PREPARED BY: Katy Nomura
Assistant Town Manager
Reviewed by: Town Manager, Town Attorney, and Finance Director 110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● (408) 354-6832 www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
MEETING DATE: 03/19/2024
ITEM NO: 13
ADDENDUM
DATE: March 15, 2024
TO: Mayor and Town Council
FROM: Laurel Prevetti, Town Manager
SUBJECT: Approve Legislative Priorities with Regard to State, Federal, and Regional Legislation
REMARKS:
Attachment 4 contains the League of California Cities Hot Bill List for reference.
Attachments previously received with the March 13, 2024 Staff Report:
1. Town Council Policy 2-18: Legislative Policy
2. League of California Cities 2024 Advocacy Priorities
3. League of California Cities Take Action Webpage
Attachments received with this Addendum:
4. League of California Cities Hot Bill List
Cal Cities 2024 Hot Bill List
Friday, March 15, 2024
Community Services
Measure/
Author Location Title Brief Summary Documents PrimaryLobbyist Cal Cities
Position
AB 2081
(Davies R)
2/20/2024
-
A. HEALTH
Substance
abuse: recovery
and treatment
programs.
Would require an operator of a
licensed alcoholism or drug abuse
recovery or treatment facility or
certified alcohol or other drug
program to include a disclosure on
its internet website if a legal,
disciplinary, or other enforcement
action has been brought by the
State Department of Health Care
Services and the facility or
program was determined to be in
violation. The bill would require the
internet website disclosure to
include the date and nature of the
violation, and require the
disclosure to be posted no later
than 14 business days after the
determination of violation. The bill
would impose a $2,500 civil
penalty for failure to comply with
the internet website posting
requirement.
Caroline
Cirrincione
Communit
y Services
Cosponsor
AB 2121
(Dixon R)
2/6/2024-
A. PRINT
Community care
facilities.
Under current law, the State
Department of Social Services
licenses and regulates community
care facilities, including social
rehabilitation facilities, as defined.
This bill would make a technical,
nonsubstantive changes to this
provision.
Caroline
Cirrincione
Communit
y Services
Sponsor
AB 2574
(Valencia
D)
3/4/2024-
A. HEALTH
Alcoholism or
drug abuse
recovery or
treatment
facilities.
Current law requires an alcoholism
or drug abuse recovery or
treatment facility that serves 6 or
fewer persons to be considered a
residential use of property for the
purposes of local regulations,
regardless of whether or not
unrelated persons are living
together. This bill would exempt an
unlicensed home for persons
recovering from alcoholism or drug
abuse in a neighborhood zoned for
residential use from being
considered a residential use of
property when specified evidence
demonstrates that the facility is an
integral part of a licensed drug
treatment facility located
elsewhere.
Caroline
Cirrincione
Communit
y Services
Sponsor
Type text here
ATTACHMENT 4
SB 363
(Eggman
D)
8/23/2023
-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE
FILE
Facilities for
inpatient and
residential
mental health
and substance
use disorder:
database.
This measure would require the
State Department of Health Care
Services to develop a database by
2025 to collect, aggregate, and
display information about beds in
inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis
stabilization units, community care
facilities, and licensed residential
alcoholism or drug abuse recovery
or treatment facilities. This
information would help provide
timely access to care and increase
coordination between service
settings.
SB 363
(Eggman)
Support Letter
to
Appropriations
Committee
06.14.23 SB 363
(Eggman)
Support Letter
to
Appropriations
Committee
4.14.2023
Caroline
Cirrincione
Communit
y Services
Support
SB 913
(Umberg D
)
1/8/2024-
S. RLS.
Health.
Current law authorizes the State
Department of Public Health to
establish a program designed to
provide eligible individuals with
coupons that may be exchanged
for fresh, nutritious foods at
farmers’ markets pursuant to a
program established under federal
law, the WIC Farmers’ Market
Nutrition Act of 1992. This bill
would make a technical,
nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
Caroline
Cirrincione
Communit
y Services
Sponsor
Environmental Quality
Measure/
Author
Location Title Brief Summary Documents
Primary
Lobbyist
Cal Cities
Position
AB 1567
(Garcia D)
6/14/2023
-S. N.R. &
W.
Safe Drinking
Water, Wildfire
Prevention,
Drought
Preparation,
Flood Protection,
Extreme Heat
Mitigation, Clean
Energy, and
Workforce
Development
Bond Act of
2024.
Would enact the Safe Drinking
Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought
Preparation, Flood Protection,
Extreme Heat Mitigation, Clean
Energy, and Workforce
Development Bond Act of 2024,
which, if approved by the voters,
would authorize the issuance of
bonds in the amount of
$15,995,000,000 pursuant to the
State General Obligation Bond Law
to finance projects for safe
drinking water, wildfire prevention,
drought preparation, flood
protection, extreme heat
mitigation, clean energy, and
workforce development programs.
AB 1567 Letter
to Author.pdf
AB 1567 Letter
to Sen NRW
League of Cal
Cities Support if
Amended
01052024.pdf
Melissa
SparksKranz
Environme
ntal
Quality
Support if
Amend
AB 2330
(Holden D)
2/26/2024
-A. W.,P. &
W.
Endangered
species:
authorized take:
routine fuel
management
activities.
The California Endangered Species
Act prohibits the taking of an
endangered, threatened, or
candidate species, except as
specified. Under the act, the
Department of Fish and Wildlife
may authorize the take of listed
species by certain entities through
permits or memorandums of
understanding for specified
purposes. Current law requires the
State Fire Marshal to identify areas
in the state as moderate, high, and
very high fire hazard severity
zones based on consistent
statewide criteria and based on the
severity of fire hazard that is
expected to prevail in those areas.
Current law requires a local agency
to designate, by ordinance,
moderate, high, and very high fire
hazard severity zones in its
jurisdiction within 120 days of
receiving recommendations from
the State Fire Marshal, as
provided. This bill would require
the department to, within 90 days
of receiving an application,
authorize through permits or
memorandum of understanding
the take of endangered species,
threatened species, and candidate
species incidental to any routine
fuel management activities
conducted by local agencies on
lands that are within moderate,
high, or very high fire hazard
severity zones and adjacent to
wildland-urban interface fire areas.
The bill would require the State
Fire Marshal, if the department
does not grant authorization within
90 days, to make a determination
within 30 days on whether a local
agency may conduct routine fuel
management activities on those
lands for the protection of life and
property.
AB 2330 League
of California
Cities SAMPLE
Support Letter
to the Author
AB 2330 League
of California
Cities Support
Letter to Author
Melissa
SparksKranz
Environme
ntal
Quality
Sponsor
SB 867
(Allen D)
6/20/2023
-A. NAT.
RES.
Drought, Flood,
and Water
Resilience,
Wildfire and
Forest
Resilience,
Coastal
Resilience,
Extreme Heat
Mitigation,
Biodiversity and
Nature-Based
Climate
Solutions,
Climate Smart
Agriculture, Park
Creation and
Outdoor Access,
and Clean
Energy Bond Act
of 2024.
Enacts the Drought and Water
Resilience, Wildfire and Forest
Resilience, Coastal Resilience,
Extreme Heat Mitigation,
Biodiversity and Nature-Based
Climate Solutions, Climate Smart
Agriculture, and Park Creation and
Outdoor Access Bond Act of 2023.
SB 867 Letter to
Author.pdf
SB 867 Letter to
Asm Nat
Resources
Committee
League of Cal
Cities Support if
Amended
01052024.pdf
Melissa
SparksKranz
Environme
ntal
Quality
Support if
Amend
SB 972
(Min D)
2/14/2024
-S. E.Q.
Methane
emissions:
organic waste:
landfills.
Current law requires the
Department of Resources Recycling
and Recovery, in consultation with
the State Air Resources Board, to
adopt regulations that achieve the
specified targets for reducing
organic waste in landfills. The
California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006 designates
the state board as the state
agency charged with monitoring
and regulating sources of
emissions of greenhouse gases.
The bill would require the
department, the state board, and
the California Environmental
Protection Agency to hold at least
2 joint meetings per calendar year
to coordinate their implementation
of policies that affect those
specified targets for reducing
organic waste in landfills and the
department’s regulations adopted
to achieve those goals, as
specified.
Melissa
SparksKranz
Environme
ntal
Quality
Sponsor
SB 1330
(Archuleta
D)
2/29/2024
-S. N.R. &
W.
Urban retail
water supplier:
water use.
Current law requires the
Department of Water Resources, in
coordination with the State Water
Resources Control Board, to
conduct necessary studies and
investigations, and recommend for
adoption by the board appropriate
variances for unique uses that can
have a material effect on an urban
retail water supplier’s urban water
use objective. Current law requires
the department, in recommending
variances, to also recommend a
threshold of significance for each
recommended variance. Current
law requires an urban retail water
supplier to request and receive
approval by the board for inclusion
of a variance in calculating their
water use objective. Current law
requires the board to post
specified information on its
internet website relating to
variances, including a list of all
urban retail water suppliers with
approved variances. This bill would
require the board to adopt
variances recommended by the
department for unique uses that
can have a material effect on an
urban retail water supplier’s urban
water use objective. The bill would
provide that variances adopted by
the board shall not be subject to a
threshold of significance. The bill
would require an urban retail water
supplier to self-certify the amount
of water included in its urban
water use objective that is
attributable to a variance. The bill
would require the board to
randomly audit a select number of
variances each year to ensure the
self-certifications are based on
variances adopted by the board.
Melissa
SparksKranz
Environme
ntal
Quality
Pending
Housing Community and Economic Development
Measure/
Author
Location Title Brief Summary Documents
Primary
Lobbyist
Cal Cities
Position
AB 1657
(Wicks D)
3/4/2024-
S. APPR.
The Affordable
Housing Bond
Act of 2024.
This measure would place a $10
billion bond measure on the March
2024 ballot to spur the production
of affordable and supportive
housing.
AB 1657 (Wicks)
Support Letter
2.14.24 AB 1657 (Wicks)
Support Letter
Sen Appr
08.24.23 Jason Rhine
Housing
Communit
y and
Economic
Developm
ent
Support
A
B 1820
(SchiavoD
)
1/29/2024
-A.H. &
C.D. H
ousing
development
projects: application
s: fees and exactions. C
urrent lawrequiresahousing
developmentprojectbesubject
onlytotheordinances,policies,
andstandardsadoptedand in
effectwhenthepreliminary
applicationwassubmitted. Thisbill would authorize a development proponent that submits a preliminary application for a housing development project to request a preliminary fee and exaction estimate, as defined, and would require the local agency to provide the estimate within 10 business days of the submission of the preliminary application.
Brady
Guertin
Housing
Communit
yand
Economic
Developm
ent
Pending
A
B 1886
(AlvarezD
)
2/5/2024-
A.H. &
C.D. H
ousingElement
Law: substantial compliance: Housing
Accountability
Act. T
hePlanningandZoningLaw
requiresacityorcountytoadopta
general planfor landuse
developmentwithin itsboundaries
that includes,amongotherthings,
ahousingelement. Current law,
commonlyreferredtoasthe
HousingElementLaw,prescribes
requirementsforacity’sor
county’spreparationof,and
compliancewith, itshousing
element,andrequiresthe
DepartmentofHousingand
CommunityDevelopmenttoreview
anddeterminewhetherthe
housingelementsubstantially
complieswiththeHousingElement
Law,asspecified. Ifthe
departmentfindsthatadraft
housingelementoramendment
doesnotsubstantiallycomplywith
theHousingElementLaw,current law requires the legislative body o f
thecityorcountytoeither(A)
changethedraftelementor
amendmenttosubstantially
complywiththeHousingElement
Lawor(B)adoptthedrafthousing
elementoramendmentwithout
changesand makespecified
findingsastowhythedraft
elementoramendment
substantiallycomplieswiththe
HousingElementLawdespitethe
findingsofthedepartment. Current law requires a plan
ning
agencytopromptlysubmitan
adoptedhousingelementor
amendmenttothedepartmentand
requiresthedepartmenttoreview
theadoptedhousingelementor
amendmentandreport itsfindings
totheplanningagencywithin60
days. Thisbill wouldrequirea
planningagencythat makesthe
above-describedfindingsastowhy
adrafthousingelementor
amendmentsubstantiallycomplies
withtheHousingElementLaw
despitethefindingsofthe
departmenttosubmitthose
findingstothedepartment. Thebill would require the department to review those finding in its review of an adopted housing element or amendment. The bill would create a rebuttable presumption of validity for the department’s findings as to whether the adopted element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law.
Brady
Guertin
Housing
Communit
yand
Economic
Developm
ent
Pending
AB 1893
(Wicks D)
2/5/2024-
A. H. &
C.D.
Housing
Accountability
Act: housing
disapprovals:
required local
findings.
The Housing Accountability Act,
among other things, prohibits a
local agency from disapproving, or
conditioning approval in a manner
that renders infeasible, a housing
development project for very low,
low-, or moderate-income
households unless the local agency
makes written findings as to one of
certain sets of conditions, as
specified. One set of conditions is
that (A) the jurisdiction has
adopted a housing element that is
in substantial compliance with the
Housing Element Law, and (B) the
housing development project is
inconsistent with both the
jurisdiction’s zoning ordinance and
general plan land use designation
as specified in any element of the
general plan as it existed on the
date the application was deemed
complete. This bill would authorize
a local agency to disapprove or
conditionally approve a housing
development project for very low,
low-, or moderate-income
households if it makes a finding
that (A) the local agency has failed
to adopt a revised housing element
that is in substantial compliance
with the Housing Element Law, (B)
the housing development project is
proposed for a site zoned for
residential use or residential
mixed-use development, and (C)
the housing development project
exceeds specified density
requirements, has a density that is
less than the minimum allowed by
state or local law, or does not
meet objective standards
quantifiable, written development
standards, as specified.
Brady
Guertin
Housing
Communit
y and
Economic
Developm
ent
Pending
Public Safety
Measure/
Author
Location Title Brief Summary Documents
Primary
Lobbyist
Cal Cities
Position
AB 1794
(McCarty
D)
1/4/2024-
A. PRINT
Crimes.
Current law, the Safe
Neighborhoods and Schools Act,
enacted as an initiative statute by
Proposition 47, as approved by the
electors at the November 4, 2014,
statewide general election, makes
the theft of money, labor, or
property petty theft punishable as
a misdemeanor, whenever the
value of the property taken does
not exceed $950. Under current
law, if the value of the property
taken exceeds $950, the theft is
grand theft, punishable as a
misdemeanor or a felony.
Proposition 47 requires shoplifting,
defined as entering a commercial
establishment with the intent to
commit larceny if the value of the
property taken does not exceed
$950, to be punished as a
misdemeanor. This bill would state
the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation relating to theft.
Jolena
Voorhis
Public
Safety
Pending
AB 2943
(Zbur D)
3/11/2024
-A. PUB.
S.
Crimes:
shoplifting.
Existing law divides theft into
grand theft and petty theft.
Existing law punishes petty theft
as a misdemeanor while grand
theft is punished as either a
misdemeanor or a felony. Existing
law lists specific types of theft
which are grand theft and all other
cases of theft as petty theft.
Existing law authorizes a person to
be charged with grand theft if the
property taken exceeds $950 over
the course of distinct but related
acts. This bill would clarify that
those related acts include acts
committed against multiple victims
or in counties other than the
county of the current offense. This
bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Jolena
Voorhis
Public
Safety
Pending
Revenue and Taxation
Measure/
Author
Location Title Brief Summary Documents
Primary
Lobbyist
Cal Cities
Position
AB 2854
(Irwin D)
2/15/2024
-A. PRINT
Bradley-Burns
Uniform Local
Sales and Use
Tax Law.
The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local
Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes
counties and cities to impose local
sales and use taxes in conformity
with the Sales and Use Tax Law.
This bill would make
nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
Ben Triffo
Revenue
and
Taxation
Take to
Policy
Committee
S
B 1164
(Newman
D)
2/21/2024
-S. REV. &
TAX
Property
taxation: new
construction
exclusion: accessory
dwellingunits. T
heCaliforniaConstitution
generally limitsadvalorem taxes
onreal propertyto1%ofthefull cash value of that property. For purposes of this limitation, “full cash value” is defined as the assessor’s valuation of real property as shown on the 1975–7 6 taxbill under“full cashvalue”or,
thereafter,theappraisedvalueof
thatreal propertywhenpurchased,
newlyconstructed,orachange in
ownershiphasoccurred. Thisbill would exclude from classification as “newly constructed” and “new construction” the construction of an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, until 15 years have passed since construction on the accessory dwelling unit was completed or there is a subseque nt
change inownershipofthe
accessorydwellingunit. Thebill would require the property own er
to,priortoorwithin30daysof
completionoftheproject,notify
theassessorthattheproperty
owner intendstoclaim the
exclusionforanaccessorydwelling
unitandsubmitanaffidavitstating
thattheownershall makeagood
faithefforttoensuretheunitwill be used as residential housing fo r
thedurationtheownerreceives
theexclusion. Thebill would
requirethe StateBoardof
Equalizationtoprescribethe
mannerandform forclaimingthe
exclusionandwouldrequireall additional documents necessar yto
supporttheexclusiontobefiledby
thepropertyownerwiththe
assessornot laterthan6 months
afterthecompletionoftheproject. Because this bill would require an affidavit by a property owner and a higher level of service from county assessors, it would impose a statemandated local program.
Ben Triffo
Revenue
and
Taxation
Oppose
(Letter
Pending)
SB 1494 (Glazer D)
2/29/2024
-S. L. GOV.
Local agencies:
Sales and Use
Tax: retailers.
The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local
Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes
counties and cities to impose a
local sales and use tax in
accordance with that law for
tangible personal property sold at
retail in the city or county, or
purchased for storage, use, or
other consumption in the city or
county. This bill would prohibit, on
or after January 1, 2024, a local
agency from entering into,
renewing, or extending any form of
agreement that would result,
directly or indirectly, in the
payment, transfer, diversion, or
rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax
revenues to any retailer, as
defined, in exchange for the
retailer locating or continuing to
maintain a place of business that
serves as the place of sale, as
defined, within the territorial
jurisdiction of the local agency if
that place of business would
generate revenue, from the sale of
tangible property delivered to and
received by the purchaser in the
territorial jurisdiction of another
local agency, for the local agency
under the Bradley-Burns Uniform
Local Sales and Use Tax Law. The
bill would make those forms of
agreements existing before
January 1, 2024, void and
unenforceable on January 1, 2030.
The bill would require a local
agency to post those forms of
agreements existing before
January 1, 2024, on the local
agency’s internet website until the
form of agreement expires or is
made void and unenforceable by
these provisions. The bill would
make related findings and
declarations.
Ben Triffo
Revenue
and
Taxation
Pending
Total Measures: 19
Total Tracking Forms: 19
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