APA/CASCC/LOCC/LWVC/SIERRA, Legislative Update
March 2022
AB 682 (Bloom D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: cohousing buildings.
Current Text: Amended: 1/13/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/24/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 1/13/2022) Introduced: 2/12/2021
Last Amend: 1/13/2022
Status: 1/27/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 1/27/2022-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for moderate-income, lower income, or very low income households and meets other requirements. This bill would additionally require that a density bonus be provided under these provisions to a developer who agrees to construct a housing development that is a cohousing building, as defined, that meets specified requirements and will contain either 10% of the total square footage for lower income households, as defined, or 5% of the total square footage for very low income households, as defined.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
AB 1014 (McCarty D) Cannabis: retailers: delivery: vehicles.
Current Text: Amended: 1/24/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/25/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 1/24/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2021
Last Amend: 1/24/2022
Status: 2/1/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control for the administration and enforcement of its provisions. MAUCRSA requires the department to establish a track and trace program for reporting the movement of cannabis and cannabis products throughout the distribution chain that utilizes a unique identifier and is capable of providing specified information. MAUCRSA requires the track and trace program to include an electronic seed to sale software tracking system with data points for the different stages of commercial activity, including, but not limited to, cultivation, harvest, processing, manufacturing, distribution, inventory, and sale. This bill would also require the electronic seed to sale software tracking system to include delivery.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Oppose
AB 1307 (Cervantes D) County of Riverside Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Current Text: Amended: 1/13/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/24/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 1/13/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 1/13/2022
Status: 1/27/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 1/27/2022-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Riverside, which would be charged with adjusting the boundary lines of the districts of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Riverside. The commission would consist of 14 members 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, which would become effective 30 days following its submission to the county elections official.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
AB 1416 (Santiago D) Elections: ballot label.
Current Text: Amended: 1/27/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/28/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 1/27/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 1/27/2022
Status: 2/1/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines the ballot label as the portion of the ballot containing the names of the candidates or a statement of a measure. For statewide measures, current law requires the Attorney General to prepare a condensed version of the ballot title and summary, including the fiscal impact summary prepared by the Legislative Analyst that is printed in the state voter information guide. This bill would additionally require the ballot label for statewide measures, and, at the option of a county, the ballot label or similar description on the ballot of county, city, district, and school district measures, to include a listing of nonprofit organizations, businesses, or individuals taken from the signers or the text of ballot arguments printed in the voter information guide that support and oppose the measure, as specified. The bill would require a nonprofit organization, business, or individual to meet certain criteria before being listed on the ballot label or similar description of the measure on the ballot.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
AB 1445 (Levine D) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts.
Current Text: Amended: 1/3/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/24/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 1/3/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 2/1/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, commencing January 1, 2025, require that a council of governments, a delegate subregion, or the Department of Housing and Community Development, as applicable, additionally consider among these factors emergency evacuation route capacity, wildfire risk, sea level rise, and other impacts caused by climate change.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
AB 1551 (Santiago D) Planning and zoning: development bonuses: mixed-use projects.
Current Text: Amended: 1/13/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/18/2022 Assembly Appropriations (text 1/13/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 1/13/2022
Status: 1/27/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 1/27/2022-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified percentages of units for lower income, very low income, or senior citizen housing, among other things, and meets other requirements. Previously existing law, until January 1, 2022, required a city, county, or city and county to grant a commercial developer a development bonus, as specified, when an applicant for approval of a commercial development had entered into an agreement for partnered housing with an affordable housing developer to contribute affordable housing through a joint project or 2 separate projects encompassing affordable housing. This bill would reenact the above-described provisions regarding the granting of development bonuses to certain projects. The bill would require a city or county to annually submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development information describing an approved commercial development bonus. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
AB 1599 (Kiley R) Proposition 47: repeal.
Current Text: Amended: 3/1/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/07/2022 Assembly Public Safety (text 3/1/2022) Introduced: 1/3/2022
Last Amend: 3/1/2022
Status: 3/9/2022-Coauthors revised.
Location: 1/14/2022-A. PUB. S.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, made various changes relating to theft and the possession of controlled substances, including by, among other things, generally reducing the penalty for those crimes, including reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis, establishing a procedure by which individuals convicted of those crimes prior to the passage of the act may petition for resentencing under the act, and creating the crime of shoplifting. This bill would repeal the changes and additions made by Proposition 47, except those related to reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
AB 1702 (Levine D) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: COVID-19 prevention and response goods.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/26/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/18/2022 Assembly Revenue And Taxation (text 1/26/2022) Introduced: 1/26/2022
Status: 3/14/2022-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 2/3/2022-A. REV. & TAX
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, and provides various exemptions from the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would exempt from those taxes, until January 1, 2025, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, COVID-19 prevention and response goods, as defined.
Organization Position
LEAGUE OUA
AB 1830 (Seyarto R) Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/7/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2022
Status: 2/18/2022-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/18/2022-A. H. & C.D.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Under current law, grants under the HHAP program are allocated in 4 rounds of funding, administered by the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, as provided. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department. Current law requires that the report include, among other things, the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income level.This bill would additionally require that this report include an assessment of the HHAP program.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
AB 1965 (Wicks D) California Antihunger Response and Employment Training Act of 2022.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/18/2022 Assembly Human Services (text 2/10/2022) Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 2/18/2022-Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Location: 2/18/2022-A. HUM. S.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/22/2022 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 ASSEMBLY HUMAN SERVICES, CALDERON, Chair
Summary: Would require the State Department of Social Services to establish the California Antihunger Response and Employment Training (CARET) program to provide benefits to a person who has been determined ineligible for CalFresh benefits, or for whom CalFresh benefits have been discontinued as a result of the ABAWD time limit, and who also is ineligible for the discretionary exemption described above. The bill would require the person to receive the same amount of benefits under the CARET program that they would have received under the CalFresh program if the ABAWD time limit did not make them ineligible. The bill would also make a CARET program recipient eligible for CalFresh EandT program benefits, and would make a CalFresh EandT provider serving a CARET recipient eligible to draw down a state-funded reimbursement in the same amount that the provider would have been eligible to receive for allowable CalFresh EandT services for a CalFresh recipient. The bill would require the issuance of CARET benefits through a state-administered and state-funded electronic benefits transfer system, as specified.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
AB 1985 (Rivas, Robert D) Organic waste: list: available products.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/18/2022 Assembly Natural Resources (text 2/10/2022) Introduced: 2/10/2022
Status: 3/21/2022-VOTE: Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar (PASS)
Location: 3/21/2022-A. APPR.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires, no later than January 1, 2018, the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a reduction in statewide emissions of methane by 40%, hydrofluorocarbon gases by 40%, and anthropogenic black carbon by 50% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law requires the methane emissions reduction goals to include a 50% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2020 and a 75% reduction by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic waste reduction goals, including a requirement intended to meet the goal that not less than 20% of edible food that is currently disposed of be recovered for human consumption by 2025. This bill would require the department to compile and maintain on its internet website a list, organized by ZIP Code, of information regarding persons or entities that produce and have available in the state organic waste products and update the list at least every 6 months.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
AB 2142 (Gabriel D) Income taxes: exclusion: turf replacement water conservation program.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/18/2022 Assembly Revenue And Taxation (text 2/15/2022) Introduced: 2/15/2022
Status: 2/24/2022-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 2/24/2022-A. REV. & TAX
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines "gross income" as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income. Current law provides an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate or voucher from a local water or energy agency or supplier for the purchase or installation of a water conservation water closet, energy efficient clothes washers, and plumbing devices, as specified. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, under both of these laws, provide an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive issued by a local water agency or supplier for participation in a turf replacement water conservation program.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
AB 2632 (Holden D) Segregated confinement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 3/10/2022-A. PUB. S.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 4/5/2022 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, Chair
Summary: Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law places county jails under the jurisdiction of the sheriff for the confinement of persons sentenced to imprisonment for the conviction of a crime. This bill would require every jail, prison, privately operated detention facility, and any facility in which individuals are subject to confinement or involuntary detention to develop and follow written procedures governing the management of segregated confinement, as specified.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
AB 2808 (O'Donnell D) Elections: ranked choice voting.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Status: 3/17/2022-Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
Location: 3/17/2022-A. ELECTIONS
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law specifies various procedures for conducting statewide and local elections. This bill would prohibit the use of ranked choice voting, a method of voting that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, in state and local elections. This bill contains other related provisions.
Organization Position
LWVC Oppose
SB 38 (Wieckowski D) Beverage containers.
Current Text: Amended: 2/14/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/02/2021 Senate Floor Analyses (text 5/26/2021) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 2/14/2022
Status: 2/14/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on NAT. RES. (Amended 2/14/2022) Location: 7/14/2021-A. NAT. RES.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require beverage manufacturers, as defined, in the state to form a beverage container stewardship organization. The organization would be required to develop and submit to the department a plan, annual report, and budget for the recovery and recycling of empty beverage containers in the state similar to that described in the Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act. The bill would require the organization to establish a stewardship fee, to be paid by beverage manufacturer members of the organization, to assist in covering the costs of implementing the beverage container stewardship program. The bill would require the organization to reimburse the department for the department’s costs of enforcing the program. The bill would require the department to deposit all moneys submitted for reimbursement into the Beverage Container Stewardship Fund, which the bill would create in the State Treasury.
Organization Position
LEAGUE OUA
SB 45 (Portantino D) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals: local jurisdiction assistance.
Current Text: Amended: 1/3/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/21/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 1/3/2022) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board for 2020 and 2025, as provided. Current law requires the department, no later than July 1, 2020, and in consultation with the state board, to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government, and local governments have made in achieving these organic waste reduction goals. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the state board, to provide assistance to local jurisdictions, including, but not limited to, any funding appropriated by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, for purposes of assisting local agencies to comply with these provisions, including any regulations adopted by the department.
Organization Position
APA Support
SB 49 (Umberg D) Income taxes: credits: California Fair Fees Tax Credit.
Current Text: Amended: 5/11/2021 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/13/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 5/11/2021) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 5/11/2021
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, to a taxpayer that meets certain criteria, including that the taxpayer temporarily ceased business operations for at least 30 consecutive days during the taxable year in response to an emergency order, as defined. The amount of credit would vary based on the number of consecutive days the qualified taxpayer has ceased business operations during the taxable year, with a maximum amount of $6,000 if the qualified taxpayer has temporarily ceased business operations for at least 180 consecutive days, as provided.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 54 (Allen D) Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act.
Current Text: Amended: 2/25/2021 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/24/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 2/25/2021) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 2/25/2021
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, which would prohibit producers of single-use, disposable packaging or single-use, disposable food service ware products from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing in or into the state such packaging or products that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2032, unless they are recyclable or compostable.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
Sierra Club Support
SB 245 (Gonzalez D) Health care coverage: abortion services: cost sharing.
Current Text: Enrollment: 3/21/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/18/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 2/14/2022) Introduced: 1/22/2021
Last Amend: 2/14/2022
Status: 3/21/2022-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 7.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 3/21/2022-S. ENROLLMENT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a health care service plan or an individual or group policy or certificate of health insurance or student blanket disability insurance that is issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 2023, from imposing a deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or any other cost-sharing requirement on coverage for all abortion and abortion-related services, as specified.
The bill would prohibit a health care service plan and an insurer subject to these requirements from imposing utilization management or utilization review on the coverage for outpatient abortion services.
The bill would require that for a contract, certificate, or policy that is a high deductible health plan, the cost-sharing prohibition would apply once the enrollee’s or insured’s deductible has been satisfied for the benefit year. The bill would not require an individual or group contract or policy to cover an experimental or investigational treatment. The bill’s requirements would also apply to Medi-Cal managed care plans and their providers, independent practice associations, preferred provider groups, and all delegated entities that provide physician services, utilization management, or utilization review.
The bill would require the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to adopt related regulations on or before January 1, 2026.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
SB 260 (Wiener D) Climate Corporate Accountability Act.
Current Text: Amended: 1/3/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/21/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 1/3/2022) Introduced: 1/26/2021
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 1/26/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 7.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/26/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the State Air Resources Board, on or before January 1, 2024, to develop and adopt regulations requiring United States-based partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities with total annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000 and that do business in California, defined as "reporting entities," to publicly disclose to the Secretary of State, and verify, starting in 2025 on a date to be determined by the state board, and annually thereafter, their greenhouse gas emissions, categorized as scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, as defined, from the prior calendar year, as provided. The bill would require reporting entities to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions in a manner that is easily understandable and accessible to residents of the state.
Organization Position
Sierra Club Support
SB 286 (Min D) Elections: Orange County Board of Education.
Current Text: Amended: 1/13/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/21/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 1/13/2022) Introduced: 2/1/2021
Last Amend: 1/13/2022
Status: 1/26/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 7.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/26/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes, and in some circumstances requires, a political subdivision to consolidate its elections with statewide elections.This bill would require an election for Orange County Board of Education that is determined by the plurality of the votes cast for that office, with no possibility of a runoff, and is consolidated with a statewide election to be consolidated with the statewide general election in November.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
SB 379 (Wiener D) Residential solar energy systems: permitting.
Current Text: Amended: 1/12/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/21/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 1/12/2022) Introduced: 2/10/2021
Last Amend: 1/12/2022
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 1.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a city or county to approve administratively applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Current law requires every city, county, or city and county to develop a streamlined permitting process for the installation of small residential rooftop solar energy systems, as that term is defined. Current law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Current law creates the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes its duties, which include administering programs for the installation of solar energy systems.This bill would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time for a solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than
38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and an energy storage system, as defined, paired with a solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 387 (Portantino D) Pupil health: school employee and pupil training: youth mental and behavioral health.
Current Text: Amended: 1/3/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/21/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 1/3/2022) Introduced: 2/11/2021
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, contingent on an appropriation made for these purposes, requires the State Department of Education, on or before January 1, 2023, to recommend best practices and identify training programs for use by local educational agencies to address youth behavioral health, including, but not necessarily limited to, staff and pupil training, as specified. Current law defines a local educational agency for purposes of these provisions to mean a county office of education, school district, state special school, or charter school that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive.
This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2025, those local educational agencies to certify to the department that 75% of both its classified and certificated employees have received that youth behavioral health training, as specified.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
SB 504 (Becker D) Elections: voter registration.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 02/17/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 1/14/2022) Introduced: 2/17/2021
Last Amend: 3/21/2022
Status: 3/21/2022-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 3/17/2022-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/24/2022 #11 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Summary: Current law requires elections officials to mail a ballot to every registered voter for each election. Current law permits a person to apply for permanent vote by mail status while registering to vote, and requires elections officials to include an application for a vote by mail ballot with each voter information guide mailed to voters. This bill would repeal these provisions regarding applications to vote by mail to account for the requirement that every registered voter receive a vote by mail ballot for each election.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
SB 513 (Hertzberg D) Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services.
Current Text: Amended: 1/3/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/21/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 1/3/2022) Introduced: 2/17/2021
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program, under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires the department to, among other things, provide rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services to ensure housing affordability to people who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness. This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
SB 830 (Portantino D) Education finance: supplemental education funding.
Current Text: Amended: 3/9/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2022
Last Amend: 3/9/2022
Status: 3/9/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on ED.
Location: 1/19/2022-S. ED.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified, that includes average daily attendance as a component of that calculation for these local educational agencies. Current law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before February 20 of each year, to make a first principal apportionment of funds and, on or before July 2 of each year, to make a 2nd principal apportionment of funds to each local educational agency. This bill would define “average daily membership” as the quotient of the aggregate enrollment days for all pupils in a school district, county office of education, or charter school, from transitional kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, as applicable, divided by the total number of instructional days for the local educational agency in an academic year. The bill would require a local educational agency’s average daily membership to be calculated using data from the same fiscal year or years that the local educational agency used to calculate its average daily attendance for purposes of state apportionment, as provided.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 833 (Dodd D) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/11/2022 Senate Energy, Utilities And Communications (text 1/4/2022) Introduced: 1/4/2022
Last Amend: 3/21/2022
Status: 3/21/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/14/2022-S. APPR.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law assigns the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission various duties, including applying for and accepting grants, contributions, and appropriations, and awarding grants consistent with the goals and objectives of a program or activity the commission is authorized to implement or administer. This bill, the Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022, would require the commission to develop and implement a grant program for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience objectives and state clean energy and air quality goals.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 852 (Dodd D) Climate resilience districts: formation: funding mechanisms.
Current Text: Amended: 3/9/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2022
Last Amend: 3/9/2022
Status: 3/9/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on GOV. & F.
Location: 1/26/2022-S. GOV. & F.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/31/2022 Upon adjournment of Session - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, CABALLERO, Chair
Summary: Current law authorizes certain local agencies to form a community revitalization authority (authority) within a community revitalization and investment area, as defined, to carry out provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law in that area for purposes related to, among other things, infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic revitalization. Current law provides for the financing of these activities by, among other things, the issuance of bonds serviced by property tax increment revenues, and requires the authority to adopt a community revitalization and investment plan for the community revitalization and investment area that includes elements describing and governing revitalization activities. This bill would authorize a city, county, city and county, special district, or a combination of any of those entities to form a climate resilience district for the purposes of raising and allocating funding for eligible projects and the operating expenses of eligible projects. The bill would define “eligible project” to mean projects that address sea level rise, extreme heat, extreme cold, the risk of wildfire, drought, and the risk of flooding, as specified.
Organization Position
APA Support
SB 921 (Newman D) Political Reform Act of 1974: digital political advertisements.
Current Text: Amended: 3/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/3/2022
Last Amend: 3/16/2022
Status: 3/17/2022-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 3/17/2022-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/28/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street - Room 2200 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, GLAZER, Chair
Summary: Would enact the Digital Advertisement Transparency and Accountability Act, or DATA Act. The bill would, 60 days after the Fair Political Practices Commission certifies a system for accepting and maintaining digital advertisements, as defined, require an online platform that disseminates those advertisements to submit to the commission a record of any digital advertisements disseminated on the online platform by a committee that purchased $500 or more in advertisements on the online platform during the preceding 12 months. The bill would require a record to contain, among other things, a digital copy of the advertisement, the approximate number of views generated from the advertisement, and the name and identification number of the committee that paid for the advertisement, as specified. The bill would require the information to be submitted to the commission by the 5th day of each month for digital advertisements disseminated on the online platform in the previous calender month. The bill would require the commission to make information submitted pursuant to this act available in a centralized and publicly accessible online format, as specified.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
SB 922 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.
Current Text: Amended: 3/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/3/2022
Last Amend: 3/16/2022
Status: 3/16/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on E.Q.
Location: 2/16/2022-S. E.Q.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/28/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, Chair
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements bicycle transportation plans for an urbanized area for restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles under certain conditions. This bill would extend the above exemption indefinitely. The bill would also repeal the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area and would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan, or to a feasibility and planning study for active transportation,
bicycle facilities, or pedestrian facilities.
Organization Position
CASCC Support
SB 932 (Portantino D) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/7/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/14/2022 Senate Governance And Finance (text 2/7/2022) Introduced: 2/7/2022
Status: 3/17/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Transportation] (PASS)
Location: 3/17/2022-S. TRANS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law states the Legislature’s intention that a county or city general plan and the elements and parts of that general plan comprise an integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting agency.This bill would emphasize the intent of the Legislature to fight climate change with these provisions.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Oppose
SB 1439 (Glazer D) Campaign contributions: agency officers.
Current Text: Amended: 3/16/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 3/16/2022
Status: 3/16/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Rereferred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 3/9/2022-S. E. & C.A.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/28/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street - Room 2200 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, GLAZER, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits an officer of an agency from accepting, soliciting, or directing a contribution of more than $250 from any party, participant, or a party or participant’s agent, while a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use is pending before the agency and for 3 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding, if the officer knows or has reasons to know that the participant has financial interest, as defined. The act also prohibits a party, participant, or participant’s agent from making a contribution of more than $250 to an officer of the agency during the proceeding and 3 months following the date a final decision is rendered. The act defines “agency” for these purposes to mean any state or local government agency, except certain entities, including local government agencies whose members are directly elected by the voters. This bill would remove the exception for local government agencies, thereby subjecting them to the prohibition described above. The bill would extend the prohibition on contributions from 3 to 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
SCA 2 (Allen D) Public housing projects.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/7/2020 html pdf
Current Analysis: 01/05/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 12/7/2020) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Status: 1/26/2022-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/26/2022-A. DESK
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition of a lowrent housing project, as defined, in any manner by any state public body until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which the development, construction, or acquisition of the low-rent housing project is proposed approve the project by voting in favor at an election, as specified. This measure would repeal these provisions.
Organization Position
APA Support
LWVC Support
SCA 6 (Newman D) Elections: recall of state officers.
Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2022
Last Amend: 3/17/2022
Status: 3/17/2022-Referred to Com. on RLS. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/3/2022-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would provide, in the event an officer is removed in a recall election, for the office to remain vacant until a successor candidate to hold the unexpired term of the office receives a majority of votes at a special election, or for the office to remain vacant for the remainder of the term if the nomination period for the subsequent term of that office has closed. The measure would allow an officer who was the subject of the recall election to be a candidate in the special election. The measure would require the Legislature to enact laws providing for the election of a successor. This bill contains other existing laws.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
Total Measures: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 36