• Senate Bill 278: Public Employees' Retirement System. Disallowed Compensation, Benefits Adjustment
• Senate Bill 478: Planning and Zoning Law Housing Development Projects • Senate Bill 556: Street Lights Poles, Traffic Signal Poles, Small Wireless Facilities Attachments
• Governor's Proposed Housing Accountability Unit
ANALYSIS
Following the end of the 2021 legislative session, the legislature reconvened in January and introduced an additional 2,020 bills for the 2022 legislative session. Staff continues working collaboratively and diligently with regional and statewide associations to identify bills of interest as outlined in the City's Legislative Platform.
With the legislature back in session, staff is providing the City Council with an update on the City's advocacy efforts in this legislative session. Using the adopted Legislative Platform, sixty-eight proposed bills are currently being tracked (Attachment A). Staff continues to monitor these bills and take advocacy steps when necessary to ensure the City's identified long-term strategic needs and vision are being advocated.
In the early stages of the 2022 legislative session, the City has submitted two advocacy letter to the state legislator. Assembly Bill 1595: Veterans Cemetery County of Orange seeks to allow the California Department of Veteran Affairs (CalVet) to design, develop, and construct a state-operated veterans cemetery in Orange County at Gypsum Canyon.
As the legislative session progresses, staff will continue to take appropriate action on legislation in line with the City's Legislative Platform and will provide similar legislative advocacy effort updates as is necessary in the future.
FISCAL REVIEW
There is no fiscal impact as a result of this report.
LEGAL REVIEW
No legal review is required for this report.
CONCLUSION
Staff recommends that the City Council receive and file this update on the City's Legislative Advocacy Efforts.
Kevin X. O'Connor
Management Assistant
Bill
No. Bill Title Abstract Recommended
Position Author Date
Introduced Status
AB 536 Office of Emergency
Services: Mutual aid gap
analysis
Requires (Cal OES) to conduct a “gap analysis,” beginning January 1, 2022, and every two years thereafter, of the state’s mutual aid system. The analysis is to be based on, among other things, firefighting, law enforcement, emergency medical services, mass care, shelter and hospital surge capacity required to respond to two simultaneous, major disasters occurring in California.
Watch/Support Rodriguez 2/10/2021 Passed Assembly
Passed Senate Committee on
Government Organizations
Referred to Appropriations
Consent Calendar 7/26
AB 682 Planning and zoning: density
bonuses: cohousing buildings
This bill would require that a density bonus be provided under provisions to a developer who agrees to construct a housing development that is a cohousing building, as defined, that meets specified requirements and will contain either 10% of the total square footage for lower income households, as defined, or 5% of the total square footage for very low income households, as defined.
Oppose Bloom 2/12/2021 Passed Assembly and ordered
to Senate. Referred to Rules
Committee for assignment 1/27
AB 897 Office of Planning and
Research: Regional Climate
networks: Climate adaptation
action plans
Requires the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to facilitate the creation of regional climate networks (networks) and create standards for the development of a regional climate adaptation action plan (plan) to support the implementation of regional climate adaptation efforts.
Watch Mullin 2/17/2021 Passed Assembly
Placed on Senate suspense
file
AB 989 Housing Accountability Act:
Housing Accountability
Committee
Creates an appeals board, the Housing Accountability Committee (HAC) at the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), to receive appeals from developers when a local government takes an action on a housing development project that is prohibited by the Housing Accountability Act (HAA).
Oppose Gabriel 2/18/2021 Passed Assembly and Senate
Governance and Finance
Committee, Housing
Committee, Committee on
Appropriations.
Ordered to inactive file at
request of Senator Hertzberg
AB 1001 Environmental mitigation
measures for air quality
impacts environmental justice
Amends the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to 1) require mitigation to compensate for adverse air or water quality impacts in a disadvantaged community (DAC) to mitigate those impacts directly in the affected community and 2) require all public agencies implementing CEQA to give consideration to the principles of environmental justice by ensuring the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of people of all races, cultures, incomes, and national origins.
Watch Garcia 2/18/2021 Passed State Assembly and
referred to the Senate Rules
Committee
AB 1017 Public Restrooms: Right to
Restrooms Act of 2021
AB 1017 would require each local agency to complete a one-time inventory of all public restrooms it owns and maintains, make the inventory available to homelessness service providers and on its website, and report the information to the Department of Public Health (DPH) by July 1, 2022, as specified. The bill would require DPH to compile the information and submit it to the Legislature in a report by March 1, 2023.
Watch Quirk-Silva 2/18/2021 Passed Assembly and place on Appropriation suspense file
AB 1154 CEQA; exemption: egress
route projects: fire safety
Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) egress route projects in subdivisions reviewed by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection (BOF) where the BOF recommends creation of secondary access to the subdivision.
Watch Patterson 2/19/2021 Passed Assembly and referred
to Senate Rules Committee for
assignment
AB 1401 Residential and community
development: Parking
Requirements
Prohibits local governments from enforcing minimum automobile parking requirements for developments located close to public transit. Applies for both for residential and commercially zoned properties.
Oppose/Watch Friedman 2/18/2021 Passed Assembly; Passed Senate Committee on
Government and Finance,
housing committee
Referred to Senate Committee
on Appropriations 8/26
Placed on suspense file
AB 1445 Climate Change Impacts and
RHNA
Adds the impacts of climate change to the list of factors used to develop the methodology for regional housing needs.
Watch Levine 2/19/2021 Passed Assembly and ordered
to Senate. Read first time and
referred to Rules Committee
for assignment
AB 1551 Planning and Zoning Housing
Adaptive reuse of commercial
space
Previously existing law, until January 1, 2022, required a city, county, or city and county to grant a commercial developer a development bonus, as specified, when an applicant for approval of a commercial development had entered into an agreement for partnered housing with an affordable housing developer to contribute affordable housing through a joint project or 2 separate projects encompassing affordable housing. This bill would reenact the above-described provisions regarding the granting of development bonuses to certain projects. The bill would require a city or county to annually submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development information describing an approved commercial development bonus. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.
Watch/Support Santiago 2/19/2021 Passed Assembly and ordered to the Senate Rules Committee
for assignment
AB 1595 Veterans Cemetery: County
of Orange
Urgency statute establishing a veterans cemetery in Orange County. Support Quirk-Silva & Choi
1/3/2022 Referred to the Committee on
Military and Veteran Affairs
AB 1598 Controlled Substances:
paraphernalia: fentanyl
testing
Excludes from the definition of “drug paraphernalia” any testing equipment that is designed, marketed, used, or intended to be used, to analyze for the presence of fentanyl or any analog of fentanyl, ketamine, or gamma hydroxybutyric acid.
Support Davies 1/3/2022 Passed Assembly Public
Safety and referred to consent
calendar
AB 1627 Opioid Overdoes Prevention Requires state department on health to establish a pilot project program in the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange to provide free opioid antagonist drugs to trained individuals.
Watch/Support Ramos 1/11/2022 Passed Senate Health
Committee and referred to the
Committee on Public Safety
4/26
AB 1628 Online Platforms: electronic
content management:
controlled substances
This bill would require social media platforms to submit policies to the Attorney General’s office that are aimed at preventing illegal activity related to the sale and distribution of controlled substances. The bill is supported by the County of Orange.
Watch Ramos 1/11/2022 Referred to committee on
Privacy and Consumer
Protection
AB 1641 Sexually Violent Predators AB 1641 would codify existing practices by statutorily requiring all SVPs to be GPS monitored while on a conditional release program.
Watch Maienschein 1/12/2022 Passed Assembly and referred to Senate Rules Committee for
assignment
AB 1673 California Fentanyl Abuse
Task Force
Establishes the California Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force (Task Force) to undertake specified duties relating to fentanyl abuse.
Watch/Support Seyarto 1/20/2022 Passed Assembly Committee on Health and Referred to the
Committee on Public Safety
4/19
AB 1737 Children's Camps: local
registration and inspection
This measure would implement a series of children's camp safety requirements related to local registration and inspection. Most notably, this measure would require local agencies to make announced and unannounced visits to each children's camp in their jurisdiction and make public any cited violations.
Watch/Oppose Holden 1/31/2022 Passed Assembly committee on Health and referred to
Committee on Public Safety
4/26
AB 1738 Building Standards:
Installation of electric vehicle
charging stations: existing
buildings
This bill would recast these provisions to instead require mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations with Level 2 or direct current fast charger electric vehicle supply equipment, as defined, to be proposed by the Department of Housing and Community Development for the installation in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, and motels, by the Division of the State Architect for the installation in existing school buildings, and by the commission for the installation in existing nonresidential buildings.
Watch Boerner-
Horvath
1/31/2022 Passed committee on Housing
and Community Development
and referred to Committee on
Economic Development 4/20
AB 1748 Exempt surplus land: regional
housing needs
This measure would exempt specified city or county owned parcels from the Surplus Lands Act if:
- Housing production exceeds RHNA goals from the proceeding housing element cycle, regardless of income category.
- The city or county is making proportionate progress towards meeting RHNA goals for each income category on an annual basis for the current housing element cycle. - The city or county has been designated as prohousing by the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Watch Seyarto 2/1/2022 Assembly Committee on Local
Government 4/20
AB
1750/SB
904
Controlled Substances:
Treatment
Requires the county drug program administrator and representatives of the court and county probation department, with input from substance use treatment providers, to design and implement an approval and renewal process for controlled substance education or treatment, and requires those programs to include education of using controlled substances without appropriate medical supervision.
Watch/Support Davies 2/1/2022 Passed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and referred
to Appropriations Committee
4/6
AB 1751 Workers' Compensation:
COVID-19: critical workers
This measure would extend the COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation presumption from January 1, 2023, to January 1, 2025.
Watch Daly 2/1/2022 Passed Committee on
Insurance and referred to
Appropriations Committee
AB 1944 Local government: open and
public meetings
Amending the Brown Act, this bill would specify that if a member of a legislative body elects to teleconference from a location that is not public, the address does not need to be identified in the notice and agenda or be accessible to the public when the legislative body has elected to allow members to participate via teleconferencing. This bill would require all open and public meetings of a legislative body that elects to use teleconferencing to provide a video stream accessible to members of the public and an option for members of the public to address the body remotely during the public comment period through an audio- visual or call-in option.
Watch Lee 2/10/2022 Referred to Committee on
Local Government
AB 1946 Electric Bicycle: safety and
training program
Current law requires the Department of Transportation to develop safety standards in connection with the use of bicycles, including the establishment of minimum safety design criteria for the planning and construction of specified types of bikeways and roadways where bicycle travel is permitted. This bill would require the department, in coordination with the Office of Traffic Safety, to develop, on or before September 1, 2023, statewide safety standards and training programs based on evidence-based practices for users of electric bicycles, as defined, including, but not limited to, general electric bicycle riding safety, emergency maneuver skills, rules of the road, and laws pertaining to electronic bicycles. The bill would require the safety standards and training programs to be developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and to be posted on the internet websites of both the department and the Office of Traffic Safety.
Watch Boerner
Horvath
2/10/2022 Passed Committee on
Transportation and Committee
on Appropriations. Referred to
consent calendar
AB 1955 Controlled Substances:
Fentanyl
Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale, specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and provides for imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years for a violation of this provision.
Existing law also imposes an additional term, and authorizes a trial court to impose a specified fine, upon a person who is convicted of a violation of, or of a conspiracy to violate, specified provisions of law with respect to a substance containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. This bill would impose that additional term upon, and authorize a fine against, a defendant who violates those laws with respect to a substance containing fentanyl. By increasing the penalty for a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Watch Nguyen 2/10/2022 Failed passage in Assembly
Public Safety Committee and
was granted reconsideration.
Will be heard in Public Safety
Committee on 4/26
AB 1976 Planning and Zoning:
Housing Element Compliance
very low income and lower
income households
This bill would authorize the department, after notifying the city or county of the violation of the housing element provision and before notifying the Attorney General, either to complete the rezoning to accommodate 100% of the allocated need for housing for very low and lower income households on behalf of a local government within the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, or Ventura that failed to complete that rezoning by the required deadline, or to impose administrative civil penalties upon the local government of up to $10,000 per day until the local government is no longer in violation of state law or the department decides to refer the violation to the Attorney General.
Watch Santiago 2/10/2022 Referred to Committee on
Housing and Community
Development
AB 1985 Organic Waste: list: available
products
This measure would seek to help cities with their SB 1383 (Lara, 2016) procurement requirements. Specifically, the measure would require CalRecycle to compile and maintain a list on its website, organized by ZIP code, of information regarding persons or entities that produce and have organic waste products available and update the list every 6 months.
Watch/Support Rivas 2/10/2022 Passed Committee on Natural Resources and referred to
Committee on Appropriations
AB 2097 Residential and commercial
development: remodeling,
renovations, and additions:
parking requirements
This bill would significantly restrict parking requirements within one half-mile of public transit. Public transit is defined as 1) a high-quality transit corridor with 15- minute headways; 2) major transit stop —ferry terminal, rapid transit stop, or the intersection of multiple major bus routes with 15-minute headways.
Oppose Friedman 2/14/2022 Referred to Committee on
Local Government 4/20
AB 2126 Controlled Substances This bill would impose a fine not to exceed $2000 on any violation of a crime to possess for sale, sell, or transport fentanyl that would be deposited in the Fentanyl Victim Compensation Fund, a fund created by this bill. Additionally, the bill would authorize the California Victim Compensation Board to accept applications for reimbursement up to $7,500 for funeral and burial expenses arising from a fatal fentanyl overdose, and up to $5,500 for subsequent mental health counseling if those applications are submitted by a surviving parent, grandparent, sibling, child, grandchild, spouse, or fiancé of the deceased.
Watch Flora 2/15/2022 Passed Assembly Committee
on Public Safety and referred
to Committee on
Appropriations
AB 2188 Discrimination in
Employment: Use of
Cannabis
This bill would amend the act to make it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment, or otherwise penalize a person, if the discrimination is based upon the person’s use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace or, with prescribed exceptions, upon an employer-required drug screening test that has found the person to have Non psychoactive cannabis metabolites in their urine, hair, or bodily fluids.
Watch/Oppose Quirk-Silva 2/15/2022 Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment 4/20
AB 2234 Planning and Zoning:
Housing : post entitlement
phase permits
This measure would, no later than January 1, 2024, require a public agency to allow post-entitlement phase permits to be applied for, completed, and stored through a publicly available process on its website. Until the public agency has established this process on its website, it shall accept applications for permits and any related documentation by electronic mail.
Watch Rivas 2/15/2022 Assembly Committee on Local
Government 4/20
AB 2246 Controlled Substances:
Fentanyl
AB 2246 would reclassify fentanyl analogs, which are illicitly manufactured drugs near-chemical replicas of fentanyl, as Schedule I controlled substances. The bill would also make possession of two or more grams of fentanyl punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 2, 3, or 4 years; and it would provide that the sale of fentanyl on a social media platform in the State punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of 3, 6, or 9 years.
Additionally, this bill would include fentanyl as a controlled substance for which an additional enhancement of 1 to 2 years in state prison may be applied when an adult solicits, hires, or engages a minor to violate specified crimes relating to controlled substances under existing law.
Watch Petrie-Norris 2/16/2022 Referred to committee on
Public Safety 4/19
AB 2328 Local Ordinances: Home
Experience Sharing
This measure preempts explicit or implicit local prohibitions on “home experience sharing units.” A home sharing unit is a noncommercial property that is rented for no more than 18 continuous hours.
Watch Flora 2/16/2022 Assembly Committee on Local
Government
AB 2428 Mitigation Fee Act: fees for
improvements: timeline for
expenditure
This measure would require a local agency to expend fees collected to defray the cost of public facilities related to the development project within 5 years of the charge. Any fees for improvements that are collected and that are not expended within this period shall be returned to the applicant.
Watch Ramos 2/17/2022 Passed Committee on Local
Government and referred to
Appropriations Committee
AB 2485 CEQA: exemption:
emergency shelters and
supportive housing
This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA emergency shelters and supportive housing.
Watch/Support Choi 2/17/2022 Referred to committee on
Housing and Community
Development and Natural
Resources
AB 2449 Open Meetings: local
agencies: teleconferences
This measure would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with teleconferencing requirements if a quorum of the legislative body members participate in person from a singular location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the local agency’s jurisdiction.
This measure would impose requirements for this exception relating to notices, agendas, the means and manner of access, and procedures for disruptions.
Watch Rubio 2/17/2022 Assembly Committee on Local
Government
AB 2548 Healthier Homes- Age in
Place Nursing Program
This bill would require the department to establish and administer the Healthier Homes - Age in Place Nursing Pilot Program in the Counties of Contra Costa, Fresno, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, Shasta, and Sonoma. The program would provide grant funds to qualified nonprofit organizations that specialize in resident services for the purposes of hiring one full-time registered nurse and one full-time community health worker to work at 3 senior citizen housing developments in each county to provide health education, navigation, coaching, and care to residents.
Watch Nazarian 2/17/2022 Committee on Aging and Long
Term Care
AB 2630 Housing: California
Interagency Council on
Homelessness: report
This measure would require each city and county that has used funds from any source to assist in addressing homelessness to submit a report to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Watch O'Donnell 2/18/2022 Referred to Committee on
Housing and Community
Development
AB 2631 Government Claims Act This measure would allow cities and counties to sue one another if a neighboring jurisdiction's failure to effectively address this crisis results in another community being negatively impacted.
Oppose O'Donnell 2/18/2022 Referred to Committee on
Local Government
AB 2647 Local Government: Open
Meetings
This measure would clarify that material distributed to a majority of a local legislative body less than 72 hours before a meeting can be posted online to satisfy the requirements of the Brown Act.
Watch Levine 2/18/2022 Referred to Committee on
Local Government
AB 2705 Housing: fire safety standards This measure would prohibit a city or county from approving a discretionary entitlement that would result in a new residential development project being located within a very high fire hazard severity zone, unless the city or county finds that the residential development project will meet new standards intended to address wildfire risks.
Watch Quirk-Silva 2/18/2022 Referred to Committee on
Local Government 4/20
AB 2953 Department of Transportation
and local agencies: streets
and highways: recycled
materials
This bill would require a local agency to use, to the extent feasible and cost effective, recycled materials in streets and highways.
Watch Salas 2/18/2022 Referred to Committee on
Transportation
SB 6 Local Planning: Housing:
Commercial Zones
The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. This bill, the Neighborhood Homes Act, would deem a housing development project, as defined, an allowable use on a neighborhood lot, which is defined as a parcel within an office or retail commercial zone that is not adjacent to an industrial use. The bill would require the density for a housing development under these provisions to meet or exceed the density deemed appropriate to accommodate housing for lower income households according to the type of local jurisdiction, including a density of at least 20 units per acre for a suburban jurisdiction.
Oppose Rubio 12/7/2020 Passed Senate ordered to
Assembly
Two-Year Bill
Has made no progress since
8/2021
SB 12 Local Government Planning
and Zoning Wildfires
This bill imposes certain fire hazard planning responsibilities on local governments and requires cities and counties to make specified findings on fire standards prior to permitting development in the very high fire hazard severity zone (VHFHSZ).
Watch/Oppose McGuire 12/7/2020 Passed Senate ordered to Assembly Committee on
housing & Community
Development; Passed
Committee on Local
Government and referred to
the Committee on Housing and
Community Development 7/12
SB 15 Housing Developments
Incentives Rezoning of Idle
Retail Sites
This bill requires the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to administer a program to provide grants to local governments that rezone idle sites used for a big box commercial shopping center to instead allow the development of low and moderate income housing.
Watch Portantino 12/7/2020 Passed Senate ordered to
Assembly
Two-Year Bill
SB 43 Veterans Cemetery: County
of Orange
Establishes a veterans cemetery in Orange County. Support Umberg 12/7/2020 Passed Assembly and referred to Senate Committee on
Military and Veteran Affairs
SB 45 Short-lived climate pollutants:
organic waste reduction
goals: local jurisdiction
assistance
Would provide local governments with financial assistance for short-lived climate pollutants. Details on the program remain sparse.
Watch Portantino Repurposed:
12/3/2022
12/7/2020
Passed Senate ordered to
Assembly
SB 107 CalFresh This bill requires the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to develop a CalFresh user-centered application for seniors 60 years of age or older and for people with disabilities who are eligible to be enrolled in the Elderly Simplified Application Project (ESAP). It gives an individual the option to apply, report, and recertify for CalFresh in person, by mail, online, or by telephone, and permits an individual to complete the interview requirement and client signature by telephone, as specified.
Watch Wiener 2/18/2021 Passed Senate and referred to
Committee on Appropriations
SB 335 Workers' Compensation
Liability
This bill reduces the time period an employer has to deny liability for a workers’ compensation claim from 90 to 45 days, or 30 days for a workers’ compensation claim for specified presumptive injuries. This bill further requires that a compensation claim which has been unreasonably delayed or refused have its award increased by 10%.
Watch Cortese 2/8/2021 Passed Senate ordered to
Assembly
SB 884 Electricity. Expedited Utility
Distribution and Transmission
Infrastructure Undergrounding
Program
This measure would require the California Public Utilities Commission to establish an expedited utility distribution and transmission infrastructure undergrounding program and would authorize a large electrical corporation to participate in the program. This measure would also require a city approve such an undergrounding development project in 150 days and require permit streamlining.
Watch McGuire 2/26/2022 Referred to Committee on
Senate Energy, Utilities and
Communications 4/20
SB 897 Accessory Dwelling Units:
JADUs
This measure would make numerous changes to existing ADU law. Most notably, SB 897 would require local governments to allow ADUs to be constructed with a height of up to 25 feet.
Oppose Wieckowski 2/1/2022 Passed Senate Committee on
Housing and Committee on
Government and Finance.
Referred to Committee on
Appropriations 4/20
SB 922 California Environmental
Quality Act; exemption:
transportation-related projects
Expands the application of CEQA exemptions for various transportation-related projects and removes the sunsets of those exemptions, extending the application of those exemptions indefinitely.
Watch/Oppose Wiener 2/3/2022 Passed Committee on Senate Environmental Quality and
referred to Appropriations
Committee 4/18
SB 930 Housing Accountability Act This bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to review, adopt, amend, and repeal the standards, forms, or definitions to implement the Housing Accountability Act without compliance with those procedural requirements, as provided.
Watch/Oppose Wiener 2/7/2022 Held in Senate Housing
Committee
SB 932 General Plans: Circulation
element: bicycle and
pedestrian plans and traffic
calming plans
Requires the circulation element to include specified contents related to bicycle plans, pedestrian plans, and traffic calming plans, and to implement those plans; provides that failure to implement the plans creates a cause of action for victims of traffic violence.
Watch/Oppose Portantino 2/7/2022 Passed Senate Committee on Governance and Finance.
Referred to the Committee on
Transportation 4/26
SB 942 Low Carbon Transit
Operations Program: free or
reduced fare transit program
This bill allows transit agencies who use Low Carbon Transit Operations Program (LCTOP) moneys to fund free or reduced fare transit programs to continue using those moneys for ongoing operating costs. It further eliminates the requirements to annually demonstrate greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions and document other program details, as specified.
Watch/Support Newman 2/8/2022 Passed Senate Transportation Committee and Environmental
Quality. Referred to committee
on Appropriations 4/18
SB 1038 Law Enforcement: Facial
Recognition and other
biometric surveillance
This measure would extend indefinitely the current prohibition barring a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from installing, activating, or using any biometric surveillance system in connection with an officer camera or data collected by an officer camera.
Watch Bradford 2/15/2022 Passed committee on Public
Safety
SB 1067 Housing development
projects: automobile parking
requirements
These two measures would significantly restrict parking requirements within one half mile of public transit. Public transit is defined as 1) a high-quality transit corridor with 15 minute headways; 2) major transit stop – ferry terminal, rapid transit stop, or the intersection of multiple major bus routes with 15 minute headways.
Oppose Portantino 2/15/2022 Passed Committee on
Governance and Finance and
referred to Committee on
Housing 4/27
SB 1044 Employees: State of
Emergency or Emergency
condition: retaliation
This measure would prohibit an employer, in the event of a state of emergency, from taking or threatening adverse action against any employee for refusing to report to, or leaving, a workplace within the affected area because the employee feels unsafe due to the emergency.
Watch Durazo 2/15/2022 Passed Senate Labor, Public
Employment and Retirement
Committee and referred to the
Committee on Appropriations
4/4
SB 1100 Open Meetings: orderly
conduct
This bill would authorize the members of the legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for willfully interrupting the meeting. The bill, except as provided, would require removal to be preceded by a warning by the presiding member of the legislative body that the individual is disrupting the proceedings, a request that the individual curtail their disruptive behavior or be subject to removal, and a reasonable opportunity to respond to the warning.
Watch Cortese 2/16/2022 Passed Committee on
Government and Finance and
referred to Committee on
Judiciary hearing 4/19
SB 1127 Workers' Compensation
Liability Presumptions
This measure would fundamentally alter longstanding rules and timeframes for determining eligibility for workers’ compensation claims. This measure would reduce the timeline for employers to make a decision about covering a claimed injury and would change the rules for all claims.
Watch/Oppose Cortese 2/16/2022 Passed Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement
Committee and referred to the
Committee on Appropriations
4/4
SB 1157 Urban Water Use Objectives:
Indoor Residential Water Use
Existing law establishes, beginning January 1, 2025, the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, establishes the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use.
This bill would eliminate the option of using the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily and the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily, as applicable, or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use.
Watch Hertzberg 2/17/2022 Passed Committee on Natural
Resources and Water and
referred to Committee on
Appropriations 4/18
SB 1186 Medicinal Cannabis Patients'
Right of Access Act
Would enact the Medicinal Cannabis Patients' Right of Access Act, which would prohibit a local jurisdiction from adopting or enforcing any regulation that prohibits the sale of, or otherwise imposes unreasonable restrictions on the safe and affordable sale of, medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients or their primary caregivers by medicinal cannabis businesses, as defined. The bill would prohibit regulations that unreasonably restrict, among other things, the operating hours or the number or frequency of sales of medicinal cannabis businesses. This bill would authorize a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce specified regulations that would not be deemed unreasonable restrictions, including limiting the sale of medicinal cannabis to delivery only or to storefront retail sale only, as specified. The bill would provide that the act may be enforced by an action for writ of mandate brought by a medical cannabis patient or their primary caregiver, a medicinal cannabis business, the Attorney General, or any other party otherwise authorized by law.
Oppose Wiener 2/17/2022 Passed Committee on
Business, Professions and
Economic Development and
referred to Committee on
Governance and Finance 4/20
SB 1217 State-Regional Collaborative
for Climate, Equity, and
Resilience
This measure would establish, until January 1, 2028, the State-Regional Collaborative for Climate, Equity, and Resilience to provide guidance, on or before January 1, 2024, to the State Air Resources Board for approving new guidelines for sustainable communities strategies. The bill would require, on or before December 31, 2025, the state board to update the guidelines for sustainable communities strategies to incorporate suggestions from the collaborative.
Watch Allen 2/17/2022 Passed Senate Environmental
Quality Committee and referred
to Committee on
Transportation 4/26
SB 1338 Community Assistance,
Recovery, and Empowerment
(CARE) Court Program
This bill would establish the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program to connect a person struggling with untreated mental illness and substance use disorders with a court-ordered CARE plan.
Watch Umberg 2/18/2022 Referred to Senate Judiciary
Committee and Committee on
Public Safety 4/26
SB 1342 Aging Multidisciplinary
Personnel Teams
This bill would specifically authorize counties to establish an aging multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of older adults to services within that county and to allow provider agencies to share confidential information, as specified, for the purpose of coordinating services.
Support Bates 2/18/2022 Passed Committee on Human
Services and referred to
Judiciary Committee 4/26
SB 1369 Adaptive Reuse projects: by-
right: funding
This measure would require local jurisdictions to approve “adaptive reuse projects” by right in all areas regardless of the zoning of the site. “Adaptive reuse project” means any commercial, public, industrial, or office building or structure that has 25 percent occupancy or less, which is converted into a housing development project. “Adaptive reuse project” does not include a project to convert an industrial building adjacent to active industrial uses on three or more sides of the building.
Oppose Wieckowski 2/18/2022 Referred to the Committee on Governance and Finance.
hearing cancelled at the
request of the author
H.R.
6685
Spent Fuel Prioritization Act
Same as H.R. 2995 in 2019
Law would prioritize the removal of spent fuel at SONGS. The Spent Fuel Prioritization Act would amend the NWPA and require the DOE to prioritize the removal of spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants based on the size of the population near the plant, seismic hazard associated with the area, and any national security concerns. Under this guideline SONGS would be a high priority site. The bill does not favor a permanent repository or consolidated interim storage and does not authorize the transfer of spent fuel to any non-consenting state or locality.
Support Levin 2/9/2022 House Energy and Commerce
Committee
S. 3011 State, Local, Tribal, and
Territorial Fiscal Recovery,
Infrastructure, and Disaster
Relief Flexibility Act
This bill allows states, tribes, territories, and localities to use certain COVID-19 relief funds for new categories of spending, including for natural disasters and infrastructure projects. It also makes changes to expenditure deadlines and other aspects of this funding.
Specifically, recipients may use funds for emergency relief from natural disasters and associated negative economic impacts of natural disasters. In addition, recipients may use a portion of their COVID-19 relief funds for designated infrastructure projects, such as nationally significant freight and highway projects.
Furthermore, the bill allows recipients to expend COVID-19 relief funds on these types of infrastructure projects until September 30, 2026. Under current law, recipients must expend the funds by December 31, 2024.
Watch Cornyn 10/19/2021 Passed Senate and held at the
desk in the House
HR 7007 COVID Supplemental
Appropriations Act
The COVID Supplemental Appropriations Act provides $15.6 billion to continue managing the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and around the world.
Returns $8.6 billion in previously appropriated funds that have expired with remaining funds available to the Treasury. These offsets do not affect State and Local Fiscal Relief Funds.
Watch Rosa 3/9/2022 Referred to House Committee
on Appropriations and the
Budget Committee