City of Huntington Beach
2/9/2024
AB 1773 (Dixon R) Vehicles: bicycles on boardwalks.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 1/16/2024-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would additionally authorize a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding the operation of bicycles on boardwalks.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1774 (Dixon R) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 1/16/2024-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and requires electric bicycles to comply with specified equipment and manufacturing requirements. Current law prohibits a person from tampering with or modifying an electric bicycle so as to change the speed capability of the bicycle, unless they appropriately replace the label indicating the classification required, as specified. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would clarify that the exception to this prohibition only applies if the bicycle continues to meet the definition of an electric bicycle. This bill would prohibit a person from selling a product or device that can modify the speed capability of an electric bicycle such that it no longer meets the definition of an electric bicycle.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1778 (Connolly D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/16/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 1/16/2024-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, a “class 2 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Under current law, a “class 3 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour.
Current law prohibits a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 3 electric bicycle. Existing law requires a person operating, or riding upon, a class 3 electric bicycle to wear a helmet, as specified. This bill would additionally prohibit a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 2 electric bicycle. The bill would require a person operating, or riding upon, a class 2 electric bicycle to wear a helmet, as specified. The bill would clarify that an electric bicycle can only be placed in a certain class if it ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches a max speed regardless of the mode.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1806 (Chen R) Department of Parks and Recreation: Orange County Coastkeeper Garden: grant contract: termination.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/8/2024
Status: 1/22/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 1/22/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, among other things, makes $100,000,000 in bond funds available to the Department of Parks and Recreation for grants for nature education and research facilities and equipment to nonprofit organizations and public institutions, including natural history museums, aquariums, research facilities, and botanical gardens. Pursuant to that act, the department entered into a grant contract with the Orange County Coastkeeper for the construction and operation of a botanical garden. This bill would require the department to terminate, upon mutual agreement of the department and the Orange County Coastkeeper, the grant contract.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1820 (Schiavo D) Housing development projects: applications: fees and exactions.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a city or county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city or county from which approval for the project is being sought. Current law requires a housing development project be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when the preliminary application was submitted. This bill would authorize a development proponent that submits a preliminary application for a housing development project to request a preliminary fee and exaction estimate, as defined. The bill would require a local agency to comply with the request within 10 business days of the submission of the preliminary application, except as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1825 (Muratsuchi D) Libraries: book bans.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Status: 1/12/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
Location: 1/11/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would prevent public libraries from banning books for partisan or political reasons or in a manner that is motivated by animus based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, or socioeconomic status. The bill would additionally declare the intent of the Legislature to establish procedures for removing books from public libraries, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1869 (McKinnor D) Outdoor advertising displays: City of Hawthorne.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. G.O.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Outdoor Advertising Act provides for the regulation by the Department of Transportation of an advertising display, as defined, within view of public highways. The act regulates, as an “off-premises advertising display,” a display along a highway that generally advertises business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at a location other than the property where the display is located. The act does not apply to “on-premises advertising displays,” which generally advertise business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at the location where the display is located and which are separately regulated. This bill would subject digital displays owned by the City of Hawthorne that would otherwise be regulated as off-premises advertising displays to treatment as on-premises advertising displays, if certain requirements are met.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1881 (Davies R) California Coastal Commission: membership.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 2/5/2024-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 2/5/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 establishes the California Coastal Commission and requires the Governor to appoint specified members of the public to the commission. The act requires one of the representatives appointed by the Governor to reside in, and work directly with, communities in the state that are disproportionately burdened by, and vulnerable to, high levels of pollution and issues of environmental justice, including, but not limited to, communities with diverse racial and ethnic populations and communities with low-income populations. This bill would instead require that representative appointed by the Governor to either have the qualification described above or have a professional background in geology, environmental engineering, or carpentry or building and construction trades.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1886 (Alvarez D) Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 2/5/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/5/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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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, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. If the department finds that a draft housing element or amendment does not substantially comply with the Housing Element Law, current law requires the legislative body of the city or county to either (A) change the draft element or amendment to substantially comply with the Housing Element Law or (B) adopt the draft housing element or amendment without changes and make specified findings as to why the draft element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department. Current law requires a planning agency to promptly submit an adopted housing element or amendment to the department and requires the department to review the adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the planning agency within 60 days. This bill would require a planning agency that makes the above-described findings as to why a draft housing element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department to submit those findings to the department. The bill would require the department to review those finding in its review of an adopted housing element or amendment. The bill would create a rebuttable presumption of validity for the department’s findings as to whether the adopted element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1889 (Friedman D) General plan: wildlife connectivity element.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Status: 2/5/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and W., P., & W.
Location: 2/5/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan that includes various elements, including land use and housing elements, as specified. This bill would require a general plan to include a wildlife connectivity element, or related goals, policies, and objectives integrated in other elements, that considers the effect of development within the jurisdiction on fish, wildlife, and habitat connectivity, as specified. The bill would require the wildlife connectivity element to, among other things, identify and analyze connectivity areas, permeability, and natural landscape areas within the jurisdiction, incorporate and analyze specified guidelines and standards, incorporate and analyze relevant information from specified sources, and incorporate and analyze relevant best available science. The bill would require a city or county subject
to these provisions to adopt or review the wildlife connectivity element, or related goals, policies, and objectives integrated in other elements, upon the adoption or next revision of one or more elements on or after January 1, 2025.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1893 (Wicks D) Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals: required local findings.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 2/5/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/5/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households unless the local agency makes written findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified. One set of conditions is that (A) the jurisdiction has adopted a housing element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, and (B) the housing development project is inconsistent with both the jurisdiction’s zoning ordinance and general plan land use designation as specified in any element of the general plan as it existed on the date the application was deemed complete. This bill would authorize a local agency to disapprove or conditionally approve a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate- income households if it makes a finding that (A) the local agency has failed to adopt a revised housing element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, (B) the housing development project is proposed for a site zoned for residential use or residential mixed-use development, and (C) the housing development project exceeds specified density requirements, has a density that is less than the minimum allowed by state or local law, or does not meet objective standards quantifiable, written development standards, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1987 (Bennett D) Local government.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/31/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
Location: 1/30/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law sets forth provisions for the formation, duties, and other authorizations, among other things, relating to cities, counties, cities and counties, and other local agencies. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to local government.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1999 (Irwin D) Electricity: fixed charges.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 1/31/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 1. Introduced measure version corrected.
Location: 1/30/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, the Public Utilities Commission may authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to a residential customer account. Current law requires the commission, no later than July 1, 2024, to authorize a fixed charge for default residential rates. Current law requires these fixed charges to be established on an income-graduated basis, with no fewer than 3 income thresholds, so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline territory would realize a lower average monthly bill without making any changes in usage. This bill would repeal the provisions described in the preceding paragraph. The bill would instead permit the commission to authorize fixed charges that, as of January 1, 2015, do not exceed $5 per residential customer account per month for low-income customers enrolled in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program and that do not exceed $10 per residential customer account per month for customers not enrolled in the CARE program. The bill would authorize these maximum allowable fixed charges to be adjusted by no more than the annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the prior calendar year, beginning January 1, 2016.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2023 (Quirk-Silva D) Housing element substantial compliance: rebuttable presumptions.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2024
Status: 2/1/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
Location: 1/31/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Element Law prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. Current law also requires the department to review any action or failure to act by a city, county, or city and county that it determines is inconsistent with an adopted housing element and requires the department to provide a reasonable time no longer than 30 days for the city, county, or city and county to respond. Current law creates a rebuttable presumption in any action filed on or after January 1, 1991, taken to challenge the validity of a housing element of the validity of the element or amendment if the department has found that the element or amendment substantially complies with the requirements of the Housing Element Law. This bill would create a rebuttable presumption of invalidity in any legal action challenging an action or failure to act by a city, county, or city and county if the department finds that the city, county, or city and county’s action or failure to act does not substantially comply with its adopted housing element or specified obligations under the Housing Element Law.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2085 (Bauer-Kahan D) Planning and zoning: ministerial approval: community clinic.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Status: 2/6/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
Location: 2/5/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would authorize a development proponent to submit to a local agency an application for a licensed community clinic that is located in a zone where office, retail, health care, or parking are a principally permitted use. The bill would make the development subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process where the development is not subject to a conditional use permit or any other nonlegislative discretionary approval, as described. The bill would provide that a development eligible for approval pursuant to this process is not a “project” for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), thereby expanding the exemption for ministerial approval of projects under CEQA.
By establishing the streamlined, ministerial approval process for these developments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2089 (Holden D) Local government: collection of demographic data.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Status: 2/6/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
Location: 2/5/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Controller’s Office, to the extent the office has completed the functionality necessary, and the Department of Human Resources, when collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians hired into state employment, to use additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, require a city, county, or city and county, when collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of persons, to include the additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups, as described above.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2130 (Santiago D) Parking violations.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Status: 2/7/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
Location: 2/6/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a specified administrative hearing process in the enforcement and processing of parking violations and penalties, and requires the issuing agency to conduct an initial administrative review of the notice of parking violation at the request of the contestant to whom the notice was mailed. Current law provides that if the contestant is dissatisfied with the results of the initial review, the contestant may request by telephone, in writing, or in person, an administrative hearing by an examiner of the violation no later than 21 calendar days following the mailing of the results of the issuing agency’s initial review. Current law requires that the person requesting the hearing have a choice of a hearing by mail or in person. This bill would require the person requesting the hearing to have a choice of a hearing by mail, in person, by telephone, or by electronic means.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2144 (Grayson D) General plan: annual report: housing data.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Status: 2/7/2024-From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
Location: 2/6/2024-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 the planning agency of a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires that the annual report include, among other specified information, the number of housing development applications received and the number of units approved and disapproved in the prior year. The Permit Streamlining Act requires a city, county, or special district to maintain on its internet website, as applicable, a current schedule of fees, exactions, and affordability requirements imposed by the city, county, or special district, including any dependent special district, applicable to a proposed housing development project, all zoning ordinances and development standards, and annual fee reports or annual financial reports, as specified. Current law requires a city, county, or special district to provide on its internet website an archive of impact fee nexus studies, cost of service studies, or equivalent, as specified. This bill would require the planning agency to include in the annual report evidence of compliance with the above-described internet website requirements.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2234 (Boerner D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Status: 2/8/2024-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/8/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to develop, on or before September 1, 2023, statewide safety and training programs based on evidence-based practices for users of electric bicycles, as defined, including, but not limited to, general electric bicycle riding safety, emergency maneuver skills, rules of the road, and laws pertaining to electric bicycles. Current law requires the safety and training programs to be developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and to be posted on the department’s internet website. This bill would require the department, on or before June 30, 2025, to issue a skills waiver containing specific information, in an electronic format, to each person who completes the electric bicycle safety and training programs described above.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2274 (Dixon R) Taxation: sales and use taxes: exemption: tax holiday.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Status: 2/8/2024-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/8/2024-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, on and after January 1, 2025, exempt from sales and use taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, any tangible personal property purchased during the first weekend in August, beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday and ending at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
ACA 4 (Bryan D) Elections: eligibility to vote.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 9/14/2023-Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Bryan.
Location: 9/14/2023-A. INACTIVE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for the disqualification of electors while serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony. This measure would repeal that requirement regarding the disqualification of electors incarcerated for felony convictions, thereby authorizing an otherwise qualified elector serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony to vote.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition
ACR 71 (Ta R) Little Saigon Freeway.
Current Text: Introduced: 5/1/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 5/1/2023
Status: 8/16/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 8/16/2023-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would designate the portion of Interstate Highway 405 from Bolsa Chica Road in the County of Orange to Magnolia Street in the County of Orange as the Little Saigon Freeway. The measure also would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing that special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch - Concern
ACR 87 (Ta R) “Surf City USA” interchange.
Current Text: Amended: 6/15/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 5/26/2023
Last Amend: 6/15/2023
Status: 8/23/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 8/23/2023-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would designate the interchange at State Highway Route 405 and State Route 39 in the County of Orange at Beach Boulevard as the “Surf City USA” interchange. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 7 (Blakespear D) Planning and zoning: annual report: housing for extremely low income households.
Current Text: Amended: 1/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amend: 1/22/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
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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. That law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Department of Housing and Community Development. The law requires that the annual report include, among other specified information, the number of net new units of housing, including both rental housing and for-sale housing, that have been issued a completed entitlement, building permit, or certificate of occupancy, and the income category, by area median income, that each unit of housing satisfies, as specified. This bill would revise and recast these provisions to specify that the income category includes extremely low income households, as defined.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 HBC Letter of Opposition
SB 50 (Bradford D) Vehicles: enforcement.
Current Text: Amended: 9/7/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amend: 9/7/2023
Status: 9/14/2023-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/14/2023)(May be acted upon Jan 2024)
Location: 9/14/2023-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current case law deems a temporary detention of a person during an automobile stop by the police, even if only for a brief period and for a limited purpose, a seizure, under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and as such, requires the actions to be reasonable. Under current case law, the decision to stop an automobile is reasonable if the police have probable cause to believe that a traffic violation has occurred. Current case law holds that constitutional reasonableness of traffic stops does not depend on the actual motivations of the individual officers involved and that ulterior motives do not invalidate police conduct that is justifiable on the basis of probable cause to believe that a violation of law has occurred. This bill would prohibit a peace officer from stopping or detaining the operator of a motor vehicle or bicycle for a low-level infraction, as defined, unless a separate, independent basis for a stop exists or more than one low- level infraction is observed. The bill would state that a violation of these provisions is not grounds for a defendant to move for return of property or to suppress evidence. The bill would authorize a peace officer who does not have grounds to stop a vehicle or bicycle, but can determine the identity of the owner, to send a citation or warning letter to the owner.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition
SB 252 (Gonzalez D) Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment.
Current Text: Amended: 5/18/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Last Amend: 5/18/2023
Status: 7/14/2023-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was P.E. & R. on 6/8/2023)(May be acted upon Jan 2024)
Location: 7/14/2023-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: 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, 2031. 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. The bill would provide 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.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 5.2.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition
SB 584 (Limón D) Laborforce housing: Short-Term Rental Tax Law.
Current Text: Amended: 5/18/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amend: 5/18/2023
Status: 6/29/2023-June 28 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 6/15/2023-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Laborforce Housing Financing Act of 2023, and define “laborforce housing” as housing that, among other things, is owned and managed by specified entities solely for the benefit of residents and households unable to afford market rent, and whose residents enjoy certain protections. The bill would establish the Laborforce Housing Fund in the State Treasury, and would make moneys in the fund available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the creation of laborforce housing and other specified housing projects by public entities, local housing authorities, and mission-driven nonprofit housing providers, as provided.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition
SB 689 (Blakespear D) Local coastal program: bicycle lane: amendment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amend: 1/3/2024
Status: 1/29/2024-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/29/2024-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would provide that an application by a local government to convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane shall not require a traffic study for the processing of either a coastal development permit or an amendment to a local coastal program. The bill would require, if a proposal to create a dedicated bicycle lane within the developed portion of an existing right-of-way requires an amendment to a local coastal program, the amendment be processed according to specified law, if the executive director of the commission makes specified determinations.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 907 (Newman D) Orange County Board of Education: members.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Status: 1/5/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
Location: 1/4/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that a county board of education consist of 5 or 7 members to be determined by the county committee on school district organization, except in a city and county.
Existing law specifies that when a county committee on school district organization resolves to reduce from 7 to 5 or increase from 5 to 7 the number of members of the county board of education, the resolution shall be presented in a ballot to the electors of the county in a prescribed manner. This bill would require the Orange County Board of Education to, instead, consist of 7 members.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 915 (Cortese D) Local government: autonomous vehicles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Status: 1/10/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9.
Location: 1/9/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit an autonomous vehicle service, which has received approval to conduct commercial passenger service or engage in commercial activity using driverless vehicles by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Public Utilities Commission, or another state agency, from
commencing operation within a local jurisdiction until authorized by a local ordinance enacted pursuant to the bill’s provisions. The bill would authorize each city, county, or city and county in which an autonomous vehicle has received authorization to operate, to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by adopting an ordinance or resolution in regard to autonomous vehicle services within that jurisdiction. The bill would require each city, county, or city and county that adopts an ordinance or resolution to include certain provisions within that ordinance or resolution. These would include a policy for entry into the business of providing autonomous vehicle services including a permitting program, the establishment of reasonable vehicle caps and hours of service restrictions, and the establishment of an interoperability or override system accessible by first responders in case of an emergency.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 937 (Wiener D) Development projects: permits and other entitlements: fees and charges.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Status: 1/18/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
Location: 1/17/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. The Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law extended by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before, and was in effect on, March 4, 2020, and that would expire before December 31, 2021, except as specified. Current law provides that if the state or a local agency extended the otherwise applicable time for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement for not less than 18 months, as specified, that housing entitlement would not be extended an additional 18 months pursuant to these provisions. This bill would extend by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before January 1, 2024, and that will expire before December 31, 2025, except as specified. The bill would toll this 18-month extension during any time that the housing entitlement is the subject of a legal challenge.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 951 (Wiener D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal zone: City and County of San Francisco.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Status: 1/19/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Location: 1/18/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Current law requires the housing element to identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, among other things. Current law requires the housing element to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of these needs. Current law requires rezoning, including adoption of minimum density and development standards, as specified, when an inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of specified household income levels. This bill would additionally apply specified rezoning standards for any necessary local coastal program updates for jurisdictions located within the coastal zone.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 964 (Seyarto R) Property tax: tax-defaulted property sales.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Status: 1/24/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
Location: 1/23/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law governs the sale to certain entities of a property that has been tax defaulted for 5 years or more, or 3 years or more, as applicable, in an applicable county, including by authorizing the state, county, any revenue district the taxes of which on the property are collected by county officers, or a redevelopment agency created pursuant to the California Community Redevelopment Law, to purchase the property or any part thereof, as prescribed. Current law also authorizes a nonprofit organization to purchase, with the approval of the board of supervisors of the county in which it is located, a residential or vacant property that has been tax-defaulted for 5 years or more, or 3 years or more if the property is subject to a nuisance abatement lien, as prescribed. Current law requires the sales price of a property sold pursuant to the provisions described or referenced above to include certain amounts, including all defaulted taxes and assessments and all associated penalties and costs. This bill would prohibit a property or property interest from being offered for sale under the provisions described above if that property or property interest has not been offered for sale under the provisions as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 968 (Seyarto R) Planning and zoning: regional housing needs allocation.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 1/25/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
Location: 1/24/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires each council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to develop a proposed methodology for distributing the existing and projected regional housing need to cities, counties, and cities and counties within the region or within the subregion, as provided. Current law requires the consideration of several specified factors in developing the methodology. Current law prohibits certain criteria from being a justification for a determination or reduction in a jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, including prior underproduction of housing in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation, as specified. This bill would permit the council of governments or delegate subregion, in developing the methodology, to consider prior overproduction of housing units in a city or county from the previous regional housing need allocation in a particular income category and to count it as credit toward the future regional housing need allocation of that same income category in the next cycle. The bill would provide that the amount eligible to count as credit toward the next cycle is determined by each jurisdiction’s most recent annual progress report, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 969 (Wiener D) Alcoholic beverages: entertainment zones: consumption.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 1/26/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25.
Location: 1/25/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Current law defines “entertainment zone” for purposes of the act as a zone created by ordinance on or after January 1, 2024, in the City and County of San Francisco, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way adjacent to and during a special event permitted or licensed by the department. Current law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to establish an entertainment zone, subject to certain requirements, including providing specified information relating to the entertainment zone to the department and establishing a process or procedure by which persons in possession of alcoholic beverages in the entertainment zone may be readily identifiable as being 21 years of age or older. This bill would, instead, define “entertainment zone” as a zone created by a city, county, or city and county ordinance on or after January 1, 2025, that authorizes consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights-of-way. The bill would additionally authorize any city, county, or city and county to establish an entertainment zone, subject to the above-described requirements.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 994 (Roth D) Local government: joint powers authority: transfer of authority.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2024
Status: 2/1/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
Location: 1/31/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would set forth various authorizations and land use requirements for purposes of streamlining the return of land use authority from the March Joint Powers Authority to the County of Riverside and ensuring the continued maintenance of public infrastructure. The bill would authorize the authority to transfer jurisdiction over any landscaping and lighting maintenance districts and any community facilities districts, as specified, and to assign its contractual obligations relating to the use of land to the county. The bill would also require the application of specified authority land use laws and entitlements, as specified, on and after July 1, 2025.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1011 (Jones R) Encampments: penalties.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Status: 2/6/2024-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7.
Location: 2/5/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, a nuisance is anything that is injurious to health or indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Current law also provides that a nuisance is anything that obstructs the free passage or use of any public park, square, street, or highway, among other things. Under current law, a public nuisance is a nuisance that affects the entire community, neighborhood, or a 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 a street or sidewalk if a homeless shelter, as defined, is available to the person. The bill would also prohibit sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property within 500 feet of a public or private school, open space, or major transit stop, as specified. The bill would specify that a violation of this prohibition is a public nuisance that can be abated and prevented, as specified. The bill would also provide that a violation of the prohibition may be charged as a misdemeanor or an infraction, at the discretion of the prosecutor. The bill would prohibit a person from being found in violation of the bill’s provisions unless provided notice, at least 72 hours before commencement of any enforcement action, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1055 (Min D) Accessory dwelling units: regional housing need.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Status: 2/8/2024-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/8/2024-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to its legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information, the city’s or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs, as described. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit.
Current law prohibits a local agency from establishing height limitations for accessory dwelling units, including height limitations that would prohibit attached accessory dwelling units from attaining a height of 25 feet, as specified. This bill would prohibit a qualifying local agency from imposing height limitations that would prohibit an attached accessory dwelling unit from attaining a height of 16 feet, as specified. The bill would define “qualifying local agency” as a local agency that the Department of Housing and Community Development has determined that the number of housing units that have been entitled by the local agency, as shown on its most recent annual progress report, is greater than the local agency’s share of the regional housing need, for the low- and very low income categories, prorated for that annual reporting period.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
Total Measures: 38
Total Tracking Forms: 38