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CITY OF LAGUNA NIGUEL
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Honorable Mayor and Council Members
Tamara S. Letourneau, City Manager
May 19, 2026
Update on the City's Legislative Advocacy Efforts
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council receive and file this update on the City's Legislative Advocacy Efforts.
BACKGROUND
On February 19, 2019, the City Council adopted the City's Legislative Platform. The purpose of the legislative platform is to provide an outline and means for summarizing the City's core legislative principles and positions on legislative matters for the purpose of advocacy efforts at the regional, state, and federal levels. The legislative platform serves as the foundation for the City to support or oppose various state and federal legislation.
The legislative platform was developed to be consistent with and support the City's long term strategic mission and vision, as well as to maintain the City's Municipal Code.
The Legislative Platform contains "Guiding Principles," which are values that are paramount when determining whether taking action on legislation is required. The Guiding Principles are:
• Preserve and Enhance Local
Control
• Fiscal Responsibility
• Promote Economic Development
• Support Responsible Funding
Opportunities
• Maintain Quality Public Safety
The Legislative Platform also includes "Policy Statements," which capture positions on issues the City has previously stated concern for or acted upon. These issues include:
• Local Control • Homelessness
• Local Revenue • Public Safety
• Fiscal Responsibility and • Sober Living Homes
Sustainability • Air Traffic Noise
• Economic Development • Utilities
• Funding Opportunities • Environment
• Drug Abuse • Miscellaneous
Since the City Council's adoption of the legislative platform, City Staff has been able to take timely action on legislation and regulatory issues. This has allowed staff to effectively and efficiently communicate the City's positions to legislators and policymakers in Sacramento and Washington D.C. on crucial legislation and regulatory efforts that affect the City and its residents.
ANALYSIS
As we approach the halfway point in the 2026 Legislative Session, it is appropriate to provide an update on the City's legislative advocacy efforts. Staff continues to work collaboratively and diligently with regional and statewide associations to identify bills of interest as outlined in the City's Legislative Platform.
Using the adopted Legislative Platform, 58 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.
Thus far, in the 2026 legislative session, the City has submitted five advocacy letters to the state legislature. Additionally, the City has previously submitted four advocacy letters from the 2025 legislative session that remain active. The active bills on which the City has taken a position can be divided into four broad categories: Local Control, Public Safety, Sober Living HomesfTreatment Facilities, and Miscellaneous.
Local Control
• Assembly Bill 261 - Fire Safety: Fire Hazard Severity Zones: State Fire Marshal (Support): AB 261 (Quirk-Silva) would strengthen the accuracy of California's Fire Hazard Severity Zones maps by allowing the State Fire Marshal to assess and consider input from public agencies, nonprofits, and other stakeholders about actions that may affect fire hazard severity designations. • Assembly Bill 1206 - Single-Family and Multifamily Housing Units:
Preapproved Plans (Oppose): AB 1206 (Harabedian) would require each local agency to develop a program for the preapproval of single-family and multifamily residential housing plans for public use.
• Assembly Bill 2517 - Fire Safety: Fire Hazard Severity Zones (Support): AB 2517 (Calderon) establishes a process for public engagement for the State Fire Marshal's development of fire hazard severity zone (FHSZ) maps and requires the State Fire Marshal to review and update, as needed, FHSZ designations in local responsibility areas every five years.
Public Safety
• Assembly Bill 1569 - Pupil Safety: Electric Bicycle: Safety and Training Program (Support): AB 1569 (Davies) requires the California Department of Education, on or before March 1, 2028, in consultation with the California Highway Patrol, to develop a standardized electric bicycle safety and training program for pupils in grades seven to 12.
• Assembly Bill 1614-Vehicles: Bicycles (Support): AB 1614 (Dixon) strengthens important safety rules governing bicycle operation on Class 1 bikeways by requiring riders to remain seated on bicycles that are designed with seats. • Assembly Bill 2346 - Vehicles: Electric Bicycles and Speed Limits (Support):
AB 2346 (Wilson) requires labeling and disclosure requirements of manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles (e-bikes), requires e-bikes to come equipped with speedometers and lights, and sets speed limits fore-bike riders who are under 16 years of age.
• Senate Bill 936 - Nitrous Oxide: Sales (Support): SB 936 (Blakespear) would prohibit the sale and distribution of a nitrous oxide container that can hold more than eight grams of nitrous oxide or from which a person may directly inhale nitrous oxide.
Sober Living Homesrrreatment Facilities
• Senate Bill 329 - Alcohol and Drug Recovery or Treatment Facilities:
Investigations (Support): SB 329 (Blakespear) would require the DHCS, within 10 days of receiving a complaint about a residential alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, to assign the complaint to an analyst, and complete an investigation within 60 days of assigning the complaint.
Miscellaneous
• Assembly Bill 75 - Residential Property Insurance Images (Support): AB 75 (Calderon) would require insurers to notify residential property insurance policyholders at least 45 days in advance of taking any aerial images of the insured property, and requires insurers to provide any aerial images taken or obtained of the insured property to the policyholder upon request.
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 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.
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Attachment:
A. Legislative Tracking Sheet
ATTACHMENT A
Legislative Tracking Sheet
City of Laguna Niguel - 2026 Legislative Tracker
Updated : May 14, 2026
Bill No. • • B~II Title Abs~ract - • Recomm·e~datio~ • Aut~or Date d- - - - - Cur;ent Sta;~ • - • • _ _ • • - Introduce .
AB 75 Residential Property Insurance Images
IAB2 61 Fire Safety: Fire Hazard Severity Zones:
State Fire Marshal
AB 75 requires admitted insurers to notify residential property insurance policyholders at Support least 45 days in advance of taking any aerial images of the insured property, and requires insurers to provide any aerial images taken or obtained of the insured property to the policyholder upon request.
This bill would strengthen the accuracy of California's Fire Hazard Severity Zones maps by Support allowing the State Fire Marshal to assess and consider input from public agencies, nonprofits, and other stakeholders about actions that may affect fire hazard severity designations. [_
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1 AB 262 California Individual Assistance Act Establishes, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the California Individual Assistance Act Watch to provide assistance to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals recovering from disasters and requires Cal OES to prioritize state disaster relief to communities that do not meet thresholds for federal disaster assistance programs.
AB 334 Operators of Toll Facilities: Interoperability AB 334 will enable toll operators in California to participate in a national interoperability Support Programs: Vehicle Information program, providing toll customers with seamless access to all U.S. tolled facilities using their home toll account. ----------
AB 660 Planning and Zoning Law: Post-Entitlement This bill eliminates the ability of local governments to require more than two plan checks Watch Phase Permits: Housing Accountability Act on a building permit application unless the local agency's request for additional reviews is necessary to address a specific, adverse impact on public health and safety. -----AB 846 Endangered Species: Incidental Take:
Wildfire Preparedness Activities
AB 996 Public Resources: California Coastal Act of
1976: California Coastal Planning Fund
AB 1131 General Plan: Annual Report: Congregate
Care for the Elderly
AB 1206 Single-family and Multifamily Housing
Units: Pre-approved Plans
The measure would create a clear way for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to Watch process vegetation removal and fuel management projects in fire hazard severity zones near urban communities overseen by local governments.
-- --- ---- ------This bill would define a clearer review process for the certification for local coastal Watch programs through the Coastal Commission to help local governments update LCPs, including _ with the latest sea level rise science, planning, and implementation efforts. __ _ AB 1131 would allow a planning agency, starting with the 7th revision of the housing Watch element and for each subsequent revision, to include in its report the number of units approved for congregate care for the elderly, as defined. This could account for up to 15% of a jurisdiction's regional housing need allocation for any income category.
Requires each local agency to develop a program for the preapproval of single-family and Oppose multifamily residential housing plans for public use.
AB 1294 Planning and Zoning: Housing Development : This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to create Watch Standardized Application Form
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AB 1337 Information Practices Act of 1977
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AB 1383 Public Employee's Retirement Benefits
Bold indicates an advocacy letter has been submitted .
a standardized housing entitlement application that all local governments must accept.
This bill requires each local agency in the state to comply with the Information Practices Act (IPA) and subjects more types of personal information to regulation under the law.
This bill modifies the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) to increase pensionable compensation, defined benefit retirement formulas, and contribution cost sharing.
Watch
Watch
Calderon
Quirk-Silva
Caloza
12/16/2024 Passed Assembly, Senate Committee on
Insurance, Senate Judiciary Committee, and
referred to Senate Appropriations.
1/16/2025 Passed Assembly, Senate Committee on
Governmental Organization, Senate Natural
Resources and Water Committee, and referred
to Senate Appropriations. --
1/16/2025 Passed Assembly and referred to Senate
Governmental Organization Committee .
Petrie-Norris 1/28/2025 Ordered to inactive file at request of Senator Wilson
Connolly
Pellerin
Ta
Harabedian
Haney
Ward
McKinnor
Grayson.
2/14/2025 Passed Assembly and Senate Committee on Local Government and Housing. Referred to Senate
Appropriations Committee .
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2/19/2025 Passed Assembly and Senate Committee on
Natural Resources and Water . Referred to Senate
Appropriations Committee . ~
2/20/2025 Passed Assembly and Senate Committee on _ I
Natural Resources and Water. Referred to Senate
Appropriations Committee .
2/20/2025 Passed Assembly and Senate Housing
Committee. Referred to Senate Appropriations
Committee.
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2/21/2025 Passed Assembly and Senate Committee on
Local Government and Senate Housing. Referred
to Senate Appropriations Committee.
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2/21/2025 Passed Assembly and Senate Committee on
Housing and referred to Senate Committee on
Local Government.
2/21/2025 Passed Assembly and order to the Senate
Judiciary Committee .
2/21/2025 Passed assembly and referred to Senate
Committee on Labor, Public Employment and
Retirement.
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IAB 1557V ehicles: Electric Bicycles - Rede- f-in_e_s_a_n_e_l-ectric bicycle (e-bike) as having an electric motor t-h-at_i_s_n_o_t c-apable of Watch Papan _____ l_/-8/_2_0_26 Passed Committed on Transportation and --i exceeding 750 watts of peak power and a class 1 and 2 e-bike as having a motor that Judiciary. Referred to Appropriations 5/14 . 1 ----- - --
AB 1559 Residential Property Insurance Images
ceases to provide assistance when the bike reaches a peak speed of 16 miles per hour (mp&_ -
The bill would require companies to let customers know when they plan to take drone images of their properties. It would also prohibit companies from ending coverage based on images taken more than 180 days before companies sent notice of the coverage termination.
Watch
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AB 1567 General plan: annual report: congregate and This bill would allow local agencies to receive RHNA credit for up to 15% of a jurisdiction's Watch residential care for the elderly RHNA number for any income category for the development of senior residential living facilities . Senior residential living facilities are a vital mechanism for older residents to age comfortably while receiving the necessary services to maintain a higher quality of life. tAB 1569 Pupil Safety: Electric Bicycle Parking: Safety AB 1569 requires students to complete an e-bike safety training program before they can Support Program park an e-bike on school campuses.
IAB 1614 Vehicles: Bicycles -------- Strengthens important safety rules governing bicycle operation on Class 1 bikeway -s -by--S-u-p-port I_ ----- - - -- --
( B 1621 Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement
phase permits: Housing Accountability Act
I
AB 1708 Homeless Housing, Assistance, and
Prevention Program : Round 7
I
jAB 1738 State Housing Law: Remote Inspections
I
requiring riders to remain seated on bicycles that are designed with seats.
The measure would cap the number of times a city can formally review a building permit to Watch no more than two , except for health and safety issues.
AB 1708 would beginning with funding allocations under round 8 of the Homeless Housing, Watch Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program, requires a round 8 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan to include certain components necessary to allocate a portion of the funding to smaller jurisdictions . --------
This bill requires a city or county to offer remote inspections for specified building permits Watch in single or two-family dwelling units by July 1, 2027.
Calderon
Ta
Davies
1/8/2026 Passed Committee on Insurance and Committee
on Privacy and Consumer Protections and
Appropriations . ___ I
1/12/2026 Passed Committee on Housing and Community!
-
Development and Committee on Local
Government. Referred to Appropriations
Committee 5/14 .
1/12/2026 Passed Committee on Education and Committee
on Transportation. Passed Appropriations.
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Dixon
Wilson
Solache
Carrillo
1/21/2026 Passed Assembly and ordered to Senate.
1/22/2026 Passed Assembly and ordered to Senate
Committee on Local Government and Housing.
2/4/2026 Passed Assembly Committee on Housing and
Community Development and Committee on
Human Services. Referred to Appropriations
~ ommittee 5/14.
2/5/2026 Passed Assembly Committee on Housing and
Community Development and Committee on
Local Government. Referred to Appropriations
Committee 5/14.
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- - ---------- ------- ----AB 1751 Missing Middle Township Ownership Act AB 1795 Smoke Damage Recovery Act
Establishes the Missing Middle Townhorrye Ownership Act (Act), which creates a Watch streamlined ministerial approval process for townhome development on residentially zoned lots.
Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA) to create, on or before Watch June 30, 2027, statewide testing standards for smoke damage, and sets up a smoke claim ----------~ p_ro_c_e_s_s under the California Department of lnsura~ __ c_e_( __ C_D __ I)_. _____ _ AB 1821 California Public Records Act: agency Modifies the PRA from 10 calendar days to 10 business days to provide an initial response. Watch response time
AB 1866 California Disaster Assistance Act: Minimum
Damages Thresholds
AB 1914 General Plan: Elements: Childcare
Bold indicates an advocacy letter has been submitted .
- ---------AB 1866 modifies administration of the California Disaster Assistance Act (CDAA) to allow Watch certain local agencies to receive additional disaster assistance funds.
Requires cities and counties to adopt or integrate a childcare plan into the next adoption or Watch revision of the general plan by January 1, 2033, to address the childcare needs of the jurisdiction, and authorizes cities and counties to designate an existing childcare plan as compliant . ----
Quirk-Silva
Gipson
Pacheco
Rogers
Schiavo
2/9/2026 Passed Assembly Committee on Local
Government and Committee on Housing and
Community Development . Referred to
Appropriations 5/14.
2/10/2026 Passed Committee onE nvironmental Safety and I Toxic Materials and Committee on Insurance.
Referred to Appropriations 5/_1_4_. __ _
2/11/2026 Passed Assembly Judiciary and Appropriations
Committee. ----- ------2/11/2026 Passed Committee on Emergency Management and referred to Appropriations 5/14.
----- J 2/12/2026 Passed Assembly Committee on Local
Government and Human Services and
Appropriations .
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iAB 1934 State Fire Marshal: home hardening
certification program
-------------Requires the Office of the State Fire Marshal (SFM) to develop an implementation plan for Watch a home hardening certification program.
Bennett 2/13/2026 Passed the Emergency Management Committee and the Committee on Natural Resources.
Referred to the Appropriations Committee 5/14 .
------AB 1942 Electric Bicycles: Registration and Special License Plates
This bill would require class 2 electric bicycles and class 3 electric bicycles to be registered Watch with the department and to display a special license plate issued by the department of motor vehicles. --- ------ - ---- -- -- -
AB 1960 Wildfire Prevention Grants Program: Ab 1960 would allow the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to disburse funds identified cohesive fire communities
,AB 1964 State Fire Marshal: county recorder: home
hardening
~ AB 1971 Property tax: exclusion from reassessment:
home hardening retrofitting improvements
appropriated to the Wildfire Prevention Grants Program to communities that have reached a percentage of homes certified as hardened, as described, by the Office of the State Fire Marshall for activities . related to hazardous fuels reduction, wildfire prevention planning, and wildfire prevention education . --- -- -- --- --- -- AB 1964 requires the State Fire Marshal (SFM) to compile a report to determine whether homes in moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones (FHSZs) meet certain home hardening standards_. ________ _
This bill would require the State Board of Equalization to adopt rules and regulations, as described, clarifying that home hardening retrofitting improvements, as def\ned, that do not add square footage, do not change the property's use, do not include structural reconfigurations, and do not include substantial rehabilitation do not trigger reassessment as new construction .
Watch
Watch
-------
Watch
Bauer-Kahan
Bennett
Bennett
Bennett
-- - ------------------AB 1986 Residential property insurance: home hardening
Requires residential property insurers, when providing a premium quote for a home, to Watch Bennett give the requester two quotes, one reflecting the property in its current condition and one reflecting the price if the property were certified as "hardened" under a home hardening certification program established or approved by the State Fire Marshal. This is intended to show consumers the potential insurance cost difference associated with completing qualifying wildfire-hardening improvements.
AB 1995 State Fire Marshal: lithium battery working Requires the Office of the State Fire Marshal to convene a lithium battery working group: membership: funding group to identify those safety issues associated with lithium batteries and associated charging infrastructure installed or used near or within residential or commercial occupancies that have not already been addressed in the 2025 Edition of the California Building Standards Code to recommend potential solutions that will enhance building safety for the State Fire Marshal and other impacted agencies to consider. 1------ - --- ------------- --- ---------- -AB 2002 Local government assistance: Regional Early Creates the Regional Early Action Planning Fund to provide councils of governments, Action Planning Fund regional entities, and jurisdictions with grants for planning and other activities to help those entities meet the seventh and subsequent cycles of the regional housing need ------
AB 2038 Residential Property Insurance:
Cancellations and nonrenewals
assessment. -- --
Requires an insurer to offer to their policyholder, when a disaster-related total loss of a primary residential property occurs, coverage for at least the next three annual renewal periods, but no less than 36 months of coverage from the date of the total loss. -------- -- -
Watch
Watch
Watch
IAB 2076 The Parent's Accountability and Child This bill would narrow minors' access to nitrous oxide within online marketplaces by adding Watch I
Protection Act: online marketplaces: nitrous it to a list of dangerous products that require stricter age verification. oxide
Bold indicates an advocacy letter has been submitted.
Patel
Solache
Harabedian
Lowenthal
2/13/2026 Passed Transportation and referred to
Appropriations 5/14.
2/13/2026 Passed Committee on Natural Resources and
Emergency Management. Referred to
Appropriations 5/14
2/13/2026 Passed Committee on Emergency Management
and referred to Appropriations 5/14
2/13/2026 Passed Revenue and Taxation and referred to
Appropriations 5/14
2/13/2026 Referred to the Assembly Committee on
Insurance.
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2/17 /2026 Passed Committee on Emergency Management
and referred to Appropriations Committee 5/14 .
2/17/2026 Passed Housing and Community Development
and referred to Appropriations 5/14.
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2/17 /2026 Passed Assembly and referred to Senate.
2/18/2026 Passed Judiciary and Privacy/Consumer
Protection. Referred to Appropriations
Committee 5/14.
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1AB 2296 Planning and Zoning: Housing Element :
Regional Housing Needs Allocation
Extends a number of timelines in the process of regional housing needs determinations, regional housing needs allocations , and housing element revisions, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide specific analysis or text to local governments to remedy deficiencies in their draft housing element revisions.
AB 2346 Vehicles: electric bicycles and speed limits This bill would require all class 1 and class 2 electric bicycles manufactured, sold, or offered for sale on or after January 1, 2029, to be equipped with a speedometer.
Watch
Support
AB 2433 Housing Development: •Affordable Homes
Bonus
This bill makes numerous changes to the Density Bonus Law (DBL), including establishing a Watch by-right ministerial review process for an infill DBL housing development project and -- -----
AB 2517 Fire Safety: Fire Hazard Severity Zones
1---
AB 2529 Civil Claims: public entities and employees :
declaration
amending floor area ratio provisions.
This bill would require the Office of the State Fire Marshal to provide consistent, timely public updates when developing the local responsibility area fire hazard severity zone maps.
Requires that a claim presentation submitted under the Government Claims Act be signed by the claimant or by some person on the claimant's behalf declaring that upon --- ---- - _ ~ formation and belief, the contents of th ~ cla.i_m are true and corre ~t. _ SB 6 Controlled substances: xylazine
Ending Street Homelessness Act
This bill adds xylazine as a Schedule Ill drug under California's Uniform Controlled Substances Act.
Enacts the Ending Streets Homelessness Act to require applicants for Round 7 of the Homelessness Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program (HHAP) to identify goals to reach functional zero for homelessness and city and county applicants to submit an MOU describing their roles and responsibilities as it relates to homelessness. ------- ------ --
SB 35 Alcohol and Drug Programs
SB 74 Infrastructure Grant Funding
SB 329 Alcohol and Drug Recovery or Treatment
Facilities: Investigations
SB 354 Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Act
of2025
Bold indicates an advocacy letter has been submitted.
This bill requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) conduct a site visit, or allow a county to conduct a site visit, of a licensed recovery or treatment facility (RTF) and certified alcohol and other drug (AOD) program , if an affiliated recovery residence (RR) is providing services it is not licensed to provide . The bill also requires every licensed recovery or treatment facility (RTF) and certified AOD program report annually to DHCS any money transfers between the RTF or program and an RR.
This measure would establish the "Gap Fund," managed by the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI), which will offer grants for the remaining 20 percent of project costs to cities and local agencies.
This bill requires the DHCS, within 10 days of receiving a complaint about a residential alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, assign the complaint to an analyst, and complete an investigation within 60 days of assigning the complaint. ---- --
SB 354 addresses Insurance Consumer Privacy Protections by establishing standards for processing consumers' personal information by insurance licensees and their third -party providers . Creates a right for consumers to consent to the sharing of their personal information by licensees for variou s purposes. Provides that consumers have a right to be made aware of the reasons for adverse underwriting decisions relating to insurance coverage.
Support
Watch
Watch
Watch
Watch
Watch
Support
Watch
Papan
Wilson
Alvarez
Calderon
Johnson
Wicks
Blakespear
Umberg
Seyarto
Blakespear
Limon
Updated: May 14, 2026
2/19/2026 Passed Committee on Housing and Community
Development and Committee on Local
Government . Referred to Appropriations
Committee 5/14.
2/19/2026 Passed Committee on Transportation and
Judiciary. Referred to Appropriations 5/14
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2/20/2026 Passed Committee on Housing and Community
Development , Committee on Local Government,
and Committee on Natural Resources,
Appropriations Committee . ____ _ _j
2/20/2026 Passed Committee on Natural Resources I
Emergency Management. Referred to
Appropriation ~ Committee 5/14. I
2/20/2026 Passed Assembly Judiciary and Appropriat ions l Committee.
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12/2/2024 Passed Senate and held in Assembly.
12/2/2024 Passed Senate and referred to the Assembly.
12/3/2024 Passed Senate and Assembly Committee on
Health. Referred to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee.
I
1/15/2025 Passed Senate and Assembly Committee o; Loc-;i-, Governmen t. Referred to Assembly
Appropriations Committee
2/11/2025 Passed Senate and Assembly Committee on
Health. Referred to the Assembly
Appropriations Committee.
2/15/2025 Passed Senate and ordered to Assembly
Committee on Insurance.
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SB 490 Alcohol and drug programs
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Requires the Department of Health Care Services to take specified action when it determines an entity is providing residential alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment services without a proper license, including conducting site visits, as well as initiating and completing investigations within specified timeframes. Permits county behavioral health agencies that administer the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system to request DHCS approval to conduct site visits to specified recovery residences.
Watch
SB 569 Department of Transportation: Homeless This measure would increase communication between the Department of Transportation Watch Encampments ___ ____ and local governments to address encampments on state property. !sB 677 Housing Development: transit oriented Changes definitions of "high-frequency commuter rail" and "commuter rail" for purposes Watch developme ~ of implementing Senate~ 79._ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ SB 741 Coastal Resources: Coastal Development This bill expands the existing exemption from specified coastal development permitting Watch Permit: Exemption: Los Angeles-San Diego- processes for certain emergency projects undertaken, carried out, or approved by a public San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor agency to maintain, repair, or restore existing highways to include certain emergency projects undertaken, carried out, or approved by a public agency to maintain, repair, or restore an existing railroad track along the Los Angeles - San Diego - San Luis Obispo ___ -------~~ (_LO_S_S_AN) Rail Corridor _. _ __ ____ ___ _ ______ _ SB 758 Public health: kratom and nitrous oxide
SB 866 Homeless Housing, Assistance, and
Prevention program: housing element
The bill would make it illegal for individuals with a tobacco license to sell nitrous oxide. It Watch would also classify 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-0H) as a Schedule I controlled substance, except as it naturally occurs in the Kratom plant .
SB 866 would require cities that do not receive HHAP funding to add these same metrics that include services and systems largely outside their control to their housing elements.
Oppose
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SB 894 Wildfire resiliency: financial assistance SB 894 would create the California Wildfire Resilience Loan Program, administered by the Watch California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA), to provide financial assistance for projects and activities that reduce wildfire-related risks and losses.
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SB 922
lsB 93S
Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets SB 922 would clarify that fees associated with providing public services may include the Support orhighw_ ay~s _____ _ recovery of stre~ maintenance and repair costs related to providing such serv_i_ce_s_. ________ _ _ Local Agency Design-Build Projects Expands the use of design-build contracting for local agencies to streamline public Watch infrastructure delivery and reduce costs. -- ----- ---- - ----- - ------SB 936 Nitrous Oxide: Sales Creates four new infractions related to the sale or distribution of nitrous oxide, including Support making it unlawful to knowingly sell, furnish, offer, distribute, or give away a nitrous oxide container that is capable of holding more than eight grams of nitrous oxide or a nitrous oxide container from which an individual may directly inhale nitrous oxide. - -------- -- --------
SB 1075 Air resources : toxic air contaminants: criteria Force agencies to consider air quality over all other environmental factors when Watch air pollutants: community emissions considering projects. In addition to undermining CEQA, it would expose cities to new legal reduction programs: local community
___ emissions reduction plans
SB 1167 Vehicles: electric bicycles
Bold indicates an advocacy letter has been submitted .
risks, in part by expanding the Attorney General's ability to sue local governments based on citizen petitions to void land u~ decisions. _________ __ _ __ SB 1167 would revise the definitions of electric bicycles (e-bikes), motor driven cycles, and Watch mopeds, update the labeling and disclosure requirements for manufacturers and sellers of these devices, and expand prohibitions on false advertising and unfair competition related toe -bikes, among other things.
Umberg 2/18/2025 Passed Senate and referred to the Assembly.
Blakespear 2/20/2025 Passed Senate and referred to the Assembly.
Wiene_r_ - 2/21/202S Passed Senate and referred to the Assembly. ~~ Blakespear 2/21/2025 Passed Senate and referred to Assembly -- I Umberg
Blakespear
Allen
Laird
Choi
Blakespear
Reyes
Blakespear
Committee on Natural Resources.
2/21/2025 Passed Senate and referred to the Assembly.
1/5/2026 Passed Housing Committee and referred to
Appropriations Committee 5/14.
1/15/2026 Passed Committee on Natural Resources and
Water and Committee on Emergency
Management. Referred to Appropriations 5/14.
1/28/2026 Passed Committee on Local Government
1/29/2026 Passed Senate and ordered to Assembly
Committee on Local Government. ------
1/29/2026 Passed committee on Public Safety and
Committee on Business, Professions and
Economic Development. Referred to
Appropriations committee 5/14
2/13/2026 Passed Senate Local Government and Senate
Environmental Quality. Referred to
appropriations 5/14
2/18/2026 Passed Senate Transportation Committee and
Committee on Natural Resources/Water.
Referred to the appropriations committee 5/14
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