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CHINO LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 AT 4:00 PM
REGULAR MEETING
AGENDA
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ROLL CALL
Committee Members: Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa and Council Member Karen C. Comstock
PUBLIC COMMENT
This is the time and place for the general public to address the Committee about subjects that do not appear elsewhere on the agenda. Due to Brown Act requirements, action will not be taken on any issues not on the Agenda.
CONSENT CALENDAR
1. Minutes. Approve Minutes for the Legislative Committee Meeting on June 23, 2026.
DISCUSSION
2. Government Relations Update. Receive a report on federal, state, and regional issues, including City outreach and communications.
Staff Report By: Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager
3. Update on Federal issues. Receive a report on Federal legislative, budget, and regulatory issues.
Staff Report By: Jamie Jones, David Turch & Associates
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4. Update on State issues. Receive a report on State legislative, budget, and regulatory issues.
Staff Report By: Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son
ADJOURN
The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers and posted with at least 72 hours notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
I, Natalie Gonzaga, City Clerk of the City of Chino, hereby declare that on Friday, September 4, 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
ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 TO: COMMITTEE MEMBERS
FROM: NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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REGULAR MEETING - CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE
CHINO, CA 91710
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2026
MINUTES
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CALL TO ORDER
The June 23, 2026, Regular Meeting of the City of Chino Legislative Committee was called to order at 3:00 p.m. by Mayor Ulloa in the Council Chambers.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT Eunice M. Ulloa, and Karen C. Comstock
ABSENT NONE.
PUBLIC COMMENT
There were no requests to speak.
CONSENT CALENDAR
1. Minutes. Approve Minutes for the Legislative Committee Regular Meeting on May 12, 2026.
Motion by Council Member Comstock, seconded by Mayor Ulloa, to approve Consent Calendar Item 1- Minutes. The motion carried by the following vote:
AYES: ULLOA, AND COMSTOCK
NOES: NONE.
ABSENT: NONE.
DISCUSSION
2. Government Relations Update. Receive a report on federal, state, and regional issues, including City outreach and communications.
Staff Report By: Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager
Vivian Castro, Deputy City Manager, provided a presentation on federal, state, and regional issues.
3. Update on Federal issues. Receive a report on Federal legislative, budget, and regulatory issues.
Staff Report By: Jamie Jones, David Turch & Associates
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Jamie Jones, David Turch & Associates, who participated virtually, provided a presentation on federal legislative and budget issues. He also reported on the Federal Housing Legislation Impact funding.
The Committee concurred with staff's recommendation to coordinate a visit from Congressman Gil Cisneros before the end of the year to review City priorities.
4. Update on State issues. Receive a report on State legislative, budget, and regulatory issues.
Staff Report By: Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son, who participated virtually, provided a presentation on state legislative and budget issues, including an update on SB79; AB1751; AB956; SB1117; and AB1109.
Police Chief Kevin Mensen provided an update on AB2108; SB1013; AB1896; AB1537; and SB1220. He also provided an update on the California Institution for Men (CIM) and state discussions regarding prison closures.
The Committee inquired regarding the new CIM mental health facility transition and inmate transfer protocols, and requested staff to arrange a tour for City Council. The Committee also inquired regarding the audit status of the CIM mental health facility, and requested staff to provide an update.
ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 3:45 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Legislative Policy Committee will be held as needed in these Council Chambers and posted with at least 72 hours notice per the requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 8TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2026.
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EUNICE M. ULLOA, MAYOR/
COMMITTEE MEMBER
ATTEST:
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NATALIE GONZAGA, CITY CLERK
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(These minutes are not official until signed.)
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CITY OF CHINO
ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 TO: COMMITTEE MEMBERS
FROM: VIVIAN CASTRO, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER
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City of Chino
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE (Attachment 1)
As of September 4, 2026 (September 8, 2026 Legislative Committee Meeting)
FEDERAL UPDATE
Congressional Calendar - Congress Legislative Sprint Before Midterm Elections Congress faces a limited window for legislative activity ahead of the November midterm elections. Both the Senate and the House are scheduled to return September 14, with the Senate expected to remain in session for three weeks. The House, however, is scheduled for only four legislative days until after the elections, November 3.
Federal FY 2027 Budget - Congress Passes Continuing Resolution Through December 11 Prior to breaking for August recess, the Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) by a vote of 90-6, extending federal government funding at FY26 levels through December 11. The measure also delays the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance through December 11. The House passed the Senate’s CR by a vote of 370- 48, clearing the measure for President Trump’s signature and avoiding a government shutdown ahead of the midterms and conclusion of the fiscal year on September 30.
The CR also contains a provision funding the surface transportation programs through December 11. The surface transportation programs were set to expire October 1.
New Congressional Districts
The City’s consultant, Jamie Jones of David Turch & Associates, has communicated with the Office of Congressman Gil Cisneros, whose new congressional district will include the majority of Chino, regarding a potential visit to the City for a tour and discussion of federal priorities. A follow-up discussion will take place in September to schedule the visit for November or December.
Other Federal Items
The national debt is now over $40 trillion.
12 Senators and 71 Representatives will not be returning for the 120th Congress – so far.
TRACKED STATE LEGISLATION REPORTS
The report on tracked state legislation, sorted by subject, is included in Attachment 2. Staff has identified the included bills of potential interest to the City that have met the necessary legislative deadlines to date. Bills are also added and removed from tracking based on lists provided by associations, such as the League of California Cities, staff input, and current bill language.
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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 Legislative 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 to the Governor (Attachment 3):
State
o SB 1414 (Reyes) SB County Citizens Redistricting Commission – Oppose o SB 342 (Umberg) Contractors: Unlicensed Work – Oppose o SB 1004 (Wiener) Law Enforcement: Masks – Oppose
o SB 1187 (Durazo) Open Meetings – Support
o AB 1383 (McKinnor) Public Employees’ Retirement Benefits – Oppose o AB 1198 (Haney) Public Works: Prevailing Wages – Oppose o AB 2257 (Hart) Corrections: Jail Administrators – Oppose o AB 1537 (Bryan) Peace Officers: Secondary Employment – Oppose o AB 1821 (Pacheco) California Public Records Act: Agency Response – Support STATE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR – Recent and Upcoming Legislative Deadlines Aug. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills. Final recess begins upon adjournment.
Sept. 30 Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature before Sept. 1 and in the Governor’s possession on or after Sept. 1.
Nov. 3 General Election.
Nov. 30 Adjournment sine die at midnight.
Dec. 7 12 Noon convening of the 2027-28 Regular Session. 2027 Jan.
1 Statutes take effect.
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By Measure
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: 07/16/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 07/16/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 89, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 07/16/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act sets forth the requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies. The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 (act), 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. Existing 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. Existing 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, among other things, to develop draft project solicitation and evaluation guidelines, to transmit copies of those guidelines to the fiscal committees and to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, to hold a noticed public meeting on those guidelines, and to submit those guidelines to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, except as provided. (Based on 07/16/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 306 (Schultz, D) California Building Standards Commission: appeals: code interpretations.
Current Text: 09/01/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/27/2026 - From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 27). Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0.).
Location: 08/27/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law authorizes any person adversely affected by any regulation, rules, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of any state agency respecting the administration of any building standard to appeal the issue for resolution to the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law authorizes any local agency having authority to enforce a state building standard and any person adversely affected by any regulation, rule, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of that agency respecting that building standard to appeal to the commission, provided that both wish to appeal the issue for resolution to the commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to accept those appeals only if the commission determines that the issues involved in the appeal have statewide significance. This bill would revise and recast those provisions to expand the reasons for which a person can appeal to the commission to include, among other things, a request for approval to use an alternate material. The bill would modify the conditions under which the commission may accept an appeal by removing the
9 requirement that both the local agency and the adversely affected person wish to appeal the issue, and by requiring that certain issues appealed have both statewide significance and that the person seeking the appeal has exhausted all local appeals procedures before appealing to the commission, subject to a certain exception.
The bill would require the commission to review those appealed issues with specified stakeholders. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 956 (Quirk-Silva, D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: 09/01/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/27/2026 - From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 27). Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 2.).
Location: 08/27/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law also provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in single-family residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, among other things, makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a planned development, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use that meets the above-described standards and conditions for those units. This bill would revise the provision governing prohibitions or restrictions on the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use to instead apply to a lot zoned to allow single-family residential use. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1198 (Haney, D) Public works: prevailing wages.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing 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.
Existing 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 existing 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 existing 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 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, if the awarded value of the contract is $35,000,000 or greater. 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 09/03/2026 text) Position: Oppose
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Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure AB 1383 (McKinnor, D) Public employees’ retirement benefits.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) to provide a defined benefit to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which is continuously appropriated for purposes of PERS, including depositing employer and employee contributions. Under the California Constitution, assets of a public pension or retirement system are trust funds. 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. Existing law, 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, for service performed on and after January 1, 2027, would prohibit the pensionable compensation for calendar year 2027 used to calculate the defined benefit paid to a new member of a retirement system subject to PEPRA who retires from the system from exceeding specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 1537 (Bryan, D) Peace officers: secondary employment.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 certain peace officers from engaging in any form of secondary employment, including contract based or as an individual contractor, that involves engaging in arresting, detaining, transporting, or deporting individuals pursuant to federal or out-of-state immigration laws. The bill would provide that failure to comply with this provision may constitute, for certain purposes, an act of serious misconduct and that it is grounds for decertification as a peace officer. The bill would require certain peace officers to report to their employing law enforcement agency any conditional offer of secondary employment relating to immigration enforcement. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1567 (Ta, R) General plan: annual report: congregate and residential care for the elderly.
11 Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 08/31/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).
Location: 09/01/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: 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. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected housing need, as provided. Existing law requires each 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 and that furthers specified objectives. 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, if congregate housing for the elderly or residential care facilities is included in the regional housing need determination, as specified. (Based on 08/21/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1751 (Quirk-Silva, D) Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 09/03/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 certain 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 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 tentative and final map for a townhome development project that meets specified requirements, including that the proposed subdivision complies with the requirements established by the bill for ministerial approval of a townhome development project, as described in the preceding sentence, and that the newly created parcels are no smaller than 600 square feet. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1820 (Schiavo, D) Electric vehicle charging stations: permit fees.
Current Text: 08/28/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
12 Location: 08/28/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 defines “electric vehicle charging station” to mean any level of electric vehicle supply equipment station that is designed and built in compliance with specified provisions, and delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into a plugin electric vehicle. 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 $500 plus $5 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $2 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for a level 2 electric vehicle charging station installed at a new or existing multifamily housing development, 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 08/26/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1821 (Pacheco, D) California Public Records Act: agency response time.
Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 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 08/27/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Legal and Records Management
Misc2: CMCA Support
AB 1883 (Bryan, D) Workplace surveillance tools.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing 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, with certain exceptions, prohibit an employer from using a workplace
13 surveillance tool that uses artificial intelligence to, among other things, collect neural data or recognize an individual’s emotional state. The bill would define an employer to include a governmental entity, including, among other entities, charter cities and the University of California. This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner or a public prosecutor to enforce the bill’s provisions. The bill would subject an employer who violates the bill’s provisions to a civil penalty of up to $500 for each violation. The bill would define various terms for purposes of its provisions. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 2257 (Hart, D) Corrections: jail administrators.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 09/03/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law authorizes a board of supervisors of any county to, by resolution, establish a department of corrections, to be headed by an officer appointed by the board, which has jurisdiction over all county functions, personnel, and facilities, or so many as the board names in its resolution, relating to institutional punishment, care, treatment, and rehabilitation of prisoners, including, but not limited to, the county jail and industrial farms and road camps, their functions and personnel. Existing law, except as specified, requires the sheriff to take charge of and be the sole and exclusive authority to keep the county jail and the prisoners in it, as specified, and generally imposes requirements and duties on sheriffs for the keeping of jails. This bill would authorize a board of supervisors to, by majority vote, establish the position of jail administrator and impose procedures for the nomination and confirmation or denial of a candidate for the position. The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of jail administrators. The bill would provide that the sheriff retains specified authority with respect to the jail administrator, including the authority to remove the jail administrator, as specified. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety
AB 2296 (Papan, D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 09/03/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, which includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected need for housing, 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 plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. This bill, except with respect to the 7th housing element cycle for councils of governments with a housing element revision due date during the calendar year 2027, 2028, or 2029, would extend the abovedescribed 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 73 (Cervantes, D) Elections.
Current Text: 05/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
14 Status: 05/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 10, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing state and federal law provides for the enforcement of laws related to elections. This bill would prohibit a peace officer from interfering with the administration of an election, as specified. This bill would authorize certain persons to enforce those prohibitions by filing a civil action, as specified. This bill would also prohibit any individual from permitting an agent of a law enforcement agency, as specified, to access, disrupt, modify, or take possession of rosters, combined rosters, or voter lists unless authorized by a court order or to investigate certain types of voting fraud. The bill would additionally require the Attorney General to provide guidance and information regarding how to respond to requests by law enforcement, as defined, to access areas where ballots are present. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/27/2026 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 329 (Blakespear, D) Alcohol and drug recovery: licensed treatment facilities and certified programs:
investigations.
Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2026 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 08/28/2026 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing law requires alcohol or other drug programs to be certified by the department, except as specified. Existing law prohibits those programs from operating without a certification. If a program is alleged to be providing services without a certification, existing law requires the department to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Existing law also authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to certified programs for the purpose of reviewing them for compliance, as specified. This bill would require the department to assign a complaint under its jurisdiction regarding a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility or a certified alcohol or other drug program 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 the extent feasible, to notify the complainant, in writing, that it does not investigate that type of complaint. (Based on 08/31/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 342 (Umberg, D) Contractors: unlicensed work.
Current Text: 09/01/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law prohibits a person engaging in the business or acting in the capacity of a contractor from recovering compensation for work performed that requires a contractor’s license unless the person was a duly licensed contractor at all times during the performance of the act or contract, except as specified. This bill would
15 further exempt from that prohibition an action for compensation arising from a contract for specified projects, including for a public work of improvement or a commercial or institutional construction project, and would, instead, authorize a person to maintain an action for compensation under one of those contracts if the person was a duly licensed contractor at the time the contract was executed and during the portion of the performance of the contract for which compensation is sought. (Based on 09/01/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 417 (Limón, D) The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: 06/25/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 06/25/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 16, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 06/25/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks. Existing law, the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018, authorized, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,000,000,000 to finance various existing housing programs, as well as infill infrastructure financing and affordable housing matching grant programs, as well as financing for a specified program for farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance for veterans, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. This bill would enact the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,250,000,000, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Of the proceeds from the sale of these bonds, $10,000,000,000 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, and $1,250,000,000 would be used to provide additional funding for the above-described program for farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance for veterans, as provided. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 490 (Umberg, D) Alcohol and drug programs.
Current Text: 09/02/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Location: 09/02/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing 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 assign the complaint to an analyst within 10 days of receiving the allegation and, except as specified, complete the investigation within 120 days of assigning the complaint. The bill would require the department, if it receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, to notify, to the extent feasible, the complainant that it does not investigate that type of complaint. The bill would require the employee or agent to provide their findings to the department and would require the department to issue the notice described above within 10 days of the employee or agency submitting their findings 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
16 agency to request approval from the department to conduct a site visit of a recovery residence that the county contracts with that is alleged to be operating without a license. The bill would permit the department to approve that request in certain circumstances, including that the department has sufficient evidence to substantiate the allegation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 677 (Wiener, D) Housing financing: joint powers agreements: bond approvals: subdivisions: tentative and final maps: appeals.
Current Text: 09/01/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law, for the purposes of that act, defines the term “public agency” to include various federal, state, local, and tribal entities.
Existing law requires approval by the Department of General Services of certain joint powers agreements that include the state as a member, as provided. Existing law authorizes a joint powers authority to issue revenue bonds to pay the costs and expenses of acquiring, constructing, or conducting a program for, among other things, low-income housing projects owned or operated by a city, county, city and county, or housing authority. Existing law provides that the Treasurer and the Secretary of State are designated as elected representatives for federal tax purposes of a joint powers agency created to approve or certify the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of the joint powers agency to the extent approval is required by federal tax law. This bill would provide that the geographic jurisdiction of a joint powers authority is the area encompassed by the combined geographical boundaries of all of its member public agencies. The bill would declare that these provisions are declaratory of existing law. This bill would additionally authorize the Treasurer to execute an agreement including the state as a member of a joint powers authority without obtaining approval from the Department of General Services only for the Treasurer to provide specified approvals for bonds issued by the joint powers authority to finance specified residential rental projects for which a city, county, or city and county that is a member of the joint powers authority has failed to provide specified approval required by federal tax law, as defined and provided. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 922 (Laird, D) Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 08/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 148, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 08/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
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 explicitly state that a fee, charge, surcharge, or component thereof imposed upon the provider of, or ratepayer for, public services 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 those public services is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision described above. The bill would provide that nothing in the Vehicle Code prohibits a local agency from imposing or collecting this fee, charge, or surcharge. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure
17 SB 1004 (Wiener, D) Law enforcement: masks.
Current Text: 09/02/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Location: 09/02/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law makes it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear a facial covering in the performance of their duties, except as specified. Existing law defines law enforcement officer for these purposes as anyone designated by California law as a peace officer who is employed by a city, county, or other local agency, and any officer or agent of a federal law enforcement agency, agency or law enforcement agency of another state, or any person acting on behalf of a federal law enforcement agency. This bill would add peace officers employed by a state agency to the definition of law enforcement officers, thereby making those law enforcement officers subject to those criminal penalties. The bill would specify that facial coverings does not include certain items, including, among other things, sunglasses. The bill would, for all of the items excluded from the definition of facial coverings, limit that exclusion if the items are combined or otherwise used in a manner intended to conceal or obscure an officer’s identity. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Public Safety
SB 1117 (Cervantes, D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: 08/30/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
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. Existing law requires fees charged for the construction of ADUs to be determined in accordance with specified provisions of the Mitigation Fee Act. Existing 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 require the charge for certain accessory dwelling units 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 08/27/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 1187 (Durazo, D) Open meetings.
Current Text: 08/28/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 08/28/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
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. Existing law, beginning July 1, 2026, requires eligible legislative bodies, as defined, to have in place a system for electronically accepting and fulfilling requests for meeting agendas and documents. Existing law additionally requires these legislative bodies to translate the agenda for each meeting of that body and to reasonably assist members of the public who wish to translate a public meeting or receive interpretation, as specified. This bill would instead delete the above-described requirements on eligible legislative bodies. (Based on 08/25/2026 text)
18 Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Governance
SB 1414 (Reyes, D) County of San Bernardino Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
Location: 08/31/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law requires the board of supervisors of each county, following each decennial federal census, and using that census as a basis, to adjust the boundaries of any or all of the supervisorial districts of the county so that the districts are as nearly equal in population as possible and comply with applicable federal law, and specifies the procedures the board of supervisors must follow in adjusting those boundaries. Existing law establishes independent redistricting commissions in the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Fresno, and Sacramento, which are charged with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for their respective counties. This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of San Bernardino, which would be charged with adjusting the boundary lines of the districts of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Bernardino. The commission would consist of 14 commissioners who meet specified qualifications. This bill would require the commission to adjust the boundaries of the supervisorial districts in accordance with specified criteria and adopt a redistricting plan in accordance with existing deadlines for the adoption of county supervisorial district boundaries. The bill would create specified procedures by which the commission may remove a commissioner. (Based on 08/28/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Elections and Campaigns, Governance
Total Measures: 24
Total Tracking Forms: 24
19 Friday, September 4, 2026
By Subject
Elections and Campaigns
SB 1414 (Reyes, D) County of San Bernardino Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
Location: 08/31/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law requires the board of supervisors of each county, following each decennial federal census, and using that census as a basis, to adjust the boundaries of any or all of the supervisorial districts of the county so that the districts are as nearly equal in population as possible and comply with applicable federal law, and specifies the procedures the board of supervisors must follow in adjusting those boundaries. Existing law establishes independent redistricting commissions in the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Fresno, and Sacramento, which are charged with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for their respective counties. This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of San Bernardino, which would be charged with adjusting the boundary lines of the districts of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Bernardino. The commission would consist of 14 commissioners who meet specified qualifications. This bill would require the commission to adjust the boundaries of the supervisorial districts in accordance with specified criteria and adopt a redistricting plan in accordance with existing deadlines for the adoption of county supervisorial district boundaries. The bill would create specified procedures by which the commission may remove a commissioner. (Based on 08/28/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Elections and Campaigns, Governance
Governance
SB 1187 (Durazo, D) Open meetings.
Current Text: 08/28/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 08/28/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
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. Existing law, beginning July 1, 2026, requires eligible legislative bodies, as defined, to have in place a system for electronically accepting and fulfilling requests for meeting agendas and documents. Existing law additionally requires these legislative bodies to translate the agenda for each meeting of that body and to reasonably assist members of the public who wish to translate a public meeting or receive interpretation, as specified. This bill would instead delete the above-described requirements on eligible legislative bodies. (Based on 08/25/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Governance
20 SB 1414 (Reyes, D) County of San Bernardino Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
Location: 08/31/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law requires the board of supervisors of each county, following each decennial federal census, and using that census as a basis, to adjust the boundaries of any or all of the supervisorial districts of the county so that the districts are as nearly equal in population as possible and comply with applicable federal law, and specifies the procedures the board of supervisors must follow in adjusting those boundaries. Existing law establishes independent redistricting commissions in the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Fresno, and Sacramento, which are charged with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for their respective counties. This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of San Bernardino, which would be charged with adjusting the boundary lines of the districts of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Bernardino. The commission would consist of 14 commissioners who meet specified qualifications. This bill would require the commission to adjust the boundaries of the supervisorial districts in accordance with specified criteria and adopt a redistricting plan in accordance with existing deadlines for the adoption of county supervisorial district boundaries. The bill would create specified procedures by which the commission may remove a commissioner. (Based on 08/28/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Elections and Campaigns, Governance
Human Resources
AB 1383 (McKinnor, D) Public employees’ retirement benefits.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) to provide a defined benefit to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which is continuously appropriated for purposes of PERS, including depositing employer and employee contributions. Under the California Constitution, assets of a public pension or retirement system are trust funds. 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. Existing law, 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, for service performed on and after January 1, 2027, would prohibit the pensionable compensation for calendar year 2027 used to calculate the defined benefit paid to a new member of a retirement system subject to PEPRA who retires from the system from exceeding specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 1883 (Bryan, D) Workplace surveillance tools.
21 Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing 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, with certain exceptions, prohibit an employer from using a workplace surveillance tool that uses artificial intelligence to, among other things, collect neural data or recognize an individual’s emotional state. The bill would define an employer to include a governmental entity, including, among other entities, charter cities and the University of California. This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner or a public prosecutor to enforce the bill’s provisions. The bill would subject an employer who violates the bill’s provisions to a civil penalty of up to $500 for each violation. The bill would define various terms for purposes of its provisions. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
SB 490 (Umberg, D) Alcohol and drug programs.
Current Text: 09/02/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Location: 09/02/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing 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 assign the complaint to an analyst within 10 days of receiving the allegation and, except as specified, complete the investigation within 120 days of assigning the complaint. The bill would require the department, if it receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, to notify, to the extent feasible, the complainant that it does not investigate that type of complaint. The bill would require the employee or agent to provide their findings to the department and would require the department to issue the notice described above within 10 days of the employee or agency submitting their findings 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 the county contracts with that is alleged to be operating without a license. The bill would permit the department to approve that request in certain circumstances, including that the department has sufficient evidence to substantiate the allegation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Services, Recreation, Quality of Life
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
Legal and Records Management
AB 1821 (Pacheco, D) California Public Records Act: agency response time.
Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
22 Location: 08/31/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 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 08/27/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Legal and Records Management
Misc2: CMCA Support
Municipal Funding and Procurement
AB 1198 (Haney, D) Public works: prevailing wages.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing 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.
Existing 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 existing 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 existing 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 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, if the awarded value of the contract is $35,000,000 or greater. 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 09/03/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 922 (Laird, D) Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 08/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 148, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 08/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
23 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 explicitly state that a fee, charge, surcharge, or component thereof imposed upon the provider of, or ratepayer for, public services 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 those public services is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision described above. The bill would provide that nothing in the Vehicle Code prohibits a local agency from imposing or collecting this fee, charge, or surcharge. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 306 (Schultz, D) California Building Standards Commission: appeals: code interpretations.
Current Text: 09/01/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/27/2026 - From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 27). Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0.).
Location: 08/27/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law authorizes any person adversely affected by any regulation, rules, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of any state agency respecting the administration of any building standard to appeal the issue for resolution to the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law authorizes any local agency having authority to enforce a state building standard and any person adversely affected by any regulation, rule, omission, interpretation, decision, or practice of that agency respecting that building standard to appeal to the commission, provided that both wish to appeal the issue for resolution to the commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to accept those appeals only if the commission determines that the issues involved in the appeal have statewide significance. This bill would revise and recast those provisions to expand the reasons for which a person can appeal to the commission to include, among other things, a request for approval to use an alternate material. The bill would modify the conditions under which the commission may accept an appeal by removing the requirement that both the local agency and the adversely affected person wish to appeal the issue, and by requiring that certain issues appealed have both statewide significance and that the person seeking the appeal has exhausted all local appeals procedures before appealing to the commission, subject to a certain exception.
The bill would require the commission to review those appealed issues with specified stakeholders. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 956 (Quirk-Silva, D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: 09/01/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/27/2026 - From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 27). Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 2.).
Location: 08/27/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law also provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in single-family residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, among other things, makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a planned development, and any provision of a governing document, that effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use that meets the above-described standards and conditions for those units. This bill would revise the provision governing prohibitions or restrictions on the construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling
24 unit on a lot zoned for single-family residential use to instead apply to a lot zoned to allow single-family residential use. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1567 (Ta, R) General plan: annual report: congregate and residential care for the elderly.
Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrollment HTML PDF
Status: 08/31/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).
Location: 09/01/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: 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. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected housing need, as provided. Existing law requires each 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 and that furthers specified objectives. 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, if congregate housing for the elderly or residential care facilities is included in the regional housing need determination, as specified. (Based on 08/21/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
AB 1751 (Quirk-Silva, D) Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 09/03/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 certain 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 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 tentative and final map for a townhome development project that meets specified requirements, including that the proposed subdivision complies with the requirements established by the bill for ministerial approval of a townhome development project, as described in the preceding sentence, and that the newly created parcels are no smaller than 600 square feet. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
25 AB 1820 (Schiavo, D) Electric vehicle charging stations: permit fees.
Current Text: 08/28/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Location: 08/28/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
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 defines “electric vehicle charging station” to mean any level of electric vehicle supply equipment station that is designed and built in compliance with specified provisions, and delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into a plugin electric vehicle. 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 $500 plus $5 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $2 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for a level 2 electric vehicle charging station installed at a new or existing multifamily housing development, 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 08/26/2026 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: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 09/03/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, which includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region’s existing and projected need for housing, 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 plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. This bill, except with respect to the 7th housing element cycle for councils of governments with a housing element revision due date during the calendar year 2027, 2028, or 2029, would extend the abovedescribed 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 73 (Cervantes, D) Elections.
26 Current Text: 05/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 05/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 10, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing state and federal law provides for the enforcement of laws related to elections. This bill would prohibit a peace officer from interfering with the administration of an election, as specified. This bill would authorize certain persons to enforce those prohibitions by filing a civil action, as specified. This bill would also prohibit any individual from permitting an agent of a law enforcement agency, as specified, to access, disrupt, modify, or take possession of rosters, combined rosters, or voter lists unless authorized by a court order or to investigate certain types of voting fraud. The bill would additionally require the Attorney General to provide guidance and information regarding how to respond to requests by law enforcement, as defined, to access areas where ballots are present. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/27/2026 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 329 (Blakespear, D) Alcohol and drug recovery: licensed treatment facilities and certified programs:
investigations.
Current Text: 08/31/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/28/2026 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 08/28/2026 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing law requires alcohol or other drug programs to be certified by the department, except as specified. Existing law prohibits those programs from operating without a certification. If a program is alleged to be providing services without a certification, existing law requires the department to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Existing law also authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to certified programs for the purpose of reviewing them for compliance, as specified. This bill would require the department to assign a complaint under its jurisdiction regarding a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility or a certified alcohol or other drug program 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 the extent feasible, to notify the complainant, in writing, that it does not investigate that type of complaint. (Based on 08/31/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: League of Cities Sponsored
SB 417 (Limón, D) The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: 06/25/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 06/25/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 16, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 06/25/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of bonds in
27 specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks. Existing law, the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018, authorized, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,000,000,000 to finance various existing housing programs, as well as infill infrastructure financing and affordable housing matching grant programs, as well as financing for a specified program for farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance for veterans, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. This bill would enact the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,250,000,000, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Of the proceeds from the sale of these bonds, $10,000,000,000 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, and $1,250,000,000 would be used to provide additional funding for the above-described program for farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance for veterans, as provided. (Based on 06/25/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
SB 677 (Wiener, D) Housing financing: joint powers agreements: bond approvals: subdivisions: tentative and final maps: appeals.
Current Text: 09/01/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law, for the purposes of that act, defines the term “public agency” to include various federal, state, local, and tribal entities.
Existing law requires approval by the Department of General Services of certain joint powers agreements that include the state as a member, as provided. Existing law authorizes a joint powers authority to issue revenue bonds to pay the costs and expenses of acquiring, constructing, or conducting a program for, among other things, low-income housing projects owned or operated by a city, county, city and county, or housing authority. Existing law provides that the Treasurer and the Secretary of State are designated as elected representatives for federal tax purposes of a joint powers agency created to approve or certify the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of the joint powers agency to the extent approval is required by federal tax law. This bill would provide that the geographic jurisdiction of a joint powers authority is the area encompassed by the combined geographical boundaries of all of its member public agencies. The bill would declare that these provisions are declaratory of existing law. This bill would additionally authorize the Treasurer to execute an agreement including the state as a member of a joint powers authority without obtaining approval from the Department of General Services only for the Treasurer to provide specified approvals for bonds issued by the joint powers authority to finance specified residential rental projects for which a city, county, or city and county that is a member of the joint powers authority has failed to provide specified approval required by federal tax law, as defined and provided. (Based on 09/01/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Misc2: Fast Track Housing Package
SB 1117 (Cervantes, D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: 08/30/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
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. Existing law requires fees charged for the construction of ADUs to be determined in
28 accordance with specified provisions of the Mitigation Fee Act. Existing 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 require the charge for certain accessory dwelling units 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 08/27/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing
Public Safety
AB 1383 (McKinnor, D) Public employees’ retirement benefits.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) to provide a defined benefit to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which is continuously appropriated for purposes of PERS, including depositing employer and employee contributions. Under the California Constitution, assets of a public pension or retirement system are trust funds. 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. Existing law, 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, for service performed on and after January 1, 2027, would prohibit the pensionable compensation for calendar year 2027 used to calculate the defined benefit paid to a new member of a retirement system subject to PEPRA who retires from the system from exceeding specified percentages of the contribution and benefit base under the specified federal law with respect to old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 1537 (Bryan, D) Peace officers: secondary employment.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
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 certain peace officers from engaging in any form of secondary employment, including contract based or as an individual contractor, that involves engaging in arresting, detaining,
29 transporting, or deporting individuals pursuant to federal or out-of-state immigration laws. The bill would provide that failure to comply with this provision may constitute, for certain purposes, an act of serious misconduct and that it is grounds for decertification as a peace officer. The bill would require certain peace officers to report to their employing law enforcement agency any conditional offer of secondary employment relating to immigration enforcement. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety
AB 1883 (Bryan, D) Workplace surveillance tools.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing 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, with certain exceptions, prohibit an employer from using a workplace surveillance tool that uses artificial intelligence to, among other things, collect neural data or recognize an individual’s emotional state. The bill would define an employer to include a governmental entity, including, among other entities, charter cities and the University of California. This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner or a public prosecutor to enforce the bill’s provisions. The bill would subject an employer who violates the bill’s provisions to a civil penalty of up to $500 for each violation. The bill would define various terms for purposes of its provisions. (Based on 09/03/2026 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 2257 (Hart, D) Corrections: jail administrators.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Location: 09/03/2026 - Assembly ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law authorizes a board of supervisors of any county to, by resolution, establish a department of corrections, to be headed by an officer appointed by the board, which has jurisdiction over all county functions, personnel, and facilities, or so many as the board names in its resolution, relating to institutional punishment, care, treatment, and rehabilitation of prisoners, including, but not limited to, the county jail and industrial farms and road camps, their functions and personnel. Existing law, except as specified, requires the sheriff to take charge of and be the sole and exclusive authority to keep the county jail and the prisoners in it, as specified, and generally imposes requirements and duties on sheriffs for the keeping of jails. This bill would authorize a board of supervisors to, by majority vote, establish the position of jail administrator and impose procedures for the nomination and confirmation or denial of a candidate for the position. The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of jail administrators. The bill would provide that the sheriff retains specified authority with respect to the jail administrator, including the authority to remove the jail administrator, as specified. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Public Safety
SB 1004 (Wiener, D) Law enforcement: masks.
Current Text: 09/02/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 09/02/2026 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
30 Location: 09/02/2026 - Senate ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law makes it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear a facial covering in the performance of their duties, except as specified. Existing law defines law enforcement officer for these purposes as anyone designated by California law as a peace officer who is employed by a city, county, or other local agency, and any officer or agent of a federal law enforcement agency, agency or law enforcement agency of another state, or any person acting on behalf of a federal law enforcement agency. This bill would add peace officers employed by a state agency to the definition of law enforcement officers, thereby making those law enforcement officers subject to those criminal penalties. The bill would specify that facial coverings does not include certain items, including, among other things, sunglasses. The bill would, for all of the items excluded from the definition of facial coverings, limit that exclusion if the items are combined or otherwise used in a manner intended to conceal or obscure an officer’s identity. (Based on 08/30/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Public Safety
Transportation & Infrastructure
AB 1198 (Haney, D) Public works: prevailing wages.
Current Text: 09/03/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Assembly ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing 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.
Existing 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 existing 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 existing 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 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, if the awarded value of the contract is $35,000,000 or greater. 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 09/03/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 73 (Cervantes, D) Elections.
Current Text: 05/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 05/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 10, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 05/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
Summary: Existing state and federal law provides for the enforcement of laws related to elections. This bill would prohibit a peace officer from interfering with the administration of an election, as specified. This bill would authorize certain persons to enforce those prohibitions by filing a civil action, as specified. This bill would also prohibit any individual from permitting an agent of a law enforcement agency, as specified, to access, disrupt, modify, or take possession of rosters, combined rosters, or voter lists unless authorized by a court order or to
31 investigate certain types of voting fraud. The bill would additionally require the Attorney General to provide guidance and information regarding how to respond to requests by law enforcement, as defined, to access areas where ballots are present. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on 05/27/2026 text)
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Planning, Land Use, Housing, Transportation & Infrastructure SB 342 (Umberg, D) Contractors: unlicensed work.
Current Text: 09/01/2026 - Enrolled HTML PDF
Status: 08/30/2026 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 08/30/2026 - Senate ENROLLMENT
Summary: Existing law prohibits a person engaging in the business or acting in the capacity of a contractor from recovering compensation for work performed that requires a contractor’s license unless the person was a duly licensed contractor at all times during the performance of the act or contract, except as specified. This bill would further exempt from that prohibition an action for compensation arising from a contract for specified projects, including for a public work of improvement or a commercial or institutional construction project, and would, instead, authorize a person to maintain an action for compensation under one of those contracts if the person was a duly licensed contractor at the time the contract was executed and during the portion of the performance of the contract for which compensation is sought. (Based on 09/01/2026 text) Position: Oppose
Priority: (2) Priority
Subject: Transportation & Infrastructure
SB 922 (Laird, D) Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.
Current Text: 08/27/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 08/27/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 148, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 08/27/2026 - Senate CHAPTERED
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 explicitly state that a fee, charge, surcharge, or component thereof imposed upon the provider of, or ratepayer for, public services 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 those public services is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision described above. The bill would provide that nothing in the Vehicle Code prohibits a local agency from imposing or collecting this fee, charge, or surcharge. (Based on 08/27/2026 text) Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Municipal Funding and Procurement, Transportation & Infrastructure Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
AB 35 (Alvarez, D) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: Administrative Procedure Act: exemption: program guidelines and selection criteria.
Current Text: 07/16/2026 - Chaptered HTML PDF
Status: 07/16/2026 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 89, Statutes of 2026.
Location: 07/16/2026 - Assembly CHAPTERED
32 Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act sets forth the requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies. The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 (act), 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. Existing 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. Existing 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, among other things, to develop draft project solicitation and evaluation guidelines, to transmit copies of those guidelines to the fiscal committees and to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, to hold a noticed public meeting on those guidelines, and to submit those guidelines to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, except as provided. (Based on 07/16/2026 text)
Position: Support
Priority: (3) Significant
Subject: Trash, Recycling, Water, Resources
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51 MEMORANDUM
CITY OF CHINO
ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 TO: COMMITTEE MEMBERS
FROM: VIVIAN CASTRO, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER
SUBJECT
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Update on Federal issues.
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..body
RECOMMENDATION
Receive a report on Federal legislative, budget, and regulatory issues. Receive and file. ..body
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no direct fiscal impact associated with this action. 52 MEMORANDUM
CITY OF CHINO
ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 TO: COMMITTEE MEMBERS
FROM: VIVIAN CASTRO, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER
SUBJECT
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Update on State issues.
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RECOMMENDATION
Receive a report on State legislative, budget, and regulatory issues. Receive and file. ..body
FISCAL IMPACT
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