HBC Full Bill List 9.6 — Intergovernmental Relations Committee, September 18, 2024

HBC Full Bill List
9/6/2024

AB 68 (Ward D) Land use: streamlined housing approvals: density, subdivision, and utility approvals.

Current Text: Amended: 4/12/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 12/8/2022
Last Amend: 4/12/2023
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Location: 1/12/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a local government to approve a proposed housing development pursuant to a streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development meets certain objective planning standards, including, but not limited to, a requirement that the proposed parcel for the development be a climate-smart parcel, as described, or be included in the applicable region’s sustainable communities strategy as a priority development area. The bill would set forth procedures for approving these developments and would set forth various limitations for these developments. The bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to review, adopt, amend, and repeal guidelines, rules, and regulations to implement uniform standards or criteria that supplement or clarify the terms, references, or standards set forth by this process.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 5.2.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition

AB 223 (Ward D) Change of gender and sex identifier.

Current Text: Chaptered: 9/23/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 1/10/2023
Last Amend: 8/23/2023
Status: 9/23/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 221, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 9/23/2023-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a person to file a petition with the superior court seeking a judgment recognizing their change of gender to female, male, or nonbinary, including a person who is under 18 years of age. Current law authorizes a person to file a single petition to simultaneously change the petitioner's name and recognize the change to the petitioner's gender and sex identifier, as specified. This bill would require any petition for a change of gender and sex identifier or a petition for change of gender, sex identifier, and name filed by a person under 18 years of age, and any papers associated with the proceeding, to be kept confidential by the court. The bill would require the court to limit access to these records to specified individuals, including, among others, the minor, the minor's parents, and their attorneys.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition

AB 480 (Ting D) Surplus land.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/11/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Last Amend: 9/8/2023
Status: 10/11/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 788, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/11/2023-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, as defined, and requires, except as provided, a local agency disposing of surplus land to comply with certain notice requirements before disposing of the land or participating in negotiations to dispose of the land with a prospective transferee, particularly that the local agency send a notice of availability to specified entities that have notified the Department of Housing and Community Development of their interest in surplus land, as specified. Under current law, if the local agency receives a notice of interest, the local agency is required to engage in good faith negotiations with the entity desiring to purchase or lease the surplus land. This bill would define the term “dispose” to mean the sale of the surplus property or a lease of any surplus property entered into on or after January 1, 2024, for a term

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longer than 15 years, including renewal options, as specified. The bill would provide that “dispose” does not include entering a lease for surplus land on which no development or demolition will occur, regardless of the term of the lease.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 5.2.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition

AB 530 (Boerner D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: Amended: 7/13/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Last Amend: 7/13/2023
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Location: 1/12/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a person under 12 years of age from operating an electric bicycle of any class. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to create an e-bike license program with an online written test and a state-issued photo identification for those persons without a valid driver’s license, prohibit persons under 12 years of age from riding e-bikes, and create a stakeholders working group composed of the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Transportation Agency, bicycle groups, policy and fiscal staff, and other relevant stakeholders to work on recommendations to establish an e-bike training program and license. Because the bill would prohibit certain persons from riding electric bicycles, the violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 957 (Wilson D) Family law: gender identity.

Current Text: Vetoed: 9/22/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Last Amend: 8/17/2023
Status: 1/29/2024-Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.

Location: 9/22/2023-A. VETOED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law governs the determination of child custody and visitation in contested proceedings and requires the court, for purposes of deciding custody, to determine the best interests of the child based on certain factors, including, among other things, the health, safety, and welfare of the child. This bill, for purposes of this provision, would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 3011 of the Family Code proposed by SB 599 to be operative only if this bill and SB 599 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Governor's Message: To the Members of the California State Assembly: I am returning Assembly Bill 957 without my signature. This legislation would require a court, when determining the best interests of a child in a child custody or visitation proceeding, to consider, among other comprehensive factors, a parent's affirmation of the child's gender identity or gender expression. I appreciate the passion and values that led the author to introduce this bill. I share a deep commitment to advancing the rights of transgender Californians, an effort that has guided my decisions through many decades in public office.

That said, I urge caution when the Executive and Legislative branches of state government attempt to dictate - in prescriptive terms that single out one characteristic - legal standards for the Judicial branch to apply. Other-minded elected officials, in California and other states, could very well use this strategy to diminish the civil rights of vulnerable communities. Moreover, a court, under existing law, is required to consider a child's health, safety, and welfare when determining the best interests of a child in these proceedings, including the parent's affirmation of the child's gender identity. For these reasons, I cannot sign this bill. Sincerely, Gavin Newsom
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition

AB 1035 (Muratsuchi D) Mobilehome parks: rent caps.

Current Text: Amended: 4/10/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amend: 4/10/2023
Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Location: 1/18/2024-A. DEAD

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Mobilehome Affordability Act. The bill would prohibit the management of a mobilehome park from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy for a mobilehome space more than 3% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, as defined, over the course of any 12-month period, as specified. The bill would prohibit management from increasing the gross rental rate for a tenancy in more than 2 increments over a 12-month period, after the tenant maintains the tenancy over a 12-month period. The bill would prohibit management from imposing an increase in rent on a prospective purchaser or homeowner that purchases a mobilehome if the purchase qualifies as an in- place transfer, as specified. The bill would exempt specified mobilehome spaces from these provisions Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 1175 (Quirk-Silva D) Outdoor advertising displays: redevelopment agency project areas.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/7/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amend: 9/1/2023
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 361, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/7/2023-A. CHAPTERED
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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 the placement of an off-premises advertising display along highways 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 an on-premises advertising display, which generally advertises business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at the location where the display is located. However, until January 1, 2023, the act treats an off-premises advertising display developed as part of and within the boundary limits of a redevelopment agency project, as those boundaries existed on December 29, 2011, as an on-premises advertising display if it meets certain criteria, subject to an extension beyond January 1, 2023, not to exceed the expiration of the redevelopment project area, upon a showing of good cause, as specified, to the department by the applicable city, county, or city and county. Current law requires the advertising copy of these advertising displays within redevelopment agency boundary limits to advertise only the businesses or activities operating within those boundary limits, imposes other related display requirements, and requires a city, county, or city and county to annually certify to the department that these advertising copy requirements are met. Current law requires that a redevelopment area advertising display be removed by January 1, 2023, or by the end of any applicable extension, unless it qualifies as a lawful display under the act, without the payment of any compensation to the owner or operator. This bill would, instead, treat an off-premises advertising display within the boundary limits of a redevelopment agency project, as detailed above, that meets the applicable criteria as an on-premises advertising display until January 1, 2026, would eliminate the authorization for an extension for good cause, would eliminate the requirements regarding advertising copy, and would eliminate the explicit requirement that the display be removed without compensation to the owner or operator.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 1287 (Alvarez D) Density Bonus Law: maximum allowable residential density: additional density bonus and incentives or concessions.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/11/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amend: 9/8/2023
Status: 10/11/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 755, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/11/2023-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines the term “density bonus” for specified purposes to mean a density increase over the otherwise maximum allowable gross residential density as of the date of the application, as described. Current law defines the term “maximum allowable residential density” for these purposes to mean the maximum number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, the maximum number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan applicable to the project. Current law provides under that definition that if the density allowed under the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with the density allowed under the land use element of the

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general plan or specific plan, the greater density prevails. This bill would instead define “maximum allowable residential density” to mean the greatest number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, the greatest number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan applicable to the project. The bill would also remove from that definition the provision stating that the greater density prevails if the density allowed under the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with the density allowed under the land use element of the general plan or specific plan.

This bill would require a city, county, or city and county to grant an additional density bonus, calculated as specified, when (1) an applicant proposes to construct a housing development that conforms to specified requirements, (2) the applicant agrees to include additional rental or for-sale units affordable to very low income households or moderate-income households, as specified, and (3) the housing development conforms to specified requirements and provides 24% of the total units to lower income households, conforms to specified requirements and provides 15% of the total units to very low income households, or conforms to specified requirements and provides 44% of the total units to moderate-income units. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to grant four incentives or concessions for a project that includes at least 16% of the units for very low income households or at least 45% for persons and families of moderate income in a development in which the units are for sale. The bill would increase the incentives or concessions for a project in which 100% of all units are for lower income households, as specified, from 4 to 5.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition

AB 1485 (Haney D) Housing element: enforcement: Attorney General.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/11/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amend: 9/8/2023
Status: 10/11/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 763, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/11/2023-A. CHAPTERED
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Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 1773 (Dixon R) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: Amended: 2/22/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Last Amend: 2/22/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was TRANS. on 1/16/2024) Location: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits the use of a motorized bicycle on a bicycle path or trail, bikeway, bicycle lane, equestrian trial, or hiking or recreational trail, as specified, unless the governing body of a local public agency, which has jurisdiction over the path or trail, permits the operation. Current law authorizes a governing body of a local public agency, which has jurisdiction over the path or trail, to prohibit the use of an electric bicycle on an equestrian trial, or hiking or recreational trail. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime and a person convicted of an infraction for a violation of either the Vehicle Code or a local ordinance adopted pursuant to the code is subject to a specified fine schedule, except as otherwise provided. This bill would clarify that a recreational trail for these purposes includes a boardwalk, as defined, regardless of whether the facility also provides bicycle access. Notwithstanding specified law, the bill would impose a fine, not to exceed $35, against a person convicted of an

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infraction for a violation of an ordinance prohibiting or regulating electric bicycles on recreational trails.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 3.12.2024 HBC letter to ASM Trans

AB 1774 (Dixon R) Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Current Text: Chaptered: 7/2/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/3/2024
Status: 7/2/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 55, Statutes of 2024 Location: 7/2/2024-A. CHAPTERED
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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: Enrollment: 9/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Last Amend: 8/20/2024
Status: 9/5/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 9/5/2024-A. ENROLLED
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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,

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the bill would require the development proponent to request the fee schedule from the agency that imposes the fee and would require the agency that imposes the fee to provide the fee schedule to the development proponent without delay.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
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AB 1825 (Muratsuchi D) California Freedom to Read Act.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/11/2024
Last Amend: 8/22/2024
Status: 8/28/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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 every public library jurisdiction, as defined, that directly receives any state funding to establish, adopt, and maintain a written and publicly accessible collection development policy for its libraries by January 1, 2026, as specified. The bill would require the collection development policy to, among other things, (1) guide the selection and deselection of library materials, as defined, and (2) establish a process for community members to share their concerns regarding library materials and request materials be reconsidered for inclusion in the library’s collection.

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: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was G.O. on 1/29/2024) Location: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD
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Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 1881 (Davies R) California Coastal Commission: scientific panel expertise: coastal erosion.

Current Text: Chaptered: 7/15/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Last Amend: 3/11/2024
Status: 7/15/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2024 Location: 7/15/2024-A. CHAPTERED
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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.

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Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 1886 (Alvarez D) Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/22/2024
Last Amend: 8/21/2024
Status: 8/30/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 7.).

Location: 8/30/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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. This bill would provide that a housing element or amendment is considered substantially compliant with the Housing Element Law when the local agency has adopted a housing element or amendment, the department or a court of competent jurisdiction determines the adopted housing element or amendment to be in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, and the department’s compliance findings have not been superseded by subsequent contrary findings by the department or by a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction or the court’s decision has not been overturned or superseded by a subsequent court decision or by statute.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 6.24.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps

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: Enrolled: 9/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2024
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 8/31/2024-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 4.). In Assembly.

Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/31/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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. 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. Among these conditions, the act allows a local agency to disapprove a housing development project that is inconsistent with the jurisdiction’s zoning ordinances and general plan land use designation as it existed on the date the application was deemed complete, if the jurisdiction has adopted a revised housing element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, as specified. This bill would make various changes to that condition. The bill would specify that a local agency may disapprove or condition approval of a housing development project or emergency shelter, as described above, if the local agency makes written findings that on the date the application for the housing development project or emergency shelter was deemed complete the jurisdiction did not have an adopted revised housing element that was in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law and the housing development project is not a builder’s remedy project, as defined.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

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AB 1987 (Bennett D) Local government.

Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Status: 5/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was PRINT on 1/30/2024) Location: 5/2/2024-A. DEAD
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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: Amended: 5/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2024
Last Amend: 5/8/2024
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/16/2024)
Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD
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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 prohibit modifications to the amount of the income-graduated fixed charge from exceeding changes in inflation, as provided. The bill would make the provisions authorizing the income-graduated fixed charge inoperative on July 1, 2028. The bill, commencing July 1, 2028, 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.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 5.10.2024 HBC letter to ASM Approps

3.20.2024 HBC letter to ASM Utilities & Energy

AB 2023 (Quirk-Silva D) Housing element: inventory of land: substantial compliance: rebuttable presumptions.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/31/2024
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 8/28/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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 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

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local government to complete the rezoning of sites within one year of the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element or 3 years and 90 days of the statutory deadline 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 in substantial 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: Enrolled: 8/27/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Last Amend: 4/4/2024
Status: 8/27/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.

Location: 8/27/2024-A. ENROLLED
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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: 6.14.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps

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: Enrolled: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Last Amend: 8/20/2024
Status: 8/29/2024-Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 6.).

Location: 8/29/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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, including that, among other things, if the local agency determines that the development is in conflict with any of the above-described standards, the local agency is required to provide the development proponent written documentation of which standard or standards the development conflicts with, as specified.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2089 (Holden D) Local government: collection of demographic data.

Current Text: Amended: 4/8/2024 html pdf

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Introduced: 2/5/2024
Last Amend: 4/8/2024
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 4/24/2024)
Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD
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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 employees of the city, county, or city and county, to include the additional collection categories and tabulations for specified Black or African American groups, as described above. The bill would make related findings and declarations.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2130 (Santiago D) Parking violations.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/19/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amend: 5/16/2024
Status: 8/19/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Location: 8/19/2024-A. ENROLLED
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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) Housing development projects: objective standards: affordability and site criteria.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Last Amend: 8/27/2024
Status: 8/31/2024-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 0.). In Assembly.

Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/31/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Middle Class Housing Act of 2022 provides that a housing development project is an allowable use on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, or parking is a principally permitted use, if the proposed development complies with specified requirements. Under that act, one of those requirements is that the project site is 20 acres or less. This bill, if the site is a regional mall, as defined, would instead require that the project site not be greater than 100 acres.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2361 (Davies R) Planning and zoning: regional housing needs: exchange of allocation: Counties of Orange and San Diego.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Status: 5/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was H. & C.D. on 2/26/2024)
Location: 5/2/2024-A. DEAD

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. That law, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region. That law further requires the appropriate council of governments, or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county in accordance with certain requirements.

This bill would establish a pilot program for the Counties of Orange and San Diego, and the cities therein. The bill would authorize a city or county within the pilot program, by agreement, to transfer all or a portion of its allocation of regional housing need to another city or county within the pilot program.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Pending Support

AB 2384 (Wilson D) Public swimming pools.

Current Text: Amended: 4/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amend: 4/8/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was HEALTH on 2/26/2024) Location: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Public Health to adopt and enforce regulations relating to public swimming pools. Existing law provides various building and safety standards for public swimming pools, as defined. Current law requires that every person or entity operating or maintaining a public swimming pool do so in a sanitary, healthful, and safe manner.

Current law requires county health officers to enforce department regulations and authorizes a county health officer or any department inspector to enter the premises of a public swimming pool and investigate for violations, as specified. Current law requires a public wading pool to have at least 2 circulation suction outlets per pump that are hydraulically balanced and symmetrically plumbed through one or more “T” fittings, as specified. Current law requires a public wading pool suction outlet to be covered with antivortex grates or similar protective devices, as specified. Current law requires a public swimming pool to be equipped with anti-entrapment devices or systems that comply with the ANSI/APSP-16 performance standard or successor standard designated by the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission. Current law also requires a public swimming pool with a single suction outlet that is not an unblockable suction outlet to be equipped with at least one specified device or system designed to prevent physical entrapment by pool drains. This bill would require a public swimming pool constructed on or after January 1, 2025, to comply with the standards and requirements of the federal Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (act).

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2421 (Low D) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

Current Text: Amended: 6/17/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amend: 6/17/2024
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-S. DEAD
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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, and provisions relating to judicial employees, public schools, higher education, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, the Sacramento Regional Transit District, and other public transit employees, prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organizations. This includes 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. Those provisions further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by existing law. This bill would also prohibit a local public agency employer, a state employer, a judicial 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

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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: Enrolled: 8/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amend: 8/20/2024
Status: 8/28/2024-Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law continues into existence the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) division within Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) as the Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development Office. 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: Enrolled: 8/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 8/28/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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, 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: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was L. GOV. on 5/29/2024) Location: 7/2/2024-S. DEAD
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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

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prescribes the fees.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2485 (Carrillo, Juan D) Regional housing need: determination.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2024
Last Amend: 7/3/2024
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-S. DEAD
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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 the physical development of the county or city, which includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development (department), in consultation with each council of governments, where applicable, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, at least 2 years prior to the scheduled revision of the housing element, as specified. That law requires the department’s determination to be based upon population projections produced by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts developed by the council of governments and used for the preparation of the regional transportation plan, as specified. That law also requires the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodologies to be used to determine a region’s housing need and requires the council of governments to provide data assumptions from the council of governments’ projections, as specified. That law authorizes the department to accept or reject the information provided by the council of governments and, requires the department, after consultation with the council of governments, to make determinations on the data assumptions and the methodology the department will use to determine the region’s housing need, as specified. That law requires the department to provide its determinations to the council of governments, as specified. This bill would for the 8th and subsequent revisions of the housing element require the department to convene and engage stakeholders to consider improvements to the process of determining the existing and projected housing need for each region before determining any region’s existing projected housing need. The bill would require the department, prior to finalization of the regional determination, as specified, to publish on the department’s internet website a summary of the information the department considered and determinations made by the department to improve the process of determining the existing and projected housing need for each region.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.15.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps

AB 2553 (Friedman D) Housing development: major transit stops: vehicular traffic impact fees.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/28/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 8/13/2024
Status: 8/28/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements residential projects on infill sites and transit priority projects that meet certain requirements, including a requirement that the projects are located within 1/2 mile of a major transit stop. This bill would revise the definition of “major transit stop” to increase the frequency of service interval to 20 minutes.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.15.24 HBC letter to SEN Housing

AB 2560 (Alvarez D) Density Bonus Law: California Coastal Act of 1976.

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Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 7/1/2024
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/12/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-S. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976, regulates development, as defined, in the coastal zone, as defined, and requires a new development to comply with specified requirements. The Density Bonus Law provides that its provisions do not supersede or in any way alter or lessen the effect or application of the act, 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 instead provide that, in the coastal zone, the Density Bonus Law does not relieve a project from the requirement to obtain a coastal development permit, as specified. The bill would require any density bonus, concessions, incentives, waivers or reductions of development standards, and parking ratios to which an applicant is entitled to be permitted in a manner that is consistent with the Density Bonus Law and does not result in significant adverse impacts to coastal resources and public coastal access, as specified.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2574 (Valencia D) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment programs and facilities:
disclosures.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 8/29/2024-Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.).

Location: 8/29/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law grants the sole authority in state government to the State Department of Health Care Services to certify alcohol or other drug programs and to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. Current law requires certified programs and licensed facilities to disclose specified information to the department, 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 a program or a licensed facility to disclose to the department if any of its agents, partners, directors, officers, or owners own or have 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 Support
Notes: 7.15.24 HBC letter to SEN Health + SEN Approps

AB 2592 (Grayson D) Local planning: housing elements: water and sewer services.

Current Text: Amended: 3/19/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 3/19/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was H. & C.D. on 3/18/2024)
Location: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element adopted by the legislative body of the city, county, or city and county and any amendments made to that element be delivered to all public agencies or private entities that provide water or sewer services, as described, within the territory of the legislative body. Current law requires each public agency or private entity providing water or sewer services to grant a priority for the provision of these services to proposed developments that include housing units affordable to lower income households. Existing law also requires a public agency or private entity providing water or sewer services to adopt written policies and procedures not later than July 1, 2006, and at least once every 5 years thereafter, with specific

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objective standards for provision of services, as described. This bill would instead require each public agency or private entity providing water or sewer services to grant a priority for the provision of these services to proposed housing developments, which the bill would define for these purposes to include both housing developments that include units sold or rented to lower income households, as provided in existing law as described above, and housing developments constructed pursuant to specified laws providing for ministerial approval of certain housing developments or subdivision maps. The bill would also update the compliance date to adopt written policies and procedures to July 1, 2025, and continue to require the adoption of those written policies and procedures at least once every 5 years thereafter.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2597 (Ward D) Planning and zoning: revision of housing element: regional housing need allocation appeals: Southern California Association of Governments.

Location: 8/29/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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 the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. Current law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development (department), in consultation with the council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. Current law requires the council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to adopt a final regional housing needs plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county. Current law requires each council of governments and delegate subregion to distribute a draft allocation of regional housing needs to each local government in the region or subregion. Current law authorizes, within 45 days following receipt of the draft allocation, a local government within the region or the delegate subregion or the department to appeal to the council of governments or the delegate subregion for a revision of the share of the regional housing need proposed to be allocated to one or more local governments, as specified. This bill would reduce the period to appeal from 45 days following receipt of the draft allocation to 30 days.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.15.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps

AB 2599 (Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials) Water: public beaches: discontinuation of residential water service.

Current Text: Enrollment: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 8/7/2024
Status: 9/3/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

Location: 9/3/2024-A. ENROLLED
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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. The bill would also require that test results used by the local health officer be made available to the public.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2626 (Dixon R) Advanced Clean Fleets regulations: local governments.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024

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Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was TRANS. on 3/4/2024) Location: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution that the state board has found necessary, cost effective, and technologically feasible. Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities subject to the regulation to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. This bill would extend the compliance dates for local government set forth in the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation by 10 years. The bill would prohibit the state board from taking enforcement action against a local government for violating the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation if the alleged violation occurs before January 1, 2025.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2667 (Santiago D) Affirmatively furthering fair housing: housing element: reporting.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 8/28/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a public agency to administer its programs and activities relating to housing and community development in a manner to affirmatively further fair housing, and take no action that is materially inconsistent with its obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. 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. This bill would require a planning agency, for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element, to make a draft of its inventory of sites required under the Housing Element Law available to the department and the public, post the draft inventory on its internet website, and send a notification email to individuals and organizations that have previously requested notices at least 90 days before the initial adoption of the housing element and at least 7 days before any subsequent adoption submittal if changes have occurred to the inventory of sites.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2676 (Gabriel D) Housing elements.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Status: 5/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was PRINT on 2/14/2024) Location: 5/2/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a city, county, or city and county to submit a draft housing element or draft amendment to its housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development for a determination as to whether the draft complies with state law governing housing elements.

Current law imposes certain requirements on an action brought by an interested party to review the conformity of a housing element with applicable state law. This bill would make a nonsubstantive

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change to the provision imposing certain requirements on those actions.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2698 (Ta R) Route 405: Little Saigon Freeway.

Current Text: Enrollment: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 6/18/2024
Status: 9/3/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

Location: 9/3/2024-A. ENROLLED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would specify that Route 405 from Bolsa Chica Road to Bolsa Avenue 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: Enrolled: 8/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2024
Last Amend: 6/24/2024
Status: 8/28/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways during all or certain hours of the day. Current law authorizes the ordinance or resolution to include a designation of certain streets upon which preferential parking privileges are given to residents and merchants adjacent to the streets for their use and the use of their guests, under which the residents and merchants may be issued permits that exempt them from the prohibition or restriction of the ordinance or resolution.

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 or visitors of the development project that grants preferential parking privileges.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2793 (Gabriel D) Housing elements: prohousing incentives.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 5/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was PRINT on 2/15/2024) Location: 5/2/2024-A. DEAD
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compliance with specified provisions additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2794 (Bryan D) Community development: Antidisplacement Commercial Property Acquisition Program.

Current Text: Amended: 4/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amend: 4/4/2024
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/8/2024)
Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the Antidisplacement Commercial Property Acquisition Program, to be administered by GO-Biz to provide low-interest loans to eligible community-based acquisition partners to acquire commercial property in communities that are vulnerable to gentrification and displacement.

The bill would specify the goals of the program, including ensuring local businesses remain in high-risk communities vulnerable to gentrification and displacement. The bill would establish the Antidisplacement Commercial Property Acquisition Revolving Loan Fund, and would authorize GO-Biz, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the fund for purposes of the program, to provide low-interest loans for purposes of the program. The bill would require GO-Biz to adopt regulations to administer the program, including qualifications that prioritize the preservation of Black-, indigenous-, people of color-, and women-owned businesses and the acquisition of commercial property in culturally significant commercial corridors. The bill would require GO-Biz to report to the Legislature on the progress of the program by January 1, 2030, or 5 years after the disbursement of the first loan by GO-Biz, whichever is later. The bill would make the program contingent upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2881 (Lee D) The Social Housing Act.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/8/2024)
Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and preserving affordable housing. The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority. This bill would prescribe the composition of the California Housing Authority Board, which would govern the authority, and which would be composed of appointed members and members who would be elected by residents of social housing developments, as specified. The bill would set forth the powers and duties of the authority and the board. The bill would require the authority to seek to achieve revenue neutrality, as defined, and would require the authority to seek to recuperate the cost of development and operations over the life of its properties through mechanisms that maximize the number of Californians who can be housed without experiencing rent burden.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 2945 (Alvarez D) Reconnecting Communities Redevelopment Act.

Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/18/2024
Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024)
Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD
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Summary: The California Constitution, with respect to any taxes levied on taxable property in a redevelopment project established under the Community Redevelopment Law, as it then read or may be amended, authorizes the Legislature to provide for the division of those taxes under a redevelopment plan between the taxing agencies and the redevelopment agency, as provided.

Current law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and designates successor agencies to act as successor entities to the dissolved redevelopment agencies. This bill, the Reconnecting Communities Redevelopment Act, would authorize a city or county, or two or more cities acting jointly, to propose the formation of a reconnecting communities investment agency by adoption of a resolution of intention that meets specified requirements, including that the resolution of intention include a passthrough provision and an override passthrough provision, as defined. The bill would require the city or county to submit that resolution to each affected taxing entity and would authorize an entity that receives that resolution to elect to not receive a passthrough payment, as provided. The bill would require the city or county that adopted that resolution to hold a public hearing on the proposal to consider all written and oral objections to the formation, as well as any recommendations of the affected taxing entities, and would authorize that city or county to adopt a resolution of formation at the conclusion of that hearing.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 3024 (Ward D) Civil rights.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 8/28/2024
Status: 8/31/2024-Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes

30. Noes 0.). In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Urgency clause adopted.

Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/31/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976 affords all persons within the jurisdiction of this state the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, committed against their persons or property because of political affiliation, any specified personal characteristic, or position in a labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics.

Current law specifies that whoever denies this right, or aids, incites, or conspires in that denial, is liable for each and every offense for the actual damages suffered by any person denied that right and, in addition, exemplary damages, a civil penalty of $25,000, and attorney’s fees. Current law authorizes a person claiming to be aggrieved by an alleged unlawful practice in violation of this right to also file a verified complaint with the Civil Rights Department. Current law defines the phrase “intimidation by threat of violence” for purposes of this provision. This bill would expand the definition of “intimidation by threat of violence” for purposes of these provisions to also include terrorizing the owner or occupant of private property with the distribution of materials on the private property, without authorization, with the purpose of terrorizing, as defined, the owner or occupant of that private property. The bill would prohibit speech alone from supporting an action brought pursuant to the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976 unless there is a showing that the speech itself threatens violence against a specific person or group of persons, the person or group of persons against whom the threat is directed reasonably fears that, because of the speech, violence will be committed against them or their property, and the person threatening violence is acting in reckless disregard for the threatening nature of their speech and has the apparent ability to carry out the threat.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 3068 (Haney D) Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 8/31/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/31/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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

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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, subject to specified exceptions.

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 for, among other things, the preservation of exterior facades of a building that face a street, 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 3086 (Santiago D) General plan: annual report: housing units.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was H. & C.D. on 3/11/2024)
Location: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD
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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 of the city or county that includes, among other elements, a housing element. That law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an identification and analysis of existing and projected housing needs. That law requires the 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 that includes, among other specified information, the number of units of housing demolished and new units of housing that have been issued a completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy. This bill would additionally require the city or county to include in the annual report the number of units in the city or county with long-term affordable covenants or restrictions that expired in the prior year and the number of units in the city or county subject to a local rent control or any form of rent or price control that were withdrawn from rent or lease.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 3093 (Ward D) Land use: housing element.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 8/29/2024-Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 1.).

Location: 8/29/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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 that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires 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 annual report is required to include, among other things, the city’s or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs, as specified. This bill would require a city or county to include in the report on the progress in meeting the city’s or county’s share of regional housing need the progress in meeting the need for the 6th and previous revisions of the housing element.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.15.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps

AB 3122 (Kalra D) Streamlined housing approvals: objective planning standards and subdivision applications.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/31/2024 html pdf

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Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 8/22/2024
Status: 8/28/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
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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 is subject to a requirement mandating a minimum percentage of below market rate housing based on, among other things, that (1) the locality’s latest production report reflects that there were fewer units of housing issued building permits affordable to either very low income or low-income households by income category than were required for the regional housing needs assessment cycle for that reporting period and (2) the project seeking approval dedicates 50% of the total number of units, as specified, to housing affordable to households making at or below 80% of the area median income. This bill would also include as an objective planning standard that (1) the locality’s latest production report reflects the requirements described above and (2) the project application was submitted prior to January 1, 2019, and the project includes at least 500 units of housing, that the project dedicates 20% of the total number of units, as specified, as affordable units, with at least 9% affordable to households making at or below 50% of the area median income and the remainder affordable to households making at or below 80% of the area median income.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

AB 3219 (Sanchez R) Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: local governments.

Current Text: Amended: 3/11/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 3/11/2024
Status: 5/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was TRANS. on 3/11/2024) Location: 5/2/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions from those sources.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

ACA 10 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.

Current Text: Chaptered: 6/27/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 3/6/2023
Last Amend: 6/20/2024
Status: 6/27/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 134, Statutes of 2024 Location: 6/27/2024-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 1 of the 2023–24 Regular Session (ACA 1) would, if adopted by the people, amend Section 4 of Article XIIIA, Section 2 of Article XIIIC, and Section 3 of Article XIIID of, and would add Section 2.5 of Article XIIIC to, the California Constitution, relative to local finance. Under these provisions, ACA 1 would condition the imposition, extension, or increase of a sales and use tax or transactions and use tax imposed in accordance with specified law or a parcel tax

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by a local government for the purposes of funding the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, including downpayment assistance, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, on the proposition proposing that tax being approved by a majority vote of the membership of the governing board of the local government and by 55% of its voters voting on the proposition and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements. ACA 1 would also make conforming changes. This measure would remove the above-described provisions of ACA 1 relating to special taxes and make conforming changes in other provisions of ACA 1.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

ACR 71 (Ta R) Little Saigon Freeway.

Current Text: Amended: 6/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 5/1/2023
Last Amend: 6/12/2024
Status: 6/12/2024-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-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: Chaptered: 4/30/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 5/26/2023
Last Amend: 6/15/2023
Status: 4/25/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 57, Statutes of 2024 Location: 4/25/2024-A. CHAPTERED
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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

ACR 182 (Dixon R) The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Current Text: Chaptered: 8/26/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 4/22/2024
Last Amend: 8/8/2024
Status: 8/19/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 180, Statutes of 2024 Location: 8/19/2024-A. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would provide for the promotion and encouragement of solutions and resources for keeping the oceans and coastlines healthy and eliminating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 7.15.24 HBC letter to ASM Rules + author

SB 7 (Blakespear D) Regional housing need: determination.

Current Text: Enrollment: 9/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 9/4/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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Location: 9/4/2024-S. ENROLLED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. That law requires the department, in consultation with the council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need of housing for each region in a specified manner. That law requires the department’s determination to be based upon population projections produced by the Department of Finance, as specified. That law also requires the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodologies to be used to determine each region’s housing need and requires the council of governments to provide data assumptions from the council of governments’ projections, as specified. That law authorizes the department to accept or reject the information provided by the council of governments and, after consultation with each council of governments, to make determinations on the council of governments’ data assumptions and the methodology the department will use to determine each region’s housing need. That law requires the department to provide its determinations to each council of governments, as specified. That law, upon making that determination, authorizes the council of governments to object to the determination. This bill, for regions in which the department is required to distribute the regional housing need, would prohibit a city or county from filing an objection to the regional housing need determination.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose

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 58 (Wiener D) Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.

Current Text: Vetoed: 10/7/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Last Amend: 9/1/2023
Status: 1/25/2024-Stricken from file. Veto sustained.

Location: 10/7/2023-S. VETOED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, on and after January 1, 2025, make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and mescaline, for personal use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substances on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age.

Governor's Message: To the Members of the California State Senate: I am returning Senate Bill 58 without my signature. This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2025, decriminalize the possession,

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preparation, obtaining, or transportation of specified quantities of mescaline, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), psilocybin, and psilocyn, for personal use by persons 21 years of age or older. This bill would also decriminalize the therapeutic use of the substances following the Legislature's adoption of a framework governing therapeutic use. Both peer-reviewed science and powerful personal anecdotes lead me to support new opportunities to address mental health through psychedelic medicines like those addressed in this bill. Psychedelics have proven to relieve people suffering from certain conditions such as depression, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and other addictive personality traits. This is an exciting frontier and California will be on the front-end of leading it. California should immediately begin work to set up regulated treatment guidelines - replete with dosing information, therapeutic guidelines, rules to prevent against exploitation during guided treatments, and medical clearance of no underlying psychoses. Unfortunately, this bill would decriminalize possession prior to these guidelines going into place, and I cannot sign it. I urge the legislature to send me legislation next year that includes therapeutic guidelines. I am, additionally, committed to working with the legislature and sponsors of this bill to craft legislation that would authorize permissible uses and consider a framework for potential broader decriminalization in the future, once the impacts, dosing, best practice, and safety guardrails are thoroughly contemplated and put in place. Sincerely, Gavin Newsom Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition

SB 222 (Nguyen R) Outdoor advertising: applications.

Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Last Amend: 3/21/2023
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Location: 1/12/2024-S. DEAD
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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. Current law requires the director to prescribe the form of all applications, licenses, permits, and other appurtenant written matter. This bill would require the department to consider the approval or denial of a pending outdoor advertising application before construction on an applicable highway project is completed.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

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: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was P.E. & R. on 6/11/2024)
Location: 7/2/2024-A. DEAD
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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

SB 253 (Wiener D) Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/7/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Last Amend: 9/7/2023
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 382, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/7/2023-S. CHAPTERED

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the State Air Resources Board, on or before January 1, 2025, to develop and adopt regulations requiring specified partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities with total annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000 and that do business in California, defined as “reporting entities,” to publicly disclose to the emissions reporting organization, as defined, and obtain an assurance engagement on, starting in 2026 on a date to be determined by the state board, and annually thereafter, their scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions, as defined, and, starting in 2027 and annually thereafter, their scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, as defined, from the reporting entity’s prior fiscal year, as provided. The bill would require the state board to review during 2029, and update as necessary on or before January 1, 2030, these deadlines to evaluate trends in scope 3 emissions reporting and to consider changes to the deadlines, as provided.

The bill would require a reporting entity to obtain an assurance engagement, performed by an independent third-party assurance provider, of the entity’s public disclosure as provided. The bill would require the state board, in developing these regulations, to consult with the Attorney General, other government stakeholders, investors, stakeholders representing consumer and environmental justice interests, and reporting entities that have demonstrated leadership in full-scope greenhouse gas emissions accounting and public disclosure and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The bill would also require the state board to ensure that the assurance process minimizes the need for reporting entities to engage multiple assurance providers and ensures sufficient assurance provider capacity, as well as timely reporting implementation, as required. The bill would further require the state board to contract with an emissions reporting organization to develop a reporting program to receive and make publicly available the required disclosures. The bill would authorize the state board, starting in 2033 and every 5 years thereafter, to assess the global greenhouse gas accounting and reporting standards and to adopt an alternative standard if it determines that using the alternative standard would more effectively further the goals of the bill.

Governor's Message: To the Members of the California State Senate: I am signing Senate Bill 253 which would require, among other things, the California Air resources Board (CARB), by January 1, 2025, to develop and adopt regulations requiring businesses with total annual revenues over $1 billion and operating in California to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions to an emissions reporting organization. This important policy, once again, demonstrates California's continued leadership with bold responses to the climate crisis, turning information transparency into climate action. However, the implementation deadlines in this bill are likely infeasible, and the reporting protocol specified could result in inconsistent reporting across businesses subject to the measure. I am directing my Administration to work with the bill's author and the Legislature next year to address these issues.

Additionally, I am concerned about the overall financial impact of this bill on businesses, so I am instructing CARB to closely monitor the cost impact as it implements this new bill and to make recommendations to streamline the program. I look forward to working with the Legislature on these modifications to ensure we achieve this bill's goals of "full transparency and consistency". Sincerely, Gavin Newsom
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition

SB 381 (Min D) Electric bicycles: study.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/13/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Last Amend: 6/19/2023
Status: 10/13/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 869, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/13/2023-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law defines an electric bicycle to mean a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and subjects a person riding an electric bicycle to provisions of law governing the operation of a bicycle. This bill would require the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to, on or before January 1, 2026, conduct a study on electric bicycles to inform efforts to improve the safety of users of the transportation system, and to submit a report of the findings from the study to the Legislature.

The bill would require the study to examine, identify, and analyze available information regarding, among other things, data on injuries, crashes, emergency room visits, and deaths related to bicycles and electric bicycles and best practices for policy to promote safe use of electric bicycles. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 2.21.2023 CHB Letter of Support

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SB 423 (Wiener D) Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/11/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Last Amend: 9/1/2023
Status: 10/11/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 778, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/11/2023-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development in compliance with the specified-described requirements on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would extend the operation of the streamlined, ministerial approval process to January 1, 2036. The bill would provide that the streamlined, ministerial approval process does not apply to applications for developments proposed on qualified sites, defined as a site that is located within an equine or equestrian district and meets certain other requirements, that are submitted on or after January 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2025. This bill would modify the specified- described objective planning standards, including by revising the standard that prohibits a multifamily housing development from being subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development is located in a coastal zone to apply only if the development located in the coastal zone meets any one of specified conditions. The bill would require that a development located in a coastal zone that satisfies the specified conditions obtain a coastal development permit. The bill would require a local government to approve a coastal development permit if it determines that the development is consistent with all objective standards of the local government’s certified local coastal program, as specified. The bill would provide that the changes made by this act would apply in a coastal zone on or after January 1, 2025 This bill would modify the objective planning standard that prohibits a development subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process from being located in a high fire severity zone by deleting the prohibition for a development to be located within a high or very high fire hazard severity zone as indicated on maps adopted by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and would instead prohibit a development from being located with the state responsibility area, as defined, unless the site has adopted specified standards. The bill would also remove an exception for sites excluded from specified hazard zones by a local agency, as specified.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

SB 450 (Atkins D) Housing development: approvals.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Last Amend: 8/22/2024
Status: 8/29/2024-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 8/29/2024-S. ENROLLMENT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning law requires a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements, including that the proposed housing development does not allow for the demolition of more than 25% of the existing exterior structural walls, except as provided. Current law authorizes a local agency to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards, as defined, except as specified, on the proposed housing development. Current law authorizes a local agency to deny a proposed housing development if specified conditions are met, including that the building official makes a written finding that the proposed housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon public health and safety or the physical environment, as provided. This bill would remove the requirement that a proposed housing development does not allow for the demolition of more than 25% of the existing exterior structural walls to be considered ministerially. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards that do not apply uniformly to development within the underlying zone, but would specify that these provisions do not prohibit a local agency from adopting or imposing objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards on the development if the standards are more permissive than applicable standards within the underlying zone. The bill would remove the authorization for a local agency to deny a proposed housing development if the building official makes a written finding that the proposed housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon the physical environment. The bill would require the local agency to consider and approve or deny the proposed housing development application within 60 days from the date the local agency receives the completed application, and would deem the application approved after that time.

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Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 5.9.24 HBC Letter to Author

SB 555 (Wahab D) Stable Affordable Housing Act of 2023.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/7/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Last Amend: 9/11/2023
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 402, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/7/2023-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes various programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, homeownership for very low and low- income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time homebuyers. Current law requires the department to, on or before December 31 of each year, submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department, as prescribed. This bill, the Stable Affordable Housing Act of 2023, would require the department, no later than December 31, 2026, to complete a California Social Housing Study consisting of a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities, resources, obstacles, and recommendations for the creation of housing that is affordable, as defined, and social housing, as defined, at scale, to assist in meeting the need identified in the statewide projections for below market rate housing affordable to households with extremely low, very low, low, and moderate incomes in the 6th Regional Housing Needs Assessment cycle.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 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 HBC letter of opposition

SB 689 (Blakespear D) Local coastal program: bicycle lane: amendment.

Current Text: Enrolled: 8/27/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Last Amend: 6/3/2024
Status: 8/27/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

Location: 8/27/2024-S. ENROLLED
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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.

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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 747 (Caballero D) Land use: surplus land.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/11/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amend: 9/8/2023
Status: 10/11/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 786, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/11/2023-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency.

Current law defines terms for these purposes. Existing law defines “surplus land” to generally mean land owned in fee simple by a local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and not necessary for the agency’s use.

Current law defines “agency’s use” to include land that is being used, is planned to be used pursuant to a written plan adopted by the local agency’s governing board, or is disposed of to support agency work or operations. Current law excludes from “agency’s use” commercial or industrial uses or activities, or property disposed of for the sole purpose of investment or generation of revenue, unless the local agency is a district, except as specified, and the agency’s governing body takes specified actions in a public meeting. Current law excludes from these requirements the disposal of exempt surplus land by an agency of the state or any local government. Current law requires a local agency to declare land as either surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it. Under existing law, exempt surplus land includes, among other types of land, property that is used by a district for an “agency’s use” as expressly authorized, land for specified developments, including a mixed-use development, if put out to open, competitive bid by a local agency, as specified, and surplus land that is subject to specified valid legal restrictions. This bill would define the term “dispose” for these purposes to mean the sale of the surplus property or a lease of any surplus property entered into on or after January 1, 2024, for a term longer than 15 years, including renewal options, as specified.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 5.2.2023 CHB Letter of Support

SB 770 (Wiener D) Health care: unified health care financing.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/7/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Last Amend: 9/8/2023
Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/7/2023-S. CHAPTERED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would direct the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to research, develop, and pursue discussions of a waiver framework in consultation with the federal government with the objective of a health care system that incorporates specified features and objectives, including, among others, a comprehensive package of medical, behavioral health, pharmaceutical, dental, and vision benefits, and the absence of cost sharing for essential services and treatments. The bill would further require the secretary to engage specified stakeholders to provide input on topics related to discussions with the federal government and key design issues, as specified. The bill would require the secretary, no later than January 1, 2025, to provide an interim report to specified committees of the Legislature and propose statutory language to the chairs of those committees authorizing the development and submission of applications to the federal government for waivers necessary to implement a unified health care financing system. The bill would require the secretary, no later than June 1, 2025, to complete drafting the waiver framework, make the draft available to the public on the agency’s internet website, and hold a 45-day public comment period thereafter. The bill would require the secretary, no later than November 1, 2025, to provide the Legislature and the Governor with a report that communicates the finalized waiver framework, as specified, and sets forth the specific elements to be included in a formal waiver application to establish a unified health care financing system, as specified.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose

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Notes: 7.18.2023 CHB Letter of Opposition

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 838 (Menjivar D) Victim compensation: use of force by a law enforcement officer.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Location: 2/1/2024-S. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would revise the definition of “crime” to include, solely for the purposes of eligibility for compensation under this chapter, an incident occurring on or after January 1, 2024, in which an individual sustains serious bodily injury, as defined, or death as a result of a law enforcement officer’s use of force, regardless of whether the law enforcement officer is arrested for, charged with, or convicted of committing a crime. The bill would define “law enforcement officer” for these purposes. By expanding the types of incidents for which compensation can be paid from a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.18.2023 HBC Letter of Opposition

SB 907 (Newman D) Orange County Board of Education: members.

Current Text: Enrollment: 9/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/4/2024
Last Amend: 8/19/2024
Status: 9/4/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 9/4/2024-S. ENROLLED
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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.

Current 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, after the next redistricting process takes place in 2030, consist of 7 members, as provided.

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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: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was TRANS. on 6/3/2024) Location: 7/2/2024-A. DEAD
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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: fees and charges.

Current Text: Enrollment: 9/4/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/17/2024
Last Amend: 8/22/2024
Status: 9/4/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

Location: 9/4/2024-S. ENROLLED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act regulates fees for development projects, fees for specific purposes, including water and sewer connection fees, and fees for solar energy systems, among others. The act, among other things, requires local agencies to comply with various conditions when imposing fees, extractions, or charges as a condition of approval of a proposed development or development project.

The act prohibits a local agency that imposes fees or charges on a residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until the date of the final inspection or the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except for utility service fees, which the local agency is authorized to collect at the time an application for utility service is received. The act exempts specified units in a residential development proposed by a nonprofit housing developer if the housing development meets certain conditions. This bill would limit the utility service fees exception described above to utility service fees related to connections, and cap those fees at the costs incurred by the utility provider resulting from the connection activities.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

SB 951 (Wiener D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal zone: coastal development.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/18/2024
Last Amend: 8/22/2024
Status: 8/29/2024-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 8/29/2024-S. ENROLLMENT

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 prescribes procedures for the approval and certification of a local coastal program by the California Coastal Commission, and provides for the delegation of development review authority to a local government, as defined, with a certified local coastal program.

Under the act, an action taken by a local government after certification of its local coastal program on a coastal development permit application may be appealed to the commission only on specified grounds and only for certain types of developments, including any development approved by a coastal county that is not designated as the principal permitted use under the zoning ordinance or zoning district map, as specified. This bill would exempt a local government that is both a city and county from the above provision relating to the appeal of developments approved by a coastal county.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch - Concern

SB 968 (Seyarto R) Planning and zoning: regional housing needs allocation.

Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/24/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was HOUSING on 2/14/2024)
Location: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD
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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: Enrollment: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 1/25/2024
Last Amend: 8/22/2024
Status: 9/3/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Location: 9/3/2024-S. ENROLLED
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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. Before enacting an ordinance to establish or modify an entertainment zone, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to notify local law enforcement and request feedback about specific information, including, among others, the entertainment zone’s proposed boundaries and days and hours of operation.

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SB 1011 (Jones R) Encampments: penalties.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/5/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was PUB. S. on 2/14/2024) Location: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD
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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
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SB 1037 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement.

Current Text: Enrollment: 8/31/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2024
Last Amend: 8/23/2024
Status: 8/31/2024-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 23. Noes 9.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 8/31/2024-S. ENROLLMENT
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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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to bring its general plan into substantial compliance with provisions regulating general plans and specifies timelines under which the city or county is required to bring its zoning ordinance into consistency if the court finds in favor of a plaintiff in an action challenging the validity of a general plan, or any mandatory element thereof, as specified. This bill, in any action brought by the Attorney General or HCD 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 planning or permitting application related to 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 the local agency’s acts or omissions, as described, are arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair. The bill would require a court to modify certain of its prior orders, including an order directing a city or county to substantially comply with provisions regulating general plans and to bring its zoning ordinance into consistency, to impose, among other things, the maximum penalty specified in these provisions, as provided.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 6.28.24 HBC letter to ASM Approps

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6.14.24 HBC letter to ASM Judiciary

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: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD
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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 1055 (Min D) Accessory dwelling units: regional housing need.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/8/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/8/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was HOUSING on 2/21/2024)
Location: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD
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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

SB 1072 (Padilla D) Local government: Proposition 218: remedies.

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2024
Last Amend: 6/17/2024
Status: 8/29/2024-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

Location: 8/29/2024-S. ENROLLMENT
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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

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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. 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: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 6/19/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD
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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: Enrolled: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amend: 8/19/2024
Status: 8/29/2024-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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Location: 8/29/2024-S. ENROLLMENT
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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: 6.14.24 HBC letter to ASM Local Gov

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: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 7/2/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD
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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: 6.28.24 HBC letter to ASM Approps

6.12.24 HBC letter to ASM GO

5.9.24 HBC letter to SEN Approps

SB 1218 (Newman D) Water: emergency water supplies.

Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2024
Last Amend: 6/18/2024
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD
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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 drought or unplanned service or supply disruption, as provided.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

SB 1312 (Nguyen R) Electricity: fixed charges.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024

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Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was E. U., & C. on 2/29/2024)
Location: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD
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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 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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Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

SB 1325 (Durazo D) Public contracts: best value procurement: goods.

Current Text: Amended: 4/10/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/10/2024
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law imposes requirements on, and authorizes procedures for, public contracting for equipment and services, among other things, by local and state agencies. Current law authorizes certain procurements to be facilitated through a lowest responsible bidder requirement. This bill would authorize a public entity, as defined, to award contracts through a best value procurement method, as described, for the purchase of goods with a base value of $250,000 or more. The bill would require the public entity to adopt and publish procedures and guidelines for evaluating the qualifications of the bidders to ensure the best value selections are conducted in a fair and impartial manner, as described.

The bill would authorize the procedures and guidelines to include the adoption of a high road jobs plan policy that evaluates bidders’ high road jobs plan commitments as part of the overall score for the public contract, as specified. This bill would require the solicitation document to include certain information and would direct the public entity to use a scoring method based on price and the factors described in the solicitation document, as specified.

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.

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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: Chaptered: 8/19/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/8/2024
Status: 8/19/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 188, Statutes of 2024 Location: 8/19/2024-S. CHAPTERED
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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 1393 (Niello R) Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee.

Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was E.Q. on 2/29/2024) Location: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD
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Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities subject to the regulation to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances. This bill would require the state board to establish the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee by an unspecified date for purposes of reviewing appeals of denied requests for exemptions from the requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation. The bill would require the committee to include representatives of specified state agencies, other state and local government representatives, and representatives of private fleet owners, the electric vehicle manufacturing industry, and electrical corporations, as provided. The bill would require the committee to meet monthly and would require recordings of its meetings to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website. The bill would require the committee to consider, and make a recommendation on, an

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appeal of an exemption request denial no later than 60 days after the appeal is made. The bill would require specified information relating to the committee’s consideration of an appeal to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

SB 1487 (Glazer D) Vehicles: parking violations.

Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 7/3/2024
Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)
Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD
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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.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

SB 1488 (Durazo D) Outdoor advertising displays: exemptions.

Current Text: Enrollment: 9/3/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 2/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/25/2024
Status: 9/3/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

Location: 9/3/2024-S. ENROLLED
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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.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch

SCR 165 (Nguyen R) Surf City USA Freeway.

Current Text: Amended: 8/12/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 6/27/2024
Last Amend: 8/12/2024
Status: 8/12/2024-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on TRANS.

Location: 8/7/2024-S. TRANS.

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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would designate specified portions of State Route 405 in the County of Orange as the Surf City USA Freeway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 8.12.24 HBC letter to SEN Trans + author
Total Measures: 99
Total Tracking Forms: 99

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