HBC Full Bill List
5/13/2026
AB 11 (Lee D) The Social Housing Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/2/2024 html pdf
Status: 7/17/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was HOUSING on 6/11/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and preserving affordable housing. The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 84 (Muratsuchi D) School accountability: Office of the Education Inspector General: school financial and performance audits: charter school authorization, oversight, funding, operations, networks, and contracting: data systems: local educational agency contractor background checks and contracting.
Current Text: Amended: 9/9/2025 html pdf
Status: 9/12/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/12/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 9/12/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires county superintendents of schools to provide for an audit of all funds under their jurisdiction and control, and requires the governing board of each local educational agency to either provide for an audit of the books and accounts of the local educational agency or make arrangements with county superintendents of schools to provide for that auditing. Current law requires the governing board of each school district and each office of the county superintendent of schools to include specified provisions in their contracts for audits and requires financial and compliance audits to be performed in accordance with specified standards. If the governing board of a school district has entered into a contract for an independent audit of its financial statements and the audited financial statements have not been filed with the county superintendent of schools on or before a specified due date, current law authorizes the county superintendent of schools to, among other things, investigate the causes for the delay, as provided. This bill would expressly apply the above-described provisions to educational joint powers authorities and charter schools. The bill, among other things, would require those financial and compliance audits of local educational agencies to be conducted in accordance with specified filing deadlines and would revise requirements regarding which entity is responsible for providing an audit if a local educational agency has not provided for an audit of their respective books and accounts to include the Controller or a chartering authority, as provided. The bill would require, instead of authorize, a county superintendent of schools to investigate the causes for an above-described delay.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Oppose
Notes: 7.28.25 HBC letter to Sen. Approps
6.19.25 HBC letter to Sen. Ed
AB 259 (Rubio, Blanca D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
Current Text: Amended: 4/21/2025 html pdf
Status: 7/17/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was JUD. on 5/14/2025) (May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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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. 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 extend the alternative teleconferencing procedures until January 1, 2030.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 306 (Schultz D) Building regulations: state building standards.
Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2025 html pdf
Status: 6/23/2025-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 4/23/2025-S. HOUSING
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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 October 1, 2025, to 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 Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 609 (Wicks D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.
Current Text: Amended: 5/5/2025 html pdf
Status: 5/20/2025-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 5/20/2025-S. RLS.
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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 relating to, for example, size, density, and location, including specific requirements for any housing on the project site located within 500 feet of a freeway. The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a specified environmental assessment regarding hazardous substance releases. If a recognized environmental condition is found, the bill would require the development proponent to complete a preliminary endangerment assessment and specified mitigation based on that assessment. 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 Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 634 (Gonzalez, Jeff R) Tianeptine.
Current Text: Amended: 1/16/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.
Location: 5/6/2026-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would prohibit a person or entity from manufacturing, distributing, or offering for sale in this state a product that contains tianeptine. The bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 for a first violation and not to exceed $5,000 for each subsequent violation, upon an action brought by the Attorney General, a city attorney, or a county counsel. The bill would entitle a prevailing plaintiff to an award of reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Support
Notes: 5.6.26 HBC Letter to Asm. Approps
AB 736 (Wicks D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: Amended: 4/10/2025 html pdf
Status: 5/11/2026-In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 5/11/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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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 Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 750 (Quirk-Silva D) Department of Housing and Community Development.
Current Text: Amended: 4/29/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/30/2026-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 4/30/2026-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation, to make loans or grants, or both loans and grants, to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of department-funded housing projects that have an affordability restriction that has expired, that have an affordability restriction with a remaining term of less than 10 years, or are otherwise at risk of conversion to market-rate housing.
This bill would also authorize the department to make those loans and grants to rehabilitate, capitalize operating subsidy reserves for, and extend the long-term affordability of housing projects that qualify as a challenged development, as defined.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 906 (González, Mark D) Planning and zoning: housing elements: affirmatively furthering fair housing.
Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2025 html pdf
Status: 8/28/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. on 7/2/2025) (May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 8/28/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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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). This bill would remove the requirement on cities and counties to include the 2nd analysis in their housing elements.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 942 (Calderon D) Electricity: climate credits.
Current Text: Amended: 7/17/2025 html pdf
Status: 8/29/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 8/29/2025-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Current law requires the PUC to continue a program of assistance to low-income electric and gas customers with annual household incomes that are no greater than 200% of the federal poverty guidelines, as specified, which is referred to as the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program. Current law also requires the PUC to continue a program of assistance to residential customers of the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations consisting of households of 3 or more persons with total household annual gross income levels between 200% and 250% of the federal poverty guideline level, which is referred to as the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program. Current law, except as provided, requires revenues received by an electrical corporation as a result of the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to be credited directly to residential, small business, and emissions-intensive trade-exposed retail customers of the electrical corporation, commonly known as the California Climate Credit. This bill would exclude residential customers from receiving the California Climate Credit if they are not enrolled in the CARE or FERA program and their total electricity bills for the previous year were less than $300.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Oppose
Notes: 6.9.25 HBC Letter to Sen. EU&C
AB 956 (Quirk-Silva D) Accessory dwelling units: ministerial approval: single-family dwellings.
Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2025 html pdf
Status: 7/17/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was HOUSING on 6/4/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 7/17/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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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.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1070 (Ward D) Residential developments: building standards: review.
Current Text: Amended: 1/5/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 5/6/2026-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including approval and adoption of building standards and codification of those standards into the California Building Standards Code. Current law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety once every 3 years. Current law requires the building standards and rules and regulations to impose substantially the same requirements as are contained in the most recent editions of specified international or uniform industry codes, including the International Residential Code of the International Code Council. Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) and requires the department to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department. This bill would require the department to convene a working group no later than December 31, 2027, to research and consider identifying and recommending amendments to state building standards allowing residential developments of between 3 and 10 units to be built under the requirements of the California Residential Code, as specified. The bill would require the department, no later than December 31, 2028, to provide a one-time report of its findings to the Legislature in the annual report described above.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1165 (Gipson D) California Housing Justice Act of 2025.
Current Text: Amended: 1/22/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 5/6/2026-S. HOUSING
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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 require the department to create, by January 1, 2028, and in collaboration with specified entities, including local entities, finance plans to solve homelessness and to solve the housing unaffordability crisis, and related statewide performance metrics.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1276 (Carrillo D) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.
Current Text: Amended: 7/14/2025 html pdf
Status: 8/29/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/25/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 8/28/2025-S. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act 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. The act 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 Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1557 (Papan D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Amended: 4/16/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 5/6/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing 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. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions. Existing law defines a “class 1 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing defines a “class 2 electric bicycle” as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. Existing law defines a “class 3 electric bicycle” as 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. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would instead define a class 1 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, that is not capable of exclusively propelling the bicycle, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour. The bill would define a class 2 electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 16 miles per hour. The bill would provide that, notwithstanding these definitions, an electric bicycle manufactured prior to January 1, 2027, that was equipped with a motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of continuous power and otherwise met the legal requirements for the relevant class at the time of manufacture shall retain its classification.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1569 (Davies R) Pupil safety: electric bicycle: safety and training program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/13/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/7/2026-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
Location: 5/6/2026-A. CONSENT CALENDAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require, on or before March 1, 2028, the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to develop a standardized electric bicycle safety and training program for pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as provided. In developing the program, the bill would authorize the State Department of Education and the Department of the California Highway Patrol to collaborate with local law enforcement agencies or local governments that have implemented electric bicycle training programs already to ensure the program reflects proven best practices. The bill would encourage local educational agencies and parent organizations to offer training demonstrations to pupils and parents on electric bicycle operations in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies or local governments, as specified.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1578 (Jackson D) State and local officials: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.
Current Text: Amended: 4/6/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 5/6/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021, provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally require, beginning on January 1, 2028, for an employer that is a state agency or local agency that the above-described training and education include, as a component of the training and education for elected officials, anti-hate speech training.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1614 (Dixon R) Vehicles: bicycles.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/21/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 5/12/2026-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Bicycle Transportation Act establishes 4 classifications of facilities, referred to as bikeways, that provide primarily for, and promote, bicycle travel. Existing law requires a person operating a bicycle, which includes an electric bicycle, upon a highway to ride the bicycle upon or astride a permanent and regular seat unless the bicycle was designed by the manufacturer to be ridden without a seat. Existing law requires a person riding as a passenger on a bicycle upon a highway to be upon or astride a seat attached to the bicycle, as specified. A violation of these provisions in punishable as an infraction. This bill would make those provisions applicable to the operation of a bicycle upon a Class I bikeway.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Support
Notes: 4.17.26 HBC Letter to Asm. Approps
3.25.26 HBC Letter to Asm. Transportation
AB 1621 (Wilson D) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.
Current Text: Amended: 3/4/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING.
Location: 5/6/2026-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a local agency or state agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information required from any applicant for a postentitlement phase permit, as defined. Existing law also establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application. Existing law requires the time limits to be tolled, if the local agency or state agency requires review of the application by an outside entity, until the outside entity completes the review and returns the application, as specified. This bill would prohibit a local agency or state agency from requiring or requesting more than 2 plan check and specification reviews in connection with an application for a building permit, as part of its review, except as specified. The bill would authorize a local agency or state agency to deny an application that is not compliant with the permit standards following 2 plan check and specification reviews.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1693 (Zbur D) Accelerated retailer building plan approval: tenant improvements.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/3/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/7/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 5/7/2026-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards 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. Current law authorizes local governments to enact ordinances or regulations that make building standards amendments to the California Building Standards Code, as specified. Current law establishes a streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant improvement related to a restaurant, as defined. This bill would establish a similar streamlined approval process for a local permit for a tenant improvement relating to a retailer, as defined. In this regard, the bill would require a local building department, upon the request and at the expense of the permit applicant, to allow a qualified professional certifier, defined as a licensed architect or engineer who meets certain requirements, to certify that the plans and specifications of the tenant improvement comply with all applicable building, health, and safety codes, as specified. The bill would require a qualified professional certifier, or the applicant, as applicable, to prepare certain affidavits related to the tenant improvement under penalty of perjury. The bill would require the local building department to approve or deny the permit application within 20 business days of receiving a complete application and would deem the plan approved for permitting purposes if the local building department does not approve or deny the application within that timeframe. The bill would also authorize the applicant to resubmit corrected plans addressing the deficiencies identified in the initial denial, would limit the local building department’s review of each subsequent resubmission to the deficiencies identified in the initial denial, and would require the local building department to approve or deny each subsequent resubmission within 10 business days of receipt.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1708 (Solache D) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: round 8: smaller jurisdictions.
Current Text: Amended: 4/6/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 5/6/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the
Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. To be eligible for round 5 or round 6 base program allocation, existing law requires a jurisdiction that is not a tribe to apply as part of a region and be signatory to a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that meets specified requirements. This bill would apply to the allocation of funding available under round 8 of the program and require a round 8 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan to include certain components, including a description of programs and interventions provided by smaller jurisdictions, as defined, that serve the objects and goals of the program, as specified.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1710 (Carrillo D) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/4/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/29/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/29/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Housing Accountability Act 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. 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 Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1738 (Carrillo D) State Housing Law: remote inspections.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/29/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/29/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce the provisions of the State Housing Law, the State Building Standards Code, and other specified rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the State Housing Law pertaining to standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing 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, any provision of the State Housing Law, the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code, and other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of the State Housing Law. Existing law provides certain immunities to a public entity or employee immunity relative to an inspection or license, as provided.
This bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county to offer a homeowner or contractor the option of requesting remote inspections for all or a subset of an inspection required by a building permit for specified works in one- or 2-family dwelling units, by July 1, 2027, as provided. The bill would apply the above-described immunities to remote inspections.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1751 (Quirk-Silva D) Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act.
Current Text: Amended: 4/20/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 5/6/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application
under a streamlined, ministerial approval process, depending on the type of housing development, as specified. Existing law, the Subdivision Map Act, vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, among other things, requires a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets certain requirements, including that the housing development project on the lot proposed to be subdivided will contain 10 or fewer residential units, except as provided. This bill, the Missing Middle Townhome Ownership Act, would authorize a development proponent to submit an application for a townhome housing development project that is subject to a prescribed ministerial approval process if the development complies with certain procedural requirements and satisfies specified objective planning standards.
The bill would also require a local agency to ministerially consider, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a townhome development project that meets all of specified requirements, including that the proposed subdivision will result in parcels and residential units that will meet prescribed densities and that the newly created parcels are no smaller than 600 square feet.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1752 (Lackey R) Eminent domain: appraisals.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/8/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/8/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Eminent Domain Law, authorizes a public entity to exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property for a public use, as specified. Current law entitles the owner of a property acquired by eminent domain to specified compensation. Current law requires a public entity to pay reasonable costs, not to exceed $5,000 of an independent appraisal ordered by the owner of a property that the public entity offers to purchase under the threat of eminent domain. This bill would require a public entity that offers to purchase property under a threat of eminent domain related to specified purposes to pay the full reasonable costs of an independent appraisal ordered by the owner.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1771 (Alvarez D) State Housing Law: apartment houses.
Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/28/2026-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/22/2026-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The State Housing Law establishes statewide building standards relating to occupancy, use, and maintenance of hotels, motels, lodging houses, apartment houses, and dwellings, and authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt rules and regulations for this purpose. Pursuant to that authority, existing law requires a manager or other responsible person to reside upon the premises and have charge of every apartment house in which there are 16 or more apartments, as specified. This bill would require the department to analyze the efficacy of the above- described manager residence requirement and to submit a report to the Legislature with recommendations on whether to maintain, modify, or repeal the requirement no later than January 1, 2029, as specified.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1786 (Harabedian D) Public contracts: best value construction contracting for counties, cities, and the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments.
Current Text: Amended: 3/12/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 5/12/2026-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes a program to allow counties to select a bidder on the basis of best
value, as defined, for construction projects in excess of $1,000,000. Existing law also authorizes counties to use a best value construction contracting method to award individual annual contracts, not to exceed $3,000,000, for repair, remodeling, or other repetitive work to be done according to unit prices, as specified. Existing law establishes procedures and criteria for the selection of a best value contractor and requires that bidders verify specified information under oath. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a participating county to submit a report that contains specified information about the projects awarded using the best value procedures described above to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee before March 1, 2029.
Existing law repeals the program provisions on January 1, 2030. This bill would, instead, authorize a county, city, or the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments to select a bidder on the basis of best value, as described above, for construction projects in excess of $500,000, would make various conforming changes to the above-described provisions, and would extend the operation of those provisions until January 1, 2040.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1801 (Lee D) Public agencies: approval: detention facilities.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. GOV.
Location: 5/6/2026-S. JUD.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law prohibits a city, county, city and county, or public agency from approving or signing a deed, instrument, or other document related to a conveyance of land or issuing a permit for the building or reuse of existing buildings by any private corporation, contractor, or vendor to house or detain noncitizens for purposes of civil immigration proceedings, unless the city, county, city and county, or public agency has given notice to the public of the proposed conveyance or permitting action at least 180 days before execution of the conveyance or permit and solicited and heard public comments on the proposed conveyance or permit action in at least 2 separate meetings open to the public. This bill would revise and recast those provisions to prohibit a city, county, city and county, or public agency from approving or executing, among other documents, any document signifying the public entity’s approval for the building or reuse of existing buildings by any private corporation, contractor, or vendor to house or detain a person for purposes of civil immigration custody before the public entity has given notice to the public of the proposed action 180 days before execution or approval of the proposed action, promptly provided access to any documents related to the proposed action, as provided, and solicited and heard public comments on the proposed action in at least 2 separate meetings open to the public.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1834 (Patel D) Subdivisions: tentative and final map: exceptions.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 5/6/2026-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Subdivision Map Act requires a tentative and final map for specified subdivisions, including subdivisions of 5 or more parcels or condominiums, except under certain circumstances, including if the land consists of a parcel or parcels of land having approved access to a public street or highway, which comprises part of a tract of land zoned for industrial or commercial development, and which has the approval of the governing body as to street alignments and widths. Existing law requires a subdivision that qualifies for one of those exceptions to file a parcel map instead. This bill would expand the exception described above to additionally include land that comprises part of a tract of land zoned for mixed-use development, inclusive of mixed-use developments containing residential uses, and that satisfies the other requirements contained in that exception.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1838 (Berman D) Public contracts: local agencies: responsive bidders.
Current Text: Amended: 4/6/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and L., P.E. & R.
Location: 5/6/2026-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would require a contractor, as a condition of submitting a bid to a local agency for a public
works contract, to fully disclose any history of wage and hour violations, as specified, and provide supporting documentation, as described. The bill would authorize a contractor that fails to provide the required disclosures and supporting materials to be disqualified from the bid.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1859 (Ortega D) Public works.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/11/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/22/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/22/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works. Current law defines “public works,” for the purposes of regulating public works contracts as, among other things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Current law makes any officer, agent, or representative of the state or of any political subdivision who willfully violates specified provisions, including providing notice of certain public works projects, as specified, to the Department of Industrial Relations, guilty of a misdemeanor. Current law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages. Current law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work. This bill would require an awarding body or owner to give reasonable access, as defined, to representatives of a joint-labor management committee in order to monitor compliance with the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements. The bill would authorize the committee to bring an action against an awarding body, contractor, or subcontractor that willfully denies the committee’s representative reasonable access.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1914 (Schiavo D) General plan elements: childcare.
Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/7/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 5/7/2026-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use, circulation, housing, safety, and environmental justice element. Existing law requires a city or county to update its general plan elements subject to certain criteria and timelines. This bill would require a city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2028, but no later than January 1, 2033, to prepare and adopt a childcare plan or integrate a childcare plan into the next adoption of the city, county, or city and county’s general plan to address the childcare needs of the jurisdiction, as specified.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1938 (Irwin D) Coastal recreation: designated state surfing reserves.
Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/8/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/8/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires oceanfront land suitable for recreational use to be protected for recreational use and development unless present and foreseeable future demand for public or commercial recreational activities that could be accommodated on the property is already adequately provided for in the area. Existing law, the California Ocean Protection Act, establishes the Ocean Protection Council and provides that the purpose of the act is to integrate and coordinate the state’s laws and institutions responsible for protecting and conserving ocean resources, including coastal waters and ocean ecosystems, to provide for public access to the ocean and ocean resources, including to marine protected areas, for recreational use, and aesthetic, educational, and scientific purposes, consistent with the sustainable long-term conservation of those resources, among other
objectives. Existing law establishes surfing as the official state sport. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027, the council 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 to, after adopting a formal resolution, apply to the council 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.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1942 (Bauer-Kahan D) Electric bicycles: registration and special license plates.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/21/2026-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes
12. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/21/2026-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner license plates that identify the vehicles for which they are issued for the period of their validity, as specified.
Existing law also requires a motorized bicycle to display a special license plate issued by the department. Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution, authorizes the licensing agency, by ordinance or resolution, to adopt rules and regulations for the collection of license fees, as specified, and sets the fee for each new bicycle license and registration certificate at a sum of no more than $4 per year. Existing 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. This bill would require class 2 electric bicycles and class 3 electric bicycles to be registered with the department and to display a special license plate issued by the department. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement these requirements, and would make a person operating a class 2 or class 3 electric bicycle in violation of these requirements guilty of an infraction punishable by specified fines. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 1997 (Lee D) Land use: housing development approvals: timelines and processes.
Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/28/2026-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/22/2026-A. APPR.
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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. The Permit Streamlining Act sets forth various procedures for the review and approval of development project applications. Among other things, the act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove the project within a specified period of time, which varies depending on the project’s phase in the CEQA process. This bill would additionally require approval or disapproval of a housing development project within 30 days from the date of certification by the lead agency of the environmental impact report (EIR), if the EIR is prepared pursuant to specified provisions of CEQA if certain other conditions are met. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2002 (Solache D) Local government assistance: Regional Early Action Planning Fund.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/22/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/22/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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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. That law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need for housing in each region and further requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. Current law establishes the Local Government Planning Support Grants Program, administered by the department, for the purpose of providing regions and jurisdictions with one-time funding, including grants for planning activities to enable jurisdictions to meet the sixth cycle of the regional housing need assessment, as provided. This bill would establish the Regional Early Action Planning Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of providing councils of governments, regional entities, and jurisdictions with one-time funding, including grants for planning activities, to enable those entities to meet the 7th and subsequent cycles of the regional housing need assessment. The bill would require the department to allocate funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, from the Regional Early Action Planning Fund to each council of governments or regional entity responsible for allocating regional housing need that applies and qualifies for those moneys, as specified. The bill would authorize a council of governments or regional entity to expend funds awarded for certain purposes, including for activities that support the development, improvement, or implementation of the methodology for the 7th and subsequent regional housing needs assessment cycles, and for providing jurisdictions with technical assistance, planning, temporary staffing, or consultant needs associated with updating local planning and zoning documents, as provided.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2024 (Nguyen D) Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements.
Current Text: Amended: 4/6/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/23/2026-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes
21. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/22/2026-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Outdoor Advertising Act prohibits a person, as defined, from placing an advertising display within the areas affected by the act without a permit. The act prohibits the Department of Transportation from denying or delaying the acceptance of a permit application for a new advertising display along a portion of a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application. This bill would also prohibit the department from denying or delaying the review, processing, or determination of a permit application described above.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2099 (González, Mark D) Advertising displays: customary maintenance.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/22/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/22/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Outdoor Advertising Act regulates placement of advertising displays adjacent to and within specified distances of highways that are part of the national system of interstate and defense highways and federal-aid highways. The act prohibits limitations on the customary maintenance of a lawfully erected advertising display within the state by any governmental entity without payment of compensation, as specified. This bill would authorize, as part of customary maintenance, an activity performed for the purpose of maintaining an advertising display in its existing physical configuration, including, but not limited to, replacing structural members and using stronger materials, as specified.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2118 (Hoover R) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022: use by right: objective standards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/7/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 5/7/2026-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a mixed-income housing development along a commercial corridor that satisfies specified site criteria, affordability criteria, and objective development standards, and deems a housing development that meets those requirements a use by right and subject to streamlined, ministerial review. Existing law prohibits the objective standards from precluding a development from being built at specified residential density required and from requiring the development to reduce unit size to meet the objective standards. This bill would also prohibit the objective standards from prohibiting or otherwise limiting mixed-use development in a housing development project.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2180 (Ward D) Local government: Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act: proportional cost of service.
Current Text: Amended: 3/11/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 5/6/2026-S. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of assessments and property-related fees and charges by a local agency. As part of those requirements, the California Constitution mandates that such fees or charges that are extended, imposed, or increased satisfy certain requirements, including, but not limited to, that the amount of the fee or charge imposed upon any parcel or person as an incident of property ownership not exceed the proportional cost of the service attributable to the parcel. Existing law, known as the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act (act), prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with these requirements and, among other things, authorizes an agency providing water, wastewater, sewer, or refuse collection services to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water, sewage treatment, or wastewater treatment or adjustments for inflation under certain circumstances. This bill would authorize a local government to demonstrate the proportional cost of the service attributable to the parcel by any method that reasonably allocates the ascertainable cost of providing service to all parcels, if substantiated as provided. The bill would, however, provide that for water or sewer service fee or charge impositions, a local government is not required to provide an exact measure of the cost of the service at each parcel and may instead impose uniform or tiered rates to parcel or customer classes that are defined based on common characteristics indicative of likely water or sewer use.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2296 (Papan D) Planning and zoning: housing element: regional housing needs allocation.
Current Text: Amended: 4/16/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 5/6/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law existing law authorizes at least 2 or more cities and a county, or counties, at least 28 months prior to the scheduled housing element revision, to form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s existing and projected housing need among its members. If the council of governments does not receive a notification of this formation at least 28 months prior to the update, existing law requires the council of governments to implement specified requirements regarding the regional housing need process. Existing law requires the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each delegate subregion at least 25 months prior to the scheduled revision. This bill would extend the above-described timeline for cities and counties to form a subregional entity to allocate the subregion’s housing need, as provided, from 28 months to 34 months, and the above-described timeline for the council of governments to determine the share of regional housing need assigned to each subregion from 25 months to 31 months, respectively.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2346 (Wilson D) Vehicles: electric bicycles and speed limits.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 5/6/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing 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. This bill would require all class 1 and class 2 electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with a speedometer. The bill would also require all electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with an integrated front lamp and a rear lamp, as specified.
The bill would also require manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to include a written description of California’s electric bicycle laws with the bicycle’s packaging to be provided to the consumer. The bill would also require sellers and distributors of electric bicycles to provide specified disclosures at or before the point of sale.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Support
Notes: 4.14.26 HBC Letter to Asm. Judiciary
3.25.26 HBC Letter to Asm. Transportation
AB 2351 (Bonta D) General plan: annual report: shelter beds.
Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 5/6/2026-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires cities and counties to prepare, adopt, and amend general plans and elements of those general plans, as specified. After the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, the law requires the planning agency to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to specified entities that includes certain information, including the status of the plan and progress of its implementation. This bill would require the planning agency to include in that report, beginning with the report due by April 1, 2028, the number of temporary emergency shelter beds and the number of permanent housing units serving those experiencing or exiting homelessness in the jurisdiction in each of specified categories.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2390 (Schiavo D) Streamlined housing approvals: objective standards: review and modifications.
Current Text: Amended: 4/22/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/7/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 5/7/2026-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, until January 1, 2036, 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 (streamlining process). Existing law, for purposes of this streamlining process, authorizes a development proponent to request a modification to an approved development if submitted to the local government before the issuance of the final building permit required for construction of the development. Existing law requires a local government to approve a modification if it determines the modification is consistent with the objective planning standards in effect when the original development application was first submitted. Existing law requires evaluations of modifications for consistency with the objective planning standards to be made using the same assumptions and analytical methodology the local government originally used, as described. This bill would instead require the local government to approve a modification if it determines the modification is consistent with objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards that were in effect when the original development application was first submitted, as described.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2418 (González, Mark D) Local building permits: nonresidential private permitting review.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/22/2026-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/21/2026-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires every city, county, or city and county, whether general law or chartered, that requires the issuance of a permit as a condition precedent to the construction, alteration, improvement, demolition, or repair of any building or structure, to require the execution of a permit application, as specified. Current law permits a local agency, defined as a city, county, or city and county, to authorize its enforcement agency to contract with or employ a private entity or persons on a temporary basis to perform plan-checking functions for a nonresidential building, but that the local agency is not required to do so if it determines that no entities or persons are available or qualified to perform plan-checking services. Under current law, when there is an excessive delay, as defined, in checking plans submitted as part of an application for specified nonresidential projects, a local agency is required to, upon request of the applicant, contract with or employ a private entity or persons on a temporary basis to perform the plan-checking function. Current law defines “excessive delay” to mean, among other things, the local agency has taken more than 50 days to check plans and specifications, as provided. This bill would, until January 1, 2037, revise and recast the above-described provisions related to private plan checking. The bill would, upon an application for a nonresidential building permit being deemed complete, as provided, require the local agency to provide the applicant with an estimated timeframe in which it will determine if the completed application is compliant with permit standards.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2433 (Alvarez D) Housing development: density bonus.
Current Text: Amended: 4/22/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/6/2026-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 4/21/2026-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to grant a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, to an applicant for a housing development when the applicant seeks a density bonus for the housing development, as specified, if the applicant agrees to construct, among other things, a specified percentage of units for very low income, lower income, or senior citizen housing, and meets other requirements. This bill would, instead, require a city or county to grant a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, to an applicant for a housing development when the applicant submits an application for a housing development that a city, county, or city and county determines meets specified criteria, including, among others, the housing development includes specified percentage of units for very low income, lower income, or senior citizen housing.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2595 (Papan D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/7/2026-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 5/7/2026-S. RLS.
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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 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 existing law, a “class 3 electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with a speedometer and a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour. Current law prohibits a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 3 electric bicycle. This bill, the San Mateo Electric Bicycle Safety Pilot Program, would, until January 1, 2031, authorize a local authority within the County of San Mateo, or the County of San Mateo 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. For the first 60 days following the adoption of an ordinance or resolution for this purpose, 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 punishable by a fine of $25, except as specified.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2601 (Lee D) Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval and subdivisions.
Current Text: Amended: 4/16/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/5/2026-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 5/5/2026-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided.
The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps. Existing law requires a local agency to consider ministerially a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone, without discretionary review or a hearing, if the proposed housing development meets specified requirements. Existing law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the parcel meets specified requirements. This bill would require that an application for a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone, as described above, be eligible for concurrent processing with an application for a parcel map for an urban lot split, as provided. The bill would authorize a local agency to condition issuance of building permits, grading permits, or certificates of occupancy for a proposed housing development upon the applicant first obtaining approval and recording a parcel map for eligible parcels pursuant to the above-described urban lot split provisions.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2624 (Bonta D) Privacy for immigration support services providers.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/27/2026-Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/22/2026-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law authorizes designated health care services providers, employees, volunteers, and patients, and individuals who face threats of violence or violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a designated health care services facility, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant’s residence address contained in any public record and otherwise provide for confidentiality of identity for that person, subject to specified conditions. Existing law defines “designated health care services” to mean gender- affirming health care services or reproductive health care services. Under existing law, any person who makes a false statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law prohibits a person, business, or association from knowingly publicly posting or publicly displaying, disclosing, or distributing on internet websites or on social media, the personal information or image of any designated health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address, with the intent to incite a third person to cause imminent great bodily harm to the person identified in the posting or display, or to a coresident of that person, as specified, or to threaten the person identified in the posting or display, or a coresident of that person, as specified. Existing law prohibits a person from posting on the internet or social media, with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat of violence against a designated health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address, the personal information or image of a reproductive health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address. This bill would similarly establish an address confidentiality program for a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, as defined, who faces threats of violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a designated immigration support services facility.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2676 (Gallagher R) Housing Crisis Act of 2019.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/7/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 5/7/2026-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law, known as the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, with respect to land where housing is an allowable use and except as specified, prohibits a county or city, including the electorate exercising its local initiative or referendum power, in which specified conditions exist, determined as provided by the Department of Housing and Community Development, from enacting a development
policy, standard, or condition, as defined, that would have certain effects. Under existing law, these proscribed policies, standards, or conditions include, among others, (A) changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use within an existing zoning district below what was allowed under the general plan or specific plan land use designation and zoning ordinances of the county or city as in effect on January 1, 2018, and (B) imposing or enforcing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city, except as provided. Existing law states that these prohibitions apply to any zoning ordinance adopted or amended on or after the effective date of these provisions, and that any development policy, standard, or condition on or after that date that does not comply is deemed void. Existing law prohibits a county or city subject to these provisions from enforcing a zoning ordinance imposing a moratorium or other similar restriction on or limitation of housing development until it has submitted the ordinance to, and received approval from, the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires the department to approve a zoning ordinance submitted to it only if the department determines that the zoning ordinance satisfies these requirements. If the department denies approval of the zoning ordinance, as specified, existing law states that the ordinance is deemed void. This bill would expand the prohibition against enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that has the effect of imposing or enforcing a moratorium on housing development within all or a portion of the jurisdiction of the county or city to also prohibit these policies, standards, or conditions within the sphere of influence of a city, as defined.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
AB 2679 (Hadwick R) Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program: State Highway Account loans: cities.
Current Text: Amended: 4/13/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/21/2026-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/21/2026-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law creates the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway system and the local street and road system. Existing law provides for the deposit of various moneys, including revenues from certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees, for the program into the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA). Existing law requires funds available for the program to be allocated for various specified purposes and requires the remaining funds available for the program to be continuously appropriated, with 50% for allocation to the Department of Transportation and 50% for apportionment to cities and counties by the Controller. Of the funds to be apportioned to cities and counties, existing law requires the Controller to apportion 50% of those funds to counties pursuant to a specified formula and 50% of those funds to cities in the proportion that the total population of each city bears to the total population of all the cities in the state. Existing law requires a city or county to submit to the California Transportation Commission a list of proposed projects, as specified, to be eligible for an apportionment of those funds. Existing law establishes the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. With specified exceptions, money in the State Highway Account is required to be appropriated by the Legislature. This bill would authorize a city to submit a request to the Controller to receive a supplemental apportionment from the State Highway Account if, among other things, the city’s apportionment from the RMRA for the applicable fiscal year is no more than $200,000, the cost of the city’s list of projects submitted to the commission exceeds the amount of its apportionment, and the city agrees to reimburse the amount of supplemental funding provided from the State Highway Account with its future apportionments from the RMRA in accordance with terms and conditions established by the commission.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 35 (Umberg D) Alcohol and drug programs.
Current Text: Amended: 7/17/2025 html pdf
Status: 8/28/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/20/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 8/28/2025-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law provides for the licensure and regulation of adult alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits the operation of one of those facilities without a current valid license. Current law requires the department, if a facility is alleged to be in violation of that prohibition, to conduct a site visit to investigate the allegation.
Current law requires, if the department’s employee or agent finds evidence that the facility is providing services without a license, the employee or agent to take specified actions, including, among others, submitting the findings of the investigation to the department and issuing a written notice to the facility that includes the date by which the facility is required to cease providing services. This bill would
require the department, if it determines it has jurisdiction over the allegation, to initiate that investigation within 10 days of receiving the allegation and, except as specified, complete the investigation within 60 days of initiating the investigation. The bill would require the department, if it receives a complaint that does not fall under its jurisdiction, to notify the complainant that it does not investigate that type of complaint. The bill would require the employee or agent to provide the notice described above within 10 days of the employee or agency submitting their findings to the department and to conduct a followup site visit to determine whether the facility has ceased providing services as required. The bill would authorize, in counties that elect to administer the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system and that provide optional recovery housing services, the county behavioral health agency to request approval from the department to conduct a site visit of a recovery residence that is alleged to be operating without a license.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Support
Notes: 8.14.25 HBC letter to Asm. Approps
7.3.25 HBC letter to Asm. Health
SB 149 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) Public resources trailer bill.
Current Text: Amended: 9/9/2025 html pdf
Status: 9/12/2025-Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET pursuant to Assembly Rule 97.
Location: 9/12/2025-A. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2030, generally prohibits a person from possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to be placed or planted in any water within the state, dreissenid mussels, and authorizes the Director of Fish and Wildlife or the director’s designee to engage in various enforcement activities with regard to dreissenid mussels.
Current law requires any person, or federal, state, or local agency, district, or authority that owns or manages a reservoir, as defined, where recreational, boating, or fishing activities are permitted, except as specified, to develop and implement a program designed to prevent the introduction of nonnative dreissenid mussel species, as provided. Under current law, except as otherwise provided, any violation of the Fish and Game Code, or of any rule, regulation, or order made or adopted under the code, is a crime. This bill would expand the scope of the above-described provisions relating to dreissenid mussels to instead apply to invasive mussels, defined to mean any nonnative detrimental mussel species, as provided.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 154 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) Greenhouse gases: climate corporate accountability:
climate-related financial risk: regulations: California Environmental Quality Act exemption.
Current Text: Amended: 9/8/2025 html pdf
Status: 9/13/2025-Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET pursuant to Assembly Rule 97.
Location: 9/13/2025-A. BUDGET
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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. The Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act requires, on or before July 1, 2025, the State Air Resources Board to develop and adopt regulations to require a reporting entity, defined to mean a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other business entity with total annual revenues in excess of $1 billion, as specified, to annually disclose to the emissions reporting organization, as defined, or the state board all of the reporting entity’s scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions, as defined.
Current law requires the state board to adopt regulations that authorize it to seek administrative penalties for nonfiling, late filing, or other failure to meet the requirements of the act, as provided. This bill would exempt those regulations from CEQA.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 239 (Arreguín D) Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.
Current Text: Amended: 4/7/2025 html pdf
Status: 5/11/2026-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 5/11/2026-A. L. GOV.
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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 each physical meeting location designated by the subsidiary body, as specified. 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 Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 299 (Cabaldon D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: day care center: family daycare home: zoning.
Current Text: Amended: 1/14/2026 html pdf
Status: 1/26/2026-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/26/2026-A. DESK
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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. Current law exempts specified projects from CEQA, including a project that consists exclusively of a day care center, as defined, that is not located in a residential area. This bill would exempt from CEQA a project that consists exclusively of a day care center or a family daycare home, as defined, that is located on a parcel of land zoned exclusively for residential use, except as provided. By imposing additional duties on a lead agency to determine the applicability of these exemptions, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 329 (Blakespear D) Alcohol and drug recovery or treatment facilities: investigations.
Current Text: Amended: 3/28/2025 html pdf
Status: 8/28/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 7/2/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 8/28/2025-A. 2 YEAR
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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 Assigned
HBC Support
Notes: 7.1.25 HBC letter to ASM Approps
6.17.25 HBC letter to ASM Health
4.7.25 HBC letter to SEN Approps
4.3.25 HBC letter to author
SB 417 (Cabaldon D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.
Current Text: Amended: 1/22/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/23/2026-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes
10. Noes 2.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/22/2026-A. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low- income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing 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 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 Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 423 (Gonzalez D) Housing: real property transfer taxes: affordability covenants.
Current Text: Amended: 9/9/2025 html pdf
Status: 9/11/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was L. GOV. on 9/10/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 9/11/2025-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires it to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing and to provide housing assistance and home loans. Current law sets forth various general powers of the department in implementing these programs, including authorizing the department to enter into long-term contracts or agreements of up to 30 years for the purpose of servicing loans or grants or enforcing regulatory agreements or other security documents.
Current law creates the California Housing Finance Agency within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and authorizes the agency to make loans to finance affordable housing. This bill would allow a state or local agency administering an affordable housing program to enter into or modify a provision of a regulatory agreement regarding curing an event of default, if prescribed conditions apply. The bill would exempt a regulatory agreement entered into or altered pursuant to its provisions from any conflicting land use restriction, declaration of restrictive covenants, deed restriction, or similar instrument, as provided. The bill would specify that its provisions are not to be construed to supersede any other law governing the foreclosure of deeds of trust or mortgages and the extinguishment of junior interests.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 457 (Becker D) Housing element compliance: committed assistance: in-kind services.
Current Text: Amended: 1/8/2026 html pdf
Status: 1/26/2026-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/26/2026-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires that the housing element of a city or county sets forth a schedule of actions during the planning period that the local government is undertaking or intends to undertake to implement the policies and achieve the goals of the housing element, as provided. Current law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to allow a city or county to substitute the provision of units pursuant to this schedule of actions if the community includes in its housing element a program committing the local government to provide specified units that will be made available through the provision of committed assistance to lower income households at affordable housing costs or rents, as defined. Current law requires a unit to meet specified requirements to qualify for inclusion in the program. Existing law defines “committed assistance” for these purposes to mean that the city or county enters into a legally enforceable agreement during a
specified time period that obligates sufficient available funds or other in-kind services to provide the assistance necessary to make the identified units affordable and that requires that the units be made available for occupancy within 2 years of the execution of the agreement. This bill would define “in-kind services” for these purposes.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 479 (Arreguín D) Homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel teams.
Current Text: Amended: 1/5/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/11/2026-Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Location: 5/11/2026-A. HUM. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county, and to allow provider agencies and members of the personnel team to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Current law requires the sharing of confidential information to be governed by protocols developed in each county describing how and what information may be shared by the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, and requires each county to provide a copy of its protocols to the State Department of Social Services. This bill would additionally authorize a city that is designated as a local health jurisdiction to similarly establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 677 (Wiener D) Housing development: transit-oriented development.
Current Text: Amended: 1/8/2026 html pdf
Status: 1/26/2026-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 10.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly.
Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 1/26/2026-A. DESK
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development (TOD) stop, as defined, be an allowed use as a transit- oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the development complies with certain applicable requirements, as provided. Among these requirements, current law establishes requirements concerning height limits, density, and residential floor area ratio in accordance with a development’s proximity to specified tiers of TOD stops, as provided, and requires a development to meet specified labor standards that require that a specified affidavit be signed under penalty of perjury, under specified circumstances. Current law specifies that a development proposed pursuant to these provisions is eligible for streamlined, ministerial approval, as provided. Current law defines, among other terms, the term “high-frequency commuter rail” for purposes of these provisions to mean a commuter rail service operating a total of at least 48 trains per day across both directions, not including temporary service changes of less than one month or unplanned disruptions, and not meeting the standard for very high frequency commuter rail, at any point in the past three years. Current law also defines the term “Tier 2 transit-oriented development stop” for these purposes to mean a TOD stop within an urban transit county, as defined, excluding a Tier 1 transit-oriented development stop, as defined, served by light rail transit, by high-frequency commuter rail, or by bus service meeting specified standards. This bill would revise the definition of “high-frequency commuter rail” to instead mean a public commuter or intercity rail station with a total of at least 48 passenger trains on average per weekday across all directions, not including temporary service changes of less than one month or unplanned disruptions, and not meeting the standard for very high frequency commuter rail, at any point in the past three years.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 681 (Wahab D) Housing.
Current Text: Amended: 5/23/2025 html pdf
Status: 7/17/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was H. & C.D. on 6/16/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 7/17/2025-A. 2 YEAR
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: (1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency to provide for the
creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones by ordinance, and sets forth standards the ordinance is required to impose with respect to certain matters, including, among others, maximum unit size, parking, and height standards. Existing law authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units, as defined, in single- family residential zones and requires the ordinance to include, among other things, standards for the creation of a junior accessory dwelling unit, required deed restrictions, and occupancy requirements.
This bill would prohibit fees and other financial requirements from being included in the above- described reasonable restrictions.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 692 (Arreguín D) Vehicles: homelessness.
Current Text: Amended: 7/16/2025 html pdf
Status: 8/28/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. on 7/15/2025) (May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 8/28/2025-A. 2 YEAR
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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. 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 specifically authorize a local government to perform emergency summary abatement of vehicles creating imminent health and safety hazards. The bill would modify the exemption from prior 10-day notice of intention to abate and remove a vehicle to no longer require that both the vehicle be determined to be a public nuisance and that the property owner sign a release.
Organization Position Assigned
HBC Watch
SB 722 (Wahab D) Transit-oriented housing development: excluded parcels and sites.
Current Text: Amended: 1/15/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/4/2026-Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
Location: 5/4/2026-A. H. & C.D.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that a housing development project, as defined, within a specified distance of a transit-oriented development stop, as defined, be an allowed use as a transit-oriented housing development on any site zoned for residential, mixed, or commercial development, if the development complies with certain, applicable requirements, as provided. Among these requirements, current law prohibits a proposed development under these provisions from being located on sites where the development would require demolition of housing, or that was previously used for housing, that is subject to rent or price controls, as provided. This bill would additionally prohibit the development from being located on an existing parcel of land or site governed under the Mobilehome Residency Law, the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law, the Mobilehome Parks Act, or the Special Occupancy Parks Act. This bill contains other related provisions.
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SB 866 (Blakespear D) Planning and zoning: housing element: unhoused population.
Current Text: Amended: 4/28/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/11/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints that are relevant to meeting these needs. Existing law establishes the
Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law establishes round 7 of the program and states the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that specifies the parameters, as specified. For a local government that does not receive HHAP funding, this bill would require the assessment to include, among other things, specified data regarding the population of individuals who are unhoused and a description of key actions that will be taken to reduce individuals who are unhoused based on the data. By imposing additional duties on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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SB 874 (Weber Pierson D) Medi-Cal: behavioral health treatment workgroup.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/8/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/4/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, to the extent required by the federal government and effective no sooner than required by the federal government, behavioral health treatment (BHT) is a covered service under the Medi-Cal program for individuals under 21 years of age. This bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2027, to ensure that certain individuals providing BHT services under Medi-Cal undergo background checks. The bill would require the department to convene a stakeholder workgroup made up of BHT providers, managed care plans, and consumers with autism, among others, to review the implementation of BHT services in Medi-Cal and to advise the department on, among other topics, clinical guidelines for the provision of BHT services, treatment plan requirements, requirements for the provision of center-based services compared to services provided elsewhere, and supervision of unlicensed and uncertified professionals, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2028, to release and maintain clear clinical guidance for the provision of the BHT benefit, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2029, to report to the legislature on the utilization of the BHT benefit, a synopsis of changes made as a result of the stakeholder workgroup, and recommendations for actions necessary to ensure Medi- Cal reimbursement practices align with federal Medicaid program integrity requirements.
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SB 909 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Public works.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/26/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/8/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 4/27/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works and imposes misdemeanor penalties for a willful violation of this requirement. Current law defines “public works” for the purposes of regulating public contracts as, among other things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds. Current law generally requires a contractor or subcontractor to be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations to be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or engage in the performance of any public work contract. Current law requires a contractor or subcontractor to meet specific conditions to qualify for this registration, including that a contractor or subcontractor pay an initial application fee and an annual renewal fee set by the Director of Industrial Relations. Current law authorizes the department to establish and adjust annual registration and renewal fees up to $800 by publishing the fees on the department’s internet website. This bill would exempt the establishment and adjustment of those fees from the Administrative Procedure Act and would remove the $800 fee limit.
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SB 922 (Laird D) Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.
Current Text: Amended: 3/11/2026 html pdf
Status: 3/19/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 3/19/2026-S. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee, or other charge for the privilege of using its streets or highways, other than a permit fee for an extralegal load unless the local agency had imposed the fee prior to June 1, 1989. This bill would expressly limit this prohibition to charges based on weight. The bill would also explicitly state that a fee, charge, or surcharge imposed by or for a local agency to recover the cost of street maintenance and repair and other costs associated with the use of its streets, roads, or highways to provide public services or public works is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision above.
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SB 926 (Strickland R) Public safety: Funding of Proposition 36 Act.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/11/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law generally provides financial support for cities and counties to provide public safety services, including, among other funding, moneys allocated through the Local Revenue Fund 2011 and its accounts. Existing law, enacted by the voters as the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act (Proposition 36) at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election, authorizes the Board of State and Community Corrections to allocate appropriate funds to counties and local governments for programs under the Treatment-Mandated Felony Act, as specified. This bill, the Funding of Proposition 36 Act, would create the California Public Safety Services Support Fund to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement Proposition 36. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature for the 2026–27 fiscal year, require the funds to be administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, as specified.
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SB 967 (Blakespear D) Planning and zoning: housing element: interim housing units: acutely low income households.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/8/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 4/27/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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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 that county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected regional housing need, as provided, and requires the appropriate council of governments, or for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department, to adopt a final regional housing need plan allocating a share of the regional housing need to each city or county, as provided. Existing law requires the housing element to include an analysis of any special housing needs, including, among others, families and persons in need of emergency shelter. Existing law requires a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the department that includes, among other things, the city’s or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs, as specified, and number of units approved and disapproved in the prior year. The bill would authorize a city or county that met or exceeded its need for emergency shelter capacity and that provides committed support for interim housing, as defined, to report the number of interim housing units receiving that support that are approved, as specified, as units approved or disapproved for acutely low income households, for purposes of the annual progress report.
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SB 994 (Cabaldon D) Local agencies: nondisclosure agreements.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/11/2026-May 11 hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 4/22/2026-S. APPR.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law, the legislative code of ethics, prohibits Members of the Legislature from
entering into, or requesting that another party enter into, a nondisclosure agreement relating to the drafting, negotiation, or discussion of proposed legislation. Existing law also makes any nondisclosure agreement relating to the drafting, negotiation, or discussion of proposed legislation entered into after January 1, 2026, void and unenforceable. Existing law provides an exception for nondisclosure agreements, or portions thereof, that prevent only the disclosure of trade secrets, financial information, or proprietary information, as specified. This bill would prohibit a local agency official, as defined, acting in their official capacity from entering into, or requesting that another individual enter into, a nondisclosure agreement relating to public business that precludes their ability to share information with fellow local agency officials serving on the same council, board, commission, district, or agency. The bill would require a local agency official in violation of that provision to, among other things, disclose the existence of the nondisclosure agreement, as specified, and would provide that these requirements imposed on a local agency official also apply to a local agency official acting in their official capacity who entered into, or requested that another individual enter into, a nondisclosure agreement described above before January 1, 2027.
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SB 1003 (Grayson D) Prohousing enhanced infrastructure financing districts: Infrastructure Partnership Financing Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/11/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to designate jurisdictions as prohousing, as specified. The law requires that jurisdictions that have adopted a housing element that has been found by the department to be in substantial compliance with specified requirements and that have been designated as prohousing based on their adoption of prohousing local policies, as defined, be awarded additional points or preference in the scoring of program applications for certain programs. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to designate a proposed enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community, including, among other things, the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for persons of very low, low, and moderate income for rent or purchase, as specified. Existing law authorizes an infrastructure financing plan to contain a provision for the division of taxes levied upon taxable property in the area included within the district, and authorizes the public financing authority of the district to issue bonds, as provided. This bill would authorize a city or county that is designated as prohousing to establish a prohousing enhanced infrastructure financing district if certain requirements are met, as specified. The bill would prescribe requirements applicable to those districts. The bill would expand the definition of “prohousing local policies” for purposes of the above- described provisions to include the establishment of one of these districts, and would require that the jurisdiction that established, and projects located within, a district receive enhanced points or preference than the baseline provided to other prohousing jurisdictions.
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SB 1014 (Grayson D) Development projects: preliminary estimate of required improvements: onsite and offsite improvements.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 5/12/2026-S. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Permit Streamlining Act sets forth various procedures for the review and approval of development project applications, including, among other things, requiring each public agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act also requires a city, county, or city and county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city, county, or city and county from which approval for the project is being sought. This bill would permit an applicant who submits a preliminary application for a housing development project, as specified, or an application if a preliminary application is not submitted, to include in the preliminary application or application a request for a preliminary estimate of required improvements, as provided. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county that receives a request under these provisions to provide the preliminary estimate within 30 business days of the submission of the request, as provided. The bill, within 30 business days of deeming an application for a postentitlement phase permit complete, would additionally require the city, county, or city and county to provide the applicant with an itemized list of all onsite and offsite improvements that
will be required prior to issuance of, or otherwise in connection with, that permit, as provided. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.
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SB 1036 (Grayson D) Mitigation Fee Act.
Current Text: Amended: 4/16/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/11/2026-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Location: 5/11/2026-A. L. GOV.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project, including requiring the local agency to identify the use to which the fee is to be put and determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed. This bill would require the amount of a fee that is imposed on a development project that demolishes or changes an existing use to be offset to account for the demolition or change so that the amount of the fee is attributable only to the development project’s incremental impact on public facilities or services, as provided.
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SB 1060 (Valladares R) Alcohol and drug treatment facilities.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/12/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/6/2026-April 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 2/26/2026-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate facilities that provide residential nonmedical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services. Violation of licensing provisions is punishable through revocation or suspension of the license and civil penalties. This bill would prohibit an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility from operating within 1,000 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school or a daycare center if the recovery or treatment facility serves more than 6 residents and treatment is being provided at the facility.
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SB 1075 (Reyes D) Air resources: toxic air contaminants: criteria air pollutants: community emissions reduction programs: local community emissions reduction plans.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/11/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare a statewide strategy to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants in communities affected by a high cumulative exposure burden that includes an assessment and identification of those communities.
Existing law requires the statewide strategy to be updated at least once every 5 years. Existing law requires the state board, based on the assessment and identification, to select locations around the state for preparation of community emissions reduction programs. Existing law requires the assessment and identification to prioritize disadvantaged communities, as defined. Existing law requires the regional air quality management district or the regional air pollution control district encompassing the location selected by the state board, within one year of selection, to adopt a community emissions reduction program to achieve emissions reductions for the location selected using cost-effective measures, as provided. Existing law requires the state board to provide grants to community-based organizations for technical assistance and to support community participation in the implementation of the statewide strategy. Under this existing regulatory authority, the state board provides grants to development and implement local community emissions reduction plans. This bill would revise the definition of “disadvantaged community” to include a disadvantaged unincorporated community. By expanding the definition of “disadvantaged community,” this bill would expand the duties of districts in the preparation of community emissions reduction programs.
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SB 1116 (Caballero D) Planning and zoning: housing development projects: subdivisions.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/11/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under the Planning and Zoning Law, the legislative body of a city or county may adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land, as provided.
The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps. Existing law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development project on a subdivided lot, as specified, that meets specified requirements, and requires a local agency to ministerially consider that application, as specified. Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing on a housing development on a lot subdivided as specified an objective zoning standard, objective subdivision standard, or objective design standard that, among other things, physically precludes the development of a project built to specified densities. However, with respect to certain lots, existing law allows a local agency to impose a height limit of no less than the height allowed pursuant to the existing zoning designation applicable to the lot. Existing law authorizes a local agency to adopt an ordinance to implement these requirements. This bill would require the height limits under these provisions to apply exclusively to the physical height of a building rather than the number of floors. The bill would additionally prohibit a local agency from imposing specified front or internal setbacks, except as specified. The bill would also modify prohibitions relating to density on the lot, among other things. The bill would require that the above-described provisions relating to ministerial approval of housing developments on certain subdivided lots be interpreted liberally in favor of producing the maximum number of total housing units.
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SB 1117 (Cervantes D) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/5/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 5/5/2026-S. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation by ordinance, or by ministerial approval if the local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Current law requires fees charged for the construction of ADUs to be determined in accordance with specified provisions of the Mitigation Fee Act.
Current law prohibits a local agency, special district, or water corporation from imposing any impact fee upon the development of an ADU that has 750 square feet of interior livable space or less, and requires any impact fees charged for an ADU that has more than 750 square feet of interior livable space to be charged proportionately in relation to the square footage of the primary dwelling unit. This bill would additionally require the charge to be based only on the area in excess of 750 square feet of interior livable space. By changing the duties of local agencies with regard to calculating fees for ADUs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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SB 1122 (Arreguín D) Planning and zoning: annual progress report: accessory dwelling unit ordinances.
Current Text: Amended: 4/20/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/8/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/4/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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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. That law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, formerly known as the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development that includes, among other specified information, the number of units of housing demolished and new units of housing that have been issued a completed entitlement, a building permit, or a certificate of occupancy, thus far in the housing element cycle, as specified. The Planning and Zoning Law also provides for the creation by local ordinance, or by ministerial approval if
a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for single- family or multifamily dwelling residential use in accordance with specified standards and conditions.
This bill would require a city or county that has an accessory dwelling unit ordinance to submit as part of their annual report the code section where that ordinance is located and the date the ordinance was enacted or most recently updated.
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SB 1167 (Blakespear D) Vehicles: electric bicycles.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/8/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/4/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing 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. Existing law classifies electric bicycles into 3 classes with different restrictions for various purposes, and requires, among other things, a class 3 electric bicycle to be equipped with a speedometer. Existing law prohibits certain vehicles that do not meet the definition of an electric bicycle from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as an electric bicycle, as specified. This bill would amend the type of vehicles that are prohibited from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as electric bicycles, including, among others, motor-driven cycles and mopeds. The bill would additionally make a violation of this provision a misleading statement for purposes of unfair competition and false advertising provisions of the Business and Professions Code.
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SB 1272 (Menjivar D) Local ordinances: administrative fines or penalties.
Current Text: Amended: 4/30/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 5/12/2026-S. THIRD READING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as defined, to, by ordinance, make any violation of an ordinance subject to an administrative fine or penalty. Existing law requires a local agency to set forth, by ordinance, the administrative procedures that govern the imposition, enforcement, collection, and administrative review of those administrative fines or penalties. This bill would require, for any violation pertaining to building, plumbing, electrical, or other similar structural or zoning issues, that do not create an immediate danger to health or safety, of any ordinance enacted by the local agency, the reasonable period of time to correct or otherwise remedy the violation to be no less than 6 months if certain conditions are met, including that the current owner of the property submits a sworn affidavit that the current owner was not responsible for any action that caused the violation and that the current owner had no knowledge of the violation at the time the owner took title to the property.
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SB 1283 (Ashby D) Electric vehicle charging stations: installation: permits.
Current Text: Amended: 4/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/11/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county (local government) to administratively approve an application to install an electric vehicle charging station (EV station) through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Existing law requires those EV stations to meet all applicable safety and performance standards established by specified entities. This bill would require this administrative approval to extend to EV stations with a canopy, as defined, or onsite energy storage systems sized to support charging.
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SB 1318 (Allen D) Coastal resources: local coastal program: coastal development permit: non-owner- occupied short-term rentals.
Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2026 html pdf
Status: 5/12/2026-Set for hearing May 14.
Location: 5/11/2026-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Coastal Act of 1976 generally requires each local government lying in whole or in part within the coastal zone to prepare a local coastal program for that portion of the coastal zone within its jurisdiction. The act establishes the California Coastal Commission and prescribes procedures for the preparation, approval, and certification of local coastal programs. The act requires any proposed amendments to a certified local coastal program to be submitted to, and processed by, the commission in accordance with specified procedures. The act generally requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit from the commission before certification of the local coastal program or to a local government after certification of a local coastal program, as provided. The act finds and declares that it is important for the commission to encourage the protection of existing and the provision of new affordable housing opportunities for persons of low and moderate income in the coastal zone and requires the commission to encourage housing opportunities for persons of low and moderate income. This bill would, notwithstanding specific provisions of the act, require the commission to approve a coastal development permit or a local coastal program amendment submitted by a local government restricting or prohibiting non-owner-occupied short-term rentals, regardless of the availability of other visitor- serving accommodations.
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SB 1353 (Valladares R) Alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities: residential use of property.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2026 html pdf
Status: 3/4/2026-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/20/2026-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate alcohol or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities serving adults. Existing law provides that an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility that serves 6 or fewer persons shall be considered a residential use of property for certain purposes, and that the residents and operators of the facility shall be considered a family for the purposes of any law or ordinance that relates to the residential use of property. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
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SB 1383 (Arreguín D) Housing development: density bonus: incentives or concessions: labor standards.
Current Text: Amended: 3/23/2026 html pdf
Status: 4/30/2026-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 4/30/2026-S. THIRD READING
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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, waivers or reductions of development standards, parking ratios, and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing, including, among other types of housing, housing that will include specified percentages of units for rental or sale to lower income households or very low income households, as specified. Existing law requires a city or county to grant incentives or concessions requested by an applicant for a density bonus except under prescribed circumstances.
Existing law defines “incentives or concessions” to include, among other things, a reduction in site development standards or a modification of zoning code requirements or architectural design requirements that exceed the minimum building standards, as specified, and regulatory incentives or concessions proposed by the developer or the city or county that result in identifiable and actual cost reductions to provide for affordable housing costs, as specified. This bill would exclude a reduction in site development standards, a modification of zoning code or architectural design requirements, and other regulatory incentives or concessions that include or relate to a labor standard, as defined, from the definition of “incentives or concessions.”
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Total Measures: 86
Total Tracking Forms: 86