CITY COUNCIL
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 13, 2023
2000 MAIN STREET, Lower Level B7
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92648
Call to Order at 9:33 AM.
Roll Call
• Council Liaisons: (Present) Mayor Strickland, Mayor Pro Tem Van Der Mark, Council Member Burns
• Staff: Hopkins, Levin, Frakes, Justen, Papa, Luna-Reynosa • Harbour Commission Representatives: Schauppner
• Townsend Public Affairs: O’Donnell, Shelby
• Mesa Water District: Lynn-Taylor, Weisner
Public Comments (2 minutes per speaker): NONE
Approve Minutes from January 18, 2023 meeting: APPROVED 3-0
DISCUSSION ITEMS
1. STATE LEGISLATURE
a. E-Bike Spot Bill(s)
i. SB 222 (Nguyen) – Electric Bicycles
ii. SB 295 (Dodd) – Amendment to Vehicle Code
iii. AB 410 (Jones-Sawyer) – Amendment to Civil Code, mobility devices iv. Senator Dave Min Bill – Mineta Institute of Transportation Study:
APPROVED TO BRING TO COUNCIL 3-0
2. FEDERAL LEGISLATURE
a. State of the Union Recap: Townsend gave a brief recap of the February 7, 2023 State of the Union address.
b. Earmark Priority Projects discussion: Townsend asked IRC if there were any priority requests for earmarks this session. Mayor Strickland suggested that any discussion related to earmarks be postponed after the Strategic Planning Meeting of the City Council.
3. MISCELLANEOUS
a. Approve letter of support for Local Groundwater Supply Improvement Project:
Papa (Public Works) and Representatives of the Mesa Water District presented the “Local Ground Water Supply Improvement Project”, asking for the City to partner with Newport Beach, Mesa Water District, and OC Water District on commitment to participate in a study at a cost of $25k, and a commitment letter to participate in a grant application for funding for project.
APPROVED SUPPORT LETTER, AND TO BRING REQUEST FOR $25K TO NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING.3-0
b. Harbor Commission – Property Crimes White Letter: Harbour Commission representative presented a White Letter, asking Council to work with State
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Representative Katie Porter for assistance in process for removing Transnational Organized Crime Group (TOCG) members from legally entering or returning to the United States. Mayor Strickland recommends working with OC District Attorney’s office as well, and to include FBI in conversations. Srickland to reach out to Katie Porter’s Office and DA Spitzer. c. HB Auto Dealer Display Extension Request: Luna-Reynosa presented the current actions on this issue. Mayor Strickland has been told that Janet Nguyen’s office is involved, and suggests a meeting with himself, Hopkins, Luna-Reynosa, HB Auto Dealer’s Rep Garafalo and his team, and Nguyen’s office.
d. State and Federal Legislative Advocacy Services: Staff presented options for State and Federal advocacy service companies that completed the RFP process, and had the highest scores. Mayor Strickland moves to not move forward, recommended to issue an RFQ and include additional requirements (ie legislative accomplishments, grant advocacy and grant writing ability, etc).. APPROVED as suggested by Mayor Strickland.3-0
Adjournment – 10:30 AM
The next regularly scheduled meeting will be on March 15, 2023 at 4:00PM.
City of Huntington Beach Bills of Interest
2/13/2023
AB 6 (Friedman D) Transportation planning.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Current law requires each regional transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region for 2020 and 2035, respectively. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would require regional transportation agencies to prioritize and fund transportation projects, including those funded by a local sales tax measure, that significantly contribute towards the goals outlined in a region’s sustainable communities strategy and the state’s climate goals.
AB 7 (Friedman D) Transportation: funding: capacity projects.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Transportation to improve and maintain the state’s highways, and establishes various programs to fund the development, construction, and repair of local roads, bridges, and other critical transportation infrastructure in the state. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would eliminate single occupancy vehicle freeway capacity projects, and allow capacity projects only for bus rapid transit, rail, active transportation purposes, projects that significantly add safety, and projects that significantly reduce congestion, without interfering with existing maintenance and rehabilitation needs.
AB 11 (Jackson D) Affordable California Commission.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. A. & A.R.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law declares that the availability of housing is of vital statewide importance.
Current law declares that the provision of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households requires the cooperation of all levels of government. Current law declares that housing prices in California have risen dramatically in all parts of the state in the past decade, while the wealth gap, especially the racial wealth gap, continues to be a growing problem in California. Existing law establishes various programs for the development and preservation of affordable housing, including the Affordable Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program and the California Dream for All Program. This bill would create the Affordable California Commission. The bill would require that the commission be composed of 11 members, including 9 members appointed by the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the President pro Tempore of the Senate, as provided, and one member each from the Assembly and the Senate, who would serve as ex officio nonvoting members, as specified.
AB 21 (Gipson D) Peace officers: training.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 2/14/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
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). Current law requires POST to require field training officers who are instructors for the field training program to have at least 8 hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training to better train new peace officers on how to effectively interact with persons with mental illness or intellectual disability. This bill would require the commission to revise that training to include instruction on how to effectively interact with persons with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
AB 22 (Gipson D) Mobilehomes: mobile coaches.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would classify motor coaches that are parked in a mobilehome park for a period of time that satisfies residency requirements as mobilehome properties to give mobile coach owners the ability to build home equity.
The bill would state findings and declarations in that regard.
AB 23 (Muratsuchi D) Theft: shoplifting: amount.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary: 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.
AB 24 (Haney D) Emergency response: opioid antagonist kits.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 2/2/2023-A. HEALTH
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/14/2023 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, WOOD, JIM, Chair Summary: would require a person or entity that owns, manages, or is responsible for a bar, gas station, public library, or single-room occupancy hotel in a county that is experiencing an opioid overdose crisis, as defined, to acquire and post an opioid antagonist kit, which includes an instructional poster and opioid antagonist nasal spray, in areas that are readily accessible only by employees, including, but not limited to, a break room, and to restock the opioid antagonist kit after each use. The bill would apply the provisions governing civil liability as specified to a person or entity that acquires and posts the opioid antagonist kit. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the bill would require the department to provide opioid antagonist kits free of charge, to create the opioid antagonist poster with easy-to-understand instructions and graphics on the administration of the attached opioid antagonist nasal spray, and to make the determination on how best to allocate and distribute its limited supply of opioid antagonist among its various programs in the event of an opioid antagonist supply shortage. The bill would make a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, by imprisonment in jail for 6 months, or both.
AB 34 (Valencia D) Elections: independent redistricting commissions.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 40 (Rodriguez D) Emergency medical services.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act creates the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination of various state activities concerning emergency medical services. Among other duties, current law requires the authority to develop planning and implementation guidelines for EMS systems, provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the purpose of developing the components of EMS systems, and receive plans for the implementation of EMS and trauma care systems from local EMS agencies. Current law makes a violation of the act or regulations adopted pursuant to the act punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would require the authority to develop an electronic signature for use between the emergency department medical personnel at a receiving
facility and the transporting emergency medical personnel that captures the points in time when the hospital receives notification of ambulance arrival and when transfer of care is executed for documentation of ambulance patient offload time, as defined. The bill would require the authority to develop a statewide standard of 20 minutes, 90% of the time, for ambulance patient offload time.
AB 42 (Ramos D) Tiny homes: fire sprinkler requirements.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. H. & C.D.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits a local agency from requiring an accessory dwelling unit to provide fire sprinklers, if they are not required for the primary residence. This bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing or enforcing any requirement to provide fire sprinklers for any dwelling with a total floor area of less than 500 square feet.
AB 45 (Boerner Horvath D) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: blue carbon demonstration projects: new development: greenhouse gas emissions.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. NAT. RES.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976, among other things, requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission, as provided. This bill would authorize the commission to authorize blue carbon demonstration projects, as defined, in order to demonstrate and quantify the carbon sequestration potential of these projects to help inform the state’s natural and working lands and climate resilience strategies. The bill would, among other things, authorize the commission to require an applicant with a project that impacts coastal wetland, subtidal, intertidal, or marine habitats or ecosystems to build or contribute to a blue carbon demonstration project.
AB 49 (Soria D) Affordable housing.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing and reduce homelessness.
AB 52 (Grayson D) Sales and Use Tax Law: manufacturing equipment: research and development equipment.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 53 (Fong, Vince R) Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law: suspension of tax.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would suspend the imposition of the tax on motor vehicle fuels for one year. The bill would require that all savings realized based on the suspension of the motor vehicle fuels tax by a person other than an end consumer, as defined, be passed on to the end consumer, and would make the violation of this requirement an unfair business practice, in violation of unfair competition laws, as provided. The bill would require a seller of motor vehicle fuels to provide a receipt to a purchaser that indicates the amount of tax that would have otherwise applied to the transaction.
AB 67 (Muratsuchi D) Homeless Courts Pilot Program.
Introduced: 12/7/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 2/14/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary: Current law governs the jurisdiction of various criminal actions and criminal proceedings.
Existing law also provides various diversion programs, including programs for defendants with cognitive disabilities and programs for defendants who were, or currently are, members of the United States military. This bill, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, would create the Homeless Courts Pilot Program, which would remain in effect until January 1, 2029, to be administered by the Judicial Council for the purpose of providing comprehensive community-based services to achieve stabilization for, and address the specific legal needs of, chronically homeless individuals who are involved with the criminal justice system. The bill would require programs seeking grant funds to provide a number of specified services or program components, including, but not limited to, a diversion program enabling participating defendants to have infraction or misdemeanor charges dismissed upon completion of a program, provision of supportive housing, as defined, during the duration of the program, and a dedicated county representative to assist defendants with housing needs. The bill would require an applicant for grant funding under the program to submit a plan for a new homeless court program or expansion of an existing homeless court program, and would require any funding awarded to an applicant to be used in accordance with that plan.
AB 68 (Ward D) Housing.
Introduced: 12/8/2022
Location: 12/8/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element.
Current law defines several terms for the purposes of these provisions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.
AB 69 (Waldron R) Transportation: traffic signal synchronization: roadway improvement projects.
Introduced: 12/9/2022
Location: 2/2/2023-A. TRANS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The State Air Resources Board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. Current law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Current law authorizes moneys in the fund to be allocated, as specified, for an investment in a traffic signal synchronization component that is part of a sustainable infrastructure project if the component is designed and implemented to achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific emissions reduction targets and metrics to evaluate the project’s effect. This bill would additionally authorize moneys in the fund to be allocated for an investment in a traffic signal synchronization component that is part of a roadway improvement project requiring multiple signals, including, but not limited to, multimodal redevelopment projects, rail trail projects, urban renewal projects, or a project near transit facilities, if the component is designed and implemented to achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific emissions reduction
cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and includes specific emissions reduction targets and metrics to evaluate the project’s effect.
AB 70 (Rodriguez D) Emergency response: trauma kits.
Introduced: 12/12/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. HEALTH
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/14/2023 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 ASSEMBLY HEALTH, WOOD, JIM, Chair Summary: Current law requires the person or entity responsible for managing the building, facility, and tenants of certain occupied structures, including those that are owned or operated by a local government entity, and that are constructed on or after January 1, 2023, to comply with certain requirements, including acquiring and placing at least 6 trauma kits on the premises, as specified. This bill would apply the trauma kit requirement to certain structures that are constructed prior to January 1, 2023, and subject to subsequent modifications, renovations, or tenant improvements, as specified.
AB 74 (Muratsuchi D) Vehicles: street takeovers, sideshows, and racing.
Introduced: 12/13/2022
Location: 12/13/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or an exhibition of speed on a highway, or to aid or abet therein. Commencing July 1, 2025, a court may suspend a person’s driver’s license for 90 days to 6 months for an exhibition of speed, or aiding and abetting an exhibition of speed, if the violation occurred as part of a sideshow. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to street takeovers, sideshows, and racing.
AB 75 (Hoover R) Shoplifting: increased penalties for prior crimes.
Introduced: 12/14/2022
Location: 1/26/2023-A. PUB. S.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary: Current law, as amended by Proposition 47, provides that a registered sex offender or a person with a prior conviction for certain serious or violent felonies, such as a sexually violent offense, who commits petty theft is subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. This bill would reinstate a provision of law that was repealed by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 18 months or 2 or 3 years.
The bill would also make this provision and the provision relating to a person with serious, violent, or sexual prior offenses applicable to a person whose prior or current conviction is for shoplifting.
AB 80 (Addis D) Offshore Wind Coastal Protection Act.
Introduced: 12/15/2022
Location: 12/15/2022-A. PRINT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to create the Offshore Wind Coastal Compensation Fund for purposes of mitigating the impacts of the deployment of offshore wind infrastructure in California on the tourism industry, marine and other coastal wildlife, the fishing industry, and other entities, funding costs associated with the future decommissioning of obsolete offshore wind infrastructure, and providing funding to marine life sanctuaries, federally recognized tribes, cities, and counties.
AB 96 (Kalra D) Public employment: local public transit agencies: autonomous transit vehicle technology.
Introduced: 1/9/2023
Location: 1/30/2023-A. P.E. & R.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a public transit employer to provide written notice to the exclusive employee representative of the workforce affected by autonomous transit vehicle technology of its determination
to begin, or its substantive progress toward initiating, any procurement process or a plan to acquire or deploy any autonomous transit vehicle technology for public transit services that would eliminate job functions or jobs of the workforce to which the autonomous transit vehicle technology applies not less than 12 months before commencing the process, plan, or deployment. The bill would require a public transit employer, upon a written request of the exclusive employee representative, to provide specified information to the exclusive employee representative, including the potential gaps in skills that may result from the new service. The bill would require the public transit employer, following the written request for information by the exclusive employee representative, and within 30 days of receiving the specified information, to commence collective bargaining on specified subjects, including creating plans to train and prepare the affected workforce to fill new positions created by the autonomous transit vehicle technology.
AB 233 (Wilson D) Local government: animal waste disposal: horses.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. L. GOV.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would authorize a local agency to require the rider of, or person otherwise responsible for, a horse to collect and dispose of any animal waste deposited by that horse on a street, sidewalk, or other public property.
AB 257 (Hoover R) Encampments: penalties.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Location: 2/2/2023-A. PUB. S.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 2/28/2023 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY, JONES-SAWYER, REGINALD, Chair
Summary: Would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property in any street, sidewalk, or other public property within 500 feet of a school, daycare center, park, or library. The bill would make a violation of the prohibition an infraction or a misdemeanor. The bill would also make willfully resisting, delaying, or obstructing a peace officer, public officer, or public employee in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty to enforce the prohibition a misdemeanor. By imposing criminal penalties for a violation of these provisions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 281 (Grayson D) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Location: 2/2/2023-A. L. GOV.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, to post an example of a complete, approved application and an example of a complete set of postentitlement phase permits for at least 5 types of housing development projects in the jurisdiction, as specified, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. Current law establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant and whether to approve or deny an application, as specified, and makes any failure to meet these time limits a violation of specified law.
Current law defines various terms for these purposes, including “local agency” to mean a city, county, or city and county, and “postentitlement phase permit,” among other things, to exclude a permit required and issued by a special district. This bill would include a special district in the definition of “local agency” and would remove special districts from the exclusion in the definition of “postentitlement phase permit.”
AB 284 (Patterson, Joe R) Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report:
Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Location: 2/2/2023-A. H. & C.D.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, grants under the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program are allocated in 4 rounds of funding, administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, as provided. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered
by the department. Current law requires that the report include, among other things, the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income level. This bill would additionally require that this report include an evaluation of the HHAP program.
AB 295 (Fong, Vince R) Department of Transportation: maintenance projects.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. TRANS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would authorize the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with local governmental entities, fire departments, fire protection districts, fire safe councils, and tribal entities to perform specified projects authorized by the department on roadways managed by the department, including activities related to roadside maintenance and the removal and clearing of material, as provided.
AB 296 (Rodriguez D) Office of Emergency Services: 9-1-1 Public Education Campaign.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the 911 Public Education Campaign, to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services, for the purpose of educating the public on when it is appropriate to call 911 for assistance. The bill would include in the goals of the campaign, among others, reducing the number of unnecessary calls to 911 call centers and reducing delays in the 911 system caused by nonemergency calls being placed. The bill would authorize the office to use federal preparedness grant funds or funds appropriated by the Legislature for these purposes to implement these provisions.
AB 309 (Lee D) Social housing.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. H. & C.D.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Housing Finance Agency and sets forth various programs administered by those entities intended to, among other things, provide a comprehensive and balanced approach to the solution of housing problems of the people of this state.
The act sets forth various definitions that govern its construction. This bill would define “social housing” for purposes of the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act.
AB 318 (Addis D) Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. H. & C.D.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act establishes the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development to resolve complaints from homeowners relating to the Mobilehome Residency Law. Under current law, the act is repealed on January 1, 2024. This bill would remove the January 1, 2024, repeal date and make the act operative indefinitely.
AB 323 (Holden D) Planning and land use: parcels: changes in use.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. H. & C.D.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would revise the Planning and Zoning Law to prohibit a developer from submitting a petition for public hearing to a city, county, or city and county, for a change in use of a parcel intended for owner occupancy pursuant to a local inclusionary zoning ordinance or density bonus project, as defined, unless the developer can prove that none of the applicants for owner occupancy can qualify for the unit as an owner occupant pursuant to the income limitation recorded on the deed or other instrument defining the terms of conveyance eligibility.
AB 327 (Jones-Sawyer D) Criminal justice: crime statistics.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law required the Department of Justice to report to the Legislature on the progress on reporting of crime statistics data to the federal government in compliance with the federal National Incident-Based Reporting System. This bill would require the Department of Justice to complete the transition of all reporting of crime data to the National Incident-Based Reporting System and would require local law enforcement agencies to provide the necessary data to complete this transition.
AB 329 (Ta R) Crime: penalties for shoplifting and petty theft.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors in the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of property that does not exceed $950 in value petty theft and makes that crime punishable as a misdemeanor, with certain exceptions. This bill would amend the initiative to make petty theft or shoplifting by a person who is not a resident of this state, did not reside in this state in the six months prior to entering this state, and entered this state within 30 days prior to committing the offense, an offense punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. The bill would define resident as a person that has occupied a dwelling in this state, or has been domiciled in this state, for at least 6 months.
AB 335 (Alanis R) Proposition 47: repeal.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act made various changes relating to theft and the possession of controlled substances, including by, among other things, generally reducing the penalty for those crimes, including reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis, establishing a procedure by which individuals convicted of those crimes prior to the passage of the act may petition for resentencing under the act, and creating the crime of shoplifting. The act also requires the Director of Finance to calculate the savings accruing to the state as a result of the implementation of the act and requires the Controller to transfer that sum from the General Fund to the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund, which was created by the act. The act specifies the manner of distribution of those funds and the purposes for which they may be used. This bill would repeal the changes and additions made by Proposition 47, except those related to reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis. This bill would provide that it would become effective only upon approval of the voters, and would provide for the submission of this measure to the voters for approval at the next statewide general election.
AB 367 (Maienschein D) Controlled substances: enhancements.
Introduced: 2/1/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law imposes an additional and consecutive 3- or 5-year term in the state prison on a person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person in the commission of a felony, as specified. This bill would state that, for purposes of the enhancement, a person inflicts great bodily injury when they sell, furnish, administer, or give away a controlled substance and the person to whom the substance was sold, furnished, administered, or given suffers a significant or substantial physical injury from using the substance. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 400 (Rubio, Blanca D) Local agency design-build projects: authorization.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 413 (Lee D) Vehicles: stopping, standing, and parking.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle in certain places and under certain conditions, including within an intersection, on a sidewalk or crosswalk, or in front of a fire station, Current law additionally authorizes local jurisdictions to, by ordinance, restrict parking in certain areas, at certain times, and for certain reasons, and to establish metered parking. This bill would prohibit the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle within 20 feet of any unmarked or marked crosswalk.
AB 434 (Grayson D) Housing element: notice of violation.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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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 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 443 (Jackson D) Peace officers: determination of bias.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires each law enforcement agency to be responsible for completing investigations of allegations of serious misconduct of a peace officer. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to establish a definition of “biased conduct,” as specified, and would require law enforcement agencies to use that definition in any investigation into a bias-related complaint or an incident that involves possible indications of officer bias, and to determine if any racial profiling occurred, as defined. The bill would also require POST to develop guidance for local law enforcement departments on performing effective Internet and social media screenings of officer applicants.
AB 462 (Ramos D) Overdose response teams.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 510 (Jackson D) Local land trusts.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Location: 2/7/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law requires that the housing element include an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If the inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, as provided, existing law requires that the local government rezone sites within specified time periods. Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land, as defined, by a local agency. Current law requires land to be declared surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency takes any action to dispose of it consistent with the agency’s policies or procedures. This bill would require each city and county to establish a local land trust, as defined, for the purposes of holding and developing real property within the jurisdiction. The bill would require the local land trust to be governed by the city council or board of supervisors of the local government.
AB 512 (Waldron R) Mental health and substance use disorders: database of facilities.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Location: 2/7/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, either on its own or through the Behavioral Health Task Force established by the Governor, to create an ad hoc committee to study how to develop a real-time, internet-based system, usable by hospitals, clinics, law enforcement, paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and other health care providers as deemed appropriate, to display information about available beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential alcoholism or substance abuse treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of available facilities for the transfer to, and temporary treatment of, individuals in mental health or substance use disorder crisis.
AB 516 (Ramos D) Mitigation Fee Act: fees for improvements: timeline for expenditure.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Location: 2/7/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act, requires a local agency that establishes, increases, or imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project to, among other things, determine a reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed.
The Mitigation Fee Act also imposes additional requirements for fees imposed to provide for an improvement to be constructed to serve a development project, or which is a fee for public improvements, as specified, including that the fees be deposited in a separate capital facilities account or fund. This bill would require a local agency that requires a qualified applicant, as described, to deposit fees for improvements, as described, into an escrow account as a condition for receiving a conditional use permit or equivalent development permit to expend the fees within a reasonable time of the deposit. The bill would require any fees not expended within this period to be returned to the qualified applicant that originally deposited the fees.
AB 523 (Fong, Vince R) Organized retail theft: cargo.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Location: 2/7/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law makes a person guilty of organized retail theft if, among other things, the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplace with the intent to sell, exchange, or return the merchandise for value.
Under current law, these crimes are punishable as either misdemeanors or felonies, as specified. This bill would expand that crime to include merchandise stolen from a merchant’s cargo. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
AB 531 (Irwin D) Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2024.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Location: 2/8/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2024 to authorize the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $600,000,000 to provide additional funding for the
Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014 (VHHPA). The bill would provide for the handling and disposition of the funds in the same manner as the 2014 bond act.
AB 548 (Boerner Horvath D) State Housing Law: inspection.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Location: 2/8/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The State Housing Law, a violation of which is a crime, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. This bill would require local enforcement agencies to develop policies and procedures for inspecting a building with multiple units if an inspector or code enforcement officer has determined that a unit is substandard or is in violation of the State Housing Law, and the inspector or code enforcement officer determines that the defects or violations have the potential to affect other units of the building, as specified. By imposing new duties on local government officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 557 (Hart D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Location: 2/8/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 584 (Hart D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal development: emergency waiver.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires the issuance of a coastal development permit if the proposed development is in conformity with the certified local coastal program. The act provides for the certification of local coastal programs by the California Coastal Commission. The act authorizes the requirement of having to obtain a permit to be waived when immediate action by a person or public agency performing a public service is required to protect life and public property from imminent danger, or to restore, repair, or maintain public works, utilities, or services destroyed, damaged, or interrupted by natural disaster, serious accident, or in other cases of emergency, as specified. The act provides that this waiver provision does not authorize the permanent erection of structures valued at more than $25,000. This bill would increase the above-described amount to $125,000.
AB 604 (Lee D) Mobilehome parks: water utility charges.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, a person or corporation that maintains a mobilehome park and provides water service to users through a submeter service system is not a public utility and is not subject to the jurisdiction, control, or regulation of the commission if each user of the submeter service system is charged at the rate which would be applicable if the user were receiving the water directly from the water corporation. Under current law, a mobilehome park that provides water service only to its tenants from water supplies and facilities that it owns, not otherwise dedicated to public service, is not a water corporation, but that mobilehome park is subject to the jurisdiction of the commission to the
extent that, if a complaint is filed with the commission by tenants of the mobilehome park that represent 10% or more of the park’s water service connections during any 12-month period, claiming that the water rates charged by the park are not just and reasonable or that the service is inadequate, the commission has jurisdiction to determine the merits of the complaint and determine whether the rates charged are just and reasonable and whether the water service provided is adequate. Current law prohibits the commission from making an order for the payment of reimbursement upon the ground of unjustness or unreasonableness if the rate in question has been previously declared by formal finding of the commission to be reasonable. This bill would prohibit the commission from making an order for the payment of reimbursement upon the ground of unjustness or unreasonableness if the rate in question complies with limitations on charges and fees in connection with water utility service under the Mobilehome Residency Law. The bill would provide that a person or other entity that maintains a mobilehome park or a multiple unit residential complex, and provides water service through a submeter service system, is exempt from regulation as a public utility if management of the mobilehome park complies with those limitations on charges and fees.
AB 637 (Low D) Density Bonus Law.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-A. PRINT
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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.
ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.
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.
ACA 2 (Alanis R) Public resources: Water and Wildfire Resiliency Act of 2023.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the Water and Wildfire Resiliency Fund within the State Treasury, and would require the Treasurer to annually transfer an amount equal to 3% of all state revenues that may be appropriated as described from the General Fund to the Water and Wildfire Resiliency Fund. The measure would require the moneys in the fund to be appropriated by the Legislature and would require that 50% of the moneys in the fund be used for water projects, as specified, and that the other 50% of the moneys in the fund be used for forest maintenance and health projects, as specified.
SB 3 (Dodd D) Discontinuation of residential water service: community water system.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/18/2023-S. E. U., & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Water Shutoff Protection Act prohibits an urban and community water system, defined as a public water system that supplies water to more than 200 service connections, from discontinuing residential service for nonpayment, as specified, and requires specified procedures before it can discontinue residential service for nonpayment. Current law defines a community water system as a public water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by yearlong residents or regularly serves at least 25 yearlong residents of the area served by the system. This bill would expand the scope of the Water Shutoff Protection Act by requiring that it instead apply to a community water system, defined to have the same meaning as existing law. The bill would require a community water system that supplies water to 200 service connections or fewer to comply with the act’s provisions on and after August 1, 2024.
SB 4 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 2/1/2023-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: 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. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, provided that all of the units are provided at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified.
SB 7 (Blakespear D) Homelessness.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding homelessness and the regional housing needs allocation.
SB 16 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Civil rights: discrimination: enforcement.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/18/2023-S. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Unruh Civil Rights Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on specified bases. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing and employment on specified bases and provides procedures for enforcement by the Civil Rights Department. Current law specifies that while it is the intent of the Legislature that the California Fair Employment and Housing Act occupy the field of regulation of discrimination in employment and housing, nothing in the act shall be construed to limit or restrict the application of the Unruh Civil Rights Act. This bill would also specify that nothing in the California Fair Employment and Housing Act shall be construed to limit or restrict efforts by local entities to enforce state law prohibiting discrimination against classes of persons covered by the act in employment and housing.
SB 17 (Caballero D) Senior housing.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create new opportunities for the development of affordable senior housing.
SB 20 (Rubio D) Joint powers agreements: regional housing trusts.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/18/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would authorize 2 or more cities, by entering into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, to create a regional housing trust for the purposes of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their jurisdictions. The bill would require a regional housing trust created pursuant to these provisions to be governed by a board of directors consisting of a minimum of 9 directors, as specified.
The bill would authorize a regional housing trust to fund the planning and construction of housing, receive public and private financing and funds, and authorize and issue bonds, as specified. The bill would require the joint powers agreement establishing the regional housing trust to incorporate specified annual financial reporting and auditing requirements.
SB 31 (Jones R) Encampments: sensitive areas: penalties.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, a person who lodges in a public or private place without permission is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Current law also provides that a person who willfully and maliciously obstructs the free movement of any person on any street, sidewalk, or other public place is guilty of a misdemeanor. Under existing law, a public nuisance is anything that is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an entire community, neighborhood, or considerable number of persons. Current law provides various remedies against a public nuisance, including abatement by any public body or officer authorized by law. This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within 1000 feet of a sensitive area, as defined. The bill would specify that a violation of this prohibition is a public nuisance that can be abated and prevented, as provided.
SB 34 (Umberg D) Surplus land disposal: violations: Orange County.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/18/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of land determined to be surplus land by a local agency. Those requirements include a requirement that a local agency, prior to disposing of a property or participating in negotiations to dispose of that property with a prospective transferee, send a written notice of availability of the property to specified entities, depending on the property’s intended use, and send specified information in regard to the disposal of the parcel of surplus land to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law, among other enforcement provisions, makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these disposal provisions, after receiving notification of violation from the department, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold in violation for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. Under current law, except as specified, a local agency has 60 days to cure or correct an alleged violation before an enforcement action may be brought. Current law provides for the deposit and use of penalty revenues for housing, as prescribed. This bill, until January 1, 2030, would require the County of Orange, or any city located within Orange County, if notified by the department that its planned sale of surplus land is in violation of existing law, to cure or correct the alleged violation within 60 days, as prescribed.
SB 51 (Bradford D) Cannabis provisional licenses: local equity applicants.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), for purposes of the California Cannabis Equity Act, defines local equity program as a program adopted or operated by a local jurisdiction that focuses on inclusion and support of individuals and communities in California’s cannabis industry who are linked to populations or neighborhoods that were negatively or disproportionately impacted by cannabis criminalization, as specified. MAUCRSA requires the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to administer a grant program to assist a local jurisdiction with the development of a local equity program or to assist local equity applicants and local equity licensees through a local equity program, as specified. MAUCRSA, until June 30, 2023, authorizes the Department of Cannabis Control, in its sole discretion, to issue a provisional license for a local equity license application if the applicant meets specified requirements. MAUCRSA prohibits the Department of Cannabis Control from renewing a provisional license after January 1, 2025, and provides that no provisional license is effective after January 1, 2026. This bill would additionally authorize the Department of Cannabis Control, in its sole discretion, to issue a provisional license for a local equity applicant for retailer activities, indefinitely, if the applicant meets specified requirements.
This bill would authorize the department, in its sole discretion, to renew a provisional license until it issues or denies the provisional licensee’s annual license, subject to specified requirements, or until 5
years from the date the provisional license was issued, whichever is earlier. By extending provisional licensure, the applications for which are required to be signed under penalty of perjury, the bill would expand the scope of the crime of perjury, and would thereby impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 55 (Umberg D) Vehicles: catalytic converters.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Location: 1/18/2023-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a motor vehicle dealer or retailer from selling a new motor vehicle equipped with a catalytic converter unless the catalytic converter has been engraved or etched with the vehicle identification number of the vehicle to which it is attached. A violation of this provision would be punishable as an infraction. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
SB 67 (Seyarto R) Controlled substances: overdose reporting.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Location: 1/18/2023-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require an emergency medical services provider who treats and releases or transports an individual to a medical facility who is experiencing a suspected or an actual overdose to report the incident to the Emergency Medical Services Authority. The bill requires the authority to report the data gathered pursuant to the bill to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program managed by the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program.
SB 68 (McGuire D) Local government.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Location: 1/5/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law provides for the formation and powers of various local governments, including counties and cities. The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 provides the sole and exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to local government.
SB 69 (Cortese D) California Environmental Quality Act: judicial and administrative proceedings:
limitations.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Location: 1/18/2023-S. E.Q.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/15/2023 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a state agency or a local agency that approves or determines to carry out a project subject to CEQA to file a notice of determination with the Office of Planning and Research or the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located, as provided. CEQA authorizes a state agency or a local agency that determines that a project is not subject to CEQA to file a notice of exemption with the office or the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located, as provided. If a person has made a written request to a public agency for a copy of a notice of determination or notice of exemption for a project before the date on which the public agency approves or determines to carry out the project, CEQA requires the public agency, no later than 5 days from the date of the public agency’s action, to deposit a copy of the written notice addressed to that person in the United States mail, first-class postage prepaid. CEQA provides that the date upon which the notice is mailed does not affect the limitations periods applicable to specified actions or proceedings to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul specified acts or decisions of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA. The bill would require a public agency to provide both the notice and any subsequent amended, corrected, or revised notice, as specified, in response to a written request for the notice, regardless of the delivery method. By requiring a local agency to provide a copy of any subsequent amended, corrected, or revised notice, along with the notice, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 76 (Wiener D) Alcoholic beverages: music venue license: entertainment zones: consumption.
Introduced: 1/11/2023
Location: 1/18/2023-S. G.O.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law provides for various annual fees for the issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses, depending upon the type of license issued. Current law authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a music venue license, as defined, that would allow the licensee to sell beer, wine, and distilled spirits at retail for consumption on the premises in a music entertainment facility, as defined. This bill would authorize a licensee under a music venue license to apply to the department for a caterer’s permit that would authorize the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for consumption at events only upon the licensed music entertainment facility premises. The bill would also authorize a music venue license to apply to the department for an event permit, as specified. The bill would impose a fee for a caterer’s permit for a licensee under a music venue license and for an event permit for a licensee under a music venue license, which would be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, and would make other conforming changes.
SB 79 (Nguyen R) Coastal resources: preservation.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Location: 1/12/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 finds and declares that the basic goals of the state for the coastal zone are to, among other things, protect, maintain, and, where feasible, enhance and restore the overall quality of the coastal zone environment and its natural and artificial resources. This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would establish policy addressing coastal preservation.
SB 91 (Umberg D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: supportive and transitional housing: motel conversion.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Location: 1/25/2023-S. E.Q.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 3/15/2023 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2025, exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) projects related to the conversion of a structure with a certificate of occupancy as a motel, hotel, residential hotel, or hostel to supportive or transitional housing, as defined, that meet certain conditions. This bill would extend indefinitely the above exemption.
SB 222 (Nguyen R) Electric bicycles.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Location: 1/19/2023-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to electric bicycles.
SB 225 (Caballero D) Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program: statewide contract.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Location: 2/1/2023-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program. Current law, upon appropriation, authorizes the department to make either or both loans and grants to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department-funded housing projects that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk for conversion, as provided. This bill would establish the Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program for purposes of funding the acquisition and rehabilitation of unrestricted housing units and attaching long- term affordability restrictions on the housing units, while safeguarding against the displacement of current residents.
SB 229 (Umberg D) Surplus land: disposal of property: violations: public meeting.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Location: 2/1/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of land determined to be surplus land by a local agency. Those requirements include a requirement that a local agency, before disposing of a property or participating in negotiations to dispose of that property with a prospective transferee, send a written notice of availability of the property to specified entities, depending on the property’s intended use, and send specified information in regard to the disposal of the parcel of surplus land to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law, among other enforcement provisions, makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these disposal provisions, after receiving notification of violation from the department, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold in violation for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. Under existing law, except as specified, a local agency has 60 days to cure or correct an alleged violation before an enforcement action may be brought. This bill would require a local agency that has received a notification of violation from the department to hold an open and public session to review and consider the substance of the notice of violation. The bill would require the local agency’s governing body to provide prescribed notice no later than 14 days before the public session.
SB 240 (Ochoa Bogh R) Surplus state real property.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Location: 1/25/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to satisfy certain requirements to be considered as a potential priority buyer of the surplus state real property, including that the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the department, that the surplus state real property, or portion of that surplus state real property, is to be used by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor for open space, public parks, affordable housing projects, or development of local government-owned facilities.
Current law authorizes the Department of General Services to sell surplus state real property, or a portion of surplus state real property, to a local agency, or to a nonprofit affordable housing sponsor if no local agency is interested in the surplus state real property, for affordable housing projects at a sales price less than fair market value if the department determines that such a discount will enable the provision of housing for persons and families of low or moderate income. Current law also authorizes the Director of General Services to transfer surplus state real property to a local agency for less than fair market value if the agency uses the surplus state real property for parks or open-space purposes. This bill would remove authorization for a local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to be considered as a potential priority buyer of surplus state real property upon demonstration that the property is to be used by the agency or sponsor for open space or a public park. The bill would, where surplus state real property that is to be used by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor for affordable housing projects and the affordable housing project is not completed within 5 years of the date the property was acquired by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor, require the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to pay a penalty in the amount of 1% of the purchase price. The bill would remove authorization to transfer surplus state real property to a local agency for less than fair market value if the agency proposes to use the surplus state real property for parks or open-space purposes.
SB 251 (Newman D) Political Reform Act of 1974: elected officers: conflicts of interest.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. E. & C.A.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 252 (Gonzalez D) Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. L., P.E. & R.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits the boards of the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds in a thermal coal company, as defined. Current law requires the boards to liquidate investments in thermal coal companies on or before July 1, 2017, and requires the boards, in making a determination to liquidate investments, to constructively engage with thermal coal companies
to establish whether the companies are transitioning their business models to adapt to clean energy generation. Current law provides that it does not require a board to take any action unless the board determines in good faith that the action is consistent with the board’s fiduciary responsibilities established in the California Constitution. This bill would prohibit the boards of the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds in a fossil fuel company, as defined.
The bill would require the boards to liquidate investments in a fossil fuel company on or before July 1, 2030. The bill would temporarily suspend the above-described liquidation provision upon a good faith determination by the board that certain conditions materially impact normal market mechanisms for pricing assets, as specified, and would make this suspension provision inoperative on January 1, 2035.
SB 272 (Laird D) Sea level rise: planning and adaptation.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. N.R. & W.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a local government, as defined, lying, in whole or in part, within the coastal zone, as defined, or within the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as defined, to implement sea level rise planning and adaptation through either submitting, and receiving approval for, a local coastal program, as defined, to the California Coastal Commission or submitting, and receiving approval for, a subregional San Francisco Bay shoreline resiliency plan to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, as applicable, on or before January 1, 2034. By imposing additional requirements on local governments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require local governments that receive approval for sea level rise planning and adaptation on or before January 1, 2029, to be prioritized for sea level rise funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the implementation of projects in the local government’s approved sea level rise adaptation plan. The bill would require, on or before December 31, 2024, the California Coastal Commission and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, in close coordination with the Ocean Protection Council and the California Sea Level Rise State and Regional Support Collaborative, to establish guidelines for the preparation of that planning and adaptation. The bill would make the operation of its provisions contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
SB 316 (Niello R) Shoplifting: increased penalties for prior crimes.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Location: 2/6/2023-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, as amended by Proposition 47, provides that a registered sex offender or a person with a prior conviction for certain serious or violent felonies, such as a sexually violent offense, who commits petty theft is subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. This bill would reinstate a provision of law that was repealed by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 18 months or 2 or 3 years.
The bill would also make this provision and the provision relating to a person with serious, violent, or sexual prior offenses applicable to a person whose prior or current conviction is for shoplifting.
SB 329 (Dodd D) Cities: city council members: compensation.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Location: 2/7/2023-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 381 (Min D) Electric bicycles: study.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University to, on or before January 1, 2026, conduct a study on electric bicycles to inform efforts to improve the safety of riders and pedestrians, and to submit a report of the findings from the study to the Legislature. The bill would require the study to examine or compile, among other things, data on injuries, accidents, emergency room visits, and deaths related to bicycles and electronic bicycles and data on best practices for safety of regular bicycles versus electric bicycles.
SB 396 (Wahab D) Local government: excavations: notice.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law imposes various duties on local agencies relating to construction and property within its jurisdiction, including by requiring local agencies with jurisdiction to approve excavations to allow microtrenching, as defined, for the installation of underground fiber if the installation in the microtrench is limited to fiber, except as provided. Current law requires, during the project planning phase of certain department-led construction projects, the Department of Transportation to notify companies and organizations working on broadband deployment of the project on its internet website to encourage collaborative broadband installations. This bill would require, prior to commencing any local agency-led excavation projects, as defined, a city, county, or city and county to notify interested parties of the project on its internet website to encourage collaborative installations of important utilities and infrastructure, including, but not limited to, fiber optic cable, undergrounding utilities, or other important services.
SB 400 (Wahab D) Peace officers: confidentiality of records.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Public Records Act generally requires public records to be open for inspection by the public. Current law provides numerous exceptions to this requirement. Under current law, the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers are confidential and not subject to public inspection. Current law provides certain exemptions to this confidentiality, including the reports, investigations, and findings of certain incidents involving the use of force by a peace officer. This bill would clarify that this confidentiality does not prohibit an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or custodial officer from disclosing the termination for cause of that officer, as specified.
SB 405 (Cortese D) Planning and zoning: housing element: inventory of sites: regional housing need.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 406 (Cortese D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: financial assistance: housing.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts for its requirements actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development or the California Housing Finance Agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing, as provided. This bill would extend the above exemption to actions taken by a local agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing.
SB 411 (Portantino D) Open meetings: teleconferences: bodies with appointed membership.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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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.
SBX1 2 (Skinner D) Energy: transportation fuels: supply and pricing: maximum gross gasoline refining margin.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires operators of refineries in the state that produce gasoline meeting California specifications, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, to submit a report to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission containing certain information regarding its refining activities related to the production of gasoline in that month. Current law requires the commission to notify a refiner that has failed to timely provide the required information and imposes a civil penalty on the refiner that fails to submit the required information within 5 days of being notified of the failure. This bill would establish a maximum gross gasoline refining margin at an unspecified amount per gallon and would authorize the commission to annually adjust the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would authorize the commission to petition the court to enjoin a refiner from exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin. The bill would also authorize the commission to assess an administrative civil penalty on a refiner for exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would authorize the commission to grant a refiner’s request for an exemption from the maximum gross gasoline refining margin upon a showing by the refiner of reasonable cause, and to subject the refiner to alternative maximum margins or other conditions set by the commission. The bill would require a refiner seeking an exemption to file a statement under the penalty of perjury setting forth the basis of the request for exemption.
Total Measures: 84
Total Tracking Forms: 86
SENATE BILL No. 381
Introduced by Senator Min
February 9, 2023
An act to add and repeal Section 21214 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.
legislative counsel’s digest
SB 381, as introduced, Min. Electric bicycles: study.
Existing law defines an electric bicycle to mean a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and subjects a person riding an electric bic ycle to pro visions of la w governing the operation of a bicycle.
This bill w ould require the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University to, on or before January 1, 2026, conduct a study on electric bicycles to inform efforts to improve the safety of riders and pedestrians, and to submit a report of the findings from the study to the Legislature. The bill w ould require the study to e xamine or compile, among other things, data on injuries, accidents, emergency room visits, and deaths related to bicycles and electronic bicycles and data on best practices for safety of regular bicycles versus electric bicycles.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
line 1 SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares both of the line 2 following:
line 3 (a) Electric bicycles not only offer a solution to car dependency line 4 and transport poverty, but also help reduce our carbon footprint. line 5 As California moves away from its dependence on fossil fuels, we
99 line 1 will see a rise in zero emission modes of transportation, including, line 2 but limited to, electric bicycles.
line 3 (b) While the uptake in usage of electric bic ycles is necessary line 4 to meet our climate goals, it is important to ensure rider and line 5 pedestrian safety. Research shows that accidents with an electric line 6 bicycle have more severe consequences than with a regular bicycle. line 7 Head trauma is significantly higher , although a helmet is much line 8 more frequently used. The main culprit behind these results, line 9 according to the experts, is the much higher speed. line 10 SEC. 2. Section 21214 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
line 11 21214. (a) On or before January 1, 2026, the Mineta line 12 Transportation Institute at San Jose State University shall conduct line 13 a study on electric bicycles to inform efforts to improve the safety line 14 of riders and pedestrians, and submit a report of the findings from line 15 the study to the Le gislature. The study shall examine or compile line 16 information, including, but not be limited to, all of the following:
line 17 (1) Data on injuries, accidents, emer gency room visits, and line 18 deaths related to bicycles and electronic bicycles. line 19 (2) Data comparing the injury patterns between bic ycles and line 20 electric bicycles in California.
line 21 (3) Data on best practices for safety of re gular bicycles versus line 22 electric bicycles.
line 23 (4) Review of all laws in the code pertaining to electric bicycles. line 24 (5) Recommended accessories, including, b ut not limited to, line 25 headlights, speedometers, brak es, bells, reflectors, and helmets, line 26 and how having these accessories help to provide safety. line 27 (6) Data on the manuf acturing of electric bic ycles, including, line 28 but not limited to, the mark et of electric bic ycles, manufacturer line 29 information, sales patterns, and the number of electric bicycles on line 30 California roads, including the usage by city and the reasons behind line 31 the usage.
line 32 (7) Data on other countries with high electric bic ycles usage, line 33 including a re view of polic y mechanisms those countries use to line 34 regulate and promote the safe use of electric bic ycles and what line 35 California can learn from them.
line 36 (b) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdi vision (a) line 37 shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the line 38 Government Code.
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line 1 (2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this line 2 section is repealed on January 1, 2030.
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