enacted, and prohibits an ordinance from being enacted or amended to provide automatic future increases in salary. This bill, instead, would authorize a city council to adjust, by ordinance, the amount of the salary of city council members based upon population in an amount that does not exceed inflation since January 1, 1984, based upon the California Consumer Price Index.
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SB 405 (Cortese D) Planning and zoning: housing element: inventory of sites: regional housing need.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/22/2023-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 2/22/2023-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. Current law requires the appropriate council of governments, or 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 requires a city or county to determine whether each site in its inventory of land can accommodate the development of some portion of its share of the regional housing need, as provided. This bill, for a housing element or amendment adopted as part of the seventh planning period, would require the planning agency to provide notice to the owner of a site included in the above-described inventory that the site is included in that inventory, if the owner’s identity and contact information is known, as specified. If the site owner notifies the planning agency or the department that the owner does not intend to develop at least 80% of the number of units for the site, determined as described above, during the current planning period, the bill would provide that the site would not be considered a site that can be developed to meet the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, except as specified. The bill would require the planning agency to make a reasonable effort to identify an owner and the owner’s contact information and to determine the intent of the owner to develop the site. The bill would require that the information be an important factor for the department in determining whether the housing element identifies sufficient sites to meet the jurisdiction share of regional housing. The bill would require the department to amend specified standards, forms, and definitions to implement these provisions.
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SB 411 (Portantino D) Open meetings: teleconferences: bodies with appointed membership.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/22/2023-Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD.
Location: 2/22/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency or in other situations related to public health that exempt a legislative body from the general requirements (emergency provisions) and impose different requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The emergency provisions specify that they do not require a legislative body to provide a physical location from which the public may attend or comment. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met, including restrictions on remote participation by a member of the legislative body. This bill would authorize a legislative body to use alternate teleconferencing provisions similar to the emergency provisions indefinitely and without regard to a state of emergency.
The bill would alternatively define “legislative body” for this purpose to mean a board, commission, or advisory body of a local agency, the membership of which board, commission, or advisory body is appointed and which board, commission, or advisory body is otherwise subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act.
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SB 423 (Wiener D) Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/22/2023-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F.
Location: 2/22/2023-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units required, as specified, remain available at affordable housing costs, as defined, or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate-income for no less than specified periods of time. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026. This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would delete the January 1, 2026, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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SB 532 (Wiener D) Ballot measures: local taxes.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/22/2023-Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and E. & C.A.
Location: 2/22/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Current law requires that the ballots used when voting upon a measure proposed by a local governing body or submitted to the voters as an initiative or referendum measure, including a measure authorizing the issuance of bonds or the incurrence of debt, have printed on them a true and impartial statement describing the purpose of the measure. If the proposed measure imposes a tax or raises the rate of a tax, current law requires the ballot to include in the statement of the measure the amount of money to be raised annually and the rate and duration of the tax to be levied. This bill would exempt from this requirement a measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds.
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SB 555 (Wahab D) Social Housing Act of 2023.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2023 html pdf
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/22/2023-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 2/22/2023-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House
Summary: Would establish the California Social Housing Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be made available to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purposes of this act, including promoting the achievement of the aforementioned goals. This bill would require the department, no later than January 1, 2025, to develop, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a California Social Housing Plan for achieving the aforementioned goals, as specified. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
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Total Measures: 23
Total Tracking Forms: 23