ATTACHMENT 2
Tracked State Legislation
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Sorted by Subject
Governance
SB 634 (Pérez, D) Local government: homelessness.
Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/17/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. (Based on 06/24/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance, Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety SB 707 (Durazo, D) Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2026, and until January 1, 2030, require an eligible legislative body, as defined, to comply with additional meeting requirements, including that, except as specified, all open and public meetings include an opportunity for members of the public to attend via a 2-way telephonic service or a 2-way audiovisual platform, as defined, and that the eligible legislative body take specified actions to encourage residents to participate in public meetings, as specified. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance
SB 827 (Gonzalez, D) Local agency officials: training.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law imposes ethics training on specified local agency officials. Current law requires each training to be 2 hours and requires the officials to receive each training every 2 years, and as described otherwise, with the first training within one year of commencing service. Existing law requires the local agency to maintain records of the trainings, as prescribed. This bill would expand which local agency officials are required to complete the above-described ethics training to include department heads, or other similar administrative officers, as specified, and would instead require officials who commence service on or after January 1, 2026, to receive their initial training within 6 months of commencing service. The bill would require the local agency to publish post clear instructions and contact information for requesting the training records on its internet website, as specified. This bill would additionally require all local agency officials, as defined, to receive at least 2 hours of fiscal and financial training, as described. The bill would require the training to be received at least once every 2 years, as provided. The bill would exempt from these requirements specified local agency officials if they are in compliance with existing education requirements specific to their positions. This bill would authorize a local agency or an association of local agencies to contract with or otherwise collaborate with a provider of a training course to offer one or more training courses, or sets of self-study materials with tests, to its local agency officials to meet the training requirement, as described. The bill would require the training courses and materials to be developed in consultation with experts in local government finance. finance, as specified. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance
Human Resources
AB 339 (Ortega, D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplemental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 45 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 16 (Blakespear, D) Ending Street Homelessness Act.
Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/10/2025 - July 16 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: Current law requires each city, county, and city and county to revise its housing element according to a specified schedule, as provided. Current law, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties 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. At least 2 years before a scheduled revision of the housing element, as specified, existing law requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop, in consultation with the department, a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to jurisdictions, as specified. Current law requires that the final allocation plan ensure that the total regional housing need, by income category, determined as specified, is maintained, and that each jurisdiction in the region receive an allocation of units for low- and very low income households. For the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, current law also requires that the allocation to each region include an allocation of units for acutely low and extremely low income households. This bill, until January 1, 2032, would require the council of governments, or delegate subregion, as applicable, in developing the proposed allocation methodology that allocates each jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need for acutely low income housing, to count any newly constructed interim housing, as specified, as meeting the needs of acutely low income households. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 38 (Umberg, D) Second Chance Program.
Current Text: 04/09/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 04/28/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to administer a grant program to carry out the purposes of the Second Chance Program. Current law requires the grant program to, among other things, restrict eligibility to proposals that offer mental health services, substance use disorder treatment services, misdemeanor diversion programs, or a combination thereof. Current law also establishes the Second Chance Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, which is administered by the board. The Treatment-Mandated Felony Act makes it a crime for a person, who has 2 or more prior convictions for a felony or misdemeanor violation of specified controlled substances crimes, to possess a hard drug, as defined, unless it has been prescribed by a doctor, among others. Under current law, a defendant who has been charged with this crime can elect treatment, in lieu of a jail or prison sentence or probation, by pleading guilty or no contest and admitting the alleged prior convictions, waiving time for sentencing and the pronouncement of judgment, and agreeing to participate in, and complete, a detailed treatment program developed by a drug addiction expert and approved by the court. This bill would require the Second Chance grant program to authorize eligibility for proposals that offer mental health or behavioral health services and drug court or collaborative court programs, including the treatment program under the Treatment-Mandated Felony Act. By expanding the purpose of a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/09/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 360 (Rubio, D) Land conservation: California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act: County of San Bernardino.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/05/2025 - Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.
Location: 06/05/2025 - Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Summary: (1)The California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act, an initiative measure approved by the voters in the June 7, 1988, statewide primary election, provided bond funds for wildlife, coastal, and parkland conservation. The initiative measure authorizes the act to be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature if the amendment is consistent with the purposes of the act. Existing law requires an applicant receiving state funds under the act to maintain any property acquired in perpetuity, as specified, to use the property only for the purposes stated in the act, and to make no other use, sale, or other disposition of the property except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the County of San Bernardino to sell or exchange property it owns within the Chino Agricultural Preserve that was purchased with grant funds if it meets certain conditions. This bill would additionally authorize preservation of those lands or easements for park and recreational purposes, and would explicitly include, to the extent they are consistent with the purposes of the act, playgrounds, recreational venues, and preservation of historical resources as appropriate purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 634 (Pérez, D) Local government: homelessness.
Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/17/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. (Based on 06/24/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance, Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety SR 15 (Ochoa Bogh, R) Relative to the “2-1-1” information and referral service.
Current Text: 02/28/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 02/27/2025 - Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.)
Location: 02/27/2025 - Senate ADOPTED
Summary: Would resolve that he Senate hereby proclaims the month of February 2025 as 2-1-1 Month and the day of February 11, 2025 as 2-1-1 Day to promote and strengthen the 2-1-1 service in providing Californians with free and confidential referrals to needed resources. Resolved, That the Senate commits to supporting the 2-1-1 service and infrastructure so that all Californians have equitable access to this critical service that provides resource connections regarding support for poverty, housing, family and children, aging and disability, health equity, and disasters. Resolved, That the Senate encourages all Californians to be aware of the 2-1-1 service and look up their local 2-1-1 service provider on the internet at 211.org (Based on 02/28/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
Legal and Records Management
AB 538 (Berman, D) Public works: payroll records.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages. Current law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work. Current law requires certified copies of records to be available upon request by the public and sets forth a process for the public to request the records either through the awarding body or the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Current law makes any contractor, subcontractor, agent, or representative who neglects to comply with the requirements to keep accurate payroll records guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would require the awarding body, if a request is made by the public through the awarding body and the body is not in possession of the certified records, to obtain those records from the relevant contractor and make them available to the requesting entity. The bill would authorize the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to enforce certain penalties if a contractor fails to comply with the awarding body’s request within 10 days of receipt of the notice. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Legal and Records Management
AB 712 (Wicks, D) Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.
Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplemental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly CONCURRENCE
Summary: Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings. This bill, where the applicant for a housing development is a prevailing party in an action brought by the applicant to enforce the public agency’s compliance with a housing reform law as applied to the applicant’s housing development project, would entitle an applicant for a housing development project to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and would require a court to impose fines on a local agency, as specified. The bill would extend any period of limitation for actions under any state law for a period of 60 days beginning on the date the applicant provides written notice to the local agency indicating its intent to commence an action. The bill would prohibit a public agency from requiring the applicant to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the public agency in any action alleging the public agency violated the applicant’s rights or deprived the applicant of the benefits or protection provide by a housing reform law. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Legal and Records Management, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
Municipal Funding and Procurement
AB 262 (Caloza, D) California Individual Assistance Act.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/11/2025 - Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate Governmental Organization Summary: The California Disaster Assistance Act requires the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act. This bill would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. The bill would require the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Public Safety Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 330 (Rogers, D) Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act.
Current Text: 01/27/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/08/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act, until January 1, 2026, suspends the authority of a city, county, or city and county to impose a utility user tax on the consumption of prepaid communications service and any charge that applies to prepaid mobile telephony service, as defined, on access to communication services or access to local “911” emergency telephone systems, and instead requires those taxes and charges to be applied during the period beginning January 1, 2016, and ending January 1, 2026, under any local ordinance to be at specified rates. The act requires that these local charges imposed by a city, county, or a city and county on prepaid mobile telephony services be collected from the prepaid consumer by a seller at the time of sale, as specified. Current law requires that all local charges be collected and paid to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law and be deposited into the Local Charges for Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Fund, and be transmitted to the city, county, or city and county, as provided. This bill would extend operation of the act until January 1, 2031. (Based on 01/27/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement
SB 346 (Durazo, D) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days. This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period. The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 696 (Alvarado-Gil, R) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: firefighting equipment.
Current Text: 05/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 05/19/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill, on and after July 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2031, would exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, firefighting apparatus, equipment, or specialized vehicles, as defined, purchased by a fire department, including an all-volunteer fire department, as defined, or a fire protection district. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/08/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement
SB 789 (Menjivar, D) Taxation: information returns: vacant commercial real property.
Current Text: 04/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 05/12/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current statutory law, the Documentary Transfer Tax Act, authorizes the imposition of a tax by a county or city, as provided, with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property. Current law establishes the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for the purpose of administering various taxes. This bill would require a person, as defined, that owns commercial property, as defined, in this state to register with the department, as provided. The bill would require every person owning commercial real property in this state to file an information return each year by a date determined by the department, as provided. The bill would require the information return to include specified information, including, among other requirements, whether any buildings or portions of buildings were vacant in the previous calendar year. The bill would authorize extensions of the time for a person to file an information return under specified circumstances, including for good cause. The bill would impose on any person who fails or refuses to timely furnish a return required by its provisions a penalty of $100 per commercial property that the person fails or refuses to timely furnish the information return. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to make a loan from the General Fund to the department to implement those provisions, and would require any loan to be repaid from revenues from penalties imposed. (Based on 04/30/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 39 (Zbur, D) General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/20/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/20/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified. This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require each city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2027, but no later than January 1, 2030, to prepare and adopt a specified plan, or integrate a plan in the next adoption or revision of the general plan, that includes locally based goals, objectives, policies, and feasible implementation measures that include, among other things, the identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging and other zero-emission vehicle fueling infrastructure, as specified, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for equitable and prioritized investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 76 (Alvarez, D) Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/17/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency and defines terms for these purposes, including, among others, “surplus land” to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a regular public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Current law defines “exempt surplus land” to mean land that is subject to a sectional planning area document, as described, and meets specified requirements, including that the land identified in the adopted sectional planning area document was dedicated prior to January 1, 2019, at least 25% of the units are dedicated to lower income households, as specified, and that the land is developed at an average density of at least 10 units per acre calculated with respect to the entire sectional planning area. This bill would change those requirements so that at a minimum, 25% of units that are proposed by the sectional planning area document as adopted prior to January 1, 2019, and are not designated for students, faculty, or staff of an academic institution, or 500 units, whichever is greater, must be dedicated to lower income households, as specified, and that the land must be developed at an average density of at least 10 units per acre, in accordance with certain requirements and calculated with respect to the entire sectional planning area and inclusive of housing designated for students, faculty, and staff of an academic institution. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 253 (Ward, D) California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law. This bill, the California Residential Private Permitting Review Act, would require a county or city to prepare a residential building permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 306 (Schultz, D) Building regulations: state building standards.
Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/23/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 04/23/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services. Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code). The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires, among other things, the building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Current law authorizes any city or county to make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards. Current law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making modifications or changes to those green building standards, to make an express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions. This bill would, from October 1, 2025, to June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above-described building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety. (Based on 06/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 357 (Alvarez, D) Coastal resources: coastal development permit application: higher education housing project.
Current Text: 07/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/26/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/26/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Coastal Act of 1976, which is administered by the California Coastal Commission, requires a person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit. The act provides for the submission and approval of long-range land use development plans as an alternative to project-by-project review to promote greater efficiency for the planning of state university or college or private university development projects and provides for amendments to those plans. The act places limits on the conditions the commission may impose on projects contained in a plan that has been certified by the commission. The act authorizes the commission to, after a public hearing, by regulation, adopt procedures for the issuance by the executive director of waivers from coastal development permit requirements for any development that is de minimis, as specified. This bill would require the commission to defer to the state university or college or private university in determining the number of vehicle parking spaces necessary for residents of student, faculty, or staff housing facilities, as provided. The bill would authorize the executive director to determine that a proposed amendment to a public works plan or long-range development plan is de minimis and would provide the procedures for the determination and approval of amendments that are de minimis. (Based on 07/10/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 424 (Davies, R) Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints.
Current Text: 03/19/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Ordered to special consent calendar.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: Would, when the Department of Health Care Services receives a complaint against a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, or a complaint alleging that a facility is unlawfully operating without a license, from a member of the public, require the department to provide, within 30 10 days of the date of the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been received and to provide, upon closing the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been closed and whether the department found the facility to be in violation of the provisions governing facility licensure and regulation. (Based on 03/19/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 492 (Valencia, D) Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1.). In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Would require the State Department of Health Care Services, whenever it issues a license to operate an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, to concurrently provide written notification of the issuance of the license to the city or county in which the facility is located. The bill would require the notice to include the name and mailing address of the licensee and the location of the facility. (Based on 02/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 507 (Haney, D) Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units. This bill would deem an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process if the project meets specified requirements, subject to specified exceptions. In this regard, an adaptive reuse project, in order to qualify for the streamlined, ministerial review process, would be required to be proposed for an existing building that is less than 50 years old or meets certain requirements regarding the preservation of historic resources, including the signing of an affidavit declaring that the project will comply with the United States Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation for, among other things, the preservation of exterior facades of a building or structure that face a street, or receive federal or state historic rehabilitation tax credits, as specified. The bill would require an adaptive reuse project to meet specified affordability criteria. In this regard, the bill would require an adaptive reuse project for rental housing to include either 8% of the unit for very low income households and 5% of the units for extremely low income households or 15% of the units for lower income households. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 609 (Wicks, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.
Current Text: 05/05/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/20/2025 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/20/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: 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. CEQA exempts from its requirements various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a housing development project, as defined, that meets certain conditions relating to, for example, size, density, and location, including specific requirements for any housing on the project site located within 500 feet of a freeway. The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a specified environmental assessment regarding hazardous substance releases. If a recognized environmental condition is found, the bill would require the development proponent to complete a preliminary endangerment assessment and specified mitigation based on that assessment. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a housing development project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/05/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 610 (Alvarez, D) Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate SECOND READING
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. The Housing Element Law prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. Current law requires the housing element to include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels, including, among others, locally adopted ordinances that directly impact the cost and supply of residential development. Current law also requires the analysis to demonstrate local efforts to remove governmental constraints that hinder the locality from meeting its share of the regional housing need. For adoption of the 7th and all subsequent revisions of the housing element, this bill would require the housing element to include, in addition to the above-described analysis, a potential and actual governmental constraints disclosure statement that contains, among other things, an identification of each new or amended potential or actual governmental constraint, or revision increasing the stringency of a governmental constraint, that was adopted after the due date of the previous housing element and before submittal of the current draft housing element to the department. (Based on 09/03/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 650 (Papan, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate SECOND READING
Summary: Current law requires a public agency to administer its programs and activities relating to housing and community development in a manner to affirmatively further fair housing and take no action that is materially inconsistent with its obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. Current law defines “affirmatively furthering fair housing,” as provided. The Planning and Zoning Law requires that a housing element include, among other things, a program that sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken pursuant to the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing. This bill would require the department to develop the above-described standardized reporting format on or before December 31, 2026. (Based on 09/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 712 (Wicks, D) Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.
Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplemental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly CONCURRENCE
Summary: Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings. This bill, where the applicant for a housing development is a prevailing party in an action brought by the applicant to enforce the public agency’s compliance with a housing reform law as applied to the applicant’s housing development project, would entitle an applicant for a housing development project to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and would require a court to impose fines on a local agency, as specified. The bill would extend any period of limitation for actions under any state law for a period of 60 days beginning on the date the applicant provides written notice to the local agency indicating its intent to commence an action. The bill would prohibit a public agency from requiring the applicant to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the public agency in any action alleging the public agency violated the applicant’s rights or deprived the applicant of the benefits or protection provide by a housing reform law. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Legal and Records Management, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 735 (Carrillo, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.
Current Text: 08/27/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/28/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. (Based on 08/27/2025 text) Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 736 (Wicks, D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/04/2025 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 06/04/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 782 (Quirk-Silva, D) Subdivisions: security.
Current Text: 07/16/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/20/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/20/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Subdivision Map Act requires prescribed security from a developer if the act or a local ordinance authorizes or requires the furnishing of security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement. Current law requires the Real Estate Commissioner to make an examination of any subdivision, and to, unless there are grounds for denial, issue to the subdivider a public report authorizing the sale or lease of the lots or parcels within the subdivision. Current law specifies the grounds for denial, including, among other things, the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for all offsite improvements included in the offering or the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for any community, recreational, or other facilities included in the offering. This bill would prohibit the Real Estate Commissioner, in issuing a public report for a residential development or project, from requiring the furnishing of a security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement related to an improvement if the Real Estate Commissioner determines that security sufficient to protect the interests of purchasers, owners, and lessees, as necessary, has been furnished to a local agency for the same improvement pursuant to the provisions above requiring security under the Subdivision Map Act. (Based on 07/16/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 818 (Ávila Farías, D) Permit Streamlining Act: local emergencies.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/20/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/20/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency to determine whether an application for a development project is complete within specified time periods, as specified. The act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or city and county to proclaim a local emergency under certain circumstances, as specified, and grants political subdivisions various powers and authorities in periods of local emergency. This bill would exempt projects related to the rebuilding or repair of an affected property, as defined, from specified requirements for solar panel installations, as provided. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to approve an or deny a complete application, within 10 business days of receipt of the application, for a building permit or an equivalent permit for any of the specified structures intended to be used by a person until the rebuilding or repair of an affected property is complete. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 920 (Caloza, D) Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: centralized application portal.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.).
Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law requires a city or county that has an internet website to, among other things, make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website. This bill would require a city or county with a population of 150,000 or more persons to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website to applicants for housing development projects, as prescribed. The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a city or county described above to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website no later than January 1, 2030, if the legislative body of the city or county, on or before January 1, 2028, takes certain action, including initiating a procurement process to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website. The bill would require the centralized application portal to allow for tracking of the status of an application. The bill would specify that a city or county is not required to provide the status of any permit or inspection required by another local agency, a state agency, or a utility provider. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 961 (Ávila Farías, D) Hazardous materials: California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004.
Current Text: 02/20/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Ordered to special consent calendar.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: The California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004 provides, among other things, that an innocent landowner, bona fide purchaser, or contiguous property owner, as defined, qualifies for immunity from liability from certain state statutory and common laws for pollution conditions caused by a release or threatened release of a hazardous material if specified conditions are met, including entering into an agreement for a specified site assessment and response plan. The act prohibits the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water Resources Control Board, and a California regional water quality control board from requiring one of those persons to take a response action under certain state laws, except as specified. Existing law repeals the act on January 1, 2027. Current law provides that a person who qualifies for immunity under the act before January 1, 2027, shall continue to have that immunity on and after January 1, 2027. This bill would extend the repeal date of the act to January 1, 2037, and would provide that a person who qualifies for immunity under the act before January 1, 2037, shall continue to have that immunity on and after January 1, 2037, if the person continues to be in compliance with the requirements of the former act. (Based on 02/20/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 996 (Pellerin, D) Public Resources: sea level rise plans.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Ordered to special consent calendar.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: Current law requires local governments lying in whole or in part within the coastal zone or within the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to, on or before January 1, 2034, develop a sea level rise plan with specified required content as part of a local coastal program that is subject to approval by the California Coastal Commission or the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. This bill would authorize the applicable commission, when approving a local coastal plan or an amendment to a local coastal plan, to deem existing sea level rise information or plans prepared by a local government to satisfy the content requirements for a sea level rise plan. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 1026 (Wilson, D) Public utilities: electrical corporations: energization.
Current Text: 07/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplimental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Powering Up Californians Act requires the Public Utilities Commission, on or before September 30, 2024, to establish reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods, as defined, and a procedure for customers to report energization delays to the commission, as provided. The act requires the commission to require the electrical corporation to take remedial actions necessary to achieve the commission’s targets and requires all reports to be publicly available. This bill would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to require each large electrical corporation to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny an application for energization, to post an example of a complete, approved energization application and an example of a complete energization application for a housing development project, and to make those items available on its internet website by a date specified by the commission. The bill would also require the commission to require each large electrical corporation to determine if an application for energization is complete and provide notice or otherwise provide certain information under a specified procedure. (Based on 07/08/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1050 (Schultz, D) Unlawfully restrictive covenants: housing developments: reciprocal easement agreements.
Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law provides that specified recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits on the use of land contained in specified instruments affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property are not enforceable against the owner of an affordable housing development, as defined, if an approved restrictive covenant affordable housing modification document has been recorded in the public record, as provided. As part of this process, current law requires the owner to submit to the county recorder a copy of the original restrictive covenant and any documents the owner believes necessary to establish that the property qualifies as an affordable housing development and requires the county counsel to determine, among other things, if the property qualifies as an affordable housing development and if a modification document may be recorded. Current law provides that these provisions do not authorize any development that is not otherwise consistent with local general plans, zoning ordinances, and any applicable specific plan. This bill would extend those provisions to any housing development that is owned or controlled by an entity or individual that has submitted a development project application to redevelop an existing commercial property, and the development project includes residential uses permitted by state housing laws or local land use and zoning regulations and would make various conforming changes. The bill would additionally make these provisions applicable to covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits contained in a reciprocal easement agreement, as provided. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1061 (Quirk-Silva, D) Housing developments: urban lot splits: historical resources.
Current Text: 07/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplimental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly CONCURRENCE
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a county or city may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided. The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps. Current law requires a local agency to consider ministerially a specified proposed housing development or to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the development or parcel meets specified requirements, including, that the development or parcel is not located within a historic district or property included on the State Historic Resources Inventory or within a site that is designated or listed as a city or county landmark or historic property or district pursuant to city or county ordinance, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose specified objective standards on the development or parcel created by an urban lot split, except as specified. With respect to ministerial review of a proposed housing development under the above-described provisions, this bill would, if the other specified requirements are met, instead require a local agency to consider ministerially the development that is not located in either a contributing structure within a historic district included on the State Historical Resources Inventory or within a historic property or district pursuant to city or county ordinance or in a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included in the State Historical Resources Inventory or within a property individually designated or listed as a city or county landmark under a city or county ordinance. The bill would also authorize a local agency to adopt objective standards for the purposes of maintaining the historical value of a historic district listed in the California Register of Historical Resources, as specified. (Based on 07/10/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1154 (Carrillo, D) Junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.).
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires an ordinance that provides for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit to, among other things, require owner-occupancy in the single-family residence in which the junior accessory dwelling unit is permitted. Under this bill, that owner-occupancy requirement would apply only if the junior accessory dwelling unit has shared sanitation facilities with the existing structure. The bill would require an ordinance that provides for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit to require that a rental of a junior accessory dwelling unit be for a term longer than 30 days. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1308 (Hoover, R) Residential building permits: inspections: Housing Accountability Act.
Current Text: 07/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Held at Desk.
Location: 08/28/2025 - Senate DESK
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires a county’s or city’s building department to enforce the State Housing Law and the California Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires a county or city, upon the applicant’s request, to contract with or employ temporarily a private entity or person to check the plans and specifications submitted with an application for a residential building permit to comply with the State Housing Law or local ordinances adopted pursuant to the State Housing Law, when the building department takes more than 30 days, as specified, to complete the plan check. Current law authorizes an enforcement agency to inspect any building to secure compliance with the State Housing Law and the California Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law. This bill would require the building department to conduct an inspection of the permitted work for specified new residential constructions of a building and residential additions to an existing building within 10 business days of receiving a notice of the completion of the permitted work authorized by a building permit issued for those projects. (Based on 07/10/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 9 (Arreguín, D) Accessory Dwelling Units: ordinances.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 3.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency to submit an accessory dwelling unit ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development within 60 days after adoption. The law authorizes the department to submit written findings to a local agency as to whether the ordinance complies with the standards. If the department finds that the ordinance does not comply with the standards, the law requires the department to provide a local agency reasonable time, no longer than 30 days, to respond to its findings. If the local agency does not amend its ordinance in response to those findings or does not adopt a resolution with findings explaining the reason the ordinance complies with the standards and addressing the department’s findings, the law requires the department to notify the local agency and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General that the local agency is in violation of state law. This bill would invalidate the ordinance if the local agency fails to submit a copy of the ordinance to the department within 60 days of adoption or fails to respond to the department’s findings that the ordinance does not comply with the standards within 30 days, as described above. (Based on 06/19/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 79 (Wiener, D) Housing development: transit-oriented development.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act requires a local agency that proposes to disapprove a housing development project, as defined, or to impose a condition that the project be developed at a lower density to base its decision on written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence that specified conditions exist if that project complies with applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision standards and criteria in effect at the time that the application was deemed complete. The act authorizes the applicant, a person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the housing development project or emergency shelter, or a housing organization to bring an action to enforce the act’s provisions, as provided, and provides for penalties if the court finds that the local agency is in violation of specified provisions of the act. This bill would require that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development (TOD) stop, as defined, be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the development complies with applicable requirements, as specified. Among these requirements, the bill would require a project to include at least 5 dwelling units and establish requirements concerning height limits, density, and floor area ratio in accordance with a development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops, as provided. The bill would provide that, for the purposes of the Housing Accountability Act, a proposed development consistent with the applicable standards of these provisions as well as applicable local objective general plan and zoning standards shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with prescribed requirements, as specified. The bill would provide that a local government that denies a project meeting the requirements of these provisions located in a high-resource area, as defined, would be presumed in violation of the Housing Accountability Act, as specified, and immediately liable for penalties, beginning on January 1, 2027, as provided. These provisions would not apply to a local agency until July 1, 2026, except as specified. The bill would specify that a development proposed pursuant to these provisions is eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval pursuant to specified law, except that the bill would exempt a project under these provisions from specified requirements, and would specify that the project is required to comply with certain affordability requirements, under that law. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 92 (Blakespear, D) Housing development: density bonuses.
Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified units and meets other requirements. This bill would specify that a concession and incentive shall not result in a proposed project, as prescribed, with a specified commercial floor area ratio. The bill would also specify that certain provisions of the Density Bonus Law do not require a city, county, or city and county to approve, grant a concession or incentive requiring approval of, or waive or reduce development standards otherwise applicable to, transient lodging as part of a housing development, except as specified. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 346 (Durazo, D) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days. This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period. The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 358 (Becker, D) Mitigation Fee Act: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts.
Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. Current law requires a local agency that imposes a fee on a housing development for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts to set the rate for that fee, if the housing development satisfies all of certain prescribed characteristics, to reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation associated with such housing developments in comparison with housing developments without the prescribed characteristics, unless the local agency adopts findings after a public hearing establishing that the housing development, even with those characteristics, would not generate fewer automobile trips than a housing development without those characteristics. This bill would require those findings to be supported by substantial evidence in the record before or as part of the housing development project approval process. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 415 (Reyes, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/21/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/21/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. The bill would revise the definition of “logistics use” and instead define “logistics use development” for these purposes to mean a building that is primarily used as a warehouse for the movement or the storage of cargo, goods, or products that are moved to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 456 (Ashby, D) Contractors: exemptions: muralists.
Current Text: 04/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/21/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/21/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Contractors State License Law establishes the Contractors State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business, or act in the capacity, of a contractor without a license, unless exempted. Current law exempts from the Contractors State License Law a nonprofit corporation providing assistance to an owner, as specified. This bill would exempt from that law an artist who draws, paints, applies, executes, restores, or conserves a mural, as defined, pursuant to an agreement with a person who could legally authorize the work. (Based on 04/02/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 489 (Arreguín, D) Local agency formation commissions: written policies and procedures: Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects.
Current Text: 08/26/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 governs the procedures for the formation and change of organization of cities and special districts and establishes a local agency formation commission in each county consisting of members appointed as provided. The act expresses the intent of the Legislature that each local agency formation commission, by January 1, 2002, establish written policies and procedures and exercise its powers in a way that encourages and provides planned, well-ordered, efficient urban development patterns, as specified. The act requires these written policies and procedures to include forms to be used for various submittals to the commission, as provided. The act requires each commission to provide access to notices and other information to the public on an internet website, as specified, including notice of all public hearings and commission meetings. This bill would require that each local agency formation commission establish the written policies and procedures described above. The bill would require that the written policies and procedures include any forms necessary for a complete application to the commission concerning a proposed change of organization or reorganization. (Based on 08/26/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 499 (Stern, D) Residential projects: fees and charges.
Current Text: 08/20/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. If a local agency imposes any fees or charges on designated residential developments for the construction of public improvements or facilities, current law imposes various conditions on the fees and charges. Among these conditions, existing law prohibits the local agency from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date the first certificate of occupancy or first temporary certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except as specified. Current law, for designated residential development projects, authorizes the local agency to collect utility service fees related to connections at the time an application for service is received if those fees do not exceed the costs incurred by the utility provider resulting from the connection activities. This bill would additionally authorize a local agency to collect utility service charges related to connections at the time an application is received, as described above. (Based on 08/20/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
SB 710 (Blakespear, D) Property taxation: active solar energy systems.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The California Constitution generally limits the maximum rate of ad valorem tax on real property to 1% of the full cash value of the property and defines “full cash value” for these purposes as the appraised value of real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred after the 1975 assessment. Pursuant to constitutional authorization, current property tax law excludes from the definition of “newly constructed” for these purposes the construction or addition of any active solar energy system, as defined, through the 2025–26 fiscal year. Under current property tax law, this exclusion remains in effect only until there is a subsequent change in ownership, but an active solar energy system that qualifies for the exclusion before January 1, 2027, continues to receive the exclusion until there is a subsequent change in ownership. Current law repeals these exclusion provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill would remove the repeal of the existing active solar energy system exclusion. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 786 (Arreguín, D) Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries, and requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements. Current law specifies that these provisions generally do not apply to a charter city, but requires a charter city to adopt a general plan that contains the mandatory elements, among other things. Current law prescribes a process to challenge the validity of a general plan. Among other things, existing law requires a petitioner to request a hearing or trial, as specified. Current law requires a court to set a date for the hearing or trial to be heard no later than 120 days after the filing of the request, as specified. Current law authorizes a court to continue for a reasonable time the date of the hearing or trial upon written motion and finding of good cause. Current law requires a court to grant the petitioner temporary relief if the court grants a continuance to a respondent, as specified. This bill would apply to the above-described process to challenge the validity of a general plan to a charter city and state that this is declaratory of existing law. The bill would limit the period for which a court may continue a trial or hearing, as described above, to no more than 60 days and would additionally authorize a court to grant a continuance on the court’s own motion. The bill would extend the requirement that a court grant temporary relief, as described above, in any instance in which the court orders a continuance, rather than only if the court grants a continuance to a respondent. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 789 (Menjivar, D) Taxation: information returns: vacant commercial real property.
Current Text: 04/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 05/12/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current statutory law, the Documentary Transfer Tax Act, authorizes the imposition of a tax by a county or city, as provided, with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property. Current law establishes the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for the purpose of administering various taxes. This bill would require a person, as defined, that owns commercial property, as defined, in this state to register with the department, as provided. The bill would require every person owning commercial real property in this state to file an information return each year by a date determined by the department, as provided. The bill would require the information return to include specified information, including, among other requirements, whether any buildings or portions of buildings were vacant in the previous calendar year. The bill would authorize extensions of the time for a person to file an information return under specified circumstances, including for good cause. The bill would impose on any person who fails or refuses to timely furnish a return required by its provisions a penalty of $100 per commercial property that the person fails or refuses to timely furnish the information return. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to make a loan from the General Fund to the department to implement those provisions, and would require any loan to be repaid from revenues from penalties imposed. (Based on 04/30/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Public Safety
AB 15 (Gipson, D) Open unsolved homicide: review and reinvestigation.
Current Text: 07/16/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought. Existing law also defines manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, and establishes 3 kinds of manslaughter: voluntary, involuntary, and vehicular. This bill would require a law enforcement agency to review the casefile regarding an open unsolved homicide upon written application by certain persons to determine if a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, as specified. The bill would define a homicide to include murder and manslaughter and an open unsolved homicide as a homicide committed after January 1, 1990, but no less than 3 years prior to the date of the application for case review, that was investigated by a law enforcement agency, for which all probative investigative leads have been exhausted and for which no suspect has been identified. If the review determines that a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, this bill would require a reinvestigation, as specified. (Based on 07/16/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 237 (Patel, D) Crimes: threats.
Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under current law, this crime is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for no more than one year for a misdemeanor, or by imprisonment in state prison for a felony. This bill would make it a crime for a person to willfully threaten, by any means, including, but not limited to, an image or threat posted or published on an internet web page, to commit a crime at specified locations, including a daycare and workplace, with specific intent that the statement is be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, if the threat, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person or persons threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and if the threat causes a person or person to reasonably be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of others at the specified locations. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 262 (Caloza, D) California Individual Assistance Act.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/11/2025 - Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate Governmental Organization Summary: The California Disaster Assistance Act requires the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act. This bill would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. The bill would require the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Public Safety Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 339 (Ortega, D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplemental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 45 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 400 (Pacheco, D) Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training: police canines.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Would require, on or before July 1, 2027, the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to study and issue recommendations to the Legislature on the use of canines by law enforcement. The bill would require the commission to consider in its recommendations, among other things, instances of appropriate patrol use with a canine, as specified, and instances of appropriate use with a canine for detection, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on July 1, 2031. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 476 (González, Mark, D) Metal theft.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law governs the business of buying, selling, and dealing in secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, also known as “junk.” Current law requires junk dealers and recyclers to keep a written record of all sales and purchases made in the course of their business, including the place and date of each sale or purchase of junk and a description of the item or items, as specified. Current law requires the written record to include a statement indicating either that the seller of the junk is the owner of it, or the name of the person they obtained the junk from, as shown on a signed transfer document. This bill would require junk dealers and recyclers to include additional information in the written record, including the time and amount paid for each sale or purchase of junk made, and the name of the employee handling the transaction. The bill would revise the type of information required to be included in the description of the item or items of junk purchased or sold, as specified. The bill would require the statement referenced above indicating ownership or the name of the person from whom the seller obtained the junk from to be signed and would require the statement to include specified information, including the legal name, date of birth, and place of residence of the seller. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 992 (Irwin, D) Peace officers.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate SECOND READING
Summary: Current law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report. This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above. (Based on 09/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1263 (Gipson, D) Firearms: ghost guns.
Current Text: 03/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law makes it a crime for a person to manufacture or cause to be manufactured specified firearms. Current law prohibits a person, other than a state-licensed firearms manufacturer, from using a computer numerical control (CNC) milling machine or three-dimensional printer to manufacture a firearm. This bill would prohibit a person from knowingly or willfully causing another person to engage in the unlawful manufacture of firearms or knowingly or willfully aiding, abetting, prompting, or facilitating the unlawful manufacture of firearms, including the manufacture of assault weapons or .50 BMG rifles or the manufacture of any firearm using a three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine, as specified. (Based on 03/24/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1284 (Committee on Emergency Management) Emergency services: catastrophic plans: recovery frameworks.
Current Text: 02/21/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - In committee: Held under submission.
Location: 04/30/2025 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Would require the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to develop state recovery frameworks for California’s catastrophic plans, as provided. The bill would also require the governing body of a political subdivision, as defined, to develop regional recovery frameworks for California’s catastrophic plans and would require OES to provide technical assistance in this regard. This bill would require OES and the governing bodies of political subdivisions, in developing recovery frameworks, to incorporate lessons learned from recent major disasters. The bill would require the recovery frameworks to be consistent with guidance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and to address, at a minimum, specified recovery support functions, including economic recovery, health and social services, and infrastructure systems. The bill would require OES to use, to the greatest extent possible, federal preparedness grant funding to offset the state, local, and tribal government costs associated with developing recovery frameworks. The bill would require the state and regional recovery frameworks to be completed by January 15, 2027. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/21/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Public Safety
SB 19 (Rubio, D) Threats: schools and places of worship.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to any person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of an infraction and require the person to be referred to specified services in lieu of being declared a ward of the court, as specified. By creating a new crime and imposing additional duties on local governments this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Public Safety
SB 48 (Gonzalez, D) Immigration enforcement: schoolsites: prohibitions on access and sharing information.
Current Text: 07/09/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/14/2025 - July 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools and their personnel, to the extent possible, from granting permission to an immigration authority to access the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite, producing a pupil for questioning by an immigration authority at a schoolsite, or consenting to a search of any kind of the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite by an immigration authority, unless the immigration authority presents a valid judicial warrant or court order. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, when presented with a valid judicial warrant or court order to carry out the above-described actions, to (1) request valid identification and a written statement of purpose from the immigration authority and retain copies of those documents and (2), as early as possible, notify the designated local educational agency administrator of the request and advise the immigration authority that the local educational agency administrator is required to provide direction before access to the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite or pupil may be granted. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, if an immigration authority does not present a valid judicial warrant or court order, to (1), as early as possible, notify the designated local educational agency administrator of the request, (2) deny the immigration authority access to the nonpublic areas of the schoolsite, and (3) make a reasonable effort to have the denial witnessed and documented. The bill would also prohibit a local educational agency and its personnel from disclosing or providing, in writing, verbally, or in any other manner, the education records of or any information about a pupil, pupil’s family and household, school employee, or teacher to an immigration authority without a valid judicial warrant or court order directing the local educational agency or its personnel to do so. The bill would also require the Attorney General to publish model policies to assist K–12 schools in responding to immigration issues pursuant to the above-described requirements. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 07/09/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
SB 274 (Cervantes, D) Automated license plate recognition systems.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law prohibits a public agency, which includes the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or any agency or political subdivision of the state, a city, a county, or a city and county, including, but not limited to, a law enforcement agency, from selling, sharing, or transferring automated license plate recognition (ALPR) information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law. Current law defines ALPR information as information or data collected through the use of an ALPR system. This bill would provide that “public agency” does not include a transportation agency, as specified. The bill would authorize a law enforcement agency to use ALPR information only for purposes of locating vehicles or persons when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense. The bill would prohibit a public agency from retaining ALPR information for more than 60 days after the date of collection if it does not match information on an authorized hot list, as defined. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety
SB 385 (Seyarto, R) Peace officers.
Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/17/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law required the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, on or before June 1, 2023, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission, within 2 years of the submission of the report, to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report. This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
SB 499 (Stern, D) Residential projects: fees and charges.
Current Text: 08/20/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. If a local agency imposes any fees or charges on designated residential developments for the construction of public improvements or facilities, current law imposes various conditions on the fees and charges. Among these conditions, existing law prohibits the local agency from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date the first certificate of occupancy or first temporary certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except as specified. Current law, for designated residential development projects, authorizes the local agency to collect utility service fees related to connections at the time an application for service is received if those fees do not exceed the costs incurred by the utility provider resulting from the connection activities. This bill would additionally authorize a local agency to collect utility service charges related to connections at the time an application is received, as described above. (Based on 08/20/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
SB 634 (Pérez, D) Local government: homelessness.
Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/17/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. (Based on 06/24/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance, Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety SB 720 (Ashby, D) Automated traffic enforcement system programs.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements, including identifying the system with signs and ensuring that the system meets specified criteria on minimum yellow light change intervals. Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a speed safety system pilot program for speed enforcement that utilizes a speed safety system in specified areas, if the system meets specified requirements. Current law prescribes specified requirements for a notice of violation issued pursuant to these provisions, and requires a violation of a speed law that is recorded by a speed safety system to be subject only to a specified civil penalty. This bill would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system program to use those systems to detect a violation of a traffic control signal, if the system meets specified requirements. The bill would require a violation of a traffic control signal that is recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be subject to escalating civil penalties, as specified. The bill would, among other things, provide for the issuance of a notice of violation, an initial review, an administrative hearing, and an appeals process, as specified, for a violation under this program. The bill would clarify that a local jurisdiction may utilize an automated traffic enforcement system pursuant to these provisions or the above-described provisions authorizing the utilization of an automated traffic enforcement system. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
State Budget Act
AB 227 (Gabriel, D) Budget Act of 2025.
Current Text: 01/10/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/03/2025 - Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
Location: 02/03/2025 - Assembly Budget
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2025–26 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/10/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: State Budget Act
SB 65 (Wiener, D) Budget Act of 2025.
Current Text: 01/10/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 01/13/2025 - Read first time.
Location: 01/10/2025 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2025–26 fiscal year. (Based on 01/10/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: State Budget Act
Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 476 (González, Mark, D) Metal theft.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law governs the business of buying, selling, and dealing in secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, also known as “junk.” Current law requires junk dealers and recyclers to keep a written record of all sales and purchases made in the course of their business, including the place and date of each sale or purchase of junk and a description of the item or items, as specified. Current law requires the written record to include a statement indicating either that the seller of the junk is the owner of it, or the name of the person they obtained the junk from, as shown on a signed transfer document. This bill would require junk dealers and recyclers to include additional information in the written record, including the time and amount paid for each sale or purchase of junk made, and the name of the employee handling the transaction. The bill would revise the type of information required to be included in the description of the item or items of junk purchased or sold, as specified. The bill would require the statement referenced above indicating ownership or the name of the person from whom the seller obtained the junk from to be signed and would require the statement to include specified information, including the legal name, date of birth, and place of residence of the seller. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 978 (Hoover, R) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials.
Current Text: 07/01/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/08/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 requires the Director of Transportation, upon consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to review and modify all bid specifications relating to the purchase of paving materials and base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials using certain recycled materials. Current law requires the specifications to be based on standards developed by the Department of Transportation for recycled paving materials and for recycled base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials. Current law requires 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, except as provided. Current law requires, until January 1, 2027, those standard specifications to allow recycled materials at or above the level allowed in the department’s standard specifications that went into effect on October 22, 2018, for specified materials. This bill would indefinitely require a local agency’s standard specifications to allow recycled materials at a level no less than the level allowed in the department’s specifications for those specified materials. If a local agency’s standard specifications do not allow for the use of recycled materials at a level that is equal to or greater than the level allowed in the department’s standard specifications on the basis that the use of those recycled materials at those levels is not feasible, the bill would authorize a person bidding on a contract to supply materials subject to those specifications to request the local agency to provide the reason for that determination upon request and would require the local agency to respond to that request, as specified. (Based on 07/01/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 71 (Wiener, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: 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. CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, or bicycle transportation plans for the restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and the related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles. This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely. The bill would also exempt a transit comprehensive operational analysis, as defined, a transit route readjustment, or other transit agency route addition, elimination, or modification, from the requirements of CEQA. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a plan qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 1207 (Irwin, D) Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: price ceiling.
Current Text: 03/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/20/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/20/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, until January 1, 2031, authorizes the State Air Resources Board to adopt a regulation establishing a system of market-based declining aggregate emissions limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases (market-based compliance mechanism) that meets certain requirements. Current law requires the state board, in adopting the regulation to, among other things, establish a price ceiling for emission allowances sold by the state board. Current law requires the state board, in establishing the price ceiling, to consider specified factors, including the full social cost associated with emitting a metric ton of greenhouse gases. This bill would require the state board to instead consider the full social cost associated with emitting a metric ton of greenhouse gases, as determined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in November 2023. (Based on 03/17/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 454 (McNerney, D) State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law designates the State Water Resources Control Board as the agency responsible for administering specific programs related to drinking water, including, among others, the California Safe Drinking Water Act and the Emerging Contaminants for Small or Disadvantaged Communities Funding Program. This bill, which would become operative upon an appropriation by the Legislature, would enact a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) mitigation program. As part of that program, the bill would create the PFAS Mitigation Fund in the State Treasury and would authorize certain moneys in the fund to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the state board to seek out nonstate, federal, and private funds designated for PFAS remediation and treatment and deposit the funds into the PFAS Mitigation Fund. The bill would continuously appropriate these funds to the state board for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the state board to establish accounts within the PFAS Mitigation Fund. The bill would authorize the state board to expend moneys from the fund in the form of a grant, loan, or contract, or to provide assistance services to water suppliers and sewer system providers, as those terms are defined, for multiple purposes, including, among other things, to cover or reduce the costs for water suppliers associated with treating drinking water to meet the applicable state and federal maximum PFAS contaminant levels. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 466 (Caballero, D) Drinking water: primary standard for hexavalent chromium: exemption.
Current Text: 08/25/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The California Safe Drinking Water Act requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria and requires a primary drinking water standard to be established for hexavalent chromium. Current law authorizes the state board to grant a variance from primary drinking water standards to a public water system. This bill would prohibit a public water system that meets the total chromium maximum contaminant level (MCL) enforceable standard for drinking water in California from being determined, held, considered, or otherwise deemed in violation of the primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium while implementing a state board approved compliance plan or while state board action on the proposed and submitted compliance plan is pending, except as provided. (Based on 08/25/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 682 (Allen, D) Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations to enforce specified covered perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) restrictions, which include prohibitions on the distribution, sale, or offering for sale of certain products that contain specified levels of PFAS. Current law requires the department, on and after July 1, 2030, to enforce and ensure compliance with those provisions and regulations, as provided. Current law requires manufacturers of these products, on or before July 1, 2029, to register with the department, to pay a registration fee to the department, and to provide a statement of compliance certifying compliance with the applicable prohibitions on the use of PFAS to the department, as specified. Current law authorizes the department to test products and to rely on third-party testing to determine compliance with prohibitions on the use of PFAS, as specified. Current law requires the department to issue a notice of violation for a product in violation of the prohibitions on the use of PFAS, as provided. Current law authorizes the department to assess an administrative penalty for a violation of these prohibitions and authorizes the department to seek an injunction to restrain a person or entity from violating these prohibitions, as specified. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a cleaning product, dental floss, juvenile product, food packaging, or ski wax, as provided, that contains intentionally added PFAS, as defined, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2030, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale cookware that contains intentionally added PFAS, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would authorize the department, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations to carry out these provisions. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 840 (Limón, D) Greenhouse gases: report.
Current Text: 03/26/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board, in adopting rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 levels no later than December 31, 2030. The act requires the Legislative Analyst’s Office, until January 1, 2030, to annually submit to the Legislature a report on the economic impacts and benefits of those greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The act, until January 1, 2031, establishes the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee and requires the committee to annually report to the state board and the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies on the environmental and economic performance of the regulations establishing the market-based compliance mechanism and other relevant climate change policies. This bill would extend indefinitely the requirement for the Legislative Analyst’s Office to annually submit to the Legislature the report on the economic impacts and benefits of those greenhouse gas emissions targets. The bill would require the committee, at a public hearing, to review the annual report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office. (Based on 03/26/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
Total Measures: 69
Total Tracking Forms: 69
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Sorted by Measure
AB 15 (Gipson, D) Open unsolved homicide: review and reinvestigation.
Current Text: 07/16/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought. Existing law also defines manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, and establishes 3 kinds of manslaughter: voluntary, involuntary, and vehicular. This bill would require a law enforcement agency to review the casefile regarding an open unsolved homicide upon written application by certain persons to determine if a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, as specified. The bill would define a homicide to include murder and manslaughter and an open unsolved homicide as a homicide committed after January 1, 1990, but no less than 3 years prior to the date of the application for case review, that was investigated by a law enforcement agency, for which all probative investigative leads have been exhausted and for which no suspect has been identified. If the review determines that a reinvestigation would result in probative investigative leads, this bill would require a reinvestigation, as specified. (Based on 07/16/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 39 (Zbur, D) General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/20/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/20/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified. This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require each city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2027, but no later than January 1, 2030, to prepare and adopt a specified plan, or integrate a plan in the next adoption or revision of the general plan, that includes locally based goals, objectives, policies, and feasible implementation measures that include, among other things, the identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging and other zero-emission vehicle fueling infrastructure, as specified, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for equitable and prioritized investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 76 (Alvarez, D) Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/17/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency and defines terms for these purposes, including, among others, “surplus land” to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a regular public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Current law defines “exempt surplus land” to mean land that is subject to a sectional planning area document, as described, and meets specified requirements, including that the land identified in the adopted sectional planning area document was dedicated prior to January 1, 2019, at least 25% of the units are dedicated to lower income households, as specified, and that the land is developed at an average density of at least 10 units per acre calculated with respect to the entire sectional planning area. This bill would change those requirements so that at a minimum, 25% of units that are proposed by the sectional planning area document as adopted prior to January 1, 2019, and are not designated for students, faculty, or staff of an academic institution, or 500 units, whichever is greater, must be dedicated to lower income households, as specified, and that the land must be developed at an average density of at least 10 units per acre, in accordance with certain requirements and calculated with respect to the entire sectional planning area and inclusive of housing designated for students, faculty, and staff of an academic institution. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 227 (Gabriel, D) Budget Act of 2025.
Current Text: 01/10/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/03/2025 - Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
Location: 02/03/2025 - Assembly Budget
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2025–26 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/10/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: State Budget Act
AB 237 (Patel, D) Crimes: threats.
Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under current law, this crime is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for no more than one year for a misdemeanor, or by imprisonment in state prison for a felony. This bill would make it a crime for a person to willfully threaten, by any means, including, but not limited to, an image or threat posted or published on an internet web page, to commit a crime at specified locations, including a daycare and workplace, with specific intent that the statement is be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, if the threat, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person or persons threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and if the threat causes a person or person to reasonably be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of others at the specified locations. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 253 (Ward, D) California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law. This bill, the California Residential Private Permitting Review Act, would require a county or city to prepare a residential building permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 262 (Caloza, D) California Individual Assistance Act.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/11/2025 - Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 06/11/2025 - Senate Governmental Organization Summary: The California Disaster Assistance Act requires the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act. This bill would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. The bill would require the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Public Safety Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 306 (Schultz, D) Building regulations: state building standards.
Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/23/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 04/23/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services. Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code). The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires, among other things, the building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Current law authorizes any city or county to make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards. Current law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making modifications or changes to those green building standards, to make an express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions. This bill would, from October 1, 2025, to June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above-described building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety. (Based on 06/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 330 (Rogers, D) Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act.
Current Text: 01/27/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/08/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act, until January 1, 2026, suspends the authority of a city, county, or city and county to impose a utility user tax on the consumption of prepaid communications service and any charge that applies to prepaid mobile telephony service, as defined, on access to communication services or access to local “911” emergency telephone systems, and instead requires those taxes and charges to be applied during the period beginning January 1, 2016, and ending January 1, 2026, under any local ordinance to be at specified rates. The act requires that these local charges imposed by a city, county, or a city and county on prepaid mobile telephony services be collected from the prepaid consumer by a seller at the time of sale, as specified. Current law requires that all local charges be collected and paid to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law and be deposited into the Local Charges for Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Fund, and be transmitted to the city, county, or city and county, as provided. This bill would extend operation of the act until January 1, 2031. (Based on 01/27/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement
AB 339 (Ortega, D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplemental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Current law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions. This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 45 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration of the contract. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 357 (Alvarez, D) Coastal resources: coastal development permit application: higher education housing project.
Current Text: 07/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/26/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/26/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Coastal Act of 1976, which is administered by the California Coastal Commission, requires a person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit. The act provides for the submission and approval of long-range land use development plans as an alternative to project-by-project review to promote greater efficiency for the planning of state university or college or private university development projects and provides for amendments to those plans. The act places limits on the conditions the commission may impose on projects contained in a plan that has been certified by the commission. The act authorizes the commission to, after a public hearing, by regulation, adopt procedures for the issuance by the executive director of waivers from coastal development permit requirements for any development that is de minimis, as specified. This bill would require the commission to defer to the state university or college or private university in determining the number of vehicle parking spaces necessary for residents of student, faculty, or staff housing facilities, as provided. The bill would authorize the executive director to determine that a proposed amendment to a public works plan or long-range development plan is de minimis and would provide the procedures for the determination and approval of amendments that are de minimis. (Based on 07/10/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 400 (Pacheco, D) Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training: police canines.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Would require, on or before July 1, 2027, the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to study and issue recommendations to the Legislature on the use of canines by law enforcement. The bill would require the commission to consider in its recommendations, among other things, instances of appropriate patrol use with a canine, as specified, and instances of appropriate use with a canine for detection, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on July 1, 2031. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 424 (Davies, R) Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints.
Current Text: 03/19/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Ordered to special consent calendar.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: Would, when the Department of Health Care Services receives a complaint against a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, or a complaint alleging that a facility is unlawfully operating without a license, from a member of the public, require the department to provide, within 30 10 days of the date of the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been received and to provide, upon closing the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been closed and whether the department found the facility to be in violation of the provisions governing facility licensure and regulation. (Based on 03/19/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 476 (González, Mark, D) Metal theft.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law governs the business of buying, selling, and dealing in secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, also known as “junk.” Current law requires junk dealers and recyclers to keep a written record of all sales and purchases made in the course of their business, including the place and date of each sale or purchase of junk and a description of the item or items, as specified. Current law requires the written record to include a statement indicating either that the seller of the junk is the owner of it, or the name of the person they obtained the junk from, as shown on a signed transfer document. This bill would require junk dealers and recyclers to include additional information in the written record, including the time and amount paid for each sale or purchase of junk made, and the name of the employee handling the transaction. The bill would revise the type of information required to be included in the description of the item or items of junk purchased or sold, as specified. The bill would require the statement referenced above indicating ownership or the name of the person from whom the seller obtained the junk from to be signed and would require the statement to include specified information, including the legal name, date of birth, and place of residence of the seller. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 492 (Valencia, D) Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1.). In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Would require the State Department of Health Care Services, whenever it issues a license to operate an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, to concurrently provide written notification of the issuance of the license to the city or county in which the facility is located. The bill would require the notice to include the name and mailing address of the licensee and the location of the facility. (Based on 02/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 507 (Haney, D) Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.
Current Text: 08/29/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units. This bill would deem an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process if the project meets specified requirements, subject to specified exceptions. In this regard, an adaptive reuse project, in order to qualify for the streamlined, ministerial review process, would be required to be proposed for an existing building that is less than 50 years old or meets certain requirements regarding the preservation of historic resources, including the signing of an affidavit declaring that the project will comply with the United States Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation for, among other things, the preservation of exterior facades of a building or structure that face a street, or receive federal or state historic rehabilitation tax credits, as specified. The bill would require an adaptive reuse project to meet specified affordability criteria. In this regard, the bill would require an adaptive reuse project for rental housing to include either 8% of the unit for very low income households and 5% of the units for extremely low income households or 15% of the units for lower income households. (Based on 08/29/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 538 (Berman, D) Public works: payroll records.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages. Current law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work. Current law requires certified copies of records to be available upon request by the public and sets forth a process for the public to request the records either through the awarding body or the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Current law makes any contractor, subcontractor, agent, or representative who neglects to comply with the requirements to keep accurate payroll records guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would require the awarding body, if a request is made by the public through the awarding body and the body is not in possession of the certified records, to obtain those records from the relevant contractor and make them available to the requesting entity. The bill would authorize the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to enforce certain penalties if a contractor fails to comply with the awarding body’s request within 10 days of receipt of the notice. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Legal and Records Management
AB 609 (Wicks, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.
Current Text: 05/05/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/20/2025 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 05/20/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: 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. CEQA exempts from its requirements various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a housing development project, as defined, that meets certain conditions relating to, for example, size, density, and location, including specific requirements for any housing on the project site located within 500 feet of a freeway. The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a specified environmental assessment regarding hazardous substance releases. If a recognized environmental condition is found, the bill would require the development proponent to complete a preliminary endangerment assessment and specified mitigation based on that assessment. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a housing development project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/05/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 610 (Alvarez, D) Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate SECOND READING
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. The Housing Element Law prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. Current law requires the housing element to include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels, including, among others, locally adopted ordinances that directly impact the cost and supply of residential development. Current law also requires the analysis to demonstrate local efforts to remove governmental constraints that hinder the locality from meeting its share of the regional housing need. For adoption of the 7th and all subsequent revisions of the housing element, this bill would require the housing element to include, in addition to the above-described analysis, a potential and actual governmental constraints disclosure statement that contains, among other things, an identification of each new or amended potential or actual governmental constraint, or revision increasing the stringency of a governmental constraint, that was adopted after the due date of the previous housing element and before submittal of the current draft housing element to the department. (Based on 09/03/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 650 (Papan, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate SECOND READING
Summary: Current law requires a public agency to administer its programs and activities relating to housing and community development in a manner to affirmatively further fair housing and take no action that is materially inconsistent with its obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. Current law defines “affirmatively furthering fair housing,” as provided. The Planning and Zoning Law requires that a housing element include, among other things, a program that sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken pursuant to the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing. This bill would require the department to develop the above-described standardized reporting format on or before December 31, 2026. (Based on 09/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 712 (Wicks, D) Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.
Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplemental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly CONCURRENCE
Summary: Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings. This bill, where the applicant for a housing development is a prevailing party in an action brought by the applicant to enforce the public agency’s compliance with a housing reform law as applied to the applicant’s housing development project, would entitle an applicant for a housing development project to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and would require a court to impose fines on a local agency, as specified. The bill would extend any period of limitation for actions under any state law for a period of 60 days beginning on the date the applicant provides written notice to the local agency indicating its intent to commence an action. The bill would prohibit a public agency from requiring the applicant to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the public agency in any action alleging the public agency violated the applicant’s rights or deprived the applicant of the benefits or protection provide by a housing reform law. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Legal and Records Management, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 735 (Carrillo, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.
Current Text: 08/27/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/28/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. (Based on 08/27/2025 text) Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 736 (Wicks, D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/04/2025 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 06/04/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 782 (Quirk-Silva, D) Subdivisions: security.
Current Text: 07/16/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/20/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/20/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Subdivision Map Act requires prescribed security from a developer if the act or a local ordinance authorizes or requires the furnishing of security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement. Current law requires the Real Estate Commissioner to make an examination of any subdivision, and to, unless there are grounds for denial, issue to the subdivider a public report authorizing the sale or lease of the lots or parcels within the subdivision. Current law specifies the grounds for denial, including, among other things, the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for all offsite improvements included in the offering or the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for any community, recreational, or other facilities included in the offering. This bill would prohibit the Real Estate Commissioner, in issuing a public report for a residential development or project, from requiring the furnishing of a security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement related to an improvement if the Real Estate Commissioner determines that security sufficient to protect the interests of purchasers, owners, and lessees, as necessary, has been furnished to a local agency for the same improvement pursuant to the provisions above requiring security under the Subdivision Map Act. (Based on 07/16/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 818 (Ávila Farías, D) Permit Streamlining Act: local emergencies.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/20/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/20/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency to determine whether an application for a development project is complete within specified time periods, as specified. The act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or city and county to proclaim a local emergency under certain circumstances, as specified, and grants political subdivisions various powers and authorities in periods of local emergency. This bill would exempt projects related to the rebuilding or repair of an affected property, as defined, from specified requirements for solar panel installations, as provided. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to approve an or deny a complete application, within 10 business days of receipt of the application, for a building permit or an equivalent permit for any of the specified structures intended to be used by a person until the rebuilding or repair of an affected property is complete. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 920 (Caloza, D) Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: centralized application portal.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.).
Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law requires a city or county that has an internet website to, among other things, make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website. This bill would require a city or county with a population of 150,000 or more persons to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website to applicants for housing development projects, as prescribed. The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a city or county described above to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website no later than January 1, 2030, if the legislative body of the city or county, on or before January 1, 2028, takes certain action, including initiating a procurement process to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website. The bill would require the centralized application portal to allow for tracking of the status of an application. The bill would specify that a city or county is not required to provide the status of any permit or inspection required by another local agency, a state agency, or a utility provider. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 961 (Ávila Farías, D) Hazardous materials: California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004.
Current Text: 02/20/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Ordered to special consent calendar.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: The California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004 provides, among other things, that an innocent landowner, bona fide purchaser, or contiguous property owner, as defined, qualifies for immunity from liability from certain state statutory and common laws for pollution conditions caused by a release or threatened release of a hazardous material if specified conditions are met, including entering into an agreement for a specified site assessment and response plan. The act prohibits the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water Resources Control Board, and a California regional water quality control board from requiring one of those persons to take a response action under certain state laws, except as specified. Existing law repeals the act on January 1, 2027. Current law provides that a person who qualifies for immunity under the act before January 1, 2027, shall continue to have that immunity on and after January 1, 2027. This bill would extend the repeal date of the act to January 1, 2037, and would provide that a person who qualifies for immunity under the act before January 1, 2037, shall continue to have that immunity on and after January 1, 2037, if the person continues to be in compliance with the requirements of the former act. (Based on 02/20/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 978 (Hoover, R) Department of Transportation and local agencies: streets and highways: recycled materials.
Current Text: 07/01/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/08/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/08/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 requires the Director of Transportation, upon consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to review and modify all bid specifications relating to the purchase of paving materials and base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials using certain recycled materials. Current law requires the specifications to be based on standards developed by the Department of Transportation for recycled paving materials and for recycled base, subbase, and pervious backfill materials. Current law requires 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, except as provided. Current law requires, until January 1, 2027, those standard specifications to allow recycled materials at or above the level allowed in the department’s standard specifications that went into effect on October 22, 2018, for specified materials. This bill would indefinitely require a local agency’s standard specifications to allow recycled materials at a level no less than the level allowed in the department’s specifications for those specified materials. If a local agency’s standard specifications do not allow for the use of recycled materials at a level that is equal to or greater than the level allowed in the department’s standard specifications on the basis that the use of those recycled materials at those levels is not feasible, the bill would authorize a person bidding on a contract to supply materials subject to those specifications to request the local agency to provide the reason for that determination upon request and would require the local agency to respond to that request, as specified. (Based on 07/01/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 992 (Irwin, D) Peace officers.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate SECOND READING
Summary: Current law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report. This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above. (Based on 09/03/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 996 (Pellerin, D) Public Resources: sea level rise plans.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Ordered to special consent calendar.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: Current law requires local governments lying in whole or in part within the coastal zone or within the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to, on or before January 1, 2034, develop a sea level rise plan with specified required content as part of a local coastal program that is subject to approval by the California Coastal Commission or the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. This bill would authorize the applicable commission, when approving a local coastal plan or an amendment to a local coastal plan, to deem existing sea level rise information or plans prepared by a local government to satisfy the content requirements for a sea level rise plan. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 1026 (Wilson, D) Public utilities: electrical corporations: energization.
Current Text: 07/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplemental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Powering Up Californians Act requires the Public Utilities Commission, on or before September 30, 2024, to establish reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods, as defined, and a procedure for customers to report energization delays to the commission, as provided. The act requires the commission to require the electrical corporation to take remedial actions necessary to achieve the commission’s targets and requires all reports to be publicly available. This bill would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to require each large electrical corporation to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny an application for energization, to post an example of a complete, approved energization application and an example of a complete energization application for a housing development project, and to make those items available on its internet website by a date specified by the commission. The bill would also require the commission to require each large electrical corporation to determine if an application for energization is complete and provide notice or otherwise provide certain information under a specified procedure. (Based on 07/08/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1050 (Schultz, D) Unlawfully restrictive covenants: housing developments: reciprocal easement agreements.
Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law provides that specified recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits on the use of land contained in specified instruments affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property are not enforceable against the owner of an affordable housing development, as defined, if an approved restrictive covenant affordable housing modification document has been recorded in the public record, as provided. As part of this process, current law requires the owner to submit to the county recorder a copy of the original restrictive covenant and any documents the owner believes necessary to establish that the property qualifies as an affordable housing development and requires the county counsel to determine, among other things, if the property qualifies as an affordable housing development and if a modification document may be recorded. Current law provides that these provisions do not authorize any development that is not otherwise consistent with local general plans, zoning ordinances, and any applicable specific plan. This bill would extend those provisions to any housing development that is owned or controlled by an entity or individual that has submitted a development project application to redevelop an existing commercial property, and the development project includes residential uses permitted by state housing laws or local land use and zoning regulations and would make various conforming changes. The bill would additionally make these provisions applicable to covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits contained in a reciprocal easement agreement, as provided. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1061 (Quirk-Silva, D) Housing developments: urban lot splits: historical resources.
Current Text: 07/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Set for Hearing Supplemental File 9/4/2025 Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly CONCURRENCE
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a county or city may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided. The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps. Current law requires a local agency to consider ministerially a specified proposed housing development or to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the development or parcel meets specified requirements, including, that the development or parcel is not located within a historic district or property included on the State Historic Resources Inventory or within a site that is designated or listed as a city or county landmark or historic property or district pursuant to city or county ordinance, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose specified objective standards on the development or parcel created by an urban lot split, except as specified. With respect to ministerial review of a proposed housing development under the above-described provisions, this bill would, if the other specified requirements are met, instead require a local agency to consider ministerially the development that is not located in either a contributing structure within a historic district included on the State Historical Resources Inventory or within a historic property or district pursuant to city or county ordinance or in a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included in the State Historical Resources Inventory or within a property individually designated or listed as a city or county landmark under a city or county ordinance. The bill would also authorize a local agency to adopt objective standards for the purposes of maintaining the historical value of a historic district listed in the California Register of Historical Resources, as specified. (Based on 07/10/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1154 (Carrillo, D) Junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.).
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires an ordinance that provides for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit to, among other things, require owner-occupancy in the single-family residence in which the junior accessory dwelling unit is permitted. Under this bill, that owner-occupancy requirement would apply only if the junior accessory dwelling unit has shared sanitation facilities with the existing structure. The bill would require an ordinance that provides for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit to require that a rental of a junior accessory dwelling unit be for a term longer than 30 days. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1207 (Irwin, D) Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: price ceiling.
Current Text: 03/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/20/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/20/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, until January 1, 2031, authorizes the State Air Resources Board to adopt a regulation establishing a system of market-based declining aggregate emissions limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases (market-based compliance mechanism) that meets certain requirements. Current law requires the state board, in adopting the regulation to, among other things, establish a price ceiling for emission allowances sold by the state board. Current law requires the state board, in establishing the price ceiling, to consider specified factors, including the full social cost associated with emitting a metric ton of greenhouse gases. This bill would require the state board to instead consider the full social cost associated with emitting a metric ton of greenhouse gases, as determined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in November 2023. (Based on 03/17/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 1263 (Gipson, D) Firearms: ghost guns.
Current Text: 03/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law makes it a crime for a person to manufacture or cause to be manufactured specified firearms. Current law prohibits a person, other than a state-licensed firearms manufacturer, from using a computer numerical control (CNC) milling machine or three-dimensional printer to manufacture a firearm. This bill would prohibit a person from knowingly or willfully causing another person to engage in the unlawful manufacture of firearms or knowingly or willfully aiding, abetting, prompting, or facilitating the unlawful manufacture of firearms, including the manufacture of assault weapons or .50 BMG rifles or the manufacture of any firearm using a three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine, as specified. (Based on 03/24/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1284 (Committee on Emergency Management) Emergency services: catastrophic plans: recovery frameworks.
Current Text: 02/21/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - In committee: Held under submission.
Location: 04/30/2025 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Would require the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to develop state recovery frameworks for California’s catastrophic plans, as provided. The bill would also require the governing body of a political subdivision, as defined, to develop regional recovery frameworks for California’s catastrophic plans and would require OES to provide technical assistance in this regard. This bill would require OES and the governing bodies of political subdivisions, in developing recovery frameworks, to incorporate lessons learned from recent major disasters. The bill would require the recovery frameworks to be consistent with guidance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and to address, at a minimum, specified recovery support functions, including economic recovery, health and social services, and infrastructure systems. The bill would require OES to use, to the greatest extent possible, federal preparedness grant funding to offset the state, local, and tribal government costs associated with developing recovery frameworks. The bill would require the state and regional recovery frameworks to be completed by January 15, 2027. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/21/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1308 (Hoover, R) Residential building permits: inspections: Housing Accountability Act.
Current Text: 07/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Held at Desk.
Location: 08/28/2025 - Senate DESK
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires a county’s or city’s building department to enforce the State Housing Law and the California Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires a county or city, upon the applicant’s request, to contract with or employ temporarily a private entity or person to check the plans and specifications submitted with an application for a residential building permit to comply with the State Housing Law or local ordinances adopted pursuant to the State Housing Law, when the building department takes more than 30 days, as specified, to complete the plan check. Current law authorizes an enforcement agency to inspect any building to secure compliance with the State Housing Law and the California Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law. This bill would require the building department to conduct an inspection of the permitted work for specified new residential constructions of a building and residential additions to an existing building within 10 business days of receiving a notice of the completion of the permitted work authorized by a building permit issued for those projects. (Based on 07/10/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 9 (Arreguín, D) Accessory Dwelling Units: ordinances.
Current Text: 09/03/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 3.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency to submit an accessory dwelling unit ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development within 60 days after adoption. The law authorizes the department to submit written findings to a local agency as to whether the ordinance complies with the standards. If the department finds that the ordinance does not comply with the standards, the law requires the department to provide a local agency reasonable time, no longer than 30 days, to respond to its findings. If the local agency does not amend its ordinance in response to those findings or does not adopt a resolution with findings explaining the reason the ordinance complies with the standards and addressing the department’s findings, the law requires the department to notify the local agency and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General that the local agency is in violation of state law. This bill would invalidate the ordinance if the local agency fails to submit a copy of the ordinance to the department within 60 days of adoption or fails to respond to the department’s findings that the ordinance does not comply with the standards within 30 days, as described above. (Based on 06/19/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 16 (Blakespear, D) Ending Street Homelessness Act.
Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/10/2025 - July 16 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: Current law requires each city, county, and city and county to revise its housing element according to a specified schedule, as provided. Current law, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties 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. At least 2 years before a scheduled revision of the housing element, as specified, existing law requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop, in consultation with the department, a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to jurisdictions, as specified. Current law requires that the final allocation plan ensure that the total regional housing need, by income category, determined as specified, is maintained, and that each jurisdiction in the region receive an allocation of units for low- and very low income households. For the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, current law also requires that the allocation to each region include an allocation of units for acutely low and extremely low income households. This bill, until January 1, 2032, would require the council of governments, or delegate subregion, as applicable, in developing the proposed allocation methodology that allocates each jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need for acutely low income housing, to count any newly constructed interim housing, as specified, as meeting the needs of acutely low income households. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 19 (Rubio, D) Threats: schools and places of worship.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to any person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of an infraction and require the person to be referred to specified services in lieu of being declared a ward of the court, as specified. By creating a new crime and imposing additional duties on local governments this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Public Safety
SB 38 (Umberg, D) Second Chance Program.
Current Text: 04/09/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 04/28/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to administer a grant program to carry out the purposes of the Second Chance Program. Current law requires the grant program to, among other things, restrict eligibility to proposals that offer mental health services, substance use disorder treatment services, misdemeanor diversion programs, or a combination thereof. Current law also establishes the Second Chance Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, which is administered by the board. The Treatment-Mandated Felony Act makes it a crime for a person, who has 2 or more prior convictions for a felony or misdemeanor violation of specified controlled substances crimes, to possess a hard drug, as defined, unless it has been prescribed by a doctor, among others. Under current law, a defendant who has been charged with this crime can elect treatment, in lieu of a jail or prison sentence or probation, by pleading guilty or no contest and admitting the alleged prior convictions, waiving time for sentencing and the pronouncement of judgment, and agreeing to participate in, and complete, a detailed treatment program developed by a drug addiction expert and approved by the court. This bill would require the Second Chance grant program to authorize eligibility for proposals that offer mental health or behavioral health services and drug court or collaborative court programs, including the treatment program under the Treatment-Mandated Felony Act. By expanding the purpose of a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/09/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 48 (Gonzalez, D) Immigration enforcement: schoolsites: prohibitions on access and sharing information.
Current Text: 07/09/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/14/2025 - July 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 07/02/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools and their personnel, to the extent possible, from granting permission to an immigration authority to access the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite, producing a pupil for questioning by an immigration authority at a schoolsite, or consenting to a search of any kind of the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite by an immigration authority, unless the immigration authority presents a valid judicial warrant or court order. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, when presented with a valid judicial warrant or court order to carry out the above-described actions, to (1) request valid identification and a written statement of purpose from the immigration authority and retain copies of those documents and (2), as early as possible, notify the designated local educational agency administrator of the request and advise the immigration authority that the local educational agency administrator is required to provide direction before access to the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite or pupil may be granted. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, if an immigration authority does not present a valid judicial warrant or court order, to (1), as early as possible, notify the designated local educational agency administrator of the request, (2) deny the immigration authority access to the nonpublic areas of the schoolsite, and (3) make a reasonable effort to have the denial witnessed and documented. The bill would also prohibit a local educational agency and its personnel from disclosing or providing, in writing, verbally, or in any other manner, the education records of or any information about a pupil, pupil’s family and household, school employee, or teacher to an immigration authority without a valid judicial warrant or court order directing the local educational agency or its personnel to do so. The bill would also require the Attorney General to publish model policies to assist K–12 schools in responding to immigration issues pursuant to the above-described requirements. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 07/09/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
SB 65 (Wiener, D) Budget Act of 2025.
Current Text: 01/10/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 01/13/2025 - Read first time.
Location: 01/10/2025 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2025–26 fiscal year. (Based on 01/10/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: State Budget Act
SB 71 (Wiener, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: 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. CEQA, until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, or bicycle transportation plans for the restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and the related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles. This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely. The bill would also exempt a transit comprehensive operational analysis, as defined, a transit route readjustment, or other transit agency route addition, elimination, or modification, from the requirements of CEQA. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a plan qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 79 (Wiener, D) Housing development: transit-oriented development.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act requires a local agency that proposes to disapprove a housing development project, as defined, or to impose a condition that the project be developed at a lower density to base its decision on written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence that specified conditions exist if that project complies with applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision standards and criteria in effect at the time that the application was deemed complete. The act authorizes the applicant, a person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the housing development project or emergency shelter, or a housing organization to bring an action to enforce the act’s provisions, as provided, and provides for penalties if the court finds that the local agency is in violation of specified provisions of the act. This bill would require that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development (TOD) stop, as defined, be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the development complies with applicable requirements, as specified. Among these requirements, the bill would require a project to include at least 5 dwelling units and establish requirements concerning height limits, density, and floor area ratio in accordance with a development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops, as provided. The bill would provide that, for the purposes of the Housing Accountability Act, a proposed development consistent with the applicable standards of these provisions as well as applicable local objective general plan and zoning standards shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with prescribed requirements, as specified. The bill would provide that a local government that denies a project meeting the requirements of these provisions located in a high-resource area, as defined, would be presumed in violation of the Housing Accountability Act, as specified, and immediately liable for penalties, beginning on January 1, 2027, as provided. These provisions would not apply to a local agency until July 1, 2026, except as specified. The bill would specify that a development proposed pursuant to these provisions is eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval pursuant to specified law, except that the bill would exempt a project under these provisions from specified requirements, and would specify that the project is required to comply with certain affordability requirements, under that law. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 92 (Blakespear, D) Housing development: density bonuses.
Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified units and meets other requirements. This bill would specify that a concession and incentive shall not result in a proposed project, as prescribed, with a specified commercial floor area ratio. The bill would also specify that certain provisions of the Density Bonus Law do not require a city, county, or city and county to approve, grant a concession or incentive requiring approval of, or waive or reduce development standards otherwise applicable to, transient lodging as part of a housing development, except as specified. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 274 (Cervantes, D) Automated license plate recognition systems.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law prohibits a public agency, which includes the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or any agency or political subdivision of the state, a city, a county, or a city and county, including, but not limited to, a law enforcement agency, from selling, sharing, or transferring automated license plate recognition (ALPR) information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law. Current law defines ALPR information as information or data collected through the use of an ALPR system. This bill would provide that “public agency” does not include a transportation agency, as specified. The bill would authorize a law enforcement agency to use ALPR information only for purposes of locating vehicles or persons when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense. The bill would prohibit a public agency from retaining ALPR information for more than 60 days after the date of collection if it does not match information on an authorized hot list, as defined. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety
SB 346 (Durazo, D) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days. This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the physical address, including 9-digit ZIP Code, of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period. The bill would also authorize a local agency to request additional information, as provided, when the physical address is not sufficient for the local agency to identify a specific short-term rental. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 358 (Becker, D) Mitigation Fee Act: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts.
Current Text: 07/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. Current law requires a local agency that imposes a fee on a housing development for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts to set the rate for that fee, if the housing development satisfies all of certain prescribed characteristics, to reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation associated with such housing developments in comparison with housing developments without the prescribed characteristics, unless the local agency adopts findings after a public hearing establishing that the housing development, even with those characteristics, would not generate fewer automobile trips than a housing development without those characteristics. This bill would require those findings to be supported by substantial evidence in the record before or as part of the housing development project approval process. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 360 (Rubio, D) Land conservation: California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act: County of San Bernardino.
Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/05/2025 - Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.
Location: 06/05/2025 - Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Summary: (1)The California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act, an initiative measure approved by the voters in the June 7, 1988, statewide primary election, provided bond funds for wildlife, coastal, and parkland conservation. The initiative measure authorizes the act to be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature if the amendment is consistent with the purposes of the act. Existing law requires an applicant receiving state funds under the act to maintain any property acquired in perpetuity, as specified, to use the property only for the purposes stated in the act, and to make no other use, sale, or other disposition of the property except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the County of San Bernardino to sell or exchange property it owns within the Chino Agricultural Preserve that was purchased with grant funds if it meets certain conditions. This bill would additionally authorize preservation of those lands or easements for park and recreational purposes, and would explicitly include, to the extent they are consistent with the purposes of the act, playgrounds, recreational venues, and preservation of historical resources as appropriate purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 385 (Seyarto, R) Peace officers.
Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/17/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law required the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, on or before June 1, 2023, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission, within 2 years of the submission of the report, to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report. This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
SB 415 (Reyes, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.
Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/21/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/21/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. The bill would revise the definition of “logistics use” and instead define “logistics use development” for these purposes to mean a building that is primarily used as a warehouse for the movement or the storage of cargo, goods, or products that are moved to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 454 (McNerney, D) State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law designates the State Water Resources Control Board as the agency responsible for administering specific programs related to drinking water, including, among others, the California Safe Drinking Water Act and the Emerging Contaminants for Small or Disadvantaged Communities Funding Program. This bill, which would become operative upon an appropriation by the Legislature, would enact a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) mitigation program. As part of that program, the bill would create the PFAS Mitigation Fund in the State Treasury and would authorize certain moneys in the fund to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the state board to seek out nonstate, federal, and private funds designated for PFAS remediation and treatment and deposit the funds into the PFAS Mitigation Fund. The bill would continuously appropriate these funds to the state board for specified purposes. The bill would authorize the state board to establish accounts within the PFAS Mitigation Fund. The bill would authorize the state board to expend moneys from the fund in the form of a grant, loan, or contract, or to provide assistance services to water suppliers and sewer system providers, as those terms are defined, for multiple purposes, including, among other things, to cover or reduce the costs for water suppliers associated with treating drinking water to meet the applicable state and federal maximum PFAS contaminant levels. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 456 (Ashby, D) Contractors: exemptions: muralists.
Current Text: 04/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/21/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 08/21/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Contractors State License Law establishes the Contractors State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business, or act in the capacity, of a contractor without a license, unless exempted. Current law exempts from the Contractors State License Law a nonprofit corporation providing assistance to an owner, as specified. This bill would exempt from that law an artist who draws, paints, applies, executes, restores, or conserves a mural, as defined, pursuant to an agreement with a person who could legally authorize the work. (Based on 04/02/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 466 (Caballero, D) Drinking water: primary standard for hexavalent chromium: exemption.
Current Text: 08/25/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The California Safe Drinking Water Act requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria and requires a primary drinking water standard to be established for hexavalent chromium. Current law authorizes the state board to grant a variance from primary drinking water standards to a public water system. This bill would prohibit a public water system that meets the total chromium maximum contaminant level (MCL) enforceable standard for drinking water in California from being determined, held, considered, or otherwise deemed in violation of the primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium while implementing a state board approved compliance plan or while state board action on the proposed and submitted compliance plan is pending, except as provided. (Based on 08/25/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 489 (Arreguín, D) Local agency formation commissions: written policies and procedures: Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects.
Current Text: 08/26/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 governs the procedures for the formation and change of organization of cities and special districts and establishes a local agency formation commission in each county consisting of members appointed as provided. The act expresses the intent of the Legislature that each local agency formation commission, by January 1, 2002, establish written policies and procedures and exercise its powers in a way that encourages and provides planned, well-ordered, efficient urban development patterns, as specified. The act requires these written policies and procedures to include forms to be used for various submittals to the commission, as provided. The act requires each commission to provide access to notices and other information to the public on an internet website, as specified, including notice of all public hearings and commission meetings. This bill would require that each local agency formation commission establish the written policies and procedures described above. The bill would require that the written policies and procedures include any forms necessary for a complete application to the commission concerning a proposed change of organization or reorganization. (Based on 08/26/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 499 (Stern, D) Residential projects: fees and charges.
Current Text: 08/20/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Senate CONCURRENCE
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. If a local agency imposes any fees or charges on designated residential developments for the construction of public improvements or facilities, current law imposes various conditions on the fees and charges. Among these conditions, existing law prohibits the local agency from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date the first certificate of occupancy or first temporary certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except as specified. Current law, for designated residential development projects, authorizes the local agency to collect utility service fees related to connections at the time an application for service is received if those fees do not exceed the costs incurred by the utility provider resulting from the connection activities. This bill would additionally authorize a local agency to collect utility service charges related to connections at the time an application is received, as described above. (Based on 08/20/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
SB 634 (Pérez, D) Local government: homelessness.
Current Text: 06/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 07/17/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that prohibits a person or organization from providing support services, as specified, to a person who is homeless or assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. (Based on 06/24/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance, Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety SB 682 (Allen, D) Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations to enforce specified covered perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) restrictions, which include prohibitions on the distribution, sale, or offering for sale of certain products that contain specified levels of PFAS. Current law requires the department, on and after July 1, 2030, to enforce and ensure compliance with those provisions and regulations, as provided. Current law requires manufacturers of these products, on or before July 1, 2029, to register with the department, to pay a registration fee to the department, and to provide a statement of compliance certifying compliance with the applicable prohibitions on the use of PFAS to the department, as specified. Current law authorizes the department to test products and to rely on third-party testing to determine compliance with prohibitions on the use of PFAS, as specified. Current law requires the department to issue a notice of violation for a product in violation of the prohibitions on the use of PFAS, as provided. Current law authorizes the department to assess an administrative penalty for a violation of these prohibitions and authorizes the department to seek an injunction to restrain a person or entity from violating these prohibitions, as specified. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a cleaning product, dental floss, juvenile product, food packaging, or ski wax, as provided, that contains intentionally added PFAS, as defined, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2030, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale cookware that contains intentionally added PFAS, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would authorize the department, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations to carry out these provisions. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 696 (Alvarado-Gil, R) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: firefighting equipment.
Current Text: 05/08/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 05/19/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill, on and after July 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2031, would exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, firefighting apparatus, equipment, or specialized vehicles, as defined, purchased by a fire department, including an all-volunteer fire department, as defined, or a fire protection district. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/08/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement
SB 707 (Durazo, D) Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2026, and until January 1, 2030, require an eligible legislative body, as defined, to comply with additional meeting requirements, including that, except as specified, all open and public meetings include an opportunity for members of the public to attend via a 2-way telephonic service or a 2-way audiovisual platform, as defined, and that the eligible legislative body take specified actions to encourage residents to participate in public meetings, as specified. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance
SB 710 (Blakespear, D) Property taxation: active solar energy systems.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The California Constitution generally limits the maximum rate of ad valorem tax on real property to 1% of the full cash value of the property and defines “full cash value” for these purposes as the appraised value of real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred after the 1975 assessment. Pursuant to constitutional authorization, current property tax law excludes from the definition of “newly constructed” for these purposes the construction or addition of any active solar energy system, as defined, through the 2025–26 fiscal year. Under current property tax law, this exclusion remains in effect only until there is a subsequent change in ownership, but an active solar energy system that qualifies for the exclusion before January 1, 2027, continues to receive the exclusion until there is a subsequent change in ownership. Current law repeals these exclusion provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill would remove the repeal of the existing active solar energy system exclusion. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 720 (Ashby, D) Automated traffic enforcement system programs.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements, including identifying the system with signs and ensuring that the system meets specified criteria on minimum yellow light change intervals. Current law authorizes, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a speed safety system pilot program for speed enforcement that utilizes a speed safety system in specified areas, if the system meets specified requirements. Current law prescribes specified requirements for a notice of violation issued pursuant to these provisions, and requires a violation of a speed law that is recorded by a speed safety system to be subject only to a specified civil penalty. This bill would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system program to use those systems to detect a violation of a traffic control signal, if the system meets specified requirements. The bill would require a violation of a traffic control signal that is recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be subject to escalating civil penalties, as specified. The bill would, among other things, provide for the issuance of a notice of violation, an initial review, an administrative hearing, and an appeals process, as specified, for a violation under this program. The bill would clarify that a local jurisdiction may utilize an automated traffic enforcement system pursuant to these provisions or the above-described provisions authorizing the utilization of an automated traffic enforcement system. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
SB 786 (Arreguín, D) Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries, and requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements. Current law specifies that these provisions generally do not apply to a charter city, but requires a charter city to adopt a general plan that contains the mandatory elements, among other things. Current law prescribes a process to challenge the validity of a general plan. Among other things, existing law requires a petitioner to request a hearing or trial, as specified. Current law requires a court to set a date for the hearing or trial to be heard no later than 120 days after the filing of the request, as specified. Current law authorizes a court to continue for a reasonable time the date of the hearing or trial upon written motion and finding of good cause. Current law requires a court to grant the petitioner temporary relief if the court grants a continuance to a respondent, as specified. This bill would apply to the above-described process to challenge the validity of a general plan to a charter city and state that this is declaratory of existing law. The bill would limit the period for which a court may continue a trial or hearing, as described above, to no more than 60 days and would additionally authorize a court to grant a continuance on the court’s own motion. The bill would extend the requirement that a court grant temporary relief, as described above, in any instance in which the court orders a continuance, rather than only if the court grants a continuance to a respondent. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 789 (Menjivar, D) Taxation: information returns: vacant commercial real property.
Current Text: 04/30/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 05/12/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current statutory law, the Documentary Transfer Tax Act, authorizes the imposition of a tax by a county or city, as provided, with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property. Current law establishes the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for the purpose of administering various taxes. This bill would require a person, as defined, that owns commercial property, as defined, in this state to register with the department, as provided. The bill would require every person owning commercial real property in this state to file an information return each year by a date determined by the department, as provided. The bill would require the information return to include specified information, including, among other requirements, whether any buildings or portions of buildings were vacant in the previous calendar year. The bill would authorize extensions of the time for a person to file an information return under specified circumstances, including for good cause. The bill would impose on any person who fails or refuses to timely furnish a return required by its provisions a penalty of $100 per commercial property that the person fails or refuses to timely furnish the information return. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to make a loan from the General Fund to the department to implement those provisions, and would require any loan to be repaid from revenues from penalties imposed. (Based on 04/30/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing SB 827 (Gonzalez, D) Local agency officials: training.
Current Text: 09/02/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/03/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Current law imposes ethics training on specified local agency officials. Current law requires each training to be 2 hours and requires the officials to receive each training every 2 years, and as described otherwise, with the first training within one year of commencing service. Existing law requires the local agency to maintain records of the trainings, as prescribed. This bill would expand which local agency officials are required to complete the above-described ethics training to include department heads, or other similar administrative officers, as specified, and would instead require officials who commence service on or after January 1, 2026, to receive their initial training within 6 months of commencing service. The bill would require the local agency to publish post clear instructions and contact information for requesting the training records on its internet website, as specified. This bill would additionally require all local agency officials, as defined, to receive at least 2 hours of fiscal and financial training, as described. The bill would require the training to be received at least once every 2 years, as provided. The bill would exempt from these requirements specified local agency officials if they are in compliance with existing education requirements specific to their positions. This bill would authorize a local agency or an association of local agencies to contract with or otherwise collaborate with a provider of a training course to offer one or more training courses, or sets of self-study materials with tests, to its local agency officials to meet the training requirement, as described. The bill would require the training courses and materials to be developed in consultation with experts in local government finance. finance, as specified. (Based on 09/02/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance
SB 840 (Limón, D) Greenhouse gases: report.
Current Text: 03/26/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 09/02/2025 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board, in adopting rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 levels no later than December 31, 2030. The act requires the Legislative Analyst’s Office, until January 1, 2030, to annually submit to the Legislature a report on the economic impacts and benefits of those greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The act, until January 1, 2031, establishes the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee and requires the committee to annually report to the state board and the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies on the environmental and economic performance of the regulations establishing the market-based compliance mechanism and other relevant climate change policies. This bill would extend indefinitely the requirement for the Legislative Analyst’s Office to annually submit to the Legislature the report on the economic impacts and benefits of those greenhouse gas emissions targets. The bill would require the committee, at a public hearing, to review the annual report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office. (Based on 03/26/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SR 15 (Ochoa Bogh, R) Relative to the “2-1-1” information and referral service.
Current Text: 02/28/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 02/27/2025 - Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.)
Location: 02/27/2025 - Senate ADOPTED
Summary: Would resolve that he Senate hereby proclaims the month of February 2025 as 2-1-1 Month and the day of February 11, 2025 as 2-1-1 Day to promote and strengthen the 2-1-1 service in providing Californians with free and confidential referrals to needed resources. Resolved, That the Senate commits to supporting the 2-1-1 service and infrastructure so that all Californians have equitable access to this critical service that provides resource connections regarding support for poverty, housing, family and children, aging and disability, health equity, and disasters. Resolved, That the Senate encourages all Californians to be aware of the 2-1-1 service and look up their local 2-1-1 service provider on the internet at 211.org (Based on 02/28/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
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Total Tracking Forms: 69
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