City of Fullerton Priority Bill Matrix
3/1/2023
AB 34 (Valencia D) Elections: independent redistricting commissions.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/5/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: Current law defines “independent redistricting commission” to mean a body, other than a legislative body, that is empowered to adopt the district boundaries of a legislative body. Current law permits a local jurisdiction to establish an independent redistricting commission to change the legislative body’s district boundaries. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish an independent redistricting commission in the County of Orange.
AB 52 (Grayson D) Sales and Use Tax Law: manufacturing equipment: research and development equipment.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/5/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Summary: The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes state 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. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including an exemption from those taxes, on and after July 1, 2014, and before July 1, 2030, for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property, as defined, that is, among other things, purchased by a qualified person for purchases for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal property, as specified, or purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in research and development. Current law prohibits the exemption described above from applying with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district pursuant to, or in accordance with, the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, and sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the California Constitution. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to expand the sales and use tax exemption for manufacturing and research and development equipment to preserve California’s status as a hub of innovation and technology and to encourage greater investment in California.
AB 400 (Rubio, Blanca D) Local agency design-build projects: authorization.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/2/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Summary: Current law authorizes local agencies, as defined, to use the design-build procurement process for specified types of projects, as prescribed. Current law, among other requirements for the design-build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing the use of the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2025.This bill would remove the January 1, 2025, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely.
AB 434 (Grayson D) Housing element: notice of violation.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, for housing development projects that submit a preliminary application prior to January 1, 2030, prohibits a city or county from conducting more than 5 hearings, as defined, held pursuant to these provisions, or any other law, ordinance, or regulation requiring a public hearing, if the proposed housing development project complies with the applicable, objective general plan and zoning standards in effect at the time an application is deemed complete, as defined.
Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General, that a city, county, or
or city and county, and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General, that a city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the department finds that the housing element or an amendment to that element, or any specified action or failure to act, does not substantially comply with the law as it pertains to housing elements or that any local government has taken an action in violation of certain housing laws. This bill would additionally authorize the department to notify a city, county, city and county, or the Attorney General when the planning agency of a city, county, or city and county fails to comply with the above-described provision that prohibits holding more than 5 hearings for specified variances.
AB 462 (Ramos D) Overdose response teams.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Summary: Would authorize the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, until January 1, 2029, to establish and implement overdose response teams with the sheriff’s departments of those counties. The bill would require the teams to only respond to and investigate overdose deaths and nonfatal overdoses involving juveniles and multiple victims, with a focus on overdose deaths related to fentanyl. The bill would require counties participating in these programs to send annual reports to the Assembly Select Committee on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction, and Overdose Prevention, including the number of arrests of drug dealers in each county, the amount of fentanyl and opioids seized in each county, and the number of units of opioid antagonists found at each overdose scene.
AB 557 (Hart D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/8/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with specified teleconferencing requirements in specified circumstances when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health, as specified. If there is a continuing state of emergency, or if state or local officials have imposed or recommended measures to promote social distancing, existing law requires a legislative body to make specified findings not later than 30 days after the first teleconferenced meeting, and to make those findings every 30 days thereafter, in order to continue to meet under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures. Current law requires a legislative body that holds a teleconferenced meeting under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures to give notice of the meeting and post agendas, as described, to allow members of the public to access the meeting and address the legislative body, to give notice of the means by which members of the public may access the meeting and offer public comment, including an opportunity for all persons to attend via a call-in option or an internet-based service option. Current law prohibits a legislative body that holds a teleconferenced meeting under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures from requiring public comments to be submitted in advance of the meeting and would specify that the legislative body must provide an opportunity for the public to address the legislative body and offer comment in real time. This bill would extend the above-described abbreviated teleconferencing provisions when a declared state of emergency is in effect, or in other situations related to public health, as specified, indefinitely.
AB 637 (Low D) Density Bonus Law.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified percentages of units for lower income, very low income, or senior citizen housing, among other things, and meets other requirements. Current law requires a city or county to grant a proposal for an incentive or concession requested by a developer unless it would not result in identifiable and actual cost reductions, as specified, would have a specific, adverse impact on public health or safety or on specified real property and for which there is no method to avoid or mitigate that impact, as specified, or would be contrary to state or federal law. This bill would additionally except from the requirement that a city or county to grant a proposal an incentive or concession would have an adverse impact on a policy that affirmatively furthers fair housing, as specified.
AB 799 (Rivas, Luz D) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: Homelessness Accountability Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Location: 2/23/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing.
Current law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, and counties in 4 rounds, the first of which is administered by the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and the others are administered by the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council.
This bill, the Homelessness Accountability Act, would instead specify that the purpose of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is to provide ongoing grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by best-practices and to solve homelessness using evidence-based or, where no evidence exists, a data-informed and promising framework, as provided.
AB 894 (Friedman D) Parking requirements: shared parking.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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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. Current law also authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking. This bill would require a public agency, as defined, to allow existing land uses with underutilized parking, as defined, to share the underutilized parking with the public, a private entity, a public agency, or other users. The bill would require a public agency to allow shared parking to be counted toward meeting automobile parking requirements for a new or existing development or use, including underutilized parking spaces, when the parking spaces meet specified conditions regarding the distance of the spaces from the applicable site. The bill would require a public agency to accept a parking analysis using peer-reviewed methodologies developed by a professional planning association, as specified, when determining the number of shared parking spaces that can be reasonably shared between different uses.
AB 930 (Friedman D) Local government: Reinvestment in Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Equitable California (RISE) districts.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Location: 2/14/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary: Would authorize the legislative bodies of 2 or more local governments, defined to include a city, county, special district, or transit agency, to jointly form a Reinvestment in Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Equitable California district (RISE district) in accordance with specified procedures. The bill would require the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to develop standards for the formation of RISE districts no later than November 30, 2025. The bill would provide for the establishment of a governing board of a RISE district with representatives of each participating local government.
AB 976 (Ting D) Accessory dwelling units: owner-occupancy requirements.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Location: 2/23/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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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 instead prohibit a local agency from imposing an owner-occupancy requirement on any accessory dwelling unit.
AB 1297 (Quirk-Silva D) Public restrooms.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary: Would require each local government, as defined, to complete an inventory of public restrooms owned and maintained by the local government, either directly or by contract, that are available to the general population in its jurisdiction by July 1, 2024. The bill would require local governments to report their findings to the State Department of Public Health, which would be required to compile the information and to make the inventory available in a searchable database on its internet website by March 1, 2025, as specified. The bill would require the database to be updated quarterly. The bill would require the department to conduct educational outreach to the general public and homelessness service providers that the database is available on its internet website.
AB 1308 (Quirk-Silva D) Planning and Zoning Law: single-family residences: parking requirements.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes. This bill would prohibit a public agency, as defined, from imposing a new minimum parking requirement on a project to remodel, renovate, or add to a single- family residence, except as specified.
AB 1318 (Rivas, Luz D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential projects.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 expand the exemption by increasing the size of a residential project that would qualify for the exemption to include a project of not more than 5 acres in total area. The bill would require a lead agency approving an exempt residential project on an urbanized infill site to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1484 (Zbur D) Temporary public employees.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (act) authorizes local public employees, as defined, to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on matters of labor relations. Current law generally requires that the scope of representation under the act include all matters relating to employment conditions and employer- employee relations, while excepting the consideration of the merits, necessity, or organization of any service or activity provided by law or executive order. Current law states that the Legislature finds and declares that the duties and responsibilities of local agency employer representatives under the act are substantially similar to the duties and responsibilities required under existing collective bargaining enforcement procedures and therefore the costs incurred by the local agency employer representatives in performing those duties and responsibilities under that act are not reimbursable as state-mandated costs. This bill would impose specified requirements with respect to the temporary
employees, as defined, of a public employer who have been hired to perform the same or similar type of work that is performed by permanent employees represented by a recognized employee organization. In this regard the bill would require those temporary employees to be automatically included in the same bargaining unit as the permanent employees, as specified, upon the request of the recognized employee organization.
AB 1485 (Haney D) Housing element: enforcement: Attorney General.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary: Current law authorizes the department to notify the office of the Attorney General, that a city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the department finds that the housing element or an amendment to the housing element does not substantially comply with specified provisions of the Planning and Zoning Law, or that the local government has taken action or failed to act in violation of specified provisions of law relating to housing, including, among others, the Housing Accountability Act, the Density Bonus Law, and the Housing Crisis Act of 2019. Current law provides that an intervention takes place when a nonparty becomes a party to an action or proceeding between other persons by, among other things, joining a plaintiff in claiming what is sought by the complaint. Current law requires the court to permit a nonparty to intervene in the action or proceeding if a provision of law confers an unconditional right to intervene. This bill would permit the Office of the Attorney General to intervene as a matter of unconditional right in any legal action addressing a violation of the housing laws for which the department may notify the office of the Attorney General that a city, county, or city and county has violated, as described above.
AB 1532 (Haney D) Office conversion projects.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Under that law, supportive housing, as defined, is a use by right in zones where multifamily and mixed uses are permitted if the developer provides the planning agency with a plan for providing supportive services and the proposed housing development meets specified criteria. This bill would make an office conversion project, as defined, that meets certain requirements a use by right in all areas regardless of zoning. The bill would define “office conversion project” to mean the conversion of a building used for office purposes or a vacant office building into residential dwelling units. The bill would define “use by right” to mean that the city or county’s review of the office conversion may not require a conditional use permit, planned unit development permit, or other discretionary city or county review or approval that would constitute a “project” for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act, as specified.
AB 1567 (Garcia D) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2023.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018, approved by the voters as Proposition 68 at the June 5, 2018, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,100,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a drought, water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and outdoor access for all program. Article XVI of the California Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters.This bill would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2023, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15,105,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, and workforce development programs. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1630 (Garcia D) Planning and zoning: housing development approvals: student housing projects.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from prohibiting a dormitory on any real property located within 1/2 mile of a university campus, as defined. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to classify student housing as a permitted use on all real property within 1/2 mile of a university campus for zoning purposes. The bill would require a proposed student housing project, as defined, to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or a hearing, if specified requirements are met, including that at least 50% of the unites in the project be occupied by students of the local university campus to which the project site is proximate. In connection with an application submitted pursuant to these provisions, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to take specified actions, including, upon the request of the applicant, provide a list of permits and fees that are required by the city, county, or city and county. By imposing new duties on local jurisdictions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1633 (Ting D) Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary: Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. This bill would define “disapprove the housing development project” as also including any instance in which a local agency fails to issue a project an exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as described, or fails to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project, to certify an environmental impact report for the project, or to approve another comparable environmental document, if certain conditions are satisfied. Among other conditions, the bill would require a housing development project subject to these provisions to be located within an urbanized area, as defined, and meet or exceed 15 dwelling units per acre. By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/5/2022 html pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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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. The measure would specify that these provisions apply to any city, county, city and county, or special district measure imposing an ad valorem tax to pay the interest and redemption charges on bonded indebtedness for these purposes that is submitted at the same election as this measure.
SB 4 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.
Current Text: Amended: 2/22/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amend: 2/22/2023
Location: 2/1/2023-S. HOUSING
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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. That law allows a
development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, establishes the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee within the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires the committee to allocate state low- income housing tax credits in conformity with state and federal law that establishes a maximum rent that may be charged to a tenant for a project unit constructed using low-income housing tax credits.
This bill would require 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 on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.
SB 34 (Umberg D) Surplus land disposal: violations: Orange County.
Current Text: Amended: 2/22/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amend: 2/22/2023
Location: 1/18/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Summary: Would, until January 1, 2030, would require the County of Orange, or any city located within Orange County, if notified by the Department of Housing and Community Development that its planned sale or lease of surplus land is in violation of existing law, to cure or correct the alleged violation within 60 days, as prescribed. The bill would prohibit an Orange County jurisdiction that has not cured or corrected any alleged violation from disposing of the parcel until the department determines that it has complied with existing law or deems the alleged violation not to be a violation.
SB 251 (Newman D) Political Reform Act of 1974: elected officers: conflicts of interest.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. E. & C.A.
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of conflicts of interest of public officials. This bill would prohibit an elected officer from employment by any other elected officer with the same constituency, as provided. The bill would not apply to statewide elected officers. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 258 (Roth D) General aviation airports: funding needs assessment.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. TRANS.
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Summary: Current law requires the Division of Aeronautics in the Department of Transportation, in consultation with certain transportation planning agencies, to prepare a California Aviation System Plan with prescribed elements. Current law requires the division to submit the plan to the California Transportation Commission, to revise biennially the capital improvement plan element of the plan, and to revise the remainder of the plan every 5 years. Current law requires the commission to adopt the plan or to revise and adopt the plan. This bill would require the commission to prepare a funding needs assessment for the state’s general aviation airports. As part of the funding needs assessment, the bill would require the commission to forecast the expected revenue to pay for the costs identified in the needs assessment, any shortfall in revenue to cover the costs, and recommendations on how any shortfall should be addressed.
SB 329 (Dodd D) Cities: city council members: compensation.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/7/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Location: 2/15/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Summary: Current law authorizes a city council to enact an ordinance to provide each member of the city council a salary based upon the population of the city, as specified. Current law authorizes that amount to be increased by the city council by an amount that does not exceed 5% for each calendar
year from the operative date of the last adjustment of the salary that is in effect when the increase is enacted, and prohibits an ordinance from being enacted or amended to provide automatic future increases in salary. This bill, instead, would authorize a city council to adjust, by ordinance, the amount of the salary of city council members based upon population in an amount that does not exceed inflation since January 1, 1984, based upon the California Consumer Price Index.
SB 405 (Cortese D) Planning and zoning: housing element: inventory of sites: regional housing need.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/22/2023-S. HOUSING
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Summary: Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. Current law requires the appropriate council of governments, or 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 a city or county to determine whether each site in its inventory of land can accommodate the development of some portion of its share of the regional housing need, as provided. This bill, for a housing element or amendment adopted as part of the seventh planning period, would require the planning agency to provide notice to the owner of a site included in the above-described inventory that the site is included in that inventory, if the owner’s identity and contact information is known, as specified. If the site owner notifies the planning agency or the department that the owner does not intend to develop at least 80% of the number of units for the site, determined as described above, during the current planning period, the bill would provide that the site would not be considered a site that can be developed to meet the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, except as specified. The bill would require the planning agency to make a reasonable effort to identify an owner and the owner’s contact information and to determine the intent of the owner to develop the site. The bill would require that the information be an important factor for the department in determining whether the housing element identifies sufficient sites to meet the jurisdiction share of regional housing. The bill would require the department to amend specified standards, forms, and definitions to implement these provisions.
SB 411 (Portantino D) Open meetings: teleconferences: bodies with appointed membership.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/22/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency or in other situations related to public health that exempt a legislative body from the general requirements (emergency provisions) and impose different requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The emergency provisions specify that they do not require a legislative body to provide a physical location from which the public may attend or comment. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met, including restrictions on remote participation by a member of the legislative body. This bill would authorize a legislative body to use alternate teleconferencing provisions similar to the emergency provisions indefinitely and without regard to a state of emergency.
The bill would alternatively define “legislative body” for this purpose to mean a board, commission, or advisory body of a local agency, the membership of which board, commission, or advisory body is appointed and which board, commission, or advisory body is otherwise subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act.
SB 423 (Wiener D) Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Location: 2/22/2023-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units required, as specified, remain available at
affordable housing costs, as defined, or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate-income for no less than specified periods of time. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026. This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would delete the January 1, 2026, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
SB 532 (Wiener D) Ballot measures: local taxes.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Location: 2/22/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that the ballots used when voting upon a measure proposed by a local governing body or submitted to the voters as an initiative or referendum measure, including a measure authorizing the issuance of bonds or the incurrence of debt, have printed on them a true and impartial statement describing the purpose of the measure. If the proposed measure imposes a tax or raises the rate of a tax, current law requires the ballot to include in the statement of the measure the amount of money to be raised annually and the rate and duration of the tax to be levied. This bill would exempt from this requirement a measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds.
SB 555 (Wahab D) Social Housing Act of 2023.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Location: 2/22/2023-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the California Social Housing Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be made available to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purposes of this act, including promoting the achievement of the aforementioned goals. This bill would require the department, no later than January 1, 2025, to develop, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a California Social Housing Plan for achieving the aforementioned goals, as specified. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
SB 706 (Caballero D) Public contracts: progressive design-build: local agencies.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines “progressive design-build” as a project delivery process in which both the design and construction of a project are procured from a single entity that is selected through a qualifications-based selection at the earliest feasible stage of the project. Current law, until January 1, 2029, authorizes local agencies, defined as any city, county, city and county, or special district authorized by law to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of any water from any source, to use the progressive design-build process for up to 15 public works projects in excess of $5,000,000 for each project, similar to the progressive design-build process authorized for use by the Director of General Services. Current law requires a local agency that uses the progressive design-build process to submit, no later than January 1, 2028, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a report on the use of the progressive design-build process containing specified information, including a description of the projects awarded using the progressive design- build process. Current law requires the design-build entity and its general partners or joint venture members to verify specified information under penalty of perjury. This bill would remove the 15 project maximum and would authorize all cities, counties, city and counties, or special districts to use the progressive design-build process for other projects in addition to water-related projects.
SB 713 (Padilla D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: preemption.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or
concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing. Current law requires a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance specifying how compliance with the Density Bonus Law will be implemented and, except as provided, specifies that failure to adopt an ordinance does not relieve the city, county, or city and county from compliance with that law. This bill would specify that the provisions of the Density Bonus Law prevail in the event of a conflict between that law and an ordinance, regulation, or other local law enacted by initiative.
Total Measures: 33
Total Tracking Forms: 33