifeguards without being certified by American Red Cross (ARC) or YMCA. The bill will next be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) Public safety: Speeding vessels: lifeguard rescue vessels.
This measure sponsored by the City of Carlsbad will be heard in the Senate Public Safety Committee on June 14, 2022. This bill would exempt vessels clearly identifiable as lifeguard rescue vessels and vessels engaged in public safety activities from the speed limit imposed on machine-propelled vessels operating in certain areas. City staff and RPPG have been working diligently with all stakeholders involved to express the rationale and importance of the legislation .
June Primary
On June 7, the 2022 primary election took place to determine the top two vote-getters who will June 14, 2022 Item #2 Page 4 of 50
move on to the general election regardless of candidate pool size, party preference, or whether one candidate receives the majority of all votes cast in the primary election.
As of Wednesday, June 8, 2022, it appears that about 15% of the state's registered voters cast their ballots, according to Political Data Intelligence. That's down from roughly 34% around the same time in last year's gubernatorial recall, and 18% at the same point before the 2018 midterms. This election has the potential to set a record for all-time low voter turnout.
Assembly Speaker
On May 27, Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D, Salinas) presented a letter to the current Assembly Speaker-Anthony Rendon (D, Lakewood) signed by a majority number of Assembly Democrats that indicates he has secured enough votes to become the 71st Speaker of the Assembly. While it has been rumored for some time that Rivas had his sights set on the role, this move all but makes it official. In a statement Rivas stated his coalition of supporters "represents a diverse group of [Assembly Democratic] Members from across the state that includes leadership of the Latino, AP/, LGBTQ, Women's, Jewish and Progressive Caucuses as well as significant support from members of the Black Caucus".
This is the first time in decades that the Speakership will be held by a Northern California Democrat.
The previous eight Assembly Speakers have hailed from Los Angeles County-except for a brief period of time when the position was held by then Assemblymember Toni Atkins (D, San Diego). Nonetheless the last Speaker from Northern California was Willie Brown in 1995. This move is significant, as the Speaker of the Assembly is arguably one of the most powerful positions in California politics . The Speaker is responsible for appointing every committee chair, has discretion over every Assemblymember's office budget and can wield their power in conjunction with the Governor and Senate Pro Tempore to advance statewide policy goals. Assemblymember Rendon became the 70th Assembly Speaker in 2016. Rivas was elected in 2018 and with 12-year term limits could potentially hold this seat until 2030. It will be interesting to see when the transition will take place. Critical deadlines including ongoing budget negations and end of session legislative priorities all run through the Speakers office for approval.
Gun Safety and Gun Violence Prevention
In light of several mass shooting occurrences over the course of one week, Governor Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Atkins and Assembly Speaker Rendon announced California will expedite additional gun safety laws that will protect people from gun violence. They will work together with key legislators to expedite additional bills pending before the legislature aimed at curbing gun violence and increasing safety in California communities .
An initial package of bills the Governor has committed to signing include:
• AB 2571 (Bauer-Kahan) - Restricts advertising of firearms to minors • AB 1621 {Gipson) - Restricts ghost guns and the parts and kits used to build them • SB 1327 (Hertzberg and Portantino) - Creates private right of action to limit spread of illegal assault weapons and ghost guns and is sponsored by Governor Newsom • AB 1594 (Ting)-Allows governments and victims of gun violence to sue manufacturers and sellers of firearms
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2022-2023 LEGILSATIVE BUDGET AGREEMENT
On June 1, Senate President Pro Tern Atkins, Assembly Speaker Rendon and their respective budget chairs announced a Legislative budget agreement . The joint plan contains the priorities laid out by both houses and includes elements of the Governor's budget proposals.
One key difference is legislative leadership continues to push for their own $8 billion gas price and inflation relief plan, which is income-limited and would give $200 to all taxpayers earning $125 ,000 per year, or $250,000 for joint filers. Families would also get $200 per dependent. Newsom's measure is focused on vehicle owners and would give drivers $400 per car, up to a total of $800. The governor has said he wants his relief targeted to the middle class, and he has also proposed grant funding to allow public transit users three months of free rides.
Legislators' budget also included: $10.9 billion for a multi-year transportat ion funding package $1.6 billion for affordable housing programs. $75 million in annual funding to support community-based organizations to reduce health disparities and address the public health impacts of systemic racism. $10 million in one-time funds to develop and promote high quality peer-to-peer mental health support programs for youth .
LOOKING FORWARD
By June 15 the Legislature must send a balanced budget to the Governor, who will then have until July 1 to sign it. This is a constitutiona l deadline that must be met in order for not only lawmakers, but all state employees to be paid and state business to continue. If last year is any reference for what may come this year, given the historic surplus the state is facing, we can anticipate many trailer bills to follow the June 15 deadline through the end of the month and in August. Trailer bills do not have any constitutiona l, state, or self-imposed deadlines by whi ch they must be proposed or passed.
But, while last year budget activity didn't subside until Fall, this is an election year and lawmakers will want the budget deal finalized by the end of August in order for them to be in district and finish campaign activities on strong footing.
June will be busy with policy committees wrapping up for the year, as the deadline for all policy committees to meet to hear and refer bills to the Floor is July 1, which is also the first day of the Legislature's summer recess. They break for July and come back in August to finish out this two-year session.
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May 16, 2022
To: Mr. Jason Haber
Ms. Cindie McMahon
City of Carlsbad
From: Sharon Gonsalves
Renne Public Policy Group
Re: May Revision, Governor Newsom FY 22-23 State Budget Update Dear Mr. Haber,
Attachment A
The following is a preliminary summary of the Governor Newsom's May Revision of his FY 22-23 state budget proposal. Moving forward, as you have the opportunity to dive into the proposals in greater detail, if there are other areas or line items of interest expressed by Council or department heads, please do not hesitate to reach out to our team to ask questions or request additional information .
May Revise: Budget Update Summary
On May 13, Governor Newsom presented his budget update, "building on the state's ongoing work to confront California's greatest existential threats, bolster our economic growth, and make histor ic investments in California's future. " The press conference lasted 2.5 hours, and included robust Q&A with the Governor, as well as with Keely Bosler, the Director of the Department of Finance.
Governor Newsom structured his proposed additional largely one-time funding investments in the context of seeking to bolster current programs that align with the following state priorities:
1. Lowering Costs
2. Rebuilding California
3. Creating a Healthier California
4. Making a Safer California
5. Climate Commitment
Governor's Prioritie s
The Governor's priorities for allocating state surplus funds include offering inflation relief to California residents, improving energy system reliability to avoid blackouts, and paying down state debts and pension liabilities. Additionally, the Governor took a stand on California's Pro-Life Agenda, stating that California will "advance our values, not just our principles" by tethering several of the proposed state spending priorities to enhanced protections and access for those fleeing from states with anti abortion and anti-LGBT policies. Further, the Administration continues to seek opportunity for the state to become an insulin supplier and to work toward a single-payer health system, with Universal Health Coverage as a first and novel step.
The Governors May Revision of the FY 22-23 budget proposal can be found HERE.
May Revision, By the Numbers
Overall budget: $300. 7 billion • Just under a 5% increase over January's projected revenues
• $227.3 billion General Fund spending, which
reflects a 15.5% increase from January
• $68.9 billion Special Funds
• $4.4 billion Bond Funds
Overall Surplus: $97.5 billion, which • $3.4 billion Proposition 2 funds, accelerating triggers : pay off of retirement liabilities
• $7.2 billion reserve deposits into the State's
Rainy-Day Fund
• $35.7 billion in Proposition 98 spending -
which reflects an increase of just over $21
billion from January numbers
Discretionary Surplus: $49.2 billion • Increase of $31.7 billion since January • 99% of increased May revenues is proposed
as targeted one-time funds as outlined
below
Areas of Interest to Local Government
While this budget reflects just over $300 billion in spending, including just under $100 billion in surplus funds, there is not much proposed investment by way of direct funding to municipalitie s.
However, we have identified the following investments to be of particular interest to local government.
Homelessness, Housing & M ental Health
• Project Homekey. $150 million in additional funding is proposed. • New Homeless Interim Housing Program. $500 mill ion is proposed to be allocated for grants to local governments for constructing inter im homeless housing on state lands. • Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention Program (HHAP). The May Revise states that the Administration is committed to extending this program at its current $1 billion annual funding level, pending further discussion with the Legislature to meaningfully increase outcomes and accountabi lity on local HHAP spending to focus on highest priority needs, such as encampment resolution, Homekey operat ing sustainabi lity, and CARE Court housing supports. However, funding will not be released until local accountability plans for homelessness have been received by the state to be figured into awarded funding. These are due by June from cities and counties, who must put together a plan showing how they will use the dollars to meet specified metrics and is accompanied by a spending augmentat ion of 18% for those found to be in comp liance. • Adaptive Reuse. $600 million ($500 million in the May Revise plus $100 million proposed in the January budget) is proposed over two fiscal years for adaptive reuse projects that convert underuti lized retai l and office properties to housing. It also includes proposed streamlined approvals process to enhance the speed of delivery. With new 6th Cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation {RHNA) targets set at an additional 2.5 million units as the statewide goal, the state is investing where its priorities are to "make real what we promote ," and is "leaning in hard" to meet needs.
Mental Health
• CARE Court. $65 million for state focused one-time initial costs to implement CARE Court, but negotiations are ongoing with counties to determine actual cost needs and an ongoing funding burden has yet to be disclosed. This item continues to be controversial and negotiations between the Administration, Legislature, counties, and stakeholders is ongoing. Additionally, this builds on the proposed $1.5 billion from the January Budget proposal for mental health beds.
• $290 million augmentation, Children's Mental Health Package. This builds on the $4.5 billion in children and youth behavioral health initiative from last year with an additional $290 million augmentation in the May Revision:
• $85 million in wellness and mindfulne ss programs
• $75 million youth led media campaigns
• $50 million school and community-based crisis response • $40 million community-based youth suicide prevention and outreach • $40 million career development and parental support
Transportation
• Active Transportation. $500 million is allocated for active transportation projects. • Federal Infrastructure Funding. The May Revise projects that California will receive $38 billion in funding under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act over the next five years, and thus provides a combined $194 million to address increased Caltrans' staffing needs.
Drought Relief
As part of an overall $7.2 billion to tackle drought between FY 2021-22 and January FY 22-23 Proposal, the May Revise includes $1.3 billion in additional drought-related proposals. Depending on the yet to be fleshed out details of the proposed investments, these spending priorities may tri ckle down to the local level in the form of grant funding opportunities for specific projects . Proposed spending includes:
• $530 million to support water recycling and groundwater cleanup; advance drinking water and clean water proje cts that leverage significant federal infrastructure funds; and continue aqueduct solar pilots.
• $553 million to provide grants to urban water districts and smaller community water suppliers for drought-relief and related projects.
• $280 million to address fish and wildlife impacts associated with drought and climate change.
• $187 million to support agricultural water conservation practi ces.
Economic Development and Tax Relief
• Cal Competes Tax Credits and Grants. The May Revise proposes extending for five additional years the existing Cal Competes Program, which offers tax credits to attract and retain high quality jobs, at $180 million annually. An additional $120 million one-time is proposed for Cal Competes grants, which can be offered to businesses in addition to tax credits. • New Tax Credit Program Proposal. The May Revise combines two tax credit programs (New Innovation Headquarters Credit and Pre-Development of Green Energy Technologies Credit) that were proposed in the January budget into a single program administered by the Energy Commission, funded at $1.05 billion over four years. This program is also required to provide additional consideration to companies that relocate from states that have enacted anti-LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights laws.
• Cannabis
o Proposed revisions to cannabis taxation. Eliminate the cultivation tax, shift the point of sale of the 15% excise tax from distribution to retail. The Administration assesses this may create a temporary loss in local revenues and has proposed a $150 million investment in targeted grants to backfill potential losses. o $20.5 million for grants to local governments to expand local retail access. • Tax Relief
o Sales and use tax exclusion for lithium extraction for a three-year period, with local impacts backfilled.
o One-year suspension of the state's portion of sales tax on diesel fuel. o Clarification that recipients of federal PPP grants will not be subject to state income tax on the amounts received.
o Offers applicants under two recent Main Street hiring tax credit programs the ability to claim eligible credits over the next five years.
• Small Business Hard-Hit Industries Grant Program. The May Revise proposes this new program to assist businesses that suffered most in the pandemic and agricultural businesses suffering from drought impacts. The program would be administered by the Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) and offer:
Energy
• $500 million in grants, ranging from $10k-$50k, to businesses in the top ten industries most impacted by the pandemic.
• $75 million in grants to small agricultural businesses, ranging between $30k-$50k , to provide additional relief to those small businesses most affected by severe drought. • State megawatt (MW) gaps have been prioritized in the May Revision. • $10 billion combined proposed investment between the January FY 22-23 proposal and May Revision: $2 billion (January), $8 billion (May). The additional $8 billion proposed funding is broken down as follows:
• Strategic Electricity Reliability Reserve (5,000 MW}. $5.2 billion. • Energy Arrearage Relief. $1.2 billion.
• Residential Solar Incentives . $970 million to the Public Utilitie s Commission (PUC) for incentives residential solar and storage systems, of which $670 million is to be directed to low-income households.
• $225 million: New electricity transmission, including from Salton Sea. The development of lithium valley has emerged as a significant state priority to meet the needs of the future.
The proposal includes economic development pathways for locally based jobs created by the development of this new industry.
Broadband
• Middle-Mile Augmentation . The May Revise proposes to augment prior budget allocations for development of middle -mile broadband by $1.1 billion over two fiscal years to address increased cost of labor and supplies.
Public Utilities Commission
• Revising Electrical Rate Setting. The May Revise indicates that the Administration will be pursuing legislation to allow the PUC to adjust electricity rates to predetermined fixed charges with considerat ions of low-income customers. This rate reform effort will reduce charges attached to volumes of electricity consumed, help control rate volatility, and enable creation of better price signals that will enhance widespread electrification efforts. As this proposal continues to develop, RPPG will continue to track this closely as the revised rates could have fiscal impact to municipalities.
Fire, Emergency Services, Public Safety
• Cal Fire. $150 million to Cal Fire for enhanced operational support, staffing, and equipment. • CalOES. $183 million to the Office of Emergency Services for variou s improvements to strengthen California's emergency response readiness.
• Mutual Aid. $25 million to improve local law enforcement mutual aid deployment resources.
• Non-Profit Security. $50 million for security assistance to non-profit organizations at risk of hate-motivated violence and threats.
Public Safety
The May proposal reflects an increase of $193 Million over January proposed investment s. This funding reflects spending priorities to enhance the Fentanyl Task Force at DOJ and combat fentanyl trafficking , increase victims' services, address officer wellness, curb child sex trafficking and exploitation, fund missing and murdered Indigenous persons, and for non-profit security grants .
This builds on the $356 Million proposed in the January Budget that addresses ghost guns, gun buy back programs, retail theft task forces, investigation and prosecution, and support for impacted small businesses.
Miscellaneous
• Peace Officer Wellness. $50 million in grants to local government supporting peace officer wellness, mental and emotiona l health, and improve community trust and relations. • Access to State Parks. Proposals include $13.5 million to purchase additional state park passes that can be checked out from local libraries.
• Strategic Water Storage. $500 million is provided in FY 25-26 for strateg ic water storage, including in aquifers and off-stream reservoirs.
• Coastal. $50 million is provided to the Coastal Conservancy to purchase critical shorelin e properties to preserve natural resources and advance climate resilience. • Methane Satellites. $100 million in Greenhouse Gas Reduction funds is allocated to expand the number of satellites launched for methane observations and allow California to identify the source of these emissions and work with programs to hold emitters accountable for violations.
State Appropriations Limit (SAL): GANN Limit Not Triggered Under Revised Proposal 1 At t he state level, the State Appropri ations Limit (SAL) - often r efe rred t o as the GANN limit - is tri ggered wh en revenues exceed th e limit as calculated over a two-year p eriod. Once t he GANN limit is t riggered, state lawm akers may only spend any reve nues over that limi t in very narrow and specifi ed ways: ret urnin g money directly to the taxpayer or spendin g mo re in education .
This is a narrative to track, as th e revenue proj ections specific to capit al gains is a conservat ive est imate of a volat ile market and tru e figures could change as the year evolves, which would require the state to alter spendin g plans. Whil e evadin g the GANN limit is an unlik ely scenario with th e high surplus, there are ways fo r th e state to spend down r even ues. In the May Revise, this is refl ecte d by GANN excluded spending priorities t hat : 1) direct stat e relief t o th e taxpaye r, 2) heav y invest ment in state infrastru cture, 3) updated estim at es of emergency spending.
IN DETAIL: MAY REVISE PROPOSED INVESTMENTS TO PAY DOWN GANN CALCULATIONS $18.1 Billion Proposed Inflation Relief Package.
• $11.5 Billion taxpayer rebate ($400 per registered vehicle, up to two cars, limited program) • $2.7 Billion in emergency rental assistance ($8.1 Billion total program) • $1.4 Billion for utility relief , including $1.2 Billion fo r additional energy arrearage relief and $200 Million for water - builds on the $2 Billion investment in arrearage relief from FY 21-22 Budget.
• $933 Milli on: Health care worker retention, including $1500 to hospital and nursing staff • $750 Million : Grants to local governments for free public transit (free bus/train rides for 3 month s)
• $439 Million : Diesel tax pause on sales, for the state's portion only • $304 Million : Middle class health care subsidies
• $157 Million : Fee Waivers for childcare, should assist 40,000 families $17 Billion Additional Infrastructure Investments. This builds off the $20 Billion already proposed in the January FY 22-23 Budget Proposal, with an additional $17 Billion proposed infrastructure investment in the May Revision:
• $6.2 Billion in Energy
• $5.6 Billion in TK-16 (inclusive of higher education) • $1.8 Billion in Drought and Water
• $1.2 Billion in Housing and Homelessness
• $1.1 Billion in Broadband, focused on middle-m ile investment • $500 Million toward deferred maintenan ce
Fighting Covid-19 With Science. Building on the propo sed $1.25 Billion investment in emergency spending measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the May Revision proposes an additional $1.1 to fight COVID-19 with science to keep Californians safe.
1 In 1979, voters approved Proposition 4, an initiati ve that added a constitutional amendme nt, also know n as the Gann initiative, which placed limits on the growt h of expendi tures for publicly funded programs. Division 9 ofTitle 1, beginning with Section 7900 of the Governmen t Code, was added to laws to establish the process for calculating state and local governme nt approp riations limits and appropr iations subject to lim itation under Article XIII B of the California Constitution .
California Budget Process/What to Expect Moving Forward Each year, the Governor must release a preliminary budget proposal by January 10th, which is then followed by a "May Revise" released in mid-May, reflecting updated revenue projections based on actual receipts.
Final Negotiations for the State budget.
• The budget committees of each house will close out subcommittee recommendations and each will move to adopt its version of the state budget leading into final negotiations with the Governor.
• Typically, the Assembly and Senate may convene a conference committee to resolve differences in their spending plans. Last year the Administration, Speaker, and Pro-tempore negotiated the ultimate deal privately.
• June 15. Either way outstanding issues must be addressed, and the Legislature must vote on a balanced budget package to send to the Governor by June 15th, which is a constitutional deadline, or they do not get paid until an agreement has been brokered. The Legislature will reconcile any differences which results in a final proposed budget which is then passed by both houses.
• July 1. The Governor then has until July 1 to sign the budget deal, which is the start of the new fiscal year, and may line-item veto specific appropriations.
In recent years, the June 15 package has become all but ceremonial. The constitutional deadline does not apply to trailer bills, which are bills that 'trail' behind the main budget package and adjust appropriations in the main budget bill either up or down, with accompanying statutory language necessary to enact the spending items. These bills are very often issue specific, but also can be "Budget Bill Jr's" that amend many sections of the larger budget package. For instance, due to the large surplus last year, there were several Budget Bills Jr. for the 2021-2022 Final Budget.
With an even higher surplus this year, we expect there to be multiple iterations of the "final" budget bill with trai ler bills likely trickling through the legislative process through fall. These trailer bills are almost always pre-negoti ated between the Department of Finance/Administration and chief budget consultants in each house/Legislative leadership prior to appearing in print, and there is little opportunity to engage at that point. Even so, this process can present opportunities to engage sooner to tweak spending proposals or the provisional language authorizing spending to open it up for greater access.
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Attachment B
May 20, 2022
Re: Legislative Update: Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File Bills Yesterday, the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees took up their respective "Suspense File" bills. Below is a high-level summary of the key bills that made it off Suspense to advance to the next legislative hurdle , key bills that were held in committee, and a brief description of the Legislature's Appropriations Suspense File process. As always, if you have any question s or would like further information or clarification on any item please reach out. We are here to help. 2022 Fiscal Items Placed on Suspense
In hearings that lasted several hours and moved at rapid pace, both Assembly and Senate committees convened to determine the fates of nearly 1,000 bills on their Suspense Files. RPPG staff carefully monitored the proceedings, tracking hundreds of items of interest. • More than 700 bills live to see another day, passing off the Suspense File and onto the Floor of their respective houses -- they now face another deadline of May 27 to pass out of their house of origin.
o Assembly Appropriations: Approximately 600 bills on Suspense, just over 400 bills passed out of committee as is or with amendments to lower the fiscal impact of the bill.
o Senate Appropriations: Approximately 400 bills on Suspense, around 300 bills passed out of committee as is or with amendments to lower the fiscal impact of the bill. • Some amendments to bills that have moved off the Suspense File are available in print today and the remaining will be in print by Monday at the latest - we have linked to the most current version of bill language for all items mentioned below .
Key Items of Interest That Continue to Move Forward
If you have any questions about the status or language of any of the bills below, or other measures we are tracking for you that may not appear on the below list, please let us know.
ASSEMBLY
• AB 1737 {Holden) Children's Camps
• AB 1789 {Bennett) California Recreational Trails System Plan • AB 1985 (Rivas, R) Organic Waste
• AB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act • AB 2053 {Lee) Social Housing Act
• AB 2142 (Gabriel) Income Taxes: Turf Replacement
• AB 2164 (Lee) Disability Access: Funding
• AB 2357 (Ting) Surplu s Land Act
• AB 2656 (Ting) Housing Accountability Act: disapproval s: California Environmental Quality Act SENATE
• SB 833 (Dodd) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022 • SB 847 (Hurtado) COVID-19 relief: tenancy: grant program • SB 884 (McGuire) Electricity: expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program
• SB 897 (Wieckow ski) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling unit s • SB 931 (Leyva) Deterring union membership: violations • SB 932 (Portantino) General plans: circu lation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans
• SB 1000 (Becker) Law enforcement agencies: radio communicat ions • SB 1044 (Durazo) Employers: state of emergency or emergency condition: retaliation • SB 1067 (Portantino) Housing development projects: automobile parking requirements • SB 1074 (McGuire) Cannabis: excise tax: cultivation tax • SB 1131 (Newman) Safe at Home program: election workers and reproductive health care providers
• SB 1327 (Hertzberg) Firearms: private rights of action • SB 1328 (McGuire) Prohibited investments and contracts: Russia and Belarus • SB 1338 (Umberg) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program .
Key Items of Interest Held in Committee
ASSEMBLY
• AB 2211 (Ting) Shelt er Crisis: Homeless Shelters
• AB 2325 (Rivas, L.) Office of lntera gency Council on Homelessness • AB 2346 (Gabriel) Outdoors for All
• AB 2387 (Garcia, E.) Safe Drinking Water, Wildlife Prevention, Drought Preparation, and Flood Protection Bond Act
SENATE
• SB 832 (Dodd) Water rights : measurement of diversion • SB 854 (Skinner) Hope, Opportun ity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Act of2022
• SB 1118 (Borgeas) California Environmental Quality Act: judicial relief • SB 1197 (Caballero) Water Innovation and Drought Resiliency Act of 2022 • SB 1353 (Wilk) Homeless population census inform ation: collection and reporting Suspense File: Background
The Suspense File is a process that has been used to manage fiscal items in the Legislature for decades to ensure they are conside ring the fiscal impacts of propo sed legislation as a whole and in context of the State's updated fiscal forecast. Under the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly, a bill is re-referred to Appropriations when the bill does any of the following: (1) Appropriate money, (2) Result in a substantia l expenditure of state money, (3) Result in a substantial loss of revenue to the state, or (4) Result in a substantial reduction of expenditures of state money by reducing, transferring , or eliminating any existing responsibilitie s of any state agency, program, or function. In both houses, it is an automatic referral if there is a $150,000 impact to the state; in the Senate, there are additional nuanced triggers that may result in referral.
Bills that meet the committee's fiscal threshold are placed on Suspense. While this has practical reasons, the Suspense File is also another lever used by the Legislature to quietly "kill" bills that may be controversial or politically inconvenient by holding them "under submission," wherein the bill does not pass out of the Appropriations committee and does not continue to advance.
Suspense File bills are then considered at one hearing after the State budget has been prepared and the committees have a better sense of available revenues. The Suspense deadline, the date by which bills with fiscal impact must clear through the house of origin fiscal committee, is the week after the Governor releases his May Revision of the proposed budget . No testimony is presented - author or witness - at a Suspense File hearing and while it is announced if a bill will be amended to advance off Suspense, details regarding the amendments are not discussed. ###
Attachment C
May 31, 2022
Thousands of Bills Advances and a Potential Leadership Change Looms At House of Origin Deadline May 27th marked one of the more significant deadlines in the State legislative session. The "House of Origin" deadline signals the half-way point in each legislative session. All majority vote bills introduced in their respective House must be voted on-garnering at least a majority from their colleagues (21 out of 40 in the Senate, 41 out of 80 in the Assembly) and advance to the opposite House in order to stay alive in 2022. What's more is due to the fact that we are in year two of the two-year legislative session, if a measure did not advance prior to the deadline, the measure has effectively stalled for the remainder of the legislative year.
To add to the palace intrigue, it was leaked that on the eve of the legislative deadline, Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D, Salinas) presented a letter to the current Assembly Speaker-Anthony Rendon (D, Lakewood) signed by a majority number of Assembly Democrats that indicates he has secured enough votes to become the 71st Speaker of the Assembly. While it has been rumored for some time that Rivas had his sights set on the role, this move all but makes it official. In a statement released today, Rivas stated his coalition of supporters "represents a diverse group of [Assembly Democratic] Members from across the state that includes leadership of the Latino, AP/, LGBTQ, Women's, Jewish and Progressive Caucuses as well as significant support from members of the Black Caucus".
This is the first time in decades that the Speakership will be held by a Northern California Democrat . The previous eight Assembly Speakers have hailed from Los Angeles County-except for a brief period of time when the position was held by then Assemblymember Toni Atkins (D, San Diego). Nonetheless the last Speaker from Northern California was Willie Brown in 1995. This move is significant , as the Speaker of the Assembly is arguably one of the most powerful positions in California politics. The Speaker is responsible for appointing every committee chair, has discretion over every Assemblymembers office budget and can wield their power in conjunction with the Governor and Senate Pro Tempore to advance statewide policy goals. Assemblymember Rendon became the 70th Assembly Speaker in 2016. Rivas was elected in 2018 and with 12-year term limits could potentially hold this seat until 2030. It will be interesting to see when the transition will take place. Critical deadlines including ongoing budget negations and end of session legislative priorities all run through the Speakers office for approval.
All told there were 1,523 Assembly bills that made it out of the Assembly and headed to the Senate.
Conversely, there were 762 Senate measures that advanced out of the Senate. Time for engagement on legislation is now as both houses will begin deliberating legislation carried over from the opposite chamber (e.g., Senate committees will hear Assembly bills and vice versa) this week. Below is a (truncated) list of bills that have advanced through the house of origin. If there are oth er measure you would like more information on, please feel free to contact RPPG directly.
Housing and Land Use
SB 513 (Hertzberg) Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services.
SB 847 (Hurtado) COVID-19 relief: tenancy: grant program AB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022 AB 2053 (Lee) The Social Housing Act.
June 14, 2022 Item #2 Page 17 of 50
AB 2094 (Rivas) General plan: annual report: extremely low-income housing.
AB 2097 (Friedman) Residential and commercial development : parking requirements AB 2234 (Rivas) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits AB 2357 (Ting) Surplus land
SB 897 (Wieckowski) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling unit s Transportation/ Public Works
AB 1717 (Aguirre -Curry) Public works: definition
AB 2106 (Rivas) Water quality: permits
AB 2237 (Freidman) Transportation planning: regional transportation improvement plan: sustainable communities' strategies: climate goals
AB 2807 (Bonta) Transportation funding programs: eligibility: public transportation ferries AB 2953 (Salas) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials .
SB 922 (Wiener) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation -related projects .
Environment/ Climate / Energy
AB 1001 (Garcia) Environment: mitigation measures for air quality impacts: environmental justice.
SB 884 (McGuire) Electricity: expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergroundin g program AB 1985 (R. Rivas) Organic waste: list: available products AB 2142 (Gabriel) Income taxes: exclusion: turf replacement water conservation program .
SB 1157 (Hertzberg) Urban water use objectives: indoor residential water use Governmental Operations
AB 1944 (Lee) Local government: open and public meeting s AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath) Public swimming pools: lifeguards AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) Vessels: public safety activities AB 2449 (Rubio) Open meetings : local agencies: teleconferences.
SB 1100 (Cortese) Open meetings: orderly conduct.
SB 1186 (Weiner) Medicinal Cannabis Patients' Right of Access Act AB 1737 (Holden) Children's camps: local registration.
SB 1131 (Newman) Safe at Home program : election workers and reproductive health care provider s.
SB 1044 (Durazo) Employers: state of emergency or emergency condition : retaliation .
SB 1338 (Um berg) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerm ent (CARE) Court Program Jun e 14, 2022
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Brown Act
AB 1944 (Lee) Local government: open and public meetings. (Amended: 5/25/2022) Link The Ralph M . Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those term s are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and parti cipate. The act contains specified provisions regarding the timeline s for posting an agenda and providing for the ability of the publi c to observe and provide comment. The act allows for meetings to occur via teleconferencing subject to certain requirement s, parti cularly 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 teleconfer ence location, and that at least a quorum of the legislative body participat e from locations within the boundaries of the local agencys jurisdiction. The act provides an exemption to the juri sdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined. This bill would require the agenda to identify any member of the legislative body that will participat e in the meetin g remotely .
Status: 5/27 /2022-ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position: Support
Notes: 5/2/22 - SG: Carlsbad approved supporting AB 1944 5/31 AB: Submitted letter of support th rough the Legislative portal
AB 2449 (Rubio, Blanca) Open meetings : local agencies: teleconferences. (Amended: 5/23/2022) Link The Ralph M. Brown Act require s, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defin ed, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act contains specified provisions regarding the timeline s for posting an agenda and providin g for the ability of the public to observe and provide comment. The act allows for meetings to occur via teleconferencing subject to certain requirement s, particularl y that the legislative body notice each teleconference location of each member that will be participating in the public meeting, that each tel econference location be accessible to the public, that members of the public be allowed t o address the legislative body at each teleconference location , that the legislative body post an agenda at each teleconference location, and that at least a quorum of the legislative body participate from location s within the boundaries of the local agencys juri sdiction . The act provides an exemption to the jurisdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined. This bill would revise and recast those teleconferencing provisions and, until January 1, 2028, would authorize a local agency to use tele confere ncing without complying with the teleconferencing requirements that each teleconference location be identified in the notice and agenda and that each teleconferen ce location be accessible to the public if at least a quorum of the members of th e legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the local agencys juri sdiction.
Status: 5/27 /2022-ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position: Support
Notes: 5/24/22 SG: Subcommittee and Council took a support position . 5/31 AB: Submitted letter of support through the Legislative portal
SB 1100 (Cortese) Open meetings: orderly conduct. (Amended: 6/6/2022) 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 bodys 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 of time 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 . The bill, except as provided , would require removal to be preceded by a warning to the individual by the presiding member of the legislative body or their designee that the individuals behavior is disrupting the meeting and that the individuals failure to cease their behavior may result in their removal.
Status: 6/6/2022 -From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-refer red to Com. on L. GOV.
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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 juri sdiction from adopting or enforcing any regulation that prohibits the retail sale by delivery within the local juri sdiction 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 jurisdiction 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: 5/24/2022 -ln Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes: 4/29 SG: Subcommittee took an oppose position AB: Submitted letter of opposition through the Legislative portal Children, Youth and Recreation
AB 1737 (Holden) Childrens camps: local registration. (Amended: 5/19/2022) Link Current law requires the State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for organized camps. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt minimum fire safety regulations for organized 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 defines organized camp, for these purposes, as a site with a program and facilities established for the primary purposes 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 the year, except as specified. Current law requires the Director of Public Health to consider the Camp Standard s of the American Camping Association when adopting rules and regulations pursuant to these provisions. This bill would include children s camps within the definiti on of organized camps and would define childrens camp as a camp that offers daytime or overnight experiences administered by adults who provide social, cultural , educational, recreational, or artistic programming to more than 5 children between 3 and 17 years of age for 5 days or longer, except as specified.
Status: 5/27 /2022- ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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: State Park and Recreation Commission. {Amended : 5/19/2022) Link
Current law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Parks and Recreation, which is under the control of the Director of Parks and Recreation. Current law require s the director to cause to be prepared, and continuou sly maintained, a comprehensive plan for the development and operation of a statewide system of recreation trails, which is known as the California Recreational Trails System Plan. Current law requires the plan to be cont inuous ly 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 require the plan to include recommended priorities for funding to improve and expand, among other things, non motorized natural surface trail s, as provided.
Status: 5/27 /2022- ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position: pending support
Notes: 5/10/22 SG: Subcommittee approved support position 5/27 /22 SG: Review amended bill at next subcommittee meeting
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 cultur al resources for at-risk youth , outdoor environmenta l educational experiences for underserved and at-risk populations , and equitab le 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 eligibl e entity, as defined, for projects that provide tran sportation to outdoo r spaces, outdoor -related recreation, outdoor physical activity programming , outdoor education, natura l resources workforce development, and communications related to water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and other outdoor pursuits.
Status: 5/20/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/11/2022) Client Position:
Notes: 5/12/22 SG: Subcommittee made motion to support the bill. Should bill get off supsense letter of support will be sent to City for signature. 5/19/22 SG: Bill was held under submission in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 2465 (Bonta, Mia) Pupil instruction : third-grade literacy: literacy grant program. (Amended: 5/19/2022) Link Would create the Family and Community Literacy: Supporting Literacy and Biliteracy in Schools, Families, and Communities Grant Program for the purpose of supporting the goal of all of Californias 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.
Status: 5/26/2022-ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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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 statewid e 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: 5/4/2022 -Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
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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 th e officer sought to be recalled shall be removed from office and an election for the officers successor in the event the officer is removed from office. This bill would instead requir e a recall election for a local officer to includ e only th e 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: 5/25/2022 -Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
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ACA 12 (Lee) Elections: nonpartisan office. (Introduced: 3/16/2022) Link The California Constitution designates as nonpartisan all judicial, 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 preference, 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 incapacitated person, states that they are a vict im 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 persons actual address is confidential. Under the program, any person who makes a false statement 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: 6/2/2022 -Referred to Corns. on ELECTIONS and JUD.
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Energy
AB 2838 (O'Donnell) Electrical corporations: green tariff shared renewables program. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to require each electrical corporation with 100,000 or more customer accounts in California to administer a green tariff shared renewables program to enable ratepayers to participate directly in offsite electrical generation facilities that use eligible renewable energy resources, as specified.
Current law requires the commission to ensure that charges and credits associated with an electrical corporations program are set in a manner that ensures nonparticipant ratepayer indifference for the remaining bundled service, direct access, and community choice aggregation customers and ensures that no costs are shifted from participating customers to nonparticipating ratepayers. This bill would authorize the commis sion, on and after April 1, 2023, to authorize those electrical corporations to terminate their green tariff shared renewables programs.
Status: 5/31/2022-ln committee: Hearing postponed by committee .
Client Position: oppose unless amended
Notes: 5/26/22 SG: Review bill for June subcommittee 5/3 1/22 SG: Bill was pulled from committee 6/7/22 AB:
Submitted letter of opposition unless amended lett er through the Legislative portal and emailed the City's legislative delegation
SB 379 (Wiener) Residential solar energy systems: permitting. (Amended: 5/31/2022) Link Would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an on line, automated permitting platform that verifies code comp liance and issues permits in real time or allows the city, county, or city and county to issue permits in real time for a residential solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating curren t nameplate rating and a residential energy storage system, as defined , paired with a resident ial solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to amend a certain ordinance to authorize a residential solar energy system and a residential energy storage system to use the on line, automated permitting platform.
Status: 5/31/2022-From committe e with author' s amendments. Read second time and amended . Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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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 , includin g applying for and accepting grants, contributions, and appropriations, and awarding grants consistent with the goals and objectives of a program or activity the comm ission is authorized to implement or admin ister. This bill, the Commun ity Energy Resilience Act of 2022, would require the commission to develop and implement a grant program for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience object ives and state clean energy and air quality goals.
Status: 6/2/2022 -Referred to Com. on U. & E.
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SB 884 (McGuire) Electricity: expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program . (Amended : 4/26/2022) Link
Would require the Public Utiliti es Commission to establish an expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program , and would authorize a large electrical corpo ration , as defined , to participate in th e program by submitting to the commission, on or before July 1, 2023, a plan that identifies the eligible undergrounding projects that it will construct as part of the program, includin g timelines for the completion of those undergrounding projects , as specified. If the comm ission approves the electri cal corporation s plan, the bill would require a telecommunication s provider to cooperate with the electrica l corpo ration 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 nonratepay er moneys before any costs are recovered from ratepayers, and deem each undergrounding proje ct to be an environmental leadership development project for purposes of the Jobs and Economic Improvement Thro ugh Environmental Leadership Act of 2021 and a development project for purposes of the Permit Stream lining Act, as specified . The bill wou ld require th at an electrical corpora tion earn a rate of return on its investments or expenditures made pursuant to the program, subject to a performance metric developed by the commission that would, at a minimum, require the withholding of those earnings until 60 consecutive month s have elapsed without either the undergrounding projects infrastructure causing a deenergization event or a wildfire resulting from the undergrounding projects infrastructure.
Status: 5/24/2022-ln Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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Environmental and Climate
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 significant the adverse effects on the air quality of a disadvantaged community or measures conducted in the affected disadvantaged community that directly mitigate those effects .
Status: 6/6/2022-ln committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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AB 1985 (Rivas, Robert l Organic waste: list: available products. (Introduced: 2/10/2022) Link Current law requires, no later than January 1, 2018, the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehen sive 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 statew ide 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 compile 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: 5/27 /2022-ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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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 conservat ion water closet, energy efficient 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: 6/1/2022 -Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
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AB 2160 (Bennett) Coastal resources: coastal development permits : fees. (Amended: 5/5/2022) Link The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires any person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, as defined, 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 , as provided. The act further 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: 5/25/2022 -Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
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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 thing s, require s 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 impact s 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: 5/25/2 022-ln committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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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 regulation s to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board for 2020 and 2025, as provided. Current law requires the department, no later than July 1, 2020, and in consult ation with the state board, to analyze the progre ss 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 jurisdiction s, including, but not limited to, any funding appropriated by the Legislatu re in the annual Budget Act, for purposes of assisting local agencies to comply with these provisions, including any regulation s adopted by the department.
Status: 6/6/2022-VOTE: Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar {PASS)
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SB 54 (Allen) Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act. (Amended: 2/25/2021) Link Would establish the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, which would prohibit producers of single-use, disposable packaging or single-use, disposable food service ware products from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing in or into the state such packaging or products that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2032, unless they are recyclable or compostable.
Status: 5/5/2022- Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
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SB 867 (Laird) Sea level rise: planning and adaptation . (Amended: 5/31/2022) Link Would require a local government, as defined , lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone, as defin ed, or the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as defined , to address sea level rise planning and adaptation through either a local coastal program, as defined, or a San Francisco Bay shoreline coastal resiliency plan, as applicable, by January 1, 2026, and to update that planning and adaptation every 5 years, as prescribed. By impo sing additional requirement s on local governments, the bill would impo se a state-mandated local program. The bill would require, on or before December 31, 2023, the California Coastal Commission and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, in close coordination with the Ocean Protection Council and the California Sea Level Rise State and Regional Support Collaborative, to establish guidelines for the preparation of that planning and adaptation .
Status: 6/6/2022 -VOTE: Do pass as amended and be re-referred to th e Committe e on [Appropriation s] {PASS) Client Position:
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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, would 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: 5/19/2022-ln committee: Held under submission.
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AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath) Public swimming pools: lifeguards. (Amended: 6/2/2022) 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: 6/2/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2164 (Lee) Disability access: certified access specialist program: funding. (Amended: 5/19/2022) Link Current law requires the State Architect to establish and publicize a program for voluntary certification by the state of any person who meets specified criteria as a certified access specialist (CASp), as provided. Current law, on and after January 1, 2018, and until December 31, 2023, inclusive, requires any applicant for an original or renewal of a local business license or equivalent instrument or permit to pay an additional fee of $4 for that license, instrument, or permit , or in any city, county, or city and county that does not issue a business license or an equivalent instrument or permit, existing law requires an applicant for a building permit to pay an additional fee of $4, to be collected by the city, county, or city and county that issued the license, instrument, or permit for specified purposes related to disability access, including the CASp program. Commencing January 1, 2024, that fee is reduced to $1. Current law requires a portion of those fees to be deposited in the Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund. This bill would repeal the provision reducing the fee to $1 commencing January 1, 2024, thereby extending the operation of this fee at the amount of $4 indefinitely. By expanding the increased fee deposited into the Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
Status: 6/1/2022-Referred to Corns. on G.O. and JUD.
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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 employees 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 employees 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 provision s. 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: 5/19/2022) 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, except as specified. The bill would also prohibit an employer from preventing any employee, including employees of public entities , as specified, from accessing the employees mobile device or other communications device for seeking emergency assistance, assessing the safety of the situation, or communicating with 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 provi sions are not intended to apply when an official state of emergency remain s in place but emergency conditions that pose an imm inent and ongoing risk of harm to the workplace , the worker, or the workers home have ceased.
Status: 5/26/2022-ln Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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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 right s and protection s to public safety officers, as defin ed, includin g with respect to investigation s, 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: 5/27/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). (Last location was S. INACTIVE FILE on 5/27/2022) Client Position:
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Homelessness/Tenant Protections
AB 2211 (Ting) Shelter crisis: homeless shelters. (Amended: 5/2/2022) Link Upon declaration of a shelter crisis, current law, among other thin gs, suspends certain state and local laws, regulation s, and ordin ances, includin g those prescribing standard s of housing, health, or safety to the extent that stri ct complian ce would in any way prevent , hinder , or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis. Current law, among other thing s, 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 homele ss shelter constructed pursuant to these provisions, and provide s that homeless shelter s constructed or allowed pursuant to the se shelter crisis declarations are not subject to specified laws, including the Special Occupancy Parks Act.
Current law define s a homele ss shelter as a facility with overnight sleeping accommodation s, the prima ry 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 supportiv e and self suffic iency 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 homele ss and unstably housed individu als.
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: 5/20/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/18/2022) Client Position:
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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 coordinatin g council.
Current law require s agencies and department s administering state programs created on or after July 1, 2017, to collaborate with the council to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core compon ents of Housing First, as defined. Current law establishes th e goals of the council, which include identifyin g mainstream resources, benefit s, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homele ssness in California. Current law requires that the coordi nating council be under the direction of an executiv e 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 juri sdiction of the Office of the lnt eragency Council on Homelessness, which the bill would establi sh within the Governors .office, under the control of a director , on or befor e September 30, 2023.
Status: 5/20/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/18/2022) Client Position:
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AB 2339 (Bloom) Housing element: emergency shelters : regional housing need. (Amended: 5/2/2022) Link The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of th e county or city that includes a housing element. Current law requires that the housing element identify adequate sites for housing, includin g rental housing, factory -built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelter s, and make adequat e provision for the existing and proj ected needs of all economic segment s of a community . Current law also requires that the housing element include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improv ement , or development of housing for all income levels. This bill would revise the requir ements 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 regardin g emerge ncy 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: 6/1/2022 -Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
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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 provide that a public entity is liable for injury relating to the effect s of that public entity s homelessness policies on another public entity.
Status: 5/6/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was A. L. GOV. on 3/10/2022) Client Position:
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SB 513 (Hertzberg) Homeless and domestic violence shelters grants: pets and veterinary services. (Amended: 6/6/2022) Link
Current law establishes the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program, under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires 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 homelessness. 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 homele ss shelters and qualified domestic violence shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food , and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness or escaping domestic violence.
Status: 6/6/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. &C.D.
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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 requirement s and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. Current law, among other things, prohibits a tenant that delivers 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 ofthe department and would require the department to, among other things, award a program grant, as defined, to a qualified applicant who submit s a complete 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 subm itted , as specified, but 20 days have passed without a final decision being rendered.
Status: 5/27/2022-Referred to Corns. on JUD. and H. & C.D.
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SB 1282 (Bates) Opioid Master Settlement Agreement. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link Would establish the Californi a Opioid Settl ement Fund in the State Treasury and would require the total amount of the states share of funds received pursuant to the Master Settlem ent Agreement, defined to mean the National Opioid Settlem ent agreement announced on February 25, 2022, by the Attorn ey General of the State of California between California and other state s and the leading United States opioid product manufa cturers, to be deposited in the fund . The bill would require distribut ion of funds from the fund to be made by annual appropriat ion of the Legislature consistent w ith the requirements of this bill, to the ext ent permissible under the terms of the Master Settlement Agreement, including a requirement that at least 60% of the fund s appropriated be used to provide addiction-related services for people who are home less or at risk of becoming homeless and priority shall be given to certain activiti es, includin g, among others, creating new, or expanding existing, substanc e use disorder treatment facilities.
Status: 4/29/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(S). (Last location was JUD. on 4/18/2022) Client Position: Watch
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AB 500 (Ward) Local planning: coastal development: streamlined permitting. (Amended: 8/31/2021) Link The Coastal Act generally requires each local governm ent lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone to prepare a local coastal program for that porti on of the coastal zone within its jurisdiction. Ths bill would require a local government lying, in whole or in part, within th e coastal zone th at 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 units, consist ent with specified requirements relati ng to the renta l of those units (2) projects in which a specified percentage of the unit s will be affo rdabl e to lowe r income househo lds or designated for supportive housing, as those terms are defined, and (3) Low Barrier Navigation Centers, as defined . The bill wou ld 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)
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AB 916 (Salas) Zoning: accessory dwelling units: bedroom addition . (Amended: 5/11/2022) Link The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes. This bill would prohibit a city or county legislative body from adopting or enforcing an ordinance requiring 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, condom inium , apartment, or dwellin g. The bill would include findin gs t hat ensuring adequate housing is a matt er of statew ide concern and is not a municipal affair, and that the provision applies to all cities, including charter cities.
Status: 5/31/2022- ln committee : Hearing postponed by committee .
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AB 1445 (Levine) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation : climate change impacts. (Amended: 6/6/2022) Link
The Planning and Zoning Law require s each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory element s, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region. Current law requires the appropriate council of.governments, or the department for cities and counti es without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county , or city and county, as provided. Current law requir es that the final regional housing plan adopted by a council of governments, or a delegate subregion, as applicable, be based on a methodology that includes specified factors, and similarly requires that th e departm ent take into consideration specified factors in distributing regional housing need, as provided. Commencing January 1, 2025, this bill would require that a council of government s, a delegate subregion, or the department , as applicable, additionally consider among these factors emergency evacuati on route capacity, wildfir e risk, sea level rise, and other impacts caused by climate change.
Status: 6/6/2022 -Read second tim e and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 1748 (Seyarto) Exempt surplus land: regional housing need . (Amended : 4/6/2022) Link Current law prescribes requirements for th e disposal of surplus 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 surpl us land, except as provided. Current law categorizes as exempt surplu s land, surplus land that a local agency is transferring to another local, state, or federal agency for the agencys use. This bill would add to the definition of exempt surplus land, surplu s land that is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential unit s, if residential properti es wit hin a radius of 500 feet of the site are zoned to have an allowab le 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 total number of low income and very low income housing units built within the city or county meets or exceeds proportionate annual progress toward the number of those housing units needed to meet the citys or countys share of regional housing need for the 6th cycle of its housing element, as described.
Status: 5/6/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was A. H. & C.D. on 4/20/2022) Client Position:
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AB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022. (Amended : 5/11/2022) link The Planning and Zoning law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined , ministerial approval process and not subject to a conditional use permit if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. This bill would make certain housing developm ents that meet specified affordability and site criteria and objective development standards a use by right within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, and would subject these development project s to one of 2 streamlin ed, 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 contracts with construction contractor s, that certain wage and labor standard s will be met, including that all construction workers shall be paid at least the gene ral prevailing rate of wages, as specified.
Status: 6/2/2022 -Action rescinded whereby the bill was referr ed to Com. on E.Q.
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AB 2053 (lee) The Social Housing Act. (Amended: 5/19/2022) link Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap betwe en 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 develop ed 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 developments , as specified . The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of the authority and the board. The bill would provide that the authorit y 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 properties through the mechanism of rent cross-subsidizatio n, as defin ed. The bill would require the authority to prioriti ze the development of specified property , including vacant parcels and parcels near transit, and would prescribe a process for the annual determination of required social housing unit s.
Status: 6/2/2022 -Action rescinded whereby the bill was referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
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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 developments affordable units. This bill would prohibit affordable housing impact fees, including inclusionary zoning fees and in-lieu fees, from being imposed on a housing development s 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 developme nt containing restricted affordable units that dedicates a specified percentage of units for extremely low, very low, low-, or moderate-income households. By imposing new restrictions on the ability of a local government to impose afforda ble housing imp act fees, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Status: 5/20/2022-Fai led Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was A. APPR. on 4/20/2022) Client Position:
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AB 2094 {Rivas, Robert} General plan: annual report : extremely low-income housing. (Amended : 5/24/2022) Link The Planning and Zoning Law require s a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other thing s, a housing element. Current law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to certa in specified entities by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information , the city or countys progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and local efforts to remove governmental constraints to the maintenance , improvement , and development of housing, as specified . This bill would additionally require a city or countys annual report to include the localitys progress in meeting the housing needs of extremely low income households, as specified.
Status: 6/1/2022 -From committee : Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation : To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 31). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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AB 2097 (Friedman} Residential and commercial development : parking requirements. (Amended : 5/19/2022) Link Would prohibit a public agency from impo sing a minimum automobile parking requirement, or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requir ement, on residential, commercial, or other development if the development is located on a parcel that is within one-half mile of public transit, as defined . When a project provides parking voluntarily , the bill would authorize a public agency to impo se specified requirements on the voluntary parking. The bill would prohibit these provisions from reducin g, eliminating, or precluding the enforcement of any requirement imposed on a new multifamily or nonresidential development to provide electri c vehicle supply equipment installed parking spaces or parking spaces that are accessible to persons with disabilities. The bill would exempt certain comme rcial parking requirements from these provisions if the requirements of the bill conflict with an existing contra ctual agreement of the public agency that was executed before January 1, 2023.
Status: 5/27 /2022- ln Senate. Read first time . To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes: SG: 4/27/2022 - Letter of Opposition submitt ed through portal AB 2234 (Rivas, Robert l Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits. (Amended: 5/2/2022) Link The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, specified housing development projects, including projects for very low, low, or moderate -income households and projects for emergency shelters, that comply wit h applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision 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 comp lete set of postentitlement phase permits for the_ most common housing development projects in the jurisdiction, and to make those item s available to all applicant s 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, completed , and stored through a process on its internet website, and to accept applications and related documentation by electronic mail until that internet website is established.
Status: 6/1/2022 -Referred to Corns. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING.
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AB 2328 (Floral 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 facilit ating the rental of a residential unit, as specified. This bill wou ld prohibit a city or county from prohibiting or effectively prohibiting the use of property as a home experience sharing unit. The bill wou ld define "home experience sharing unit" as a privately owned, noncommercial property or residentia l dwelling unit that is rented partially for a fee for a period of fewer than 18 continuous hours and that does not provide sleeping accommodations to transients. The bill wou ld authorize a city or county to reasonably regulate home experience sharing units to protect the publics health and safety, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
Status: 5/6/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was A. L. GOV. on 3/3/2022) Client Position:
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AB 2357 (Ting) Surplus land. (Amended : 4/5/2022) Link
Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, as defined , and requires, except as provided , a local agency disposing of surplus land to comply with certain notice requirements before disposing of the land or participating in negotiations to dispose of the land with a prospective transferee, particularly that the local agency send a notice 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 interest, the local agency is required to engage in good faith negotiations with the entity desiring to purchase or lease the surplus land. This bill would also require the department to maintain on its internet website a listing of all entities , including housing sponsors, that have notified the department of their interest in surplus land for the purpose of developing low- and moderate-income housing.
Status: 6/1/2022-Referred to Corns. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING.
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AB 2428 (Ramos) Mitigation Fee Act: fees for improvements : timeline for expenditure. (Introduced: 2/17/2022) Link The Mitigation Fee Act, requires a local agency that establishes, increases, or imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project to, among other things, determine a reasonable relationship between the fees use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed . The Mitigation Fee Act also imposes additional requirement s for fees imposed to provide for an improvement to be constructed to serve a development project, or which is a fee for public improvements, as specified, including that the fees be deposited in a separate capital facilities account or fund.
This bill would require a local agency that requires a qualified applicant, as described, to deposit fees for improvements , as described , into an escrow account as a condition for receiving a conditional use permit or equivalent development permit to expend the fees within 5 years of the deposit .
Status: 4/29/2022 -Failed Deadline pursuant to 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 approval s or entitlements necessary for the issuance of a building permit, or fails 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 propo ses to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if the lead agency finds 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 require s 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: 5/27 /2022-ln Senate. Read first time . To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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SB 897 (Wieckowski) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units. (Amended: 5/19/2022) 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 dwellin g units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height , setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit . This bill would requir e that the standards imposed on accessory dwelling units be objective. For purp oses ofthis requirement, the bill would define objective standard as a standard that involve s no personal or subject ive judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified.
Status: 6/2/2022 -Referred to Corns. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes : SG - Draft lett er 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) State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: electrical transmission grid development and expansion : study. (Amended : 6/6/2022) Link Would require th e State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, on or before January 1, 2024, to submit to the Governor and the Legislatu re a study identifying proposals to accelerate the development of, and reduce the cost to ratepayers of expanding, the states electrical transmi ssion grid as necessary to achieve the states goals, and meet the states requirement s, to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, as specified .
Status: 6/6/2022 -From commi ttee with author' s amendment s. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
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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 fundin g 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 Equit able and Environm entally Friendly Afford able Housing Agency and wou ld state that the agencys purpose is to increase the supply of equitable and environmentally friendly housing in the County of San Diego by providi ng for signific antly enhanced funding and technical assistance across the regional level for equitab le and environm enta lly friendly housing proj ects and programs, equitabl e housing preservation , and rental protection programs, as specified.
Status: 5/27 /2022-Referred to Corns. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes : 4/29 SG: Subcommittee voted to oppose 5/20 SG: Sent draft lette r to City 5/3 1 AB: Submitted lett er of opposition through the Legislative portal
SB 970 (Eggman) Mental Health Services Act. (Amended: 5/2/2022) Link The Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), an initi ative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewi de general election, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund (MHSF), a continuo usly appropriated fund, to fund various county mental health programs, including childrens 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 performance indicators, county self-assessments, and county MHSA improvement plans, to facilitate a local accountability system that fosters continuous quality improvement in county programs 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 countie s MHSA services and uniform elements for the county MHSA system improvement plans.
Status: 6/2/2022-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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Public Safety and EMS
AB 1682 (Boerner Horvath) Vessels: public safety activities. (Amended: 6/6/2022) Link Current law generally regulates the operation of vessels and associated equipment 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 provi sion, including for a vessel whose owner is a state or subdivision thereof, that is used principally for governmental purpo ses, and which is clearly identifiable as such. This bill would define subdivision thereof or subdivision of the state to include cities and counties.
Status: 6/6/2022-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Client Position: Sponsor
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AB 2062 (Salas) Local law enforcement hiring grants. (Introduced: 2/14/2022) Link Would, upon appropr iation of fund s for this purpo se 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 incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved comm unitie s and to live in the communitie s that they are serv ing. The bill would require grant funds to be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work. The bill would require local law enforcement agencies that receive grants to report specified information to the board annually and would require the board to report to the Legislature and the Governors office on the efficacy of the program , as prescribed, on or befor e July 1, 2028.
Status: 5/20/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 4/27/2022) Client Position:
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AB 2294 (Jones-Sawyer) Diversion for repeat retail theft crimes. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link Current law requires a peace officer to release a person who has been arrested for a misdemeanor after securing that persons promise to appear, as specified, unless certain conditions are met for non release, 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, wou ld include in the reasons for nonrelease that the person has been cited, arrested, or convicted for misdemeanor or felony theft from a store in the previous 6 month s and that there is probable cause to believe that the person arrested is guilty of committing organized retail theft.
Status: 5/27 /2022- ln Senate. Read first time . To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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AB 2644 (Holden) Custodial interrogation. (Amended : 5/19/2022) Link Existing law authorizes a peace officer to take a minor into temporary custody when that officer has reasonable cause to believe that the minor has comm itted a crime or violated an order of the juvenile court. In these circumstances, existing law requires the peace officer to advise the minor that anything the minor says can be used against the minor, that the minor has the right to remain silent , that the minor has the right to have counsel present during any interrogation , and that the minor has the right to have counsel appointed if the minor is unable to afford counsel. Existing law requires that a youth 17 years of age or younger consult with legal counsel in person, by teleph one, or by video conference prior to a custodial interro gation 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 tact ics, as specified, during an interrogation of a person 25 years of age or younger. This bill contains othe r related provisions and other existing laws.
Status: 5/27 /2022 -ln Senate. Read first tim e. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position: Watch
Notes: 5/2/22 - SG: SD County public safety delegation will be sending a letter of opposit ion.
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 merchants premises or on line marketplaces 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 merchants premises or on line marketplace have the intent to sell, exchange, or return the merchandise for value.
Status: 4/29/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was PUB. S. on 3/10/2022) Client Position:
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SB 1000 (Becker) Law enforcement agencies: radio communications. (Amended: 5/19/2022) 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 unauthori zed access to CLETS and the unlawful use of CLETS information by authorized users. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to adopt policies, 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 departments, county sheriff s departments, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police departments , to, by no later than January 1, 2024, ensure public access to the radio communications of that agency, as specified.
Status: 6/2/2022-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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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 biometri c surveillan ce 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: 5/27 /2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(ll). (Last location was S. INACTIVE FILE on 5/27/2022) Client Position:
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SB 1338 (Umberg) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program. (Amended : 5/19/2022) Link
Would enact the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which would authorize specified persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be pr~)Vided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services to adults who are suffering from schizophr enia spect rum and psychotic disorders and who meet other specified criteria. 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 petitioners assertion that the respondent meets the CARE criteria. The bill would also specify the schedule of review hearings required if the respondent is ordered to comply with an up to one-year CARE plan by the court. The bill would make the hearings in a CARE proceeding confidentia l and not open to the public, thereby limiting public access to a meeting of a public body. The bill would authorize the CARE plan to be extended once, for up to one year, and prescribes the requirement for the graduation plan that is required upon leaving the CARE program .
Status: 6/2/2022 -Referred to Corns. on JUD. and HEALTH.
Client Position: Support
Notes: 4/29 SG: Subcommittee voted to take a support position 5/20 SG: Sent draft lette r to City 5/31 AB: Submitted letter of support throu gh the Legislativ e portal
SB 1464 (Pan) Law enforcement : public health orders. (Amended: 4/18/2022) Link Current law requires all sheriffs to execute all lawful order s 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 office r issued for the purpose of preventin g the spread of any contagious, infectiou s, or communicable disease. Current law authorizes each peace officer of every political subdivi sion of the county to enforce within the area subject to their jurisdiction all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventin g the spread of any contagious , infectious, or communicable disease. This bill would instead require those sheriffs and peace officers to enforce those orders. By expanding th e duties of local law enforcement , this bill wo uld create a stat e-mandated local program .
Status: 4/29/2022- Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was HEAL TH on 3/9/2022) Client Position:
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Revenue and Taxation
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), autho rizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $600,000,000, as specified, for expenditur e by the California Housing Finance Agency, th e Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Departme nt of Veteran s Affairs to provide housing to veterans and their families pursuant to the Veteran s 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 t he VHHPA. The bill would provide for the handling and disposition of th e funds in the same manner as the 2014 bond act. This bill contain s other related provi sions.
Status: 6/1/2022 -From committ ee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 31). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
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AB 1951 (Grayson) Sales and use tax: exemptions: manufacturing. (Amended: 5/19/2022) Link The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemption s from those taxes, includin g 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 sto rage, use, or other consumptio n of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for purchases not exceeding $200,000,000, for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refinin g, fabricating , or recycling of tangible personal property , as specified; qualified tangibl e personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in research and developme nt, as provided; qu alified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualifie d person to be used primar ily 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 constructi on contract for the qualifi ed person, that will use that property as an int egral part of specified processes.
Current law, on and after January 1, 2018, and before July 1, 2030, additionall y exempts from those taxes the sale of, and the storage , use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible per sonal 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, make this a full exemption for purchases not exceeding $200,000,000. The bill would repeal these provision s on January 1, 2028, and would revert to the above-described partial exemption on that date.
Status: 5/26/2022 -ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Client Position:
Notes : 03/03/22 DH: Sent detailed breakdown of bills implications to client for review.
Transportation and Public Works
AB 1622 (Chen) Smog check program: catalytic converter theft. (Introduced: 1/10/2022) Link Existing law establishes a motor vehicle inspection and maint enance program, commo nly known as the smog check program, th at is admini stered and enforced by the Department of Consumer Affairs. The smog check program requires inspection of motor vehicles upon initia l registration , bienni ally upon renewal of registration, upon tran sfer of ownership, and in certain other circumstances. Among other things, the smog check program requires the departm ent to provide a licensed smog check station with a sign informing customer s about options when their vehicle fails a biennial smog check inspection . Existin g law require s the sign to be posted conspicuously, as provided, and requires the sign in all licensed smog check station s. Existing regulation s implement this requirement. A person who violates these laws, includin g 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 stati on with a sign informing customer s about strategies for deterring catalyt ic converter theft , including the etching of identifying informati on on the catalyti c converter. The bill would require the sign to be posted conspicuously in an area frequented by custome rs and would requi re it in all licensed smog check stations . The bill would also author ize stat ions where licensed smog check technician repairs are performed to offer and recommend to customers the etchin g as an optiona l service provided in conjunction with the smog check. Because the department would adopt regulation s implementing the new requirement s and a violation of these regulation s would be a crime, the bill would imp ose 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 . (Amended: 5/19/2022) 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 workers employed on publi c works projects. Current law defines the term public works for purpo ses of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include constru ction, alteration, demolition, installation , or repair work done under contra ct and paid for using public funds, except as specified . Current law makes a willful violation of laws relatin g 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 done under contract and paid for in whole or in part out of public fund s perfo rmed as part of a fire miti gation project , as specified.
Status: 5/27 /2022- ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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AB 1740 (Muratsuchi) Catalytic converters. (Introduced: 1/31/2022) Link Current law requires a core recycler, as defined, who accept s a catalytic converter for recycling to maintain a written 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 number, for not less than 2 years.
Current law makes it a crime to violate these requirements. This bill would additionally requir e 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: 5/18/2022-Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.
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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 highway s that are under its jurisdiction, possession, or control.
Current law requires the department 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 condit ion of using state funds or personnel time to fund or permit freeway projects, as provided. The bill would require t he 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 environmental variables analyzed through the index, as provided.
Status: 6/1/2022-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Client Position: Watch
Notes: 5/10 SG: Discuss at next subcommittee meeting
AB 1833 (Ward) San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board: North County Transit District: consolidated agency: public contracting. (Amended: 4/27/2022) Link
The Mills -Deddeh Transit Development Act establishes the San Diego Metropo litan Transit Development Board, also known as the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, with specified powers and dutie s related to the operation of public transit services in a portion of the County of San Diego. Current law require s the board, North County Transit District, and consolidated agency to follow specified procedures when contracting for certai n services, the acquisition or lease of materials, suppli es, or equipm ent, architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmenta l, land surveying, or construc tion project management services. Existing law requires those ent ities to follow different procedures when the amount of the contract exceeds specified thresholds. This bill would increase those thresholds from $100,000, or $50,000 in certain instances, to $150,000, and would make other clarifying changes, as specified.
Status: 5/25/2022 -Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Client Position: Watch
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AB 1946 (Boerner Horvath) Electric bicycles: safety and training program. (Amended: 6/6/2022) Link The Protected Bikeways Act of 2014 provides that the state s bicycle programs have not been fully developed or funded.
Existing law establishes the Department of the California Highway Patrol within the Transportation Agency. This bill would requir e the department to develop, on or before September 1, 2023, statewi de safety and training programs based on evidence-based practices for users of electric bicycles, as defined, includin g, but not limited to, general electric bicycle riding safety, emergency maneuver skills, rules of the road, and laws pertaining to electron ic bicycles, The bill would requir e the safety and training programs to be developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholder s and to be posted on the internet website of the department .
Status: 6/6/2022 -From committee chair, with author 's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to commit tee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
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AB 2237 (Friedman) Transportation planning: regional transportation improvement plan: sustainable communities strategies: climate goals. (Amended : 5/19/2022) Link
Current law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportat ion system. Existing law require s each regional transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization . Current law requires each regional transportation planning agency or county transportation commission to biennially adopt and submit to the California Transportat ion Commission and the Department of Transportation a 5-year regional transportation improvement program that includes, among other thin gs, regional transportation improvement projects and programs proposed to be funded, in whole or in part, in the state transportation improvement program.
This bill would r equire that those projects and programs included in each regional transportati on improvement program also be consistent with the most recently prepared sustainable communitie s strategy of the regional tran sportatio n planning agency or county transportation commission and the states climate goals, as defined. The bill would require each regional tran sportat ion planning agency or county tran sportati on commission to rank all transportation projects and prioriti ze projects based on adherence to its most recently adopted sustainable communities strategy and the states climate goals, prioritize funding and implementing projects in the order of prioritization, and submit the prioritized list to the state board and the California Transportation Commission.
Status: 5/26/2022 -ln Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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AB 2367 (Ward) Regional transportation plans: implementation authority : San Diego Association of Governments . (Amended: 4/27/2022) Link
Current law require s each regional transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization . Existing law provides for the consolidation of certain regional tran sportat ion planning, programming , and related functions in the County of San Diego from various agencies. Current law provides for the consolidated agency, common ly known as the San Diego Association of Governments (SAN DAG), to be governed 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 authorizes SAN DAG to exercise specified rights and powers including, among other thing s, adopting a regional transportation plan and issuing bonds, as provided. This bill would explicitly authorize SAN DAG to implement every component of the regional transportation 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: 5/11/2022-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Client Position: Watch
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AB 2953 (Salas) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials. (Amended: 3/17/2022) Link
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 techniques 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 jurisdiction 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 counties 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: 6/1/2022 -Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Client Position: oppose unless amended
Notes: 05/31 AB: Submitted letter of opposition unless amended through the Legislative portal.
SB 922 (Wiener) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects. (Amended: 5/11/2022) Link
The California Environmental Quality Act (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 intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles under certain conditions. This bill would delete the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area. The bill would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan. 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 projects are exempt by another provision of law.
Status: 5/27 /2022 -Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
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SB 932 (Portantino) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans. (Amended: 5/4/2022) Link
Current law states the Legislatures intention that a county or city general plan and the element s and parts of that general plan comprise 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: 5/27 /2022-Referred to Corns. on L. GOV. and TRANS.
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Utilities
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 provid es 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 Utilitie s 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 lowest cost tier of service, as specified . This bill would instead require that the PEG signal be receivable by all subscriber s, 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: 6/6/2022-Reconsideration granted. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Levine.
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SB 612 (Portantino) 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 providers 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 custo mers and, if it so elects, would require it to pay to the electrical corporation the commiss ion established market price benchmark for the vintage proportional share of the resources received.
Status: 7 /14/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was U. & E. on 6/10/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022)
Client Position: Support
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Water
AB 2106 (Rivas, Robert ) Water quality : permits. (Amended : 5/19/2022) Link The State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality and prescribe waste discharge requirements 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. Current law authorizes the state board to require a person submitting a report to the state board, a regional board, or a local agency to submit the report in electronic format. This bill would require, on or before December 31, 2024, the state board to modernize its stormwater data collection systems through specified actions.
Status: 6/1/2022 -Referred to Com. on E.Q.
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SB 1157 (Hertzberg) Urban water use objectives: indoor residential water use. (Introduced: 2/17/2022) Link Current law requires the Department of Water Resources, in coordination with the State Water Resources Control Board, and including collaboration with and input from stakeholders, to conduct necessary studies and investigation s and authorizes the department and the board to jointly recommend to the Legislature a standard for indoor residential water use. Current law, until 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 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. This bill would eliminate the option of using the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily and the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily, as applicable, or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use.
Status: 5/5/2022 -Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W.
Client Position: Oppose
Notes: /12/22 AB: Signed Letter of opposition submitted through the Legislative portal.
SUMMARY
AB 1946 would require the Department of the
Califo rnia Highway Patrol (CHP) to develop
statewide safety standards and training programs
based on evidence-based practices for e-bike
users and to post these standards on the
department ' s webs ite.
BACKGROUND
E-bikes are electric-assist bikes that can travel
longer distances and prov ide higher mobility and
faster spee ds to users compared to conventiona l
bicycles. They are more popular than ever, yet
as more riders adop t this new technology, new
safety concerns have cropped up.
E-bike accident injuri es can be extensive,
including fatalities. As e-bikes are faster and
heavier than conventiona l bicycles, the e-bike
force of impact on a pedestrian can be up to forty
five times harder. The most common types of
injuries assoc iated withe-bikes include:
• Head injuri es, including traumatic brain
injury
• Broken bones
• Back and spinal injuri es
• Cuts and bruises
There is no age requirement to ride most e-bikes
in Cal ifornia. However , individuals under 18 are
required to wear a helmet.
One study by Nat ional Electronic Injury
Surveilla nce System {NEISS) determined that
acc idents involving electric bikes are more likely
to resu lt in serious injuries than traditi onal pedal powered bicycles. Accident statistics from the
study include:
• People who ride e-bikes are more likely
to be hospita lized after a crash
• Riders of e-bikes are three times more
likely to hit a pedestr ian
June 14, 2022
Exhibit 3
• E-bike riders are more likely to suffer
internal injuries
• There were 3,075 e-bike acc idents
between 2000 and 2017
• The average age fore-bike cras h-related
injury is 3 1.9
• Men are more likely to be injured in an
e-bike accident
• Most people involved in e-bike accide nts
are aged I 8 to 64
Because electric bikes only became popular in
recent years, there is still a lot experts do not
know about the safety of e-b ikes. Neve rtheless ,
local authorities are current ly being challenged
by the increased concerns with e-bike safety on
their streets. For example , in the City of
Encinitas, Nort h County San Diego, there has
been a spike of pre-teens and teenagers breaking
the rules whe n riding e-bikes. While most e-bike
riders follow the rules of the road, some do not.
There are those who do not obey traffic safety
rules, pile on two or three on one bike, or ride on
sidewalks. Most often than not, they are rid ing
too fast, going · the wrong way, or are riding
without helmets. While a number of local
bicyc le groups and local governme nt agencies
provide free safety education classes and
workshops for riding bicycles, few offer classes
dedicated spec ifically to e-bike safety education
and training.
AB 1946 seeks to fill this gap by requiring the
CHP to develop safety and traini ng guidelines for
e-bike riders.
EXISTING LAW
Exis ting law, the Protected Bikeways Act of
20 14, provides that the state ' s bicycle programs
have not been fully developed or funded .
Existing law estab lishes the Departme nt of the
California Highway Patrol within the
Transportation Agency.
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THIS BILL
Specifically, AB 1946 would require the CHP to
develop , by September 1, 2023, statewide safety
standa rds and training programs based on
evide nce-based practices for e-bike users
includin g, but not limited to, general electric
bicycle riding safety, emergency maneuv er
skills, rules of the road, and laws pertaining toe
bikes. AB 1946 would also require the safety
standards and training programs to be developed
in collaboration with relevant stake holders and to
be posted on the department's webs ite.
SUPPORT
• AAA Nort hern California
• Auto Club of Southern California
• Plug In America
OPPOSITION
None on file
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Celia Mata, Legislative Director
(916) 319-2076 Office
celia.mata@asm .ca.gov
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City of Carlsbad
Legislative Subcommittee
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June 14, 2022
Legislative Calendar
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com June 15 – Budget Bill must be passed by midnight.
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.
November 8 – General Election Day
2022 Primary Election
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2022 Primary Election: Statewide Offices
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com • 2022 California Primary Election was held on June 7th • Top 2 vote getters for each office moves on to November regardless of party affiliation
• Record Low Voter Turnout
• First statewide election since redistricting
• Official elections results will be certified by July 15 2022/2023 State Budget
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2022/2023 State Budget: Infrastructure
More than $40 billion for infrastructure investments that appear throughout the budget including:
• Transportation
• Housing
• School facilities including:
o Higher education facilities
o Deferred maintenance
o Student housing
• Climate and energy
• Dam Safety
• Broadband
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2022/2023 State Budget: Energy
Legislative Climate-Energy Budget Plan, with details subject to ongoing negotiations, will include items related to:
• Water-Drought Resilience
• Wildfire Resilience
• Sea Level Rise
• Extreme Heat
• Biodiversity and Outdoor Access
• Energy
• Zero-Emission Vehicles
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2022/2023 State Budget: Housing and
Homelessness
• $300 million for Encampment Resolution grants, to help local g
overnments with resolving critical encampments and transitioning individuals into permanent housing.
• $500 million over two fiscal years for the Homeless Housing, Accountability, and Prevention Program (HHAPP).
• $30 million in 2022-23 to increase funding for legal aid to prevent eviction protection.
• Establishes the California Dream For All program to make homeownership more achievable for first time homebuyers.
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City Sponsored Legislation
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AB 1672 – Lifeguard Certification Equivalency
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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.
• In the Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 1682 – Water Vessels Speed Limit Exemption
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com 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.
• Met with committee members and consultants in the Senate. • Continue to meet with stakeholders.
• Will be heard in Senate Public Safety Committee June 14.
Delegation Legislation
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2022 Legislation: Carlsbad Delegation
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AB 1713 will allow individuals riding a bicycle, 18 years or older, approaching a two-lane road with a stop sign at all intersections to have the option to treat the stop sign as a yield sign.
Status: Senate Transportation 6/28/22
AB 1718 would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocation funding, upon appropriations by the legislature, for the purchase of K-12 standards aligned instructional materials in visual and performing arts, and world languages.
Status: Senate Education
2022 Legislation: Carlsbad Delegation
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AB 1854 would repeal the sunset date of January 1, 2024 for the California Employment Development Department Work Sharing Program’s online application process to increase the number of employers participating in the program allowing them to retain employees and avoid lay-offs.
Status: Senate Appropriations
AB 1946 would require the California Highway Patrol to develop statewide safety standards and training programs based on evidence-based practices for e-bike users and to post these standards on the department website.
Status: Senate Transportation 6/14/22
2022 Legislation: Carlsbad Delegation
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AB 2257 would direct the State Lands Commission to conduct a comprehensive cost analysis of a voluntary state offshore oil and gas lease buyout strategy.
Status: Senate Natural Resources and Water June 28, 2022 AB 2953 would authorize the California Coastal Commission to require an applicant seeking a coastal development permit for projects that will have impacts to specified coastal habitats to build or contribute to blue carbon project mitigate for those impacts.
Status: Senate Transportation June 14, 2022
2022 Legislation: Carlsbad Delegation
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SB 904 would require a person convicted of a drug offense and is granted probation to successfully complete a controlled substance education or treatment program.
Status: Assembly Public Safety June 14, 2022
SB 1165 would prohibit an operator of a licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility from making or providing false or misleading statements about medical treatment or services offered on their marketing, advertising materials, media, social media presence or on their website.
Status: Assembly Health June 14, 2022
Bills of Interest
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2022 Legislation: Sustainability
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com SB 54 (Allen) Plastic Pollution Responsibility Act
This bill prohibits producers of single-use, disposable packaging or single-use, disposal food service ware from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing in or into the state those products manufactured after January 1, 2032, unless it is recyclable or compostable.
Stakeholders representing businesses, local government, haulers, and environmentalists are currently meeting on proposed amendments.
Bill would require a two thirds vote.
June 30, 2022 is the last day to remove an initiative from the 2022 November ballot.
Status: Assembly Natural Resources Committee
2022 Legislation: Gun Control
Renne Public Policy Group │ www.publicpolicygroup.com AB 228 (Rodriguez) – Require the Department of Justice to conduct inspections of gun dealers at least every 3 years.
Status: Senate Floor
AB 2571 (Bauer-Kahan) – Restricts advertising of firearms to minors Status: Senate Judiciary June 14, 2022
AB 1621 (Gipson) – Restricts ghost guns and the parts and kits used to build them.
Status: Senate Appropriations
SB 1327 (Hertzberg and Portantino) – Creates private right of action to limit spread of illegal assault weapons and ghost guns and is sponsored by Governor Newsom.
Status: Assembly Judiciary
AB 1594 (Ting) – Allows governments and victims of gun violence to sue manufacturers and sellers of firearms.
Status: Senate Judiciary
2022 Legislation: Climate Resiliency
AB 1789 (Bennett) Outdoor recreation: California Recreational Trails System Plan: California Trails Commission: Trails Corps Program: grant program
This bill would require the California Recreations Trails System Plan to include recommended priorities for funding to improve and expand non motorized natural surface trails and to authorize the commission to coordinate trail planning and development about cities, counties, and districts.
Status: Senate Natural Resources Committee 6/20/22
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: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee
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2022 Legislation: Energy
AB 2838 (O’Donnell) Electrical Corporations: Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program This bill would allow an IOU to terminate their Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program and require all customers, even those who did not participate or benefit from the program, to pay for outstanding costs.
Status: Senate Energy and Utilities Committee June 15, 2022 SB 833
(Dodd)) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022
This bill would require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop and implement a grant program for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans to address power outages and objective to meet state clean energy and air quality goals.
Status: Assembly Utilities and Energy June 22, 2022
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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 states 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: Senate Governance and Finance
AB 2449 (Rubio) 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. Requires members participating remotely to disclose names of those over the age of 18 who are in the room and their relationship to that person. This bill would sunset in 2028.
Status: Senate Governance and Finance
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Questions/Discussion
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