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20230516_04_Legislative Advocacy Update

Laguna Niguel City Council
May 16, 2023

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Bill No. Bill Title Abstract Recommendation Author Date Introduced Current Stage
AB 6 Transportation planning: regional
transportation plans: solutions for
congested corridors program: reduction
of greenhouse gas emissions
Current law requires that each regional transportation plan also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region for 2020 and 2035, respectively. This bill would require the state board, after January 1, 2024, and not later than September 30, 2026, to establish additional targets for 2035 and 2045, respectively, as specified.

Watch Friedman 12/5/2022 Passed committee on Transportation, Committee on Natural Resources, and
Committee on Appropriations
AB 7 Transportation: project selection process Would require, on and after January 1, 2025, the project selection process for each transportation project that would be funded, at least partially, from specified funding sources, including the State Highway Account, the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account, and the Trade Corridor Enhancement Account, to incorporate specified principles. The bill would require the Transportation Agency, on or before January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature on how those transportation projects that were completed during the prior year incorporated those principles. This bill contains other existing laws.

Watch Friedman 12/5/2022 Passed Assembly Transportation Committee and referred to Assembly Appropriation
Committee
AB 24 Emergency Response. Opioid Antagonist
Kits
Would require bars, gas stations, public libraries, and hotels to acquire an opioid antagonist kit.

Watch Haney 12/5/2022 Passed Assembly Health Committee and Assembly Judiciary Committee. Referred to
Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 33 Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose
Prevention Task Force
Would establish a task force to analyze data on the extent of fentanyl use in California and evaluate approaches to increase public awareness.

Support Bains 12/5/2022 Passed Assembly Health Committee and Assembly Public Safety Committee. Referred to
Appropriation Committee
AB 34 Elections: County of Orange Citizens
Redistricting Commission
Provides for the creation of the Commission, and tasks it with adjusting the boundary lines of the county's supervisorial districts in the year following the year in which the decennial federal census is taken. Requires the Orange County Board of Supervisors (board) to provide funding and staffing for the Commission, to ensure that a computerized redistricting database is available, and to ensure that the public has access to redistricting data and computer software equivalent to what is available to the commissioners.

Watch Valencia 12/5/2022 Passed Assembly Committee on Elections and committee on Local Government. Referred to
Assembly Appropriations committee
AB 67 Homeless Courts Pilot Program Would create a pilot program for unhoused defendants to participate diversion programs that would provide housing, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, and more.

Watch Muratsuchi 12/7/2022 Passed Assembly Judiciary and Public Safety Committee. Referred to Assembly Committee
on Appropriations
AB 68 Land use: streamlined housing approvals:
density, subdivision, and utility approvals
Would require a local government to approve a proposed housing development pursuant to a streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development meets certain objective planning standards, including, but not limited to, a requirement that the proposed parcel for the development be a climate-smart parcel, as described, or be included in the applicable region’s sustainable communities strategy as a priority development area. The bill would set forth procedures for approving these developments and would set forth various limitations for these developments. The bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to review, adopt, amend, and repeal guidelines, rules, and regulations to implement uniform standards or criteria that supplement or clarify the terms, references, or standards set forth by this process.

Watch Ward 12/8/2022 Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development
AB 309 The Social Housing Act This bill would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to ensure that social housing developments that are produced and acquired align with the goals of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets and preserving affordable housing. The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed or authorized by the authority would be owned by the authority.

Watch Lee 1/26/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development and referred to
committee on Appropriations
AB 334 Public Contracts: conflicts of interest Current law prohibits members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. This bill would establish that an independent contractor, who meets specified requirements, is not an officer for purposes of being subject to the prohibition on being financially interested in a contract.

Support B. Rubio 1/30/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Elections and placed on Appropriations Consent Calendar
AB 338 Public Works: definition Expands the definition of "public works," for the purpose of the payment of prevailing wages, beginning on January 1, 2025, to also include fuel reduction work paid for in whole or in part by public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project, including, but not limited to, residential chipping, rural road fuel breaks, fire breaks, and vegetation management.

Watch Aguiar-Curry 1/30/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment and referred to Assembly
Committee on Appropriations
AB 367 Controlled Substances: enhancements Would add sentence enhancement of 3 to 5 years on a person who inflicts great bodily injury when they sell, furnish, administer, or give away a controlled substance and the person to whom the substance was sold, furnished, administered, or given suffers a significant or substantial physical injury from using the substance.

Watch Maienschein 2/1/2023 Failed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and granted reconsideration
AB 400 Local Agency design-build projects:
authorization
Current law authorizes local agencies, as defined, to use the design-build procurement process for specified types of projects, as prescribed. Current law, among other requirements for the design-build procurement process, requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity to be certified under penalty of perjury. These provisions authorizing the use of the design-build procurement process are repealed on January 1, 2025.This bill would remove the January 1, 2025, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely.

Watch Rubio 2/2/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Local Government and referred to Assembly
Committee on Appropriations Consent
Calendar
AB 440 Density Bonus Law: maximum allowable
residential density
Clarifies that the base density for a development requesting a density bonus is the greatest allowable density in the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or the land use element of the general plan.

Watch Wicks 2/6/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development and Assembly
Committee on Local Government.

AB 462 Overdose response teams This bill creates the Overdose Response Team Fund, which will fund overdose response team grants to be administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections. Grants will be provided to county sheriffs’ departments to establish and implement overdose response teams to “respond to and investigate” drug overdoses. Additionally, this bill requires each participating county to report information about its operations to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety annually, starting on July 1, 2025.

Support Ramos 2/6/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and referred to Assembly Appropriations
Committee
AB 474 State Threat Assessment Center:

Transnational Criminal Organizations
Requires the State Threat Assessment Center and the California Office of Emergency Services to prioritize, to the greatest extent possible, cooperation with state and local efforts to disrupt and dismantle criminal networks trafficking opioid drugs that pose a threat to California
Support Rodriguez Passed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and Committee on Emergency Management.

Referred to Assembly Appropriations
committee
AB 550 Homelessness. Public Hearing Would require cities and counties to annually conduct a point-intime count and hold a public hearing to present the data gathered and discuss plans to solve issues related to homelessness in that jurisdiction.

Watch Schiavo 2/8/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development. Referred to the
Committee on Appropriations and placed on
consent calendar
AB 557 Open meetings: local agencies:
teleconferences
Would allow cities to meet remotely during proclaimed states of emergency under modified Brown Act requirements. Would also provide greater flexibility for agencies that meet on a fixed date every month by extending the AB 361 renewal period to 45 days.

Watch Hart 2/8/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Local
Government
AB 597 Workers’ Compensation. First
Responders. Post-traumatic Stress
Would substantially expand California’s current workers’ compensation presumption for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to emergency medical technicians and paramedics.

Watch Rodriguez 2/9/2023 Referred to Assembly Committee on Insurance AB 637 Density Bonus Law Allows a local government to deny a request from a developer for a concession or incentive if the concession or incentive would alter the requirements of a local program, policy, or ordinance that requires, as a condition of the development of residential units, that the development include a certain percentage of residential units affordable to, and occupied by, households with incomes that do not exceed the limits for moderate- income, lower income, very low income, or extremely low income households.

Watch Low 2/9/2023 Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development
AB 675 Controlled Substance Adds a substance containing a heroin analog, a substance containing fentanyl, and a substance containing a fentanyl analog to the list of controlled substances for which possession of those substances while armed with a loaded and operable firearm is a felony punishable in state prison by two, three, or four years.

Support Soria 2/13/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and referred to Committee on Appropriations
AB 701 Controlled Substances: fentanyl Applies the existing weight enhancements that increase the penalty and fine for trafficking controlled substances containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine to fentanyl.

Support Villapudua 2/13/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and referred to Committee on Appropriations
AB 730 California Public Records Act: Public
Agency Employees: notice requirements:
personnel and medical information
Would require a city to promptly provide an employee with written notice of a request to disclose a record related to personnel, medical, or similar information of that employee.

Would also require the agency, before disclosing, to provide not less than 21 days’ written notice to the employee of its intent to disclose.

Watch Lowenthal 2/13/2023 Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee AB 742 Law Enforcement: Police Canines Would prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person, and any use of a police canine for crowd control. Would prohibit law enforcement agencies from authorizing any use or training of a police canine that is inconsistent with this measure.

Watch Jackson 2/13/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and referred to Committee on Appropriations
AB 744 California Transportation Commission:
data, modeling, and analytic software
tools procurement
Would authorize the California Transportation Commission to establish best practices for use of data in transportation planning and to identify data elements that should be made available to state and local agencies for transportation planning.

Watch Carrillo 2/13/2023 Passed Assembly Transportation Committee and referred to Assembly Appropriation
Committee
AB 799 Homeless Housing, Assistance, and
Prevention Program. Homelessness
Accountability Act
This measure would create new accountability requirements for local governments accessing state funding through the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program.

Watch L. Rivas 2/13/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development. Referred to the
Committee on Appropriations
AB 817 Open meetings: teleconference:
subsidiary body
Would allow non-decision-making legislative bodies currently governed by the Brown Act, such as advisory bodies and commissions, to participate in two-way virtual teleconferencing without posting their physical location.

Watch Pacheco 2/13/2023 Referred to Committee on Local Government AB 955 Controlled Substance Provides that a person who sells fentanyl on a social media platform in California shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of three, six, or nine years in county jail.

Support Petrie-Norris 2/14/2023 Retained in Assembly Public Safety Committee and referred to the Senate Rules Committee for
assignment
AB 972 Local Assistance and Grant Program
Streamlining Workgroup.

Would coordinate, align, and streamline local government assistance resources to ensure that every community has the same opportunity to compete for state funding opportunities by convening a statewide, cross-agency Local Assistance and Grant Program Streamlining Workgroup, no later than April 2024.

Support Maienschein 2/14/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Local Government. Referred to Committee on
Appropriations
AB 1000 Qualifying logistics use projects Would intend to require minimum setbacks from sensitive receptors and additional requirements when siting logistics centers, warehouses, and related infrastructure.

Watch Maienschein 2/15/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Natural Resources. Failed Assembly Committee on
Local Government and granted reconsideration
AB 1033 Accessory dwelling units: local
ordinances: separate sale or conveyance
Allows accessory dwelling units (ADU) to be conveyed separately from the primary residence that is co-located on the same parcel.

Watch Ting 2/15/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development, Committee on Local
Government. Referred to Assembly Committee
on Appropriations
AB 1034 Law Enforcement. Facial Recognition and
Other Biometric Surveillance
Would prohibit 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 and would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief against a law enforcement agency or officer who violates that prohibition. Would sunset on January 1, 2034.

Watch Wilson 2/15/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and Assembly Committee on Privacy and
Consumer Protection
AB 1058 Controlled substance: fentanyl Increases the penalties for drug trafficking of fentanyl, an analog of fentanyl, or a substance containing fentanyl or an analog of fentanyl, if the amount of fentanyl weighs more than 28.35 grams.

Watch Patterson 2/15/2023 Failed Assembly Committee on Public Safety and granted reconsideration
AB 1132 Solar energy systems: permit fees Would extend to 2034 the current limit on permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system.

Watch Friedman 2/15/2023 Passed Assembly and referred to Senate Committee on Governance and Finance
AB 1287 Density Bonus Law: additional density
bonus and incentives or concessions:

California Coastal Act of 1976
Provides that any density bonus, concessions, incentives, waivers or reductions of development standards, and parking ratios to which an applicant is entitled under the Density Bonus Law be permitted notwithstanding the California Coastal Act Watch Alvarez 2/16/2023 Passed Committee on Housing and Community Development and Natural Resources. Referred
to Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 1335 Local Government: Transportation
Planning and land use: sustainable
communities strategy
This bill would require the Sustainable Communities Strategy to be based on population projections produced by the Department of Finance, which were used by HCD in assigning a council of governments’ Regional Housing Needs Assessment regional determination.

Watch Zbur 2/16/2023 Passed Committee on Appropriations and Transportation.

AB 1362 Pupil Instruction: adopted course of
study: physical education
Authorize the instruction in the physical education area of study to include information on the physical and mental dangers associated with the use of opioids, such as fentanyl, steroids, and other harmful addictive drugs.

Support Davies 2/17/2023 Awaiting hearing in Assembly Education Committee
AB 1484 Temporary Public Employees This bill would impose specified requirements with respect to the temporary employees, as defined, of a public employer who have been hired to perform the same or similar type of work that is performed by permanent employees represented by a recognized employee organization. In this regard the bill would require those temporary employees to be automatically included in the same bargaining unit as the permanent employees, as specified, upon the request of the recognized employee organization.

Watch Zbur 2/17/2023 Passed Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. Referred to Committee on
Appropriations
AB 1490 Affordable housing: adaptive reuse Would require a city or county to provide, to a 100% affordable housing project, the following:
• Approving all entitlements and permits within 30 days or less. • Waiving local building and permit fees.
• Low-income utility rates shall be available.
• No minimum floor area ratio.
• No additional parking requirements.
• Local affordable housing funds shall include adaptive reuse as an eligible project.

Watch Lee 2/17/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Local
Government and Housing and Community
Development. Referred to Committee on
Appropriations
AB 1504 Planning and zoning: adoption of
regulations: electric vehicle charging
stations
Would provide that “electric vehicle charging station” includes electric vehicle charging stations installed in the public right-of way and electric vehicle charging stations installed with a battery storage system.

Watch McCarty 2/17/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Local Government, and Committee on
Transportation. Referred to Committee on
Appropriations
AB 1532 Office Conversion Project Would make an office conversion project a use by right in all areas of a city regardless of zoning. Would exempt these projects from impact fees that are not directly related to the conversion of an office building into residential dwelling units. Additionally, a city would be required to allow the developer to pay applicable impact fees over a 10-year period.

Watch Haney 2/17/2023 Bill has been held by author
AB 1637 Local Government: internet websites and
email addresses
This bill, no later than January 1, 2025, would require a local agency that maintains an internet website for use by the public to ensure that the internet website utilizes a “.gov” top-level domain or a “.ca.gov” second-level domain, and would require a local agency that maintains an internet website that is noncompliant with that requirement to redirect that internet website to a domain name that does utilize a “.gov” or “.ca.gov” domain.

This bill, no later than January 1, 2025, would also require a local agency that maintains public email addresses to ensure that each email address provided to its employees utilizes a “.gov” domain name or a “.ca.gov” domain name.

Watch Irwin 2/17/2023 Passed Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and Assembly Committee
on Local Government. Referred to
Appropriations Committee
ACA 1 Local government financing: affordable
housing and public infrastructure: voter
approval
Would authorize a local government to impose, extend, or increase a sales and use tax or transactions and use tax for the purposes of funding the construction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of its voters voting on the proposition.

Watch Aguiar-Curry 12/5/2023
ACA 10 Fundamental human right to housing Would declare that the state recognizes the fundamental human right to adequate housing for everyone in California. Would make it the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill this right by all appropriate means.

Watch Haney 3/6/2023 Referred to Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development
SB 4 Planning and zoning: housing
development: higher education
institutions and religious institutions
Would require that a housing development project be a use by right on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024.

Watch Wiener 12/5/2022 Passed Senate Committee on Housing; Committee on Governance and Finance.

Referred to Senate Committee on
Appropriations
SB 7 The Homeless Housing Obligation Act This bill: (1) adds “homeless” to the income categories identified in the housing element; (2) for purposes of the regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) process, includes an objective of fulfilling the local government’s obligation to provide housing fit for human habitation; (3) creates the Homeless Housing Obligation Act, which requires, on or after January 1, 2025, each local government to develop a housing obligation plan to fulfill a specified homeless housing obligation; and (4) requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to provide an unspecified amount of money in the form of grants for awards to local governments to provide housing for homeless individuals.

Watch Blakespear 12/5/2022 Passed Senate Committee on Housing; Committee on Governance and Finance.

Referred to Senate Committee on
Appropriations
SB 19 Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force Would establish a task force to analyze data on the extent of fentanyl use in California and evaluate approaches to increase public awareness.

Support Seyarto 12/5/2022 Passed Senate Committee on Public Safety and placed on Senate Appropriations Suspense File
SB 20 Joint Powers Agreement: regional
housing trust
Allows cities to create housing trust joint powers authorities without special legislation. Support Rubio 12/5/2022 Passed Senate Committee on Housing; Committee on Governance and Finance.

Ordered to special consent calendar
SB 44 Controlled Substances
The bill would require a court to advise anyone convicted of distributing a controlled substance that they may be charged with homicide if someone dies from their drugs.

Support Umberg 12/5/2022 Failed Passage
SB 60 Social media platforms: controlled
substance: order to remove Would allow a person to seek a court order to require a social media platform, as defined, to remove a post that constitutes an offer to sell specified controlled substances.

Watch Umberg 12/21/2022 Passed Senate Judiciary Committee and referred to Appropriations suspense file
SB 62 Controlled Substances: fentanyl This purpose of this bill is to impose an additional term of 3 to 25 years upon a person who is convicted of specified drug offenses with respect to a substance containing fentanyl, if the substance exceeds a specified weight.

Support Nguyen 1/4/2023 Failed Senate Committee on Public Safety and granted reconsideration
SB 69 CEQA Document Requests Would require local agencies to provide any subsequent revised or amended copy of CEQA documents upon request by mail or email and to submit the documents to the state clearinghouse. Would toll the statutes of limitation periods for each document request.

Watch Cortese 1/5/2023 Passed Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Environmental Quality Committee. Placed on
Appropriations suspense file
SB 91 California Environmental Quality Act:

Exemption; supportive and transitional
housing: motel conversion
Eliminates the January 1, 2025 sunset date on a provision of state law that exempts from CEQA certain projects that convert a motel, hotel, residential hotel, or hostel to supportive or transitional housing.

Support Umberg 1/17/2023 Passed Senate
SB 226 Controlled substance: armed possession:
fentanyl
Adds fentanyl to the list of controlled substances for which possession of those substances while armed with a loaded and operable firearm is a felony.

Support Alvarado-Gil 1/19/2023 Passed Senate Judiciary Committee and referred to Appropriations
SB 237 Controlled Substance: fentanyl Increases the criminal penalties for several drug-related offenses when the offense involves fentanyl.

Support Grove 1/24/2023 Failed Senate Committee on Public Safety and granted reconsideration
SB 252 Public Retirement Systems: Fossil Fuels:
divestment
This bill would prohibit the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds in a fossil fuel company. SB 252 would further require the boards to liquidate investments in a fossil fuel company on or before July 1, 2030. Lastly, the bill would require a report to the Legislature and the Governor beginning in 2025 to provide information on fossil fuel companies where the board has liquidated their investments.

Watch Gonzalez 1/30/2023 Passed Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement, Judiciary, and
placed on Appropriations Suspense file
SB 325 Controlled Substances: fentanyl Creates an enhancement of three to five years when a person is convicted of specified drug-related offenses involving fentanyl or a fentanyl analog, and the drug was designed, shaped, colored, advertised, or packaged in such a way as to resemble food or candy.

Support Grove 2/7/2023 Failed Senate Committee on Public Safety and granted reconsideration
SB 363 Facilities for inpatient and residential
mental health and substance use
disorder: database
Would establish a real-time, internet-based dashboard to collect, aggregate, and display information about available beds in psychiatric and substance abuse facilities.

Watch Eggman 2/8/2023 Passed Senate Health and Senate Judiciary Committee. Placed on Appropriations suspense
file
SB 402 Emergency Services Limiting Police
Response
Would require 911 or other service center calls for service relating to mental health or homelessness to be dispatched to fire district or department personnel, EMS personnel, mental health personnel, or nonsworn unarmed police personnel and not to police officers.

Watch Wahab 2/9/2023 Referred to Senate Committee on Health and Government Organizations
SB 405 Planning and zoning: housing element:
inventory of sites: regional housing needs
This bill requires cities and counties to provide notice to property owners included in the 7th cycle housing element’s sites inventory to determine development potential and authorizes the removal of those sites from being considered as meeting a jurisdiction’s RHNA, if the property owner does not intend to develop.

Watch Cortese 2/9/2023 Passed Senate Committee on Housing and referred to Senate Appropriations Committee
SB 423 Land use: streamlined housing approvals:
multifamily housing developments
Would modify and expand SB 35 provisions that allow certain multifamily housing developments to take advantage of a streamlined, ministerial approval process. Specifically, this measure would:
• Remove the 2026 sunset and makes the statutes permanent. • Apply SB 35 provisions to the Coastal Zone.
• Allow the state to approve housing developments on property they own or lease.
• Prohibit a city from enforcing its inclusionary housing ordinance if the income limits are higher than those in SB 35.

Oppose Wiener 2/13/2023 Passed Senate Committee on Housing and Senate Committee on Governance and Finance.

Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee
SB 706 Public contracts: progressive design-build:
local agencies
Would authorize all cities, counties, city and counties, or special districts to use the progressive design-build process for other projects in addition to water-related projects, and would remove the project cap.

Support Caballero 2/16/2023 Passed Senate
SB 713 Planning and zoning: density bonuses:
development standards
This bill clarifies that for purposes of state density bonus law “development standards” means those adopted by the local government or enacted by the local government’s electorate exercising its local initiative or referendum power, whether that power is derived from the California Constitution, statute, or the charter or ordinances of the local government.

Watch Padilla 2/16/2023 Passed Senate Housing and Governance and Finance Committee
SB 719 Law Enforcement Agencies: Radio
Communication
Would require a law enforcement agency to ensure access, in real time, to the radio communications of that agency to duly authorized media representatives or organizations.

Watch Becker 2/16/2023 Passed Senate Committee on Public Safety and placed on Senate Appropriations Suspense File
SB 742 Housing: homelessness programs: report. This bill would require an agency that funds, implements, or administers a program that provides housing or housing-based services to persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, including rental assistance programs, to provide prescribed information to specified committees of the Legislature. This bill would authorize an agency to request a city, county, or city and county to provide specified information to that agency if the city, county, or city and county has received state funds from the agency to fund, implement, or administer the program, as defined.

Watch Atkins 2/17/2023 Referred to Senate Committee on Human Services and Committee on Housing
SB 751 Franchise Agreements: labor impasse This bill prohibits a city or county from entering into or amending a solid waste hauling agreement if it excuses the service provider from performing its duties in the event of a labor dispute, and requires agreements to include certain provisions in the event of a labor dispute.

Watch Padilla 2/17/2023 Passed Senate Committee on Governance and Finance. Set to be heard in Senate
Appropriations Committee on 5/15/2023
SB 769 Local government. Fiscal and Financial
Training
SB 769 would require certain local agency officials to receive at least two hours of fiscal and financial training at least once every two years, if a local agency provides compensation or reimbursements for expenses incurred in the performance of official duties, as specified
Watch Gonzalez 2/17/2023 Passed Senate Committee on Governance and Finance and placed on Senate Appropriations
suspense file

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