dwelling units using moneys appropriated and disbursed pursuant to specified provisions of the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act relating to affordable housing preservation, rental housing development awarded funds from certain multifamily housing direct loan programs, and 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 or other communicable diseases.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing SB 470 (Alvarado-Gil D) Wildfires: grant eligibility: high fire hazard and very high fire hazard severity zones.
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 requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas. Current law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal, as provided. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would direct state agencies and departments to ensure grant eligibility for projects that reduce the risk of wildfire for entire neighborhoods and communities through water delivery system improvements for fire suppression purposes in high fire hazard severity zone or very high fire hazard severity zone communities, as designated by the State Fire Marshal or by a local agency.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Public Safety
SB 482 (Blakespear D) Multifamily Housing Program: supportive housing: capitalized operating reserves.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to offer capitalized operating reserves to supportive housing units developed under the Multifamily Housing Program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Housing
SB 497 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Protected employee conduct.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
(1) Current law prohibits a person from discharging an employee or in any manner discriminating, retaliating, or taking any adverse action against any employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant engaged in protected conduct, as specified. Under existing law, an employee who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted, suspended, retaliated against, subjected to adverse action, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of their employment because among other things, the employee engaged in protected conduct, as specified, the employee shall be entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits caused by those acts of the employer.This bill would create a rebuttable presumption in favor the employee’s claim if an employer engages in any action prohibited by this provision within 90 days of the protected activity specified in this provision. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 504 (Dodd D) Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities and provides that local agencies, among others, are eligible for these grants. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas of the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on specified criteria. Current law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal, and authorizes a local agency, at its discretion, to include areas within the jurisdiction of the local agency, not identified as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones by the State Fire Marshal, as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, respectively. This bill would require the department, when reviewing applications for the local assistance grant program, to give priority to any local governmental entity that is qualified to perform defensible space assessments in very high and high fire hazard severity zones who reports that information using the common reporting platform, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Public Safety, Wildfires SB 508 (Laird D) Cannabis.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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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.
AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions with a 2/3 vote of both houses to further its purposes and intent, except as specified. AUMA declares the intent of the people in enacting AUMA to accomplish, among other things, reducing barriers to entry into the legal, regulated market. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that reduces barriers to entry into the legal, regulated cannabis market.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Public Safety
SB 512 (Bradford D) Taxation: Cannabis Tax Law.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
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, establishes the Cannabis Tax Law. That law imposes, among other taxes, a cannabis excise tax upon purchasers of cannabis or cannabis products at a specified rate. That law defines various terms for its purposes. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision defining those terms.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
SB 518 (Wilk R) Elections: certification of results.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the canvass of an election to commence no later than the Thursday following the election and shall be continued daily, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays excepted, for not less than 6 hours each day until completed. Current law requires the elections official to prepare a certified statement of the results of the election and submit that certified statement to the governing body within 30 days of the election, except as specified. This bill would instead require the elections official to submit the certified statement of the results of the election on the 30th calendar day following the election.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 529 (Gonzalez D) Electric vehicle sharing services: public housing facilities and affordable multifamily housing properties.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the Energy Commission to create a program to award grants to facilitate electric vehicle sharing services, as defined, operated at permanent affordable multifamily housing properties. The bill would specify the eligible entities that may be awarded grants pursuant to the program, and would require those eligible entities to submit an application to the Energy Commission, as specified. The bill would require the Energy Commission to consider specified criteria in awarding grants and would require a grant recipient to only use grant funds for specified purposes to facilitate an electric vehicle sharing service operated at a public housing facility. The bill would require that a grant awarded pursuant to this program not exceed $250,000 to cover the cost of 2 electric vehicles and 2 Level 2 charging stations. The bill would provide that a grant recipient may be eligible for an additional $100,000 under this program for the purchase of 2 direct current fast chargers if the grant recipient meets specified requirements. The bill would require, as a condition of receiving a grant, a grant recipient to annually submit a report to the Energy Commission that includes specified information.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing, Transportation SB 532 (Wiener D) Ballot measures: local taxes.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires that the ballots used when voting upon a measure proposed by a local governing body or submitted to the voters as an initiative or referendum measure, including a measure authorizing the issuance of bonds or the incurrence of debt, have printed on them a true and impartial statement describing the purpose of the measure. If the proposed measure imposes a tax or raises the rate of a tax, current law requires the ballot to include in the statement of the measure the amount of money to be raised annually and the rate and duration of the tax to be levied. This bill would exempt from this requirement a measure that imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance
SB 537 (Becker D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that expands local government’s access to hold public meetings through teleconferencing and remote access.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 540 (Laird D) Cannabis and cannabis products: health warnings.
Introduced: 2/14/2023
Status: 2/15/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Location: 2/14/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires cannabis and cannabis product labels and inserts to include specified warnings about the safety of cannabis use. This bill would, on or before July 1, 2025, authorize the Department of Cannabis Control to reevaluate regulations for the above-described warnings to determine whether any additional warnings are necessary to reflect evolving science, and would require the department to adopt regulations for cannabis and cannabis product labels or inserts reflecting the evolving science regarding the risks that cannabis use may cause consumers. The bill would, on or before January 1, 2030, and every 5 years thereafter, require the department to reevaluate the adopted regulations to determine whether the requirements reflect the state of the evolving science on cannabis health effects and on effective communication of health warnings.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Health Department
SB 547 (Blakespear D) Housing study: homelessness.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
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 to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to study the viability of constructing housing for the homeless on state-owned property.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Housing, Homelessness
SB 555 (Wahab D) Social Housing Act of 2023.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would establish the California Social Housing Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be made available to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purposes of this act, including promoting the achievement of the aforementioned goals. This bill would require the department, no later than January 1, 2025, to develop, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a California Social Housing Plan for achieving the aforementioned goals, as specified. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Finance, Housing
SB 571 (Allen D) Development projects: emergency preparedness.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require a proponent of a new development within a state responsibility area or local responsibility area that is within a high or very high fire hazard severity zone to include an evacuation plan with its application submitted to the local government for the development. The bill would subject the evacuation plan to the independent approval of the local government, as defined, the respective law enforcement and fire agencies that have jurisdictional response authority over the relevant area, and the California Highway Patrol if the proposed evacuation routing utilizes state or federal highways.
The bill would require the evacuation plan to consist of specified information, including a wildfire behavior study, a traffic engineering study, and the best available routes for evacuation egress by populations within the development when threatened by wildfire. By imposing new duties on local governments in reviewing and approving developments in high and very high fire hazard severity zones, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Public Safety, Wildfires SB 573 (Wahab D) General plans.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
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 the provision that names that law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Developmental Services
SB 574 (Wahab D) Public agencies: cost accounting standards.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act authorizes a public agency to elect to become subject to uniform construction cost accounting procedures. Existing law provides for the development of cost accounting standards and an alternative method for the bidding of public works projects by public entities. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Public Works
SB 576 (Nguyen R) Local planning.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Planning and Zoning Law establishes in each city and in each county a planning agency with the powers necessary to carry out the purposes of the law. Current law authorizes the legislative body of each city and county to assign the functions of the planning agency to a planning department, one or
more planning commissions, administrative bodies or hearing officers, the legislative body itself, or any combination thereof, as it deems appropriate and necessary. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 585 (Niello R) Disability access: construction-related accessibility claims: statutory damages: attorney’s fees and costs.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. Current law imposes minimum statutory damages for construction-related accessibility claims if the violation of a construction-related accessibility standard denied the plaintiff full and equal access to the place of public accommodation on a particular occasion, including by causing difficulty, discomfort, or embarrassment. Current law, for claims filed on or after a specified date, presumes that certain technical violations do not cause a person difficulty, discomfort, or embarrassment for these purposes if specified criteria are satisfied. Current law limits a defendant’s liability for statutory damages under specified conditions, including if a defendant corrects the construction-related violations within a specified time. This bill would prohibit a construction-related accessibility claim for statutory damages from being initiated in a legal proceeding against a defendant until the defendant has been served with a demand letter specifying each alleged violation of a construction-related accessibility standard and given 120 days to correct the alleged violation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
SB 591 (Min D) Local government: massage.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes the legislative body of a city for incorporated areas, or county for unincorporated areas, to enact an ordinance that provides for the licensing for regulation of the business of massage when carried on within the city or county.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 597 (Glazer D) Rainwater capture systems.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-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 expand the use of rainwater capture systems installed in new residences.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
SB 613 (Seyarto R) Organic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions: low-population exemption.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Existing law requires, no later than January 1, 2018, the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a certain reduction in statewide emissions of methane, including a goal of a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025.This bill would exempt a local jurisdiction, as defined, from those requirements and regulations if the local jurisdiction disposes of less than 5,000 tons of solid waste per year and has fewer than 7,500 people, as provided. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Public Works SB 616 (Gonzalez D) Paid sick days: accrual and use.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the paid leave to be accrued at a rate of no less than one hour for every 30 hours worked, and to be available for use beginning on the 90th day of employment. Current law authorizes an employer to use a different accrual method as long as an employee has no less than 24 hours of accrued sick leave or paid time off by the 120th calendar day of employment or each calendar year, or in each 12-month period. Current law also provides that an employer may satisfy the accrual requirements by providing not less than 24 hours or 3 days of paid sick leave that is available to the employee to use by the completion of the employee’s 120th calendar day of employment. This bill would modify the employer’s alternate sick leave accrual method to instead require that an employee have no less than 56 hours of accrued sick leave or paid time off by the 280th calendar day of employment or each calendar year, or in each 12-month period. The bill would modify that satisfaction provision to authorize an employer to satisfy accrual requirements by providing not less than 56 hours or 7 days of paid sick leave that is available to the employee to use by the completion of the employee’s 280th calendar day of employment.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources
SB 617 (Newman D) Public contracts: regional transportation agencies: design-build procurement.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a regional transportation agency to utilize the design-build method of procurement to design and construct projects on or adjacent to the state highway system, including related nonhighway portions of the project, based on either best value or lowest responsible bid.
Current law also authorizes a regional transportation agency to utilize the design-build method of procurement, based on either best value or lowest responsible bid, to design and construct projects on expressways that are not on the state highway system if the projects are developed pursuant to an expenditure plan, as specified. This bill would provide that the above-described authorizations to use design-build procurement also include authorization to use progressive design-build procurement, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
SB 620 (McGuire D) Housing: special occupancy parks.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Special Occupancy Parks Act establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, and design of special occupancy parks. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to address the classification of certain types of special occupancy parks.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services SB 622 (Allen D) Cannabis regulation: plant identification program.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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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.
Current law requires the Department of Cannabis Control to implement a unique identification program for cannabis and cannabis products and requires the program to include the identification of permitted cannabis plants at a cultivation site during the cultivation period. Current law requires a unique identifier to be issued for each cannabis plant and to be attached at the base of each plant or as otherwise required by law or regulation. This bill would instead require the unique identifier to be attached to each plant as required by regulation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development
SB 623 (Laird D) Workers’ compensation: post-traumatic stress disorder.
Introduced: 2/15/2023
Status: 2/16/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Location: 2/15/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law provides, until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes post-traumatic stress that develops or manifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit. Current law requires the compensation awarded pursuant to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability indemnity, and death benefits. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive conforming changes to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Human Resources, Public Safety SB 632 (Caballero D) Candidate statements.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Under existing law, candidates for certain elected offices may prepare and file candidate statements in the office of the county elections official to be included in the county voter information guide sent to each voter by the elections official.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require a county elections official to accept any candidate statement preapproved by the Secretary of State without requiring any additional modification or amendment to the preapproved candidate statement.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 634 (Becker D) Housing: interim supportive housing.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Existing law requires that supportive housing, as defined, be a use by right under that law in zones where multifamily and mixed uses are permitted, if the proposed housing development meets certain conditions, including affordability requirements. Existing law also requires that a Low Barrier Navigation Center development, as defined, be a use by right under that law in areas zoned for mixed-use and nonresidential zones permitting multifamily uses, if the proposed development meets certain conditions. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to interim supportive housing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 638 (Eggman D) Climate Resiliency and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would enact the Climate Resiliency and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2024 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,500,000,000, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, for flood protection and climate resiliency projects.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Finance SB 642 (Cortese D) Hazardous materials: enforcement: county counsel.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes the city attorney, district attorney, and the Attorney General, at the request of the Department of Toxic Substances Control or a unified program agency, to bring an action seeking to enjoin a violation of laws and regulations governing the generation, transportation, and disposal of hazardous materials. Current law specifies that every civil action brought at the request of the department or a unified program agency is to be brought by the city attorney, the county attorney, the district attorney, or the Attorney General in the name of the people of the State of California and that those actions relating to the same processing or disposal of hazardous waste may be joined or consolidated. This bill would authorize the county counsel to bring an action seeking to enjoin a violation of laws and regulations governing the generation, transportation, and disposal of hazardous materials. The bill would specify that county counsel, at the request of the department or a unified program agency, is authorized to bring a civil action in the name of the people of the State of California to enforce laws and regulations governing the generation, transportation, and disposal of hazardous materials.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Environmental Quality, Public Works SB 653 (Archuleta D) Property taxation: exemptions.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution provides that all property is taxable, and requires that it be assessed at the same percentage of fair market value, unless otherwise provided by the California Constitution or
federal law. The California Constitution and existing property tax law provide various exemptions from taxation, including, among others, a homeowners’ property tax exemption and a veterans’ exemption.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would allow individuals to claim both the homeowners’ property tax exemption and the veterans’ exemption.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Housing
SB 654 (Jones R) Local agencies: public property: airport leases.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a local agency to lease or sublease property owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by it for a period not to exceed 50 years for airport purposes or purposes incidental to aircraft.This bill would authorize a local agency and the leaseholder, with respect to a lease or sublease entered into pursuant to the above-described authority, to amend the lease or sublease to extend the duration of the lease or sublease or to terminate the lease or sublease and enter into a new lease or sublease.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services
SB 657 (Caballero D) Homelessness services staff training.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
1st House 2nd House Conc.
Summary:
Existing law establishes the California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law requires each area agency on aging to maintain a professional staff that is supplemented by volunteers, governed by a board of directors or elected officials, and whose activities are reviewed by an advisory council consisting primarily of older individuals from the community. This bill would require the council to coordinate with the California continuums of care and the area agencies on aging to partner in their shared regions to provide gerontological training for homelessness services staff, to ensure that homelessness service providers are well trained and well equipped to assist vulnerable older adults with accessing resources to gain a permanent housing solution. The bill would be implemented contingent on an appropriation for those purposes in the budget act. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Homelessness
SB 659 (Ashby D) Groundwater recharge: minimum requirement.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would establish that it is the policy of the state to recharge groundwater by a minimum of 10 million acre-feet of water annually. The bill would require the department to promulgate regulations necessary to implement this policy.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources SB 660 (Alvarado-Gil D) Public Employees’ Retirement System.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pensions and benefits to public employees and their beneficiaries and prescribes the rights and duties of employers participating in the system. PERL authorizes public agencies to join PERS pursuant to contract and defines “employer” for purposes of contributions by employers that are contract members of the system. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that definition.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 662 (Rubio D) Land use: housing element.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires each city or county to adopt a general plan that includes, among other elements, a housing element, and requires each city or county to periodically revise its general plan. Current law requires the Office of Planning and Research to notify a city or county with a general plan that has not been revised within 8 years, and to notify the Attorney General if the city or county’s general plan is not revised within 10 years. This bill would instead require the office to notify the Attorney General if the city or county has not updated its housing element within 12 years following that notification.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 669 (Cortese D) Pets and veterinary services: emotional support dogs.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prohibits a health care practitioner from providing documentation relating to an individual’s need for an emotional support dog unless the health care practitioner complies with specified criteria, including, among other things, that the health care practitioner establish a client-provider relationship with the individual for at least 30 days prior to providing the documentation, except as specified.This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department
SB 670 (Allen D) Transportation: vehicle miles traveled.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes a policy for expenditure of certain state and federal funds available to the state for transportation purposes. Current law imposes various requirements related to transportation planning, including a requirement that certain transportation planning agencies prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Current law requires certain transportation planning programs and processes to, among other things, identify opportunities to reduce vehicle miles traveled or measure the impact of certain policies on vehicle miles traveled. This bill would require state and local transportation agencies to create a single model for vehicle miles traveled mapping to be used for transportation planning and funding.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Transportation
SB 673 (Bradford D) Accessibility to emergency information and services.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, establishes the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose of mitigating the effects of natural, man-made, or war-caused emergencies and makes findings and declarations relating to ensuring that preparation within the state will be adequate to deal with those emergencies. Current law, upon the next update of a county‘s emergency plan, requires the county to integrate access and functional needs into that emergency plan, as provided. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Public Safety
SB 675 (Limón D) Prescribed grazing: local assistance grant program: Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program: Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a local assistance grant program for eligible fire prevention and home hardening education activities in the state, including public education outreach activities, as provided. Current law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to authorize advance payments from a local assistance grant award, as provided. Existing law makes funding for this program subject to an appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would expand the definition of fire prevention activities to include prescribed grazing, defined as the lawful application of a specific kind of livestock at a determined season, duration, and intensity to accomplish defined vegetation or conservation goals, including reducing the risk of wildfire by reducing fuel loads, controlling undesirable or invasive plants, and promoting biodiversity and habitat for special status species. The bill would expand allowable public education outreach activities to include training on livestock management and community- supported prescribed grazing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 676 (Allen D) Responsible Pool Disinfection and Water Conservation Act: local tax authorization.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would authorize a county to levy a tax by ordinance, approved by a1/2 vote of the electors, at a rate of no more than $0.30 per tablet, on the sale within its jurisdiction of trichlor tablets, as defined. The bill would require a county imposing such a tax to contract with the department to administer the tax and would require the ordinance levying the tax to sunset no later than 5 years after its effective date unless the ordinance is extended by the electors, as specified. The bill would require a retailer engaged in business in a county that has an operative ordinance enacted pursuant to the bill to collect the tax from the consumer at the point of sale and would require the retailer to remit the tax to the department. The bill would require the department to allocate the tax revenues, as specified, and would require the county to expend those revenues for purposes of public education related to proper use of trichlor tablets in commercial and residential pool settings and local water conservation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Finance
SB 678 (Umberg D) Elections: disclosures.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require a person who is paid by a committee to support or oppose a candidate or ballot measure on an internet website, web application, or digital application, as specified, to include a disclaimer, stating that they were paid by the committee in connection with the post. The bill would also require a committee to notify the person posting the content of the disclaimer requirement. Under this bill, if a person fails to post the disclaimer, they would not be subject to administrative penalties, but the Commission would be authorized to seek injunctive relief to compel disclosure.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 684 (Caballero D) Land use: Subdivision Map Act: expiration dates.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. The act generally requires a subdivider to file a tentative map or vesting tentative map with the local agency, as specified, and the local agency, in turn, to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map within a specified time period. The act requires an approved or conditionally approved tentative map or vesting tentative map to expire 24 months after its approval or conditional approval, or after an additional period of time prescribed by local ordinance, not to exceed an additional 24 months. However, the act extends the expiration date of certain approved tentative maps and vesting tentative maps, as specified. This bill would authorize a legislative body to extend the expiration date, by up to 24 months, of a tentative map, vesting tentative map, or parcel map that meets certain criteria, including that a tentative map or vesting tentative map was approved on or after January 1, 2017, and not later than January 1, 2022, and that it relates to the construction of single-family or multifamily housing, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 687 (Eggman D) Water Quality Control Plans.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires each regional water board to formulate and adopt water quality control plans for all areas within the region, as provided. Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt water quality control plans for waters for which quality standards are required by the federal Clean Water Act, as specified, and that in the event of conflict, those plans supersede regional water quality control plans for the same waters. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Natural Resources SB 689 (Blakespear D) Cities and counties.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law prescribes the powers and duties that are common to cities and counties, including the powers and duties of legislative bodies. Under current 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 that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 700 (Bradford D) Employment discrimination: cannabis use.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Existing law, on and after January 1, 2024, makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment, or otherwise penalize a person because of the person’s use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace, except as specified.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 703 (Niello R) Employment: work hours: flexible work schedules.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would enact the California Workplace Flexibility Act of 2023. The bill would permit an individual nonexempt employee to request an employee-selected flexible work schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek and would allow the employer to implement this schedule without the obligation to pay overtime compensation for those additional hours in a workday.
The bill would prescribe a method for calculating the payment of overtime for hours worked in excess of the permitted amounts and would establish requirements for termination of these agreements. The bill would except from its provisions employees covered by collective bargaining and public employees, as specified. The bill would require the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce this provision and adopt regulations.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 705 (Ashby D) Utility workers: employee protection.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law provides specified protections for employees and specified obligations and prohibitions for employers in regard to payment of wages, gratuities, working conditions, bonds and photographs required by employers, contracts and applications for employment, purchases by employees, employee working hours, agreements regarding joining or becoming a member of a labor organization or employer organization, solicitation of employees by misrepresentation, enrollment in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs, employee political affiliations, public works, employee indemnification and contributory negligence, provision of health benefits, termination, and occupational safety and health.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to enhance legal
protections for utility workers.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources, Public Works
SB 706 (Caballero D) Public contracts: progressive design-build: local agencies.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Summary:
Current law defines “progressive design-build” as a project delivery process in which both the design and construction of a project are procured from a single entity that is selected through a qualifications- based selection at the earliest feasible stage of the project. Current law, until January 1, 2029, authorizes local agencies, defined as any city, county, city and county, or special district authorized by law to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of any water from any source, to use the progressive design-build process for up to 15 public works projects in excess of $5,000,000 for each project, similar to the progressive design-build process authorized for use by the Director of General Services. Current law requires a local agency that uses the progressive design-build process to submit, no later than January 1, 2028, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a report on the use of the progressive design-build process containing specified information, including a description of the projects awarded using the progressive design-build process.
Current law requires the design-build entity and its general partners or joint venture members to verify specified information under penalty of perjury. This bill would remove the 15 project maximum and would authorize all cities, counties, city and counties, or special districts to use the progressive design- build process for other projects in addition to water-related projects.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance
SB 707 (Newman D) Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2023.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would enact the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2023, which would require producers, as defined, either individually or through the creation of one or more stewardship organizations, to establish a stewardship program for the collection and recycling of a covered product. This bill would define a “covered product” to include any apparel, textile, or textile article that is unsuitable for reuse by a consumer in its current state or condition. The bill would require a program operator, as defined, to submit a complete stewardship plan to the department for review and approval, disapproval, or conditional approval. The bill would require the program operator to review the plan at least every 5 years after approval. The bill would also require a program operator to submit an annual report to the department. The bill would require all reports and records provided to the department to be provided under penalty of perjury. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program. The bill would restrict public access to certain information collected for the purpose of administering a stewardship program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality
SB 713 (Padilla D) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: preemption.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Density Bonus Law requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as
specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing. Current law requires a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance specifying how compliance with the Density Bonus Law will be implemented and, except as provided, specifies that failure to adopt an ordinance does not relieve the city, county, or city and county from compliance with that law. This bill would specify that the provisions of the Density Bonus Law prevail in the event of a conflict between that law and an ordinance, regulation, or other local law enacted by initiative.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 716 (Alvarado-Gil D) Excluded employees: binding arbitration.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees, permits, among other things, excluded employee organizations to represent their excluded members in their employment relations, including grievances, with the state. That law defines excluded employees as all managerial employees, confidential employees, supervisory employees, and specified employees of the Department of Personnel Administration, the Department of Finance, the Controller’s office, the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the Bureau of State Audits, the Public Employment Relations Board, the Department of Industrial Relations, and the State Athletic Commission. This bill would enact the Excluded Employee Arbitration Act to permit an employee organization that represents an excluded employee who has filed certain grievances with the Department of Human Resources to request binding arbitration of the grievance if specified conditions are met. The bill would require the designation of a standing panel of arbitrators and, under specified circumstances, the provision of arbitrators from the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service within the Public Employment Relations Board.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 718 (Wilk R) Elections: official canvass: unprocessed ballots.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires county elections officials during the official canvass period following an election to send reports to the Secretary of State regarding the number of unprocessed ballots. This bill would require county elections officials to include in those reports the number of vote by mail ballots that have not been processed because the identification envelope is missing the voter’s signature or has a signature that must be verified before the ballot is counted. By increasing the duties of county elections officials, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 719 (Becker D) Law enforcement agencies: radio communications.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) to make specified criminal justice databases, including individual criminal histories, wanted and missing persons, and stolen firearms, vehicles, and property, available to participating law enforcement agencies.
Current law prohibits unauthorized access to CLETS and the unlawful use of CLETS information by authorized users. Current law authorizes the Attorney General to adopt policies, procedures, and practices related to the use of CLETS. These rules require a participating agency to restrict access to
CLETS and define “access” as the ability to see or hear any information obtained from CLETS. This bill would require a law enforcement agency, including the Department of the California Highway Patrol, municipal police departments, county sheriff’s departments, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police departments, to ensure access, in real time, to the radio communications of that agency to duly authorized media representatives or organizations, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 721 (Becker D) Special taxes: vacant land.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution generally conditions the imposition of a special tax by a city, county, or special district upon the approval of 2/3 of the voters of the city, county, or special district voting on that tax. Under current law, a charter city, pursuant to its constitutional authority over municipal affairs, may levy local taxes to raise revenues for local purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by that city’s charter or preemption in matters of statewide concern. Current law also authorizes the legislative body of any city to levy any tax which may be levied by any charter city, subject to the voters’ approval pursuant to the California Constitution. Current law specifies procedural requirements for the legislative body of a city, county, or district to propose to the voters an ordinance or resolution to adopt a special tax. This bill would specify that, as used in those procedural requirements, a special tax includes a tax, levied by any city, including a charter city, county, or district on vacant sites included in the inventory on land suitable and available for residential development pursuant to the housing element of a county’s or a city’s long-term general plan, that meets the constitutional requirements.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance
SB 726 (Archuleta D) Property taxation: exemption: disabled veteran homeowners.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution and existing property tax law provide various exemptions from property taxation, including, among others, a disabled veterans’ exemption and a veterans’ organization exemption. This bill would exempt from taxation, on that part of the full value of the residence that does not exceed $863,790, as provided, property owned by, and that constitutes the principal place of residence of, a veteran, the veteran’s spouse, or the veteran and the veteran’s spouse jointly, if the veteran is 100% disabled. The bill would provide an unmarried surviving spouse a property exemption in the same amount that they would have been entitled to if the veteran was alive and if certain conditions are met. The bill would require certain documentation to be provided to the county assessor to receive the exemption and would prohibit any other real property tax exemption from being granted to the claimant if receiving the exemption provided by the provisions of this bill. The bill would make these exemptions applicable for property tax lien dates occurring on or after January 1, 2024, but occurring before January 1, 2034.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance
SB 731 (Ashby D) Employment discrimination: unlawful practices: disability: work from home.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would authorize an employee with a qualifying disability, as defined, to initiate a renewed reasonable accommodation request to perform their work remotely if certain requirements are met, including that
the employee performed their essential job functions remotely for at least 6 of the 24 months preceding the renewed request. The bill would require an employer to grant the renewed request if those specified requirements are met. Under the bill, the employer’s obligation to provide remote work as a reasonable accommodation would end if the employee can no longer perform all of their essential job functions remotely. The bill would prescribe notice requirements if the employer denies a renewed request. The bill would authorize an employer to request written notice from the employee’s medical provider to determine if the employee has a qualifying disability.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 736 (McGuire D) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Permit Streamlining Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. Specifically, current law establishes time limits for completing reviews regarding whether an application for a postentitlement phase permit is complete and compliant, and whether to approve or deny an application, as specified. Current law requires a local agency, if a postentitlement phase permit is determined to be incomplete, denied, or determined to be noncompliant, to provide a process for the applicant to appeal that decision in writing to the governing body of the agency or, if there is no governing body, to the director of the agency, as provided by that agency. This bill would delete the provision for the applicant to appeal a decision to the director of the local agency, as described above, and, instead, require a local agency to provide a process for the applicant to appeal that decision in writing to the governing body of the agency only.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Developmental Services, Housing SB 737 (Hurtado D) Groundwater: recharge.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to capture floodwater to recharge groundwater basins and to require the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board to work together to expedite the regulatory steps necessary to store significant rainfall and excess water underground, while still ensuring protections for the environment and other water users as required by state law.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources
SB 742 (Atkins D) Housing: homelessness programs: report.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current establishes various programs to provide rental assistance to help eligible households, including, among others, the state rental assistance program. On or before December 30, 2024, and annually thereafter, this bill would require an agency that funds, implements, or administers a program that provides housing or housing-based services to persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, including rental assistance programs, to provide prescribed information to specified committees of the Legislature. This bill would authorize an agency to request a city, county, or city and county to provide specified information to that agency if the city, county, or city and county has received
state funds from the agency to fund, implement, or administer the program, as defined.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing, Homelessness SB 745 (Cortese D) The Drought-Resistant Buildings Act.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require the California Building Standards Commission to develop and propose mandatory building standards to reduce the designed potable water demand of new buildings by 25% from current mandatory design requirements and to minimize the use of potable water for nonpotable uses.
The bill would require the commission to adopt mandatory building standards that require new buildings to be designed to capture graywater and use alternative water sources for nonpotable building and landscaping water uses, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing, Natural Resources SB 747 (Caballero D) Surplus land: notice of exemption determination.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law exempts the disposal of certain surplus land from the requirements of the Surplus Land Act, and defines “exempt surplus land,” for purposes of the act. Current law authorizes a local agency, on an annual basis, to declare multiple parcels as “surplus land” or “exempt surplus land,” for purposes of the act, as supported by written findings. Existing administrative law requires a local agency making a determination that property is exempt surplus land to provide a copy of the written determination, as specified, to the department at least 30 days before disposition. This bill would authorize a local agency to declare administratively that land is exempt surplus land if the declaration and findings are published and available for public comment, and the local public entities and housing sponsors described above are notified at least 30 days before the declaration takes effect.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
SB 750 (Archuleta D) Transitional housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-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 utilize land at the Metropolitan State Hospital in the City of Norwalk for transitional housing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Health Department, Housing
SB 751 (Padilla D) Franchise agreements: labor impasse.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law contains various provisions relating to franchise agreements between a local jurisdiction
and a service provider for the provision of services such as utilities, waste hauling, and cable television.
This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from entering an exclusive franchise agreement for services on or after January 1, 2024, or an agreement amended on or after that date, that contains a force majeure provision that can be triggered by a labor impasse.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources, Public Works
SB 753 (Caballero D) Cannabis: water resources.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), approved by the voters as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by people 21 years of age and older. Under AUMA, a person 18 years of age or older who plants, cultivates, harvests, dries, or processes more than 6 living cannabis plants, or any part thereof, may be charged with a felony if specified conditions exist, including when the offense causes substantial environmental harm to public lands or other public resources. This bill would add to the above-described conditions planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying, or processing marijuana that results in substantial environmental harm to surface or groundwater, a violation of pesticide provisions, taking or using water from a conveyance or storage facility without permission, and extraction or use of groundwater from an unpermitted well or from a permitted well in excess of a restriction, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Economic Development, Natural Resources SB 756 (Laird D) Water: unlicensed cannabis cultivation site: procedure.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to investigate all streams, stream systems, lakes, or other bodies of water, take testimony relating to the rights to water or the use of water, and ascertain whether water filed upon or attempted to be appropriated is appropriated under the laws of the state. Current law requires the board to take all appropriate proceedings or actions to prevent waste, unreasonable use, unreasonable method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion of water in this state. This bill would authorize the board, in conducting an investigation or proceeding for these purposes, to inspect the property or facilities of any person or entity to ascertain certain purposes are being met or compliance with specified requirements. The bill would authorize the board, if consent is denied for an inspection, to obtain an inspection warrant, as specified, or in the event of an emergency affecting public health and safety, to conduct an inspection without consent or a warrant.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Natural Resources, Public Safety SB 768 (Caballero D) California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impact analysis: rural areas.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would create a new transportation impact analysis for rural areas for purposes of CEQA. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Transportation SB 769 (Gonzalez D) Local government: fiscal and financial training.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would require, if a local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to a member of a legislative body, or provides reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred by a member of a legislative body in the performance of official duties, all local agency officials, as defined, to receive at least two hours of fiscal and financial training, as described. The bill would require the training to be received at least once every two years, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Finance
SB 773 (Glazer D) CalWORKs: homeless assistance.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals. Current law provides for homeless assistance to a homeless family seeking shelter when the family is eligible for CalWORKs aid, including a nonrecurring special needs benefit of $85 a day to families of up to 4 members for the costs of temporary shelter, and a nonrecurring special needs benefit for permanent housing assistance to pay for last month’s rent and security deposits if these payments are conditions of securing a residence, or to pay for up to 2 months of rent arrearages, if these payments are a reasonable condition of preventing eviction. Existing law prohibits the last month’s rent or monthly arrearage portion of the payment from exceeding 80% of the family’s total monthly household income without the value of CalFresh benefits or special needs benefit for a family of that size, and requires it be made to families that have found permanent housing costing no more than 80% of the family’s total monthly household income without the value of CalFresh benefits or special needs benefit for a family of that size.This bill would, for purposes of determining the family’s total monthly household income for the permanent housing assistance, authorize the county human services agency to include any amount that is regularly received from other government and nonprofit housing and homeless subsidy programs and any regularly received private support intended or designed to help the family with housing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Finance, Homelessness
SB 776 (Durazo D) Sales and use taxes.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law defines the term “sale” for these purposes.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Economic Development, Finance
SB 789 (Allen D) Elections: voting.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law allows, at a polling place, the device for marking the ballot to be handed to the voter with the voter’s ballot before the voter goes into the voting booth, and requires that the device be returned to the precinct board after the voter has finished marking the ballot.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 790 (Padilla D) Public records: contracts for goods and services.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Public Records Act, requires public records to be open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency that retains those records, and provides that every person has a right to inspect any public record, except as provided. The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make public records available upon receipt of a request for a copy that reasonably describes an identifiable record not otherwise exempt from disclosure, and upon payment of fees to cover costs. Current law recodifies and reorganizes provisions of the act, commencing on January 1, 2023.This bill would provide that unless exempt from disclosure by express provisions of law, it is presumed that any executed contract for the purchase of goods or services by a state or local agency, including the price and terms of payment, is a public record subject to disclosure under the act.
The bill would provide that any provision in a written agreement that purports to exclude a contract specified above from disclosure by agreeing to consider it a confidential or proprietary record of the vendor is void and unenforceable as a matter of law. By placing additional duties and responsibilities upon local agencies in connection with requests for inspection of records, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 792 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Affordable housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law establishes a variety of programs to promote the development of affordable housing, including the CalHome Program, which is administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Current law requires that funds appropriated for purposes of the CalHome Program be used to enable low- and very low income households to become, or remain, homeowners and to provide disaster relief assistance to households at, or below, 120% of area median income.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to increase the availability of affordable housing.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 794 (Niello R) California Environmental Quality Act: judicial challenge: identification of contributors: housing projects.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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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 authorizes specified entities to file and maintain with a court an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul an act of a public agency on grounds of noncompliance with the requirements of the act.This bill would require an action or proceeding brought to attack, review, set aside, void, or annual acts or decision of a public agency for a commercial, housing, or public works project that helps to address longstanding critical needs in the project area and that results in an investment of at least $25,000,000 in the state on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within 365 days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court. The bill would require the Judicial Council to adopt a rule of court to implement this provision. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Developmental Services, Housing SB 798 (Glazer D) Elections: local bond measures: tax rate statement.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires local governments, when submitting a measure for voter approval for the issuance of bonds that will be secured by an ad valorem tax, to provide voters a statement that includes estimates of the tax rates required to fund the bonds. Under current law, the estimated tax rate is expressed as the rate per $100 of assessed valuation on all property to be taxed to fund the bonds.This bill would instead require that the estimated tax rate in the statement be expressed as the rate per $100,000 of assessed valuation on all property to be taxed to fund the bonds.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Economic Development, Finance SB 821 (Glazer D) Elections: Secretary of State.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law provides that for any election, except an election for Governor or Lieutenant Governor, certain special runoff elections for candidates for local office, and certain primary elections, as specified, if the election results in a tie vote for the highest number of votes, the Secretary of State must summon the candidates subject to the tie vote to the Secretary of State’s office at the State Capitol, where the Secretary of State must determine the tie by lot.This bill would instead require the Secretary of State to summon the candidates subject to the tie vote to the Secretary of State’s office.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 825 (Limón D) Local government: public broadband services.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would add metropolitan planning organizations and regional transportation planning authorities to that list of local government agencies included in the definition of “local agency.”
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Transportation
SB 834 (Portantino D) Housing: California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Bond Act of 2023.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would enact the California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Bond Act of 2023 (bond act), which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $25,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance the California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Program, established as part of the bond act. The bill would authorize the California Housing Finance Agency to award California Socially Responsible Second Mortgage Loans to eligible applicants to use as a down payment or to pay closing costs on the purchase of a new home. The bill would also authorize the agency to award Family Homeownership Opportunity Infrastructure Improvement Loans to developers to be used for predevelopment infrastructure improvements and other upfront costs typically incurred in connection with new home construction, under specified conditions. The bill would require that moneys received from a loan recipient for the repayment of financing provided under the program be used to pay debt service when due on bonds issued pursuant to the bond act. The bill would also authorize the agency to issue revenue bonds for the purposes of financing the program, as specified.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Finance, Housing
SB 835 (Smallwood-Cuevas D) Housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, or city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Current law requires the housing element to identify the existing and projected housing needs of all economic segments of the community. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation regarding requirements for the housing element of a local government’s general plan.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Housing
SB 837 (Archuleta D) Energy: building energy standards: unvented attics.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-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 prescribe, by regulation, building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation design standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, and unnecessary consumption of energy and to manage energy loads to help maintain electrical grid reliability. Current law requires the commission to periodically review the standards and adopt revisions that it deems necessary.This bill would require the commission, in the review of those regulations that is pending as of January 1, 2024, to consider revising the definition of “conditioned space, indirectly” to include unvented attics, as provided.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Developmental Services, Environmental Quality, Housing
SB 838 (Menjivar D) Victim compensation: use of force by a law enforcement officer.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would revise the definition of “crime” to include, solely for the purposes of eligibility for compensation under this chapter, an incident occurring on or after January 1, 2024, in which an individual sustains serious bodily injury, as defined, or death as a result of a law enforcement officer’s use of force, regardless of whether the law enforcement officer is arrested for, charged with, or convicted of committing a crime. The bill would define “law enforcement officer” for these purposes. By expanding the types of incidents for which compensation can be paid from a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 840 (Alvarado-Gil D) Petty theft: prior convictions.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law provides that a person who is a registered sex offender or a person with a prior conviction for certain serious or violent felonies, such as a sexually violent offense, who also has a prior conviction for other specified offenses, including, among others, petty theft, grand theft, auto theft, and robbery, and who has served a term of imprisonment for the conviction in any penal institution, who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison for 16 months or 2 or 3 years.This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Attorney, Public Safety
SB 846 (Limón D) Voter registration: California New Motor Voter Program.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law requires, in conformance with federal law, that the Secretary of State and the Department of Motor Vehicles establish and implement the California New Motor Voter Program for the purpose of increasing opportunities for voter registration for qualified voters. Current law requires the department to transmit to the Secretary of State specified information related to a person’s eligibility to vote, which the person provides when applying for a driver’s license or identification card or when the person notifies the department of an address change. Current law requires that if this information transmitted to the Secretary of State constitutes a completed affidavit of registration, the Secretary of State must register or preregister the person to vote, as applicable, unless the person affirmatively declines to register or is ineligible to vote, as specified.This bill would additionally require the Department of Motor Vehicles to transmit specified information to the Secretary of State for a person submitting a driver’s license application who provides documentation demonstrating United States citizenship and that the person is of an eligible age to register or preregister to vote. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration, Transportation
SB 848 (Rubio D) Employment: leave for loss causing grief.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family member.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide employees with leave time after suffering a loss that causes grief.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Human Resources
SB 850 (Umberg D) Eminent domain: general limitations.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
The California Constitution permits private property to be taken or damaged for public use only when just compensation has first been paid to, or into court for, the owner of that property. The Eminent Domain Law provides that a public entity may exercise the power of eminent domain only if it has adopted a resolution of necessity, as specified.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SB 852 (Rubio D) Peace officers: release of records.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law makes peace officer and custodial officer personnel records and specified records maintained by any state or local agency, or information obtained from these records, confidential and prohibits these records from being disclosed in any criminal or civil proceeding except by discovery. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
SB 865 (Laird D) Municipal water districts: automatic exclusion of cities.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Current law authorizes a governing body of a municipal water district to adopt an ordinance excluding any territory annexed to a metropolitan water district organized under the Metropolitan Water District Act, if the territory is annexed prior to the effective date of the formation of the municipal water district.
Current law requires the Secretary of State to issue a certificate reciting the passage of the ordinance and the exclusion of the area from the municipal water district within 10 days of receiving a certified copy of the ordinance. This bill would extend the number of days the Secretary of State has to issue a certificate to 14 days.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Natural Resources, Public Works
SB 866 (Caballero D) Land use: housing.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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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: Community Development, Developmental Services, Housing SB 867 (Allen D) Drought and Water Resilience, Wildfire and Forest Resilience, Coastal Resilience, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Biodiversity and Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, and Park Creation and Outdoor Access Bond Act of 2023.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would enact the Drought and Water Resilience, Wildfire and Forest Resilience, Coastal Resilience, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Biodiversity and Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, and Park Creation and Outdoor Access Bond Act of 2023, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in an unspecified amount pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for drought and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate smart agriculture, and park creation and outdoor access programs.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Community Development, Developmental Services, Economic Development, Environmental Quality, Finance, Natural Resources
SBX1 1 (Jones R) Motor vehicle fuel tax: greenhouse gas reduction programs: suspension.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/5/2022-Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on RLS.
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 Air Resources 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 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: Environmental Quality, Natural Resources, Transportation SBX1 2 (Skinner D) Energy: transportation fuels: supply and pricing: maximum gross gasoline refining margin.
Introduced: 12/5/2022
Status: 12/5/2022-Introduced. Read first time. 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 operators of refineries in the state that produce gasoline meeting California specifications, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, to submit a report to the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission containing certain information regarding its refining activities related to the production of gasoline in that month. Current law requires the commission to notify a refiner that has failed to timely provide the required information and imposes a civil penalty on the refiner that fails to submit the required information within 5 days of being notified of the failure. This bill would establish a maximum gross gasoline refining margin at an unspecified amount per gallon and would authorize the commission to annually adjust the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would authorize the commission to petition the court to enjoin a refiner from exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin. The bill would also authorize the commission to assess an administrative civil penalty on a refiner for exceeding the maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided. The bill would authorize the commission to grant a refiner’s request for an exemption from the maximum gross gasoline refining margin upon a showing by the refiner of reasonable cause, and to subject the refiner to alternative maximum margins or other conditions set by the commission. The bill would require a refiner seeking an exemption to file a statement under the penalty of perjury setting forth the basis of the request for exemption.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Environmental Quality, Finance, Natural Resources, Transportation SCA 2 (Stern D) Elecations: voter qualifications.
Introduced: 2/16/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Location: 2/16/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would reduce the minimum voting age to 17.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SCA 3 (Niello R) Elections: initiatives and referenda.
Introduced: 2/17/2023
Status: 2/17/2023-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Location: 2/17/2023-S. RLS.
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would transfer from the Attorney General to the Legislative Analyst the duty of preparing the title and summary for a proposed initiative or referendum. The measure would also require, for each measure that appears on a statewide ballot, the Legislative Analyst to prepare the ballot label and the ballot title and summary for the state voter information guide.
Position: Watch
Subjects: City Administration
SR 6 (Grove R) Relative to National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Introduced: 12/13/2022
Status: 1/13/2023-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.)
Location: 1/13/2023-S. ADOPTED
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Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered1st House 2nd House
Summary:
Would resolve that the Senate recognizes the month of January 2023 as National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Position: Watch
Subjects: Public Safety
Total Measures: 590
Total Tracking Forms: 590