Legislative Policy Committee
March 16, 2026

Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1975 (Schultz, D) Electrical corporations: grid utilization metric.

Current Text: 03/03/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

Location: 03/02/2026 - Assembly Utilities and Energy
Summary: Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. This bill would require the commission, on or before December 31, 2027, to establish a grid utilization metric that calculates electrical load as a percentage of rated capacity, as specified.

The bill would require each large electrical corporation, each calendar quarter, to submit a publicly available report to the commission with the results of the large electrical corporation’s grid utilization metric calculations, as specified. The bill would require the commission to annually establish a minimum value for the grid utilization metric within each large electrical corporation’s distribution grid, and would require that the grid utilization metric minimum value increase annually, as provided. (Based on 03/03/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 2074 (Haney, D) Land use.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/19/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

Location: 02/18/2026 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: Current 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. Current law requires that a housing development project within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development stop 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. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to support transit-oriented housing development, high road labor standards, and downtown revitalization in major transit cities, as defined, establish land use standards appropriate to transit-oriented development in regional centers, streamline ministerial approval for developments that meet high road labor standards in regional centers, and establish a revolving loan fund to finance construction of qualifying developments in regional centers. (Based on 02/18/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 2079 (Elhawary, D) Adaptive reuse.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/19/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

Location: 02/18/2026 - Assembly PRINT
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Summary: The Office to Housing Conversion Act, starting July 1, 2026, provides that an adaptive reuse project that meets certain requirements shall be deemed a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to the streamlined, ministerial review process, as specified. Current law authorizes a local government to implement the act and specifies the process and requirements applicable to adaptive reuse projects by local ordinance, or by ministerial approval if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to advance adaptive reuse policies to revitalize California downtown areas. (Based on 02/18/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 2118 (Hoover, R) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022: use by right: objective standards.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and NAT. RES.

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a mixed-income housing development along a commercial corridor that satisfies specified site criteria, affordability criteria, and objective development standards, and deems a housing development that meets those requirements a use by right and subject to streamlined, ministerial review. Current law prohibits the objective standards from precluding a development from being built at specified residential density required and from requiring the development to reduce unit size to meet the objective standards. This bill would also prohibit the objective standards from prohibiting or otherwise limiting mixed-use development in a housing development project. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 2295 (Johnson, R) Regional housing need: affordable housing.

Current Text: 02/19/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: Current law requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop and adopt a methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to cities, counties, and cities and counties within the region or within the subregion, as provided. Current law also requires each council of governments and delegate subregion, as applicable, to adopt a final allocation of regional housing needs to each local government in the region or subregion, where applicable, and the department, based on that adopted methodology. Current law requires that the housing element of a county’s or city’s general plan include, among other things, a quantification of the locality’s existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, which must include the locality’s share of the regional housing need, as provided. Current law authorizes a local government within the same county as a federally recognized Native American tribe to enter into a voluntary agreement with a tribe to allow new tribal housing development projects to count toward the locality’s share of the regional housing needs allocation if certain conditions are met. This bill would authorize a local government, as defined, to enter into a voluntary agreement with another local government to allow new housing development projects to count toward each locality’s share of the regional housing needs allocation if certain conditions are met, including that the project 95

includes affordable housing units for very low and lower income households. (Based on 02/19/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 2296 (Papan, D) Land use.

Current Text: 02/19/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/20/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.

Location: 02/19/2026 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act imposes requirements on a public agency’s review and approval of development projects, as specified, to ensure clear understanding of the specific requirements in connection with that approval and to expedite decisions on those projects. That act excludes from its provisions activities of the State Energy Resources Development and Conservation Commission and administrative appeals within, or to, a state or local agency. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that exclusion. (Based on 02/19/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 2433 (Alvarez, D) Housing development: affordable homes bonus.

Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D., L. GOV. and NAT. RES.

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to grant a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, to an applicant for a housing development when the applicant seeks a density bonus for the housing development, as specified, if the applicant agrees to construct, among other things, a specified percentage of units for very low income, lower income, or senior citizen housing, and meets other requirements. This bill would, instead, require a city or county to grant an affordable homes bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, to an applicant for a housing development when the applicant submits an application for a housing development that a city, county, or city and county determines meets specified criteria, including, among others, the housing development includes specified percentage of units for very low income, lower income, or senior citizen housing. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 2517 (Calderon, D) Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones.

Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and E.M. 96

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Natural Resources
Summary: Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas, commonly known as local responsibility areas, as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review and make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones within local responsibility areas. Under current law, this review is required to coincide with review of state responsibility area lands every 5 years and, when possible, fall within the timeframes for each county’s general plan update. Existing law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving the recommendations from the State Fire Marshal. Current law authorizes a local agency to, at its discretion, include areas within its jurisdiction not identified as very high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal as very high fire hazard severity zones and areas not identified as moderate and high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal as moderate and high fire hazard severity zones.

Under existing law, a local agency is required to transmit a copy of an adopted ordinance to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection within 30 days of adoption. Current law provides that changes made by a local agency to the recommendations made by the State Fire Marshal are final. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal to, no fewer than 180 days before finalizing the designation of local responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, post specified information on its public internet website, conduct regional public workshops to receive oral public comments and consider those comments, host a 30-day public comment period to receive written comments from interested stakeholders and respond to all written comments by local agencies within 30 days of the end of the public comment period, and coordinate with other state agencies to help educate the public during the public workshops, as specified. (Based on 02/20/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 2601 (Lee, D) Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval and subdivisions.

Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county 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. This bill would require that an application for a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone, as described above, be eligible for concurrent processing with an application for a parcel map for an urban lot split, as provided. The bill would authorize a local agency to condition issuance of building permits, grading permits, or certificates of occupancy for a proposed housing development upon the applicant first obtaining approval and recording a parcel map for eligible parcels pursuant to the abovedescribed urban lot split provisions. The bill would allow the primary dwellings in an urban lot split under these provisions to be developed or converted to condominiums upon request of the applicant, as specified, or, if the housing development includes an existing unit, allow the applicant to request a condominium conversion for that unit pursuant to state and local law.

The bill would specify that a “parcel map” for purposes of these provisions means a parcel map prepared in accordance with specified provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and may include a 97

condominium plan if proposed by the subdivider, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 2676 (Gallagher, R) Housing Crisis Act of 2019.

Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/21/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

Location: 02/20/2026 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: Existing law, known as the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, with respect to land where housing is an allowable use and except as specified, prohibits a county or city, including the electorate exercising its local initiative or referendum power, in which specified conditions exist, determined as provided by the Department of Housing and Community Development, from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition, as defined, that would have certain effects. Under existing law, these proscribed policies, standards, or conditions include, among others, (A) changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use within an existing zoning district below what was allowed under the general plan or specific plan land use designation and zoning ordinances of the county or city as in effect on January 1, 2018, and (B) imposing or enforcing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city, except as provided. Existing law states that these prohibitions apply to any zoning ordinance adopted or amended on or after the effective date of these provisions, and that any development policy, standard, or condition on or after that date that does not comply is deemed void. This bill would expand the prohibition against enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that has the effect of imposing or enforcing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city to also prohibit these policies, standards, or conditions within the sphere of influence of a city, as defined. The bill would define “moratorium or similar restriction or limitation on housing development” for purposes of the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 to include, but not be limited to, the electorate of a county or city subject to these provisions from exercising its referendum power in a manner that has the effect of extending an existing moratorium or similar restriction or limitation on housing development. The bill would prohibit a county or city subject to these provisions from enforcing an initiative or referendum imposing a moratorium or other similar restriction on or limitation of housing development until the initiative or referendum receives approval from the department pursuant to the approval process described above. The bill would state that if the department denies approval of the initiative or referendum, as specified, the initiative or referendum would be deemed void. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 35 (Umberg, D) Alcohol and drug programs.

Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026) Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: Current law provides for the licensure and regulation of adult alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits the operation of one of those facilities without a current valid license. Current law requires the 98

department, if a facility is alleged to be in violation of that prohibition, to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Current law requires, if the department’s employee or agent finds evidence that the facility is providing services without a license, the employee or agent to take specified actions, including, among others, submitting the findings of the investigation to the department and issuing a written notice to the facility that includes the date by which the facility is required to cease providing services. This bill would require the department, if it determines it has jurisdiction over the allegation, to initiate that investigation within 10 days of receiving the allegation and, except as specified, complete the investigation within 60 days of initiating the investigation. The bill would require the department, if it receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, to notify the complainant that it does not investigate that type of complaint. The bill would require the employee or agent to provide the notice described above within 10 days of the employee or agency submitting their findings to the department and to conduct a followup site visit to determine whether the facility has ceased providing services as required. The bill would authorize, in counties that elect to administer the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system and that provide optional recovery housing services, the county behavioral health agency to request approval from the department to conduct a site visit of a recovery residence that is alleged to be operating without a license. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Planning, Land Use, Housing Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 72 (Caballero, D) The California Water Plan: long-term supply targets.

Current Text: 10/01/2025 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 10/01/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 210, Statutes of 2025 Location: 10/01/2025 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as “The California Water Plan.” Current law requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies in the plan update, including, but not limited to, strategies relating to the development of new water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling, desalination, conjunctive use, and water transfers, that may be pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state. Current law requires the department to establish an advisory committee to assist the department in updating the plan. This bill would revise and recast certain provisions regarding The California Water Plan to, among other things, require the department to expand the membership of the advisory committee to include, among others, tribes, labor, and environmental justice interests.

The bill would require the department, as part of the 2033 update to the plan, to update the interim planning target for 2050, as provided. The bill would require the target to consider the identified and future water needs for all beneficial uses, including, but not limited to, urban uses, agricultural uses, tribal uses, and the environment, and ensure safe drinking water for all Californians, among other things. The bill would require the plan to include specified components, including a discussion of the estimated costs, benefits, and impacts of any project type or action that is recommended by the department within the plan that could help achieve the water supply targets. (Based on 10/01/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources SB 73 (Cervantes, D) Elections: inspection of voting systems.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/27/2026 - Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 10.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. 99

Location: 01/27/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: Current law requires the elections official of any county or city using a voting system to inspect the machines or devices at least once every 2 years. This bill would prohibit the elections official from permitting a federal government agency or its employees to inspect a voting system machine or device, unless authorized by a federal court order. To the extent this bill would establish new procedures for the conduct of elections, it would create a statemandated local program. (Based on 01/05/2026 text) Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 328 (Grayson, D) Hazardous waste generation and handling fees: Department of Toxic Substances Control oversight responses: housing development projects.

Current Text: 06/25/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026) Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: The hazardous waste control laws require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to regulate the handling and management of hazardous waste and hazardous materials. Current law, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, establishes time limits for a local agency, as defined, to complete reviews regarding whether to approve or deny an application, as specified, and makes any failure to meet these time limits a disapproval of the housing development project and a violation of specified law. Upon the department receiving a request for a housing development project seeking oversight of investigation, characterization, and remediation activities, this bill would require the department to provide written notice to the requestor within specified timelines regarding subsequent actions in the review process, as specified. The bill would require, for a housing development with 25 units or fewer, the department to provide the written notice within 60 business days of receiving the request. The bill would require, for a housing development with 26 units or more, the department to provide the written notice within 120 business days of receiving the request. The bill would make these provisions operative on July 1, 2028. (Based on 06/25/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 329 (Blakespear, D) Alcohol and drug recovery or treatment facilities: investigations.

Current Text: 03/28/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE on 7/2/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: Current law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Current law prohibits operating an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to provide recovery, treatment, or detoxification services within this state without first obtaining a current valid license. If a facility is alleged to be providing those services without a license, existing law requires the department to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Current law also 100

authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to licensed facilities for the purpose of reviewing them for compliance, as specified. This bill would require the department to assign a complaint under its jurisdiction regarding an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to an analyst for investigation within 10 days of receiving the complaint. If the department receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, the bill would require the department to notify the complainant, in writing, that it does not investigate that type of complaint. (Based on 03/28/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 423 (Gonzalez, D) Housing: real property transfer taxes: affordability covenants.

Current Text: 09/09/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/11/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was L. GOV. on 9/10/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 09/11/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing and to provide housing assistance and home loans. Current law sets forth various general powers of the department in implementing these programs, including authorizing the department to enter into long-term contracts or agreements of up to 30 years for the purpose of servicing loans or grants or enforcing regulatory agreements or other security documents. Current law creates the California Housing Finance Agency within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and authorizes the agency to make loans to finance affordable housing. This bill would allow a state or local agency administering an affordable housing program to enter into or modify a provision of a regulatory agreement regarding curing an event of default, if prescribed conditions apply. The bill would exempt a regulatory agreement entered into or altered pursuant to its provisions from any conflicting land use restriction, declaration of restrictive covenants, deed restriction, or similar instrument, as provided. The bill would specify that its provisions are not to be construed to supersede any other law governing the foreclosure of deeds of trust or mortgages and the extinguishment of junior interests. (Based on 09/09/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 549 (Allen, D) Local government: Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act: Resilient Rebuilding Authority for the Los Angeles Wildfires.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was L. GOV on 9/10/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: The Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act, or NIFTI2, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate tax revenues of that entity to the district, including revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes imposed in accordance with the Transactions and Use 101

Tax Law, if certain conditions are met, including that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district. This bill would revise NIFTI-2 to instead authorize, for resolutions adopted under that act’s provisions on or after January 1, 2026, a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate property tax revenues, and to remove the authorization for adoption of a resolution that allocates revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes. The bill would also repeal the condition that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing SB 607 (Wiener, D) University of California: California Institutes for Science and Innovation.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/20/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 01/20/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: Current law authorizes the Regents of the University of California to establish 4 California Institutes for Science and Innovation at separate campuses of the University of California for specified purposes. Current law authorizes the concentration of each institute to include, among other concentrations, medicine, bioengineering, or space. This bill would explicitly authorize the concentration of an institute to include artificial intelligence. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 677 (Wiener, D) Housing development: transit-oriented development.

Current Text: 01/08/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/26/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 10.) Ordered to the Assembly.

In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 01/26/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: Current law requires 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 certain applicable requirements, as provided. Among these requirements, current law establishes 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, and requires a development to meet specified labor standards that require that a specified affidavit be signed under penalty of perjury, under specified circumstances. Current law specifies that a development proposed pursuant to these provisions is eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval, as provided. Current law defines, among other terms, the term “high-frequency commuter rail” for purposes of these provisions to mean a commuter rail service operating a total of at least 48 trains per day across both directions, not including temporary service changes of less than one month or unplanned disruptions, and not meeting the standard for very high frequency commuter rail, at any point in the past three years. Current law also defines the term “Tier 2 transit-oriented development 102

stop” for these purposes to mean a TOD stop within an urban transit county, as defined, excluding a Tier 1 transit-oriented development stop, as defined, served by light rail transit, by high-frequency commuter rail, or by bus service meeting specified standards. This bill would revise the definition of “high-frequency commuter rail” to instead mean a public commuter or intercity rail station with a total of at least 48 passenger trains on average per weekday across all directions, not including temporary service changes of less than one month or unplanned disruptions, and not meeting the standard for very high frequency commuter rail, at any point in the past three years. (Based on 01/08/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 757 (Richardson, D) Local government: nuisance abatement.

Current Text: 10/11/2025 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Status: 03/02/2026 - Stricken from file. Veto sustained.

Location: 10/11/2025 - Senate VETOED
Summary: Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to establish a procedure to use a nuisance abatement lien or a special assessment to collect abatement costs and related administrative costs. This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2035, the legislative body of a city or county to also collect fines for specified violations related to the nuisance abatement using a nuisance abatement lien or a special assessment. The bill would require any fines or penalties related to nuisance abatement that are recovered pursuant to these provisions to be used to fund efforts within city or county government, as applicable, to streamline the issuance of permits for housing development or to establish a revolving loan fund for specified housing purposes. This bill would require the city or county to create a process for granting a hardship waiver, to reduce the amount of the fine, upon a specified showing by the responsible person. The bill would require the hardship waiver to totally waive fines and penalties for persons with income equal to or less than 200% of the federal poverty line, as defined. (Based on 09/05/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 904 (Seyarto, R) California Emergency Services Act: disaster recovery: wildfires.

Current Text: 03/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 02/18/2026 - Senate Housing
Summary: The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency, including, but not limited to, suspending specified statutes, ordinances, orders, regulations, or rules. This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with other specified state agencies, within 30 days of a state of emergency declared by the Governor relating to a wildfire, to provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature identifying state permitting requirements that may unduly impede efforts to rebuild properties or facilities destroyed as a result of the wildfire that should be considered for suspension. The bill would also require the department, in consultation with other specified state agencies, within 60 days of a state of emergency relating to a wildfire, to 103

review and provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature with recommendations regarding any provision of the California Building Standards Code that should be suspended for specified projects in order to facilitate rapid, safe, and cost-effective rebuilding and recovery. The bill would further require the department, upon the declaration of a state of emergency relating to a wildfire, to coordinate with local governments to identify and recommend procedures to establish rapid permitting and approval processes to expedite the reconstruction or replacement of residential properties destroyed or damaged by the wildfire, and would require the department, within 60 days of the state of emergency, to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature with those recommendations. (Based on 03/09/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 908 (Wiener, D) Housing development: transit-oriented development.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/11/2026 - Referred to Com. on RLS.

Location: 01/22/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Current law generally regulates the development of transit-oriented housing developments near transit-oriented development stops. Current law defines various terms for these purposes. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to oversee compliance with those provisions, authorizes a local government to enact an ordinance to make its zoning code consistent with those provisions, as specified, and requires each metropolitan planning organization to create a map of transit-oriented development stops and zones within its region by tier, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would make technical and clarifying changes to those laws governing transit-oriented development, and to add a select set of San Francisco Bay area ferry terminals to the scope of those provisions. (Based on 01/22/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 913 (Becker, D) Resource adequacy: aggregated distributed capacity resources.

Current Text: 03/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/11/2026 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

Location: 01/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to establish resource adequacy requirements for all electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators. Existing law requires that the resource adequacy program achieve specified objectives, including that it establish new or maintain existing demand response products and tariffs, as specified. This bill would require the PUC, in coordination with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Independent System Operator, on or before June 30, 2027, to enhance existing market-integrated pathways for aggregated distributed capacity resources, as defined, to qualify as resource adequacy capacity, as specified. The bill would require the PUC to allow electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators to include aggregated distributed capacity resources in resource adequacy filings and commission-ordered procurement, as specified. The bill would require the commission, on or before June 30, 2027, to develop recommendations for changes to the Independent System 104

Operator’s proxy demand resource and the distributed energy resource aggregation participation models to be consistent with the commission’s requirements for aggregated distributed capacity resources pursuant to these provisions, and to request that the Independent System Operator implement these changes in a new or existing initiative. (Based on 03/11/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 979 (Strickland, R) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation:
judicial review.

Current Text: 02/04/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/11/2026 - Referred to Coms. on HOUSING, JUD., and APPR.

Location: 02/11/2026 - Senate Housing
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, which includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law requires the council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to adopt a final regional housing needs plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county. Current law requires each council of governments and delegate subregion to distribute a draft allocation of regional housing needs to each local government in the region or subregion. Current law authorizes a local government within the region or the delegate subregion or the department to appeal to the council of governments or the delegate subregion for a revision of the share of the regional housing need proposed to be allocated to one or more local governments, as specified. Current law requires the council of governments or the delegate subregion to make a final determination that either accepts, rejects, or modifies each appeal, as provided. This bill would provide that the final determination by the council of governments or the delegate subregion is subject to judicial review, as specified. (Based on 02/04/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 1076 (Pérez, D) Admitted insurers: residential property insurance.

Current Text: 02/13/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/26/2026 - Referred to Com. on INS.

Location: 02/26/2026 - Senate Insurance
Summary: Current Department of Insurance regulations prohibit an insurer from using a rating plan that does not take into account and reflect specified wildfire risk mitigation, including property-level building hardening measures. On and after January 1, 2028, this bill would prohibit an admitted insurer that offers or sells residential property insurance in this state from refusing to offer, sell, or renew a policy of residential property insurance for an applicant or insured whose property meets minimum home hardening and wildfire mitigation standards, except as provided. The bill would authorize an admitted insurer to apply to the commissioner for a temporary waiver of that prohibition in a particular geographic area of the state, as specified. On and after January 1, 2028, the bill would also require any residential property insurance offered or sold to, at a minimum, provide coverage equivalent in scope to the residential property coverage the admitted insurer most commonly offers or sells in this state.

The bill would suspend or revoke an insurer’s certificate of authority to offer or sell residential property insurance and automobile insurance in this state for five years if the admitted insurer habitually and as a matter of ordinary practice violates these provisions or if the admitted 105

insurer offers residential property insurance in this state on and after January 1, 2026, but elects to cease offering that insurance rather than comply with these provisions. (Based on 02/13/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 1116 (Caballero, D) Planning and zoning: housing development projects: subdivisions.

Current Text: 02/17/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/26/2026 - Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.

Location: 02/26/2026 - Senate Housing
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county 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 authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development project on a subdivided lot, as specified, that meets specified requirements, and requires a local agency to ministerially consider that application, as specified. Current law prohibits a local agency from imposing on a housing development on a lot subdivided as specified an objective zoning standard, objective subdivision standard, or objective design standard that, among other things, physically precludes the development of a project built to specified densities. However, with respect to certain lots, current law allows a local agency to impose a height limit of no less than the height allowed pursuant to the existing zoning designation applicable to the lot. This bill would require the height limits under these provisions to apply exclusively to the physical height of a building rather than the number of floors. (Based on 02/17/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 1117 (Cervantes, D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.

Current Text: 02/17/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/26/2026 - Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.

Location: 02/26/2026 - Senate Housing
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation by ordinance, or by ministerial approval if the local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires fees charged for the construction of ADUs to be determined in accordance with specified provisions of the Mitigation Fee Act. Current law prohibits a local agency, special district, or water corporation from imposing any impact fee upon the development of an ADU that has 750 square feet of interior livable space or less, and requires any impact fees charged for an ADU that has more than 750 square feet of interior livable space to be charged proportionately in relation to the square footage of the primary dwelling unit. This bill would additionally require the charge to be based only on the area in excess of 750 square feet of interior livable space.

By changing the duties of local agencies with regard to calculating fees for ADUs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/17/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
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SB 1170 (Durazo, D) Joint powers agreements: nonprofit housing developers.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/26/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 02/26/2026 - Senate Local Government
Summary: The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, as defined, to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as provided. Among other things, that act also authorizes a mutual water company to enter into a joint powers agreement with any public agency for the purposes of risk pooling, as specified. The Government Claims Act, among other things, authorizes public entities, mutual water companies, public agencies, water corporations, and mutual water companies to provide insurance under that act by a joint powers agreement, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize a nonprofit housing developer to enter into a joint powers agreement with any public agency for the purpose of risk pooling, and would expand the list of entities authorized to provide insurance by a joint powers agreement to include nonprofit housing developers. The bill would require that, if a nonprofit housing developer enters into a joint powers agreement with one or more public agencies, that the agreement ensure that no participating public agency becomes responsible for the underlying debts or liabilities of the joint powers agreement and that any participating public agency be indemnified against those debts and liabilities. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 1215 (Cortese, D) Electrical corporations: electric vehicle charging stations: multifamily residential properties.

Current Text: 02/19/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - Referred to Com. on E., U & C.

Location: 03/04/2026 - Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Summary: Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires each electrical corporation, not later than February 28, 2021, to file an advice letter for, and requires the commission, not later than June 30, 2021, to approve, a new tariff or rule that authorizes each electrical corporation to design and deploy all electrical distribution infrastructure on the utility side of the customer’s meter for all customers installing separately metered infrastructure to support charging stations, other than those in single-family residences. Existing law requires the advice letter and the commission’s approval to provide that costs incurred by the electrical corporation between January 1, 2021, and the implementation date of rates approved in the next general rate case decision for that electrical corporation, to be tracked in a memorandum account and recovered, subject to a reasonableness review, in the decision adopting the next general rate case revenue requirement for that electrical corporation. Existing law authorizes the commission to revise the policy after the completion of the general rate case cycle of the electrical corporation following the one during which the advice letter was filed if a determination is made that a change in the policy is necessary to ensure just and reasonable rates for ratepayers. This bill would delete the authorization for the commission to revise the policy. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/19/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 1216 (Cabaldon, D) Planning and Zoning Law: housing leadership designation. 107

Current Text: 02/19/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - Referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 03/04/2026 - Senate Housing
Summary: This bill would require the department, on or before July 1 of each year, to publish a list of housing leadership designated jurisdictions on its internet website. To qualify for a housing leadership designation, the bill would require that the jurisdiction have submitted a complete annual progress report for the preceding 5 years and, as applicable, that it meet specified requirements relating to housing production that vary based on whether the jurisdiction is an affordable jurisdiction, an unaffordable jurisdiction, or an extremely unaffordable jurisdiction, as those terms are defined. The bill would also require the department to publish a list of the affordability designation for each jurisdiction that has submitted a complete annual progress report, as provided. The bill would authorize a jurisdiction with a housing leadership designation to take prescribed actions, including to establish by ordinance an exemption or modification of specified provisions of the Planning and Zoning Law. 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 02/19/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Public Safety
AB 237 (Patel, D) Crimes: threats.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/13/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 09/13/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under current law, this crime is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for no more than one year for a misdemeanor, or by imprisonment in state prison for a felony. This bill would make it a crime for a person to willfully threaten, by any means, including, but not limited to, an image or threat posted or published on an internet web page, to commit a crime at specified locations, including a daycare and workplace, with specific intent that the statement is be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, if the threat, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person or persons threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and if the threat causes a person or person to reasonably be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of others at the specified locations. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
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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 1231 (Elhawary, D) Criminal procedure: Safer Communities Through Opportunities Act.

Current Text: 09/05/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/13/2025 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 16.

and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.) Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3484.) Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments. (Ayes 34. Noes 27. Page 3497.) Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Elhawary.(Set for Hearing on 1/5/2025)
Location: 09/13/2025 - Assembly RECONSIDERATION
Summary: Current law authorizes a judge in the superior court in which a misdemeanor is being prosecuted to offer misdemeanor diversion to a defendant. Current law, upon successful completion of the terms, conditions, or programs ordered by the court, makes the arrest upon which the diversion was imposed deemed to have never occurred, except as specified relating to application to be a peace officer. This bill, the Safer Communities Through Opportunities Act, would authorize a court to exercise its discretion to grant pretrial diversion on a felony offense, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would authorize the court to consider information from, among others, the prosecutor and the defense in determining whether or not to grant diversion and would prohibit a court from granting diversion unless it finds that the diversion plan mitigates any unreasonable risk of danger to public safety and that the defendant is likely to benefit from the services provided in the diversion plan. The bill would authorize a court to consider reinstating criminal proceedings in certain circumstances, such as the commission of a misdemeanor committed while the defendant is receiving pretrial diversion services that shows a propensity for violence, among others. (Based on 09/05/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1383 (McKinnor, D) Public employees’ retirement benefits: safety members.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
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Status: 01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 2.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 01/29/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) establishes a variety of requirements and restrictions on public employers offering defined benefit pension plans. In this regard, PEPRA restricts the amount of compensation that may be applied for purposes of calculating a defined pension benefit for a new member, as defined, by restricting it to specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under a specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. The Teachers’ Retirement Law establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final compensation, creditable service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. This bill, on and after January 1, 2027, would require a retirement system subject to PEPRA to adjust pensionable compensation limits to be consistent with specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. The bill would require a new member of STRS to be subject to specified limits of the Teachers’ Retirement Law. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 1537 (Bryan, D) Peace officers: secondary employment.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (March 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/04/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law provides that every executive or ministerial officer, employee, or appointee of the State of California, or any county or city therein, or any political subdivision thereof, who knowingly asks, receives, or agrees to receive any emolument, gratuity, or reward, or any promise thereof excepting such as may be authorized by law for doing an official act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law exempts from that offense certain employment by a peace officer while off duty, as specified. Existing law also provides that a peace officer shall not be prohibited from engaging in other employment while off duty, as specified. This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, prohibit a peace officer from being employed by, or being an independent contractor of or volunteer for, the United States Department of Homeland Security or its contractors or any other entity that assists with or engages in immigration enforcement. The bill would provide that failure to comply with this provision constitutes, for certain purposes, an act of dishonesty and that it is grounds for decertification as a peace officer. (Based on 01/05/2026 text) Subject: Public Safety
AB 1541 (Dixon, R) Human trafficking: data.

Current Text: 02/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Location: 03/04/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Justice to collect data from specified local law enforcement agencies and to make available on the department’s OpenJustice Web portal information relating to criminal statistics. Current law requires those law enforcement agencies to install and maintain records needed for the correct reporting of statistical data and to report the data to the Attorney General in the manner the Attorney General prescribes. Current law requires the department to include information concerning arrests for human trafficking and the number of individuals who have been a victim of human trafficking, as reported through the California Incident-Based Reporting System, in the information made available on the OpenJustice Web portal. This bill would require that the information included on the OpenJustice Web portal include the number of individuals arrested, the number of individuals convicted, and the number of victims of human trafficking, as specified. (Based on 02/09/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1544 (Krell, D) Court proceedings: media access.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/17/2026 - Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD.

Location: 02/17/2026 - Assembly Public Safety
Summary: Current law authorizes specified peace officers to close the immediate area surrounding any emergency field command post or other command post or to establish a police line or rolling closure at a demonstration, march, protest, or rally, as specified. Current law exempts a duly authorized representative of any news service, online news service, newspaper, or radio or television station or network from the provisions prohibiting entry into the closed areas mentioned above. This bill would bar a judicial officer, peace officer, or other law enforcement officer from prohibiting a duly authorized representative of a news service, online news service, newspaper, or radio or television station or network from accessing court proceedings that are open to the public. (Based on 01/05/2026 text) Subject: Legal and Records Management, Public Safety
AB 1546 (Schultz, D) Vehicles: driving under the influence.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/04/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Under existing law, if a person is convicted of either driving under the influence (DUI) of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug or driving while having 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in the person’s blood within 10 years of 2 separate violations of specified DUI offenses, or any combination thereof, that resulted in convictions, that person has committed an offense punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 120 days nor more than one year and by a fine, as specified. This bill would, instead, make the above DUI conviction punishable as a wobbler by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 120 days nor more than one year and by a fine, as specified, or by imprisonment in the county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years and a fine, as specified. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
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Subject: Public Safety
AB 1557 (Papan, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: 01/08/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/02/2026 - Referred to Com. on TRANS.

Location: 02/02/2026 - Assembly Transportation
Summary: Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power. This bill would clarify that an electric bicycle is a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of peak power. (Based on 01/08/2026 text) Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure AB 1558 (Arambula, D) Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act.

Current Text: 01/08/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 01/09/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.

Location: 01/08/2026 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: Current law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) in the California Health and Human Services Agency to establish planning and implementation guidelines for emergency medical service systems, as specified. The guidelines are required to address, among other things, disaster response, and the authority is required to provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the purpose of developing the components of emergency medical services systems. The EMSA is required to adopt rules and regulations, approved by the Commission on Emergency Medical Services, in order to carry out its duties. Current federal law establishes the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) program to support states and territories in establishing volunteer registration programs for disasters and public health and medical emergencies. Pursuant to the ESAR-VHP program, the EMSA established the Disaster Healthcare Volunteers program to register volunteers in California. Current federal law also establishes the Medical Reserve Corps to provide for an adequate supply of volunteers in the case of a federal, state, local, or tribal public health emergency, as specified. This bill would enact the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act, which would authorize the establishment of additional volunteer registration systems by additional entities. In this regard, the bill would require a registration system to be an ESAR-VHP program or a local unit of the Medical Reserve Corps, as specified, to be designated by the EMSA as a registration system, or to be operated by one of specified types of entities, including, among others, a disaster relief organization, as defined. The bill would require that a registration system be capable of supplying the EMSA with sufficient information concerning whether a volunteer is licensed to provide specified health or veterinary services in another state or territory of the United States and in good standing before that volunteer provides those services in this state while an emergency declaration is in effect, as specified. The bill would establish scope-of-practice standards for a registered volunteer health practitioner. The bill would authorize the EMSA to limit, restrict, or otherwise regulate, among other things, the duration of practice, the geographical areas in which volunteer health practitioners may practice, and any other matters necessary to coordinate the provision of health or veterinary services during the emergency. (Based on 01/08/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1559 (Calderon, D) Residential property insurance images. 112

Current Text: 01/08/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/02/2026 - Referred to Coms. on INS. and P. & C.P.

Location: 02/02/2026 - Assembly Insurance
Summary: Would require an admitted insurer to notify a residential property insurance policyholder that aerial images may be taken or obtained of the insured property, as specified, unless a claim has been submitted or is pending on the property and the images will be used only for evaluating the claim. The bill would require the insurer to provide the aerial images upon request, as specified, and would require the notice to include instructions regarding how a policyholder may make that request. (Based on 01/08/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
AB 1566 (Jackson, D) Crimes: mandated reporters: severe neglect.

Current Text: 01/12/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/05/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 03/05/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act makes certain persons, including teachers and social workers, mandated reporters. Under current law, mandated reporters are required to report whenever the mandated reporter, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor. Current law, for the purposes of the act, defines “severe neglect” as the negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to protect the child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed nonorganic failure to thrive, as well as those situations of neglect where any person having the care or custody of a child willfully causes or permits the person or health of the child to be placed in a situation such that their person or health is endangered as proscribed by specified law, including the intentional failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical care. This bill would recast the definition of “severe neglect” for the purposes described above. (Based on 01/12/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety AB 1568 (Alanis, R) Sex offenses: registration.

Current Text: 03/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/04/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Sex Offender Registration Act requires a person convicted of one of certain crimes, as specified, to register with law enforcement as a sex offender while residing in California or while attending school or working in California, as specified. Existing law, on and after July 1, 2021, authorizes a person to file a petition in the superior court in the county in which they are registered for termination from the sex offender registry on or after their next birthday following the expiration of the mandated minimum registration period. If the district attorney requests a hearing regarding the above-described petition, under existing law, the 113

district attorney is entitled to present evidence regarding whether community safety would be significantly enhanced by requiring continued registration. Existing law requires the court, in determining whether to order continued registration pursuant to the hearing, to consider specified information, including the person’s current risk of reoffense as indicated on the StateAuthorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO), as specified. This bill would authorize the court to order the petitioner to be present at the hearing described above, as specified. The bill would additionally require the court to consider whether the offender was in a position of trust or authority in relation to the victim and proof of participation in or successful completion of sex offender-specific treatment by the offender in the above-described determination. (Based on 03/05/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1569 (Davies, R) Pupil safety: electric bicycle parking: safety program.

Current Text: 03/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/10/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.

Location: 02/09/2026 - Assembly Education
Summary: Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district having jurisdiction over elementary, intermediate, junior high, or high school to provide time and facilities to local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the school of the district for bicycle, scooter, electric bicycle, motorized bicycle, or motorized scooter safety instruction.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving or parking a vehicle or animal upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds of specific public entities, including a public school or an educational institution exempted, in whole or in part, from taxation, except with the permission of, and subject to any condition or regulation that may be imposed by, the governing body of the specified public entity. Existing law authorizes a public agency to adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, skateboards, electrically motorized boards, and roller skates on public property under the jurisdiction of that agency. This bill would require each school district and county office of education that allows pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to park a class 1, 2, or 3 electric bicycle, as defined, on campus to require pupils to complete the electric bicycle safety and training program developed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, as provided, or a related safety course, as specified, as a condition for parking on campus. (Based on 03/09/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure AB 1586 (Ramos, D) Opioid overdose reversal medication: school resource officers.

Current Text: 01/14/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Com. on ED.

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Education
Summary: Current law authorizes a school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses and trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose. This bill, to be known as the School Safety and Opioid Overdose Prevention Act, would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school to ensure that (A) each school resource officer, as defined, while on duty at a school campus or schoolsponsored activity, carries an opioid antagonist to provide emergency treatment to persons 114

who are suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose and (B) each school resource officer, upon assignment to a schoolsite, and at least every 2 years thereafter, completes an opioid overdose recognition and response training, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a statemandated local program. The bill would prohibit a school resource officer who administers an opioid antagonist while assigned to a schoolsite, and their employing or contracting entity, from being held liable in a civil action or being subject to criminal prosecution for the school resource officer’s acts or omissions, unless those acts or omissions constitute gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct, as provided. (Based on 01/14/2026 text) Subject: Public Safety
AB 1588 (Stefani, D) Vehicles: sideshow enhancements.

Current Text: 01/15/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 01/16/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.

Location: 01/15/2026 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: Current law prohibits a person from engaging in, aiding, or abetting, a motor vehicle speed contest or motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. (Based on 01/15/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1605 (Ransom, D) Driving under the influence: alcohol sales.

Current Text: 03/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/10/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Public Safety
Summary: The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for the issuance, suspension, revocation, and conditions upon licensure for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages. Existing law makes every person who sells, furnishes, gives, or causes to be sold, furnished or given away any alcoholic beverage to any person under 21 years of age guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law also makes it unlawful for a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or the combined influence of both, to drive a vehicle and requires a court, when granting probation following conviction of a driving under the influence offense, to impose certain terms and conditions, including that the individual not drive a vehicle with any measurable amount of alcohol in their blood, among others. This bill would require everyone who sells or furnishes alcoholic beverages to first review a form of written identification issued by this state or another state and would make a violation of this requirement a misdemeanor. The bill would require a court, subject to an exception, when granting probation for certain driving under the influence offenses to prohibit the person from purchasing alcohol and would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue an identification card or driver’s license with an appropriate designation on the face upon the receipt of an abstract of the record of a court. The bill would authorize the court to prohibit the purchase of alcohol when the underlying conviction involved a certain percentage of alcohol, the offense occurred within 3 years of a separate driving under the influence offense, or the offense involved property damage or great bodily injury, as specified. (Based on 03/09/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety
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AB 1612 (Alanis, R) Incineration of controlled substances: California Environmental Quality Act:
law enforcement exemption.

Current Text: 01/21/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/02/2026 - Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and E.S & T.M.

Location: 03/02/2026 - Assembly Natural Resources
Summary: The Uniform Controlled Substances Act authorizes the forfeiture and seizure of property involved in, or purchased with the proceeds from, a controlled substance offense. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would authorize a local police department, sheriff’s office, or state law enforcement agency to purchase and install an incinerator for the sole purpose of destroying seized controlled substances, as provided. The bill would require the local police department, sheriff’s office, or state law enforcement agency to follow specified federal regulations and to notify the State Air Resources Board and the local air quality management district or local air pollution control district of the project, as specified. The bill would authorize multiple law enforcement agencies to purchase and install an incinerator for these purposes through a memorandum of understanding that details cost sharing. The bill would exempt a project to purchase and install an incinerator that complies with these requirements from CEQA. (Based on 01/21/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1622 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Electrified security fences.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/09/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 02/09/2026 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2028, authorizes an owner of real property to install and operate on their property an electrified security fence that is powered by an electrical energizer, driven by solar-charged batteries of no more than 12 volts of direct current, and used to protect and secure manufacturing or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but legally authorized to be used for a commercial purpose that stores, parks, services, sells, or rents vehicles or other materials, subject to specified conditions.

Current law prohibits a city, county, or city and county from prohibiting or conditioning the installation of an electrified security fence, as described above, except for requiring an administrative permit to confirm a fence abutting a property in residential use, or within 300 feet of a public park, childcare facility, recreation center, community center, or school facility, meets certain requirements. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2028. Current law, starting January 1, 2028, authorizes an owner of real property to install and operate on their property an electrified security fence that is powered by an electrical energizer, and used to protect and secure commercial, manufacturing, or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but legally authorized to be used for a commercial, manufacturing, or industrial purpose, subject to specified conditions and subject to prohibitions imposed by a city, county, or city and county through a local ordinance. This bill would indefinitely extend the operation of the electrified security fence provisions subject to repeal on January 1, 2028, and would repeal the provisions that become operative on January 1, 2028. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
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AB 1866 (Rogers, D) California Disaster Assistance Act: minimum damages thresholds.

Current Text: 03/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/11/2026 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.M. Read second time and amended.

Location: 02/23/2026 - Assembly Emergency Management
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.

This bill would require the director, in administering those provisions, to prioritize local agencies that are not eligible for federal funding due to the agency’s inability to meet minimum damage thresholds under federal law, as specified. (Based on 03/11/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
AB 1941 (González, Mark, D) Organized metal theft.

Current Text: 02/13/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/02/2026 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

Location: 03/02/2026 - Assembly Public Safety
Summary: Current law makes a person who is a dealer in or collector of junk, metals, or secondhand materials, or their agent, employee, or representative, who buys or receives any wire, cable, copper, lead, solder, mercury, iron, or brass that the person knows or reasonably should know is used by or belongs to specified entities, including a railroad, certain utility companies, or a public entity engaged in furnishing public utility service, without using due diligence to ascertain that the person selling or delivering that material has a legal right to do so, guilty of criminally receiving that property and, in addition to imprisonment, makes that act punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000. This bill would prohibit organized metal theft, described as acting in concert with one or more persons to steal metal materials from one or more of specified materials and items, acting in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess those metal materials knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acting as an agent of another to steal those metal materials as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruiting, coordinating, organizing, supervising, directing, managing, or financing another to undertake acts of theft of metal. (Based on 02/13/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
AB 2517 (Calderon, D) Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones.

Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and E.M.

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Natural Resources
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Summary: Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas, commonly known as local responsibility areas, as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review and make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones within local responsibility areas. Under current law, this review is required to coincide with review of state responsibility area lands every 5 years and, when possible, fall within the timeframes for each county’s general plan update. Existing law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving the recommendations from the State Fire Marshal. Current law authorizes a local agency to, at its discretion, include areas within its jurisdiction not identified as very high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal as very high fire hazard severity zones and areas not identified as moderate and high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal as moderate and high fire hazard severity zones.

Under existing law, a local agency is required to transmit a copy of an adopted ordinance to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection within 30 days of adoption. Current law provides that changes made by a local agency to the recommendations made by the State Fire Marshal are final. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal to, no fewer than 180 days before finalizing the designation of local responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, post specified information on its public internet website, conduct regional public workshops to receive oral public comments and consider those comments, host a 30-day public comment period to receive written comments from interested stakeholders and respond to all written comments by local agencies within 30 days of the end of the public comment period, and coordinate with other state agencies to help educate the public during the public workshops, as specified. (Based on 02/20/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 6 (Ashby, D) Controlled substances: xylazine.

Current Text: 12/02/2024 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE on 7/16/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026) Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act categorizes controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions on those substances contained in Schedule I. Under existing law, the substances in Schedule I are deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use while substances in Schedules II through V are substances that have an accepted medical use, but have the potential for abuse.

Current law restricts the prescription, furnishing, possession, sale, and use of controlled substances, and makes a violation of those laws a crime, except as specified. Current law defines drug paraphernalia and prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, and possession, as specified, of drug paraphernalia. Current law excludes from these prohibitions any testing equipment that is designed, marketed, used, or intended to be used to analyze a substance for the presence of fentanyl, ketamine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or any analog of fentanyl. This bill would add xylazine to the list of Schedule III substances, as specified. If an animal drug containing xylazine that has been approved under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is not available for sale in California, the bill would create an exception for a substance that is intended to be used to compound an animal drug, as specified. The bill would exclude from the prohibitions on paraphernalia any testing equipment to analyze a substance for the presence of xylazine. (Based on 12/02/2024 text) Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
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Subject: Public Safety
SB 569 (Blakespear, D) Department of Transportation: homeless encampments.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was TRANS. on 6/16/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 07/17/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish maintenance programs related to highway cleanup, as specified. This bill would require the department to establish a dedicated liaison to, among other things, facilitate communication with local governments and relevant state agencies with regard to addressing homeless encampments within the state highway system and to oversee the development and implementation of delegated maintenance agreements between local agencies and the department in which both work together to reduce and remove homeless encampments within the department’s jurisdiction. The bill would authorize the department to grant a single general entry permit for the duration of a delegated maintenance agreement to conduct activities authorized by the bill.

The bill would require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature summarizing specified information and recommendations regarding homeless encampments. (Based on 04/21/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 758 (Umberg, D) Public health: nitrous oxide.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/27/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 01/27/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: The Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003 requires a retailer, as defined, to hold a license from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. This bill would expand those provisions to prohibit a retailer from selling nitrous oxide in any retail location, subject to certain exceptions. (Based on 01/22/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 759 (Archuleta, D) Crimes: supervised release.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE on 7/9/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
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Summary: Existing law requires the county agency supervising the release of a person on postrelease community supervision to petition a court to revoke, modify, or terminate postrelease community supervision if the agency determines, following application of its assessment processes, that intermediate sanctions are not appropriate. This bill would require the county agency supervising the release of a person on postrelease community supervision to also petition a court to revoke, modify, or terminate postrelease community supervision if the person has violated the terms of their release for a 3rd time and the person has committed a new felony or misdemeanor. By imposing additional duties on county agencies administering postrelease community supervision, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
SB 936 (Blakespear, D) Nitrous oxide: sales.

Current Text: 01/29/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/03/2026 - Set for hearing March 17.

Location: 02/11/2026 - Senate Public Safety
Summary: Current law makes it a misdemeanor to possess nitrous oxide with the intent of inhaling it for specified purposes, including to cause intoxication. The Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003 requires a retailer, as defined, to hold a license from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, including retail commercial cannabis activity. This bill would, except as specifically exempted, prohibit the sale and distribution of a nitrous oxide container that is capable of holding more than 8 grams of nitrous oxide or from which an individual may directly inhale nitrous oxide. The bill would also prohibit the sale and distribution of a nitrous oxide that has, or is marketed as having, the taste or smell of any food. The bill would prohibit the sale and distribution of a device that allows an individual to inhale nitrous oxide from the container or hold nitrous oxide for the purposes of inhalation. The bill would punish a violation of these provisions as an infraction, as specified. The bill would also authorize a court to suspend the business license, including a license to sell tobacco products or cannabis, if the business has a prior conviction for violating these prohibitions. (Based on 01/29/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety
SB 1153 (Caballero, D) Disaster preparedness: urban retail water suppliers and public water systems: wildfire.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - Referred to Coms. on E.M. and N.R. & W.

Location: 03/04/2026 - Senate Emergency Management
Summary: The California Emergency Services Act requires all public water systems, as defined, with 10,000 or more service connections to review and revise their disaster preparedness plans in conjunction with related agencies, including, but not limited to, local fire departments and the Office of Emergency Services to ensure that the plans are sufficient to address possible disaster scenarios. A person, as defined, who violates the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill, beginning January 1, 2028, would require all urban 120

retail water suppliers, as defined, serving a high or very high fire hazard severity zone to include incident-specified response procedures for wildfires as part of their disaster preparedness plans, including any applicable emergency response plan as required by federal law. The bill would require these plans to include mitigation actions, including actions, procedures, and equipment, that can obviate or significantly lessen the impact of a wildfire on the water system and the supply of drinking water provided by the water supplier. Because violation of these requirements by certain urban retail water suppliers would constitute a misdemeanor, the bill would expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 911 (Carrillo, D) Emergency telecommunications medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles.

Current Text: 02/19/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was E.Q. on 6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 07/17/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The State Air Resources Board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulations, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles, as provided. This bill would exempt emergency telecommunications vehicles owned or purchased by emergency telecommunications service providers that are used to participate in the federal Emergency Alert System, to provide access to 911 emergency services, or to provide wireless connectivity during service outages from specified requirements in the above-described regulations. (Based on 02/19/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 1198 (Haney, D) Public works: prevailing wages.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 6.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 01/29/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Current law requires the body awarding a contract for a public work to obtain from the director the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is to be performed, and the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime work, for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the contract. Under current law, if the director determines during any quarterly period that there has been a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a locality, the director is required to make that change available to the awarding body and their determination is final. Under current law, that determination does not apply to public 121

works contracts for which the notice to bidders has been published. This bill would instead state, commencing July 1, 2027, that if the director determines, within a semiannual period, that there is a change in any prevailing rate of per diem wages in a locality, that determination applies to any public works contract that is awarded or for which notice to bidders is published after July 1, 2027. The bill would authorize any contractor, awarding body, or specified representative affected by a change in rates on a particular contract to, within 20 days, file with the director a verified petition to review the determination of that rate, as specified. The bill would require the director to, upon notice to the interested parties, initiate an investigation or hold a hearing, and, within 20 days after the filing of that petition, except as specified, make a final determination and transmit the determination in writing to the awarding body and to the interested parties. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure AB 1421 (Wilson, D) Vehicles: Road Usage Charge Technical Advisory Committee.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 21.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 01/29/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Current law requires the Chair of the California Transportation Commission to create a Road Usage Charge Technical Advisory Committee in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation to guide the development and evaluation of a pilot program assessing the potential for mileage-based revenue collection as an alternative to the gas tax system. Current law additionally requires the Transportation Agency, in consultation with the commission, to implement the pilot program, as specified. Current law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the Transportation Agency, to consolidate and prepare research and recommendations related to a road user charge or a mileage-based fee system. The bill would require the commission to submit a report, as specified, on the research and recommendations described above to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature by no later than January 1, 2027. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure AB 1557 (Papan, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: 01/08/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/02/2026 - Referred to Com. on TRANS.

Location: 02/02/2026 - Assembly Transportation
Summary: Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power. This bill would clarify that an electric bicycle is a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of peak power. (Based on 01/08/2026 text) Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure AB 1569 (Davies, R) Pupil safety: electric bicycle parking: safety program.

Current Text: 03/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
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Status: 03/10/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.

Location: 02/09/2026 - Assembly Education
Summary: Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district having jurisdiction over elementary, intermediate, junior high, or high school to provide time and facilities to local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the school of the district for bicycle, scooter, electric bicycle, motorized bicycle, or motorized scooter safety instruction.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving or parking a vehicle or animal upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds of specific public entities, including a public school or an educational institution exempted, in whole or in part, from taxation, except with the permission of, and subject to any condition or regulation that may be imposed by, the governing body of the specified public entity. Existing law authorizes a public agency to adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, skateboards, electrically motorized boards, and roller skates on public property under the jurisdiction of that agency. This bill would require each school district and county office of education that allows pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to park a class 1, 2, or 3 electric bicycle, as defined, on campus to require pupils to complete the electric bicycle safety and training program developed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, as provided, or a related safety course, as specified, as a condition for parking on campus. (Based on 03/09/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure AB 1599 (Ahrens, D) Public transit: California Transit Stop Registry: transit datasets.

Current Text: 01/16/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/02/2026 - Referred to Com. on TRANS.

Location: 02/02/2026 - Assembly Transportation
Summary: Would require the Department of Transportation to create, on or before December 31, 2026, the California Transit Stop Registry as a centralized, statewide dataset of standardized information regarding transit stops that includes, but is not limited to, each transit stop’s name, location, available amenities, and unique identifier, as specified. (Based on 01/16/2026 text)
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 1783 (DeMaio, R) Additional local taxes: vehicle miles traveled tax.

Current Text: 02/09/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/10/2026 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.

Location: 02/09/2026 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to impose various taxes, including occupancy taxes and sales and use taxes. Existing law also prohibits a city and county form imposing certain taxes, such as a tax upon income. This bill would prohibit a city, county, or any political subdivision thereof from imposing a tax, fee, assessment, or charge, that is calculated, in whole or in part, based on the number of miles traveled by a motor vehicle. The bill would not prohibit the collection of tolls for the use of specific facilities, as provided. The bill would provide that any existing program, pilot program, regulation, or 123

administrative action inconsistent with this prohibition is void and unenforceable. (Based on 02/09/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure AB 2033 (Papan, D) Local Agency Public Construction Act: job order contracting.

Current Text: 02/17/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/02/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 03/02/2026 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Local Agency Public Construction Act sets forth procedures that a local agency is required to follow when procuring certain services or work. Existing law authorizes certain local agencies to engage in job order contracting, as prescribed. This bill would authorize the city council to award individual annual job order contracts, not to exceed $500,000, as specified, for repair, remodeling, or other repetitive work to be done according to unit prices. The bill would prohibit, among other things, annual contracts from being awarded for any new construction. The bill would require the contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder and be based on plans and specifications for typical work. (Based on 02/17/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 73 (Cervantes, D) Elections: inspection of voting systems.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/27/2026 - Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 10.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 01/27/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: Current law requires the elections official of any county or city using a voting system to inspect the machines or devices at least once every 2 years. This bill would prohibit the elections official from permitting a federal government agency or its employees to inspect a voting system machine or device, unless authorized by a federal court order. To the extent this bill would establish new procedures for the conduct of elections, it would create a statemandated local program. (Based on 01/05/2026 text) Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 74 (Seyarto, R) Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program.

Current Text: 04/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE on 7/2/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: Current law establishes the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in the Governor’s office for the purpose of serving the Governor and the Governor’s cabinet as staff 124

for long-range planning and research and constituting the comprehensive state planning agency. Current law authorizes a local agency to finance infrastructure projects through various means, including by authorizing a city or county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community. This bill would require the office, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish the Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program to provide grants to local agencies for the development and construction of infrastructure projects, as defined, facing unforeseen costs after starting construction. The bill would authorize the office to provide funding for up to 20% of a project’s additional projected cost, as defined, after the project has started construction, subject to specified conditions, including, among other things, that the local agency has allocated existing local tax revenue for at least 45% of the initially budgeted total cost of the infrastructure project.

When applying to the program, the bill would require the local agency to demonstrate challenges with completing the project on time and on budget and how the infrastructure project helps meet state and local goals, as specified. (Based on 04/07/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 473 (Padilla, D) Water corporations: demand elasticity: rates and surcharges.

Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026) Location: 08/28/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: The California Constitution and the Public Utilities Act vest the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over electrical corporations and water corporations. The act requires the commission to ensure that errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of electrical corporations. This bill would additionally require the commission to ensure that those errors do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of water corporations. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 569 (Blakespear, D) Department of Transportation: homeless encampments.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was TRANS. on 6/16/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 07/17/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: Current law authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish maintenance programs related to highway cleanup, as specified. This bill would require the department to establish a dedicated liaison to, among other things, facilitate communication with local governments and relevant state agencies with regard to addressing homeless encampments within the state highway system and to oversee the development and implementation of delegated maintenance agreements between local agencies and the department in which both work together to reduce and remove homeless encampments within the department’s jurisdiction. The bill would authorize the department to grant a single general entry permit for the duration of a delegated maintenance agreement to conduct activities authorized by the bill.

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summarizing specified information and recommendations regarding homeless encampments. (Based on 04/21/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 922 (Laird, D) Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.

Current Text: 03/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/11/2026 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 02/11/2026 - Senate Local Government
Summary: Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee, or other charge for the privilege of using its streets or highways, other than a permit fee for an extralegal load unless the local agency had imposed the fee prior to June 1, 1989. This bill would expressly limit this prohibition to charges based on weight. The bill would also explicitly state that a fee, charge, or surcharge imposed by or for a local agency to recover the cost of street maintenance and repair and other costs associated with the use of its streets, roads, or highways to provide public services or public works is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision above. (Based on 03/11/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 35 (Alvarez, D) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: Administrative Procedure Act: exemption: program guidelines and selection criteria.

Current Text: 01/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/27/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 01/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election, authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart, sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor access, and clean air programs. Current law authorizes certain regulations needed to effectuate or implement programs of the act to be adopted as emergency regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, as provided. Current law requires the emergency regulations to be filed with the Office of Administrative Law and requires the emergency regulations to remain in effect until repealed or amended by the adopting state agency. This bill, notwithstanding the above, would exempt the adoption of regulations needed to effectuate or implement programs of the act from the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, as provided. The bill would require a state entity that receives funding to administer a competitive grant program established using the Administrative Procedure Act exemption to do certain things, including 126

develop draft project solicitation and evaluation guidelines and to submit those guidelines to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, except as provided. The bill would require the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to post an electronic form of the guidelines submitted by a state entity and the subsequent verifications on the Natural Resources Agency’s internet website. (Based on 01/14/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 532 (Ransom, D) Water rate assistance program.

Current Text: 07/17/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR.

SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026) Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: Current federal law, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 requires the federal Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a Low-Income Household Drinking Water and Wastewater Emergency Assistance Program, which is also known as the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program, for making grants to states and Indian tribes to assist low-income households that pay a high proportion of household income for drinking water and wastewater services, as provided. Current law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to administer the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program in this state, and to receive and expend moneys appropriated and allocated to the state for purposes of that program, pursuant to the above-described federal law. The Low Income Household Water Assistance Program was only operative until March 31, 2024. This bill would repeal the above-described requirements related to the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. (Based on 07/17/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources AB 762 (Irwin, D) Disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device: prohibition.

Current Text: 01/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/29/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 17.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 01/29/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Current law regulates the manufacture, sale, and disposal of various single-use products, including single-use foodware accessories and condiments and single-use carryout bags. Current law prohibits a store from, among other things, providing, distributing, or selling a carryout bag at the point of sale, except as specified. This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2027, a person from importing or manufacturing for sale in this state a new or refurbished disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device, and, beginning January 1, 2028, a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a new or refurbished disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device in this state. The bill would define a “disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device” to mean a vaporization device that contains nicotine but not cannabis or a cannabis product, as defined, and that is not designed or intended to be reused, as specified. (Based on 01/26/2026 text) Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 1617 (Alanis, R) Household hazardous waste: reporting. 127

Current Text: 01/21/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/11/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/10/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Current regulations require each public agency that is responsible for household hazardous waste management to complete and submit a “Form 303 Household Hazardous Waste Collection Report” (Form 303) electronically to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery each year. Current regulations require the reporting timeframe to be July 1 of the previous fiscal year through June 30 of that fiscal year, with the information required to be submitted to the state by October 1 of the following fiscal year. Current law requires a public agency, or its contractor, operating a household hazardous waste collection facility to, on or before October 1 of each year, submit a copy of the completed Form 303 to the officer or agency authorized to implement and enforce specified hazardous materials laws. This bill would require that Form 303 to instead report information for the prior calendar year. (Based on 01/21/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 2125 (Bennett, D) Groundwater basin adjudication: notice.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Com. on JUD.

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Current law requires a plaintiff who files an action to comprehensively determine rights to extract groundwater from a basin to provide the court a draft notice of commencement of groundwater basin adjudication and a draft form answer to adjudication complaint, as specified. Current law also requires a plaintiff to file, within a specified timeframe, a motion for approval of the draft notice and draft form answer. Under current law, once the court approves the draft notice, the plaintiff is required to serve the notice, as specified. Following a court order approving both the notice and draft form answer and authorizing service thereof, current law requires the plaintiff to take additional steps to provide notice to defendants including, but not limited to, mailing, by registered mail or certified mail, return receipt requested, the notice, complaint, and form answer to all holders of fee title to real property in the basin. Under current law, if a return receipt is not received for a parcel of real property, the plaintiff must post a copy of the notice, complaint, and form answer in a conspicuous place on the real property. After completing these notice procedures, existing law requires the plaintiff to file a notice of completion of the mailing with the court. This bill would impose additional requirements on a plaintiff when filing the notice of completion of mailing. The bill would require the plaintiff to include with the notice of completion an affidavit of the person who mailed the notice and the certified or registered mail delivery receipt for each parcel showing the date, time, and place of mailing. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 2132 (Macedo, R) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: groundwater recharge project.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/09/2026 - Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and W., P., & W. 128

Location: 03/09/2026 - Assembly Natural Resources
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. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater plans, except as specified. Current law requires a groundwater sustainability plan to include various information relating to subsidence, as applicable. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a groundwater recharge project if the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency determines the project would address subsidence. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 72 (Caballero, D) The California Water Plan: long-term supply targets.

Current Text: 10/01/2025 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 10/01/2025 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 210, Statutes of 2025 Location: 10/01/2025 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as “The California Water Plan.” Current law requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies in the plan update, including, but not limited to, strategies relating to the development of new water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling, desalination, conjunctive use, and water transfers, that may be pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state. Current law requires the department to establish an advisory committee to assist the department in updating the plan. This bill would revise and recast certain provisions regarding The California Water Plan to, among other things, require the department to expand the membership of the advisory committee to include, among others, tribes, labor, and environmental justice interests.

The bill would require the department, as part of the 2033 update to the plan, to update the interim planning target for 2050, as provided. The bill would require the target to consider the identified and future water needs for all beneficial uses, including, but not limited to, urban uses, agricultural uses, tribal uses, and the environment, and ensure safe drinking water for all Californians, among other things. The bill would require the plan to include specified components, including a discussion of the estimated costs, benefits, and impacts of any project type or action that is recommended by the department within the plan that could help achieve the water supply targets. (Based on 10/01/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources SB 454 (McNerney, D) State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.

Current Text: 10/01/2025 - Vetoed HTML PDF
Status: 03/02/2026 - Stricken from file. Veto sustained. 129

Location: 10/01/2025 - Senate VETOED
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 501 (Allen, D) Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022: covered batteries.

Current Text: 01/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/27/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 10.) Ordered to the Assembly.

In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 01/27/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: The Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022 establishes a stewardship program, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, as provided, for the collection, transportation, and recycling, and the safe and proper management, of covered batteries in the state in an economically efficient and practical manner. The battery recycling act defines a “covered battery” to mean a device consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells designed to receive, store, and deliver electric energy. Current law defines a “covered battery” to include a loose battery that is designed to be easily removed from a product by the user of the product with no more than common household tools. Current law excludes from the definition of a covered battery a primary battery weighing over 2 kilograms. Current law defines a “primary battery” for this purpose to mean a nonrechargeable battery, including, but not limited to, alkaline, carbon-zinc, and lithium metal batteries. Current law also excludes from the definition of a covered battery a rechargeable battery weighing over 5 kilograms and having a watthour rating of more than 300 watthours. This bill would revise the description of a loose battery, for purposes of the definition of a covered battery, by providing that a key, application, or other locking device provided to the consumer by the producer of the product or battery that is warranted by the producer of the product or battery to serve solely to prevent theft of the battery or tampering by persons other than the consumer and not to inhibit the consumer’s ability to remove, replace, or recycle the battery would not prevent a battery from being considered designed to be easily removed from a product by the user of the product with no more than common household tools. The bill would remove the exclusions from the definition of a covered battery for a primary battery and a rechargeable battery, described above. The bill 130

would categorize all covered batteries as either a small format battery or a medium format battery. (Based on 01/14/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 1081 (Laird, D) Waste discharge requirements: minimum penalties: exception: publicly owned treatment works.

Current Text: 02/13/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/10/2026 - Set for hearing April 8.

Location: 02/26/2026 - Senate Environmental Quality
Summary: The State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality and prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (act) and the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program. The act requires mandatory minimum penalties to be assessed for serious violations, as defined, relating to waste discharge requirements, and for certain violations relating to waste discharge requirements and reports whenever there are 4 or more violations in a period of 6 consecutive months, except as provided. The act authorizes the state board or regional board, in lieu of assessing all or a portion of those mandatory minimum penalties against a publicly owned treatment works serving a small community, to instead require the publicly owned treatment works to spend an equivalent amount towards the completion of a compliance project proposed by the publicly owned treatment works if the state board or regional board make specified findings. The act defines “a publicly owned treatment works serving a small community” for these purposes to mean a publicly owned treatment works serving a population of 20,000 persons or fewer or a rural county, with a financial hardship as determined by the state board after consideration of specified factors. This bill would amend that definition to include serving a community of 3,000 residents or less as a factor in the state board’s determination of financial hardship. (Based on 02/13/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
SB 1139 (Laird, D) Nonfunctional turf: noncompliance and enforcement.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 02/26/2026 - Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

Location: 02/26/2026 - Senate Natural Resources and Water Summary: Current law prohibits the use of potable water for the irrigation of nonfunctional turf located on commercial, industrial, and institutional properties, other than a cemetery, and on properties of homeowners’ associations, common interest developments, and community service organizations or similar entities, as specified. Current law requires a person or entity to be subject to civil liability or penalties by the State Water Resources Control Board, as prescribed, or to civil liability and penalties imposed by an urban water supplier, pursuant to a locally adopted ordinance or policy. Current law authorizes a public water system, city, county, or city and county to enforce the provisions relating to the prohibition, as specified. This bill would require a person or entity to be subject to civil liability or penalties imposed by a special district with water conservation enforcement authority pursuant to a locally adopted ordinance or policy. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
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SB 1153 (Caballero, D) Disaster preparedness: urban retail water suppliers and public water systems: wildfire.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - Referred to Coms. on E.M. and N.R. & W.

Location: 03/04/2026 - Senate Emergency Management
Summary: The California Emergency Services Act requires all public water systems, as defined, with 10,000 or more service connections to review and revise their disaster preparedness plans in conjunction with related agencies, including, but not limited to, local fire departments and the Office of Emergency Services to ensure that the plans are sufficient to address possible disaster scenarios. A person, as defined, who violates the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill, beginning January 1, 2028, would require all urban retail water suppliers, as defined, serving a high or very high fire hazard severity zone to include incident-specified response procedures for wildfires as part of their disaster preparedness plans, including any applicable emergency response plan as required by federal law. The bill would require these plans to include mitigation actions, including actions, procedures, and equipment, that can obviate or significantly lessen the impact of a wildfire on the water system and the supply of drinking water provided by the water supplier. Because violation of these requirements by certain urban retail water suppliers would constitute a misdemeanor, the bill would expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/18/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources SB 1313 (McNerney, D) Public water systems: grants and loans: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Current Text: 02/20/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/04/2026 - Referred to Com. on E.Q.

Location: 03/04/2026 - Senate Environmental Quality
Summary: The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the state. This bill would authorize the state board to fund projects, upon the appropriation of funds by the Legislature, through grants or loans to public water systems to address perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water or source water. The bill would prescribe sources from which those funds may originate and permissible activities for those projects. The bill would authorize the state board to implement the bill through a policy handbook or workplan exempt from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. This bill contains other existing laws. (Based on 02/20/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
Total Measures: 119
Total Tracking Forms: 119
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EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN 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
February 6, 2026
Ms. Lynna Monell, Clerk of the Board
San Bernardino County
385 N. Arrowhead Avenue
San Bernardino, CA 92415
Via email: [email protected]
RE: Request for Consideration by the City Selection Committee for Appointment as Alternate Member to LAFCO
Dear Ms. Monell and Members of the City Selection Committee, I am writing to express my interest in serving as the Alternate City Representative to the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) for San Bernardino County. As Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Chino, I have had the privilege of working closely on issues related to municipal governance, interagency collaboration, and strategic planning that align closely with LAFCO’s mission to oversee orderly growth and service delivery within the County. I have experience with LAFCO issues, having served on the Chino City Council during several Sphere of Influence annexations, and knowledge of the various special districts and the important roles they play in providing services.

My experience on the Chino City Council and various commissions and boards has provided me with valuable insight into local government operations, land-use planning, and regional service coordination. I am committed to fostering transparency, collaboration, and balanced decision-making that supports both the needs of individual communities and the broader interests of the county.

Serving on LAFCO asthe Alternate City Representative would allow me to continue learning about the commission and the issues it addresses, and, as needed, contribute my expertise and dedication to ensuring that San Bernardino County continues to grow in an orderly, thoughtful, and sustainable manner. I am confident that my background and commitment to public service make me well-suited for this role.
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Clerk of the Board
February 6, 2026
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If appointed, I will work diligently to serve as a conduit of information between LAFCO and our cities and, in my capacity as Alternate, to represent the cities’ interests while upholding the broader goals of the Commission. I welcome the opportunity to expand my knowledge on the important issues brought to LAFCO for review.

Thank you for considering my application. I would be honored to represent the cities of San Bernardino County as LAFCO's Alternate member and look forward to the opportunity to serve in this role.

Sincerely,
Curtis Burton
Mayor Pro Tem
Attachment: Statement of Qualifications
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EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN 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
Curtis Burton
Mayor Pro Tem, City of Chino
[email protected]
909.334.3301
Statement of Qualifications to Serve as Alternate City Representative to LAFCO I submit the following summary of my qualifications and request consideration of my appointment as the Alternate City Representative to the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) for San Bernardino County.

Having lived and worked in Chino for over 30 years, I am deeply committed to the continued growth and success of the City and the County. My extensive experience in public service and regional collaboration uniquely positions me to contribute effectively to LAFCO’s mission when called upon as the Alternate City Representative.

After retiring from the Chino Police Department in 2016, I continued to serve Chino and the broader community in various capacities, including as a member of the Planning Commission and now, as Mayor Pro Tem representing District 2.

In my current role, I serve on several committees and regional boards, including the Chino Basin Desalter Authority, the Water Facilities Authority, the Inland Empire Utilities Agency’s Regional Sewerage Program Committee, and the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. These roles have provided me with a strong understanding of interagency coordination, jurisdictional issues, and regional resource management, which contribute to my knowledge base as a potential LAFCO alternate member. This experience has contributed to my understanding of the importance, complexities, and sensitivity of boundaries, the crucial roles of special districts, and the significance of the creation and changes of local government entities.

My service on the City Council is guided by a commitment to the efficient and effective delivery of public services that benefit and improve the lives of those we serve today while planning responsibly for the future. I believe these priorities align closely with LAFCO’s objectives of promoting orderly growth and efficient service delivery. I am confident that my background and dedication to regional collaboration will allow me to represent the cities of San Bernardino County well.

Thank you for considering my interest. I would be honored to serve as the Alternate representing our cities on LAFCO and welcome the opportunity to discuss my qualifications further at the upcoming City Selection Committee meeting.
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EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN 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
February 17, 2026
Board of Directors
League of California Cities
1400 K Street, Suite 400
Sacramento, CA 95814
SUBJECT: OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED POLICY ON THE ALLOCATION OF BRADLEY-BURNS 1% SALES

TAX ON E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS
Dear Board Members,
On behalf of the City of Chino, I write to express our opposition to the City Manager Sales Tax Working Group’s proposal to alter the Bradley-Burns 1% sales tax allocation by implementing a 50/50 revenue split between point-of-sale and destination jurisdictions for e-commerce transactions.

In addition to undermining the incentive structure that encouraged cities to invest in infrastructure, commerce, and job creation, the proposal undermines the very values on which the League is built. It pits city against city, creating winners and losers on no less important an issue than the very lifeblood of our existence, our revenues. The League’s strength lies in its unified front against the attack on local control and chipping away at our revenues from various sources. For the League to take a position and engage in advocacy against the interests of a substantial portion of its members would call into question the organization's very mission – to expand and protect local control for cities. The proposed policy undermines local control and sets a dangerous precedent.

The proposal to alter the Bradley-Burns 1% sales tax allocation by implementing a 50/50 revenue split between point-of-sale and destination jurisdictions for e-commerce transactions ignores that the existing rules governing sales tax revenues are part of a broader policy discussion about local government funding and have evolved over decades. Indeed, sales tax rules and guidelines are a direct reflection of how we treat property taxes in this state under Prop 13, as well as of the broader local government funding regime (Props 218 and 26, especially).

Any endeavor to change sales tax rules in a vacuum, when cities have customized their revenue streams under the existing rules, will create a distortion that is neither fair nor practical. Any retroactive change would undermine the very incentive structure that encouraged cities to invest in job creation, infrastructure, and commerce.
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Board of Directors
League of California Cities
February 17, 2026
This proposed shift would penalize and severely undermine the fiscal stability of cities that have planned responsibly, invested strategically, and assumed the full burden of supporting the state’s logistics and e-commerce economy.

The City of Chino has successfully attracted logistics and distribution businesses that have brought jobs to the region and supported the Inland Empire’s e-commerce system. However, these benefits come with considerable costs to Chino and its residents, including traffic congestion, noise, truck travel and storage, road wear and tear, land-use compatibility, and traffic safety/enforcement.

The point-of-sale sales tax revenue generated by these centers has been a vital source of funding to help offset these burdens. The proposal also creates a structural imbalance: while point-of-sale cities continue to bear the full responsibility for the impacts of logistics operations, they would receive only half of the associated revenue, while destination cities, which bear none of the direct infrastructure or public safety costs, would receive an equal share of the sales tax. This is inequitable, unsustainable, and fundamentally undermines the integrity of California’s local revenue framework and CalCities’ commitment to maintaining local control.

Furthermore, the proposal would retroactively penalize cities that made long-term investments in economic development based on the existing tax structure. It disincentivizes future investment in large-scale commerce and erodes the trust between cities and the State.

We urge the CalCities Board to reject this proposal. It is NOT an equitable approach as it ignores the real costs borne by point-of-sale cities and undermines the fiscal viability of those communities that have supported California’s e-commerce economy.

Sincerely,
Linda Reich
City Manager
cc: Chino City Council
Laura Varela, League of California Cities IE/Desert Mountains Divisions ([email protected]) Ben Triffo, League of California Cities ([email protected]) 137
February 18, 2026
League of California Cities (CalCities)
Board of Directors
1400 K Street, Suite 400
Sacramento, CA 95814
Subject: Opposition to the Revenue and Taxation Policy Committee Recommendation Regarding Bradley-Burns E-Commerce Revenue Allocation Dear President Quinto, Executive Director Coleman, and Members of the Board:

On behalf of the undersigned cities, we respectfully submit this correspondence in advance of the February 19–20, 2026, meeting of the League of California Cities Board of Directors regarding the Revenue and Taxation Policy Committee’s recommendation to amend Cal Cities’ policy position on the allocation of Bradley-Burnslocalsales and use tax revenues derived from e-commerce transactions.

After careful review, we urge the Board to decline adoption of the Committee’s recommendation.

The recommendation would fundamentally restructure the allocation methodology for Bradley-Burns revenues generated from e-commerce activity by mandating redistribution between origin and destination jurisdictions, subject to flexibility bands, volatility adjustments, phased implementation, and the reallocation of county pool use tax revenues. Although framed as an equity measure, the proposal represents a material alteration of a long-standing statutory framework upon which cities have relied for decadesin making land use, infrastructure, public safety, and fiscal planning decisions.

Citiesthat host logisticsfacilities, fulfillment centers, freight corridors, and distribution hubs have undertaken substantial and ongoing public investment in transportation infrastructure, roadway maintenance, traffic mitigation, environmental compliance, public safety deployment, and code enforcement. These obligations are measurable, recurring, and geographically concentrated. Bradley-Burns revenues associated with this activity serve as the principal general fund mechanism to offset the localized impacts generated by such uses.

The proposed redistribution would shift revenue away from the jurisdictions that physically accommodate and regulate this activity while leaving intact the operational, environmental, and infrastructure burdensimposed upon them. Thisis not an incremental policy refinement; it is a structural reallocation of locally generated revenues that would create identifiable fiscal winners and losers among member cities.

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The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration has further indicated that any allocation methodology must be applied uniformly to existing and future agreements and that current reporting systems do not distinguish between e-commerce and in-store transactions. These administrative and technical constraints raise substantial questions regarding feasibility, implementation accuracy, and unintended fiscal distortion. In addition, modification of the distribution formula implicates Section 25.5 of Article XIII of the California Constitution, which restricts legislative authority to alter the method of distributing Bradley-Burnsrevenues absent voter approval. The constitutional dimension of the recommendation warrants heightened scrutiny and caution.

For several undersigned cities, projected impacts reflect significant multi-million-dollar annual revenue reductions and double-digit percentage decreases in general fund sales tax receipts attributable solely to e-commerce reallocation. Such losses would directly impair the ability to maintain service levels, preserve infrastructure, and meet longstanding fiscal obligations. Responsible municipal governance requires stable and predictable revenue structures. Retroactive alteration of the framework upon which cities relied undermines that stability.

The League of California Cities has consistently advanced principles of local control, fiscal sustainability, and municipal unity. A policy that redistributes locally generated revenuesfrom one city to another, orshiftsrevenues between levels of local government, departs from those principles and risks positioning member cities in opposition to one another. The League’s strength derives from collective advocacy on behalf of all cities, not intra-municipal revenue realignment.

We respectfully recognize the fiduciary obligations of the Board under Article VII, Section 13 of the League’s bylaws, which require Directorsto act in good faith, in the best interests of the League, and with the care an ordinarily prudent person would exercise under similar circumstances. Adoption of a recommendation that produces disproportionate fiscal harm to a defined subset of member cities, introduces significant legal and administrative uncertainty, and undermines long-standing municipal fiscal planning warrants careful consideration under that standard.

For the foregoing reasons, we respectfully requestthatthe Board decline adoption of the Revenue and Taxation Policy Committee’srecommendation.

Preserving local control requires adherence to the statutory framework under which cities planned, invested, and assumed long-term service obligations. Stability in municipal finance is foundational to good governance. We urge the Board to act in a manner that upholds that principle and maintains the unity and institutional integrity of the League.

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Respectfully submitted,
, City Manager, City of Moreno Valley
, Interim City Manager, City of Beaumont
, City Manager, City of Carson
, City Manager, City of Chino
, City Manager, City of Eastvale
, City Manager, City of Fresno
, City Manager, City of Industry
, City Manager, City of La Mirada
, City Manager, City of Lathrop
, City Manager, City of Ontario
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, City Manager, City of Patterson
, City Manager, City of Perris
, City Manager, City of Rialto
, City Manager, City of Salinas
, City Manager, City of Sand City
, City Manager, City of Shafter
, City Manager, City of Stockton
, City Manager, City of Tracy
, City Administrator, City of Vernon
, City Manager, City of West Hollywood
, City Manager, City of El Centro
, City Manager, City of Fontana
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MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING DATE: MARCH 16, 2026 TO: COMMITTEE MEMBERS
FROM: VIVIAN CASTRO, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER

SUBJECT
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2026 City of Chino Legislative Priorities.
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RECOMMENDATION
Discuss the 2026 City of Chino State and Federal Legislative Priorities. Provide direction to staff.
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FISCAL IMPACT
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February 18, 2026
League of California Cities (CalCities)
Board of Directors
1400 K Street, Suite 400
Sacramento, CA 95814
Subject: Opposition to the Revenue and Taxation Policy Committee Recommendation Regarding Bradley-Burns E-Commerce Revenue Allocation Dear President Quinto, Executive Director Coleman, and Members of the Board:

On behalf of the undersigned cities, we respectfully submit this correspondence in advance of the February 19–20, 2026, meeting of the League of California Cities Board of Directors regarding the Revenue and Taxation Policy Committee’s recommendation to amend Cal Cities’ policy position on the allocation of Bradley-Burnslocalsales and use tax revenues derived from e-commerce transactions.

After careful review, we urge the Board to decline adoption of the Committee’s recommendation.

The recommendation would fundamentally restructure the allocation methodology for Bradley-Burns revenues generated from e-commerce activity by mandating redistribution between origin and destination jurisdictions, subject to flexibility bands, volatility adjustments, phased implementation, and the reallocation of county pool use tax revenues. Although framed as an equity measure, the proposal represents a material alteration of a long-standing statutory framework upon which cities have relied for decadesin making land use, infrastructure, public safety, and fiscal planning decisions.

Citiesthat host logisticsfacilities, fulfillment centers, freight corridors, and distribution hubs have undertaken substantial and ongoing public investment in transportation infrastructure, roadway maintenance, traffic mitigation, environmental compliance, public safety deployment, and code enforcement. These obligations are measurable, recurring, and geographically concentrated. Bradley-Burns revenues associated with this activity serve as the principal general fund mechanism to offset the localized impacts generated by such uses.

The proposed redistribution would shift revenue away from the jurisdictions that physically accommodate and regulate this activity while leaving intact the operational, environmental, and infrastructure burdensimposed upon them. Thisis not an incremental policy refinement; it is a structural reallocation of locally generated revenues that would create identifiable fiscal winners and losers among member cities.

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The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration has further indicated that any allocation methodology must be applied uniformly to existing and future agreements and that current reporting systems do not distinguish between e-commerce and in-store transactions. These administrative and technical constraints raise substantial questions regarding feasibility, implementation accuracy, and unintended fiscal distortion. In addition, modification of the distribution formula implicates Section 25.5 of Article XIII of the California Constitution, which restricts legislative authority to alter the method of distributing Bradley-Burnsrevenues absent voter approval. The constitutional dimension of the recommendation warrants heightened scrutiny and caution.

For several undersigned cities, projected impacts reflect significant multi-million-dollar annual revenue reductions and double-digit percentage decreases in general fund sales tax receipts attributable solely to e-commerce reallocation. Such losses would directly impair the ability to maintain service levels, preserve infrastructure, and meet longstanding fiscal obligations. Responsible municipal governance requires stable and predictable revenue structures. Retroactive alteration of the framework upon which cities relied undermines that stability.

The League of California Cities has consistently advanced principles of local control, fiscal sustainability, and municipal unity. A policy that redistributes locally generated revenuesfrom one city to another, orshiftsrevenues between levels of local government, departs from those principles and risks positioning member cities in opposition to one another. The League’s strength derives from collective advocacy on behalf of all cities, not intra-municipal revenue realignment.

We respectfully recognize the fiduciary obligations of the Board under Article VII, Section 13 of the League’s bylaws, which require Directorsto act in good faith, in the best interests of the League, and with the care an ordinarily prudent person would exercise under similar circumstances. Adoption of a recommendation that produces disproportionate fiscal harm to a defined subset of member cities, introduces significant legal and administrative uncertainty, and undermines long-standing municipal fiscal planning warrants careful consideration under that standard.

For the foregoing reasons, we respectfully requestthatthe Board decline adoption of the Revenue and Taxation Policy Committee’srecommendation.

Preserving local control requires adherence to the statutory framework under which cities planned, invested, and assumed long-term service obligations. Stability in municipal finance is foundational to good governance. We urge the Board to act in a manner that upholds that principle and maintains the unity and institutional integrity of the League.

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Respectfully submitted,
, City Manager, City of Moreno Valley
, Interim City Manager, City of Beaumont
, City Manager, City of Carson
, City Manager, City of Chino
, City Manager, City of Eastvale
, City Manager, City of Fresno
, City Manager, City of Industry
, City Manager, City of La Mirada
, City Manager, City of Lathrop
, City Manager, City of Ontario
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, City Manager, City of Patterson
, City Manager, City of Perris
, City Manager, City of Rialto
, City Manager, City of Salinas
, City Manager, City of Sand City
, City Manager, City of Shafter
, City Manager, City of Stockton
, City Manager, City of Tracy
, City Administrator, City of Vernon
, City Manager, City of West Hollywood
, City Manager, City of El Centro
, City Manager, City of Fontana
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