HBC Full Bill List
4/4/2025
AB 3 (Dixon R) Alcohol and drug treatment facilities: local regulation.
Current Text: Amended: 3/20/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Last Amend: 3/20/2025
Status: 3/24/2025-Re-referred to Com. on Health.
Location: 2/3/2025-A. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would exempt an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility from being considered a residential use of property for the purposes of local regulation if multiple single-family dwellings are being used as a licensed or unlicensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, they share an owner, a director, programs, or amenities with another facility, and any of the dwellings are within 300 feet of that facility, or if a single-family dwelling being used as an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility shares an owner, a director, programs, or amenities with another facility that is commercially owned, operated, and licensed that is located anywhere in the state.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 11 (Lee D) The Social Housing Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/2/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Status: 2/3/2025-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/3/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law creates a housing authority in each county or city, which functions upon the adoption of a specified resolution by the relevant governing body. Current law authorizes these housing authorities, within their jurisdictions, to construct, reconstruct, improve, alter, or repair all or part of any housing project. Current law establishes various programs that provide housing assistance. This bill 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.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 20 (DeMaio R) Homelessness: People First Housing Act of 2025.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a homeless encampment from operating within 500 feet of a sensitive community area, including, but not limited to, a school, open space, or transit stop. The bill would prohibit a person from camping, as defined, in any public space, including a sidewalk, if a homeless shelter bed is available in the city where the public space is located.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 25 (DeMaio R) California Voter ID and Election Integrity Act of 2025.
Current Text: Amended: 2/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Last Amend: 2/24/2025
Status: 2/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on Elections.
Location: 2/24/2025-A. ELECTIONS
Location: 2/24/2025-A. ELECTIONS
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under the California Constitution, a person may vote if the person is a United States citizen, at least 18 years of age, and a resident in the state. Current law authorizes a person to prove citizenship for voting purposes by certification under penalty of perjury on the person’s affidavit of voter registration. This bill would repeal the authorization for a person to prove citizenship by certification and would instead require a person to provide appropriate documentation of citizenship with the affidavit of registration. The bill would prohibit an elections official from registering to vote a person who does not provide appropriate documentation of citizenship or a person whose citizenship cannot be verified based on the documentation provided. The bill would require an elections official to verify the citizenship of voters registered to vote in the county as of January 1, 2026, and would authorize the elections official to require a person to provide documentation of citizenship for that purpose. By increasing the duties of county elections officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 36 (Soria D) Housing elements: prohousing designation.
Current Text: Amended: 3/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Last Amend: 3/19/2025
Status: 3/20/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 2/3/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The 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. Current law requires HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by HCD, as prescribed, and to report those designations to the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. Current law specifies that these emergency regulations will remain in effect until HCD promulgates permanent prohousing regulations. This bill would instead require HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to permanent regulations adopted by HCD to implement these provisions, as specified.
Beginning with the 7th housing element cycle, the bill would require HCD to evaluate materials from a nonentitlement jurisdiction’s housing element submission when determining whether the jurisdiction qualifies as prohousing, but only with respect to those nonentitlement jursidictions that have a compliant housing element. The bill would also prohibit HCD from requiring nonentitlement jurisdictions to renew their prohousing designation for at least 5 years.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 39 (Zbur D) General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.
Current Text: Amended: 2/25/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Last Amend: 2/25/2025
Status: 2/26/2025-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 2/3/2025-A. L. GOV.
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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 comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified. This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require a each city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2027, but no later than January 1, 2030, to prepare and adopt a specified plan, or integrate a plan in the next adoption or revision of the general plan, that includes locally based goals, objectives, policies, and feasible implementation measures that include, among other things, the identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging, as specified, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for equitable and prioritized investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups. For these purposes, the bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to incorporate by reference into the general plan a previously adopted
similar plan that meets the above-described requirements, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 87 (Boerner D) Housing development: density bonuses: mixed-use developments: short-term rentals.
Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/6/2025
Last Amend: 3/17/2025
Status: 3/18/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/17/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for lower income households or very low income households, and meets other requirements. Current law defines “housing development,” for these purposes, to mean a development project for 5 or more residential units, including mixed-use developments. This bill would define “mixed-use development” for purposes of the Density Bonus Law to mean a development with at least 70% of the square footage of a proposed development designated for residential uses and no square footage of the development designated for use as a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other visitor-serving purposes. The bill would also prohibit an applicant from being eligible for a density bonus or any other incentives or concessions under the Density Bonus Law, unless the applicant agrees to, and the city, county, or city and county ensures, the commitment to record a land use restriction or covenant providing that a unit of development may not be listed as a short-term rental unit, as defined.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 91 (Harabedian D) State and local agencies: demographic data.
Current Text: Amended: 3/20/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/6/2025
Last Amend: 3/20/2025
Status: 3/24/2025-Re-referred to Com. on JUD. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require state and local agencies that collect demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate collection categories and tabulations for major Middle Eastern or North African groups, as specified, and, with certain exceptions, to include that data in every demographic report published on or after January 1, 2027, and to make the aggregated data available to the public.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 253 (Ward D) California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.
Current Text: Amended: 3/13/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/15/2025
Last Amend: 3/13/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law. This bill, the California Residential Private Permitting Review Act, would require a county’s or city’s building department to prepare a residential building permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 259 (Rubio, Blanca D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/16/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/16/2025
Status: 2/10/2025-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 2/10/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use teleconferencing, as specified, and requires a legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing to comply with specified requirements, including that the local agency post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with prescribed requirements. Current law requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including that specified circumstances apply. Current law establishes limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including prohibiting such participation for more than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less. This bill would remove the January 1, 2026, date from those provisions, thereby extending the alternative teleconferencing procedures indefinitely.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 306 (Schultz D) Building regulations: state building standards.
Current Text: Amended: 3/12/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/23/2025
Last Amend: 3/12/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Department of General Services. Current law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code (code). The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Current law requires, among other things, the building standards adopted and submitted by the department for approval by the commission, as specified, to be adopted by reference, with certain exceptions. Current law authorizes any city or county to make changes in those building standards that are published in the code, including to green building standards. Current law requires the governing body of a city or county, before making modifications or changes to those green building standards, to make an express finding that those modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions. This bill would, from June 1, 2025, until June 1, 2031, inclusive, prohibit a city or county from making changes that are applicable to residential units to the above-described building standards unless a certain condition is met, including that the commission deems those changes or modifications necessary as emergency standards to protect health and safety.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 423 (Davies R) Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment programs and facilities: disclosures.
Current Text: Amended: 4/2/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2025
Last Amend: 4/2/2025
Status: 4/3/2025-Re-referred to Com. on Health.
Location: 2/18/2025-A. HEALTH
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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 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. This bill would require a business-operated recovery residence to register its location with the department. The bill would define a business-operated recovery residence as a recovery residence in which a business, in exchange for compensation, provides more than one service beyond those of a typical tenancy arrangement to more than one occupant, including, but not limited to, drug testing, supervision, scheduling, rule setting, rule enforcement, room assignment, entertainment, gym memberships, transportation, laundry, or meal preparation and coordination.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 424 (Davies R) Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints.
Current Text: Amended: 3/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/5/2025
Last Amend: 3/19/2025
Status: 3/20/2025-Re-referred to Com. on Health.
Location: 2/18/2025-A. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, when the Department of Health Care Services receives a complaint against a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, or a complaint alleging that a facility is unlawfully operating without a license, from a member of the public, require the department to provide, within 30 10 days of the date of the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been received and to provide, upon closing the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been closed and whether the department found the facility to be in violation of the provisions governing facility licensure and regulation.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 4.3.25 HBC Letter to Author
AB 439 (Rogers D) California Coastal Act of 1976: local planning and reporting.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Coastal Act generally requires each local government, as specified, to prepare a local coastal program, for certification by the California Coastal Commission. Current law also imposes an analogous requirement on port governing bodies to prepare port master plans, for certification by the commission. With regard to local coastal programs and port master plans, current law provides that an amendment determined to be de minimus by the executive director of the commission, after notice in the agenda of the next scheduled commission meeting, becomes a part of the certified program or plan 10 days after the commission meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination. This bill would make de minimis amendments to local coastal programs and port master plans effective upon adjournment of that meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 452 (Irwin D) Coastal recreation: designated state surfing reserves.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/6/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/6/2025
Status: 2/24/2025-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 2/24/2025-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy with prescribed powers and responsibilities for implementing and administering various programs intended to preserve, protect, and restore the state’s coastal areas. Current law establishes surfing as the official state sport. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, the conservancy to establish criteria and an application process for purposes of designating an area of the coastline as a state surfing reserve, as defined.
The bill would authorize a local government, as defined, to apply to the conservancy for purposes of designating an area of the coastline within the jurisdiction of the local government as a state surfing reserve. The bill would require the local government to include in its application, among other things, a description of the proposed surfing reserve. The bill would require the conservancy to approve the application if the area of the coastline meets the established criteria. The bill would require, once the application is approved, the conservancy to designate the area as a state surfing reserve and to include this designation, where appropriate, in publications or maps that are issued by the conservancy. The bill would authorize the conservancy to revoke the designation if the surfing reserve no longer meets the established criteria.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 492 (Valencia D) Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes
15. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/1/2025-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the State Department of Health Care Services, whenever it issues a license to operate an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, to concurrently provide written notification of the issuance of the license to the city or county in which the facility is located. The bill would require the notice to include the name and mailing address of the licensee and the location of the facility.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 4.3.25 HBC Letter to Author
AB 507 (Haney D) Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2025
Status: 2/24/2025-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 2/24/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units. This bill would deem an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process if the project meets specified requirements, 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.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 544 (Davies R) Electric bicycles: required equipment.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/11/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/24/2025-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a bicycle operated during darkness on a highway, sidewalk, or bikeway to be equipped with, among other things, a red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. Current law defines “bicycle” for these purposes to, among other things, include an electric bicycle. Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power and categorizes electric bicycles into 3 classes. A violation of the provisions relating to the requirements for equipping a bicycle or an electric bicycle is punishable as an infraction. This bill would require an electric bicycle during all hours to be equipped with a red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 545 (Davies R) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/11/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/24/2025-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines an electric bicycle and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Under existing law, a “class 1 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that, among other things, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Under current law, a “class 2 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour.
Under current law, a “class 3 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that, in pertinent part, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. Current law prohibits a person from selling a product or device that can modify the speed capability of an electric bicycle so that it no longer meets the definition of an electric bicycle. This bill would also prohibit a person from selling an application that can modify the speed capability of an electric bicycle.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 590 (Lee D) Social Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/12/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2025
Status: 3/3/2025-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/3/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under current law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Current law also authorizes the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks. This bill would enact the Social Housing Bond Act of 2026 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $950,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, to fund social housing programs, as specified. The bill would create the California Housing Authority, which would be governed by the California Housing Authority Board, to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with specified goals and would authorize the authority to issue the bonds and, upon appropriation of the Legislature, utilize funds from other sources to build more low, very low, and extremely low income housing. The bill would create the Social Housing Revolving Loan Fund to be used, upon appropriation of the Legislature, to provide zero- interest loan for the purpose of constructing housing to accommodate a mix of household incomes.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 609 (Wicks D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 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 various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a housing development project, as defined, that meets certain conditions. The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a phase I environmental assessment, as provided. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a housing development project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 610 (Alvarez D) Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2025
Status: 3/18/2025-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/3/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law requires the housing element to include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels, including, among others, locally adopted ordinances that directly impact the cost and supply of residential development. Current law also requires the analysis to demonstrate local efforts to remove governmental constraints that hinder the locality from meeting its share of the regional housing need. This bill would require the housing element to include, in addition to the above-described analysis, a governmental constraints disclosure statement, as specified. The bill would also prohibit any new or amended governmental constraint, or a more stringent revision of a governmental constraint, from being adopted during the planning, unless, among other things, it was both (1) included in the governmental constraints disclosure statement, and (2) the local government has completed all of the housing element program commitments to eliminate or mitigate governmental constraints contained in the prior and current planning periods, or the adoption of the measure is required by state or federal law and the local government has taken specified actions. By imposing new requirements upon local governments submitting a housing element, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 623 (Dixon R) Fuel modification and reduction projects: California Environmental Quality Act: coastal development permits: exemptions.
Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2025
Last Amend: 3/17/2025
Status: 3/18/2025-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/3/2025-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 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. This bill would exempt a fuel modification project to maintain defensible space of 100 feet from each side and from the front and rear of a building or structure and a fuel reduction project to prevent and contain the spread of wildfires from the requirements of CEQA. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 650 (Papan D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2025
Last Amend: 3/28/2025
Status: 4/1/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/28/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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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. 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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires that a housing element include, among other things, a program that sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period. Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for programs and actions taken pursuant to the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing. This bill would require the department to develop the above-described standardized reporting format on or before December 31, 2026.
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AB 712 (Wicks D) Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.
Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2025
Last Amend: 3/10/2025
Status: 3/11/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Current law within the Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings. This bill, where the applicant for a housing development is a prevailing party in an action brought by the applicant to enforce a housing reform law against a public agency, would entitle an applicant for a housing development project to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and would require a court to impose fines on a local agency, as specified. The bill would prohibit a public agency from requiring the applicant to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the public agency in any action alleging the public agency violated the applicant’s rights or deprived the applicant of the benefits or protection provide by a housing reform law.
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AB 735 (Carrillo D) Planning and zoning: logistics use: truck routes.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2025
Last Amend: 3/26/2025
Status: 3/27/2025-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, beginning January 1, 2026, prescribes various statewide warehouse design and build standards for any proposed new or expanded logistics use developments, as specified, including, among other things, standards for building design and location, parking, truck loading bays, landscaping buffers, entry gates, and signage. Current law defines various terms, including “21st century warehouse,” and “tier 1 21 century warehouse,” for purposes of those provisions as logistics uses that, among other things, comply with specified building and energy efficiency standards, including requirements related to the availability of conduits and electrical hookups to power climate control equipment at loading bays, as specified. Current law, subject to specified exceptions, defines “logistics use” for these purposes to mean a building in which cargo, goods, or products are moved or
stored for later distribution to business or retail customers, or both, that does not predominantly serve retail customers for onsite purchases, and heavy-duty trucks are primarily involved in the movement of the cargo, goods, or products. This bill would clarify that a 21st century warehouse and a tier 1 21st century warehouse are required to comply with those standards as are in effect at the time that the building permit for a development of a 21st century warehouse is issued and make other clarifying changes relating to permissibility of use of conduits and electrical hookups at loading bays at those locations.
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AB 736 (Wicks D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2025
Status: 3/3/2025-Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/3/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.
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AB 750 (Quirk-Silva D) Homeless shelters: safety regulations.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2025
Status: 3/27/2025-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes
10. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 3/26/2025-A. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the housing or building department of every city or county, or the health department if there is no building department, to enforce within its jurisdiction the provisions of the State Housing Law, building standards, and the other rules and regulations adopted by the department pertaining to the maintenance, sanitation, ventilation, use, or occupancy of apartment houses, hotels, or dwellings. Current law authorizes an officer, employee, or agent of an enforcement agency to enter and inspect any building or premises whenever necessary to secure compliance with, or prevent a violation of, specified law, including the State Housing Law. A violation of the State Housing Law, or of the building standards or rules and regulations adopted pursuant to that law, is a misdemeanor. Current law requires a city or county that receives a complaint from an occupant of a homeless shelter, as defined, or an agent of an occupant, alleging that a homeless shelter is substandard to inspect the homeless shelter, as specified. Current law requires a city or county that determines a homeless shelter is substandard to issue a notice to correct the violation to the owner or operator of the homeless shelter, as specified. Current law makes the owner or operator of a homeless shelter responsible for correcting any violation cited pursuant to these provisions. This bill would require a city or county to additionally perform an annual inspection of every homeless shelter located in its jurisdiction. The bill would authorize the above-described inspection or annual inspection to be announced or unannounced. The bill would require homeless shelters to prominently display notice of an occupant’s rights, the process for reporting a complaint alleging a homeless shelter is substandard, and prescribed information, including specified contact information. The bill would require the homeless shelter to provide the same notice in writing to new occupants upon intake.
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AB 795 (Gonzalez, Jeff R) California Commission on the United States Semiquincentennial.
Current Text: Amended: 4/1/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2025
Last Amend: 4/1/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Re-referred to Com. on G.O. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 3/3/2025-A. G.O.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2029, establish the California Commission on the United States Semiquincentennial, with membership as prescribed, to plan and coordinate commemorations and observances of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. The bill would charge the commission with various responsibilities in this regard, including developing and promoting educational programs, community events, and public exhibits commemorating the semiquincentennial. The bill would require that the commission operate as an independent advisory body supported entirely by private funding and in-kind contributions, and would establish the Semiquincentennial Fund, held by the Treasurer, to receive private contributions and federal grants, which the bill would make available for the commission’s activities upon appropriation.
The bill would prohibit the commission from transacting any business or exercising its powers until the Controller has certified that there are sufficient funds in the Semiquincentennial Fund available to support the commission’s activities without requiring state financial resources. If the Controller determines that sufficient funds are not available by February 1, 2026, the bill would require that the commission be dissolved and that any remaining funds in the Semiquincentennial Fund be returned to contributors on a pro rata basis, as specified.
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AB 818 (Ávila Farías D) Permit Streamlining Act: local emergencies.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/10/2025-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency to determine whether an application for a development project is complete within specified time periods, as specified. The act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. The California Emergency Services Act among other things, authorizes a local emergency to be proclaimed by the governing body of a city, county, or city and county, as specified, and grants political subdivisions various powers and authorities in periods of local emergency. This bill would prohibit, during the period of a local emergency, a local agency from denying an application for a permit necessary to rebuild or repair a residential property affected by a natural disaster unless the permit would result in the property being deemed a substandard building. The bill would require the local agency to approve or disapprove that application within 45 days of receipt of the application, and would require other expedited approvals.
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AB 820 (Pellerin D) Homelessness: transport.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/10/2025-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes various programs to assist homeless individuals, including the Homeless Emergency Aid Program, the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program, and the Regionally Coordinated Homelessness Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program. This bill would prohibit an employee of a local government or law enforcement agency, when acting in their official capacity, from transporting and dropping off, or arranging for or funding the transport and drop off, of a homeless individual within a jurisdiction unless the employee first coordinates shelter or long- term housing for the homeless individual, as defined and specified. This bill would make a local government or law enforcement agency liable for a civil penalty of $10,000 for each violation of these provisions.
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AB 854 (Petrie-Norris D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential projects.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 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 a residential project on an urbanized infill site that meets certain requirements, including that the site of the project is not more than 4 acres in total area. This bill would expand the exemption by increasing the size of a residential project that would qualify for the exemption to include a project of not more than 5 acres in total area. The bill would require a lead agency approving an exempt residential project on an urbanized infill site to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, as specified.
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AB 874 (Ávila Farías D) Mitigation Fee Act: waiver of fees: affordable rental housing.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/10/2025-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes certain requirements on a local agency that imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project that is imposed to provide for an improvement to be constructed to serve the development project, or a fee for public improvements, as specified. The act also regulates fees for development projects and fees for specific purposes, including water and sewer connection fees, 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, as provided.
This bill would require a local agency to waive fees or charges that are collected by a local agency to fund the construction of public improvements or facilities for residential developments subject to a regulatory agreement with a public entity, as provided, that includes certain income and affordability requirements.
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AB 875 (Muratsuchi D) Vehicle removal.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/28/2025-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/28/2025-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a peace officer or a regularly employed and salaried employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations to remove a vehicle when, among other things, the officer arrests a person driving or in control of a vehicle for an alleged offense, and the officer is, by the Vehicle Code or other law, required or permitted to take, and does take, the person into custody. This bill would additionally authorize a peace officer to remove an electric bicycle operated on the highway that is capable of speeds greater than any speed permitted for an electric bicycle, as specified.
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AB 888 (Calderon D) California Safe Homes grant program.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/10/2025-Referred to Com. on INS.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. INS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner,
and prescribes the department’s powers and duties. Current law directs the department and commissioner to administer various grant programs that, among other things, defray property retrofitting costs. Current law requires an insurer doing business in this state to pay an annual tax based on the amount of gross premiums the insurer received during that year. This bill would establish the California Safe Homes grant program to be developed by the department to reduce local and statewide wildfire losses, among other things. The bill would require the department to prioritize specified needs when awarding grant funds, and would require eligible program applicants, which would include individuals, cities, counties, and special districts, to meet specified criteria. The bill would establish the Sustainable Insurance Account within the Insurance Fund, which would be continuously appropriated to fund the program. The bill would require 40% of the amount of the gross premiums tax collected from property and casualty insurance above the amount collected from those insurers in 2023 to be deposited into the account.
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AB 906 (González, Mark D) Planning and zoning: housing elements.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/10/2025-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development, including specified sites, an analysis of the relationship of zoning and public facilities and services to these sites (first analysis), and an analysis of the relationship of the sites identified in the land inventory to the jurisdiction’s duty to affirmatively further fair housing (2nd analysis). If the inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, as provided, existing law requires that the local government rezone sites within specified time periods. This bill would additionally require the 2nd analysis to demonstrate that the jurisdiction has accommodated a meaningful portion of its share of the regional housing need for lower income households on sites located in higher income, racially exclusive areas to the extent that those areas exist within the jurisdiction.
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AB 920 (Caloza D) Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: centralized application portal.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law requires a city or county that has an internet website to, among other things, make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website. This bill would require a city or county with a population of 150,000 or more that has an internet website to make a centralized application portal available on its website to an applicant for a housing development project.
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AB 945 (Fong D) Density Bonus Law: incentives and concessions: green housing developments.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/10/2025-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or
concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for lower income households or very low income households, and meets other requirements. Under current law, the number of incentives or concessions granted to a development under the Density Bonus Law vary based on the percentage of affordable units within the development, or whether the development serves specified other target populations, as provided.
Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing. Current law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (the commission), consisting of 5 members, and establishes various duties and responsibilities of the commission relating to energy usage in the state.
This bill would require a city or county to grant additional incentives or concessions when an applicant proposes to construct a green housing development, as defined. The bill would require that the number of incentives or concessions granted initially be set to 3 and would require HCD, as specified, to evaluate and report on the number and type of units and developments entitled, permitted, and constructed pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require HCD, in this report, to maintain or alter the number of incentives or concessions granted under these provisions, as prescribed.
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AB 956 (Quirk-Silva D) Accessory dwelling units: ministerial approval: single-family dwellings.
Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/17/2025
Status: 3/18/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/17/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a local agency to ministerially approve building permit applications within a residential or mixed-use zone to create, among others, one detached, new construction, accessory dwelling unit that does not exceed 4-foot side and rear yard setbacks for a lot with a proposed or existing single-family dwelling, as specified. This bill would increase the number of detached, new construction, accessory dwelling units that a local agency is required to ministerially approve on lots with a proposed or existing single-family dwelling, as described above, to 2. By imposing new duties on local governments with respect to the approval of accessory dwelling units, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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AB 965 (Dixon R) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Amended: 3/18/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/18/2025
Status: 3/19/2025-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines an electric bicycle and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Under existing law, a “class 1 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that, among other things, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Under existing law, a “class 2 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour.
Under current law, a “class 3 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that, in pertinent part, provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. Current law prohibits a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 3 electric bicycle. This bill, the Orange County Electric Bicycle Safety Pilot Program, would, until January 1, 2030, authorize a local authority within the County of Orange, or the County of Orange in unincorporated areas, to adopt an ordinance or resolution that would prohibit a person under 12 years of age from operating a class 1 or 2 electric bicycle or require a person who does not have a valid driver’s license and who is operating an electric bicycle to complete a safety training course, as specified. For the first 60 days following the adoption of an ordinance or resolution for the specified purposes, the bill would make a violation of the ordinance or resolution punishable by a warning notice. After 60 days, the bill would make a violation of the ordinance or resolution an infraction punishable by a fine of $25, except as specified.
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AB 968 (Boerner D) Electric bicycles: disclosure.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Status: 3/10/2025-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions for various purposes. Current law subjects a person riding an electric bicycle to all laws concerning the operation of bicycles, as specified. Current law requires that manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles apply a label that is permanently affixed to each electric bicycle that contains, among other things, the classification number of the electric bicycle, as specified. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, require manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to include a notice in the electric bicycle’s packaging that informs parents of minor riders of the risks and responsibilities associated with operating an electric bicycle.
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AB 996 (Pellerin D) Public Resources: California Coastal Act of 1976: California Coastal Planning Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/10/2025
Status: 3/11/2025-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. NAT. RES.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the California Coastal Planning Fund in the State Treasury to help local governments adequately plan for the protection of coastal resources and public accessibility to the coastline. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, make moneys in the fund available to the commission for various state and local costs relating to local coastal program development and sea level rise plans and to administer the fund, as provided.
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AB 1007 (Rubio, Blanca D) Land use: development project review.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove a development project within specified time periods.
The act requires a public agency, other than the California Coastal Commission, that is a responsible agency for specified development projects to approve or disapprove the project within 90 days of the date on which the lead agency has approved the project or within 90 days of the date on which the completed application has been received and accepted as complete by the lead agency, whichever is longer. This bill would reduce the time period that a responsible agency is required to approve or disapprove a project, as described above, from 90 days to 45 days. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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AB 1055 (Boerner D) Accessory dwelling units: proof of residential occupancy requirements.
Current Text: Amended: 3/10/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/10/2025
Status: 3/11/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/10/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation of an accessory dwelling unit by local ordinance or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards. Current law similarly provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in single-family residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions.
Current law generally prohibits a local agency from imposing additional standards, as specified, when evaluating a proposed accessory dwelling unit on a lot that includes a proposed or existing single- family dwelling. However, current law authorizes a local agency to require that the property be used for rentals of terms 30 days or longer. This bill would additionally authorize a local agency to require proof of residential occupancy for any streamlining of accessory dwelling units or junior accessory dwelling units.
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AB 1090 (Davies R) Alcoholism or drug abuse treatment facilities: County of Orange pilot program.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on Health.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require the State Department of Health Care Services to establish a pilot program to locate an investigator within a participating county to investigate complaints against licensed adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities within the county. The participating county would be the County of Orange if the Orange County Board of Supervisors elects to participate in the pilot program. The bill would require the department to implement the pilot program by executing a contract with the County of Orange providing that the department will assign an investigator and the county will reimburse the department for the costs associated with the pilot program, including, but not limited to, the administrative costs and the investigator’s compensation and benefits. The bill would require the pilot program to be completed no later than December 31, 2029, and would require the county to submit a report of the results of the pilot program, as specified, to the Legislature no later than December 31, 2030. The provisions of this bill would be repealed on December 31, 2034.
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AB 1154 (Carrillo D) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Status: 3/26/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/26/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing parking standards for an accessory dwelling unit under certain circumstances, whether or not the local agency has adopted a local ordinance pursuant to the above provisions. Under existing law, those circumstances include, among others, if the accessory dwelling unit is located within 1/2 of one mile walking distance of public transit or there is a car share vehicle located within one block of the accessory dwelling unit. This bill would additionally prohibit a local agency from imposing any parking standards if the accessory dwelling unit is 500 square feet or smaller. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 1165 (Gipson D) California Housing Justice Act of 2025.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program administered by the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address homelessness challenges, as specified. Current law also establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the Housing for a Healthy California Program, and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program. This bill would enact the California Housing Justice Act of 2025, which would create the California Housing Justice Fund in the General Fund and would require the Legislature to invest an ongoing annual allocation into that fund in an amount needed to solve homelessness and housing unaffordability, as specified. The bill would require moneys in the fund to be appropriated by the Legislature annually to the department and to be expended by the agency to fund, among other things, the development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable and supportive housing that is affordable to acutely low, extremely low, very low, and lower income households, as provided.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1238 (DeMaio R) California Energy Consumer Freedom Act.
Current Text: Amended: 3/27/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 3/27/2025
Status: 3/28/2025-Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
Location: 3/17/2025-A. U. & E.
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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, as specified. Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted regulations, known as Advanced Clean Cars II, which reduce emissions from passenger cars, pickup trucks, and sport utility vehicles sold in California, including a requirement that 100% of new vehicle sales be zero emission by 2035. This bill, the California Energy Consumer Freedom Act, would prohibit state agencies and local governments from adopting or enforcing a rule, regulation, resolution, or ordinance that directly or indirectly results in prohibiting the use of gas appliances in residential or nonresidential buildings, and the buying, selling, or use of gasoline-powered vehicles or equipment.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1276 (Carrillo D) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project, as defined for purposes of the act, for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. That act states that it shall not be construed to prohibit a local agency from requiring a housing development project to comply with objective, quantifiable, written development standards, conditions, and policies appropriate to, and consistent with, meeting the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, except as provided. The act further provides that for its purposes, a housing development project or emergency shelter shall be deemed consistent, compliant, and in conformity with an applicable plan, program, policy, ordinance, standard, requirement, or other similar provision if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the housing development project or emergency shelter is consistent, compliant, or in conformity. The act requires a housing development project to be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when a preliminary application, as specified, was submitted, except as otherwise provided. The act defines “ordinances, policies, and standards” to include general plan, community plan, specific plan, zoning, design review standards and criteria, subdivision standards and criteria, and any other rules, regulations, requirements, and policies of a local agency, as defined, including those relating to development impact fees, capacity or connection fees or charges, permit or processing fees, and other exactions. This bill would include in the definition
of “ordinances, policies, and standards” materials requirements, postentitlement permit standards, and any rules, regulations, determinations, and other requirements adopted or implemented by other public agencies, as defined.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1308 (Hoover R) Residential building permits: fees: inspections.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 3/24/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a county’s or city’s governing body to prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized under the State Housing Law. Current law entitles a permittee to reimbursement of the permit fees if the county or city fails to conduct an inspection of the permitted work for which the permit fees have been charged within 60 days of receiving notice of completion of the permitted work. This bill would require a county’s or city’s building department to prepare a residential building permit fee schedule and post the schedule on the county’s or city’s internet website, if the county or city prescribes residential building permit fees. The bill would instead entitle a permittee to reimbursement of the permit fees if the county or city fails to conduct an inspection of the permitted work within 30 days of receiving the notice.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1356 (Dixon R) Alcohol and other drug programs.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/21/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Status: 3/13/2025-Referred to Com. on Health.
Location: 3/13/2025-A. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for administering prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse. Existing law also provides for the certification and regulation of adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery and treatment programs by the department and authorizes the department to enforce those provisions.
Existing law requires the department’s death investigation policy to be designed to ensure that a resident’s death is addressed and investigated by the department in a timely manner, and requires specified procedures if a death occurs in a licensed facility, including requiring a written report related to the death that includes a description of the followup action that is planned to prevent a future death. Existing law requires that report to be submitted to the department within 7 calendar days of the event or incident. This bill would additionally require a facility to submit a report within 60 days of the initial incident that describes the followup action plan that was implemented and provides any relevant information that was not known at the time of the initial incident or that was known but was not provided to the department in the initial report.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
AB 1480 (Valencia D) Local government: County of Orange.
Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 3/28/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 3/28/2025-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution provides that the state is divided into counties, which are legal subdivisions, and requires, among other things, that the Legislature provide for an elected governing body in each county. Current law requires the income and revenue paid into the county treasury to be at once appropriated to and kept in separate funds. This bill would require the local official in the County of Orange charged with the authority to execute decisions on the Orange County Investment Fund who is elected or appointed on or after January 1, 2026, to meet the same minimum qualifications of the Treasurer-Tax Collector of the County of Orange, and any member of the Audit Oversight Committee of the County of Orange appointed to the committee on or after January 1, 2026,
to meet the same minimum qualifications of the members of the prior Treasury Oversight Committee of the County of Orange.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 9 (Arreguín D) Accessory Dwelling Units: owner-occupant requirements.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/2/2024 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Status: 1/29/2025-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
Location: 1/29/2025-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation of an accessory dwelling unit by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards. The law prohibits a local agency from imposing an owner- occupant requirement or any additional standards, except as specified, when evaluating a proposed accessory dwelling unit on a lot that includes a proposed or existing single-family dwelling. The law also prohibits a local agency from imposing parking standards for an accessory dwelling unit, as specified, whether or not the local agency has adopted a local ordinance pursuant to these provisions.
This bill would additionally prohibit a local agency from imposing an owner-occupant requirement for a proposed or existing accessory dwelling unit whether or not the local agency has adopted a local ordinance pursuant to these provisions.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 34 (Richardson D) Air pollution: South Coast Air Quality Management District: mobile sources:
public seaports.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/28/2025-April 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 1/29/2025-S. E.Q.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution, and air pollution control districts and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Existing law authorizes air districts to adopt and implement regulations to reduce or mitigate emissions from indirect sources of air pollution.Existing law provides for the creation of the South Coast Air Quality Management District in those portions of the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino included within the area of the South Coast Air Basin, as specified. Existing law requires the district to adopt rules and regulations to carry out the south coast district air quality management plan that are not in conflict with state and federal laws and rules and regulations and requires those rules and regulations to provide for indirect source controls under certain circumstances. This bill would, until January 1, 2036, prohibit the district from adopting, considering adopting, or requiring that any local agency or city enforce any regulation or indirect source rule to address pollution from any mobile source that is already subject to regulation by the state board and that is associated with an operation at any public seaport or marine terminal facility at a public seaport. The bill would, until January 1, 2036, authorize specified entities, including the district, to enter into a voluntary agreement to address pollution from any mobile source associated with an operation at any public seaport or marine terminal facility at a public seaport if the voluntary agreement meets specified requirements.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 71 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.
Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/14/2025
Last Amend: 3/25/2025
Status: 3/28/2025-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 3/19/2025-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) until January 1, 2030, exempts from its requirements active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, or bicycle transportation plans for the
restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and the related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles. This bill would extend the operation of the above-mentioned exemption indefinitely. The bill would also exempt a transit comprehensive operational analysis, as defined, a transit route readjustment, or other transit agency route addition, elimination, or modification, from the requirements of CEQA.
Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a plan qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 79 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing development: transit-oriented development.
Current Text: Amended: 3/5/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/15/2025
Last Amend: 3/5/2025
Status: 3/12/2025-Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
Location: 3/12/2025-S. HOUSING
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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.
Existing law defines “surplus land” for these purposes to mean land owned in fee simple by any local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action declaring that the land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency’s use. Current law defines “agency’s use” for these purposes to include land that is being used for agency work or operations, as provided. Current law exempts from this definition of “agency’s use” certain commercial or industrial uses, except that in the case of a local agency that is a district, except a local agency whose primary purpose or mission is to supply the public with a transportation system, “agency’s use” may include commercial or industrial uses or activities, as specified. This bill would additionally include land leased to support public transit operations in the definition of “agency’s use,” as described above.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Oppose
Notes: 4.3.25 HBC Letter to Author
SB 233 (Seyarto R) Regional housing need: determination: consultation with councils of governments.
Current Text: Amended: 3/3/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/28/2025
Last Amend: 3/3/2025
Status: 3/28/2025-Set for hearing April 7.
Location: 3/18/2025-S. APPR.
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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. Current law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, where applicable, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as prescribed. Current law requires, among other things, the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodology to be used by the department to determine the region’s housing needs at least 26 months prior to the scheduled revision of the housing element and before developing the existing and projected housing need for a region. This bill would require the department to meet and consult with the council of governments, as described above, pursuant to prescribed deadlines. For the 7th revision of the housing element, the bill would require the department to meet and consult with each council of governments at least 38 months prior to the scheduled revision, except for specified councils of governments.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 239 (Arreguín D) Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/30/2025
Status: 4/3/2025-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes
2.) (April 2).
Location: 4/3/2025-S. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except as specified. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes specified neighborhood city councils to use alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed, if, among other requirements, the city council has adopted an authorizing resolution and 2/3 of the neighborhood city council votes to use alternate teleconference provisions, as specified. This bill would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use alternative teleconferencing provisions and would impose requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The bill would require the subsidiary body to post the agenda at the primary physical meeting location. The bill would require the members of the subsidiary body to visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is publicly accessible via the internet or other online platform, as specified.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 262 (Wahab D) Housing element: prohousing designations: prohousing local policies.
Current Text: Amended: 3/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/3/2025
Last Amend: 3/19/2025
Status: 3/28/2025-Set for hearing April 7.
Location: 3/18/2025-S. APPR.
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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, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. The Department of Housing and Community Development is required to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with those provisions. Current law requires the department to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by the department, as prescribed. Current law requires that jurisdictions that are prohousing and that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions be awarded additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs. Current law defines “prohousing local policies” for these purposes and specifies a nonexhaustive list of examples of those policies, including local financial incentives for housing and adoption of zoning allowing for use by right for residential and mixed-use development. This bill would include in the definition of “prohousing local policies” policies that keep people housed, and would specify additional examples of prohousing local policies under the above- described provisions.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 299 (Cabaldon D) Local government: ordinances.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/10/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/10/2025
Status: 4/3/2025-April 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/19/2025-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law prohibits a county or city from passing an ordinance within five days of introduction and requires the ordinance to be passed at a regular meeting or at an adjourned regular meeting, except that existing law authorizes an urgency ordinance to be passed immediately upon introduction at a regular or special meeting. Current law requires all ordinances to be read in full at the time of introduction or passage, as specified. Current law requires nonurgency ordinances that are altered after introduction to be passed at a regular or at an adjourned regular meeting at least five days after alteration, as specified. This bill would instead prohibit a county or city from passing an ordinance within five days of publication, as specified, except that the bill would authorize an urgency ordinance to be passed immediately upon introduction.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 329 (Blakespear D) Alcohol and drug recovery or treatment facilities: investigations.
Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/11/2025
Last Amend: 3/28/2025
Status: 3/28/2025-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 3/26/2025-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Current law prohibits operating an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to provide recovery, treatment, or detoxification services within this state without first obtaining a current valid license. If a facility is alleged to be providing those services without a license, existing law requires the department to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation. Current law also authorizes the department to conduct announced or unannounced site visits to licensed facilities for the purpose of reviewing them for compliance, as specified. This bill would require the department to assign a complaint under its jurisdiction regarding an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to an analyst for investigation within 10 days of receiving the complaint. If the department receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, the bill would require the department to notify the complainant, in writing, that it does not investigate that type of complaint.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 4.3.25 HBC Letter to Author
SB 346 (Durazo D) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
Current Text: Amended: 3/20/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2025
Last Amend: 3/20/2025
Status: 3/20/2025-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 3/19/2025-S. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to regulate the occupancy of a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days. This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the assessor parcel number of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period, as well as any additional information necessary to identify the property as may be required by the local agency. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Support
Notes: 3.7.2025 HBC Letter to Senate Local Government
SB 417 (Cabaldon D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/18/2025
Status: 2/19/2025-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
Location: 2/18/2025-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and home ownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 455 (Blakespear D) Electric bicycles.
Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Last Amend: 3/25/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power, and requires electric bicycles to comply with specified equipment and manufacturing requirements. Current law requires manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to apply a label that is permanently affixed to each electric bicycle that contains, among other things, the classification number of the electric bicycle, as specified. Current law prohibits specified vehicles from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as electric bicycles, including a vehicle that is modified to attain a speed greater than 20 miles per hour on motor power alone or to have motor power of more than 750 watts. Current law prohibits the sale of 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. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, revise the labeling requirements described above to require manufacturers and distributors to apply an etching, engraving, or label that is permanently affixed skyward on the frame of the electric bicycle and contains additional information, including the brand name and manufacturer or distributor of the electric bicycle. The bill would revise the above-described list of vehicles prohibited from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as electric bicycles, as specified, and include on the list, among other things, a vehicle that is capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches a speed exceeding 28 miles per hour. The bill would require any incident report filed by a peace officer for an injury or crash involving an electric bicycle to include all of the information provided in the etching, engraving, or label described above or to indicate that a marking was not available.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 457 (Becker D) Housing element compliance: Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 3/24/2025-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 2/26/2025-S. HOUSING
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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. Existing 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. Existing law within the Planning and Zoning Law, the Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes written findings, based on a preponderance of the evidence, that one of 6 specified conditions exist. 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. The act defines “deemed complete” for purposes of its provisions, until January 1, 2030, to mean that the applicant has submitted a preliminary application, as specified, or if the applicant has not submitted a preliminary application, the submission of a completed application, as specified. This bill, for the purpose of allowing 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 described above, would revise the definition of “deemed complete” to mean that the applicant submitted a complete application, as specified. The bill would provide that this definition would apply to an application that as of January 1, 2026 has not (1) received approval from a local agency or (2) incurred substantial liability in good faith reliance upon the local agency approval.
Existing law provides that a housing element or amendment is considered substantially compliant with the housing element law when the local agency adopts 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, as applicable. This bill would, instead,
provide that a housing element or amendment is considered substantially compliant with the housing element law on the date when the governing body of a local agency adopts the housing element or amendment, provided that after the date the housing element or amendment is adopted and without further action by the governing body, 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 are not superseded by subsequent contrary findings by the department or by a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction or the court’s decision is not overturned or superseded by a subsequent court decision or by statute.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 464 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Employer pay data.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/12/2025-Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
Location: 3/12/2025-S. L., P.E. & R.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status. Current law requires a private employer that has 100 or more employees to submit an annual pay data report to the Civil Rights Department that includes the number of employees by race, ethnicity, and sex in specified job categories, whose pay falls within federal pay bands, and within each job category the median and mean hourly rate for each combination of those characteristics as specified. This bill would also require public employers with 100 or more employees to submit the annual pay data report beginning in 2027. The bill would require an employer to collect and store any demographic information it gathers for the purpose of submitting the pay data report separately from employees’ personnel records. This bill would also expand the demographics for the reporting requirements to also include sexual orientation and require the report to include information by sexual orientation about the number of employees in specified job categories, whose pay falls within federal pay bands, and within each job category the median and mean hourly rate for each combination of the specified characteristics.
Organization Position Priority Assigned Subject
HBC Watch
SB 470 (Laird D) Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act: teleconferencing.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 3/27/2025-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 3/25/2025-S. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act authorizes meetings through teleconference subject to specified requirements, including, among others, that the state body post agendas at all teleconference locations, that each teleconference location be identified in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, that each teleconference location be accessible to the public, that the agenda provide an opportunity for members of the public to address the state body directly at each teleconference location, and that at least one member of the state body be physically present at the location specified in the notice of the meeting. The act authorizes an additional, alternative set of provisions under which a state body may hold a meeting by teleconference subject to specified requirements, including, among others, that at least one member of the state body is physically present at each teleconference location, as defined, that a majority of the members of the state body are physically present at the same teleconference location, except as specified, and that members of the state body visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is publicly accessible via the internet or other online platform, except as specified. The act authorizes, under specified circumstances, a member of the state body to participate pursuant to these provisions from a remote location, which would not be required to be accessible to the public and which the act prohibits the notice and agenda from disclosing. The act repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026. This bill would delete the January 1, 2026 repeal date, thereby authorizing the above-described additional, alternative set of teleconferencing provisions indefinitely.
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SB 476 (Valladares R) Short-term residential therapeutic programs.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Status: 2/26/2025-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/19/2025-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a short-term residential therapeutic program to prepare and maintain a current, written plan of operation that includes a program statement containing, among other things, a description of how the short-term residential therapeutic program will meet specified standards established by the department in collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services.
Current law requires a short-term residential therapeutic plan to ensure the availability of licensed nursing staff, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
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SB 484 (Laird D) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: infill area categorical exclusion.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/19/2025
Last Amend: 3/26/2025
Status: 4/3/2025-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. N.R. & W.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 among other things, requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission or a local government, as provided. The act provides that a coastal development permit is not required for specified types of development in specified areas, as provided. Current law provides that a coastal development permit is not required for any category of development, or any category of development within a specified geographic area, if the commission, after a public hearing, and by a 2/3 vote of its appointed members, finds that there is no potential for any significant adverse effect, as specified, on coastal resources or on public access to, or along, the coast and, where the exclusion precedes certification of the applicable local coastal program, that the exclusion will not impair the ability of local government to prepare a local coastal program. Current regulation, before a categorical exclusion becomes effective, requires specified things to occur, including that the public agency issuing the permit accepts and agrees to the terms and conditions to which the categorical exclusion has been made. This bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2027, to identify infill areas of 3 local jurisdictions that do not have a certified local coastal program, for categorical exclusion from the coastal development permitting requirement, until June 30, 2037, in accordance with the above-described permit exclusion process and determination, if the development is a residential housing project comprised only of units that are deed restricted for persons of very low, low, or moderate income. The bill would exempt the categorically excluded infill areas from the above-described regulation.
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SB 543 (McNerney D) Housing development projects: preliminary applications: accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/25/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires a public agency that received an application for a development project to determine whether the application is complete within 30 days and, if the public agency determines the application to be incomplete, to provide the applicant an exhaustive list of items that were not complete, as provided. Current law deems an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the project is being sought and payment of the permit processing fee. Current law requires the development proponent to submit an application containing specified information within 180 days after submitting a preliminary application and, if the public agency determines that the application is not complete, requires the development proponent to submit the specified information needed to complete the application within 90 days of receiving the agency’s written identification of necessary information. Under current law, if the development
proponent does not submit this information within 90 days, the preliminary application expires and has no further force or effect. This bill would require that the 90-day period described above reset each time the development proponent resubmits the information.
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SB 574 (Umberg D) Streamlined housing approvals.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. HOUSING
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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 does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects. Existing law, 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. This bill would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development is for single-family housing in which each unit is 1,600 square feet or less and the development is consistent with objective planning and design standards. By establishing a streamlined, ministerial approval process for certain housing developments, this bill would expand the exemption for the ministerial approval of projects under CEQA. By expanding the duties of local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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SB 586 (Jones R) Off-highway motor vehicles: eMotos.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Status: 3/25/2025-Set for hearing April 8.
Location: 3/5/2025-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law regulates the operation of bicycles, motorized scooters, and electric personal assistive mobility devices, as defined. This bill would define the term “eMoto” as an electric two- wheeled device built on a bicycle infrastructure that does not have pedals or an engine number and is not subject to registration under the Vehicle Code. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 607 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: categorical exemptions: infill projects.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/24/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Set for hearing April 23.
Location: 3/5/2025-S. E.Q.
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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 (EIR) 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. Existing law defines “negative declaration” and “mitigated negative declaration” for these purposes.This bill would revise the definition of negative declaration to mean a written statement briefly describing the substantial evidence in the record that the proposed project will not have a significant effect on the environment, as specified. The bill would also revise the definition of mitigated negative declaration to mean that revisions would avoid or mitigate the effects on the environment, as determined by the public agency based upon substantial evidence in the record, as specified, and that there is substantial evidence that the project as revised will not have a significant effect on the environment, as provided.
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SB 634 (Pérez D) Homelessness: civil and criminal penalties.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2025
Last Amend: 3/26/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution authorizes a county or city to make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws.
Current law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction. Current law also prohibits a state agency from adopting or enforcing any rule or a violation of which can result in the imposition of a fine or imprisonment, or both, unless a statute specifically authorizes the imposition of such fine or imprisonment, or both, for a violation of the rule or regulation. This bill would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting a local ordinance, or enforcing an existing ordinance, that imposes civil or criminal penalties on a person who is homeless for any act immediately related to homelessness or any act related to basic survival, or on a person who is assisting a person who is homeless with any act related to basic survival. The bill would similarly prohibit a state agency from adopting any regulation or issuing any policy or guidance, or enforcing an existing regulation, policy, or guidance, that imposes those civil or criminal penalties. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.
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SB 677 (Wiener D) Housing development: streamlined approvals.
Current Text: Amended: 4/1/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 4/1/2025
Status: 4/1/2025-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 3/5/2025-S. HOUSING
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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. This bill would require ministerial approval for proposed housing developments containing no more than 2 residential units on any lot hosting a single-family home or zoned for 4 or fewer residential units, notwithstanding any covenant, condition, or restriction imposed by a common interest development association.
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SB 681 (Wahab D) Planning and zoning: annual progress report: density bonus ordinances.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/21/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Status: 3/18/2025-Set for hearing April 22.
Location: 3/5/2025-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city, county, or city and county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the jurisdictional boundaries of that city, county, or city and county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the
production of lower income housing units, if the developer agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents and meets other requirements. Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance that specifies how compliance with the Density Bonus Law will be implemented. This bill would require a city or county that has a local density bonus ordinance to submit as part of their annual report a copy of the text of that ordinance. By increasing the scope of data required to be reported in the annual report, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also make a nonsubstantive change to update a reference to the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in these provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 692 (Arreguín D) Vehicles: homelessness.
Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 3/25/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Re-referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HOUSING.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law makes it unlawful for a peace officer or an unauthorized person to remove an unattended vehicle from a highway, except as provided. Under current law, the removal of a vehicle is a seizure, subject to the limits set forth in jurisprudence for the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Current law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement and removal, as public nuisances, of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or parts of vehicles from private or public property. Current law requires that any ordinance for the removal of abandoned vehicles contain certain provisions, including a provision exempting vehicles under certain circumstances, and a provision providing no less than a 10-day notice of intention to abate and remove the vehicle or part thereof as a public nuisance, unless the property owner and the owner of the vehicle sign releases. Current law also exempts from the 10- day notice prior to removal provision, a vehicle meeting specified requirements, including being valued at less than $200 and being determined to be a public nuisance, if the property owner has signed a release. This bill would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance for the abatement and removal of vehicles formerly used as shelter by persons experiencing homelessness. The bill would require an ordinance establishing procedures for the removal of abandoned vehicles to contain a provision making the ordinance applicable to public agencies operating certain vehicle buyback programs, as specified.
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SB 707 (Durazo D) Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/21/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Status: 4/3/2025-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes
0.) (April 2).
Location: 4/3/2025-S. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would, until January 1, 2030, require a city council or a county board of supervisors to comply with additional meeting requirements, including that all open and public meetings include an opportunity for members of the public to attend via a two-way telephonic option or a two-way audiovisual platform, as defined, that a system is in place for requesting and receiving interpretation services for public meetings, as specified, and that good faith efforts are made to encourage residents to participate in public meetings, as specified. By imposing additional meeting requirements on city councils and county boards of supervisors, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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SB 741 (Blakespear D) Coastal resources: coastal development permit: local emergency declaration.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/21/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Status: 3/12/2025-Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Location: 3/12/2025-S. N.R. & W.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, establishes the California Coastal Commission and provides for planning and regulation of development in the coastal zone, as defined.
The act requires the commission to provide, by regulation, for the issuance of coastal development permits by the executive director of the commission or, where the development permit authority has been delegated to a local government, by an appropriate local official designated by resolution of the local government without compliance with the procedures prescribed in the act in cases of emergency, except as provided, and for certain nonemergency developments, as described. This bill would include as an emergency, for purposes of the latter provision, a local emergency declaration by a municipality, county, or special district.
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SB 786 (Arreguín D) Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges.
Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 3/25/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV., JUD., and APPR.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries, and requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements. Current law specifies that these provisions generally do not apply to a charter city, but requires a charter city to adopt a general plan that contains the mandatory elements, among other things. Current law prescribes a process to challenge the validity of a general plan. Among other things, existing law requires a petitioner to request a hearing or trial, as specified. Current law requires a court to set a date for the hearing or trial to be heard no later than 120 days after the filing of the request, as specified. Current law authorizes a court to continue for a reasonable time the date of the hearing or trial upon written motion and finding of good cause. Current law requires a court to grant the petitioner temporary relief if the court grants a continuance to a respondent, as specified. This bill would apply to the above-described process to challenge the validity of a general plan to a charter city and state that this is declaratory of existing law. The bill would limit the period for which a court may continue a trial or hearing, as described above, to no more than 60 days and would additionally authorize a court to grant a continuance on the court’s own motion.
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SB 838 (Durazo D) Housing Accountability Act: housing development projects.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 3/26/2025
Status: 4/2/2025-Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
Location: 4/2/2025-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households unless the local agency makes written findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified. Current law defines, for its purposes, a housing development project as a use consisting of, among other things, mixed-use developments consisting of residential and nonresidential uses meeting one of several conditions, including that at least 2/3 of the new or converted square footage is designated for residential use. This bill would revise the definition of “housing development project” to, in the case of mixed-use developments with at least 2/3 of the new or converted square footage designated for residential use, require that no portion of the project designated for use as a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other transient lodging, except as specified.
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Total Measures: 81
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