Agenda — Legislative Policy Committee, September 23, 2025 (part 1 of 2)

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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2025
3:00 PM
AGENDA

ROLL CALL
Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Council Member Karen C. Comstock.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
This is the time and place for the general public to address the Legislative Policy Committee about subjects that do not appear elsewhere on the agenda. Due to Brown Act requirements, action will not be taken on any issues not on the Agenda.

CONSENT CALENDAR

1. Minutes. Approve Committee Minutes for the meetings on March 28, May 24, September 13, 2023; January 9, March 21, May 8, November 21, 2024; March 17, April 8, May 13, June 17, and August 12, 2025 (All Committee Members Present).

NEW BUSINESS

2. Update on Federal Issues. Receive a report on federal legislative and budget issues. Receive and file. [ATTACHMENT]
Report by: Jamie Jones, David Turch & Associates.

3. Update on State Issues. Receive a report on state legislative and budget issues. Provide direction to staff on draft signature and veto request letters to Governor Newsom. [ATTACHMENT] Report by: Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager; and Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son.

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4. Government Relations Update. Receive a report on federal, state, and regional outreach and communications. Receive and file. [ATTACHMENT]
Staff Report by: Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager.

ADJOURN
The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

I, Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk of the City of Chino, hereby declare that on Friday, September 19, 2025, this agenda was posted on the south window of Chino City Hall and this agenda together with all of the agenda reports and related documents were posted on the City’s website at www.cityofchino.org by myself or under my direction.

Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk

LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023
1:00 PM

MINUTES
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CALL TO ORDER
The March 28, 2023, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 1:00 p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Mayor Pro Tem Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Review of Bills Tracked by the City of Chino. Receive a report of bills currently being tracked by the City of Chino and provide direction on official City stances to be recommended to the City Council at the April 4, 2023 Regular City Council Meeting.

Jack Morgan, Assistant to the City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves and Son, who participated remotely, provided a presentation on the item.

The Committee reviewed the report of tracked legislation and discussed the official positions to be recommended to the City Council at the April 4, 2023 Regular City Council Meeting.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 2:02 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK

LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2023
3:00 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The May 24, 2023, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 3:02 p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Mayor Pro Tem Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
Roman Nava, Bridge Pointe Consulting, provided an introduction.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Review of Bills Tracked by the City of Chino. Receive a report of bills currently being tracked by the City of Chino and consider additional bills for City Council consideration at the June 6, 2023 Regular City Council Meeting.

Jack Morgan, Assistant to the City Manager, provided a report on the item.

Daphney Lezo Duran, Representative from Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez’s Office, who participated remotely, provided a report on Assembly Bill 250.

Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves and Son, who participated remotely, provided a presentation on State legislative updates.

Deputy Police Chief Kevin Mensen, presented on Assembly Bill 742.

The Committee reviewed the report of tracked legislation and discussed the official City positions to be recommended to the City Council at the June 6, 2023 Regular City Council Meeting as follows: Oppose Assembly Bills 480, 1034, 742, and Support Senate Bill 747.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:06 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

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APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
3:30 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The September 13, 2023, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Mayor Pro Tem Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Review of State Legislation Tracked by the City of Chino. Receive a report on the status of State legislation being tracked by the City of Chino.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves and Son, who participated remotely, provided a presentation on State legislative updates.

The Committee reviewed and discussed the report of bills currently being tracked by the City of Chino and provided direction on official City positions.

2. Receive City of Chino Letter on Assembly Bill 1484 (Zbur). Receive and file the City of Chino letter opposing AB 1484 (Zhur) and receive a verbal update on the status of the bill.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager and Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves and Son, provided a presentation on the item.

The Committee recommended an opposition letter be prepared against Assembly Bill 1484.

3. Update on Fiscal Year 2025 Federal Community Funding Project Requests. Receive a verbal report on the FY 2025 Federal Community Project Funding Request process and timeline.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

The Committee provided direction regarding the request that indicates the State will

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assign additional responsibilities from the California Institution for Men (CIM) to the City of Chino, and recommended staff obtain an expert to assist with drafting funding request proposals.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:12 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2024
2:30 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The January 9, 2024, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 2:31 p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Mayor Pro Tem Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Review of New State Laws, Status of Tracked State Legislation, and Proposed Amendments to City Legislative Policy. Receive reports on the status of State legislation being tracked by the City of Chino and new State laws effective 2024. Discuss and provide direction on proposed amendments to City of Chino Legislative Policy.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves and Son, participated remotely, and provided a presentation on State legislative updates.

The Committee recommended the need to streamline the process to inform the City Council of the upcoming assembly and senate bills, in order establish a position for letters to be drafted by staff in a timely manner. The Committee recommended the letters should be signed by the Mayor or Mayor Pro Tem. The Committee recommended staff to include the revised Citywide Legislative Platform and Policy at the next scheduled City Council Meeting, Tuesday, January 16, 2024, to include a Resolution for City Council consideration.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 3:09 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/COMMITTEE MEMBER

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ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024
1:30 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The March 21, 2024, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 1:32 p.m. p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Mayor Pro Tem Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Proposed Amendments to City Legislative Policy. Discuss and provide direction on proposed amendments to City of Chino Legislative Policy.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

The Committee reviewed and expressed support for the proposed amendments to the City’s Legislative Policy and directed staff to forward them to the City Council for approval.

2. Update on State Legislation. Receive report on the status of significant State legislation.

Review and provide direction to staff on recommended City position on bills.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

The Committee reviewed the report on the status of significant State legislation and discussed the official positions to be recommended to the City Council.

Daphne Lezo Duran, Representative from Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez’s Office, participated remotely to prove updates from Assemblymember Rodriguez’ Office.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 2:19 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

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APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2024
4:00 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The May 8, 2024, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 4:01 p.m. p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Mayor Pro Tem Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Update on High-Priority Legislative Items. Receive a report. Review and provide direction to staff.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

Jason Gonsolvas, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son, who participated remotely, provided an update on State legislative issues.

Police Lieutenant Aaron Kelliher, presented on Proposition 36.

The Committee took a formal position on Proposition 36, expressing support for the initiative, and directed staff to prepare a letter of support.

The Committee endorsed Council Member Flores’ recommendation to consider nominating Commander Michael Huizar, American Legion Post 299, for Assemblymember Rodriguez’ District 53 Veteran of the Year Award.

Jackie Melendez, Assistant City Manager, provided information regarding the Entrepreneur Center project.

The Committee discussed the shortage of water treatment facility personnel and the need to work with Chaffey College in developing educational courses for these types of careers.

2. Update on State Legislation. Receive a report on the status of significant State legislation.

Review and provide direction to staff.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

The Committee took a formal position on Senate Bill 1037, expressing opposition to the bill, and directed staff to prepare a letter in support.

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Mayor Pro Tem Comstock discussed the CalPERS divestment from petroleum-based products harmful to the environment and recommended an opposition position to SB 252.

The Committee opted not to take a position on public safety initiatives determined to have no impact on the City of Chino and staff will update the report accordingly.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:50 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2024
4:00 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The November 21, 2024, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 4:00 p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Mayor Pro Tem Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Post-2024 Election Impacts. Update on the 2024 election results and impacts.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

Jaime Jones, David Turch & Associates, who participated remotely, provided an update on Federal election results. He encouraged the City to visit Washington D.C. to advocate for grant funding for City of Chino projects.

Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son, who participated remotely, provided an update on State election results, including an update on Proposition 36.

2. New California Laws for 2025. Update on new California laws for 2025.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

Police Chief Mensen provided an update on public safety initiatives, including Proposition

36. Mayor Pro Tem Comstock encouraged Chief Mensen to continue to advocate for public safety interests for the City of Chino.

3. Legislative Priorities for 2025. Discussion regarding Federal and State legislative priorities for 2025.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item, including initiatives regarding housing and land use.

Mayor Ulloa inquired about Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) provisions. Warren Morelion, Director of Development Services, provided information regarding recent housing legislation impacts on municipalities.

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ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 5:15 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025
4:00 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The March 17, 2025, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 4:03 p.m. by Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Council Member Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Government Relations Update. Receive a report on federal, state, and regional outreach and communications. Receive and file.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, and Police Chief Mensen provided a presentation on the item.

The Committee inquired about the California institution for Men (CIM) audit, and Chief Mensen provided an overview on the process to author the bill and the submission process to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) for approval.

2. Update on Federal Issues. Receive a report on Federal legislative and budget issues. Receive and file.

Jamie Jones, David Turch & Associates, who participated remotely, provided an update on Federal legislative issues.

3. Proposed Federal and State Funding Requests. Receive a report on recommended City of Chino funding requests from Federal and State representatives. Discuss and provide direction to staff.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

The Committee inquired about the Pine Avenue Connector project, and Ms. Castro clarified that the project may be eligible for grant funding once it reaches a shovel-ready stage.

4. Update on State Issues. Receive a report on State legislative issues. Receive and file.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item, noting Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son was unable to attend.

The Committee inquired about Assembly Bill 68. Chief Mensen provided an overview on the proposed funding and reimbursement process, and the current Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) School Resource Officer (SRO) funding breakdown. Mayor Ulloa asked Chief Mensen to

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monitor AB 68 and the Chino Valley Unified School District reimbursement process.

Mayor Ulloa inquired about SB720, SB71, SB73, and SB74.

Council Member Comstock provided an update on League of California Cities matters, suggested a more robust camera system around CIM, and requested the City Manager look into increasing truck fines for commercial enforcement. City Manager Reich confirmed the truck fines are being looked into.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 5:24 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2025
4:00 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The April 8, 2025, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 4:00 p.m. by Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Council Member Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Update on Federal Issues. Receive a report on federal legislative and budget issues. Receive and file.

Jamie Jones, David Turch & Associates, who participated remotely, provided an update on federal issues.

2. Update on State Issues. Receive a report on state legislative and budget issues. Receive and file.

Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son, who participated remotely, provided an update on state legislative issues.

3. Government Relations Update. Receive a report on federal, state, and regional outreach and communications. Receive and file.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

Police Chief Mensen provided a report on the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) session concerning the audit process for the California Institution for Men (CIM). Mayor Ulloa asked Chief Mensen to clearly communicate that the City’s intention is for the CIM to undergo an audit, not to advocate for its closure, but to ensure the facility operates safely for the surrounding community.

Mayor Ulloa recommended that the CIM consider the sale of a portion of the land to reduce its footprint and allocate the proceeds from the sale towards rehabilitating the facility.

Police Chief Mensen confirmed the CIM tour will take place on May 30, 2025, and Mayor Ulloa confirmed to attend.

Ms. Castro provided updates and announced that Congresswoman Torres would be hosting two community meetings.

Ms. Castro reported staff would like to recognize Senator Rubio at a future City Council meeting for her work on the Senate Bill 536.

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ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:52 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025
3:00 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The June 17, 2025, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 3:14 p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Council Member Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS
Item 2 was discussed first before Item 1.

2. Update on State Issues. Receive a report on state legislative and budget issues. Receive and file.

Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son, who participated remotely, provided an update on State legislative issues.

1. Update on Federal Issues. Receive a report on federal legislative and budget issues.

Receive and file.

Jamie Jones, David Turch & Associates, who participated remotely, provided an update on federal legislative issues.

3. Government Relations Update. Receive a report on federal, state, and regional outreach and communications. Receive and file.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on the item.

Mayor Ulloa inquired about the impact of the new California Fire Hazard Map on The Preserve, potential changes to building code requirements, Insurance Commissioner mandates, and fire hydrant placement requirements. Warren Morelion, Director of Development Services, confirmed ongoing coordination with the Chino Valley Fire District and will provide follow-up updates.

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ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 3:59 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING – CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2025
4:00 PM

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER
The August 12, 2025, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Policy Committee was called to order at 4:03 p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Council Member Karen C. Comstock ABSENT: NONE.

PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
There were no requests to speak.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Update on Federal Issues. Receive a report on federal legislative and budget issues.

Receive and file.

Jamie Jones, David Turch & Associates, who participated remotely, provided an update on federal issues. At the request of Mayor Ulloa, Mr. Jones provided information on congressional redistricting.

2. Update on State Issues. Receive a report on state legislative and budget issues. Receive and file.

Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son, who participated remotely, provided an update on the California legislative session, set to conclude on September 12, 2025.

3. Government Relations Update. Receive a report on federal, state, and regional outreach and communications. Receive and file.

Police Chief Mensen provided an update on Senate Bill 274 relating to the use of Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) and provided an overview on bills that affect public safety.

Council Member Comstock spoke in opposition to SB 274 and reported that the Cal Cities board members have expressed the need of unilateral support for bills that support public safety.

The Committee Members inquired about Assembly Bill (AB) 495 and asked Chief Mensen to provide follow-up information when possible.

Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided an update.

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Mr. Gonsalves and Chief Mensen provided information on the City of Norco State prison closure.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:47 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers with at least 72 hours’ notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2025.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/

COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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M E M O R A N D U M

CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
COMMITTEE MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 23, 2025
TO: LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
FROM: VIVIAN CASTRO, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER
SUBJECT: UPDATE ON FEDERAL ISSUES

RECOMMENDATION
Receive a report on federal legislative and budget issues. Receive and file.

FISCAL IMPACT
There is no direct fiscal impact associated with this action.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES:

The recommendation detailed above furthers the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built, by fostering:
• Positive City Image
• Exemplary Leadership
• Public Service Excellence through Internal and External Partnerships City of Chino – Legislative Committee
September 23, 2025

UPDATE ON FEDERAL ISSUES
The City’s federal consultant, Jamie Jones of Turch & Associates, will provide a verbal update on federal issues.

DAVID TURCH AND ASSOCIATES: WASHINGTON UPDATE, SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 Schedule For Congress
The House and Senate will be in recess from September 20 until September 28 for Rosh Hashanah.

The House and Senate have 2 more days scheduled in this session before the September 30 funding deadline. FY2026 begins on October 1 in 11 days.

Congressional Budget Activity
The Senate has passed three appropriations bills: Military Construction-VA, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch bills. The Senate Appropriations Committee had marked up all of its bills except for the following: Energy-Water Development, Financial Services, Homeland Security, and StateForeign Operations.

The House has passed the Defense, Military Construction-VA (Mil Con-VA), and the Energy-Water Development appropriations bills. The House Appropriations Committee has approved all twelve of its bills, clearing them for action on the floor when leadership schedules it.

It appears that there will be a continuing resolution (CR in Hill speak). Currently, the CR will fund the government through November 21. The CR is expected to be relatively “clean” (a perfectly “clean” CR would have no changes in law or funding adjustments). The White House has called for $58 million in increased security funding for Executive Branch and Judicial officials. Congress must decide how much to add for their increased security, and if they want to add it to this bill, after the killing of Charlie Kirk. Currently, it appears that the House will allocate $30 million, and the Senate will permit member accounts to cover the increased security costs. More funding for Congress’s security may be included in the Legislative Branch appropriations bill in the near future.

Democrats and some Republicans are seeking to extend the enhanced healthcare tax credits for those who use the exchanges. Currently, those enhanced credits will expire on December 31, 2025.

Democrats have proposed extending those enhanced credits at a cost of $350 billion over ten years.

Republicans are aware of this issue but would prefer to address it in a larger spending package later this year and not in a seven-week CR.

The House, on September 12, selected appropriation conferees and is awaiting Senate action.

Informal talks have begun on several appropriations bills.

Notable Actions
The Senate had hoped to proceed and complete action on the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this week. However, there are several “holds” on the bill related to proposed amendments. To move the bill quickly, the Senate must have unanimous agreement to proceed. The House passed its version on September 10.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed nine bills that would overhaul and reauthorize the structure of the State Department in its first top-to-bottom reauthorization in more than two decades. They considered 225 amendments over 26 hours and finally adopted the nine bills on September 18.

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order once again delaying until December 16 the enforcement of a TikTok ban, after announcing that the U.S. had a “framework” for a deal to keep the app available in the U.S. Trump is expected to discuss the framework with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Senate Republicans pushed through a rule change on Wednesday to expedite the confirmation of sub-Cabinet presidential nominations. The change, approved along party lines, means that nominations below the Cabinet level can be confirmed with a simple majority vote, instead of the 60-vote threshold previously required.

M E M O R A N D U M

CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
COMMITTEE MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 23, 2025
TO: LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
FROM: VIVIAN CASTRO, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER
SUBJECT: UPDATE ON STATE ISSUES

RECOMMENDATION
Receive a report on state legislative and budget issues. Provide direction to staff on draft signature and veto request letters to Governor Newsom.

FISCAL IMPACT
There is no direct fiscal impact associated with this action.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES:

UPDATE ON STATE ISSUES
Tracked State Legislation Reports (Attachments 1 & 2)
The two attached reports provide an update on the status of City of Chino-tracked state legislation, organized by subject category and measure order. The positions noted on bills are based on the City Council's adopted Legislative Policy or prior direction from the Legislative Committee or Council.

Additional positions may be taken, or existing positions may be modified, based on direction from the Legislative Committee or City Council.

Position Letters & Major Issues (Attachment 3)
Attachment 3 includes drafts of letters to be submitted to Governor Newsom requesting his veto or signature on various bills. The veto or signature requests are based on the City’s adopted Legislative Policy and current recommended positions reflecting the final versions of the bills sent to the Governor for consideration. Several tracked bills awaiting the Governor’s action are still being reviewed by staff. Additional letters to the Governor are anticipated. • AB 339 (Ortega) - Local public employee organizations: notice requirements; Veto request • AB 492 (Valencia) - Alcohol and drug programs: licensing; Signature request • AB 507 (Haney) – Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives; Veto request • AB 650 (Papan) - Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation; Signature request
• SB 79 (Wiener) - Planning and zoning: housing development: transit-oriented development; Veto request
• SB 274 (Cervantes) - Automated license plate recognition systems; Veto request • SB 454 (McNerney) - State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS mitigation program; Signature request
• SB 707 (Durazo) - Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements; Veto request • SB 827 (Gonzalez) - Local agency officials: training; Veto request Legislative Update (Attachment 4)
Attachment 4 contains an update on state issues, dated September 15, 2025, that was provided by the City’s state consultant, Gonsalves & Son. It includes a report on the referenced Budget Trailer Bills.

State Legislative Calendar – Recent and Upcoming Legislative Deadlines • Sept. 12 - Last day for each house to pass bills. Interim Recess begins upon adjournment. • Oct. 12 - Last day for the Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature before Sept. 12 and in the Governor’s possession on or after Sept. 12.

CHINO TRACKED BILLS BY SUBJECT
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
1 As of Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Sorted by Subject
Governance
SB 634 (Pérez, D) Local government: homelessness.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 16.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/13/2025 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.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law, 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. The bill would require an eligible legislative body, on or before July 1, 2026, to approve at a noticed public meeting in open session a policy regarding disruption of telephonic or internet services occurring during meetings subject to these provisions, as specified, and would require the eligible legislative body to comply with certain requirements relating to disruption, including for certain disruptions, recessing the open session for at least one hour and making a good faith attempt to restore the service, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance
2 SB 827 (Gonzalez, D) Local agency officials: training.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance
Human Resources
AB 339 (Ortega, D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.

Current Text: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/10/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
3 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.
4 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: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 16.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/13/2025 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
5 Legal and Records Management
AB 538 (Berman, D) Public works: payroll records.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9.). In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 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: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/08/2025 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. 6 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/10/2025 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: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 7 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 09/04/2025 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
8 Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

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 zeroemission 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 09/15/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 76 (Alvarez, D) Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 253 (Ward, D) California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 9 schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees. (Based on 09/16/2025 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 abovedescribed 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 09/16/2025 text)
Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
10 AB 424 (Davies, R) Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints.

Current Text: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/08/2025 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: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/04/2025 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 or structure 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. (Based on 09/15/2025 text) 11 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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. Current law, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, 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 09/15/2025 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. 12 Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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. Current 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 09/15/2025 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: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/08/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Legal and Records Management, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
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
13 Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 818 (Ávila Farías, D) Permit Streamlining Act: local emergencies.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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. Current law, 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 require a city, county, or city and county to approve 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. (Based on 09/12/2025 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: 09/04/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
14 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 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. Current 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, if the person continues to be in compliance with the requirements of the former act. This bill would extend the repeal date of the act to January 1, 2037. (Based on 09/15/2025 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: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/08/2025 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: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/08/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1050 (Schultz, D) Unlawfully restrictive covenants: housing developments. 15 Current Text: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Current law provides that recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits on the use of land contained in instruments affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that, among other things, restrict the number, size, or location of the residences that may be built on the 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 a 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, and include instruments affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that prohibits the number, size, or location of residences that may be built on the property or restricts or prohibits the residential uses of the property. The bill would further provide that these provisions do not authorize any development that is not otherwise consistent with state housing laws. (Based on 09/15/2025 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/10/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1154 (Carrillo, D) Junior accessory dwelling units.
16 Current Text: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/05/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1308 (Hoover, R) Residential building permits: inspections: Housing Accountability Act.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing 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. By imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/12/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 9 (Arreguín, D) Accessory Dwelling Units: ordinances.

Current Text: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 17 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 09/05/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 79 (Wiener, D) Housing development: transit-oriented development.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 8.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, longterm general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element consist of an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs and a statement of goals, policies, quantified objectives, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing, as specified. Existing law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to the meeting of these needs, including an inventory of land suitable for residential development, as provided. Existing 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, as specified, and requires the appropriate council of local 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 locality in the region. Existing law requires the inventory of land to be used to identify sites throughout the community that can be developed for housing within the planning period and that are sufficient to provide for the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need. Existing law requires each local government to revise its housing element in accordance with a specified schedule. 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 residential 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, or within unincorporated areas of counties until the 7th regional housing needs allocation cycle. 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/05/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 92 (Blakespear, D) Housing development: density bonuses.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 18 Location: 09/11/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/13/2025 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: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/04/2025 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Location: 09/16/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/10/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
19 Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 415 (Reyes, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/09/2025 text) Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 456 (Ashby, D) Contractors: exemptions: muralists.

Current Text: 09/10/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/08/2025 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: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m. 20 Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/05/2025 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: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 1.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/13/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
SB 607 (Wiener, D) California Science and Health Research Bond Act.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: Would establish the California Foundation for Science and Health Research within the Government Operations Agency. The bill would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, and require the moneys in the fund to be used by the foundation to award grants and make loans to public or private research companies, universities, institutes, and organizations for scientific research and development, in specific areas of research, including, but not limited to, biomedical, behavioral, and climate research. (Based on 09/12/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
21 SB 710 (Blakespear, D) Property taxation: active solar energy systems.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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, existing 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 existing 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. Existing law repeals these exclusion provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill would make a technical change to the existing active solar energy system exclusion by instead making the repeal date of January 1, 2027, the date the exclusion becomes inoperative. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 09/16/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 786 (Arreguín, D) Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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 09/12/2025 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. 22 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/16/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/11/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
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) 23 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/10/2025 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Would require, on or before July 1, 2028, 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 09/16/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 476 (González, Mark, D) Metal theft.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
24 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. Existing 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. Current law prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for nonferrous materials until the junk dealer or recycler obtains a copy of a valid driver’s license of the seller or other specified identification. Existing law requires a junk dealer or recycler to preserve the written record for at least 2 years. 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. (Based on 09/16/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 992 (Irwin, D) Peace officers.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1263 (Gipson, D) Firearms: ghost guns.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: 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 threedimensional printer or CNC milling machine, as specified. The bill would make a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor. (Based on 09/16/2025 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. 25 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) Crimes: threats.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing 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 existing 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. This bill would make this crime, for a person 18 years of age or older, punishable as a wobbler by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by imprisonment in the county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. If a person under 18 years of age commits this crime, the bill would require the person to be referred to specified services in lieu of being declared a ward of the court, if eligible. If the person is ineligible, the bill would require the offense to be punished as a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime and imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state.

Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (Based on 09/13/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Public Safety
SB 48 (Gonzalez, D) Educational equity: discrimination prevention coordinators.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Joint Rule 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 5.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
26 Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Current law states the policy of the State of California is to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. AB 715 of the 2025–26 Regular Session proposes to, among other things, (1) establish the Office of Civil Rights, under the administration of the Government Operations Agency, with the purpose of working directly with local educational agencies to prevent and address discrimination and bias, as specified, and (2) state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to establish coordinators to be employed within the Office of Civil Rights to prevent and address discrimination and bias. This bill would require the Office of Civil Rights to employ a Religious Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Race and Ethnicity Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Gender Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, and an LGBTQ Discrimination Prevention Coordinator. (Based on 09/09/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
SB 274 (Cervantes, D) Automated license plate recognition systems.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing 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. Existing 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, a public transit operator, or a local department of transportation or public works department, as specified. The bill would, beginning January 1, 2026, require new, updated, expansions of, or addendums of contractual agreements with ALPR vendors, manufacturers, or suppliers to mandate that no default access is provided to any national ALPR database and that an agency’s collected scans are by default not accessible to any other agency, and would impose new requirements on sharing between California state law enforcement agencies. 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, and as of January 1, 2026, would require a public agency to delete all ALPR information that has been held for more than 60 days and does not match information on an authorized hot list within 14 days. By imposing new requirements on public agencies, which include local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/05/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety
SB 385 (Seyarto, R) Peace officers.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
27 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 09/16/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
SB 499 (Stern, D) Residential projects: fees and charges.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 1.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 16.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/13/2025 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: 09/13/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 3.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 28 Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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. (Based on 09/04/2025 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
SBX1 3 (Wiener, D) Budget Act of 2024.

Current Text: 01/23/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 01/23/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 2, Statutes of 2025 Location: 01/23/2025 - Senate CHAPTERED
29 Summary: Would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by amending and adding appropriations and making other changes.

This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/23/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: State Budget Act
Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 476 (González, Mark, D) Metal theft.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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. Existing 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. Current law prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for nonferrous materials until the junk dealer or recycler obtains a copy of a valid driver’s license of the seller or other specified identification. Existing law requires a junk dealer or recycler to preserve the written record for at least 2 years. 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.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

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 09/16/2025 text)
30 Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 71 (Wiener, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 text) Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 1207 (Irwin, D) Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: extension.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 6.). In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined. The act authorizes the state board to revise regulations or adopt additional regulations to further the act. The act authorizes that state board to include in those regulations the use of a market-based compliance mechanism to comply with those regulations. This bill would require the state board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to instead achieve certain emissions reductions goals and the purposes of the act. The bill would require the state board, in adopting regulations, to design the regulations in a manner that transitions support from gas corporations to electrical distribution utilities to minimize ratepayer impacts and meet the emissions reduction goals of the act. The bill would require the state board to consider the effects of the regulations on affordability, cost-effectiveness, minimization of leakage in California, and achieving the emissions reduction goals of the act. (Based on 09/13/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 454 (McNerney, D) State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 31 Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/16/2025 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: 09/13/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 5.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: 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 perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as defined, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would, until January 1, 2031, exempt certain components of a cleaning product from this prohibition, as specified. The bill would clarify that, on and after January 1, 2028, a cleaning product is required to comply 32 with certain regulations adopted by the California Air Resources Board regarding volatile organic compounds in consumer products and would prohibit the use of a regulatory variance to comply with those regulations, as specified. 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 09/09/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 840 (Limón, D) Greenhouse gases: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: studies.

Current Text: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined. The act authorizes the state board to revise regulations or adopt additional regulations to further the act. The act authorizes that state board to include in those regulations the use of a market-based compliance mechanism to comply with those regulations. Current law requires the state board, in regulations implementing the market-based compliance mechanism to, among other things, establish limits on the use of offset credits as a means for a covered entity to meet its compliance obligations. Current law requires moneys collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and continuously appropriates a portion of the moneys in the fund for various purposes. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to direct specific percentages of the revenues deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to individual funds dedicated to funding clean transportation, housing and community investment, clean air and water, wildfire prevention and resilience, agriculture, clean energy, and climatefocused innovation. (Based on 09/15/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
Total Measures: 68
Total Tracking Forms: 68

CHINO TRACKED BILLS BY MEASURE
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
1 Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Sorted by Measure
AB 15 (Gipson, D) Open unsolved homicide: review and reinvestigation.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/16/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/11/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
AB 39 (Zbur, D) General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.

Current Text: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 09/15/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
2 AB 76 (Alvarez, D) Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 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 253 (Ward, D) California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in.

To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 09/16/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
3 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.

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: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
4 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 09/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement
AB 339 (Ortega, D) Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.

Current Text: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/10/2025 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in.

To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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-byproject 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 5 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 09/16/2025 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in.

To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Would require, on or before July 1, 2028, 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 09/16/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 424 (Davies, R) Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints.

Current Text: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in.

To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
6 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. Existing 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. Current law prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for nonferrous materials until the junk dealer or recycler obtains a copy of a valid driver’s license of the seller or other specified identification. Existing law requires a junk dealer or recycler to preserve the written record for at least 2 years. 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. (Based on 09/16/2025 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: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Current Text: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 or structure 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. (Based on 09/15/2025 text) Position: Oppose
7 Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 538 (Berman, D) Public works: payroll records.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9.). In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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 09/12/2025 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
8 Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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. Current law, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, 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 09/15/2025 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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. Current 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 09/15/2025 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: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 9 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 09/08/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Legal and Records Management, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
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 818 (Ávila Farías, D) Permit Streamlining Act: local emergencies.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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. Current law, 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 require a city, county, or city and county to approve 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. (Based on 09/12/2025 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: 09/04/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/04/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. 10 Location: 09/04/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 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. Current 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, if the person continues to be in compliance with the requirements of the former act. This bill would extend the repeal date of the act to January 1, 2037. (Based on 09/15/2025 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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. 11 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 09/16/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 992 (Irwin, D) Peace officers.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Current Text: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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 09/08/2025 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: 09/11/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
12 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 09/08/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
AB 1050 (Schultz, D) Unlawfully restrictive covenants: housing developments.

Current Text: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Current law provides that recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits on the use of land contained in instruments affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that, among other things, restrict the number, size, or location of the residences that may be built on the 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 a 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, and include instruments affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that prohibits the number, size, or location of residences that may be built on the property or restricts or prohibits the residential uses of the property. The bill would further provide that these provisions do not authorize any development that is not otherwise consistent with state housing laws. (Based on 09/15/2025 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: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 13 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 09/10/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1154 (Carrillo, D) Junior accessory dwelling units.

Current Text: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 09/05/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1207 (Irwin, D) Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: extension.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 6.).

In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Assembly ENROLLED
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined. The act authorizes the state board to revise regulations or adopt additional regulations to further the act. The act authorizes that state board to include in those regulations the use of a market-based compliance mechanism to comply with those regulations. This bill would require the state board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to instead achieve certain emissions reductions goals and the purposes of the act. The bill would require the state board, in adopting regulations, to design the regulations in a manner that transitions support from gas corporations to electrical distribution utilities to 14 minimize ratepayer impacts and meet the emissions reduction goals of the act. The bill would require the state board to consider the effects of the regulations on affordability, cost-effectiveness, minimization of leakage in California, and achieving the emissions reduction goals of the act. (Based on 09/13/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 1263 (Gipson, D) Firearms: ghost guns.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in.

To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: 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. The bill would make a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor. (Based on 09/16/2025 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: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing 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 15 State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing 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. Existing 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. By imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a statemandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/12/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 9 (Arreguín, D) Accessory Dwelling Units: ordinances.

Current Text: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/05/2025 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 16 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) Crimes: threats.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Current Text: 04/09/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/23/2025 - May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

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) Educational equity: discrimination prevention coordinators.

Current Text: 09/17/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Joint Rule 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 5.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Current law states the policy of the State of California is to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. AB 715 of the 2025–26 Regular Session proposes to, among other things, (1) establish the Office of Civil Rights, under the administration of the Government Operations Agency, with the purpose of working directly with local educational agencies to prevent and address discrimination and bias, as specified, and (2) state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to establish coordinators to be employed within the Office of Civil Rights to prevent and address discrimination and bias. This bill would require the Office of Civil Rights to employ a Religious Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Race and Ethnicity Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Gender Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, and an LGBTQ Discrimination Prevention Coordinator. (Based on 09/17/2025 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.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 18 Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 79 (Wiener, D) Housing development: transit-oriented development.

Existing law requires the inventory of land to be used to identify sites throughout the community that can be developed for housing within the planning period and that are sufficient to provide for the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need. Existing law requires each local government to revise its housing element in accordance with a specified schedule. This bill would require that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transitoriented 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 residential 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, or within unincorporated areas of counties until the 7th regional housing needs allocation cycle. 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/05/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
19 SB 92 (Blakespear, D) Housing development: density bonuses.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/13/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 274 (Cervantes, D) Automated license plate recognition systems.

Current Text: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m. 20 Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/04/2025 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Location: 09/16/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/10/2025 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 21 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/12/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/16/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
SB 415 (Reyes, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.

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 09/09/2025 text)
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
22 SB 454 (McNerney, D) State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/12/2025 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: 09/10/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/08/2025 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: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/11/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
23 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 09/16/2025 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: 09/09/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
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 09/05/2025 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: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 1.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/13/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
24 SB 607 (Wiener, D) California Science and Health Research Bond Act.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/10/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 16.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/10/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 09/13/2025 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.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: 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 perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as defined, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would, until January 1, 2031, exempt certain components of a cleaning product from this prohibition, as specified. The bill would clarify that, on and after January 1, 2028, a cleaning product is required to comply with certain regulations adopted by the California Air Resources Board regarding volatile organic compounds in consumer products and would prohibit the use of a regulatory variance to comply with those regulations, as specified. 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 09/09/2025 text)
25 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.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law, 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. The bill would require an eligible legislative body, on or before July 1, 2026, to approve at a noticed public meeting in open session a policy regarding disruption of telephonic or internet services occurring during meetings subject to these provisions, as specified, and would require the eligible legislative body to comply with certain requirements relating to disruption, including for certain disruptions, recessing the open session for at least one hour and making a good faith attempt to restore the service, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance
SB 710 (Blakespear, D) Property taxation: active solar energy systems.

Current Text: 09/16/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Pursuant to constitutional authorization, existing 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 existing 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. Existing law repeals these exclusion provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill would make a technical change to the existing active solar energy system exclusion by instead making the repeal date of January 1, 2027, the date the exclusion becomes inoperative. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 09/16/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 720 (Ashby, D) Automated traffic enforcement system programs.

Current Text: 09/13/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 3.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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. (Based on 09/04/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Public Safety
SB 786 (Arreguín, D) Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges.

Current Text: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 27 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 09/12/2025 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.

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: 09/12/2025 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/09/2025 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 09/09/2025 - Senate ENROLLMENT
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 abovedescribed 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 09/12/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance
28 SB 840 (Limón, D) Greenhouse gases: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: studies.

Current Text: 09/15/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 09/15/2025 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 09/15/2025 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations for greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined. The act authorizes the state board to revise regulations or adopt additional regulations to further the act. The act authorizes that state board to include in those regulations the use of a market-based compliance mechanism to comply with those regulations. Current law requires the state board, in regulations implementing the market-based compliance mechanism to, among other things, establish limits on the use of offset credits as a means for a covered entity to meet its compliance obligations. Current law requires moneys collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and continuously appropriates a portion of the moneys in the fund for various purposes. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to direct specific percentages of the revenues deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to individual funds dedicated to funding clean transportation, housing and community investment, clean air and water, wildfire prevention and resilience, agriculture, clean energy, and climate-focused innovation. (Based on 09/15/2025 text) Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SBX1 3 (Wiener, D) Budget Act of 2024.

Current Text: 01/23/2025 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 01/23/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 2, Statutes of 2025 Location: 01/23/2025 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by amending and adding appropriations and making other changes.

This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/23/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: State Budget Act
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
29 Total Measures: 68
Total Tracking Forms: 68
EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
September 19, 2025
The Honorable Gavin Newsom
Governor, State of California
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
Re: AB 339 (Ortega): Local Public Employee Organizations: Notice

REQUEST FOR VETO
Dear Governor Newsom,
The City of Chino respectfully requests your Veto on AB 339 (Ortega), which would undermine cities’ ability to partner with private and non-profit partners to provide necessary local programs and services. AB 339 would impose considerable costs to cities, including new notification requirements, unclear language that will undoubtedly result in increased conflict and eventual litigation with our labor partners, and significant delays in executing programs and delivering services.

AB 339 has an extremely broad reach and ignores existing employee protections. AB 339 applies to nearly any contract (outside of the public works exemption) that is within the scope of work of any job classification represented by a recognized employee organization; for local agencies with represented workforces, this essentially means most contracts would be subject to notice. An administrative remedy is already available to recognized employee organizations when they believe that a local agency has neglected to meet existing notification and meet-and-confer requirements regarding contracting. AB 339’s redundant and impractical approach will expose local agencies to additional costs that result from a new and potentially significant workload increase.

The definition of “emergency” is inconsistent and vague. The lack of definition of emergency or exigent circumstances in AB 339 undermines existing emergency contracting authority. As first responders, local agencies rely on existing statutes that allow for considerable flexibility to ensure the safety and well-being of our communities. This language only adds another opportunity for disagreement with our labor partners when local agencies need to focus available resources on response and recovery during an emergency.

AB 339 could not come at a worse time. With state and local agencies grappling with a substantial and growing decline in federal government support for various programs and services, now is not the Hon. Gavin Newsom
September 19, 2025

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time to undermine local agencies’ efforts to continue providing essential services to their communities. Partnership with local non-profit organizations, who are on the front lines of providing critical local services, is essential to assist local agencies in maximizing federal, state, and local resources to ensure that services reach those who need them most.

For these reasons, the City of Chino respectfully requests your Veto on AB 339 (Ortega).

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: [email protected]
EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
September 19, 2025
The Honorable Gavin Newsom
Governor, State of California
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: AB 492 (Valencia) Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.

Request for SIGNATURE
Dear Governor Newsom,
The City of Chino respectfully requests your signature on AB 492 (Valencia), which would require the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to notify cities anytime a new alcohol and drug treatment facility is approved in their jurisdiction.

DHCS is not currently required to notify local governments when approving licenses, leaving cities in the dark about the operation of new facilities within their jurisdictions. This lack of communication can make it challenging to ensure that recovery and treatment programs are effectively integrated into local communities.

AB 492 would enable cities to better coordinate services and address gaps in the state's approach to treatment needs. Similar notification requirements are already in place for liquor licenses, cannabis businesses, and syringe exchange programs.

This measure is a critical step forward, keeping cities informed and enhancing their collaboration with the state to more effectively address substance use treatment needs. We respectfully request that you sign AB 492 .

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: [email protected]
EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
September 19, 2025
The Honorable Gavin Newsom
Governor, State of California
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: AB 507 (Haney) Adaptive reuse: streamlining incentives.

Request for Veto
Dear Governor Newsom:

The City of Chino writes to request your veto of AB 507 (Haney), which would deem adaptive reuse projects by right in all zones, subject the projects to a ministerial review process, and exempt them from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

This bill seeks to streamline the process for adaptive reuse projects by deeming them a use-by-right in all zones, subject to a ministerial review process, and exempting them from certain impact fees.

While the intentions behind the bill may be to encourage adaptive reuse and address housing needs, we believe that the potential consequences could ultimately harm California cities. Adaptive reuse projects are often seen as a means to revitalize existing structures and promote sustainable development. Proponents of AB 507 argue that by streamlining the approval process and providing incentives, the bill will encourage more adaptive reuse projects, thereby addressing housing shortages and promoting economic growth.

However, despite its purported benefits, AB 507 fails to adequately address the potential negative impacts on California cities. First, by deeming adaptive reuse projects a use-by-right in all zones, the bill undermines cities’ ability to make decisions locally. It disregards the unique planning and zoning considerations of individual municipalities. This one-size-fits-all approach may not be suitable for all communities and could lead to incompatible development in sensitive areas.

Second, the exemption from certain impact fees could result in lost revenue for local governments.

These fees play a crucial role in funding essential services and infrastructure improvements, such as transportation, parks, and public safety. Exempting adaptive reuse projects from these fees, unless they are reasonably related to the impacts resulting from the change of use of the site from Hon. Gavin Newsom
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nonresidential to residential or mixed-use development, will place an additional financial burden on cities already struggling to meet the needs of their residents.

We recognize the importance of promoting adaptive reuse and addressing housing challenges in California, but we believe that AB 507 is not the appropriate solution. Instead of imposing a one-sizefits-all approach that undermines local control and reduces vital revenue streams, we urge you to veto this measure again this year, until it balances the interests of all stakeholders and respects the autonomy of California cities.

For these reasons, the City of Chino respectfully requests your Veto of AB 507 (Haney) Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: [email protected]
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EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
September 19, 2025
The Honorable Gavin Newsom
Governor, State of California
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: AB 650 (Papan) Planning and Zoning: Housing Element: Regional Housing Needs Allocation.

Request for Signature
Dear Governor Newsom,
The City of Chino respectfully requests your Signature on AB 650 (Papan), which would allow local governments to begin updating their housing element six months early, provide greater certainty, and reduce ambiguity in the housing element review process.

Since 1969, California’s local governments have planned and selected sites for housing at all income levels through the housing element portion of a local government’s general plan. Every five to eight years, local governments are required to adopt a blueprint outlining where developers can or cannot build residential developments within their respective communities and obtain certification from the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Local governments plan for their fair share of housing development as determined through the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process. As part of this complex process, local governments submit in their housing elements a variety of essential data, actions, and programs to promote fair, equitable, and affordable housing in their community. Currently, local jurisdictions are planning and zoning for nearly 2.5 million additional homes statewide.

During the 6th RHNA cycle, local governments experienced various challenges in obtaining certification from HCD. Some of the challenges include a short timeline for completing these complex documents and responding to HCD’s feedback, a lack of clarity regarding what the state expects from local governments when reviewing additional housing element drafts, and the introduction of new requirements late in the housing element review process.

AB 650 would address these issues by allowing local governments to begin updating their housing element six months early. The bill would also require HCD to provide specific text and analysis that must be included in the housing element to remedy deficiencies, ensuring that local governments are Hon. Gavin Newsom
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not penalized when HCD identifies additional deficiencies not previously identified in prior review letters.

AB 650 would also provide greater clarity and certainty to the housing element process, helping to ensure that all jurisdictions adopt a certified housing element in a timely manner. Additionally, the measure will help local governments facilitate the creation of more housing by providing resources that enable cities to obtain state approval for their housing plans, thereby creating more certainty for developers hoping to build in California.

For these reasons, the City of Chino respectfully requests your Signature on AB 650 (Papan).

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: [email protected]
EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
September 19, 2025
The Honorable Gavin Newsom
Governor, State of California
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: SB 79 (Wiener) Housing development: transit-oriented development.

REQUEST FOR VETO
Dear Governor Newsom,
The City of Chino writes to request your Veto on SB 79 (Wiener), which would disregard state-certified housing elements and bestow land use authority to transit agencies without any requirement to align development standards with local general plan and zoning requirements.

SB 79 doubles down on the recent trend of the state overriding its own mandated local housing elements. This latest overreaching effort forces cities in urban transit counties defined as “a county with more than 15 rail stations” to approve transit-oriented development projects near specified transit stops — up to seven stories high and a density of 120 homes per acre — without regard to the community's needs, environmental review, or public input.

Most alarmingly, SB 79 defies cities’ general plans and grants transit agencies land use authority on property they own that is adjacent to a transit stop, or if the agency owns land on or before January 1, 2026, within a half mile of a transit stop. Transit agencies would have the power to determine nearly all aspects of the development, including height, density, and design, without any regard to local zoning or planning. Transit agencies play a crucial role in planning transportation services, providing operations and logistics management, and ensuring that Californians have various options for commuting. By expanding their role to include housing developers and land-use authorities, this measure would continue to stretch already-thin agencies that are dealing with funding shortfalls and that lack expertise in land-use planning and development. It is fiscally unsound to assign new responsibilities in housing development to them when they are struggling to sustain core operations.

While the City of Chino appreciates the author’s desire to include an alternative transit-oriented development plan, as currently drafted, the local government has the option to do this through an additional analysis in the local government’s housing element or through the adoption of an Hon. Gavin Newsom
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ordinance with approval from the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). SB 79 would add additional requirements for state review, increasing workloads, and making it more likely that local governments will not get their housing elements or ordinances approved promptly.

Finally, the local flexibility provided in the measure is minimal at best. The bill does not provide exemptions for cities that have adopted plans to promote taller, denser residential development near transit in consultation with the community but fall short of the bill’s rigid minimum requirements. The alternative plan would still be required to meet or exceed the required development near transit as determined by HCD across all transit-oriented development zones within the jurisdiction, without accounting for infrastructure constraints, environmental hazards, or community design goals unique to each jurisdiction. For example, a community may want to distribute density around the jurisdiction due to its infrastructure capacity. However, they must still meet the minimum requirements of the bill, regardless of whether they make sense for the community or the design of the jurisdiction. In short, the flexibility is about how to meet the state’s requirements – not whether those requirements make sense for the community.

For these reasons, the City of Chino respectfully requests a veto of SB 79 (Wiener).

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: [email protected]
EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
September 19, 2025
The Honorable Gavin Newsom
Governor, State of California
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: SB 274 (Cervantes): Automated License Plate Recognition Systems

VETO REQUEST
Dear Governor Newsom:

The City of Chino requests that you veto SB 274 (Cervantes), which seeks to restrict the use and storage of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) technology by law enforcement. The bill poses significant challenges to law enforcement's ability to protect the public and effectively investigate criminal activity.

SB 274 would require agencies to associate every use of surveillance technology, including ALPRs and security footage, with a specific case number and impose a 60-day data retention limit unless the information is tied to an active investigation. While well-intentioned, this requirement does not reflect the realities of modern policing, particularly in complex investigations where patterns and suspects may not be identified within the limited timeframe.

In many cases, data such as ALPR hits or surveillance footage are instrumental in connecting the dots across jurisdictions and identifying suspects weeks or even months after a crime has occurred.

Officers frequently request our Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) and Dispatch to run a suspect vehicle's license plate through our ALPR system while they respond to calls for service, often helping us quickly establish a possible route of travel. The Chino Police Department has consistently apprehended suspects shortly after crimes are committed using ALPR technology. However, many incidents have been reported more than 60 days after the fact. Our Patrol Officers and Criminal Investigations Bureau solve a high percentage of these cases by using ALPR data and other investigative tools to link suspects to vehicles and place those vehicles near crime scenes at the time of the incidents.

Requiring a case number at the point of data collection and mandating the deletion of data after 60 days will severely hinder both proactive and reactive investigations, particularly in cases involving organized retail theft, vehicle theft, or patterns of violent crime. Surveillance tools often capture Hon. Gavin Newsom
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suspicious activity not linked to a known crime at the time, but which later proves critical in solving major cases. Under SB 274, law enforcement risks losing potentially vital evidence simply because it was not immediately tied to a case file.

The bill will result in detrimental unintended consequences on law enforcement's ability to safeguard our communities. The balance between privacy and public safety is essential, but SB 274, as written, shifts too far from providing the tools law enforcement relies on to protect victims and hold offenders accountable.

For these reasons, the City of Chino respectfully requests that you veto SB 274.

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: [email protected]
EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
September 19, 2025
The Honorable Gavin Newsom
Governor, State of California
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: SB 454 (McNerney): State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS mitigation program.

REQUEST FOR SIGNATURE
Dear Governor Newsom:

The City of Chino respectfully requests your signature on SB 454 (McNerney), which would establish a statewide PFAS Mitigation Fund (fund) to help local public agencies, including cities, leverage funding to pay for PFAS remediation and treatment in drinking water and wastewater.

Public water agencies are responsible for delivering safe, clean, and affordable drinking water throughout California. To fulfill this responsibility, public water agencies must comply with federal and state drinking water standards, including those related to PFAS. Drinking water standards can have significant financial impacts on water affordability, which are passed on to ratepayers. This bill would create a much-needed funding tool intended to leverage a variety of funding sources, including future state, federal, and private funding, designated for PFAS remediation and treatment that the State Water Resources Control Board would administer to public water agencies. The fund would help fill a gap for much-needed infrastructure funding associated with treating for PFAS.

SB 454 includes provisions to ensure that the establishment of the fund does not add any additional cost pressures on the state. First, the bill states that the State Water Resources Control Board costs should be covered from any deposits into the fund, up to 5 percent of the total monies. Additionally, SB 454, which would become operative only upon appropriation by the Legislature, aligns with budget trailer bill, SB 105 (Committee on Budget). SB 105 would allocate $180 million in safe drinking water funding and specifically allows a portion of this funding to be directed to PFAS remediation projects, which could serve as the initial funding for the proposed fund under SB 454.

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To ensure the availability of safe and affordable drinking water supplies for communities from these forever chemicals, the City of Chino respectfully requests your signature on SB 454.

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: [email protected]
EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
13220 Central Avenue, Chino, California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org
September 19, 2025
The Honorable Gavin Newsom
Governor, State of California
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: SB 707 (Durazo) Open Meetings: Meeting and Teleconference Requirements –

REQUEST FOR VETO
Dear Governor Newsom,
The City of Chino respectfully requests a veto of SB 707 (Durazo). Our city strongly supports public transparency and accessibility; however, SB 707, as currently drafted, would impose costly and inequitable new mandates on cities like ours without providing the necessary resources or flexibility for implementation.

SB 707 would create significant fiscal and operational challenges for our city, including:
• Providing two-way telephonic or audiovisual access for council meetings, halting proceedings during any service disruption.
• Translating agendas into all “applicable languages” spoken jointly by 20 percent or more of the applicable population, provided that 20 percent or more of the population that speaks that language in that city speaks English less than “very well.” • Designating a public space for community-submitted translations, even if inaccurate or misleading.
• Creating and maintaining multi-language webpages for agendas, instructions, and meeting procedures.
• Expanding outreach efforts and electronic systems for agenda access.

Our existing staff is already beyond capacity to implement the myriad of requirements already mandated. The additional requirements imposed by SB 707 must be weighed against the benefits to the public and constituents, who must bear the costs of providing additional resources to meet the barrage of mandates imposed by the state.

Hon. Gavin Newsom
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