APA/CASCC/LOCC/LWVC/SIERRA/SPUR/YIMBY, Legislative Update June 2022
AB 267 (Valladares R) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: prescribed fire, thinning, and fuel reduction projects.
Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Senate Environmental Quality (text 6/2/2021) Introduced: 1/15/2021
Last Amend: 6/30/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2023, exempts from the requirements of CEQA prescribed fire, thinning, or fuel reduction projects undertaken on federal lands to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire that have been reviewed under the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as provided. Current law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, beginning December 31, 2019, and annually thereafter until January 1, 2023, to report to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature the number of times the exemption was used. This bill would extend the exemption from CEQA to January 1, 2026. The bill would additionally require that a project’s significant impacts identified in an environmental impact statement prepared pursuant to the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 are avoided or mitigated in order for the exemption to apply. The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that the exemption applies and determines to approve or carry the project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located. If the lead agency is not the department, the bill would require the lead agency to file a notice with the department containing specified information about the project. If the lead agency is the department, the bill would require the department to maintain records containing that specified information.
Organization Position
Sierra Club Oppose
AB 561 (Ting D) Help Homeowners Add New Housing Program: accessory dwelling unit financing.
Current Text: Amended: 6/13/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/31/2021 Senate Floor Analyses (text 8/26/2021) Introduced: 2/11/2021
Last Amend: 6/13/2022
Status: 6/16/2022-Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I.
Location: 6/16/2022-S. B. & F. I.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Capital Access Loan Program to assist qualified small businesses in financing the costs of complying with environmental mandates and the remediation of contamination on their properties, which is administered by the California Pollution Control Financing Authority. Under the program, the authority may enter into contracts with participating financial institutions and is required to establish a loss reserve account with each participating financial institution. Under the program, a participating financial institution that experiences a default on a qualified loan enrolled in the Capital Access Loan Program may obtain reimbursement from the authority by submitting a claim for reimbursement for a specified amount of the loss covered by that loan, subject to certain procedures. This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the office of the Treasurer to establish and administer the Help Homeowners Add New Housing Program for the purpose of protecting participating financial institutions, as defined, from default on loans provided to a qualified homeowner to construct an accessory dwelling unit.
Organization Position
APA Support
AB 682 (Bloom D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: shared housing buildings.
Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/20/2022 Senate Governance And Finance (text 6/6/2022) Introduced: 2/12/2021
Last Amend: 6/23/2022
Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
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, among other options, 10% of the total units of a housing development for rental or sale to lower income households, as defined, or 5% of the total units for rental or sale to very low income households, as defined, and meets other requirements.
This bill would provide that a housing development eligible for a density bonus be provided under these provisions includes a shared housing building, as defined, that will contain either 10% of the total units for lower income households or 5% of the total units for very low income households, as described above. The bill would prohibit the city, county, or city and county from requiring any minimum unit size requirements or minimum bedroom requirements in conflict with the bill’s provisions with respect to a shared housing building eligible for a density bonus under these provisions.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
AB 1014 (McCarty D) Cannabis: retailers: delivery: vehicles.
Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Senate Committee On Labor, Public Employment And Retirement (text 6/22/2022)
Introduced: 2/18/2021
Last Amend: 6/22/2022
Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.
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Summary: The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control for the administration and enforcement of its provisions. MAUCRSA generally defines delivery to mean the commercial transfer of cannabis or cannabis products to a customer, requires the delivery of cannabis or cannabis products to be made only by a licensed retailer, microbusiness, or nonprofit, and establishes requirements for the delivery of cannabis and cannabis products, including that an employee of the licensee carry a copy of the licensee’s current license and a government-issued identification with a photo of the employee, such as a driver’s license. This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2023, the regulations established by the bureau regarding the minimum security and transportation safety requirements to include regulations that would allow for an increase in the value of cannabis goods to be carried during delivery of those cannabis goods to customers by employees of a licensed retailer to $10,000, as specified. The bill would require a licensed retailer to provide their delivery employee certain hardware, tools, and supplies, access to healthcare benefits, and either a vehicle that meets certain requirements or reimbursement for certain costs for the use of the employee’s vehicle, as specified.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Oppose
AB 1307 (Cervantes D) County of Riverside Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/20/2022 Senate Governance And Finance (text 5/10/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 6/27/2022
Status: 6/27/2022-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current 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. Current law establishes the Independent Redistricting
Commission in the County of San Diego and the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Los Angeles, which are charged with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for those counties. If an appropriation is made for this purpose , this bill 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 in accordance with existing deadlines for the adoption of county supervisorial district boundaries.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
AB 1416 (Santiago D) Elections: ballot label.
Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/17/2022 Senate Elections And Constitutional Amendments (text 1/27/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 6/23/2022
Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/21/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
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, existing 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. The bill would require the signers of the ballot arguments to submit the lists of supporters and opponents to the Secretary of State or the respective elections official and would require the Secretary of State or respective elections official to provide those lists to county elections officials as part of the ballot label.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
AB 1445 (Levine D) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts.
Current Text: Amended: 6/6/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/10/2022 Senate Appropriations (text 6/6/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 6/6/2022
Status: 6/13/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.
Location: 6/13/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that 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 to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region.
Current law requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. Current law requires that the final regional housing plan adopted by a council of governments, or a delegate subregion, as applicable, be based on a methodology that includes specified factors, and similarly requires that the department take into consideration specified factors in distributing regional housing need, as provided.
Commencing January 1, 2025, this bill would require that a council of governments, a delegate subregion, or the department, 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: 06/20/2022 Senate Governance And Finance (text 1/13/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 1/13/2022
Status: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
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 1702 (Levine D) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: COVID-19 prevention and response goods.
Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 03/18/2022 Assembly Revenue And Taxation (text 1/26/2022) Introduced: 1/26/2022
Last Amend: 3/22/2022
Status: 3/23/2022-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 2/3/2022-A. REV. & TAX
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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 1965 (Wicks D) California Antihunger Response and Employment Training Act of 2022.
Current Text: Amended: 5/19/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 05/24/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 5/19/2022) Introduced: 2/10/2022
Last Amend: 5/19/2022
Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/28/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current federal law limits a participant who is an able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) to 3 months of CalFresh benefits in a 3-year period unless that participant has met work participation requirements or is otherwise exempt. Current federal law authorizes a waiver of that time limit upon the request of a state if it is determined that the area in which the individuals reside has an unemployment rate of over 10% or does not have a sufficient number of jobs to provide employment for the individuals. Current state law requires the State Department of Social Services, to the extent permitted by federal law, to annually seek a federal waiver of the time limit. Current federal law also
authorizes a state to provide, in each fiscal year, a discretionary exemption from the 3-month time limit for covered individuals, to the extent that the average monthly number of exemptions in effect during a fiscal year does not exceed 12% of the number of covered individuals in the state. This bill would require the department, with appropriated state funds, to establish California Antihunger Response and Employment Training (CARET) to provide food assistance 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 CARET benefits in the same amount that they would have received under the CalFresh program if the ABAWD time limit did not make them ineligible.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
AB 1985 (Rivas, Robert D) Organic waste: recovered organic waste product procurement targets.
Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/11/2022 Senate Environmental Quality (text 6/13/2022) Introduced: 2/10/2022
Last Amend: 6/30/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Existing 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. This bill would require the department’s regulations to allow a local jurisdiction to procure a product made from California, landfilldiverted recovered organic waste, as provided, to comply with these recovered organic waste product procurement target requirements. The bill would allow a local jurisdiction, in procuring recovered organic waste products, to utilize California-derived recovered organic waste that is processed outside of the state. The bill would require any penalties imposed by the department on a local jurisdiction that fails to meet its recovered organic waste procurement target to be imposed pursuant to a specified schedule based on the percentage of the local jurisdiction’s recovered organic waste product procurement target achieved.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
AB 2097 (Friedman D) Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements.
Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/20/2022 Senate Housing (text 6/9/2022) Introduced: 2/14/2022
Last Amend: 6/23/2022
Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a land use element, and a conservation element. Current law also permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities. This bill would prohibit a public agency, in a county with a population of 600,000 or more, from imposing or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement, on any of specified residential, commercial, or other development types if the project is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. The bill would also prohibit a public agency, in a county with a population of less than 600,000, and a city with a population of 75,000 or more, from imposing or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement on specified residential, commercial, or other development types if the project is located within 1/4 mile of public transit. For a city with a population of less than 75,000, or a county with a population of less than 600,000, the bill would authorize that city or county to adopt an ordinance or resolution that applies certain prohibitions regarding the above-described parking requirements within its boundaries.
When a project provides parking voluntarily, the bill would authorize a public agency to impose specified requirements on the voluntary parking.
Organization Position
YIMBY Support
SPUR Support
AB 2142 (Gabriel D) Income taxes: exclusion: turf replacement water conservation program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/6/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2022 Senate Appropriations (text 4/6/2022) Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 4/6/2022
Status: 6/27/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.
Location: 6/27/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: 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 the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, provide an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive issued by a public water system, as defined, local government, or state agency for participation in a turf replacement water conservation program.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
AB 2221 (Quirk-Silva D) Accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: Amended: 6/6/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Senate Governance And Finance (text 6/6/2022) Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 6/6/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29).
Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires a local ordinance to require an accessory dwelling unit to be either attached to, or located within, the proposed or existing primary dwelling, as specified, or detached from the proposed or existing primary dwelling and located on the same lot as the proposed or existing primary dwelling. This bill would specify that an accessory dwelling unit that is detached from the proposed or existing primary dwelling may include a detached garage.
Organization Position
YIMBY Support
AB 2632 (Holden D) Segregated confinement.
Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/25/2022 Senate Public Safety (text 4/18/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 6/30/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/1/2022 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: This bill would require every jail, prison, public or 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. The bill would require those facilities to document the use of segregated confinement by, among other things, providing written orders of that confinement to the individual confined, as specified. The bill would prohibit those facilities from involuntarily placing an individual in segregated confinement if the individual belongs to a special population, including, among others, that the individual has a mental or physical disability or that the individual is under 26 years of age or over 59 years of age. The bill would require the facility to additionally periodically check on the individual and have a medical or mental
require the facility to additionally periodically check on the individual and have a medical or mental health professional periodically assess the individual. This bill would require a facility to offer out-of-cell programming to individuals in segregated confinement for at least 4 hours per day, not including time spent on housekeeping or in paid employment. The bill would also authorize a facility to use segregated confinement to help treat and protect against the spread of communicable disease, under certain circumstances.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
AB 2647 (Levine D) Local government: open meetings.
Current Text: Amended: 4/19/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Senate Governance And Finance (text 4/19/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 4/19/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29).
Location: 5/25/2022-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law makes agendas of public meetings and other writings distributed to the members of the governing board disclosable public records, with certain exceptions. Current law requires a local agency to make those writings distributed to the members of the governing board less than 72 hours before a meeting available for public inspection, as specified, at a public office or location that the agency designates. Current law also requires the local agency to list the address of the office or location on the agenda for all meetings of the legislative body of the agency. Current law authorizes a local agency to post the writings on the local agency’s internet website in a position and manner that makes it clear that the writing relates to an agenda item for an upcoming meeting. This bill would instead require a local agency to make those writings distributed to the members of the governing board available for public inspection at a public office or location that the agency designates and list the address of the office or location on the agenda for all meetings of the legislative body of the agency unless the local agency meets certain requirements, including the local agency immediately posts the writings on the local agency’s internet website in a position and manner that makes it clear that the writing relates to an agenda item for an upcoming meeting.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
AB 2656 (Ting D) Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act.
Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Senate Governance And Finance (text 6/23/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 6/23/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29).
Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act defines “disapprove the housing development project” as including any instance in which a local agency either votes and disapproves a proposed housing development project application, including any required land use approvals or entitlements necessary for the issuance of a building permit, or fails to comply with specified time periods. Current law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if the lead agency finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would define “disapprove the housing development project” as also including any instance in which a local agency fails to issue a project an exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as described, or fails to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project or to approve another comparable environmental document, if certain conditions are satisfied. Among other conditions, Organization Position
SPUR Support
AB 2668 (Grayson D) Planning and zoning: housing: streamlined, ministerial approval.
Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Senate Governance And Finance (text 6/22/2022)
Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 6/22/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29).
Location: 6/14/2022-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. Current law specifies that a development is consistent with the objective planning standards if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the development is consistent with the objective planning standards. This bill would clarify that a development subject to these provisions is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, and not subject to a conditional use permit or any other nonlegislative discretionary approval.
Organization Position
SPUR Support
AB 2873 (Jones-Sawyer D) California Tax Credit Allocation Committee: low-income housing credit:
women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises.
Current Text: Amended: 5/2/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2022 Senate Appropriations (text 5/2/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 5/2/2022
Status: 6/27/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.
Location: 6/27/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to allocate the housing credit on a specified regular basis, and to only allocate credits to a project if the housing sponsor enters into a specified regulatory agreement. Current law authorizes the committee to make any allocation or reservation of the state’s housing credit ceiling to a housing credit applicant subject to specified terms and conditions. This bill would require a housing sponsor that receives a credit allocation on or after January 1, 2024, and that has completed 5 or more housing projects by January 1, 2023, to annually submit a report to the committee, in a form and at the time designated by the committee, that includes, among other things, a detailed and verifiable supplier and contractor plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as defined, and short- and long-term diversity goals and timetables.
Organization Position
YIMBY Support
SB 6 (Caballero D) Local planning: housing: commercial zones.
Current Text: Amended: 6/20/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2022 Assembly Housing And Community Development (text 6/20/2022) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 6/20/2022
Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If the inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all households pursuant to specified law, existing law requires the local government to rezone sites within specified time periods and that this rezoning accommodate 100% of the need for housing for very low and low-income households on sites that will be zoned to permit owneroccupied and rental multifamily residential use by right for specified developments. This bill, the Neighborhood Homes Act, would deem a housing development project, as defined, an allowable use on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, if the development and site meet specified requirements, including that the site is not adjacent to an industrial use or agricultural use. The bill would require the density for a housing development under
these provisions to meet or exceed the density deemed appropriate to accommodate housing for lower income households according to the type of local jurisdiction, including a density of at least 20 units per acre for a suburban jurisdiction. The bill would require the housing development to meet all other local requirements, other than those that prohibit residential use, or allow residential use at a lower density than that required by the bill.
Organization Position
APA Support
SB 38 (Wieckowski D) Beverage containers.
Current Text: Amended: 6/20/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2022 Assembly Natural Resources (text 6/20/2022) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 6/20/2022
Status: 6/27/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: 6/27/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer, and requires a processor to pay a certified recycling center or other program the refund value, a percentage of the refund value for administrative costs, and the processing payment. The act provides that a violation of the act or a regulation adopted pursuant to the act is a crime. This bill would require a processor to make those payments by check or electronic fund transfer, and not by cash payment.
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: 06/27/2022 Assembly Appropriations (text 1/3/2022) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 6/29/2022-June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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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) Corporate conversions.
Current Text: Amended: 5/9/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2022 Assembly Judiciary (text 5/9/2022) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 5/9/2022
Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/28/2022-A. APPR.
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Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair
Summary: Current law specifies the process by which a corporation may be converted into a domestic other business entity if specified conditions are met. This bill would instead provide that this process applies to the conversion of a corporation into a domestic other business entity, foreign other business entity, or foreign corporation, as specified. The bill would define terms for purposes of these provisions, make other conforming changes, and establish the means by which an obligation of a corporation that has converted to a foreign corporation or foreign other business entity may be enforced.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 222 (Dodd D) Water Rate Assistance Program.
Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 6/23/2022) Introduced: 1/14/2021
Last Amend: 6/23/2022
Status: 6/23/2022-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/21/2022-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Water Resources Control Board, by January 1, 2018, to develop a plan for the funding and implementation of the Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Program, as prescribed. Current law requires the state board, by February 1, 2018, to report to the Legislature on its findings regarding the feasibility, financial stability, and desired structure of the program, including any recommendations for legislative action that may need to be taken. This bill would establish the Water Rate Assistance Fund in the State Treasury to help provide water affordability assistance, for both drinking water and wastewater services, to low-income residential ratepayers.
The bill would make moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature to the state board to provide, in consultation with relevant agencies, direct water bill assistance, water bill assistance to residential ratepayers served by eligible systems, as defined, and by tribal water systems that choose to participate and would require 80% of total funds to be directly applied to customer assistance. The bill would authorize the state board to identify and contract with a thirdparty fund administrator. The bill would impose requirements on the state board in connection with the program, including, among others, within 270 days of the effective date, as defined, adopting guidelines in consultation with relevant agencies and an advisory group for implementation of the program and preparing a report to be posted on state board’s internet website identifying how the fund has performed.
Organization Position
Sierra Club Support
SB 260 (Wiener D) Climate Corporate Accountability Act.
Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/17/2022 Assembly Judiciary (text 6/2/2022) Introduced: 1/26/2021
Last Amend: 6/22/2022
Status: 6/22/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/21/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of statewide greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor and enforce compliance with the act. The act requires the state board to make available, and update at least annually, on its internet website the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants for each facility that reports to the state board, as provided. This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2024, to develop and adopt regulations requiring United States 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 the state board, on or before January 1, 2029, to review, and update as necessary, these deadlines to evaluate trends in scope 3 emissions reporting and to consider changes to the deadlines, as provided.
Organization Position
Sierra Club Support
SB 286 (Min D) Elections: Orange County Board of Education.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2022 Assembly Education (text 6/2/2022) Introduced: 2/1/2021
Last Amend: 6/2/2022
Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair 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: 6/20/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2022 Assembly Committee On Utilities And Energy (text 5/31/2022) Introduced: 2/10/2021
Last Amend: 6/20/2022
Status: 6/29/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes
12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: 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 or allows the city, county, or city and county to issue permits in real time for a residential solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and a residential energy storage system, as defined, paired with a residential solar energy system that is no larger than
38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 457 (Portantino D) Personal income taxes: credit: reduction in vehicles.
Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/29/2022 Assembly Revenue And Taxation (text 6/21/2022) Introduced: 2/16/2021
Last Amend: 6/21/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/30/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by the law.
This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, allow a credit against those taxes in an amount of $2,500 for each household member, as defined, that exceeds the number of registered vehicles, as defined, and would limit the amount of the credit allowed to $7,500.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Oppose
SB 513 (Hertzberg D) Homeless and domestic violence shelters grants: pets and veterinary services.
Current Text: Amended: 6/6/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/13/2022 Assembly Housing And Community Development (text 1/3/2022) Introduced: 2/17/2021
Last Amend: 6/6/2022
Status: 6/15/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes
8. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/15/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless shelters and qualified domestic violence shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness or escaping domestic violence. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 5% of the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for those purposes for its costs in administering the program.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Support
SB 649 (Cortese D) Local governments: affordable housing: local tenant preference.
Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Assembly Housing And Community Development (text 4/19/2021) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 6/30/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Location: 6/30/2022-A. SECOND READING
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Summary: The California Fair Employment and Housing Act protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of various personal characteristics. Under existing law, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing is responsible for receiving, investigating, conciliating, mediating, and prosecuting complaints alleging violations of specified civil rights. This bill would provide that it is the state’s policy to use its resources, as specified, to assist low-income individuals at risk of displacement, as described, in accessing affordable housing and in avoiding displacement. The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing to jointly develop and publish informational guidelines for developing local tenant preference policies consistent with state and federal law, as specified. This bill would require any local government adopting a local tenant preference policy, as specified, to submit the ordinance and its supporting materials to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to post on its internet website any local government ordinances enacted, any supporting materials related to those ordinances, and other materials, as specified.
Organization Position
CASCC Watch
SB 833 (Dodd D) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022.
Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2022 Assembly Committee On Utilities And Energy (text 3/21/2022) Introduced: 1/4/2022
Last Amend: 6/30/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: Current law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Current law assigns the 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 to award grants through a noncompetitive process 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: 6/6/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2022 Assembly Natural Resources (text 6/6/2022) Introduced: 1/18/2022
Last Amend: 6/6/2022
Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/27/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: Would authorize a city, county, city and county, special district, or a combination of any of those entities to form a climate resilience district, as defined, for the purposes of raising and allocating funding for eligible projects and the operating expenses of eligible projects. The bill would deem each district to be an enhanced infrastructure financing district and would require each district to comply with existing law concerning enhanced infrastructure financing districts, unless the district is specified as otherwise. The bill would require a district to finance only specified projects that meet the definition of an eligible project. 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. The bill would establish project priorities and would authorize districts to establish additional priorities.
Organization Position
APA Support
SB 884 (McGuire D) Electricity: expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program.
Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/21/2022 Assembly Committee On Utilities And Energy (text 4/26/2022) Introduced: 1/26/2022
Last Amend: 6/23/2022
Status: 6/27/2022-June 27 hearing postponed by committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Location: 6/27/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: Would require the Public Utilities Commission to establish an expedited utility distribution infrastructure undergrounding program, and would authorize only those electrical corporations with 250,000 or more customer accounts within the state to participate in the program. In order to participate in the program, the bill would require a large electrical corporation to submit a distribution infrastructure undergrounding plan, including the undergrounding projects that it will construct as part of the program, to the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, which would be required to approve or deny the plan within 6 months. If the office approves the large electrical corporation’s plan, the bill would require the large electrical corporation to submit to the commission a copy of the plan and an advice letter requesting review and conditional approval of the plan’s costs and would require the commission to approve or deny the plan within 6 months. If the plan is approved by the office and commission, the bill would require the large electrical corporation to file specified progress reports, include additional information in its wildfire mitigation plans, and hire an independent monitor to review and assess its compliance with its plan, require each undergrounding project to fully exhaust all available federal, state, and other nonratepayer moneys before any costs are recovered from ratepayers, and deem each undergrounding project to be a development project for purposes of the Permit Streamlining Act, as specified. The bill would authorize the commission to annually assess penalties on a large electrical corporation that fails to substantially comply with its plan.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 886 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public universities: university housing development projects.
Current Text: Amended: 6/16/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Assembly Appropriations (text 6/16/2022) Introduced: 1/27/2022
Last Amend: 6/16/2022
Status: 6/29/2022-June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Summary: Would, until January 1, 2030, exempt from CEQA a university housing development project, as defined, carried out by a public university, as defined, on real property owned by the public university if the project meets certain requirements, including that each building within the project is
certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum or better by the United States Green Building Council, that the project’s construction impacts are fully mitigated, and that the project is not located, in whole or in part, on certain types of sites, including a site that is within a special flood hazard area subject to inundation by a 1% annual chance flood or within a regulatory floodway as determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as provided. The bill, with respect to a site that is within a special flood hazard area subject to inundation by a 1% annual chance flood or within a regulatory floodway, would prohibit a local government from denying an application on the basis that a public university did not comply with any additional permit requirement, standard, or action adopted by that local government applicable to the site if the public university is able to satisfy all applicable federal qualifying criteria in order to demonstrate that the site meets these criteria and is otherwise eligible to be exempt from CEQA pursuant to the above requirements.
By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position
YIMBY Support
SB 891 (Hertzberg D) Business licenses: stormwater discharge compliance.
Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2022 Assembly Local Government (text 6/21/2022) Introduced: 1/31/2022
Last Amend: 6/21/2022
Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: Current law requires, when applying to a city or a county for an initial business license or business license renewal, a person who conducts a business operation that is a regulated industry, as defined, to demonstrate enrollment with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program by providing specified information, under penalty of perjury, on the application, including, among other things, the Standard Industrial Classification Code for the business, and an applicable identification number, as specified. Current law applies these provisions to all applications for initial business licenses and business license renewals submitted on and after January 1, 2020.
This bill would expand the application of these provisions to instruments or permits equivalent to business licenses and to the renewals of those equivalent instruments or permits.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 921 (Newman D) Political Reform Act of 1974: digital political advertisements.
Current Text: Amended: 4/28/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 05/06/2022 Senate Appropriations (text 4/28/2022) Introduced: 2/3/2022
Last Amend: 4/28/2022
Status: 5/19/2022-May 19 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 5/9/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities. Among other things, the act requires specified disclosures in advertisements regarding the source of the advertisement. Current law requires an online platform that disseminates committees’ online platform disclosed advertisements to maintain, and make available for online public inspection, a record of any advertisement disseminated on the online platform by a committee that purchased $500 or more in advertisements during the preceding 12 months, as specified. Current law establishes the Fair Political Practices Commission that enforces the Political Reform Act of 1974. This bill 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 and that receives $50,000 or more from digital advertisement sales during a calendar month 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.
Organization Position
LWVC Support
SB 922 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transportation-related projects.
Current Text: Amended: 5/11/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Assembly Appropriations (text 5/11/2022) Introduced: 2/3/2022
Last Amend: 5/11/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/30/2022-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
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 delete the requirement that the bicycle transportation plan is for an urbanized area. The bill would extend the exemption to an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan. The bill would define “active transportation plan” and “pedestrian plan.” The bill would specify that individual projects that are a part of an active transportation plan or pedestrian plan remain subject to the requirements of CEQA unless those projects are exempt by another provision of law.
Organization Position
CASCC Support
SB 932 (Portantino D) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans.
Current Text: Amended: 6/20/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2022 Assembly Transportation (text 6/20/2022) Introduced: 2/7/2022
Last Amend: 6/20/2022
Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/28/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair 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 1393 (Archuleta D) Energy: appliances: local requirements.
Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2022 Assembly Local Government (text 6/9/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 6/30/2022
Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, Chair Summary: Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to gather or develop, and publish on its internet website, guidance and best practices to help building owners, the construction industry, and local governments overcome barriers to electrification of buildings and installation of electric vehicle charging equipment that include one or more specified topics. This bill would require the commission to gather or develop, and publish on its internet website, the guidance and best practices by July 1, 2023, and would require the guidance to include all of those specified topics and additional topics. The bill would require the commission to update annually the guidance and best practices. The bill would require a city, including a charter city, or county, when adopting an ordinance requiring The replacement of a fossil fuel-fired appliance with an electric appliance upon the alteration or retrofit of a residential and nonresidential building, to consider any guidance published by the commission. The bill would require the commission, upon request by a local government considering the adoption of that ordinance, to provide technical
assistance to the local government.
Organization Position
LEAGUE Watch
SB 1439 (Glazer D) Campaign contributions: agency officers.
Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/27/2022 Assembly Elections (text 6/21/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 6/21/2022
Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/3/2022 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, HOLDEN, 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: 05/09/2022 Assembly Housing And Community Development (text 12/7/2020) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Status: 5/11/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Be adopted and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 5/11/2022-A. APPR.
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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
YIMBY 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: 3/23/2022-Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 3/23/2022-S. E. & C.A.
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: 42
Total Tracking Forms: 45