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MINUTES FROM JUNE 21, 2023
2000 MAIN STREET, Lower Level Room B-7
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92648
Call to Order at 4:10 PM.
Roll Call
• Council Liaisons: (Present) Mayor Strickland, Mayor Pro Tem Van Der Mark, Council Member Burns
• Staff: Hopkins, Levin, Frakes, Luna-Reynosa
Public Comments (2 minutes per speaker): Katheryn Levassiur request that the committee oppose SB 584, which is also opposed by Visit HB and CalTravel
Approve Minutes from April 26, 2023 meeting: APPROVED 2-0-1 (Burns abstained)
AGENDA ITEMS
1. STATE LEGISLATURE
a. Health & Safety
i. AB 223 (Ward) Change of gender and sex identifier.
This bill provides for specified records to be kept confidential by the courts where minors petition for a change of gender and sex identifier.
OPPOSE
ii. AB 957 (Wilson) Family law: gender identity.
This bill clarifies that a family court, when determining the best interest of the child in a proceeding to determine custody or visitation for a child, shall consider, as part of the consideration of the health, safety, and welfare of the child, a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity.
OPPOSE
iii. SB 58 (Wiener) Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.
This bill makes lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline, for personal use or facilitated or supported use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. OPPOSE
iv. SB 253 (Wiener) Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.
This bill would require any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other U.S. business entity with total annual revenues in excess of one billion dollars and that does business in California to publicly report their annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as specified by the California Air Resources Board (ARB). OPPOSE
v. SB 770 (Wiener/McGuire) Health care: unified health care financing This bill directs the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to pursue waiver discussions with the federal
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government with the objective of a unified health care financing system that incorporates specific features, including a comprehensive package of medical, behavioral health, pharmaceutical, dental, and vision benefits, without cost sharing for essential services and treatments.
OPPOSE
a. Housing
i. AB 1287 (Alvarez) Density Bonus Law.
Requires a city, county, or city and county to grant additional density and concessions and incentives if an applicant agrees to include additional low or moderate-income units on top of the maximum amount of units for lower, very low, or moderate-income units. OPPOSE
ii. SB 7 (Blakespear) The Homeless Housing Obligation Act.
SB 7 would require the regional housing needs assessment (RHNA) to include homeless as an income category for local housing element planning purposes, and enact the Homeless Housing Obligation Act, which requires each city and county to develop a housing obligation plan to provide housing opportunities for each homeless person within its jurisdiction by January 1, 2030, as specified. The bill would also require the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to develop and administer a new program, upon appropriation of funding by the Legislature, to provide grants to cities, counties, and nonprofit housing entities to fulfill the obligations to provide housing opportunities for homeless persons. OPPOSE
iii. SB 555 (Wahab) Stable Affordable Housing Act of 2023.
This bill creates the Stable Affordable Housing Act of 2023 (Act) for the purposes of planning for the development of social housing through a mix of acquisition and new production. OPPOSE
iv. SB 584 (Limon/Caballero) Laborforce housing: Short-Term Rental Tax Law
This bill requires a 15% state short-term rental (STR) occupancy tax to be collected, as specified, and allocates the funds for the construction, acquisition and rehabilitation of affordable housing and renter protection programs, as specified. This bill creates a new program at HCD, which would finance “laborforce” housing units and provide grants to cities, counties, local housing authorities, and eligible non- profits. OPPOSE
b. Vehicles
i. SB 50 (Bradford) Vehicles: enforcement
This bill prohibits peace officers from initiating a traffic stop for specified low-level infractions unless a separate, independent basis for a stop exists, and to authorize local authorities to enforce traffic violations through the use of non-sworn government employees. OPPOSE
c. Miscellaneous
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i. SB 838 (Menjivar) Victim compensation: use of force by a law enforcement officer
SB 838 would revise the definition of “crime” for purposes of the Victim Compensation Program (VCP) to include an incident in which an individual sustains serious bodily injury or death as the result of a law enforcement officer’s use of force. This bill would allow compensation claims for incidents in which an individual sustains serious bodily injury or death as the result of a law enforcement officer’s use of force.
OPPOSE
ii. ACA 4- eligibility to vote
Repeals a constitutional requirement for the Legislature to provide for the disqualification of electors while serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony, subject to the approval of the voters.
OPPOSE
2. Assembly Member Dixon Vessel Registration Fees and boating- related grant cuts.
WATCH
3. Federal and State Legislative Advocacy RFP Update. Final candidates will be brought to City Council at July 18, 2023 meeting for vote.
Adjournment – 4:19 PM
The next regularly scheduled meeting will be on July 19, 2023 at 4:00PM.