City of Fullerton
2/2/2022
AB 84 (Committee on Budget) Employment: COVID-19: supplemental paid sick leave.
Last Amend: 2/2/2022
Status: 5/18/2021-Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. (Amended 02/02/2022) Location: 1/26/2022-S. BUDGET & F.R.
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Calendar: 2/3/2022 Upon adjournment of Session - Senate Chamber SENATE BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW, SKINNER, Chair
Summary: Would, beginning January 1, 2022, until September 30, 2022, provide for COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave for covered employees who are unable to work or telework due to certain reasons related to COVID-19, including that the employee is attending a COVID-19 vaccine or vaccine booster appointment for themselves or a family member, or is experiencing symptoms, or caring for a family member experiencing symptoms, related to a COVID-19 vaccine or vaccine booster. The bill would entitle a covered employee to 40 hours of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave if that employee either works full time or was scheduled to work, on average, at least 40 hours per week for the employer in the 2 weeks preceding the date the covered employee took COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 87 (Committee on Budget) Economic relief: COVID-19 pandemic.
Last Amend: 2/2/2022
Status: 5/18/2021-Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. (Amended 02/02/2022) Location: 1/26/2022-S. BUDGET & F.R.
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Calendar: 2/3/2022 Upon adjournment of Session - Senate Chamber SENATE BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW, SKINNER, Chair
Summary: Would create the California Emergency Relief Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury to provide emergency resources or relief relating to state of emergency declarations proclaimed by the Governor. The bill would transfer from the General Fund to the California Emergency Relief Fund $150,000,000 for purposes relating to the COVID-19 emergency proclaimed by the Governor on March 4, 2020. The bill would appropriate $150,000,000 from that fund to the Office of Small Business Advocate for a closed round to fund small business grant applications waitlisted from previous rounds of the California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program.
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City- General Watch
AB 228 (Rodriguez D) Firearms.
Last Amend: 1/24/2022
Status: 2/1/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
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Summary: Current law authorizes the licensing authority of a city, county, or a city and county to grant licenses to sell firearms at retail within the city, county, or city and county. Current law requires the Department of Justice to maintain a list of licensed firearms dealers. Current law authorizes the department to inspect dealers to ensure compliance with specified provisions of firearms law and to assess an annual fee to cover the reasonable costs of maintaining the dealer list and conducting inspections. Current law exempts a dealer located in a jurisdiction that has adopted an inspection program to ensure compliance with firearms law from that portion of the department’s fee that relates to the cost of inspections.This bill would, commencing January 1, 2024, require the department to conduct inspections of dealers at least every 3 years, with the exception of a dealer whose place of business is located in a jurisdiction that has adopted an inspection program..
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City- General Watch
AB 485 (Nguyen R) Hate crimes: reporting.
Last Amend: 3/25/2021
Status: 1/25/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 1/25/2022-S. RLS.
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Summary: Current law defines a “hate crime” as a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including, among other things, race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. Current law requires the Attorney General to direct local law enforcement agencies to report information relating to hate crimes to the Department of Justice, as specified, and requires the department to post that information on a specified internet website on or before July 1 of each year. This bill would additionally require local law enforcement agencies to post the information sent to the department on their internet website on a monthly basis.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 682 (Bloom D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: cohousing buildings.
Last Amend: 1/13/2022
Status: 1/27/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 1/27/2022-S. RLS.
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Summary: Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for moderate-income, lower income, or very low income households and meets other requirements. This bill would additionally require that a density bonus be provided under these provisions to a developer who agrees to construct a housing development that is a cohousing building, as defined, that meets specified requirements and will contain either 10% of the total square footage for lower income households, as defined, or 5% of the total square footage for very low income households, as defined.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1001 (Garcia, Cristina D) Environment: mitigation measures for air and water quality impacts:
environmental justice.
Last Amend: 1/24/2022
Status: 2/1/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
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Summary: 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 it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would authorize mitigation measures, identified in an environmental impact report or mitigated negative declaration to mitigate the adverse effects of a project on air or water quality of a disadvantaged community, to include measures for avoiding, minimizing, or compensating for the adverse effects on that community.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1154 (Patterson R) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: egress route projects: fire safety.
Last Amend: 1/12/2022
Status: 1/27/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 1/27/2022-S. RLS.
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Summary: Would, until January 1, 2029, exempt from CEQA egress route projects undertaken by a public agency to improve emergency access to and evacuation from a subdivision without a secondary egress if the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has recommended the creation of a secondary access to the subdivision and certain conditions are met. The bill would require the lead agency to hold a noticed public meeting to hear and respond to public comments before determining that a project is
exempt. The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA and approves or carries out that project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and with the clerk of the county in which the project will be located.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1406 (Lackey R) Law enforcement agency policies: carrying of equipment.
Last Amend: 1/27/2022
Status: 2/1/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
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Summary: Current law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy on the use of force, as specified. Current law places certain restrictions on the use of force by law enforcement agencies, including prohibiting the use of a choke hold or carotid restraint. This bill would require a law enforcement agency that authorizes peace officers to carry an electroshock device, such as a taser or stun gun that is held and operated in a manner similar to a pistol, to require that device to be holstered or otherwise carried on the lateral side of the body opposite to the side that that officer’s primary firearm is holstered.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1445 (Levine D) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts.
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 2/1/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
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Summary: Would, commencing January 1, 2025, require that a council of governments, a delegate subregion, or the Department of Housing and Community Development, as applicable, additionally consider among these factors emergency evacuation route capacity, wildfire risk, sea level rise, and other impacts caused by climate change.
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City- General Watch
AB 1551 (Santiago D) Planning and zoning: development bonuses: mixed-use projects.
Last Amend: 1/13/2022
Status: 1/27/2022-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 1/27/2022-S. RLS.
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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
City- General Watch
AB 1594 (Ting D) Firearms: civil suits.
Status: 1/4/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
Location: 1/3/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Current law defines a public nuisance and provides that a public nuisance may be remedied by an indictment or information, a civil action, or abatement. Current law also regulates the
manufacture, sale, and marketing of firearms. This bill would specify that a gun industry member has created or maintained a public nuisance, as defined, if their failure to follow federal, state, or local law caused injury or death or if the gun industry member engaged in unfair business practices.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1595 (Quirk-Silva D) Veterans cemetery: County of Orange.
Status: 1/14/2022-Referred to Com. on M. & V.A.
Location: 1/14/2022-A. M. & V.A.
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Summary: Current law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to acquire, study, design, develop, construct, and equip a state-owned and state-operated Southern California Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange at one of 2 possible sites, as specified. Current law requires the department to, after completing acquisition studies on both sites, consult with the Department of General Services to determine which site to pursue based on the economic feasibility, benefits to veterans and City of Irvine residents, and availability of each location. Current law makes honorably discharged veterans, their spouses, and dependent children eligible for interment in the cemetery, as specified. This bill would delete those site selection requirements and would instead require the department to acquire, study, design, develop, construct, and equip a state-owned and state-operated Southern California Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange.
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City of Fullerton
AB 1603 (Salas D) Theft: shoplifting: amount.
Status: 1/14/2022-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 1/14/2022-A. PUB. S.
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Summary: Proposition 47 requires shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny if the value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor. Under current law, entering a commercial establishment with the intent to take property exceeding $950 is burglary, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would amend Proposition 47 by reducing the threshold amount for petty theft and shoplifting from $950 to $400. The bill would provide that it shall become effective only when submitted to, and approved by, the voters of California.
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City- General Watch
AB 1604 (Holden D) The Upward Mobility Act of 2022: boards and commissions: civil service:
examinations: classifications.
Status: 1/14/2022-Referred to Com. on P.E. & R.
Location: 1/14/2022-A. P.E. & R.
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Summary: Would require that, on or after January 1, 2023, all state boards and commissions consisting of one or more volunteer members have at least one board member or commissioner from an underrepresented community. The bill would define the term “board member or commissioner from an underrepresented community” as an individual who self-identifies as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, or Alaska Native; who self- identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender; who is a veteran, as defined; or who has a disability, as defined. The bill would apply these requirements only as vacancies on state boards and commissions occur.
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City- General Watch
AB 1610 (Lackey R) State mandates: claims.
Status: 1/14/2022-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 1/14/2022-A. L. GOV.
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Summary: The California Constitution, whenever the Legislature or a state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, including school districts, requires the state to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse the local government, unless an exception applies.
Statutory provisions that establish procedures for making that reimbursement include a requirement that no claim shall be made or paid unless it exceeds $1,000. This bill would change the minimum claim amount to $800.
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City- General
AB 1612 (Burke D) Taxation: Federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act: shuttered venue operator grants.
Status: 1/14/2022-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: 1/14/2022-A. REV. & TAX
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Summary: Current federal law, the Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act, among other things, awards grants to eligible shuttered venue operators, including live venue operators or promoters, theatrical producers, and live performing arts organization operators. Current federal law excludes from gross income for purposes of federal income taxes any amount received in the form of a shuttered venue operator grant, as specified. Current federal law prohibits reductions in tax deductions, reductions in tax attributes, and denials of basis adjustments, for federal income tax purposes based on that exclusion. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, and in conformity with federal law, would exclude from gross income any amount received in the form of a federal shuttered venue operator grant.
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City- General Watch
AB 1615 (Ting D) Foster youth: housing.
Status: 1/14/2022-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HUM. S.
Location: 1/14/2022-A. H. & C.D.
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Summary: Current law, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to allocate funding to counties to provide housing navigators to help young adults who are 18 to 21 years of age, inclusive, secure and maintain housing, with priority given to young adults in the foster care system. Current law requires a child welfare agency that accepts any distribution of money pursuant to either program to report specified information to the department on an annual basis. This bill would rename to housing navigator program as the Housing Navigation and Maintenance Program, and would extend eligibility and priority for the program to help young adults who are 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, with priority given to young adults formerly or currently in the foster care system.
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City- General Watch
AB 1621 (Gipson D) Firearms: unserialized firearms.
Status: 1/11/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
Location: 1/10/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Existing law prohibits possession of a firearm without a serial number. Existing law prohibits possession of a firearm that has had the serial number altered, removed, or obliterated. Existing law defines a firearm to include the frame or receiver.This bill would make certain findings and declarations and would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to unserialized firearms.This bill contains other existing laws.
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City- General Spot
AB 1627 (Ramos D) Opioid overdose prevention.
Status: 1/20/2022-Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S.
Location: 1/20/2022-A. HEALTH
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Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2016, to award funding to local health departments, local government agencies, or on a competitive basis to other organizations, as specified, to support or establish programs that provide naloxone to first responders and to at-risk opioid users through programs that serve at-risk drug users. This bill would require the department to provide funding to local behavioral health
departments to provide naloxone, free of charge, to individuals who attend a training program on the administration of naloxone, as specified.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1632 (Weber, Akilah D) Restroom access: medical conditions.
Status: 1/20/2022-Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH.
Location: 1/20/2022-A. B.&P.
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Summary: Current law sets forth various requirements for providing restroom access in the workplace, place of public accommodation, or elsewhere, under specified circumstances, including, among others, provisions relating to employees, disabled travelers, baby diaper changing stations, and all-gender toilet facilities. This bill would, if certain conditions are met, require a place of business open to the general public for the sale of goods or services that has a toilet facility for its employees to allow any individual who is lawfully on the premises of that place of business to use that toilet facility during normal business hours, even if the place of business does not normally make the employee toilet facility available to the general public.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1638 (Kiley R) Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law: suspension of tax.
Status: 1/13/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
Location: 1/12/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would suspend the imposition of the tax on motor vehicle fuels for 6 months. The bill would direct the Controller to transfer a specified amount from the General Fund to the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account in the Transportation Tax Fund. By transferring General Fund moneys to a continuously appropriated account, this bill would make an appropriation.
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City- General Watch
AB 1642 (Salas D) California Environmental Quality Act: water system well and domestic well projects:
exemption.
Status: 1/20/2022-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 1/20/2022-A. NAT. RES.
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Summary: Current law establishes the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water in both the near and long terms. Current law requires the state board to annually adopt, and update every 3 years, a fund expenditure plan that contains specified information, including, but not limited to, a list of water systems that consistently fail to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water. Current law requires the state board to develop a drinking water needs assessment to inform the board’s annual fund expenditure plan. This bill would exempt from CEQA a project that relates to a well that is part of a water system or to a domestic well that has been designated by the state board as high risk or medium risk in the state board’s drinking water assessment and that is designed to mitigate or prevent a failure of the well or the domestic well that would leave residents that rely on the well, the water system to which the well is connected, or the domestic well without an adequate supply of safe drinking water. The bill would require a lead agency that determines that a project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to these provisions to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk, as provided.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1648 (Maienschein D) Disaster preparedness: local government: animal wildfire evacuation plan.
Status: 1/20/2022-Referred to Com. on E.M.
Location: 1/20/2022-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
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Summary: The Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, is required to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system
for use by all emergency response agencies. Current law requires the office to approve and adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the Department of Food and Agriculture into the standardized emergency management system. This bill would require a city or county that requires a kennel license or permit to operate a kennel within its jurisdiction, to require, as a condition for obtaining the kennel license or permit, that the kennel owner create and submit to the city or county an animal natural disaster evacuation plan for any kennel covered by the license or permit.
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City- General Watch
AB 1653 (Patterson R) Property crimes: regional property crimes task force.
Status: 1/27/2022-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Location: 1/27/2022-A. PUB. S.
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Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2026, requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to coordinate with the Department of Justice to convene a regional property crimes task force to identify geographic areas experiencing increased levels of property crimes and assist local law enforcement with resources, such as personnel and equipment.This bill would specify theft of vehicle parts and accessories as a property crime for consideration by the regional property crimes task force.
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City- General Watch
AB 1663 (Maienschein D) Protective proceedings.
Status: 1/27/2022-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 1/27/2022-A. JUD.
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Summary: The Guardianship-Conservatorship Law, generally establishes the standards and procedures for the appointment of, and termination of an appointment for, a guardian or conservator of a person, an estate, or both. Under current law, a court may appoint the Director of Developmental Services as guardian or conservator of the person and estate or person or estate of a developmentally disabled person, and in which case a specified order of preferences for deciding between equally qualified prospective conservators does not apply. Current law authorizes the director to have these conservatorship duties performed through a regional center, or an agency or individual designated by the regional center, as specified. This bill would revise various procedures in the conservatorship process.
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City- General Watch
AB 1685 (Bryan D) Vehicles: parking violations.
Status: 1/25/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Current law authorizes a parking citation processing agency, as defined, to collect an unpaid parking penalty by requesting the Department of Motor Vehicles to place a registration hold on the vehicle to which the citations have been issued, or by obtaining a civil judgment against the registered owner of the vehicle, as specified. Current law requires a processing agency to offer a payment plan for unpaid parking citations to qualified indigent persons. This bill would require a processing agency to forgive up to $1,500 in parking fines and fees for a qualified homeless person, as specified.
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City- General Watch
AB 1690 (Rivas, Luz D) Tobacco products: single-use components.
Status: 1/25/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Would prohibit a person or entity from selling, giving, or furnishing to another person of any age in this state a cigarette utilizing a single-use filter made of any material, an attachable and single- use plastic device meant to facilitate manual manipulation or filtration of a tobacco product, or a single- use electronic cigarette or vaporizer device. The bill would prohibit that selling, giving, or furnishing,
whether conducted directly or indirectly through an in-person transaction, or by means of any public or private method of shipment or delivery to an address in this state.
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City- General Watch
AB 1698 (Maienschein D) Organized Package Theft Act.
Status: 1/26/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Location: 1/25/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Would, until January 1, 2026, make a person guilty of organized package theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acted in concert with one or more persons to steal one or more packages that have been left for delivery at the exterior of a residence, or any other place commonly used to deliver packages, with the intent to sell or return the contents of the package for value, acted in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess a package or the contents of a package knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acted as an agent of another to steal one or more packages that have been left for delivery at the exterior of a residence, or any other place commonly used to deliver packages, as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruited, coordinated, organized, supervised, directed, managed, or financed another to undertake acts of package theft.
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City- General Watch
AB 1699 (Maienschein D) Vehicles used in commission of crimes.
Status: 1/26/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Location: 1/25/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Would count as a point against a driver’s record a conviction of organized retail theft that involved the use or acquisition of a vehicle in the commission of the crime. The bill would also count as a point against a driver’s record a conviction of theft of a package from residences, as specified, that involved the use or acquisition of a vehicle in the commission of the crime.
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City- General Watch
AB 1700 (Maienschein D) Theft: online marketplaces: reporting.
Status: 1/26/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
Location: 1/25/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Would require the Attorney General to establish a reporting location on its internet website for individuals to report items found on online marketplaces, as defined, that they suspect are stolen goods, and would require the Attorney General to provide that information to the applicable local law enforcement agency and regional property crimes task force. The bill would additionally require online marketplaces to display on their electronically based or accessed platform a link to the Attorney General’s online marketplace suspected stolen goods reporting location.
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City- General Watch
AB 1702 (Levine D) Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: COVID-19 prevention and response goods.
Status: 1/27/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Location: 1/26/2022-A. PRINT
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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.
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City- General Watch
AB 1713 (Boerner Horvath D) Vehicles: required stops: bicycles.
Status: 1/27/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
Location: 1/26/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Would, until January 1, 2026, require a person who is 18 years of age or older riding a bicycle, when approaching a stop sign at the entrance of an intersection, to yield the right-of-way to any vehicles that have either stopped at or entered the intersection, or that are approaching on the intersecting highway close enough to constitute an immediate hazard, and to pedestrians, as specified, and continue to yield the right-of-way to those vehicles and pedestrians until reasonably safe to proceed. The bill would require other vehicles to yield the right-of-way to a bicycle that, having yielded as prescribed, has entered the intersection. The bill would state that these provisions do not affect the liability of a driver of a motor vehicle as a result of the driver’s negligent or wrongful act or omission in the operation of a motor vehicle.
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City- General Watch
AB 1717 (Aguiar-Curry D) Public works: definition.
Status: 1/28/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
Location: 1/27/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Current law defines the term “public works” for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Current law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a misdemeanor. This bill would expand the definition of “public works” to include fuel reduction work paid for in whole or in part out of public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project, as specified.
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City- General Watch
AB 1721 (Rodriguez D) California Emergency Services Act: Emergency Medical Services Mutual Aid Program.
Status: 1/28/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
Location: 1/27/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the Emergency Medical Services Mutual Aid Program, to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services, to support local government efforts in responding to surges in demand for emergency medical services and provide effective mutual aid during disasters, as defined.
The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require OES to provide noncompetitive grant funding to local governments, special districts, and tribes for the purpose of acquiring emergency medical services, as specified. The bill would also require OES to provide an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program, as specified.
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City- General Watch
AB 1733 (Quirk D) State bodies: open meetings.
Status: 2/1/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Location: 1/31/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a state body be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body. Current law requires a state body to provide notice of its meeting to any person who requests that notice in writing and to provide notice of the meeting of its internet website at least 10 days in advance of the meeting, as prescribed. Current law exempts from the 10-day notice requirement, special meetings and emergency meetings in accordance with specified provisions. Current law authorizes a state body to adjourn any regular, adjourned regular, special, or adjourned special meeting to a time and place specified in the order of adjournment, and authorizes a state body to similarly continue or recontinue any hearing being held, or noticed, or ordered to be held by a state body at any meeting. This bill would specify that a “meeting” under the act, includes a meeting held entirely by teleconference.
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City- General Watch
AB 1734 (Bennett D) Alcoholic beverages: licensed premises: retail sales.
Status: 2/1/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Location: 1/31/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, with exceptions, prohibits a alcoholic beverage licensee from having, upon the licensed premises, any alcoholic beverages other than the alcoholic beverage that the licensee is authorized to sell at the premises under their license, and makes a violation of this prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would, as an exception to that prohibition, authorize the holder of a beer manufacturer’s license, winegrower’s license, brandy manufacturer’s license, distilled spirits manufacturer’s license, craft distiller’s license, any rectifier’s license, or any importer’s license, that holds more than one of those licenses for a single premises, to maintain a designated area upon that premises where retail sales authorized under any of those manufacturer’s licenses may occur, subject to specified conditions.
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City- General Watch
AB 1738 (Boerner Horvath D) Building standards: installation of electric vehicle charging stations:
existing buildings.
Status: 2/1/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
Location: 1/31/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose to the California Building Standards Commission for consideration mandatory building standards for the installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings, as specified. Existing law requires the commission to adopt, approve, codify, and publish mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and nonresidential development. This bill would recast these provisions to instead require mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations with Level 2 or direct current fast charger electric vehicle supply equipment, as defined, to be proposed by the Department of Housing and Community Development for the installation in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, and motels, by the Division of the State Architect for the installation in existing school buildings, and by the commission for the installation in existing nonresidential buildings, as specified.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1748 (Seyarto R) Exempt surplus land: regional housing need.
Status: 2/1/2022-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/1/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency.
Current law defines “surplus land” for these purposed to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Current law provides that an agency is not required to follow the requirements for disposal of surplus land for “exempt surplus land,” except as provided.
Currentlaw categorizes as “exempt surplus land,” surplus land that a local agency is transferring to another local, state, or federal agency for the agency’s use. This bill would add to the definition of “exempt surplus land,” surplus land that is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential units and is owned by a city or county that demonstrates adequate progress in meeting its share of regional housing need in its annual report, as specified, has constructed an adequate number of housing units to meet its share of regional housing need in the immediately preceding or current housing element cycle, as specified, or is designated as prohousing by the department.
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City- General Watch
AB 1749 (Garcia, Cristina D) Community Air Protection Blueprint: community emissions reduction programs: toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants.
Status: 2/1/2022-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/1/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare, and to update at least once every 5 years, a statewide strategy, known as the “Community Air Protection Blueprint” or “Blueprint,” to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants in communities affected by a high cumulative exposure burden. Current law requires the state board, based on the assessment and identification of communities with high cumulative exposure burdens, to select locations around the state for preparation of community emissions reduction programs. Current law requires an air district encompassing any location selected by the state board to adopt a community emissions reduction program to achieve emissions reductions for the location selected using cost-effective measures, as specified, to submit the program to the state board for review and approval as prescribed, and to prepare an annual report summarizing the results and actions taken to further reduce emissions pursuant to the community emissions reduction program, among other things. This bill would require the state board to identify in each statewide strategy update measures to reduce criteria air pollutants and toxic air contaminants in disadvantaged communities, as provided.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1751 (Daly D) Workers’ compensation: COVID-19: critical workers.
Status: 2/1/2022-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/1/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines “injury” for an employee to include illness or death resulting from the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) under specified circumstances, until January 1, 2023.
Existing law create a disputable presumption, as specified, that the injury arose out of and in the course of the employment and is compensable, for specified dates of injury. Current law requires an employee to exhaust their paid sick leave benefits and meet specified certification requirements before receiving any temporary disability benefits or, for police officers, firefighters, and other specified employees, a leave of absence. Existing law also make a claim relating to a COVID-19 illness presumptively compensable, as described above, after 30 days or 45 days, rather than 90 days.
Current law, until January 1, 2023, allows for a presumption of injury for all employees whose fellow employees at their place of employment experience specified levels of positive testing, and whose employer has 5 or more employees. This bill would extend the above-described provisions relating to COVID-19 until January 1, 2025.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
AB 1755 (Levine D) Homeowners’ insurance: home hardening.
Status: 2/1/2022-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/1/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law creates the Department of Insurance to regulate the business of insurance.
Current law generally regulates classes of insurance, including homeowners’ insurance. Current law prohibits an insurer, for one year after the declaration of a state of emergency, from canceling or refusing to renew a residential property insurance policy solely because the property is in an area in which a wildfire occurred. This bill would require an admitted insurer licensed to issue homeowners’ insurance policies to issue a policy to a homeowner who has hardened their home against fire, regardless of the home’s location, on and after January 1, 2025, and would require an insurer to make conforming changes to its internet website and print materials on or before July 1, 2025.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.
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 Chaptered1st 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
City- General
ACA 11 (Kalra D) Taxes to fund health care coverage and cost control.
Status: 1/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee February 5.
Location: 1/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would impose an excise tax, payroll taxes, and a State Personal Income CalCare Tax at specified rates to fund comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage and a health care cost control system for the benefit of every resident of the state, as well as reserves deemed necessary to ensure payment, to be established in statute. The measure would authorize the Legislature, upon an economic analysis determining insufficient amounts to fund these purposes, to increase any or all of these tax rates by a statute passed by majority vote of both houses of the Legislature.
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City- General Watch
SB 3 (Caballero D) Education finance: local control and accountability plan portal.
Last Amend: 1/20/2022
Status: 1/27/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/27/2022-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the State Department of Education to develop, on or before July 1, 2023, a local control and accountability plan portal that will allow comprehensive analysis by policymakers of actions, expenditures, and progress on metrics included within local control and accountability plans adopted by local educational agencies. The bill would require the portal to include a tracking mechanism for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to use to report the types of services on which they spend their supplemental and concentration grant funds. Commencing January 1, 2024, the bill would require each local educational agency to annually report to the department the types of services on which it spends its supplemental and concentration grant funds using the portal developed by the department.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 6 (Caballero D) Local planning: housing: commercial zones.
Last Amend: 8/23/2021
Status: 9/10/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(15). (Last location was H. & C.D. on 8/23/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022)
Location: 9/10/2021-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st 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. This bill, the Neighborhood Homes Act, would deem a housing development project, as defined, an allowable use on a neighborhood lot, which is defined as a parcel within an office or retail commercial zone that is not adjacent to an industrial 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.
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City- General
SB 12 (McGuire D) Local government: planning and zoning: wildfires.
Last Amend: 7/1/2021
Status: 7/14/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was H. & C.D. on 6/24/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022)
Location: 7/14/2021-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that the Office of Planning and Research, among other things, coordinate with appropriate entities, including state, regional, or local agencies, to establish a clearinghouse for climate adaptation information for use by state, regional, and local entities, as provided. This bill would require the safety element, upon the next revision of the housing element or the hazard mitigation plan, on or after July 1, 2024, whichever occurs first, to be reviewed and updated as necessary to include a comprehensive retrofit strategy to reduce the risk of property loss and damage during wildfires, as specified, and would require the planning agency to submit the adopted strategy to the Office of Planning and Research for inclusion into the above-described clearinghouse.
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City- General
SB 43 (Umberg D) Veterans cemetery: County of Orange.
Last Amend: 1/6/2022
Status: 1/6/2022-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on M. & V.A.
Location: 1/6/2022-A. M. & V.A.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to acquire, study, design, develop, construct, and equip a state-owned and state-operated Southern California Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange at one of 2 possible sites, as specified. Current law requires the department to, after completing acquisition studies on both sites, consult with the Department of General Services to determine which site to pursue based on the economic feasibility, benefits to veterans and City of Irvine residents, and availability of each location. Current law makes honorably discharged veterans, their spouses, and dependent children eligible for interment in the cemetery, as specified. This bill would delete those site selection requirements and would instead require the department to acquire, study, design, develop, construct, and equip a state-owned and state-operated Southern California Veterans Cemetery in the City of Irvine, or in the City of Anaheim, as specified.
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City of Fullerton Watch
SB 45 (Portantino D) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals: local jurisdiction assistance.
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st 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
City- General
SB 49 (Umberg D) Income taxes: credits: California Fair Fees Tax Credit.
Last Amend: 5/11/2021
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, to a taxpayer that meets certain criteria, including that the taxpayer temporarily ceased business operations for at least 30
consecutive days during the taxable year in response to an emergency order, as defined. The amount of credit would vary based on the number of consecutive days the qualified taxpayer has ceased business operations during the taxable year, with a maximum amount of $6,000 if the qualified taxpayer has temporarily ceased business operations for at least 180 consecutive days, as provided.
Organization Position
City of Fullerton
SB 222 (Dodd D) Water Rate Assistance Program.
Last Amend: 8/30/2021
Status: 9/10/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(15). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/3/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022)
Location: 9/10/2021-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: 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 ratepayers and ratepayers experiencing economic hardship in California. The bill would require the Department of Community Services and Development to develop and administer the Water Rate Assistance Program established by the bill.
Organization Position
City of Fullerton Oppose
SB 379 (Wiener D) Residential solar energy systems: permitting.
Last Amend: 1/12/2022
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 1.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a city or county to approve administratively applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Current law requires every city, county, or city and county to develop a streamlined permitting process for the installation of small residential rooftop solar energy systems, as that term is defined. Current law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Current law creates the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes its duties, which include administering programs for the installation of solar energy systems.This bill would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time for a solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than
38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and an energy storage system, as defined, paired with a solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 513 (Hertzberg D) Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services.
Last Amend: 1/3/2022
Status: 1/24/2022-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/24/2022-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program, under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires the department to, among other things, provide rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services to ensure housing affordability to people who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness. This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to develop and administer a program to award grants to qualified homeless shelters, as described, for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 612 (Portantino D) Electrical corporations and other load-serving entities: allocation of legacy resources.
Last Amend: 5/20/2021
Status: 7/14/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was U. & E. on 6/10/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022)
Location: 7/14/2021-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require an electrical corporation, by July 1, 2022, and not less than once every 3 years thereafter, to offer an allocation of certain electrical resources to its bundled customers and to other load-serving entities, including electric service providers and community choice aggregators, that serve departing load customers who bear cost responsibility for those resources. The bill would authorize a load-serving entity within the service territory of the electrical corporation to elect to receive all or a portion of the vintaged proportional share of those legacy resources allocated to its end-use customers and, if it so elects, would require it to pay to the electrical corporation the commission-established market price benchmark for the vintage proportional share of the resources received.
Organization Position
City of Fullerton
SB 833 (Dodd D) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022.
Status: 1/19/2022-Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Location: 1/19/2022-S. E. U., & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law assigns the 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 State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission is authorized to implement or administer. This bill, the Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022, would require the commission to develop and implement a grant program for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans and expedite permit review of distributed energy resources by local governments. The bill would require the plans to be consistent with the city, county, or city and county general plan and other local government planning documents.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
City of Fullerton
SB 839 (Dodd D) Electricity: demand response.
Status: 1/19/2022-Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Location: 1/19/2022-S. E. U., & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires each load-serving entity, defined as including electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, to maintain physical generating capacity and electrical demand response adequate to meet its electrical demand requirements. Existing law requires the commission to establish rules for how and when backup generation may be used within a demand response program and to establish reporting and data collection requirements to verify compliance with those rules. Pursuant to existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has authorized the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations to offer reliability-based demand response programs, including the base interruptible program, which is available to qualifying nonresidential customers of an electrical corporation. This bill would expressly require each of those large electrical corporations to administer the base interruptible program, except as specified. The bill would require each of those large electrical corporations to make its base interruptible program available to its qualifying commercial and industrial customers regardless of the load-serving entity that is those customers’ supplier of electricity
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 846 (Dodd D) Alcoholic beverages: retail on-sale license: off-sale privileges.
Status: 1/26/2022-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 1/26/2022-S. G.O.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses.
Under existing law, a retail package off-sale beer and wine license authorizes the sale, to consumers and not for resale, of beer in containers, and wine in packages, as specified, for consumption off the premises where sold. Current law prohibits the exercise of off-sale license privileges at a customer-
operated checkout stand located on the licensee’s physical premises. This bill would authorize a licensee with off-sale retail privileges to deliver alcoholic beverages to consumers away from the licensed premises if specified requirements are met.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 847 (Hurtado D) COVID-19 relief: tenancy: grant program.
Status: 1/26/2022-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD.
Location: 1/26/2022-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, the State Rental Assistance Program, establishes a program for providing rental assistance, using funding made available pursuant to federal law, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would, until January 1, 2025, create a grant program under the administration of the department and would require the department to award a program grant, as defined, to a qualified applicant who submits a complete application, as defined, on a first-come, first-served basis. The bill would define “qualified applicant” to mean a landlord who satisfies certain criteria, including that the landlord has applied for rental assistance funds pursuant to the State Rental Assistance Program and either received a negative final decision, as specified, or the landlord has been notified that an application to the State Rental Assistance Program was submitted, as specified, but 20 days have passed without a final decision being rendered.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 852 (Dodd D) Climate resilience districts: formation: funding mechanisms.
Status: 1/26/2022-Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and N.R. & W.
Location: 1/26/2022-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes certain local agencies to form a community revitalization authority (authority) within a community revitalization and investment area, as defined, to carry out provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law in that area for purposes related to, among other things, infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic revitalization. Existing law provides for the financing of these activities by, among other things, the issuance of bonds serviced by property tax increment revenues, and requires the authority to adopt a community revitalization and investment plan for the community revitalization and investment area that includes elements describing and governing revitalization activities. This bill would authorize a city, county, city and county, special district, or a combination of any of those entities to form a climate resilience district for the purposes of raising and allocating funding for eligible projects and the operating expenses of eligible projects. The bill would define “eligible project” for these purposes.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 857 (Hueso D) Telecommunications: universal service programs.
Status: 1/26/2022-Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Location: 1/26/2022-S. E. U., & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to supervise and regulate every public utility in the state, including telephone corporations, and to fix just and reasonable rates and charges for public utilities. Current law establishes the state’s 6 universal service funds in the State Treasury, including the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund and the California High-Cost Fund-B Administrative Committee Fund, and provides that moneys in each of the state’s universal service funds are the proceeds of rates and are held in trust for the benefit of ratepayers and to compensate telephone corporations for their costs of providing universal service. Moneys in the funds may only be expended to accomplish specified telecommunications universal service programs, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act or upon supplemental appropriation. Current law, until January 1, 2023, requires the commission to develop, implement, and maintain a suitable program to establish a fair and equitable local rate structure aided by universal service rate support to small independent telephone corporations that serve rural areas and are subject to rate-of-return regulation by the commission (the CHCF-A program). Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires the commission to develop, implement, and maintain a suitable, competitively neutral, and broad-based program to establish a fair and equitable local rate support structure aided by universal service rate support to telephone corporations serving areas where the cost of providing services exceeds rates charged by providers, as determined by the commission (the CHCF-B program). This bill would extend
the CHCF-A program and CHCF-B program requirements to January 1, 2028.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 861 (Limón D) Dementia Care Navigator Grant Program.
Status: 1/21/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 20.
Location: 1/20/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the Dementia Care Navigator Grant Program, to be administered by the California Department of Aging, in partnership with organizations with expertise using community health workers, promotores, and health navigators. The bill would provide that the purpose of the program is to incentivize organizations that provide services to local communities to provide dementia care navigation training services, as defined. The bill would authorize organizations with expertise using community health workers, promotores, and health navigators to apply for a grant. The bill would require the department to award grants on a competitive basis. The bill would require an organization that receives a grant pursuant to these provisions to provide to the department an annual report on the services provided on or before December 31 of the year the grant is received, as specified.
Organization Position
City- General Watch
SB 866 (Wiener D) Minors: vaccine consent.
Status: 1/21/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 20.
Location: 1/20/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would authorize a minor 12 years of age or older to consent to vaccines that meet specified federal agency criteria. The bill would authorize a vaccine provider, as defined, to administer a vaccine pursuant to the bill, but would not authorize the vaccine provider to provide any service that is otherwise outside the vaccine provider’s scope of practice.
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SB 871 (Pan D) Public health: immunizations.
Status: 1/25/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
Location: 1/24/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits the governing authority of a school or other institution from unconditionally admitting any person as a pupil of any public or private elementary or secondary school, childcare center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center, unless prior to their admission to that institution they have been fully immunized against various diseases, including measles, mumps, pertussis, hepatitis B, and any other disease deemed appropriate by the State Department of Public Health, as specified. Current law authorizes an exemption from those provisions for medical reasons. Under existing law, notwithstanding the above- described prohibition, full immunization against hepatitis B is not a condition by which the governing authority admits or advances a pupil to the 7th grade level of a public or private elementary or secondary school. This bill would remove the above-described exception relating to hepatitis B. The bill would additionally prohibit the governing authority of a school or other institution from unconditionally admitting any person as a pupil of any public or private elementary or secondary school, childcare center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center, unless prior to their admission to that institution they have been fully immunized against COVID-19.
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SB 872 (Dodd D) Pharmacies: mobile units.
Status: 1/25/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
Location: 1/24/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would authorize a county or a city and county to operate a licensed mobile unit to provide prescription medication within its jurisdiction to specified individuals, including those individuals without fixed addresses. The bill would authorize a mobile unit to dispense prescription medication pursuant to
a valid prescription if the county or the city and county meets prescribed requirements for licensure, staffing, and operations. The bill would authorize the board to license such a mobile unit.
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SB 873 (Newman D) California Transportation Commission: state transportation improvement program:
capital outlay support.
Status: 1/25/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
Location: 1/24/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the California Transportation Commission to biennially adopt a state transportation improvement program that lists all capital improvement projects that are expected to receive an allocation of state transportation funds, as specified. Current law characterizes the state transportation improvement program as a resource management document to assist the state and local entities to plan and implement transportation improvements and to use available resources in a cost-effective manner. Current law requires the program to specify the allocation or expenditure amount and the allocation or expenditure year for certain project components, as specified. This bill would require the commission to make an allocation of capital outlay support resources by project phase, including preconstruction, for each project in the program. The bill would require the commission to develop guidelines, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, to implement these allocation procedures.
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SB 881 (Min D) Load-serving entities: integrated resource plans.
Status: 1/27/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
Location: 1/26/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Current law requires the commission to adopt a process for each load-serving entity, defined as including electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, to file an integrated resource plan and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan to ensure that load-serving entities accomplish specified objectives. Current law requires each load- serving entity to prepare and file an integrated resource plan consistent with certain requirements on a time schedule directed by the commission and subject to commission review.This bill would require the commission to require each load-serving entity to undertake sufficient procurement to achieve a diverse, balanced, and reliable statewide portfolio and realize specified electricity sector greenhouse gas emissions reductions, as provided.
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SB 882 (Eggman D) Advisory Council on Improving Interactions between People with Intellectual and Development Disabilities and Law Enforcement.
Status: 1/27/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
Location: 1/26/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). Existing law requires POST to include in its basic training course adequate instruction in the handling of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illness, or both. Current law also requires POST to establish and keep updated a continuing education classroom training course relating to law enforcement interaction with developmentally disabled and mentally ill persons. This bill would create the Advisory Council on Improving Interactions between People with Intellectual and Development Disabilities and Law Enforcement, under the Department of Justice, to, among other things, evaluate existing training for peace officers specific to interactions between law enforcement and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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SB 895 (Laird D) Solid waste: nonprofit convenience zone recycler: definition.
Status: 2/1/2022-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act defines “nonprofit convenience zone recycler” for its purposes to mean a recycling center that meets one of 2 sets of criteria, one of which is a recycling center that is operated by a nonprofit organization and has operated in the same location for a period of not less than 5 years, that is certified by the department, and that is located within one mile of a supermarket that is in an exempt convenience zone. This bill would revise the criteria for, and expand the above definition of, a nonprofit convenience zone recycler by deleting the requirement that the recycling center operate in the same location for a period of not less than 5 years and allowing the recycling center to be located within 2 miles, rather than one mile, of a supermarket that is in an exempt convenience zone.
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SB 896 (Dodd D) Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.
Status: 2/1/2022-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, shrub-covered lands, grass-covered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material to maintain defensible space of 100 feet from each side. Current law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a statewide program to allow qualified entities, including counties and other political subdivisions of the state, to support and augment the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in its defensible space and home hardening assessment and education efforts. Current law requires the director to establish a common reporting platform that allows defensible space and home hardening assessment data, collected by the qualified entities, to be reported to the department. This bill would require any local government entity that is qualified to conduct these defensible space assessments in very high and high fire hazard severity zones and that reports that information to the department, to report that information using the common reporting platform.
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SB 897 (Wieckowski D) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units.
Status: 2/1/2022-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/1/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Thee Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Current law provides that an accessory dwelling unit may either be an attached or detached residential dwelling unit, and prescribes the minimum and maximum unit size requirements, height limitations, and setback requirements that a local agency may establish, including a 16-foot height limitation and a 4-foot side and rear setback requirement.This bill would increase the maximum height limitation that may be imposed by a local agency on an accessory dwelling unit to 25 feet.
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Total Measures: 69
Total Tracking Forms: 70