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Summary:
Current law relating to workers compensation, until January 1, 2025, provides that, in the case of certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes post- traumatic stress disorder that developed or manifested during a period while the member is in the service of the department or unit, and establishes a disputable presumption in this regard. This bill would provide, only until January 1, 2030, that in the case of certain state nurses, psychiatric technicians, and various medical and social services specialists, the term “injury” also includes post- traumatic stress that develops or manifests itself during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit. The bill would apply to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2024.
The bill would prohibit compensation from being paid for a claim of injury unless the member has performed services for the department or unit for at least 6 months, unless the injury is caused by a sudden and extraordinary employment condition.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
AB 1166 (Bains D) Liability for naloxone hydrochloride administration.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would provide that a person who is not trained in emergency medical services or as a health care provider and who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders treatment at the scene of an opioid overdose or suspected opioid overdose by administering naloxone hydrochloride is not liable for civil damages resulting from an act or omission. The bill would also provide that a person who furnishes naloxone hydrochloride to that untrained person for use at the scene of an opioid overdose or suspected opioid overdose is not liable for civil damages resulting from an act or omission.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Public Safety
AB 1171 (Rubio, Blanca D) Unlicensed cannabis businesses and operators.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the number of unlicensed cannabis businesses and operators and to provide local and state agencies with additional tools to assist in the enforcement of existing cannabis statutes and regulations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1175 (Quirk-Silva D) Outdoor advertising displays: redevelopment agency project areas.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Outdoor Advertising Act regulates the placement of an off-premises advertising display along highways that generally advertises business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at a location other than the property where the display is located. The act does not apply to an on-premises advertising display, which generally advertises business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at the location where the display is located. Until January 1, 2023, the act treats an off-premises advertising display developed as part of and within the boundary limits of a redevelopment agency project, as those boundaries existed on December 29, 2011, as an on-premises advertising display if it meets specified criteria for good cause. From January 1, 2024, to January 1,
2025, this bill would allow the applicable city, county, or city and county to request from the department a 10-year extension for treating a display in a redevelopment agency project, as described above, as an on-premises display if the display meets the criteria for a finding of good cause, was in use on December 31, 2022, and complies with specified provisions of the act, including, but not limited to, the act’s licensing and zoning requirements. The bill would require the department to provide the extension upon a finding of good cause.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
AB 1176 (Zbur D) Local government.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prohibits a city, county, or city and county from restricting which types of electric vehicles may access an electric vehicle charging station approved for passenger vehicles that both is publicly accessible and the construction of which was funded, at least in part, by the state or through moneys collected from ratepayers. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
AB 1196 (Villapudua D) Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, a bond act approved by the voters as Proposition 1 at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to finance a water quality, supply, and infrastructure improvement program, as specified. Under the bond act, $520,000,000 is available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditures, grants, and loans for projects that improve water quality or help provide clean, safe, and reliable drinking water to all Californians. Current law requires projects eligible for this funding to help improve water quality for a beneficial use. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
AB 1205 (Bauer-Kahan D) Water: permits and licenses: temporary changes: water or water rights transfers.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to consider a petition for a long-term water or water rights transfer involving a change of point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use.
Current law requires a long-term transfer to be for a period over one year. Existing law requires, after the expiration of that long-term transfer period, all rights to automatically revert to the original holders of the right without any action by the board. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that later provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
AB 1206 (Pellerin D) Voter registration database: Electronic Registration Information Center.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the Secretary of State to apply for membership with the Electronic Registration Information Center and, if that application is approved, require the Secretary of State to execute a membership agreement with the Electronic Registration Information Center on behalf of the state. The bill would require the Secretary of State to ensure that any confidential information or data provided by another state remains confidential, and would authorize the Secretary of State to transmit confidential information or data pursuant to that agreement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1207 (Irwin D) Cannabis: labeling and advertising.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, including retail commercial cannabis activity. MAUCRSA places specified requirements on the packaging of cannabis and cannabis products. MAUCRSA prohibits a licensee from engaging in specified advertising or marketing activities, including, among others, advertising or marketing in a manner that is false or untrue or tends to create a misleading impression. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to cannabis labeling and advertising.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 1211 (Mathis R) Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: internet website information: updates.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997, administered by the State Water Resources Control Board, establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to provide grants or revolving fund loans for the design and construction of projects for public water systems that will enable those systems to meet safe drinking water standards. Current law requires the board, at least once every 2 years, to post information on its internet website regarding implementation of the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law and expenditures from the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, as specified This bill would require the board to post the information at least annually.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources, Public Works AB 1213 (Ortega D) Workers’ compensation: aggregate disability payments.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of their employment. Current law requires every employer to establish a utilization review process, as described, and establishes an independent medical review process to resolve disputes over a utilization review decision, as specified. Current law requires that aggregate disability payments
for a single injury occurring on or after certain dates be limited, as provided. This bill would require that if a denial of treatment requested by a treating physician is subsequently overturned by independent medical review or by the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, any temporary disability paid or owing from the date of the denial until the treatment is authorized would not be included in the calculation of the aggregate disability payments.
Priority: HOT
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
AB 1215 (Carrillo, Wendy D) Pets Assistance With Support Grant Program: homeless shelters: domestic violence shelters: pets.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the department to Department of Housing and Community Development and administer the Pets Assistance With Support Grant Program (PAWS), to award grants to qualified homeless shelters and qualified domestic violence shelters, as defined. The bill would require grant recipients to meet certain availability and service requirements as they relate to the pets of people experiencing homelessness and people escaping domestic violence. The bill would provide that the program would only become operative upon appropriation by the Legislature.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Homelessness
AB 1218 (Lowenthal D) Housing Crisis Act of 2019.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Housing Crisis Act of 2019 prohibits an affected county or affected city, as defined, from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that would change the general plan land use designation, specific plan land use designation, or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use below what was allowed under the land use designation and zoning ordinances of the affected county or affected city in effect on January 1, 2018. The act does not prohibit an affected county or an affected city from changing a land use designation or zoning ordinance to a less intensive use if the city or county concurrently changes the development standards, policies, and conditions applicable to other parcels within the jurisdiction to ensure that there is no net loss in residential capacity. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing, Homelessness AB 1219 (Berman D) Elections: ballots.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law imposes ballot layout specifications, including specific requirements relating to the placement of certain contests, the size and font of text, and the instructions provided to voters. This bill would revise and recast these provisions. The bill would specify the font and location of certain text and would revise the ballot instructions provided to voters. The bill would require those instructions to communicate to voters, in plain language, how to cast a vote in a contest, how to write in a candidate, and what to do if a mistake is made.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1221 (Chen R) Parking meter fees.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law allows a local authority to establish parking meter zones and fix the rate of fees for those zones by ordinance. Existing law prohibits a local authority from requiring payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device, as specified. This bill would instead authorize a local authority to require payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1231 (Santiago D) Telecommunications: universal service.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. The act makes legislative findings and declarations regarding lifeline telephone service, including that the program should be implemented in a way that is equitable and nondiscriminatory.
This bill would additionally include that the program should be implemented in a way that provides the most benefit to low-income Californians.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
AB 1235 (Ortega D) Property taxation: new construction.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full 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 1975–76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred. Pursuant to constitutional authorization, existing property tax law excludes from the definition of “newly constructed” for these purposes the construction or addition of an active solar energy system, as defined, through the 2025–26 fiscal year. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance
AB 1236 (Grayson D) Fire protection: residential fire sprinklers.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes specified local jurisdictions and fire protection districts to make changes or modifications that are more stringent than specified state standards, as provided. Current law explicitly neither mandates nor prohibits a fire protection district or a local jurisdiction from mandating the installation of residential fire sprinkler systems in the construction of new dwelling units or the retrofitting of existing dwelling units. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
subsequent legislation that would identify a consistent and safe minimum size of residential fire sprinklers that would reduce costs for homeowners and property owners.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing, Public Safety AB 1243 (Essayli R) Property taxation: exemptions.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution exempts from taxation, among other types of property, growing crops, property used for free public libraries and free museums, property used exclusively for public schools, community colleges, state colleges, and state universities, and property belonging to the state or a local government. Current property tax law provides that these exemptions are as specified in the California Constitution, except as otherwise provided under certain other provisions of the California Constitution. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the statutory provisions implementing those exemptions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
AB 1246 (Nguyen, Stephanie D) Public Employees’ Retirement System optional settlements.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law permits a member of the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) who retires on or before December 1, 2017, to elect from among several optional settlements for the purpose of structuring the member’s retirement allowance. Current law prohibits a member who elects to receive specified optional settlements from changing the member’s retirement status after election of an optional settlement unless a specified event occurs, including the death of a beneficiary who predeceased the member, a dissolution of marriage or a legal separation in which the judgment dividing the community property awards the total interest in the retirement system to the retired member, or in an annulment of marriage in which the court confirms the annulment. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
AB 1248 (Bryan D) Local redistricting: independent redistricting commissions.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require a county, general law city, charter city, school district, or community college district that contains over 300,000 residents to establish an independent redistricting commission to adopt district boundaries after each federal decennial census. The bill would require a county, city, school district, or community college district with over 300,000 residents that does not enact an ordinance, resolution, or charter amendment establishing an independent redistricting commission by March 1, 2030, and March 1 of every subsequent year ending in 0, to establish a 14-member independent redistricting commission according to specified procedures, including procedures for the random selection of the members of the commission from among applicants meeting certain qualifications. By requiring certain local jurisdictions to establish independent redistricting commissions to adopt district boundaries, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1249 (Ta R) Sales and use taxes: exemption: tax holiday: school supplies.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would, on and after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, exempt from sales and use taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified school supplies, as defined, for the two-day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the third Saturday of July of each year and ending at 11:59 p.m. on the following day.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, K-12 Education
AB 1250 (Friedman D) Public contracts: public entities.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law generally regulates the formation and awarding, among other things, of a contract by a public entity and defines the term “public entity” for that purpose. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that definition.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1261 (Santiago D) Crime: peace officers.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law classifies various officers and employees of state and local agencies as peace officers.
Current law requires a uniformed peace officer to wear a badge, nameplate, or other device that bears the identification number or name of the officer. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1272 (Wood D) State Water Resources Control Board: drought planning.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the State Water Resources Control Board to establish a program, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to adopt principles and guidelines for diversion and use of water in coastal watersheds, as specified, during times of water shortage for drought preparedness and climate resiliency. The bill would require that the principles and guidelines provide for the development of watershed-level plans to support public trust uses, public health and safety, and the human right to water in times of water shortage, among other things. The bill also would require the state board, prior to adopting those principles and guidelines, to allow for public comment and hearing, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources
AB 1277 (Wallis R) Land use: housing.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law declares the importance of, and general responsibility for, making housing available and affordable for all Californians. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 1278 (Rodriguez D) Workers’ compensation: medical provider networks: employee notifications.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to establish or modify a medical provider network for the provision of medical treatment to injured employees. Current law requires every medical provider network to post on its internet website information about how to obtain a copy of any notification regarding the medical provider network that is required to be given to an employee by regulations adopted by the administrative director. This bill would additionally authorize an employee to request that a copy of a specified notification be provided to the treating physician or other designee of the employee by electronic means.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
AB 1282 (Lowenthal D) Mental health programs: standards: delegation.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to establish standards for specified mental health programs and to apply those standards to any facility licensed as a social rehabilitation facility. Under current law, this requirement, however, does not limit the authority of the department to delegate the evaluation and enforcement of the program standards to a county mental health program if a licensed social rehabilitation facility has a contractual relationship with a county mental health program and the county has requested the delegation. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that latter provision governing delegation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 1287 (Alvarez D) Density Bonus Law: additional density bonus and incentives or concessions: California Coastal Act of 1976.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require a city, county, or city and county to grant an additional density bonus, calculated as specified, when an applicant proposes to construct a housing development that conforms to specified requirements and provides 24% of the base density units to lower income households, conforms to specified requirements and provides 15% of the base density units to very low income households, or conforms to specified requirements and provides 44% of the total units to moderate-income units. The
bill would require a city, county, or city and county to grant additional incentives or concessions for a project that meets any of those categories and also includes certain percentages of units for persons and families of moderate income. By imposing additional duties on local officials in administering the Density Bonus Law, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing AB 1295 (Friedman D) The Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Strategic Growth Council to develop and administer the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through projects that implement land use, housing, transportation, and agricultural land preservation practices to support infill and compact development and that support other related and coordinated public policy objectives.
Current law requires the executive director of the council to report the progress on the implementation of the program in its annual report to the Legislature. This bill would additionally require the executive director of the council to post its progress report on its internet website.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1297 (Quirk-Silva D) Public restrooms.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
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 by July 1, 2024. 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 by March 1, 2025, 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.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Homelessness
AB 1308 (Quirk-Silva D) Planning and Zoning Law: single-family residences: parking requirements.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes. This bill would prohibit a public agency, as defined, from imposing a new minimum parking requirement on a project to remodel, renovate, or add to a single-family residence, except as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 1318 (Rivas, Luz D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential projects.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.This bill would expand the exemption by increasing the size of a residential project that would qualify for the exemption to include a project of not more than 5 acres in total area. The bill would require a lead agency approving an exempt residential project on an urbanized infill site to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Housing AB 1321 (Bonta D) California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the Cradle-to-Career Data System for the purpose of connecting individuals and organizations to trusted information and resources, as a source for actionable data and research on education, economic, and health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities, and to provide for expanded access to tools and services that support the education-to-employment pipeline, as specified. This bill, the It Takes a Village Act of 2023, subject upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for these purposes, would establish the California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program to be administered by the State Department of Social Services or another department within the California Health and Human Services Agency. The bill would require the department to grant awards on a competitive basis to eligible entities that are Promise Neighborhoods, other community-based networks, or multineighborhood regional cradle-to- career networks, as those terms are defined, to either implement a comprehensive, integrated continuum of cradle-to-career solutions at the neighborhood level or support the civic infrastructure and backbone of cradle-to-career networks that support their network partners to accomplish systems change. The bill would define “cradle-to-career” to mean a system of integrated services that begins before birth and leads to appropriate postsecondary success, including academic, occupational, and independent living, that benefits the individual and community as a whole.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Human Resources, K-12 Education AB 1332 (Carrillo, Juan D) Community revitalization and investment authorities Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law establishes community revitalization and investment authorities to carry out a community revitalization plan within a community revitalization and investment area. Curren law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution creating an authority consisting of 3 members of the legislative body of the city, county, or city and county that created the authority and 2 public members.
Current law authorizes a city, county, city and county, and special district, as defined, to create an authority by entering into a joint powers agreement, consisting of a majority of members from the legislative bodies of the public agencies that created the authority and a minimum of 2 public members.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Community Development, Developmental Services AB 1334 (Pellerin D) Mobilehome parks: additional spaces: exemption from additional fees or charges.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law, the Mobilehome Parks Act, generally regulates various classifications of mobilehome and related vehicle parks, and imposes enforcement duties on the Department of Housing and Community Development and local enforcement agencies. The act authorizes any person to file an application with the governing body of a city or county for a conditional use permit for a mobilehome park. The act requires a person, before operating a mobilehome park, and each year thereafter, to obtain a valid permit from the enforcement agency in order to operate the park. The act also requires the owner of a mobilehome park to obtain a permit to create, move, shift, or alter park lot lines.This bill would authorize an owner of an existing mobilehome park that is subject to, or intends to qualify for, a valid permit to operate the park, to apply to the enforcement agency to add additional spaces to the mobilehome park not to exceed 10% of the previously approved number of spaces in the mobilehome park. The bill would exempt the additional spaces from any business tax, local registration fee, use permit fee, or other fee that does not apply to the existing spaces in the park. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
AB 1335 (Zbur D) Local government: transportation planning and land use: sustainable communities strategy.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Would, commencing January 1, 2024, would require each transportation planning agency to follow certain population projection procedures when updating the regional transportation plan. The bill would require the sustainable communities strategy to be based on population projections produced by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts used in determining applicable city and county regional housing needs, in consultation with each council of governments. The bill would impose similar reconciliation procedures, as described above, when there are differences in the population forecast provided by the council of governments and the Department of Finance. By imposing additional duties on transportation planning agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Transportation AB 1337 (Wicks D) State Water Resources Control Board: water shortage enforcement.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Would authorize the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt regulations for various water conservation purposes, including, but not limited to, to prevent the waste, unreasonable use, unreasonable method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion of water, and to implement these regulations through orders curtailing the diversion or use of water under any claim of right. The bill would require the board to provide notice and an opportunity to be heard before issuing an order, except where an opportunity to be heard before the issuance of an order would be impractical given the likelihood of harm to the purposes of the various water conservation regulations. The bill would provide that a person or entity may be civilly liable for a violation of any regulation or order issued by the board pursuant to these provisions in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for each day in which the violation has occurred and $2,500 for each acre-foot of water diverted or used in violation of the
applicable requirement. The bill would authorize the imposition of this civil liability by the superior court, as specified, or administratively by the board. The bill would provide that a regulation or order issued by the board pursuant to these provisions, or by emergency regulation, is exempt from the alifornia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources AB 1347 (Ting D) Solid waste: paper waste: proofs of purchase.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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Would require a business, as defined, that accepts payment through cash, credit, or debit transactions, subject to certain exceptions, to provide a proof of purchase to a consumer only at the consumer’s option and would prohibit a business from printing a paper proof of purchase if the consumer opts to not receive a proof of purchase, unless otherwise required by state or federal law. The bill would require the proof of purchase to be provided in electronic form or paper form, at the consumer’s option, if a consumer opts to receive a proof of purchase, unless a prescribed form is otherwise required by state or federal law or the business is incapable of sending an electronic proof of purchase due to unexpected technical difficulties. The bill would prohibit a paper proof of purchase provided to a consumer by a business from containing bisphenol A or bisphenol S, and from including items not essential to the transaction, including, but not limited to, coupons or advertisements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
AB 1348 (Grayson D) Local government: open meetings.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, the California Public Records Act, requires state agencies and local agencies to make public records available for inspection, subject to specified criteria, and with specified exceptions.
Current law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires the meetings of the legislative body of a local agency to be conducted openly and publicly, with specified exceptions. Current law makes agendas of public meetings and other writings distributed to the members of the governing board disclosable public records, with certain exceptions.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the public record provisions governing the writings related to agendas of public meetings.
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1353 (Quirk-Silva D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-A. PRINT
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The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. That law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce within its jurisdiction the provisions of the State Building Standards Code, the provisions of the State Housing Law, and specified other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to that law. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision naming the State Housing Law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1355 (Valencia D) Employment: benefits: electronic notice and documents.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows an earned income credit against personal income tax, and a payment in excess of that credit amount, to an eligible individual that is equal to that portion of the earned income tax credit allowed by federal law as determined by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor as set forth in the annual Budget Act.
The Earned Income Tax Credit Information Act requires an employer, as defined, to notify all employees that they may be eligible for the federal and California earned income tax credit by handing specified documents directly to the employee or mailing the specified documents to the employee’s last known address. This bill would also authorize the above-described notice to be provided to the employee by email if the employee opts into receipt of electronic notification.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 1365 (Ortega D) Public employees: retraining and rehabilitation.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law requires every public agency, its insurance carrier, and the Department of Rehabilitation to jointly formulate procedures for the selection and referral of injured full-time public employees who may be benefited by rehabilitation services and retrained for other positions in public service. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 1377 (Friedman D) Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law requires the Governor to establish the Interagency Council on Homelessness, and requires the council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California, and promote systems integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness while focusing on designing systems to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Current law requires the council to regularly seek guidance from and, at least twice a year, meet with an advisory committee. This bill would add representatives of California transit agencies whose operations are impacted by homeless persons to the advisory committee.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Homelessness
AB 1379 (Papan D) Local agencies: financial affairs.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law requires that the officer of each local agency who has charge of the financial records furnish to the Controller a report of all the financial transactions of the local agency during the preceding fiscal year. If a local agency maintains an internet website, current law requires that the local agency post information on the annual compensation of its elected officials, as specified. This bill would
make nonsubstantive changes to that law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Finance
AB 1385 (Garcia D) Local transportation funds: transit operators.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law provides various sources of funding to public transit operators. Under the Mills-Alquist- Deddeh Act, also known as the Transportation Development Act, revenues from a 1/4% sales tax in each county are available, among other things, for allocation by the transportation planning agency to transit operators, subject to certain financial requirements for an operator to meet in order to be eligible to receive funds. Current law sets forth alternative ways an operator may qualify for funding, including a standard under which the allocated funds do not exceed 50% of the operator’s total operating costs, as specified, or the maintenance by the operator of a specified farebox ratio of fare revenues to operating costs. Current law establishes the required farebox ratio as 20% in urbanized areas and 10% in nonurbanized areas. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision relating to operator eligibility in urbanized areas based on the farebox ratio.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Transportation
AB 1386 (Gabriel D) Veterans housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Te Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014 requires the California Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (referred to collectively as “the departments”) to establish and implement programs that focus on veterans at risk for homelessness or experiencing temporary or chronic homelessness, as specified.
This bill would authorize an entity tasked with making referrals of units targeted to extremely low income households to match prospective tenants with incomes at 60% of the area median income, as defined, in the event that an eligible tenant is unable to be matched to and accept placement in an available unit. The bill would require an entity tasked with making referrals to these units to make a good faith effort to match a tenant with an extremely low income, document these good faith efforts, and make this documentation available to the departments upon request.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1388 (McKinnor D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law sets forth the general responsibilities and roles of the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the California Housing Finance Agency in carrying out state housing policies and programs. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing
AB 1403 (Garcia D) Public safety: fireworks: enforcement: funding.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law provides that it is unlawful for any person to sell, or offer for sale, safe and sane fireworks, as defined, at any time outside of specified periods of time. This bill would provide that it is not unlawful for any person to sell, or offer for sale, novelties, except as provided. The bill would define novelties to mean those devices containing small amounts of chemical composition, which are designed to produce limited visual, motion, or audible effects, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1409 (Lowenthal D) Planning and zoning: zoning regulations.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, and open space, as specified. Current law requires those zoning ordinances to be consistent with the general plan of the county or city and authorizes any resident or property owner within a city or a county to bring an action or proceeding in the superior court to enforce this requirement, as specified.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Developmental Services
AB 1413 (Ting D) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: reports.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified.
Current law requires the Interagency Council on Homelessness, upon appropriation, to distribute $650,000,000 among cities, counties, and continuums of care, for round 1 of the program in the 2019– 20 fiscal year, as provided. Current law requires a recipient, after receiving program funds, by January 1 of the year following receipt of the funds and annually on that date thereafter until all funds have been expended, to submit a report to the council, as specified, and requires each applicant that receives a round 1 program allocation, no later than January 1, 2026, to submit to the council a final report in a format provided by the council, as well as detailed uses of all program funds. This bill would, instead, require each applicant that receives a round 1 program allocation to submit the final report by July 1, 2026.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing, Homelessness AB 1418 (McKinnor D) Tenancy: local regulations: contact with law enforcement or criminal convictions.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law prohibits a local agency from authorizing or requiring the imposition of a penalty against a resident, owner, tenant, landlord, or other person as a consequence of law enforcement or emergency assistance being summoned by certain individuals, including a victim of abuse or crime, as specified.
This bill would prohibit a local government from, among other things, imposing a penalty against a resident, owner, tenant, landlord, or other person as a consequence of contact with a law enforcement agency, as specified. The bill similarly would prohibit a local government from requiring or encouraging a landlord to perform a criminal background check of a tenant or a prospective tenant, or to evict or penalize a tenant because of the tenant’s association with another tenant or household member who has had contact with a law enforcement agency or has a criminal conviction. The bill would preempt inconsistent local rules and regulations and prescribe remedies for violations. The bill would require a local government to repeal, or bring into compliance, an inconsistent local ordinance, rule, policy, or regulation within one year of the effective date of the provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 1424 (Jones-Sawyer D) Occupational safety and health: cannabis delivery employee.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would prohibit a cannabis delivery employee, as defined, from being laid off, discharged, or subject to an adverse employment action for refusing to perform work in violation of prescribed safety standards or work that would create a real and apparent hazard to the employee or fellow employees. The bill would create a cause of action for wages for the time an employee is without work as a result of a violation of that bill provision and would authorize an employee who believes they have been discharged or otherwise discriminated against in violation of that bill provision to file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 1431 (Zbur D) Hiring of real property.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law regulates terms and conditions for the hiring of real property that applies to all persons who hire dwelling units located within this state, including tenants, lessees, boarders, lodgers, and others, however denominated. For these purposes, current law excludes from the term “persons who hire” a person who maintains transient occupancy in a hotel, motel, residence club, or other facility that is or would be subject to a specified occupancy tax, as prescribed. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Human Resources
AB 1439 (Garcia D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law generally sets forth the duties of the Department of Housing and Community Development, which is the principal state department responsible for coordinating federal-state relationships in housing and community development and for implementing the California Statewide Housing Plan. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to housing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1443 (Chen R) Cities and counties.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law prescribes the powers and duties that are common to cities and counties, including the powers and duties of legislative bodies. Under existing law, whenever a statute requires a local agency to take legislative action by resolution, and the local agency’s charter requires it to take legislative action by ordinance, action by ordinance is compliance with the statute for all purposes. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1444 (Chen R) Cities and counties.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Existing law prescribes the powers and duties that are common to cities and counties, including the powers and duties of legislative bodies. Under existing law, if a statute requires a local agency to take legislative action by resolution, and the local agency’s charter requires it to take legislative action by ordinance, action by ordinance is compliance with the statute for all purposes. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1446 (Chen R) Pupil records: attendance.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and authorizes school districts and other local educational agencies to provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires attendance in all schools and classes to be recorded and kept according to specified regulations. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: K-12 Education
AB 1447 (Flora R) Vehicles: motorized scooters.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Existing law states a class 1 motorized scooter would have a floorboard and a motor that ceases to provide power when the scooter reaches 15 miles per hour, a class 2 motorized scooter would have a floorboard or a seat and footrests, a wheel width of at least 6 inches, and a motor that ceases to provide power at 20 miles per hour, and may have headlights, turn signals, a speedometer, and brake and tail lights, and a class 3 motorized scooter would be similar to a class 2 motorized scooter except
that the class 3 motorized scooter would be required to have one or more headlights, turn signals, a speedometer, and brake and tail lights, and the motor ceases to provide power at 28 miles per hour.
This bill would require an operator of a class 3 motorized scooter to wear a helmet regardless of the age of the operator. The bill would prohibit an operator of a class 1 motorized scooter from operating the motorized scooter in excess of 15 miles per hour, a class 2 motorized scooter in excess of 20 miles per hour, and a class 3 motorized scooter in excess of 28 miles per hour. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1448 (Wallis R) Cannabis: enforcement of local laws.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
This bill would authorize a local jurisdiction, by ordinance, to make a violation of a local law relating to described activities relating to cannabis or cannabis products subject to an administrative fine or penalty, as prescribed, including a requirement that the ordinance set forth the administrative procedures that govern the local jurisdiction’s imposition, enforcement, collection, and administrative review of those administrative fines or penalties. The bill would authorize those administrative procedures to provide for a reasonable period of time for a person responsible for a continuing violation to correct or otherwise remedy the violation before the imposition of administrative fines or penalties. The bill would establish related administrative and appeal procedures, including, among others, authorizing the establishment, by ordinance, of a procedure to collect these administrative fines or penalties by a special lien upon the parcel of land on which the violation occurred. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
AB 1449 (Alvarez D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law sets forth the general responsibilities and roles of the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the California Housing Finance Agency in carrying out state housing policies and programs. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
AB 1451 (Jackson D) Behavioral health crisis treatment.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage for treatment of a behavioral health crisis that is identified during an appointment at a contracted facility where an enrollee or insured is receiving treatment from a contracted provider for a medical condition, as specified. The bill would authorize treatment for the behavioral health crisis to be provided at the contracted facility, if the facility has the appropriate staff to provide that care. The bill would require the treatment to be provided without preauthorization, and would authorize the provider or facility to use same-day billing to obtain reimbursement for both the medical and behavioral health services provided to the enrollee or insured. Because a violation of the bill’s requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime,
the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
AB 1455 (Papan D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The State Housing Law establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. That law requires the building department of every city or county to enforce within its jurisdiction the provisions of the State Building Standards Code, the provisions of the State Housing Law, and specified other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to that law. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision naming the State Housing Law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
AB 1460 (Bennett D) Local government.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, provides the exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts, except as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision naming the act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1482 (Gabriel D) Electric vehicle charging infrastructure: local publicly owned electric utilities.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would establish, for local publicly owned electric utilities, an average service energization time for electric vehicle charging infrastructure of 125 business days, and would require local publicly owned electric utilities to annually report certain information to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) regarding the service energization time for electric vehicle charging infrastructure projects. The bill would require the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and the Energy Commission, in consultation with electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities, to jointly host an annual public workshop to review and evaluate the information submitted by electrical corporations under the PUC’s resolution and the information submitted by local publicly owned electric utilities, as required by the bill, and to revise, if needed, the average service energization time for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works, Transportation AB 1484 (Zbur D) Temporary public employees.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (act) authorizes local public employees, as defined, to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on matters of labor relations. Current law generally requires that the scope of representation under the act include all matters relating to employment conditions and employer- employee relations, while excepting the consideration of the merits, necessity, or organization of any service or activity provided by law or executive order. Current law states that the Legislature finds and declares that the duties and responsibilities of local agency employer representatives under the act are substantially similar to the duties and responsibilities required under existing collective bargaining enforcement procedures and therefore the costs incurred by the local agency employer representatives in performing those duties and responsibilities under that act are not reimbursable as state-mandated costs. 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.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources, Public Safety
AB 1485 (Haney D) Housing element: enforcement: Attorney General.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law authorizes the department to notify the office of the Attorney General, that a city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the department finds that the housing element or an amendment to the housing element does not substantially comply with specified provisions of the Planning and Zoning Law, or that the local government has taken action or failed to act in violation of specified provisions of law relating to housing, including, among others, the Housing Accountability Act, the Density Bonus Law, and the Housing Crisis Act of 2019. Current law provides that an intervention takes place when a nonparty becomes a party to an action or proceeding between other persons by, among other things, joining a plaintiff in claiming what is sought by the complaint. Current law requires the court to permit a nonparty to intervene in the action or proceeding if a provision of law confers an unconditional right to intervene. This bill would permit the Office of the Attorney General to intervene as a matter of unconditional right in any legal action addressing a violation of the housing laws for which the department may notify the office of the Attorney General that a city, county, or city and county has violated, as described above.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1488 (Wallis R) California Environmental Quality Act: water conveyance or storage projects: judicial review.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA establishes a procedure by which a person may seek judicial review of the decision of the lead agency made pursuant to CEQA. This bill would require the Judicial Council to adopt rules of court applicable to actions or proceedings brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the certification or adoption of an environmental impact report for water conveyance or storage projects, as defined, or the granting of project approvals, including any appeals to the court of appeal or the Supreme Court, to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within
270 days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court to an action or proceeding seeking judicial review of the lead agency’s action related to those projects. The bill would require the lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings for a water conveyance or storage project, as provided, and to include a specified notice in the draft EIR and final EIR for the water conveyance or storage project. By imposing additional duties on lead agencies, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources AB 1490 (Lee D) Affordable housing development projects: adaptive reuse.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to give priority with respect to funding under the Multifamily Housing Program to projects that prioritize adaptive reuse in existing developed areas served with public infrastructure, as specified. This bill would define adaptive reuse as the retrofitting and repurposing of an existing building to create new residential units. The bill would require a local government to provide an affordable housing project that is an adaptive reuse project and that guarantees that 100% of the units be made available for lower income households, 50% of which shall be made available to extremely low income households or very low income households, specified benefits and exemptions by local government agencies, including, among other things, approval of all entitlements and permits applicable to the project in 30 days or less, exemption from any minimum floor area ratio, and waiver of local building and permit fees, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1491 (Grayson D) California Environmental Quality Act: master environmental impact report.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above provision. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality AB 1493 (Ortega D) Public contracts: electronic transmission.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes counties, a city and county, and state agencies to enter into and make payment on contracts by way of electronic transmission, including the issuance of solicitation documents and the receipt of responses thereto. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1504 (McCarty D) Planning and zoning: adoption of regulations: electric vehicle charging stations.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law requires every city, county, and city and county to administratively approve an application to install electric vehicle charging stations through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit and requires the review of an application to install an electric vehicle charging station to be limited to the building official’s review of whether it meets all health and safety requirements of local, state, and federal law. Existing law prohibits a city, county, or city and county from denying an application for a use permit to install an electric vehicle charging station unless it makes written findings that the proposed installation would have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety, and there is no feasible method to satisfactorily mitigate or avoid the specific, adverse impact. Existing law requires that any conditions imposed on an application to install an electric vehicle charging station be designed to mitigate the specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety at the lowest cost possible. Existing law defines “electric vehicle charging station” or “charging station” for these purposes. This bill 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.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 1505 (Rodriguez D) Seismic retrofitting: soft story multifamily housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Current law establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing for the purposes of providing financial assistance to owners of soft story multifamily housing for seismic retrofitting to protect individuals living in multifamily housing that have been determined to be at risk of collapse in earthquakes, as specified. Current law also establishes the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund, and its subsidiary account, the Seismic Retrofitting Account, within the State Treasury. Current law provides that the Legislature will appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2023–24 Budget Act to the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing Fund for the purposes of carrying out the program. Current law requires the California Residential Mitigation Program to develop and administer the program, as specified. Current law makes these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2042, and repeals them as of January 1, 2043. This bill would, instead, appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the CRMP for the purpose of implementing the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story Multifamily Housing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Housing
AB 1508 (Ramos D) Department of Housing and Community Development: California Statewide Housing Plan.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law requires that the California Statewide Housing Plan incorporate, among other things, a statement of housing goals, policies, and objectives, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to update and provide a revision of the plan to the Legislature every 4 years, as specified. Current law requires each update and revision to the plan occurring on or after January 1, 2023, to include an inventory of the number of affordable units needed to meet the state’s affordable housing needs for the plan period and to incorporate technical updates and provide technical recommendations, as specified. This bill would require each update and revision to the plan to also
include a goal to increase home ownership among first-time home buyers in the state by at least 20% above the average of home ownership rates among first-time home buyers over the prior four year period.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing AB 1513 (Calderon D) Electrical corporations: financing orders: wildfire mitigation expenses.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law authorizes an electrical corporation to file an application requesting the commission to issue a financing order to authorize the recovery of costs and expenses related to a catastrophic wildfire, including fire risk mitigation capital expenditures, through the issuance of bonds by the electrical corporation that are secured by a rate component, as provided. This bill would, in addition to capital expenditures related to wildfires, authorize the use of bonds secured by a rate component for recovery of wildfire mitigation efforts, operational and maintenance expenses related to an electrical corporation’s wildfire mitigation plan, wildfire risk mitigation costs, and vegetation management costs and expenses. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works, Wildfires AB 1515 (Papan D) Planning and zoning.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law makes declarations of state policy and legislative intent, including finding and declaring that California’s land is an exhaustible resource, not just a commodity, and is essential to the economy, environment, and general well-being of the people of California. Current law further declares it is the policy of the state and the intent of the Legislature to protect California’s land resource, to ensure its preservation and use in ways that are economically and socially desirable in an attempt to improve the quality of life in California. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality AB 1519 (Bains D) Vehicles: catalytic converters.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Would prohibit a dealer or retail seller from selling a vehicle equipped with a catalytic converter unless the catalytic converter has been permanently marked with the vehicle identification number (VIN) of the vehicle to which it is attached with a label, as specified. The bill would authorize a dealer or retail seller to impose a reasonable charge on the purchaser of a motor vehicle for complying with this requirement, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1521 (Fong, Mike D) Proposition 65: certificate of merit.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 imposes civil penalties upon persons who violate the prohibitions of the act, and provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions by the Attorney General, a district attorney, or specified city attorneys or prosecutors. The act also provides for enforcement by an action brought by any person in the public interest, if that private action is commenced more than 60 days after the person has given notice of the violation that is the subject of the action to the Attorney General and the district attorney, the city attorney, or the prosecutor in whose jurisdiction the violation is alleged to have occurred, and to the alleged violator. If the notice made by a person bringing an action in the public interest alleges a violation of the act’s warning requirement, the act requires that the notice include a certificate of merit stating that the person executing the certificate has consulted with one or more persons with relevant and appropriate experience or expertise who has reviewed facts, studies, or other data regarding the exposure to the listed chemical that is the subject of the action, and that, based on that information, the person believes there is a reasonable and meritorious case for the private action. The act requires factual information sufficient to establish the basis of the certificate of merit to be attached to the certificate of merit that is served on the Attorney General. Under the act, a trial court may review a certificate of merit’s supporting information to determine if an unsuccessful enforcement action is frivolous, and thus sanctionable. This bill would explicitly require the information supporting a certificate of merit to include information related to the product that is subject to a notice of alleged violation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources
AB 1525 (Bonta D) Transportation finance: equity: vulnerable communities.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law establishes within state government the Transportation Agency, which consists of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the California Transportation Commission, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Transportation, the High-Speed Rail Authority, and the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. The agency is under the supervision of the Secretary of Transportation, who has the power of general supervision over each department within the agency. The secretary, among other duties, is charged with developing and reporting to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish coordinated planning and policy formulation in matters of public interest, including transportation projects. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to promote equity first in transportation funding and to prioritize funding to vulnerable communities.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 1528 (Gipson D) Employee housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Employee Housing Act, among other things, requires that buildings used for human habitation, and buildings accessory thereto, comply with the building standards in the California Building Standards Code relating to employee housing, as defined. That act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to maintain a file of complaints and other significant information in relation to the maintenance and operation of employee housing and requires the information to be available to local agencies, district attorneys, and the Attorney General. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing, Human Resources AB 1529 (Gabriel D) Electric vehicle charging stations.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, working with specified state entities, to prepare a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required to meet the goals of putting at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles in service by 2030 and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide financial and regulatory incentives to convert gasoline stations to electric vehicle charging stations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 1530 (Ortega D) Public employment: communication with exclusive representatives.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law generally grants public employees the right to join employee organizations and to be represented by those organizations in their employment relation. Current law requires a public employer, as specified, to provide the exclusive representative of those employees mandatory access to certain information and to provide public employees with reasonable leaves of absence without loss of compensation or other benefits for purposes related to that representation, as specified. Current law makes findings and declarations related to these provisions, including that it is the intent of the Legislature that recognized exclusive representatives of California’s public employees be provided meaningful access to their represented members, as described. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision establishing the above-described legislative findings.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1531 (Flora R) Electrified security fences: local ordinances.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law authorizes an owner of real property to install and operate on their property an electrified security fence that meets specified requirements, including that the fence is used to protect and secure commercial, manufacturing, or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but legally authorized to be used for a commercial, manufacturing, or industrial purpose. Current law prohibits an owner of real property from installing and operating an electrified security fence if a local ordinance prohibits that installation and operation. This bill would instead prohibit an owner of real property that is not commercial, manufacturing, or industrial property, or property zoned under another designation, but legally authorized to be used for those purposes, from installing and operating an electrified security fence if a local ordinance prohibits that installation and operation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
AB 1532 (Haney D) Office conversion projects.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Under that law, supportive housing, as defined, is a use by right in zones where multifamily and mixed uses are permitted if the developer provides the planning agency with a plan for providing supportive services and the proposed housing development meets specified criteria. This bill would make an office conversion project, as defined, that meets certain requirements a use by right in all areas regardless of zoning. The bill would define “office conversion project” to mean the conversion of a building used for office purposes or a vacant office building into residential dwelling units. The bill would define “use by right” to mean that the city or county’s review of the office conversion may not require a conditional use permit, planned unit development permit, or other discretionary city or county review or approval that would constitute a “project” for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
AB 1554 (Patterson, Joe R) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: wildfire fuels reduction projects.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
This bill would expressly exempt from CEQA a project reduction of fuels in areas within moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, as provided. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a project qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Public Safety, Wildfires AB 1559 (Jackson D) Elections.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law generally requires electronic poll books, ballot manufacturers and finishers, ballot on demand systems, voting systems, and remote accessible vote by mail systems to be approved by the Secretary of State before their use in an election. This bill would authorize the Secretary of State to impose additional conditions of approval for these purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1563 (Bennett D) Groundwater sustainability agency: groundwater extraction permit: verification.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law authorizes a groundwater sustainability agency to request of the county, and requires a county to consider, that the county forward permit requests for the construction of new groundwater wells, the enlarging of existing groundwater wells, and the reactivation of abandoned groundwater wells to the agency before permit approval. This bill would instead require a county to forward permit
requests for the construction of new groundwater wells, the enlarging of existing groundwater wells, and the reactivation of abandoned groundwater wells to the groundwater sustainability agency before permit approval. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
AB 1565 (Jones-Sawyer D) California Cannabis Tax Fund: local equity program grants.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act. This bill would require, effective July 1, 2028, the Controller to disburse up to $15,000,000, as specified, to the department for the 2028–29 fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter. The bill would require the department to use the disbursements to support local equity programs in eligible local jurisdictions to assist local equity applicants and licensees gaining entry into, and to successfully operate in, the state’s regulated cannabis marketplace, as specified. By expanding the purposes for which continuously appropriated moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance
AB 1567 (Garcia D) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2023.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018, approved by the voters as Proposition 68 at the June 5, 2018, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,100,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a drought, water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and outdoor access for all program. Article XVI of the California Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters.This bill would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2023, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15,105,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, and workforce development programs.
This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Economic Development, Environmental Quality, Finance, Natural Resources, Public Safety, Wildfires
AB 1572 (Friedman D) Potable water: nonfunctional turf.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
(1)Existing law establishes various state water policies, including the policy that the use of water for domestic purposes is the highest use of water. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations concerning water use, including that the use of potable water to irrigate nonfunctional turf is wasteful and incompatible with state policy relating to climate change, water conservation, and reduced reliance on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem. The bill would direct all appropriate state agencies to encourage and support the elimination of irrigation of nonfunctional turf with potable water. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Natural Resources
AB 1573 (Friedman D) Water conservation: landscape plants: nonfunctional turf.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law, the Water Conservation in Landscaping Act, requires the Director of Water Resources to convene a working group comprised of representatives from the landscape nursery industry, the agricultural community, the landscape retail industry, environmental organizations, urban water agencies, and other professionals to examine the current state of consumer information available and accessible regarding water use associated with landscape plants and to explore and identify options for improving the availability, accessibility, and quality of consumer information regarding water use associated with landscape plants, as specified. This bill would delete that requirement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Natural Resources
AB 1587 (Ting D) Multifamily Housing Program: report on use of funds.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law establishes the Multifamily Housing Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires that funds appropriated to provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic be disbursed in accordance with the Multifamily Housing Program for specified uses, including as grants to cities, counties, and cities and counties. Existing law requires the department, in coordination with the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, to report to specified committees of the Legislature on the use of these funds, as provided, on or before April 1, 2021. Existing law requires the report to include specified information, including the location of any properties for which the funds are used and the number of usable housing units produced, or planned to be produced, using the funds. This bill would revise the reporting requirement described above by requiring the department to annually report on the use of those funds. The bill would additionally require that report to include the average cost and length of time to rehabilitate or convert units to long-term housing units.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing AB 1592 (Dixon R) Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law requires the Governor to establish the Interagency Council on Homelessness, and requires the council to have specified goals, including, to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services
that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California, and to report to the Governor, federal Cabinet members, and the Legislature on homelessness and work to reduce homelessness.
This bill would require the council to report annually to the Governor, federal Cabinet members, and the Legislature, commencing June 30, 2026, on homelessness and work to reduce homelessness, and would require the report to include the cost per person and distribution of funding within United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care program by city and census- designated area.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing, Homelessness AB 1595 (Bryan D) Elections: eligibility to vote.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for the disqualification of electors while serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony. ACA ____ of the 2023–24 Regular Session, if approved by the voters, would repeal that requirement, thereby authorizing an otherwise qualified elector serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony to vote. This bill would remove statutory references to the disqualification of electors while serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony and would make other conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Public Safety
AB 1596 (Alvarez D) Watershed, Clean Beaches, and Water Quality Act: beaches: water quality.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law, the Watershed, Clean Beaches, and Water Quality Act, among other things, provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that the purpose of maintaining clean beaches, clean water, and an integrated and coordinated watershed program is to protect beaches, coastal waters, rivers, lakes, and streams from contaminants, pollution, and other environmental threats. The act requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with the State Coastal Conservancy, to award grants to public agencies and nonprofit organizations for projects designed to improve water quality at public beaches, as specified. This bill would require the board, to the extent feasible, to identify and implement projects to improve beach access and address ocean water quality on public beaches that experience significant restrictions of use, as defined, due to bacteria levels that exceed public health standards, whether the source is from urban runoff or transboundary flows.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality AB 1601 (Alvarez D) Involuntary commitment.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to self or others, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by specified individuals, including, among others, by peace officers and designated members of a mobile crisis team, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. This bill would additionally authorize a person to be taken into custody pursuant to those provisions by a
paramedic or emergency medical technician.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Public Safety
AB 1610 (Jones-Sawyer D) Cannabis: Department of Cannabis Control.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
AB 1614 (Gabriel D) Gasoline fueling stations: phase out: study.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in partnership with the State Air Resources Board, and in consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies, to develop and adopt a state plan to increase the use of alternative transportation fuels, which include electricity.
This bill would require the state board to conduct a study on how to phase out the existence of gasoline fueling stations by a specified date and the potential incentives that may be required in order to transition those stations into electric vehicle charging stations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources, Transportation AB 1616 (Lackey R) California Cannabis Tax Fund: Board of State and Community Corrections grants.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. This bill would require the Board of State and Community Corrections to prioritize local governments whose programs seek to address the unlawful cultivation and sale of cannabis. The bill would also authorize the board to make grants to local governments that ban both indoor and outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation, or ban retail sale of cannabis or cannabis products. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance
AB 1618 (Wilson D) Homelessness.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California by creating partnerships between federal, state, local, and nonprofit entities. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Homelessness
AB 1627 (Lee D) California Safe Drinking Water Act: food facility.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to regulate specified water systems and maintain specified primary drinking water standards. Existing law applies the provisions of the act to a food facility that is regulated pursuant to the California Retail Food Code only if the human consumption includes drinking of water. This bill would repeal the provision applying the act to a food facility that is regulated pursuant to the California Retail Food Code only if the human consumption includes drinking of water.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
AB 1630 (Garcia D) Planning and zoning: housing development approvals: student housing projects.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from prohibiting a dormitory on any real property located within 1/2 mile of a university campus, as defined. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to classify student housing as a permitted use on all real property within 1/2 mile of a university campus for zoning purposes. The bill would require a proposed student housing project, as defined, to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or a hearing, if specified requirements are met, including that at least 50% of the unites in the project be occupied by students of the local university campus to which the project site is proximate. In connection with an application submitted pursuant to these provisions, the bill would require a city, county, or city and county to take specified actions, including, upon the request of the applicant, provide a list of permits and fees that are required by the city, county, or city and county. By imposing new duties on local jurisdictions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing, K-12 Education AB 1631 (Schiavo D) Water resources: permit to appropriate: application procedure: mining use.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights program pursuant to which the board grants permits and licenses to appropriate water. Existing law requires an application for a permit to appropriate water to include, among other things, sufficient information to
demonstrate a reasonable likelihood that unappropriated water is available for the proposed appropriation. Existing law requires the board to issue and deliver a notice of an application as soon as practicable after the receipt of an application for a permit to appropriate water that conforms to the law. Existing law allows interested persons to file a written protest with regard to an application to appropriate water and requires the protestant to set forth the objections to the application. Existing law declares that no hearing is necessary to issue a permit in connection with an unprotested application, or if the undisputed facts support the issuance of the permit and there is no disputed issue of material fact, unless the board elects to hold a hearing. This bill, if the board has not rendered a final determination on an application for a permit to appropriate water for a beneficial use or uses that include mining use within 30 years from the date the application was filed, would require the board to issue a new notice and provide an opportunity for protests before rendering a final determination, with specified exceptions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources AB 1632 (Quirk-Silva D) Affordable housing preservation: loans.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer various housing programs, including the Multifamily Housing Program. Existing law creates the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in that fund for, among other purposes, making deferred-payment rehabilitation loans for financing all or a portion of the cost of rehabilitating existing housing to meet rehabilitation standards, as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Finance, Housing
AB 1633 (Ting D) Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. This bill would define “disapprove the housing development project” as also including any instance in which a local agency fails to issue a project an exemption from CEQA for which it is eligible, as described, or fails to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project, to certify an environmental impact report for the project, or to approve another comparable environmental document, if certain conditions are satisfied. Among other conditions, the bill would require a housing development project subject to these provisions to be located within an urbanized area, as defined, and meet or exceed 15 dwelling units per acre. By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Housing AB 1637 (Irwin D) Local governments: information security.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, requires an agency that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose any breach of the security
of the system following discovery or notification of the breach in the security of the data to any resident of California, as prescribed. The act defines “agency” to not include a local agency, as specified. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to the security of information maintained by local governments and special districts.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1639 (Hoover R) Water systems: manufactured housing communities.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas, electrical, and water corporations. Existing law authorizes an owner of a master-metered mobilehome park or manufactured housing community that provides gas or electrical service to residents to transfer ownership and operational responsibility to the gas corporation or electrical corporation providing service in the area in which the park or community is located. This bill would, in addition to making specified findings and declarations, state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to require water corporations to purchase, own, and operate water systems currently owned and operated by manufactured housing communities, upon request of the owner, in order to assume responsibility for direct delivery of water to residents of those communities, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing, Natural Resources AB 1649 (Kalra D) General plans.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and of any land outside its boundaries that relates to its planning, and provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations by counties and cities. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services AB 1654 (Addis D) City streets and highways.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city to do any and all things necessary to lay out, acquire, and construct a section or portion of a street or highway within its jurisdiction as a freeway and to make an existing street or highway a freeway. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
AB 1656 (Wicks D) Homelessness: funding.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law establishes various programs to prevent and ameliorate homelessness, including the Homeless Youth Act of 2018 and the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to establish an ongoing funding source to address the state’s homelessness crisis.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Homelessness
AB 1657 (Wicks D) The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks. This bill would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $_____ pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and homeownership programs, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Economic Development, Finance, Housing AB 1661 (Bonta D) Electrical and gas service: accessory dwelling units.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission to require every residential unit in an apartment house or similar multiunit residential structure, condominium, or mobilehome park issued a building permit on or after July 1, 1982, with certain exceptions, to be individually metered for electrical and gas service. This bill would additionally except from that requirement an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, if the owner of the property on which the accessory dwelling unit is located elects to have the accessory dwelling unit’s electrical and gas services metered through existing or upgraded utility meters located on that property. The bill would require an electrical corporation and gas corporation, if an owner of such a property elects to have the accessory dwelling unit’s electrical and gas services metered through utility meters located on that property, to allow the property owner to do so. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing, Public Works AB 1665 (Soria D) Veterans homes.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Under existing law, veterans homes are for aged or disabled persons who served in the Armed Forces
of the United States, who were discharged or released from active duty under conditions other than dishonorable, who are eligible for health care benefits, hospitalization, or domiciliary care in a veterans facility, and who are bona fide residents of this state at the time of application, and for the spouses or domestic partners of those persons, if certain conditions are met. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
AB 1669 (Quirk-Silva D) California Historically Significant Commercial District Act.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the California Historically Significant District Program for the purpose of revitalizing and maintaining historically and culturally significant commercial corridors throughout the state by funding technical assistance, training, and other activities that increase the capacity of revitalization entities to provide business assistance programs and services that meet the unique needs of small businesses that operate within historic commercial districts. The bill would require the program to award grants to eligible grantees, as defined, who submit an application meeting certain requirements, including, among other things, documentation that the applicant has the experience and capacity to provide technical assistance, training, and other services that increase the capacity of revitalization entities to use place-based tools to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem to meet the needs of small businesses that operate within historic districts.
The bill would require training and education topics and uses of the grant by the grantee to include, but not be limited to, among other things, onsite assessment and training of revitalization entities to develop capacity for implementation of commercial district revitalization plans. The bill would require that grant funds be used by the grantee consistent with certain requirements, including that at least 40% of the total amount of the grant be used by the grantee to provide capacity-building programs and services to eligible historic commercial corridor revitalization entities throughout the state, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Economic Development AB 1677 (McKinnor D) Public employment: salary classification.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law requires the Department of Human Resources to establish and adjust salary ranges for each class of position in the state civil service. Existing law requires the department, at least 6 months before the end of the term of an existing memorandum of understanding or immediately upon the reopening of negotiations under an existing memorandum of understanding, to submit to the parties meeting and conferring to the Legislature a report containing the department’s findings relating to the salaries of employees in comparable occupations in private industry and other governmental agencies.
This bill would instead require the department to send that report at least 7 months before the end of the term of an existing memorandum of understanding or immediately upon the reopening of negotiations under an existing memorandum of understanding.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
AB 1678 (Hart D) Election campaigns: libel and slander.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Existing law provides that libel is a false and unprivileged written publication that injures the reputation and that slander is a false and unprivileged publication, orally uttered, that injures the reputation, as specified. Existing law applies the provisions relating to libel and slander to campaign advertisements and communications, and it further provides that a defendant’s willingness or unwillingness to retract or correct a communication made in the course of a campaign is admissible for purposes of determining damages, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1682 (Carrillo, Wendy D) Public officers and employees.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Existing law requires a state entity or its designee to conduct criminal background checks to comply with applicable federal requirements, as specified. Existing law requires a state entity or its designee that receives federal tax information, as defined, to submit to the Department of Justice, for the purpose of conducting state and federal criminal background checks, fingerprint images and related information of an employee, prospective employee, contractor, agent, volunteer, vendor, subcontractor, or employee of a contractor whose duties include having access to federal tax information received by the state entity or its designee. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Human Resources
AB 1684 (Maienschein D) California Safe Drinking Water Act: public water systems: exemptions.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems, as defined, and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties. The act prohibits a person from operating a public water system without a permit from the state board. The act exempts from its provisions a public water system that meets specified conditions, including, but not limited to, a public water system that obtains all of its water from, but is not owned or operated by, a public water system subject to the act. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision exempting certain public water systems from the act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
AB 1688 (Sanchez R) Voter registration.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Existing law requires a voter’s paper affidavit of registration to comply with requirements prescribed by regulations adopted by the Secretary of State, such as the requirement that the affidavit allow for the inclusion of informational language to meet the specific needs of the county, that it contain a toll-free fraud hotline telephone number for reporting misuse of registration information, and that it be returnable to the county elections official as a self-enclosed mailer with prepaid postage. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
AB 1700 (Hoover R) California Environmental Quality Act: population growth and noise impacts: housing projects.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would specify that population growth, in and of itself, resulting from a housing project and noise impacts of a housing project are not an effect on the environment for purposes of CEQA.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Housing AB 1705 (McKinnor D) Solid waste facilities: health protection zones.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
Current law prohibits a person from establishing or expanding a solid waste facility in a county after a countywide or regional agency integrated waste management plan has been approved unless the solid waste facility is, among other things, a disposal facility, a transformation facility, or an EMSW conversion facility that meets specific criteria. Existing law defines an “EMSW conversion facility” as a facility where municipal solid waste conversion that meets specific requirements takes place and defines “transformation” as incineration, pyrolysis, distillation, or biological conversion, excluding composting, gasification, EMSW conversion, or biomass conversion. Current law authorizes the department, by regulation, to specify classifications of solid waste facilities that are exempt from these and other facility regulations if the department makes specific findings, including that the nature of the solid wastes poses no significant threat to the public health, the public safety, or the environment. Current law defines a “health protection zone” as the area within 3,200 feet of a residence, an education resource, a community resource center, a health care facility, live-in housing, or any business building open to the public. This bill would prohibit a person from establishing or expanding a transformation facility or an EMSW conversion facility within an above-defined health protection zone.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Public Works AB 1714 (Wood D) Public utilities: broadband service providers.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
The Public Utilities Act imposes requirements, including a requirement that rates charged by a public utility are to be just and reasonable, over public utilities. Under existing law a violation of the act by a public utility is a crime. This bill would define “public utility” to include a corporation providing broadband service to the public or a portion of the public. By including corporations providing broadband service as a public utility, the bill would expand the application of requirements imposed on public utilities by the Public Utilities Act to those corporations and would, therefore, expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
AB 1727 (Fong, Vince R) Oil and gas: spacing of wells and community leases.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Summary:
If a parcel of land contains one acre or more and the hydrocarbons to be developed are too heavy or viscous to produce by normal means, current law authorizes the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to approve proposals to drill wells at whatever locations the supervisor deems advisable for the purpose of the proper development of these hydrocarbons by the application of pressure, heat, or other means for the reduction of oil viscosity. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that authorization.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources AB 1736 (Carrillo, Juan D) Sustainable groundwater management: basin boundaries.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Read first time. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified. The act requires the boundaries of a basin to be those identified in a specified report of the Department of Water Resources, unless other basin boundaries are established, as prescribed. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in the provision relating to basin boundaries.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
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. The measure would specify that these provisions apply to any city, county, city and county, or special district measure imposing an ad valorem tax to pay the interest and redemption charges on bonded indebtedness for these purposes that is submitted at the same election as this measure.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
ACA 2 (Alanis R) Public resources: Water and Wildfire Resiliency Act of 2023.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would establish the Water and Wildfire Resiliency Fund within the State Treasury, and would require the Treasurer to annually transfer an amount equal to 3% of all state revenues that may be appropriated as described from the General Fund to the Water and Wildfire Resiliency Fund. The measure would require the moneys in the fund to be appropriated by the Legislature and would require that 50% of the moneys in the fund be used for water projects, as specified, and that the other 50% of the moneys in the fund be used for forest maintenance and health projects, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Wildfires
ACA 3 (Lee D) Wealth tax: appropriation limits.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 1/20/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
Location: 1/19/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would authorize the Legislature to impose a tax upon all forms of personal property or wealth, whether tangible or intangible, and would require any tax so imposed to be administered and collected by the Franchise Tax Board and the Department of Justice, as determined by the Legislature in statute.
The measure would authorize the Legislature to classify any form of personal property or wealth for differential taxation or for exemption by a majority vote.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance
ACA 4 (Bryan D) Elections: eligibility to vote.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/7/2023-From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
Location: 2/6/2023-A. PRINT
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution authorizes a person to vote if the person is a United States citizen, at least 18 years of age, and a resident of the state. The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for the disqualification of electors while serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony. This measure would repeal that requirement regarding the disqualification of electors incarcerated for felony convictions, thereby authorizing an otherwise qualified elector serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony to vote.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Public Safety
SB 2 (Portantino D) Firearms.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Re-referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm or carrying a loaded firearm in public.
Current law authorizes a licensing authority, as specified, if good cause exists for the issuance, and subject to certain other criteria including, among other things, the applicant is of good moral character and has completed a specified course of training, to issue a license to carry a concealed handgun or to carry a loaded and exposed handgun, as specified. Under current law, the required course of training for an applicant is no more than 16 hours and covers firearm safety and laws regarding the permissible use of a firearm. This bill would require the licensing authority to issue or renew a license if the applicant is not a disqualified person for the license and the applicant is at least 21 years of age. The bill would remove the good character and good cause requirements from the issuance criteria. Under the bill, the applicant would be a disqualified person if they, among other things, are reasonably likely
to be a danger to self, others, or the community at large, as specified. This bill would add the requirement that the applicant be the recorded owner, with the Department of Justice, of the pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 3 (Dodd D) Discontinuation of residential water service: community water system.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. E. U., & C.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Water Shutoff Protection Act prohibits an urban and community water system, defined as a public water system that supplies water to more than 200 service connections, from discontinuing residential service for nonpayment, as specified, and requires specified procedures before it can discontinue residential service for nonpayment. Current law defines a community water system as a public water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by yearlong residents or regularly serves at least 25 yearlong residents of the area served by the system. This bill would expand the scope of the Water Shutoff Protection Act by requiring that it instead apply to a community water system, defined to have the same meaning as existing law. The bill would require a community water system that supplies water to 200 service connections or fewer to comply with the act’s provisions on and after August 1, 2024.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
SB 4 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F.
Location: 2/1/2023-S. HOUSING
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, provided that all of the units are provided at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 7 (Blakespear D) Regional housing needs allocation: homelessness.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/13/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Existing law establishes various programs to address homelessness, including requiring the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness and establishing the Homeless Housing, Assistance,
and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. This bill, for regional housing need assessments on or after January 1, 2024, would require “homeless” to be included as an income category for purposes of the regional housing needs allocation plan. By requiring each council of governments to revise the income categories used in regional housing needs allocations, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 8 (Blakespear D) Firearms.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a court to issue a temporary gun violence restraining order prohibiting a person from possessing a firearm or ammunition if there is reasonable cause to believe that a person poses a significant danger of harm to themselves or to another person by having a firearm. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to gun violence prevention.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 9 (Cortese D) Raising the Age for Extended Foster Care Act of 2023.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Coms. on HUMANS S. and JUD.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Fostering Connections to Success Act revises and expands the scope of various programs relating to the provision of cash assistance and other services to and for the benefit of certain foster and adopted children, and other children who have been placed in out-of-home care, including children who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC), Adoption Assistance Program, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) benefits. Among other provisions, the act extends specified foster care benefits to nonminor dependents up to 21 years of age, if specified conditions are met.
Current law defines a nonminor dependent for these purposes as a foster child who is a current dependent child or ward of the juvenile court, or who is a nonminor under the transition jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to a voluntary reentry agreement, and in accordance with a transitional independent living case plan who has attained 18 years of age while under an order of foster care placement by the juvenile court and is not older than 21 years of age. This bill would expand the dependency and transitional jurisdiction of the juvenile court to a nonminor who has not attained 26 years of age, among other requirements, and would expand the eligibility of foster care benefits by revising the definition of nonminor dependent to include a foster child who meets the above-described requirements and is not older than 26 years of age.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 10 (Cortese D) Pupil health: opioid overdose prevention and treatment.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. ED.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, subject to an appropriation, requires the State Department of Education, on or before
January 1, 2023, to recommend best practices and identify training programs for use by local educational agencies, as defined, to address youth behavioral health, including staff and pupil training.
Curren tlaw requires the department to ensure that each identified training program, among other requirements, provides instruction on recognizing the signs and symptoms of youth behavioral health disorders, including common psychiatric conditions and substance use disorders, such as opioid and alcohol abuse. This bill would, on or before July 1, 2024, add as a new requirement for the training programs the provision of instruction only to school staff on the use of emergency opioid antagonists for purposes of treating an opioid overdose, with the recommended training following specified standards and criteria.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 11 (Menjivar D) California State University: mental health services: contracting out.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would restrict contracting out for mental health services at the 23 campuses of the California State University and instead increase the number of full-time, permanent mental health counselors.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 12 (Stern D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions limit.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 2/10/2023-Set for hearing March 15.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. E.Q.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Calendar:
3/15/2023 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary:
Under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the State Air Resources Board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030.
Under the act, a violation of a rule, regulation, order, emission limitation, emission reduction measure, or other measure adopted by the state board under the act is a crime. This bill instead would require the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 55% below the 1990 level by no later than December 31, 2030.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality SB 13 (Ochoa Bogh R) Controlled substances.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes to receive a written advisory of the danger of manufacturing or distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the manufacturer or distributor can be charged with voluntary manslaughter or murder. The bill would require that the fact
the advisory was given be on the record and recorded on the abstract of conviction.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 14 (Grove R) Violent felonies: serious felonies: human trafficking.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would include human trafficking within the definition of a violent felony and the definition of a serious felony for all purposes, including for purposes of the Three Strikes Law. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 17 (Caballero D) Senior housing.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create new opportunities for the development of affordable senior housing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 19 (Seyarto R) Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the Anti-Fentanyl Abuse Task Force to undertake various duties relating to fentanyl abuse including, among others, collecting and organizing data on the nature and extent of fentanyl abuse in California and evaluating approaches to increase public awareness of fentanyl abuse. The bill would require the task force to be chaired by the Attorney General, or their designee, and would specify the membership of the task force. The bill would require the first meeting of the task force to take place no later than March 1, 2024, and would require the task force to meet at least once every 2 months. The bill would require the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the Attorney General, the Governor, and the Legislature by July 1, 2025. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 20 (Rubio D) Joint powers agreements: regional housing trusts.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would authorize 2 or more cities, by entering into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, to create a regional housing trust for the purposes of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within
their jurisdictions. The bill would require a regional housing trust created pursuant to these provisions to be governed by a board of directors consisting of a minimum of 9 directors, as specified. The bill would authorize a regional housing trust to fund the planning and construction of housing, receive public and private financing and funds, and authorize and issue bonds, as specified. The bill would require the joint powers agreement establishing the regional housing trust to incorporate specified annual financial reporting and auditing requirements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Economic Development, Finance, Housing SB 23 (Caballero D) Water supply and flood risk reduction projects: expedited permitting.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prohibits an entity from substantially diverting or obstructing the natural flow of, or substantially changing or using any material from the bed, channel, or bank of, any river, stream, or lake, or deposit or dispose of debris, waste, or other material containing crumbled, flaked, or ground pavement where it may pass into any river, stream, or lake, except under specified conditions, including requiring the entity to send written notification to the Department of Fish and Wildlife regarding the activity in the manner prescribed by the department. This bill would require a project proponent, if already required to submit a notification to the department, to complete and submit environmental documentation to the department for the activity in the notification.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
SB 24 (Umberg D) Elections: statewide direct primary.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. E. & C.A.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the statewide direct primary election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March in each even-numbered year that is evenly divisible by four. Current law requires the presidential primary election to be consolidated with this statewide direct primary election and to be held on the same date. This bill would change the date of the presidential primary and consolidated statewide direct primary described above to an unspecified date.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 30 (Umberg D) Transportation: zero-emission vehicle signage.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules and regulations that allow the placement, near exits on freeways in rural areas, of information signs identifying specific roadside businesses, including a business offering electric vehicle charging facilities. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would require the department, in coordination with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to develop and design light-duty zero- emission vehicle charging station signage to be placed along state highways, as specified, as well as a publicly accessible online platform that identifies the locations of electric vehicle chargers along state highway corridors.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
SB 31 (Jones R) Encampments: sensitive areas: penalties.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Under current law, a person who lodges in a public or private place without permission is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Current law also provides that a person who willfully and maliciously obstructs the free movement of any person on any street, sidewalk, or other public place is guilty of a misdemeanor. Under existing law, a public nuisance is anything that is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an entire community, neighborhood, or considerable number of persons. Current law provides various remedies against a public nuisance, including abatement by any public body or officer authorized by law. This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within 1000 feet of a sensitive area, as defined. The bill would specify that a violation of this prohibition is a public nuisance that can be abated and prevented, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 32 (Jones R) Motor vehicle fuel tax: greenhouse gas reduction programs: suspension.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the State Air Resources Board has adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Current law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market- based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This bill would suspend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations for one year. The bill would also exempt suppliers of transportation fuels from regulations for the use of market-based compliance mechanisms for one year.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Transportation SB 35 (Umberg D) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Summary:
The Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, effective January 1, 2023, authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. Current law authorizes CARE Act proceedings to commence in the county where the respondent resides, is found, or is facing criminal or civil proceedings. This bill would make technical,
nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Health Department, Public Safety, Behavioral Health SB 43 (Eggman D) Behavioral health.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to modernize and improve California’s behavioral health system.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Behavioral Health
SB 44 (Umberg D) Controlled substances.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes to receive a written advisory of the danger of manufacturing or distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the manufacturer or distributor can be charged with voluntary manslaughter or murder. The bill would require that the fact the advisory was given be on the record and recorded on the abstract of conviction.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 46 (Roth D) Controlled substances: treatment.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, as added by the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, adopted by voters as Proposition 36 at the November 7, 2000, statewide general election, requires that persons convicted of certain nonviolent drug possession offenses be granted probation and participate in and complete an appropriate drug treatment program as a condition of that probation. After completion of drug treatment and the terms of probation, the act requires the court to conduct a hearing, set aside the conviction, and dismiss the complaint if the court finds, among other requirements, that the defendant successfully completed drug treatment. For purposes of the act, a defendant has successfully completed treatment if they have completed the prescribed course of drug treatment and, as a result, there is reasonable cause to believe that they will not abuse controlled substances in the future. The act allows its amendment by a statute passed by 2/3 of both houses of the Legislature and requires that all amendments further the act and be consistent with its purposes. This bill would amend the act by removing the requirement that there be reasonable cause to believe that the defendant will not abuse controlled substances in the future in order to be considered as having successfully completed treatment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 48 (Becker D) Building performance standards.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to create building performance standards for improvements in energy efficiency and reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases in large buildings, including measures to ensure that making the necessary investments to improve these buildings will improve equity and avoid displacement or increased energy burdens, especially in disadvantaged communities.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality SB 50 (Bradford D) Vehicles: enforcement.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/13/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/5/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would prohibit a peace officer from stopping or detaining the operator of a motor vehicle or bicycle for a low-level infraction, as defined, unless a separate, independent basis for a stop exists. The bill would authorize a peace officer who does not have grounds to stop a vehicle or bicycle, but can determine the identity of the owner, to send a citation or warning letter to the owner.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 51 (Bradford D) Cannabis provisional licenses: local equity applicants.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), for purposes of the California Cannabis Equity Act, defines local equity program as a program adopted or operated by a local jurisdiction that focuses on inclusion and support of individuals and communities in California’s cannabis industry who are linked to populations or neighborhoods that were negatively or disproportionately impacted by cannabis criminalization, as specified. MAUCRSA requires the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to administer a grant program to assist a local jurisdiction with the development of a local equity program or to assist local equity applicants and local equity licensees through a local equity program, as specified. MAUCRSA, until June 30, 2023, authorizes the Department of Cannabis Control, in its sole discretion, to issue a provisional license for a local equity license application if the applicant meets specified requirements. MAUCRSA prohibits the Department of Cannabis Control from renewing a provisional license after January 1, 2025, and provides that no provisional license is effective after January 1, 2026. This bill would additionally authorize the Department of Cannabis Control, in its sole discretion, to issue a provisional license for a local equity applicant for retailer activities, indefinitely, if the applicant meets specified requirements.
This bill would authorize the department, in its sole discretion, to renew a provisional license until it issues or denies the provisional licensee’s annual license, subject to specified requirements, or until 5 years from the date the provisional license was issued, whichever is earlier. By extending provisional licensure, the applications for which are required to be signed under penalty of perjury, the bill would expand the scope of the crime of perjury, and would thereby impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Safety
SB 52 (Durazo D) Redistricting: large charter cities.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Last Amended: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/13/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. E. & C.A.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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Would require a charter city with a population of at least 2,500,000 people to establish a citizens redistricting commission to adjust the district boundaries for the city council. The bill would require the commission to adjust the boundaries of the city council districts in accordance with specified criteria and adopt a redistricting plan following each federal decennial census in accordance with specified deadlines. By increasing the duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 54 (Skinner D) Firearms.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/6/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires any firearm sold, transferred, or manufactured in this state to include certain firearm safety devices and the packaging of any firearm and any descriptive material that accompany any firearm to bear a label with a specified warning statement. Current law makes a violation of these provisions punishable by a fine on the first offense, a fine and prohibition from the manufacturing or selling of firearms in this state for 30 days on the second offense, and a permanent prohibition from the manufacturing or selling of firearms in this state on the third offense. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 55 (Umberg D) Vehicles: catalytic converters.
Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. TRANS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would prohibit a motor vehicle dealer or retailer from selling a new motor vehicle equipped with a catalytic converter unless the catalytic converter has been engraved or etched with the vehicle identification number of the vehicle to which it is attached. A violation of this provision would be punishable as an infraction. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 57 (Gonzalez D) Utilities: extreme weather events.
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/16/2022-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to prohibit shutting off utility service during extreme weather events.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
SB 58 (Wiener D) Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.
Introduced: 12/16/2022
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion. This bill would make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline, for personal use or facilitated or supported use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. The bill would provide penalties for possession of these substance on school grounds, or possession by, or transferring to, persons under 21 years of age.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 62 (Nguyen R) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale, specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and provides for imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years for a violation of this provision. Current law also imposes an additional term, and authorizes a trial court to impose a specified fine, upon a person who is convicted of a violation of, or of a conspiracy to violate, specified provisions of law with respect to a substance containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. This bill would impose that additional term upon, and authorize a fine against, a defendant who violates those laws with respect to a substance containing fentanyl. By increasing the penalty for a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 63 (Ochoa Bogh R) Homeless and Mental Health Court and Transitioning Home Grant Programs.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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3/14/2023 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, WAHAB, AISHA, Chair Summary:
Under current law, the Board of State and Community Corrections administers several grant programs, including a mentally ill offender crime reduction grant program, a medication-assisted treatment grant program, and a violence intervention and prevention grant program. This bill would establish two new grant programs until January 1, 2028: the Homeless and Mental Health Court Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the Judicial Council and provide grants to counties for the purpose of establishing or expanding homeless courts and mental health courts, as specified; and the Transitioning Home Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the board and provide grants to county sheriffs and jail administrators to fund programs aimed at reducing homelessness among inmates released from custody, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Developmental Services, Economic Development, Finance, Housing, Public Safety, Homelessness
SB 64 (Umberg D) Hate crimes: search warrants.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Coms. on PUB S. and APPR.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Current law specifies the grounds upon which a search warrant may be issued, including, among other grounds, when the property or things to be seized constitute evidence showing that a felony has been committed. This bill would authorize a search warrant to be issued on the grounds that the property or things to be seized consists of evidence that tends to show that certain misdemeanor hate crimes, as defined, have occurred or are occurring.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 65 (Ochoa Bogh R) Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program.
Introduced: 1/4/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to, subject to an appropriation, establish a Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program. Current law authorizes the department, pursuant to this program, to award competitive grants to qualified entities to construct, acquire, and rehabilitate real estate assets or to invest in needed mobile crisis infrastructure to expand the community continuum of behavioral health treatment resources to build or expand the capacity of various treatment and rehabilitation options for persons with behavioral health disorders, as specified.
This bill would authorize the department, in awarding the above-described grants, to give preference to qualified entities that are intending to place their projects in specified facilities or properties.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance, Health Department SB 66 (Hurtado D) Water: predictive models and data collection.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/5/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Water Resources, as part of updating The California Water Plan every five years, to conduct a study to determine the amount of water needed to meet the state’s future needs and to recommend programs, policies, and facilities to meet those needs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to ensure that reliable predictive models and data collection systems are used to properly forecast and allocate surface water.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Natural Resources
SB 67 (Seyarto R) Controlled substances: overdose reporting.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Last Amended: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/13/2023-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require an emergency medical services provider who treats and releases or transports an individual to a medical facility who is experiencing a suspected or an actual overdose to report the incident to the Emergency Medical Services Authority. The bill requires the authority to report the data gathered pursuant to the bill to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program managed by the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 68 (McGuire D) Local government.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 1/18/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/5/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law provides for the formation and powers of various local governments, including counties and cities. The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 provides the sole and exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to local government.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 69 (Cortese D) California Environmental Quality Act: judicial and administrative proceedings: limitations.
Introduced: 1/5/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-Set for hearing March 15.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. E.Q.
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3/15/2023 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a state agency or a local agency that approves or determines to carry out a project subject to CEQA to file a notice of determination with the Office of Planning and Research or the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located, as provided. CEQA authorizes a state agency or a local agency that determines that a project is not subject to CEQA to file a notice of exemption with the office or the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located, as provided. If a person has made a written request to a public agency for a copy of a notice of determination or notice of exemption for a project before the date on which the public agency approves or determines to carry out the project, CEQA requires the public agency, no later than 5 days from the date of the public agency’s action, to deposit a copy of the written notice addressed to that person in the United States mail, first-class postage prepaid. CEQA provides that the date upon which the notice is mailed does not affect the limitations periods applicable to specified actions or proceedings to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul specified acts or decisions of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA. The bill would require a public agency to provide both the notice and any subsequent amended, corrected, or revised notice, as specified, in response to a written request for the notice, regardless of the delivery method. By requiring a local agency to provide a copy of any subsequent amended, corrected, or revised notice, along with the notice, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Developmental Services
SB 77 (Umberg D) Voting: signature verification: notice.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 1/25/2023-S. E. & C.A.
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Current law requires a county elections official, upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, to compare the signature on the identification envelope with the voter’s signature appearing on specified voter registration records. If the elections official determines that the signatures do not match, or if the identification envelope does not contain a signature, existing law requires the elections official to mail a notice to the voter, no later than 8 days before the certification of the election, of the opportunity to verify the voter’s signature or provide a signature, as applicable. This bill would require the elections
official to additionally notify the voter by a text message or email, if the elections official has a telephone number or email address for the voter on file.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 78 (Glazer D) Criminal procedure: factual innocence.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/25/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a person who is unlawfully imprisoned under specified circumstances, including, without limitation, conviction on the basis of false evidence or the existence of new exculpatory evidence, to prosecute a writ of habeas corpus ordering their release. Current law also authorizes such a person who is no longer in custody to prosecute a motion to vacate a judgment. Under current law, if the district attorney stipulates to or does not contest the factual allegations underlying the application for the writ or motion, the district attorney is required to provide notice to the Attorney General. This bill would require that notice to be given no less than 7 days before entering a stipulation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 81 (Becker D) Parole hearings.
Introduced: 1/12/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/12/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to increase transparency, predictability, and accountability of parole suitability hearings.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 83 (Wiener D) Public utilities: postentitlement phase permit applications: new construction.
Introduced: 1/13/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to enforce the rules governing the extension of service by a gas or electrical corporation to new residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial customers. Current law requires an electrical or gas corporation to permit a new or existing customer who applies for an extension of service from that corporation to install the extension in accordance with commission regulations and any applicable specifications of the corporation. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to require public utility companies to provide comments on postentitlement phase permit applications and connect new construction to the electrical grid within specified timeframes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
SB 84 (Gonzalez D) Clean Transportation Program.
Introduced: 1/13/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation related to the Clean Transportation Program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Transportation SB 86 (Seyarto R) Crime victims: resource center.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/25/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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3/14/2023 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY, WAHAB, AISHA, Chair Summary:
Current law requires the establishment of a resource center that operates a statewide, toll-free information service, consisting of legal and other information, for crime victims and providers of services to crime victims, as defined. This bill would require the resource center to additionally provide the information through an internet website and to the families of crime victims.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 87 (Nguyen R) Mental health.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law generally provides for mental health services, including the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, which contains provisions governing the organization and financing of community mental health services for persons with mental disorders in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs, and the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative statute enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election that establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 88 (Skinner D) Pupil transportation: school pupil activity bus: drivers.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the driver of a school pupil activity bus, as defined, to be subject to the regulations adopted by the Department of the California Highway Patrol governing schoolbus drivers, except as specified. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to codify existing regulations and rules that currently govern who can provide pupil transportation and what type of vehicle can be used for this purpose.
Position: Watch
Subjects: K-12 Education
SB 89 (Ochoa Bogh R) Crimes: stalking.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 1/25/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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Current law makes a person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or willfully and maliciously harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for the person’s safety, or the safety of the person’s immediate family, guilty of the crime of stalking, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would instead make a person guilty of stalking if the person has the intent to harm or the intent to place under surveillance for the purpose of harming another person, and engages in conduct that either places that person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to themselves, a close family member, or a pet, service animal, emotional support animal, or horse that belongs to that person, or causes, attempts to cause, or would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to one of the above persons.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 91 (Umberg D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: supportive and transitional housing: motel conversion.
Introduced: 1/17/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-Set for hearing March 15.
Location: 1/25/2023-S. E.Q.
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3/15/2023 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary:
Current law, until January 1, 2025, exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) projects related to the conversion of a structure with a certificate of occupancy as a motel, hotel, residential hotel, or hostel to supportive or transitional housing, as defined, that meet certain conditions. This bill would extend indefinitely the above exemption.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Housing SB 99 (Umberg D) Crimes: alternatives to incarceration.
Introduced: 1/18/2023
Status: 1/25/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/18/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law requires a court to consider alternatives to incarceration, including, without limitation, collaborative justice court programs, diversion, restorative justice, and probation. Existing law states that it is the intent of the Legislature that the disposition of any criminal case use the least restrictive means possible. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 222 (Nguyen R) Electric bicycles.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/19/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to electric bicycles.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 226 (Alvarado-Gil D) Controlled substances: armed possession: fentanyl.
Introduced: 1/19/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/1/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law classifies certain substances, including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, as controlled substances and generally prohibits the possession, sale, transportation, and use of these substances.
Current law additionally prohibits the possession of certain of these controlled substances including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine while armed with a loaded and operable firearm. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a felony punishable by incarceration in the state prison. This bill would additionally prohibit the possession of fentanyl while armed with a loaded and operable firearm.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 229 (Umberg D) Surplus land: disposal of property: violations: public meeting.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
Location: 2/1/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Summary:
Current law prescribes requirements for the disposal of land determined to be surplus land by a local agency. Those requirements include a requirement that a local agency, before disposing of a property or participating in negotiations to dispose of that property with a prospective transferee, send a written notice of availability of the property to specified entities, depending on the property’s intended use, and send specified information in regard to the disposal of the parcel of surplus land to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law, among other enforcement provisions, makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these disposal provisions, after receiving notification of violation from the department, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold in violation for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. Under existing law, except as specified, a local agency has 60 days to cure or correct an alleged violation before an enforcement action may be brought. This bill would require a local agency that has received a notification of violation from the department to hold an open and public session to review and consider the substance of the notice of violation. The bill would require the local agency’s governing body to provide prescribed notice no later than 14 days before the public session.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Housing
SB 231 (Hurtado D) Drought modeling.
Introduced: 1/23/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/23/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Water Resources to include a discussion of various strategies in the California Water Plan update, including, but not limited to, strategies relating to the development of new water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling, desalination, conjunctive use, water transfers, and alternative pricing policies that may be pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to require the Department of Water Resources to modify its predictive models as necessary to account for California’s persistent drought.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Works
SB 232 (Niello R) Mental health services: gravely disabled.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.
Location: 2/1/2023-S. HEALTH
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of a person who is a danger to themselves or others or who is gravely disabled. The act also provides for a conservator of the person or estate to be appointed for a person who is gravely disabled. Other law exempts specified licensed general acute care hospitals, licensed acute psychiatric hospitals, licensed professional staff of those hospitals, or a physician and surgeon, providing emergency medical services in any department of those hospitals, from civil or criminal liability for detaining a person if certain conditions exist, including that the person cannot be safely released from the hospital because the person, as a result of a mental health disorder, presents a danger to themselves or others or is gravely disabled. Current law, for the purposes of these provisions, defines “gravely disabled,” among other things, as a condition in which a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is unable to provide for the basic personal needs of food, clothing, or shelter. This bill would change the definition of “gravely disabled” for these purposes to read, in part, a condition in which a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is incapable of making informed decisions about, or providing for, their own basic personal needs for food, clothing, shelter, or medical care without significant supervision and assistance from another person and, as a result of being incapable of making these informed decisions, the person is at risk of substantial bodily harm, dangerous worsening of a concomitant serious physical illness, significant psychiatric deterioration, or mismanagement of essential needs that could result in bodily harm.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 233 (Skinner D) Energy: new zero-emission vehicles and electric vehicle supply equipment: bidirectional capability.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/24/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to undertake various actions in furtherance of meeting the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives, including actions related to electric vehicles. This bill would state the Legislature’s intent to enact future legislation to mandate that all new zero-emission vehicles and electric vehicle supply equipment sold in California have bidirectional capability by January 1, 2027, to the extent practical as determined by the commission.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality SB 236 (Jones R) Human trafficking: vertical prosecution program.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/1/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the Office of Emergency Services, which is required to, among other things, allocate and award funds to communities developing and providing ongoing citizen involvement and crime resistance programs. This bill would require the office, to the extent funds are available for this purpose and until January 1, 2029, to allocate and award funds to up to 11 district attorney offices that employ a vertical prosecution methodology for the prosecution of human trafficking crimes and that meet other specified criteria, including minimum staffing levels for the program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 237 (Grove R) Controlled substances: fentanyl.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/1/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/1/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years. `Current slaw also prohibits transporting, importing into this state, selling, furnishing, administering, or giving away specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a county jail for 3, 4, or 5 years. Current law also prohibits the trafficking of specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and punishes a violation of that prohibition by imprisonment in a county jail for 3, 6, or 9 years. The bill would punish the possession, sale, or purchase for sale of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail for 4, 5, or 6 years, the transportation, importation, sale, furnishing, administering, or giving away of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail for 7, 8, or 9 years, and the trafficking of fentanyl by imprisonment in a county jail for 7, 10, or 13 years.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Works
SB 239 (Dahle R) California Environmental Quality Act: housing development projects: judicial proceedings.
Introduced: 1/24/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-Set for hearing March 15.
Location: 2/1/2023-S. E.Q.
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Calendar:
3/15/2023 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a court, in an action or proceeding brought challenging any determination, finding, or decision of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA and a finding by the court of such noncompliance, to enter an order that includes one or more of specified mandates, one of which may be a mandate to suspend any or all specific project activity or activities, as provided. CEQA provides that, except as otherwise specified, it is not intended to limit the equitable powers of the courts. This bill would limit the standing to file and maintain the above action or proceeding to the Attorney General. The bill would authorize the court, upon its own motion or of a party, to conduct a hearing to determine if the Attorney General is bringing and maintaining an action or proceeding for nonenvironmental purposes, as defined. If the court determines that the action is brought or maintained for nonenvironmental purposes, the bill would authorize the court to take necessary actions, including the dismissal of the action or proceeding, award of attorneys’ fees, or both dismissal and award.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
SB 240 (Ochoa Bogh R) Surplus state real property.
Introduced: 1/25/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Coms. on G.O. and HOUSING.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. G.O.
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Current law requires a local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to satisfy certain requirements to be considered as a potential priority buyer of the surplus state real property, including that the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the department, that the surplus state real property, or portion of that surplus state real property, is to be used by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor for open space, public parks, affordable housing projects, or development of local government-owned facilities. Current law authorizes the Department of General Services to sell surplus state real property, or a portion of surplus state real property, to a local agency, or to a nonprofit affordable housing sponsor if no local agency is interested in the surplus state real property, for affordable housing projects at a sales price less than fair market value if the department determines that such a discount will enable the provision of housing for persons and families of low or moderate income. Current law also authorizes the Director of General Services to transfer surplus state real property to a local agency for less than fair market value if the agency uses the surplus state real property for parks or open-space purposes. This bill
would remove authorization for a local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to be considered as a potential priority buyer of surplus state real property upon demonstration that the property is to be used by the agency or sponsor for open space or a public park. The bill would, where surplus state real property that is to be used by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor for affordable housing projects and the affordable housing project is not completed within 5 years of the date the property was acquired by the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor, require the local agency or nonprofit affordable housing sponsor to pay a penalty in the amount of 1% of the purchase price. The bill would remove authorization to transfer surplus state real property to a local agency for less than fair market value if the agency proposes to use the surplus state real property for parks or open-space purposes.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 246 (Ochoa Bogh R) California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on HUMANS S. and HOUSING.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. HUM. S.
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Summary:
Current law sets forth the composition of the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, which includes, among others, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who serve as cochairs of the council. This bill would add a representative from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to the council described above.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Housing, Homelessness
SB 250 (Umberg D) Controlled substances: fentanyl testing strips.
Introduced: 1/26/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/26/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law defines certain chemicals as controlled substances and prohibits, among other things, the possession and use of those substances. Current law also defines drug paraphernalia and prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, and possession, as specified, of drug paraphernalia. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 251 (Newman D) Political Reform Act of 1974: elected officers: conflicts of interest.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. E. & C.A.
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Summary:
The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of conflicts of interest of public officials. This bill would prohibit an elected officer from employment by any other elected officer with the same constituency, as provided. The bill would not apply to statewide elected officers. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 252 (Gonzalez D) Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment.
Introduced: 1/30/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. L., P.E. & R.
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Summary:
Current law prohibits the boards of the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds in a thermal coal company, as defined. Current law requires the boards to liquidate investments in thermal coal companies on or before July 1, 2017, and requires the boards, in making a determination to liquidate investments, to constructively engage with thermal coal companies to establish whether the companies are transitioning their business models to adapt to clean energy generation. Current law provides that it does not require a board to take any action unless the board determines in good faith that the action is consistent with the board’s fiduciary responsibilities established in the California Constitution. This bill would prohibit the boards of the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System from making new investments or renewing existing investments of public employee retirement funds in a fossil fuel company, as defined.
The bill would require the boards to liquidate investments in a fossil fuel company on or before July 1, 2030. The bill would temporarily suspend the above-described liquidation provision upon a good faith determination by the board that certain conditions materially impact normal market mechanisms for pricing assets, as specified, and would make this suspension provision inoperative on January 1, 2035.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Environmental Quality, Finance, Natural Resources SB 265 (Hurtado D) Cybersecurity preparedness: critical infrastructure sectors.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on G.O.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. G.O.
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Summary:
Would require the Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to direct the California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC) to prepare, and Cal OES to submit to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2025, a strategic, multiyear outreach plan to assist critical infrastructure sectors, as defined, in their efforts to improve cybersecurity and an evaluation of options for providing grants or alternative forms of funding to, and potential voluntary actions that do not require funding and that assist, that sector in their efforts to improve cybersecurity preparedness. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 266 (Newman D) Crimes: public safety grants.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 1/31/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program to provide funds to community-based organizations and nonprofit agencies that prevent or deter at-risk youth from participating in gangs, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Public Safety
SB 268 (Alvarado-Gil D) Crimes: serious and violent felonies.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law classifies certain criminal offenses as a “violent felony” for the purposes of various provisions of the Penal Code, including sentencing enhancements for prior convictions, as well as
numerous other provisions. Current law includes among the list of violent felonies rape accomplished against a person’s will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear, or rape accomplished against the victim’s will by threat of violent retaliation, but does not include rape of a person unable to give consent due to disability, intoxication, or unconsciousness, rape under false pretenses, or rape accomplished by threat of incarceration, arrest, or deportation. This bill would include all rape violations in the list of violent felonies.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 270 (Wiener D) California Environmental Quality Act: housing projects: housing sustainability districts:
exemption.
Introduced: 1/31/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-Set for hearing March 15.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. E.Q.
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Calendar:
3/15/2023 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts from its requirements a housing project undertaken in a housing sustainability district designated by a local government if specified requirements are met, including that the lead agency has certified an environmental impact report for the district, and the Department of Housing and Community Development has approved the district, within 10 years of the lead agency’s review of the housing project. This bill would instead allow the exemption to apply if the lead agency has certified an environmental impact report for the district, and the Department of Housing and Community Development has approved the district, within 12 years of the lead agency’s review of the housing project.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 280 (Laird D) Review of conservatorships: care plans.
Introduced: 2/1/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. JUD.
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Summary:
Would, commencing January 1, 2025, require a conservator, within 120 calendar days of appointment and not later than 10 days before a hearing to determine the continuation or termination of an existing conservatorship, and to file a care plan regarding the care, custody, and control of the conservatee.
The bill would require the care plan to be delivered to specified persons, including the conservatee and their attorney, but would otherwise make the care plan confidential, except as specified, thereby limiting public access to the records. The bill would require the Judicial Council to develop a mandatory form for the care plan, which would be required to include specified information, including descriptions of the conservatee’s living arrangement and level of care and any plans to modify those within the next 12 months. The bill would impose sanctions for a conservator’s failure to timely file a care plan, including authorizing the court to impose a civil penalty in any amount up to $1,000, payable to the estate of the conservatee, and authorizing the court to remove a conservator for failure to file a care plan. The bill would require an investigator to review the most recent care plan as part of an investigation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 281 (McGuire D) Crimes: aggravated arson.
Introduced: 2/1/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law, until January 1, 2024, defines the offense of aggravated arson, and defines the aggravating factors for the offense as, the person has been previously convicted of arson on one or more occasions within the past 10 years, the fire caused property damage and other losses in excess of $8,300,000, or the fire caused damage to, or the destruction of, 5 or more inhabited structures.
Current law, commencing January 1, 2024, deletes the aggravating factor of property damage and other losses in excess of $8,300,000 from the definition of aggravated arson. This bill would extend the operation of the former aggravated arson offense until January 1, 2029. The bill would delay operation of the latter aggravated arson offense that deletes the threshold dollar amount of property damages or losses as an aggravating factor until January 1, 2029.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 285 (Allen D) Cannabis: retail preparation, sale, and consumption of noncannabis food and beverage products.
Introduced: 2/1/2023
Status: 2/9/2023-Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. B., P. & E.D.
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Summary:
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction. Current law authorizes a local jurisdiction to allow for the smoking, vaporizing, and ingesting of cannabis or cannabis products on the premises of a licensed retailer or microbusiness, subject to specified restrictions. Current administrative law specifies that a licensed retailer or licensed microbusiness authorized for retail sales who operates a consumption area on the licensed premises in accordance with this provision may also sell prepackaged, noncannabis- infused, nonalcoholic food and beverages if the applicable local jurisdiction allows. This bill, subject to the specified restrictions referenced above, would authorize a local jurisdiction to allow for the preparation or sale of noncannabis food or beverage products, as specified, by a licensed retailer or microbusiness in the area where the consumption of cannabis is allowed.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Safety
SB 288 (Nguyen R) Public records: parole calculations and inmate release credits.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB S.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. JUD.
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Summary:
Current constitutional provisions, enacted by Proposition 57 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, make an inmate sentenced to state prison for a conviction of a nonviolent felony offense eligible for early parole consideration after completing the full term for their primary offense, as defined. This bill would provide that Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records pertaining to an inmate’s release date and their early release credits are public records and are subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act. The bill would state that the provisions relative to the California Public Records Act are declaratory of existing law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 290 (Min D) Domestic violence documentation: victim access.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law requires state and local law enforcement agencies to provide, upon request and without charging a fee, one copy of all incident report face sheets, one copy of all incident reports, or both, to a
victim, or the representative of a victim, of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or abuse of an elder or dependent adult, as specified. Current law requires the copy of the incident report to be made available during business hours, within 5 working days after a request, unless the state or local law enforcement agency informs the victim or the victim’s representative of the reasons why the incident report is not available, as specified. Under current law, these provisions apply to requests for domestic violence face sheets or incident reports made within 5 years from the date of the completion of the incident report, or within 2 years of the completion of the incident report for sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or abuse of an elder or dependent adult. This bill would extend those provisions to additionally require the state or local law enforcement agency to make available to a victim or representative any accompanying or related photographs, digital recordings, and other digital evidence. The bill would require the additional documentation to be provided within the same time periods as required for providing an incident report. The bill would extend the time limit for victims of sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or abuse of an elder or a dependent adult, and their representatives, to request the documents described in the bill, from 2 years to 5 years.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 294 (Wiener D) Housing development projects: floor area ratios.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Current law prohibits a local agency, as defined, from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 1.0 on a housing development project that consists of 3 to 7 units, or less than 1.25 on a housing development project that consists of 8 to 10 units. Current law prohibits a local agency from imposing a lot coverage requirement that would physically preclude a housing development project of not more than 10 units from achieving the floor area ratios described above. This bill would delete the 10-unit maximum for eligible projects, and would prohibit a local agency from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 2.5 on a housing development project that consists of 11 to 20 units. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing a floor area ratio standard that is less than 1.25 for every ten housing units, rounded to the nearest ten units, on a housing development project that consists of more than 20 units.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 295 (Dodd D) Vehicles: regulations on public property.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. TRANS.
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Summary:
Current law authorizes a public agency to adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, skateboards, electrically motorized boards, and roller skates on public property under the jurisdiction of that agency, as specified. This bill would additionally include certain transportation devices for the purposes of this provision, including, among other things, scooters, pocket bicycles, and golf carts, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 296 (Dodd D) In-vehicle cameras.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on JUD.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. JUD.
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Summary:
Would require a manufacturer of a new motor vehicle that is equipped with one or more in-vehicle cameras to disclose that fact, as specified. The bill would prohibit a person or entity from providing for the sale or lease of a new motor vehicle with one or more in-vehicle cameras in this state without prominently informing the user or the person designated by the user to purchase the vehicle, as specified. The bill would further prohibit any images or video recordings collected through the operation of an in-vehicle camera from being used for any advertising purpose or being sold to any third party.
The bill would also prohibit these images or video recordings from being shared with third parties, except as provided. The bill would also prohibit any recording obtained through operation of an in- vehicle camera from being retained at any location other than the vehicle itself, or being downloaded, retrieved, or otherwise accessed by a person or entity other than the user, as defined, without affirmative prior consent, as defined, except as provided. The bill would require a person or entity that provides the operation of an in-vehicle camera in this state to provide effective mechanisms for a consumer to revoke consent. The bill would prohibit a person or entity from compelling a manufacturer or other entity providing the operation of an in-vehicle camera to build specific features for the purpose of allowing an investigative or law enforcement officer to monitor images through that feature. The bill would prohibit a waiver of these protections, and would authorize their enforcement by injunction or civil penalty in a court of competent jurisdiction by the Attorney General or a district attorney.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety, Transportation
SB 297 (Allen D) Elections: initiatives and referenda: withdrawal.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. E. & C.A.
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Summary:
Current law authorizes the proponents of a statewide initiative or referendum measure to withdraw the measure after filing the initiative or referendum petition with the appropriate elections official at any time before the Secretary of State certifies that the measure has qualified for the ballot, as provided. Current law requires, for the withdrawal of an initiative or referendum measure after the petition has been filed with the appropriate elections official, all of the proponents to file a written notice with the Secretary of State to withdraw the measure. This bill would instead require a majority of the proponents to file a written notice with the Secretary of State to withdraw the statewide initiative or referendum measure after the petition has been filed with the appropriate elections official.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 300 (Seyarto R) Public employees’ retirement: fiscal impact: information.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/3/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.
Location: 2/2/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Would require any bill, introduced on or after January 1, 2024, that is referred to the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee and relates to the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) to include a fiscal impact analysis from the Legislative Analyst’s Office that describes the fiscal impact of the bill on PERS and what the outcome of the bill would be if implemented.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Human Resources
SB 302 (Stern D) Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act or Ryan’s Law.
Introduced: 2/2/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. HEALTH
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The Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act or Ryan’s Law requires specified types of health
care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions. Current law requires that health care facilities permitting patient use of medical cannabis comply with other drug and medication requirements, as specified, and makes those facilities subject to enforcement actions by the State Department of Public Health. This bill would expand those provisions to a patient who is over 65 years of age with a chronic disease, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 315 (Hurtado D) Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/6/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (the act), provides for the sustainable management of groundwater basins, and provides local groundwater agencies with the authority and the technical and financial assistance necessary to sustainably manage groundwater, among other purposes of the act.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would assist groundwater sustainability agencies in fostering discussions among diverse water management interests and local agencies as they strive to implement the act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources SB 316 (Niello R) Shoplifting: increased penalties for prior crimes.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. PUB. S.
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Summary:
Current law, as amended by Proposition 47, provides that a registered sex offender or a person with a prior conviction for certain serious or violent felonies, such as a sexually violent offense, who commits petty theft is subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year or in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. This bill would reinstate a provision of law that was repealed by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 18 months or 2 or 3 years. The bill would also make this provision and the provision relating to a person with serious, violent, or sexual prior offenses applicable to a person whose prior or current conviction is for shoplifting.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 318 (Ochoa Bogh R) “2-1-1” information and referral network.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on HUMANS S.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. HUM. S.
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Summary:
Pursuant to authority delegated by the Federal Communications Commission to state regulatory bodies and its existing statutory authority, the Public Utilities Commission has established procedures for implementing 2-1-1 dialing in California. Current law, until January 1, 2023, authorized the commission, if it determined that doing so was an appropriate use of funds collected from ratepayers, to expend up to $1,500,000 from the California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund to help close 2-1-1 service gaps in counties lacking access to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery information and referral services, where technically feasible, through available 2-1-1 service. Current law establishes various public social services programs, administered by the State Department of Social services. This bill would, upon appropriation, require the department to establish, develop, implement, and administer the 2-1-1 Support Services Grant Program. The bill would require the department to
allocate 85% of funds for grants to fund core activities of 2-1-1 agencies, including, among others, contact handling, as specified, and improving the statewide ability to manage resource and user needs data to support data sharing and delivery to health systems, government agencies and other key partners, and shared capacity for analytics and systems.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Public Works
SB 319 (McGuire D) Electrical transmission.
Introduced: 2/6/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/6/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The Public Utilities Act prohibits any electrical corporation from beginning the construction of, among other things, a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require that construction. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation related to electrical transmission.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works
SB 328 (Dodd D) Political Reform Act of 1974: contribution limits.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and ED.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. E. & C.A.
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The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits a person, other than a small contributor committee or political party committee, from making to a candidate for elective state, county, or city office, and prohibits those candidates from accepting from a person, a contribution totaling more than $3,000 per election, as that amount is adjusted by the Fair Political Practices Commission in January of every odd-numbered year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. This bill would apply those contribution limits to candidates for school district, community college district, and other special district elections. The bill would make certain other provisions of the act relating to contribution limits applicable to candidates for district office.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 329 (Dodd D) Cities: city council members: compensation.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. GOV. & F.
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Summary:
Current law authorizes a city council to enact an ordinance to provide each member of the city council a salary based upon the population of the city, as specified. Current law authorizes that amount to be increased by the city council by an amount that does not exceed 5% for each calendar year from the operative date of the last adjustment of the salary that is in effect when the increase is enacted, and prohibits an ordinance from being enacted or amended to provide automatic future increases in salary.
This bill, instead, would authorize a city council to adjust, by ordinance, the amount of the salary of city council members based upon population in an amount that does not exceed inflation since January 1, 1984, based upon the California Consumer Price Index.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 334 (Cortese D) Public Employment Relations Board: powers and duties.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. L., P.E. & R.
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Summary:
Current law gives public school employees the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations. Current law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board and gives the board specified powers and duties relating to employer-employee relations. Current law authorizes the board to conduct studies relating to employer-employee relations, including the collection, analysis, and making available of data relating to wages, benefits, and employment practices in public and private employment, and to recommend legislation. This bill would specifically authorize the board to conduct employer-employee relations studies concerning the impact on public employees of net-zero carbon emissions initiatives, including collecting, analyzing, and making available related data.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Human Resources
SB 335 (Cortese D) Labor statistics: annual report.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/7/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Industrial Relations to complete and publish an annual report containing statistics on state work injuries and occupational diseases and fatalities by industry classifications by December 31 of the following calendar year and requires all of the reports and statistics to be available to the public. This bill would specify that the reports and statistics described above are required to be available to the public in a manner determined by the department.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 341 (Becker D) Housing development.
Introduced: 2/7/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. HOUSING
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Summary:
Current law awards jurisdictions that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions and that are prohousing additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs, including, among others, the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program and the Infill Incentive Grant Program of 2007. Current law authorizes additional bonus points to be awarded to other state programs when already allowable under state law. Current law establishes the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, which requires the department, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and administer a grant program to allocate those funds to eligible applicants, as defined, to fund capital improvement projects that are an integral part of, or necessary to facilitate the development of, a qualifying infill project, qualifying infill area, or catalytic qualifying infill area, as those terms are defined, pursuant to specified requirements. Current law requires the department, in its review and ranking of applications for the award of capital improvement project grants, to rank affected qualifying infill projects and qualifying infill areas based on specified priorities.
This bill would remove the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program from the list of specified state programs for which additional points or preference is awarded. This bill, with respect to the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, would specify that only the qualifying infill area portion of that program must be awarded additional points or preference. This bill would add the qualifying infill area and catalytic qualifying infill area portions of the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019 as one of the specified state programs for which additional points or preference is awarded.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing SB 352 (Padilla D) California Workforce Development Board: minimum wage and housing.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and HOUSING.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. L., P.E. & R.
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Summary:
Current law establishes within the Department of Industrial Relations, the Industrial Welfare Commission, and requires the minimum wage for employees fixed by the commission or by any applicable state or local law to be paid to employees. This bill would require the California Workforce Development Board, in conjunction with the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development and the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, to examine housing costs by county and create a formula to ascertain how much the local minimum wage must be for a full-time worker to reasonably afford housing and basic expenses in that county. The bill, commencing in 2024, would also require the California Workforce Development Board to recommend to the Legislature by December 15 of each year the minimum wage for a full-time minimum earner to afford housing in each county and recommend a method to annually adjust figures to account for housing cost inflation and inflation broadly.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Human Resources
SB 355 (Eggman D) Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/8/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission adopted the California Solar Initiative, to be administered by the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations and subject to the commission’s supervision. Current law requires the commission to ensure that not less than 10% of the funds for the California Solar Initiative are used for the installation of solar energy systems on low-income residential housing. Pursuant to this requirement, the commission adopted decisions that established the Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program, pursuant to which the electrical corporations provide monetary incentives for the installation of solar energy systems on low-income residential housing. Current law requires the commission, beginning with the 2016–17 fiscal year and ending with the 2019–20 fiscal year, to authorize the annual allocation of certain amounts of moneys for the Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program. Current law authorizes the commission to continue authorizing the allocation of those moneys through June 30, 2026, if the commission determines that revenues are available and that there is adequate interest and participation in the program. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions authorizing the program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Housing
SB 356 (Archuleta D) Housing: Code Enforcement Incentive Program: Community Code Enforcement Pilot Program.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. HOUSING
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Summary:
Current law establishes the Code Enforcement Incentive Program pursuant to which the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation by the Legislature, makes funds available as matching grants to cities, counties, and cities and counties that operate local building enforcement programs for more than 3 years, as provided. Current law requires the recipient city, county, or city and county to provide a case or in-kind local match of least 25% in the first year, 50% in the 2nd year, and 75% in the 3rd year, and limits the maximum grant to a single recipient under the program to $1,000,000. Current law requires the department to award grants under the program on a competitive basis, based on criteria weighted for specified applicants, including local government applicants that
propose to identify and prosecute owners with habitual, repeated, multiple code violations that have remained unabated beyond the period required for abatement. The bill would revise the cash or in-kind local match requirement, described above, to instead require a recipient city, county, or city and county to match at least 35% of the funds awarded over 3 years. The bill would increase the maximum grant to a single recipient under the program from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, and require the department to adjust that amount for inflation at least once every 5 years.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Economic Development, Finance, Housing SB 363 (Eggman D) Facilities for inpatient and residential mental health and substance use disorder: database.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. HEALTH
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Summary:
Would require, by January 1, 2025, the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Social Services, and by conferring with specified stakeholders, to develop a real-time, internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in specified types of facilities, such as chemical dependency recovery hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and mental health rehabilitation centers, among others, to identify the availability of inpatient and residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment.
The bill would require the database to include a minimum of specific information, including the contact information for a facility’s designated employee, the types of diagnoses or treatments for which the bed is appropriate, and the target populations served at the facility, and have the capacity to, among other things, enable searches to identify beds that are appropriate for individuals in need of inpatient or residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 367 (Seyarto R) State and Federal Land Solid Waste Removal and Cleanup Pilot Program.
Introduced: 2/8/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and GOV. & F.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. E.Q.
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Calendar:
3/15/2023 9 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1200 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ALLEN, BENJAMIN, Chair
Summary:
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates solid waste disposal, management, and recycling. The act authorizes a local governmental agency to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern, including, but not limited to, fees to charge and the extent of providing solid waste handling services. Current law makes it unlawful to dump waste matter in specific locations, including upon a public park or other public property. Current law requires the department to establish a grant program for certain entities to clean up and abate the effects of solid waste illegally disposed of on farm or ranch property. This bill would, upon a sufficient appropriation to implement its provisions, require the department to establish a 5-year pilot program for the removal and cleanup of solid waste illegally dumped on state or federal land in specified counties, as described. The bill would require those counties to administer the pilot program, including, among other things, by reimbursing local waste facilities for waiving certain fees, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Public Works SB 375 (Alvarado-Gil D) Employment: employer contributions: employee withholdings: COVID-19 regulatory compliance credit.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Under current law, every employer who pays wages to a resident employee for services performed either within or without this state, or to a nonresident employee for services performed in this state, is required to deduct and withhold from those wages, except as provided, for each payroll, a tax computed in an amount substantially equivalent to the amount reasonably estimated to be due under the Personal Income Tax Law. Under current law, every employer required to withhold those taxes is required to, for each calendar quarter, file a withholding report, a quarterly return, and a report of wages in a form prescribed by the Employment Development Department, and pay over the taxes required to be withheld. This bill would authorize an employer to claim, for the 2023 and 2024 calendar years, a COVID-19 regulatory compliance credit in a specified amount. The bill would require the credit to be claimed on the employer’s last quarterly return, as described, for the relevant calendar year. The bill would require any amount claimed by an employer to be credited against employee personal income tax withholding amounts required to be remitted to the department for the last quarter of the relevant calendar year.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
SB 377 (Skinner D) Firearms: peace officer exemptions.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law prohibits a firearms dealer from delivering a firearm within 10 days after the application to purchase or after notice by the Department of Justice that the applicant is not ineligible to possess a firearm, as specified, whichever is later. Current law exempts from this prohibition the delivery of a firearm to a full-time paid peace officer, as defined, with written authorization from the head of the officer’s employing agency. Current law also exempts from this prohibition the delivery of a firearm to another dealer, the delivery of a firearm to a person possessing a special weapons permit issued by the Department of Justice, or the delivery of a firearm that is a curio or relic, as defined. This bill would remove the 10-day waiting period exemption for a peace officer and instead exempt the delivery of a firearm purchased by a law enforcement agency, as defined, to an authorized law enforcement representative of that law enforcement agency for exclusive use by that agency if written authorization, as defined, from the head of the agency authorizing the delivery is presented to the person making the delivery.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 381 (Min D) Electric bicycles: study.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Would require the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University to, on or before January 1, 2026, conduct a study on electric bicycles to inform efforts to improve the safety of riders and pedestrians, and to submit a report of the findings from the study to the Legislature. The bill would require the study to examine or compile, among other things, data on injuries, accidents, emergency room visits, and deaths related to bicycles and electronic bicycles and data on best practices for safety of regular bicycles versus electric bicycles.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 386 (Newman D) Elections.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes procedures for the filing of a state initiative or referendum petition with county elections officials and for county elections officials and the Secretary of State to determine the validity and numerical sufficiency of the signatures submitted with the petition. Under current law, if the number of signatures filed with all county elections officials is 100% or more of the number of signatures required, the Secretary of State is required to immediately notify county elections officials.
Within 30 days after this notice, excluding weekends and holidays, county elections officials are required to verify that those signatures were provided by qualified voters. This bill would extend that period to within 60 days after notice from the Secretary of State. The bill would also exclude any day that is between 29 days before through 30 days after a statewide election held in March or November of an even-numbered year from the 60-day period.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 393 (Glazer D) California Environmental Quality Act: judicial challenge: identification of contributors:
housing projects.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would require a plaintiff or petitioner, in an action brought pursuant to the act, to disclose the identity of a person or entity that contributes in excess of $1,000, as specified, toward the plaintiff’s or petitioner’s costs of the action.
The bill also would require the plaintiff or petitioner to identify any pecuniary or business interest related to the project of any person or entity that contributes in excess of $1,000 to the costs of the action, as specified. The bill would provide that a failure to comply with these requirements may be grounds for dismissal of the action by the court.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
SB 396 (Wahab D) Local government: excavations: notice.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law imposes various duties on local agencies relating to construction and property within its jurisdiction, including by requiring local agencies with jurisdiction to approve excavations to allow microtrenching, as defined, for the installation of underground fiber if the installation in the microtrench is limited to fiber, except as provided. Current law requires, during the project planning phase of certain department-led construction projects, the Department of Transportation to notify companies and organizations working on broadband deployment of the project on its internet website to encourage collaborative broadband installations. This bill would require, prior to commencing any local agency-led excavation projects, as defined, a city, county, or city and county to notify interested parties of the project on its internet website to encourage collaborative installations of important utilities and infrastructure, including, but not limited to, fiber optic cable, undergrounding utilities, or other important services.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Works, Transportation SB 399 (Wahab D) Employer communications: intimidation.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Would, except as specified, prohibit an employer from requiring its employees to attend an employer- sponsored meeting or participate in any communications with the employer or its agents or representatives, the purpose of which is to communicate the employer’s opinion about religious matters, political matters, or certain rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and California Constitution, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 400 (Wahab D) Peace officers: confidentiality of records.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
The California Public Records Act generally requires public records to be open for inspection by the public. Current law provides numerous exceptions to this requirement. Under current law, the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers are confidential and not subject to public inspection. Current law provides certain exemptions to this confidentiality, including the reports, investigations, and findings of certain incidents involving the use of force by a peace officer. This bill would clarify that this confidentiality does not prohibit an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or custodial officer from disclosing the termination for cause of that officer, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 402 (Wahab D) Emergency services: limiting police response.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Current law requires the future implementation of a statewide “988” telephone system for suicide prevention and mental health crises. This bill would require 911 or other service center calls for service relating to mental health or homelessness, as specified, to be dispatched to fire district or department personnel, EMS personnel, mental health personnel, or nonsworn unarmed police personnel and not to police officers, except as otherwise provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 405 (Cortese D) Planning and zoning: housing element: inventory of sites: regional housing need.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. Current law requires the appropriate council of governments, or for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. Current law requires a city or county to determine whether each site in its inventory of land can accommodate the development of some portion of its share of the regional housing need, as provided. This bill, for a housing element or amendment adopted as part of the seventh planning period, would require the planning agency to provide notice to the owner of a site included in the above-described inventory that the site is included in that inventory, if the owner’s
identity and contact information is known, as specified. If the site owner notifies the planning agency or the department that the owner does not intend to develop at least 80% of the number of units for the site, determined as described above, during the current planning period, the bill would provide that the site would not be considered a site that can be developed to meet the jurisdiction’s share of the regional housing need, except as specified. The bill would require the planning agency to make a reasonable effort to identify an owner and the owner’s contact information and to determine the intent of the owner to develop the site. The bill would require that the information be an important factor for the department in determining whether the housing element identifies sufficient sites to meet the jurisdiction share of regional housing. The bill would require the department to amend specified standards, forms, and definitions to implement these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 406 (Cortese D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: financial assistance: housing.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts for its requirements actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development or the California Housing Finance Agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing, as provided. This bill would extend the above exemption to actions taken by a local agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 409 (Newman D) Elections: candidate’s statement.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the Secretary of State to establish a pilot program that would allow a candidate to include a QR code link, as defined, to a video statement in the state voter information guide, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of State to seek to collaborate with at least 1 but not more than 4 county elections offices to establish a similar program for county voter information guides.
The bill would require a candidate who is submitting a statement for a voter information guide to physically write the statement in a county elections office or a place designated by the Secretary of State, as specified. The bill would establish timeframes for a county elections office to transmit the candidate’s statement to other counties in which the candidate is running for office, as specified.
Because the bill would increase the responsibilities of a county elections office and expand the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 411 (Portantino D) Open meetings: teleconferences: bodies with appointed membership.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency or in other situations related to public health that exempt a legislative body from the general requirements (emergency provisions) and impose different requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The emergency provisions specify that they do not require a legislative body to provide a physical location from which the public may attend or comment. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the
legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met, including restrictions on remote participation by a member of the legislative body. This bill would authorize a legislative body to use alternate teleconferencing provisions similar to the emergency provisions indefinitely and without regard to a state of emergency. The bill would alternatively define “legislative body” for this purpose to mean a board, commission, or advisory body of a local agency, the membership of which board, commission, or advisory body is appointed and which board, commission, or advisory body is otherwise subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 414 (Allen D) Drought-tolerant landscaping: local incentive programs: synthetic grass: artificial turf.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Current law prohibits a city, including a charter city, county, and city and county, from enacting or enforcing any ordinance or regulation that prohibits the installation of drought-tolerant landscaping, synthetic grass, or artificial turf on residential property, as specified. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded. Current law provides, among other exclusions, an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive issued by a public water system, as defined, local government, or state agency for participation in a turf replacement water conservation program. This bill would prohibit a city, including a charter city, county, city and county, or special district, from issuing a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive for the use of synthetic grass or artificial turf that contains contaminants, including zinc, plastic, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 415 (Durazo D) Air quality: rules and regulations: socioeconomic impacts assessment.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law requires a local air pollution control district or an air quality management district (local air district) that intends to propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule or regulation that will significantly affect air quality or emissions limitations to perform, except as specified, an assessment of the socioeconomic impacts of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of the rule or regulation, as provided. Current law defines “socioeconomic impacts” to include, among other things, the type of industries or business, including small business, affected by the rule or regulation, the impact of the rule or regulation on employment and the economy of the region affected by the adoption of the rule or regulation, and the range of probable costs, including costs to industry or business, including small business, of the rule or regulation. This bill would authorize a local air district to contract with a third party to conduct the required assessment of socioeconomic impacts, or portion thereof, as provided.
The bill would require a local air district to ensure that a prospective third-party contractor includes in its proposal for the assessment specified information, including, among other things, a conflicts statement and a proposed schedule and budget for the assessment. This bill would expand the definition of “socioeconomic impacts” to include the disproportionate impact, if any, of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of the rule or regulation on Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and women.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality SB 417 (Blakespear D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/9/2023
Status: 2/10/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
Location: 2/9/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Existing law declares that the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the California Housing Finance Agency are responsible for carrying out state housing policies and programs.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing
SB 422 (Portantino D) Environmental quality: greenhouse gas emissions: permit streamlining.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
The Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021 authorizes the Governor, until January 1, 2024, to certify projects that meet specified requirements for streamlining benefits related to CEQA. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to adopt permit streamlining guidance for projects that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality SB 423 (Wiener D) Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as provided, and not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards, including, among others, that the development proponent has committed to record, prior to the issuance of the first building permit, a land use restriction or covenant providing that any lower or moderate-income housing units required, as specified, remain available at affordable housing costs, as defined, or rent to persons and families of lower or moderate-income for no less than specified periods of time. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026. This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would delete the January 1, 2026, repeal date, thereby making these provisions operative indefinitely. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 434 (Min D) Transit operators: street harassment survey.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
This bill would require a transit operator, as defined, upon allocation of certain funds by the Legislature, to collect specified survey data for the purpose of informing efforts to improve the safety of riders and
reduce street harassment on public transit on or before June 30, 2024. The bill would require a transit operator to conduct outreach activities with subpopulations of riders who are underrepresented in surveys and impacted by street harassment to gain insight into the perspectives of these riders based on their experiences. The bill would provide that specified information collected by a transit operator in the 5 years before the effective date of this bill is deemed to be survey data collected by the transit operator for purposes of the bill. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on a local agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Transportation
SB 449 (Bradford D) Public officers and employees.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prescribes certain characteristics that disqualify a person for public office or public employment, as specified. In this regard, people who bind themselves by oath, while citizens or residents of the United States, to support, maintain, or further the military or political activities or policies of a foreign government, among other things, are ineligible for holding public office or public employment. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in the above-described provisions relating to people who bind themselves to support foreign governments.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources, Public Safety
SB 450 (Atkins D) Housing Accountability Act: standards, forms, and definitions.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Administrative Procedure Act, in part, sets forth procedural requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies, and for review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. This bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to review, adopt, amend, and repeal the standards, forms, or definitions to implement the Housing Accountability Act without compliance with those procedural requirements, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 456 (Menjivar D) Multifamily Housing Program: nonprofit corporations: homeless or at-risk youth.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the Multifamily Housing Program administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires assistance for projects under the program to be provided in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for eligible costs of specified types of development, as provided. Current law requires that specified funds appropriated to provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are inherently impacted by or at increased risk for medical diseases or conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases be disbursed in accordance with the Multifamily Housing Program for specified uses. Current law exempts these specified funds from the deferred payment loan requirement, as specified. Current law also requires at least 8 percent of these specified funds to be available for projects serving homeless youth, or youth at risk of homelessness, as defined.
This bill would, instead, require that at least 8 percent of the specified funds be available for units,
rather than projects, serving homeless youth, or youth at risk of homelessness.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing, Homelessness SB 461 (Wahab D) Days and hours of work: religious or cultural observance.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act prescribes various unlawful employment practices and requires the Civil Rights Department to, among other things, receive, investigate, and prosecute complaints alleging violations of those unlawful practices. For these purposes, the act defines, among other terms, “religious observance” to include all aspects of religious belief, observance, and practice, as specified. This bill would replace the term “religious observance” with “religious or cultural observance” and require that it be construed broadly to include the observance of a holiday or ceremony of an individual’s religion, culture, or heritage.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 466 (Wahab D) Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act: rental rates.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act prescribes statewide limits on the application of local rent control with regard to certain properties. The act generally authorizes an owner of residential real property to establish the initial rental rate for a dwelling or unit, except in specified circumstances, including, (1) when the residential real property has a certificate of occupancy issued after February 1, 1995, (2) when the residential real property has already been exempt from the residential rent control ordinance of a public entity on or before February 1, 1995, pursuant to a local exemption for newly constructed units, and (3) when the residential real property is alienable and separate from title to any other dwelling units, except as specified. This bill would instead authorize an owner of residential real property to establish the initial rental rate for a dwelling or unit when the residential real property has been issued a certificate of occupancy issued within the 15 years preceding the date on which the owner seeks to establish a rental rate under these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing
SB 469 (Allen D) Housing: publicly funded low-rent housing projects.
Introduced: 2/13/2023
Status: 2/14/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Location: 2/13/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition in any manner of a low-rent housing project by any state public body, as defined, until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which it is proposed to develop, construct, or acquire the same, voting upon that issue, approve the project by voting in favor at an election. The California Constitution, for purposes of this prohibition, defines “low-rent housing project” to mean any development composed of urban or rural dwellings, apartments, or other living accommodations for persons of low income, financed in whole or in part by the federal government or a state public body or to which the federal government or a state public body extends assistance by supplying all or part of the labor, by guaranteeing the payment of liens, or otherwise. Existing law establishes exclusions from this definition of “low-rent housing project,” including a development that consists of the acquisition, rehabilitation, reconstruction, alterations work, or any combination thereof, of lodging facilities or