City of Huntington Beach
6/7/2024
AB 1774 (Dixon R) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. APPR.
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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 Support
Notes: 5.21.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps
5.21.24 HBC letter to SEN Trans
4.19.24 HBC letter to ASM Approps
3.12.24 HBC letter to ASM Trans
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: Amended: 6/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Last Amend: 6/5/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. L. GOV.
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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, and would require a city, county, or city and county to provide the estimate within 30 business days of the submission of the preliminary
application. For development fees imposed by an agency other than a city, county, or city and county, the bill would require the development proponent to request the fee schedule from the agency that imposes the fee without delay.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1825 (Muratsuchi D) California Freedom to Read Act.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Last Amend: 5/16/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.
Location: 6/5/2024-S. ED.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes a public library system, including school libraries, unified school district and union high school district public libraries, municipal libraries, county free libraries, the California State Library, and library districts. Under current law, the Legislature declares that the public library is, among other things, a source of information and inspiration to persons of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and economic statuses. This bill would require the governing board or body of each public library, as defined, including any library operated on a contractual basis for a public entity, to establish a written and publicly accessible collection development policy, as specified. The bill would require the collection development policy to, among other things, establish a process for community members to challenge library materials and establish that library materials shall not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to the creation of the materials, or because of the topic addressed by the materials or the views or opinions expressed in the materials.
The bill would prohibit the governing board or body of a public library from proscribing the circulation or procurement of books or other resources in a public library because of the topic addressed by the materials or because of the views, ideas, or opinions contained in those materials.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1881 (Davies R) California Coastal Commission: scientific panel expertise: coastal erosion.
Current Text: Amended: 3/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Last Amend: 3/11/2024
Status: 5/1/2024-Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Location: 5/1/2024-S. N.R. & W.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the California Coastal Commission and provides for the planning and regulation of development in the coastal zone, as defined. The act requires the commission, if it determines that it has sufficient resources, to establish one or more scientific panels to review technical documents and reports, among other things. The act requires the panel or panels to be composed of, but not limited to, persons with expertise and training in specified topics, including coastal geomorphology. This bill would include persons with expertise and training in the topic of coastal erosion as part of the composition of the panel described above.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1886 (Alvarez D) Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act.
Current Text: Amended: 4/15/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Last Amend: 4/15/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HOUSING
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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. Because the bill would require planning agencies to submit specified findings to the department with an adopted housing element or amendment, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 6.6.24 HBC letter to SEN Housing
5.9.24 HBC letter to ASM Approps
5.9.24 HBC letter to Author
AB 1893 (Wicks D) Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals: required local findings.
Current Text: Amended: 4/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Last Amend: 4/30/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: 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. Current law, 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. Current law defines “housing for very low, low-, or moderate-income households” for purposes of the Housing Accountability Act to mean at least 20% of the total units shall be sold or rented to lower income households or 100% of the units are sold or rented to persons and families of moderate income. This bill would revise that definition to mean at least 10% of the units are dedicated to very low income households, 100% of the units are dedicated to lower income households at an affordable rent consistent with rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, 100% of the units are sold or rented to persons and families of moderate income, or the housing development consists of 10 units or fewer that is on a project site that is smaller than one acre with a minimum density of 10 units per acre.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2023 (Quirk-Silva D) Housing element: inventory of land: rebuttable presumptions.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2024
Last Amend: 3/21/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HOUSING
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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 requires the housing element to include an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If that inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, as provided, current law requires that the local government rezone sites within 3 years after the date the housing element is adopted or within one year if the local government fails to adopt a housing element that the department finds to be in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law within 120 days of the statutory deadline to adopt the housing element. This bill, for the 7th and each subsequent
revision of the housing element, would require a local government to complete the rezoning of sites within one year of the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element or the earlier of 3 years after the date the housing element is adopted or 90 days after receipt of comments from the department, as specified, if the local government satisfies certain requirements, including submitting a draft element or draft amendment to the department for review within specified timeframes and adopting a draft element or draft amendment that the department finds to be insubstantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2081 (Davies R) Substance abuse: recovery and treatment programs.
Current Text: Amended: 4/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Last Amend: 4/4/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law grants the State Department of Health Care Services the sole authority in state government to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. The department is authorized to issue a license to specified types of facilities if certain criteria are met.
Current law requires licensees to report specified events and incidents to the department, including, among others, the death of a resident at a licensed facility. Current law authorizes the department to investigate allegations of violations of governing law and take action upon a finding of a violation, as specified. This bill would require an operator of a licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or certified alcohol or other drug program to include on its internet website and intake form paperwork a disclosure that an individual may check the internet website of the State Department of Health Care Services to confirm whether the facility’s license or program’s certification has been placed in probationary status, been subject to a temporary suspension order, been revoked, or the operator has been given a notice of operation in violation of law.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 6.4.24 HBC letter to SEN Health
5.9.24 HBC letter to Author
AB 2085 (Bauer-Kahan D) Planning and zoning: permitted use: community clinic.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Last Amend: 4/9/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-VOTE: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] (PASS)
Location: 6/5/2024-S. E.Q.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.
CEQA does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects. This bill would make a development that meets specified objective planning standards, including that, among other things, it is on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, health care, or parking are a principally permitted use, a permitted use and would require a local agency to review an application for that development on an administrative, nondiscretionary basis. The bill would require a local agency, within 60 calendar days of receiving an application pursuant to these provisions, to approve or deny the application subject to specified requirements.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2130 (Santiago D) Parking violations.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amend: 5/16/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 6/5/2024-S. TRANS.
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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, or, if offered by the issuing agency, by telephone or electronic means.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2243 (Wicks D) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022: objective standards and affordability and site criteria.
Current Text: Amended: 6/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Last Amend: 6/4/2024
Status: 6/4/2024-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee.
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an affordable housing development or a mixed- income housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. The act makes a development that meets those objective standards and affordability and site criteria a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes depending on, among other things, the affordability requirements applicable to the project. This bill would make various changes to the objective standards and affordability and site criteria applicable to an affordable housing development or mixed-income housing development subject to the streamlined, ministerial review process under the act.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2290 (Friedman D) Transportation: Class III bikeways: bicycle facilities: Bikeway Quick-Build Project Pilot Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/1/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amend: 4/1/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 5/24/2024-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes 4 classifications of bikeways and defines a “Class III bikeway” as a bikeway that provides a right-of-way on-street or off-street, designated by signs or permanent markings and shared with pedestrians and motorists. This bill would prohibit the allocation of Active Transportation Program funds for a project that creates a Class III bikeway unless the project is on a street with a design speed limit of 20 miles per hour or less or the project will reduce the design speed limit to 20 miles per hour or less.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2421 (Low D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: 6/6/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 6/5/2024-S. L., P.E. & R.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, provisions relating to higher education, and provisions relating to the the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. This bill would also prohibit a local public agency employer, a state employer, a public school employer, a higher education employer, or the district from questioning any employee or employee representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization’s representation.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2427 (McCarty D) Electric vehicle charging stations: permitting: curbside charging.
Current Text: Amended: 4/2/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amend: 4/2/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E., U. & C.
Location: 5/24/2024-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law references GO-Biz’s Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook, which recommends best practices for electric vehicle supply equipment permitting. This bill would require the office to develop a model permitting checklist, model zoning ordinances, and best practices for permit costs and permit review timelines to help local governments permit curbside charging stations as part of the office’s development of the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook or any subsequent updates. The bill would also require the office to consult with local governments, electric vehicle service providers, and utilities while developing the above-described materials.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2430 (Alvarez D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: monitoring fees.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amend: 4/18/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city, county, or city and county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus, waivers or reductions of development standards and parking ratios, and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing, including a housing development in which 100% of the units are for lower income households, except that up to 20% of the units in the development may be for moderate-income households, as specified. This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from charging a monitoring fee, as defined, on those types of housing developments if certain conditions are met, except as specified. The bill would provide that, beginning on January 1, 2025, any housing development that is currently placed in service, is subject to monitoring fees, and meets those conditions shall no longer be subject to those fees.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2433 (Quirk-Silva D) California Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act: fees: building permits.
Current Text: Amended: 5/20/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amend: 5/20/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law authorizes the governing body of a county or city to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law, and fees to defray the cost of enforcement required by the law to be carried out by local enforcement agencies. This bill, the California Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act, would require a building department of the county or city to prepare a schedule of the above- described fees and post the schedule on the county or city’s internet website if the city or county prescribes the fees.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2560 (Alvarez D) Density Bonus Law: California Coastal Act of 1976.
Current Text: Amended: 4/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 4/24/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING, N.R. & W. and APPR.
Location: 6/5/2024-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Density Bonus Law provides that its provisions do not supersede or in any way alter or lessen the effect or application of the California Coastal Act of 1976, and requires that any density bonus, concessions, incentives, waivers or reductions of development standards, and parking ratios to which an applicant is entitled under the Density Bonus Law be permitted in a manner consistent with the act. This bill would provide that any density bonus, concessions, incentives, waivers or reductions of development standards, and parking ratios to which an applicant is entitled under the Density Bonus Law be permitted notwithstanding the act if the development is not located on any of specified sites.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2574 (Valencia D) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment programs and facilities:
disclosures.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 4/25/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires certified adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery programs and licensed facilities to disclose specified information to the State Department of Health Care Services, including ownership or a financial interest in a recovery residence, as defined, and contractual relationships with entities that provide recovery services to clients of certified programs or licensed facilities if the entity is not a part of a certified program or a licensed facility. This bill would require an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a certified program or a licensed facility to disclose to the department whether the licensee, or a general partner, director, or officer of the licensee owns or has a financial interest in a recovery residence and whether it has contractual relationships with entities that provide recovery services to clients of certified programs or licensed facilities if the entity is not a part of a certified program or a licensed facility.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2597 (Ward D) Planning and zoning: revision of housing element: Southern California Association of Governments.
Current Text: Amended: 4/1/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 4/1/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law requires certain local governments to revise their housing elements 18 months after the adoption of every 2nd regional transportation plan update, but no later than 8 years after the deadline for the previous update of the housing element, as specified.This bill would extend the above-described deadline for certain local governments that are within the regional jurisdiction of the
Southern California Association of Governments and that have a compliant housing element as of the adoption of the second regional transportation plan update, as specified, except the County of Los Angeles and local governments within the County of Los Angeles, to revise their housing elements 30 months after adoption of every 2nd regional transportation plan update for the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2599 (Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials) Water: public beaches: discontinuation of residential water service.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 5/21/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 6/5/2024-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Public Health, by regulation, to establish, maintain, and amend as necessary minimum standards for the sanitation of public beaches, as provided. Current law requires the regulations to do certain things, including requiring the testing of the waters adjacent to all public beaches for microbiological contaminants, as provided. Current law authorizes a local health officer to meet the testing requirements by utilizing test results from other parties conducting microbiological contamination testing of the waters under their jurisdiction. This bill would provide that the local health officer may only rely on data from test results from other parties if that data meets the same quality requirements that apply to local agencies pursuant to specified regulations and standards.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2667 (Santiago D) Affirmatively furthering fair housing: housing element: reporting.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 4/9/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 6/5/2024-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines “affirmatively furthering fair housing” as taking meaningful actions that, taken together, address significant disparities in housing needs and in access to opportunity, replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, transforming racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, and fostering and maintaining compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws. Current law requires a housing element to include a program that sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period, each with a timeline for implementation such that there will be beneficial impacts of the programs within the planning period, that the local government is undertaking or intends to undertake to implement the policies and achieve the goals and objectives of the housing element through, among other things, the administration of land use and development controls and the provision of regulatory concessions and incentives. Current law requires this program to affirmatively further fair housing and consist of specified components, including a summary of fair housing issues in the jurisdiction and an assessment of the jurisdiction’s fair housing enforcement and fair housing outreach capacity. This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken with regards to the local agency affirmatively further fair housing that enables the reporting of the assessment components described-above, as specified. The bill would require local governments to utilize the standardized reporting format for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 2698 (Ta R) Route 405: Little Saigon Freeway.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 5/16/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 6/5/2024-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would specify that Route 405 from Bolsa Chica Road to Magnolia Street in the County of Orange shall be known and designated as the Little Saigon Freeway, and would require 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, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
AB 2712 (Friedman D) Preferential parking privileges: transit-oriented development.
Current Text: Amended: 5/13/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 5/13/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined, unless the public agency makes written findings that not imposing or enforcing minimum automobile parking requirements on the development would have a substantially negative impact on, among other things, the city’s, county’s, or city and county’s ability to meet its share of the regional housing need for low- and very low income households. This bill would, for purposes of its provisions, define “development project” to mean a residential, commercial, or other development project exempt from minimum automobile parking requirements, or subject to parking minimum reductions based on any other applicable law, located within the boundaries of the City of Los Angeles. This bill, for a development project that is located within a preferential parking area, would require the development project to be excluded from the boundaries of the preferential parking area and would prohibit the local authority, as defined, from issuing any permit to the residents, vendors, or visitors of the development project that grants preferential parking privileges. However, the bill would also authorize a local authority to issue permits to residents of the development project that is within the boundaries of a preferential parking area if the issuing the permit does not cause overcrowding in the preferential parking area for existing residents. The bill would also provide that none of the above-described provisions prohibit local authorities from issuing permits to residents of developments projects that occupy deed-restricted units intended for specified households.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 3068 (Haney D) Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/18/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING.
Location: 5/23/2024-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units. This bill would deem an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process if the project meets specified requirements. In this regard, an adaptive reuse project, in order to qualify for the streamlined, ministerial review process, would be required to be proposed for an existing building that is less than 50 years old or meets certain requirements regarding the preservation of historic resources, including the signing of an affidavit declaring that the project will comply with the United States Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation or receive federal or state historic rehabilitation tax credits, as specified. The bill would require an adaptive reuse project to meet specified affordability criteria. In this regard, the bill would require an adaptive reuse project for rental housing to include either 8% of the unit for very low income households and 5% of the units for extremely low income households or 15% of the units for lower income households. For an adaptive reuse project for owner-occupied housing, the bill would require the development to offer either 30% of the units at an affordable housing cost to moderate-income
households or 15% of the units at an affordable housing cost to lower income households. The bill would require at least one-half of the square footage of the adaptive reuse project to be dedicated to residential uses.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 3116 (Garcia D) Housing development: density bonuses: student housing developments.
Current Text: Amended: 4/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/30/2024
Status: 5/29/2024-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
Location: 5/29/2024-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, 20% of the total units, as defined, for lower income students in a student housing development that meets certain requirements. Current law requires that all units in the student housing development be used exclusively for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled full time at an institution of higher learning, as specified. To be eligible under this provision, existing law requires a developer, as a condition of receiving a certificate of occupancy, provide evidence to the city, county, or city and county that the developer has entered into an operating agreement or master lease with one or more institutions of higher education, as specified.
Current law also requires the development to provide priority for the applicable affordable units for lower income students experiencing homelessness, as specified. Current law requires units described in these provisions to be subject to a recorded affordability restriction of 55 years. This bill would define “student housing development” to mean a development that contains bedrooms containing 2 or more bedspaces that have a shared or private bathroom, have access to a shared or private living room and laundry facilities, and either have access to a shared or private kitchen or are located within a 10-minute walk from a dining hall. The bill would authorize units in the student housing development to be used for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled currently or in the past 6 months in at least 6 units at an institution of higher learning, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 3122 (Kalra D) Streamlined housing approvals: objective planning standards.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 6/4/2024-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 6/4/2024-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units required remain available at affordable housing costs or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate income, as specified. Current law authorizes a development proponent to request a modification to a development that has been approved under the streamlined, ministerial approval process if that request is submitted to the local government before the issuance of the final building permit. Current law authorizes a local government to apply objective planning standards adopted after the development application was first submitted to the requested modification if the development is revised such that (1) the total number of residential units or total square footage of construction changes by 15% or more or (2) the development is revised such that the total number of residential units or total square footage of construction changes by 5% or more and it is necessary to impose an objective standard beyond those in effect when the development application was submitted in order to mitigate or avoid a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety. This bill would instead authorize a local government to apply objective planning standards adopted after the development application was first submitted to the requested modification if the development is revised such that (1) the total square footage of construction increases by 15% or more or the total number of residential units decreases by 15% or more or (2) the total square footage of construction increases by 5% or more or the total number of residential units decreases by 5% or more and it is necessary to impose an objective standard beyond those in effect when the development application was submitted in order to mitigate
or avoid a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
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
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 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 HBC letter of opposition
SB 689 (Blakespear D) Local coastal program: bicycle lane: amendment.
Current Text: Amended: 6/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amend: 6/3/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 5/13/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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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. This bill would provide that an application by a local government to convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane, dedicated transit lane, or a pedestrian walkway 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 convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane, dedicated transit lane, or a pedestrian walkway within the developed portion of an existing road right-of-way requires an amendment to a local coastal program, that the amendment be processed in accordance with the procedures applicable to de minimus local coastal program amendments if the executive director of the commission makes specified determinations.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 834 (Portantino D) Vehicles: preferential parking: residential, commercial, or other development project.
Current Text: Amended: 2/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amend: 2/22/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Location: 2/29/2024-A. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking, and permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities. Current law prohibits a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project, as defined, that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. Current law, notwithstanding the above-described prohibition, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a housing development project if specified conditions are met. Current law authorizes a local authority to authorize preferential parking for designated groups to park on specified streets if the local authority determines that use of the permits will not adversely affect parking conditions for residents and merchants in the area. This bill would prohibit a local authority from issuing any permit conferring preferential parking privileges to any residents or vendors of any developments within 1/2 mile of public transit and exempt from parking minimums. The bill would require the local authority to revise the boundaries of any such preferential parking district to exclude those developments from its boundaries. The bill would make related findings and declarations, and state that it is the intent of the Legislature to discourage car use by incentivizing development near public transit.
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: 5/28/2024-Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and ED.
Location: 5/28/2024-A. ELECTIONS
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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 vehicle service.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/9/2024
Last Amend: 5/16/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and C. & C.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes an autonomous vehicle, as defined, to be operated on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle being operated if certain requirements are met, including that the vehicle is being operated solely by employees, contractors, or other persons designated by the manufacturer. Current law prohibits an autonomous vehicle from being operated on public roads until the manufacturer submits an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles containing certain certifications regarding safety and other technological requirements and the department approves that application pursuant to adopted regulations. Current law, commencing January 1, 2030, and to the extent authorized by federal law, prohibits the operation of certain new autonomous vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles, as defined. This bill would authorize a city with a population of 250,000 or greater that an autonomous vehicle service, as defined, has received authorization by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Public Utilities Commission, or any other applicable state agency to operate, to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by enacting an ordinance in regard to autonomous vehicle services within that jurisdiction. The bill would require each city that enacts an ordinance to include certain provisions within that ordinance. These would include a policy for entry into the business of providing autonomous vehicle services including a permitting program that includes, among other things, the establishment of reasonable vehicle caps and hours of service restrictions. The bill would authorize a city with a population of less than 250,000 that shares a border or is contiguous to a city that has enacted an autonomous vehicle services ordinance to enact an ordinance substantially consistent with that autonomous vehicle services ordinance.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 937 (Wiener D) Development projects: permits and other entitlements: fees and charges.
Current Text: Amended: 4/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Last Amend: 4/8/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: 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 24 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, entitlement for a priority residential development project, as those terms are defined, that was issued before January 1, 2024, and that will expire before December 31, 2025, except as specified. The bill would toll this 24- month extension during any time that the housing entitlement is the subject of a legal challenge. By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to housing entitlements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 951 (Wiener D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal zone: coastal development.
Current Text: Amended: 6/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Last Amend: 6/5/2024
Status: 6/5/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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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, for a jurisdiction within the coastal zone that has not identified adequate sites to accommodate the locality’s housing need for a designated income level, require completion of any necessary local coastal program amendments related to land use designations, changes in intensity of land use, zoning ordinances, or zoning district maps, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch - Concern
SB 969 (Wiener D) Alcoholic beverages: entertainment zones: consumption.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. G.O.
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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 1037 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amend: 4/25/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD.
Location: 6/3/2024-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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. The Planning and Zoning Law requires HCD to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes HCD to notify the office of the Attorney General, that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the local government has taken action in violation of specified provisions of law. The Planning and Zoning Law also requires, among other things, that an application for a housing development be subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. This bill, in any action brought by the Attorney General, on behalf of HCD or in an independent capacity, to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions, as specified, or to enforce any state law that requires a city, county, or local agency to ministerially approve any land use decision or permitting application for a housing development project, as specified, would subject the city, county, or local agency to specified remedies, including a civil penalty of, at minimum, $10,000 per month, and not exceeding $50,000 per month, for each violation, as specified. The bill would require that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when local land
use decisions or actions are arbitrary, capricious, entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair. The bill would require these civil penalties, as specified, to be deposited into the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund for the sole purpose of supporting the development of affordable housing located in the affected jurisdiction, except as provided, and would require that expenditure of any penalty moneys deposited into the fund under these provisions be subject to appropriation by the Legislature.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 6.4.24 HBC letter to ASM Housing
5.9.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps
5.9.24 HBC letter to Author
SB 1045 (Blakespear D) Composting facilities: zoning.
Current Text: Amended: 4/29/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2024
Last Amend: 4/29/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and L. GOV.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 establishes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to administer an integrated waste management program. Current law establishes a goal that statewide landfill disposal of organic waste be reduced from the 2014 level by 75% by 2025. This bill, on or before June 1, 2026, would require the Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to develop and post on the office’s internet website, a technical advisory, as provided, reflecting best practices to facilitate the siting of composting facilities to meet the organic waste reduction goals. The bill would require the office to consult with specified entities throughout the development of the technical advisory.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1072 (Padilla D) Local government: Proposition 218: remedies.
Current Text: Amended: 4/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amend: 4/24/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution sets forth various requirements for the imposition of local taxes.
The California Constitution excludes from classification as a tax assessments and property-related fees imposed in accordance with provisions of the California Constitution that establish requirements for those assessments and property-related fees. Under these requirements, an assessment is prohibited from being imposed on any parcel if it exceeds the reasonable cost of the proportional special benefit conferred on that parcel, and a fee or charge imposed on any parcel or person as an incident of property ownership is prohibited from exceeding the proportional cost of the service attributable to the parcel. Current law, known as the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local compliance with the requirements of the California Constitution for assessments and property-related fees. This bill would require a local agency, if a court determines that a fee or charge for a property-related service, as specified, violates the above-described provisions of the California Constitution relating to fees and charges, to credit the amount of the fee or charge attributable to the violation against the amount of the revenues required to provide the property-related service, unless a refund is explicitly provided for by statute.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1102 (Nguyen R) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: oil spill: exclusions.
Current Text: Amended: 4/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amend: 4/11/2024
Status: 5/16/2024-May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Location: 4/22/2024-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income. This bill would provide an exclusion from gross income for any qualified taxpayer, as defined, for amounts received in settlements associated with the October 2, 2021, oil spill that occurred off the coast of the County of Orange near the City of Huntington Beach.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 5.9.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps
SB 1175 (Ochoa Bogh R) Organic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions: waivers.
Current Text: Amended: 5/13/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 5/13/2024
Status: 5/28/2024-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 5/28/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a certain reduction in statewide emissions of methane, including a goal of a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations that achieve those targets for reducing organic waste in landfills that may include, among other things, different levels of requirements for local jurisdictions and phased timelines based upon their progress in meeting the organic waste reduction goals, and penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance. The department’s regulations authorize low-population and elevation waivers for a local jurisdiction, based on, among other things, a consideration of the jurisdiction’s census tracts, that exempt the jurisdiction from all or some of the department’s organic waste collection requirements. This bill would require the department to revise the regulations to require the department to consider, in addition to census tracts, alternatives to those census tracts, as provided, when deciding the geographic boundaries of a low-population or elevation waiver, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1211 (Skinner D) Land use: accessory dwelling units: ministerial approval.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amend: 4/23/2024
Status: 5/28/2024-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 5/28/2024-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. That law prohibits, if a local agency adopts an ordinance to create ADUs in those zones, the local agency from requiring the replacement of offstreet parking spaces if a garage, carport, or covered parking structure is demolished in conjunction with the construction of, or is converted to, an ADU. This bill would also prohibit the local agency from requiring the replacement of offstreet parking spaces if an uncovered parking space is demolished in conjunction with the construction of, or is converted to, an ADU.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 6.5.24 HBC letter to ASM Housing
5.9.24 HBC letter to Author
SB 1214 (Nguyen R) California Commission on the United States Semiquincentennial.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amend: 5/16/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. G.O.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2028, establish the California Commission on the United States
Semiquincentennial in state government to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States of America. The bill would require the commission to plan and coordinate commemorations and observances of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. The bill would require the commission to be solely supported by private or federal funds made available for the purpose of supporting the commission. The bill would require that these funds be deposited in the Semiquincentennial Fund, and would create that fund in the State Treasury. The bill would require funds in the Semiquincentennial Fund to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified. The bill would require the records, files, and other memoranda of the commission, other than any private possessions, to be deposited and filed with the State Archives before January 1, 2028, and would require the State Archives to receive those materials. These provisions would become operative only if the Treasurer determines that sufficient private or federal funds have been made available.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 5.9.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps
SB 1218 (Newman D) Water: emergency water supplies.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amend: 5/16/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. W.,P. & W.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Urban Water Management Planning Act requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan. The act requires an urban water management plan to include a water shortage contingency plan, as provided. This bill would declare that it is the established policy of the state to encourage, but not mandate, the development of emergency water supplies, and to support their use during times of water shortage.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1314 (Nguyen R) Electricity: fixed charges.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to adopt new, or expand existing, fixed charges, as defined, for the purpose of collecting a reasonable portion of the fixed costs of providing electrical service to residential customers. Under current law, the 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 on an income-graduated basis, as provided. Current law requires increases to electrical rates and charges in rate design proceedings to be reasonable and subject to a reasonable phase-in schedule relative to the rates and charges in effect before January 1, 2014. This bill would repeal those provisions relating to fixed charges and rate increases.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1326 (Jones R) Electricity: fixed charges.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/23/2024-April 22 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) Reconsideration granted.
Location: 2/29/2024-S. E. U., & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to adopt new, or expand existing, fixed charges, as defined, for the purpose of collecting a reasonable portion of the fixed costs of providing electrical service to residential customers. Under current law, the commission may authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to a residential customer account, and is required, 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. Current law requires the PUC to continue the California Alternative Rates for Energy (CARE) program to provide assistance to low-income electric and gas customers with annual household incomes that are no greater than 200% of the federal poverty guideline levels, as specified. This bill would require the PUC to require each electrical corporation to offer default rates to residential customers with at least 2 usage tiers, as provided. The bill would eliminate the requirement that the fixed charges be established on an income-graduated basis as described above, repeal related findings and declarations of the Legislature, and authorize the commission to instead authorize fixed charges that, as of January 1, 2015, do not exceed $10 per residential customer account per month for customers not enrolled in the CARE program and $5 per residential customer account per month for customers enrolled in the CARE program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1361 (Blakespear D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: local agencies: contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness.
Current Text: Amended: 4/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/8/2024
Status: 5/13/2024-Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D.
Location: 5/13/2024-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts for its requirements, among other things, actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, or a local agency not acting as the lead agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, as provided. This bill would additionally exempt from CEQA’s requirements actions taken by a local agency to approve a contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness, as provided.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 1487 (Glazer D) Vehicles: parking violations.
Current Text: Amended: 4/2/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/2/2024
Status: 6/3/2024-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 6/3/2024-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the schedule of parking penalties for parking violations and late payment penalties to be established by the governing body of the jurisdiction where the notice of violation is issued, as specified. This bill would specify that, when paid by mail, payment of a parking penalty or late payment penalty is deemed received on the date payment is postmarked. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, prohibit a late payment penalty for a parking violation from exceeding 30% of the established parking penalty.
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HBC Watch
SB 1488 (Durazo D) Outdoor advertising displays: exemptions.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/25/2024
Status: 5/28/2024-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 5/28/2024-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 advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways. The act exempts from its provisions certain advertising displays, including, among others, any advertising display used exclusively either to advertise products, goods, or services sold by persons on the premises of an arena on a regular basis, or to advertise any products, goods, or services marketed or promoted on the premises of an arena pursuant to a sponsorship marketing plan with a duration of at least one
year, if specified conditions are met. This bill would reduce the minimum duration of a sponsorship marketing plan that qualifies an advertising display for this exemption from regulation under the act from one year to 120 days.
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HBC Watch
Total Measures: 50
Total Tracking Forms: 50