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 Rodriguez 2/10/2021 Failed Passage
AB 682 Planning and zoning: density bonuses:
cohousing buildings
This bill would additionally require that a density bonus be provided under these 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 Signed by Governor
AB 897 Office of Planning and Research:
Regional Climate networks: Climate
adaptation action plans
Requires the Office of Planning and Research to facilitate the creation of regional climate networks and create standards for the development of a regional climate adaptation action plan to support the implementation of regional climate adaptation efforts.
Watch Mullin 2/17/2021 Failed Passage
AB 916 Zoning: accessory Dwelling Units:
bedroom additions
Increases the height that local governments must allow for ADUs and prohibits hearings for creation of new bedrooms within existing units.
Oppose Salas 2/17/2021 Signed by Governor
AB 989 Housing Accountability Act: Housing
Accountability Committee
Creates an appeals board, the Housing Accountability Committee at the Department of Housing and Community Development, 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.
Watch Gabriel 2/18/2021 Failed Passage
AB 1001 Environmental mitigation measures
for air quality impacts environmental
justice
Amends the CEQA to 1) require mitigation to compensate for adverse air or water quality impacts in a disadvantaged community 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 Failed Passage
AB 1014 Cannabis: retailers: delivery: vehicles AB 1014 increases the amount of cannabis products, as defined, that a delivery employee is allowed to carry from $5,000 to $10,000; requires a licensed retailer to provide their delivery employee certain hardware, tools, and supplies, access to healthcare benefits, and either a vehicle that meets certain requirements or reimbursement for certain costs for the use of the employee’s vehicle; and requires a licensed retailer to maintain an automobile insurance policy to cover third-party liability of deliveries, as specified.
Oppose McCarty 2/18/2021 Failed Passage
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 Failed Passage
AB 1041 Cannabis: retailers: delivery: vehicles This bill requires the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) to include regulations that would allow for an increase to $10,000 in the value of cannabis goods to be carried during delivery of those cannabis goods to customers by employees of a licensed retailer, as specified. This bill also requires a licensed retailer to provide their delivery employee certain hardware, tools, and supplies, access to healthcare benefits, and either a vehicle that meets certain requirements or reimbursement for certain costs for the use of the employee’s vehicle, as specified. It requires a licensed retailer to maintain an automobile insurance policy to cover third-party liability of deliveries, as specified.
Watch Wicks 2/18/2021 Failed Passage
AB 1154 California Environmental Quality Act;
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 Failed Passage
AB 1401 Residential and community
development: Parking Requirements
Prohibits local governments from enforcing minimum automobile parking requirements for developments located close to public transit.
Oppose Friedman 2/18/2021 Failed Passage
AB 1445 Planning and zoning: regional housing
need allocation: climate change
impacts
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 Signed by Governor
AB 1551 Planning and Zoning Housing Adaptive
reuse of commercial space
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified percentages of units for lower income, very low income, or senior citizen housing, among other things, and meets other requirements. 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 Signed by Governor
AB 1595 Veterans Cemetery: County of Orange This bill authorizes, upon completion of an acquisition study by the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet), any site within the County of Orange to be eligible for construction of a state-owned and operated Southern California Veterans Cemetery, and creates a fund for the purpose of receiving donations from non-state parties in order to pay for the costs of conducting site selection studies, under specified requirements, pursuant to the cemetery project, and declares an urgency.
Support Quirk-Silva & Choi 1/3/2022 Signed by Governor
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.
Support Davies 1/3/2022 Signed by Governor
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 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
AB 1673 California Fentanyl Abuse Task Force Establishes the California Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force to undertake specified duties relating to fentanyl abuse.
Support Seyarto 1/20/2022 Failed Passage
AB 1685 Vehicle: parking violations Current law requires a processing agency to offer a payment plan for unpaid parking citations to qualified indigent persons. This bill would require a processing agency, if it seeks to collect an unpaid parking penalty by requesting the Department of Motor Vehicles to place a registration hold on the vehicle, to forgive at least $1,500 in parking fines and fees annually for a qualified homeless person, provide certain information regarding the parking citation forgiveness program, including on its internet website, and collect and have readily available specified information.
Watch Bryan 1/24/2022 Vetoed
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 Holden 1/31/2022 Failed Passage
AB 1738 Building Standards: Installation of
electric vehicle charging stations:
existing buildings
This bill would, commencing with the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code, require the commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to research and develop, and authorize the commission and department to propose for adoption, mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations with low power level 2 or higher electric vehicle chargers in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, motels, and nonresidential development during certain retrofits, additions, and alterations to existing parking facilities, as specified.
Watch Boerner Horvath 1/31/2022 Signed by Governor
AB 1750 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 Davies 2/1/2022 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
AB 1883 Public Restrooms This bill would require each local government, as defined, to complete an inventory of public restrooms owned and maintained by the local government, either directly or by contract, that are available to the general population in its jurisdiction. The bill would require local governments to report their findings to the State Department of Public Health, which would be required to compile the information and to make the inventory available in a searchable database on its internet website, as specified. The bill would require the database to be updated quarterly. The bill would require the department to conduct educational outreach to the general public and homelessness service providers that the database is available on its internet website.
Watch Quirk-Silva 2/8/2022 Failed Passage
AB 1909 Bicycle Omnibus Bill This measure would change the Vehicle Code to facilitate biking across our state. Elements of this legislation would include requiring vehicles to switch lanes when passing people on bikes and expanding where it is legal to ride e-bikes.
Watch Friedman 2/9/2022 Signed by Governor
AB 1938 Traffic Safety: speed limits Current law requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), by regulation, to require Caltrans or a local authority to round speed limits up or down to the nearest 5 miles per hour of the 85th percentile of free-flowing traffic. This bill would, if the speed limit needs to be rounded down to the nearest 5 miles per hour increment of the 85th-percentile speed, authorize Caltrans or a local authority to lower the speed limit by 5 miles per hour from the nearest 5 miles per hour of the 85th percentile, as specified. The bill would prohibit the total reduction in the speed limit from exceeding 12.4 miles per hour from the 85th- percentile speed and would authorize a local authority to retain the currently adopted speed limit without further reduction or restore the immediately prior adopted speed limit without further reduction.
Support Friedman 2/10/2022 Signed by Governor
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 Failed Passage
AB 1946 Electric Bicycle: safety and training
program
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 Signed by Governor
AB 1985 Organic Waste: list: available products This measure would seek to help cities with their SB 1383 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.
Support Rivas 2/10/2022 Signed by Governor
AB 2011 Affordable Housing and High Road
Jobs Act of 2022
This bill would require housing to be “by right” if it conforms to certain provisions regarding affordability, location, objective standards, and labor. The bill would remove local control and the ability of cities to determine the adequacy of sites for housing and the ability to provide affiliated infrastructure. To qualify to utilize the by right provisions of this bill, both kinds of housing projects must be located in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use.
Oppose Wicks 2/14/2022 Signed by Governor
AB 2028 Pupil Instruction: bicycle and scooter
safety instruction
Would instead authorize the governing board of any school district having jurisdiction over any elementary, intermediate, junior high, or high school to provide time and facilities to any local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the schools of the district, for bicycle, scooter, electric bicycle, motorized bicycle, or motorized scooter safety instruction. The bill would also authorize the governing board to provide time and facilities to other organizations or public agencies that provide bicycle, scooter, electric bicycle, motorized bicycle, or motorized scooter safety instruction, for safety instruction.
Support Davies 2/14/2022 Signed by Governor
AB 2053 The Social Housing Act 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 produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets, as specified. 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 by the authority would be owned by the authority. The bill would prescribe the composition of the California Housing Authority Board, which would govern the authority, and would be composed of appointed members and members who are elected by residents of social housing developments, as specified. The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of the authority and the board. The bill would provide that the authority is bound to revenue neutrality, as defined, and would require the authority to recover the cost of development and operations over the life of its properties through the mechanism of rent cross-subsidization, as defined. The bill would require the authority to prioritize the development of specified property, including vacant parcels and parcels near transit, and would prescribe a process for the annual determination of required social housing units.
Oppose Lee 2/14/2022 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
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 Failed Passage
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 Quirk-Silva 2/15/2022 Signed by Governor
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.
Oppose Rivas 2/15/2022 Signed by Governor
AB 2237 Transportation planning: regional
transportation improvement plan:
sustainable communities strategies:
alternative planning strategy: state
transportation funding
Current law requires each regional transportation planning agency or county transportation commission to biennially adopt and submit to the California Transportation Commission and the Department of Transportation a 5-year regional transportation improvement program that includes, among other things, regional transportation improvement projects and programs proposed to be funded, in whole or in part, in the state transportation improvement program. This bill would require that those projects and programs included in each regional transportation improvement program also be consistent with the most recently prepared sustainable communities strategy of the regional transportation planning agency or county transportation commission, or, if applicable, the alternative planning strategy, and state and federal air quality standards. The bill would prohibit funds collected from any local transportation tax measure passed on or after January 1, 2023, from being spent until the transportation projects or programs to be funded by the tax measure are included in the most recently adopted sustainable communities strategy of the applicable regional transportation planning agency or county transportation commission or, if applicable, the alternative planning strategy.
Oppose Friedman 2/16/2022 Failed Passage
AB 2334 Density Bonus Law: affordability:
incentives or concessions in very low
vehicle travel areas: parking
standards: definitions
Allows a housing development project in 17 specified counties to receive added height and unlimited density if the project is located in an urbanized very low vehicle travel area, at least 80 percent of the units are restricted to lower income households, and no more than 20 percent are for moderate income households.
Oppose Wicks 2/16/2022 Signed by Governor
AB 2438 Transportation funding: guidelines
and plans
This bill requires 1) specified state transportation programs to incorporate strategies from the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI) into program guidelines, as provided, and 2) various state transportation entities to establish new transparency and accountability guidelines for certain transportation funding programs, as specified.
Oppose Friedman 2/17/2022 Vetoed
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 Signed by Governor
AB 2511 Skilled nursing facilities: backup
power source
This bill requires skilled nursing facilities to have an alternative source of power to protect resident health and safety for no less than 96 hours during any type of power outage.
Support Irwin 2/17/2022 Signed by Governor
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 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
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 Failed Passage
AB 2840 Qualifying Logistics Use Projects Requires local agencies to impose measures that reduce the impacts to public health and safety associated with a qualifying logistics use project, and to require those projects to meet specified work force requirements. Amended to only apply to Riverside and San Bernadino County.
Oppose Reyes 2/18/2022 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
ACA 1 Local government financing:
affordable housing and public
infrastructure: voter approval
The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city, county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, or city and county, as applicable, and the proposition includes specified accountability requirements.
Oppose Aguiar-Curry 12/7/2020 Failed Passage
ACA 7 Local government: police power:
municipal affairs: land use and zoning
Would provide that a county or city ordinance or regulation enacted under the police power that regulates the zoning or use of land within the boundaries of the county or city would prevail over conflicting general laws, with specified exceptions. The measure, in the event of the conflict with a state statute, would also specify that a city charter provision, or an ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to a city charter, that regulates the zoning or use of land within the boundaries of the city is deemed to address a municipal affair and prevails over a conflicting state statute, except that the measure would provide that a court may determine that a city charter provision, ordinance, or regulation addresses either a matter of statewide concern or a municipal affair if it conflicts with specified state statutes. The measure would make findings in this regard and provide that its provisions are severable.
Oppose Muratsuchi 3/16/2021 Failed Passage
SB 6 Local Planning: Housing: Commercial
Zones
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 Signed by Governor
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 McGuire 12/7/2020 Failed Passage
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 Failed Passage
SB 43 Veterans Cemetery: County of Orange Establishes a veterans cemetery in Orange County. Amended to include Gypsum canyon site. Support Umberg 12/7/2020 Failed Passage SB 45 Short-lived climate pollutants: organic
waste reduction goals: local
jurisdiction assistance
This bill requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), in consultation with the Air Resources Board (ARB), to assist local jurisdictions with complying with specified organic waste recycling programs, including related regulations and clarifies that this bill does not limit a local jurisdiction's obligation to comply with the organic waste recycling requirements.
Support Portantino 12/7/2020 Signed by Governor
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 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
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 if the accessory dwelling unit is within 1/2 mile walking distance of a major transit stop or a high-quality transit corridor, as those terms are defined, or if the accessory dwelling unit is attached to a primary dwelling, as specified.
Oppose Wieckowski 2/1/2022 Signed by Governor
SB 904 Controlled Substance Treatment This bill requires a person convicted of a drug offense and who is granted probation to successfully complete a controlled substance education or treatment program; outlines standards for these programs; and requires education and treatment for drug diversion to include information on the effects of controlled substances on the brain and body, how to recognize and respond to the signs of a drug overdose, and the dangers of using controlled substances, among other things.
Support Bates 2/1/2022 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
SB 931 Deterring union membership:
violations
This bill authorizes any union within the jurisdiction of the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) to bring a claim to the PERB alleging that a public employer has violated existing law relating to the public employer prohibition against deterring or discouraging union membership. The bill also makes the public employer, if found to have violated the law described above, subject to a civil penalty from $1,000 per each affected employee up to $100,000, to be deposited in the state General Fund. In addition, if the bill requires the PERB to award attorney’s fees and costs to the prevailing employee union unless the PERB finds the claim was frivolous, unreasonable or groundless.
Oppose Leyva 2/7/2022 Signed by Governor
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.
Oppose Portantino 2/7/2022 Signed by Governor
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 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 emission reductions and document other program details, as specified.
Support Newman 2/8/2022 Signed by Governor
SB 1000 Law Enforcement Agencies: Radio
Communications
This bill requires law enforcement agencies to ensure public access to law enforcement radio communications and to prevent or substantially minimize criminal justice information or personally identifiable information from being broadcast in a manner that is accessible to the public.
Oppose Becker 8/11/2022 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
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 Failed Passage
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 Signed by Governor
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.
Oppose Cortese 2/16/2022 Signed by Governor
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 Signed by Governor
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 Signed by Governor
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 Failed Passage
SB 1238 Behavioral health services: existing
and projected needs
The Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative Act requires the State Department of Health Care Services to procure and oversee a vendor to establish and maintain a behavioral health services and supports virtual platform that integrates behavioral health screenings, application-based supports, and direct behavioral health services to children and youth 25 years of age and younger, regardless of payer.
Current law authorizes the department to award competitive grants to expand the community continuum of behavioral health treatment resources. This bill would require the department, commencing January 1, 2024, and at least every 5 years thereafter, to conduct a review of, and produce a report regarding, the current and projected behavioral health care infrastructure and service needs in each region of the state.
Support Eggman Vetoed
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.
Support Umberg 2/18/2022 Signed by Governor
SB 1342 Aging Multidisciplinary Personnel
Teams
Current law authorizes area agencies on aging and other county agencies that provide services to older adults through an established multidisciplinary team to provide information regarding older adult clients only to other county agencies with staff designated as members of a multidisciplinary team that are, or may be, providing services to the same individuals for purposes of identifying and coordinating the treatment of individuals served by more than one agency. 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 Signed by Governor
SCA 2 Public Housing Projects The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition of a low-rent housing project, as defined, in any manner by any state public body until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which the development, construction, or acquisition of the low-rent housing project is proposed approve the project by voting in favor at an election, as specified. This measure would repeal these provisions.
Oppose Wiener 12/7/2020 Signed by Governor