Cupertino Bill Positions and Other Bills of Interest
AB 916 (Salas D) Zoning: bedroom addition.
Current Text: Amended: 8/22/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/23/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 8/22/2022) Introduced: 2/17/2021
Last Amend: 8/22/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
Location: 8/29/2022-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a city or county legislative body from adopting or enforcing an ordinance requiring a public hearing as a condition of reconfiguring existing space to increase the bedroom count within an existing dwelling unit. The bill would apply these provisions only to a permit application for no more than 2 additional bedrooms within an existing dwelling unit. The bill would specify that these provisions are not to be construed to prohibit a local agency from requiring a public hearing for a proposed project that would increase the number of dwelling units within an existing structure. The bill would include findings that ensuring adequate housing is a matter of statewide concern and is not a municipal affair, and that the provision applies to all cities, including charter cities.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
AB 988 (Bauer-Kahan D) Mental health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Current Text: Enrolled: 8/29/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/25/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/18/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2021
Last Amend: 8/18/2022
Status: 8/25/2022-Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes
37. Noes 0.). In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. Urgency clause adopted.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 8/25/2022-A. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Miles Hall Lifeline and Suicide Prevention Act. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to verify, no later than July 16, 2022, that technology that allows for transfers between 988 centers as well as between 988 centers and 911 public safety answering points, is available to 988 centers and 911 public safety answering points throughout the state. The bill would require, no later than 90 days after passage of the act, the office to appoint a 988 system director, among other things. The bill would require, no later than July 1, 2024, the office to verify interoperability between and across 911 and 988. The bill would require the office to consult with specified entities on any technology requirements for 988 centers.
Organization Position
Cupertino Support
AB 1014 (McCarty D) Cannabis: retailers: delivery: vehicles.
Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/30/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 6/22/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2021
Last Amend: 6/22/2022
Status: 8/30/2022-Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 22. Noes 8.). Motion to reconsider made by Senator Wiener. Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Location: 8/11/2022-S. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/30/2022 #100 SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS - THIRD READING FILE 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
Cupertino Watch
AB 1445 (Levine D) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/30/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/24/2022) Introduced: 2/19/2021
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Location: 8/29/2022-A. CONCURRENCE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/30/2022 #80 ASSEMBLY CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Summary: For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, current 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 instead require a council of governments or a delegate subregion to consider including specified factors in developing the above-mentioned methodology. The bill would require a council of governments or a delegate subregion to additionally consider including and would authorize the department, as applicable, to additionally consider among these factors emergency evacuation route capacity, wildfire risk, sea level rise, and other impacts caused by climate change, as provided.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
AB 1740 (Muratsuchi D) Catalytic converters.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/30/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/24/2022) Introduced: 1/31/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Location: 8/29/2022-A. CONCURRENCE
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Calendar: 8/30/2022 #59 ASSEMBLY CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Summary: Current law requires a core recycler, as defined, who accepts a catalytic converter for recycling to maintain a written record of specified information regarding the transaction, including the item type and quantity, amount paid for the catalytic converter, an identification number, if any, and the vehicle identification number, for not less than 2 years. Current law makes it a crime to violate these requirements. This bill would require a core recycler to include additional information in the written record, including the year, make, and model of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed and a copy of the title of the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
AB 1985 (Rivas, Robert D) Organic waste: recovered organic waste product procurement targets.
Current Text: Enrolled: 8/26/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/23/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/1/2022) Introduced: 2/10/2022
Last Amend: 8/1/2022
Status: 8/24/2022-Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing
and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.).
Location: 8/24/2022-A. ENROLLMENT
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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 that include, among other things, requirements 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 and that may include penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance, as provided. The department‘s regulations provide for, among other things, the calculation by the department of recovered organic waste product procurement targets for each local jurisdiction. This 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. The bill would exempt jurisdictions in possession of a specified rural exemption from these requirements until December 31, 2026.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
AB 2011 (Wicks D) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022.
Current Text: Enrollment: 8/29/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/29/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/25/2022) Introduced: 2/14/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
Location: 8/29/2022-A. ENROLLMENT
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Summary: Would create the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, which would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, and would make the development a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes. The bill would require a development proponent for a housing development project approved pursuant to the streamlined, ministerial review process to require, in contracts with construction contractors, that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require a development proponent to certify to the local government that those standards will be met in project construction.
Organization Position
Cupertino Oppose
AB 2097 (Friedman D) Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/30/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/24/2022) Introduced: 2/14/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 9.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Location: 8/29/2022-A. CONCURRENCE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/30/2022 #62 ASSEMBLY CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS 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 authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking, and 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 from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project, as defined, that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. The bill, notwithstanding the above-described prohibition, would authorize a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a housing development project if the public agency makes written findings, within 30 days of the receipt of a completed application, that not imposing or enforcing minimum automobile parking requirements on the development would have a substantially negative impact, supported by a preponderance of the evidence in the record, on the public agency’s ability to meet its share of specified housing needs or existing residential or commercial parking within 1/2 mile of the housing development.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
AB 2164 (Lee D) Disability access: certified access specialist program: funding.
Current Text: Enrollment: 8/29/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/10/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 5/19/2022) Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 5/19/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Location: 8/29/2022-A. ENROLLED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes a Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, within the Division of the State Architect for purposes of increasing disability access and compliance with construction-related accessibility requirements and developing educational resources for businesses to facilitate compliance with federal and state disability laws, as specified.
Current law requires the State Architect to establish and publicize a program for voluntary certification by the state of any person who meets specified criteria as a certified access specialist (CASp), as provided. Current law, on and after January 1, 2018, and until December 31, 2023, inclusive, requires any applicant for an original or renewal of a local business license or equivalent instrument or permit to pay an additional fee of $4 for that license, instrument, or permit, or in any city, county, or city and county that does not issue a business license or an equivalent instrument or permit, existing law requires an applicant for a building permit to pay an additional fee of $4, to be collected by the city, county, or city and county that issued the license, instrument, or permit for specified purposes related to disability access, including the CASp program. Commencing January 1, 2024, that fee is reduced to $1. Current law requires a portion of those fees to be deposited in the Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund. This bill would repeal the provision reducing the fee to $1 commencing January 1, 2024, thereby extending the operation of this fee at the amount of $4 indefinitely.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
AB 2221 (Quirk-Silva D) Accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/30/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/24/2022) Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1.). In Assembly.
Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Location: 8/29/2022-A. CONCURRENCE
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Calendar: 8/30/2022 #63 ASSEMBLY CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS 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
Cupertino Watch
AB 2449 (Rubio, Blanca D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
Current Text: Enrolled: 8/29/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/24/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/8/2022) Introduced: 2/17/2022
Last Amend: 8/8/2022
Status: 8/25/2022-Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 2.).
Location: 8/25/2022-A. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act generally requires posting an agenda at least 72 hours before a regular meeting that contains a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted or discussed at the meeting, and prohibits any action or discussion from being undertaken on any item not appearing on the posted agenda. This bill would revise and recast those teleconferencing provisions and, until January 1, 2026, would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with the teleconferencing requirements that each teleconference location be identified in the notice and agenda and that each teleconference location be accessible to the public if at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the local agency’s jurisdiction.
Organization Position
Cupertino Support
AB 2763 (Kalra D) Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority: job order contracting.
Current Text: Enrollment: 8/29/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/19/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/2/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 8/2/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Location: 8/29/2022-A. ENROLLED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law creates the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority with various powers and duties relative to transportation projects and services and the operation of public transit in the County of Santa Clara. Current law authorizes the authority to make contracts, enter into stipulations, and use a Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method for public transit projects.This bill would authorize the authority to enter into job order contracts, defined as indefinitequantity contracts for repair, remodeling, or other repetitive work to be done according to unit prices, with the lowest responsible and responsive bidders. The bill would prohibit the authority from entering into a job order contract for, among other things, work that is protected by a collective bargaining agreement and a single job order contract from exceeding $5,000,000 in its first term and, if extended or renewed, from exceeding $10,000,000 over the maximum of 2 extended terms, as specified. If the authority acts pursuant to that authorization, the bill would require the authority to report on its use of job order contracting, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/7/2020 html pdf
Introduced: 12/7/2020
Status: 4/22/2021-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and APPR.
Location: 4/22/2021-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city, county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, or city and county, as applicable, and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
ACA 4 (Kiley R) Elections: initiatives and referenda.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2021 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2021
Status: 2/18/2021-From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
Location: 2/17/2021-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution provides that the electors may propose a statute or an amendment to the California Constitution by initiative and approve or reject a statute by referendum.
An initiative measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of the proposed statute or amendment to the Constitution and is certified to have been signed by the required number of electors, as prescribed. A referendum measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the statute or part of the statute to be submitted to the electors, and is certified to have been signed by the required number of electors.
Before the circulation of an initiative or referendum petition for signatures, the California Constitution requires that a copy of the petition be submitted to the Attorney General, who must prepare a title and summary of the measure. Existing statutory law also directs the Attorney General to prepare the ballot label and the ballot title and summary that is included in the state voter information guide for each measure that appears on a statewide ballot.This measure would transfer from the Attorney General to the Legislative Analyst the duty of preparing the title and summary for a proposed initiative or referendum. The measure would also require, for each measure that appears on a statewide ballot, the Legislative Analyst to prepare the ballot label and the ballot title and summary for the state voter information guide.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
ACA 7 (Muratsuchi D) Local government: police power: municipal affairs: land use and zoning.
Current Text: Introduced: 3/16/2021 html pdf
Introduced: 3/16/2021
Status: 3/17/2021-From printer. May be heard in committee April 16.
Location: 3/16/2021-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would provide that a county or city ordinance or regulation enacted under the police power that regulates the zoning or use of land within the boundaries of the county or city would prevail over conflicting general laws, with specified exceptions. The measure, in the event of the conflict with a state statute, would also specify that a city charter provision, or an ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to a city charter, that regulates the zoning or use of land within the boundaries of the city is deemed to address a municipal affair and prevails over a conflicting state statute, except that the measure would provide that a court may determine that a city charter provision, ordinance, or regulation addresses either a matter of statewide concern or a municipal affair if it conflicts with specified state statutes. The measure would make findings in this regard and provide that its provisions are severable.
Organization Position
Cupertino Support
SB 6 (Caballero D) Local planning: housing: commercial zones.
Current Text: Enrollment: 8/29/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/29/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 8/25/2022) Introduced: 12/7/2020
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 8/29/2022-S. ENROLLMENT
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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 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, current 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 Middle Class Housing Act of 2022, 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 specified conditions are met, including requirements relating to density, public notice, comment, hearing, or other procedures, site location and size, consistency with sustainable community strategy or alternative plans, prevailing wage, and a skilled and trained workforce.
Organization Position
Cupertino Oppose
SB 379 (Wiener D) Residential solar energy systems: permitting.
Current Text: Enrolled: 8/25/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/19/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 8/15/2022) Introduced: 2/10/2021
Last Amend: 8/15/2022
Status: 8/23/2022-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 3.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Location: 8/23/2022-S. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing 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. Existing 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. Existing law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Existing 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 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. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
SB 897 (Wieckowski D) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: Amended: 8/25/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/26/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/25/2022) Introduced: 2/1/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 8/25/2022-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 8/11/2022-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/30/2022 #112 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Summary: Current law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. This bill would require that the standards imposed on accessory dwelling units be objective. For purposes of this requirement, the bill would define “objective standard” as a standard that involves no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified. The bill would also prohibit a local agency from denying an application for a permit to create an accessory dwelling unit due to the correction of nonconforming zoning conditions, building code violations, or unpermitted structures that do not present a threat to public health and safety and are not affected by the construction of the accessory dwelling unit.
Organization Position
Cupertino Oppose
SB 986 (Umberg D) Vehicles: catalytic converters.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/24/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/24/2022) Introduced: 2/14/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 8/24/2022-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 8/16/2022-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/30/2022 #159 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Summary: Current law requires a core recycler that accepts, ships, or sells used catalytic converters to maintain specified information regarding the purchase and sale of the catalytic converters. Current law prohibits a core recycler from providing payment for a catalytic converter unless the payment is made by check, the check is mailed or provided no earlier than 3 days after the date of sale, unless the seller is a business, and the core recycler obtains a photograph or video of the seller, a written statement regarding the origin of the catalytic converter, and certain other identifying information, as specified.
Current law exempts from this requirement a core recycler that buys used catalytic converters, transmissions, or other parts removed from a vehicle if the core recycler and the seller have a written agreement for the transaction. Existing law requires a core recycler to provide this information for inspection by local law enforcement upon demand. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would instead of payment by check, require payment by any traceable method, other than cash.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
SB 1087 (Gonzalez D) Vehicles: catalytic converters.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/24/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/24/2022) Introduced: 2/15/2022
Last Amend: 8/24/2022
Status: 8/24/2022-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 8/16/2022-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/30/2022 #171 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Summary: Would prohibit any person from purchasing a used catalytic converter from anybody other than certain specified sellers, including an automobile dismantler, an automotive repair dealer, or an individual possessing documentation, as specified, that they are the lawful owner of the catalytic converter. A violation of this provision would be an infraction, punishable by a fine, as specified.
Organization Position
Cupertino Watch
SB 1338 (Umberg D) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program.
Current Text: Amended: 8/25/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/26/2022 Assembly Floor Analysis (text 8/25/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 8/25/2022
Status: 8/25/2022-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 8/16/2022-A. THIRD READING
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Calendar: 8/30/2022 #184 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE - SENATE BILLS Summary: Existing law, the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura’s Law, requires each county to offer specified mental health programs, unless a county or group of counties opts out by a resolution passed by the governing body, as specified. Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, provides for short-term and longer-term involuntary treatment and conservatorships for people who are determined to be gravely disabled. This bill, contingent upon the State Department of Health Care Services developing an allocation to provide financial assistance to counties, would enact the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which would authorize specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 1469 (Bradford D) Water corporations: rates.
Current Text: Amended: 8/23/2022 html pdf
Current Analysis: 08/29/2022 Senate Floor Analyses (text 8/23/2022) Introduced: 2/18/2022
Last Amend: 8/23/2022
Status: 8/29/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Location: 8/29/2022-S. CONCURRENCE
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Calendar: 8/30/2022 #90 SENATE UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Summary: Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in establishing rates for water service, to consider separate charges for costs associated with customer service, facilities, variable operating costs, or other components of the water service provided to water users. Current law requires the commission to consider, and authorizes the commission to authorize, a water corporation to establish programs, including rate designs, for achieving conservation of water and recovering the cost of these programs through the rates. This bill would, upon application by a water corporation with more than 10,000 service connections, require the commission to consider, and authorize the commission to authorize, the implementation of a mechanism that separates the water corporation’s revenues and its water sales, as provided.
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Total Measures: 22
Total Tracking Forms: 22