Agenda packet — Chino City Council, May 19, 2026 (part 1 of 3)

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CHINO CITY COUNCIL

SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2026

REGULAR MEETING
AGENDA
OPEN SESSION – 6:00 PM
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ROLL CALL
Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa, Mayor Pro Tem Curtis Burton, Council Member Karen C. Comstock, Council Member Christopher Flores, Council Member Marc Lucio.

FLAG SALUTE

CEREMONIALS
Proclamations
National Public Works Week 2026 - Proclaim the week of May 17 -23, 2026 as National Public Works Week.

Presentations
2026 Hall of Fame Award Recipients - Recognition of the 2026 Hall of Fame Award Recipients:

Carolyn and Earl Owens.

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AGENDA ADDITIONS/REVISIONS

INFORMATION
External Agency Report for May 19, 2026. Receive and file the External Agency Report for May 19, 2026 (Covering Meetings from March 1-31, 2026).

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
This is the time and place for the Mayor to inform the public of all upcoming events and past occurrences of communitywide interest and concern.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
This is the time and place for the general public to address the City Council about subjects that do not appear elsewhere on the agenda. Due to Council policy and Brown Act requirements, action will not be taken on any issues not on the Agenda. Ordinance No. 97-08 (Chino Municipal Code Section

2.04.090) limits speakers to no more than five (5) minutes in which to address Council, except as provided under Government Code 54954.3(b)(2). If more than three (3) persons seek to address the same agenda item or the same subject matter, the Mayor shall establish a maximum period of time not to exceed thirty (30) minutes.

CONSENT CALENDAR
At this time, members of the public may present testimony as to why an item should be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion. Unless a member of the public or City Council requests that an item be removed from the Consent Calendar, all items will be acted upon as a whole and by one vote. Items placed on the Consent Calendar represent routine expenditures and/or actions that support ongoing City operations.

1. Warrants. Approve expenses as audited and within budget for warrants 7775296 to 7775459, and Electronic Fund Transfers 526413E to 526516E, totaling $4,334,527.63

2. Minutes. Approve Minutes for the Regular Meeting on May 5, 2026 (All Members Present).

3. Elected City Officials’ Report Regarding Travel, Training, and Meetings. Receive and file the Elected City Officials’ Report reflecting City Council business related expenses incurred by the City.

4. Government Relations Update for May 19, 2026. Receive and file the May 19, 2026, Government Relations Update.

5. Revisions to Unrepresented Management Job Classifications and Position Reclassifications.

Adopt Resolution 2026-027, 2026-028, and 2026-029 approving revisions to job classifications, amendments to the Compensation and Benefit Plan, and amendments to the Classification Plans and Compensation Schedules for Unrepresented Management Employees.

6. Updated Compensation and Benefit Plan for Unrepresented Sworn Management. Adopt Resolution No. 2026 -030 approving the updated Compensation and Benefit Plan for Unrepresented Sworn Management to revise Holiday Pay and Floating Holiday Time provisions.

7. Annexation of Territory into Existing Community Facilities District No. 2020 -1 Improvement Area 4 for Municipal Services. Adopt Resolution No. 2026 -031 declaring the City of Chino’s intention to annex Territory to Improvement Area 4 of Community Facilities District No. 2020 -1 (Services).
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8. Acceptance of State Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) California Beverage Container Recycling City/County Payment Program (CCPP-25) Grant Funds. Authorize the acceptance of CalRecycle CCPP -25 grant funds in the amount of $23,771; establish Grant No. G7804; and appropriate $23,771 to the Sanitation Fund (550) with corresponding increase in revenues for FY 2025-26.

9. Acceptance of State Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) Used Oil Payment Program (OPP16) Grant Funds. Authorize the acceptance of the CalRecycle OPP16 grant funds in the amount of $13,225; establish Grant No. G7805; and appropriate $13,225 to the Sanitation Fund with a corresponding increase in revenues for FY 2025-26.

10. Notice of Completion for the Chino Airport Driveway & Parking Lot Improvements Project (R7250). Accept Project R7250 with Superior Paving Company Inc. DBA United Paving Co., Contract No. 2026-184 as complete, authorize the Director of Public Works to file the Notice of Completion, and authorize retention release following the 30-day period.

11. Award a Professional Services Agreement to Dudek to prepare the Master Plan of Drainage Update (MS251). Award a professional services agreement to Dudek, Encinitas Ca., for $464,350 to prepare the Master Plan of Drainage Update (MS251); and authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City.

PUBLIC HEARING
Prior to the vote of the City Council, any member of the audience will have the opportunity to address Council on any items listed under Public Hearings. Council requests, but it is not required, that you state your name and address prior to making any remarks.

12. Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) FY 2026 -2027 Action Plan. Conduct a Public Hearing regarding the Community Development Block Grant Annual Action Plan.

Staff Report By: Traci Rossetti-Smith, Senior Management Analyst RECOMMENDATION: 1) Conduct a Public Hearing to receive public comment; 2) approve the 2026-2027 CDBG Annual Action Plan in the amount of $570,458 and estimated carryover funds in the amount of $305,450 for total expenditures estimated to be $876,248; 3) authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents on behalf of the City and submit the 2026-2027 CDBG Annual Action Plan; and 5) authorize staff to complete all federal environmental reviews per 24 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 58.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS
This is the time and place for the Mayor and Council Members to report on prescheduled Council Committee Assignment Meetings that were held since the last Regular Council Meeting, and any other items of interest. Upon request by an individual Council Member, the City Council may choose to take action on any of the subject matters listed below.

Mayor Ulloa
Mayor Pro Tem Burton
Council Member Comstock
Council Member Flores
Council Member Lucio
City Manager's Report
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City Attorney's Report
Director's Report
Police Chief's Report
Fire Chief's Report

ADJOURN
The next Regular Meeting of the City Council will be held on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. (Closed Session no earlier than 4:00 p.m. if necessary) in these Council Chambers.

I, Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk of the City of Chino, hereby declare that on Thursday, May 14, 2026 this agenda was posted on the south window of Chino City Hall and this agenda together with all of the agenda reports and related documents were posted on the City’s website at www.cityofchino.org by myself or under my direction.
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Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk.
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CITY OF CHINO

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: HYE JIN LEE, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS

SUBJECT
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National Public Works Week 2026
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MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

COMMUNITY SERVICES, PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: SILVIA AVALOS, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, PARKS &

RECREATION

SUBJECT
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2026 Hall of Fame Award Recipients
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CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY OF CHINO
FROM: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER

SUBJECT
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Chino Valley Fire District Introductions
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CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY OF CHINO
FROM: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER

SUBJECT
External Agency Report for May 19, 2026.
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RECOMMENDATION
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Receive and file the External Agency Report for May 19, 2026 (Covering Meetings from March 1-31, 2026).

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above furthers the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built by fostering:
 Positive City Image
 Financial Stability
 Responsible Long-Range Planning
 Exemplary Leadership
 Public Service Excellence through Internal and External Partnerships

BACKGROUND
Members of the Chino City Council are assigned to r epresent the City on several e xternal agencies, committees, boards, and task forces. While meeting frequency varies by agency, many meet monthly. Others meet quarterly, bi-monthly, or on an as-needed basis.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
The attached Monthly Agency Repor t for May 19, 2026 , summarizes recent discussions and actions during external meetings attended by City Council Members. It focuses on items that may affect or interest the City of Chino, its residents, and its businesses. The report covers meetings held from March 1-31, 2026.

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MONTHLY AGENCY REPORTS
MAY 19, 2026 - Covering meetings from March 1 – March 31, 2026 Members of the Chino City Council are assigned to represent the City on several external agencies, committees, boards, and task forces. This report summarizes the actions and discussions of those entities as they may impact or be of interest to the City of Chino, its businesses, and its residents.

ANIMAL RESOURCE CENTER OF THE INLAND EMPIRE JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Rogelio Huerta Meeting Date: March 25, 2026
During the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire Board meeting on March 25, the Board took formal action to approve the following items essential to the facility's upcoming operations:
 Adoption of the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire Fiscal Year 2026-27 Annual Budget: The Board approved the comprehensive budget for the next fiscal year, which provides the necessary funding for daily operations and animal care. Under the existing cost-sharing structure, the City of Chino will be responsible for 28% of the total budget allocation.
 Approval of Amendment No. 1 to the Professional Services Agreement with Only Cremations for Pets:

This amendment authorizes the continued partnership with Only Cremations for Pets to provide professional cremation services. The agreement was updated to a total not -to-exceed amount of $160,000, ensuring the Center can maintain these sensitive and neces sary services for the community throughout the contract term.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 22, 2026

CHAFFEY COLLEGE CHINO COMMUNITY CENTER OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Council Representative: Marc Lucio | Staff Report By: Silvia Avalos No report.

CHINO VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Council Representative: Christopher Flores | Staff Report By: Ellyse Martinez No report.
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CHINO BASIN DESALTER AUTHORITY
Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Pete Vicario Meeting Date: March 24, 2026
The Chino Basin Desalter Authority (CDA) reported that 343.852 acre-feet of water was delivered to the City of Chino in February.

The CDA Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) recommended the following, all of which were approved:
 Approval reconciliation of allocation costs for FY 2024/25 . Approve analysis of reserve balance from June 30, 2025. Approve the refund of $671,641 in surplus funds to member agencies. Allocate $4 million of surplus to the CDA reserves. Distribute the MWD Local Resources Program (LR P) credits to the member agencies in the amount of $3,519,673. Chino has an excess revenue amount of $608,989. Use the excess funds to cover the cost of budgeted items.
 Approval of amendment for Professional Services with Aquasystec in the amount of $50,00 0.

Aquasystec provides SCADA services , which include enhanced cyber security and developed comprehensive as-built network diagrams.
 Adopt FY 2026/27 CDA Annual Budget of $44.1 million, an overall increase of $512,000. Chino Desalter assumes the production of 12,500 AFY during FY2026/27 . $12 million is for the Operations and Maintenance Budget.
 Approval of amendment to the Right of Entry Agreement with JCSD authorizing the General Manager to execute on behalf of the CDA. No impact on the budget.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 21, 2026

CHINO BASIN WATERMASTER
Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Benjamin Orosco Meeting Date: March 26, 2026
Business Item B – Fiscal Years 2021/22 and 2022/23 Corrected and Amended Assessment Packages:

The Board considered revised draft Corrected and Amended Assessment Packages for Fiscal Years 2021/22 and 2022/23 in response to the Court of Appeal ruling related to the Dry Year Yield (DYY) voluntary withdrawal program. Staff presented revisions intended to address the Court’s direction regarding cost allocation impacts associated with DYY pumping and related assessment calculations.

Discussion focused on the methodology used to revise the assessment packages, including how costs wer e redistributed among parties and the implications of the revised approach on individual agency assessments.

The item follows prior Board direction provided during the February 26, 2026, confidential session, where staff was directed to proceed with revisions and return with finalized draft packages for Board consideration.

After discussion, the Board approved the Fiscal Years 2021/22 and 2022/23 Revised Draft Corrected and Amended Assessment Packages and directed staff to file the revised packages with the Court as directed.

Business Item C – Review and Discussion of Watermaster Rules and Regulations – Section 2.10:
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The Board received a discussion item regarding Section 2.10 of the Watermaster Rules and Regulations.

Discussion focused on governance and procedural requirements within the current Rules and Regulations and whether revisions or clarifications may be appropriate moving forward.

During the discussion, Board members noted that the Watermaster Board comprises representatives from different agenci es and pools within the Chino Basin, each with varying interests and perspectives on groundwater management, basin operations, and stakeholder priorities. The discussion included how differing interests can influence Board discussions and decision -making processes, and the importance of maintaining balanced representation while ensuring effective governance.

The Board expressed support for the creation of an ad hoc committee to further evaluate Section 2.10 and related procedural considerations. The committee's intent would be to review the existing language, evaluate potential revisions, and return with recommendations for Board consideration. The Board also discussed establishing a timeline and deadline for the committee to complete its review and provide recommendations back to the Board.

This item was for discussion only; no formal action was taken.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 23, 2026

CHINO VALLEY INDEPENDENT FIRE DISTRICT - LIAISON TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS Council Representative: Karen Comstock | Staff Report By: Linda Reich Meeting Date: March 11, 2026
New Business
The Board of Directors approved numerous items, including the following, 4-0:
 Item 7. Side Letters and Resolutions modifying the annual leave cash -out process and correcting administrative errors in the Teamsters Memorandum of Understanding. Applies to the side letters for Teamsters, Local 1932, and Chino Valley Professional Firefighters, Local 3522, and amended resolutions for Unrepresented Confidential and Unrepresented Management  Item 8. Second reading and adoption of Ordinance No. 2026-01, increasing the compensation for the Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2026. The compensation changes from $183.86 to $194.00 per meeting or service day, not to exceed 10 days per calendar month.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 9, 2026

CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Vivian Castro Meeting Date: March 19, 2026
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Action
Level 1 Developer Fees: The Board conducted a public hearing increasing statutory developer fees (Level 1) and adopted Resolution 2025/2026-33, Approving a Change in Statutory School Fees Imposed on New Residential and Commercial/Industrial Construction Pursuant to Education Code 17620 and Government Code 65995. The resolution provides for an i ncrease of $0.21 per square foot to $5.38 for new residential development and room additions exceeding 500 square feet , and an increase of $0.03 per square foot to $0.87 for commercial/industrial development. The resolution goes into effect May 18, 2026, 60 days after its adoption.

Consent
Appointment to Measure G Bond Citizens Oversight Committee : The Board appoint ed Kevin Cisneroz, a Parent/Guardian of a student enrolled in the District and an active member of a parent-teacher organization, to the committee.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 16, 2026
CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT – MEASURE G OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Council Representative: Karen Comstock | Staff Report By: Silvia Avalos No report.

CITIZEN’S COMMITTEE FOR CIM & CIW
Council Representative: Marc Lucio | Staff Report By: Aaron Kelliher No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 12, 2026

INLAND EMPIRE UTILITIES AGENC Y (IEUA) REGIONAL SEWERAGE COMMITTEE Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Benjamin Orosco Meeting Date: March 5, 2026
No meeting during this reporting period. Meeting canceled.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 2, 2026
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES – INLAND EMPIRE DIVISION
Council Representative: Marc Lucio | Staff Report By: Jackie Melendez Meeting Date: March 19, 2026
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The meeting was held in the City of Yucaipa and attended by IE Division Vice President Karen Comstock and Deputy City Manager Vivian Castro on behalf of the City of Chino. Vice President Comstock ran the meeting, which included the following topics:
 I-REN Presentation : Casey Daily of the Inland Empire Regional Energy Network (I -REN) provided an overview of the entity’s history, purpose, and services.  Policy Committees : Various policy committees provided updates on issues they are tracking and discussing. The League of Cities’ IE Division Regional Affairs Manager informed the group that the Legislative Committee was being revived, with virtual meetings to be scheduled in the near future.  League Update: Ms. Varela discussed upcoming League events, including the following:
o City Leaders Conference, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - Friday, April 24, 2026 , Sacramento.

Requested advocacy visits with legislators will take place on Wednesday and are to be coordinated with the Regional Affairs Manager.
o 2026 Annual Conference and Expo, Wednesday, September 23, 2026 - Friday, September 25, 2026, Anaheim.
 Staff met the new Government Relations Manager for Southern California Edison , Shane Mas soud.

Mr. Massoud replaces Melissa Boyd, who served as the regional representative covering Chino for many years.

Next anticipated meeting date: May 20, 2026

OMNITRANS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Council Representative: Eunice Ulloa | Staff Report By: Dennis Ralls Meeting Date: March 4, 2026
LA28 Olympics and Paralympic Games: The Omnitrans Board of Directors approved finalizing negotiations of an agreement with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) to provide 5 buses for use during the LA28 Olympics and Paralympic Games. Omnitrans will be one of 15 such agencies to provide the additional busing needed to support the increased transportation demand expected during the 2028 games.

In addition to the buses, Omnitrans will provide 5 operators, a field supervisor, a mechanic, and an operational management supervisor . LA Metro will reimburse Omnitrans per service hour provided , and buses will be rewrapped for the 2028 games and reverted back to by LA Metro at the conclusion of the events.

Regional Mobility Partnership (RMP) Funds: Omnitrans administers RMP funds . These funds support local transit services in the San Bernardino Valley. Each year, Omnitrans solicits a Call for Projects to award and disperse funds, which this year total $7,363,265.11 in Measure I Consolidated Transportation Services Agency funding. Consistent with the RMP guidelines, 10 new and expanding program applications, with another 12 existing programs, were approved for continued funding. The City of Chino, through the VIP, Inc. Transportation Services Program was among the 12 continuing programs to be awarded funding. This program will receive $267,131.29 in funding to continue for the next 2 fiscal years. VIP, Inc. provides door-to-door transportation services from its clients’ homes to their place of employment.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 1, 2026
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ONTARIO INT ERNATIONA L AIRPORT AUTHORITY (OIAA)

INTER -AGENCY COLLABORATIVE (ROUNDTABLE)
Council Representative: Christopher Flores | St aff Report by: Jackie Melendez No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: TBD

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Staff Report By: Rogelio Huerta
Meeting Date: March 10, 2026
The Board took several actions with direct implications for the City of Chino and regional West End partnerships:
 Establishment of the West End Regional Navigation Center (Item 3 6): The Board approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the County and the cities of Chino, Fontana, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto, and Upland. This agreement (Recommendation No. 4) establishes a 10-year framework for annual city and County contributions to cover the operating costs of the West End Regional Navigation Center, a critical facility for addressing regional homelessness.  Subdivision of County Property in Chino (Item 37): Acting as the property owner, the Board approved Parcel Map No. 20561 to subdivide approximately 56.95 acres of County-owned land located within the City of Chino into three separate parcels (Recommendation No. 1). As part of this action, the Board dedicated a four-foot right-of-way to the City of Chino for street and public utility purposes.  Public Improvements at Majestic Chino Flight (Item 3 7): The Board approved a Subdivision Improvement Agreement among Majestic Chino Flight, LLC, the City of Chino, and the County (Recommendation No. 3). This agreement a llows for the construction of specific public improvements on the Chino property, which the City of Chino will officially own once they are completed and accepted.  Reciprocal Easements for Majestic Chino Flight (Item 3 7): The Board approved a Declaration o f Covenants, Conditions, and Reciprocal Easements involving the City of Chino and Majestic Chino Flight, LLC (Recommendation No. 4). This ensures necessary access and land -use protections over the subdivided Chino property for the duration of the ground lease associated with the project.

Meeting Date: March 24, 2026
No current items to report.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 7, 2026

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SOLID WASTE ADVISORY TASK FORCE
Council Representative: Christopher Flores | Staff Report By: Xo chitl Huerta No meeting during this reporting period.
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Next anticipated meeting date: April 15, 2026

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (SBCTA) BOARD OF DIRECTORS Council Representative: Eunice Ulloa | Staff Report By: Dennis Ralls Meeting Date: March 4, 2026
Emergency Evacuation Network Resilience Study (EENR): The Board received a report and final update on the Emergency Evacuation Network Resilience Study (EENR). This effort was a combined task between SBCTA and Western Riverside Council of Governments (WRCOG) to study the region and develop a report in compliance with SB 99 and AB 747. These newer bills require all agencies in California to identify all existing residential developments with fewer than 2 points of access and to e valuate routes in each jurisdiction, including their capacity, safety, and viability under various emergency scenarios . These bills required that these efforts be completed in a timely manner. As such , SBCTA & WRCOG worked collaboratively to develop these reports to assist their member agencies with compliance with these bills. The City of Chino, as part of the recently adopted General Plan Update (GPU), incorporated its own localized version of this EENR study as the GPU triggered this analysis for compliance of SB 99 & AB 747.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 1, 2026
SBCTA – CITY SELECTION CO MMITTEE
Council Representative: Eunice Ulloa | Staff Report By: Jackie Melendez Meeting Date: March 4, 2026
City Selection Committee elections were held:
 City of Montclair Mayor John Dutrey was re-elected as Chair  City of Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren was re-elected as Vice Chair  City of Loma Linda Mayor Phil Dupper was re -elected to serve as a San Bernardino County Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCO) Primary Member
 City of Yucca Valley Council Member Rick Denison was re -elected to serve as the LAFCO Alternate Member
Next anticipated meeting date: TBD
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS ( SCAG ) – GENERAL ASSEMBLY Council Representative: Marc Lucio | Staff Report By: Jackie Melendez No meeting during this reporting period.

Next anticipated meeting date: May 7, 2026
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SANTA ANA WATERSHED ADVISORY COUNCIL
Council Representative: Karen Comstock | Staff Report By: Benjamin Orosco Meeting Date: March 3, 2026
No meeting during this reporting period. Meeting canceled.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 7, 2026

WATER FACILITIES AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Council Representative: Curtis Burton | Staff Report By: Benjamin Orosco Meeting Date: March 17, 2026
Business Item 7A – Review of the Preliminary Fiscal Year 2026-27 Budget: The Board reviewed the preliminary Fiscal Year 2026 -27 Budget and received a presentation from staff regarding the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The discussion included a review of the preliminary budget assumptions and financial planning c onsiderations for Fiscal Year 2026 -27. Board members provided feedback and direction to staff regarding the proposed budget prior to final budget adoption at a future meeting.

Next anticipated meeting date: May 21, 2026

WEST VALLEY MOSQUITO AND VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT
Council Representative: Chris topher Flores | Staff Report By: Vivian Castro Meeting Date: March 24, 2026
Consent Calendar - The Board considered the following items. Minutes for the meeting are not yet available.

Personnel Committee:
 Recommendation to Approve an Increase to the District's Contribution to the Deferred Compensation Program for the Operations Director, Scientific Director, and Community Outreach Coordinator – The positions will receive a District contribution of 4% of their biweekly pay on top of their current contribution, within the allowable limits of IRS regulation. To qualify for this benefit, the individuals in these positions must already be contributing to the account.  Recommendation to Approve the Second Amendm ent to the District Manager’s Employment Agreement – The approval increases the District Manager’s base salary by 5%, setting the new monthly base salary amount at $20,595.45. The Second Amendment also acknowledges that the District Manager received a posi tive performance evaluation for 2025 and , therefore, per the terms of the Employment Agreement, the District will increase its contribution to her 457 account by 2%, from 6.5% of base salary to 8.5% of base salary.

Staff Reports:
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The Board received numerous staff reports, including the Field Operations Reports (showing abatement activities, service requests, inspections, and treatments, by jurisdiction and vectors), the Vector Disease and Surveillance Reports (showing vectors collected and tested), the IT/Community Outreach Activities Report, and the Administrative Report.

Next anticipated meeting date: April 28, 2026
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CITY OF CHINO

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: KIM SAO, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

SUBJECT
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Warrants.
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RECOMMENDATION
Approve expenses as audited and within budget for warrants 7775296 to 7775459, and Electronic Fund Transfers 526413E to 526516E, totaling $4,334,527.63. ..body

FISCAL IMPACT
Sufficient funds have been included in the Fiscal Year 25-26 Adopted Budget.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above further the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built, by fostering:
 Financial Stability

Revenue:

ExE - penditure:
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TITLE: WARRANTS.

PAGE: 2

BACKGROUND
As prescribed by Government Code Sections 37202 and 37208, the following demand registers are herewith submitted for Council ratification:

NO. WARRANTS CHECK DATE FY AMOUNT

1. 7775296 – 7775383 04/23/26 25-26 $273,473.59

2. 7775384 04/27/26 25-26 $155.00

3. 7775385 – 7775459 04/30/26 25-26 $2,089,739.86

4. 526413E – 526474E 04/24/26 25-26 $1,118,989.00

5. 526475E – 526516E 05/01/26 25-26 $852,160.18

TOTAL $4,334,527.63

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
See attached exhibit for detailed information on warrants exceeding $50,000.

Attachment

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A/P Warrant Register Over $50,000

Check Date
Check
Number Vendor Name Description Amount
04/23/2026 7775314 BUTIER ENGINEERING, INC CONSTRUCTION SERVICES $85,189.50 04/24/2026 526421 CALGON CARBON CORPORATION

AS-NEEDED GAC REMOVAL &
REPLACEMENT $56,067.00
526444 INLAND EMPIRE UTILITIES AGENCY METER EQUIVALENT UNIT $208,571.64 526453 MODEL 1 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES, INC. NEW UNIT 842 - FORD E-450 $142,270.21 526456 CANNON CORPORATION GENERAL PLAN CHECK SERVICES $141,829.37 526471 WATER FACILITIES AUTHORITY IMPORTED WATER P $263,078.51 04/30/2026 7775386 ALESHIRE & WYNDER LLP CITY ATTORNEY $61,186.92 7775418 HAZEN AND SAWYER DESIGN OF STATE ST. PROJECT $279,122.80 7775419 HDL,COREN & CONE PROPERTY TAX AUDIT & RECOVERY $50,521.32 7775436 PACIFIC HYDROTECH CORPORATION CONSTRUCTION SERVICES $894,885.75 7775456 WASTE MANAGEMENT REFUSE COLLECTION $489,932.42 05/01/2026 526475 10-8 RETROFIT INC PD VEHICLES EQUIP. INSTALLATION $69,950.27 526481 BIGGS CARDOSA ASSOCIATES, INC. EUCLID BRIDGE DESIGN SERVICES $122,798.08 526484 C J CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION INC. ALLEY CONSTRUCTION SERVICES $239,419.95 526512 SIDEPATH INC SIDEPATH SOFTWARE $128,401.35
526515 WATER FACILITIES AUTHORITY IMPORTED WATER $90,680.34

TOTAL $3,323,905.43

21 MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK

SUBJECT
..titl e
Minutes.
..end
..body

22 CHINO CITY COUNCIL

SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

REGULAR MEETING - CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2026

MINUTES
CLOSED SESSION – 5:30 PM
OPEN SESSION – 6:00 PM
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CALL TO ORDER
The May 5, 2026, Regular Meeting of the Chino City Council / Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency was called to order at 5:31 pm by Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa in the Council Chambers.

ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa, Mayor Pro Tem Curtis Burton, Council Member Karen C.

Comstock, Council Member Christopher Flores, and Council Member Marc Lucio ABSENT: NONE.

CLOSED SESSION PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no requests to speak.

CLOSED SESSION
City Attorney Fred Galante read into the record the item listed on the Closed Session agenda.

1. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION Initiation of litigation pursuant to Paragraph (4) of Subdivision (d) of Government Code Section 54956.9. Number of Cases: One Case
The City Council recessed to Closed Session at 5:32 p.m. and concluded at 5:46 p.m. The City Council reconvened the meeting at 6:03 p.m.

FLAG SALUTE
Council Member Lucio led the Pledge of Allegiance.

CEREMONIALS
Proclamations
National Mental Health Awareness Month - Proclaim May 2026 as National Mental Health Awareness Month.
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Mayor Ulloa read the National Mental Health Awareness Month proclamation into the record and presented it to Angie Garcia, Community Services, Parks & Recreation Coordinator, and Lainie Lapis, Board Member, National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) Pomona Valley.

Professional Municipal Clerks Week - Proclaim May 3-9, 2026 as Professional Municipal Clerks Week.

Mayor Ulloa read the Professional Municipal Clerk's Week Proclamation into the record and presented it to Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk, Maritza Sanchez, Deputy City Clerk, and Hannah Barbee, City Clerk Records Technician.

Presentations
Recognition of the Teen Advisory Committee Members - Flor Hernandez, Karisia Rojas, Kathleen Chang, Sofia Henderson, Drew Ramirez, Julia Barraza, Leah Jung, Chinmayee Phirke, Abigail Flores, Chelsea Yeung, Benjamin Martinez.

Mayor Ulloa called up Brissa Castillo, Community Services, Parks & Recreation Coordinator, who presented the certificates to the Teen Advisory Committee Members Benjamin Martinez, Flor Hernandez, Karisia Rojas, Kathleen Chang, Sofia Henderson, Drew Ramirez, Julia Barraza, Leah Jung, Chinmayee Phirke, Abigail Flores, Chelsea Yeung, and Ariel Cuevas-Merrill.

Business of the Month - Award of Business of the Month for May 2026 to:
- West Coast Sourdough
- CE Mechanical
Mayor Ulloa presented the Business of the Month for May 2026 to CE Mechanical, Inc. The award was accepted by President Dave Tickenoff, Vice -President Nick Tichenoff, Administrative Assistant Caitlyn Tickenoff, and Richard Montijo.

Mayor Ulloa presented the second Business of the Month for May 2026 to West Coast Sourdough. The award was accepted by owner Jordan Cabrera.

Mayor’s Home Beautification Award - Award of Mayor’s Home Beautification Award for May 2026.

Mayor Ulloa presented the Mayor's Home Beautification Award for May 2026 to Lea and Gregory Fellows of Angelina Court in Chino.

REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
City Attorney Fred Galante reported out of closed session as follows:

1. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION Initiation of litigation pursuant to Paragraph (4) of Subdivision (d) of Government Code Section 54956.9. Number of Cases: One Case
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AGENDA ADDITIONS/REVISIONS
City Manager Linda Reich reported there were no additions or revisions to the agenda.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mayor Ulloa announced the Residential Community Clean Up and Chino Bike Day events on May 9, 2026, and the Chino in Action event taking place on June 6, 2026.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
Pastor John Mata, Calvary Chapel Chino Valley, provided the invocation.

Sophia Cohen, Representative, 53rd District Assemblymember Michelle Rodriguez, announced the upcoming community award nominations for Small Business, Veteran, and Teacher of the Year.

Melissa Compani, Representative, Fourth District San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman, announced upcoming community events.

Richard & Lisa Montijo, announced the Uchooz Chino Community Connection event.

Alex Lopez, Reach Out, spoke regarding the organization's services, and extended an invitation to the National Innovation Communities Conference.

Donna Marchesi, spoke regarding the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire (ARC) concerns and spoke in support of Mr. Sherman's garden.

Maureen Moe Mendoza, spoke regarding ARC concerns and the Friends of the ARC vacancy.

Marcia Richardson, spoke regarding her residential property maintenance, and receiver fees and liens concerns. City Attorney Galante commented the receiver will be reaching out to Ms.

Richardson regarding her concerns.

Stubbie Barr, spoke regarding the exceptional work carried out by the Teen Advisory Committee.

Joanne Genis, spoke regarding the Mental Health Awareness Month proclamation.

Ontario Christian High School students provided an introduction.

CONSENT CALENDAR
Stubbie Barr, provided a public comment on Consent Item No. 7, noting the project does not comply with accessibility laws that must be followed at the time of construction and questioned why the developer was not required to widen Central Avenue to its ultimate width.

Albert Espinoza, Deputy Director of Public Works/City Engineer, provided information on the project and explained why it is being proposed to be closed out as currently constructed.

1. Warrants. Approve expenses as audited and within budget for warrants 7775109 to 7775295, and Electronic Fund Transfers 526296E to 526412E, totaling $6,676,673.99.

2. Minutes. Approve Minutes for the Regular Meeting on April 21, 2026 (All Members Present). 25 CHINO CITY COUNCIL
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4. Assignment of Members to the San Bernardino Regional Housing Trust (SBRHT). Assign Mayor Eunice Ulloa as member and Mayor Pro Tem Curtis Burton as alternate to the SBRHT Board of Directors.

5. Contract Amendment with Badawi & Associates for Auditing Services. Approve a contract amendment with Badawi & Associates to provide annual auditing services for FY 2025 -26 and FY 2026 -27 at a cost of $60,956 per year, totaling $121,912, for a total revised five -year contract not-to-exceed amount of $299,547.

6. Contract Amendment No. 5 with MV Cheng & Associates. Approve contract Amendment No. 5 with MV Cheng & Associates to increase the contract by $200,000, for a total not -to-exceed amount of $500,000, for as -needed financial consulting services, funded through salary savings.

7. Final Acceptance of Public Improvements for Tract Map No. 18982, located near the Northwest Corner of Francis and Central Avenues. Accept the public improvements as complete for Tract Map No. 18982 constructed by D.R. Horton CA3, Inc for the subdivision generally located at the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Francis Avenue.

8. Majestic Chino Heritage, LLC - Vesting Parcel Map. No. 20071 and Subdivision Improvement Agreement. Approve Vesting Parcel Map No. 20071 and Subdivision Improvement Agreement with Majestic Chino Heritage, LLC.

Motion by Council Member Comstock, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Burton, to approve the Consent Calendar items 1-8 as presented. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS
Mayor Ulloa

9. Community Support Fund - Mayor Ulloa. Approve community support fund contributions for multiple non-profits and community groups for the Fiscal Year 2025-26.

Staff Report By: Mayor Ulloa
RECOMMENDATION: Approve community support fund contributions to Boy Scout Troop 201 $125; Cub Scout Pack 205 $125; Trail Life Troop 2678 $125; Chino American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO Region 67) $125; Chino American Little League $125; Chino National Little League $125; Chino Hills PONY Baseball $125; Chino Pop Warner Youth Football $125; Chino Youth Boxing Foundation $375; Chino Girls Fastpitch $125; Chino Community Children’s Theatre $125; Chino Mounted Posse $500; Chino Police Officers Foundation (Run for Russ) $100; Chino Youth Museum $125; Rebel Ranch $500; Don Lugo High School FFA $250; Food for Life Ministry $125; Hope Family Resource Center $125; Isaiah’s Rock $125; Kiwanis Club of Chino (Corn Feed Run) $500; Monte Vista 4 -H $250; Soroptimist International of the Chino Valley $125; Uchooz Positive Youth $150.
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Motion by Council Member Flores, seconded by Council Member Lucio, to approve community support fund contributions to Boy Scout Troop 201 $125; Cub Scout Pack 205 $125; Trail Life Troop 2678 $125; Chino American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO Region 67) $125; Chino American Little League $125; Chino National Little League $125; Chino Hills PONY Baseball $125; Chino Pop Warner Youth Football $125; Chino Youth Boxing Foundation $375; Chino Girls Fastpitch $125; Chino Community Children's Theatre $125; Chino Mounted Posse $500; Chino Police Officers Foundation (Run for Russ) $100; Chino Youth Museum $125; Rebel Ranch $500; Don Lugo High School FFA $250; Food for Life Ministry $125; Hope Family Resource Center $125; Isaiah's Rock $125; Kiwanis Club of Chino (Corn Feed Run) $500; Monte Vista 4 -H $250; Soroptimist International of the Chino Valley $125; Uchooz Positive Youth $150. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

Mayor Ulloa reported on Omnitrans Plans and Program Committee meeting; Watermaster Board of Director's meeting; Kiwanis Corn Feed Run Car Show & Cruise; Chino Basin Desalter Authority Finance Committee meeting; Senior Birthday Celebration; Rancho Del Chino Rotary Club Bingo de Mayo; City Manager meeting; and Closed Session.

Mayor Pro Tem Burton

10. Community Support Fund - Mayor Pro Tem Burton. Approve community support fund contribution to Chino Valley Rotary Club (Bingo Event).

Staff Report By: Mayor Pro Tem Burton
RECOMMENDATION: Approve community support fund contribution to Chino Valley Rotary Club Bingo Event ($250).

Motion by Council Member Lucio, seconded by Council Member Flores, to approve community support fund contribution to Chino Valley Rotary Club Bingo Event ($250).

The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

Mayor Pro Tem Burton reported on the League of California Cities City Leaders Summit; Kiwanis Corn Feed Run Car Show & Cruise; Chino Basin Watermaster meeting; City Manager meeting; Water Facilities Authority Personnel/Management Committee meeting; briefing with the Director of the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire (ARC); Volunteer Recognition Dinner; Affordable Housing 101 meeting; City Manager meeting; Rancho Del Chino Rotary Club Bingo de Mayo; City Manager meeting with resident; Walk of Honor for Police Sergeant Jason Larkin; and congratulated newly promoted Police Captain Dustin Tomicic, Lieutenant Joe McArdle, and Corporal Cory Freedle.
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Council Member Comstock

11. Community Support Fund - Council Member Comstock. Approve community support fund contribution to Chino High School Sports Boosters - Girls Flag Football Program - Coach Monger.

Staff Report By: Council Member Comstock
RECOMMENDATION: Approve community support fund contribution of $500 to Chino High School Sports Boosters for Girls Flag Football Program - Coach Monger.

Motion by Council Member Lucio, seconded by Council Member Flores, to approve community support fund contribution of $500 to Chino High School Sports Boosters for Girls Flag Football Program - Coach Monger. The motion carried by the following vote:

AYES: ULLOA, BURTON, COMSTOCK, FLORES, AND LUCIO
NOES: NONE.

ABSENT: NONE.

Council Member Comstock reported on Chino Night Market event; meeting with 4th District San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman; and the Corporate Challenge Opening Ceremony.

Council Member Flores
Council Member Flores reported on the Kiwanis Corn Feed Run Car Show & Cruise and recognized Walt Pocock for his service; M & W Aesthetics and Wellness Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting; and West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District meeting.

The City Council acknowledged Council Member Flores for his upcoming law school graduation.

Council Member Lucio
Council Member Lucio congratulated Lieutenant Tomicic on his promotion; spoke regarding e-bike safety concerns and asked if the policy staff is working on to change the municipal code can be implemented before summer; and wished all mother's a Happy Mother's Day.

City Manager's Report
City Manager Reich had no report.

City Attorney's Report
City Attorney Galante spoke regarding e -bike concerns and congratulated Council Member Flores on his law school graduation.

Director's Report
There was no Director's Report.

Police Chief's Report
Police Chief Mensen reported staff is working to update the City's Municipal Code related to e-bike enforcement; highlighted the department's Crisis Intervention Team in recognition of 28 CHINO CITY COUNCIL
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National Mental Health Awareness Month; spoke regarding the Chino in Action community event on June 6 at Stueve Park in The Preserve; and shared he will be attending his daughter's graduation where she will receive a master's degree from Texas Tech.

Lieutenant Tomicic provided an update stating that municipal code updates related to 7-OH/Kratom will be presented to the City Council soon.

Fire Chief's Report
Fire Chief Dave Williams announced the Sharps Collection event is on Saturday, May 9, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Chino Valley Fire Training Center, 5092 Schaefer Avenue.

Mayor Ulloa announced Calvary Chapel Chino Valley is hosting the National Day of Prayer on the City Hall lawn on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at noon.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 7:44 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the City Council will be held on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. (Closed Session no earlier than 4:00 p.m. if necessary) in these Council Chambers.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 19TH DAY OF MAY 2026.
________________________________
EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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(These minutes are not official until signed.)
29 MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK

SUBJECT
..titl e
Elected City Officials’ Report Regarding Travel, Training, and Meetings.

..end

RECOMMENDATION
Receive and file the Elected City Officials’ Report reflecting City Council business related expenses incurred by the City.

..body

FISCAL IMPACT
Sufficient funding is available in the adopted Fiscal Year 2025-26 Operating Budget.

 Superior Customer Service
 Responsible Long-Range Planning
 Exemplary Leadership
 Public Service Excellence through Internal and External Partnerships

Revenue:

Expenditure: 1002000-43320
Transfer In: Transfer Out:
30 CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026
TITLE: ELECTED CITY OFFICIALS’ REPORT REGARDING TRAVEL, TRAINING, AND MEETINGS.

PAGE: 2

BACKGROUND
In accordance with Government Code Sections 53232.2 and 53232.3, implementing Assembly Bill (AB) 1234 on January 1, 2006, the City adopted Resolution No. 2005 -093 establishing a Business-Related Expense Policy. On December 6, 2016, the City approved Resolution No. 2016-075 adopting the latest revisions to this policy. In addition to requiring local agenci es to adopt a business-related expense policy, AB 1234 requires that Elected Officials provide a brief report on meetings attended at the expense of the local agency at the next regular meeting of the legislative body.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
In response to AB 1234, a report regarding Elected City Officials’ Travel, Training, and Meetings (Exhibit A) was created and is placed on the City Council Agenda Consent Calendar, as needed. The documents that pertain to the items listed on Exhibit A are available for publi c inspection at the City Clerk’s office located in City Hall at 13220 Central Avenue, Chino, CA.

Attachment – Exhibit A

31 4/21/2026 City Council Meeting

Event Date Meeting Purpose
and Subject
Matter
Location City Official
Attendees
May 6-8, 2026 Southern California
Association of
Governments
(SCAG) General
Assembly
Palm Desert, CA Council Member
Lucio
May 15, 2026 Southern California
Water Coalition
Quarterly Meeting
Temecula, CA Mayor Ulloa
May 14-15, 2026 City County 2026
Conference
Lake Arrowhead, CA Mayor Pro Tem
Burton
Council Member
Comstock
Council Member
Lucio

32 MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY OF CHINO
FROM: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER

SUBJECT
..titl e
Government Relations Update for May 19, 2026.
..end

RECOMMENDATION
Receive and file the May 19, 2026, Government Relations Update...body

FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact.

33 CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026
TITLE: GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE FOR MAY 19, 2026.

PAGE: 2

BACKGROUND
On April 2, 2024, the City Council adopted the Citywide Legislative Policy , which outlines guiding principles organized by legislative, policy, and regulatory matters. It supplements the Citywide Strategic Plan to build an effective and flexible legislative advocacy strategy.

The Policy authorizes Staff to formulate and approve official City responses for those legislative items with potentially significant impact on the City or that create an issue of timeliness for an official response, with the qualifica tion that the position is determined to be consistent with the City’s legislative policy.

Per the Policy, t he Committee or Staff is to report to the City Council on any updates, recommendations, or actions taken by the Committee or Staff.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
The Government Relations Update provides a review of major legislative and government relations issues of note to the City (Attachment 1).

The Tracked State Legislation report is included in Attachment 2.

City position letters since the last report are included in Attachment 3.

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City of Chino
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE (Attachment 1)
As of May 12, 2026 (May 19, 2026, City Council Agenda)

FEDERAL UPDATE
Status of City of Chino Funding Requests for Federal FY 2027 The City of Chino submitted three “earmark” applications to our federal representatives, Senator Alex Padilla, Senator Adam Schiff, and Congresswoman Norma Torres, requesting that the projects be included in their FY 2027 appropriations bill submissions. Congresswoman Torres has published her list of 20 Community Project Funding requests. The two requests submitted by Chino were not included.  DENIED - Monte Vista Park Expansion and Upgrades Project - $1.6 million in Community Project Funding requested from Congresswoman Norma Torres.  DENIED - Chino Police Department Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC) Upgrade - $1,800,500 million in Community Project Funding requested from Congresswoman Norma Torres.  PENDING - Heritage Park Upgrades and Infrastructure Improvements Project - $4 million in Congressionally Directed Spending requested from Senator Alex Padilla and Senator Adam Schiff.

STATE UPDATE
State FY 2026-27 Budget
 The Governor is expected to release the “May Revision” to the proposed FY 2026-27 state budget on Thursday, May 14.
 The deadline for the Legislature to pass the budget bill is June 15.  The Governor’s January budget proposal projected the state budget shortfall for FY2026-27 to be around $2.9 billion. However, the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) forecasted a larger shortfall of $18 billion, significantly higher than previous estimates. This discrepancy stems from differing assumptions about revenue and spending projections, which will be updated with the May Revision.  According to the LAO, the State faces a structural annual deficit of $20 billion to $30 billion despite higher- than-anticipated revenue gains driven by a strong stock market and artificial intelligence investments.

Legislative Analyst Gabriel Patek notes that “…The state could not afford to sustain its existing services while funding the chosen suite of expansions and new programs under the same tax revenue structure.” He additionally warns that “Near-term revenue gains may temporarily mask structural imbalances, but in the coming years, the fiscal realities are likely to be undeniable. Addressing the budget gaps will require sustained and consequential action — through revenue increases, spending reductions, or likely both.” Major State Budget Issues for Cities
 Public Safety – State funding to support enforcement and implementation of voter-approved Prop 36 and services tied to new mandates.
 Transportation & Infrastructure - SB 1 funding stability , with cities advocating for long-term sustainability of transportation funding.
 Budget trailer bills - Especially housing and homelessness funding allocations.

TRACKED STATE LEGISLATION REPORTS
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The reports on tracked state legislation, one sorted by measure number and the other by su bject, are included in Attachment 2. Staff has identified 134 bills of potential interest to the City , up from 119 at the March committee meeting. Bills are added and removed from tracking based on lists provided by associations, such as the League of California Cities, and staff input.

The positions noted on bills are based on the City Council's adopted Legislative Policy. Additional positions may be taken, or existing positions may be modified based on direction from the Legislat ive Committee or City Council. Bills sponsored by the League of California Cities are noted in the reports.

POSITION LETTERS & MAJOR ISSUES
The City submitted the following letters since the last report, included in the March 24, 2026, Legislative Policy Committee agenda (Attachment 3):
 State
o AB 1612 (Alanis) – Support
o AB 1821 (Pacheco) – Support
o SB 1018 (Grove) – Support
o SB 1217 (Grove) – Support
o SB 1373 (Grove) – Support
o California Air Resources Board, Advanced Clean Fleets – Oppose  Federal
o HR 7437 BASICS – Support letter to Congresswoman Torres o Larger Trucks – Oppose letter to Congresswoman Torres o Army Corps Permit for Euclid Avenue – Letter to Congresswoman Torres o CONFIRE Application for Safe Streets for All Grant – Support letter to Secretary Duffy STATE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR – Recent and Upcoming Legislative Deadlines Apr. 24 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal committees fiscal bills introduced in their house.

May 1 Last day for policy committees to hear and report to the Floor non-fiscal bills introduced in their house.

May 8 Last day for policy committees to meet prior to June 1.

May 15 Last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the Floor bills introduced in their house. Last day for fiscal committees to meet prior to June 1.

May 25 Memorial Day.

May 26 – 29 Floor Session only. No committees, other than conference or Rules committees, may meet for any purpose.

May 29 Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house.

June 1 Committee meetings may resume.

June 15 Budget Bill must be passed by midnight.

June 25 Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the Nov. 3 General Election ballot.

July 2 Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills. Summer Recess begins upon adjournment of session, provided Budget Bill has passed.

July 3 Independence Day observed.
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Aug. 3 Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess.

Aug. 14 Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills to the Floor.

Aug. 17 –
31 Floor Session only. No committee, other than conference and Rules committees, may meet for any purpose.

Aug. 21 Last day to amend on the Floor.

Aug. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills. Final recess begins upon adjournment.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2026

BY MEASURE

AB 11 (Lee, D) The Social Housing Act.

Current Text: 12/02/2024 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was HOUSING on 6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 07/17/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and preserving affordable housing. The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

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 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
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Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

AB 222 (Bauer-Kahan, D) Data centers: power usage effectiveness: cost shifts.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - 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 law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report, as specified, and to make the reports accessible to state, local, and federal entities and to the general public. This bill would require the Energy Commission to establish a process for the owner of a data center, as defined, to submit the power usage effectiveness ratio, as defined, for the data center to the Energy Comm ission on a biannual basis, and require the owner of a data center to submit this information for the data center in the manner and timeframe specified by the Energy Commission. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

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 execut ion 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 circumstance s in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person or persons threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and if the threat causes a person or person to reasonably be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of others at the specified locations. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

AB 259 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was JUD. on 5/14/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
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Location: 07/17/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate.

Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with prescribed requirements. Current law requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including that specified circumstances apply. Current law establishes limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including prohibiting such participation for more than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less. This bill would extend the alternative teleconferencing procedures until January 1, 2030. (Based on 04/21/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance

AB 262 (Caloza, D) California Individual Assistance Act.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Senate Rules
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, wit hout regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act. This bill would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community - based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster, as prescribed. The bill would require the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
Priority: (6) Info only
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Public Safety Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

AB 306 (Schultz, D) Building regulations: state building standards.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/23/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Current law authorizes any city or county to make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards. Current law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making modifications or changes to those green building standards, to make an express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions. This bill would, from October 1, 2025, to June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above - described building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety. (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 340 (Ahrens, D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

Current Text: 03/05/2025 - 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 law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or thre atening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of current law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by current law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation. (Based on 03/05/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human 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 alloca ted 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
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Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

AB 557 (McKinnor, D) California Factory-Built Housing Law.

Current Text: 04/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was HOUSING on 6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 07/17/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The California Factory-Built Housing Law requires all factory-built housing after a specified date that is sold or offered for sale to first users within the state to bear insignia of appro val issued by the department, deems that housing to comply with the requirements of all ordinances or regulations enacted by any city, city and county, county, or district that may be applicable to the construction of housing, as specified, and prohibits a city, city and county, county, and district from requiring submittal of plans for any factory -built housing manufactured, or to be manufactured pursuant to these provisions, as specified. Current law requires the department to provide by regulation for the qualification and disqualification of design approval agencies to perform approval of factory-built housing plans and specifications and makes approval by these agencies the equivalent of department approval. The law provides that any person who violates any of these provisions and other specified law is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified. This bill would require plans or specifications of factory-built housing approved pursuant to these provisions to be approved by unit serial number and would authorize the approved plans or specifications to be used in subsequent development projects unless building standards relating to factory-built housing are modified, as specified. The bill would require the department and the design approval agencies to limit their review to the portions of a plan or specification that has not already received approval, as specified. (Based on 04/24/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 609 (Wicks, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.

Current Text: 05/05/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/20/2025 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 05/20/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a housing development project, as defined, that meets certain conditions relating to, for example, size, density, and location, including specific requirements for any housing on the project site located within 500 feet of a freeway. The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a specified environmental assessment regarding hazardous substance releases. If a recognized environmental condition is found, the bill would require the development proponent to complete a preliminary endangerment assessment and specified mitigation based on that assessment. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a housing developme nt project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/05/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 647 (González, Mark, D) Abandoned recreational vehicles.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
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Status: 01/27/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 01/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2030, authorizes the Counties of Alameda and Los Angeles to implement a program for the disposal of abandoned recreational vehicles. Current law imposes specified conditions on this authority, including, among other things, requiring a public agency, immediately after removal of the recreational vehicle, to notify the Stolen Vehicle System of the Department of Justice of the removal. This bill would also authorize any public agency within the Counties of Alameda and Los Angeles or a state agency, as specified, to implement a program to dispose of these recreational vehicles within the County of Alameda or the County of Los Angeles and would extend this authorization until January 1, 2032. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 660 (Wilson, D) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.

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: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency, as defined, to comp ile one or more lists that specify in detail the information required from any applicant for a postentitlement phase permit, as defined.

Current law also establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application. If a local agency finds that a complete application is noncompliant, existing law requires the local agency to provide the applicant with a list of items that are noncompliant and a description of how the application can be remedied by the applicant within specified time limits. Current law requires the time limits to be tolled, if the local agency requires review of the application by an outside entity, until the outside entity completes the review and returns the application to the local agency, as specified. This bill would prohibit the local agency from requiring or requesting more than 2 plan check and specification reviews in connection with an application for a buil ding permit, as part of its review, except as specified. The bill would authorize a local agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 plan check and specification reviews. The bill would also authorize an applicant to request additional submittals of applications that are not compliant with the permit standards. The bill, if a local agency finds that a complete application is noncompliant, would prohibit a local agency from requesting or requiring any action or inaction as a result of a building inspection undertaken to assess compliance with the applicable building permit standards that would represent a deviation from a previously approved building plan or similar approval for the building permit, except as spe cified. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 735 (Carrillo, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.

Current Text: 09/09/2025 - 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
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Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse d esign and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in whic h cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. The bill would revise the definition of “logistics use” and instead define “logistics use development” f or these purposes to mean a building that is primarily used as a warehouse for the movement or the storage of cargo, goods, or products that are moved to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. (Based on 09/09/2025 text)
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 736 (Wicks, D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.

Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.

Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. (Based on 04/10/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 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) 44 8

Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

AB 782 (Quirk-Silva, D) Subdivisions: security.

Current Text: 07/16/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/12/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 09/12/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The Subdivision Map Act requires prescribed security from a developer if the act or a local ordinance authorizes or requires the furnishing of security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement. Current law requires the Real Estate Commissioner to make an examination of any subdivision, and to, unless there are grounds for denial, issue to the subdivider a public report authorizing the sale or lease of the lots or parcels within the subdivision. Current law specifies the grounds for denial, including, among other things, the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for all offsite improvements included in the offering or the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for any community, recreational, or other facilities included in the offering. This bill would prohibit the Real Estate Commissioner, in issuing a public report for a residential development or proje ct, from requiring the furnishing of a security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement related to an improvement if the Real Estate Commissioner determines that security sufficient to protect the interests of purchasers, owners, and lessees, as necessary, has been furnished to a local agency for the same improvement pursuant to the provisions above requiring security under the Subdivision Map Act. (Based on 07/16/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 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 1109 (Kalra, D) Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.

Current Text: 02/20/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 7/14/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
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Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: Current law governs the admissibility of evidence in court proceedings and generally provides a privilege as to communications made in the course of certain relations, including the attorney-client, physician- patient, and psychotherapist-patient relationship, as specified. Under current law, the right of any person to claim those evidentiary privileges is waived with respect to a communication prote cted by the privilege if any holder of the privilege, without coercion, has disclosed a significant part of the communication or has consented to a disclosure. This bill would establish a privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented employee or represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent made while the union agent was acting in the union agent’s representative capacity, except as specified. The bill would permit a represented employee or represented former employee to prevent another person from disclosing a privileged communication, except as specified. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources

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 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 wage s 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 1206 (Harabedian, D) Single-family and multifamily housing units: preapproved plans.

Current Text: 08/18/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/25/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
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Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities and the implementation of those general plans as may be in effect in those counties or cities. Current law requires each local agency, by January 1, 2025, to develop a program for the preapproval of accessory dwelling unit plans. This bill would require ea ch local agency, as defined, to develop a program for the preapproval of single-family and multifamily residential housing plans, whereby the local agency accepts single-family and multifamily plan submissions for preapproval and approves or denies the preapproval applications, as specified. The bill would require a large jurisdiction, as defined, to develop this program by July 1, 2026, and a small jurisdiction, as defined, to develop a program by January 1, 2028. The bill would authorize a local agency to charge a fee to an applicant for the preapproval of a single- family or multifamily residential housing plan, as specified. The bill would require the local agency to post preapproved single-family or multifamily residential housing plans and the contact information of the applicant on the local agency’s internet website. The bill would require an application for preapproval to include a statement by the applicant that the applicant has sufficient authority, license, or ownership interest in the plan to submit the plan for preapproval and, if approved, posted as described above. This bill would prohibit the preapproval program from applying to single-family or multifamily residential housing plans intended for use in certain communities and developments, as specified. The bill would require a local agency to either approve or deny an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit, both as defined, within 30 days if the lot meets certain conditions and the application utilizes either a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit plan preapproved within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle or a plan that is identical to a plan used in an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit approved by the local agency within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle. (Based on 08/18/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

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. Page 3019.). In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Joint Rules 61(a)(14) 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 t o 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 authoriz e 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

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AB 1276 (Carrillo, D) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.

Current Text: 07/14/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SU SPENSE FILE on 8/25/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 08/28/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project, as defined for purposes of the act, for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act provides t hat for its purposes, a housing development project or emergency shelter shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the housing development project or emergency shelter is consistent, compliant, or in conformity. The act requires a housing development project to be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when a preliminary application, as specified, was submitted, except as otherwise provided. The act defines “ordinances, policies, and standards” to include general plan, community plan, specific plan, zoning, design revi ew standards and criteria, subdivision standards and criteria, and any other rules, regulations, requirements, and policies of a local agency, as defined, including those relating to development impact fees, capacity or connection fees or charges, permit or processing fees, and other exactions. This bill would include in the definition of “ordinances, policies, and standards” materials requirements, postentitlement permit standards, and any rules, regulations, determinations, and other requirements adopted or implemented by other public agencies, as defined (Based on 07/14/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 1294 (Haney, D) Planning and zoning: housing development: standardized application form.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 04/28/2026 - Senate Local Government
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act requires a public agency that has received an application for a development project to determine in writing whether the application is complete within 30 calendar days and to immediately transmit the determination to the applicant of the development project. This bill, except with respect to applications for housing development projects located in certain jurisdictions, would require that an application for a housing entitlement, as defined, be deemed complete upon payment of the permit processing fees and upon completing specified requirements, when applicable, including, among other things, providing a description of the proposed housing development project and a list of the approvals requested by the applicant to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the housing entitlement is being sought. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027, the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt a standardized application form that applicants for a housing entitlement may use for the purpose of sat isfying these requirements and would require, on or after October 1, 2027, a city, county, or city and county to accept an application submitted on the standardized application form. (Based on 04/28/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 1331 (Elhawary, D) Workplace surveillance.
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Current Text: 09/04/2025 - 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 establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations. Current law authorizes the division, which is headed by the Labor Commissioner, to enforce the Labor Code and all labor laws of the state the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in any other officer, board or commission. This bill would limit the use of workplace surveillance tools, as defined, by employers, including by prohibiting an employer from monitoring or surveilling workers in employee -only, employer-designated areas, as specified. The bill would provide workers with the right to leave behind workplace surveillance tools that are on their person or in their possession when entering certain employee - only areas and public bathrooms and during off-duty hours, as specified. The bill would prohibit a worker from removing or physically tampering with any component of a workplace surveillance tool that is part of or embedded in employer equipment or vehicles. (Based on 09/04/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Human Resources

AB 1383 (McKinnor, D) Public employees’ retirement benefits: safety members.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
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) es tablishes 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 ce rtain 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 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.

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 rese arch 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 1537 (Bryan, D) Peace officers: secondary employment.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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 kno wingly 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: 04/16/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 04/16/2026 - Senate Rules
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: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. 50 14

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The California Constitution vests the judicial power of the state in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts. Existing law requires the sittings of every court to be public, except as authorized.

This bill would bar a judicial officer, peace officer, or other law enforcement officer from prohibiting a member of the press or public from accessing court proceedings that are open to the public. The bill would authorize a violation of that provision to be subject to civil penalties, as specified. (Based on 04/09/2026 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 perso n 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)
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1550 (Sanchez, R) Personal income taxes: deductions: tips: overtime compensation.

Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - In committee: Set, final hearing. Held under submission.

Location: 04/06/2026 - Assembly REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows various deductions in calculating taxable income and allows a taxpayer to elect to take a standard deduction in lieu of itemizing deductions. Existing federal income tax law, for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2029, allows deductions in determining taxable income, as defined, for amounts equal to the qualified tips, as defined, and qualified overtime compensation, as defined, received by a taxpayer during the taxable year, not to exceed certain amounts, as specified. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after Ja nuary 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2029, conform to federal income tax law with regard to qualified tips and qualified overtime compensation. (Based on 03/16/2026 text)
Subject: Human Resources

AB 1557 (Papan, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with f ully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Existing law defines a “class 1 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing defines a “class 2 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing law defines a “class 3 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that, in pertinent part, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. T his bill would instead define a class 1 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour. The bill would define a class 2 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour. The bill would provide that, notwithstanding these definitions, an electric bicycle manufactured prior to January 1, 2027, that was equipped with a motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of continuous power and ot herwise met the legal requirements for the relevant class at the time of manufacture shall retain its classification. (Based on 04/16/2026 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: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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 Regis tration 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 te rritory 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)
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Subject: Public Safety

AB 1559 (Calderon, D) Residential property insurance images.

Current Text: 04/13/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including residential property insurance.

Existing law requires an insurer to send various notices to a policyholder at specified intervals. This bill 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 04/13/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety

AB 1563 (Gabriel, D) Budget Act of 2026.

Current Text: 01/09/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/06/2026 - Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

Location: 04/06/2026 - Assembly Budget
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026–27 fiscal year. (Based on 01/09/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

AB 1564 (Ahrens, D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

Current Text: 02/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/18/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 18).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/18/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or thr eatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of existing law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by existing law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation. (Based on 02/25/2026 text) Position: Oppose
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Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

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 neg lect 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 1567 (Ta, R) General plan: annual report: congregate and residential care for the elderly.

Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning law requires each planning agency to prepare and the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan containing specified elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to be revised acc ording to a specific schedule. After the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, existing law requires the planning agency to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to various entities that includes specified information. This bill would, for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element, authorize a planning agency to include in that report the number of units approved for congregate care for the elderly or residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, for up to 15% of a jurisdiction’s regional housing need allocation for any income category. (Based on 03/16/2026 text) Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1568 (Alanis, R) Sex offenses: registration.

Current Text: 03/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/08/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense 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 district attorney is entitled to present evidence regarding whether community safety would be signif icantly 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 State-Authorized 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: safety and training program.

Current Text: 04/13/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Would require, on or before March 1, 2028, the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to develop a standardized electric bicycle safety and training program for pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as provided. In developing the program, the bill would authorize the State Department of Education and the Department of the California Highway Patrol to collaborate with local law enforcement agencies or local governments that have implemented electric bic ycle training programs already to ensure the program reflects proven best practices. The bill would encourage local educational agencies and parent organizations to offer training demonstrations to pupils and parents on electric bicycle operations in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies or local governments, as specified. (Based on 04/13/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure

AB 1573 (Bryan, D) Land use: housing elements: target population.

Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element containing specified information, including an analysis of its special housing, emergency shelter, and supportive housing needs, as defined. Ex isting law defines the term “target population” for purposes of requirements applicable to the housing element to include certain persons, including persons with low incomes who have one or more disabilities and individuals eligible for specified developmental disability services. This bill would provide that the definition of the term “target population” for the purposes of requirements applicable to the housing element, as described above, may include victims of domestic violence, victims of sexual assault, and victims of human trafficking, as specified. (Based on 03/16/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1576 (Ortega, D) Workers’ compensation: Subsequent injuries payments.

Current Text: 04/20/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
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Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law provides certain methods for determining workers’ compensation benefits payable to a worker or the worker’s dependents for purposes of permanent total disability or permanent partial disability that include a determination of the percentage of permanent disability incurred. Existing law requires that, for injuries incurred before January 1, 2013, in determining the percentages of permanent disability, account be taken of the nature of the physical injury or disfigurement, the occupation of the injured employee, and the injured employee’s age at the time of the injury, and requires that specified factors be considered in determining an employee’s diminished earning capacity for these purposes. For purposes of these provisions, “nature of the physical injury or disfigurement” incorporates the descriptions and measurements of physical impairment and the corresponding percentages of impairments published in the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (5th Edition). For injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2013, in determining the percentages of permanent disability, existing law requires the same factors be taken into account but removes from consideration the employee’s diminished future earning capacity and, instead, incorporates an adjustment factor of 1.4, as specified. Existing law also establishes the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. Under existing law, if a permanently, partially disabled employee receives a subsequent compensable injury resulting in additional permanent disability, then that employee receives compensation from the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Tru st Fund. Existing law requires, when applicable, the additional permanent disability resulting from the subsequent injury to be equal to 35% or more of total, when considered alone and without regard to, or adjustment for, the occupation or the age of the employee. For purposes of determining permanent disability resulting from a subsequent injury, this bill would measure permanent disability, for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2005, and prior to January 1, 2013, by the whole person impairment rating as determined in accordance with the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (5th Edition), after adjustment for diminished future earning capacity and without regard to, or adjustment for, the occupation or age of the employee. (Based on 04/20/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Human Resources

AB 1578 (Jackson, D) State and local officials: sexual harassment training and education: anti -hate speech training.

Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 5.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021, provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally require, beginning on January 1, 2028, for an employer that is a state agency or local agency that the above-described training and education include, as a component of the training and education for elected officials, anti-hate speech training. (Based on 04/06/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance

AB 1586 (Ramos, D) Opioid overdose reversal medication: school resource officers.

Current Text: 03/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/24/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Location: 03/18/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Would enact the School Safety and Opioid Overdose Prevention Act, and commencing with the 2027–28 school year, would require a school resource officer, as defined, to (1) upon assignment to a schoolsite, and at least every 2 years thereafter, complete an opioid overdose recognition and response training, as specified, and (2) annually report to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, among other things, the number of times the school resource officer administered an opioid antagonist while serving at a schoolsite. 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 03/23/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1588 (Stefani, D) Vehicles: Sideshow Accountability and Community Safety Act.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15.

Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law prohibits a person from, among other things, engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. Under existing law, a violation of this prohibition is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law, beginning on January 1, 2029, authorizes a court to suspend the privilege to operate a vehicle for 90 days to 6 months for a person who engages in, aids, or abets a motor vehicle exhibition of speed that occurred as part of a sideshow. For these purposes, existing law defines “sideshow” as an event in which 2 or more persons block or impede traffic on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, or reckless driving for spectators. This bill would revise the definition of sideshow to include the use or operation of any motor vehicle, incl uding, but not limited to, motorcycles or off-highway motor vehicles, as specified, to barricade, block, impede, or otherwise obstruct traffic. The bill would also provide enhanced penalties for engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed as part of a sideshow. (Based on 04/16/2026 text) Subject: Public Safety

AB 1596 (Davies, R) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: infant car seats.

Current Text: 01/16/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission.

Location: 03/16/2026 - Assembly REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE Summary: Current state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, and before January 1, 2032, exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, infant car seats, as defined. (Based on 01/16/2026 text)
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

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AB 1599 (Ahrens, D) Public transit: California Transit Stop Registry: transit datasets.

Current Text: 01/16/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 03/24/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16.

Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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 1605 (Ransom, D) Driving under the influence: alcohol sales.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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 bona fide evidence of majority and identity, as described. The bill would authorize a court 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 a n abstract of the record of a court. (Based on 04/28/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1612 (Alanis, R) Disposition of controlled substances.

Current Text: 04/07/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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. Existing law authorizes a police or sheriff’s department, the Department of Justice, or the Department of the California Highway Patrol to, with an order from the court, destroy controlled substances, instruments, or paraphernalia, as specified. This bill would authorize a local police department, sheriff’s office, or state law enforcement age ncy in possession of a controlled substance to transport a controlled substance that has been held beyond the applicable retention period for an ongoing investigation or related proceedings, and that they are otherwise authorized by law to destroy, to the Department of Justice for disposal. (Based on 04/07/2026 text) Subject: Public Safety

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AB 1617 (Alanis, R) Household hazardous waste: reporting.

Current Text: 01/21/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/16/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 04/16/2026 - Senate Rules
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 Fo rm 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 1621 (Wilson, D) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.

Current Text: 03/04/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 04/28/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency or state agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information required from any applicant for a postentitlement phase permit, as defined.

Existing law also establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application.

Existing law requires the time limits to be tolled, if the local agency or state agency requires review of the application by an outside entity, until the outside entity completes the review and returns the application, as specified. This bill would prohibit a local agency or state agency from requiring or requesting more than 2 plan check and specification reviews in connection with an application for a building permit, as part of its review, except as specified. The bill would authorize a local agency or state agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 plan check and specification reviews. (Based on 03/04/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1622 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Electrified security fences.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/09/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 04/09/2026 - Senate Rules
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.

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electrified security fence, as described above, except for requiring an administrative permit to confirm a f ence 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

AB 1624 (Zbur, D) Public Lands Protection Act.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/15/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: 03/16/2026 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long -term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. Current law authorizes the legislative body of a county or city to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes, as provided. For these purposes, current la w authorizes the legislative body to divide a county or city into zones, but requires that regulations adopted be uniform for each class or kind of building or use of land throughout each zone. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare 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, the Public Lands Protection Act, would, upon transfer to any private or nonfederal entity of a parcel of land located within the state that is owned by the United States government on or after January 1, 2025, and that has been designated in an adopted general plan or zoning ordinance as open space, public land, resource conservation, or an equivalent conservation -oriented designation, immediately subject that parcel to the zoning designation and associated state and local restrictions. The bill would also, upon transfer of a parcel of land located within the state that is owned by the United States government on or after January 1, 2025, and that has not been designated in an adopted general plan or zoning ordinance at the time of transfer to any private or nonfederal entity, automatically subject that parcel to the most restrictive conservation-oriented zoning designation currently applied in the jurisdiction, by operation of law. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1708 (Solache, D) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: round 8: smaller jurisdictions.

Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 23).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

is not a tribe to apply as part of a region and be signatory to a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that meets specified requirements. This bill would apply to the allocation of funding available under round 8 of the program and require a round 8 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan to include certain components, including a description of programs and interventions provided by smaller jurisdictions, as defined, that serve the objects and goals of the program, as specified. (Based on 04/06/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

AB 1710 (Carrillo, D) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.

Current Text: 02/04/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project, as defined for purposes of the act, for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act requires a housing development project to be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when a preliminary application, as specified, was submitted, except as otherwise provided. The act defin es “ordinances, policies, and standards” to include general plan, community plan, specific plan, zoning, design review standards and criteria, subdivision standards and criteria, and any other rules, regulations, requirements, and policies of a local agency, as defined, including those relating to development impact fees, capacity or connection fees or charges, permit or processing fees, and other exactions. This bill would include in the definition of “ordinances, policies, and standards” materials requirements, postentitlement permit standards, and any rules, regulations, determinations, and other requirements adopted or implemented by other public agencies, as defined. (Based on 02/04/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1738 (Carrillo, D) State Housing Law: remote inspections.

Current Text: 03/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce the provisions of the State Housing Law, the State Building Standards Code, and other specified rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law authorizes an officer, employee, or agent of an enforcement agency to enter and inspect any building or premises whenever necessary to secure compliance with, or prevent a violation of, any provision of the State Housing Law, the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of the State Housing Law. Existing law provides certain immunities to a public entity or employee immunity relative to an inspection or license, as provided. This bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county to offer a homeowner or contractor the option of requesting remote inspections for all or a subset of an inspection required by a building permit for specified works in one- or 2-family dwelling units, by July 1, 2027, as provided. The bill would apply the above-described immunities to remote inspections. (Based on 03/26/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
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Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1751 (Quirk-Silva, D) Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act.

Current Text: 04/20/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process, depending on the type of housing development, as specified.

Existing law, 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, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, among other things, requires a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets certa in requirements, including that the housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units, except as provided. This bill, the Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act, would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a townhome housing development project that is subject to a prescribed ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain procedural requirements and satisfies specified objective planning standards. The bill would also require a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a townhome development project that meets all of specified requirements, including that the proposed s ubdivision will result in parcels and residential units that will meet prescribed densities and that the newly created parcels are no smaller than 600 square feet. (Based on 04/20/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1771 (Alvarez, D) State Housing Law: apartment houses.

Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide building standards relating to occupancy, use, and maintenance of hotels, motels, lodging houses, apartment houses, and dwellings, and authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt rules and regulations for this purpose. Pursuant to that authority, existing law requires a manager or other responsible person to reside upon the premises and have charge of every apartment house in which there are 16 or more apartments, as specified. This bill would require the department to analyze the efficacy of the above-described manager residence requirement and to submit a report to the Legislature with recommendations on whether to maintain, modify, or repeal the requirement no later than January 1, 2029, as specified. (Based on 04/27/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1789 (Boerner, D) Political Reform Act of 1974: candidate trainings and campaign reports.

Current Text: 04/20/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Location: 04/15/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Would, commencing January 1, 2029, require an individual who files a statement of intention to be a candidate for elective office, other than statewide elective office, to complete a training course on the requirements of the Political Reform Act of 1974 with respect to campaigns for the office for which they intend to be a candidate. For a candidate who does not complete the training, the bill would prohibit any committee they control, as specified, from receiving contributions until the candidate completes the training. The bill would, commencing January 1, 2029, also require the treasurer for a candidate controlled committee, other than a committee controlled by a candidate for statewide elective office, to complete a training course on the requirements of the act that apply to the committee. The bill would prohibit a committee whose treasurer does not complete the training course from accepting contributions until the training course is completed. The bill would exempt from these requirements an individual who is required to complete, and has completed, a similar training offered by a local government ethics agency. The bill would also exempt from these requirements a candidate who indicates on their statement of intention that they do not intend to qualify as a committee that receives campaign contributions in excess of $2,000, as specified. (Based on 04/20/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Elections and Campaigns

AB 1820 (Schiavo, D) Electric vehicle charging stations: permit fees.

Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/16/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 15).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to administratively approve an application to install an electric vehicle charging station through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit, and requires every local government to adopt an ordinance that creates an expedited, streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations, as provided. Existing law requires fees charged by a local agency for specified purposes, including permits, to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless a question regarding the amount of the fee charged in excess of this cost is submitted to, and approved by, 2/3 of the electors. Existing law, until January 1, 2 034, prohibits a city, county, city or county, or charter city from charging a permit fee for a solar energy system that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, which cannot exceed $450 plus $15 per kilowatt for each kilowatt above 15kW for residential solar energy systems, and $1,000 plus $7 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $5 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for commercial solar energy systems, unless the city, county, city and county, or charter city provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, as provided. This bill, until January 1, 2036, would prohibit a city, county, city or cou nty, or charter city from charging a permit fee for an electric vehicle charging station that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, which cannot exceed $100 plus $15 per kilowatt for each kilowatt above 15kW for residential electric vehicle charging stations, and $500 plus $5 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $2 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for commercial electric vehicle charging stations, unless the city, county, city and county, or charter city provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, as provided (Based on 03/16/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1821 (Pacheco, D) California Public Records Act: agency response time.

Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. 63 27

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The California Public Records Act requires each state or local agency, upon a request for a copy of records that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records, to make the records promptly a vailable to any person upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable, except with respect to public records exempt from disclosure by express provisions of law. Existing law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, as defined. This bill would instead require each agency to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person as described above within 10 business days of a request for a copy of records. (Based on 04/06/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Legal and Records Management
Misc2: CMCA Support

AB 1866 (Rogers, D) California Disaster Assistance Act: minimum damages thresholds.

Current Text: 03/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/15/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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: 03/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/15/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing 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 with the intent to sell, exchange, or return those metal materials for value, acting in concer t with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess those metal materials knowing or believing it to have been stolen, 64 28

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. The bill would make a violation of organized metal theft punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. (Based on 03/26/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1942 (Bauer-Kahan, D) Electric bicycles: registration and special license plates.

Current Text: 02/13/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12.

Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner license plates that identify the vehicles for which they are issued for the period of their validity, as specified. Existing law also requires a motorized bicycle to display a special license plate issued by the department. Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution, authorizes the licensing agency, by ordinance or resolution, to adopt rules and regulations for the collection of license fees, as specified, and sets the fee for each new bicycle license and registration certificate at a sum of no more than $4 per year. Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. This bill would require class 2 electric bicycles and class 3 electric bicycles to be registered with the department and to display a special license plate issued by the department. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement these requirements, and would make a person operating a class 2 or class 3 electric bicycle in vio lation of these requirements guilty of an infraction punishable by specified fines. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/13/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1961 (Ahrens, D) Civil actions: protective orders: workplace violence.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law authorizes an employer or collective bargaining representative of an employee who has suffered harassment, unlawful violence, or a credible threat of violence from any individual, to seek a workplace violence restraining order on behalf of the employee and, at the discretion of the court, any number of other employees at the workplace or at other workplaces of the employer. Existing law authorizes one or more representative parties to bring suit for the benefit of a class of parties if the question is one of a common or general interest, of many persons, or when the parties are numerous, and it is impracticable to bring them all before the court. This bill would authorize an employer to seek a workplace vio lence restraining order on behalf of all employees at the employer’s workplace or a location at which a group of employees perform their primary job duties if harassment, unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence is directed at that workplace or location. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

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AB 1975 (Schultz, D) Electrical corporations: distribution grid utilization metric.

Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the 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 develop a methodology for calculating a distribution grid utilization metric, as specified. The bill would require each large electrical corporation, in a manner, frequency, and geographic scope determined by the commission, to submit a publicly available report to the commission with the results of the large electrical corporation’s distribution grid utilization metric calcu lations, as specified.

The bill would require the commission to establish and periodically update, as appropriate, a distribution grid utilization standard for each large electrical corporation and to ensure the distribution grid utilization standard encourages, and does not inhibit, electrification. (Based on 04/27/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2033 (Papan, D) Local Agency Public Construction Act: job order contracting: cities.

Current Text: 05/04/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Existing law, 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 establish a pilot program to authorize a city to use job order contracting as a procurement method. The bill would impose a $3,000,000 cap on awards under a single job order contract and a $750,000 cap on any single job order. The bill would limit the term of an initial contract to a maximum of 12 months, with extensions as prescribed. The bill would establish various additional procedures and requirements for the use of job order contracting under this authorization. (Based on 05/04/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure

AB 2074 (Haney, D) Regional transit hub districts: downtown housing developments.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 20).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law generally regulates local government zoning and approval of certain types of housing development projects. The law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a prescribed ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain procedural requirements and satisfies specified objective planning standar ds. The law also requires a housing development project within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development stop to 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 specified requirements, as applicable. This bill would, by July 1, 2027, require major transit cities to designate one or more regional transit hub districts and prescribe 66 30

requirements for those districts, including requiring that a district make a downtown housing development an allowable use, as specified. The bill would prescribe requirements for downtown housing developments, including requiring specified labor standards and requiring the developments to be eligible for s treamlined ministerial approval, as specified. The bill would establish the Downtown Revitalization Loan Fund and continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the California Housing Finance Agency for the purpose of making loans to applicants to develop downtown housing developments, as specified. By establishing a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/09/2026 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: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/20/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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. Existing 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 04/27/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2125 (Bennett, D) Groundwater basin adjudication: notice.

Current Text: 03/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/26/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 03/26/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Existing 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. Existing law also requires a plaintiff to file, within a specified timeframe, a motion for approval of the draft notice and draft form answer.

Under existing law, once the court approves the draft notice, the plaintiff is required to serve the no tice, as specified. Following a court order approving both the notice and draft form answer and authorizing service thereof, existing 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 existing 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. Existing law permits a court to authorize any other procedures it finds appropriate and necessary to provide notice to persons who may hold groundwater rights in basin. This bill would impose additional requirements on a plaintiff when filing the notice of co mpletion 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 stating the date, time, and place of mailing. The bill would further require the notice to include as an attachment any certified or registered mail delivery receipts received as of the date of the filing. (Based on 03/25/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

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AB 2139 (Garcia, D) Surplus lands: exempt surplus land: City of Ontario.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law defines “surplus land” for these purposes to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a regular public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Existing law requires that land be declared either “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” as supported by written findings, before a local agency may t ake any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency’s policies or procedures. Existing law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for the disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land.” Existing law defines “exempt surplus land” to include certain types of land. Existing law makes a local agency that disposes of surplus land, in violation of the requirements for the disposal of surplus land after receiving specified notification from the department that the local agency is in violation, liable for a penalty of 30% of the applicable disposition value for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation, as provided. This bill would expand the definition of “exempt surplus land” to include certain land owned by the C ity of Ontario that satisfies specified requirements. The bill would require that these requirements be contained in a covenant or restriction recorded against the surplus land at the time of disposition, as provided. The bill would require that the city meet specified requirements to declare exempt surplus land pursuant to these provisions, including depositing funds from the deposition into a local housing-specific set-aside account, as provided. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2146 (Stefani, D) Supportive housing: prospective tenants: barriers to access.

Current Text: 04/13/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10.

Noes 1.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025 (GRP), which became effective on July 5, 2025, transfers the Department of Housing and Community Development to the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, which the GRP also establishes, as of July 1, 2026. Existing law, the Multifamily Housing Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, makes available deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of housing development projects. Existing law specifies particular requirements for projects funded with funds appropriated for supportive housing projects, including, among other things, that supportive housing projects provide or demonstrate collaboration with programs that provide services that meet the needs of the supportive housing residents. Existing law also requires that funds appropriated to provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases be disbursed in accordance with the Multifamily Housing Program for specified uses. This disbursement program is referred to as Homekey. Existing law, known as the No Place Like Home Program, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to award $2,000,000,000 among counties to finance capital costs, including, but not limited to, acquisition, design, construction, rehabilitation, or preservation, and to capitalize operating reserves, of permanent supportive housing for the target population, as specified. This bill would establish the California Direct Access to Supportive Housing (DASH) designation, for the purpose of facilitating quick and accountable access to supportive housing units. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2027 , require a sponsor of a housing unit that meets prescribed criteria to notify the Department of Housing and Community Development or the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee of the unit’s eligibility for a DASH designation, as specified. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2027, and to the extent not prohibited by federal law, require the department or the committee to apply specified expedited compliance documentation standards for a prospective tenant referred to a DASH unit, as provided. (Based on 04/13/2026 text) 68 32

Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life

AB 2170 (Boerner, D) California Environmental Quality Act: overburdened communities: notices and hearing s:
translations.

Current Text: 04/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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. Existing law requires a lead agency to be responsible for determining whether the project is exempt from CEQA and whether an environmental impact rep ort, negative declaration, or mitigated negative declaration is required, as provided. Existing law, for certain projects, establishes a ministerial review process with modified environmental assessment procedures, as provided. This bill, notwithstanding the above-described provisions relating to determinations by a lead agency, would require an environmental impact report, negative declaration, or mitigated negative declaration, as determined by the lead agency, for any project, except as provided, that includes the development, intensification, or substantial expansion of an industrial use if the project is located in or within1/2 mile of an overburdened community, as defined. The bill would disqualify these projects from receiving a statutory exemption or ministerial review process. (Based on 04/22/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2296 (Papan, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law existing law authorizes at least 2 or more cities and a county, or counties, at least 28 months prior to the scheduled housing element revision, to form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s existing and projected housing need among its members. If the council of governments does not receive a notification of this formation at least 28 months prior to the update, existing law requires the council of governments to implement specified requirements regarding the regional housing need process.

Existing law requires the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each delegate subregion at least 25 months prior to the scheduled revision. This bill would extend the above - described timeline for cities and counties to form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s housing need, as provided, from 28 months to 34 months, and the above-described timeline for the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each subregion from 25 months to 31 months, respectively. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

AB 2346 (Wilson, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles and speed limits.

Current Text: 03/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
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Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions for various purposes. This bill would require all class 1 and class 2 electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with a speedometer. The bill would also require all electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with an integrated front lamp and a rear lamp, as specified. The bill would also require manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to include a written description of California’s electric bicycle laws with the bicycle’s packaging to be provided to the consumer. The bill would also require sellers and distributors of electric bicycles to provide specified disclosures at or before the point of sale. (Based on 03/26/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

AB 2397 (Ta, R) Local government: community facilities districts: financing.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: The Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 authorizes a local agency, as defined, to initiate proceedings to establish a community facilities district as an alternative method of financing certain public capital facilities and services, especially in developing areas undergoing rehabilitation, only if it has first considered and adopted local goals and policies, as prescribed. Existing law authorizes a local agency to take any actions or make any determinations which it determines are necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of the act and which are not otherwise prohibited by law. This bill would prohibit the legislative body of a local agency from taking certain actions with respect to a critical housing infrastructure district, as defined, including abandoning the proposed establishment of the district, as specified, unless prior to taking the action it makes findings based upon substantial evidence that, among other things, establishment of the di strict, levying the special taxes, or incurring bonded indebtedness, as applicable, would have a specific adverse impact upon the public interest. The bill would specify that these provisions do not require or prohibit the legislative body from taking any other action authorized by the act with respect to a critical housing infrastructure district, as specified. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
Position: Pending
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2415 (Hoover, R) Transit-oriented housing developments: alternative plans.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Existing law requires a housing development project to be an allowed use as a transit -oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development within prescribed distances of a transit-oriented development stop if the development complies with specified requirements.

development zone in total units or residential floor area by more than 50%. Existing law de fines various terms for these purposes. This bill would provide that a transit-oriented development alternative plan may reduce the capacity in up to one transit-oriented development zone in total units or residential floor area by more than 50% if certain requirements are met. (Based on 04/23/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2433 (Alvarez, D) Housing development: density bonus.

Current Text: 04/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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 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 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 04/22/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2517 (Calderon, D) Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones.

Current Text: 04/08/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing 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. Existing 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 existing law, this review is required to coincide with review of state responsibility area lands every 5 yea rs 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. Existing 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 this adopted ordinanc e to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection within 30 days of adoption. Existing 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 relating to those designations on its public internet website, provide at least one workshop on the draft maps for stakeholder participation, host a 30-day public comment period to receive written comments from interested stakeholders, respond to all written comments by local agencies regarding land use and zoning matters that address t he accuracy of the data used by the State Fire Marshal for those designations within 30 days of the end of the public comment period, and 71 35

coordinate with other state agencies to help educate their constituencies, as specified. (Based on 04/08/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

AB 2529 (Johnson, R) Civil claims: public entities and employees: declaration.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Government Claims Act governs the tort liability and immunity of, and claims and actions against, public entities, officers, and employees. Existing law requires that a claim against a public entity or public employee be signed by the claimant or by some person on the claimant’s behalf. This bill would require a claim against a public entity or public employee to include a declaration that, upon information and belief, the contents of the claim are true and correct. (Based on 04/09/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Human Resources, Legal and Records Management, Risk Management

AB 2573 (Sharp-Collins, D) Voter registration information: elected officials and candidates.

Current Text: 04/07/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/15/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 15).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Under existing law, the residence address, telephone number, and email address of a registered voter is confidential, except that under certain circumstances a county elections official must disclose that information to any candidate for federal, state, or local office, to any committee for or against any initiative or referendum measure, and to any person for election, scholarly, journalistic, political, or governmental purposes.

Existing law exempts from that disclosure requirement the residence address, telephone number, and email address of a federal, state, or local elected official or candidate, unless the official or candidate opts out or the information is sought for bona fide journalistic or governmental purposes. This bill would recast the provisio ns creating that exemption. The bill would permit the information of an elected official’s immediate family member who lives at the same residence to be made confidential. For an elected official or candidate’s residence address, telephone number, and email address to be confidential, the elected official or candidate would be required to make a written request to the county elections official, and a candidate would also need to qualify to appear on the ballot. The Secretary of State would be required to notify county elections officials when a state or federal candidate qualifies to appear on the ballot, and it would require county elections officials to notify the Secretary of State under certain circumstances if the confidential designation is added to, o r removed from, a federal or state elected official or candidate’s voter registration record. (Based on 04/07/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Elections and Campaigns

AB 2576 (Harabedian, D) Transit-oriented development.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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Location: 05/05/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Existing law provides that a housing development project shall be an allowed use as a transit - oriented housing development if specified conditions and requirements are met. Existing law provides that these provisions do not apply to a local agency until January 1, 2026, unless the local agency adopts an ordinance or local transit-oriented development alternative plan, as defined, deemed compliant by the Department of Housing and Community Development before July 1, 2026. Existing law specifies that, beginning on January 1, 2027, a local government that denies a housing development project meeting the requirements referenced above that is located in a high-resource area is presumed to be in violation of specified law and immediately liable for specified penalties. Existing law specifies exclusions from the provisions described above, including a site with a historic resource designated as of January 1, 2025, on a local register. This bill would also exclude from the provisions described above, a contributing site with in a historic district included on the State Historic Resources Inventory designated before January 1, 2025, and a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included on the State Historic Resources Inventory designated before January 1, 2025. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2601 (Lee, D) Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval and subdivisions.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Senate Rules
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. Existing law requires a local agency to consider ministerially a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone, without discretionary review or a hearing, if the proposed housing development meets specified requirements. Existing law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the parcel meets specified requirements. 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 developm ent upon the applicant first obtaining approval and recording a parcel map for eligible parcels pursuant to the above -described urban lot split provisions. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2640 (Hadwick, R) Commission on State Mandates: state mandates.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law creates the Commission on State Mandates and establishes procedures for implementing the requirement in the California Constitution that the state reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Existing law makes a reimbursement claim for actual costs filed by a local agency or school district subject to the initiation of an audit by the Controller and authorizes the Controller to make a field review of a claim after it has been submitted but before it has been reimbursed.

Existing law requires the Controller to notify the claimant in writing within 30 days after issuance of a r emittance 73 37

advice of any adjustment to a claim for reimbursement that results from an audit or review. This bill would, instead, require the Controller to notify the claimant in writing within 30 days of any adjustment that results from an audit or review. (Based on 04/09/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

AB 2676 (Gallagher, R) Housing Crisis Act of 2019.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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 De partment 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 th ese 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.

Existing law prohibits a county or city subject to these provisions from enforcing a zoning ordinance imposing a moratorium or other similar restriction on or limitation of housing development until it has submitted the ordinance to, and received approval from, the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires the department to approve a zoning ordinance submitted to it only if the department determines that the zoning ordinance satisfies these requirements. If the department denies approval of the zoning ordinance, as specified, existing law states that the ordinance 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. (Based on 04/09/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

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 subs tances 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, markete d, used, or intended to be used to analyze a substance for the presence of fentanyl, ketamine, gamma 74 38

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
Subject: Public Safety

SB 16 (Blakespear, D) Ending Street Homelessness Act.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/10/2025 - July 16 hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: Current law requires each city, county, and city and county to revise its housing element according to a specified schedule, as provided. Current law, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. At least 2 years before a scheduled revision of the housing element, as specified, existing law requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop, in consultation with the department, a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to jurisdictions, as specified. Current law requires that the final allocation plan ensure that the total regional housing need, by income category, determined as specified, is maintained, and that each jurisdiction in the region receive an allocation of units for low- and very low income households. For the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, current law also requires that the allocation to each region include an allocation of units for acutely low and extremely low income households. This bill, until January 1, 2032, would require the council of governments, or delegate subregion, as applicable, in developing the proposed allocation methodology that allocates each jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need for acutely low income housing, to count any newly constructed interim housing, as specified, as meeting the needs of acutely low income households. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life

SB 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)

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 not ice 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 t o, 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: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Assembly Rule 56 suspended.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Assembly Elections
Summary: Existing law requires a state or local agency or political subdivision that files or is served with a court action relating to elections that contains a claim arising under federal law to provide written notice to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, as specified. This bill would require an elections official to immediately notify the Secretary of State and the Attorney General when a court order related to the search or seizure of a voting system or other specified records, software or materials, is being executed. (Based on 04/27/2026 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Transportation & Infrastructure

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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 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 t o 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 239 (Arreguín, D) Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.

Current Text: 04/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/27/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 11.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 01/27/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a l egislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate.

The act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except as specified. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes speci fied neighborhood city councils to use alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed, if, among other requirements, the city council has adopted an authorizing resolution and 2/3 of the neighborhood city council votes to use alternate teleconference provisions, as specified This bill would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use alternative teleconferencing provisions and would impose requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The bill would require the subsidiary body to post the agenda at each physical meeting location designated by the subsidiary body, as specified. The bill would require the members of the subsidiary body to visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is publicly accessible via the internet or other online platform, as specified. (Based on 04/07/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Governance
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
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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 S ubstances 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. Th e 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 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 wr iting, 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 360 (Rubio, D) Land conservation: California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act: County of San Bernardino.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/05/2025 - Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.
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Location: 06/05/2025 - Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Summary: (1)The California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act, an initiative measure approved by the voters in the June 7, 1988, statewide primary election, provided bond funds for wildlife, coastal, and parkland conservation. The initiative measure authorizes the act to be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature if the amendment is consistent with the purposes of the act. Existing law requires an applicant receiving state funds under the act to maintain any property acquired in perpetuity, as specified, to use the property only for the purposes stated in the act, and to make no other use, sale, or other disposition of the property except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the County of San Bernardino to sell or exchange property it owns within the Chino Agricultural Preserve that was purchased with grant funds if it meets certain conditions. This bill would additionally authorize preserva tion of those lands or easements for park and recreational purposes, and would explicitly include, to the extent they are consistent with the purposes of the act, playgrounds, recreational venues, and preservation of historical resources as appropriate purposes. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life

SB 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. Cur rent 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 431 (Arreguín, D) Assault and battery: utility workers.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended 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)

not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By expanding the scope of these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

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 501 (Allen, D) Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022: covered batteries.

Current Text: 01/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Referred to Coms. on E.S & T.M. and NAT. RES.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials 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” t o 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 lockin g 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 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 549 (Allen, D) Local government: Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act:

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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 NIFTI -2, 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 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 estab lished 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 establ ished the district (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing

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 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.

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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 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 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)
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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
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 co mmitted 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 866 (Blakespear, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: unhoused population.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to meeting these needs. Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. For a local government that does not receive HHAP funding, this bill would require the assessment to include, among other things, sp ecified data regarding the population of individuals who are unhoused and a description of key actions that will be taken to reduce individuals who are unhoused based on the data. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(Based on 04/28/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety

SB 879 (Laird, D) Budget Act of 2026.

Current Text: 01/09/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 01/12/2026 - Read first time.
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Location: 01/09/2026 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026–27 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/09/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

SB 904 (Seyarto, R) Recovery from wildfires.

Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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 impose specific duties on the Department of Housing and Community Development if the Office of Emergency Services makes a written determination, within 10 days after the date that the Governor declared a state of emergency relating to a wildfire, that the wildfire caused substantial structural damage requiring significant rebuilding efforts, as defined. The bill would require the department, under this condition, to consult with other specified state entities and local governments to identify state permitting requirements, provisions in the California Building Standards Code, and local procedures that could be suspended or revised to support recovery and rebuilding efforts as a result of the wildfire, as specified. (Based on 04/06/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

SB 908 (Wiener, D) Residential windows: retrofitting: residential window replacement projects: California Building Code compliance.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act governs the management and operation of common interest developments. Existing law places various limits and prohibitions on the governing documents, as defined, relative to an owner’s separate interest within those developments. This bill would prohibit those governing documents from limiting or prohibiting the owner of a separate interest within a common interest development from completing a residential window replacement project, as defined, or from imposing any requirements on California Energy Code-compliant windows in a housing development project, as defined. (Based on 04/23/2026 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: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.
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Location: 04/20/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Would require the Public Utilities Commission (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 inclu de aggregated distributed capacity resources in resource adequacy filings and PUC-ordered procurement, as specified. The bill would require the PUC, on or before June 30, 2027, to develop recommendations for changes to the Independent System Operator’s proxy demand resource and the distributed energy resource aggregation participation models to be consistent with the PUC’s requirements for aggregated distributed capacity resources pursuant to these provisions, and to request that the Independent System Oper ator implement these changes in a new or existing initiative. (Based on 04/16/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

SB 922 (Laird, D) Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.

Current Text: 03/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/19/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 03/19/2026 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee, or ot her 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

SB 935 (Choi, R) Local agency design-build projects: authorization.

Current Text: 01/29/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: Current law authorizes a local agency, as defined, with approval of its governing body, to procure design-build contracts for public works projects in excess of $1,000,000, awarding the contract either to the lowest bid or the best value. Current law, among other requirements for the design-build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing local agencies to use the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2031. This bill would repeal the above-described January 1, 2031, repeal date, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. (Based on 01/29/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure

SB 936 (Blakespear, D) Nitrous oxide: sales.
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Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to possess nitrous oxide with the intent of inhaling it for specified purposes, including to cause intoxication. Existing law also makes it a misdemeanor to sell nitrous oxide to any person under 18 years of age. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to dispense nitrous oxide to a person and knowing that the person will use it for specified prohibited purposes, if that person then causes death or great bodily injury to themselves or another person. 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 knowingly selling or distributing 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. (Based on 04/28/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

SB 947 (McNerney, D) Employment: automated decision systems.

Current Text: 04/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Technology to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high -risk automated decision systems (ADS) that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which is composed of various departments responsible for protecting and promoting the ri ghts and interests of workers in California, including the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, led by the Labor Commissioner, within the Department of Industrial Relations. This bill would prohibit an employer, as defined, from using an ADS to perform certain functions and would limit the purposes for and way in which an ADS may be used. The bill would authorize a worker to request, and require an employer to provide, a copy of the most recent 12 months of the worker’s own data primarily used by an ADS to make a disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decision, as specified. The bill would require an employer that primarily relied upon an ADS to make a disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decision to provide the affected worker with a written p ostuse notice, as specified. This bill would prohibit an employer from discharging, threatening to discharge, demoting, suspending, or in any manner discriminating or retaliating against any worker for taking certain actions asserting their rights under the bill. (Based on 04/22/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

SB 1013 (Cervantes, D) Automated license plate recognition systems.

Current Text: 03/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

to, a law enforcement agency, from selling, sharing, or transferring automated license plate recognition (ALPR) information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law. Existing law defines ALPR information as information or data collected through the use of an ALPR system. This bill would provide that “public agency” does not include a transportation agency, a public transit operator, or a loc al department of transportation or public works department, as specified. The bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, require new, updated, expansions of, or addendums of contractual agreements with ALPR vendors, manufacturers, or suppliers to mandate that no default access is provided to any national ALPR database and that an agency’s collected scans are by default not accessible to any other agency, and would impose new requirements on sharing between California state law enforcement agencies. The bill would authorize a law enforcement agency to use ALPR information only for purposes of locating vehicles or persons when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense. (Based on 03/25/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1018 (Grove, R) Human trafficking: specialized license plates.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Would establish the survivors of human trafficking grant program administered by the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to benefit survivors of human trafficking and would require the OES to apply to the DMV to sponsor a human trafficking awareness license plate program. The bill would establish the Survivors of Human Trafficking License Plate Fund for the deposit of revenue derived from th ese license plates and would require that funds from these license plates be allocated, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, to the OES for the purpose of funding the survivors of human trafficking grant program. The bill would require the OES to provide grants to community-based organizations, as specified, that provide direct services to vulnerable individuals in areas with high concentrations of human trafficking, and would require OES to submit a report annually to the Legislature, as specified. The bill would state that this act may be cited as Blair and Kendra’s Law. (Based on 04/09/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1081 (Laird, D) Waste discharge requirements: minimum penalties: exception: publicly owned treatment works.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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 and the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program. The act requires mandatory minimum penalties to be assessed for serious violations. Th e 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 expand the a uthorization for the state board or regional board to require funding of a compliance project in lieu of the otherwise mandatory penalty to apply to a publicly owned treatment works serving a population of 3,000 persons or fewer, 87 51

with a financial hardship, determined by the state board, within the 10 years preceding the assessment of the penalty. (Based on 04/09/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

SB 1109 (Alvarado-Gil, R) Short-term residential therapeutic programs.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The California Community Care Facilities Act provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including short-term residential therapeutic programs, by the State Department of Social Services, and defines a short-term residential therapeutic program as a residential facility licensed by the department and operated by any public agency or private organization that provides an integrated program of specialized and intensive care and supervision, services and supports, treatment, and short -term, 24-hour care and supervision to children that is trauma-informed. Under the act, the department is authorized to issue citations for violations of these provisions. This bill would, notwithstanding any law and commencing January 1, 2027, require licenses for short-term residential therapeutic programs to be renewed annually if the licensee has a total of 5 or more specified citations in the past 12 months. (Based on 04/28/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources

SB 1116 (Caballero, D) Planning and zoning: housing development projects: subdivisions.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Senate Appropriations
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. Existing 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. Existing 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, existing 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. Existing law authorizes a local agency to adopt an ordinance to implement these requirements. 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. The bill would additionally prohibit a local agency from imposing specified front or internal setbacks, except as specified. The bill would also modify prohibitions relating to density on the lot, among other things. The bill would require that the above-described provisions relating to ministerial approval of housing developments on certain subdivided lots be interpreted liberally in favor of producing the maximum number of total housing units. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

SB 1117 (Cervantes, D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units. 88 52

Current Text: 02/17/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Senate THIRD READING
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 proportiona tely 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 t o 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

SB 1139 (Laird, D) Monterey Peninsula Water Management District: nonfunctional turf: noncompliance and enforcement.

Current Text: 03/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/20/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 04/20/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Law establishes the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District. The act authorizes the district to, among other things, prohibit the use of district water during an emergency caused by drought, or other threatened or existing water shortage, for specific uses that the district finds to be nonessential. Existing 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 organizati ons or similar entities, as specified. Existing 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. Existing 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 the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District pursuant to a locally adopted ordinance or policy. (Based on 03/23/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

SB 1149 (Durazo, D) Employees: bereavement leave.

Current Text: 03/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/20/2026 - April 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any of these rights, as specified. This bill would include a designated person identified by the employee, as specified, in the definition of “family member” and authorize an employer to limit an employee to one designated person per 12-month period for purposes of these provisions relating to bereavement leave. (Based on 03/26/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life

SB 1153 (Caballero, D) Disaster preparedness: urban retail water suppliers and public water systems: wildfire.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Senate Appropriations
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 viol ates 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 - specific 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, among other things, 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 04/28/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

SB 1159 (Cabaldon, D) Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.

Current Text: 03/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: The California Constitution provides that people have the right of access to inform ation concerning the conduct of the people’s business. Various provisions of existing law, including the California Public Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and the Ralph M. Brown Act, provide, with some exceptions, for public access to government records and meetings of government bodies. Among those acts, the California Public Records Act defines “person” to include any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. This bill would specify that, for purposes of the California Public Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Political Reform Act of 1974, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), “person,” “interested perso n,” “participant,” “member of the public,” as applicable, and any other similar terms under each act referring to those who may engage with governmental agencies, do not include artificial intelligence, as defined, systems, autonomous agents, robots, or other nonhuman entities, whether physical or digital. The bill would make findings and declarations related to these provisions. (Based on 03/25/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance
Misc2: CMCA Support

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SB 1167 (Blakespear, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing 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. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions for various purposes, and requires, among other things, a class 3 electric bicycle to be equipped with a speedometer. Existing law prohibits certain vehicles that do not meet the definition of an electric bicycle from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as an electric bicycle, as specified. This bill would amend the type of vehicles that are prohibited from being advertised, sold, offered fo r sale, or labeled as electric bicycles, including, among others, motor-driven cycles and mopeds. The bill would additionally make a violation of this provision a misleading statement for purposes of unfair competition and false advertising provisions of the Business and Professions Code. (Based on 04/09/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1170 (Durazo, D) Joint powers agreements: nonprofit housing developers.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.

Location: 04/30/2026 - Assembly DESK
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 au thorize 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 1187 (Durazo, D) Open meetings: majority.

Current Text: 02/19/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Senate CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law defines “meetings” for these purposes to mean any congregation of a majority of the members of a legislative body at the same time and location, as specified, to hear, discuss, deliberate, or take action on any item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislativ e body. This bill would define “majority” for purposes of the act to mean the number of members of the legislative body equaling more than half of the total number of seats on the legislative body. The bill would specify that if a seat on the legislative 91 55

body is vacant, that seat is to still be counted as a seat on the legislative body. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/19/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance

SB 1215 (Cortese, D) Electrical corporations: electric vehicle charging stations: multifamily housing properties.

Current Text: 04/29/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: 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 Public Utilities Commission to establish strategies and quantifiable metrics to maximize the use of feasible and cost -effective electric vehicle grid integration, as defined, by January 1, 2030, as specified. This bill would require the commission, on or before March 1, 2027, to establish targets for each electrical corporation to install electric vehicle charging stations at multifamily housing properties. The bill would require the commission to ens ure the targets reduce costs for all ratepayers, and to require electrical corporations to make annual progress reports and to provide to the commission corresponding maps that identify the proposed multifamily housing properties within its service territory where use will be highest based on distribution system planning and experience with electric vehicle charging station infrastructure. (Based on 04/29/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

SB 1217 (Grove, R) Nonconsensual Intimate Image Clearinghouse.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain various databases and information centers relating to the identification, apprehension, and prevention of crimes, including the Violent Crime Information Center and the Automated Firearms System, among others. Existing law requires a business that controls the collection of a consumer’s personal information to delete that information upon the request of the consumer and provides for administrative penalties if the business fails to act on the cons umer’s request.

This bill would, beginning January 1, 2029, require the Department of Justice to establish the Nonconsensual Intimate Image Clearinghouse to allow individuals who were exploited in California to submit a request for the removal of nonconsensual intimate images from covered platforms. The bill would define nonconsensual intimate images to include an authentic image depicting a person nude or engaging in sexual conduct distributed without consent or an image digitally altered or generated by artificial intelligence realistically depicting a person nude or engaged in sexual conduct without consent. The bill would require the department to transmit verified identifiers of images to covered platforms and require those platforms to remove verified matches within 48 hours of receipt and to prevent the images from being uploaded again. The bill would require the department to enforce these provisions and would impose civil penalties for violations. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1313 (McNerney, D) Drinking water: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. 92 56

Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Existing law establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, and moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the State Water Resources Control Board for the provision of grants and revolving fund loans to provide for the design and construction of projects for public water systems that will enable suppliers to meet safe drinking water standards. Existing law provides that moneys in the fund and its special accounts may be expended for additional purposes provided in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

This bill would provide that moneys in the fund and its special accounts may be con sidered eligible and expended for projects that address perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water. By expanding the purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund may be expended, the bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/27/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

SB 1319 (Durazo, D) California Public Records Act: public investment funds.

Current Text: 04/15/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The California Public Records Act (act) requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. The act exempts from disclosure certain records regarding alternative investments in which public investment funds invest, including records containing information regarding the portfolio positions in which alternative investment funds invest. The act, however, requires certain information contained in those records to be disclosed, includ ing, among other things, the name, address, and vintage year of each alternative investment vehicle. The act defines various terms for these purposes. This bill would additionally require the disclosure of certain additional information, including, among other things, the name of each general partner or manager of each alternative investment vehicle and of each person with a direct or indirect interest in the general partner or manager. The bill would except this information contained in those records subject to disclosure, as provided, from the records containing information regarding the portfolio positions described above that are exempt from disclosure. (Based on 04/15/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

SB 1360 (Cervantes, D) Elections: translation of election materials.

Current Text: 04/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

materials in languages other than English. If the Secretary of State determines the number of voting age residents in a county or precinct who are members of a single language minority, and who lack sufficient skills in English to vote without assistance, is 3% or more of the voting-age residents of the county or precinct, county elections officials must provide facsimile ballots and other election materials in the applicable language. This bill would require the Secretary of State, on or before December 15, 2028, and on or before December 15 in every year ending in 1 or 6 thereafter, to identify the counties where at least 5,000 voting age citizens, or 5% of voting age citizens, are limited English proficient and either members of a single language minority group or speak a shared language. The bill would require the elections official in an identified political subdivision to provide translated election materials in any language that meets those criteria or, for an election occurring before December 15, 2028, in any language in which the political subdivision is required to provide language assistance under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Based on 04/14/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Elections and Campaigns

SB 1373 (Grove, R) Mental health diversion.

Current Text: 04/15/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law authorizes the court to grant pretrial diversion to a defendant diagnosed with a mental disorder if the defendant satisfies certain eligibility requirements and if the court determines that the defendant is suitable for diversion. Existing law provides that a defendant is eligible for diversion if they have been diagnosed with certain mental disorders and the court finds that the mental disorder was a significant factor in the commission of the charged offense, unless there is clear and convincing evidence that the disorder was not a motivating, causal, or contributing factor to the defendant’s involvement in the alleged offense. Existing law excludes a defendant from diversion for specified charged offenses, including, among others, murder, voluntary manslaughter, rape, or continuous sexual abuse of a child, as specified. The bill would instead make the defendant suitable for diversion if they do not pose a substantial and undue risk to the physical safety of another person and would add to the list of things the court may specifically consider in making that determination, including the defendant’s prior history in a pretrial diversion plan and the severity of injury to the victim. (Based on 04/15/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety

Total Measures: 134
Total Tracking Forms: 134
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Elections and Campaigns
AB 1789 (Boerner, D) Political Reform Act of 1974: candidate trainings and campaign reports.

Current Text: 04/20/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Would, commencing January 1, 2029, require an individual who files a statement of intention to be a candidate for elective office, other than statewide elective office, to complete a training course on the requirements of the Political Reform Act of 1974 with respect to campaigns for the office for which they intend to be a candidate. For a candidate who does not complete the training, the bill would prohibit any committee they control, as specified, from receiving contributions until the candidate completes the training. The bill would, commencing January 1, 2029, also require the treasurer for a candidate controlled committee, other than a committee controlled by a candidate for statewide elective office, to complete a training course on the requirements of the act that apply to the committee. The bill would prohibit a committee whose treasurer does not complete the training course from accepting contributions until the training course is completed. The bill would exempt from these requirements an individual who is required to complete, and has completed, a similar training offered by a local government ethics agency. The bill would also exempt from these requi rements a candidate who indicates on their statement of intention that they do not intend to qualify as a committee that receives campaign contributions in excess of $2,000, as specified. (Based on 04/20/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Elections and Campaigns

AB 2573 (Sharp-Collins, D) Voter registration information: elected officials and candidates.

Current Text: 04/07/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/15/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 15).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Existing law exempts from that disclosure requirement the residence address, telephone number, and email address of a federal, state, or local elected official or candidate, unless the official or candidate opts out or the information is sought for bona fide journalistic or governmental purposes. This bill would recast the provisions creating that exemption. The bill would permit the information of an elected official’s immediate family member who lives at the same residence to be made confidential. For an elected official or candidate’s residence address, telephone number, and email address to be confidential, the elected official or candidate would be required to make a written request to the county elections official, and a candidate would also need to qualify to appear on the ballot. The Secretary of State would be required to notify county elections officials when a state or federal candidate qualifies to appear on the ballot, and it would require county elections officials to notify the 95 2

Secretary of State under certain circumstances if the confidential designation is added to, or removed from, a federal or state elected official or candidate’s voter registration record. (Based on 04/07/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Elections and Campaigns

SB 1360 (Cervantes, D) Elections: translation of election materials.

Current Text: 04/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 requires a state or political subdivision in which more than 5% of voting-age citizens, or more than 10,000 voting-age citizens, are members of a single language minority and limited-English proficient to provide certain election materials, including ballots, in the language of the applicable language minority group. Existing state law requires the Secretary of State to determine for each county and precinct whether it is appropriate to provide facsimile copies of the ballot and other election materials in languages other than English. If the Secretary of State determines the number of voting age residents in a county or precinct who are members of a single language minority, and who lack sufficient skills in English to vote without assistance, is 3% or more of the voting-age residents of the county or precinct, county elections officials must provide facsimile ballots and other election materials in the applicable language. This bill would require the Secretary of State, on or before December 15, 2028, and on or before December 15 in every year ending in 1 or 6 thereafter, to identify the counties where at least 5,000 voting age citizens, or 5% of voting age citizens, are limited English proficient and either members of a single language minority group or speak a shared language. The bill would require the elections official in an identified political subdivision to provide translated election materials in any language that meets those criteria or, for an election occurring before December 15, 2028, in any language in which the political subdivision is required to provide language assistance under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Based on 04/14/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Elections and Campaigns

Governance
AB 259 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.

Current Text: 04/21/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was JUD. on 5/14/2025 )(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with prescribed requirements. Current law requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including that specified circumstances apply. Current law establishes limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including prohibiting such participation for more than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less. This bill would extend the a lternative teleconferencing procedures until January 1, 2030. (Based on 04/21/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
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AB 1578 (Jackson, D) State and local officials: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.

Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 5.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021, provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include pre vention of abusive conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally require, beginning on January 1, 2028, for an employer that is a state agency or local agency that the above-described training and education include, as a component of the training and education for elected officials, anti-hate speech training. (Based on 04/06/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance

SB 239 (Arreguín, D) Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.

Current Text: 04/07/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/27/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 11.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at Desk.

SB 1159 (Cabaldon, D) Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.

Current Text: 03/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
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Status: 05/04/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Asse mbly.

Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Assembly DESK
Summary: The California Constitution provides that people have the right of access to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business. Various provisions of existing law, including the California Public Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and the Ralph M. Brown Act, provide, with some exceptions, for public access to government records and meetings of government bodies. Among those acts, the California Public Records Act defines “person” to include any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. This bill would specify that, for purposes of the California Public Records Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Political Reform Act of 1974, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), “person,” “interested person,” “participant,” “member of the public,” as applicable, and any other similar terms under each act referring to those who may engage with governmental agencies, do not include artificial intelligence, as defined, systems, autonomous agents, robots, or other nonhuman entities, whether physical or digital. The bill would make findings and declarations related to these provisions. (Based on 03/25/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Governance
Misc2: CMCA Support

SB 1187 (Durazo, D) Open meetings: majority.

Current Text: 02/19/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Senate CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law defines “meetings” for these purposes to mean any congregation of a majority of the members of a legislative body at the same time and location, as specified, to hear, discuss, deliberate, or take action on any item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. This bill would define “majority” for purposes of the act to mean the number of members of the legislative body equaling more than half of the total number of seats on the legislative body. The bill would specify that if a seat on the legislative body is vacant, that seat is to still be counted as a seat on the legislative body. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 02/19/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Governance

Human Resources
AB 340 (Ahrens, D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

Current Text: 03/05/2025 - 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)

provisions relating to higher education, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discrimina ting or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of current law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by current law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation. (Based on 03/05/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

AB 1109 (Kalra, D) Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.

Current Text: 02/20/2025 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 7/14/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: Current law governs the admissibility of evidence in court proceedings a nd generally provides a privilege as to communications made in the course of certain relations, including the attorney -client, physician- patient, and psychotherapist-patient relationship, as specified. Under current law, the right of any person to claim those evidentiary privileges is waived with respect to a communication protected by the privilege if any holder of the privilege, without coercion, has disclosed a significant part of the communication or has consented to a disclosure. This bill would establish a privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented employee or represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent made while the union agent was act ing in the union agent’s representative capacity, except as specified. The bill would permit a represented employee or represented former employee to prevent another person from disclosing a privileged communication, except as specified. (Based on 02/20/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources

AB 1331 (Elhawary, D) Workplace surveillance.

Current Text: 09/04/2025 - 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 establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations. Current law authorizes the division, which is headed by the Labor Commissioner, to enforce the Labor Code and all labor laws of the state the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in any other officer, board or commission. This bill would limit the use of workplace surveillance tools, as defined, by employers, including by prohibiting an employer from monitoring or surveilling workers in employee -only, employer-designated areas, as specified. The bill would provide workers with the right to leave behind workplace surveillance tools that are on their person or in their possession when entering certain employee- only areas and public bathrooms and during off-duty hours, as specified. The bill would prohibit a worker from removing or physically tampering with any component of a workplace surveillance tool that is part of or embedded in employer equipment or vehicles. (Based on 09/04/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
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Subject: Human Resources

AB 1383 (McKinnor, D) Public employees’ retirement benefits: safety members.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
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 reg ard, 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 pens ionable 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 1550 (Sanchez, R) Personal income taxes: deductions: tips: overtime compensation.

Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - In committee: Set, final hearing. Held under submission.

Location: 04/06/2026 - Assembly REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows various deductions in calculating taxable income and allows a taxpayer to elect to take a standard deduction in lieu of itemizing deductions. Existing federal income tax law, for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2029, allows deductions in determining taxable income, as defined, for amounts equal to the qualified tips, as defined, and qualified overtime compensation, as defined, received by a taxpayer during the taxable year, not to exceed certain amounts, as specified. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2029, conform to federal income tax law with regard to qualified tips and qualified o vertime compensation. (Based on 03/16/2026 text)
Subject: Human Resources

AB 1564 (Ahrens, D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

Current Text: 02/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/18/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 18).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/18/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and 100
7 provisions relating to higher education prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of existing law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by existing law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation. (Based on 02/25/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

AB 1576 (Ortega, D) Workers’ compensation: Subsequent injuries payments.

Current Text: 04/20/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law provides certain methods for determining workers’ compensation benefits payable to a worker or the worker’s dependents for purposes of permanent total disability or permanent partial disability that include a determination of the percentage of permanent disability incurred. Existing law requires that, for injuries incurred before January 1, 2013, in determining the percentages of permanent disability, account be taken of the nature of the physical injury or disfigurement, the occupation of the injured employee, and the injured employee’s age at the time of the injury, and requires that specified factors be considered in determining an employee’s diminished earning capacity for these purposes. For purposes of these provisions, “nature of the physical injury or disfigurement” incorporates the descriptions and measurements of physical impairment and the corresponding percentages of impairments published in the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (5th Edition). For injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2013, in determining the percentages of permanent disability, existing law requires the same factors be taken into account but removes from consideration the employee’s diminished future earning capacity and, instead, incorporates an adjustment factor of 1.4, as specified. Existing law also establishes the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. Under existing law, if a permanently, partially disabled employee receives a subsequent compensable injury resulting in additional perman ent disability, then that employee receives compensation from the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund. Existing law requires, when applicable, the additional permanent disability resulting from the subsequent injury to be equal to 35% or more of total, when considered alone and without regard to, or adjustment for, the occupation or the age of the employee. For purposes of determining permanent disability resulting from a subsequent injury, this bill would measure permanent disability, for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2005, and prior to January 1, 2013, by the whole person impairment rating as determined in accordance with the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (5th Edition), after adjustment for diminished future earning c apacity and without regard to, or adjustment for, the occupation or age of the employee. (Based on 04/20/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Human Resources

AB 1961 (Ahrens, D) Civil actions: protective orders: workplace violence.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law authorizes an employer or collective bargaining representative of an employee who has suffered harassment, unlawful violence, or a credible threat of violence from any individual, to seek a 101
8 workplace violence restraining order on behalf of the employee and, at the discretion of the court, any number of other employees at the workplace or at other workplaces of the employer. Existing law authorizes one or more representative parties to bring suit for the benefit of a class of parties if the question is one of a common or general interest, of many persons, or when the parties are numerous, and it is impracticable to bring them all before the court. This bill would authorize an employer to seek a workplace violence restraining order on behalf of all employees at the employer’s workplace or a location at which a group of employees perform their primary job duties if harassment, unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence is directed at that workplace or location. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

AB 2529 (Johnson, R) Civil claims: public entities and employees: declaration.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

SB 431 (Arreguín, D) Assault and battery: utility workers.

Current Text: 07/03/2025 - Amended 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: Would make an assault or battery committed against a utility worker, as defined, who is engaged in the performance of their duties punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By expanding the scope of these cr imes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 07/03/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

SB 947 (McNerney, D) Employment: automated decision systems.

Current Text: 04/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Technology to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high -risk automated decision systems (ADS) that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development 102
9 Agency, which is composed of various departments responsible for protecting and prom oting the rights and interests of workers in California, including the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, led by the Labor Commissioner, within the Department of Industrial Relations. This bill would prohibit an employer, as defined, from using an ADS to perform certain functions and would limit the purposes for and way in which an ADS may be used. The bill would authorize a worker to request, and require an employer to provide, a copy of the most recent 12 months of the worker’s own data primarily used by an ADS to make a disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decision, as specified. The bill would require an employer that primarily relied upon an ADS to make a disciplinary, termination, or deactivation decision to provide the affected worker with a written postuse notice, as specified. This bill would prohibit an employer from discharging, threatening to discharge, demoting, suspending, or in any manner discriminating or retaliating against any worker for taking certain actions asserting their rights under the bill. (Based on 04/22/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Resources

SB 1109 (Alvarado-Gil, R) Short-term residential therapeutic programs.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
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 vict im 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 w ould recast the definition of “severe neglect” for the purposes described above. (Based on 01/12/2026 text) 103
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Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Public Safety

AB 1708 (Solache, D) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: round 8: smaller jurisdictions.

Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 23).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevent ion (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. To be eligible for round 5 or round 6 base program allocation, existing law requires a jurisdiction that is not a tribe to apply as part of a region and be signatory to a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that meets specified requirements. This bill would apply to the allocation of funding available under round 8 of the program and require a round 8 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan to include certain components, including a description of programs and interventions provided by smaller jurisdictions, as defined, that serve the objects and goals of the program, as specified. (Based on 04/06/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

AB 2146 (Stefani, D) Supportive housing: prospective tenants: barriers to access.

Current Text: 04/13/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10.

Noes 1.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025 (GRP), which became effective on July 5, 2025, transfers the Department of Housing and Community Development to the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, which the GRP also establishes, as of July 1, 2026. Existing law, the Multifamily Housing Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, makes available deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of housing development projects. Existing law specifies particular requirements for projects funded with funds appropriated for supportive housing projects, including, among other things, that supportive housing projects provide or demonstrate collaboration with programs that provide services that meet the needs of the supportive housing residents. Existing law also req uires that funds appropriated to provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases be disbursed in accordance with the Multifamily Housing Program for specified uses. This disbursement program is referred to as Homekey. Existing law, known as the No Place Like Home Program, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to award $2,000,000,000 among count ies to finance capital costs, including, but not limited to, acquisition, design, construction, rehabilitation, or preservation, and to capitalize operating reserves, of permanent supportive housing for the target population, as specified. This bill would establish the California Direct Access to Supportive Housing (DASH) designation, for the purpose of facilitating quick and accountable access to supportive housing units. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2027, require a sponsor of a housing unit that meets prescribed criteria to notify the Department of Housing and Community Development or the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee of the unit’s eligibility for a DASH designation, as specified. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2027, and to the extent not prohibited by federal law, require the 104
11 department or the committee to apply specified expedited compliance documentation standards for a prospective tenant referred to a DASH unit, as provided. (Based on 04/13/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life

SB 16 (Blakespear, D) Ending Street Homelessness Act.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/10/2025 - July 16 hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 06/09/2025 - Assembly Housing and Community Development Summary: Current law requires each city, county, and city and county to revise its housing element according to a specified schedule, as provided. Current law, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. At least 2 years before a scheduled revision of the housing element, as specified, existing law requires each council of governments, or delegate subregion as applicable, to develop, in consultation with the department, a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to jurisdictions, as s pecified. Current law requires that the final allocation plan ensure that the total regional housing need, by income category, determined as specified, is maintained, and that each jurisdiction in the region receive an allocation of units for low- and very low income households. For the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, current law also requires that the allocation to each region include an allocation of units for acutely low and extremely low income households. This bill, until January 1, 2032, would require the council of governments, or delegate subregion, as applicable, in developing the proposed allocation methodology that allocates each jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need for acutely low income housing, to count any new ly constructed interim housing, as specified, as meeting the needs of acutely low income households. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/23/2025 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life

SB 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 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 juris diction 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 receive s 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 105
12 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 360 (Rubio, D) Land conservation: California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act: County of San Bernardino.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/05/2025 - Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.

SB 866 (Blakespear, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: unhoused population.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to meeting these needs. Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. For a local government that does not receive HHAP funding, this bill would require the assessment to include, among other things, specified data regarding the population of individuals who are unhoused and a description of key actions that will be taken to reduce individuals who are unhoused based on the data. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(Based on 04/28/2026 text)
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Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety

SB 1149 (Durazo, D) Employees: bereavement leave.

Current Text: 03/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/20/2026 - April 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/20/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family member, as defined, to refuse to hire, or to discharge, demote, fine, suspend, expel, or discriminate against, an individual because of the individual’s exercise of the right to bereavement leave or because of the individual’s giving information or testimony as to their own or another person’s bereavement leave, or to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any of these rights, as specified. This bill would include a designated person identified by the employee, as specified, in the definition of “family member” and authorize an employer to limit an employee to one designated person per 12-month period for purposes of these provisions relating to bereavement leave. (Based on 03/26/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life

Legal and Records Management
AB 1544 (Krell, D) Court proceedings: media access.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

This bill would bar a judicial officer, peace officer, or other law enforcement officer from prohibiting a member of the press or public from accessing court proceedings that are open to the public. The bill would auth orize a violation of that provision to be subject to civil penalties, as specified. (Based on 04/09/2026 text) Subject: Legal and Records Management, Public Safety

AB 1821 (Pacheco, D) California Public Records Act: agency response time.

Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The California Public Records Act requires each state or local agency, upon a request for a copy of records that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records, to make the records promptly available to any person upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable, except with respect to public records exempt from disclosure by express provisions of law. Existing law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the reques t seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Existing law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under 107
14 unusual circumstances, as defined. This bill would instead require each agency to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person as described above within 10 business days of a request for a copy of records. (Based on 04/06/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Legal and Records Management
Misc2: CMCA Support

AB 2529 (Johnson, R) Civil claims: public entities and employees: declaration.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Municipal Funding and Procurement
AB 262 (Caloza, D) California Individual Assistance Act.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Senate Rules
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 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)
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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 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 pu blic 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 works contracts f or 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
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16 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 r esearch 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 1563 (Gabriel, D) Budget Act of 2026.

Current Text: 01/09/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/06/2026 - Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

AB 1596 (Davies, R) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: infant car seats.

Current Text: 01/16/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission.

Location: 03/16/2026 - Assembly REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE Summary: Current state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, and before January 1, 2032, exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, infant car se ats, as defined. (Based on 01/16/2026 text)
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

AB 2033 (Papan, D) Local Agency Public Construction Act: job order contracting: cities.

Current Text: 05/04/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: Existing law, 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 establish a pilot program to authorize a city to use job order contracting as a procurement method. The bill would impose a $3,000,000 cap on awards under a single job order contract and a $750,000 cap on any single job order. The bill would limit the term of an initial contract to a maximum of 12 months, with extensions as prescribed. The bill would establish v arious additional 110
17 procedures and requirements for the use of job order contracting under this authorization. (Based on 05/04/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure

AB 2397 (Ta, R) Local government: community facilities districts: financing.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: The Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 authorizes a local agency, as defined, to initiate proceedings to establish a community facilities district as an alternative method of financing certain public capital facilities and services, especially in developing areas undergoing rehabilitation, only if it has first considered and adopted local goals and policies, as prescribed. Existing law authorizes a local agency to take any actions or make any determinations which it determines are necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of the act and which are not otherwise prohibited by law. This bill would prohibit the legislative body of a local agency from taking certain actions with respect to a critical housing infr astructure district, as defined, including abandoning the proposed establishment of the district, as specified, unless prior to taking the action it makes findings based upon substantial evidence that, among other things, establishment of the district, lev ying the special taxes, or incurring bonded indebtedness, as applicable, would have a specific adverse impact upon the public interest. The bill would specify that these provisions do not require or prohibit the legislative body from taking any other action authorized by the act with respect to a critical housing infrastructure district, as specified. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
Position: Pending
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2640 (Hadwick, R) Commission on State Mandates: state mandates.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law creates the Commission on State Mandates and establishes procedures for implementing the requirement in the California Constitution that the state reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Existing law makes a reimbursement cl aim for actual costs filed by a local agency or school district subject to the initiation of an audit by the Controller and authorizes the Controller to make a field review of a claim after it has been submitted but before it has been reimbursed.

Existing law requires the Controller to notify the claimant in writing within 30 days after issuance of a remittance advice of any adjustment to a claim for reimbursement that results from an audit or review. This bill would, instead, require the Controller to notify the claimant in writing within 30 days of any adjustment that results from an audit or review. (Based on 04/09/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

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
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Location: 09/10/2025 - Assembly 2 YEAR
Summary: The Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act, or NIFTI -2, 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 Tax Law, if certain conditions are met, includi ng 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 879 (Laird, D) Budget Act of 2026.

Current Text: 01/09/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 01/12/2026 - Read first time.

Location: 01/09/2026 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
Summary: Would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2026 –27 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions. (Based on 01/09/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

SB 922 (Laird, D) Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.

Current Text: 03/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/19/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 03/19/2026 - Senate THIRD READING
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

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19 SB 935 (Choi, R) Local agency design-build projects: authorization.

Current Text: 01/29/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: Current law authorizes a local agency, as defined, with approval of its governing body, to procure design-build contracts for public works projects in excess of $1,000,000, awarding the contract either to the lowest bid or the best value. Current law, among other requirements for the design -build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing local agencies to use the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2031. This bill would repeal the above-described January 1, 2031, repeal date, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. (Based on 01/29/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure

SB 1319 (Durazo, D) California Public Records Act: public investment funds.

Current Text: 04/15/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The California Public Records Act (act) requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. The act exempts from disclosure certain records regarding alternative investments in which public investment funds invest, including records containing information regarding the portfolio positions in which alternative investment funds invest. The act, however, requires certain information contained in those records to be disclosed, including, among other things, the name, address, and vintage year of each alternative investment vehicle. The act defines various terms for these purposes. This bill would additionally require the disclosure of certain additional information, including, among other things, the name of each general partner or manager of each alternative investment vehicle and of each person with a direct or indirect interest in the general partner or manager. The bill would except this information contained in those records subject to disclosure, as provided, from the records containing information regarding the portfolio positions described above that are exempt from disclosure. (Based on 04/15/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement

Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 11 (Lee, D) The Social Housing Act.

Current Text: 12/02/2024 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was HOUSING on 6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 07/17/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and preserving affordable housing. The bill would prescribe a definition of 113
20 social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 222 (Bauer-Kahan, D) Data centers: power usage effectiveness: cost shifts.

Current Text: 07/07/2025 - 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 law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report, as specified, and to make the reports accessible to state, local, and federal entities and to the general public. This bill would require the Energy Commission to establish a process for the owner of a data center, as defined, to submit the power usage effectiveness ratio, as defined, for the data center to the Energy Commission on a biannual basis, and require the owner of a data center to submit this information for the data center in the manner and timeframe specified by the Energy Commission. (Based on 07/07/2025 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 306 (Schultz, D) Building regulations: state building standards.

Current Text: 06/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 06/23/2025 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Location: 04/23/2025 - Senate Housing
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services. Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code). The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires, among other things, the building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Current law authorizes any city or county to make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards. Current law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making modifications or changes to those green building standards, to make an express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions. This bill would, from October 1, 2025, to June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above - described building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety. (Based on 06/23/2025 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 557 (McKinnor, D) California Factory-Built Housing Law. 114
21 Current Text: 04/24/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 07/17/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was HOUSING on 6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 07/17/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The California Factory-Built Housing Law requires all factory-built housing after a specified date that is sold or offered for sale to first users within the state to bear insignia of approval issued by the department, deems that housing to comply with the requirements of all ordinances or regulations enacted by any city, city and county, county, or district that may be applicable to the construction of housing, as specified, and prohibits a city, city and county, county, and district from requiring submittal of plans for any factory -built housing manufactured, or to be manufactured pursuant to these provisions, as specified. Current law requires the department to provide by regulation for the qualification and disqualification of design approval agencies to perform approval of factory-built housing plans and specifications and makes approval by these agencies the equivalent of department approval. The law provides that any person who violates any of these provisions and other specified law is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified. This bill would require plans or specifications of factory-built housing approved pursuant to these provisions to be approved by unit serial number a nd would authorize the approved plans or specifications to be used in subsequent development projects unless building standards relating to factory-built housing are modified, as specified. The bill would require the department and the design approval agencies to limit their review to the portions of a plan or specification that has not already received approval, as specified. (Based on 04/24/2025 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 609 (Wicks, D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.

Current Text: 05/05/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/20/2025 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 05/20/2025 - Senate Rules
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a housing development project, as defined, that meets certain conditions relating to, for example, size, density, and location, including specific requirements for any housing on the project site located within 500 feet of a freeway. The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a specified environmental as sessment regarding hazardous substance releases. If a recognized environmental condition is found, the bill would require the development proponent to complete a preliminary endangerment assessment and specified mitigation based on that assessment. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a housing development project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/05/2025 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 647 (González, Mark, D) Abandoned recreational vehicles.

Current Text: 01/05/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 01/27/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. 115
22 Location: 01/27/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2030, authorizes the Counties of Alameda and Los Angeles to implement a program for the disposal of abandoned recreational vehicles. Current law imposes specified conditions on this authority, including, among other things, requiring a public agency, immediately after removal of the recreational vehicle, to notify the Stolen Vehicle System of the Department of Ju stice of the removal. This bill would also authorize any public agency within the Counties of Alameda and Los Angeles or a state agency, as specified, to implement a program to dispose of these recreational vehicles within the County of Alameda or the County of Los Angeles and would extend this authorization until January 1, 2032. (Based on 01/05/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 660 (Wilson, D) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.

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: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency, as defined, to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information required from any applicant for a postentitlement phase permit, as defined.

Current law also establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application. If a local agency finds that a complete application is noncompliant, existing law requires the local agency to provide the applicant with a list of items that are noncompliant and a description of how the application can be remedied by the applicant within specified time limits. Current law requires the time limits to be tolled, if the local agency requires review of the application by an outside entity, until the outside entity completes the review and returns the application to the local agency, as specified. This bill would prohibit the loca l agency from requiring or requesting more than 2 plan check and specification reviews in connection with an application for a building permit, as part of its review, except as specified. The bill would authorize a local agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 plan check and specification reviews. The bill would also authorize an applicant to request additional submittals of applications that are not compliant with the permit standards. The bill, if a local agency finds that a complete application is noncompliant, would prohibit a local agency from requesting or requiring any action or inaction as a result of a building inspection undertaken to assess compliance with the applicable building permit standards that would represent a deviation from a previously approved building plan or similar approval for the building permit, except as specified. (Based on 07/17/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 735 (Carrillo, D) Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.

Current Text: 09/09/2025 - 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
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23 Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse d esign and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21st century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in whic h cargo, goods, or products are moved or stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations. The bill would revise the definition of “logistics use” and instead define “logistics use development” f or these purposes to mean a building that is primarily used as a warehouse for the movement or the storage of cargo, goods, or products that are moved to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. (Based on 09/09/2025 text)
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 736 (Wicks, D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.

Current Text: 04/10/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

AB 782 (Quirk-Silva, D) Subdivisions: security.

Current Text: 07/16/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 09/12/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/12/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 09/12/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The Subdivision Map Act requires prescribed security from a developer if the act or a local ordinance authorizes or requires the furnishing of security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement. Current law requires the Real Estate Commissioner to make an examination of any subdivision, and to, unless there are grounds for denial, issue to the subdivider a public report authorizing the sale or lease of the lots or parcels within the subdivision. Current law specifies the grounds for denial, including, among other things, the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for all offsite improvements included in the offering or the inability to demonstrate that adequate financial arrangements have been made for any community, recreational, or other facilities included in the offering. This bill would prohibit the Real Estate Commissioner, in issuing a public report for a residential development or project, from requiring 117
24 the furnishing of a security in connection with the performance of any act or agreement related to an improvement if the Real Estate Commissioner determines that security sufficient to protect the interests of purchasers, owners, and lessees, as necessary, has been furnished to a local agency for the same improvement pursuant to the provisions above requiring security under the Subdivision Map Act. (Based on 07/16/2025 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 1206 (Harabedian, D) Single-family and multifamily housing units: preapproved plans.

Current Text: 08/18/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/25/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 08/29/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities and the implementation of those general plans as may be in effect in those counties or cities. Current law requires each local agency, by January 1, 2025, to develop a program for the preapproval of accessory dwelling unit plans. This bill would require each local agency, as defined, to develop a program for the preapproval of single-family and multifamily residential housing plans, whereby the local agency accepts single-family and multifamily plan submissions for preapproval and approves or denies the preapproval applications, as specified. The bill would require a large jurisdiction, as d efined, to develop this program by July 1, 2026, and a small jurisdiction, as defined, to develop a program by January 1, 2028. The bill would authorize a local agency to charge a fee to an applicant for the preapproval of a single - family or multifamily residential housing plan, as specified. The bill would require the local agency to post preapproved single-family or multifamily residential housing plans and the contact information of the applicant on the local agency’s internet website. The bill would require an application for preapproval to include a statement by the applicant that the applicant has sufficient authority, license, or ownership interest in the plan to submit the plan for preapproval and, if approved, posted as described above. This bill wo uld prohibit the preapproval program from applying to single-family or multifamily residential housing plans intended for use in certain communities and developments, as specified. The bill would require a local agency to either approve or deny an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit, both as defined, within 30 days if the lot meets certain conditions and the application utilizes either a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit plan preapproved within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle or a plan that is identical to a plan used in an application for a single-family or multifamily residential housing unit approved by the local agency within the current triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle. (Based on 08/18/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 1276 (Carrillo, D) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.

Current Text: 07/14/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 08/29/2025 - Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/25/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)

Location: 08/28/2025 - Senate 2 YEAR
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project, as defined for purposes of the act, for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act provides that for its purposes, a housing development project or emergency shelter shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in 118
25 conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the housing development project or emergency shelter is consistent, compliant, or in conformity. The act requires a housing development project to be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when a preliminary application, as specified, was submitted, except as otherwise provided. The act defines “ordinances, policies, and standards” to include general plan, community plan, specific plan, zoning, design review standards and criteria, subdivision standards and criteria, and any other rules, regulations, requirements, and policies of a local agency, as defined, including those relating to development impact fees, capacity or connection fees or charges, permit or processing fees, and other exactions. This bill would include in the definition of “or dinances, policies, and standards” materials requirements, postentitlement permit standards, and any rules, regulations, determinations, and other requirements adopted or implemented by other public agencies, as defined (Based on 07/14/2025 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 1294 (Haney, D) Planning and zoning: housing development: standardized application form.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.

Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 04/28/2026 - Senate Local Government
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act requires a public agency that has received an application for a development project to determine in writing whether the application is complete within 30 calendar days and to immediately transmit the determination to the applicant of the development project. This bill, except with respect to applications for housing development projects located in certain jurisdictions, would requir e that an application for a housing entitlement, as defined, be deemed complete upon payment of the permit processing fees and upon completing specified requirements, when applicable, including, among other things, providing a description of the proposed housing development project and a list of the approvals requested by the applicant to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the housing entitlement is being sought. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027, the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt a standardized application form that applicants for a housing entitlement may use for the purpose of satisfying these requirements and would require, on or after October 1, 2027, a city, county, or city and county to accept an application submitted on the standardized application form. (Based on 04/28/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package

AB 1559 (Calderon, D) Residential property insurance images.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including residential property insurance.

Existing law requires an insurer to send various notices to a policyholder at specified intervals. This bill 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 119
26 the aerial images upon request, as specified, and would require the notice to include instructi ons regarding how a policyholder may make that request. (Based on 04/13/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety

AB 1567 (Ta, R) General plan: annual report: congregate and residential care for the elderly.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning law requires each planning agency to prepare and the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan containing specified elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to be revised according to a specific schedule. After the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, existing law requires the planning agency to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to various entities that includes specified information. This bill would, for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housin g element, authorize a planning agency to include in that report the number of units approved for congregate care for the elderly or residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, for up to 15% of a jurisdiction’s regional housing need allocation for any income category. (Based on 03/16/2026 text) Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1573 (Bryan, D) Land use: housing elements: target population.

Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Senate Rules
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element containing specified information, including an analysis of its special housing, emergency shelter, and supportive housing needs, as defined. Existing law defines the term “target population” for purposes of requirements applicable to the housing element to include certain persons, including persons with low incomes who have one or more disabilities and individuals eligible for specified developmental disability services. This bill would provide that the definition of the term “target population” for the purposes of requirements applicable to the housing element, as described above, may include victims of domestic violence, victims of sexual assault, and victims of human trafficking, as specified. (Based on 03/16/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1621 (Wilson, D) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.

Current Text: 03/04/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Existing law also establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a 120
27 postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approv e or deny an application.

AB 1622 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Electrified security fences.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/09/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 04/09/2026 - Senate Rules
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 indust rial 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

AB 1624 (Zbur, D) Public Lands Protection Act.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/15/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Location: 03/16/2026 - Assembly Local Government
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long -term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. Current law authorizes the legislative body of a county or city to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes, as provided. For these purposes, current law authorizes the legislative body to divide a county or city into zones, but requires that regulations adopted be uniform for each class or kind of building or use of land throughout each zone. The California Environm ental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare 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, the Public Lands Protection Act, would, upon transfer to any private or nonfederal entity of a parcel of land located within the state that is owned by the United States 121
28 government on or after January 1, 2025, and that has been designated in an adopted general plan or zoning ordinance as open space, public land, resource conservation, or an equivalent conservation -oriented designation, immediately subject that parcel to the zoning designation and asso ciated state and local restrictions. The bill would also, upon transfer of a parcel of land located within the state that is owned by the United States government on or after January 1, 2025, and that has not been designated in an adopted general plan or zoning ordinance at the time of transfer to any private or nonfederal entity, automatically subject that parcel to the most restrictive conservation-oriented zoning designation currently applied in the jurisdiction, by operation of law. (Based on 01/22/2026 text)
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1710 (Carrillo, D) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.

Current Text: 02/04/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project, as defined for purposes of the act, for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act re quires a housing development project to be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when a preliminary application, as specified, was submitted, except as otherwise provided. The act defines “ordinances, policies, and standards” to include general plan, community plan, specific plan, zoning, design review standards and criteria, subdivision standards and criteria, and any other rules, regulations, requirements, and policies of a local agency, as defined, including those relating to development impact fees, capacity or connection fees or charges, permit or processing fees, and other exactions. This bill would include in the definition of “ordinances, policies, and standards” materials requirements, postentitlement permit standards, and any rules, regulations, determinations, and other requirements adopted or implemented by other public agencies, as defined. (Based on 02/04/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1738 (Carrillo, D) State Housing Law: remote inspections.

Current Text: 03/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce the provisions of the State Housing Law, the State Building Standards Code, and other specified rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law authorizes an officer, employee, or agent of an enforcement agency to enter and inspect any building or premises whenever necessary to secure compliance with, or prevent a violation of, any provision of the State Housing Law, the building standards published in the State Building S tandards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of the State Housing Law. Existing law provides certain immunities to a public entity or employee immunity relative to an inspection or license, as provided. This bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county to offer a homeowner or contractor the option of requesting remote inspections for all or a subset of an inspection required by a building permit for specified works in one- or 2-family dwelling units, by July 1, 2027, as provided. The bill would apply the above-described immunities to remote inspections. (Based on 03/26/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
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29 AB 1751 (Quirk-Silva, D) Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act.

Current Text: 04/20/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to re view the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process, depending on the type of housing development, as specified.

Existing law, 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, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, among other things, requires a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets certain requirem ents, including that the housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units, except as provided. This bill, the Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act, would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a townhome housing development project that is subject to a prescribed ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain procedural requirements and satisfies specified objective planning standards. The bill would also require a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a townhome development project that meets all of specified requirements, including that the proposed subdivision will result in parcels and residential units that will meet prescribed densities and that the newly created parcels are no smaller than 600 square feet. (Based on 04/20/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1771 (Alvarez, D) State Housing Law: apartment houses.

Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide building standards relating to occupancy, use, and maintenance of hotels, motels, lodging houses, apartment houses, and dwellings, and authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt rules and regulations for this purpose. Pursuant to that authority, existing law requires a manager or other responsible person to reside upon the premises and have charge of every apartment house in which there are 16 or more apartments, as specified. Th is bill would require the department to analyze the efficacy of the above-described manager residence requirement and to submit a report to the Legislature with recommendations on whether to maintain, modify, or repeal the requirement no later than January 1, 2029, as specified. (Based on 04/27/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1820 (Schiavo, D) Electric vehicle charging stations: permit fees.

Current Text: 03/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/16/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 15).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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30 Location: 04/15/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to administratively approve an application to install an electric vehicle charging station through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit, and requires every local government to adopt an ordinance that creates an expedited, streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations, as provided. Existing law requires fees charged by a local agency for specified purposes, including permits, to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, unless a question regarding the amount of the fee charged in excess of this cost is submitted to, and approved by, 2/3 of the electors. Existing law, until January 1, 2034, prohibits a city, county, city or county, or charter city from charging a permit fee for a solar energy system that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, which cannot exceed $450 plus $15 per kilowatt for each kilowatt above 15kW for residential solar energy systems, and $1,000 plus $7 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $5 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for commercial solar energy systems, unless the city, county, city and county, or charter city provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, as provided. This bill, until January 1, 2036, would prohibit a city, county, city or county, or charter city from charging a permit fee for an electric vehicle charging station that exceeds the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, which cannot exceed $100 plus $15 per kilowatt for each kilowatt above 15kW for residential electric vehicle charging stations, and $500 plus $5 per kil owatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $2 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for commercial electric vehicle charging stations, unless the city, county, city and county, or charter city provides substantial evidence of the reasonable cost to issue the permit as part of a written finding and an adopted resolution or ordinance, as provided (Based on 03/16/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 1975 (Schultz, D) Electrical corporations: distribution grid utilization metric.

Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the 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 develop a methodology for calculating a distribution grid utilization metric, as specified. The bill would require each large electrical corporation, in a manner, frequ ency, and geographic scope determined by the commission, to submit a publicly available report to the commission with the results of the large electrical corporation’s distribution grid utilization metric calculations, as specified.

AB 2074 (Haney, D) Regional transit hub districts: downtown housing developments.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 20).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law generally regulates local government zoning and approval of certain types of housing development projects. The law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a prescribed ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain procedural requirements and satisfies specified objective planning standards. The law also requires a housing development project within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development stop to 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 specified requirements, as applicable. This bill would, by July 1, 2027, require major transit cities to designate one or more regional transit hub districts and prescribe requirements for those districts, including requiring that a district make a downtown housing development an allowable use, as specified. The bill would prescribe requirements for downtown housing developments, including requiring specified labor standards and requiring the developments to be eligible for streamlined ministerial approval, as specified. The bill would establish the Downtown Revitalization Loan Fund and continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the California Housing Finance Agency for the purpose of making loans to applicants to develop downtown housing developments, as specified. By establishing a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/09/2026 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: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/28/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

AB 2139 (Garcia, D) Surplus lands: exempt surplus land: City of Ontario.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law defines “surplus land” for these purposes to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a regular public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Existing law requires that land be declared either “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency’s policies or procedures. Existing law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for the disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land.” Existing law defines “exempt surplus land” to include certain types of land. Existing law makes a local agency that disposes of surplus land, in violation of the requirements for the disposal of surplus land after receiving specified notification from the department that the local agency is in violation, liable for a penalty of 30% of the applicable disposition value for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation, as provided. This bill would expan d 125
32 the definition of “exempt surplus land” to include certain land owned by the City of Ontario that satisfies specified requirements. The bill would require that these requirements be contained in a covenant or restriction recorded against the surplus land at the time of disposition, as provided. The bill would require that the city meet specified requirements to declare exempt surplus land pursuant to these provisions, including depositing funds from the deposition into a local housing-specific set-aside account, as provided. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2170 (Boerner, D) California Environmental Quality Act: overburdened communities: not ices and hearings:
translations.

Current Text: 04/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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. Existing law requires a lead agency to be responsible for determining whether the project is exempt from CEQA and whether an environmental impact report, negative declaration, or mitigated negative declaration is required, as provided. Existing law, for certain projects, establishes a ministerial review process with modified environmental assessment procedures, as provided. This bill, notwithstanding the above-described provisions relating to determinations by a lead agency, would require an environmental impact report, negative declaration, or mitigated negative declaration, as determined by the lead agency, for any project, except as provided, that includes the development, intensification, or substantial expansion of an industrial use if the project is located in or within1/2 mile of an overburdened community, as defined. The bill would disqualify these projects from receiving a statutory exemption or ministerial review process. (Based on 04/22/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2296 (Papan, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Existing law requires the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each delegate subregion at least 25 months prior to the scheduled revision. This bill would extend the above - described timeline for cities and counties to form a subregional entity to allocate t he subregion’s housing need, as provided, from 28 months to 34 months, and the above-described timeline for the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each subregion from 25 months to 31 months, respectively. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
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Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

AB 2397 (Ta, R) Local government: community facilities districts: financing.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: The Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 authorizes a local agency, as defined, to initiate proceedings to establish a community facilities district as an alternative method of financing certain public capital facilities and services, especially in developing areas undergoing rehabilitation, only if it has first considered and adopted local goals and policies, as prescribed. Existing law authorizes a local agency to take any actions or make any determinations which it determines are necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of the act and which are not otherwise prohibited by law. This bill would prohibit the legislative body of a local agency from taking certain actions with respect to a critical housing infr astructure district, as defined, including abandoning the proposed establishment of the district, as specified, unless prior to taking the action it makes findings based upon substantial evidence that, among other things, establishment of the district, lev ying the special taxes, or incurring bonded indebtedness, as applicable, would have a specific adverse impact upon the public interest. The bill would specify that these provisions do not require or prohibit the legislative body from taking any other action authorized by the act with respect to a critical housing infrastructure district, as specified. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
Position: Pending
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2415 (Hoover, R) Transit-oriented housing developments: alternative plans.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Existing law applies these provisions to a local agency beginning July 1, 2026, unless the local agency adopts an ordinance or local transit-oriented development alternative plan, as specified. Existing law prescribes requirements for these plans, including requiring that the plan not reduce the capacity in any transit -oriented development zone in total units or residential floor area by more than 50%. Existing law defines vario us terms for these purposes. This bill would provide that a transit-oriented development alternative plan may reduce the capacity in up to one transit-oriented development zone in total units or residential floor area by more than 50% if certain requirements are met. (Based on 04/23/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2433 (Alvarez, D) Housing development: density bonus.

Current Text: 04/22/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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34 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, low er income, or senior citizen housing, and meets other requirements. This bill would, instead, require 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 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 04/22/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2517 (Calderon, D) Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing 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. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically rev iew and make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones within local responsibility areas. Under existing 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. Existing 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 n ot 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 this adopted ordinance to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection within 30 days of adoption. Existing 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 relating to those designations on its public internet website, provide at least one workshop on the draft maps for stakeholder participation, host a 30-day public comment period to receive written comments from interested stakeholders, respond to all written comments by local agencies regarding land use and zoning matters that address the accuracy of the data used by the State Fire Marshal for those designations within 30 days of the end of the public comment period, and coordinate with other state agencies to help educate their constituencies, as specified. (Based on 04/08/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

AB 2576 (Harabedian, D) Transit-oriented development.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Senate Rules
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35 Summary: Existing law provides that a housing development project shall be an allowed use as a transit - oriented housing development if specified conditions and requirements are met. Existing law provides that these provisions do not apply to a local agency until January 1, 2026, unless the local agency adopts an ordinance or local transit-oriented development alternative plan, as defined, deemed compliant by the Department of Housing and Community Development before July 1, 2026. Existing law specifies that, beginning on January 1, 2027, a local government that denies a housing development project meeting the requirements referenced above that is located in a high-resource area is presumed to be in violation of specified law and immediately liable for specified penalties. Existing law specifies exclusions from the provisions described above, including a site with a historic resource designated as of J anuary 1, 2025, on a local register. This bill would also exclude from the provisions described above, a contributing site within a historic district included on the State Historic Resources Inventory designated before January 1, 2025, and a parcel individually listed as a historical resource included on the State Historic Resources Inventory designated before January 1, 2025. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2601 (Lee, D) Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval and subdivisions.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Senate Rules
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. Existing law requires a local agency to consider ministerially a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone, without discretionary review or a hearing, if the proposed ho using development meets specified requirements. Existing law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the parcel meets specified requirements. 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 above -described urban lot split provisions. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

AB 2676 (Gallagher, R) Housing Crisis Act of 2019.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9.

Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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 129
36 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 pro visions, and that any development policy, standard, or condition on or after that date that does not comply is deemed void.

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 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 wou ld 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
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37 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 t he 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.

SB 73 (Cervantes, D) Elections: inspection of voting systems.

Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Assembly Rule 56 suspended.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Assembly Elections
Summary: Existing law requires a state or local agency or political subdivision that files or is served with a court action relating to elections that contains a claim arising under federal law to provide wri tten notice to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, as specified. This bill would require an elections official to immediately notify the Secretary of State and the Attorney General when a court order related to the search or seizure of a voting system or other specified records, software or materials, is being executed. (Based on 04/27/2026 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 Co ntrol 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) 131
38 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 authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to license d 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. Curren t 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 int o 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. 132
39 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 NIFTI -2, 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 Tax Law, if certain conditions are met, includi ng 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.

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 s pecified 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 133
40 development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops, as provided, and re quires 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 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 866 (Blakespear, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: unhoused population.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to meeting these needs. Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community D evelopment, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. For a local government that does not receive HHAP funding, this bill would require the assessment to include, among other things, specified data regarding the population of individuals who are unhoused and a description of key actions that will be taken to reduce individuals who are unhoused based on the data. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(Based on 04/28/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public S afety

SB 904 (Seyarto, R) Recovery from wildfires.

Current Text: 04/06/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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 134
41 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 impose specific duties on the Department of Housing and Community Development if the Office of Emergency Services makes a written determination, within 10 days after the date that the Governor declared a state of emergency relating to a wildfire, that the wildfire caused substantial structural damage requiring significant rebuilding efforts, as defined. The bill would require the department, under this condition, to consult with other specified state entities and local governments to identify state permitting requirements, provisions in the California Building Standards Code, and local procedures that could be suspended or revised to support recovery and rebuilding efforts as a result of the wildfire, as specified. (Based on 04/06/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

SB 908 (Wiener, D) Residential windows: retrofitting: residential window replacement projects: California Building Code compliance.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

SB 913 (Becker, D) Resource adequacy: aggregated distributed capacity resources.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/20/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Would require the Public Utilities Commission (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 PUC-ordered procurement, as specified. The bill would require the PUC, on or before June 30, 2027, to develop recommendations for changes to th e Independent System Operator’s proxy demand resource and the distributed energy resource aggregation participation models to be consistent with the PUC’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 04/16/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing

SB 1116 (Caballero, D) Planning and zoning: housing development projects: subdivisions. 135
42 Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Senate Appropriations
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 t he 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. Existing 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. Existing 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 densitie s. However, with respect to certain lots, existing 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. Existing law authorizes a local agency to adopt an ordinance to implement these requirements. 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. The bill would additionally prohibit a local agency from imposing specified front or internal setbacks, except as specified. The bill would also modify prohibitions relating to density on the lot, among other things. The bill would require that the above-described provisions relating to ministerial approval of housing developments on certain subdivided lots be interpreted liberally in favor of producing the maximum number of total housing units. (Based on 04/23/2026 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: 05/05/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 05/05/2026 - Senate THIRD READING
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

SB 1170 (Durazo, D) Joint powers agreements: nonprofit housing developers.

Current Text: 02/18/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.

Location: 04/30/2026 - Assembly DESK
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43 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 pur pose 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 housing properties.

Current Text: 04/29/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: 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 Public Utilities Commission to establish strategies and quantifiable metrics to maximize the use of feasible and cost-effective electric vehicle grid integration, as defined, by January 1, 2030, as specified. This bill would require the commission, on or before March 1, 2027, to establish targets for each electrical corporation to install electric vehicle charging stations at multifamily housing properties. The bill would require the commission to ensure the targets reduce costs for all ratepayers, and to require electrical corporations to make annual progress reports and to pro vide to the commission corresponding maps that identify the proposed multifamily housing properties within its service territory where use will be highest based on distribution system planning and experience with electric vehicle charging station infrastructure. (Based on 04/29/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
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 th reat 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 137
44 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 specif ied locations, including a daycare and workplace, with specific intent that the statement is be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, if the threat, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person or persons threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and if the threat causes a person or person to reasonably be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of others at the specified locations. (Based on 07/03/2025 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

AB 262 (Caloza, D) California Individual Assistance Act.

Current Text: 05/23/2025 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Senate Rules
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 rega rd 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.

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) 138
45 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
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: 04/29/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/29/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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: 04/16/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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46 Location: 04/16/2026 - Senate Rules
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.

AB 1544 (Krell, D) Court proceedings: media access.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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 violati ons 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)
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1557 (Papan, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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47 Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with f ully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Existing law defines a “class 1 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing defines a “class 2 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing law defines a “class 3 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that, in pertinent part, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. T his bill would instead define a class 1 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour. The bill would define a class 2 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour. The bill would provide that, notwithstanding these definitions, an electric bicycle manufactured prior to January 1, 2027, that was equipped with a motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of continuous power and ot herwise met the legal requirements for the relevant class at the time of manufacture shall retain its classification. (Based on 04/16/2026 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: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

AB 1559 (Calderon, D) Residential property insurance images.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including residential property insurance.

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 repo rt 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 chi ld 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: 04/08/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/08/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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 142
49 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 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 State-Authorized 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: safety and training program.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Would require, on or before March 1, 2028, the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to develop a standardized electric bicycle safety and training program for pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as provided. In developing the program, the bill would authorize the State Department of Education and the Department of the California Highway Patrol to collaborate with local law enforcement agencies or local governments that have implemented electric bicycle training programs already to ensure the program reflects proven best practices. The bill would encourage local educational agencies and parent organizations to offer training demonstrations to pupils and parents on electric bicycle operations in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies or local governments, as specified. (Based on 04/13/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure

AB 1586 (Ramos, D) Opioid overdose reversal medication: school resource officers.

Current Text: 03/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/24/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/18/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Would enact the School Safety and Opioid Overdose Prevention Act, and commencing with the 2027–28 school year, would require a school resource officer, as defined, to (1) upon assignment to a schoolsite, and at least every 2 years thereafter, complete an opioid overdose recognitio n and response training, as specified, and (2) annually report to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, among other things, the number of times the school resource officer administered an opioid antagonist while serving at a schoolsite. 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 03/23/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1588 (Stefani, D) Vehicles: Sideshow Accountability and Community Safety Act.

Current Text: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15.

Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Summary: Existing law prohibits a person from, among other things, engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. Under existing law, a violation of this prohibition is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law, beginning on January 1, 2029, authorizes a court to suspend the privilege to operate a vehicle for 90 days to 6 months for a person who engages in, aids, or abets a motor vehicle exhibition of speed that occurred as part of a sideshow. For these purposes, existing law defines “sideshow” as an event in which 2 or more persons block or impede traffic on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, or reckless driving for spectators. This bill would revise the definition of sideshow to include the use or operation of any motor vehicle, incl uding, but not limited to, motorcycles or off-highway motor vehicles, as specified, to barricade, block, impede, or otherwise obstruct traffic. The bill would also provide enhanced penalties for engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed as part of a sideshow. (Based on 04/16/2026 text) Subject: Public Safety

AB 1605 (Ransom, D) Driving under the influence: alcohol sales.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/29/2026 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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 pe rson 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 bona fide evidence of majority and identity, as described. The bill would authorize a court 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 identificatio n card or driver’s license with an appropriate designation on the face upon the receipt of an abstract of the record of a court. (Based on 04/28/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1612 (Alanis, R) Disposition of controlled substances.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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. Existing law authorizes a police or sheriff’s department, the Department of Justice, or the Department of the California Highway Patrol to, with an order from the court, destroy controlled substances, instruments, or paraphernalia, as specified. This bill would authorize a local police department, sheriff’s office, or state law enforcement agency in possession of a controlled substance to transport a controlled substance that has been held beyond the applicable retention 144
51 period for an ongoing investigation or related proceedings, and that they are otherwise authorized by law to destroy, to the Department of Justice for disposal. (Based on 04/07/2026 text) Subject: Public Safety

AB 1622 (Rubio, Blanca, D) Electrified security fences.

Current Text: 01/22/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/09/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 04/09/2026 - Senate Rules
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.

AB 1866 (Rogers, D) California Disaster Assistance Act: minimum damages thresholds.

Current Text: 03/11/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/15/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

AB 1941 (González, Mark, D) Organized metal theft.

Current Text: 03/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/15/2026 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. 145
52 Location: 04/15/2026 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing 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, des cribed as acting in concert with one or more persons to steal metal materials from one or more of specified materials and items with the intent to sell, exchange, or return those metal materials for value, 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. The bill would make a violation of organized metal theft punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. (Based on 03/26/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

AB 1942 (Bauer-Kahan, D) Electric bicycles: registration and special license plates.

Current Text: 02/13/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/21/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12.

Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified. Existin g law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner license plates that identify the vehicles for which they are issued for the period of their validity, as specified. Existing law also requires a motorized bicycle to display a special license plate issued by the department. Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution, authorizes the licensing agency, by ordinance or resolution, to adopt rules and regulations for the collection of license fees, as specified, and sets the fee for each new bicycle license and registration certificate at a sum of no more than $4 per year. Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. This bill would require class 2 electric bicycles and class 3 electric bicycles to be registered with the department and to display a spec ial license plate issued by the department. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement these requirements, and would make a person operating a class 2 or class 3 electric bicycle in violation of these requirements guilty of an infraction punishable by specified fines. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/13/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

AB 2346 (Wilson, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles and speed limits.

Current Text: 03/26/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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Summary: Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions for various purposes. This bill would require all class 1 and class 2 electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with a speedometer. The bill would also require all electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with an integrated front lamp and a rear lamp, as specified. The bill would also require manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to include a written description of California’s electric bicycle laws with the bicycle’s packaging to be provided to the consumer. The bill would also require sellers and distributors of electric bicycles to provide specified disclosures at or before the point of sale. (Based on 03/26/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

AB 2517 (Calderon, D) Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones.

Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing 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 fi re hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas. Existing 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 existing 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. Existing 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 this adopted ordinance to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection within 30 days of adoption. Existing 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 relating to those designations on its public internet website, provide at least one workshop on the draft maps for stakeholder participation, host a 30-day public comment period to receive written comments from interested stakeholders, respond to al l written comments by local agencies regarding land use and zoning matters that address the accuracy of the data used by the State Fire Marshal for those designations within 30 days of the end of the public comment period, and coordinate with other state agencies to help educate their constituencies, as specified. (Based on 04/08/2026 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)

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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
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 t o 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 rega rding 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 ciga rettes 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)
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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
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 communit y 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 866 (Blakespear, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: unhoused population.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/15/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to meeting these needs. Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. For a local government that does not receive HHAP funding, this bill would require the assessment to include, among other things, specified data regarding the population of individuals who are unhoused and a description of key actions that will be taken to reduce individuals who are unhoused based on the data. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(Based on 04/28/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life, Planning, Land Use, Housing, Public Safety

SB 936 (Blakespear, D) Nitrous oxide: sales.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file. 149
56 Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to possess nitrous oxide with the intent of inhaling it for specified purposes, including to cause intoxication. Existing law also makes it a misdemeanor to sell nitrous oxide to any person under 18 years of age. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to dispense nitrous oxide to a person and knowing that the person will use it for specified prohibited purposes, if that person then causes death or great bodily injury to themselves or another person. This bill would, except a s 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 knowingly selling or distributing 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. (Based on 04/28/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1013 (Cervantes, D) Automated license plate recognition systems.

Current Text: 03/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing law prohibits a public agency, which includes the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or any agency or political subdivision of the state, a city, a county, or a city and county, including, but not limit ed to, a law enforcement agency, from selling, sharing, or transferring automated license plate recognition (ALPR) information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law. Existing law defines ALPR information as information or data collected through the use of an ALPR system. This bill would provide that “public agency” does not include a transportation agency, a public transit operator, or a local department of transportation or public works department, as specified. The bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, require new, updated, expansions of, or addendums of contractual agreements with ALPR vendors, manufacturers, or suppliers to mandate that no default access is provided to any national ALPR database and that an agency’s collected scans are by default not accessible to any other agency, and would impose new requirements on sharing between California state law enforcement agencies. The bill would authorize a law enforcement agency to use ALPR information only for purposes of locating vehicles or persons when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of a public offense. (Based on 03/25/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1018 (Grove, R) Human trafficking: specialized license plates.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Would establish the survivors of human trafficking grant program administered by the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to benefit survivors of human trafficking and would require the OES to apply to the DMV to sponsor a human trafficking awareness license plate program. The bill would establish the Survivors of Human Trafficking License Plate Fund for the deposit of revenue derived from these license plates and would require that funds from these license plates be allocated, upon an appropriation by the Legisla ture, to the OES for the purpose of funding the survivors of human trafficking grant program. The bill would require the OES to 150
57 provide grants to community-based organizations, as specified, that provide direct services to vulnerable individuals in areas with high concentrations of human trafficking, and would require OES to submit a report annually to the Legislature, as specified. The bill would state that this act may be cited as Blair and Kendra’s Law. (Based on 04/09/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1153 (Caballero, D) Disaster preparedness: urban retail water suppliers and public water systems: wildfire.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Senate Appropriations
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 v iolates 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 - specific 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, among other things, 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 wou ld constitute a misdemeanor, the bill would expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state -mandated local program. (Based on 04/28/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

SB 1167 (Blakespear, D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Existing 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. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions for various purposes, and requires, among other things, a class 3 electric bicycle to be equipped with a speedometer. Existing law prohibits certain vehicles that do not meet the definition of an electric bicycle from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as an electric bicycle, as specified. This bill would amend the type of vehicles that are prohibited from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as electric bicycles, including, among others, motor-driven cycles and mopeds. The bill would additionally make a violation of this provision a misleading statement for purposes of unfair competition and false advertising provisions of the Business and Professions Code. (Based on 04/09/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1217 (Grove, R) Nonconsensual Intimate Image Clearinghouse.

Current Text: 04/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.
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58 Location: 04/22/2026 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain various databases and information centers relating to the identification, apprehension, and prevention of crimes, including the Violent Crime Information Center and the Automated Firearms System, among others. Exi sting law requires a business that controls the collection of a consumer’s personal information to delete that information upon the request of the consumer and provides for administrative penalties if the business fails to act on the consumer’s request.

This bill would, beginning January 1, 2029, require the Department of Justice to establish the Nonconsensual Intimate Image Clearinghouse to allow individuals who were exploited in California to submit a request for the removal of nonconsensual intimate images from covered platforms. The bill would define nonconsensual intimate images to include an authentic image depicting a person nude or engaging in sexual conduct distributed without consent or an image digitally altered or generated by artificial intellig ence realistically depicting a person nude or engaged in sexual conduct without consent. The bill would require the department to transmit verified identifiers of images to covered platforms and require those platforms to remove verified matches within 48 hours of receipt and to prevent the images from being uploaded again. The bill would require the department to enforce these provisions and would impose civil penalties for violations. (Based on 04/23/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety

SB 1373 (Grove, R) Mental health diversion.

Current Text: 04/15/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Risk Management
AB 2529 (Johnson, R) Civil claims: public entities and employees: declaration.

Current Text: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/23/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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59 Location: 04/23/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
Summary: The Government Claims Act governs the tort liability and immunity of, and claims and actions against, public entities, officers, and employees. Existing law requires that a claim against a public entity or public employee be signed by the claimant or by some person on the claimant’s behalf. This bill would require a claim against a public entity or public employee to include a declaration that, up on information and belief, the contents of the claim are true and correct. (Based on 04/09/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Human Resources, Legal and Records Management, Risk Management

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 e mployed 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 work s 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, 153
60 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 Sen ate. 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 commit tees 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: 04/16/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/22/2026 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21).

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 04/22/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Existing 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. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Existing law defines a “class 1 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing defines a “class 2 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing law defines a “class 3 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that, in pertinent part, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would instead define a class 1 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour. The bill would define a class 2 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle , and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour. The bill would provide that, notwithstanding these definitions, an electric bicycle manufactured prior to January 1, 2027, that was equipped with a motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of continuous power and otherwise met the legal requirements for the relevant class at the time of manufacture shall retain its classification. (Based on 04/16/2026 text)
Subject: Public Safety, Transportation & Infrastructure

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61 AB 1569 (Davies, R) Pupil safety: electric bicycle: safety and training program.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Would require, on or before March 1, 2028, the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to develop a standardized electric bicycle safety and training program for pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as provided. In developing the program, the bill would authorize the State Department of Education and the Department of the California Highway Patrol to collaborate with local law enforcement agencies or local governments that have implemented electric bicycle training programs already to ensure the program reflects proven best practices. The bill would encourage local educational agencies and parent organizations to offer training demonstrations to pupils and parents on electric bicycle operations in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies or local governments, as specified. (Based on 04/13/2026 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: 03/24/2026 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16.

Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 03/23/2026 - Assembly Appropriations
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 standardize d 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 2033 (Papan, D) Local Agency Public Construction Act: job order contracting: cities.

Current Text: 05/04/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/05/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

SB 73 (Cervantes, D) Elections: inspection of voting systems. 155
62 Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/30/2026 - Assembly Rule 56 suspended.

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 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 th e 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 156
63 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 develop ment 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 r ecommendations 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: 03/19/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 03/19/2026 - Senate THIRD READING
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

SB 935 (Choi, R) Local agency design-build projects: authorization.

Current Text: 01/29/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Assembly Local Government
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64 Summary: Current law authorizes a local agency, as defined, with approval of its governing body, to procure design-build contracts for public works projects in excess of $1,000,000, awarding the contract either to the lowest bid or the best value. Current law, among other requirements for the design -build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing local agencies to use the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2031. This bill would repeal the above-described January 1, 2031, repeal date, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. (Based on 01/29/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
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, wildf ire 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 effectuat e 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 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 158
65 Department of Community Services and Development to administer the Low Income House hold 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.

AB 1617 (Alanis, R) Household hazardous waste: reporting.

Current Text: 01/21/2026 - Introduced HTML PDF
Status: 04/16/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Location: 04/16/2026 - Senate Rules
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: 03/25/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 03/26/2026 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 03/26/2026 - Assembly THIRD READING
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66 Summary: Existing 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. Existing law also requires a plaintiff to file, within a specified timeframe, a motion for approval of the draft notice and draft form answer.

Under existing 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, existing 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 existing 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. Existing law permits a court to authorize any other procedures it finds appropriate and necessary to provide notice to persons who may hold groundwater rights in basin. 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 stating t he date, time, and place of mailing. The bill would further require the notice to include as an attachment any certified or registered mail delivery receipts received as of the date of the filing. (Based on 03/25/2026 text) Priority: (4) Standard
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 th e 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 othe rs, 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.

SB 501 (Allen, D) Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022: covered batteries.

Current Text: 01/14/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Referred to Coms. on E.S & T.M. and NAT. RES.

Location: 05/04/2026 - Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials 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, 160
67 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 war ranted 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 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: 04/09/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/27/2026 - April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

Location: 04/27/2026 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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 and the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program. The act requires mandatory minimum penalties to be assessed for serious violations. The a ct 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 expand the auth orization for the state board or regional board to require funding of a compliance project in lieu of the otherwise mandatory penalty to apply to a publicly owned treatment works serving a population of 3,000 persons or fewer, with a financial hardship, determined by the state board, within the 10 years preceding the assessment of the penalty. (Based on 04/09/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

SB 1139 (Laird, D) Monterey Peninsula Water Management District: nonfunctional turf: noncompliance and enforcement.

Current Text: 03/23/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 04/20/2026 - Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.

Read first time. Held at Desk.

Location: 04/20/2026 - Assembly DESK
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68 Summary: The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Law establishes the Monterey Penin sula Water Management District. The act authorizes the district to, among other things, prohibit the use of district water during an emergency caused by drought, or other threatened or existing water shortage, for specific uses that the district finds to be nonessential. Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing 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 the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District pursuant to a locally adopted ordinance or policy. (Based on 03/23/2026 text) Priority: (5) Track/Watch
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

SB 1153 (Caballero, D) Disaster preparedness: urban retail water suppliers and public water systems: wildfire.

Current Text: 04/28/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

Location: 04/21/2026 - Senate Appropriations
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 v iolates 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 - specific 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, among other things, 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 wou ld constitute a misdemeanor, the bill would expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state -mandated local program. (Based on 04/28/2026 text)
Priority: (4) Standard
Subject: Public Safety, Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources

SB 1313 (McNerney, D) Drinking water: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Current Text: 04/27/2026 - Amended HTML PDF
Status: 05/04/2026 - Set for hearing May 11.

This bill would provide that moneys in the fund and its special accounts may be considered eligible and expended for projects that address perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water. By expanding the purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund may be expended, the bill would make an appropriation. (Based on 04/27/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (4) Standard
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Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored

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EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES

MARC LUCIO
Council Members

CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org

May 5, 2026

The Honorable Blanca Pacheco
California State Assembly
1021 O Street, 4510
Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: Assembly Bill 1821 — California Public Records Act: Agency Response Time — SUPPORT As Amended April 6, 2026)

Dear Assemblymember Pacheco:

On behalf of the City of Chino, I write in support of Assembly Bill 1821, which would make a narrow but important clarification to the California Public Records Act by calculating certain agency response periods in business days rather than calendar days.

Public agencies are committed to transparency and providing timely access to public records. At the same time, the volume, complexity, and format of public records have changed significantly. Requests now routinely involve large volumes of email, text messages, electronic files, audio and video recordings, body-worn camera footage, and other digital records that must be searched, reviewed, and, when legally required, redacted befor e release. This work often requires coordination among multiple departments, information technology staff, legal counsel, and records personnel.

Current law requires an agency to make its initial determination within 10 calendar days, with a possible 14-calendar-day extension under unusual circumstances. Because those timeframes include weekends and holidays, agencies may not have the full number of working days needed to conduct a thorough, legally compliant review. AB 1821 would provide a more practical and consistent framework by changing those periods to 10 business days and 14 business days.

This adjustment is especially important for local agencies where staffing is limited and public records responsibilities are often carried out by employees who al so support public meetings, elections, boards and commissions, agenda management, contract routing, records management, and other core services. A business-day standard would not reduce an agency’s obligation to respond to records requests or make disclosa ble records available. Rather, it would help ensure that agencies have a reasonable opportunity to identify responsive records, determine whether exemptions apply, protect confidential or legally protected information, and provide accurate responses. 166
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For the City of Chino, the number of public records requests have increased significantly, and the requests received have become more complex, requiring more interdepartmental coordination in recent years. In Fiscal Year 202 4/25, Chino received approximately 1,300 requests, many of which required review of emails, text messages, video footage, police records, contracts, personnel-related records, etc. Even when staff work diligently, weekends and holidays can materially reduce the actual time available to complete the required review. AB 1821 would provide a more realistic timeline while preserving the public’s right to access disclosable public records.

California’s local agency clerks, records managers, and other public records professionals see firsthand how important it is to balance prompt public access with careful legal compliance. AB 1821 supports that balance. It recognizes that public records work is not simply a matter of locating a document; it frequently requires thoughtful review to protect privacy, privileged communications, confidential information, and other records exempt from disclosure under state or federal law.

For these reasons, the City of Chino supports AB 1821. We thank you for your leadership on this most important issue.

Please do not hesitate to contact Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, at [email protected] or 909-334-3307 should you have any questions or wish to discuss our position.

Sincerely,

Eunice M. Ulloa
Mayor

cc: Assembly Committee on Appropriations
Honorable Susan Rubio
Honorable Michelle Rodriguez
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California Municipal Clerks Association
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CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org

April 16, 2026

The Honorable Lauren Sanchez
Chair, California Air Resources Board
1001 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

RE: Advanced Clean Fleets 15-Day Comment Period Response

Dear Chair Sanchez and the Members of the California Air Resources Board,

The City of Chino appreciates the Board’s continued efforts to refine the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation and the opportunity for us to comment on the 15-day proposed modifications.

Cities across the state are pursuing robust, environmentally sound strategies to decarbonize their communities. However, cities must also ensure the uninterrupted delivery of critical public services.

As currently structured, the proposed modifications do not adequately account for the operational realities of local government fleets, particularly those that support emergency response and essential infrastructure.

Cities serve diverse and often expansive communities, providing vital services that protect public health, safety, and welfare. During emergencies, city fleet vehicles must operate continuously for extended periods, often in extreme conditions, to support fire prevention and response, search and rescue, medical response, and the delivery and maintenance of essential utilities such as water, wastewater, stormwater, and electricity. Without appropriate and durable exemptions, ACF strict requirements risk cons training cities’ ability to respond effectively to disasters, maintain critical infrastructure, and safeguard the communities we serve.

The proposed amendments to the ACF regulations significantly expand the scope of local government responsibility by extending compliance obligations beyond publicly owned fleets to include private contractors operating under municipal agreements. By redefi ning “waste fleets” to include contracted service providers, cities can no longer rely on outsourcing to manage fleet compliance and are instead indirectly responsible for ensuring that contracted operations meet state mandates. This shift effectively conv erts municipal procurement and service delivery into a vehicle for state enforcement, exposing cities to increased costs, reduced contractor availability, and diminished 173
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flexibility in negotiating long -term service agreements, particularly for essential services like waste hauling, street sweeping, construction, and public works.

In addition, the proposal imposes substantial new administrative and legal burdens on cities by requiring ongoing verification of contractor compliance, mandatory contract disclosures, and extensive recordkeeping subject to rapid state audit. These require ments transform routine contracting functions into compliance oversight roles, requiring cities to annually validate contractor status, maintain auditable documentation for multiple years, and respond to CARB inquiries within tight timeframes. Collectively , these changes create unfunded mandates, increase administrative complexity, and elevate legal and procurement risks, while also placing upward pressure on contract costs and potentially limiting competition among vendors unable to meet evolving regulator y thresholds.

While the proposed amendments significantly increase obligations on local municipalities, we appreciate the amendments to provide increased compliance flexibility by delaying the 100 percent zero-emission vehicle purchase requirement from 2027 to 2030 and expanding eligibility for exemptions and extensions related to infrastructure constraints, operational limitations, and emergency response needs.

However, to prevent unintended consequences that could jeopardize life, property, and essential services, we respectfully urge the Board to reject these newly proposed mandates on cities and rather request that CARB establish clear, categorical exemptions, consistent with those in Section 2013(c) of Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations for city vehicles that respond to, support, and recover from emergencies and disasters.

Again, thank you for allowing us the opportunity to provide written responses to the proposed Advanced Clean Fleets Regulations.

Sincerely,

Linda Reich
City Manager

cc: Hon. Senator Susan Rubio
Hon. Assembly Member Michelle Rodriguez
Laura Varela, League of California Cities Regional Public Affairs Manager (via email) League of California Cities, [email protected]

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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

March 18, 2026

The Honorable Norma Torres
U.S. House of Representatives, Congressional District 35 3200 Inland Empire Blvd. Suite 200G
Ontario, CA 91764

RE: Assistance with Army Corps on Euclid Avenue Relinquishment from CalTrans

Dear Congresswoman Torres,
I am writing on behalf of the City of Chino to express our gratitude to you and your staff for your help, once again, in addressing an important federal issue for the City. We appreciate your office’s timely assistance in helping resolve a concern related to the State Route 83 (Euclid Avenue) relinquishment process.

As you are aware, the City of Chino seeks to assume control of portions of Euclid Avenue within the City limits, a major north–south corridor currently owned and managed by the California Department of Transportation ( Caltrans). Transfer to the City will allow us to more efficiently manage, maintain, and upgrade the roadway to meet local transportation, safety, and economic development needs, particularly as we undertake improvements to support residents, commuters, and regional freight activity. It would e liminate redundant permitting requirements and enable faster implementation of infrastructure projects that support mobility, housing, and economic growth.

The relinquishment process is complex and lengthy, requiring coordination between Caltrans and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The City was informed that the item could not be agendized due to USACE’s delay in processing a $50,000 payment, caused by internal fund transfer issues, which prevented them from initiating the required license agreement and risked pushing the item off the March CTC agenda.

Your team’s engagement with USACE was instrumental in facilitating the necessary communication and progress needed to keep this item on schedule for consideration by CTC. With assistance from your staff, USACE provided the needed communication, allowing the item to remain on the March 19– 20 CTC agenda . We recognize that interagency coordination can often be complex, and your office’s responsiveness and support made a meaningful difference in advancing this effort. 178
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This project is an important step for our community, and we are grateful for your partnership in keeping it on track. Please extend our thanks to your staff for their quick response, active engagement, and commitment to resolving the issue. We would not be where we are today, with the item pending approval, without your help.

In gratitude,

Linda Reich
City Manager

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MEMORANDUM

CITY OF CHINO

HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT

CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 19, 2026

TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: TERRY DOYLE, DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES/RISK MANAGEMENT

SUBJECT
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RECOMMENDATION
1) Adopt Resolution No. 2026 -028 approving revisions to Unrepresented Management job classifications; 2) Adopt Resolution No. 2026 -029 approving amendments to the Compensation and Benefit Plan for Unrepresented Management Employees; and 3) Adopt Resolution No. 2026-027 approving amendments to the Classification Plans and Compensation Schedules for Unrepresented Management Employees.
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FISCAL IMPACT
The reclassification of the current Engineering Manager to Water Resources Manager does not result in an additional fiscal impact to the current FY2025 -26 Budget, as the salary remains the same.

CITY OF CHINO MISSION / VISION / VALUES / STRATEGIC ISSUES The recommendation detailed above furthers the City’s values and strategic issues that serve as key pillars on which identified priorities, goals, and action plans are built, by fostering:
 Positive City Image
 Superior Customer Service
 Responsible Long-Range Planning
 Exemplary Leadership

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TITLE: REVISIONS TO UNREPRESENTED MANAGEMENT JOB CLASSIFICATIONS AND POSITION RECLASSIFICATIONS.

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BACKGROUND
The Human Resources/Risk Management Department routinely collaborates with City departments to establish, revise, and update job classifications. Following recent reviews, staff determined the Housing Manager and Engineering Manager job classifications need updates to reflect current duties and operational needs.

Additionally, the Public Works Department identified the need to create a Water Resources Manager classification that more closely aligns with the technical skills and qualifications required to oversee the City’s water resources programs. This change will require reclassifying the vacant Engineering Manager (Assigned to Water Resources) position.

ISSUES/ANALYSIS
Staff collaborated with the Development Services Department to update the job classification for Housing Manager. The Housing Manager oversees the City’s Housing Division, including administration of affordable housing programs and management of state and federal housing and community development funding. Although the Housing Manage r classification already exists, it has been vacant since 2012 , and the job classification requires updates to reflect current duties.

Staff also worked closely with the Public Works Department to reassess operational needs for water resources. After sever al unsuccessful recruitments for the Engineering Manager (Assigned to Water Resources), staff and Public Works developed a revised classification that better aligns with the duties and qualifications needed for this vital role. Accordingly, the vacant Engineering Manager (Assigned to Water Resources) position will be reclassified to Water Resources Manager while retaining the same salary range. As part of this change, the Engineering Manager job classification has been updated to remove water resources -related duties.

The Compensation and Benefit Plan for Unrepresented Management must be amended to add the Water Resources Manager classification. In addition, the Water Resources Manager classification must be added to the Unrepresented Management salary sched ules. In accordance with Title 2, Section 570.5 of the California Code of Regulations, the salary schedules must be formally adopted by the City Council.

The reclassification of the current Engineering Manager to Water Resources Manager does not result in an additional fiscal impact to the current FY2025 -26 Budget, as the salary remains the same.

Attachments: 1) Resolution No. 2026-028 Unrepresented Management Job Classifications 2) Resolution No. 2026 -029 Amended Compensation and Benefit Plan for Unrepresented Management Employees
3) Resolution No. 2026 -027 Amended Classification Plans and Compensation Schedules for Unrepresented Management Employees

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RESOLUTION NO. 2026-028

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHINO,

CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE REVISED JOB CLASSIFICATIONS FOR

HOUSING MANAGER AND ENGINEERING MANAGER
WHEREAS, in accordance with Resolution No. 85-52, the City Council must formally adopt revised job classifications as part of the City’s Classification Plan; and WHEREAS, City staff, in collaboration with the Development Services and Public Works Departments, conducted a comprehensive review of the Housing Manager and Engineering Manager job classifications to ensure they accurately reflect current duties and responsibilities ; and
WHEREAS, this review resulted in updated job classifications for both the Ho using Manager and Engineering Manager that align with the operational needs of their respective departments and clearly define current position responsibilities.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHINO, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1 . The foregoing recitals are true and correct and are incorporated herein by this reference.

SECTION 2. The City Council hereby approves and adopts the revised job classifications for the Housing Manager and Engineering Manager, which are attached hereto as Exhibit A.

SECTION 3.The City Clerk shall certify the adoption of this Resolution effective May 19, 2026.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 19th day of May, 2026.

EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR

ATTEST:

NATALIE GONZAGA

CITY CLERK

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County of San Bernardino ) §
City of Chino )

I, NATALIE GONZAGA , City Clerk of the City of Chino, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City Council at a regular meeting held on the 19th day of May 2026 by the following votes:

AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:

NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:

ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS:

NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK

ATTACHMENT:

EXHIBIT A. Housing Manager and Engineering Manager Job Classifications

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FLSA: Exempt

HOUSING MANAGER

DEFINITION
Under general direction, plans, organizes, manages, and administers the City’s housing and neighborhood revitalization programs, including affordable housing development, federal and state housing grants, and housing policy implementation; supervises assigned professional, technical, and administrative staff; serves as a technical expert on housing finance, housing policy, and community development programs; a nd performs related duties as assigned.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
Receives general direction from assigned management personnel . Exercises direct supervision over supervisory, professional, technical, and administrative support staff.

CLASS CHARACTERISTICS

This is a management classification responsible for managing a division in the Development Services Department. The incumbent is responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures for assigned division, including short - and long -term planning, budget administration and reporting, and coordination of key programs/projects with other City divisions and departments and external agencies.

Positions apply advanced management principles and strategic thinking to decisions that im pact the organization as a whole and the public being served. Positions generally serve as advisors and contributors to executive management on policies, procedures, and major City initiatives.

EXAMPLES OF TYPICAL JOB FUNCTIONS (Illustrative Only)
Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

 Plans, organizes, directs, and evalua tes the work of the City’s Housing Division; provides direct supervision to assigned staff, including hiring recommendations, training, performance evaluation, and discipline in accordance with City policies.
 Plans, develops, administers, and evaluates the City’s affordable housing, housing rehabilitation, neighborhood revitalization, and housing preservation programs.  Manages state and federal housing and community development funding programs, including but not limited to Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME, CalHome, PLHA, and other applicable funding sources.
 Oversees preparation, implementation, monitoring, and reporting for federally and state -funded housing programs to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and funding agreements.  Prepares, reviews, and analyzes affordable housing financial proformas, development budgets, and funding structures to assess project feasibility, long-term affordability, and public investment risk.  Works closely with Planning Division in the prep aration, update, and implementation of the City’s Housing Element and related housing policy documents; monitors compliance with State housing law and RHNA obligations.
 Negotiates and administers loan agreements, regulatory agreements, affordability covena nts, and related housing program documents in coordination with the City Attorney’s Office.  Works closely with Code Enforcement, Police, Planning, Building, and other City departments to advance neighborhood revitalization, code compliance, housing quality, and public safety objectives. 186
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