BILLS TO CONSIDER
BILL
SUBJECT
SUMMARY
STATUS
AB 817 (Pacheco)
Open Meetings
Allows subsidiary bodies of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing provisions under the Brown Act, without the need of a State of Emergency.
Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee. Pending hearing date.
AB 1285 (Wicks)
Homelessness
Requires that individuals supported by the Encampment Resolution Fund receive priority for state-funded permanent housing.
Referred to Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee. Pending hearing date.
AB 1307 (Wicks)
Housing and Land Use
Specifies that noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents does not have a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA.
Referred to Assembly Natural Resources Committee. Pending hearing date.
AB 1532 (Haney)
Housing and Land Use
Makes the conversion of vacant office buildings into residential developments a use by right in all areas regardless of zoning.
Pending Policy Committee Referral
ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry)
Revenue and Taxation
Lowers the necessary voter threshold from a two-thirds supermajority to 55 percent to approve local general obligation (GO) bonds and special taxes for affordable housing and public infrastructure projects.
Pending Policy Committee Referral
SB 423 (Wiener)
Housing and Land Use
Extends the provisions of SB 35 (Wiener, Statutes of 2017) indefinitely. Removes coastal exemption and objective planning standards criteria.
Double-referred to Senate Committees on Housing and Governance and Finance. Housing Committee hearing set for March 21.
BILLS TO MONITOR
BILL
SUBJECT
SUMMARY
STATUS
AB 557 (Hart)
Open Meetings
Extends modified teleconferencing provisions under the Brown Act when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health, indefinitely.
Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee. Pending hearing date AB 894 (Friedman)
Housing and Land Use
Requires public agencies to allow underutilized parking spaces to be shared with other land uses and the public, and to count shared parking toward meeting parking requirements in specified circumstances Double-referred to the Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development. Local Government hearing pending scheduling.
AB 1637 (Irwin)
Governance and Transparency
Requires local governments to transition to a .gov internet domain Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee. Pending hearing date.
AB 1724 (Sanchez)
Revenue and Taxation
Reduces the rate of tax imposed by the Sales and Use Tax Law on and after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2025, by 1%.
Referred to Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee. Pending hearing date.
SB 4 (Wiener)
Housing and Land Use
Requires that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution.
Referred to Senate Housing Committee. Hearing set for March 21.
SB 36 (Skinner)
Public Safety
Would strengthen California’s safe haven protections by making it illegal for bail agents or bounty hunters to apprehend people in California who are in California to avoid criminal prosecution or imprisonment related to another state’s criminalization for abortion or gender-affirming care.
SB 287 (Skinner)
Public Safety
Prohibits a social media platform, as defined, from using a design, algorithm, practice, affordance, or feature that the platform knows, or which by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, causes child users to do any of certain things, including experience addiction to the social media platform.
AB 1661 (Bonta)
Housing and Land Use
This bill seeks to, at the property owners request, exempt the need for a new, separate utility meter for single family homes if they are adding an ADU.
AB 1719 (Bonta)
Cannabis
This bill says cities don’t need to do a CEQA study for retail or other approved cannabis uses.